Chapter 120: Attack and Defense of the New City
Under the new city, a large number of Qing troops set up ladders, holding shields and broadswords, and crowded together to climb the city.
The two battalions of soldiers on the city wall could even clearly look at the fierce eyes and hideous expressions of the Tartars.
The ladder for the siege of the city is not a long ladder in the TV series, but a huge wooden cart, the ladder on it is divided into two parts, and after unfolding, the whole is built on the head of the city like a slope, and there is a hook on it that can be hung on the city wall, which is very stable.
The musketeers of the new battalion lined up again on the city wall, constantly attacking the Qing troops under the city, and in the burst of gunfire, a large number of Qing soldiers on Yunti kept shaking and falling.
Seeing that the Ming army was very fierce, a large number of archers came out of the Qing army's formation, and fired back at the city, although the difficulty of the meeting was far greater than that of the down, but the outstanding archery skills of the Tartars made up for these weaknesses.
Within forty paces of each other, the Qing archers shot extremely accurately, and as long as the soldiers of the Yongwei battalion showed a little gap, they could become the target of the Qing archers.
In order to avoid being shot by the bows and arrows of the Qing army under the city, the musketeers of the Yongwei battalion had to retreat to the back wall and ask for support from other troops.
Just as the archers of the Qing army were shooting arrows at the top of the city, suddenly, there was a loud noise at the head of the city, and with a large amount of smoke rising, countless arrows rained down and roared towards the archers under the city.
The archers of the Qing army stood in several rows, very dense, and such a formation made the rockets of the Shenji Battalion exert their maximum lethality, and the Tartars poured a large piece as if they had been cut leeks.
Seeing that the effect of the rockets was remarkable, the Shenji Battalion moved out a large number of rockets and shot them at the Qing archers under the city.
After several rounds of arrow rain sweeping, the Qing army's archers suddenly decreased by more than half, and the rest were scattered and retreated to the rear of the formation.
Under the cover of the ladder truck, the city was already crowded with a large number of Qing soldiers besieging the city, all waiting to climb up the ladder truck.
The soldiers of the new battalion on the city wall kept lifting stones and throwing them down, there were too many tartars below, there was no need to aim at all, one throw was accurate, dozens of pounds of stones fell from a height of ten meters, and even the Qing soldiers holding shields were smashed and vomited blood and fractures.
There were also some soldiers who carried the wooden rolling stones to the ladder, and used gravity and inertia to smash the Qing soldiers down the ladder, and heard a burst of seeping howls under the ladder.
Listening to the screams of the Tartars under the city, the Ming army on the city wall threw the stones more energetically, just like playing!
For a time, the ladder cart under the city wall was covered with Tartar corpses and wounded soldiers, but because there were too many Qing troops, the Qing soldiers behind filled the empty space again.
The musketeers of the Yongwei battalion loaded the medicine and fired a shot at the city, and then retreated to the back of the city wall to reload to avoid being targeted by the Qing archers.
Some of the Tartars had just climbed the city wall and were shot by musketeers at close range, and under the blows of the soldiers of the Yongwei Battalion and the New Battalion, the Qing troops also continued to fall down the ladder.
Although most of the Qing soldiers on the ladder had now approached the battlement wall, under the tight defense of the musketeers of the Yongwei Battalion, they were never able to let the Qing soldiers break through the defense line and kill the city.
Gradually, the wooden rolling stones on the city were almost consumed, and the Qing army rushed up one by one as if they had been beaten with chicken blood.
As the Tartars got closer and closer to the city, what happened next left them unable to eat for three days!
"It's golden juice!" A Tartar soul out-of-body screamed and jumped directly off the ladder.
What is Gold Juice? It is not the juice of gold that burns into gold water, but ....... Cooked! Arsenic is also added to the, which is really poisonous in the!
This thing is dirty and smelly on the one hand, it's just disgusting, and the most terrible thing is that after being poured on the body, the scalded wound will rot, which is difficult to heal, and has the effect of chasing souls and killing people.
"Let the Tartars have a good taste!"
The soldiers on the city walls, despite their face towels, grinned at the stench, scooped a spoonful of boiling dung juice with a long spoon and poured it on the tartar who was climbing the ladder.
Every time it was poured, a tartar fell down the ladder with a scream, and even pulled more tartars down with it.
As the gold juice continued to fall, the city suddenly became stinky, and the smell was even worse on a hot day, which directly made people breathless, and the Qing soldiers under the city were directly smoked and couldn't open their eyes, and many people couldn't help but vomit.
Many Tartars scolded angrily in their hearts, where is this here to fight, it's just here to eat! It's still the hot one!
Zhu Cihong really couldn't bear this smell, so he simply walked down the city wall silently and went to the drum tower in the center of the city, which is the highest point in the new city, and you can see the general situation of the four city gates from a distance, and the most important thing is that it is far away from this smell......
Although the difficulty of attacking the city increased due to the deterioration of the environment, the Qing army still rushed upwards and wanted to take the new city as soon as possible.
The Qing army was densely attached to the ladder like ants, and launched one onslaught after another on the city, covering almost all the city walls.
Not only the Han army and the Mongol soldiers, but even all the armor soldiers and auxiliary soldiers of the Eight Banners were all thrown into the siege team.
Under the city wall, in the moats of the city guard, the corpses of the Qing soldiers are also increasing, and the wounded soldiers are also produced in large numbers.
Xincheng is only a dozen miles away from Jingshi, and the news that the crown prince was besieged by 30,000 Jiannu troops in Xincheng reached Jingshi in an hour, and Emperor Chongzhen and Empress Zhou were both shocked and worried.
Emperor Chongzhen urgently ordered the British public Zhang Zhiji to send the Beijing battalion to the rescue, and the generals in the Beijing camp did not dare to fight, Zhang Zhiji finally fooled a few generals who wanted to make meritorious contributions and led thousands of men and horses out of the Beijing division to rescue.
As a result, as soon as the Beijing division was stopped on the road, the Qing army was directly killed and dispersed, the Qing army approached the Beijing division, and no one in the Beijing camp dared to fight.
The Qing army suffered heavy losses in the siege battle, and Abatai, who was watching the battle, was not idle, he ordered the army to be concentrated in the south gate and northwest direction, the west gate to the north was responsible for defending and blocking the reinforcements of Jingshi and Tongzhou, and the south gate was responsible for the main attack.
When he heard that the crown prince was besieged by the Tartar army in Xincheng, he laughed out loud on the spot, and drank a few taels of old baigan leisurely.
Although the Shanxi general army stationed in Tongzhou wanted to send troops to rescue, but in the end there were no troops, according to Zhu Cihong's requirements, no matter what happened, he only needed to hold Tongzhou, and Tongzhou could not be lost.
Dong Yongwen, the chief soldier of Baoding in Langfang, really didn't dare to support, for fear that he would be destroyed by the Tartars halfway out of the city.