Chapter Five Hundred and Five Blood Fights
If you look down from the sky, you can see that at the west wall of Vladivostok, behind each large shield, there is almost an auxiliary soldier squatting.
They were covered with burning fuses, holding a single soldier with a wooden handle in their hands, which looked black and iron ball-shaped to throw lightning. In addition to the hands they held in their hands, each of them also had several single soldier's throw lightnings hanging around their waists.
This single-soldier throws thunder with his hands is the best secret weapon used by Li Dingguo to deal with the Qing army in the siege.
This kind of hand-throwing thunder is an improved version of the shining thunder made of pig iron as a shell and filled with black gunpowder. It is also the biggest reliance used by Li Dingguo to defend Vladivostok Fort.
In Li Xiao's army, the first single-soldier thunder developed, the cave that had not yet escaped the Ming Dynasty's Weapon Bureau, was designed into a large round iron spherical shape with an iron shell of 15 kilograms and a 12 kilograms of black gunpowder. But soon, Li Xiao discovered that although this thunder of heaven was powerful, it was too bulky and difficult to throw away, and consumed too much physical strength to throw the thrower.
Finally, after field inspection, Li Xiao decided to roughly cut the weight of this type of thunder with a standard specification of 8 kilograms of pig iron shell and 6 kilograms of black gunpowder. In this way, the weight of a single thunder with a single thunder is similar to that of a standard man's shot put. Because he can throw it with a wooden handle in his hand, the flat throw distance of trained adult men can reach more than 20 meters. Untrained ordinary men can also throw it to about 15 meters.
The improved version of this design is single-soldier thunder, and Li Xiao once used pigs to conduct field tests.
These pigs wearing leather and iron armor were placed in different distances, and all tied up on the spot with wooden poles to prevent escape.
Then, Li Xiao asked someone to put the prepared individual thunder in the center, ignite the fuse, and test the explosion effect.
After a deafening explosion sounded, the ground and rocks flew like rain.
Everyone who watched the live situation was creepy. The pigs that were close to each other were covered in blood, and blood was flowing out of their seven orifices, and they had already been killed. Those who were a little farther away, wearing armor, also had their heads drooping, and their eyes were humming and unable to see them. Even the pigs that were ten and a half feet away were also broken by individual soldiers and thunder, and several blood holes were cut out. Blood flowed and screamed. Although they could survive, they obviously lost their ability to move.
It can be seen from this that the effective killing radius of this type of individual thunder can reach about 5 meters, and the experimental effect is quite satisfactory.
So Li Xiao gave this type of improved and finalized version of the single-soldier thunder and sky-shaking thunder, which is the origin of the name of hand-throwing thunder.
The last time I threw lightning, I was still on the ocean island.
At that time, after the Qing army destroyed Dongjiang Town, they wanted to take advantage of the victory to attack Li Xiao's territory. Therefore, under the leadership of Ma Futa, the Qing army crossed the sea and attacked Jinghai Fortress on a large scale. However, they did not expect that the defender Jin Tongwu would throw lightnings with one soldier and defeat the Qing army that was attacking the island.
In the end, after Li Xiao led reinforcements, Li Xiao's army attacked inside and outside, and all the Qing army attacking the ocean island was destroyed. The main general Ma Futa was attacked by deputy general Samushka, and his head was beheaded and presented to Li Xiao as a confession. At the same time, because of the victory of this battle, Li Xiao also successfully forced Shen Zhixiang, the former deputy general of Dongjiang Town, to lead his troops anyway.
Although, due to the need for struggle, Li Xiao asked Shen Zhixiang and others to sneak back to the Qing court and falsely report their achievements, becoming an insider who was placed in the Qing court, Shen Zhixiang and others could do whatever they wanted. From the root, this was really a contribution to the thunder throwing.
At this time, when all 1,000 auxiliary soldiers were ready, Li Dingguo's voice rang out loud again.
"All the auxiliary soldiers listen to my orders. After the commander's orders, all the auxiliary soldiers throw the pitchers on the spot and throw thunders, and give a head-on attack on the enemy troops who are climbing up the city! Let these damn Tartars taste the power of our army's thunders. Everyone must not attack without authorization, do you understand?"
"Understood!"
"Okay, ignite the ignition!"
When Li Dingguo saw the Qing army start climbing the ladder, he shouted loudly.
As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a fuse was burning around him, and the auxiliary soldiers used fuses to ignite the fuses that were throwing thunder in the individual soldiers.
In the heavy snow, the fuse ignited by the auxiliary soldiers carefully covered the upper part with their hands to avoid being extinguished by the snowflakes.
Soon, a large number of Qing troops began to climb to the middle of the siege ladder.
"cast!"
With Li Dingguo's loud shout, 1,000 auxiliary soldiers who had been fully focused on waiting for the order immediately threw thunder with the wooden handle, which was soaked with sweat in his hands. In a standard side throwing posture, he crossed the large shield in front and rushed towards the Qing army rushing under the city.
"Bang bang bang bang bang bang..."
The hand-throwing thunders were thrown out, and about 850 hand-throwing thunders exploded smoothly.
A violent explosion sounded violently, and the dazzling yellow firelight spread into a fire net of death. The powerful shock wave and the screaming fragments brought about the violent force that destroyed everything, tearing all the people or things that dared to block them into pieces.
Looking down from the city wall, you can clearly see that the enemy Qing troops who entered the range of hand-throwing thunder attack suddenly turned into a bloody rain of flesh and blood, and together with the wooden fragments of the siege ladder and the siege tower, flying everywhere in the silence smoke.
Such dense explosions caused a devastating blow to the Qing army under the city.
Li Dingguo was delighted to see that although the explosion range of dense single-soldiers threw thunder was much smaller than that of large-scale thunder, the damage caused to the enemy under dense throwing was no worse than that of the large-scale thunder thrown with a catapult.
The sudden attack of the Tang army caught the Qing army, who were both careless in attacks and densely stances under the city, caught off guard and suffered heavy losses for a while.
At least more than 1,500 Qing soldiers were killed and injured on the spot. The injured Qing army soldiers rolled and struggled under the city. Their screams were filled with thunder, making people feel heartbroken.
At the same time, about sixteen siege ladders were blown up, and the Qing army climbing on the siege ladders were killed and injured. The vanguard attacking troops, which were originally highly morale, suddenly suffered a great decline and suffered heavy losses.
What made the Qing army even more depressed and angry was that when these auxiliary soldiers threw their hands and thunder, they hid behind the big shield and did not show up at all, which made the Qing army archers who were originally ready to shoot and immediately as soon as the Tang army showed up could not provide any cover to the Qing army that was siegeing the city.
Under the sudden attack of the Tang army's auxiliary soldiers, the remaining more than ten Qing troops on the siege ladder were also scared. In such a close environment, they witnessed the terrible power of the Tang army throwing thunder with their own eyes, and their hearts were shocked to an unparalleled level.
The Qing army, whose ears were deaf and bleeding from the mouth and nose, were covered in extreme fear by the powerful shock waves of thunder, turned around and fled down the ladder.
When they fled down the ladder, the remaining Qing troops under the city had already been covered in oil and retreated all at once.
They ran backwards like a flood of ebbs, regardless of their butts, until they retreated through the frozen moat and arrived behind the lined car, the momentum of collapse stopped slightly.
At this time, on the Ximen City Wall, the cheers of the Tang army were heard again.
Standing at the top of the city, Li Dingguo felt so happy when he saw the Qing army being defeated by his own hands and even retreating in a hurry.
"Brothers, do a good job, that's it, beat these damn Tartars hard. Everyone is ready to go and throw their hands and thunder and blow up these bastards when they attack again next time!"
"Get orders!"
At this moment, after the Qing army formation, Dorgon, who saw his own army, was quickly defeated by the Tang army's sudden hand throwing thunder and commanding the army to fight, was so angry that he almost burst into smoke from his orifices.
"Hmph, useless things, cowards who eat dry food were blown up by the Tang army! What's the use of the Qing Dynasty to support you!" Dorgon cursed fiercely.
At this time, Duoduo also came over quickly and came to Dorgon's side.
"Second brother, the Tang army defended the city with the thunder and hiding behind the shield, and attacking with a sneak attack. If it is to attack for force, it will be difficult!" Duoduo said with a worried look on his face.
Dorgon looked at him hatefully and gritted his teeth and replied, "So what! Lao Ba gave me the death order, and he would take down the Ximen wall regardless of casualties. The battle has just begun, so how can he be discouraged?"
Dorgon was stunned for a moment and immediately said to Duoduo: "Duoduo, please help me. When I ask my army to attack again, you ask your army to collectively shoot arrows and suppress the Tang army, making it difficult for them to throw thunder. As long as our army can attack the city, I am sure that the Tang army will definitely not be the opponent of our army in close combat."
"Second brother, don't worry, no problem." Duoduo responded loudly, but said with a hesitation face: "Second brother, even if our army can suppress the Tang army, there is still a danger that the arrows will hit our Qing officers and soldiers. Are you not worried about this?"
Dorgon snorted coldly, and a trace of ferocious look flashed across his face. He sternly said: "Duoduo, since ancient times, has never been in charge of soldiers. If he is afraid of casualties and misses the opportunity to attack the city, it is really regretful!"
After Dorgon finished speaking, he drew his sword and shouted: "Transfer our army orders, and the entire army will go out to attack the city again. If anyone retreats in the face of the battle, he will be killed without any hesitation!"
The rumbling drums and the harsh swan horns immediately sounded, and the Qing army, who had reorganized the team, began to bite the bullet and carry the siege ladder and continue to attack.
Now the Qing army has learned its lesson, and their formation is very loose, allowing the Qing army, who is carrying the siege ladder to walk in the front, while the large army is far away from them to ensure the minimum reduction of damage.
They walked through the frozen moat with fear, but the guards of the Tang army did not make any noise, which was far beyond the expectations of the Qing army.
In fact, the reason why the Tang army did not throw hand-throw thunder for the time being wasted considering that the number of Qing troops was limited, and then threw hand-throw thunder intensified form was a waste. Therefore, Li Dingguo decided to wait until the Qing army began to gather under the siege ladder like ants and climbed upwards, and then began to launch a second round of hand-throw thunder strike on them.
Seeing that the Qing army was getting closer and closer, Li Dingguo's eyes began to show a sharp and ruthless light like a wolf.
"Dear brothers, please be careful, be prepared, listen to my orders, and be ready to throw hands and thunder again!"
"Get orders!"
What Li Dingguo did not expect was that the Qing army hesitated under the city for a long time, but finally leaned over in a loose formation, then leaned over more than forty siege ladders against the city wall, and then began to climb up one by one and start siege to fight.
Seeing that the number of Qing troops came was much less than before, Li Dingguo felt a little disappointed, but he immediately thought clearly that he must break all these siege ladders, otherwise, if the Qing army climbed to the top of the city, the battle would become unprecedentedly tragic.
Unexpectedly, before Li Xiao could shout out the fire, he was shocked to see that the Qing army archers who were originally doing nothing began to shoot a large number of arrows at the entire city wall.
Although most of the arrows that were blocked by large shields, they also put great pressure on the Tang army. As soon as more than 100 auxiliary soldiers were killed or injured, more than a dozen auxiliary soldiers who were injured by arrows fell from the city wall with screams and fell into meat pie.
For a moment, under the Qing army arrows that were intensively attacking like rain, it was difficult for Li Dingguo's auxiliary soldiers to look up, and they could not even think about how to counterattack the Qing army that was sieging the city.
Seeing his subordinates being suppressed again, Li Dingguo was filled with anger and his teeth were chewed.
Li Dingguo began to regret his willingness to allow these Qing troops to successfully lean on the wall of the West Gate of Vladivostok in Shanghai.
However, he is worthy of being an outstanding general who has experienced a lot of battle. Seeing that the situation is wrong, he did not stay in depression for too long. Instead, he immediately ordered all the auxiliary soldiers to withdraw from the city wall, leaving only the more well-equipped spearmen and rampant team members to continue to guard the west wall.
Li Dingguo knew that the cruel battle for the city walls inevitably began.
The Qing army quickly followed the siege ladder and climbed to the top of the city.
However, at this moment, Tang Junye was ready to fight back.
Looking down from the sky, you can see that Tartars shouted and jumped off the siege ladder, but were immediately sandwiched in the middle by several large shields surrounded by semi-arcs. Before they had yet to gain a foothold, after each shield, several fierce and fierce spears immediately attacked from different directions at the same time. The Tartars' heads, chests, or necks were immediately stabbed by fatal long spears, instantly sending these Tartars who had not yet reacted to the time to react to the Tartars.
On the edge of this unbuilt city wall, a line was quickly filled with by the corpses of the Tartars.
"Kill the Tartars and make a fame!"
"Kill the Tartars and go to heaven!"
During the crazy battle, the roars of the Tang soldiers, accompanied by the screams of the Tartars, soared into the sky through the heavy snow.
However, as time went by, more and more Tartars began to jump off the city wall, especially those white armor climbed up. Because they were wearing three layers of armor, they had good protection and had heavy weapons in their hands. As soon as they entered the wall, they immediately cut and killed them.
With these powerful white armored attack formations, the semi-arc gun-shield battle formations that were originally closely surrounded were constantly broken and transformed. For a moment, among the Tang army's shield soldiers and spearmen, some people screamed and fell down from time to time. However, as soon as the war soldiers were killed and injured, new shield soldiers and spearmen were immediately added.
At the same time, the 2,000 rampant general soldiers guarding both sides of the gun and shield battle formation finally ushered in the opportunity to show their skills.
"Brothers, make contributions and fame, today!"
Ren An was rampant and took a gun flower in his hand and took the lead in killing the Tartars who rushed up to the wall.
The mecha monster-like rampant team, wearing triple armor, was like a miniature tank. The heavy tiger swords, tiger spears, long-handed swords, thick-backed military sickle and other heavy weapons in their hands were all slashing and slashing towards the Tartar soldiers who were not standing firmly. Wherever the sharp sword light went, there were corpses and flesh and blood.
The west wall of Vladivostok Castle was finally completely turned into a flesh-and-blood mill.
Countless corpses of Tartars and the dead Tang army were mixed with each other, and they lay all over the ground. The blood of the enemy and us who fought to the death during their lifetime finally flowed together. This unfinished, originally dry surface of the rammed earth in the city wall became extremely sticky due to the overlap of blood. It was almost impossible to stand firm when stepped on it.
Who is more noble than these corpses stacked on each other and who is more humble than who is more?
On the battlefield, we bent our bows and moons, flowing everywhere, blood from the suburbs...
"Why did you kill me?
Because you live on the other side of the river.
Why did you kill me?
Because you speak a different language than us.
Chapter completed!