Chapter 447 reinforcements arrive
Looking at the Qing army dancing with excitement on the top of the city, Yang Feng narrowed his eyes and said nothing. After a while, he said to the messenger beside him: "Transfer the order, the artillery battalion fires immediately!"
"clear!"
On the position of the artillery battalion, Qiu Disheng was standing in front of a row of artillery. These artillery were different from the twelve-pound cannons and six-pound cannons used by the Jiangning Army in the past. They were much thicker in both the gun stand and the barrel. The shells piled behind the artillery were as big as a sea bowl. It looked daunting alone. These artillery were the twenty-four-pound cannons that had just arrived at the camp a few days ago.
After receiving the order, Chiu Disheng came to the front of a twenty-four-pound cannon, personally checked the firing angle and charge of the cannon, and then shouted to the gunner beside him: "Start test the cannon!"
After a gunner left, he grabbed the cannon and pulled it hard. Suddenly, the firelight flashed in the fire gate, followed by a loud bang, and a large area of thick smoke was sprayed out of the thick muzzle. In the flames, the cannon body shook violently, and a black iron bomb the size of a sea bowl rushed out of the cannon chamber and flew quickly towards the head of Shengjing City in the distance.
On the Qing army's position, Haoge was still immersed in the joy of the Jiangning army's avoidance. He laughed and said to Du Du: "It seems that the Jiangning army is just like this. We just scared a little, and these cowards were so scared that they stopped driving the people of the people to attack the city. Yang Feng is famous, but now it seems that he is just a guy with a reputation as a woman."
Du Du was much older than Haoge after all, so he was naturally a little reserved. He nodded: "After that being said, the eldest prince should still be careful. The Jiangning army may be siege the city later. We still need to order the warriors to strengthen..."
Suddenly, Goshha next to him shouted loudly: "Master, be careful, the Ming army has fired artillery!"
With the voice of this Goshha, they only heard a cannon sound from the Ming army's positions and a shell rumbling through the air.
Seeing the Ming army firing artillery, Haoge, who was laughing at Yang Feng’s woman Zhiren, screamed: “Hide quickly!”
Soon, Haoge rushed to a bunker made of stones and heads nearby and hid, while Du Du was not slow, so he hid behind a battlement and squatted down. At this time, the Qing army on the entire city wall was running around like a cat and a mouse. Whether it was an official or a soldier, they all went to the back of all the bunkers that could be avoided and hid.
The sharp whistling of shells broke through the air and flew over the city wall, hitting heavily on a house a mile away, and smashing the roof of the house into pieces. The Qing army on the city wall seemed to hear a faint sound of heavy objects falling to the ground.
Seeing the direction of the shell falling, Haoge laughed loudly, pointed to the Ming army position in the distance of the city wall and cursed: "Those Ming people seem to be desolate and can't even shoot artillery!"
"Hahaha..." Seeing the Ming army's artillery blowing into the air, the Qing army on the city wall also burst into laughter, and for a moment, laughter and scolding sounded.
Just as the Qing army on the city wall was mocking the Ming army's artillery for being shot empty, the gunners of the Jiangning Army outside the city began to adjust the angle of the artillery. To be honest, the accuracy of the artillery these days was generally not good, but with the artillery mirror brought by Yang Feng from modern society, the artillery battalion's artillery accuracy immediately increased by several levels. After observing the landing point of the first shell, Qiu Disheng personally adjusted the angle and orientation of the artillery and began to issue a full-scale shelling order.
As the trumpet blew the sharp whistle, a sharp and high-pitched voice resounded over the artillery camp. More than 100 artillery pieces on the artillery camp's position began to emit deafening roars. The thick white smoke and large squirts spewed out, covering the artillery positions in front.
On the head of Shengjing City, the Qing army, who were originally loudly mocking the Ming army's artillery for being inaccurate, immediately stiffened their smiles. They watched countless huge projectiles flying towards them in front of them. Some people were so scared that their bodies were stiff. As for the young and strong men who were pulled up to the city to help defend the city, they were even more unbearable.
"ah!"
Many young and strong people were so scared that they screamed.
"boom……"
A large iron ball weighing more than twenty pounds roared over and hit a battlement heavily.
As a capital city, Manchus still attach great importance to Shengjing's city defense. The city walls are all built with blue bricks and stones, which can be said to be quite strong, but in the face of artillery, a weapon that exists specifically for destruction, it still seems too fragile.
With a heavy loud bang, the battlement collapsed, and several Qing soldiers hiding behind it were buried under the collapsed blue bricks and stones.
Since these Qing soldiers were squatting in a squat position, when the blue bricks and stones collapsed, they had time to let out a desperate scream and were pressed into meat. Then there were a few muffled sounds and howlings. Finally, a pile of internal organs and blood kept flowing out of the pile of stones.
After these days of artillery bombardment, the Ming army's gunners also realized that the effect of using flowering bullets when attacking fixed targets in the local area, especially the city walls, was not very ideal. Due to insufficient power, the destructive power of the flowering bullets on the city walls and solid targets was not as good as the solid bullets. Therefore, in this artillery bombardment, the artillery battalion regained the most primitive solid bullets.
Faced with the attacks of one iron ball after another, five or six pounds or more than ten or even twenty pounds, these seemingly solid city walls felt crumbling. Haoge and Dudu no longer dared to stay on the city wall. They ran under the escort of dozens of Goshha and the most elite Bayala soldiers.
As soon as they returned to the Tibetan camp, they heard a trembling trembling above their heads, and a thunderous explosion was heard, and heavy iron balls kept hitting the city walls, and the rumbling sounds of collapse continued. The city walls were hit by the iron balls, and some places even exposed the clay inside after the blue bricks on the outside of the city walls were destroyed.
It would be fine if these projectiles hit clay, but if they hit stones and green strong, it would be an extremely disaster. After the shells hit the hard target, they brought out a rain of stones. Flying stones and broken blue bricks were flying everywhere. Any Qing soldiers hit by these blue bricks or gravels would either die or be injured. The screams and screams were heard, and the Qing soldiers on the city wall were in chaos, and they didn't know what to do.
Du Du grabbed Haoge's arm and said anxiously: "Brother, hurry up and remove everyone, otherwise our people will die before the Ming army can be called!"
"I know." Haoge didn't say nonsense, and quickly asked the two Goshhas to convey the order that the Qing army quickly retreated from the city wall to avoid artillery attacks. Even at this time, the Jiangning army would not care about siege.
After giving the order, Haoge noticed that the guards beside him were all covered in dust, and many of them were covered in blood, and they didn't know where they were hit.
Under the bombardment of the artillery camp, the entire Shengjing city was in chaos. Looking at the messy city, Yang Feng nodded slightly. It seemed that the opportunity to attack the city had been. He was about to order the entire army to start attacking, but the walkie-phone on his waist suddenly rang. Yang Feng pressed the answer button and put it in his ear and listened for a few words. After listening to it, his expression immediately changed slightly. He adjusted the walkie-phone to another channel without thinking.
"I am Yang Feng. I ordered all troops to stop siegeing the city and form a hollow square formation immediately!"
"What?"
Several screams of exclamations came from the walkie-talkie.
Yang Feng said sternly: "Didn't you hear it clearly? All troops immediately stopped siege and formed a hollow square formation."
"clear!"
A few reluctant voices came from the walkie-talkie.
The orders and bans are the most basic requirements of an army. After a command, the Jiangning Army, which was slowly approaching to the siege, began to change its formations. The originally dense arrays began to evacuate and soon formed hollow square formations.
"What... the Jiangning Army has changed its formation, and it is still a hollow formation?"
Haoge and Dudu, who were still hiding in the hidden weapon cave, looked at each other, and the two said almost without thinking: "Our reinforcements are here!"
Yes, the two of them were right. Their reinforcements came. Just a few minutes ago, the remote-controlled plane controlled by Zheng Tuoni and Shinniang discovered a cavalry that was rushing towards Shengjing. The number of this cavalry was as large as tens of thousands, and it was less than fifty miles away from Shengjing. The two girls did not dare to neglect and immediately notified Yang Feng. This was the reason why Yang Feng ordered the troops to turn off attack to defense. Facing ten thousand cavalry with powerful impact and using the siege formation to deal with them, they would only seek death.
The person who came was the 10,000 cavalry led by Yuetuo, composed of Zhenghong Banner and Inlaid Red Banner. His mission was to arrive at Shengjing before the Jiangning Army captured Shengjing. After four days of continuous march, they finally arrived.
This time, his third brother Sahalian was led by Yue Tuo to help Shengjing. As Dai Shan's third son, although Sahalian was not famous, he was a very capable person and was highly valued by Dai Shan and Huang Taiji. Otherwise, Huang Taiji would not have given the task of helping Shengjing to him and Yue Tuo this time.
After learning that the Qing army's reinforcements arrived, the Jiangning Army immediately converted into a hollow square formation, and five thousand cavalry guarded each side of the team. It was not easy for the troops to change the formation. Although with the assistance of the walkie-talkie, the commanders of the infantry battalions did not need to issue orders to the Qianzheng below through drums, flags, etc., as before, after more than 20,000 people changed the formation, the 10,000 cavalry led by Yuetuo and Sahalian were less than three miles away from Shengjing, and the Jiangning Army's lookout hand could clearly see the other party's flag.
"Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
As the sound of desolate horns sounded, teams of cavalry, either wearing red armor or red white armor, began to appear in everyone's sight.
Chapter completed!