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Chapter 257 Bombarding Liaoyang City

"Reporting to the Commander, the forward general Bai Mu has wiped out 3000 troops of the Qing army, beheaded more than 1000 people, captured more than 700 people, and beheaded the Qing army general Bayan under the city of Liaoyang."

Jiang Chuan was overjoyed and said to the scout who reported the letter: "Send me an order to let Bai Mu's five thousand forwards wait for the opportunity. If the Tartars send troops out of the city to fight in the field, if they can fight, they will fight; if they can't, they will fight." Guerrilla containment, wait for my main force to arrive, and don't risk attacking the city."

"No!" The scouts led away, and Jiang Chuan ordered the main force of the Chinese army to move forward at a faster speed.

Bayan was defeated and died, and the entire army of 3000 troops was annihilated. Fei Yanggu was shocked and ordered the four gates of Liaoyang City to be closed tightly, and the whole city was under martial law. .

Before dark, the main force of Jiangchuan's Chinese army arrived at the city of Liaoyang and set up camp outside the south gate of Liaoyang.In addition, three cavalry were sent to cruise around the other three gates to monitor the movement of the Qing army.

Nothing happened overnight, and Jiang Chuan ordered an attack after the whole army had breakfast the next morning.

Jiang Chuan didn't intend to stay behind this time, and made preparations to attack Liaoyang from the very beginning.Therefore, they did not resort to false tactics such as probing with firepower at all, and ordered the twenty cannons of the Shenji Battalion to line up and aim at the city wall of Liaoyang.

Li Han, the original artillery captain, has been promoted to the captain of the Shenji Battalion. In addition to 29 red cannons, there are [-] musketeers in the whole battalion.

The Five Hundred Musketeers is a firearms unit formed by Jiang Chuan with the new barracks teaching team as the backbone. The general army is divided into five hundred-man Musketeers squads, and each squad has a captain and a deputy captain. 500 people form the firearms brigade, with Guan Hu and Su Dingfang as the captain and deputy captain respectively.

The Musketeer Brigade is under the name of Shenji Battalion, but the specific actions are under the direct command of Jiang Chuan, and Li Han, the captain of Shenji Battalion, still focuses on the artillery team.

Twenty red-clothed cannons lined up, the long and thick barrels pointing obliquely at the sky, the black hole of the cannons can't see the bottom, like a man-eating tiger ready to kill someone.

The five hundred musketeers wore short red military uniforms made separately, disc helmets on their heads, muskets on their shoulders, and knives hanging from their waists.

Guan Hu and Su Dingfang were one at the front of the formation and the other at the end of the formation, commanding the whole team.

The three hundred artillerymen also wore short red military uniforms like the musketeers, with daggers hanging from their waists for self-defense, guarding both sides of the red-clothed cannons, performing their duties, waiting for orders to fire at any time.

Li Han stood on the far left side of the artillery array, and his eyes were looking at the towering cloud car in front of the main force behind.

Jiang Chuan stood tall on the cloud chariot, dressed in silver armor, with a helmet tassel like blood, and a long sword hanging from his waist.Beside him was Li Jian, a military commander, Sima Muyi of the Chinese Army, and three flag soldiers.

After more than three months in the recruit camp, Mu Yi has changed from a white and elegant nobleman to a tough guy with a dark and rough complexion, but exuding a heroic spirit, standing upright like a pine , looking at the front with a serious face, but his heart is full of excitement and apprehension, after all, it is the first time in his life to experience a battle.

Although he had trained in the army for three months before, it was only when he was in it that he could feel how dazzling, cold and powerful this iron-blooded army of the Jiang family army was.

Although there was no battle, the murderous aura emanating from the army formations already made people's hearts beat like thunder, their blood boiled, and they couldn't control themselves.

Being in such an army, he felt that he was born with a lofty arrogance that he had never had before. He thought to himself that following such an army, even if there were mountains of swords and seas of fire ahead, he would be able to crush him without fear.

Behind Yun's body, there are neatly arranged black phalanxes, cold and silent, as silent as a forest, but no one dares to underestimate them.

"Commander, the artillery is in place!" Mu Yi saw the semaphore on the artillery position, and reported to Jiang Chuan in a low voice.

"Okay, order the artillery to select a section of Liaoyang South City to concentrate on attacking, and shoot twenty rounds in a row, and give me the shortest time to blast out a hole in Liaoyang City." Jiang Chuan ordered decisively.

"Promise!" Li Jian, the military commander, took the order loudly, and then commanded the semaphore soldiers next to him to wave the flag and use semaphore to issue an order to the artillery position.

After Li Han received the order, he drew out the long knife at his waist and slashed forward fiercely, hissing: "Fire!"

Twenty red-clothed cannons that had already been loaded were ignited almost at the same time by the matchlocks at the end of the cannons. With the sound of chi-chi, the gunpowder at the bottom of the barrel was ignited and detonated, and a huge explosion of energy pushed the solid iron in the barrel. The egg spewed forward at the fastest speed, left the barrel of the gun, drew graceful lines in the air, and smashed towards the city wall of the south gate of Liaoyang with a whistling sound.

Twenty red cannons exploded almost at the same time, and white smoke filled the entire artillery position almost instantly, covering the people around the cannons.

Twenty huge solid iron bullets flew over a distance of two or three miles, and one of their heavy ends hit the city wall. Immediately, the bricks and rocks splashed, and the city wall shook. The Qing army suddenly caused chaos.

If Fei Yanggu hadn't dodged quickly, he would have been almost hit by the rocks.

When he got up from the ground in a state of embarrassment, he found that many soldiers around him were lying in a pool of blood, many of them were holding their wounds and howling, and a small part of the unlucky ones were directly hit by the gravel The key to death on the spot.

There was another cannonball that seemed to have raised the muzzle a bit higher, and fell directly into the crowd of Qing soldiers on the city wall, directly plowing out a bloody ditch, sprinkled with broken limbs and arms, shocking, some were just caught Seeing this scene, the strong recruit ran to the side and vomited wildly.

Fei Yanggu was terrified, he never thought that the enemy would use such a fierce offensive from the very beginning, instead of using crowd tactics to climb the city wall to capture the city like the traditional siege method.

This fierce offensive immediately dealt a huge blow to the already low morale of the Qing army.

But he has nothing to do, because Liaoyang City has no artillery that can compete with the red cannons, and some are just small cannons like tiger crouching cannons, which are somewhat lethal to close-range dense infantry, but to long-distance The red-clothed cannon has no countermeasures at all.

Fei Yanggu knew that the red-clothed cannon of the Jiang family army was taken away from Tong Yangxing. Although he cursed Tong Yangxing in his heart that he deserved to die, he still had no choice but to order the soldiers to carry away the wounded and corpses, and then told the soldiers to lie down on the ground. Let the cannons go down.

The Qing army hadn't finished cleaning up the gravel from the corpses on the city wall, when the second round of shells roared and smashed towards them.

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