Chapter 1042 Capture Jinzhou (2)
In the trench more than a hundred steps away from the low wall, more than 300 Ganjun grenadiers with grenades hanging on their bodies and holding fire notes in their hands poked their heads out and stared at the Western soldiers moving behind the low walls.
"Come on!" Yuan Shizhong shouted.
More than three hundred grenadiers jumped up, and they rushed out of the trench and shouted to charge forward.
"Bang bang bang" Almost the moment when the Gan army leaped out of the trench, the Qing army behind the low wall pulled the trigger together, and the projectiles roared and shot.
As soon as a Gan Jun climbed out, a cloud of blood fog rose in his chest and he flew backwards and rolled into the trench.
The soldiers who rushed in front were shot repeatedly and kept falling to the ground.
With a loud "boom", the projectile hit the grenade hanging on the soldier and exploded suddenly, causing the grenade to pieces.
On the city wall, Lukehn punched hard, "Hit, hit me hard!"
The Qing army musketeers outside the fort group shot continuously, and artillery on the city walls cooperated with the outer defense line and shelled the rushing army.
The Gan Army besieged from all sides, and the soldiers rushed out were either knocked down by muskets or smashed into meat paste by shells.
The soldiers of the Gan Army continued to fall down, with heavy casualties. Fortunately, the Gan Army dug the trench below the enemy's defense line, and the exposure time was reduced, otherwise there would be more casualties and injuries.
At this time, the grenadiers of the Gan Army finally rushed to the edge of the trench in the rain of bullets. The soldiers immediately lit grenades and threw them out. The soldiers who were firing guns and loading saw black objects flashing with sparks, drawing a parabola and falling towards them.
"Boom boom boom boom" white light burst out, strong wind rushing everywhere, and the Qing army, which was short in front and behind, was immediately overturned.
At this time, while the thick smoke was rolling behind the low wall and the smoke filled the smoke, the Qing army was blown upside down. The close combat infantry army, which followed the grenades, knocked down the trench bridge, and then rushed into the smoke and dust on the trench bridge.
Because of the short impact distance, the army from all directions quickly entered the Qing army's periphery.
During the previous attack, the fortifications here were destroyed by the Gan army. The soldiers rushed into the smoke of gunpowder and immediately killed the Qing army.
On the main fort, Lukedehn was not panicked when he saw this, and immediately waved his hand, "Let them retreat, and the forts continue shooting!"
The Gan Army fought fiercely with the Qing army. When the Qing soldiers heard the horn of retreat, they hurriedly forced the Gan Army to retreat with a bayonet, and then ran back.
The soldiers of the Gan Army shouted and chased, grabbed the Qing army's back, dragged it back suddenly, and then stabbed it through with one knife.
"Kill!" The soldiers of the Gan army roared anxiously, picked up their weapons, chased the Qing army, and approached the fort group.
At this time, the Qing army bypassed the Triangle Fort, and the Qing army on the Triangle Fort was condescending to shoot the Gan army led by the Qing army to the bottom of the fort.
"Bang bang bang" a gunshot, and the smoke filled the air. Gan Jun rushed to the front and went to the ground like mowed grass.
After the Qing army soldiers bypassed the Triangle Fort, they retreated from the passage between the main fort and the Triangle Fort into the main fort. A team of Ganjun who was chasing them was immediately attacked by firepower on the two walls of the main fort and the Triangle Fort.
This team of soldiers was inseparable from the army. The Qing army only fired two rounds of volleys, and the entire team of soldiers fell to the ground like a sieve.
"Hahaha!" Luke Dehun clapped his hands excitedly when he saw this, "Gao Manzi, I'll make you beat me to the head and get bleeding today."
At this time, in the Gan Army, Gao Huan saw the Gan Army soldiers exposed to the enemy's range in the Qianli Mile Mile, and suffered heavy losses. He shouted with a gloomy face, "Crack! Bomb me!"
When Gan Jun soldiers jumped out of the trench and rushed towards the fort group with the city ladder, Gan Jun's mortar cannon was also pulled into the trench and entered the parallel trench near the city wall.
Gao Huan's secret to breaking the bulwark is the artillery that is sharper than the bulwark.
When he learned that the Qing army built a bastion in Jinzhou, Gao Huan issued an order to study more powerful mortars and smoothbore cannons to the Ministry of Works.
Since the late Ming Dynasty, the Ming Dynasty and the Qing Dynasty imitated Western artillery, mainly producing 18-pound red-clothed cannons.
Now Ganchao can build 24-pound or 32-pound cannons. As naval cannons, and at the same time, they are gradually building larger, from more than one thousand kilograms to five or six thousand kilograms.
At this time, Gan Jun set up a hundred mortars in the trench, including more than ten cows, before they were pulled into the gun position and loaded ammunition, it required dozens of people to operate.
The soldiers who rushed out of the trench, crossed the trench and low walls, arrived at the city of Triangle Fort, were suppressed by the firepower on the trench.
The Qing army fired guns at a distance, and threw grenades when approaching, so that the soldiers of the army could not even get close to the city wall.
Seeing the heavy losses of Ganjun, a loud noise suddenly came from the trenches under the city, and a ball of white smoke immediately rose from the ground in the distance.
Luke Dehun, who was excited to command the Qing army to shoot, felt his feet trembled slightly, and then he suddenly saw iron bullets rising from the trench.
Watching these shells be thrown into the sky, turning into a black dot, then quickly fall, quickly amplify, draw an arc in the air, and hit the Triangle Fort in front of the main fort.
Among those shells, there were a few shells, which were so big that it was terrifyingly large. The shells of sixty or seventy kilograms roared down, the air rubbed, and the shell shells burned red, like meteorites falling rapidly.
The Qing army on the Triangle Fort looked up and saw this scene, they forgot to shoot for a moment.
There was an unprecedented loud bang, and the shells landed on the Triangle Fort, and immediately exploded violently, raising thick smoke.
The shock wave generated by the explosion blew the Qing soldiers backwards, then hit the walls hard, and spitting blood directly and dying.
Luked looked at the strong wind caused by the explosion in amazement, blew the flags on the city, flew in the opposite direction, and then quickly fell down. He saw that the Triangle Fort was completely enveloped in the thick smoke after the explosion, his eyes raised and his eyes almost flew out.
"Boom boom boom!" One flowering bullet after another fell on four triangle forts. After the explosion, thick black smoke rose up on it. The soldiers fell to the ground in groups with the explosion as the center, and screams and wailing sounds on the city.
At this time, the smoke from the Triangle Fort had not yet dissipated. The soldiers of the Gan Army had already rushed to the bottom of the fortress, raised ladders and climbed up, then jumped onto a messy fort wall, and threw the surviving Gan Army down the city wall.
Luked looked at Triangle Fort with a dazed look, until he heard the fighting sounds above and realized that Gan Jun had rushed to Triangle Fort, he suddenly shouted, "Don't panic! I'll take my head down and shoot Gan Jun who climbed Triangle Fort."
The Qing army's defense was stepped, and the height of the main fort was higher than that of the Triangle Fort, so the soldiers on the main fort could stand high and see the situation on the Triangle Fort clearly, and then they could use muskets and cannons to accurately shoot the Gan Army above.
At this time, the Qing army on the main fort hurriedly raised their guns and aimed at them, but they could not see clearly the situation on the Triangle Fort.
The explosion just now produced a large amount of gunpowder smoke, and the army that had climbed to the fort burned supplies, lit gunpowder, and raised thick white smoke to block the Qing army's vision.
At this time, Gan Jun's attack finally entered his own rhythm. Gao Huan immediately waved, "Rise Kongming Ball!"
The bombardment of the artillery array was delayed just now, causing heavy casualties between the Gan army. Now Gao Huan ordered in advance that fifty Kongming balls rose up when the Gan army array was in the middle, and then floated towards the main fortress of Jinzhou through the sea wind.
"Prince, look!" The Qing army on the city wall was shocked and exclaimed.
When Luke Dehun saw the rising Kong Ming ball, he felt a sense of fear immediately!
(Today I'm just this chapter. I'm a little tired just now. I haven't had ten thousand updates for a long time. I'll try harder tomorrow.)
Chapter completed!