Accompanied by the sound of "boom, boom, boom", large swaths of lead poured overwhelmingly toward the Jiannu position opposite the blockade ditch, with pieces of cannonballs mixed in between.
It's a pity that Jiannu hid behind the protective wall, and the protective wall was built thick enough.
Tens of thousands of lead bullets hit the rammed earth wall until smoke and dust flew everywhere. Thirty-two-weight closed-mouth bullets even made dents in the parapet wall, but it was of no use.
Jiannu, who was hiding behind the protective wall, was unscathed.
The Crouching Tiger Cannon is almost useless when used to attack fortresses.
But this round of shelling is not useless.
At least the Jian slaves on the opposite side were so frightened that they shrank behind the protective wall.
"Put the wooden sign up!" Jin Shenghuan then shouted sternly, "Ma Jiu, attack!"
At one sentry post, about ninety Ming troops erected a dozen wooden signs, hid behind the wooden signs and howled as they advanced.
Jin Shenghuan still didn't dare to come up and launch a general attack, but thought of throwing in a sentry to make a tentative attack first.
Ma Jiu led the Ming army with a sentry and advanced for more than ten steps. Suddenly, there was a blast of artillery fire from the Jiannu position opposite, and then an iron bullet roared out and hit the center of the Ming army's wooden sign formation.
Just a click was heard, and a wooden sign was shattered in an instant.
A series of Ming soldiers huddled behind the wooden sign fell to the ground in an instant.
At least six Ming soldiers fell to the ground, and their tragic wails instantly filled the night sky.
"Headquarters, Fran cannon!" the leader of the team, General Majiu, wailed at the top of his lungs, "We can't win, if we continue forward we will all die, we will all die!"
Jin Shenghuan keenly discovered the flaw.
I'm afraid of returning, but Jin Shenghuan is a veteran after all.
"Don't panic! Jiannu only has one cannon! Only one cannon!"
Jin Shenghuan shouted sternly: "Each battalion will listen to the general's order and attack separately with sentry units. Spread out, spread out! Line up along the blockade ditch and attack with all your strength!"
The more than 5,000 Ming troops were quickly divided into more than 60 sentries.
More than sixty sentry troops quickly deployed along the blockade ditch and attacked separately.
Jin Shenghuan personally led one of the sentries and launched an attack from the center.
Bent down and hiding behind the wooden sign, Jin Shenghuan moved forward with great effort and loudly reminded the soldiers: "Be careful, don't show your head, Jiannu's big bow is not a vegetarian!"
At such a close distance, he was exposed to the big bow of Jiannu and was delivering food.
Some people say that if Jiannu Dashao's bow is so powerful, is there nothing the Ming army can do?
There is really no good solution. Chain armor and iron armor are too expensive to make and cannot be equipped in large quantities. Cotton armor that can be equipped in large quantities cannot protect against heavy arrows.
There is no way to make things like wooden signs one hand at a time.
The only option is to give the sword player in the front a wooden card.
Jiannu's big bow was too sharp, so before a close encounter, he tried his best to hide behind the wooden sign without showing his head.
"Boom!" The Folan cannon on the opposite side fired again, and another shrill scream sounded from the Ming army formation.
Without looking up, Jin Shenghuan knew that another group of Ming soldiers must have been shot, their limbs shattered by the Folan cannon. If they were unlucky, they would be hit in the head and lose their lives.
At this time, the willpower of the Ming army was somewhat tested.
Jin Shenghuan knew the character of these soldiers under his command...
At this time, as long as there is a slight disturbance, the whole army will be defeated.
At that moment, Jin Shenghuan stood up and shouted: "Hold on, don't panic!"
Jin Shenghuan's "taking the lead" came just in time. The Ming army, which was already on the verge of collapse, stabilized its position and continued to advance forward carrying the wooden sign.
Jin Shenghuan also quickly retracted behind the wooden sign.
At the same time, I was also a little surprised, why didn't Jiannu shoot him with a heavy arrow just now?
Could it be that the light was too dark for Jiannu to see clearly? But it wasn't like he missed an arrow.
Soon, the Ming army advanced to the edge of the blockade ditch. There was only a three-foot-wide blockade ditch separating them from the Jian Nu on the opposite side. They could already clearly hear the shouts and screams of the Jian Nu on the opposite side.
To Jin Shenghuan's surprise, Jiannu on the other side actually spoke Liaodong dialect.
There is a big difference between Liaodong dialect and Jurchen dialect. Jin Shenghuan, who has been fighting with Jiannu for half his life, can certainly hear it.
Combined with the fact that Jiannu did not shoot him with a large bow just now, Jin Shenghuan understood everything at once. It seemed that the main force of Jiannu had really gone to Guide Mansion to fight against the puppet Shun army.
Outside the city of Xuzhou there is really only a group of coats of clothing bluffing.
No wonder the Holy One dared to launch a comprehensive counterattack regardless of the consequences.
At that moment, Jin Shenghuan excitedly jumped up from behind the wooden sign, brandished his sword and roared at the top of his lungs: "The opposite side is not a real slave, not a real slave, not a real slave! The Jian slaves opposite are all coated, all coated,
All the thieves who cheat on you are all undercovers! Kill these undercovers! Kill them! Do them to death! Do them to death!"
Jin Shenghuan was so excited that he could not speak coherently.
Jin Shenghuan's roar caused all his lieutenants, generals and guerrillas to react.
These lieutenants, Shenlan and Guerrilla are actually veterans who have experienced hundreds of battles. They are a little timid, but they are really rich in experience.
So, in an instant, these Ming army generals transformed from cowards to Ming gods of war, and each one jumped up from behind the wooden sign and howled.
"Kill, kill Jiannu!"
"You thief, come on with me!"
"My sons, we are rich this time!"
"Don't let anyone go, I will kill them all!"
Then, the "bravery" of these generals also infected the soldiers under their command.
As a result, the more than 5,000 frontier troops in this town suddenly became a fierce army. The musketeers' hands no longer shook when firing their cannons, the gunners' movements became more clumsy when firing cannons, and the spearmen lowered their spears.
They threw fishing nets at the slaves on the opposite side of the trench, then smashed out ash bottles and bags. The knife players even rushed to jump down the trench and set up ladders.
Soon, the ladder was set up, Jin Shenghuan jumped down from the trench, and was the first to rush up to the protective wall.
"Kill!" A Jiannu stabbed him in the face with a spear, but Jin Shenghuan dodged.
Dodging the feeble stab from the Jiannu spearman, Jin Shenghuan struck back with a knife and easily chopped off the head of the Jiannu spearman.
"Haha, it's really just wrapping!"
Now Jin Shenghuan was completely sure of his judgment.
If this was an Eight Banners soldier, it would not be so easy to kill.
While laughing, Jin Shenghuan stabbed the two men in front of him twice, killing them on the spot.
Seeing this, the remaining dozen or so coats turned around and ran away faster than rabbits...
Jin Shenghuan was not in a hurry to pursue him. When he looked around, he saw more than a dozen lieutenants, generals and guerrillas under his command, each with a group of soldiers rushing forward like tigers and wolves.
The blockade trench was easily breached.
…
Duduo has arrived at the east bank of the Yellow River.
Accompanying them were more than fifty Baya soldiers led by Vasinga.
Dorgon took away the main force with the white flag, including most of the Baya La soldiers, but he still deliberately left more than fifty Baya La soldiers behind to protect Duduo's safety.
Dorgon really loved and cared for Duduo, his younger brother from the same mother.
Riding horse to the end of the pontoon bridge, Duduo jumped off the horse and was about to get on the bridge.
But at this moment, a figure came out from the bridge: "Wait a minute, ten kings!"
Wa Xing's sword was half drawn out. Seeing that it was Geng Jimao, he put the horse-killing sword back into its sheath.
"Ten kings, don't cross the river!" Geng Jimao shook his hands and said, "You can't come back from the past. If I'm not mistaken, the Ming army will definitely send out the navy to attack the pontoon bridge."
Duduo glanced at the beacon fire burning on the pontoon bridge, and asked with a dark face: "How happy is that?"
"King Zhishun led the musketeers of the Eight Banners Han Army to support the west bank forts." Geng Jimao said, "However, there must be at least 50,000 or 60,000 Ming troops launching a counterattack tonight. I'm afraid it will be difficult to defend the west bank forts. However,
Ten kings, please rest assured, as long as there are servants here, even if you risk your life, the forts on the east coast will be safe."
"What? There were fifty or sixty thousand Ming troops who counterattacked?" Duduo's heart sank instantly.
"Only more." Geng Jimao judged the number of Ming troops involved in the counterattack just by relying on his imagination. "At this time, the battle situation is unclear, and the ten kings cannot cross the river. The top priority is to adjust the white flags from Pei County and Xin'an Town as soon as possible, and
Red flag and Zhenglan flag return to support Xuzhou, otherwise the blockade outside Xuzhou will really be destroyed by the Ming army."
"You are the only one who knows better, bitch slave," Duduo scolded.
Duduo had already sent a fast horse to Pei County and Xin'an Town to ask for help.
In such a situation, before the reinforcements from Pei County and Xin'an Town arrived, Duduo did not dare to take any rash action. The more he did at this time, the more likely he was to make mistakes, so it was better to stop with silence.
Anyway, more than a hundred forts were built along the blockade ditch.
If the Ming army wanted to completely destroy the blockade, they had to destroy more than a hundred fortresses.
But these more than a hundred strongholds were not enough for the Ming army to fight for several days and nights.
Didn't the Ming army always huddle in the city and fight defensive battles with us? This time, the Ming army also experienced the pain of siege warfare. The Qing soldiers were not only invincible in field battles, but also unparalleled in defending the city.
…
The Ming army was indeed in trouble.
Jian Nu not only dug a blockade ditch outside Xuzhou, but also built forts every 100 steps along the blockade ditch. The forts were also guarded by flag men with white flags.
Although the number is not large, the combat effectiveness of these bannermen is not comparable to that of the coats.
Those warriors were so thin and hungry that they couldn't even lift a heavy shield. Their physical condition was incomparable to that of the Ming Dynasty's border troops.
Since Chongzhen personally led the troops, the Ming army deprived generals of their right to control food and pay.
Now not only is the pay and silver distributed directly by Chongzhen to individual soldiers, but there is no deduction for food. For every silver cent given by the superiors, the gang leader responsible for cooking has to cook one cent of rice, because no one knows when Chongzhen will be there.
Which town do you go to and eat from the same pot as the soldiers? In this case, who dares to deduct money?…
Therefore, the Ming army's physical condition is very good.
Most of the slaves who were enslaved were malnourished.
That's why the attack on the blocked ditch just now went so smoothly.
For a moment, Jin Shenghuan really suspected that he had become the God of War.
Because after killing seven or eight "Jiu slaves", none of them could be his general.
However, when the Ming army launched an attack on the fortresses along the blockade ditch, they were immediately met with stubborn resistance.
The first is the Dashao Gong. The Dashao Gong, which has never been seen before, is here again, accompanied by a whistling scream, and one heavy arrow after another shuttles through the night.
Almost every heavy arrow can kill a Ming army.
The cotton armor worn by the Ming army could not stop heavy arrows at all.
What's more, some Ming soldiers didn't even have cotton armor on their bodies, only a battle coat.
Although there are wooden cards, the sword players are also busy in the melee.
Jin Shenghuan was also hit by an arrow. Fortunately, the arrow hit Shan Wenjia's heart-protecting bronze mirror. Although the four-edged heavy arrow penetrated the heart-protecting mirror, its momentum was also restrained and failed to penetrate.
Nail plate.
But this still made Jin Shenghuan break into a cold sweat and immediately hid behind the wooden sign.
There were about a dozen Jiannu forts blocking the frontier of Jin Shenghuan's town. The more than 5,000 Ming troops under Jin Shenghuan were divided into more than a dozen groups and launched a frantic siege on these dozen forts.
However, the results of this large-scale siege were disastrous.
Soon, the Ming army was defeated and hundreds of people died.
"Headquarters, there are real slaves in the stronghold! Their bows are too strong!"
"Bitch, where are the musketeers? What are our musketeers doing?"
"In the main town, the muskets can't be fired accurately. It's too dark to see clearly."
"Where is the Crouching Tiger Cannon? Why hasn't the Crouching Tiger Cannon followed? What are you doing?"
"In the main town, even the squatting tiger cannon can't penetrate the rammed earth wall of the Nuzhai Fort."
"The thief, I still don't believe it. I gathered all the wooden signs and built them into a shield wall. Then I called the Minzhuang people over there and asked them to dig. Even if they dig, they will have to dig the rammed earth used to build the Nuzhai Fort.
Dig down the wall!"
At that moment, some soldiers rushed away and called Minzhuang who was filling in the trench to block the ditch.
At this time, hundreds of thousands of civilians led by Du Yinxi had already left the city at night and were going all out to move soil and fill the blockade ditch in Yunlong Shandong.
The sound of horse hooves also rumbled.
Three thousand cavalrymen under Jin Xuan left the city and began patrolling along the blockade ditch.
One of the groups, about three hundred cavalry, meandered along the blockade ditch and came to the opposite side of Jin Shenghuan and his companions.
Seeing the cavalry, Jin Shenghuan's eyes suddenly lit up, he rushed forward and waved his hands and shouted: "Hey, Mr. Jin?"
The cavalry separated, and a Ming general wearing a phoenix-winged helmet and mountain armor appeared in front of the formation: "Jin Zongzhen?"
"Master Jin." Jin Shenghuan was overjoyed and said loudly, "For the sake of you and my fellow clan members, please give us some support."
Jin Xuan glanced at the left and right sides of the battlefield and found that Jiannu did not engage in cavalry counterattack. He rushed to the cavalry behind him and shouted: "Everyone dismount and line up!"
The cavalry used Lumi guns, and their firepower was much stronger.
The three hundred cavalry were divided into three teams, front and rear, and quickly formed a formation.
"Attack!" Jin Shenghuan immediately led a group of border troops to attack again.
A dozen real slaves and more than a hundred coats of clothing who were guarding the fortress leaned out one after another, preparing to fight back.
However, at this moment, accompanied by intensive bang bang bang bang sounds, a row of lead bullets roared and poured on the wall of the castle. The real slave and the coat who had just leaned out were shot one after another and fell to the ground.
Then the second row of lead bullets hit, and then the third row.
The repeated firing of three hundred Rumi guns was already extremely lethal.
More than a hundred slaves and prisoners on the opposite side of the fortress suffered heavy casualties in an instant.