Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 363
Hearing the shouts from the top of the city, Man Dahai was taken aback for a moment, and then let out a shameless cold snort, "The light of the fireflies dares to compete with the sun and the moon, let you wait for the Nanman to see me today." The Qing soldiers are powerful." Man Dahai immediately turned his head and ordered: "General Hetuo, first shoot with cavalry!"

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Hetuo was also Wang Yan's old rival, and he almost killed Wang Yan in Qingzhou. Liu Shun also knew this Manchu general, and knew that he was the son of Kangka Lecong's brother. In the first year of Shunzhi, Yigabush Xianjiala Zhang Jing entered the customs, defeated Li Zicheng Tongguan, moved his troops to Jiangning, and returned to Belleboluo to conquer Zhejiang.

He Tuo took the order, he immediately turned around and got on his horse, and rushed into the cavalry. At this moment, the sound of the drum changed, and two thousand white armor and eight banners gathered behind him, forming an arrow formation. He waved his sword and shouted loudly. , "Follow me!" The two thousand cavalry followed the general He Tuo and ran towards the city of Guangzhou ten miles away. , The sky is also covered by the overwhelming dust.

There are few horses in the Central Plains, not to mention the land of Guangnan. Zheng Chenggong failed many times in history because he suffered from the lack of cavalry. Although there are only two thousand and eight banners in the city, the momentum created is enough to surpass nearly ten thousand infantry. .

Cavalry deterrence, this is the consistent combat method of the Manchurians. Whether it is siege or field battle, first use iron cavalry to create a huge momentum to frighten the opponent, and then cooperate with superb cavalry and shooting to make the enemy feel terrified.

People in Guangnan seldom saw such a scene. The Manchurian cavalry held bows and arrows, and their appearance was fierce, which caused a strong visual impact on the defenders on the city. He fought against the Qing soldiers twice in eastern Guangdong. Although both ended in failure, he was no longer as panicked as he was when he saw the cavalry just now.

"Hmph~" Liu Shun looked at the cavalrymen running towards him, and his gaze turned cold, "I'm really deceiving me too much, I don't know my name, Poppi Liu! Someone, bring the Folang cannon over here!"

Upon hearing the words, the Ming army immediately assembled the little Frangji, and a large group of infantry archers and Niaotong stepped on the top of the wall to defend. Liu Shun shot down with a high speed, which would definitely surprise the Qing soldiers.

At this time, the two thousand cavalry were getting closer and closer to the city. When they were about to approach the moat, they bent their bows and shot arrows one after another. After the cavalry finished turning, they were about to throw a rain of arrows. But at this moment, a man in the city The Portuguese, however, suddenly issued an order, "tiro~"

After Wang Yan bought cannons in Macau last time, he saw that the Xiyi firearms were very sophisticated, and the performance of the cannonballs hit extremely high. Barbarian talents come to train the artillery team.The army led by Wang Yan in Huguang did not receive training, but there were more than 40 Portuguese in the city of Guangzhou, serving the Ming army.

As early as the Shenzong period, the Ming Dynasty began to contact Portugal. By the end of the Apocalypse, there were already Portuguese serving the Ming army. During the Chongzhen period, a short-lived Portuguese mercenary army was even recruited. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty have completely different external thinking. The presence.

After hundreds of years of obliteration in the Qing Dynasty, we can no longer know the specific appearance of the Ming Dynasty, but through some clues, we can still see the huge difference between the two, and it is these differences that brought China into modern times. of darkness.

No matter how much some people brag about the Qing Dynasty, they cannot ignore the fact that China has always been ahead of the world since Ming Dynasty. This alone can show that the Manchu Qing Dynasty basically did not make any progress in China.

The Qing soldiers used Hetuo as an arrow, and changed from rushing to the city to going around the city. The hundreds of cavalry who were running in the front turned their horses and continued to run wildly against the moat.

But just after they ran dozens of steps, the gunners of the Ming army on the city, under the command of the Portuguese, suddenly fired cannons. More than 20 small Francophones fired at the same time, and the Ming army's bird guns, bows and arrows also fired in unison. When they got down, the dozens of war horses running in the front suddenly hissed sadly, and the shotguns instantly smashed the Qing soldiers and their horses into sieves.

There are three types of artillery shells in the Ming army, solid shells, shot shells, and blooming shells.

As the name suggests, the solid bullet has no gunpowder inside and is made of iron and lead. It is mainly used for siege and piercing the city wall fortifications. It has a long range, but it is not very lethal to personnel.

Shotgun shells are composed of several kilograms of lead-iron pellets, and some are filled with gravel. When shooting, they are shot in large pieces and are mainly used to kill people. However, shotgun shells have a fatal weakness, that is, they have a short range, and the effective killing is within a hundred feet.It is precisely because of this that the Ming army put the Qing army by the moat and began to fire.

Blooming ammunition is more troublesome, with gunpowder inside, and it is named for its shrapnel when it explodes, like a flower blooming.Iron shell shells have appeared in China since the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, and its improved version was used by the Yuan army to conquer Japan. Cannon-fired shells were widely used in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, such as the Ningjin Great Victory, which used this shell, but The power of this kind of flower bomb is actually very limited, and it is difficult to manufacture.

"tiro~"

A cannon sound came from the top of the city, and the smoke from the artillery spread across the city.The galloping horses under the city trampled on the fallen cavalry, and the soldiers were bloody and bloody, screaming in pain. Seeing this, Hetuo was shocked. Seeing that the city was well prepared, he didn't dare to fight bravely, so he hurriedly fired an arrow and shot Turn the horse's head again, and turn back with the cavalry.

The proportion of firearms in the army of the Ming Dynasty was very high, but they were elite soldiers such as Jiubian and Liaozhen. After the surrender of Zuozhen and the four towns of Jiangbei, the remaining soldiers and horses, except Zheng's, were better equipped. It is a loose soldier who has been neglected for a long time in the maintenance place, or a newly recruited soldier, or a volunteer soldier formed spontaneously.

Firearms are a technical job. The two capitals fell, and there were not many workshops and craftsmen in Nanming who could make firearms. The rebels, not to mention bird orders, were already very good if they had swords and arrows. Therefore, when Nanming was fighting the Qing court, Equipment is actually at a disadvantage.

Most of the former half-armed armies have retreated to the era of cold weapons. For example, the biggest battle of the Qing army led by Boluo was to wipe out eastern Zhejiang, but their opponents were only Fang Guoan and Wang Zhiren. More than 3 recruits expanded on the basis of [-] people.

In the corner of eastern Zhejiang, it is obviously impossible to gather more than 20 people's equipment in just over a year. It is precisely because of this that the Qing soldiers began to despise Nanming's army, completely forgetting that he fought For more than [-] years, he could only be kept out of the customs. Without Li Zicheng's help, he would never have been able to enter the customs for the rest of his life.

The Eight Banners did not expect that there were so many firearms in the city of Guangzhou. The artillery fire disrupted the formation of the Qing soldiers, but the Eight Banners soldiers were indeed elite. Dozens of Ming troops.

This time the attack did not have the effect of deterring the defenders at all. On the contrary, it dropped nearly a hundred corpses and retreated in a hurry. The anticlimactic behavior made Man Dahai feel a little embarrassed. Tong Yangjia hurriedly looked for him. The steps said: "Commander, the Nanman dare not fight in the wild. With only the advantage of firearms, it is better to camp first, and then attack the city together after the luggage and Hongyi cannons arrive."

Seeing that the city was fully prepared, Man Dahai knew that a hard attack would not be flattering, so he borrowed the donkey from the slope, not mentioning the Qing warriors, nodded and said: "Well, the commander will let them live for two more days, and send an order to retreat five days. Go to camp!"

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