Hundreds of Qing soldiers on war horses whistled at the Ming troops defending the city, laughing at Manchu and constantly provoking.

Just when this group of Qing soldiers was mocking the Ming army in the city, they suddenly saw a row of black holes sticking out of the battlements to make a pipe, aimed at them.

Then I heard a series of thunderbolts like popping beans, and in the blink of an eye the city was covered with a large amount of smoke, but it was immediately blown away by the breeze.

The Qing army under the city was caught off guard, and dozens of people were killed at once, and then there was a second and third round of shooting on the city wall, and so on, taking turns to shoot, and the gunfire never stopped.

After a few rounds of blows, the hundreds of elites of the Qing army under the city were extremely chaotic, and half of them were killed in an instant, and the rest quickly turned their horses and ran back during the first round of shooting.

When Zhu Cihong ordered the archers of the Beijing camp to shoot, he had already ordered the 2,000 musketeers of the Yongwei battalion to climb the city wall, divide them into five rows, and shoot one row after another when the Qing army entered the range of musket fire.

The firing range of the Qing army's infantry bow was sixty paces, and these old soldiers in the Ming army's Beijing camp had not trained in cavalry archery for eight hundred years, and even if they shot from the top of the city, they barely reached sixty paces.

There are even some wastes that shoot only thirty steps, and only a few that shoot eighty steps.

However, in Zhu Cihong's eyes, the waste appearance shown by these waste soldiers at this time just helped him.

The musketeers of the Yongwei Battalion were armed with the most advanced Lumi guns and flintlock muskets of the Ming Dynasty, with a range of about one hundred and fifty paces, and the elite of the Qing army wore at least two layers of heavy armor and possibly three layers of heavy armor.

Zhu Cihong estimated that it would take at least eighty steps before the muskets of the Yongwei Battalion could penetrate their three layers of heavy armor, so Zhu Cihong had been patiently waiting for the opportunity.

Finally, after waiting for all the Qing troops to enter a distance of about seventy steps from the city wall, they ordered to shoot, and sure enough, most of them were cleared in one wave.

A thunderous cheer immediately erupted on the city wall, and a wave of more than 200 elite Qing soldiers was killed.

And under the city, the remaining dozens of Qing soldiers were taken aback, and their souls flew away.

Although they all knew that the Ming army had firearms, in their impressions, the firearms of the Ming army were no different from burning sticks, either blowing up the chamber or firing the gun in advance outside the firing range, almost not allowing them to get close to the precursor to shoot again.

Without thinking, more than a dozen Qing soldiers immediately urged their horses to step forward, wanting to retrieve Niu Lu Zhangjing's body.

That unlucky Niu Lu Zhangjing was specially taken care of because he was wearing the most obvious outfit, and he was blown out of the head during the second round of shooting.

The actions of these dozen Qing soldiers were tantamount to self-defeating, and just as they were approaching Niu Lu Zhangjing's corpse, the Yongwei battalion on the city wall fired another round of fire, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers fell from their horses almost at the same time.

There was another burst of cheers on the city walls, which in turn began to mock the Qing soldiers.

The remaining dozens of Qing soldiers under the city all showed a look of horror, no longer arrogant as before, and at the same time subconsciously controlled the horse to retreat, until they retreated beyond the range of two hundred paces before stopping.

And many people who were lucky enough to be alive also took advantage of this opportunity to rush to the city wall, just wanting to get as far away from the Qing army as possible.

Zhu Cihong looked at the city and saw that the dozens of Qing soldiers were still wandering under the city, obviously unwilling to be defeated like this, but he did not dare to approach the city wall.

Zhu Cihong knew that the Qing army had a tradition that the corpses of soldiers killed in battle must be brought back, especially their leader Niu Lu Zhangjing was still lying here.

Zhu Cihong said: "Since you haven't left yet, I'll bombard them with a cannon and give them more food." ”

Some gunners in the Beijing camp at the head of the city began to fire their guns after receiving the order, but the result was either far away or missed, and they didn't even touch the side of the Qing soldiers.

Zhu Cihong was just about to kill a few soldiers from the Beijing camp to shake the field, and then transfer the gunners of the Yongwei battalion to come up, when he received a piece of information sent by Li Tingbiao.

According to the intelligence, after the Qing army captured Changping, the army was divided into two armies, the left and right, the commander Azig led the army south to march to the Liangxiang area, and Abatai marched to Shunyi and Miyun.

Among them, after Jialazhangjing Tan Tai led an army of 3,000 men and horses to shield the Azig southward army, the cavalry team of 300 people was Tan Tai's next Niu Lu's men and horses, and came to the city to provoke and test to see if the Ming army had any intention of pursuing south.

After reading the information, Zhu Cihong smiled coldly and said: "After just one Jiala wanted to shield him, he also sent a Jiannu of Niu Lu to provoke under the city, I really don't know whether to live or die!" ”

Zhu Cihong knew that the Qing army's entry into the customs this time should still be the old tradition, robbing grain and money, and then plundering some people back, and did not plan to attack Beijing.

In history, the Qing army entered the customs six times, except for the sixth time when it entered the Central Plains from Shanhaiguan, and the first five times were to be put it bluntly, they came to rob.

Even if they had the ability to take Beijing City a few times before, they didn't dare to take it, because Huang Taiji knew that even if they lost their troops and took Beijing City, they would not be able to replace the Ming Dynasty.

On the contrary, it will allow the Ming Dynasty to move the capital to Nanjing and re-establish the imperial court, which will be very unfavorable to them.

Only by constantly entering the customs to loot the population and property, and enriching their own strength, can Jiannu continue to narrow the gap with the strength of the Ming Dynasty, so that they can have the capital to enter the Central Plains.

I have to say that Huang Taiji's strategic intent is very accurate.

At this time, the dozens of Qing soldiers wandering outside the city did not advance or retreat, and they were very anxious. Suddenly, I saw that the huge suspension bridge of Xizhimen was lowered, and the city gate was wide open, and hundreds of horsemen and horses were killed from the city of Beijing.

These Qing soldiers didn't expect the Ming army to rush out, they had been frightened by the fire guns in the city, and there were many Ming soldiers and horses, so they immediately turned their horses and ran away.

Hundreds of cavalry of the Brave Guard Battalion frantically urged their horses to rush towards them, chasing them closely. They received an order from His Royal Highness the Crown Prince that even if this group of dogs ran to Liaodong, you would catch up and hack them to death!

Zhu Cihong naturally would not let the cavalry of the Yongwei battalion take risks, because he received information that the nearest Qing army brigade was still dozens of miles away, and many of these dozens of Qing troops were bruised by firearms and ammunition, and the war horses carried a large amount of property, which was completely enough for the cavalry of the Yongwei battalion to catch up before this group of Qing soldiers fled back to the camp.

Zhu Cihong ordered the Yongwei battalion to go out of the city and bring the people who fled to the city gate into the city, and at the same time asked the veterans in the Yongwei battalion to take the soldiers who had never been on the battlefield to clean up the battlefield and clear the spoils.

The main thing is to let them see the blood, cut off a few heads, and get used to the atmosphere of the battlefield.

Those soldiers who had never been on the battlefield, under the demonstration of the veterans, hummed and chirped at the Qing soldiers who were lying on the ground, and they still had a breath to go up to make up for the knife and gun, although it was like beating the water dogs, it was finally opened.

There are also some soldiers who kill people for the first time, and because of their nervous mood, it is inevitable that they will have a few more barrels, and many people will stab them while chattering, making you fucking scared! Let you fucking pretend! Go to hell!

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Note: The titles of Jiannu, Tartar, Slave Thief, and Dongnu in this book all refer to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, not because I personally despise them, but because they are called so in history, because different people are used to calling them differently.

Tartar is the name given by the Han people to the ethnic minorities in the north, such as the Mongols and Manchus. Jiannu is the Jianzhou Jurchen, the predecessor of the Manchus.