Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 271

Since it is more technically difficult to manufacture incendiary bombs that can be projected by artillery, the Ming army adopted such a ghostly method as hydrogen balloons, plus some special lever-type trebuchets.

Luo Tuo in the city waited anxiously: "Why hasn't the Ming army come in yet? Could it be that they are afraid?"

As soon as he finished speaking, some soldiers suddenly started yelling: "Heaven, what are those in the sky?!"

Large and small hydrogen balloons, hanging incendiary bombs, came to the sky above the fortress along the wind.

Lotto immediately had a bad premonition. Although he didn't know what these things were, he instinctively felt fear.

The wandering dragon outside the city held a bolt-action rifle in his hand, aiming at the balloons in the sky.Bai Mingxiu doesn't like to blindly climb the technology tree. In many cases, he likes to use more earthy but effective methods.For example, when he was studying the use of hydrogen balloons to deliver incendiary bombs, there were plans to use long fuses and develop delayed fuses. In the end, Bai Mingxiu chose the stupidest method and asked the marksmen to use rifles to volley those incendiary bombs into the air. detonate.

The rifles used by the shooters were not M1-style paper-shell percussion guns, but real bolt-action rifles. The Ming army was not equipped with many of these rifles, and they were mainly used as sniper rifles.These guns basically come from the system's Mauser M1874 and its imitation models, which belong to the predecessor of 98K.

"Bah bang bang!" Balloons were blown up one after another, and a large number of incendiary bombs fell down.

More incendiary bombs were thrown into the city through simple trebuchets.

The flame exploded!Like hell, the flames seemed to have life, raging evilly and ruthlessly, devouring everything in the Dagukou Fortress.

"Ahhh!" The Qing soldiers whose bodies were contaminated by the incendiary agent cried and wanted to put out the flames on their bodies, but they found in despair that no matter how they did it, the flames burned more and more intensely!
Luo Tuo was furious: "The despicable Ming army dare not enter the city to fight with my Manchurian warriors. I, Luo Tuo, refuse to accept such lowly methods!"

It's useless if you don't accept it.

The flames shot up into the sky, like a strange scene, Bai Mingxiu watched from the sea, silent.

He lacks the so-called Madonna complex, and if he can kill the enemy in the simplest way, then he will definitely use it.No matter how many of them are Tartars and how many are Han soldiers, at this moment they stand on the opposite side of themselves, the opposite of the country and the nation.

Bai Mingxiu turned his head and said to Sister Lion: "Let's start organizing a full-scale landing. Let's build a forward base here and prepare for going to Beijing."

He used a word to enter Beijing, as if it was a matter of course, and he didn't care that the Manchu Qing stationed up to 12 troops in the Gyeonggi area.

Sister Lion reminded: "We set fire to the Dagukou Fortress. The smoke rising here may be seen by the nearby Qing army, and the Qing army will probably counterattack."

Her worries are very real. In order to deal with the strong mobility and rapid action of the Ming army and strengthen the defense of Gyeonggi, the Qing army set up small barracks at various hubs for local resistance and information transmission. .As soon as Dagukou discovered a Ming warship at sea, the news had already been passed on.

There were [-] soldiers stationed in Tianjin Town, and they immediately began preparations to reinforce Dagukou. However, the Ming army moved too fast. When the Qing army reinforcements arrived in Tianjin Town, the Ming army had already burned Dagukou.

Outside the fortress, the commander-in-chief of Tianjin Town, Kede, found that the Dagukou Fortress had become a ruin of fire, and saw a large number of sail shadows and a large number of Ming troops.

Kede made a decisive decision: "The Ming army has just arrived in Dagu, and their foothold is not stable. At this time, they are preparing to land with a large army, which is halfway through the crossing. It's a good time to storm the enemy!"

Speaking of which, Kede's judgment can't be wrong, it's just that he too easily used the standard of the general army to measure the Ming Dynasty Restoration Army.

After receiving the order not to attack Dagukou and instead conduct a fire attack, the landing troops from Beitang immediately received follow-up instructions and began to establish a temporary defense line around the landing area at Dagukou.

Frontline commanders like Gao Ning and Li Wan used the multi-purpose military shovels of the Ming army to dig trenches and set up firepower points to ensure the stability of the rear.

The Qing army from Tianjin Town came very soon, and the temporary defense line on the Ming army's side has not been fully constructed, but the Ming army is not afraid of the Qing army when fighting.

A large number of Qing troops lined up to attack, Li Wan dropped the shovel, looked at the enemy, and said disdainfully: "Why has it been so long, the Qing army is still so virtuous, the formation charging against our firepower blockade is no different from sending to death. "

Gao Ning said: "A year ago, we probably couldn't understand the combat form of the Ming Dynasty's Restoration Army. The Qing army had no way of knowing our specific organization and tactics, and these Qing troops had never seen our artillery. And heavy machine guns, I just heard about them, there is a big difference between what I heard and what I saw."

The Qing army in Tianjin Town consisted of more than 2000 infantry and hundreds of cavalry. They were divided into two groups and attacked two weak positions of the Ming army.Kede's command can't be regarded as wrong, but from his eyes, the Ming army's arrangement is almost full of flaws, and it is impossible to prevent it.

But the reality is another matter.

First, the artillery showed its might, almost without any deviation, and a few shells fell directly into the Qing army formation.The soldiers of the Qing army watched as their comrades were blown up by the bombardment, and some of their limbs were blown to pieces.

Then the machine guns opened fire, and all the Qing soldiers who entered the range fell to the ground one by one, like chickens suffering from chicken plague. For the first time.

Even Bai Mingxiu, who just came to the shore, said at this time: "Maybe after fighting us a lot, the Qing army will get used to this kind of warfare, and they will avoid and try not to confront us head-on. They have never seen it, and most of the generals of the Qing army did not understand it, so they just helplessly sent the soldiers to a dead end."

When Kede saw his soldiers falling down one after another like wheat that had been cut off in autumn, his eyes were tearing apart.

"How to fight, how to fight this?" Kede kept repeating this sentence, completely terrified.

"Those who cannot defend the capital must go back outside the pass, hide in the mountains, and hide in the old forests. Otherwise, our Jurchens in Jianzhou will be completely destroyed. It will be completely destroyed!" Kede finally understood why these days, So many Eight Banners nobles have chosen to leave the capital, using various reasons to go outside the customs, to Fengtian, and some even asked to be transferred to Heilongjiang.

The reason is simple, just to survive.

(End of this chapter)