Li Yongfang's heart was bleeding, the casualties were too great.
"Push up the Franco machine and the three generals' artillery, and use the artillery to cover the siege troops." Li Yongfang ordered.
The reason why Li Yongfang did not use artillery from the beginning was out of caution.
The few hundred or so light artillery pieces he had in hand that could move with the army were the foundation for him to settle down in the Qing Dynasty. He couldn't make any mistakes.
Fortunately, he was cautious. If he had pushed the cannon up from the beginning to assist, he would have been blown up by the gunpowder thrown by the trebuchet.
The range of these small cannons generally does not exceed 400 meters, and the effective range is only more than 200 meters, which is more than the projectile of a bow and arrow. However, these small cannons fire spherical solid bullets of about one pound. The kinetic energy is very large. No.
The so-called heavy matchlock gun can be compared.
Even the turtle dove guns from Guangdong and Guangxi are not good. Because the gun's medicine chamber is very large, there is a lot of powder, and the kinetic energy of the cannonball is very high.
Looking at it now, all the trebuchets threw were stones, and there were no more powder packets. Only then did he dare to push the cannon up, and at a distance of 200 meters, shoot directly at the ten Jia La who supported the Han army flag in the siege.
He was not sure whether this small cannon could penetrate the steel city wall.
He thought in his mind that Marquis Dingyuan discovered this thing to deal with the Mongols who had no artillery. It would definitely be useful against the Mongols, because they had neither artillery nor trebuchets. Even if they did, they were poor junk. Yes.
This steel city wall won't do much good.
He estimated in his heart that the Luzon Bronze Cannon and other red-coat cannon-level heavy artillery at the top of Shenyang City would definitely be able to blast away this turtle shell car camp. However, he also knew that it was impossible to come here with a red-coated cannon.
.The road is not good and there is no way to go.
Even if a one-pound solid bullet cannot penetrate the steel city wall, it should still be effective against the Beijing troops defending the city.
He squinted at the plate armor. He didn't believe that the plate armor could stop a one-pound spherical solid bullet.
He smiled grimly, probably not even able to stop the grape bullets fired by such a small cannon.
One pound and sixteen taels, one cannon shoots out sixteen small iron balls.
More than a hundred small cannons were concentrated on the north wall, firing two thousand small iron balls at a time. The barrage was considered dense and would definitely kill a large number of the defenders on the city.
I don't know if plate armor such as the three-eyed gun and the bird gun can block him, but I guess if it is blocked at close range, it will also cause internal injuries.
The artillery and artillery units of the Han Army Flag began to move towards the mountainside.
At this time, the two Mongolian armies were besieging the camps of the Fifth Army Camp and the Three Thousand Battalion.
The three camps are arranged in a Z-shaped formation, which can just block the mountain pass behind. They form a triangle ten miles away.
The reason why Chongzhen formed the formation along the mountain was because he believed that the Fifth Army Camp and the Three Thousand Battalion would form a defensive depth that could protect the subsequent ice and water harvesting teams. He was not afraid of being trapped on a barren mountain with no water source. And he could take advantage of the terrain to
Use the power of artillery to inflict maximum damage to attacking enemies.
According to his arrangement, none of the three major battalions could hold out and at the same time consume the enemy. When Jiannu could no longer bear it and retreated due to heavy losses, he mobilized 50,000 cavalry from the 3,000 battalion and 50,000 heavy infantry from the fifth army battalion to attack.
They moved forward. They formed a row with the Shenji Battalion, and then the infantry and cavalry of the three battalions rushed out at once, completely defeating Jiannu.
The initial commotion in the Fifth Army Camp was stopped by a wave of whips from the officers.
After all, the slaves were outside the camp, but the law enforcement officers were behind them. Relying on the fortifications of the camp, these people began to shoot arrows and set off firecrackers to fight back.
Although the Beijing camp has undergone a major change, the rules, regulations, tactics and strategies have not changed. They are still the same as Yang Fan.
Because the gentlemen of Donglin don't know how to fight at all. If you ask them to scrap Yang Fan's tactics and start a new one, they will have no such ability at all.
After they took power, their first consideration was how to get military funds into their own hands. Second, they considered what assets the Beijing camp had that could be sold off. Third, they considered how to collect money for retirement and naturalization. As for training and tactics, they didn't bother to worry about it.
There is no money to take care of this, so it’s not free.
The Fifth Army Camp and the Three Thousand Battalion followed the usual practice of digging trenches to surround the main camp. The excavated soil was put into straw bags and then a simple wall was built.
However, those who come in now are all messy people, and no one is willing to work hard to dig the soil.
The trench was dug like one gnawed by a dog, twisted and twisted, only three or four feet deep, and the wall made of straw bags was only three or four feet high. From the bottom of the trench, the total height of the fortifications was less than two meters.
.But luckily there is still barbed wire.
When Yang Fan left, he took nothing with him and left everything with Jingying.
These barbed wire fences were erected on the top of the wall. The officers and soldiers of the Fifth Army Camp and the Three Thousand Battalion lay on the top of the wall, hiding behind the crenellations, shooting with bows and crossbows, three-eyed blunderbuss, thunder blunderbuss, settlement blunderbuss, bird blunderbuss, and archery blunderbuss.
Mongol.
As for the Lumi gun, they don't have it. It's too expensive. Only the Shenji Battalion has the equipment.
The firearms taken away before the Western Expedition suffered heavy losses on the battlefield, and there were basically not many left when the army came back. These firearms were all made in the later period by the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Industry.
They don't know how to make advanced matchlock guns, and they have very few muskets. What they make are old goods that cut corners.
The Mongolian cavalry roared and galloped thirty meters away, throwing bows and arrows. Dense arrows fell in the camp area.
Now the chief military officer of the fifth military camp is Man Gui. His surrender to the British government finally paid off.
At the beginning of the Jizhou mutiny, Chongzhen mobilized the generals and deputy generals of the four towns back to King Qin. Each of them had 5,000 infantry. These 20,000 people and the less than 20,000 veterans left in the Beijing camp served as a basis for re-expansion and
Recruited and formed today's 150,000 Beijing Camp.
Now, the commander-in-chief of the Shenji Battalion is Zhou Yuji.
The commander-in-chief of the fifth military camp is Man Gui, and the deputy commander-in-chief is He Huchen.
The commander-in-chief of the Three Thousand Battalion is Jiang Bingzhong, and the deputy commanders are Wu Zimian, Xu Yongshou, and Zuo Liangyu. They are as powerful as tigers and as fierce as tigers.
The five of them are all deputy generals, each commanding 10,000 cavalry.
Jiang Bingzhong, as the admiral of the Beijing camp, was left in the capital to coordinate the defense. The three thousand battalion was actually commanded by Wu Zimian.
Although the emperor planned to replace the British government with the Chiang family, he wanted to first eliminate the influence of Yang Fan and Zhang Shize on the Beijing camp. But the centipede was still alive, and the power of the British government was there. Without their cooperation,
, I’m afraid Beijing camp won’t be too peaceful.
Therefore, even though Zhang Shize went home to study behind closed doors after the Nanyuan Mutiny, the Fifth Army Camp still employed a large number of people from the British government, especially Man Gui, who had recently joined the army, and He Huchen, who was under his old sect.
This is equivalent to the British Duke and the Chiang family each controlling a large battalion. The officers at all levels below are composed of intricate disciples of nobles. Chongzhen directly seized the military power of the Shenji Battalion and took control of it himself. This is also in line with convention
.
The Shenji Camp has been used as the emperor's personal soldiers since his founding.
Mangui was very nervous at first, but after seeing the Mongols' bluff and fighting for an hour without any substantial attack, he gradually became slacker.