This is a carefully constructed death trap.

Not to mention the fish skin tartars who fell into the trap, even the people who built the trap did not expect that it would be so effective.

Everyone was dumbfounded!

Sun Maocai, Xu Linshan and others, who were originally leaning behind the parapet of the trench, always ready to avenge their family, were dumbfounded.

What kind of scene is this?

In front of them, artillery shells exploded from time to time. The artillery shells exploding in the air were very loud, and the sound of the explosions could be heard several miles away. Although they could not see anything else, they could see those Jiannu slaves exploding in the smoke.

After that, he kept lying down in the snow, letting out screams that could be faintly heard even from a distance.

What's going on?

Raising his head and looking into the air, Sun Maocai felt that he saw a cannonball flying over their heads like a bird, screaming, and then at the moment it was about to fall, it suddenly exploded, exploding into a ball in the air.

Red and white smoke, and then hundreds of lead bullets fell like raindrops.

The bullets whizzed in the air, as if there were thousands of invisible blades waving in the air, shrouding the people in front of them, and then many people fell down in a pool of blood. They were just like that in the pool of blood.

There was an extremely miserable wailing sound...

"Oh my god, won't all these slaves be killed by artillery?"

Watching Jiannu fall down helplessly, Sun Mao couldn't help but complain.

"If they finish killing them, how can I take revenge?"

"If we let the artillery kill them all, if that doesn't work, then we can take revenge on the women who built the slaves. There are tens of thousands behind us anyway..."

I don't know whose words made the entire defense line burst into laughter in the tense atmosphere. Zhu Guoqiang led the troops to attack Liaodong this time, burning, killing and looting all the way from Shenyang, and captured more than 50,000 women. Some of them were distributed to

There are still more than 30,000 soldiers in the army who have not been rewarded, so Qian Degong plans to follow the old rules and reward the meritorious soldiers in the army, whether they are concubines or maids.

Let's put it this way, as long as you achieve military merit, you can directly assign concubines and maidservants. According to later generations, this can be regarded as promoting national integration and is an absolute positive energy.

"You boy, if you want those Jurchen girls, you have to achieve military merit first! If the artillerymen finish killing them, we will still have to do nothing! Then you will still be the same as now, eagerly watching others fight."

Although the officers' cursing words made the brothers laugh. Men's jokes are always inseparable from these things.

But Sun Maocai's heart felt like a hammer. He was not interested in military glory, those Jurchens, or Mongolian ladies. He only had one thought in his heart, which was to kill people!

Kill the Ming army in front of you and avenge your dead family members!

Perhaps God heard his prayer. Amidst the bursts of gunpowder smoke in the air, he saw many Jiannu still marching towards the front of their position. They were getting closer and closer. In fact,

Originally, at this time, the artillery on the front line should attack the Jian Nu with shotgun shells. However, Qian Degong, who was supervising the battle on the front line, discovered that several rounds of shelling had caused heavy casualties to the Jian Nu, so he ordered the forward artillery not to shell.

"Leave some people for the musketeers, leave some people... let them see blood."

A soldier without blood will always be a recruit!

Only soldiers who have seen blood can become veterans. Although Qian Degong's army is said to have an army of 100,000, in fact, it is only 100,000 men. If a few thousand veterans serve as the backbone, plus trenches, barbed wire, and cannons,

He really didn't know whether he could hold on to this place!

Come on, let these soldiers mature on the battlefield first!

The rampant establishment of slaves has never relied on "cavalry and shooting to build a country." The heavy armored infantry they relied on, the so-called Jurchens are less than ten thousand, are invincible. On the one hand, it is because they are indeed very brave, and on the other hand, it is because

Everyone in Jiannu wore armor, especially when they captured Weiningying Iron Field, which was later known as Benxi. With the local high-quality iron ore and Han slaves, they built a large amount of armor for them. Not only did these heavy infantry wear cloth

Cotton armor, when trapped in battle, will also be covered with an additional layer of iron armor.

With such thick armor that cannot be broken by muskets or penetrated by arrows, they can always rush into the Ming army's formation and kill them wantonly, as if they are in a deserted land. This is the truth of "invincibility".

Although they suffered extremely heavy losses at this time, Guan Bao still led the remaining soldiers towards the front line of the Ming army. Although there was a layer of barbed wire blocking them from the Ming army, in his eyes

, that is simply not worth mentioning.

"Kill over, kill the light dog!"

When Guan Bao shouted and drove the fish-skinned Tatars to attack the Ming army's trenches, the Ming army behind the trenches, which had been waiting for a long time, finally waited for the moment of bloodshed.

The Ming army in the trenches were all musketeers equipped with percussion guns. A battalion of musketeers numbered more than 4,000 people. Although there were trenches under their feet, the trenches were different from those of later generations. In order to allow the soldiers to fight

Shooting alternately in several rows, the trench can only be dug deeper and wider, which looks a bit like the anti-tank trenches of later generations.

Because the percussion gun does not need to be ignited with a match rope like a blunderbuss, the soldiers stood very compactly in the trenches. Their formation was also the line battle commonly used by European armies in the Napoleonic era a century and a half later. Although there were only three rows,

The power of volley fire has been proven time and time again in the following two centuries. The musketeers who now have epoch-making percussion guns as weapons will definitely be able to show off their skills in field battles.

The only flaw is... they are all newbies! They are just a group of new recruits who have just learned how to load ammunition.

They are all gunmen!

Although they were more than two hundred steps apart, Guan Bao grinned widely.

Guan Bao was no stranger to gunshots. They were the most elite weapons of the Ming army, but... they were nothing more than that!

There is no way it can penetrate two layers of heavy armor!

Not only Guan Bao laughed, but also those bloodthirsty and cruel fish-skin Tatars, who seemed to have seen the end of this Ming army.

Even if their cannons are sharp and a little weird, so what?

As long as they reach their trench, they will be chopped down like melons and vegetables. It seems that those smart dogs don't even wear armor!

However, in just a few breaths, Guan Bao and the heavy infantry under his command were forced to a distance of about 100 meters. These heavy infantry were indeed very brave. Even if half of the troops were killed by shrapnel, they still charged forward without fear.

Come here, the so-called bravery of the Jurchens is actually barbarism, which is fully displayed in them.

Niu Jinxing, who was behind the trenches and was destined to be promoted to commander-in-chief during this army expansion, just stared at these slaves quietly. Although some of the musketeers standing in three rows behind the wall seemed a little nervous, they

There is a kind of expectation in the eyes of more people. They also have no fear when they go into battle for the first time, not because of military law, but because of hatred!

At this time, there was silence in the rear of the long trench, all the sergeants were standing ready, and the battlefield was silent. At this moment, the charging Jiannu took out their bows and arrows from their waists, opened their bows and fired.

"Stick to the wall, stick to the wall..."

Seeing this, Niu Jinsheng shouted loudly.

Along with the sound of strings, a dark cloud seemed to fly over everyone's heads. Arrows with feathers on their tails fell like raindrops in the air. The soldiers who experienced the baptism of arrows for the first time tried their best to press their bodies against the trench wall and use the trench wall to attack.

Create a blind spot to protect yourself.

The arrows rained down with "Puff! Puff!" and stuck in the open space of the trench. The arrow feathers swung back and forth unwillingly. Although the soldiers pressed their bodies against the wall, some soldiers were still hit by the arrows. The sharp arrows

The arrow penetrated their bodies in an instant, and the fallen warriors spattered with blood, revealing eyes that could not close their eyes.

The torrential blow only lasted for a short moment, and then it stopped. Niu Jinxing, who was leaning against the parapet and staring ahead, noticed that Jiannu had entered the shooting range and immediately shouted.

"Ready--shoot!"

Just when the charging Jiannu wanted to fire another round of arrows to cover the others in the battle, they heard a deafening sound of gunfire from ahead.

"idiot!"

Guan Bao cursed secretly in his heart, Ming Gou was indeed Ming Gou, and he was still as restive as before. Let alone firing a gun from such a distance, even fifty steps would definitely be able to penetrate two layers of heavy armor, let alone

Two hundred steps!

The reason why Minggou has been defeated repeatedly in these years is that, in the final analysis, it is still afraid of the Qing army. Every time they don't wait for them to get close, they will shoot randomly. In the end, they can't even fight for a few rounds before the approaching Qing army breaks through the defense line.

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The same is true for this Ming army now!

"It happens to be our credit!"

However, the moment this thought came to Guan Bao's mind, he saw from the corner of his eye a person directly in front of him with a blunderbuss aimed at him.

The black hole of the gun was aimed at his chest.

It's over now.

Almost at the moment when this idea came to Guan Bao's mind, he suddenly felt as if he had been hit hard on his right chest, a sharp pain came from him, and he couldn't help but scream.

He instinctively looked down and saw that a hole the size of a finger had been punched out of the iron armor on his right chest. The iron piece was twisted and deformed. If he hadn't been wearing a cloth armor, protected by two layers of heavy armor,

He had great protection against gunshots, and he was probably already lying in a pool of blood like the others.

At the same time, the charging fish-skin Tatars around him were also suffering unprecedented blows. After they were hit by bullets, they screamed one after another, and many of them fell down amid the screams.

"How can these Ming army's cannons hit so far?"

Guan Bao was obviously a little confused. In his impression, trying to penetrate double-layered heavy armor with a Ming army birdgun was like a dream.

But now this group of Ming army's cannons were able to penetrate their double-layered armor from a hundred paces away.
Chapter completed!