Chapter 2624 Who can match the power of Gui Zi Juan heavy artillery (1)
Sajiala is not a fool. Although he has not fought against the Zhou army head-on, he has seen the power of firecrackers from the Jianzhou army, and he knows very well that it is not so easy to take down the fortress of the Zhou army.
But he also knew that he had no way to shirk this task and had to take on it.
Nurhachi asked the East China Sea Jurchens to go all the way around the border wall and then come in to fight this battle. They were not just to accompany them, but to really fight.
In war, people will die and sacrifices will be made. This is true for the Zhou army, the Jianzhou army, and the Jurchens of the East China Sea.
The Donghai Jurchens have no choice. Since they have joined Jianzhou and want to fight for a place in the future of the Donghai Jurchens, the Donghai Jurchens must prove their worth.
Jianzhou captured Anlezhou, Tielingwei and Shenyang. It turned out that the border wall built by Zhou Dynasty to defend against enemies was also under Jianzhou's control. It had already formed an overwhelming advantage over Liaodong. If this battle was won, it would basically be The entire Liaodong is in the pocket, and the Jurchens of the East China Sea need to prove themselves in this battle.
Five thousand warriors is the greatest sincerity that the East China Sea Jurchen can show, and it can also be regarded as a certificate of honor, so this battle of Sajiala must be started well.
These five thousand people are all selected from the Jurchens of the East China Sea. They are all hunters who are good at hunting in the forest. Their skills with knives, forks and archery are no less than those of the so-called warriors of Jianzhou Jurchens.
After joining Jianzhou, strict military training and discipline allowed the Donghai Jurchen warriors to understand the difference between fighting and hunting. The mandatory military discipline also turned the five thousand warriors of the Donghai Jurchen into a group of real warriors. .
Although Zhou Jun's firearms are sharp, as Hu Erhan said, such a camp has only a thousand people, and the damage and threat it generates are limited. Relying on the thick shield and the leather shield to protect the body, the power of the firearms can be offset to the maximum extent. Once you reach the camp, it's time for the East China Sea Warriors to show themselves.
As the order was issued, the East China Sea warriors under Sajiala began to advance in a file. The large shield held high was like a giant door panel, blocking the soldiers. Two soldiers used wooden scales to hold the upper end, and the two soldiers below held it firmly. Hold the large shield's grip, keep it upright and balanced, and advance towards the fortress at a constant speed.
Even Tao Dasheng did not expect that the Jianzhou Army who came from afar could actually produce hundreds of giant wooden shields at once. These wooden shields are thick and difficult to penetrate with ordinary fire guns from a hundred steps away, unless they are used. Eagle-billed muskets, but this time, considering the integrity and the presence of the Crouching Tiger Cannon, the camp was not equipped with heavy muskets.
This made the whole situation become serious all of a sudden.
"Hu Er, have you seen it? The Jianzhou Army has actually prepared so many large shields. Your Crouching Tiger Cannon may be too powerful." Tao Dasheng looked at Hu Er with an indifferent expression, "How many long-barreled cannons did you bring?"
"Who the **** would have thought that these grandsons would go around for hundreds of miles and still carry big shields? I only brought three long-barreled cannons as backup, and I almost didn't even bring these three. The brothers all thought they were too heavy. The mules and horses are too lazy to pull,..." Hu Er snorted angrily: "It really happened."
"Stop talking nonsense and quickly put out the long-barreled cannons. They will come in handy at some point. We can't just watch these Jianzhou Army walk in front of us and then fight. Their bows and arrows are enough for us to drink from. "Tao Dasheng's heart sank when he heard that there were only three long-barreled cannons, but it was still better than nothing. It just depends on whether the rhythm of this artillery team is fast enough.
"Let me tell you, damn, when I saw these grandsons using big shields, I knew that this battle would not be easy for us, so we have already arranged it." Seeing Tao Dasheng's solemn look, Hu Er curled his lips and said, "Don't look like you are dead to your parents. Although there are only three long-barreled cannons, the ground is enough for them to drink a pot. The ground is so frozen that if one of the cannons is ejected, they will be strung into pieces. Hulu, just watch, let Pan Laosan and the others keep an eye on it, once our cannons break through the enemy's shield array, we will hit a big gap towards the gap, I don't believe they can still hold on!"
The arrangement of the long-barreled cannon was much more troublesome than that of the squatting tiger cannon. The heavy barrel weighed more than two thousand pounds and required more than ten people to move it using a pulley crane with moving wheels.
Fortunately, he had prepared the tools for this when he brought the long-barreled gun. Feng Ziying also considered that the long-barreled gun was inconvenient to carry and place, so he introduced the pulley crane that had been widely used in shipyards into the army and reduced the size. It facilitates the use of the artillery team.
There are not many places suitable for placing long-barreled cannons on the high ground, so we had to move a few squatting tiger cannons that had already been deployed before the long-barreled cannons could settle down.
It took less than half an hour to complete this operation, and at this time, the Jianzhou Army, actually the East China Sea Jurchen infantry, had already pressed over with huge shields.
Hu Er's eyes narrowed. The muzzle of the long-barreled gun was adjusted according to the elevation angle of the artillery carriage. The artillery soldiers began to determine the shooting range according to the calculation method. It was not until the soldiers of the three artillery carriages raised their hands that Hu Er said fiercely. With a wave of his hand, a word burst out from between his teeth: "Let go!"
The soldiers immediately pushed the artillery carriage to recover according to the position they had just determined. At the same time, they also began to raise their telescopes to observe the effects of the three cannonballs after they were fired.
The three shells roared out, forming a graceful and ferocious arc in the air, passing over the distance between the two sides, and heading straight towards the steadily advancing shield array.
Considering the need to destroy the formation of the shield array, the gunners deliberately lowered the muzzle of the cannon slightly, in order to use the huge kinetic energy of the shells after they hit the ground to cause damage to the entire shield array.
All the Jurchen soldiers in the East China Sea, including Sajiala in the back row, also heard what was almost a single sound, but in fact it was still three slightly muffled sounds.
But at the same time as the sound of cannons was heard, three artillery shells had already moved from far to near, and quickly fell about twenty steps in front of the shield formation. Then they hit the ground and bounced up.
The ground was covered with thin ice, and the ground was frozen very hard. After the round shell hit the ground, it immediately bounced and ran forward, but the distance it bounced was not as high as expected. Less than four feet away, it was almost rushing forward crazily along the ground.
None of the Donghai Jurchen soldiers who were marching steadily forward with their shields unloaded expected that such a scene would occur. The soldiers who took the lead in raising their shields were all selected strong men. Not only were they taller than their companions, but all of them were A person who is skilled in martial arts and has great courage, but in the face of this sudden impact, he still looks so fragile and helpless.
A cannonball bounced off the ground first and crashed into a wooden shield. The fierce force instantly caused the wooden shield to shatter. The four soldiers who worked hard to support the wooden shield didn't even have time to shout. As soon as it was released, he was hit by the huge impact and his bones were broken, his chest was sunken, and he fell to the ground with blood spurting out.
The cannonball did not lose its kinetic energy at all due to this obstruction, and continued to travel backwards rapidly and without any ground, hitting the lower edge of the second wooden shield that followed.
It also penetrated without any hindrance, smashing the lower half of the wooden shield into pieces, breaking the legs of a soldier behind the wooden shield, and then bounced up again after hitting the ground. He slightly changed his direction in the air and hit another soldier who was holding his head high. Pole support soldier.
The soldier reacted quickly enough and wanted to use a pole to resist the sudden blow, but the wooden pole as thick as an arm suddenly broke under the impact of the projectile. The projectile bounced up and knocked out a huge dent in the soldier's chest. Before he even had time to hum, his internal organs shattered into pieces.
But the projectile continued to run backwards without wanting to finish, until it hit the feet of the soldiers with the third wooden shield, causing the legs of the two soldiers to break and fracture before it stopped.
This is the power of heavy artillery.
And on such a winter day, on the ground that has been frozen hard by ice and snow, even after running twenty steps in one day, the entire resistance composed of manpower and shields can be easily torn to pieces without any hindrance. force.
The next two cannonballs rushed into the shield formation from both sides almost indiscriminately, and the result was almost the same as the first cannonball.
Especially the third shell, because it landed ten steps away from the shield formation, had a higher bounce. It almost only touched the ground twice before rushing into the shield formation, instantly tearing the first shield into pieces. , the four soldiers behind who were fully supporting all fell to the ground with blood spurting out, and then the shell knocked open three shields in succession, causing a series of casualties, and penetrated from the junction of the two shields, and directly After killing and wounding many soldiers, they stopped.
Just three shells caused unimaginable damage to the entire shield formation. At least more than fifteen soldiers were killed in this **** catastrophe, and as many as thirty people were injured, including many internal organs. Those who are seriously injured or have broken bones or limbs may have a hard time surviving.
Sajiala, who was sitting at the back end, was not sure what was happening in front of him for a while. He only felt that the entire formation seemed to suddenly stop in the middle, and the entire forward formation slowed down, followed immediately by a shout. The screams and wails of Tianhaodi came from the front end, but in such a dense formation, unless the entire formation collapsed, even he, the coach, would not be able to quickly obtain intelligence information.
By the time he learned about this tragic situation from the words coming from the front, Hu Er's long-barreled artillery had already fired the second round of bombardment.
This round of bombardment was more precise than the first round.
Almost all three shells penetrated directly into the shield array very cleanly.
Although the Jurchen warriors at the front in a short period of time used the wooden shields at the back to re-complete a complete shield formation, this was meaningless.
(End of this chapter)