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Chapter 75 Multiple Trench Tactics

The Qing army shield chariots advanced to the trench. Qing soldiers from the Green Camp carried the mabao from the chariot, rushed to the trench, threw the mabao into the trench, and attempted to fill the trench. At this moment, on the Tucheng fifty steps away, Shunjun Bird Gunners, Turtle Dove Gunners, and Lumi Gunners fired one after another. The dense sound of guns sounded, and the Green Camp soldiers who were shot rolled into the trench one after another.

At the same time, the Qing army's green camp soldiers, the Han army's Eight Banners musketeers, and the Manchu Eight Banners archers also emerged from behind the shield chariots and used various muskets and bows to counterattack the Shunjun Tucheng, which was fifty steps away.

Shunjun hid behind the earth baskets and sandbags filled with soil, only half of his head was exposed, and fiercely fired at the Qing army. However, the Qing army stood in an open ground with no shield around. Moreover, there were even more powerful tiger squat cannons and 300 kilograms of franchised planes next to Shunjun musketeers. Just as the musketeers were firing their guns, the tiger squat cannons and medium-sized franchised out flames.

More than 600 muskets, thirty tiger squat cannons and twenty medium-sized Franchise fired in a round of volleys, and large thick smoke of gunpowders rose up, and the entire city was completely covered by white smoke. Stones and iron bullets were intertwined, covering the Qing soldiers' shooters like storms. No matter what armor they were wearing, they could not resist the attack of musket bullets and cannon shots. In front of the trenches that were more than a hundred feet long, rows of Qing soldiers fell down like wheat cut by sickles, screaming and falling down, and blood was stormed into Ma Fengneng's body.

The bullets and arrows shot by the Qing army also caused certain casualties to the Shun Army. Some Shun Army soldiers were hit by bird guns. The musket soldiers had only a thin cloth-faced cotton armor on their bodies, which could not stop the shooting of the bird guns at all. The Shun Army bird gunmen who were shot down screamed and fell down; some Shun Army bird gunmen were shot by the Manchu Eight Banners archers. The archery skills of those Manchu Eight Banners archers were very accurate. They shot specifically within fifty steps. The Shun Army soldiers who were caught covered their faces and fell backwards one by one. Some were hit by the turtledove guns of the Eight Banners, and the person who was hit was even directly beaten into a ball of scattered blood and rain.

However, with the protection of earth baskets and sandbags, the Shun Army's losses were significantly smaller than those of the Qing Army.

"It's not a way to fight like this, jump out of the trench!" someone suddenly shouted.

The Qing soldiers jumped into the trench one after another, so the bird guns and cannons of the Shun Army could not hit them, but the muskets and bows in their hands could not be shot at the Shun Army. The trench was five feet deep, and the tall people could only reveal half of their heads when they stood inside; the short people stood inside, and the people were not as tall as the walls of the trench, so how could they shoot outside?

The Qing soldiers who jumped into the trench saw that the situation was not good, so they tried to climb out of the trench, but the side of the trench that was five feet deep was very smooth, and it was difficult for the people inside to climb up. Some people finally climbed up easily. As soon as they exposed their heads, they were hit by the projectiles shot from the Tucheng opposite, and screamed and fell back into the trench.

The Qing soldiers in the trench were crowded together, and the Qing soldiers outside the trench, which were attacked by the fierce firepower of the Shun Army, were still jumping inside, but the trench was crowded and could not move.

Twenty steps away from the outer trench where the Qing army jumped into, there was a second trench of the Shun Army. Seeing the Qing soldiers jumped into the outer trench and hiding in the second trench, the Shun Army soldiers exposed their heads, holding pottery bottles filled with quicklime in their hands, and placed buckets in the trench. Shun Army soldiers scooped up a small scoop of water and poured them into the lime bottle, then covered the bottle with cork, and then threw the ash bottle into the first trench twenty steps away.

Quicklime heats up when it encounters water. The boiling water heats the air in the lime bottle. The expanded hot water and air make the lime bottles explode one after another. Some lime bottles explode in the air. Quicklime that has not been fully mixed with water splashes everywhere. A large amount of quicklime sprinkles on the Qing soldiers like snow flying in the sky.

"Ah!" The hot quicklime splattered on people's faces, and blisters were burned on their hands. The lime sprayed on their faces. The Qing soldiers could not open their eyes. Many people covered their faces and rolled on the ground in pain.

Something more powerful was behind. Many Shunjun rushed out of the second trench and stopped at a position less than ten steps away from the first trench. He threw the trench into the trench and threw the trench tank full of tinder oil, and then one by one, swirling torches flew into the first trench.

A raging fire suddenly ignited in the trench, and a raging fire ignited all over the body of the Qing soldiers, screaming and struggling in the trench, but to no avail. The smoke was rolling above the trench, and the air was filled with the smell of barbecue.

"This is not a solution. The first trench must be filled." Kong Youde, who was watching the battle in the distance, put down the Qianlijing and said.

"How many people are going to die when the thief army is filled with arrows and bullets?" Wu Sangui snorted. Anyway, the Green Camp soldiers who were doing coolies are not the Eight Banners Han Army of King Sanshun, and they are all from Wu Sangui. They will not feel sorry for no matter how many Sanshun Kings died. But Wu Sangui felt sorry for him. Dorgon only gave Wu Sangui 57 Niulu's Eight Banners Han Army quotas, and the rest have to rely on the Green Camp soldiers to make up for the numbers. Wu Sangui also thought that he could expand his Green Camp soldiers to a scale of more than 100,000 in the future.

Only when there are too many soldiers in your hands can you be qualified to enfeoff the territory. Otherwise, kings of different surnames will always be a heart-wrenching problem for the emperor. Only when there are too many soldiers can the emperor not dare to reduce the vassals at will in the future.

Duoduo quickly ordered the gold to withdraw his troops, and the sound of gold sounded on the battlefield. The Eight Banners soldiers who were standing on the edge of the trench and were attacked by various firearms of the Shun Army finally breathed a sigh of relief and retreated one after another.

In this round of attack, the Qing army lost about 500 Green Camp soldiers, more than 300 Han soldiers in the Eight Banners, more than 200 people were killed or injured, and more than 100 people were killed or injured in the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and more than 100 people were killed or injured. Most of the injured were hit by the projectiles. With the medical technology of this era, being hit by the projectiles basically means waiting to die.

Although there were casualties on the Shun Army, the casualties were much smaller than those on the Qing army. More than 200 people were killed and more than 300 people were injured, and most of the injured were injured by bows and arrows.

Zhao Peng personally organized the auxiliary soldiers to treat the wounded soldiers who were injured by arrows. He gave an order: "Boil water, boil the water, put the knife in boiling water and boil it for a while before taking it out."

After the knife disinfected by boiling water was taken out of the water, Zhao Peng personally took the knife and dug out the arrows left in the injured soldier's body.

The arrows used by the Eight Banners of Manchuria archers are triangle arrows with barbs, which are extremely powerful and are shot. They are equivalent to those of later nine-mm pistols. Moreover, the arrows have barbs, which are difficult to remove when they stay in the body. In addition, before each battle, they will insert the arrow into the feces and pierce the arrow into the body, which will cause bacterial infection. In this era, once bacterial infection is incurable.

After Zhao Peng dug out the arrow on the wounded soldier, he poured a little gunpowder on the wound, and then handed a small wooden stick to the wounded soldier: "Little brother, endure the pain and it will be fine in a moment."

After saying that, he lit a small wooden stick and placed the wooden stick with the flames on the wounded soldier's wound.

"Hula" flames spurted, and the wounded soldier was so painful that he was sweating profusely, and the wooden stick was bitten off.

He sterilized the wound by burning fire. Zhao Peng used a little more liquor to clean the wound, and then bandaged the wounded with gauze sterilized with hot water in advance.

"Okay, this little brother's life is saved. As long as he rests for a while, his injury will naturally be cured." Zhao Peng said.
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