Chapter 621: Xingqing Mansion 2
After the Chinese army entered the city, the soldiers of the famous family were still resisting desperately.
People kept flashing out from the corner of the wall and shooting at the Chinese army with bows and arrows, causing some casualties to the Chinese army who lacked armor protection.
The Chinese army immediately responded with a platoon of guns, because the bullets were so powerful, even if the party members hid behind the wall, they would usually be hit by the bullets that passed through the wall, so most of them only had one chance, either they exchanged their lives for a Chinese casualties, or they lost their lives in vain.
Naturally, this kind of defense could not withstand the Chinese army for long, so soon, the Chinese army broke through to the second line of defense built by the Dangxiang people in Xingzhou City.
It was a low wall, about the height of a breastwork, but with some strange battlements on it, and it looked like a real wall, except for a little shorter.
The Chinese army did not have time to think about why the enemy had built such a strange breastwork in the city, the soldiers stood still, suppressed the enemy with their rifles, and then the foreign soldiers stepped forward with explosive packs on their backs to prepare to blow up the gap—everything was the same as when they were in Lingzhou.
But when the outer soldiers wearing three-layer armor approached the breastwork, there was a sudden angry shout from the opposite side, followed by the sound of war drums, and a row of party soldiers squatting behind the breastwork suddenly got up.
At the top of that strange breastwork, between the battlements, more than a dozen artillery pieces appeared!
Among them were large-caliber copper cannons, iron cannons, and wooden cannons, in addition to large-caliber arquebuses and some muskets.
In the previous battles, the Dangxiang people had not used firearms—or they had used them, but they were directly covered by the Chinese artillery, and as a result, everyone felt a sense of contempt for the enemy, as if the Dangxiang people would never learn to use firearms.
Of course, this is not the case in reality, and the party members also use firearms, and simple guns are not a technical problem in themselves, and they can produce some of them themselves, not to mention that the Chinese army has also sold a lot of old weapons to the people and in the international market, and it is not surprising that some of them have been left to the party members.
Now, the party members have taken out all these treasures at the bottom of the box.
Of course, Sauron knew what it was—they had suffered, and after a moment's stunnedness, they all let out earth-shattering screams and crowded in an attempt to retreat.
The party did not give them this opportunity, and all the guns fired in unison, and many archers fired heavy arrows to supplement the firepower.
Buckshot, gravel and feathered arrows flew sideways through the narrow tunnels, and the Sauron soldiers fell one by one, and the Chinese army paid hundreds of casualties in a single salvo of this breakthrough area.
However, the dead and wounded were all foreign soldiers, and the Chinese army was unmoved by such casualties, and a few swordsmen crowded to the front, ordering the soldiers to control all the retreating Sauronians, and then drag them directly to the side of the street and beheaded.
The military discipline of the Chinese army also shows its cruel side.
The musketeers continued to shoot under the command of the officers, and their firing rifled guns had a longer effective range than the early cannons of the party, and the whole breastwork was dusted by the rounds of guns, and several muskets with sticks fell in front of the breastwork.
Some of the brave Chinese soldiers took the explosives bags from the dead Sauron soldiers, and shouted in unison to take the initiative to attack.
The party's cannons did not have time to reload, but some of the muskets had a chance to fire again, and several of the redcoats fell screaming, but the others continued to advance while the muskets were reloaded.
The party members also knew that now was the moment to decide life and death, many people ignored the bullets flying, straightened up and blocked with bows and arrows, the Chinese army fell some more, but there were still people close to the breastwork, one of the young soldiers who was hit by the fire gate gun in the lower abdomen suddenly let out a loud shout, ignited the explosives package on his body, and the whole person jumped to the chest wall!
With a loud bang, the remains of human limbs and various weapons splattered everywhere, and a moment later, a black and red rain of blood fell, pouring cold on everyone on both sides of the breastwork.
The explosion frightened the party members, and the other soldiers were able to place the explosives packets safely at the foot of the breastwork.
Then there was a series of loud bangs, and several gaps were blown in the breastwork line, and the Chinese soldiers did not wait, but quickly rushed through the breastwork under the guidance of the officer's whistle, killing all the enemies behind who were stunned by the explosion.
The breastwork line was broken, and the Chinese army continued to move forward, but it did not even go out two hundred steps, and the second breastwork defense line appeared in front of the Chinese army.
And it's the kind of wall battlement structure that is convenient for erecting small guns.
However, the Chinese did not make the same mistake twice, and this time they did not force a breakthrough, but waited a little for the cavalry artillery company, which quickly advanced to reinforce because they learned that the enemy had artillery in the city.
As a result, the last hope of the party was also dashed, the six-pound cannon with a longer range and stronger destructive power outside the effective range of the party's artillery, a cannon tore that section of the chest wall into pieces, during which the desperate party people tried to use the loaded cannon to return fire, but they could not reach the Chinese army at all, all the firepower of the return fire became a brilliant fireworks display, for the end of the big white high country smeared the last layer of bright colors.
In fact, behind the second breastwork, the party also prepared the third, fourth and fifth lines of defense, but in front of the Chinese army with cannons, these fortifications were useless, and all the breastworks could not resist the direct hit of more than three six-pound guns, not to mention that the Chinese army simply dragged ten pounds of artillery later.
The defense line was broken layer by layer, and the party members could no longer put up effective resistance, and at the last moment, about 1,200 iron harriers, under the command of a certain famous clan general, attacked the north.
They tried to open a way for their little emperor and the emperor to break out, but in this narrow terrain, a direct cavalry assault would only be a tragedy.
This time, the last struggle of the Great White Gaoguo failed to make a splash, and was reduced to powder by the dense musket salvo and platoon shotgun attack of the Chinese army.
In the early morning of the fourth day of the fifth month of the Republic of China in 1793, at about four o'clock, the first Chinese army troops came to the vicinity of the outer wall of the Dangxiang Palace.
At this time, Li Qianshun, Li Renqing's father and son were surrounded by thousands of soldiers and nearly 20,000 concubines, palace maids, and eunuchs, and there were still party soldiers in some parts of the city who were making the last desperate resistance.
But everyone had lost confidence in victory, and most of the technical weapons had been lost to the various defensive lines outside the Imperial City.
The outcome of the battle is already doomed, and there is no point in continuing to resist.
At about half past four, a eunuch from the inner palace walked out of the puppet Xia Palace, and he expressed to a Chinese army company commander the last will of the Xia Emperor and the Taishang Emperor - they hoped to be able to surrender to a general with sufficient status.
After another twenty minutes, a colonel arrived, and immediately, the palace gate was opened from the inside, and Li Qianshun, Li Renqing, father and son tied their hands behind their backs and went out of the city to surrender.
The Xia Kingdom officially perished.