Chapter 721: The fight started

The capital of the Ming Dynasty, like a sky-swallowing giant beast in the night, but now this giant beast has lost its claws, and it trembles in the face of the Qing cavalry, and a few miles outside the city, Dolgon Lema looked at the chaotic fire at the head of the city and the drums from afar, and his face was full of smiles, look at them scared!

Just after the end of the day, Dolgon knew that this was the most sleepy time, although the Ming army was prepared, but it was still inevitable to panic, and it would cause suffocating psychological pressure on the people in the city, making them extremely frightened, this is what he wanted.

What's more important is that it is easy to work after dark, he has no artillery and lacks anti-aircraft fire suppression, so he has to take advantage of the night to cover his whereabouts and launch an attack!

The more panicked and frightened the opponent is, the greater his chance, because he knows that with his strength at this time, he can't fight hard, and he must go sideways.

Dolgon sent 20,000 troops to the north of the city, and another 10,000 cavalry to the south city, as Chang Yu and Wang Jiayan expected, with the north city as the main attack area, and Andingmen as the main attack point.

The first step in attacking the city is to cross the moat first, the north city is not only the strongest place in the imperial capital, the moat is also about fifty meters wide, although at this time the weather is dry and there is little water, it is not difficult to wade and cross!

However, Dorgon had already made preparations, and asked the migrant workers to build a lot of rafts to cross the water, hoping to cross the water and attack the city while it was dark.

This is also where Chang Yu is worried, the head of the city of Dingdingmen, looking at the firelight outside the city flickering more and more, Chang Yu frowned, Dolgon still has a brain, it is dark and difficult to see, and the Tartars can easily avoid the firepower of the Ming army in the city to cover the city and quickly cross the water under the city, which is really tricky.

Li Muxian looked at Chang Yu's expression beside him, knowing his worries, so he said softly: "Overseer, can you send troops out of the city to hold on to the moat?" ”

Chang Yu shook his head lightly: "If it is daylight, it may be, but at this time, it is dark and there are no five fingers, and the moat defense line is long, and the troops may not be able to prevent it and increase casualties, and I am afraid that the Tartars will take advantage of the loopholes, and it will not be good for one to accidentally enter the city!" ”

Li Muxian nodded: "Then let's fight blindly, where there is more fire, where there is a lot of fire, even if they cross the river and touch the wall, what can they do, poor Dao doesn't believe that they can fly up."

Chang Yu glanced at him: "You are very pretending to be forced, what if someone deliberately attracts our firepower with firelight" Li Muxian was stunned: "Tartar is so smart?" ”

Chang Yu pouted: "You should be so stupid when everyone thinks you!" Li Muxian was stunned: "Is the poor road stupid?" Song Luoshu next to him couldn't help but sneer, everyone was shocked, and the previous tension immediately dissipated.

A few miles outside the city, Dolgon mobilized 20,000 soldiers and horses to move outside the moat, and in front of the army were thousands of people near the Ming Dynasty.

From west to east on the riverside, there are all kinds of siege ladders, siege engines and stone throwers, and Dolgon will use these most primitive things to attack the capital of the Ming Dynasty, he knows that it will be useless in terms of normality, but at the moment in this world, hehe, who knows, in case it will be done.

Azig and King Sanshun were sent to the southern city, and the northern city was commanded by Dolgon himself, and the main general of the front line was Duoduo......

On the front line of the moat, Duoduo looked at the fire on the head of the tall city in front of him, his eyes showed a fierce light, a few days ago he faced Tang Tong, but he didn't expect to be put by the weak chicken in his eyes, and the first fierce general Ao Bai was injured, which made him lose face, this humiliation should be washed away with blood, he secretly swore that he must attack the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty to burn and plunder, and kill into the palace Then, hehehe......

"Lord Wang, the hour is not early, and the soldiers and horses are already in place, do you want to do it?" The subordinate on his side asked, and Duoduo retracted the evil conjecture and looked around, "Twelfth brother has arrived at the ground?" ”

"The Eight Kings (Azig ranks the twelve princes of Heshuo, preface to the Eight Kings) should have arrived, should we wait over there to do it together?" The subordinate asked, Duoduo laughed: "It's too late for him to do it together, the twelve brothers are not the same job as us at all" After speaking, he smiled coldly, drew his knife and shouted: "Order, do it!" ”

With a loud roar from Duoduo, the Qing soldiers who had been waiting on the moat for a long time immediately launched an attack, driving the stone throwing machine while driving the refugees to cross the river, and tens of thousands of people rushed towards the opposite bank in a roar.

Almost at the same time, the artillery of the Ming army in the city erupted fire, and several shells fell into the enemy group, killing and wounding more than ten people in an instant, screaming again and again...... Dolgon sneered, the Ming army in the Heart Dao City and his own heart actually started at the same time, which was a bit interesting.

The Qing army took advantage of the cover of night to swarm across the river like a tide, and at the same time, hundreds of stone throwers were launched, and the stormy stones fell into the city and fired thousands of arrows, which was really unbeatable.

Chang Yu on the city took the water and flew the stone to command the Ming army to counterattack, several artillery guns fired together, and suppressed the fire condescending with stone throwing machines and bows and arrows, but because the sky was too dark, they could only fight indiscriminately, as for the enemy's casualties, it was difficult to estimate.

"As soon as the sky is bright, they will have no such good luck" Li Muxian looked at him for a while, hatefully said, Chang Yu glanced at him sideways, and saw that he also had a sound armor on his body, but he looked nondescript with a whisk in his hand, and he was funny: "When the day dawns, the Tartars will cross the river as soon as possible."

"Then let's send our troops out of the city and kill them again!" Li Muxian said.

Chang Yu snorted, looked at the Huoguang Mountain outside the city, and the sound of killing was everywhere: "Let's talk about it then."

The Qing army distributed a fierce attack in the early morning, the whole city panicked, and the people heard the sound of cannons and killing the sky far more than a few days ago, they knew that the Tartars were really moving, and their hearts were sad, and they secretly prayed for God's blessing.

On the top of the Imperial City Long Live Mountain, Emperor Chongzhen clenched his fists, looked due north, and his face was pale: "Fight, fight......" Wang Chengen and other eunuchs comforted him next to him: "Your Majesty, don't worry, with Grandpa Chang in charge, those Tartars can't make any waves......"

In the Kunning Palace, Queen Zhou knelt in front of a Bodhisattva with her hands folded, and prayed secretly in her mouth: "God bless Daming, God bless the Zhu family......" suddenly thought of something, and said to the palace maid next to her: "Kun Xing is timid, go and call her to the palace, and Jiong'er, Huan'er ......"

Will cry and have milk to eat, the prince Zhu Cihong has moved out of the inner palace to live alone, there is no mother's arms to rely on at this time, when he hears the drums outside, he jumps up and down, wants to climb high to see what is going on, but Chang Yu and Chunxiang are not in the palace, he dare not and can't get out of the imperial city, and then he heard that the emperor left the palace and climbed the Long Live Mountain, he didn't dare to mess around.

However, the sound of cannons and the sound of killing came from afar, and Zhu Cihong, who couldn't bear it anymore, took a few guards to the imperial city wall, but after all, it was too low, and he was anxious to heat the ants on the pot.

Unlike him, in the hall in the backyard of the Yamen of the Waidong Factory, Zhu Yujiao sat at the table, watching the tea leaves in the cup slowly unravel, listening to the faint sound of cannons and killing shouts outside, and her face was calm.

"Your Highness, aren't you afraid?" The personal palace maid asked in a whisper.

"With Chang Yu in charge, what are you afraid of!" Zhu Yujiao smiled slightly: "Yes, Song Guard, huh...... What about people? Only then did Zhu Yujiao find that Song Luoyu, who was far away at the door, was gone.

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