While ordering his soldiers to climb the mountain from both sides to attack, he also ordered the red-coated cannons to be pushed to the mountain pass and bombarded the fortress walls.I saw the Qing sergeants pushing out large rectangular planks covered with iron sheets from the Chinese army and advancing towards the mountain pass.The large plank, covered with iron sheets, was two inches thick, with a gap in the middle for the cannon, and two pieces of horizontal logs nailed to the sides of the bottom, so that the large planks could slide vertically on the snow.Soon, the large plank was pushed by the Qing army to within the firing range of the cannon.The defenders of the hill fortress knew that this was used by the Qing army to set up cannons as bunkers, and they raised their muskets to shoot at the planks.The musket hit the wooden plank, because of the iron sheet on the top, it could not penetrate the wooden plank at all, and only occasionally the gun hit the gap, wounding the Qing army behind the wooden plank.Look at the poor shooting results, the corporal squad leader who guarded the first barrier ordered to stop shooting.They have trouble supplying, so they have to save bullets.The cannons of the fortress could not reach here, and the distance of throwing flowering bombs was too far, so it seemed that the Qing army was prepared.The squad leader only ordered the sharpshooters in the squad to shoot, through the gap in the plank of the Qing army, and hit the exposed Qing troops in the back.The Qing army was only occasionally exposed to the opponent's guns, and after being shot by the opponent and killing one or two people, they strengthened their vigilance, trying not to expose their bodies to a position, and the shooting effect was not great.Seeing that the wooden plank wall was working and firmly standing, the Qing army immediately launched the cannon, braved the cold guns fired from the mountain, pushed the cannon to the gap in the wooden plank wall, adjusted the shooting angle, loaded the projectile, and bombarded the barrier on the mountain.The barriers on the mountain are all made of the mountain stones mined when the walls were built, and the stubble was built up, and the general bow and arrow musket could not penetrate it, but it could not carry the iron pellets shot out by the red-coated cannons.Seeing that the enemy had set up a cannon under his nose, the corporal squad leader in the mountain barrier was also in a hurry.At this time, a soldier called out to him and told him to take a look, and the flag was being waved on their side at the main pass of the fortress.At that time, communications were backward and communication between troops was difficult, so of course Wang Shuo would let his military academy study a set of easy-to-remember and easy-to-use flag languages.The squad leader asked the soldier, "What did the regiment commander say?"
The defense of this fortress is a regiment of 3,000 people of the advance army, and the regimental headquarters is located at the rear general pass, so you can have an unobstructed view of the entire fortress.The sergeant listened to the squad leader's inquiry, looked at the flag played on the general pass and read: "The regiment commander said, water, put, stone, above." ”After a little thought, the squad leader understood that the regiment commander was asking them to pour water on the stones of the ramparts to defend against the bombardment of artillery.In this winter, water poured on the barrier will be frozen immediately, so that the barrier will be strong and can resist the bombardment of the Qing army's artillery projectiles.But in this barren mountains and mountains, where to get water, the squad leader is not stupid, there is snow on the ground.He asked the soldiers to shovel the snow around the ramparts with sapper shovels, and then unloaded the stove of the kerosene stove in the class, ignited it directly on the metal pipe, and used the ignited flame to roast the snow on the fossil head.Other ramparts that had not yet been attacked followed suit, and began to coat the stones with a layer of ice armor.It should work, but it's too slow.Before they could melt the snow, the cannons of the Qing army under the mountain rang out, and four or five large iron pills flew directly up the mountain with a whistle.The iron pellet smashed on the cliff wall, making a huge sound, and only the cliff wall was splashed with rocks and smoke.As long as the iron pellet hit the right and smashed into the barrier, the barrier immediately collapsed into a large gap, and the soldiers behind the barrier were also knocked away, and blood flowed.Four or five soldiers were killed and wounded one after another, and the squad leader had to order the soldiers to leave the fortress and look for the enemy's shelling dead corners to hide.At this moment, a soldier shouted loudly: "Squad leader, the enemy is coming from the right" The squad leader turned his head to look, and saw that on the cliff on his right, seven or eight Qing soldiers tied hemp ropes around their waists and non-slip grass ropes were wrapped around their feet.The squad leader shouted loudly: "Shoot, first knock down the enemy on the mountain" The sound of gunfire rang out from around the fortress, and after the Qing troops on the mountain cliff were shot, they couldn't step on the rocks with their feet and swung down the mountain along the rope.If the body touches the stone wall on the mountain, the head is often broken and the blood flows.The Qing army on the higher hill pulled the rope back, untied the wounded and dead Qing army, and tied the rope to another Qing army preparing to attack.The Qing army was pulled by the rope and once again advanced towards the barrier.The Qing army is disregarding life and death, and wants to exchange human lives for barriers The squad leader told his soldiers loudly, watch the right flank, and never let the Qing army get close to him He has seen it just now, those Qing troops also have their flowering bullets, and it is estimated that they were captured in the past war.The place of the barrier was not big, if the Qing army leaned over and threw flowering bombs, they would have nowhere to hide, and it would be all over At this time, the cannon of the Qing army under the mountain rang out again.This time, the Qing army loaded the cannon with shotguns.Now that the barrier has been breached, and the Northwest soldiers have lost their protection, the Qing army will naturally have to use a larger killing area.A few cannons of "tom tom" came up, the iron flew wildly, the gravel was all over the sky, and the soldiers on the ramparts were wounded, but the sound of shooting did not stop.The cliff on the right side is steep and difficult to walk, and the Qing army is still difficult to walk under the drag of the rope, and the progress is slow, and from time to time the air falls, and then the rope is dragged up, adjust the body, and continue to move forward.The Qing army's climb became a living target for the defenders on the barrier.As long as there were defenders alive in the barrier and kept shooting, the Qing troops on the cliff could not approach the barrier, and they were killed in batches.The cannons under the mountain continued to fire, the walls were filled with smoke, and the Qing troops on the cliffs also died in batches and were replaced.Finally, the gunfire of the barrier gradually thinned out, and the Qing troops who climbed the cliff were finally strong, endured the pain of being shot, and reluctantly climbed near the barrier and threw the flowering bomb.With a loud "boom", even the Qing soldiers who threw the flower bombs were swept away by the air wave of the explosion, flew down to the mountain wall, and swayed back and forth under the rope drag.After the explosion, the Qing troops on the remaining cliffs climbed the barrier and threw the corpses of the soldiers guarding the northwest of the barrier or the soldiers who still had a breath down the mountain one by one.The bodies of the soldiers fell on the steep slopes covered with snow, stirring up flakes of snow mist.It is no wonder that these Qing troops were cruel, one squad, twelve soldiers guarding the fortress, made them pay the price of more than a hundred people, not counting the operation of the cannon was killed by cold guns.After an hour and a half, and countless gunpowder and shells were consumed, Ao Bai finally took the front of the first pass, the two barriers on both sides of the road.His men then began to base themselves on these two ramparts, using them as a basis to attack farther ramparts.The cannons at the foot of the mountain also advanced along the mountain road to the next pair of ramparts.Hetuara must be recaptured, and any price to be paid for it will be.Otherwise, the Qing Dynasty will die without a place to be 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