Looking at the few shield vehicles that were still advancing tenaciously under the bombardment of artillery fire, a smile flashed across Chen Zheng's face.
Today, the Tatar soldiers died in person, and they were still Tatars with yellow flags who belonged to the personal bodyguards of the slave chief Huang Taiji. This made Chen Zheng very satisfied, and it also proved that his strength is worthy of being taken seriously by the Tatars, and they will not use trash fish to rotten shrimps anymore.
to deal with yourself.
But after all, Xianghuang Banner was the royal force under the direct control of the slave chief Huang Taiji, and its combat power should not be underestimated. Chen Zheng also dealt with it carefully.
He strictly ordered not to fire artillery without permission, but let the Tatars advance without any hindrance to make them despise him, and then fired blunderbuss at close range to prevent the Tatars from passing the second trench.
It was not until the Tatar shield vehicles pushed through the second trench in a sparse manner that the artillery of all sizes was ordered to level the muzzles and destroy the Tatar shield vehicles with level fire. Under the bombardment of this round of artillery salvos, the Tatar shield vehicles were
Not much left.
However, at this time, the Tatars with the yellow flag were only more than fifty steps away from the low wall. Whether or not they had a shield chariot actually meant little to them.
Just hearing the sound of war drums at the foot of Changling Mountain, Prince Duduo of Henan in the Qing Dynasty was already a little anxious, apparently urging the Tatar soldiers to step up their attack on the Ming army's position in Changling Mountain.
At this time, the military discipline of the Qing army was very strict. Once the order for a full-scale attack was given, everyone on the front line must not look back.
The drums of the Chinese army were beating, and they were beating faster and faster. Under the urgent urging of the drums, the Tatar soldiers with yellow flags who had not been injured by the flying artillery also urgently urged the still alive coated slaves.
, lifted up the two-foot-long wooden plank and rushed toward the third trench.
The shelling just now left the coated slaves in shock. At this moment, they were urged to lay the last trench in front, where they were closer to the Ming army behind the low wall, which meant that the danger of death was greater.
However, the Tatar soldiers had no regard for their lives and killed dozens of slaves who were afraid to move forward on the spot, and then frightened the rest.
If you rush to lay a trench, you will most likely die, but if you don't, you will die immediately. If you have to choose between possible death and immediate death, as long as you are not a fool, I believe you will choose the former without hesitation.
The coated slaves are just a group of vulnerable people enslaved by the Tatars, they are not fools!
They roared and rushed up the last ditch as if their lives were lost. Even if the guards behind the low wall on the opposite side fired waves of bullets, they could not stop the crazy slaves.
Tian Mingyu watched the large wooden boards being erected and laid in front of the third trench. He couldn't help but feel anxious: "Damn, are these people crazy? They don't even know how to avoid firecrackers. The last trench
It was just laid over here!"
Chen Zheng watched all this calmly from the side. He was not as anxious as Tian Mingyu. The ditch could only delay the Tatar attack, but could not completely stop the Tatar advance.
Otherwise, why would we need the low wall and the nearly 10,000 Xuanfu soldiers behind?
Are you drinking the northwest wind and watching the fun?
This is not the style of the Xuanfu Army!
Tian Mingyu asked anxiously from the side: "My general, how about we throw away the 'enemy of ten thousand people' and bomb his mother again? The Tatars are paved with wooden planks, and I am sure to blow them all to pieces with one bomb!"
"That's inappropriate. The grenadiers in the car camp can't throw it at a distance of twenty steps."
Chen Zheng rejected Tian Mingyu's proposal without thinking.
He turned back to look at his men and said calmly: "Don't worry, it's not a pity to die for these soldiers, but our real enemies today are the Tatars waiting to charge behind them."
Chen Zheng then said to him in an orderly tone: "Quickly go to the front of the formation and take command. Remember it for me. When the Tatars rush onto the laid planks, the cannon soldiers will fire again."
He continued: "There were still Tatars who rushed through the ditch and within twenty paces, the gun soldiers stopped shooting and threw big rocks instead."
"Here!"
Tian Mingyu received the order loudly, turned around and ran towards the front trench.
After he left, Chen Zheng ordered the messenger to go and inform Du Chungang, the general manager of the car camp, that if he was asked to command the grenadiers, they must wait until the Tatars rushed within ten steps of the trench wall before throwing thousands of enemies to avoid surrendering.
Not too far away to effectively kill the Tatars.
Chen Zheng even warned: "Remember to tell Du Chungang that we have ten thousand enemies, but if we use one, we will lose one. Ask him to give me more precision. Don't dare to waste it!"
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In the telescope, Chen Zheng, the commander of the Monolith Infantry Battalion of the Xuanfu Army, saw clearly that the Tatar soldiers with yellow flags in Manchuria were rushing forward like a tide under the urging of war drums.
He understands that this wave of fighting is destined to be more intense and cruel!
Chen Zheng's eyes flashed with cold light, and he thought to himself: "If these Tatars don't give up, then let them come over."
He believed that on such a strong defense line, no matter how fierce and brave the Tatars were, they would shed all their blood and wring out their flesh and blood.
Chen Zheng put down his telescope, looked at the Tatar army attacking the mountain with no end in sight, and said silently: "Humph. Today's Changling Mountain is not the Julu Village of the past."
Thinking of the battle in Jiazhuang that year, Chen Zheng felt as if a huge boulder was pressing on his chest, and he couldn't help but yell:
"Come on... fight!
Even if you hit your head and get bleeding, you can understand what it means to be as solid as a rock!"
I saw that in front of the low wall all the way to the foot of Dan, there was a huge flow of people from the Tatar soldiers, covering all the slopes on the north and south sides of the east side of Changling Mountain.
"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."
At the moment when the Tatar soldiers from the front row stepped on the wooden plank, the clear and sharp swan-tone trumpet sounded, and the Xuanfu gun soldiers behind the low wall fired the first round of volley.
In the spray of fire, a cloud of smoke rolled upwards, and the Tatar soldiers who rushed from the front row fell to the ground and struggled, even if they were holding shields to protect their vital parts.
But after all, the Tatars have a large number of people, not to mention that Duduo is determined to win. They have spent a lot of money today, how can they be easily repulsed.
Although a piece of the front row fell, the back row quickly replenished and rushed across the wooden plank bridge over the last ditch in an instant. They rushed up against the cannons and cannons of the Ming army defending the mountain.
One thing that is very strange today is that the Ming army only fired two rounds of artillery after the shield car passed the first trench, and there was no movement after that.
Even Prince Duduo of Henan in the Qing Dynasty, who was watching the battle at the foot of the mountain with a telescope, didn't understand what this meant.
However, he was eager to attack the mountain, so he still ordered the Chinese army to beat the war drums, and the warriors with the yellow flag tried their best to fight forward and attack the mountain as soon as possible.
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"Everyone, give up the firecrackers and rocks and roll the wood, come on!"
On the front line of defense of the Xuanfu Army in Changling Mountain, Qian Zongtian Mingyu from the left side of the Dushi Infantry Battalion shouted loudly.
It turned out that he commanded the gun soldiers to fire two rounds of volleys in succession, but his left side only had a total of 456 fire muskets. Even the Yunzhou 2-type muskets, which are extremely convenient for loading and firing, could not be fired in such a short time.
Being able to fire two rounds of volleys inside is already very rare.
This is also thanks to the hard training of the Xuanfu army on weekdays. If it were any other Ming army, I am afraid that even a salvo would have been messed up!
Although these two rounds of volleys killed hundreds of Tatar soldiers, they were unable to stop the Tatars from surging forward. After all, there were too many of them.
Tian Mingyu ordered the gun soldiers to quickly discard their fire guns, and from a high position, he threw the large stones and logs prepared in advance. At the same time, Tian Mingyu shouted to the four cold soldiers of the two divisions of the Ministry: "Every hundred generals quickly return to their positions."
, cold soldiers and killers are ready. Listen to my military orders, when we charge, you have to follow.
Let’s remember it all, that one who jumped the gun will be dealt with according to military law!”
Almost at the same time, hundreds of large rocks with sharp corners and sections of thick logs rolled down the slope.
The slope of this section is gentle down and steep up, and after the first trench, another longitudinal trench was added, dividing the Tatars attacking the mountain into teams, making it difficult to support each other, while the defenders were more difficult to support each other.
Easy to defend.
Nowadays, these rock piles and the like can still be used when defending a city, but they cannot be used for defense in the wild and flat areas.
But it was different now. Due to the influence of the mountain at that time, the slope was much steeper than the section at the foot of the mountain. The defenders almost did not need to throw them vigorously. They only had to lift the big rocks and logs over the low wall.
height, just push it down along the slope of the wall.
These large rocks and logs will naturally continue to swoop down at an accelerated speed.
In fact, at this distance of more than ten steps, the attacking Tatar soldiers could connect with each other and intercept the falling large rocks and logs. However, there were too many large rocks and logs rolling down, and it was impossible to intercept them.
For a moment, the charging Tatar soldiers were in a mess again, but after all, they were soldiers who had fought in old battles. They were suddenly startled at first, and then found a way to deal with it.
There were three or five of them in front, and they dug their large shields deeply into the ground. The rest of them hid behind them and pressed against their backs. In this way, they formed a strong small shield array.
Although their method is indeed effective, it also requires the cooperation of everyone to form a joint force to withstand the falling rocks and logs. Several shield formations were hit by the falling rocks and logs just because of a slight negligence.
There was chaos, and the Tatar soldiers mixed with the stones and continued to roll down.
Many Tatar soldiers who did not react in time were hit in the legs, feet or waist, and were knocked down the hillside.
After a while, the drums of the Chinese Army sounded, and the Xuanfu Army gun soldiers guarding the mountain stopped throwing stones and other objects. They all picked up the Yunzhou II-style guns beside them and ran back into the second stone wall thirty steps away.
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Groups of cold-blooded killers holding shields and knives, or holding long spears, took the place where the gunslingers were just now, preparing to rush out and fight the Tatar thieves in a bloody battle.
Then I saw the gunmen running behind the second low wall, and a group of broad-shouldered men ran out from inside. They only wore red Ming Dynasty military uniforms, but none of them wore armor.
What's even more strange is that they are not equipped with any weapons. They just carry a heavy and strong frame in their hands, and a thick cowhide belt around their waists, with various fire sticks stuck in them.
As many as five or six.
This is the grenadier unique to the Xuanfu military vehicle camp of the Ming Dynasty!
As a special unit of the Xuanfu Army, it rarely appears even within its ranks. The last time Zhang Cheng led the army to help suppress the bandits in Henan, his grenadiers did not go into battle with the army, but stayed in Xuanbei to continue training.
Grenadier, as the name suggests, is a unit responsible for throwing "thousands of enemies".
They are not required to have skills such as mounted combat, fire cannons, or foot combat. Instead, they are only required to be strong and capable of throwing a heavy enemy of ten thousand people very far.
This is like the modern sports competition "shot put throwing", which only requires you to be able to push it very far. Of course, the farther the better.
Now, on the Changling Mountain position, it is their first time to appear in actual combat. Yesterday's performance was very gratifying. They hid behind the shield formation and threw bullets into the trenches against thousands of enemies, becoming a complete attack.
The last straw to defeat the Tatars.
Unsurprisingly, today they were sent out as the finale of the show, but today they were in the front, while the shield soldiers and spearmen were in the back.
At this time, Qiu Lin, the commander of the Division A of the left section of the Dushi Infantry Battalion, never took his eyes off Qian Zongtian Mingyu, fearing that if he was not careful, he would miss the military order to attack.
At this time, I heard a "pop" sound and saw a yellow smoke signal rising from the high platform of the Chinese Army.
Wang Dali, the grenadier commander on the left side of the carriage, shouted loudly: "Throw!"
He quickly pulled out a fire stick from his waist and shook it in the air. At the same time, he opened his big hand on his left hand and directly grabbed a huge enemy that was as big as a human head.
Wang Dali's movements were very skillful. He put the shaken fire folder to his mouth and blew. Ten thousand enemies in his left hand came over almost at the same time. The flame that had just risen happened to ignite the fuse of the ten thousand enemies.
Looking at the other grenadiers, they were all in the same situation, and their actions were very similar to throwing shot put. After being ignited by the enemy, they casually turned the fuse to the back.
Then, one by one, the grenadiers twisted their bodies and stepped forward, concentrating all their strength on their arms, and with a sudden spin, they threw the heavy enemy of ten thousand people far away.
Thousands of enemies were thrown away like raindrops, and with "crack" sparks, they once again harvested the fresh lives of the Tatar soldiers.
All this is so ruthless. Thousands of people die every day. I don’t know when this chaotic world will be completely ended and stability and peace will be restored to the world!
"Get down, everyone get down!"
While throwing out thousands of enemies, General Grenadier Wang Dali did not forget to loudly remind everyone to lie down. However, he always felt that the word given to him by his master Zhang Cheng was too awkward.
Far from the word "get down", it comes so happily. It seems that just shouting these two words is enough to make you feel full!
"Boom! Boom! Boom!..."
The sound of explosions of tens of thousands of enemies kept coming, as if the earth was shaking, and the explosions made the Tatar soldiers howl like ghosts.
Many Tatars even thought that victory was in sight, but as soon as they climbed up the wide low wall, they saw deadly fire bombs flying towards them, and they were stunned on the spot.
Of course, there were also those who reacted quickly. Those Tatars who had climbed up the low wall ran desperately towards the Xuanfu Army, while those behind quickly jumped into the very wide trench.
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Although they relied on their keen sense of battlefield and quick reactions, they could avoid the bombing of thousands of enemies, but they could not avoid the fate of death!