Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 223
Three miles, two miles, one and a half miles...

However, the new army did not launch an attack directly like last time, smashing people to pieces with that kind of continuous-firing weapon.

Two hundred feet, one hundred feet...

The distance is already very close, and the defenders on the city wall of Yangzhou have not yet launched an attack.

Until they came to the moat, ready to build trench bridges and folding bridges.

At this moment, many people who were paying attention to the movement of the defenders on the city wall suddenly saw the muzzles of black holes of different sizes protruding from the toothed wall.

It turned out that these artillery were hidden on the city wall before, and they were pushed out at this time.

"Cannon, cannon..."

"The new army's magic soldier, the magic soldier..."

In fact, none of them saw the full picture of these artillery pieces, but only saw the black muzzles. Most of them were obviously red cannons, but they were regarded as magic soldiers of the new army.

"fire……"

With an order, all kinds of artillery on the city wall immediately started to move, including the Fran machine gun, the tiger squatting gun, and the red cannon.

The cannons in red were transported to the city wall from the warships of the new army, and they were all the smallest in caliber.

"Boom boom boom..." For a while, the sound of cannons shook the sky.

Shots and shot were flying around.

Although the lethality of these shells is far inferior to that of the new army's howitzers, the momentum is overwhelming and the sound of the shells is endless.

However, these artillery are not attacking infantry, but trench bridges, folding bridges being erected, and long-range weapons such as chariots further away.

Because swarms of bees, rushing and Tibetan wheeled vehicles, and firefighting forces, etc., are loaded with a large number of rockets, the effective range can even reach more than one mile, which is still quite a threat to the defenders.

Therefore, these long-range weapons naturally became the main targets of the defenders.

As for the ordinary soldiers with guns, bows and swords, let's go through the moat first, otherwise there is no threat at all.

But even so, the violent sound of the cannons still made the enemy troops who were not strong in fighting spirit tremble with fear.

All of a sudden, there was chaos, and it didn't collapse immediately under the orders of military officers at all levels.

These officers are also helpless, but they have been ordered to die. Whoever's team collapses, they themselves will lose their lives first.

Therefore, as soon as you see anyone who dares to retreat, immediately cut down without hesitation, and then force the others to move on.

"Bang bang bang..." The new army on the city wall began to fight back with their muskets, looking for officers to attack.

The reason why the soldiers of the new army were fighting back was because only the flintlock guns of the new army could barely reach the distance of the enemy.

The soldiers of the new army equipped with 98K choose farther targets, those officers with higher positions, and these people are generally behind.

A general flag was raising his saber, ready to slash at the back of a hesitant soldier in front of him.

Suddenly, his body was startled, his eyes widened, and then he fell back weakly.

At this time, the soldier who was almost killed by his chief seemed to respond, and when he turned his head, he happened to see the general flag lying dead on the ground.

"The general flag is dead, the general flag is dead..." he shouted instinctively.

This scene was staged everywhere, from the general banner, to the test of hundreds of households, hundreds of households, and thousands of households, and sometimes even the small banners were not spared.

A large part of the reason why the soldiers of the new army were able to hunt and kill officers so calmly was that the enemy's offensive will was not strong.

Everyone seemed to be waiting for an opportunity to retreat quickly, so they were unwilling to attack desperately.

Those officers also saw the problem, so they often waved their sabers, not at the new army, but more at their own people, which also increased their chances of being exposed.

Because the clothes of middle- and lower-level officers are not much different from those of ordinary soldiers, it is not easy to be found among the crowd. As long as you see someone waving a knife at his own people, it is basically an officer.

In addition to officers, flag guards are also the focus of attention.

For a while, many officers at all levels were hunted down, flags from all walks of life were also toppled several times, and several flags were even blown to pieces by artillery.

"Run away, Zongqi is dead, Baihu is dead, they are all dead..."

"The artillery of the new army is too powerful, this is sending you to death..."

"Bastard, this is not giving us a way to survive..."

Although they knew that there was a supervising team in the rear, many people still couldn't help but fled to the rear.

"No retreat, no retreat, the retreater dies..." the general of the supervising team behind shouted loudly, but many soldiers still retreated in fear.

"Shoot the arrow..." Without further hesitation, the general in charge of supervision immediately issued the order to kill.

"Puff puff..." The retreating soldiers screamed and fell down after being hit by arrows.

The other soldiers who saw this scene rushed in other directions like headless chickens. The Qing army in charge of the battle rode their horses to outflank the two sides.

Sure enough, going forward is death, and retreating is also death.

In desperation, some soldiers seemed to have thought of a way. They returned to the front of the formation, threw away their weapons all the way, and kowtowed in the direction of the Yangzhou city gate. The meaning was obvious.

Every time they kowtowed, they immediately stood up and moved forward for a certain distance, kowtow again, and kept closing the distance like this.

Many people shouted while knocking: "Don't fight, don't fight, we surrender, surrender..."

The bombardment on the city wall stopped after the enemy retreated, but after these people returned, they did not bombard again, and even the sound of firing was very loud.

These people gradually discovered that as long as they put down their weapons, they didn't seem to be attacked by the new army anymore.

As a result, more defeated troops joined in.

A strange scene happened. On the other side of the moat in Yangzhou City, a group of enemy soldiers who put down their weapons knelt down. Some people kept waving white cloths they found from nowhere.

This scene made the Qing army supervising the battle quite embarrassing. For this reason, dozens of cavalry rushed forward viciously, trying to force these people to continue fighting by killing chickens and monkeys.

For a while, there were screams and screams, and the other soldiers got up and ran away in horror.

However, there was no lack of some desperate people among them, they shouted loudly: "The Tartars won't give us a way out, kill them, take their heads and surrender to the new army..."

Immediately someone echoed, "The Tartars don't give us a way out, but against them, kill them..."

So, someone took the lead and ran to pick up the weapons on the ground, and had to resist in order to survive.

It was also forced to the point where it was impossible to attack the city, and it was impossible to attack again.

But the retreat was not allowed by the Tartars, and they unceremoniously killed them.Even the new army as the enemy was not so ruthless, and they stopped attacking after they put down their weapons.

However, these Tartars who don't regard them as human beings don't even give them this chance of survival, how can they not rebel?

Although dozens of Qing soldiers rode war horses fiercely, like repelling locusts, they chased groups of people to flee in panic and killed them.

But after all, there are only dozens of people, and the resistance of thousands of people with nowhere to escape cannot be extinguished by dozens of people.

Several Qing troops were shot off their horses by bows, arrows and blunderbusses. Immediately, a group of people roared and rushed up, like hungry wolves rushing to eat, and suddenly became more fierce.

I don't know who made the rules. It seems that as long as you get the head of a Qing army, you can surrender to the new army, and you can even join the new army.

(End of this chapter)