Nanming Engineer

Chapter 441 The Second Shocking Thunder
A shield cart was pushed into the ditch. A shield cart was five or six meters long and two or three meters wide. It was loaded with soil bags. Once pushed into the ditch, it was enough to fill the trench. Cars pushed down one after another, filling up more than ten places in the ditch in a short time so that people and horses could barely pass through.

But without the shield chariot, Bai Guangen and Liu Fangming's people were completely exposed in the wilderness. This trench can be passed. If they want to reach the low wall guarded by the Ming army, there is still a trench to be filled.

There is a distance of four to five feet between the two trenches. Bai Guangen is full of pride at the moment. Without the threat of firearms, he is not afraid of anything. He firmly grasps the shaft of the shield cart in his hand, and rumbles along the other shield cart to fill in. Bai Guangen roared and rushed forward vigorously, the shield car seemed to be dragged by a strong horse, and went straight to the second ditch without going forward.

Behind the low wall, the Ming army started to shoot arrows, sporadically at first, aiming at the Qing soldiers who were no longer covered by shield vehicles because of filling the ditch. Showing off his power, arrows from all over the sky rushed towards his face, denser than the raindrops falling from the sky, and when the bowstring was released, there was a sound of "collapse!"

The arrows pierced through the air and pierced into the soldiers' bodies silently. These Han soldiers were soldiers from the Ming army. Except for a small number of generals Jia Ding Jingrui who wore full-body iron armor, the rest wore half-length waist armor and cotton armor. The half-length armor was The cloth surface is inlaid with iron leaves, and the armor surface protects the upper body; while the cotton armor is a full body armor, which is tightly sewn from several layers of thick cloth, and the important parts are lined with nail leaves.

Half-body armor and cotton armor are light and flexible, light in weight, and do not affect their activities when worn. The disadvantage is that they have low protection ability. They are very effective against bird guns and lead. Facing bows and arrows shot from more than ten feet away, the defense effect is very good. Better than nothing, the sharp arrow is heavy and can easily pierce through the armor and penetrate into the flesh. Even though the iron leaf is protecting the key parts of the body, an arrow on the body is still fatal.

So the soldiers who were hit by arrows were screaming all over the ground. Those who were shot directly were fine, and those who fell silently fell to the ground without a sound. Howled like a headless chicken and hid everywhere, the only thing that could not move was sleeping on the ground and moaning.

Bai Guangen gritted his teeth, and while pushing the shield cart in his hand, he kept yelling and urging his soldiers to move forward together. There are so many octopuses with teeth and claws, it is hard to tell who is an officer and who is a soldier. He can only let the Chinese military officer holding the general flag follow him closely. As long as the flag does not fall, it means that he is still Bai Guangen.

The second ditch in front of him is getting closer and closer, and the rammed low wall and wooden fence behind the ditch are becoming more and more clear, and the arrows shot through the wooden fence are more dense. Bai Guangen can see The Baijia Mingjun was pulling the trigger of the crossbow deftly.

"Bang bang bang!" The sound of arrows hitting the thick wooden boards on the front of the shield car was like rain falling on plantains, and the sound was dull. From time to time, soldiers crowded behind the shield car were shot by sharp arrows and fell on their backs.

"Aw!" A servant on his right was half exposed because the space behind the shield car was too small. A feathered arrow aimed at him and hit the hapless guy's neck with precision. It was the only thing in his body. Where there was no iron armor, the arrow shaft was strung around his neck, and a stream of blood flew high. The man covered the wound and said "hehe", but he couldn't say anything. He picked up a few peacock feathers on the top of Bai Guangen's iron helmet.

Bai Guangen kicked him away, and roared like a wild animal with red eyes, "Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!" Stepping on the dirt, it felt like Thor's hammer.

Looking back, I saw a black line coming from behind with thunderous hoofbeats. Nearly [-] cavalry from Mongolia Horqin and Zarut had formed a wild goose formation and appeared not far away.

The nearly thousand cavalry in the front of the first row are all covered in iron armor, and they wear iron horses and armor. These are the most elite heavy armored cavalry in the Mongolian army. As long as it is not within close range, it will not be able to penetrate the thick armor.

The Mongolian soldiers had already started to charge, and Bai Guangen's teeth were about to be gritted, and he cursed Dorgon in his heart for being a fucking bastard!Just treat yourself as cannon fodder, and the cavalry rushed straight. Of course, the low wall and wooden fence in front couldn't stop it, but I was also in front!The cavalry are unrecognizable when they charge, as long as they stand in their way, even the king of heaven and I will be smashed into pieces!

"Quick, quick, quick! Enclose, enclose!" Bai Guangen shouted, desperately calling for a nearby shield vehicle: "Turn around, you go backwards and we move forward, so that the cavalry won't charge over here!"

The Han soldiers were already in a panic, the shield chariot hastily turned this way, and when it turned, it would inevitably expose its side, and a rain of arrows flew over from the low wall, and fell down again.

But after all, he came over. Bai Guangen took dozens of servants to hide in the narrow space between the two shield vehicles, with his head bowed and his face pale. It's murder, hell on both sides.

"Damn it! If I knew He Laosan came to look for me a few days ago anyway, I would have agreed to him!" Bai Guangen puffed up his eyes and thought angrily: "The Tartars don't treat Lao Tzu as a human being, so why bother to work for him? The high officials have turned against me, why am I still hesitating?!"

"General, what should we do?" A servant said in a frenzied manner.

"General, why don't we turn our backs?" The other said desperately: "The Tartars are using us as sacks of human flesh to fill the ditch! Both sides are dead, why not join the Ming Dynasty and there may be a way to survive!"

"Fart!" Bai Guangen yelled angrily: "If you turn against me at this time, who the hell will believe you? Even if they believe you, you must go back and kill the tartar immediately. Do you dare to go? Squat down and wait for me!" Let's see the situation!"

A group of dejected Han soldiers fell silent, hiding behind the two shield chariots in fear, like a group of rats trying to survive in the flames of war.

Compared with them, Sanger is different.

As Taiji of the Horqin Department, Sanger has lived very comfortably with the support of the Qing court in recent years. He has annexed several small tribes, and his territory on the grassland is getting bigger and bigger. He followed the Qing court to the land of the Han people in the south. During the war, tens of thousands of slaves were captured, and the tribe was like the rising sun on the grassland, getting brighter and more prosperous.

This time, under the order of the regent king, he came to Shanxi to suppress the rebellious party. Sanger also came here with a happy mood. Although he would lose some tribal warriors every time he went out, the regent king was always very generous, giving rewards and slaves , has never treated Horqin badly, often after a big battle, what he gains far exceeds what he loses.So Sanger understands that only by following the regent can he have a good life.

Riding on a war horse at this moment, the sky is dark and the clouds are rolling back, and the head-on wind is blowing his face. The bloody battlefield is an excellent place for a good man to make meritorious deeds. Sanger pulled down the visor of the iron helmet on his head and squeezed the longbow in his hand , stepped on the stirrups, and stood up immediately.

Holding the longbow in his hand like a full moon, he pointed at the sky obliquely, and the jade finger gently opened the bowstring, and the arm-long arrow made a crisp sound of "咻", and went away from the string.

The Mongolian cavalry surrounded him were all in the same posture, standing on galloping horses with their superb riding skills, and shooting a wave of arrows in the direction of the Ming army with projectile archery.

Putting the longbow into the bag, and took off the long-handled sword hanging from the saddle, Sanger grinned and shouted: "Boys, follow me!"

There was a strange cry from the Mongolian army, and the sound of shouting was chaotic. The corpses of the Han army passed under the hooves of the horses, and they reached the edge of the first trench in an instant.

The wave of arrows thrown out just now suppressed the crossbow of the Ming army, and the number of arrows shot was obviously much less. This kind of reaction made Sanger and his people very satisfied.

That's it, that's how the Han army should be. The Han people rely on firearms to fight. The firearm explosion that the Han army encountered just now shocked Sanger, but it seems that the Ming army has not withdrawn.

The low wall was completely out of the range of the Mongol warriors, and a healthy horse wrapped in iron armor could smash the crooked wooden fence with a single charge. Of course, the weak Ming army would not gain the upper hand in the fight with cold weapons. To put it bluntly speaking, Sanger has no pressure at all on the task of the regent's entrusting the slaughter of the Ming army under the city.

The trench was just ahead, and Sanger took the lead, and when he raised the reins, the war horse took off with all four hooves and jumped up.

In the middle, I clicked on the plank of a shield cart in the ditch, and the horse jumped up again, just as a ray of sunlight came down from the clouds and reflected on Sanger.

Looking back at the past from Bai Guangen's point of view, a picture of a magical soldier descending from heaven appeared on the battlefield. The golden sun covered people and horses with a layer of golden armor, and the nail leaves covered by raindrops shone brightly, like morning stars. At that moment, time seemed to stand still. The combination of a burly man and a strong horse, together with a sharp knife, the knight charging in the drizzle seemed to be flying in the air, and everyone who saw it was stunned.

Everything would be perfect if there were no explosions coming from the trenches.

And the source of everything was caused by Li Tingyu's wretched smile behind the low wall and pulling a hemp rope.

(End of this chapter)