The servants of the Hei family immediately replaced the frightened guardsmen. As if they were granted amnesty, these people immediately ran down the horse path and down the city wall.
The servants quickly filled the crenellations of the city wall and blocked the crenels with ladders with long knives. Others used the crenels as cover to shoot arrows at the enemies below.
Although the city wall of Zhangjiakou Fort is short, there is a horse face every 40 meters. The front of the horse face is ten meters wide and extends about ten meters from the city wall. Eleven horse faces cover this section of the city wall on the north side.
Because the horse's face protrudes from the city wall, it can shoot arrows at the cavalry soldiers who are climbing the city from both sides.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! A dense number of arrows shot down from both sides.
The soldiers all wore bulky and thick cotton-padded clothes. After all, they were coming through wind and snow. If they wore too little, they would freeze to death. If they wore too much, they would be warmer. However, people would become very clumsy.
Because he was wearing a beaked helmet and his military uniform was made of stab-proof fabric, although these withered feather arrows were fiercely shot at his body, they could not penetrate him.
The shield soldiers below raised their shields to protect the soldiers who had not yet climbed the city. Many soldiers were covered with arrows and were like porcupines, clumsily climbing up the ladder.
Bayar saw that the defenders, who had been suppressed by artillery fire, actually cheered up again and covered the crenellations. He immediately ordered: "Everyone is here, shoot freely with rifles, attack the crenellations of the city wall, and cover the Baiyin team."
More than thirty people emerged from the ruins, stretched out their one-meter-three-meter-long third-generation flintlock rifles, aimed at the enemies at the crenellations of the city wall, and started shooting freely.
Seeing these Mongolians climbing the city, they were not afraid of bows and arrows. The servants were also a little panicked. They had a limited number of three-eyed muskets, only more than 30, and more than 70 bows and arrows. Bows and arrows were the main force attacking these Mongols at this time.
Mongolians generally rarely have iron armor. They are basically temporary herdsmen levied in leather robes. When the Taiji and Nayan people on the grassland launch a southern invasion, they usually draw one out of four. After the fight, they go home and continue to herd sheep.
In this case, they basically don't wear armor.
Those who can wear iron armor are at least those who are above ten captains among the standing cavalry around the nobles, or those in the tribe who are at the level of herdsmen. Ordinary standing cavalry only wear leather armor. Although herdsmen have grown up on horses,
They were also skilled in bows and arrows, but their equipment was very poor and they had no protection. Apart from a scimitar, even the arrow clusters were made of bones and stones.
Therefore, it is said that these people are from the Tushetu Khan tribe, wearing leather robes to climb the city, everyone takes it for granted. But now, these people have so many arrows stuck in their bodies, which illustrates a problem. Among these people
Wearing armor.
There were more than 300 people on the north side climbing the wall to attack.
Three hundred sets of armor were nothing to the Ming Dynasty. But to the Mongols, this could cost them all their money.
Heiyunlong looked worried at these enemies who were not afraid of bows and arrows at all.
He knew that he had too few troops at hand, and he did not expect to be able to repel the enemy on his own. His plan was to delay the Xuanfu army's rescue.
And he knew about Beijing Camp's departure from the customs.
Although I don’t know where the 80,000 Beijing troops have gone, the Mongols will never be able to defeat so many Beijing troops. So if you hold on, you will win.
"Get all the three-eyed guns from other city walls and go quickly." Heiyunlong shouted loudly.
The only weapon that is effective against the enemy now is the three-eyed gun.
Suddenly, a burst of fire flashed through the ruins to the north.
Bang! Bang! Bang! Bursts of gunshots were heard. A large amount of smoke rose after the fire.
Heiyunlong showed half of his face in surprise and looked at the opposite side. This is a shotgun, so many shotguns. Isn't Tuxie Tuhan in Mobei, where supplies should be more expensive and scarce? How come he has so many muskets.
Suddenly, a sense of danger came, as if a northern beast was targeting him. He immediately instinctively fell back.
With a bang, a lead bullet hit the blue brick of the battlement where he had just exposed his head. The bricks that were hit flew everywhere.
If it weren't for his intuition, which he had honed over many years on the battlefield, the shot just now would have knocked off half of his face.
He climbed up quickly and saw a deformed lead bullet embedded in the city bricks. Inside the deformed lead bullet, a small round ball was shining in the noon sun.
Heiyunlong couldn't help but use his fingers to pick off the lead bullet. He held it in his hand and looked at it carefully. It turned out that these Mongolian lead bullets had two layers.
There are lead bullets on the outside, and the metal objects wrapped inside are actually steel balls.
Oh my god, are the Mongols so wealthy? Steel is so expensive. They are actually willing to make it into the core of lead bullets.
While he was thinking, bursts of screams came from the battlements, and a large number of servants who stretched out their three-eyed muskets and bows and arrows to shoot were named by the flintlock guns from the opposite side.
With every gunshot, someone fell to the ground. Most of them were shot in the head.
Either hit him in the face, tearing half of his face to pieces, or hit his head directly and lift his skull. The yellow and white stuff was scattered all over the floor like tofu.
The servants all turned pale and were very frightened.
Hei Yunlong looked at all this with some trembling. He joined the army at the age of fourteen, starting from a small soldier with no background. In this border town of Xuanda, he got to where he is today.
What kind of cruel battle has I never experienced? Even the bloody battle of Hunhe River under Shenyang City was not so cruel.
He didn't know that this kind of steel-core bullet made of two metals with different specific gravity would immediately lose its stability once it enters the human body. The lead coating on the outside will explode and fly, and the steel balls inside will roll. This will tear a huge hole.
of cavity.
There is a very small hole in the front, and a hole as big as the mouth of a bowl penetrates in the back.
The people on the other side were very accurate with their marksmanship, and people were constantly being hit as soon as they showed their heads.
As long as it is hit, there is basically no rescue value.
Broken lead will gradually poison people even if they don't die.
Yang Fan was very willing to provide good food to the soldiers. These Mongolian soldiers had an ample supply of meat and dairy products.
Luncheon meat uses a lot of offal. These are rich in vitamins, and their eyesight is very good. Moreover, at a distance of thirty meters, a flintlock gun can shoot accurately.
After the cavalry army was established, it began to install third-generation flintlock rifles. Then there was intensive and high-intensity target training. Each person had to shoot at least fifty rounds a day. At the peak, more than a hundred rounds were fired a day.
Because Yang Fan knows that sharpshooters are fed by bullets.
Yang Fan was not afraid of losing his gun. If it was broken, he sent it to the repair shop for repair.
Replace parts. Replace parts. It’s time to replace the barrel. If the gun is scrapped, just get a new one.
There are enough gunpowder and lead bullet tubes. As long as you are willing to shoot, you can shoot as many as you want.
Even if you don't want to be beaten, you should be beaten until you vomit. This is to let you form muscle memory.
The gunfire from the opposite side was sporadic except for the beginning and after several volleys of shots. Hei Yunlong understood that this was free shooting, and each gunman independently chose the target to shoot.
After this round of shooting, the servants who had been shooting with the heavy three-eyed gun were killed one after another. The three-eyed gun also fell to the bottom of the city.