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Chapter 177 The Battle of Hangu Pass

The red barbarian cannons and general cannons in the hands of the Shun Army that were shoddy in the Ming army had almost no accuracy, and they did not dare to fill the medicine for firing because of the explosion. This led to the slow initial velocity of the shells and further reduced the accuracy.

The shells flying from five hundred steps fell into the Qing army's shield chariot formation. Because the formation between the Qing army's shield chariot and the shield chariot was very loose, although the Shun army's shells fell one after another, they still failed to hit the Qing army's shield chariot.

But there was still an unlucky shield cart hit the shell. The huge kinetic energy of the Red Cannon shells instantly smashed the shield in front of the shield cart to pieces. The broken wooden shield swept across the Qing soldiers behind the shield cart, and the shells that smashed the wooden shield continued to move forward. The shield cart shook violently. The Qing soldiers pushing the cart flew everywhere, and the missing legs were missing by the shells. They even had unlucky heads hit by the iron ball, shattering like smashed watermelons.

The Qing soldiers screamed and fell down, and the shield cart was tilted to one side and could no longer move. The shield cart that followed behind silently bypassed the destroyed shield cart and continued to advance.

The outermost trench was getting closer and closer. When they entered within three hundred steps, the Fran aircraft and the young general artillery of the Shun Army spit out flames. At the same time, the three-bow crossbow and catapults of the Shun Army also began to fire.

"Let me!" Yuan Zong yelled at the first time.

More than 140 auxiliary soldiers of the Shun Army, composed of refugees, worked together to pull the ropes, and the lever drove a basket full of stones of all sizes to fly up, splashing the stones in the basket above the Qing army shield formation.

The trencher can launch 140 kilograms of stones at a time, and the basket contains a large stone of thirty kilograms, medium stones weighing more than ten kilograms and dozens of small stones weighing about one kilogram. At one time, hundreds of stones of large size and fairies scattered flowers and spilled down on the heads of the Qing army shield formation like fairies.

The hail-like stone rain directly crossed the top of the shield cart and fell toward the Qing army's head. A thirty kilogram of big stone hit the shield cart, and the shield cart was tilted to one side. About one kilogram of stone hit the Qing army's head, and the head wrapped around it was sunk, the head inside was broken, and the brain burst.

These Qing army auxiliary soldiers of the Green Camp have not even had warm hats or cold hats. Each of them is wearing a ragged cloak and a headscarf wrapped around their heads.

Anyway, the lives of these Green Camp auxiliary soldiers are not worth much. To put it bluntly, the lives of these qian men are not as valuable as the number clothes they have on them. The Green Camp auxiliary soldiers are dead, and some people take off their number clothes and put them on them. So, even the new Green Camp auxiliary soldiers are tattered and covered with blood.

Stone rain fell one after another, and the Qing army's auxiliary soldiers were seriously injured. However, the undead people bit the bullet and pushed the shield cart forward. They did not dare to retreat at all. If they threw the shield cart away, the Green Camp warriors behind would not care whether they were Han compatriots. The steel knife in their hands would cut off their heads without hesitation.

As the distance approached, the artillery fire of the Shunjun became more fierce and the accuracy was greatly improved. The whistling shells continued to hit the shield cart. The shield cart was caught tilted to one side, and the auxiliary soldiers pushing the cart behind the cart flew everywhere.

However, the fierce artillery fire of the Shun Army failed to completely stop the Qing army's shield chariots. Finally, a shield chariot arrived in front of the trench. The Qing army auxiliary soldiers who were pushing the car quickly carried bags of sacks from the shield chariot and threw them into the trench. However, the shield chariots approaching the trench were hit by three-way firepower, and the shield on the front could block the bird guns and bows from the front, but the bird gun projectiles and feather arrows shot from the left and right sides knocked the Qing army auxiliary soldiers down in front of the trench one by one.

The undead Green Camp auxiliary soldiers tried their best to throw the mabao into the trench. As long as the mabao is thrown into the trench, they can drag the shield cart back. Anyway, they have saved their lives this time, and I don’t know whether they will die next time. I can’t care about so many, just live one day more. However, even this wish is difficult to realize, because after many auxiliary soldiers threw the mabao, they were shot into sieve by Shunjun’s bird guns and shot into hedgehogs by Shunjun’s arrows.

Gu Jun

I don’t know how many auxiliary soldiers of the Green Camp were lost. The bodies and Ma Bao filled a large section of the trench together, and gradually piled up a pile of dirt in front of the trench.

The Shun Army tried its best to stop the Qing army with fierce artillery fire, but Wu Sangui had already issued a death order. The Qing soldiers of the Green Camp continued to build a large-scale construction and vowed to build a Yuliang Road higher than the bastion so that the Green Camp warriors and the Eight Banners Army could attack the bastion.

Yuan Zongdi saw it and was anxious in his heart. He asked Li Zicheng for advice: "King, Jiannu has been willing to go out. Brothers really can't stop Jiannu from building the Yuliang Road. Isn't our army here two hundred (there are another three hundred, of which one hundred are in Xi'an and two hundred are in Fenglingdu) new red barbarian cannons? Pull it out and hit his mother. After a while, two rounds of artillery bombardment, the bureau probably destroyed all the shield chariots of Jiannu."

"The power of the Red Barbarian cannons is huge and should not be shown to others. Before the elite troops of the Jiannu Eight Banners move, our army should not easily use the Red Barbarian cannons. Although the Ming Jinyiwei provided our army with shells of the Red Barbarian cannons, the number was not large, and the lifespan of the Red Barbarian cannons was limited. If the shells were wasted on those green camp soldiers, how could our army resist the Jiannu Eight Banners soldiers later?" Li Zicheng shook his head and refused.

Li Zicheng planned to use the small red cannons as large muskets. When the Qing army's Eight Banners soldiers launched an attack, they concentrated a number of volleys of one hundred small red cannons to fire the biggest killing of the Qing army at one time.

Yuan Zongdi asked, "But Jiannu's Yuliang Road is about to be laid, what should our army do?"

Li Zicheng closed his one-eye, pondered for a moment, and ordered: "Suppose the infantry to attack and destroy the Jiannu Yuliang Road."

With Yuan Zongdi's order, groups of Shun Army infantry emerged from the trenches, and about 10,000 Shun Army infantry roared and rushed towards the advancing Qing army shield chariot formation.

"Kill slaves, kill slaves! Kill Jiannu's head and reward ten taels of silver! Kill Zhennu's head and reward one hundred taels of silver!" Liu Zongmin shouted and cheered the infantry.

These infantrymen were refugees who were about to starve to death before. They lived so much that they had never seen more than ten taels of silver. I heard that killing a Qing army would get ten taels of silver, and killing an Eight Banners Army would get one hundred taels of silver. The morale of the Shun army's infantrymen rose sharply and they were ready to fight, wishing they could enter the enemy formation as soon as possible and slash and kill.

Li Zicheng was not short of silver. In order to destroy the Yuliang Road of the Qing army, he offered a high price of ten taels of silver to the heads of ordinary green camp soldiers. In fact, he didn't have to spend much money, because it was hard to say whether the infantry rushed out could kill a thousand green camp soldiers. However, one thing that is certain is that as long as the Shun army infantry rushed to the Qing army's shield chariot, the Qing army auxiliary soldiers would definitely be polished, and at that time, they would be destroyed and they would be able to retreat.

The Qing army naturally also guarded against the Shun Army's rushing forward. A large number of green camp soldiers were lined up behind the Qing army's shield chariots. Once the Shun Army was found to be coming, the Qing army's green camp infantry would come up to block the Shun Army's infantry.

However, the Shun Army was not the infantry first, but a thousand old battalions of cavalry rushed out of the bastion. Gao Yigong and Li Laiheng personally led the team, and more than a thousand Shun Army cavalry slowly advanced towards the Qing army's infantry formation. When they entered a hundred steps, with Gao Yigong's order, the Shun Army cavalry began to accelerate and charged towards the Qing army formation.

"The cavalry of the bandits is here, the Eight Banners athletes are ready to kill the bandits!" With Ajige's order, three thousand Manchu Eight Banners heavy cavalry rushed out of the formation behind and prepared to intercept the Shun Army cavalry.

Gao Yigong and Li Laiheng led the old camp light cavalry of the Shun Army and quickly whipped the Qing army's infantry formation, but they did not directly attack the Qing army's infantry, but took off their cavalry bows and shot rows of arrows at the formation of the Qing army's green camp infantry.
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