Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 468 Killing Dorgon with one shot
The dense volley of guns rang out, and the green battalion soldiers who had just rushed to the top of the wall fell back one after another, then rolled down the 45-degree slope and fell into the ditch.

At least hundreds of Green Battalion soldiers fell into the trench.

And it sank directly into the water without getting up again.

The remaining green battalion soldiers hurriedly climbed back to the navy warship.

Obviously, the wooden signs of the Green Battalion could not withstand the close-range shooting of the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers.

Hong Chengchou said with a dark face: "Master, the lethality of the Ming army's self-generated firecrackers may not be lower than that of our Qing Dynasty's self-generated firecrackers."

Dorgon hummed lightly, without saying anything, but stared at the battlefield in front of him through the telescope for a moment, and it was the turn of the navy to fight back.

Sure enough, just as Dorgon changed his mind,

Nearly [-] warships of the Qing army navy opened fire one after another.

More than [-] Franc cannons and more than [-] bowl-mouth guns fired violently at the Ming army's gun platform at the same time. The scene was still extremely spectacular, and the periphery of the gun platform was instantly covered by smoke and dust.

This time the Ming army was beaten badly, because when the Qing army navy opened fire, each of the Ming army was holding self-fired firecrackers, half of the body above the chest was exposed on the parapet, and was hunting the fleeing green battalion.

Now the Ming army musketeer was directly hit by the navy.

Through the diffuse smoke and dust, Dorgon could vaguely see that a large number of Ming Army musketeers behind the blunderbuss wall fell down in an instant, at least two or three hundred.

Both the Franco cannon and the bowl-mouth gun shoot lead.

These lead can't hit the retaining wall of the triple earth ram.

It is best used to fight the Ming army behind the parapet.

Two or three hundred Ming troops were killed or wounded in just one round of shelling.

However, it is estimated that there will not be too many Ming troops who were actually killed.

But Dorgon still couldn't help cheering loudly: "Good!"

The Qing army finally caused substantial damage to the Ming army at Dagukou.

Before that, the Qing army paid so many casualties and lost so many supplies and equipment, but failed to cause substantial damage to the Ming army at Dagukou, which is really frustrating.

But today, I finally saved some face.

……

On the watchtower, Chen Mingyu's expression suddenly changed.

"Don't panic." Yan Yingyuan said very calmly, "There is no one who survives a war."

"But this wave of casualties just now was a bit too big." Chen Mingyu said worriedly, "I estimate that at least more than 200 soldiers were injured or killed in battle, but this is only the first wave of the Jiannu Navy. It's just shelling."

"It is precisely because this is the first wave of shelling by the Jiannu navy that the casualties are so high."

Yan Yingyuan's perspective on issues is always different: "The Holy Majesty once told us that the only lesson humans can learn from history is that they will never learn from history."

"It's the same in war, it's useless no matter how much you say."

"But as long as they suffer a loss once, they will become smarter."

"Some people have some things, and they always have to hit their heads and bleed before they can remember long."

"So, when the Jiannu navy launches the second wave of bombardment, it will be difficult to achieve such a record again."

"What's more, the first wave of shelling by the Jiannu Navy just now used mostly lead, so most of the front should only be wounded."

"I hope what you said is right." Chen Mingyu breathed a sigh of relief, and once again raised his binoculars to aim at the gun platform on the left front, only to see that the green battalion had already launched a second wave of strong attack.

……

Jiannu still hopes to seize the Ming army's blunderbuss as soon as possible through a strong attack.

Of course, it will definitely not be a strong attack by Zhenghongqi, but only the green battalion soldiers can launch the second wave of strong attack.

Under Jiannu's intimidation, more than 500 green battalion soldiers jumped to the wall, and then rushed to the top of the wall carrying heavy wooden signs. The green battalion soldiers rushed to the top of the wall this time.

In fact, the outer wall of the parapet is just over seven feet long.

Those who are tall and have long legs can reach the top in two strides.

As expected, the Ming army inside the blunderbuss learned a lesson and quickly adjusted their defensive tactics.

It was not until more than 500 green battalion soldiers rushed to the top of the parapet, ready to cross the five-foot-wide platform on the top of the wall and rush into the gun platform, that the Ming army suddenly got up and fired another wave of volleys with flintlock guns.

Intensive gunshots rang out, and the green battalion soldiers on the top of the wall fell to the ground one after another.

Dozens of desperate Green Battalion soldiers were lucky enough not to be shot, and jumped into the gun platform.

However, what awaited these dozens of green battalion soldiers was a more tragic ending: they were stabbed to death by random knives.

The Green Battalion soldiers who were injured and fell on the top of the wall or simply lay on the top of the wall and pretended to be dead quickly climbed back when they saw this, and climbed back to the warship along the 45-degree slope outside the parapet. The second storm ended in failure.

But there are some green battalion soldiers who can never go back and sink to the bottom of the ditch forever.

And this time the Ming army also learned how to behave, and did not rashly hunt and kill the fleeing green battalion.

This made the Jiannu Navy, who was waiting for a rabbit, wait for nothing.

……

"How?" Yan Yingyuan turned to ask Chen Mingyu.

"It's really a long memory." Chen Mingyu nodded slightly.

"However, I'm afraid it won't be so easy in the future."

Yan Yingyuan went on to say: "If there are no accidents, then Jiannu should give up the strong attack and start shooting at us through the protective wall of the gun platform."

"The Franco cannon of the Jiannu naval warship is useless."

"But the bowl-mouth guns on the warships of the Jiannu Navy can hit our army inside the gun platform."

The bowl-mouth gun is not a blunderbuss, but a kind of artillery similar to a tiger-squatting cannon, which can shoot curves over obstacles of a certain height. The wall of the gun platform is only five feet high, so naturally it cannot stop the bowl-mouth gun.

After a short pause, Yan Yingyuan continued: "Most of the Jiannu sailors are Dengzhou navy or Dongjiang navy who defected with Kong Youde, Geng Zhongming and Shang Kexi, so it is likely that there will be a lot of firearms, such as cupping cans, Torches and rockets and things like that would be more troublesome."

When Chen Mingyu heard the words, he became worried again.

"Pu Heng, you won't be unable to defend the left and right gun platforms?"

"That's definitely not the case. Shou can still hold it."

"It's good if you can keep it, as long as you can keep it until dark."

Chen Mingyu breathed a sigh of relief, and subconsciously turned his head to look again.

I saw that the surface of the North Sea was as clear as washing, but there was not a single ship.

Chen Mingyu began to worry about gains and losses again, the navy will not come, right?
……

Chen Mingyu was not the only one who was concerned about gains and losses, but Dorgon was also.

Seeing the more than 500 green battalion soldiers who launched another storm and retreated in rout, Dorgon's face also collapsed.

No way?With the assistance of the navy, it won't be impossible to win it, right?If he still can't win Dagukou this time, Dorgon can't think of what to do, withdraw his troops and go back?
It is impossible to withdraw troops to go back.

The knife stuck in Da Qing's throat must be pulled out.

At that moment, Dorgon turned his head and shouted at Cao Eryu: "I will pass on my will to push the Jinglan car forward another five hundred steps."

Dorgon instinctively wanted to be closer to the battlefield in order to grasp the battlefield information more accurately and in a timely manner.

In this way, when necessary, it is possible to intervene in time to prevent Azig from making mistakes at critical moments.

"Master, five hundred steps ahead will almost reach the position of the red cannon." Cao Eryu said with some concern, "Will this be too dangerous?"

"What danger could it be?" Dorgon said angrily.

"The range of the Ming army's red-clothed cannon is only seven or eight hundred paces, go and deliver the decree."

"Hey." Cao Eryu didn't dare to persuade anymore, and immediately ordered Zhengbaiqi's Baoyi to push several Jinglan carts forward.

Several Jinglan vehicles carried Manchu nobles such as Dorgon, Fulin, Luo Luohun, and Luck Dehun, as well as Han officials such as Hong Chengchou and Fan Wencheng, slowly moving forward, and finally arrived in front of the artillery camp after a quarter of an hour.

At this time, the entire field of vision is much wider than before.

……

"Gongchen, what do you think that is?"

Yan Yingyuan pointed to the Jinglan car slowly approaching ahead.

"This is... the Jinglan?" Chen Mingyu turned the binoculars, and after watching for a while, he suddenly said, "No, this seems to be an observation car rebuilt from the Jinglan?"

"That's right, this is Wangche. I discovered it on the first day the army of slaves arrived."

Yan Yingyuan said in a low voice: "If there are no accidents, Dorgon and Fulin will be there."

In the past few days, the Ming army also captured a lot of captive soldiers from the green camp. From the mouths of these green camp prisoners, it was known that not only Dorgon and Fulin, but almost all the princes, county kings Baylor and Beizi who built slaves came.

"Bao Heng, you purposely filled the Hongyi cannon with half of the gunpowder, isn't it the idea?"

"Why not? If Dorgon can be killed with one shot, Jiannu will be in chaos, and it is entirely possible that they will fall apart overnight, because besides Dorgon, none of Jiannu can shake the Eight Banners."

Speaking of this, Yan Yingyuan said again: "If Jiannu falls into chaos or even internal strife, it will not be a question of whether we can hold Dagukou, but whether Jiannu can resist our attack on Beijing. The sharp knife! At that time, the Holy Majesty will personally lead the Xuzhou army to march northward, and the slaves will directly destroy the country!"

When Chen Mingyu heard this, his heart skipped two beats.

But soon, Chen Mingyu sighed again and said, "Unfortunately, the distance is still far away. If these wells can go two hundred steps forward, our 4-inch field guns can only hit them."

"Don't worry, Jianu's Jing Lan will continue to move forward."

Yan Yingyuan said: "After all, there is no danger, is there?"

……

Azig has realized that he cannot attack blindly.

Counting on a blind attack, even if all the [-] Green Battalion soldiers were dead, they would not be able to take down the gun platform.

So Azig also quickly changed his offensive tactics. First, he sent the green battalion sword players to squat behind the protective wall, and then asked the green camp musketeers to lure the Ming army's musketeers to shoot at them through the knife players.

As soon as the musketeers of the Ming army showed their heads, the green battalion soldiers quickly got down together.

Then the bowl-mouth guns and Franco cannons on the navy warship will take the opportunity to fire.

Of course, this is just Azig's idea, and it is impossible to achieve such a tacit understanding in practice.

It wasn't that the musketeers or Fran's machine guns were late, or that the green battalion musketeers failed to lure the enemy, and sometimes there were even accidental injuries. The scene was chaotic.

But even if there is no tacit understanding, this tactic is still extremely threatening to the Ming army.

In addition, in addition to shooting muskets against each other, Jiannu and the Ming army also used various attack methods on both sides.

The Ming army kept throwing grenades outside the parapet, and sometimes dropped tens of thousands of enemies on the top of the parapet.

Tens of thousands of enemies on the top of the wall often burn a large area, killing and injuring many green battalion soldiers in an instant, and grenades can also pose a certain threat to the warships of the Jiannu Navy.

After a stalemate between the two sides for about half an hour, a warship sank after being hit by multiple grenades.

Of course, the greatest threat to Jiannu was the twenty tiger squatting cannons inside the blunderbuss.

Because the tiger squatting cannon can directly fire at the naval warships outside the wall through the five-foot-high protective wall.

The only pity is that the tiger crouching cannon can only fire 30 taels of combined mouth ammunition or five-coin lead. Holes were punched one after another on the deck or side of the warship of the slave navy, and it was impossible to sink the warship directly.

If you want to quickly sink a warship, explosive bombs such as grenades are the best.

It's just that, under the attack of the Ming army's tiger squatting guns, grenades, and tens of thousands of enemies, the Jiannu navy was also very embarrassed. It was too busy just to block the holes on the deck or side of the navy's warship. .

But the Ming army in the gun platform is not easy at all, because the Jiannu navy still retains many traditional weapons of the Ming army navy, such as chimneys, smoke pots, fire bricks, rockets and even Shenhuo flying crows.

And these weapons can also attack through the five-foot-high parapet.

In addition, the Jiannu navy's bowl-mouth gun is particularly threatening, which is the same as the tiger squat gun.

All of a sudden, the flames inside and outside the two gun platforms shot up into the sky, and the smoke was so thick that people couldn't even open their eyes.

The situation remained at a stalemate for the time being. Jiannu had no ability to enter the gun platform, but the Ming army could not do anything to the Jiannu navy outside the wall. The two sides could only throw their firearms at each other across the five-foot-high wall. Nu hoped that the Ming army would be the first to exhaust the throwing firearms, and the Ming army also pointed to Jiannu to exhaust all kinds of firearms first.

But in fact, the firearms prepared by both sides are sufficient.

At least in a short period of time, there is no concern about running out of firearms.

……

The fierce fighting continued until the evening and did not end.

The Ming army and Jiannu all lit torches at the same time.

From Beihai, which was more than ten miles away, the entire battlefield could be clearly seen.

Brothers Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Hongkui, who were standing on the watchtower of the navy's flagship war mast, saw this scene. Even though they were more than ten miles away, they could still vaguely hear the sound of firing guns.

Zheng Zhilong couldn't help becoming excited too.

After the naval battle of Luowan, it has been more than ten years since such a big scene has been experienced.

At that moment Zheng Zhilong shouted: "Every boat obeys the order, hoist the sails, and move forward at full speed!"

Zheng Hongkui immediately yelled to the bottom: "Raise the sails and move forward at full speed!"

The sailors on the flagship quickly raised their hard sails, and the signalmen on the middle mast also quickly hung up their light signals. Seeing the light signals on the flagship, other warships of the navy also raised their hard sails. , under the urging of the southeast wind, the slow-moving warship gradually began to speed up.

[My son has a high fever, and my head is also dizzy, but the antigen test is still negative]

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