Chapter five hundred and fifty seventh firearm showdown
The Tiger Guards are finally here!
The flying war flags outside Beijing seem to be announcing to everyone:
The time has come to avenge the Ming Dynasty and Chongzhen!
The young general Li Dingguo commanded this Ming army. He never thought that King Wulie would entrust this glorious task to him.
But he didn't flinch at all. In his opinion, this was a test for himself, and it was also his best opportunity. His name will be engraved in history forever with this battle!
Artillery is being delivered door by door, and the army is gathering as quickly as possible according to its own organization. When all the troops arrive at the designated positions, the general attack on Beijing will begin.
However, Gao Yigong, who was stationed outside the capital, was not just an ordinary person. He had always been by Li Zicheng's side and had experienced countless battles, large and small.
He knew very well that once the enemy was assembled, it would turn into a fierce battle, and the best way now was to take the initiative.
Li Dingguo also accurately judged the other party's intentions.
It was necessary to block the enemy's first attack while he was still on a weak footing. As for the person who could take on this task, Li Dingguo thought of Ahu first.
Li Dingguo knew that A Hu and himself had conflicts, but he didn't care too much.
As long as he can win, he can let go of all conflicts. Fortunately for him, Ahu has the same idea as him.
Although Ah Hu was very dissatisfied with Li Dingguo acting as the commander-in-chief of this siege, for now, how to seize the capital as soon as possible is the first priority.
Brother-in-law, he is still waiting for me at Shanhaiguan!
In the middle, Li Dingguo arranged Major Shi Weide's regiment, and on the left was the Tiger Guards commanded by A Hu, who was ready to attack at any time.
And those artillery pieces that were the first to arrive on the battlefield also opened their terrifying bloody mouths!
Gao Yigong has completed the assembly, and what surprised the Huben Guards the most was that there were artillery among the bandits, and there were even firearms troops armed with blunderbuss!
At this point, the soldiers of the Huben Guards had to wonder, where did the rebel army get these weapons?
The Tiger Guards fired first!
"Boom-boom-boom-boom-" After several loud roars, the Tiger Guards took the lead and launched an artillery attack on the opponent.
Although only six artillery pieces were fired this time, all the artillery pieces of the Huben Guards were equipped with crosshairs, and the rebel artillery troops were also very dense. After the six rounds were fired, not all of them hit the target, and two of the artillery shells continued to hit the target.
It hit three or four rebel soldiers. One of them actually hit an artillery piece. Although it had a cast-iron body, the artillery was still dented and it was obviously no longer usable.
Already.
The soldiers of the Huben Guards also cheered in unison, congratulating their comrades on the victory achieved by the first bombardment.
The artillery and muskets of the rebel army were all captured from the Ming army, and the gunners and musketeers were all surrendered Ming troops. These people were originally veterans and losers, and they would fall down when the wind blew.
It's just that I always won battles with the bandit army in the past, and I could show off my power when fighting with the wind, and I had a little bit of courage to move forward. But I didn't expect that I encountered a tough opponent here today. I and I haven't entered the shooting range yet.
, the enemy took the lead and took action. Although they only killed a dozen soldiers and destroyed one cannon, they frightened the courage of the bandit soldiers and they did not dare to move forward.
However, they also know that Gao Yigong's military discipline is very strict. If they retreat at this time, the supervising team behind them will never show mercy. Therefore, retreating now is a death. They can only bite the bullet and continue to move forward.
However, the Huben Guards' artillery fire came one after another. As they advanced, they continued to hit the rebels' firearms units. Although the gains from each blow were not large, they saw that their opponents had no power to fight back, so they just saw the rebels. The uneasiness he felt when launching the artillery gradually disappeared. Li Dingguo, who was watching the battle, finally breathed a sigh of relief.
The current situation of the war also made Gao Yigong frown. It seemed that he had overestimated the firearms force, so his confidence had also dropped significantly.
After surviving three or four rounds of shelling by the Tiger Guards, the bandits' firearms unit lost almost fifty or sixty people, and two artillery pieces were destroyed. At this time, they were basically within 300 steps of the Tiger Guards' position. It was the Tiger Guards. The strike range of the No. 3 Folan cannon, and the artillery on the northern line has been deployed in place, so the Tiger Guards' strike intensity has also been significantly increased. Sixteen artillery pieces are fired at once. The lethality is natural It was also enlarged a lot, and as the distance got closer, the hit rate also improved a lot. In the first round, the sixteen artillery pieces were fired at the same time and destroyed two of the rebel artillery pieces. They also smashed the gunner and the gunman. Many of them were injured and killed. If the rebels advanced a further distance, the No. 2 Franco machine gun could switch to using shotguns to attack.
Faced with increasingly fierce attacks, the bandit army did not dare to move forward.
And at this distance, some artillery can almost hit it, so the bandit army also stopped one after another, no matter whether it has enough shooting range or not, every artillery also starts to load the shells. Prepare to fire back. When the artillery stopped, the gunmen naturally did not dare to move forward. Because if you move forward, you will not only be killed by the opponent, but also become the target of your own artillery. You can only stop to reload. , ready to shoot.
The chaotic scene of the rebel army also fully proves that it is not only the possession of artillery and blunderbuss that can become a firearms unit. The use of firearms also requires rigorous training and matching tactics.
After withstanding another round of artillery strikes from the Tiger Guards, most of the rebel artillery was finally filled with ammunition and could finally be fired to launch a counterattack against the Tiger Guards.
"Boom-boom-boom-boom-" A series of shelling sounds finally sounded from the rebel army's position. The firecrackers raised their firecrackers one after another without caring about anything, "Bang bang bang bang bang" Just a random shot.
More than 30 artillery pieces, plus two thousand muskets, were fired together, creating a huge momentum in a short time.
Gao Yigong, who was watching the battle from a distance, frowned a little. It was finally his turn to use his artillery, and this time he could let the Tiger Guards compensate for the artillery. But Gao Yigong soon discovered that something was wrong. And he was stunned and stunned.
After the rebel army's artillery bombardment began, it was impossible to say that the Tiger Guards were not nervous. Even the three highest officers, Li Dingguo, Shi Weide, and Ah Hu, all shrank inwardly, thinking that after this round of bombardment, they would give themselves a side. How much damage was caused?
But he soon discovered that the truth was not as bad as he imagined. Most of the artillery shells fired by the rebels landed almost a hundred steps away from Huben's position, but more than ten shells fell on Huben. Within a distance of ten or twenty steps in front of the guard's position, not one of them hit the Tiger Guard's position.
Although the artillery shell can still bounce forward on the ground based on inertia after it lands, the impact force has been greatly reduced. At this time, the benefits of trenches are revealed. The soldiers only need to push their heads and hide behind the homespun bag. It was basically fine. The shells either flew over their heads or hit the homespun bags. At most, they were shocked. Most of the remaining impact was absorbed by the homespun bags. Unless they happened to fall into the trenches. Otherwise, it would be basically ineffective against the Tiger Guards. As for the firecrackers, they are even less worth mentioning. They are more than 300 steps away. Unless they are rifles from the 19th century, there is no threat at all. Therefore, the rebel army This round of shelling only killed two soldiers of the Tiger Guards, and more than that, it triggered a burst of laughter from the Tiger Guards.
After seeing the huge contrast in the results of the artillery fire between the two sides, Li Dingguo, Shi Weide, and Ah Hu finally felt relieved. It seemed that the rebel artillery was indeed not in good shape and could not hit their own positions at all.
From the Huben Guards' position, earth-shattering artillery fire came again, as if to show the rebels how artillery should be used.
After the cannonballs fell, there was another scream from the rebel artillery array. Another artillery was hit by the cannonball, causing it to roll over several times and overwhelm the two gunners.
Liang Dong, who was in charge of the rebel artillery, gritted his teeth and retreated in his heart. He looked back and found that the supervising team was following him, only more than two hundred steps away. It turned out that Gao Yigong had seen him in the formation. This time, the Tiger Guards' artillery can only hit about 500 steps at the longest. It is estimated that some long-range artillery has not been brought. Although there are still some, the Tiger Guards are worried about whether they have a hand, so they dare not go forward in person. , but still push the supervising team to the front and supervise the battle from a close distance.
Liang Tongcai's heart naturally felt cold. If he ran away at this time, he would probably be killed by the supervising team within a few steps. It seemed that he had no choice but to hold on. So he urged the gunners to reload their bombs and fire their guns. I didn't bother to use my hands because it was definitely impossible to hit.
At this moment, I saw a horse galloping from behind. The knight on horseback shouted loudly: "General Liang, the general has an order. He ordered the artillery to advance another hundred steps and the gunmen to advance two hundred steps. No Violation."
Liang Dong was stunned for a moment, and when he was about to speak, he heard two loud bangs, "Boom - Boom -", followed by a series of screams.
It turned out that the gunners of the two cannons wanted the cannons to fire farther, so they loaded more gunpowder. As a result, the gunpowder overdose caused the barrels to explode, and the surrounding soldiers were affected, and they died all of a sudden. Fifty or sixty people. Many others were injured.
The soldier who delivered the order was also frightened and said hurriedly: "General Liang, follow the order immediately!"
As he spoke, he quickly turned his horse's head and ran towards the return road. At this time, some soldiers couldn't bear it anymore and turned around to run away, regardless of the supervising team behind them.
Liang Dong knew military law when he arrived and did not dare to escape easily. He just lay on the ground and tried his best to avoid the shelling of the Tiger Guards. Then he looked back to observe the consequences of the fleeing soldiers before deciding on his own plan.
However, the outcome of the escaping soldiers completely dispelled Liang Dongcai's illusions. As soon as they escaped to the supervising team, the soldiers of the supervising team were not polite and killed them on the spot. They also chopped off the heads and placed them in front of the formation. Warning others. The supervising team killed more than 30 soldiers in one go, which really frightened other fleeing soldiers. Seeing that there was no hope of retreating, they could only stop one after another, and then turned around helplessly and returned to the artillery. 's position.
But after such a delay, the Huben Guards launched four or five rounds of artillery fire in succession. Although the rebel soldiers had learned the lesson and lay down on the ground to avoid the artillery fire, the casualties were not large, but the artillery fire was Unable to escape, several more doors were destroyed by the Tiger Guards.
From the beginning of the war to the present, nearly forty artillery pieces have been destroyed by the Tiger Guards. Fifteen or six of them have been destroyed. The casualties have also exceeded two hundred.
At this time, Liang Dongcai had no other choice but to order the artillery to move forward a hundred steps, then re-establish the artillery position and engage in firefights with the Tiger Guards. At the same time, he ordered the gunners to rush in front of the artillery and approach. The Tiger Guards took up their positions and launched an attack on the Tiger Guards.
At this point, the rebel soldiers have no choice. Escape is a dead end, and staying here can only result in being beaten, which is still a dead end. It is better to approach and fight with the Tiger Guards within the range of their own artillery. There might be a glimmer of hope in the exchange of fire. Therefore, they all obeyed Liang Tongcai's orders, pushed the artillery, carried the gunpowder boxes, and continued to move forward despite the fire from the Tiger Guards.
The fire gunmen moved faster because they had less burden, and if they wanted to reach their firing range, they had to get within fifty steps of the Tiger Guards' position, so the rebels quickly separated the distance. One behind the other, one fast and one slow, they are approaching the Tiger Guards' position.
However, this poses a problem for the Tiger Guards, because now the rebel army is divided into two, one in front and one in the back. So which part should the artillery target be? If you continue to attack the artillery, the fire in front will be missed. If the gunman is close to the position, and if he attacks the gunman, the artillery will inevitably cause more damage to himself after it reaches a longer range. This is quite a dilemma.
But Li Dingguo kept in mind what Ding Yunyi once taught him. He must make decisions quickly on the battlefield, never hesitate at all, and must trust his own judgment.
Therefore, he ordered the artillery to continue attacking the rebel artillery. When the enemy came within 200 steps, they could use more lethal shotguns to attack them. Let the gunners go closer to the position and hand them over to their own troops. The musketeers deal with it. That is to say: artillery against artillery, musket against musket.
Because after seeing the results of the artillery battle, Li Dingguo firmly believed that the musketeers of the Huben Guards would also be able to defeat the musketeers of the rebel army.
Because the Huben Guard's artillery did not target the rebel firecrackers, the rebel firecrackers temporarily gained a little bit of safety time as they advanced. Amidst the roar of the artillery, Gradually approach the Huben Guards' position.
At this time, there were more than 1,800 firecrackers in the bandit army, each carrying a variety of weapons, but they all advanced step by step from the filled firecrackers.
The Huben Guard musketeers had been prepared for a long time, and only waited for the pirate army's musketeers to enter within a hundred steps of the Huben Guards' position, and then launched an attack on them first.
After a series of volleys of gunfire, the rebel gun soldiers immediately fell down in a row. The fire gun soldiers in the back row became nervous and ignored many of them. Some pulled the triggers, some lit up the medicine, and they all tried their best to attack the tiger guards. Positional shooting.
But unfortunately, most of the fire muskets used by the rebel army are three-eyed muskets. Although there are a small number of bird muskets, their quality is no more than the same as those used by the Tiger Guards.
Within a distance of about a hundred steps, it is impossible to have any effect. You can only shoot randomly with "bang bang bang bang bang", and then rush to reload ammunition.
But the two sides fired at each other for a while, and the bandit army gradually realized that something was wrong. Although the sound of the other side's gunfire was far less than that of their own, after each round of shooting, a row of people on their side would always fall down, and after they fired, the other side would always fall down. There seemed to be no movement on the position, and there did not seem to be many casualties. In fact, during the period of shooting between the two sides, the rebel gunman was killed and injured more than 300 people. Only a few soldiers in the Huben Guards were killed by cannonballs, but none were killed by fire cannons.
After the bandits came to their senses, they realized that their efforts were all in vain. They had no choice but to brave the attack of the Tiger Guards and continue to move forward, hoping to enter the effective killing range of their fire cannons.
But after they advanced a certain distance, the Hu Ben Guards' muskets also began to fire, and they really entered the pace of three consecutive shots. Therefore, although the sound of the Tiger Guards' musket firings was still not intensive enough, the frequency of shooting was It increased greatly, almost without any interruption. The bandit army was beaten with only a burst of howling like ghosts and wolves, and people fell down one after another.
Although the bandit army also has a small number of bird guns, they are all obtained from the Ming army. The quality itself is uneven, and even if the quality is good, it is not properly maintained and maintained, and the effect is naturally compromised. The muskets used by Huben Guards are themselves carefully selected and of high quality. In addition, Huben Guards uses fixed granular gunpowder, which is more effective than the powdered gunpowder used by the rebel army. Therefore, the muskets used by Huben Guards are very effective against The effective killing distance of the thief army is eighty steps, while the thief army's fire blunderbuss can only reach 50 steps at most.
This difference also caused a huge difference in the effectiveness of the exchange of fire between the two sides. In addition, more than ten bird guns in the bandit army exploded, which not only exploded the soldiers who used the bird guns, but also injured many surrounding people. companions. As a result, other soldiers who used bird guns also did not dare to use bird guns. They threw away the bird guns one after another and picked up the three-eyed gun used by the dead soldier. Only then did they dare to use it with confidence.
The three-eyed gun has a shorter range, so it poses no threat to the Tiger Guards.
No, the Hu Ben Guards' muskets were not vegetarian. Round after round, they continued to attack the bandit army.
This also made the bandits feel very depressed. Why were they all using fire blunderbuss? Hu Benwei's fire blunderbuss could hit so fast and so far, but his own couldn't reach it!