Cutting over the end of the Ming Dynasty: a dog-leg knife at the beginning

Chapter 643 Kicked on the iron plate 1
Lei Shisheng soon learned that the Mongolian army in the direction of Ulanqab was marching towards Yingzhou.He lay down in front of the map and pondered for a while, then said angrily, "Do you want to play the trick of besieging Wei and saving Zhao with me? You are not qualified!"

Zu Dabi said bitterly: "The Tatars are all cowards. They don't dare to fight us head-on. They only play dirty tricks! Lao Lei, I will bring [-] light cavalry back to support Yingzhou. You take the opportunity to kill Ulan." Take down Chabu and let them have a taste of what it's like to steal a chicken but lose a lot of rice!"

Lei Shisheng said: "No, don't worry about Yingzhou, you immediately take all the cavalry and march towards Wulanchabu as fast as possible, and take it down in one fell swoop. If conditions permit, you can attack Guihua City again." I want to see if the Tartars have the determination to exchange Ulanqab and Guihua for small cities like Yingzhou, Shanyin, and Jingbian!"

Zu Dabi was shocked: "Don't care about Yingzhou? There are less than a thousand defenders in Yingzhou, but they have to face tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry. They can't defend at all!"

Lei Shisheng said: "Although they have no more than a thousand soldiers, they are well-equipped, equipped with several mortars, countless firearms, and the people of Yingzhou are fully cooperative. If they still can't defend Yingzhou, I will drown them all. In the dung tank! Besides, I don’t need them to defend them. They only need to hold out for five days. Just five days is enough to let the Tartars know that their rear is facing a huge threat and force them to withdraw. Could it be that thousands of elite soldiers rely on the fortification of the city? , can't even hold it for five days!"

Zu Dabi was silent for a moment, then smiled wryly: "Old Lei, you are ruthless to your enemies, and even more ruthless to your own people!"

Lei Shisheng said: "I am not only ruthless to my own people, but even more ruthless to myself! That's it, leave Yingzhou alone, just attack Wulanchabu and Guihua until the Tartars withdraw!" Here, his expression was a little ferocious, showing a chilling grin: "I will build a position near Ulanqab and wait for them! I want to see how they break through the trenches, parapets, and mines in the wilderness. A line of fields, muskets, and cannon!"

A few hours later, Lu Xiangsheng sent a military envoy and issued the latest order, which was exactly the same as Lei Shisheng's decision: don't worry about Yingzhou, and attack Wulanchabu with all your strength!

This is to show that chariots and horses are attacking each other.

Lei Shisheng and Lu Xiangsheng had no better solution, because the cavalry of the Tianxiong Army was limited after all, and the main force was dispatched to Yulin to equip Qian Yu to participate in the offensive against the Ordos Plateau, leaving Lei Shisheng's cavalry only Three thousand light cavalry, one thousand lancers.This group of cavalry galloped two or three hundred miles to rescue Yingzhou. It is hard to say whether they can defeat the Mongolian cavalry, which is several times larger than them. They can't fight this kind of battle, and after losing the cooperation of the cavalry, the infantry regiment will be trapped on the grassland and will be harassed and attacked by the Mongolian cavalry from all directions. It is not impossible to escape from the endless harassment and be dragged to death by the Mongols.All in all, returning to Yingzhou is the next best strategy. Due to the leak of secrets, the Tianxiong Army has fallen into a passive position. They can only use attack against attack to fight their way out!

In terms of attacking and attacking, the Tianxiong Army has a considerable advantage, because the city walls of Yingzhou, Jingbian, Shanyin and other cities have been reinforced, and it is difficult to fire solid lead bullets with front-loaded smoothbore guns. Moreover, the Mongols are unlikely to have such advanced weapons; and cities such as Ulanqab and Guihua are famous cities on the grasslands, but their walls are low and dilapidated. In terms of defense capabilities, they are far behind Yingzhou. What's worse, the Tianxiong Army, which has powerful rocket launchers and howitzers, is similar to tofu. For the Tianxiong Army, which is becoming more and more passive, this is undoubtedly extremely beneficial.

I can knock down your city wall, but you can't chew mine. This is an important reason why Lei Shisheng dared to attack the Mongolian army.

According to Lu Xiangsheng's order, Lei Shisheng's army ignored the enemy's situation on the front line of the corresponding state, marched and rode side by side, and rushed towards Ulanqab.

The Mongolian army didn't know that Lei Shisheng concentrated all his strength on attacking Ulanqab, but they knew how strong the city wall of Yingzhou was.After the persuasion failed, they immediately pushed a few bronze cannons, and set up a dozen trebuchets amidst the ridicule of the Tianxiong army, and slammed them at the city wall. Going up, brick crumbs flew around, and stone balls weighing ten catties thrown by the trebuchet hit it, and the broken stones splashed like shrapnel, but the bloody city wall remained motionless!

God of longevity, when did the walls of the Han people become so strong!

During the interval between the shelling, soldiers of the Tianxiong Army poked their heads out and shouted at them, "Aren't you guys hungry? Even firing a cannon looks like a woman humming, it's so boring!"

Being despised, the Mongolian army expressed its anger, and the consequences were serious.They pushed in more trebuchets, loaded them with stones and blasted them against the city wall. The stones thrown were like hail.The stones thrown into the city smashed many buildings and caused panic, but the stones thrown on the city walls did not have any effect.In fact, the trebuchet works well for the city walls made of stones in Europe in the Middle and Western Period, but it is really useless when it comes to a city wall with two layers of brick skin and three meters thick rammed earth inside. , At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Mongolian army mobilized the most terrifying weapon for attacking fortifications at that time—returning cannons that could throw huge boulders weighing more than a hundred catties and blasted the city wall of Xiangyang. After fighting for a full 20 years, the boulders thrown out could almost bury the city of Xiangyang , but still failed to smash down the city wall of Xiangyang.If you want to take down a city, you have to rely on the inside to earn the city, or pile up mountains and build ladders to attack the city, or dig tunnels and bombs to bring down the city wall. Do you want to use bronze cannons and trebuchets to blow down the city wall?Hehe, let's take it slow, maybe when the city wall is knocked down, the grandson will be able to play soy sauce.The Mongolian army has long since lost the ability to manufacture such large-scale weapons as return guns. The trebuchets they used to attack the city can only throw stones weighing a dozen or twenty kilograms, which are several meters thick, and they are still made of cement. The glued city wall is useful for eggs!

The soldiers were still laughing and watching the excitement, but Zheng Jing was on fire. You have been bombarding for a long time without making a name for yourself, and you are still bombarding non-stop. Are you annoying?He yelled at the artillerymen: "It's so annoying, fire a few shots to make them calm down, we still have lunch!"

The artilleryman got impatient for a long time, and cheerfully pushed out two 160mm long-barreled mortars, aimed at the position of the trebuchet, and then stuffed a propellant charge into the barrel, and then the four of them worked together, He picked up a shell weighing sixty to seventy catties and loaded it in.With two bangs, the city wall trembled slightly, and a huge wave of air and smoke rose from the ground, like two thunderclaps. A parabola with a high radian, then folded, and fell headlong according to the Mongolian army!
When the Mongolian soldiers saw the dull rumbling from the city wall and a large group of flames, they shouted: "The artillery is fired! The Han people fired!" Then they saw two huge shells flying into the sky and smashing towards them!Everyone was stunned, my dear, this cannonball is so big, how big is the cannon to fire such a heavy cannonball!

The artillerymen of the Tianxiong Army said that you are still thinking about these things at this time, I admire you very much!Under the admiring eyes of the artillerymen, the shells fell straight down and exploded ten meters above the ground——

boom! ! !
boom! ! !
The thunderous and violent bang shook the Mongolian soldiers. In their horrified eyes, the two shells turned into two orange fireballs above their heads. The blast wave immediately overturned several trebuchets, and the shrapnel It was as dense as a shower of steel balls, pouring down, nailing all living things within the killing radius to the ground!Veterans who have fought in the war say "105 a platoon, 155 a company", which means that a 105mm howitzer can drop a platoon with a single shot, and a 155mm howitzer cannoned over, and there are not many survivors left in a company.Of course, there are not many examples of this kind, because when the howitzer became popular, the infantry's awareness and anti-gun technology were also greatly improved, and it was not easy to kill a company with one shot.It happened a few times during World War II. For example, on the Soviet battlefield, a German battalion suffered a 203mm caliber howitzer shell while queuing up to receive food, and the battalion's designation was cancelled.The lethality of the high-explosive shells fired by the 160mm mortars used by the Tianxiong Army is of course not up to the level of World War II. The gap in the power of the charge and the number of fragments is obvious. Said, such power is already devastating!There was only a bang and a flash of fire. With those catapults as the center, the Mongolian soldiers were stumbling around. Two large circles with a diameter of 60 meters appeared in the huge army formation. The Mongolian soldiers in this circle were flying with flesh and blood. Those who were blown more than ten meters away by the explosion shock wave were directly pushed into the ground, and more were pierced by shrapnel and steel balls, cutting off limbs, and blood spurted out of their wounds and ears!When the smoke dissipated, the Mongolian army was stunned by the scene in front of them:

Nearly two hundred soldiers fell to the ground.

An army in the cold weapon age could not help but tremble in the face of the thunder thrown by the god of war.

Just two shells blew up the arrogance of the Mongolian army into powder.Everyone stared blankly at the bloody battle flag fluttering on the city wall, and couldn't help feeling a sense of powerlessness in their hearts that they wanted to kill the enemy but could not recover.This time they kicked the iron plate.

(End of this chapter)