I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

After paying a full 1,200 lives, the Qing army filled a moat with a length of more than 100 meters, which was enough for their siege troops to pass under the city wall.

Subsequently, the Qing army began a formal siege.

In order to cover these siege troops, Liu Liangzuo had to send archers to suppress the Ming army at the head of the city again.

The soldiers walking in the front all carried large wooden shields, which were also wrapped with quilts. Such shields were the most effective at defending against firearms.

Of course, an iron shield is better, but if a half-human-high shield is made of iron, no one can carry it for hundreds of meters.

Even if he barely managed to get under the city wall, he didn't have the physical strength to climb the ladder.

The shield soldiers were followed by soldiers carrying siege ladders, which were also sad cannon fodder. They needed to put the ladders on the city wall, which was the main target of the defending soldiers.

After these people, they are the main sword and shield soldiers in the siege.

There were 3,000 soldiers in the first wave of attacking the city. When they rushed to about 150 meters away from the city wall, the fire guns on the city wall began to fire again.

"Run fast, rush over."

The commander of the Qing army shouted, urging the soldiers to run forward. And those soldiers who were advancing, from time to time someone fell on the way.

It's okay to die on the spot, you can suffer less pain. And those soldiers who were not hit in the vitals were even worse, dying after a series of tortures.

In this era, there is no penicillin, and the bullets used in firearms are lead bullets, which are highly toxic. Where they were hit, more than 90% of the people were infected and rotted.

Once infected, you can only wait to die, amputation is useless, and after the amputation continues to be infected and rotted, it is better to stab at the neck.

At a distance of more than 100 meters, it only took ten seconds for the soldiers to rush, but these ten seconds were enough for the flintlock gun to fire the second shot.

Shooting at close range, the Qing army fell in pieces like wheat being cut.

This made the generals who were supervising the battle at the rear feel numb and sweat on their backs.

Even if he is used to all kinds of killing scenes, this scene of people falling into pieces is still so terrifying.

There were only 800 flintlock troops stationed on this side of the city wall. If there were 2,000 people, I am afraid that a salvo would be able to crush the Qing army.

And now, although the Qing army suffered heavy losses, it had already rushed under the city wall, and the ladder had hooked into the city wall.

The surviving Qing troops began to climb upward, and more Qing troops behind them passed the moat and squeezed into the narrow boundary below the city.

At this time, Wu Changqing ordered: "Grenade."

Following his order, hundreds of dark iron boxes were thrown from the top of the city to the bottom of the city. When the soldiers under the city were still stunned, the explosion started.

The scene of hundreds of grenades exploding was even more shocking than the salvo of a dozen cannons. Just the sound of the explosion almost deafened people's ears. The raised dust covered all the Qing troops under the city, only the screams were not covered.

"Ah...help, mother..."

There were all kinds of screams and screams under the city wall, and some Qing troops struggled in pain, like the end of the world, like the underworld.

These screams directly frightened the Qing army behind them and did not dare to step forward.

In fact, there is no way to go forward. There is just a little place opposite the moat, and it is already crowded with one or two thousand people standing.

And now those soldiers are still lying on the ground, and the ground is covered.

"Is this the rebel's bomb?"

Liu Liangzuo at the rear muttered to himself that in the battle reports related to Wu Changqing, the blooming bullets were also mentioned once or twice. But because those people themselves are not familiar with this thing, so they don't know how to write the battle report, they are all vague.

So much that Liu Liangzuo didn't pay attention to this thing before.

But now, the grenade is more terrifying than the new firearm.

Seeing the tragic state of those soldiers, Liu Liangzuo was a little scared.

"General, order the evacuation first, the soldiers in front are already scared."

Cheng Tianbao reminded.

Liu Liangzuo immediately ordered Ming Jin to withdraw his troops after hearing the words.

There was only a wave of siege today, and the casualties had already reached more than 2,500 people, and the wounded soldiers were basically the same as those who died.

Even in his heart, Liu Liangzuo wished that they were dead rather than injured.

The wounded soldiers are even more troublesome. He can't ignore them. If he lets the wounded soldiers cry under the city and ignore them, it will undoubtedly chill the hearts of all soldiers, and no one will dare to sacrifice their lives in the future.

Therefore, after they had retreated, they immediately sent a team of unarmed men to the city wall to treat the wounded.

At this time, Wu Changqing did not order to stop the shooting. After the battle, they were not allowed to attack the wounded soldiers. This was an unspoken rule in ancient battlefields.

Any general with a bit of humanity will abide by this rule.

For Wu Changqing, he was also very happy that the Qing army brought back those wounded soldiers.

These wounded soldiers have no combat effectiveness, and will only drag down the Qing army and affect the morale of the Qing army.

And Liu Liangzuo knew that there were such consequences, but he had to continue to do so.

Carloads of wounded soldiers were transported back, and the tragic state of those wounded soldiers was so frightening that some timid soldiers dared not open their eyes.

A wounded soldier was shot in the eye

A piece of iron, it hurts to look at. Another was hit with several very small fragments in the face, which made it pockmarked. Another was blown up to a bloody belly, but he still didn't die.

For these wounded soldiers, the soldiers in charge of treatment did not know how to treat them at all, and they had no similar experience.

The wounded soldiers in the past were either stabbed by a spear or slashed by a large knife, and they all had experience in dealing with these wounds.

But now, those wounded soldiers were basically shot with iron pieces into their bodies. They didn't know how to deal with them at all. They could only simply pull out with their hands and dig with the tip of a knife.

In the era of no anesthesia, this type of treatment was similar to killing people. Those wounded soldiers who were in pain were worse off than dying. Many people had already begged Paoze to give them a stab at it.

"Shameless, despicable, these rebels have no humanity."

Liu Liangzuo looked at these wounded soldiers, his mind became stupid with anger, and when he returned to the camp, he scolded some useless nonsense. The other generals who were watching were speechless for a while, and could only sigh in their hearts.

"General, these soldiers have to be arranged farther away. Too close to the main camp will affect morale."

Xue Guiren reminded that the screams of these wounded soldiers never stopped, which was very demoralizing.

"General, many of these soldiers can't be saved, why not..."

"No, how can we kill our own soldiers? If this kind of thing leaks out, the entire camp will mutiny."

Dong Tianbao directly interrupted the sergeant's words, although he also knew that killing some seriously injured people was to reduce the burden. However, doing such a thing is easy to be punished by God.

Once things come to light, there will be endless troubles.