Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Chapter 667

In a blink of an eye, the artillery battle had lasted for more than a quarter of an hour.

Sony has high hopes for the green battalion's shelling countermeasures.

However, the cruel reality soon gave him a heavy blow.

Because Sony discovered that the shelling of the Green Battalion did not cause too much damage to the artillery of the Ming army.

After more than a quarter of an hour of shelling, the more than 1700 cannons of the Green Camp fired at least more than 1 solid iron bullets at the artillery positions of the Ming army, but the killing effect was not satisfactory.

A lot of artillerymen of the Ming army were killed, at least thousands of people were killed.

However, the number of Ming army artillery destroyed was not large, at most dozens of them.

The cunning Ming army prepared wheels, gun mounts and other parts in advance, and replaced them in time if they were damaged, so as long as the key parts were not damaged, they could be repaired soon.

Therefore, the artillery firepower of the Ming army was hardly damaged.

However, the Qing army suffered more than 5000 Eight Banners warriors.

This is still under the premise that Sony ordered the expansion of the formation.

If the formation had not expanded and become more sparse, the casualties of the Eight Banners Manchuria would have at least doubled.

Even so, from the beginning to the present, the Eight Banners Manchuria has suffered more than 1 warriors.

The damned artillerymen of the Ming army only fought against the Eight Banners Manchuria. Most of the shells hit the Eight Banners Manchuria formation, and the number of shells falling on other phalanxes was very small.

In contrast to the Ming army, the casualties were not large.

The number of cannons of the Ming army did not decrease substantially.

"General, you can't go on like this!" Suksaha said sharply, "The artillerymen of the Ming army are so insidious, they only want to catch our Manchurian warriors from the Eight Banners, and the artillerymen of the Green Battalion can't suppress the artillerymen of Minggou at all. Go down, and the warriors with two yellow flags, two red flags, and two blue flags will be killed and injured!"

"I know." Sony scolded with a black face.

"You don't need to remind this general."

Speaking of this, a stern look flashed across Sony's eyes.

……

Li Zicheng was also very surprised by the result of the artillery battle.

"How could this happen?" Li Zicheng said in astonishment, "The Ming army didn't play cards according to the rules?"

"Yeah, isn't the Ming army messing around?" Song Xiance also frowned and said, "Jiannu's artillery is bombarding the Ming army's artillery positions, but the Ming army's artillery doesn't want to counter Jiannu's artillery , Instead, they aimed their cannons at Jiannu's Chinese army and bombarded them indiscriminately from beginning to end, what kind of tactics is this?"

"Capture the thief first and capture the king." Gu Junen said in a deep voice.

"The tactics of the artillerymen of the Ming army are formidable."

"Capture the thief first?" Li Zicheng was thoughtful.

Gu Junen said again: "Because Chongzhen knows very well that as long as the Eight Banners Manchuria that built the slave army is defeated, the remaining Green Camp, Eight Banners Han Army, Eight Banners Mongolia, Outer Fan Mongolia and Lianyong are nothing to worry about. They can be defeated in a flash. , the Jurchen is the root of slavery, once the Jurchen dies, the slavery will be over."

Song Xiance said awe-inspiringly: "So Chongzhen is quite sinister?"

"This is a Yang conspiracy." Gu Junen shook his head and said, "It's not a conspiracy."

Li Zicheng said in a deep voice: "So there is no way for Jiannu to crack it?"

"Yes, this cannot be cracked." Gu Junen nodded and said, "So if nothing unexpected happens, Jiannu will soon be forced to launch a strong attack..."

Just as we were talking, the sound of horns and drums in the Jiannu formation reappeared.

Immediately afterwards, the Han Army of the Eight Banners, which had been stationary, moved forward again with a van, and the Manchurian Eight Banners on the left and right flanks also pushed forward with carts, but the Central Army of Jiannu and the Eight Banners on both wings Mongolia, Outer Fan Mongolia, and the final training of bravery are still standing still.

"Jiannu really launched a strong attack?!"

Song Xiance couldn't help but glance back at Gu Junen.

Xin said that this time you were lucky, so I guessed right.

Li Zicheng said in a deep voice: "How do you feel that Jiannu is restrained everywhere?"

"Yes." Gu Junen said affirmatively, "Until now, the Ming army has had the upper hand and taken the initiative, while Jiannu is restrained everywhere, and the strong attack is forced to launch."

"Supposedly it shouldn't be." Li Zicheng said with a confused face.

"How could the Ming army keep suppressing Jiannu with such a one-word long snake formation?"

"I am also very puzzled by this." Gu Junen said, "But Jiannu is indeed at a disadvantage right now, and the outcome of this battle has become unpredictable."

"That won't happen." Song Xiance said in a deep voice.

"The Ming army must be defeated."

Gu Junen was too lazy to refute.

……

Ming Army Zhongjun.

Seeing that Jiannu dispatched the Eight Banners Han army and some Eight Banners Manchuria to launch a strong attack, he immediately ordered each artillery brigade to modify the shooting parameters, aim at the Eight Banners Han army and the Eight Banners Manchuria, and fire intensively.

Because after the Eight Banners Han Army and some Eight Banners Manchurians attacked, the formation of the Jiannu Central Army became more sparse. At this time, it would be a bit of a loss outweighing the gains to concentrate artillery firepower on the Jiannu Central Army.

When the order was issued, the 7 field artillery brigades and the 4 mountain artillery brigades turned their guns and fired intensively at the Eight Banners Han army and the Eight Banners Manchuria.

A total of 11 artillery brigades, 990 field artillery or mountain artillery, less than 50 were destroyed by Jiannu artillery, and the remaining cannons poured shells on the Eight Banners Han army and Eight Banners Manchuria at a frequency of one round per minute.

Accompanied by the crisp sound of "click" and "click", rows of side vans and caravans were destroyed, and strings of Eight Banners Han troops and Eight Banners Manchuria were smashed to pieces.

Jian Nu had no choice but to throw away the destroyed vans and caravans.

As a result, Jiannu's car walls and car walls shortened at a speed visible to the naked eye. From the beginning, it was almost equal to the width of the Ming army's array, and gradually shortened to four-fifths.

Behind Jian Nu, there was a place of severed limbs.

Those Jiannu who were hit by shells are rarely intact.

In addition, many Jiannu were lying there with their limbs broken, crying endlessly.

But no one came to save them, and before long, these slaves would bleed out and die.

Seeing this, Sony's heart began to bleed again. He didn't care about the Eight Banners Han army, but he cared about the Eight Banners Manchuria. These Manchurian warriors were the foundation of the Qing Dynasty.

But no matter how reluctant, I can only endure at this moment.

This is the case with war, there is no turning back when you start a bow.

When the battle reaches this point, either the enemy will die or we will die.

The only thing that made Sony feel gratified was that after losing [-]% ​​of the vans and wagons, the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han army finally approached within fifty steps and could open fire on the Ming army.

Sony firmly believes that in the ensuing battle, the Eight Banners Han army will definitely be able to defeat the Ming infantry.

The reason is also very simple. The Han army of the Eight Banners had sidecars as cover, but the infantry of the Ming army did not have cover, so they would undoubtedly lose in this contest of self-generating firecrackers.

Although the Ming army dug trenches, and the Ming army infantry also hid in the trenches during the shelling of the Green Battalion just now, Sony never thought that the Ming army infantry could hide in the trenches and exchange fire with the Eight Banners Han army.

Then the cruel reality once again gave Sony a blow.

In the next quarter of an hour of firefights, the infantry of the Ming army showed no sign of collapse, and still stuck to the trenches dug in advance to start a fierce confrontation with the Eight Banners Han army.

The hit rate of both sides is not high, because only the head can be hit.

However, the Ming army also had strong support from artillery firepower.

Therefore, the side car walls of the Eight Banners Han Army are still suffering continuous damage from the artillery of the Ming Army.

After a quarter of an hour of firefighting, the Eight Banners Han army's line was hit by at least 15 rows of artillery shells from the Ming army, and at least [-] sidecars were destroyed, forcing the Eight Banners Manchuria to replace the carts.

But this situation is obviously impossible to last for too long.

……

"Jiannu's strong attack is about to fail!" Gu Junen said in a deep voice.

Now Li Zicheng also saw it, nodded and said: "That's right, the Eight Banners Han army has no ability to defeat the Ming army hiding in the trenches. Even if the Eight Banners Manchuria generals are put on top of the car, it won't last long, and it's useless at all."

Gu Junen went on to say: "Once Jiannu loses the protection of the chariot formation, the cannons of the Ming army can be loaded with a hundred bullets. That is a massacre of Jiannu, and they will all be smashed into a sieve."

Song Xiance was completely stupefied, how could it be like this?

Li Zicheng asked again: "Then what should Jiannu do now?"

Gu Junen said in a deep voice: "There are only two ways for Jiannu to choose now. One is to retreat. While the strength is still there, he will decisively admit defeat and take the remnant out of the battlefield. Maybe he can use the cover of the cavalry to protect his main elite. The problem is this. Now, Jiannu will completely lose the strength to fight against Nanming, so in fact they only have one choice."

After a pause, he said again: "That is to fight to the death and launch a general attack!"

"General attack?!" Li Zicheng's expression froze suddenly.

……

Chongzhen had already predicted that Jiannu was about to attack.

"Youzhen, let the artillery brigades prepare." Chongzhen laughed, "At this point in the battle, Jiannu has no way out, and has no other choice but to fight us to the death. "

Xu Yingwei nodded and said: "My sage has learned from you, Jiannu should be about to attack."

After a pause, he said again: "Give me an order, each artillery brigade prepares the shotgun."

Until now, all 11 artillery brigades have used solid iron bullets.

But in the next step, including the 1st Brigade of the Mountain Artillery, which has not yet fired a single shot, it will be loaded with shotguns, waiting for Jiannu's two white flags and two yellow flags to launch a general attack from both east and west directions at the same time.

The order was issued quickly, and the supply battalions of the various artillery brigades quickly began to move.

Ever since, boxes of shotgun were unloaded from the baggage car and opened.

The shells of the 4-inch field gun and the 2.5-inch mountain gun are also packaged in advance.

It is to use oil-soaked cardboard shells to pack several kilograms of gunpowder and hundreds of pieces of lead together. When loading, you only need to insert the paper shell fixed ammunition from the barrel, which is very convenient.

[Some people are talking about my water chapter, and I am speechless. This is a battle of tens of thousands of people. To be honest, I wrote this battle very hard, because I have never participated in the war in the age of flintlocks. I just watched it. Movies, I have read some historical materials, but it is not easy to imagine and deduce the whole process of a great war based on these things.Also, some people don’t like to watch the process, and some just like to watch the battle process. Don’t yell about skipping chapters because it’s not your favorite chapter, don’t read it, don’t read it if you don’t read it, but there is no need to leave a message to block people Money, why bother?Code words are not easy, but labor deserves respect. 】

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