Chapter 870: Persuasion fails, heavy artillery bombards
Hearing the shouts of the Tang army, the defenders at the head of the city became more and more panicked, and they subconsciously focused their helpless and panicked eyes on the frowning general Zilharang.
Zilharang felt the pressure of everyone's gaze, and finally let out a long sigh and came to the south gate.
Looking at the Tang soldiers and horses under the city, the lord of the city, Jierharang, glared angrily, although he was nervous in his heart, he had to muster up his courage and shouted loudly in stiff Chinese: "I am Jierharang, the prince of Zheng of the Great Qing Kingdom." You wait for the Han dog Nikan, dare to invade my Qing Dynasty for no reason, slaughter my soldiers, occupy the city of our state, this king really hates it in his heart, I really want to kill you and others, to solve my hatred! ”
Seeing that Ji'er Harang was so embarrassed now, but he was still so hard-toothed on the surface, Monk An sneered and said loudly: "Ji'er Harang, you dog thing, listen up, I am the second town of the Tang Army, Chang'an Monk is also." Let me tell you, my army of hundreds of thousands, from the sea to Liaozhong, everywhere I went, most of the prefectures, counties and towns were surrendered, and it can be said that no one can stop me. Even your bullshit is about to be destroyed. What is the point of you, a thing that doesn't know whether to live or die, leading some remnants of the army, and still guarding this Liaoyang? Now that our army is about to attack the city, you thief still haven't surrendered to our army at the right time, do you really want to be so obsessed and die for the baby emperor and the dog thief Dorgon? I don't want to talk nonsense with you, now that our army is pressing, you are already cornered, why not surrender as soon as possible, and when! ”
"Hmph, you invaded the Qing Dynasty, killed our soldiers, occupied the city of our state, and even skinned and weeded my Qing Dynasty King Kong Youde, who was simply a humanoid beast, not as good as pigs and dogs, and I was embarrassed to come to persuade me to surrender! I, Jierharang, am a member of the Qing Dynasty, and I am deeply favored by the Qing Emperor, and I am on the verge of betraying it! Hum! Monk An, if you have the courage to come to attack the city, why bother talking so much nonsense! ”
Ji'er Harang yelled loudly, but Monk An shook his head and sighed, and then replied loudly: "Ji'er Harang, you are dying here, so don't talk so damn about it." Don't say it's you such a Jiba thing, even your bullshit emperor and Dolgon's pickled shit, in the end, you Tang Jun obediently bow down and capture, you Manchu Tartars are already grasshoppers after the autumn, how long can you jump? Listen, now this Liaoyang City has been surrounded by hundreds of thousands of my legions, and all the soldiers and horses are already invincible! Originally, for you tartars, Lao Tzu was intent on killing all of you and exterminating all of you dogs, but my Tang King, with compassion, didn't want to kill like this, so he sent this town to surrender, which is considered your luck. Let me tell you, as long as you lay down your arms and go out of the city to surrender, then our army can wait for a way out. If you don't agree, you will definitely capture Liaoyang, and the whole city will be slaughtered by the soldiers, horses and people, and there will be no chickens and dogs! ”
After Monk An's abrupt and stern words, he shouted loudly to the city, but there was silence when he answered him.
Zilharang's face was very embarrassed, and he wanted to scold him back, but Monk An's words were full of weight and so fierce, so that he had to think about what would happen if he refused strongly.
Monk An looked at his face and saw that his cruel words had touched the sore spot of Ji'er Harang, so he hurriedly struck while the iron was hot, and shouted loudly: "Ji Erharang, to tell you the truth, now Hugh said that this Liaoyang City, in the entire Qing Kingdom, which town can there be, and which soldiers and horses can fight against my hundreds of thousands of troops!" The destruction of your Qing kingdom is already predestined, how can it last long! What's more, your army is scarce, trapped in a lonely city, even if our army does not attack the city, how can you wait for the food to run out? And the power of our army's artillery is strong, you haven't learned it, if it really comes to our army to capture Liaoyang City and kill on a large scale, you will regret it too late! You obviously have a chance to live, but in the end you died under the sword soldiers, which is not only lighter than a feather, but also spurned by the world for eternity, isn't it in vain that you have been wronged? ”
Zilharang's face turned red and white when Monk An said, and he subconsciously glanced at the soldiers next to him, but found that the Qing soldiers on the left and right were all looking at him with a pitiful look, and the content in their eyes was known without asking.
Seeing the appearance of Ji'er Harang and the people next to him, Monk An was secretly complacent, so he shouted loudly: "Ji'er Harang, although you are a Manchu clan, if you surrender, our army will be lenient and let go of a way out." How can you be sure that you don't know the times, and you will be buried for nothing for the baby emperor and the dog thief Dorgon? This town still hopes that you can recognize the situation as soon as possible, don't act in vain, and don't make such cruel jokes with the lives of the soldiers and civilians in the city. If you and the others are willing to repent and return in time anyway, the town can guarantee that all the soldiers and soldiers will save their lives and not kill any of them. and even for surrendering this agreement, each with a reward. As for you, the main general, Zilharang, if you are willing to vote for me, His Royal Highness the Tang King, I will definitely reuse it. Even if you don't want to surrender, if you can surrender the city, our army can let you go. How's that, it's good enough, right? Now in this critical season, where to go, I hope you think deeply! ”
Zilharang's eyes were glazed and his expression stiffened, as if he didn't know how to answer Monk An's words next.
Although Monk An's words are ugly, they are also extremely right, if you want to fight against yourself now, the final outcome will be the destruction of the city and the army, and the sacrifice of yourself and this group of subordinates is really worthless.
Thinking of this, Zilharang couldn't help but let out another long sigh.
So, now that I am here, do I want to agree to the persuasion of the Tang army to surrender and surrender to the Tang army in this Liaoyang?
Just when he hesitated, the monk An under the city was already waiting impatiently, he beckoned to the back, and those Tang gunners understood and began to act.
"Prince Zheng, look, the artillery of the Tang army is out of battle!"
Zilharang, who was meditating at the head of the city, heard the silent shouts of the soldiers next to him, and suddenly came back to his senses from his thoughts.
Following the direction of the little soldier's arms, Zilharang was horrified to see that on every side of Liaoyang, from the densely surrounded Tang army array, ninety heavy artillery pieces of the same size were launched, each lined up in a straight line, and slowly pushed forward together. These heavy cannons that move forward silently, shining faintly silver in the reflection of the morning sun.
A total of 360 steel heavy dragon bombarders with a silver gray light were slowly pushed by the Tang gunners to a kilometer outside the city gates. Next, the Don gunners began to fix the gun mounts, adjust the angle of fire, reload gunpowder and shells, and soon made preparations for battle.
These three hundred and sixty heavy dragon cannons, lined up along the city walls, were majestic and majestic, and the muzzles of the black holes, their awe-inspiring momentum, made the enemy troops defending the city who were already panicked and nervous begin to weaken their legs and feet.
The main general, Zilharang, was actually the first time he had seen such a terrible cannon, and his face was also covered with cold sweat.
It is conceivable that if the Tang army is allowed to attack the city like this, it will definitely cause extremely terrible damage and blows to the Liaoyang city wall. No matter how high and thick the Liaoyang city wall is, under the continuous attack of the Tang army, the result of being finally broken is already doomed.
So, do you want to surrender to the Tang Army?
This thought, as soon as it flashed in Zilharang's mind, was immediately rejected by him.
No, the Don army must not be surrendered.
If he sacrificed the city and surrendered, even though the Tang army was willing to put himself back in Shengjing, the guards who were released by the Tang army after sacrificing Yaozhou City were finally killed by Dolgon, and the terrible experience of the whole family being assigned to the armored people as slaves was absolutely unwilling to go through it again.
What's more, he is the son of the Qing Dynasty clan, the founding emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Lao Nu, if he doesn't even have the courage to fight, he sacrifices the city to surrender to the Tang army, then the face of the entire Aixin Jueluo family will be lost by himself, and his children and grandchildren and wives and concubines, even if Dolgon is willing to let them go, they will never be able to raise their heads in the Qing Kingdom.
Thinking of this, Zilharang's face turned hideous, and he yelled at the monk An under the city: "Don't talk nonsense!" I am the Qing Dynasty, and I have the responsibility to defend the land, if you have the ability, you can go straight to attack the city! ”
"Good! There is a way in heaven that you don't take, and there is no door to hell for you to come! If you are killing yourself, then this town will fulfill you! You will go to the eighteen levels of hell, but you should not regret it! ”
Seeing that this Zierharang was so stubborn, Monk An smiled coldly, and a hideous look flashed on his face, and he didn't say anything more, and immediately pulled his horse back with a group of guards. At the same time, Nazir Harang also snorted coldly, and hurriedly left the city, preparing to arrange for the soldiers and horses in the city, as well as a group of young men and women urgently recruited from the city to come and defend the city.
Soon, with the artillery in place, the siege of the Don Army officially began.
The defenders at the head of the city were horrified to see that in the midst of the deafening horns and rumbling war drums, 360 steel heavy dragon bombardment guns shining with silver and gray light were slowly pushed by the Tang gunners to a distance of about 1,000 meters outside the city gates on all sides of Liaoyang, and then stopped on the spot.
Next, the Don gunners began to fix the gun mounts, adjust the angle of fire, reload gunpowder and shells, and soon made preparations for battle.
This concentrated all the three hundred and sixty heavy dragon guns of the four towns, lined up along the north wall of Liaoyang City, majestic and majestic, with an invincible spirit that swept the world. The muzzle of the black hole is like countless thick phallic objects pointing proudly, straight towards the lofty Liaoyang city wall opposite.
The awe-inspiring momentum of these artillery, even if it was just seen from a distance, made the Qing troops defending the city weak in fright.
Everyone could almost intuitively feel that these behemoth-like artillery pieces were already so terrifying, and one could imagine how amazing their attack and destructive power would be once fired.
The main general of Liaoyang, Ji'er Harang, Rao is a battle-hardened general, and when he saw that the Tang army was able to launch so many huge artillery pieces that had never been seen before to attack the city, his face was dripping with cold sweat, and his face turned pale in an instant.
The artillery of the Tang Army is completely different from the ordinary artillery such as the Hongyi cannon, the general cannon, the second general cannon, the Shenwei cannon, and the tiger squat cannon that he was accustomed to seeing in the Ming and Qing dynasties.
So, in the case of such a powerful heavy artillery bombarding the city intensively, can he really swear that he can hold on to this Liaoyang like Fang Cai......
Thinking of this, Ji'er Harang, the main general of Liaoyang, only felt that even breathing began to become difficult.
And at this moment, all the panicked defenders saw from a distance that a person who looked like a captain in the Tang army formation raised the red flag in his hand.
"Ready!"
"Put!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
"Bang!"
……
Three hundred and sixty heavy dragon bombardment guns that fired thirty-two pounds of shells, the muzzle of each cannon immediately spewed out crimson afterburners and dazzling golden fire, dense and choking white smoke rose up, covering the sky, and three hundred and sixty huge black round iron bullets, with the whistle of death, slammed into the four walls of Liaoyang City.
The huge impact sound that shattered the eardrum sounded continuously, and the three hundred and sixty jet-black 32-pound iron bullets, as if they had eyes, hit the four walls of Liaoyang fiercely in an evenly distributed state.
The four walls of the entire Liaoyang city appeared in an instant, hundreds of large holes arranged neatly and evenly, the edge of each big hole, the thick cracked lines were as dense as spider webs, and they spread unscrupulously to the siege, and the bricks of the city wall splashed and cracked, a piece of dust and mist filled the air, and the entire city wall was trembling violently.
On the city wall, a large number of Qing soldiers who were shocked to the ears, eyes, nostrils and mouths were bleeding together, everyone was shocked and blood surged, and the eyes were shrouded in the dust and fog that choked their noses, and the city wall under their feet shook violently like a pendulum, and there were several small copper cannons or small iron cannons at the head of the city, which were shocked and swooped down from the city wall, with several loud noises, and turned into scrap metal.
At the same time, as many as 200 unstable defenders fell from the city wall screaming, and then fell into bloody meatloaf.
It's just that Monk An found that although the first salvo caused some damage to the city wall, after all, this Liaoyang Jiancheng has been built and strengthened since the founding of the Qing Dynasty, so its solidity is far more powerful than the previous cities such as Yaozhou and Haicheng, so it seems that it has not caused particularly serious damage now.
This is because, although this Liaoyang City also adopts the same structure as other cities, that is, the rammed earth of the inner city, and the way of laying bluestone under it, but its outer wall, in order to be strong, is all made of hard cyan strip stones, first paste a layer inside, and then build green bricks outside, that is to say, this Liaoyang City, is equivalent to a two-layer exterior wall structure, such a structure, can be more solid than the Lushun City like only one layer of green bricks.
In addition, this Liaoyang City is also specially designed as a thick and thin mode under the city wall, and the entire wall is slightly inclined, so that the iron bullet of the shelling can not be very good frontal force, and to a considerable extent, the damage to the city wall is reduced. In addition, reinforcement methods such as protruding forward horse faces are also all used. Therefore, the defense of the entire city is much stronger than that of ordinary cities.
Monk An was not angry, so he ordered again: "The artillery of the whole army should be fired as hard as possible, and all the artillery must be used to the limit before stopping." ”
"Order!"