Daming Military Empire

Chapter 506
Towards noon, the sun was shining brightly, and the Wacha coalition forces outside Hami began to gather and form formations. There were 20 horses in four directions, and there were orders and momentum.

Gushi Khan stared closely at the sundial in front of him. As soon as the shadow of the sundial coincided with the noon mark, he raised his hand without hesitation and shouted: "Kill."

"Kill!" Shouts of killing rang out from four directions at the same time, and the [-] Wacha cavalry acted as infantry, carrying ladders and rushing towards the city wall.

After drills by the Tsarist Russian instructors, they already knew roughly how to dodge the shells. The originally neat formation immediately became extremely disorganized as soon as they ran away. Everyone was twisting and twisting like crazy, but they just didn't walk in a straight line!
Hou Gongji looked through the binoculars at how they were wriggling seriously, couldn't help curling his lips, and ordered coldly: "Order the artillery, the fifty cannons in the middle are loaded with shells, and the two sides are on standby."

There are only 100 Wacha cavalry in front of us. If more than [-] cannons continue to bombard them, it is estimated that half of them will fall before they get close to the city wall. If there are not enough defenders in the Hami Guard, they will naturally bombard with all their strength. But now, Naturally, you have to take it easy, it would be bad to scare them all away.

The enemy attacking the city had already entered the bombardment range of the artillery, but Hou Gongji did not order to fire the artillery, because he only planned to bombard one round, and the effect of firing early and late would not be much different.

When the enemy's vanguard was less than two miles away from the city wall, Hou Gongji calmly raised his hand and shouted, "Fire."

"Boom boom boom" as soon as his voice fell, the roar of artillery sounded on the city wall, and fifty shells quickly fell into the enemy's formation.

Since the enemy troops themselves were not many and scattered, the hit rate of this round of shelling was not high, and only a hundred or so unlucky ghosts in the middle were hit by shells.

Hou Gongji immediately ordered: "All infantry are ready, fire six rounds, no need to aim."

The guards were scattered, and the infantrymen on the city wall quickly unloaded their muskets from their shoulders, leaned on the female wall, and pointed them forward.

When the roar of artillery was heard on the city wall, Gushi Khan couldn't help but twitched the corners of his eyes, but when he saw that the sparse shells only caused casualties of a hundred people, he couldn't help curling his lips again.

This cannon is really useless, it took a lot of hard work and cost a lot, casting cannons, making gunpowder, making cannonballs, training special gunners, and putting in effort to move it up the city wall. , Why not recruit more soldiers!

Soon, the siege troops were within two hundred steps of the city wall, and he knew that the Ming army might be about to shoot.

Sure enough, the sound of "snapping" gunshots was soon heard on the city wall.

However, there was still no lethality, because Gushi Khan ranked all the armored cavalry at the front, and they still had shields in their hands, so it was useless to hit them with muskets.

The muskets rang for a while and finally stopped. The casualties caused were not very large. The siege troops fell to less than a hundred people, and not many were injured.

Gushi Khan let out a sigh, and put down the binoculars in his hand. The power of the muskets and artillery was about the same as he expected, and did not cause too many casualties. I can take it down.

He didn't know that the Ming army didn't aim at it on purpose, and the artillery didn't bombard it with all its strength. If it really fired with all its strength, it would be good if only half of the 5000 people were left.

Next, Hou Gongji performed a wonderful hand-to-hand fight.

When the siege troops approached the city wall, the Ming army didn't even throw a grenade, and used old methods such as rolling stones, shovel wood, hot oil, and boiling water.

Hundreds of ladders climbed the city wall, and thousands of people climbed up and were stabbed down. Gushi Khan calmly watched with a telescope.

The Ming army still didn't have any special means, they just knew how to stab them with a gun.

This round of testing is almost over, and it is impossible for 5000 people to take down the city wall. Gushi Khan looked at it for a while, and ordered lightly: "Mingjin, withdraw troops."

"Kang, bang, bang..." There was a sound of gongs in the Wacha army formation, and the soldiers who attacked the city ran back with their feet loose, and they didn't even want the ladders on the city wall.

The losses in this round were not very large, only two to three hundred people were actually killed, and not many were seriously injured, most of them were only slightly injured.

Gushi Khan felt that the fighting power of the Ming army on the city wall was just like this. He directly said to the guards behind: "Go, notify the other three directions, the next two rounds, attack fiercely, don't stop in the middle, and try to take down the city wall."

Hou Gongji on the city wall saw Gushi Khan's expression clearly through the telescope. It seems that the next step is to formally attack the city. He also ordered the guards: "Go and inform the other three directions, The enemy has finished testing, and then go all out!"

Gushi Khan roughly estimated the time, and not long after the guards who sent the order ran out, he ordered decisively: "On the second wave, attack the city with all your strength."

"Kill!" The 1 people in the west first launched a charge, and then there were loud shouts of killing from the south, north, and east.

Seeing this scene, Hou Gong on the city wall immediately ordered: "All artillery, load shells and bombard ten rounds in a row."

Following his order, the artillery commander raised the command flag, and all artillerymen quickly began to load.

After each artillery position raised the command flags that had been loaded, the artillery commander waved down the command flags without hesitation, and at the same time shouted: "Fire."

"Boom boom boom" This time there were more than 100 shells, and the number of Wacha soldiers attacking the city was twice as dense, causing a bit more casualties.

After one round, there were at least three to four hundred people spattered with blood. After ten rounds, the siege team was directly reduced by less than half.

Gushi Khan broke out in a cold sweat at this time, what's going on!

It seems that I have been tricked by the Ming army, what should I do, retreat?
He scanned around with binoculars. At this time, the siege team was less than two hundred steps away from the city wall. If they retreated, they would suffer ten rounds of shells when they came back. It was taken down, he gritted his teeth, and did not order a retreat.

If all 6000 people rushed up, it would be difficult to resist, but how could Hou Gongji let them rush up so easily.

As soon as the Wacha soldiers arrived within two hundred steps of the city wall, he decisively ordered all the infantry to aim and shoot, each with two roulettes and twelve bullets.

"Papa papa" The dense gunshots came to mind again on the city wall. This time it was not a blind volley, but aimed and shot. Countless Wacha soldiers fell down covering their faces or necks.

At this time, even Hou Gongji couldn't help reaching out for a sniper rifle from his personal guard, and with a slap, he shot a bloody hole in the throat of the enemy's frontline commander!
When the Wacha soldiers approached the city wall, there were less than 4000 people left even with minor injuries, but their bad luck did not end.

There are not only rolling stones, wood, hot oil, boiling water, but also grenades to greet them!

(End of this chapter)