Chapter 101 The final battle against the Qing Dynasty
"Sir, what is this?" A middle-aged man with a sharp-mouthed monkey cheek but wearing a handsome military uniform walked around a strange one in front of him, with an iron triangle support frame and a sea bowl with a height of half a person like a gun barrel.
"The Grand Commander said this is a local mortar." Teng Yifeng, who is the highest stairs in the artillery battalion, reached out and picked up a flare in the ammunition box beside him. "Just put this in through the muzzle, you can light up the sky!"
The middle-aged man looked up at the dim night in confusion. When he was about to say something, he heard a harsh gunshot from the warning position in the distance!
"Enemy attack!" A series of screams resounded throughout the position. Teng Yifeng hurriedly adjusted the mortar according to previous training, and then stuffed the flare in his hand into the barrel.
‘Swoosh~~~’ The flares roared into the night sky, and soon a dazzling orange-red light shone brightly into the night sky and the earth within a radius of a thousand meters nearby!
With the help of the light of the flares, everyone saw the densely shaking figures in front of the rows of crisscrossing barbed wires in front of the artillery positions. The entire military camp moved quickly.
Half an hour ago, more than three thousand carefully selected Qing soldiers, led by Abatai, quietly fell from the city wall through rope hanging baskets.
After gathering under the city wall, these Qing soldiers, mainly elite Bayala and hunters, quietly touched the Ming army's artillery positions.
The Qing soldiers had already clearly realized the power of artillery, and no matter how strong the city wall was, it could not withstand the continuous bombardment of many artillery. If the Ming army artillery could not be destroyed, the city wall of Shenyang City would be supported for up to one afternoon under the bombardment of nearly 200 artillery pieces.
In order to defend Shenyang City, Dorgon drew elite troops without night blindness and handed them over to Abatai to command the artillery position of the Ming army at night. He had to destroy the artillery no matter what.
At this time, the Qing Dynasty was on the verge of national destruction due to the crushing defeat at Shanhaiguan. Dorgon had issued a general mobilization order to transfer all the soldiers and horses that were originally scattered in various places back to Shenyang City. At the same time, the mobilization tribes could all men over twelve years old to pick up swords and guns to prepare for battle. Even women were mobilized to cook and transport supplies for the defenders.
The sick Abatai used his life to make his last fight. His sons were dead, and he was seriously ill and didn't know how long he could survive. At this time, Yan Fei fought over and prepared to destroy this country. Abatai, who had been fighting on the battlefield all his life, was determined to die on the battlefield.
More than 3,000 elite Qing soldiers crawled on the ground with the help of the dark moonlight towards the Ming army's positions. At the front were those hunters who had been traveling through the mountains and forests for many years. These people had excellent sense of battlefield smell and night owl-like vision, and were definitely the best candidates for night attacks.
In fact, the Ming army's position was not very far from Shenyang City. After all, this place was just a transitional stage from the development of the cold weapon era to the hot weapon era. The battlefield distance was far from the extremely exaggerated level of later generations. Not long after, a group of hunters who were the first to come to the outside of the camp.
"Hiss~~~" A Qing soldier with dark bodies and eyes shining like a wolf suddenly wanted to shout but forced himself back. Everyone around looked at the Ming army camp opposite nervously, but fortunately there was no movement on the other side.
The unlucky Qing soldier raised his hand and could see that his hands, which had thick calluses, were actually inserted with several sharp triangular iron nails!
The Qing soldiers cursed the Ming army in their hearts, but they didn't dare to speak out. They could only grit their teeth and continue crawling forward. Then they saw two rows of barbed wire fences full of empty cans appear in front of them!
Yan Fei, who came from the era of the Big Bang of Galaxy, has knowledge far beyond this era. He can easily prepare many ways to deal with night attacks. Things like the most common barbed wire hanging empty cans are enough to make these Qing soldiers attacking night attacks scratch their bare foreheads.
No matter how thin the barbed wire is, it is still iron. The Qing soldiers had no pliers and could not deal with the barbed wire. Whether they were biting with teeth or using a knife to cut it, it would have no effect.
When the Qing soldiers couldn't help but finally wanted to pull out the wooden stakes wrapped around the wire mesh, they shook the empty cans left behind by the Ming army hanging on the wire mesh after dinner.
The jingling sound alarmed the sentry, and the gunshots rang out immediately.
Then the flares on Tengyifeng's side took off. With the help of the light of the flares, everyone saw dense Qing soldiers blocking the barbed wire and trying to dismantle the wooden stakes.
The dense gunfire sounded quickly, and rows of dense bullets roared and rolled the Qing soldiers to the ground. Seeing the failed sneak attack, Abatai suddenly got up from the ground and waved the sword in his hand and shouted the Qing soldiers to launch a strong attack.
The Qing soldiers cut the barbed wire with force but were useless. Those who were red-eyed and wanted to climb over directly or crawl over were entangled by barbed wire. The more they struggled, the more flesh they were torn on their bodies.
"Push here!" Teng Yifeng shouted and commanded the artillerymen to push several artillery pieces not far from the barbed wire "Put the shotgun!"
With the bang, a large number of metal fragments and steel balls swept across everything in front of you like a storm.
A large number of musketeers rushed out and fired towards the barbed wire, and gunfire and cannon sounded across the earth.
Under the reflection of one flare after another, the short battle ended more than ten minutes later. When the soldiers went to clean the battlefield after dawn the next day, they were spit out by the tragic scene.
Almost all the three thousand Qing soldiers who launched the night attack were piled up on the barbed wire mesh. The bodies were piled up one row after another, and some areas even collapsed the barbed wire mesh.
As for Abatai, he was pierced by a few lead bullets and fell into the pile of corpses. After his head was cut off, he was thrown into a big pit and turned into fertilizer.
The night attack of the Qing soldiers ended in failure. After dawn the next day, Yan Fei, who was yawning, walked out of the military camp. He first glanced at the many Qing soldiers who were constantly thrown into the pit in the distance, and then his attention was all on the Shenyang City in front of him.
"After building this place, things should be almost done." Yan Fei, who was still gritting his toothbrush, looked at the tall city wall in the distance, washed up quickly and went back for breakfast, and then commanded the army to attack Shenyang City.
Compared with places like Ningyuan and Jinzhou, Shenyang City has a larger wall, taller and thicker wall. After all, since the Tartars occupied this place, they have been continuously strengthening their city defense. Over the past few decades, it has been built into a solid giant city.
However, when facing epoch-making weapons, all the cities lost their due uses.
Two hundred artillery pieces started to bombard the city gate after breakfast. They first destroyed the Nancheng City Gate, and then used their range advantage to kill the many artillery pieces on the south wall of the selected breakthrough point and even the city gate tower was collapsed.
It lasted until lunch, and the exterior wall was blown away, the inner clay was blown away, and even the bluestone slabs inlaid with glutinous rice juice were smashed by large iron balls weighing more than ten pounds. The city wall here was finally blown down a gap of hundreds of meters long.
It’s not that Yan Fei didn’t want to continue to collapse the entire southern city wall, but that after a long period of shooting, the shells and the launching medicine were about to bottom out, and the barrels were overheated and even the rifle was almost worn out.
This is because these artillery were purchased by Yan Fei from the modern world with excellent quality. If it were made from materials from this world, I would have long known how many doors would have exploded.
"Okay, no matter how you say it is, there is a gap, which can be used." Yan Fei looked at the pile of stones, mud, bricks and wood on the south city gate, shook his head and selected the attack point on the gap that was hundreds of meters long.
The city gate was blocked, and Yan Fei could not open even if he exploded two hundred artillery pieces. He was just ordinary solid shells, not missiles.
"Survey on the cannon fodder camp!" As the smoke of the shelling gradually dissipated, Yan Fei also issued the final general attack order against Shenyang City.
The ground seemed to be shaking slightly. When tens of thousands of heavily armored soldiers were rushing towards the city wall in neatly, the terrifying scene of closing their eyes because of the reflection of the iron armor at a glance was really unbearable for the old and young men on the city wall.
It is indeed all old and young men. The young and strong people of the Qing Dynasty died during the Battle of Shanhaiguan. Now most of the people who can guard the city walls are half-aged children and old men.
Faced with the huge Ming army's iron armor craze that was crushed like Mount Tai, these people inevitably trembled all over.
When the iron armored soldiers rushed to the gap in the city wall, a large number of musketeers also shot from the two wings toward the walls on both sides of the gap to provide fire support for the iron armored soldiers.
By the time the armored soldiers rushed into the gap along the collapsed city wall, a large group of Qing soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed up and pushed them tightly with their flesh and blood. More men and even women threw wooden rocks and even hot oil at the armored soldiers below from the gap walls on both sides.
It’s okay to roll the wood and stone, but the golden juice and hot oil are dead.
Although the iron armored soldiers were wrapped like cans of iron, they could not really do anything without a gap in the face of the smelly gold juice and hot oil. After all, they were just iron armored soldiers, not space warriors.
Listening to the scorching screams of the iron-armored soldiers in the distance, Yan Fei frowned and turned toward the trailer.
Although the musketeers used fierce shooting to suppress the armed civilians on the walls on both sides, killing countless unlucky guys who threw things to death, they still couldn't stop them completely. However, soon a sound that was still fresh in the memory of the people in Shenyang City but extremely fearful sounded from a distance.
Yan Fei drove over with a female deer, and the rocket nest under the wings fired all 48 57mm caliber rockets. The walls on both sides, which were full of armed civilians, turned into a sea of fire in a short time. There was no longer a figure who could stand in the thick smoke of gunpowder.
After clearing the city wall, the female deer slowly flew above the wall gap under Yan Fei's driving. The terrifying Gatlin muzzle at the nose of the plane drooped and pointed at the Qing soldiers who were fighting to the death.
Chapter completed!