Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 441
The shelling of the Eight Banners Han army ended soon.

Realizing that bombardment alone is not effective, no ammunition was wasted.

"Attack!" Xia Longshan raised his hand and pressed down, marking two thousand Guan Ning troops and began to move forward.

The two thousand Guan Ning troops were divided into ten teams. The first team was sword players, responsible for driving the van to provide cover for the entire infantry formation, the next four teams were musketeers, and the last five teams were all spearmen.

Compared with the 17th year of Chongzhen, the proportion of firearms in the Guanning Army has also increased significantly.

It's just that the firearms equipped by the Guan Ning Army are matchlock guns eliminated from the Eight Banners Han Army, not flintlock guns.

"Roar! Roar! Roar..." Guan Ningjun chanted neatly while moving forward, and soon entered within a thousand steps of the Ming army's blunderbuss platform, and it became no longer safe from this distance .

Because he might be bombarded at any time, Xia Longshan's heart immediately arose.

The Ming army was nothing more than a group of native chickens and dogs, but the Hongyi cannons should not be underestimated. The sidecars of the Guan Ning army could block the lead of the bird guns, but they could not stop the iron bullets of the cannons!
An iron bullet from the Hongyi cannon could easily smash the van, and even smashed the Guan Ning army hiding behind the van to pieces.

It is impossible for flesh and blood to bear steel by force.

Sure enough, just as Xia Longshan thought about it, there was a scream that tore through the air.

Immediately afterwards, there were dull bangs and bangs from shells hitting the ground, but no shells hit the guard plate of Guan Ningjun's side van. It's strange, what's going on?

At the moment Xia Longshan poked his head slightly from behind the guard to look forward.

Seeing this, Xia Longshan almost laughed out loud, the performance of the Ming army's artillery was really too bad.

Looking at the length of the body, it is obviously a Hongyi cannon, but its range is less than 500 steps. In contrast, the Hongyi cannon made by Tang Ruowang has increased its range to more than [-] steps.

Daming was so rotten to the bone that he couldn't even manufacture qualified guns.

Poor craftsmen have to contribute their own money to build guns for the court, so how can they make them well?
"Keep in formation, keep up!" Xia Longshan felt relieved, raised his waist knife and shouted, "Don't be afraid, Minggou's cannon is just a pile of broken copper and rotten iron. If you don't fire a few shots, it will blow up and be scrapped." !"

"Ho! Ho Ho!" The two thousand Guan Ning troops chanted rhythmically and walked forward slowly.

Soon, the formation of the Guan Ning Army entered within a distance of [-] steps from the Ming Army's blunderbuss platform.

Finally, a cannon hit the ground and formed a ricochet, hitting a van.

There was only a crisp cracking sound, and the thick wooden boards on the front of the van were instantly torn apart. A Guan Ning army hiding behind the van was instantly broken and died tragically on the spot.

But only one was killed, not a bunch of them.

"Don't panic, hold on to me." Xia Longshan shouted loudly with his waist knife held high.

"Trust me, most people will be fine, this thing just looks scary."

As a veteran, Xia Longshan knew better than anyone else that although the penetrating power of the red-clothed cannon was terrifying, its accuracy was extremely poor, and it could only hit one point, so the lethality was actually not great.

"Of course, if you are really lucky, you will get a shot,"

"Congratulations, you have been liberated, and you can go underground to reunite with the eighteen generations of your ancestors."

Hearing Xia Longshan's words, the nearby Guan Ningjun burst out laughing. Although Guan Ningjun in the distance couldn't hear what Xia Longshan was saying, seeing other people laughing, they laughed too. The laughter shook the sky.

Seeing this scene, Wu Sangui just nodded silently.

The Guan Ning Army is still the same Guan Ning Army.

Heroes in the world!

……

Dorgon on the top of the well also saw this scene.

"The Guan Ning Army is still the familiar Guan Ning Army." Dorgon said quietly, "The reason why they did not perform well in Hetao is not because their combat effectiveness has declined, but because they have resentment in their hearts."

Hong Chengchou persuaded: "Master, I also think that it is a bit too hasty to reorganize the Guanning Army and Datong Army into the Green Camp. We can treat strong soldiers like Guanning Army and Datong Army differently. The number one enemy is Nan Ming, and before Nan Ming is destroyed, it is not appropriate to fight internally."

"I don't agree with you on this matter." Fan Wencheng raised a rare objection.

"If we can't take advantage of this opportunity to eliminate the hidden dangers of the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army, we will definitely end up with a big tail in time, and it will be even more difficult to solve at that time."

"Even if there is a certain degree of internal friction, it is better than the Guan Ning army and the Datong army falling to Nanming."

Ning Wan and I also support Fan Wencheng: "If Wu Sangui and Jiang Yu continue to retain the independent leadership of the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army, this possibility exists."

"This is absolutely impossible." Hong Chengchou said decisively.

"Wu Sangui and Jiang Yu don't know what happened to Liu Zeqing, Liu Liangzuo, and Gao Jie. Huang Degong made such great achievements in the Xuzhou battlefield, and he was relieved of his military power by Chongzhen. They will never betray the Qing Dynasty, they will definitely not."

"Okay, the three gentlemen don't argue."

Dorgon said solemnly: "Whether Wu Sangui and Jiang Yu have ambitions or not, and whether they will rebel or not, the adaptation of the Green Camp is already a fact, and it is impossible to change it back. However, the Tenth Battalion adapted by the Guan Ning Army can still Wu Sangui will be in command, and the Fifth Battalion reorganized from the Datong Army can also be in command by Jiang Guan."

Even if Hong Chengchou, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan didn't say anything more.

This is also a compromise solution, and neither party is necessarily satisfied, but both parties can barely accept it.

Fulin looked at Dorgon's not-so-broad back, and thought secretly, is this the compromise that Er Niang said?Don't always think about being perfect in life and doing things, you have to compromise when it's time to compromise.

When the best results are not achieved, it is acceptable to be less than satisfactory.

Thinking of this, Fulin nodded secretly, I have something to gain, it is really the right time to follow this time.

If he stayed in the Forbidden City, he might never learn such a skill of controlling people.

……

The two thousand Guan Ning troops had already approached within five hundred paces.

This distance has entered the range of the tiger squatting gun.

Xia Longshan was even more nervous. Although the range of the tiger cannon was far less than that of the red cannon, and the destructive power of the shells was not comparable to that of the red cannon, the lethality of the tiger cannon to infantry was far greater than that of the red cannon.

Because the tiger squatting cannon can spray hundreds of lead at a time, which is equivalent to firing a hundred bird guns at the same time.

Without the protection of the van, the Ming army only needed a dozen tiger squatting cannons to bloodbath their two thousand Guanning troops.

"Click" Another van was hit by Ming army shells and shattered on the spot, and a long line of six or seven Guanning soldiers following the van were also shattered in an instant.

"Come closer, move closer to the middle, and protect the integrity of the formation!"

Xia Longshan immediately signaled the vans on both sides to move closer to the middle to fill the gap.

Although this will cause the entire formation to become crowded, it is better than losing the protection of the van and being directly exposed to the muzzle of Ming army weapons, especially tiger squat guns.

So far, ten vans have been destroyed.

The Guanning Army that followed up also had five or 60 casualties.

But this casualty is nothing to 2000 people.

The emotions of the officers and men of the Guan Ning Army were also very stable, and there was no confusion at all.

"Roar! Roar!" The uniform chant was louder than louder.

What Xia Longshan was most worried about did not happen. The Ming army did not use tiger squat cannons to bombard them, and even the sound of the Hongyi cannons gradually became sparse.

It is estimated that the barrel has been blown due to the poor quality of the barrel.

Xia Longshan immediately urged Guan Ningjun to speed up.

Soon, two thousand Guanning troops advanced to the edge of the slope and were forced to stop.

Because going forward is a trench more than ten feet deep. Before knowing what is going on at the bottom of the trench, the Guan Ning army dare not rashly push the van into the trench and attack across the trench.

But it's okay if you don't cross the ditch.

Because the Guan Ning army is now also equipped with a large number of bird guns.

Even across the trench, the Ming army on the opposite side can be suppressed.

"Musketeer, step forward and light the match!" Xia Longshan raised his waist knife.

Nearly two hundred musketeers from the second team climbed onto the van one after another.

Xia Longshan also climbed into the van, looked forward through the guard panel of the van, and saw the trench about [-] steps wide, opposite to the fence of the Ming army's blunderbuss platform.

Xia Longshan immediately raised his saber and roared, "First team, raise the blunderbuss!"

Nearly [-] musketeers in the first team raised their guns one after another, aiming their guns at the wooden fence on the opposite side.

Suddenly, a large number of Ming soldiers appeared behind the wooden fence on the opposite side, wearing cotton armor, Li helmet and face armor.

"Pretend to be a ghost, who are you scaring?" Xia Longshan smiled and shouted sharply: "Let go!"

Nearly two hundred musketeers decisively pulled the triggers of the snake rods, and with the sound of "bang bang bang", hundreds of lead bullets hit the opposite wooden fence and the Ming army, making crackling noises.

Many Ming soldiers fell back in response, but soon another Ming army took their place.

But what puzzled Xia Longshan was that the Ming army on the other side did not fight back.

But even so, Xia Longshan would not be soft-hearted, raised his sword again and howled: "Second team, let go!"

The second team of musketeers stepped forward and pulled the triggers, and then there was a continuous sound of gunfire. This time, there was an accident on the Guan Ning army. Throwing it out, ignited the gunpowder canister on the musketeer beside him, and immediately deflagrated, turning into a Pyroman.

Xia Longshan was unmoved at all, it was inevitable for Niaozhu.

"The third team, let go!" Xia Longshan held up his waist knife and gave the order again.

There was another continuous sound of firing guns, and many Ming troops on the opposite side fell down again, at least thirty of them.

At a distance of about thirty steps, the accuracy and lethality of the bird gun are still extremely impressive.

And this time, after the Ming army guarding behind the fence fell, no other Ming army came up as a substitute. Obviously, either the number of Ming troops behind the fence in front was insufficient, or the Ming army was frightened.

"Fourth team, let go!" Xia Longshan once again gave the order coldly.

There was a loud gunshot, and many Ming troops behind the fence on the opposite side fell down again.

When the gunpowder smoke cleared, Xia Longshan looked forward again, and saw that the Ming army still guarding behind the fence had become sparse, just like the teeth of an 80-year-old woman.

"What a bunch of trash, haha."

Xia Longshan laughed twice, raised his knife and shouted: "Attack!"

Seeing Xia Longshan's gesture, the five captains who had been waiting for a long time climbed onto the van, climbed over the guard plate of the van, jumped onto the slope, and then jumped into the ditch ahead like dumplings.

No problem, there's no caltrops or anything under the trench.

In a blink of an eye, two teams of four hundred spearmen had jumped into the trench.

However, at this moment, another group of Ming troops suddenly appeared behind the fence ahead.

Xia Longshan immediately groaned in his heart, vaguely feeling that something was wrong.

The Ming army that emerged this time seems a little different from the Ming army that was "destroyed" by them just now?
When thinking about it, Xia Longshan vaguely saw from the corner of his eyes that the dozens of remaining "Ming soldiers" were pushed away by the new Ming soldiers and fell straight back.

Seeing this scene, Xia Longshan immediately came to his senses.

"Damn it, dummy!" Xia Longshan's soul was scared out.

"The one just now was a dummy, the thief has been fooled, come back quickly!"

However, it was already too late, Xia Longshan's voice hadn't finished yet, and the loud blasting sound rang out again.

This time it was the Ming army on the opposite side who fired the guns. Xia Longshan had already clearly seen the white smoke coming out of the Ming army's muzzles. How could the Ming army's musketeers be so close and dense?

In the next moment, the third spearman who was just about to jump down fell down like cutting wheat.

In the blink of an eye, nearly two hundred spearmen almost all fell into a pool of blood, some were killed on the spot, but more were just injured, lying on the ground and wailing loudly.

Seeing this scene, nearly [-] spearmen stood there immediately, those who had already jumped into the ditch, and those who were climbing the parapet wall of the van to jump down. They were stunned by the sudden blow.

The Ming army on the opposite side did not show any mercy. The musketeers who finished firing their guns retreated, and the second team of musketeers replaced them.

There was another burst of intensive blasting, and the nearly two hundred spearmen of the Guanning Army riding on the fenders of the van fell down again like cutting wheat, and the wailing sounded through the sky.

At this moment, nearly [-] Guan Ning troops who were stunned in the trench finally reacted.

With a shout, the more than 300 Guan Ning troops turned around and were about to climb up the slope protection.

However, the slope protection was originally raised, and the trench was nearly one foot deep. How could they climb up in a hurry?

The Ming army musketeers behind the fence on the opposite side came up one after another, and released two rows of guns. The nearly [-] Guanning army spearmen who jumped into the trench also all lay down.

Even if the spearmen were not shot, they all lay down.

Would a fool just stand there and wait to be shot by a Ming army musketeer?
In just this moment, seven or eight hundred Guan Ningjun lay down.

"Damn it, you despicable villain!" Xia Longshan was so angry that his back teeth were about to be crushed.

"Musketeers, take turns firing the guns!" Xia Longshan raised his waist knife again and roared sharply.

These damn smart dogs, you have musketeers, don't we Guan Ning army?

(End of this chapter)