The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 448 Six Hundred Cannons

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses were unable to fight back for the first time, and Jin Xungui watched it with relish.

But after watching it for a while, I suddenly felt dull.

"Ding Mouse" Jihe Harang took the lead in cursing.

Then Azig and others cursed and almost greeted the eighteen generations of Ding Yi's family.

Ding Mouse is not building artillery arrays, but building cities.

Ding Yi's soldiers and horses first used soil and sandbags to pile up a height of six to seven meters on the river bank, and then used sandbags and trees to build a blockhouse.

The whole is closed, leaving only the muzzle.

Houjin's Hongyi cannon hit it, and with a splash, it slid away from the sandbag.

It was completely useless to hit it with consecutive shots.

Finally, one shot was lucky, and it hit near the mouth of the Ming army bunker, and many Baylors at the scene screamed.

But the shell still didn't get in, and after being blocked by the muzzle, it slid down again.

The Ming army's cannons were all hidden inside, and they didn't come out at all, and they were allowed to fire.

Everyone cursed, calling Ding Yi shameless and without martial virtue.

What's the point of building bunkers if everyone fights like you?

Huang Taiji looked at his Hongyi cannon, and fired several cannons above the Ming army's artillery formation, but it was useless.

Except for breaking a little sandbag and spilling a little mud, the artillery formation of the Ming army remained unchanged.

It was also quiet up there, as if there was no one there, and the Ming army completely ignored them.

"Stop fighting." Huang Taiji had no choice but to say, "Let's fight the Ming army together."

It is useless to use cannons to fight Ding Yi's artillery array, or to fight Ding Yi's soldiers.

Kong Youde saw that there was nothing he could do, so he had to order the Hongyi cannon to stop, and then pushed it up to fight the Ming army.

Hou Jin probably packed 1 bags first, which took more than half an hour.

Wu Jinsheng saw that it was almost done, and gave an order.

Thousands of miscellaneous servants and auxiliary soldiers, each with a sandbag, imitated Ding Yi's style of play, and carried them forward in batches.

Suddenly the scene became extremely spectacular.

The densely packed post-gold handymen, each carrying a sandbag, ran forward desperately.

This is similar to how Ding Yi attacked Jinzhou back then.

The people on Ding Yi's side were all watching with binoculars, and everyone was speechless. This trick of mine was all learned by Huang Taiji.

"Will you fight, my lord?" Sirao asked.

These are basically all Han people, and there are also a small number of Mongolian handymen.

Ding Yi was also speechless, but Huang Taiji was a very good learner. If he was asked to build a bunker-like artillery array, the two sides could only bombard each other, and their troops would have to withdraw for about a mile to be safe.

Now they withdraw 100 meters, relying on gunmen, they can still protect the artillery array in front, but if they retreat one mile, they will be unable to defend. This is not what Ding Yi wants to see.

"Fight, let District 1 fight first, don't be polite." Ding Yi ordered as expected.

"promise."

With the command flag waved for a while.

Part of the artillery began to reload.

Ding Yi's infantry battalion has 1000 18-pound guns for every 6 people.

The cavalry here is not counted, 11000 people, there should be 198 6-pounders, but Ding Yi built a lot of 12-pounders in the early stage, so this time he brought a lot of 12-pounders.

But in order to fight this battle well this time, he brought almost all the guns he could carry in Dongjiang, except for the tiger squat gun, including more than 300 6-pound, 12-pound and 24-pound guns, and more than 200 Francois machine guns. , There are more than 100 general cannons.

There are more than 600 artillery pieces in total, which is definitely the battle with the most artillery pieces in the history of Ming Dynasty.

Before that, it was Kong Youde's Dengzhou Rebellion. The Ming army and Kong Youde fought together with more than [-] artillery pieces.

Ding Yi divided nearly 600 artillery pieces into two areas.

The first area is more than 100 gates just in front of them.

The second area is more than 500 doors, one mile behind them.

What Hou Jinbing saw was only their artillery formation in the first area.

There are no bunkers in the second area, and all artillery can be pushed away directly.

Following Ding Yi's order.

Boom, the first cannon in District 1 fired first.

Whoosh, the shell flew out, and the limit distance of the 12-pound gun was only about 1.5 miles away. The Houjin artillery array was set up 1.5 miles away. Because Ding Yi built a high ground, both the 6-pound gun and the 12-pound gun could hit it. .

The effect of the first shot was not good, and it slammed into the open space. At this time, the Houjin handyman who rushed up had not yet approached the artillery formation.

No one was hit, and there was a distance from their artillery formation.

"Hahaha." Hou Jin Quangui, who was watching the battle with the cavalry behind him, laughed loudly.

Kong Youde's expression was serious. Many of the cannons that Hou Jin brought over this time were large Hongyi cannons, with a maximum range of about 3 to 4 miles, and the most lethal ones within two miles.

Of course, considering that Houjin did not have time to build a high ground, it is not condescending, and the real range is only about 1200 meters.

The Hongyi cannon still had to be mounted on the city wall in order to hit further.

But Ding Yiming's army came first, and then built a high ground. The artillery is condescending, and it is possible to hit farther?
Later, we were on flat ground again. If we didn't build high ground, we might not be able to hit as far as Ding Yi's cannon?

This Ding Yi, can he take the first step in everything?
It may be too early to ridicule the Ming army now.

Sure enough, he just had this idea.

Bang bang bang, the artillery of the Ming army in front opened fire in rows and rows.

There are about thirty doors in a row.

Whoosh, whoosh, iron balls all over the sky flew towards their densely packed auxiliary soldiers.

Just now it was to measure the distance and determine the angle. After the first shot was fired, the subsequent shots had approximate data.

Eighty percent of the thirty cannons hit within the distance that Hou Jin wanted to build the artillery array.

With a thud, the iron ball fell and hit a handyman in the face. When he fell down, he was headless and didn't even have time to scream.

The iron ball flew backwards, thumped, and crushed another person's shoulder.

"My mother." The man suddenly let out a miserable cry.

The iron ball was still ejected backwards, the speed was still very fast, many people didn't see it clearly, they only felt it flashed past in front of it, chuff, a line, two or three people screamed at the same time, and fell to the ground.

Everyone has a broken leg.

There were scenes like this all over the scene, and there were also iron balls hitting the muddy soil directly, pounced, loaded at one end, but did not bounce, and there was a sound of rejoicing all around.

Artillery is the most powerful firepower in this era. Once it hits, the picture will be extremely tragic.

Fortunately, there were too many miscellaneous servants in the Houjin army. Nearly ten thousand miscellaneous servants and auxiliary soldiers rushed away densely like ants.

Ding Yi's cannon hit the crowd and couldn't cover the whole situation.

Moreover, the time for cannons in this era is too long. Ding Yi's artillery is considered well-trained, and the gunpowder ignition method has been improved. It basically takes about 3 minutes to fire a cannon.

He divided more than 100 cannons into three rows, and fired in turn, just like gunmen, with an interval of ten seconds between each round.

In this case, it will appear that he shoots a lot and shoots intensively.

This style of play can fool the later gold soldiers and horses, but it can't fool some Han troops who are proficient in artillery.

Huang Taiji quickly asked: "How many cannons are there on Ding Yi's side?"

All the Han soldiers looked at each other and looked at each other a few times. Kong Youde thought for a while: "There are about 100 gates."

"More than 100?" Zierharang didn't believe it: "I think he fired very intensively, isn't it?"

"He fought in three rounds. Not all the cannons were fired in salvo. There were thirty or forty guns in each round. Judging from the interval, it should be more than 100, less than [-]." Wu Jinsheng said in a low voice.

(End of this chapter)