Ming Empire

Chapter 114 Chahan's Death in Battle
(Thank you for the rewards from the book friends who are old and still play games. The new year is coming soon, I wish you a happy new year!) However, the ladder that was just erected was immediately pushed down by the soldiers of the Ming army, and several Jian slaves was crushed under the ladder.

Seeing that a large number of Jiannu escaped the fire of muskets and rushed to the vicinity of the city wall, Cao Yue also decisively ordered the support sergeants on standby to go up to the battlements and prepare for traditional defense.

Musketeers just shoot. If all the ammunition is exhausted, or the muskets are useless, they will retreat, and the defense on the top of the city will be handed over to the sergeants of other battalions. The sergeant does not have to go on the field anymore, and uses rolling stones and wood to deal with the enemy who is attacking the city.

The arrows shot towards the top of the city gradually became denser. From time to time, soldiers of the Ming army were shot and fell down, but most of them were only injured, so they would not lose their lives.After Cao Yue took over as the commander-in-chief of Datong, he took advantage of his wealth and power to provide the Datong army with good equipment and armor. These equipment and armor have saved the lives of many soldiers today.

Although the Mongols suffered huge casualties, they did not show any signs of stopping their attack.

Because of the long battles, after serving the Jurchens, they also experienced a lot of siege battles, and they also have quite a bit of experience in siege.

In the first wave of nearly 5000 soldiers, almost the entire army was killed before and after Datong City. Although Chahan ordered the follow-up troops to attack recklessly, he also ordered to prepare enough oar shields to withstand the Ming army's muskets and bows on the top of the city. shooting.

The scull shield is a huge wooden shield. The outer layer is covered with raw cowhide, and the inner support is iron branches. It is extremely strong.Most of the general army has this kind of huge shield equipment. Especially when attacking the city, in order to resist the arrows, wood and rolling stones of the defenders on the city, the attacking side often uses pieces of scull shields. In order to cover, a large number of sergeants were sent to the city, and they boarded the city under the cover of other troops, and continued to cover the follow-up troops.

The Mongols who attacked in the first wave did not use scull shields. Chahan, who was brave and foolhardy, originally wanted to use a quick attack to give Cao Yue a disarm, but he did not expect that the entire army was almost wiped out.

The next wave of Mongols who attacked the city came prepared, especially the thousands of troops led by Chahan. The Mongols in front all held their shields. Hundreds of shields formed a solid wall. The shield wall, and today's musket bullets cannot penetrate the scull shield at all.

The bullets of today's muskets do not fly fast, the range is not far, and the armor-piercing ability is very poor, and they cannot penetrate the solid scull shield at all.

Not only musket bullets, but lighter rolling wood and rocks hit it, and there was basically no threat.

The Mongols who attacked in the second wave, after the sergeants in front suffered a great deal of damage, the sergeants behind were no longer in a hurry to attack, but formed several huge shield formations, and they relied on the cover of the scull shield to slow down the attack Slowly move towards the city wall at a high speed.The bullets fired from the musket hit the scull shield and were ejected away, causing almost no damage to the Mongols hiding under the shield array.

Fortunately, the IQ of the Mongols at this time was not very good, and they came up with this method after losing thousands of soldiers and horses.This was a method they were reluctant to use, because Guy lost his heroism by hiding under the shield, and his attack speed was slow.Almost no sergeant could get under the city wall, let alone try to attack the city. Only the commanders under Chahan came up with this method.

Relying on the cover of the scull shield wall, the Mongols began to rush to the foot of the city wall in a steady stream, and began to build ladders, preparing to climb the city.

The arrows of the Mongols also began to shoot a large number of arrows on the city.

Fortunately, Cao Yue already had a plan for this situation. He was fully aware that musket bullets would not be able to pierce the scull shields used in the siege, unless it was a rifled gun, high-speed rotating bullets could.

Musket bullets can't pierce it, and arrows can't hurt it. The huge shield wall can even resist rolling stones and trees. Then Cao Yue thought of another method, which is similar to the attack method of cluster grenades in later generations.Bind several wooden handles together, and use their huge power when they explode to explode the shield array.The power of a grenade is too small, especially the primary grenade made of black gunpowder. Cao Yue knows this very well. It must be exploded together in order to be powerful.

Seeing several huge shield formations pushed close to the city wall, Cao Yue decisively ordered that while the muskets continued to fire, they threw a large number of cluster grenades.Soon, several large bundled grenade fuses were ignited, and with the joint efforts of two sergeants, they were thrown into the shield array piled up by the Mongols outside the city.

"Boom boom boom...", several bundles of grenades exploded almost at the same time. In the feeling of the earth shaking and the mountains shaking, dozens of slaves rose into the sky with the air waves and black smoke, and dozens of scull shields that were bombed too Flying into the air, a large piece of Jiannu's shield wall was instantly torn off, making it no longer complete.The Jiannu who were exposed to the scull shield soon became the target of the Musketeers.

Shooting at close range further increased the lethality, and the Mongolian soldiers who finally rushed to the moat fell down one by one.Many people were killed directly, but because of the lack of power of the muskets, more Mongolians were only injured, but what awaited them was still death.Even if they are not killed by subsequent bullets, they will be trampled to death by their companions.Even if someone was lucky enough to escape the bullets and the trampling of their companions, they could only watch themselves bleed to death without being able to move.

The cluster grenade successfully cleared away the threat of the scull-shield formation, and Cao Yue felt relieved, and smiled triumphantly at Sun Chuanting: "Old man Sun, you see, a humble job is not just luck!"

"Boy, you have some brains. It seems that Jiannu has nothing to gain today, and they will retreat with heavy losses!" Sun Chuanting raised the binoculars to his eyes, looked at the place where Dodo was suspected to be in the distance, and said with a smile: " Duoduo has suffered such a heavy loss, he should withdraw his troops, unless he wants to bury all these troops under the city of Datong."

"That's right, Duoduo should withdraw his troops," Cao Yue agreed with what Sun Chuanting said, "However, how many troops can he withdraw?"

But to the surprise of Cao Yue and Sun Chuanting, although the battle under the city was very fierce, the Mongols who attacked earlier and the Han army who attacked behind could not attack near the city wall, but Duoduo did not order the troops to retreat. Jiannu is still making fearless sacrifices one after another.

Seeing such a heavy loss to his men and horses, Chahan had completely lost his mind. He was red-eyed, and repeatedly ordered his subordinates not to take a step back, and must attack Datong City.

Regardless of the dissuasion of his own soldiers, he rushed to the front immediately, preparing to personally command the ascent of the city.

At this moment, a volley of musket bullets hit Chahan, who immediately fell off his horse, and then a bundle of cluster grenades was thrown near the place where he fell by a small trebuchet on the top of the city. Chahan, who was injured and fell to the ground, and the soldiers who were about to step forward to rescue him were all torn apart by the explosion...

(End of this chapter)