The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 706
At this time, Zhu Adai was even more certain that it would be no problem to defend this side, and the Ming army would not be able to attack.

One day, he was watching the movements of the Ming army, when suddenly a general of the Han army ran over and said to him, "General, I look at the west side, and there seems to be a lot of trees missing on the mountain? Will the Ming army climb up?"

Zhu Adai looked back and said with a smile: "Why, are they going to transport the artillery up?"

Everyone laughed.

The mountain over there is full of trees and weeds, and there are a lot of stones. The mountain road is steep, and there are almost no traces of people walking. It is really difficult to transport the artillery up.

The smallest cannon of their Manchu Qing weighed four to five hundred catties, and it was impossible to lift it up.

Not to mention their cannons, the 12-pound field cannon, the smallest of the Ming Army Ding Yi, weighs only two to three hundred catties, and it is difficult to lift it up. The main reason is that the gun mounts are not easy to lift, and they are also heavy. , all have rock closures.

It is useless to go up the key artillery. There are bunkers everywhere here, and the artillery bombards the bottom. It can only make adults panic, and it is impossible to break through here.

It's a pity that they don't know that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses are the elites closest to the modern army in this world. They just used the method of engineering soldiers to make a road up the mountain in seven or eight days, disassembled the trebuchet, and transported it up.

On October [-]th, Shen Shikui couldn't wait a long time ago. At this time, he was standing on the top of the mountain, looking down with a telescope.

They didn't cut down the trees on the top of the hill near Niu Mao Village, because they could block the view from below.

Moreover, their trebuchets are thrown down in a parabola, which will not block them, but can block the view below.

"How many petrol bombs have been delivered?" Shen Shikui turned around and asked Xiao Yongqiu.

"Half of it should be enough." Xiao Yongqiu said unhappily.

He was born in Xu Dabao, and he was the first to follow Ding Yi.

Shen Shikui asked him to command the trebuchet from above, but Chen Yang and Chen Youyou waited for Dongjiang Town to attack Niu Mao Village below.

With regard to this credit, it will be different in the future, Xiao Yongqiu is of course unhappy.

But Shen is Master Ding's father-in-law, so he has nothing to say.

"Master Shen." Xiao Yongqiu said respectfully at this moment: "Do you want to issue a letter of persuasion?"

Shen Shikui murmured: "Anything that persuades you to surrender is just a dog tartar, and I will kill them all."

Xiao Yongqiu immediately ordered preparations.

Because the passage to the north of Niu Mao Village and the wall of the village are within range, they decided to block the passage to the north first and block the way for the Qing soldiers to escape.

Their mountain is about 180 meters above sea level, more than 100 meters higher than Niu Mao Zhai, really condescending.

Niu Mao Zhai is more than 300 meters away.

Just within the effective range of this trebuchet.

"Get ready." Xiao Yongqiu didn't even try to throw it, so he let the fire go up when he came up, and then waved his hand.

Bang bang, the weight box fell heavily, whoosh, whoosh, five big fireballs flew towards Niu Mao village.

Zhu Adai in Niu Mao Village is smiling and looking into the distance, because the Ming army has already started to move forward and seems to be attacking again.

"The Ming army is really not afraid of death, they dare to come here." Zhu Adai laughed.

"Above, above." Suddenly someone shouted in horror.

Zhu Adai looked up, hissed, and gasped.

Five big fireballs are falling from the sky.

"Prepare to put out the fire." After Zhu Adai was terrified, he immediately ordered, after all, he was also prepared for the fire attack.

Niu Mao Village is built on the riverside, and the water nearby is inexhaustible, so of course I am not afraid.

The Qing soldiers went to bring water one after another, and some also took other things to put out the fire.

Everyone watched the fireball fall from the sky.

Bang, the first fireball hit a section of the city wall, and many Qing soldiers were still watching with a smile, someone was carrying sand, water was on the side, and when it hit the ground, it was poured and covered.

Suddenly, bang, the fireball exploded violently, and the flames scattered and swept across.

With a cracking sound, many Qing soldiers around were wrapped and swallowed.

"Ah!" Countless people at the scene screamed, and many people were instantly set on fire.

Before they recovered from the shock, bang bang bang, several more fireballs landed, exploded, and the flames swept all directions. The crowd became more chaotic, and people on the city wall ran down one after another.

Then, like it was raining, gasoline bombs were thrown down in the air.

Most of the ones thrown behind did not ignite, but after they fell to the ground, bang, they were immediately ignited by the nearby fire and burned.

The raging fire raged in all directions, and most of Niu Mao village was within the range of the trebuchet.

Originally, Shen Shikui and the others thought they could only throw it half as far as Niu Mao Village, but they didn't know that when thrown from a height of several hundred meters, the range would be farther than they imagined.

With only four rounds of gasoline bombs, one end of Niu Mao Zhai’s city wall was completely surrounded by fire, and the Hongyi cannons and gunpowder barrels placed on it were all affected. Soon, boom, boom, the gunpowder exploded, the Hongyi cannons were overturned, and the bunkers were also destroyed. Blown up.

The Qing soldiers retreated one after another, retreating all the way to the east of Niu Mao Village.

Zhu Adai was stunned, never expecting that the Ming army had such a powerful firepower.

The key was still thrown, and with the flow of gasoline, the flames began to spread to the east.

The Qing soldiers were terrified and trembling. Before seeing the face of the Ming army, they already felt that a catastrophe was imminent.

"What to do, what to do?" Many Qing generals were anxiously asking.

Whether it was watered by the Qing soldiers or covered with soil, it was completely useless.

If Ding Yi is here, he must order to dig a trench ahead to form a separation zone to ensure that the flames and gasoline do not come east.

But these people didn't understand, so they could only shrink to the east side, and bless the flames from burning over.

Some bold ones carried water and poured it forward.

Several Han soldiers carried a bag of sand and wanted to put out the fire.

Suddenly, swish, a petrol bomb fell from the sky.

"Be careful." Someone exclaimed.

Everyone raised their heads, bang, and hit a person directly on the head.

The gasoline bomb shattered, and the gasoline scattered in all directions. The faces and bodies of the surrounding people were covered in gasoline.

The Qing soldiers were startled first, then the man wiped his face and laughed hahaha: "It's okay, it's okay."

Everyone looked at each other. Although there was gasoline and the smell was a bit unpleasant, they didn't burn.

"Come back soon." Someone called.

A few of them were not afraid, and were about to pour out all the sand in the sandbag.

A gust of wind blew by, and a trace of sparks floated up from the ground and flew down among the few of them.

There was a shout of "Boom", and several Qing soldiers instantly turned into burning men.

"Ah!" All the Qing soldiers screamed again and again, falling to the ground and rolling.

The people nearby retreated one after another, some turned around and fled, and some poured water on these people, trying to put out their fire.

But it's useless at all.

All the Qing soldiers watched them being burned alive in front of their eyes.

"The Ming army is coming up." At this moment, someone tremblingly said.

Everyone hurriedly looked up, only to see in the distance, a large group of Ming troops slowly moving forward, climbing all the way, not in a hurry.

Zhu Adai's face was ashen, if it was normal, they could immediately use the red cannon to teach them a good lesson.

But now, even the Qing soldiers themselves cannot go up the city wall, all the cannons are on the wall.

They could only watch the Ming army come over.

"Quick, prepare the bow and arrow, prepare the bow and arrow." Zhu Adai could only shout.

In fact, there were not many petrol bombs thrown by the Ming army at this time, and their retreat route was still superior. If he organized troops to withdraw from Niu Mao Village, there was still a chance to run to Hetuala.

But how dare Zhu Adai retreat, let alone think of retreating.

While ordering the people inside to prepare bows and arrows, he looked to both sides of the front of the village.

On the mountains on both sides within 100 meters of the gate of the village, there are dozens of their small cannons, which can maintain fire suppression within 300 meters in front of the village.

Now the Ming army's trebuchet has not yet thrown them.

But I saw that Chen Yang and Chen sometimes led the Ming army forward slowly, crawling and walking.

It took more than half an hour on Liuli Road to finally reach the place 500 meters away from the gate of the village.

The artillery in front of the village still couldn't hit them.

Zhu Adai thought to himself, go forward, why not go, go.

He waited for a long time, but the Ming army still didn't move forward, and they wanted to kill him.

At this time, the flames in the northwest were getting bigger and bigger, and the people in Niu Mao Village had already fled to the east, and many people climbed to the roof.

The fire was raging below, and it was getting closer and closer to the east. Most of the Niumao Village was surrounded by flames, and the road to Hetuala was engulfed in flames. It was extremely difficult to retreat at this time.

The top of the mountain has not been thrown for a long time, and it seems that it is waiting for the Ming army to attack from below.

Chen Yang led the Ming army to 500 meters away and waved his hand.

Dozens of Ming soldiers arrived at his place carrying several bags of sand on their backs, then punctured the bags and spread them on the ground.

It turns out that the place is rough and they are filling it up.

It took dozens of bags of sand to finally level a piece, and then began to assemble the trebuchet.

Only one is assembled below.

The artillerymen of the Qing soldiers on both sides of the village stood up and saw that the Ming army was setting up trebuchets again. Let's run, they immediately knew that something was wrong.

But at this time, they couldn't get into the stockade, and a section of the wall gate and city wall was completely burned, and they had nowhere to run.

"Surrender, or you will be burned to death if you don't surrender." Someone suggested.

Drop down, the artillery dropped directly.

Zhu Adai in the village vomited blood.

He looked back and saw that although the village was burned, there were not many casualties. Most of them retreated to the east side, and there are still more than 2000 people on hand.

"The Ming army will come up in a while and fight them. The Ming army is incompetent. If we fight in close combat, our Qing Dynasty will win." He encouraged morale.

The Han soldiers were noncommittal, while the Qing soldiers yelled and yelled one after another, wanting to show the Ming army a show.

But the Ming army didn't seem to intend to fight them in close combat.

After the Ming army was surrendered, they came to the gate of the village smoothly.

Assemble the trebuchet again.

"What do they want?" Zhu Adai also began to tremble.

Now the Ming army can rush in, but the Ming army is obviously willing to be burned, and directly set up a trebuchet outside.

"Throw it away." Following Chen Yang's order.

Bang, a petrol bomb was thrown towards the easternmost side.

More than 2000 Qing soldiers were all concentrated here, densely packed, and they screamed when they saw the petrol bombs flying in.

"Master, let's surrender." At this time, someone already wanted to surrender.

But it is useless to want to surrender at this time.

Chen Yang and Chen sometimes don't care at all, just throw ten of them in first, and then talk.

The scene suddenly looked like a hell on earth, and the dense Qing soldiers were swept away by petrol bombs.

Molotov cocktails exploded and burned among the crowd.

The entire Niu Mao Village was surrounded by flames.

Screams, cries, and curses intertwined.

After many people are set on fire, they just run around in pain, and then ignite more places.

(End of this chapter)