Chapter 43 Famous Generals "Boom, boom, boom boom", the continuous sound of muskets sounded from the not-so-high city wall of Jiangwan New City.
The Mongolian soldiers who were climbing up the ladder fell to the ground like dumplings, rolling, struggling, and wailing loudly.
A thick white smoke enveloped all the crenels, and the smell of burning sulfur made the recruits cough loudly.
But experienced veterans have long been accustomed to the stimulation of gunpowder smoke.
Each one stared with scarlet eyes, quickly handed the musket to the auxiliary behind him, then picked up another loaded musket, clamped the match rope, and re-explored the barrel from the shooting hole.
Sure enough, a new wave of enemies had climbed up the ladder again.
His movements are as fast as those of an ape.
They were She soldiers recruited by Dong Tuanxiao with a lot of money.
They had a dog-legged dagger in their mouths, and the tattoos on their foreheads and faces were clearly visible.
Note 1 "Bang" the veterans pulled the triggers towards their respective targets.
Then he quickly picked up the third musket that was brought up, clamped the match rope, aimed, and fired in an orderly manner.
A dozen She soldiers who climbed the fastest screamed and fell, but more of them with tattoos on their faces continued to climb quickly despite the fire of muskets, turning a blind eye to the death that was so close at hand.
They all come from the mountainous areas of Fujian and Zhejiang Province.
They have competed with poisonous insects and wild beasts for food since childhood.
Those who can survive are all people with strong determination.
Even if he takes his own life, he doesn't take it seriously, let alone his companions who have no blood relationship with him.
He steps on the ladder moistened with blood and goes up step by step.
In the blink of an eye, his fingers have almost touched the crenellations of the city wall.
"Bang!"
A new recruit who had just regained his composure put his musket on the She warrior's head and fired a shot.
After the bullet left the muzzle, it began to deform and roll, using the huge kinetic energy of the gunpowder explosion to smash the opponent's skull.
Red blood, white brains, and broken bones were splashed everywhere.
"vomit" the recruit dropped his musket and lay on the battlement, vomiting profusely.
An armor-piercing cone shot quickly from under the city wall and hit his unprotected eye socket.
The iron-helmeted head suddenly tilted back, with a "clang" sound and the sound of gold and iron.
The new soldier fell upside down on the city wall and died.
Under the command of a gang leader, several civilians quickly carried away the corpses of the new soldiers.
Another substitute who had just joined the army for less than two months shouted and rushed forward to fill the position vacated by the deceased.
The trigger is pulled, and the ignition pliers holding the match rope fall quickly, igniting the ignition powder in the medicine pool.
A streak of white smoke quickly entered the barrel of the gun, igniting the gunpowder, pushing the lead bullet out of the muzzle, and hit a She warrior in the chest, severely beating the man to his core.
More feather arrows shot in through the crenel, making the plate armor on the substitutes jingle.
Advances in technology have well compensated for the lack of experience and skills of the substitutes.
The armor-breaking cone, which had lost most of its kinetic energy, was unable to do anything to the cold-forged plate armor, leaving nothing behind except a few strings of sparks.
"Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh" of excitement, the substitute soldier shouted and threw the empty musket behind him.
This action immediately earned him a whip.
The people in charge of the nearby crenels all had red heads and eyes, and yelled, "You are looking for death, you are a prodigal and broke your musket, what are you going to do to guard the crenels?"
"The common people are wrong.
The common people know their guilt."
The substitute grinned after being beaten, and habitually bowed his hands.
"The answer is that you are a soldier, not a civilian.
You bastard, how many times do you want me to teach you?"
Dudu whipped his head again, then grabbed a loaded musket from the auxiliary behind him, and squeezed away the substitute. , and opened fire at the city.
"Bang" white smoke rose into the sky, and the lead bullet hit the waist of a Mongolian marksman who was bending his bow and unloading an arrow.
He was beaten back several steps, sat on the ground, covered his wound with his hand, and screamed sharply.
The Mongolian centurion supervising the battle next to him raised his sword and chopped off the head of the sharpshooter to boost the morale of the army.
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The next moment, several lead bullets hit him at the same time, turning his chest into a sieve.
"Woo!"
A long crossbow arrow whizzed up to the top of the city and exploded with a bang.
The Huai'an army who could not escape had their heads blown into the sky and fell into pieces.
Four or five surrounding soldiers were also blown over, and a huge defensive gap immediately appeared at the crenel.
Seeing the advantage, several She warriors quickly threw an iron claw with a rope and grabbed the city wall.
Then his feet left the ladder and floated over from mid-air like an ape.
Seeing that they were about to set foot on the city wall, a small group of soldiers wearing chainmail and without any rank marks on their shoulders rushed up from the corridor inside the city wall, with five-foot short spears flying up and down in their hands.
The battlement in front of him turned into a moving iron hedgehog.
The She soldiers who swung over had no place to stay.
They took out the dog-legged daggers from their mouths and slashed at them in the air.
The young soldiers wearing chainmail showed no fear on their faces.
They cooperated with each other and pushed away the dog-legged daggers that came in mid-air.
Then another shot broke the rope behind the iron claw.
"Ah" the She warriors in mid-air lost their relay point and fell down one after another.
The soldiers without rank marks quickly dispersed left and right, hiding their bodies behind the crenels and covering their ears tightly with their hands.
"Boom" another crossbow arrow loaded with gunpowder hit outside the crenel.
The violent explosion shook the city wall.
"Boom, boom, boom!"
In the nearby crenel, several four-pound cannons fired simultaneously at the ballista on the other side of the moat.
Blast the ballista that had just been launched, as well as the Mongolian soldiers next to the ballista, into a pile of fragments.
A group of auxiliary soldiers rushed forward and carried away the wounded and dead from the top of the city.
Another small group of Huai'an Army soldiers silently stepped forward with muskets in hand to fill the vacant positions in their own robes.
The unranked soldiers in chainmail picked up their short guns, quickly gathered into teams, and rushed to the next place where there might be an oversight.
Everyone moves with the skill of a battle-hardened veteran.
They are student soldiers from the Huaxia Military Academy, and they are also the only group of officer seeds in this era who have experienced systematic military training.
The combat capabilities and adaptability to the battlefield are far beyond those of the She soldiers who only rely on personal instincts to fight.
Wherever he goes, danger is quickly averted.
However, the enemy army was not willing to accept defeat.
Soon, more than a hundred steps away from the city wall, there were countless Jiangsu and Zhejiang gourd soldiers, using chicken carts to push rattan signs, and dispersed into more than a dozen small teams, protecting a large number of Mongolian sharpshooters, and rushed over again.
"Boom, boom, boom" the artillery on the top of the city fired one after another, firing explosive bombs at the Yuan army one after another.
But the effect is very little.
Whether it is a "new" artillery with rifling or an "old" artillery without rifling, the accuracy is very limited.
When the opponent deliberately dispersed the formation, most of the shells fell on the open ground, exploding clouds of thick smoke in vain.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom", when the enemy came within fifty steps, the muskets on the city wall also joined the battle.
But the dense bullets could not penetrate the thick shield.
In the blink of an eye, the furry gourd soldiers and archers crossed the moat and arrived only a dozen steps away from the city wall.
Note 2 The Mongolian soldiers hiding behind the shields bent their bows and arrows, and fired waves of bright white armor-piercing cones onto the top of the city, although most of them were blocked by the plate armor.
But if there are too many ants, they will kill the elephant.
With such dense arrows, one or two can always hit the places where plate armor and helmets cannot provide protection, causing great trouble to the defenders.
"Trolls, come on, trolls!"
Deputy Commander Chen De rushed to the top of the city and shouted the order.
More than a hundred auxiliary soldiers carried ten thick long-barreled tiger squatting cannons, braving dense feather arrows, and poked them out of the crenel.
Then the muzzle of the gun was lowered, the tail of the gun was raised, and the tiger claws under the gun body were quickly fixed.
The gunner looked down and lit the fuse at the end of the barrel cleanly, "Boom", "Boom", "Boom", "Boom" Thousands of rows of stone projectiles were ejected from the iron pipe, sweeping towards the enemy troops below the city like hail.
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The thick shield was riddled with holes.
The Mongolian archers and two gourd soldiers behind the shield were either beaten into sieves and fell to the ground to death, or they were so frightened that they dropped their weapons and fled.
"Grenadiers, three feet outside the city, throw."
Taking advantage of the pause in the Yuan army's offensive, deputy commander Chen De issued the order decisively.
Two rows of grenadiers wearing only leather armor stood up from the inside of the city wall, lit the grenades, and quickly dropped them three feet away from the city wall.
"Boom", "boom" and "boom" explosions are heard endlessly.
The Meng Yuan auxiliary soldiers who were protecting the ladder were blown away and fled in all directions.
"Assist the first battalion, pour fire oil and burn it!"
Before the explosion stopped, Chen De quickly issued the third general order.
One hundred strong men carried wooden barrels filled with strong fire oil, quickly ran to the crenel and poured it on the ladder outside the city.
The ladder made of bamboo and the frightened She warriors on the ladder were splashed into darkness.
Another company of auxiliary soldiers held a torch high, rushed to the battlements, and threw it towards the ladder.
The fierce fire oil purchased at a high price from the big food merchant was immediately ignited.
Orange flames jumped up on the ladders and people, flying happily into the air like birds emerging from their nests.
However, the place affected by them instantly turned into hell.
The She warriors and other Mongolian soldiers screamed, pushed, and slapped their bodies in vain, trying to extinguish the flames.
However, once the fire oil, which was specially mixed with sulfur powder and sawdust, burned, it was impossible to extinguish it.
Wherever it sticks, orange flames will immediately rise, bright and vivid, and extremely beautiful.
It was a beauty full of death, beating wildly on the human body and the ladder.
Whether it is leather armor or iron armor, as long as it is splashed a little, it will burst into flames.
When I slap it with my hand, my palm immediately catches fire.
Cut it with a weapon, and the weapon becomes a torch.
After falling from the ladder to the ground, countless stars jumped up on the ground.
He lay down and rolled in the dirt, and thick smoke soon rose from the dirt.
"Ah" A Mongolian centurion wearing iron armor was frightened and turned around and jumped into the moat.
The rolling river water instantly engulfed his body from the neck down.
But the fierce fire oil on the armor floated on the water and continued to burn fiercely.
Soon, he was burned beyond recognition and turned into a charred corpse.
More people who were affected by the fierce flames rushed toward their own team along the pontoon.
As they ran all the way, the flames fell all the way.
Soon, the pontoon was also ignited by the flames, and puffs of green smoke rose.
Five hundred steps away from the city wall, Dong Tuanxiao, the Xuanwei envoy from eastern Zhejiang Province, issued a cruel order with a livid face.
"Woo woo, woo woo, woo woo, woo woo" the penetrating horn sound suddenly sounded.
A group of Tanma Red Army armed with crossbows quickly stepped forward to meet the retreating team.
Three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred steps, the supervising team decisively pulled the trigger, and rows of armor-piercing cones flew out horizontally.
Fortunately, he didn't die from muskets, grenades, or the rout of fire and oil.
He was cut into pieces by armor-piercing cones.
Writhing and struggling in a pool of blood, dying with eyes closed.
"Ah" The second wave of defeated soldiers who retreated one after another were so frightened that they stopped and walked backwards towards the moat.
"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom" on the city wall, the recruits and veterans of the Huai'an Army fired a beautiful volley, shooting dozens of broken soldiers from behind across the moat.
The defeated soldiers who were lucky enough not to die screamed and quickened their pace again to rush towards their own formation.
"Whoosh whoosh!"
Another row of armor-piercing cones flew out horizontally, nailing the person who escaped the fastest on the spot.
The remaining people were neither retreating nor advancing.
They were caught between the accurate range of muskets and crossbows and were at a loss.
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When Dong Tuanxiao saw this, he immediately waved his hand violently, "beat the drum and order them to cross the river and fight again."
"Dong dong dong, dong dong dong, dong dong dong, dong dong dong" the urging war drums sounded in the Yuan army's main formation, and they could not be refused.
The soldier of the supervising team, holding a crossbow in his hand, bent down and used the strength of his thigh and waist to pull the string of the crossbow.
Then, he silently placed the crossbow arrows in the shooting slot and aimed them at the hesitant own robe more than a hundred steps away.
The remaining defeated soldiers let out a series of screams, turned around, and rushed towards the pontoon bridge again.
Staggering, like a group of lonely ghosts.
"Sir, they have tried their best today."
Cheng Mingzhong, a colleague, softened his heart and leaned into Dong Tuanxiao's ear, pleading for the survivors in a low voice.
"Compassion can't control soldiers.
What's the use of keeping this kind of trash who is afraid of death?"
Dong Tuanxiao glanced at him lightly and gritted his teeth, "Come here, send ten more ladders over and let them climb the city.
Those who go to the top of the city first. , regardless of whether he can gain a foothold, he will be rewarded with twenty copper coins and promoted to the third level."
"Send the ladder, hurry up and send the ladder over."
A seductive officer dressed as a captain, waving a steel knife, shouted an order to the temporarily captured Mingliang.
The people did not dare to disobey them, so they reluctantly lifted the ladder and walked onto the pontoon bridge where the smoke was still rising.
Before they could reach the other side, Dong Tuanxiao, the Xuanwei envoy of the Eastern Zhejiang Province of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty, gritted his teeth again and roared in a low voice, "Push all the artillery and ballistas up to me and aim at the top of the city.
Explode, when will we go up?
When to stop?”
After saying that, he suddenly picked up the reins and rode his horse back, far out of the possible maximum attack range of the city's artillery.
Note 1: She soldiers, She tribe soldiers.
They belong to ethnic minorities living in the mountainous areas of Zhejiang and Fujian.
Brave and good at fighting, when the Song Dynasty fell, he resisted the Mongols for more than ten years before they were finally suppressed.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, many were recruited by the government to deal with the Red Turban Uprising.
Note 2: Mao Gourd Soldiers are rural warriors raised by local gentry.
Affected by the clan power and local consciousness at that time, their fighting will was often stronger than the regular officers and soldiers of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty
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