Chapter 227: Battle Outside the City (4)
Two days later, 20 super Weiyuan cannons and more than 100 red-coated cannons of the Ming Dynasty arrived in Xuzhou and entered through the south gate!
"Your Majesty, the Super Weiyuan Cannon has arrived!"
"Good! Niu Yongsheng, take your Sixth Army to pick up the artillery, and all the artillery will be under the control of your Sixth Army in the future! Zhu Cihong stood up excitedly, other cannons are still secondary, the most important thing is the super Weiyuan cannon, this cannon is one of the latest cannons researched by the Firearms Bureau, all forged with special alloy steel, weighing 5,000 catties, heavier than the red-coated cannon, but his range and power are twice that of the red-coated cannon!
In addition to these twenty super Weiyuan cannons, one hundred and twenty red-coated cannons were transported together, plus twenty Weiyuan cannons and forty Xiaoweiyuan cannons that arrived a few days earlier, as well as seventy old-fashioned general cannons, Daming has a total of 270 cannons in Xuzhou.
Although it was only half of the Qing army's 540 guns, with those 20 super powerful cannons with a long range in hand, Zhu Cihong could start to arrange them, find a time to deal another hard blow to the Qing army, and further weaken the strength of the Qing army.
"The last will obey!" Niu Yongsheng took the order and walked out.
The Sixth Army was originally an expansion of the 5,000-gun battalion, and they could not only carry flintlock pistols into battle, but also act as gunners.
Five days later, the artillery of the Qing army also arrived.
Dolgon immediately sent an army of 200,000 troops, with the cooperation of artillery, to re-attack the periphery of Xuzhou's southeast, west and west, intending to completely besiege Xuzhou's four gates.
"Boom Boom"
Outside the west gate of Xuzhou, Azig also led 100,000 Qing troops to cross the river, and with the assistance of fifty cannons, launched a fierce attack.
The Qing army did not use flowering bullets with huge lethality, but the lethality of solid bullets should not be underestimated.
30,000 Ming troops are stationed here.
"Xiu Xiu Xiu" 10,000 arrows were fired at the Qing soldiers who were crossing the river, and the blood once again stained the river red!
Soon, the first wave of Qing soldiers landed on the shore and fought with the Ming soldiers.
"Boom, boom, boom" The artillery of the Qing army continued to fire on the other side of the river.
"Ah" part of the solid bullets in the Ming soldiers to hit a bloody road, the solid bullets grazed by the Ming soldiers are either dead or disabled, was directly hit in the body, but was directly beaten into two, very bloody.
"Withdraw!" After more than 1,000 casualties, the Ming soldiers did not entangle with the Qing army, just like the last time, and fought and retreated, retreating towards the west gate.
Soon, all 30,000 Ming soldiers retreated from the West Gate into the city of Xuzhou, and the Qing army once again occupied the periphery of the West Gate of Xuzhou.
"Lord Wang, do you want to attack it directly!" A Qing army general looked at the west gate of Xuzhou, which was open hundreds of meters away, and asked Azig carefully.
"No need, build a defense immediately, beware of a sneak attack by the Ying Long Army!" Azig's face was gloomy, and he didn't wait to rush in as soon as he saw the gate of Xuzhou West Gate open as soon as he saw it.
This time, the 100,000 Qing troops not only did not dare to attack the open west gate, but even stopped more than 200 meters away from the city wall, and even did not dare to approach the city wall.
Azig was very aggrieved, but he had suffered the losses of Ying Longjun many times, and he had to admit in his heart that if Ying Longjun was not restrained, the attack would be too fierce and difficult to stop. There is no doubt that there must be an ambush of the Ying Long army in the West Gate, even if the army can really take advantage of the West Gate Cave to attack it, in the face of the guns of the Ying Long army, there is no good fruit to eat.
At this moment, Azig figured it out, compared to the giant crossbow that could only cause certain casualties to the Ying Long army, the only thing that could really fully restrain the Ying Long army was a heavy rain, and the heavy rain could invalidate the musket in the hands of the Ying Long army, and the Ying Long army that lost the musket was just like the ordinary Ming army.
The Qing army began to build a large camp outside the west gate specifically for the offensive of the Ying Long army, which could effectively block the attack of the Ying Long army out of the city. At the same time, the Qing army also transported more than 30 generals' cannons.
Although these generals' cannons are not as powerful as the red-coated cannons, as long as these generals' cannons are placed in the camp, if the Ying Long army dares to come out to attack the camp, they will inevitably pay a tragic price.
When Azig captured the periphery of the West Gate, the East Gate was also captured by the Qing army.
At this moment, only the south gate of the four gates of Xuzhou has not been besieged by the Qing army. However, the Qing army has always liked to besiege three without one, and it will not necessarily be besieged together with the south gate.
"The secret passage is here?" Dolgon was led by Li Huaxi to a private house outside the west gate.
"Yes, Lord Regent, if you dig up the dirt here, you will reveal a stone slab, and the secret passage is under the stone slab!" Li Huaxi said respectfully.
"Come on, dig up the dirt here!" Dorgon ordered.
"Wow!"
Twenty Qing soldiers took tools and quickly dug up the dirt on the ground, revealing a stone slab.
"Pry open the slate!"
The stone slab was pried open, and sure enough, there was no entrance to the secret passage, and the ancestors of the Li family spent twenty years to leave a life-saving road for the Li family, which was dedicated to the Manchu Qing by Li Huaxi.
"Hahahaha, it's really a secret passage!" Dolgon was overjoyed, and couldn't help the excitement in his heart, this secret passage can lead directly to Xuzhou City, that is to say, he can rely on this, quietly get thousands or even tens of thousands of horses, and then cooperate with some internal and external in Xuzhou City, and take Xuzhou is just around the corner.
"Congratulations to the prince, congratulations to the prince, the prince will be able to do his best in one battle this time, and dominating the world is just around the corner!" Li Huaxi and several Manchu generals observed the words and immediately patted their ass.
In Xuzhou City, Zhu Cihong did not know that danger was approaching.
At this moment, Zhu Cihong was discussing with a group of generals and preparing to attack the Qing army camp at the north gate.
"Niu Yongsheng, are the twenty super Weiyuan cannons in place?" Zhu Cihong asked Niu Yongsheng.
"Back to the emperor, all of them are in place, just wait for the emperor to give an order, and you can immediately shell the Qing army camp." Niu Yongsheng replied.
"Well, the first wave of bombardment, try to aim at the Qing army's Chinese army tent, and it is best to kill Dorgon, a traitor, in one fell swoop!" Zhu Cihong nodded, and the corners of his mouth hooked up a cold smile.
Although the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty were far less than Dolgon's Qing army, before the war, Zhu Cihong predicted that the Ming Dynasty had a fifty percent chance of winning, in addition to the 120,000 Ying Long army, it was because of the existence of these twenty super mighty cannons.
The firing range of the Super Weiyuan cannon is twice that of the red-coated cannon, reaching an astonishing four thousand meters, and the Qing army camp is located two kilometers away from the north gate of Xu Go, just far away from the range of the red-coated cannon, but Dolgon does not know that the farthest range of the Ming Dynasty is no longer the red-coated cannon, but the new super Weiyuan cannon, Dolgon is destined to have this catastrophe, although the accuracy of the super Weiyuan cannon needs to be considered, but twenty super Weiyuan cannons bombarded at the same time, as long as one shell hits Dolgon's Chinese army tent, it is possible to kill Dolgon directly.
"The generals are ready to attack the Qing army camp early tomorrow morning and kill Dolgon!"
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