Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 284 Shanhaiguan will become history
"General, general, the city wall was destroyed by us." A gunner danced excitedly when he saw that the city wall on the south side of Shanhaiguan was destroyed by fierce artillery fire.

"Haha, firearms are still powerful. Come here, load up the rocket for me, let these Tatars see the power of our Ming Dynasty."

The rocket Tao Dingjun talked about is a kind of earth-made rocket that is similar to fireworks, but has more charges and is stuffed with broken porcelain pieces.

In appearance, it looks more like the Congreve Rocket of later generations in Britain, but this is not what Zhu Cihong drew for Tao Dingjun to imitate.

It was the result of the wisdom of Tao Dingjun and a large number of craftsmen after Zhu Cilang proposed to have cheap curved firepower.

In fact, the British Congreve rocket, as well as rockets in other parts of the world, are mostly inspired by Chinese rockets hundreds of years ago. However, China's rocket development has never moved towards large-scale and large-scale rockets, becoming the same rockets as later generations. .

This is a pity, but the main reason is that the intensity of the war is not needed, and most of the Chinese wars are fought on their own territory.

Just ask, who would be willing to use such a powerful weapon in their own country, but its accuracy is extremely poor, and if they are not careful, they will destroy their own weapons.

Besides, rockets need a lot of gunpowder, and the cost of achieving the same strategic and tactical goals is very high, which is not cost-effective for the Chinese.

After all, this is a big country, but it is not a big country rich in gunpowder. The main raw material for making gunpowder, saltpeter, is even scraped from toilets. The few gunpowder should be given priority to gunners and gunners.

In fact, the position of the rocket launcher has been built long ago, and the shelf of the rocket launcher has also been set up long ago, but in order to avoid accidents, the rockets have not been put on it.

After receiving the order from Tao Dingjun, the rocket launchers quickly installed the rockets on the rack, and ignited the rockets at the command of the commander.

I saw hundreds of rockets flying in the air, emitting dazzling light, like heavenly soldiers and generals descending from the earth.

"Look, what is that in the sky, it's so beautiful."

"Did the heavenly soldiers descend to earth?"

Countless Manchu and Korean soldiers stared blankly at the rockets that cut through the night, as if they were watching fireworks.

Large-scale curved firepower is rarely seen in China, and rockets are often used to set off fireworks, so at this moment, no matter what experience, the soldiers of the nationality are not aware of the danger of these rockets shining brightly in the sky.

In the next second, part of the rocket launched into the sky began to turn around and fly towards the large and small buildings in Shanhaiguan, as well as the heads of the Qing army.

Another part exploded in the sky ahead of time due to quality problems, emitting a brilliant orange-yellow light, which looked extremely beautiful and made an earth-shattering sound.

Some rockets even flew towards both sides of Shanhaiguan, making irregular Brownian motions in the air.

Fortunately, none of the rockets turned around and flew towards the Ming army's position, otherwise Tao Dingjun and a large number of gunners would not survive.

Now there is a large amount of gunpowder and projectiles piled up on the position, which is simply an open-air gunpowder depot.

After a few more breaths, the rocket finally landed. A large number of rockets either exploded shortly after landing, or exploded just before landing, although many of them failed to hit key positions.

But it still caused heavy casualties and psychological blows to the Qing army. How could the Qing army withstand such powerful firepower with its mortal body.

At this moment, countless Qing soldiers were ready to retire. If it wasn't for the bitter cold outside the Great Wall and the sparsely populated population, they might not be able to reach the city of Chiqing alive after escaping from Shanhaiguan, they would have fled long ago.

"God, I beg you, don't let the Ming army fire anymore, if you continue to fight, I will be shocked to death." Countless soldiers of the Qing army began to pray to the sky at this moment, hoping that the Ming army's artillery would stop firing. down.

It's a pity that God seems to ignore their prayers. The Ming army's artillery fire is still bombarding Shanhaiguan. At this moment, large sections of the city wall have been blown down. Countless Qing troops were crushed to death by the city wall. There are two 300 people.

As for the people who were killed and injured by the artillery, there were even more people. Once the projectiles of the Hongyi Cannon hit the crowd, it instantly turned into a red road. Flicking away a stone can also make the Qing army bleed.

At this moment, the southern part of Shanhaiguan City is full of severed limbs, and there are countless soldiers screaming in pain. The scene is like purgatory on earth.

However, the Qing army could not wait for God's mercy, and the officers of the Jinwu Guard went to Tao Dingjun first and asked him to cease fire.

"General Tao, tell your soldiers to stop and let the artillery fire at this moment. I think the Qing army in the city should have no will to resist. Let my soldiers go in and sweep up and kill all the remaining Tartars. Let's go." Jin Wu's vanguard commander found Tao Dingjun.

Don't look at the high-sounding words he said, in fact, he was selfish. The corpses of the Qing army are military merits, and the heads of the Tartars are even more high-quality military merits.

He took thousands of brothers out all the way, but he didn't get any military merits, all of them were taken away by Tao Dingjun's Wuwei Qianjun, so why is he still here today, come to watch the battle?
"No." Tao Dingjun didn't give him any face, and flatly rejected his request.

"You." Jinwu's vanguard commander pointed at Tao Dingjun angrily.

"Don't be ignorant of good and bad, the artillery is powerful, but can you kill all the Tartars? You don't want my brothers to go in and sweep them up. If you don't leave me with some military exploits, I won't help you." Jin Wu's avant-garde commander Angrily reprimanded Tao Dingjun.

"No need, after the Shanhai Pass is razed to the ground, the Tartars will die completely. After tonight, Shanhai Pass will become history." Tao Dingjun said calmly.

He came today to test the power of the artillery, and Shanhaiguan happened to be a very suitable target.

"What are you talking about? Shanhaiguan is the most important pass to defend the capital. If you razed this place to the ground, what will happen to the safety of the capital?"

"What is your intention? I don't think you are from the Ming army, but from the Qing army." Jin Wu's avant-garde commander said brazenly.

He never expected that Tao Dingjun would dare to make such a crazy move and razed Shanhaiguan to the ground. Not to mention that Shanhaiguan is an extremely important pass. Cannons can be easily destroyed. "

But in the next second, Jin Wu's avant-garde commander was severely slapped in the face.

I saw that the gate tower of the city wall on the south side of the Shanhai Pass finally collapsed under the concentrated attack of a large number of artillery fire and rockets.

(End of this chapter)