A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 291 Breaking the Camp
It can be determined that there is no artillery in the Qing army camp in Zhenghongqi, and Xuan Dajun attacked in three directions.Wang Doushun's township army and Yang Guodong's Superintendent Biao Battalion attacked the south side of the camp, Yang Guozhu attacked the west side of the camp, Hu Dawei and Xu Yue'e attacked the north side of the camp, leaving the east side near the Liuli River untouched, thinking that the siege would be forfeited.

Wang Dou boarded his command chariot, Yuanrong Chariot, and looked out. The Yuanrong Chariot was nearly three meters high, and he could clearly see the battle ahead.There is also a canopy on the top to prevent the sun and rain, which is very good.

Some parts of the car were damaged during the Battle of Julu, but Xuan Dajun withdrew to Zanhuang to rest and repair it.

Wang Dou stood on the chariot and looked over. Yang Guodong, the commander of the Supervising Biao Battalion, and Han Chao, the commander of the first branch of the Shunxiang Army, had already led the army to force them away as the first wave of attacking troops.In front of them, a hundred one-wheeled chariots, each pushed by a soldier, rumbled forward.

The shafts on the front and on the right side of these chariots are all inserted with hard cards, which can effectively protect against sharp arrows.In addition, Wang Dou also supported Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei with [-] unicycles each.

Zhao Xuan's cannons, the gunners dragged 25 medium-sized cannons of the Buddha Wolf machine, and four Hongyi six-pound guns followed behind the army. This was Wang Dou's first wave of offensive.The front wall of the Qing army camp was more than 300 steps long, and only these troops were allowed to deploy.

Looking to the right of the formation, [-] peasants were working hard to dig the soil, filling it with bags and even clothes and cloth, and Sun Sanjie led the soldiers to supervise them.The peasants packed the cloth bags, and two thousand trench-filling heroes, with the soil on their shoulders, followed the army under the guidance of the soldiers.

A hundred single-wheeled chariots lined up and advanced, and to the sound of drums, the firecrackers of the first division of the Shun Township Army and the superintendent camp firecrackers closely followed with their firecrackers in hand.Then there were two spearmen and sword and shield soldiers marching in the whole line.They quickly approached 150 steps before the camp, and Han Chao shouted: "Stop advancing."

"Stop advancing..."

Amidst the officers shouting orders one after another, the Han Dynasty and Yang Guodong's troops, which were marching like a tide, stopped and gathered in front of the wall.

Han Chao and Yang Guodong bowed politely for a while, and the two came out more and more.Han Chaoce was on the horse, and through the chariot in front, he could see the Zhenghongqi Qing soldiers on the wall of the Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Zhaimen Wall.

The Zhailou is more than ten feet high and the archers of the Qing soldiers on the parapet are densely packed. The Han Dynasty estimated that the number of them in a row would not exceed 500 people. After all, the length of the Zhai Wall is only that much.

Facing the front of the Han Dynasty is the gate of the camp, with a tall building and a suspension bridge.In front of the gate of the village is a deep moat, in front of which there is a passage about twenty steps wide, and on both sides are moats with low walls.For example, there are two passages on the left and right of the passage in front of the village gate, and a small gate for each is temporarily set up.

This is the arrangement of the Qing army. Yang Guodong and Han Chao looked at each other, and they both saw the sneer on the other's face.

Yang Guodong said with a long smile: "Ben Qian knows what it means to say that a painted tiger is not an anti-dog."

"Our army has a lot of artillery. Can their wooden walls withstand the bombardment of our army's artillery?"

Han Chao also smiled: "Our army is approaching with lightning speed, and they have no time to prepare all their defenses. Such a camp is vulnerable!"

His heart surged with pride, and he glanced back at the soldiers in his army. The gunmen and pikemen in his army stood quietly. Although the weather was extremely cold, they still stood motionless. The meaning of blood.

Except for Gao Xun's new chief, the three chief sergeants of his are all veterans who fought bloody battles with the Qing soldiers in the ninth year of Chongzhen.Even the officers in Gao Xun's headquarters are all veterans who survived the Battle of Julu.Although some new recruits have recently been added to the general staff, their nervousness can be ignored under the strict atmosphere in the army.

Han Chao glanced at Huang Shibian, the governor beside him. His face remained expressionless, and his cheeks were blue and purple from the cold wind, making his expression even more terrifying.Li Jinpei, the consolation officer, rode on a horse. In this severe cold weather, his long beard was covered with white flowers.Even so, he still kept his trademark kind smile on his face.

This is the army of Korea and North Korea.

The cold wind whistling over, rolled up their red cotton wool overcoats and red cotton wool overcoats, and the army was full of dazzling fiery red.

"let's start!"

Han Chao issued an order, and the chariots and the army in front separated to the two sides. Zhao Xuan commanded his gunners to push the artillery forward. The artillery was pushed by the gunners with their hands.

Under the command of Zhao Xuan, four Hongyi 25-pound guns and [-] Buddha Wolf machine guns were pushed to the front of the army. They were lined up, and the dark muzzles were adjusted and leveled, aiming at the enemy a hundred or dozens of steps ahead. Qing army camp.The Qing army with the red flag on the wall of the stronghold had no choice but to watch the Ming army raise their cannons.

Zhao Xuan is majestic and majestic, with a red cloak on his body, commanding more than 70 gunners to work. The rest of the more than 200 members of the Artillery Thousand General are also ghost-like, all of them are wearing red cotton and wool cloaks, and they are equipped with firecrackers and waist knives , standing in line behind the gunners who fired the guns.

When Zhao Xuan was busy, the soldiers pushed the chariots and lined up with the cannons, guarding both sides of the 29 cannons.

The gunners loaded the gunpowder and shells, and the gunners of the supervising battalion were under the command of Zhao Xuan. They quickly loaded the gunpowder and sent them to the shells. Only the Hongyi six-pound gun facing the gate of the village used a big shell .The cannon first fired a test shot, and with a loud noise, a fiery big iron ball spun and smashed towards the Zhailou.

Han Chao saw the shell whistling past, and a large area of ​​the village building was knocked down, the Qing soldiers on top screamed and jumped down, and the Qing soldiers on the walls of the two sides also screamed and avoided.At such a short distance, how can the wooden Zhaimen Zhailou block the bombardment of artillery?

"fire!"

Zhao Xuan's unique hoarse cry sounded.

Dazzling flames shot up one after another, and amidst the deafening cannon fire, waves of iron balls roared towards the Qing army camp.In particular, those few Hongyi cannons fired more than a dozen large and small cannonballs in one cannon, and smashed one after another on the wall of the Qing army's Zhaimen Zhaimen.

At such a short distance, the artillery fires in a flat volley with astonishing accuracy. Under the bombardment of the shells, the wooden walls and wooden doors collapsed one by one like paper paste, and large holes appeared one after another.The Qing soldiers on the wall were beaten to pieces...

When the iron ball smashed down the tree trunk, the cannonball shot through their bodies, causing blood to fly from their stumps.The collapsed and scattered wood debris also caused huge casualties to them, and thick blood mist was sandwiched in the debris...

The planks stacked between the two rows of trees collapsed from time to time, and the Qing soldiers either fell down, or jumped down screaming and rolling and crawling.

A group of large and small projectiles from the Hongyi six-pound gun roared away, hitting the gate of the village made of solid wood.A dozen or so projectiles caught flying pieces of wood, broke through the gate of the village and went straight through, opening up alleys of flesh and blood for the Qing soldiers behind the gate...

Amidst the dense gunpowder smoke, Zhao Xuan's orders to fire the guns continued.

The four Hongyi six-pound guns fired four waves of projectiles in a row before stopping, and the 25 medium-sized artillery pieces of the Buddha Wolf machine fired six waves in a row. The 29 artillery pieces in the army fired nearly [-] projectiles of different sizes in one breath before they stopped. Heat dissipation.

The white smoke dissipated, and everyone saw the situation of the camp in front of them clearly. Not a single wooden wall was complete, and there were large holes in broken landslides everywhere. Between the broken trunks and planks, there were incomplete corpses of the Qing army. The stumps of the internal organs of the body are hanging everywhere like that...

There was a loud bang, Zhao Xuan was startled, he looked carefully, but the heavy and precarious suspension bridge on the village tower finally fell down, and Lao Lao fell on the ditch of the gate of the village.

He couldn't help cursing angrily.

"Vulnerable!"

Yang Guodong, the general manager of the Supervision Battalion, sneered. He could see the Qing soldiers on the parapet crying and fleeing. Many people wanted to leave this dangerous place with their heads in their hands. Their morale was devastated, and they were afraid they would be defeated.He said to Han Chao who was beside him: "Mr. Han Qian, it seems that our army does not need to fill in the trenches. It is covered by chariots and can enter the slave camp through three passages!"

Han Chao's eyes were deep, and he shook his head slightly: "Although the slave is timid, he still has combat power. The passage is narrow, and our troops can't use it. We should follow the original strategy and fill the trench!"

Sure enough, the two soon heard the voices of officers scolding and shouting orders from the Qing camp. Looking from the landslide, there were also the figures of Zhenghong Banner Ba Ya La soldiers. They beheaded some deserters and shouted to supervise the Qing The soldiers continued to fight on the wall.

Han and North Korea sent an order: "The civilian husband fills the trench, and the firecrackers cover it!"

The officers shouted orders one after another: "Civilian men fill in the trenches, cover with firecrackers..."

"Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!"

The heart-pounding sound of war drums sounded, the chariots advanced layer by layer, and the dense firecrackers followed the chariots, until they reached the first low wall and ditch in front of the wall.

"Fill the trench!"

Under the order of Sun Sanjie, the thousand general of the army, two thousand trench-filling heroes resisted the earth bags, rushed forward screaming desperately, and threw the resisted earth bags into the trench one by one.In front of the two thousand heroes, Wu Daben, Chen Xu and others rushed to the front, and after throwing the soil bag, they ran back quickly.

Wu Daben and the man next to him seemed to be extremely skilled at avoiding bows and arrows, but they were not in any danger at the moment.With the shooting range of the Qing soldiers' bows and arrows, they had to fill at least the first three trenches before the Qing soldiers' bows and arrows could hit their bodies, not to mention the dense firecrackers covering Shunxiang Fort and Dubiao Battalion.

They fired more than 150 guns continuously, causing sawdust to fly across the wall, and there were constant screams of Qing soldiers.A hundred steps away, the Shunxiang Army's guns are already lethal.The Lumi blunderbuss of the supervisory battalion has a range of [-] steps, which is both accurate and ruthless.There were five teams of them, including three teams of firecrackers, and they even had hundreds of Lumi gunmen. These Lumi gunmen in red cotton armor beat the Qing soldiers above them so hard that they couldn't lift their heads.

The firecrackers crossed and shot obliquely, which not only prevented the Qing soldiers on the parapet from showing their faces, but also left room for the peasants in the center to fill in the trenches.

The sound of firecrackers continued, and white smoke had enveloped the front of the wall. Two thousand trench-fillers running back and forth quickly filled the first trench. At this time, no one had been hit by an arrow.When the news came back, the captive people in Zhongdai Tun gathered together, and everyone shouted for joy: "General Wang is about to break through the Tartar camp."

Wang Dou looked clearly in the large formation of the Chinese army: "It seems that at noon, the slave camp can be broken."

He also ordered Wen Fangliang to go out to fight and lead the troops to follow Han Chao. When Han Chao entered the camp, he followed closely.

The drums of the Chinese army also sounded. Amidst the passionate drums, the soldiers shouted and lifted the one-wheeled chariots over the low wall. It is also easy to walk through the passage and lift it directly from the low wall.

There were only five trenches in the Qing army, and the width between each low wall was [-] steps. When the chariot approached the second low wall trench, it was no more than [-] steps away from the camp.At this time, the firecrackers of the Shunxiang Army's firecrackers could already break through the Qing army's armor, not to mention the Lumi blunderbuss of the Dubiao Battalion, while the Qing army's bows and arrows were only effective at fifty paces.

The gunners of the Shunxiang Army and the Dubiao Battalion took advantage of the range of their firearms and used the chariots as cover to beat the Qing soldiers on the wall until no one dared to show their faces.Even if they counterattacked, the walls of their village were already destroyed by artillery, and the arrows were scattered and without any power.

The trench-filling heroes running back and forth filled the second trench with soil bags, and the Shunxiang Army's chariots pushed them to the front of the third low-walled trench, sixty steps away from the camp.

A large group of Zhenghong Banner heavy armor and Baya La soldiers poured out from the gate of the village, and ten chariots had pushed through the twenty-step-wide passage in front, only fifty steps away from the gate.Behind the chariot, there are ten rows of Shunxiang Army firearms, 30 people in each row.

Those Zhenghong Banner heavy armored and Bala soldiers rushed forward screaming, all of them were holding thick leather shields, and some of them even held iron shields in their hands.

From the moment they rushed out of the gate of the village and stepped onto the suspension bridge, the firecrackers at the passage shot at them from behind the chariot. Amid the deafening sound of firecrackers, their shields were broken one by one, and then their heavy armor They were broken, and they rolled to the ground screaming one by one.

The gunners in the front row just shoot. After they finish firing the gunners in their hands, the gunners in the back row immediately hand over the gunners in their hands, and ten rows reciprocate to ensure that these gunners continue to fire.

Behind the chariots, they kept pulling the triggers on the Qing army's heavy armor that was rushing forward, and large puffs of gunpowder smoke came out. From the eyes of these charging Qing soldiers, the long flames of death in front of them never stopped. You cannot rush within twenty steps of the chariot.

The few dozen steps, which are not wide and not long, became the death zone for those Qing soldiers. Amidst the sound of gunfire, the ground was piled up with their dead bodies and temporary wounded... Finally, no one rushed out, and only heard the sound of gunfire. The pungent smell of gunpowder and the strong smell of blood...

The same situation also happened on the remaining two channels.

Han Chao and Yang Guodong looked at each other and smiled: "Slave thief, vulnerable!"

"Move, move, move..."

Zhao Xuan commanded the gunners to pull the 29 cannons to the third low wall, all concentrated on the left side of the gate of the village.

At this distance of sixty steps, the muzzle was lowered to the maximum, and a salvo was fired at the wooden wall in front.Amidst the deafening sound of cannonballs, a large wooden wall in front of them collapsed, and more bloody stumps were sandwiched between broken wood debris flying around.

Countless terrified Qing soldiers fell and jumped from the wall of the village. They screamed and ran with their heads in their hands, causing a chain reaction around them, and no one had the heart to resist.

"They're rout!"

Han and North Korea saw it clearly: "Send the order, the chariot moves forward!"

Amidst the sound of war drums, the densely packed chariots of the three passages advanced, and behind the chariots were the soldiers of the Shunxiang Army and the Supervising Biao Battalion shouting like a tide.

Seeing the densely packed Ming army pouring into the camp, Yue Tuo standing on the wall of Gaocunbao in the center of the camp looked ashamed!
"The camp... is it broken like this?"

(End of this chapter)