Chapter 24 Non-standard firearms
"Boom! Boom! Boom!"
The cannons were still roaring, but the frequency dropped a lot because the distance between the two sides became closer.
"Play a ladder and rush up!"
Li Shutai, who was covered in dust, finally came to the city with the firepower of the Ming army.
There were more than 400 bodies of Jin soldiers falling along the way. Li Rutai had never seen such a fierce battle. Fortunately, they came to the city.
In addition to the chariots that were destroyed by artillery, trapped in trenches and unable to move, nearly half of the chariots successfully arrived under the city wall. The Jin soldiers and archers who were covered by the chariots tried to start a counterattack, but they were desperate to find that the muskets at the top of the city were too fierce and dense, and they didn't even dare to come out and shoot arrows above the city wall.
He could only rely on the soldiers to squeeze on the wall with his life! Li Rutai hysterically urged the soldiers to attack upwards.
"One, two, three!" Several civilians at the top of the city hugged the bumpy wood and knocked down a ladder hooked on the city wall.
"Ah!" The Jin soldiers who were originally on the ladder fell to the ground like grasshoppers being strung.
Except for hitting wood, the civilians who could not operate muskets desperately threw stones down, venting all their resentment towards the Jin soldiers on this stone.
What's even more terrifying is that a chain of iron burned red by charcoal hangs down from the city wall, and begins to ripple, sweeping across the Jin soldiers attached to the wall.
The hot iron chains were whispering, and the hot Jin soldiers screamed! Moreover, the iron chains burned by the fire charcoal were attacked at a very large range!
...Even so, the Jin soldiers climbed up with their hands and feet.
A Jin soldier held a big knife in one hand and ran up the ladder with all his strength. Fortunately, he was not hit by the stones falling from the city, and he also avoided the rippling iron chain. He saw the end of the city wall, and soon he could climb to the city and fight out a bloody road...
However, what awaited him at the end of the city wall was an empty muzzle that was facing his head horizontally.
"No..." The poor Jin soldier opened his mouth in despair.
Bang!
With a gunshot, a cold body fell to the ground.
On the city wall, there were a row of musketeers ready to go. As long as the Jin soldiers climbed up along the ladder, they would use muskets to send them onto the road.
The Jin soldiers who were forced to fight to the death rushed to Wanghai Fort one after another, but they could never step past the thunder pool.
Of course, these Jin soldiers did not make any progress at all. Some people used shovels and big knives to carve out holes on the city wall made of stones and soil that could be slightly exposed. With these holes, the stones on the city wall could not hit the people inside.
"Retreat!" Li Ruitai saw that his people could not rush to the top of the city, and the casualties were getting worse and worse, so he gave up his plan to climb the city.
After the commander gave the order, the remaining Jin soldiers abandoned the ladder and drove the car and began to retreat wildly. Their retreat speed was much faster than the attack, and they just wanted to escape from this place of death quickly.
In addition to the Jin soldiers who abandoned their armor, some of the Jin soldiers remained in the cave and continued to drill through the city walls.
"If these turtles and calves can't beat them, they want to run away? Keep firing fire for me!" David Dong took advantage of the victory and used artillery to expand the results of the battle.
Under the bombardment of artillery, the Jin soldiers dropped dozens of corpses.
When the Jin soldiers withdrew from the attack range of artillery, most of the first siege troops, which had originally had thousands of people, were killed or injured.
"Master Beile, I have tried my best. Please punish Master Beile!" Li Shutai, who had a black smoke and mud, held the iron helmet full of blood, and half-kneeled in front of Mangergutai.
His mood could not calm down for a long time.
"This is not your fault. The artillery of the Ming army reminded me of the battle of Ningyuan City, as if I had returned to that day... It was indeed the same as you said, you tried your best. Let's see their performance next." Manger Gutai rarely lost his temper, but asked Li Shutai to get up.
It is indeed as Mangergutai said, the next step was to dig a big hole with the dozens of Jin soldiers hiding in the cave, and then the most elite Eight Banners cavalry attacked like thunder to quickly break through the defense of the Wanghai Fortress.
"You want to use the method of chiseling a wall to break through my fortress? Mangergutai, you are still too young." Chu Yun leaned against the city wall and laughed.
From later generations, he was very familiar with the way the Jin soldiers fought. His current watch over the castle was just a replica of Ningyuan's victory. A year ago, Yuan Chonghuan came up with a way to deal with the Jin soldiers in the cave.
"Come on cotton and cotton!"
Cars of worn-out and obsolete cotton cloth and cotton that were worn out by textile mills were pushed up and poured down the city walls.
The Jin soldiers hiding in the cave didn't know what would happen, but they just wondered why the Ming army on the top of the city left behind these things that had no lethality.
"Torch, gunpowder are ready, throw it down!" Chu Yun sneered.
The black gunpowder fell down, and accompanied by the torches drew a beautiful arc in the air, and the city became a sea of fire!!!
"Ah! No!" The flames splashed on the Jin soldiers hiding in the cave. They suddenly let out a pig-killing scream and kept rolling on the ground.
Below the city wall, an ocean of flame has become a sea of fire, comparable to the hell on earth!
This fire completely burned out Mangergutai's hope of drilling a gap in the city wall.
"Who is the Ming army officer guarding the castle in such a comprehensive defense system, and with such a comprehensive defense system, who is the Ming army officer guarding the castle?" Mangergutai's eyes reflected a raging fire, and his contempt disappeared, and all that was left was fear.
"We don't know this..." Li Shutai also wanted to know who was the opposite side, who could make him so rustled.
"Is it possible that Yuan Chonghuan came to Jinzhou secretly? It's impossible, it's too ridiculous..." Manger Gutai thought of Governor Yuan at the first time, and he was far from expected that he would be a small Qianzong of the Ming Dynasty.
Repel the enemy's attack, killed 515 Jin soldiers, injured 362 Jin soldiers, and only dozens of casualties on our side, and obtained a total of 170 civilization points. It can be said that it was a complete victory.
Based on the battle report statistics function of the Industrial Revolution system, Chu Yun knew the casualties statistics of both sides at the first time. Chu Yun was quite satisfied with such a victory. However, the big fish rambling Ergutai was still behind.
In the next two days, Mangergutai led his troops to attack several times, and he threw hundreds of corpses each time. He could never break through the all-round firepower defense system of Wanghai Fort near Zhongyuan City. Even the only one Wanghai Fort could not be taken. How could he go south to eliminate the Ming army of Lushun Guards if this continues? Mangergutai began to get anxious and would beat soldiers from time to time to vent his anger.
At this moment, Li Lutai, who had been observing for two days, took the initiative to find Mangergutai: "Master Beile, maybe I have a way to break through the Wanghai Fort!"
"Speak quickly!" Mangergutai urged.
Chapter completed!