Ming Empire

Chapter 137 A Desperate Attack

In the direction of the west gate, Jiannu's attacks continued, but the pressure in the direction of the west gate was much lower than that in the direction of the north gate.

Hauge is in command of the north gate, and Duo Duo is in command of the west.

Hauge is eager to win, but he is not very good at strategy. Duduo was defeated, he repeatedly ridiculed, and took the initiative to ask for orders to lead the army to attack the most heavily guarded North Gate of Datong, but asked all the red cannons to be under his command.Dorgon, who knew that the Ming army concentrated its main defense forces in the direction of the north gate, finally agreed to Hauge's request to let Duoduo command the battle in the direction of the west gate, and Azige led the army to attack the east gate.

There are more than 1 troops under Hauge's command, but most of them are the Han army, the Korean army, and the Eight Banners of Mongolia. People and horses.There are only more than [-] people in Duoduo's department, but more than [-] are the main force of Jurchen.In terms of combat effectiveness, the Doduo tribe, which is inferior in number of troops, is still stronger than the troops led by Hauge.

However, in a siege battle, the side with the superior number of personnel basically has the upper hand. After all, the combat effectiveness during the siege is not fully reflected in the form of individual soldiers. A sergeant with poor combat effectiveness is likely to kill Another sergeant who was stronger than him in every aspect was killed. A strong city wall can turn a weak man into a strong man.

After the attack in the direction of the north gate began, Duoduo's men also began to attack the west gate of Datong.

Cao Yue personally commanded at the north gate, and the battlefield commander at the west gate was Zhao Liang, the deputy commander.

During Zhao Liang's time leading the army with Cao Yue, his strategic awareness has changed a lot. He has realized that the great power of firearms is completely incomparable with bows and swords, so he attaches great importance to the configuration of artillery and muskets on the battlefield. As a result, he was further reused by Cao Yue, and this time he was entrusted with commanding Ximen's army.

The first wave of attack in the direction of Ximen was also composed of the Han army, the Korean army and the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

Commanding the first wave of attack was General Xu Erxian under the command of King Zhishun Shang Kexi.

At that time, Xu Erxian and another general, Ban Erfu, followed Shang Aixi and joined the Manchu Qing Dynasty. They were promoted one after another because of their bravery and meritorious service.This time, Shang Kexi ordered him to lead the vanguard to attack Datong. In fact, he wanted to use Xu Erxian's bravery to attack the city of Datong and open a channel for the follow-up troops he led.

But both Shang Kexi and Xu Erxian knew that this attack was destined not to go so smoothly, and to describe it in a dejected word, it would be more ominous than good.

Although they knew that the danger was more than good, they had no other choice but to bite the bullet and rush in the direction of death.

The troops commanded by Xu Erxian adopted the same tactic, that is, they used the oar shield to clear the way, and the sergeant hid behind the oar shield and rushed forward, and then concentrated on shooting after rushing to the range of the bow and arrow.

Seeing Jiannu rushing over in a crowd and entering the range of the artillery, Zhao Liang calmly gave the order to shoot, and more than 20 Franco cannons fired at the same time.

Within the range of the firing range, the lethality of the Fran machine gun is very terrifying. A large number of Jiannu fell under the artillery fire, and the shield formation collapsed in an instant, followed by a burst of dense musket bullets, and a large area of ​​Jiannu Fallen under the fire of cannon and muskets.

The Fran cannon was introduced to China from Portugal during the Jiajing period and became the main artillery of the army in the mid-Ming Dynasty.Then the Ming Dynasty began to imitate this kind of artillery and achieved success.The Fran cannon is an early rear-loading smoothbore cannon, consisting of a mother blunderbuss and a child blunderbuss.The mother gun has a slender body tube and a small caliber. Each mother gun is equipped with multiple sub-guns. The sub-guns are similar to small fire guns. They can be pre-loaded with ammunition for backup. During battle, they can be loaded into the mother gun in turn to fire, thus increasing the firing speed.The gun body is equipped with front sight and rear sight, which can aim and shoot at long-distance targets.There are gun lugs on both sides of the gun body, the gun body can be placed on the bracket, and the shooting angle can be adjusted by pitching.

The advantage of this kind of artillery is that the ammunition is pre-stored in the sub-barrel, and there is no need to temporarily load it, which can speed up the firing speed.The disadvantage is that the barrel is shorter, and compared with the red cannon, the range is much shorter.

But no matter how short the shooting range is, it is far longer than that of bows and arrows. The intensive shooting of the Fran cannons is very lethal to Jiannu.

Most of the nearly [-] Jiannu who attacked in the first round fell under the continuous shooting of artillery and muskets. After surrendering to Jiannu, the traitor Xu Erxian, who made great achievements by massacring countless compatriots, was also bombed to death by shells. Fragments, dead.

Jiannu, who lost his commander, was in a mess immediately. Under the intensive musket fire of the Ming army, the remaining soldiers turned and ran away.

Duoduo, who was supervising the formation at the back, saw Shang Kexi's troops rout before reaching the city wall, his face was livid with anger, seeing the remaining troops fleeing quickly from the first wave of attack, he fiercely issued a new Order.

Following Duduo's order, arrows rained over his head one after another, shooting at the nearly [-] Han and Korean remnants who had fled, and managed to avoid the artillery and musket fire of the Ming army at the head of Datong City. Most of the Han army and Korean army died under the arrows of their master Zizhen.

Duoduo was already red-eyed, and after ordering the Jurchen fine cavalry he led to shoot and kill the retreating Han and Korean troops, he gave the order to attack the city again.Following Duduo's order, another general under Shang Kexi's command, Ban Erfu, led the [-] Han Army Eight Banners and the [-] Korean Army.There are also [-] Mongolian Eight Banners, holding their sabers high and killing them in the direction of the west gate of Datong.

Behind them, there are three thousand and eight banner soldiers with white flags.

The Han army and the Korean army rushing to the front used countless shields to cover dozens of shield formations, covering the Mongolian Eight Banners and Jurchens behind to attack in the direction of Datong City.

"Boom boom boom..."

After Jiannu rushed into the range of Fran's machine gun, Chengtou Nian's artillery began to fire violently again. Dozens of scorching solid iron bullets plowed dozens of bloody gaps in Jiannu's shield array.But the Jiannu behind quickly filled the gap and continued to rush forward.No one dared to retreat any more, and retreat was a dead end. If they rushed forward desperately, there might still be a way to survive. They had no choice but to bite the bullet and rush forward.

Jiannu's quick filling of the gap greatly reduced the effect of the Ming army's subsequent shooting. Most of the bullets hit the thick scull shield, and Jiannu did not cause great casualties.

Another round of ground-shattering shooting, solid bullets and development bullets fell on Jiannu's formation one after another, countless oar shields were blown up, and fragments and stumps and broken arms were flying everywhere.But the remaining Jiannu quickly shrunk their formation and continued to fill the gap. The escapees were beheaded, and the remaining troops still rushed towards the west gate desperately.

The Fran machine gun on the top of the city roared again, this time it was full of explosive bombs. In the fiery blast air, countless broken legs and arms and various fragments were flying in the billowing black smoke, as if the world hell.But Jiannu still showed no sign of defeat. After filling the gap in the scull shield formation, he continued to charge forward, and the Jurchen elite behind him also began to press up!
(End of this chapter)