Chapter 462: The defender attacks the enemy, artillery kills the enemy

In the extension of the earth enclosure, there are dense fortifications. Not to mention horses, even infantry walking in it will be troublesome.

What's more, the fortifications such as low walls, horse-repellent, deer rocks, trenches, etc. are intertwined and layered. Who knows if there will be any other troubles when walking?

Of course, Seoul is not just a flat mountain, there will always be some natural and artificial ups and downs. In such places, various defense fortifications are often not so rigorous and dense, but in such places, the cannons on the top of the city are facing each other, and they still cannot impact.

The only passages are the curved paths in the fortification area that the cavalry in the city just now followed. There are no artillery on the top of the city within the area opposite to the city gate. There is no need to worry about being attacked by long-range firepower. This is the reason why these Mongolian light cavalry dare to lead their troops to chase after them.

Who would have thought that after the red flag, the cannons on the top of the city suddenly poured out. The road was very narrow and far from the city wall. No matter how you judge, there would be no cannons. There might be ambushing on both sides. But in this situation, even if there are ambushings, you have to worry about accidental injury.

The artillery was dug holes and landed with the turret. After each shot, dozens of people had to come and reset it. It was very troublesome. The artillery on the city was also fixed. When the Qing Dynasty attacked Liaoyang and Shenyang, it was safe to deal with such artillery, and it was rushing over the range.

Besides, the accuracy of the cannon is limited. The narrow path makes the possibility of hitting is very small. There is no accurate lead in muskets these days, let alone cannons.

Of course, the above are all the concepts of artillery by the Qing Dynasty soldiers and horses. They had never seen the field artillery of Jiaozhou Camp, so they naturally would not know that they were powerful.

After facing the battlement of the city wall here, the artillery is placed at the back end. It cannot be seen at the angle under the city. When it needs to be fired, it is pushed to the launch position by the artillery.

This shooting angle and shooting have been tested many times. There are several inverted triangle wooden blocks nailed to the ground at the position near the outer stent of the city head. After calculation, the artillery subway wheel is pressed against the oblique edge of the two wooden blocks, and the wooden pins between the artillery and the gun mount are nailed to the calculated angle at present.

The Jiaozhou Camp artillery is launched, and the fixed number of launching drugs and standard shells are also available. Five artillery fired side by side, after three rounds of fire, there will definitely be about ten shells hitting the road.

Artillery ground shooting may only ensure the accuracy of being within one range rather than one point, but if all the advance amount is achieved, you will also achieve your desired target with as much probability as possible. Wang Hai led his army into Seoul, and the work of preparation in advance was only half a year.

The shells roared, and the Tartar Light Cavalry, who were running on the road, panicked. But they didn't think that the shell would hit them, and they were still chasing them, trying to break in when the Ming army entered the siege.

So when the shells fell to the ground, the casualties were severe. In fact, the people in the back row hurriedly got off the horse and ran to the fortification area next to them, which might be safe.

But these Tartar light cavalry habitual concepts felt that they were very safe, with three rounds of artillery and fifteen rounds of artillery shells. There were twelve rounds of artillery shells on the road. Needless to say, the cavalry were hit by the shells, even the people and horses were killed on the spot, and some were also dropped into the gaps in the cavalry formation.

But the condescending shooting was extremely powerful, and the shells hit the ground were ejected, causing the second round of killing. The horse's legs and human legs were broken and broken. The roads in this fortification area where cavalry can run are particularly reinforced and compacted road surfaces.

The solid shells fell on the hard ground, and the jumping effect was better. Of course, these chasing light cavalry suffered greater damage. After the shells were shot, the entire road was covered with human corpses and horse corpses. The entire road was blocked in an instant.

On the battlefield, sometimes the soldiers who died in battle can share the same hatred of the enemy and take revenge to the death. The injured comrades will have the opposite effect.

The Mongolian light cavalry, who were hit by shells just now, had such an effect at this time. The limbs were taken away by metal projectiles and they almost instantly lost their ability to move, but they could not die for a moment. They could only endure the great pain at the wound, slowly wailing to death, waiting for the blood to dry up.

Not only people, but also horses. Horses are struggling on the ground, but they still cannot avoid death, white bones and stubble, as well as red, purple, black and flesh.

But under such circumstances, the Tatar light cavalry that had not yet been affected by the rear team did not dare to come forward to rescue, because it was covered by artillery, and they could only see their comrades waiting to die there.

This kind of blow to morale when watching the death of a companion is devastating, and even these warriors who have experienced the battle have tightened in their hearts.

Someone couldn't help but vomit out the "Wow" suffocation. Such a situation could only appear on the heads of the so-called battlefield recruits.

After the three rounds of artillery fired, the position of the artillery on the city wall had deviated a little. The position of the artillery began to be adjusted according to the various pre-noted rulers. This did not take long. The artillery soldiers on the city wall had already completed the loading and fired it again.

A shell landed on the red flag and hit the ground, but it happened to hit the place without a corpse and bounced outward.

The Mongolian Light Cavalry van was still unable to advance or retreat, and the Mongolian Light Cavalry vanguard was suddenly swept by the artillery shells. The legs of the horses in front of them were broken and the cavalry on them fell down. The shells were almost an order. The pursuit of Light Cavalry, who was still ignoring the advance or retreat, turned their horses and ran towards the back.

No one knows how far the defending artillery on the top of the city can hit, but no one wants to be a tragic devil under the shells. Not to mention the twists and turns, the road can only be run four or five horses side by side. It would be better when chasing, but when this turn, everyone wants to run ahead and immediately became chaotic.

Just now, looking at the miserable comrades-in-arms scene, the sudden bombardment of artillery made the mental state of these Mongolian light cavalry on the verge of collapse, and they didn't talk about any structure.

Of course, the cavalry at the end felt lucky, so they just turned their horses and ran away, but the front team just now has become the back team, with comrades in front being crowded. In this case, they would not draw out their swords to kill comrades in front, but they rode their horses to run towards the fortification areas on both sides.

Although these fortification areas are troublesome, they are not within the opponent's shooting range, and there are no defenders in the city.

However, there are trenches and areas with low walls. The trenches can be crossed and the low walls can be bypassed. But Lu Yan and Juma are fortifications specially prepared for cavalry. How can they easily dodge by? In addition to the hasty escape, they will be rushing forward regardless of the horse. The horse falls into the trenches and falls into Juma and falls over.

The cavalry was thrown down and didn't care about Suli's mount as his companion brother, and got up and ran outside without caring about it.

Sure enough, besides these fortifications, there were other arrangements, some were cavalry, some infantry who had lost their horses, and suddenly fell downwards and fell into a pit. This was not the kind of trenches, but looking at the ground without any abnormality, after the men and horses were trapped in, what was waiting for them was sharpened wood thorns.

This mechanism has a name. It is called the Tiger Bear Pit, which is specially used to hunt large beasts in the forest, and it is either to capture alive or profit, or to kill and kill. Whether it is a human or a horse, being penetrated by sharpened wooden thorns will not have any consequences except for death and serious injuries on the verge of death.

However, the bitter scream of pain at this moment even completely suppressed the chaos on the battlefield. This desperate scream made the formation of chaotic formation even more messy. The cavalry who had just run to the fortification area turned back and ran back carefully.

Fortunately, at this time, the horse-riding musket soldiers who had already run back to the earth did not come to take the opportunity to hit the water dog. The cannons on the city were tested twice. This time, they obviously escaped from the range. This chaotic retreat, or the escape lasted for half an hour, was considered to have withdrawn from the fortification area.

Duoduo and Aobai, the princes of Yu County, who were riding on the horse, had already turned pale. Listening to the report from the personal soldiers of the Huayala in front of him. The personal soldiers who came to report had just returned from the previous stage, and he also knew that the two masters were in a bad mood. So the voice was also very low, and he dared not speak loudly, and said in a low voice:

"Two thirty-five people were killed by muskets and injured 115 people. The Mongolian Inlaid White Banner tribe had not returned under the city."

The reason why I came back was not about death or injury. In that fortification area, there was obviously someone who was not dead and was screaming there, but these people would definitely not be able to come back.

With the treatment level of this era, those who can be regarded as injured in casualties are generally people at a high risk of death. The battle just now is equivalent to losing nearly 600 people, losing money when they go out to fight. This morale damage is not a little bit. If it were in the past, the Eight Mongolian Banners were all under the command of the Emperor's Land, which was actually equivalent to the subordinate army of the Two Yellow Banners. If the Regent Dorgon came to power, the first statement was that each banner commanded the Mongolian Banner and Han Military Banners to which each banner belonged.

This plan is beneficial except for the two yellow flags, Prince Su Haoge, and the rest of the flags are rare to be unanimously praised by Daishan and Jirgalang, and everyone agreed. If it were the generals of the Mongolian white flag inlaid, they would have been dealt with by the Minister Obai, but now they cannot surpass the Prince of Yu.

Obai glanced at Duoduo beside him coldly, and a chill came out of his nose. The meaning was clear. Duoduo certainly understood that he was famous for his hippies and smiles among the Eight Banners and Representatives in Shengjing, but he could not make that gesture at this time. Duoduo immediately looked at the surrounding terrain. The defense preparations in the city were really perfect. Within the range of eyesight, he could not find even a few trees. He had to go to ten miles away to obtain the materials for siege equipment.

But what I faced under Seoul was almost a blow. Not only did the morale suffer, but it was also obvious that the battle would not end as soon as possible.

However, Duoduo and Oboi are also military generals who know the military. Since they have been in the army for many years, they cannot win quickly, so they can only calm down and fight.

Since you can only defend the city and dare not go out of the city to fight, it means that the defenders in the city are weaker than those outside the city. If you slowly surround and fight, you can find a way to break the city.

For the Qing army, it had not fought such a battle for many years, and it was not enough to lose so much when fighting. Moreover, there were very cumbersome civil engineering projects to be done next. The soldiers of the Eight Banners, especially the soldiers of the Eight Banners of the Jurchens, were extremely disgusted with such work.

According to these people, it is said that it is better to fight with ten times the enemy in the field than to take a pickaxe to do the lowly errands and build walls.

However, during the Huang Taiji period, many decisive battles were built on civil engineering walls and digging trenches to lay the battle situation. Even at that time, the people who were responsible for this work were mainly under the Han army flag and the subordinates of the Sanshun King, and a large number of civil servants were recruited.

Of course, when Huang Taiji was in Huang Taiji, the emperor had the most authority and could suppress the opposition and complaints below. Now, the two white flags of the Regent had a slight advantage, and the other flags had a great say in it. The Eight Banners soldiers below could also directly complain about this civil engineering matter.

That's why Duoduo, the prince of Yu County, asked his subordinates to bring three times of the civilians to come. It was also for this reason, including the current camping. Military generals at all levels arranged soldiers from the Eight Banners of the Jurchens to serve as alerts there, while the Han army flag and the Sanshun King's soldiers were already busy camping there.

Duoduo was upset when he saw this scene. Judging from the posture of the soldiers and horses in the city, it was not difficult to go out of the city to attack.                                                                                                           �

"The war is the first, why are you bastards so leisurely? Go camp!!!"

His master was whipping around, and no one dared to say anything.  It was only with his head held and he worked hard. After a whip, Duoduo's heart was relieved.

At this time, another door was opened in the earthen encirclement around the city wall. The officers in the Tartars all ordered loudly, and the Han army rushed there to assume artillery, and hundreds of cavalry were ready to attack, and knew that the fortification area was full of traps. Then don’t go in.

But if you come out and no longer have the fortifications and artillery areas, you will not be able to harass you easily. Everyone is nervously watching the movements under the door.

As soon as the door was opened, more than 200 soldiers came out. Without riding a horse, it was obvious that they came out carefully. Looking at the camping far away from the fortification area, this was the speed of speed.

However, the next move made the Tartar soldiers who were nervously concerned here irritated. The soldiers gathered the bodies and wounded on the road together and threw them to the side of the road. Regardless of whether they were alive or alive, they threw firewood and tinder oil, and directly lit a fire. When the fire just started to burn, they could clearly hear sharp screams.

Looking at this scene, the other party swaggered and killed his wounded. The Tartar soldiers on the alert front were extremely angry, even though they had done more cruel things in the pass.

But no matter how angry he was, no one dared to ride a horse or run over to attack. Many people could see clearly the tragic situation in this area just now. Moreover, Duoduo and Oboi issued strict orders and were not allowed to go out without authorization. The violator of the military law was engaged in military law. The one who was cut off his head was indeed shocked to the army.

It was just after noon, and the soldiers in the forefront of the Tartars army watched the soldiers coming out of the city busy there. But they did not dare to attack easily. The artillery under Shang Kexi's hypothetical one did not aim at that direction, and there was no way to do anything about it.

When the bodies were cleaned up, the soldiers did not continue to move forward. Instead, they turned around and returned to the earth enclosure. The baffle was lowered, and the movement inside was invisible.

From Duoduo and Obai to the ordinary soldiers below, they now understand the role of the earth encirclement. What movements and situations are made by the soldiers and horses in the city to the outside world? They can leave the city and prepare a whole team between the earthen encirclement and the city walls and attack calmly. The army outside the city cannot see the movement at all. This suddenness is an advantage on the battlefield.

But even if the gun is mounted here, let alone the fortification area cannot be entered. Even if the cannon is set up on the edge to attack, the earth encirclement cannot be reached according to the range and the defense cannot be opened.

This battle will be very troublesome. You must first fill the trenches on the periphery, push down the low walls, and find the traps one by one to advance from the range that cannons cannot cover on the city. When you reach the earth encirclement, many things are much simpler. But now the civilians have not arrived yet. Let the soldiers come forward, which is to die and lose valuable combat power. At present, a few soldiers were originally surrounded by a big city, but they can't afford to waste it.

For the sake of the present, we must first build our own camp and wait until the troops gather together. Just now we are focusing on the camp, the wooden door surrounded by the earth is opened again.

There were already some soldiers in the Manchu and Mongolian military camp. When they saw the wooden door open, they were extremely nervous. However, the team that came out was very strange. Two cannons with iron wheels were pushed out, and there were five people next to each cannon. The cannon looked small in diameter, and the speed of pushing was quite fast.

It seems that the road was cleaned up just now, so that these two cannons can be pushed out, but this posture looks ridiculous, because there are soldiers pushing cannons in front, followed by several soldiers pushing small carts, and behind the cart are several horses.

With this skill, it would be enough to let the horses run out with cannons, why would it be so troublesome? But seeing the group of people pushing the cart outside slowly, the responsible vigilant Zuo gave a few orders, and more than 200 cavalrymen dispersed and slowly surrounded the intersection of the road.

When we arrived at the intersection, we were about two miles away from the place where the Qing Dynasty was camping, but it was less than two hundred steps away from the Qing Dynasty's vanguard troops.

When the cannons were pushed out, they would naturally be killed. When the Tartar cavalry saw that the other side had no follow-up soldiers, they slowly approached. At such a close distance, if the cannons were going to fight against the cavalry, they would really be looking for death. These light cavalry were all soldiers and horses in the scene of the founding of the country.

Several leaders were whistling each other. Although the cavalry formation was very scattered, they were already slowly accelerating and ready to charge at any time.

Even if two solid shells are killed, two people may not be hit. Then they rushed to the front and chopped them, and two cannons were pushed at the intersection and directly put the cannons up.

Some soldiers were busy behind the cannons, while others were cleaning the cannon chambers with long wooden sticks. The light cavalry of the Tartars were shocked when they saw this scene. The Ming army was still stupid and bold. It was only now that they had cleared the cannon chambers. Do you think everyone was riding a cow or not a horse?

"Go up and slaughter these dogs!!!"

The leader in the lead shouted. He pulled out the knife in his hand, grabbed the horse's belly and rushed towards the other side, but the artillery soldiers in the ground were still carrying wooden sticks in and out of the cannon chamber, running closer and closer. At about fifty steps away, the two soldiers who were cleaning the cannon chamber pulled out the wooden sticks and ran towards the cannon.

There is no brush on the wooden stick, but only a larger cylindrical head. This is not a fire stick to clean the cannon chamber. This is a fire stick to ramming ammunition, but for these Qing soldiers, they didn't understand the difference between these tools at all. Soldiers are very fast, and they are just thinking about rushing to kill.

After thirty steps, the two artillery artillery behind the two cannons grinned and put the torch in their hands to the side of the medicine eye. Two "boom" and "boom" sounds were almost connected together. Despite the huge momentum and white smoke, at this moment, every cavalry was thinking about controlling the horses, with only solid shells, suppressing the disturbance of the mounts, and rushing in front of them, they could kill all the half-crazy and half-silly Ming troops.

However, what was shot out from the cannons was not solid shells. It was a storm of metal projectiles. The shotguns fired by two three-pound cannons formed a fan in this area. The cavalry in the fan was made into sieves, and the metal projectiles flying at high speed were very widespread.

Even if it is not in this fan, even if it is affected by a lead ball, it will make the horse crazy. The small projectile at high speed can penetrate any physical leather within a range of sixty steps.

After two cannons were shot, more than 200 cavalry were defeated all at once. If it were in normal battles, these cavalry might not be injured by artillery, but the artificiality of the artillery just now attracted the cavalry to the front of the two cannons.

The shotgun fired by two three-pound cannons achieved the best killing effect. After the loaded soldiers finished the cannon, they had already run to the cannon, connected the artillery ground gun mount with the ammunition ground cart, and tied the handle of the cart with a knot, and put it on the back of the land horse that had turned over.

Almost three horses were pulling a cannon, and these artillerymen were climbing onto the gun mount or carriage, urging the horses and running towards the city gate. The shooting of the two cannons just now made the guards behind dizzy. When the two cannons began to run towards the back, only three cavalrymen hesitated and rushed forward to chase.

The three cavalrymen were originally from the back row, but they had already opened up the distance and chased after more than ten steps, but they saw the soldiers sitting on the cannon stand picking up muskets and loading ammunition there, and immediately stopped chasing.

Duoduo and Obai had just sat down to eat, and the soldiers brought the dried food and jerky food. Both of them were so angry that they couldn't eat at all. But when they were fighting, it was very important to ensure their strength when they were eating. They were there to stuff something into their stomachs and barely ate some.

At this time, both cannons were pushed out, and seeing the battle process that seemed to be a joke, and the casualties and injuries that were lying in front of the formation, how could the two men still eat? They immediately threw the food in their hands to the ground, trying to curse, and set off on the horse to fight, but did not take action. The repeated provocations made the two younger Qing Qin Gui grit their teeth and endure it.

I had a few more experiences in observing the formation just now, and they could see clearly that the city walls and fortifications around Seoul and the sharp firearms of the soldiers and horses in the city were so sharp that they would definitely not be able to take them down. The heavy casualties were predictable. I still have to wait for the large group of people to come and arrange them slowly.

In the direction of this road where tactics are produced, except for the tiled gate parallel to the north gate of Seoul, there is also a gate more than 200 steps away. The terrain is relatively undulating and fortifications is rare, but the cannons arranged on the city wall in this direction are not hidden at all, as if warning those enemies who want to attack.

Behind the gate here, Wang Hai, wearing plate armor, stood in front of the team. Behind him were the crowded spearmen, musket soldiers, flag bearers, drummers and horns (suona) soldiers all stood beside Wang Hai. The deputy guard of the regiment, who were also covered in armor, had been looking at the direction of the city tower.

You can hear the sound of cheering and laughing on the other side of the city tower. Behind the chassis, a soldier waved up and down toward the side with two red flags in his hand.

Wang Hai also paid attention to the direction there. Seeing this scene, he whispered to the suona player beside him. The trumpet player usually holds the overall level, he and the flag bearer and drummer are the controllers of the entire team's march. The suona player puts the suona on his mouth and sways hard.

The sharp lock sounded, and the noise between the earthen enclosure and the city wall suddenly stopped. The Korean men guarding both sides of the flip door shouted and began to pull the ropes, and the flip door slowly opened.

Wang Hai, the chief general of the Korean garrison, looked at the Qing army camp opposite, picked up his axe and gun and walked outside. The already nervous Qing soldiers and horses had already seen this movement. The infantry in the city had gone to fight, and finally they could fight with swords and swords. The Tartars were excited, but they only saw a few infantry coming out and were stunned.

At first, Wang Hai and the flag bearer and drummer trumpeter walked out together. After a distance from the door flipping, they stood on the right. At this time, a large number of spear soldiers began to trot out, and began to arrange the square array based on Wang Hai's position.
Chapter completed!