Chapter Ninety-Six: The Battle of Peking III

Or rather, that's the order.

Although Cao Zongyu regarded He Hutou as the main attack, it did not mean that hundreds of thousands of troops from other directions were going to fight soy sauce.

Cao Zongyu has never put all the tasks on He Hutou.

In the past few days, Cao Zongyu has been fighting hard and clarifying the state of the Beijing city wall one by one.

The sound of the cannon that He Hutou attacked first was the order of the general attack.

Cao Zongyu has already said that he will enter Beijing first.

For a while, all the departments seemed to have been beaten with chicken blood, and at this moment, the order was given, and now the new recruits and soldiers of the Xia army who are attacking are put aside to drink the northwest wind.

At this moment, the people who are in battle are the absolute main force of the Xia Army, Zhang Xuan's henchmen.

Even if they do not have an absolute superiority in firepower, they are by no means to be underestimated.

Ao Bai didn't need anyone to report the news, he knew that Yongdingmen was very dangerous, and he wanted to go to the rescue, but he couldn't get out. Fan Wencheng, who was sitting in the city, personally took thousands of men and horses to prepare for reinforcements from the inner city.

It's just that it happened suddenly, and Fan Wencheng is not a good leader of troops, so it will inevitably take a while to straighten out the soldiers and horses.

He never thought that this period of time would determine the fate of Yongdingmen.

As soon as He Hutou gave the order, the soldiers below fired desperately, just after the first few rounds, these gunners could still be consistent, but later, the sound of the cannon became messy.

However, He Hutou didn't care, he took out a clairvoyant mirror and stared at the vicinity of the Yongding Gate Tower. Until Yongding Gate was shrouded in black smoke, after all, many places in the Yongding Gate Tower are wooden structures, and there are also a lot of artillery nearby. It is also reasonable to be ignited.

But at this moment, He Hutou's task is only half completed, and there are other very difficult generals.

He Hutou ordered, and a command flag waved.

Daniel Zhang saw it in his eyes.

To be honest, so many flowering bombs bombarded together, this scene almost like the sky falling apart made Daniel Zhang's heart tremble. As long as one of the shells missed, Daniel Zhang's life was gone.

But at this time, it is no longer possible to retreat.

Daniel Zhang stood fiercely at the front of the whole army, and in the chaotic artillery fire, Daniel Zhang did not say anything, he could only raise his own big flag, holding a knife in one hand and waving a big flag in the other, and rushed out first.

Daniel Zhang rushed ahead, and one of the soldiers below was one, and they did not dare to retreat, taking a hundred people as a team, and following behind Daniel Zhang under the command of a hundred households.

Each hundred households carried a long ladder.

This is the tool they use to get to the city.

In order to avoid casualties, the Xia army lined up and marched in dispersion, and there were already several modes. Just such an order, it is necessary to lower the command.

Because with 100 people as a team, then the 100 households must have the basic quality of officers, otherwise, a 100 households will retreat from the battle

, which is likely to affect the morale of the whole army.

If there were no officers with sufficient martial arts, Xia Jun would never dare to fight like this.

Perhaps the martial arts hall has not cultivated any natural talents until now, and has not even cultivated them, such as Li Dingguo, Cao Zongyu, Zheng Chenggong and other handsome talents.

But there are a large number of qualified low-level officers.

Even though there were countless roars ahead, Daniel Zhang was in front, these officers dared to follow, these officers dared to follow, and most of the soldiers were not stage frightened.

In fact, the Chinese have always been the best soldiers, as long as the basic treatment is guaranteed, the officers rush to the front, and most Chinese soldiers will never be left behind.

Just like today.

He Hutou is dead in my clairvoyant mirror, I don't know when, my hands became sweaty. The clairvoyant mirror seemed to have become so smooth that it seemed to fly away if you didn't pinch it hard.

He Hutou is probably more nervous than Daniel Zhang at this moment.

Daniel Zhang's position, even if he is nervous, is useless, but He Hutou must be ready to order the shelling to stop at any time.

It seems that the gunners also saw it, so they would rather raise the muzzle of the cannon a little higher and smash it into the city than dare to smash it among their own people.

It's just such a thing, not everything can be controlled.

A shell smashed on the city wall, and it seemed that the fuse was a little long, and it suddenly bounced back, and seemed to smash towards Daniel Zhang.

Seeing this, He Hutou immediately ordered: "Stop." ”

It's just that He Hutou can block the future shells, but this shell that smashed towards Daniel Zhang can't be stopped no matter what.

But I saw this shell pass over Daniel Zhang and smash into the back of a team of Xia sergeants.

There was a bang, and more than a dozen soldiers lay on the ground, all of whom were not breathing.

Just as the shell flew over Daniel Zhang's head, Daniel Zhang's thoughts seemed to freeze. It was as if his breathing had stopped, and the moment seemed like 10,000 years.

An explosion came from behind, and it seemed that something had slammed into the armor behind him, which suddenly brought him to his senses.

At this time, he also noticed that the original artillery fire had stopped.

For a while, the world became quiet.

Daniel Zhang shouted loudly: "Kill." His voice was so hoarse that it almost changed his voice, and he wasn't sure it was his own voice.

Daniel Zhang's subordinates also shouted "Kill." ”

A team crossed, and Daniel Zhang rushed forward.

Daniel Zhang only felt that there was a hot current slowly flowing down behind him, and he didn't care about anything, and rushed up with his personal guards.

He Hutou immediately ordered the second group of people to rush forward.

At this moment, in the camp, all the gunners were wiping the cannons with wet cloths, making a clattering sound, but they fired so many cannons in a row, and the temperature of the cannons was too high.

These gunners did not know

Whether to use it afterwards or not, so they are urgently cooling down in case of emergency.

And He Hutou's attention is not at all on these little things, and his heart has to fly to the top of the Yongding Gate Tower. We'll find out.

Although the artillery offensive of the Xia army was very powerful, the Yongding Gate Tower, the section of the city wall near the Yongding Gate Tower, and even a large area behind the Yongding Gate were cleaned.

But the artillery of this era cannot be compared with the artillery of later generations at all. Such shelling can only kill and injure people, and will not do much damage to the Beijing city wall, or even the Beijing city gate.

You must know that during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, the Nanjing city wall was an important fortification for the guards, and the Japanese could not open it without heavy artillery, and today's Beijing city wall will never be much worse than the Nanjing city wall.

Such a firepower collapsed, too underestimated, the walls of the two capitals.

If you want to damage the city wall, unless you use solid bullets and bombardment over the years, you can't break it.

Therefore, this flowering bomb, although powerful, cannot hurt the main structure of the Beijing city wall at all. Since you can't hurt the main structure, you can't hurt one place.

That's the Cave of Hidden Soldiers.

The cave is on the inner side of the city wall. No matter how you bomb, no matter what angle you can't hit.

Therefore, in the Tibetan soldier cave on the inside of Yongding Gate, there are many Qing soldiers.

It's just that the Yongding Gate guard died in battle.

After the artillery stopped bombardment, these troops did not find out about this at the first time, but asked for orders, but they found that the Yongdingmen tower had been burned and the guards were nowhere to be found. When the Xia army of the brigade landed in the city, they went to the city one after another.

In between, I lost my precious time.

And Daniel Zhang was the first to set foot on the Beijing city wall.

At the same time that Daniel Zhang went to the city, the Qing soldiers also came up from inside.

Daniel Zhang didn't say a word, the big flag in his hand was used as a spear, and he directly picked the person down, and the flag on the flagpole was wiped with blood, and suddenly turned into a blood flag.

The rest is not used by Daniel Zhang.

Daniel Zhang's own soldiers swarmed up and fought with the Qing soldiers, but Daniel Zhang planted the blood flag on the side of the burning Yongding City Tower.

On one side is a burning castle tower, and on the other side is a battle flag covered in blood. This picture was later painted by a famous Western painter and became one of the most famous collections of the Zhang family of Yan Guogong.

Seeing this, He Hutou was overjoyed, he was not only happy that the city of Beijing was about to be broken, but also happy that his tactics were working. He almost jumped up with excitement, and immediately ordered: "Inform His Royal Highness the King of Tang that the battalion will be pressed by the whole army except for the gunners and people." ”

"Yes." The generals on the left and right said loudly.

He Hutou couldn't sit still, and immediately took his personal guards to Yongdingmen, as if he wanted to lock the battle in one fell swoop.

However, at this time, the battle around the Yongding City Gate is not over, and the number of wins and losses seems to be variable.