Chapter 735 Ten Thousand Tribulations Do Not Retro to the Beikou Frontline, the sound of artillery rumbles, shaking the heavens and the earth, thousands of troops and horses roaring like thunder, sharp arrows almost cover the sky, scorching bullets fly through the air, and rockets drag out slender flames in the air, which is spectacular.However, now defending the defense line of the Great Wall of Gubeikou is Saharen, the king of Doro County, Sakhalian is the third son of Daishan, the younger brother of Yue Tuo and Shuo Tuo.Speaking from the heart, in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Sakhalian was not conspicuous, his greatest strength was in internal affairs, rather than Fan Wencheng and I repeatedly advised Huang Taiji to reuse the Han people, in fact, this sentence did not listen to Huang Taiji's heart, otherwise, he would not have killed all the Han people in Liaodong.It wasn't until Sakhalian successively hired Bai Yangcui, a Han man who surrendered to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and took charge of the Ministry of Rites, and admonished Huang Taiji: "Tuzhi needs to look at talents, and the monarch can distinguish between good and evil, so the ministers cherish their reputations, and the emperor carefully appoints officials ......" and so on, the same words, when Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan say it in my mouth, and say it in Sakhalian's mouth, the effect is completely different.It is precisely because of this that he is responsible for leading the defense of Gubeikou, because the Manchu iron cavalry is good at cavalry warfare, and the defense has always been the surrender of the Ming army.Of course, now their identity is the bannerman of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.At this time, Sakharen was not in the mood to enjoy this epic picture at all, he stared at the Gubeikou city wall that was stained with a large pool of blood, and the blood-colored battle flag on the city wall, his face was gloomy, and he gritted his teeth and muttered to himself."
The whole family army, and the whole family army!"
It was also a siege, and the whole family army didn't even fill in the trenches and feint at all, and they tilted the shells towards the city pass with artillery and rockets.It seems that they want to bury all the soldiers who are defending.If it weren't for the whole family army, the Qing Iron Cavalry should have swept thousands of troops at this time, as if entering a no-man's land, especially since entering the customs, the Qing army soldiers, almost all of them have fallen from the wind.This gave everyone in the Qing army a false impression that the Ming Dynasty was exhausted, and the future belonged to them.This idea was shattered by the artillery fire of the whole family army, which made Saharen feel a deep sense of powerlessness.Looking at the Han soldiers around them, they were already frightened, and they hid behind the city walls, shivering.The artillery of the whole family army is unreasonable, especially the howitzers, one after another, the howitzers are used to attack the city wall, and the effect is actually not as good as those solid lead bullets, but the original intention of the whole family army is to kill and injure the defenders of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in Gubeikou.Every shell that smashed over would explode a large ball of fire, and the shrunnel fired at a rapid rate, biting the flesh into a hole, and more than a dozen people were blown over in a short time.Sakhalian had a headache, he didn't know how to deal with the artillery of the whole family army, which had been firing shells almost every moment for a while.In the past month or so, this ghost cannon has woken them up from their sleep countless times, or when they were eating, the cannonball suddenly flew over and blew up a circle of people, and I don't know how many people made it collapse!
In Sakhalian's eyes, this kind of ghost cannon is even more terrible and hateful than the whole family army soldiers like bedbugs, Huang Taiji ordered that he must get one back to study, but until now he has not been able to get it, but they have received a lot of cannonballs———— no, they are now leading it.A shell landed fifty or sixty paces away from Sakhalian and exploded into a thunderbolt, shrapnel screaming.Sakhalian only felt the back of his head be poked like a sharp soldering iron, and when he touched it with his hand, his hand was covered with blood, and a piece of shrapnel the size of a grain of rice hit him in the head.It's a pity that the shrapnel is too small and not lethal enough, if it is the size of a soybean or even a broad bean, then the gunner is developed.Sakhalian, who loved the wounded, was furious, pushed away the soldiers who were trying to bandage him, and roared angrily: "Order the cavalry troops to attack immediately and destroy the artillery positions of the whole family army for me!"
”Sukh Saha, the deputy beside Sakhalian, hurriedly said: "We only have more than a thousand cavalry!"
”Saha's eyes were bloodshot and he roared, "Let them go out immediately, or we're going to mess up!"
”It's not that the Manchus didn't have cavalry, it's just that the battlefield in Gubeikou was a steep mountain environment, and the cavalry couldn't play at all.Besides, the cavalry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty could not take advantage of the whole army at all.As the so-called feng shui rotates, in the past, the Ming army did not dare to fight with Jiannu, unless it had several times the advantage, but now it has become that the Qing army does not dare to fight with the whole family army.With the whole army equipped with a large number of light and heavy machine guns and mortars, the density of fire was greatly increased, and the Manchu cavalry had abandoned their best skill of cavalry shooting, and instead had to defend the city.Suke Saha is not yet the four ministers of the early years of Kangxi, he is the same as Sakhalian, he belongs to the ministers of parliament, however, he is not as favored as Sakhalian in front of Huang Taiji.Naturally, his voice is not as big as Sakhalian's.Seeing Sakha Lian's gaze like a cannibal, Sukh Saha didn't dare to refute.Despite his reluctance, he could only order his cavalry to attack.The Manchu cavalry who received the order hurriedly put on their armor and mounted their horses with the help of their coated minions, ready to attack.Then, before they could open the city gate, a Qing army Niu Lu Zhen inadvertently raised his head, and he screamed: "Look!
What the hell is ......
It's flying again!
”Speaking from the heart, with Quanxu's industrial technology level in Liaodong, the technology of manufacturing hot air balloons has matured, the only problem is that this kind of hot air balloon is not like the mature airship of later generations, which can be steered in the air.The military significance of hot air balloons is greatly restricted by the weather, but during this time, the northwest wind often blows, and the whole family army took advantage of the opportunity of the northwest wind to release twenty or thirty hot air balloons at one time.Different numbers have completely different effects on people's psychology, one or two hot air balloons everyone looks novel, and twenty or thirty of them can only feel terrifying.The most terrifying thing is that each balloon is painted with terrifying patterns, some are a skinned, bloody skeleton, some are tigers with teeth and claws showing a bloody mouth, and some are simply painted with a fire-breathing dragon, vivid, such a large group of monsters open their teeth and claws, slowly coming.The psychological shock caused by these hot air balloons to the Manchu Qing and their Han soldiers can be imagined, and the bold ones turned pale with fright, and the less timid even screamed and squatted on the ground with their heads in their hands, trembling all over.The Manchu officers slyly kicked the butts of these cowards with their leather boots to get them up immediately, but it was useless, in fact their legs were also twitching, and they had no strength at all when they kicked people.After the appearance of hot air balloons, it aroused the interest of Mo Hua, the Mo family giant of the Mo Family Academy, and after a month of research, all the balloons were improved, so that these balloons have the most basic ability to control the direction, which can take a direction similar to that of a human-powered bicycle, drive the rotor to fine-tune the direction, and it is more convenient to land.Now these hot air balloons maintain a flight altitude of about two or three hundred meters, and there are three people on each balloon, one controls the direction and flight altitude, and two hold explosive packs and cluster grenades."
Boom ......" rumbling explosions resounded throughout Gubeikou, and explosive bags and cluster grenades falling from the sky fell on the Guancheng of Gubeikou one after another.In fact, the Xiongguan Pass, known as the age of China's cold weapons, does not have a pass with only a simple city pass, but a complete line of fortifications.Taking Xiaguguan in the south of Luoyang as an example, the depth of the valley is as long as 18 kilometers, and there are Niuxin Mountain, Niuzui Mountain, Laoyangpo, Crooked Mouth Mountain, Dafeng Mountain, etc., forming a complete defense system.The same is true of the world-famous Yanmen Pass, Laoyingkou, Kushenchikou, Yangfangkou, Donglongkou, Xichengkou, Daloukou, Dashikou, Shikou, Malankou, Ruyuekou, Huyukou and other eighteen passes are connected as a whole, the terrain is very dangerous, and it is the place where the soldiers of the past dynasties have conquest.To attack Yanmen Pass, it is necessary to first conquer three large stone walls and 25 small stone walls, with a total attack length of about 30 kilometers in depth, and even the Maginot Line, which was blown by France, is only 8 to 14 kilometers, while Yanmen Pass is 30 kilometers.Gubeikou has three walls, six Guancheng, and three Wengcheng, even if Quan Xu strengthens the troops a little more, it is actually very difficult to break through the whole line.The point is, the real terrain is limited.Just like the current Gubeikou Zhuguancheng City, at most an offensive force of less than 400 people can be invested at one time, even if the combat effectiveness of the whole family army is not guaranteed to break through at one time.Under these circumstances, the General Staff of the Whole Family Army decided to increase the strength of the offensive and use the method of aerial bombardment to solve the battle in one mind.Thirty hot air balloons, Liaodong did not even produce real aerial bombs, but took cluster hand bombs, as well as explosives packs for temporary cameos.Because the speed of the hot air balloon is too slow, it is not as high as an airplane, so although it is at an altitude of two or three hundred meters, the impact points are distributed, and it is barely bearable.Throwing down bundles of more than a dozen or dozens of grenade bullets, there is really a bit of a scene of collective throwing grenade bombs in film and television dramas.One grenade after another exploded under the city, and the soldiers of the Han army and the cavalry who were ready to attack the artillery position of the whole family army collapsed in an instant.There is no way, this top-down attack method makes them unable to guard against it at all.They could not defend themselves and could only flee in confusion.Sakhalian actually had sufficient vigilance for the Han army, with more than 3,000 Manchu infantry monitoring more than 18,000 Han soldiers.However, at the time of the hot air balloon bombing, whether it was the Manchu army or the Han army, everyone was hugging their heads and running around, and some guys trembled, kneeling on the ground and kowtowing one after another, their faces were like earth, muttering to themselves asking for the blessing of the Emperor of Heaven.The damage caused by the hot air balloon bombing was not really big, but it almost broke their minds, how could they ever see someone who could operate so many flying machines and then strike at the ground at high altitude!
In their eyes, the balloons are the demons of hell, and the soldiers on the balloons are the devils, throwing terrible thunder at them, which will tear them to pieces!