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Chapter 794: Zhao Tianyue in the Huangpu River (2)

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    Cannonballs fell on the city wall of Shanghai County one after another. Although there were many straw bags and bamboo baskets filled with soil on the city wall, and water was poured on them to make them more humid,  Letting the cannonball fall on it reduces the kinetic energy of the bounce.  However, when huge, hot cannonballs hit the city wall, they will still roll and bounce more or less, because there is always room for people to move.  When the cannonball flies and bounces, it seems to be very slow. In fact, it is only the angular speed of the cannonball that can be seen with the naked eye. In fact, the speed is very fast. When people see the cannonball flying and jumping, the body wants to react. At this time, it has already  That's too late.  Shanghai County was built in the 32nd year of Jiajing to prevent Japanese pirates. In order to shorten the construction period, rammed earth was used inside and a layer of city bricks was used outside.  The thickness of this layer of city bricks is basically the same as our current Sanqi Wall.  Readers, you can imagine the effect of a cannonball weighing more than ten kilograms hitting such a wall.  And he keeps hitting it?  Soon, cracks appeared on the city wall. Under the action of the cannonballs, these cracks became denser and more numerous. The cracks turned into cracks. The section of the city wall where the cracks were located groaned under the load.  Finally, a section of the city wall collapsed, forming a sloping slope outside the city.  "Okay! Good fight! The Southern Barbarians are nothing more than that! Seeing the sharp fire of our general, they are scared!" Pingnan General Luck Dehun looked at the huge one on the top of the city in the telescope in his flag formation.  Gaps, could not help but wave the riding crop and shout loudly.  "Master! Is it time to let the infantry go up? Several generals have just sent people to ask for orders." "Well! Okay! I, the general, will fulfill their desire to serve! Tell them to capture the county seat of Shanghai and follow  This is the Nanman trading area! There are a lot of good things there! Give me a good fight!¡±  The hanging bell rang, but it was Prince Yuele of Anjun who had arrived.  "General! The Southern Barbarians are just afraid of being deceived!" The sweat on Yue Le's face clearly showed how he had been running so fast.  "What kind of deception?! The city walls were destroyed by the red barbarian cannons of my general. What kind of deception can they have?" "General, our Qing soldiers have been firing for a long time. Have you ever seen any heavy artillery of the Southern Barbarians?"  Fight back? Since the first battle between Hexiwu and our Qing Dynasty, Liang Guogong has always been famous for his sharp and intensive artillery fire. But today, did he, Li Huabao, fire a cannon? The slave could see clearly that there would be artillery fire on the city.  To fight back, they were all using small artillery such as Folang machines and six-pound cannons to deal with us! His heavy artillery did not fire a single shot! " "Furthermore, the Li family's troops never rely on city walls to fight. They are unique.  The soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty who dared to fight face to face with our Qing soldiers and horses! Even if they were defending the city, they were not just defending on the top of the city. There were dense fortifications under the city, criss-crossed trenches, and countless bunkers. But you see, such dense artillery fire is just a matter of time.  Attacking the city wall, the defenders in the trenches and bunkers suffered no casualties! "There must be a trick here! General, this is clearly a sign of weakness from Li Huabao, so it's better to be cautious!" Luck Dehun pouted at Yue Le's analysis.  He expressed great disdain: "First, the Nanman have always relied on sharp artillery fire to fight against our Qing soldiers.  Today, I used the navy to take his retreat, forcing Li Huamei's navy to leave the port to deal with it, and he lost the navy's artillery support.  Not only was there no naval artillery fire, he also had to deploy artillery to the riverside for defense to prevent our Qing navy from plagiarizing its retreat.  This is why you are worried about why there is no heavy artillery to fight back. Those heavy artillery have been transferred to the riverside for defense!  " "Both, in this small town in Shanghai County, the general has invested tens of thousands of soldiers and horses at one time. No matter how many fortifications, bunkers and trenches are there, what use can these tens of thousands of people be used to put in pressure at once?  !  A mouthful of water can drown them all!  " "General!  .  .  .  .  .  .  " "Don't say more!  You go to the rear army to deliver orders on behalf of my general!  Have the 80,000 men and horses be mobilized, and your troops and horses will hold down the general's position in the rear!  " Luck Dehun's order made Yue Le choke and roll his eyes. This was clearly to keep his troops out of the battlefield, not to mention the mountains of loot in the business area, and the documents reporting victory to the court.  , there will be no words from them. ¡°General, this!  ?  " "Don't say more, why don't you quickly mobilize the troops?  !  " Yue Le left angrily. Luck Dehun glanced at his back with a sneer, "You think you're the only one who can fight?  Doesn¡¯t this great general know that Li Huabao must have a back-up plan?  But I just want those Green Flag soldiers to go up. No matter how many bunkers, how many forts, how deep trenches you have, if I can suppress tens of thousands of people at once, what can you do?  Anyway, your firecrackers and artillery can only fire one shot at a time, but the general's troops are swarming up. Let's see how you do it.?Yes!  "The horn sounded, the flags waved, and Goshiha, who was delivering the order, rushed back and forth between the military formations. The Qing army's artillery fire gradually became sparse, and the infantry began to move. "It is completely different from Bolo's headquarters Eight Banners soldiers and horses who are well-equipped.  The equipment of the flag soldiers and horses followed the consistent tradition of the Ming army, and the servants were very sophisticated. As for ordinary soldiers, there is only one word to describe them: "Shabby!"  "The vast majority of soldiers only have a number plate, which is marked with which town, which battalion and which general they belong to. The better ones have a waist-length armor or a hood. Almost everyone has one.  This is also in line with the principle of military leaders to expand the strength of their troops. Whether it is to capture strong men or to bind young men, giving them a spear is a soldier. Anyway, the spear head is very easy to make.  A blacksmith's furnace can produce dozens of spearmen with a few kilograms of iron. In the eyes of the Green Flag Army's deputy generals and the general Bolo, they were scolded and kicked by the officers.  They were fighting, forming an array of about a thousand people. Behind the spearmen were the sword and shield soldiers of the generals. Compared with the spearmen, their equipment was much better, at least everyone was wearing armor.  They were dressed in iron-coated armor, and many of them still had chainmail armor. They held a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, forming a smaller but more rigorous square formation. They were naturally an important foundation for the generals' combat effectiveness.  The treatment is different. After them, there are the servants of the generals. Not only are they all wearing iron armor, but many of them are wearing heavy armor, with a Nanzhong breastplate in their hands.  The heads of servants at all levels also carry muskets on their backs, such as door guns or Juehu knives. These people are used to supervise the battle and are ready to chop off the heads of the cowering soldiers. After the horn blows, the war drums sound, one after another.  A Qing army infantry gun formation began to move forward "Ha!  "Thousands of people roared loudly, and all their spears were raised up, as if jungles were growing out of the plains. Dozens of gun formations slowly approached the county seat. Although they were relatively orderly at first, after a while,  It gradually became scattered, some people walked faster, some walked slower, and some stopped because their straw sandals were stuck in the mud, causing the queue to become twisted. But fortunately.  They did not want to fight in formation with the Hongwu Army, but to fill in the trenches, collapse the bunkers, and breach the city. Therefore, no one cared about the chaotic formation. Gradually, the phalanx completely lost its formation and became a complete formation.  Crowds of people came one after another. The spears were like reeds by the river. As far as the eye could see, they were densely packed with spear thorns, and the red tassels were like fire, beating up and down.  It puts a lot of psychological pressure on people, and as the distance gets closer, the tension becomes even stronger. ¡°How is it, how is it?  "Wu Changqing, who stayed behind in Shanghai County, has now been promoted to brigade commander by Li Huabao. However, his brigade is a temporary establishment. Apart from the group of people he originally led, there are only those who have recently arrived from Guangxi.  Thousands of mobilized soldiers came. Although these recruits had fought some battles in their hometowns and were not rookies who had never been on the battlefield, few of them had seen such a scene of hundreds of thousands of people fighting to the death.  Yes. He was not at ease, so he patrolled the second trench to encourage morale. "It's okay."  brigadier.  Let's treat it like we are fighting enemies in our hometown, fighting for water and forest, but there are more people.  "Mo Sande, the sentry officer of the Guangxi mobilization troops, was very indifferent and just wiped the short fire gun in his hand. "Yo!  What a good boy, you have such a good tone!  " "Brigadier, as we said when we scolded the Tatars just now, our left-behind general is naturally not as capable as the eldest marshal. He dares to lead a group of troops and brave the artillery fire to mount the cannon.  We also know the strength of my uncle's troops in the east, and they are still following the young lady on the ground in Shandong to deal with the Tatars.  But we Guangxi soldiers don¡¯t eat fast and chant Buddha¡¯s name!  All of them climbed mountains to get water under trees, ate hardships, endured cold and endured hardships!  What's more, those of us who came from Guangxi have received great favors from the generals who stayed behind!  The First Marshal can train a group of headhunting savages into powerful Dongfang soldiers, so our Guangxi Wolf Soldiers also have to give the Second Marshal a shout-out!  " Wu Changqing heard Mo Sande's words and didn't say much. He just hammered his chest with his fist, "Brother, fight hard!  Come up with a name!  He took off the gun and medicine box from his body and said, "Leave it to you, let's fight hard!"  Don't let the Second Young Marshal down!  " Wu Changqing's move undoubtedly gave Li Huabao a little more help. In the eyes of Mo Sande and other Guangxi soldiers, the muddy and slippery roads caused by this rainy weather were simply designed by God for them.  A good battlefield. Others faltered, but they??Step as fast as flying.  "Okay, the fire is here! Send a signal and notify the artillery team that it's time to fire!" Wu Changqing saw a large number of Qing troops in the bunker like a flood, overflowing the first trench and climbing over the first trench.  The low walls and the chaotic crowd gathered together like an ant nest before a storm.  Behind the first low wall is a large area of ??ground paved with burnt ash and bluestone slabs, which can accommodate thousands of people.  This is a good geomantic treasure land chosen by Wu Changqing and the artillery team for the Qing army.  "Boom! Boom!" Dozens of artillery forts outside the city began to fire bombardments. Hundreds of artillery pieces larger than the Grand Franchise, weighing seven or eight kilograms at every turn, continued to bombard, bringing about a huge momentum.  It was astonishing. The cannonballs fell like rain, and the heavy solid iron balls hit the crowd, as if they were going to break people's hearts and lungs. The dense pellets swept through the crowd, like leaves falling in the autumn wind.  Boom!  boom!  boom!  Dozens of Dafolan cannons fired together with double shots, almost perfectly explaining what bullet rain is, what airtightness is, what the perfect combination of speed and accuracy is, and what a crazy minute is!  Within a minute, the Dafo Lang machine gunners smashed four rounds of artillery fire on the heads of the Qing troops who rushed into the first low wall.  They kept firing, loading the muskets, firing again, reloading the muskets, and firing again, accurately and fiercely.  Each round of artillery fired over the low wall, crossed the ditch, and hit the Qing soldiers' heads, quickly turning each living body into a pile of rotten flesh.  This artillery maneuver that had never been seen before opened the eyes of the officers and soldiers on the city. It turns out that the artillery is not only directly aimed at bombardment, but it can also be fired like this?  !  Cannonballs falling from the enemy's heads?  !  A storm of artillery shells poured down, but at a distance of only two hundred steps, the shotgun shells fired by these artillery pieces were astonishingly powerful, and large groups of people swarmed around them, which provided the best shooting venue for the shotgun shells.  Ruthless shells fell on their heads, and waves of dense cannonballs swept across their heads and faces. The bodies of those charging Qing soldiers were either broken in half by the shells, with blood and blood flying, or their bodies  A huge bloody hole appeared on the body, exposing the internal organs inside to the air, giving off an unpleasant smell.  Or an entire thigh or an entire arm was broken, and blood poured out like a fountain. The injured person cried while holding the severed limb, and was trampled to death by others in the blink of an eye.  The battlefield was filled with flesh and blood, and was blown by the river wind, making the air filled with a strong smell of blood, making it even more cold.  This time the shelling caused the phalanx of Qing soldiers holding long guns to collapse almost on the spot.  However, before Pingnan General Luck Dehun could take action, the sword and shield soldiers and servants of the general army swarmed forward, each armed with swords, spears and axes, and chopped off a few heads before forcing them back.  The dull and huge war drums sounded again, the horns sounded across the battlefield, and another wave of Qing troops rushed up in black with spears in hand.  Different from just now, this time, each commander-in-chief has deployed some sword and shield soldiers in the spear phalanx, firstly to embolden them, and secondly to suppress them.  In order to cheer up the pikemen, they also collected a lot of door panels and asked them to place them in front of the queue for shielding.  I don¡¯t know if these wooden door panels can block metal cannons?  "See how much blood you have to fill this trench!" Wu Changqing sneered as he looked at the swarming Qing troops.  However, Wu Changqing underestimated the Qing army.  The charge was accompanied by blood and the drama was staged again.  After a burst of drum sound, countless spearmen rushed towards the west gate. Looking at them, they were covered in waves of black heads and densely packed spears. Even Wu Changqing was a man who had already thrown his life and death out of the sky. At this moment,  I was also a little at a loss, and I couldn't help but cursed in my heart: "What a bitch! Why didn't I see you so cruel when we beat the Tatars!" The Qing army rushed at them fiercely like a tide, ignoring the cannons that kept falling above their heads, and rushed into the hundred steps.  Once inside, the artillery fire under the city lost its effect.  This weakness was discovered by the Qing army, who rushed towards the city crazily.  "Get ready!" Sharp copper whistles sounded from various sections of the trench, and the sentry officers began to urge their soldiers to prepare for shooting.  There were heavy soldiers who carried boxes of medicine out of the cave where soldiers were hiding and placed them in front of each soldier.  Not far away, there was a bamboo basket filled with horsetail grenades.  The grenadiers were checking for the last time whether the brown paper bags tied to the grenade bodies were tightly tied.  This was a gift prepared by Li Huabao for them. The kraft paper bag was filled with white lime, arsenic, croton and other popular things.  Anyway, they are everywhere in the city. Rather than leaving them to the Qing soldiers, it is better to be more generous and give them to them outside the city now.  These kraft paper bags are made by each battalion according to the formulas mentioned in "The General Essentials of Military Scripture" and "Military Bei Zhi". As for the dosage and composition, it depends on everyone's moral integrity and hobbies.  Anyway, these things, it is not a complete supplement that is conducive to healthy physical and mental development.  "The Nanman's cannon is dead! I charge forward! The general has an order! Whoever goes up first will be rewarded with ten silver dollars! If you kill a Nanman, you will be rewarded with twenty silver dollars! Whoever rushes to the city first will be rewarded with one hundred silver dollars! Think about it!  If you get rich, I will give it to you! Anyone who dares to cower will be killed on the spot!" The officers supervising the battle took the opportunity to wave their swords and threaten with carrots and sticks.  At a distance of sixty steps, the Qing army's archers formed a formation and began to shoot.  Dense arrows passed over the open space between the two armies and flew into the fortifications guarded by Hongwu Army.  For a time, bang, bang, pop, pop, and tinkling sounds merged into a chaotic sound in people's ears.  The sound of fire cannons being fired, the muffled sound of arrows hitting people's bodies, the impact of arrows falling on helmets and breastplates, and the screams of the injured were endless.  Fortunately, the weather was humid, and the arrows and bowstrings were soaked by the rain, greatly reducing their power.  Even so, people continued to fall to the ground and were carried down by the soldiers of the health battalion, and their positions were quickly filled.  "Sixty steps! Fire!" The dense sound of firecrackers sounded continuously, and the thick gray-white smoke formed a barrier of death.  "Forty steps! Drop the bomb!" There was a copper whistle, and the densely packed horsetail grenades were circled in a semicircle by the grenadiers above their heads, like a group of vultures pecking at carrion, and even a group of mourning crows, flying into the ranks of the Qing army.  among.  "Boys, try the leg-stretching and staring pills I prepared for you!"
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