Although this white-armored soldier died in battle, he bought some time for the Qing soldiers to attack later. Several more Qing soldiers passed through the crenellations and climbed onto the city wall of Jinan.
These Qing soldiers were all armored soldiers from the Eight Banners. Although there were only three or four of them, they were all extremely brave. Although there were more than ten soldiers of the Muling Army who besieged them, they only killed two of them.
However, they killed five of them. In just a short while, another four or five soldiers stepped onto the city wall and firmly guarded the battlements.
The Qing army finally broke through a gap in Jinan City's defense line.
After the first gap, there will be a second and third gap. Soon the Qing army broke through several more gaps. Although the Muling Army continuously organized manpower to counterattack, in the end it was because of the individual strength of the soldiers on both sides.
The disparity in combat power was so great that even if the soldiers who came up were veterans of the Mu Ling Army, at most they would end up stabbing each other with the Qing soldiers, and they still would not be able to drive the Qing troops off the city wall. After the two sides started fighting, Mu
The musketeers of the Ling Army did not dare to shoot easily, so they could only rush forward with their guns and fight the Qing soldiers with their bayonets.
After a while, the Qing army broke through five gaps in the city wall. At each gap, there were more than a dozen people gathered in Yijing, and there were as few as five or six people. They all firmly guarded the gap and responded to the Qing soldiers behind.
He also continued to climb up the city wall. The fighting between the two sides became more and more intense, the number of corpses continued to increase, and the blood began to stain the ground on the city wall red.
At this time, Abatai and Turg, who were watching the battle below the city, couldn't help but be overjoyed. It seemed that they had great hope of capturing Jinan before they sent out the last troops. Abatai was also a man who had experienced battles for a long time and knew how to take advantage of the situation.
In order to advance, he immediately ordered the dispatch of one thousand armored soldiers of the Eight Banners and two thousand soldiers, plus their followers, a total of six to seven thousand people. They immediately sent reinforcements and made sure to capture Jinan in one fell swoop.
But Abatai did not know that just when he had just issued the order and the reinforcements had set off, the fierce battle on Jinan City had undergone a radical change.
At this time, the first gap opened by the Qing army was surrounded by more than 20 Qing soldiers. Under the command of Niu Luzhen, they formed a semicircular formation and firmly guarded the gap.
Around this semicircular formation, there were more than twenty corpses lying on the ground, both from the Qing army and the Muling army. The two sides were almost fighting to the death in a pool of blood. And that Niu Lu's forehead was really serious.
It was planned that if a few more people came up, they could start to launch a counterattack against the Muling army along the city wall.
At this moment, the Mu Ling army that suddenly besieged them opened a passage to the left and right. Only three strange shapes were seen, a bit like an open umbrella-shaped thing lying flat, and each one was supported.
A dozen black iron pipes were pointed at them.
Before the Qing soldiers understood what was going on, they heard a sound of "Boom!" and the three strange things spurted out tongues of fire almost at the same time. Because the distance was too close, there was no way to avoid them. Three Qing soldiers immediately appeared
He screamed, blood splattered from his body, and he fell to the ground.
The other Qing soldiers immediately understood that this must be some new type of firecrackers of the Ming army, used to deal with themselves. Several Qing soldiers reacted immediately, roared, and rushed towards these three strange firecrackers.
He came over, intending to take advantage of the gap between the reloading of the firecrackers and kill the soldiers using the firecrackers.
But to the surprise of the Qing soldiers, almost in an instant, gunfire rang out again, and immediately three more Qing soldiers fell to the ground after being shot. Immediately after, gunshots rang out again, and there were no more people in the Qing army.
Fall to the ground.
At that moment, the remaining Qing soldiers felt chilled. What kind of fire blunderbuss was used by Mu Ling's army? It could be fired continuously at such a fast speed.
In fact, the Muling Army used Thunder Guns. This kind of repeating gun manufactured by China finally came in handy on the battlefield.
There are now a total of eighteen thunder cannons in Muling's army, including ten with five barrels, five with twelve barrels, and three with eighteen barrels. Shang Yi ordered his people to load all the eighteen thunder cannons with ammunition.
Divided into six groups, each group has three guns. When there is a crisis on the city wall, they rush there to rescue. The one that appears here is composed of one eighteen-barrel thunder gun and two five-barrel thunder gun.
of a group.
Each thunder gun is equipped with a round plate as a shield. When shooting, an ax is used to support the gun body, and it can also rotate at a certain angle. Therefore, when the soldiers of the Muling Army who besieged the Qing soldiers made way for
, the soldiers of the Muling Army, who used thunder cannons, immediately aimed at the Qing soldiers who had stormed the city and fired a burst of fire.
At this time, Qing Bing had long been frightened by this kind of fire gun that could be fired continuously without interruption. He didn't know how to dodge at all.
All twenty-eight gun barrels were used up, and the twenty-odd Qing soldiers who had finally managed to attack the city wall were all dead on the city wall in just a short moment.
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After the firing was completed, the soldier who used the thunderbolt gun immediately withdrew with his gun and stepped aside to refill the gun tube with ammunition. The other soldiers of the Muling Army immediately surrounded him, with swords and guns drawn, and they
The few remaining Qing soldiers were killed and finally the battlements were firmly blocked.
In several other gaps that were broken through by the Qing army, the battles that took place were basically the same. After a Thunder Gun team arrived, they fired continuously at close range. The Qing soldiers who had attacked the city had not yet reacted.
At that time, all the Yi Jing soldiers were lying dead on the spot. The several gaps that the Qing army had opened after all the hardships were quickly defended one by one by the Muling army.
It was only then that Shen Yang and other members of the Imperial Guard who were watching the battle on the city tower breathed a sigh of relief and realized that Shang Yi still had such a skill. And Sun Hedou admired Shang Yi even more. Shang Yi said
Sure enough, there is nothing wrong. Although the Thunder Gun still has many shortcomings, as long as it is used properly, it can also play a huge role on the battlefield.
However, Shang Yi had no time to be happy at this time, because a new batch of Qing reinforcements approached the city wall and were ready to start attacking the city. The critical moment of this battle finally arrived, and it was also what Shang Yi was waiting for.
Great opportunity for a long time.
I saw a group of soldiers from the Muling Army, about a hundred people, working in groups of two, carrying a large box and climbing up the city wall from the corridor. However, they did not engage in the battle, but spread out in platoons on the city wall.
He opened it, took out a pine branch from the box, lit it, and took out a large cylinder.
It turned out that one hundred and twenty grenadiers came to the city. After Shang Yi gave the order, everyone lit the fuse of the grenade, and then threw it down the city. Then they went to the box to get it.
Light it and then throw it away.
A series of huge explosions of "Boom-Boom-Boom-Boom" were heard from below the city. Even the city wall almost shook, and a large amount of smoke immediately rose up, covering everything near the city wall.
It was shrouded. And as the grenades of the Muling Army continued to drop grenades, each grenade dropped at least seven or eight grenades, and those who moved quickly even dropped more than ten.
Therefore, the explosion almost never stopped and lasted for three to four minutes, completely covering up the screams of the Qing army.
At this time, the Qing army suddenly gathered 14,000 to 5,000 people under the city wall, and the Muling army also threw down more than a thousand grenades, almost all the grenades prepared to guard Jinan this time. This is
Shang Yi had been waiting for the opportunity to allow the Qing army to gather in large numbers under the city of Jinan. Then he used grenades to conduct concentrated bombing, causing large-scale damage to the Qing army in one fell swoop. As a result, the Qing soldiers under the city were immediately dizzy and seven
There were countless casualties and casualties.
And almost after the Muling Army had just blocked all the gaps opened by the Qing Army, the Qing Army's offensive was still very fierce. As a result, the grenade exploded with such a concentration, and the Qing Army's attack was immediately destroyed.
The offensive completely collapsed. After throwing the grenades, the musketeers of the Muling Army immediately occupied the crenellations of the city wall, holding back the choking smell of Liuhuan, and kept shooting at the foggy city. Then.
The gunshots rang out intensively and continuously, and screams were also heard continuously in the fog below the city.
When the fog gradually cleared, what was revealed before people's eyes was an almost miserable situation. In this bombing, at least five to six thousand people were killed and injured, and they basically lost their combat effectiveness.
Most of the wooden ladders used to attack the city were blown to pieces, many shield carts were blown to pieces, and there were still many broken wood remnants burning with flames. In the open space within thirty steps of the city
, the corpses of the Qin soldiers were lying densely across the city, almost covering the ground. Even the moat was full of corpses. In some places, they were even flush with the river bank, and the river water was bright red.
Broken armor, dismantled swords and guns, as well as human limbs and arms, as well as human internal organs, were scattered all over the ground. There were also many Qing soldiers who were not killed in the explosion and fell among the dead.
, struggling to crawl.
At this time, on the city tower of Jinan Mansion, Sun Hedou, Shen Yang, Liu Zhiyong, Zhao Congfu and others also turned pale and turned their heads, not daring to look at the city. Zhou Wei had already been holding on to a wall, lowering his head and retching.
Get up. The other soldiers were also stunned by this scene. Everyone was thinking, did we beat the Qing army like this?
The remaining nearly 10,000 Qing soldiers were obviously frightened by the huge explosion that they had never experienced before. They stood there in a daze while the Mu Ling army on the city fired.
I don’t know what to do? But I don’t know who it was. The first one started to run away, which immediately affected the entire army. Then all the Qing troops did not wait for the order to retreat from the main formation, and all rushed towards their main formation like a tide.
Generally retreated.
At this time, only Shang Yi remained unmoved and said loudly: "Brothers, the Tatars have been defeated by us. Now it is time for us to attack and go out of the city to pursue the Tatars."