The continuous bombardment was a morale booster for the Ming army.
Watching their own artillery team sending artillery shells into the opposite military fort anytime and anywhere, no matter how many people were killed or not, the sound alone made the Ming army feel relaxed and happy.
Even in Liaodong, this was the first time that cannons were placed outside the city to directly attack the Tatars. It would be an exaggeration to say that they were proud of themselves.
What makes people even more comfortable is that the Tatars in the military fort can only watch helplessly being beaten. The siege trenches ordered by Marshal Jiang to be built are now dug like spider webs outside the city. The Tatars just want to break out.
If you kill the Ming army's artillery team, you will probably fall into a ditch as soon as you leave the city.
If so, it would be great fun!
To show that the soldiers are really looking forward to such a scene, the Tatars want to go out of the city to fight. At present, there is basically no other way except to attack from the trenches after leaving the city. As long as they do not face the Tatar cavalry and them
The Ming army was not afraid of those bows and arrows that were like maggots on the tarsus, fighting them head on.
Unfortunately, the Tatars in the city were not fooled at all and had no intention of leaving the city.
They strictly guarded the city wall and stopped the Ming army's trench advance within the range of their bows and arrows.
It would be uneconomical to push forward into the trench despite the rain of Tatar arrows. After several days of testing, the two sides finally gave up and started a clear-cut confrontation about 150 steps below the Zhenjiang Fort.
Within one hundred and fifty steps, the territory belongs to the Tatars, while beyond one hundred and fifty steps, it belongs to the Ming army.
After several days of practice, the artillery team of the Ming Army has made great progress in shooting frequency and accuracy. At least, when the Ming Army fired artillery, the wall of the military fortress in the direction of the muzzle was
There will no longer be swaggering Tatars.
Two days ago, when a cannon in the artillery team was test-firing, it hit the top of the city with a cannon. I don't know how many Tatars were killed or injured. In short, the scene was very spectacular. When the smoke cleared, everyone was stunned.
I saw that the wall of the military fort had been knocked out with a gap as big as half a man.
By the way, the commander of the artillery team is now Jiang Yanran. After all, the cannon commanders of each artillery are all young people from Zhouzhuang who were almost selected from her command. Jiang Yanran commanded these people under her "prestige".
, much smoother than others.
"Everyone come here, everyone come here!"
Jiang Yanran, who returned from attending the military meeting at the Chinese army's tent early in the morning, returned to her camp carelessly. Although she thought her camp should be the camp of the second regiment of the Fourth Marine Regiment, in the eyes of other Ming troops,
Here, here is the camp of the artillery team.
As for those sneaky people, of course they are the guards of the artillery team.
In Liaodong, every city with Folangji cannons has the teachings of these people. This is simply a normal thing. Even if other soldiers have doubts, a companion who knows this configuration will immediately explain it to them, so
, the Second Regiment of the Four Navy Regiment, which might have been incompatible with the Ming Army, actually became surprisingly harmonious with the Ming Army in the Ming Army camp.
"I've been practicing for a few days. The commander asked me to ask you, are you sure about it?"
"have!"
A group of young people stood in front of Jiang Yanran and answered neatly.
"Now that we are all sure, tonight is the time to see your abilities!" Jiang Yanran glanced at everyone: "The army is attacking the city. You are the front line. When the time comes, follow the tactics you have practiced in the past few days.
You must shoot all the artillery shells you brought with you in one go. As long as I don’t give the order to stop, you will keep shooting!”
"clear!"
The faces of the young people showed excitement. They were about to take action. It seemed that the commander-in-chief had been waiting for news from the artillery team in the past few days. If the city was captured, the artillery team would definitely be the first to succeed.
"The target is the city gate. This is a military fortress. It is not as difficult to hit as the city gate of our Ming Dynasty city. No matter what is behind the city gate, thirty cannons fire at the same time. Even if the city gate is welded to the city wall, you
They all blasted it away!"
"Sister!" A young man raised a hand weakly: "What if the city gate cannot be opened?"
"Then blow a hole in the city wall for me!" Jiang Yanran glared at the other party fiercely: "If the city gate is not broken, the army will not move. Are you planning to blow my face in front of tens of thousands of people?"
Did you throw it away completely?"
The young man lowered his head in shame. He didn't think so. He just made multiple preparations for things. Isn't it what his eldest sister usually taught him? Why did he change this time...
At dusk, the order came down from the Chinese army camp.
East gate!
As usual, all the Ming troops showed no signs of mobilization, and the artillery team fired a few cannons into the city from time to time as usual. Everything seemed no different from yesterday or the day before yesterday.
When it was getting dark, there was another Ming army near the south gate that tried to push the trench forward some distance, but was quickly shot back by heavy Tatar arrows, killing and wounding some soldiers.
In retaliation, the artillery team fired more than a dozen cannons at the top of the city, but only two of them hit. No matter how many enemies were killed or not, they simply overwhelmed the Tatars in terms of momentum.
As the night grew dark, both sides ceased their troops and drums. This was the battlefield belonging to the scouts.
When the Ming army began to dig trenches, some Tatar scouts would quietly come down from the city wall and hide in the dark to kill the Ming army with cold arrows. If the Ming army did not dig trenches, they would even try to approach the trenches to create some chaos for the Ming army.
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This is how the battle has been fought these days.
Both sides had come and go, and each had casualties, but it was always a small fight.
As long as they could not cross the trench, it would be impossible for these Tatar scouts to discover that the Ming army's artillery, which was still in place before dark, had now moved away under the cover of darkness.
East gate, three hundred paces away.
Thirty three-pound cannons loaded on gun carts have been transported here, and a piece of flat ground that has been firmly compacted is already waiting for them here.
The cannon masters of each cannon commanded their men, unloaded the cannons into artillery carts, and then placed the cannons on the rammed earth. Because tonight's target was the city gate and the city wall near the city gate, once the firing started,
For guns, they don't need to adjust the position and angle at all - they just need to adjust them in advance.
Except for some of the mercenaries of the second regiment who followed them as candidates for the artillery team, all others were ready for battle. Although the possibility of the artillery team's position being attacked by the enemy was very small,
, if this happens, these people will never allow the enemy to approach the artillery position until they are dead.
These are Jiang Yanran's original words.
"Even if you want to die, you will all die between the artillery team and the enemy!"
Now, everything is ready, everything is ready, all it needs is the east wind!