Chapter 100: The Battle of Peking VII

The city of Beijing is too big.

Even if the Xia army had hundreds of thousands of troops, it only chose a few key points to attack.

And this one is not any point.

Qin Meng looked at the city wall from afar and asked the people around him, "Has the tunnel been dug yet?" ”

In order to defend the city of Beijing, the Qing soldiers in the city of Beijing were all under rapid attrition. Had to give up surveillance in a lot of places.

For example, underground.

In order to prevent the Xia army from collapsing, the Qing army spread large vats all over the inside of the Beijing city wall, and placed a lot of people to listen to them, and even elite men and horses, where to dig and dig through from inside.

Dig the hole through the ground, and then fight, or release water and smoke.

Xia Jun suffered several losses, so he gave up the idea of collapsing from below.

In fact, Xia Jun did not give up completely. After all, the Xia army has a lot of soldiers, and it is not bad to arrange an army to be responsible for this.

Qin Meng took on this important task.

The reason why Qin Meng can take on such a heavy responsibility is because he is Zhang Xuan's descendant, and although he and Cao Zongyu have no failure status, they have the reality of master and apprentice.

Cao Zongyu felt that there were several possibilities for conquering Beijing City, and the collapse method was always one of them.

Qin Meng has not relaxed his excavation at all in the past few days.

Whenever the artillery bombarded the city, Qin Meng let the excavation occur, and once the artillery stopped, they also stopped.

In this way, the Qing army could not notice it for a while.

"Let's report below, it's under the city wall." Hu Quede said.

Hu Quede's face looked much better than before. seems to have been raised very fat, after all, he is an old man who follows Zhang Xuan, although he is not welcomed because of his identity as a tomb robber.

But the qualifications are there, and a petty official of the Ministry of Industry has also been arranged.

Life now is different from the life before. has the temperament of an official. However, he is still doing the same old job.

It's just that he has accepted several disciples, and he has long since stopped going down in person to guide and excavate.

He even changed his name to Hu Youde.

"Just." Hu Youde said: "Dongyu is not blind, he can always find out. ”

Qin Meng's eyes glanced slightly and said: "Pass the order, don't cover it up, dig generously, and immediately seal the gunpowder in, I only have one request, that is, fast." ”

Hu Youde said loudly: "Yes." ”

Qin Meng's order.

The water surface of the half-buried water tank on the inside of Beijing's city walls began to shake.

The two children, who were looking at the water tank, immediately got up and reported to the top.

Because all the adult men went to the city to fight, such things were handed over to the half-grown children. This kind of information has been reported layer by layer and arrived at Aobai's side.

When Ao Bai heard this, he immediately said, "Why don't you dig it up?" ”

below

When they heard Aobai's words, they were speechless, and after a while, someone said, "They all fell away, and none of them remained." ”

Ao Bai listened and looked stunned.

He suddenly remembered that when the war was urgent, he ordered all the idlers to be transferred.

This army responsible for underground attack and defense is not many in number, but all of them are elite, after all, they can't be deployed underground. Only the elite.

After such elites are dispersed, a few new recruits can be assigned to form a force of thousands capable of fighting.

Now that I want to use it, how can I deploy it immediately.

Ao Bai immediately said, "Go and see." ”

He took more than a thousand personal soldiers around him and immediately went over.

More than 1,000 soldiers are already the only mobile army in the city, no, there is also a mobile army that Fan Wencheng recruited healthy women in the city, and it seems that he wants them to fight.

Ao Bai is 10,000 unhappy about such a situation. He actually looks down on this so-called army, but now he has no choice.

There were too many soldiers who died in the city.

Although in the casualty ratio, the Qing army had the advantage.

But how to take advantage, the number of the Qing army was much worse than that of the Xia army, and the Xia army recruited people from all over the country, and there was a steady stream of supplementary soldiers behind it.

Dead one can replenish one and a half.

And there are so few people in the city of Beijing, how much potential can there be for conscription.

Men, even teenagers and half-grown children, have already gone into battle, and the rest of the city are women, who can be used without women.

Ao Bai rushed over with more than a thousand Qing soldiers, and just saw the city wall, but saw more than a dozen officials coming to greet him. Before he could speak, he heard a deafening noise.

The entire wall was torn down.

Countless small stones fell down, and Ao Bai was beaten to ashes. Before the smoke and dust have fallen, you can see that it is the largest barrier in Beijing.

has been overturned by a big gap.

Ao Bai took a look, didn't say a word, and led the team to rush forward.

For Aobai, many times actions are thought out quickly.

As soon as the city wall is broken, Beijing City will not be able to hold on to it at all, and whether there is a city wall or not, it is a world of difference for the defenders.

Just as Ao Bai pounced on the gap, Qin Meng also rushed over with his headquarters.

In an instant, this place became the fifth focus of the battle of Beijing in Xia Qing.

The collapse method is known as lifting the giant city like a piece of paper.

But in reality, there is still a bit of a flaw.

It seems that the gunpowder of the Xia army was put in too much hurry, and it was a little outside, so this section of the Beijing city wall was inclined to the inside.

Even if Beijing fell, it left Xia Jun with a gentle slope more than a foot high.

The Xia soldiers had to attack on their backs in order to attack the city of Beijing.

Although the Xia army arrived one step ahead, Ao Bai took the lead, and almost blocked the Xia army here with the front and back feet of the Xia army.

Ao Bai was mighty, but after a while, he beat the Xia army.

Ao Bai immediately called a lot of muskeoners from the city walls on both sides, and placed a lot of artillery, all of which were small cannons like tiger squatting cannons.

It seems that the gap is blocked with fire. He immediately sent someone to inform Fan Wencheng and asked him to immediately deploy manpower and material resources in the city to build a wall behind this gap.

When Ao Bai was preparing, Qin Meng was furious, he looked at several officers and said, "According to military law, you are dead now." ”

"The news of the destruction of the city here has spread throughout the army, and the general already knows about it, and I don't know how many generals have asked the general to fight, wanting to win the merit of breaking the city."

"You want to be nailed to the pillar of shame in the army."

"We broke the city, but the first person to enter the inner city of Beijing was not us?"

"When we watch others eat meat and drink soup, we are punished and laughed at."

"Brothers, the Northern Expedition has been in several wars, we are all under the command of the King of Dian, and we have not participated in it, Beijing, the Northern Expedition has come to an end, and when the time comes, in terms of meritorious deeds, what do we have, what do we have?"

"And now that the opportunity is in front of you, you just missed it?"

"But Ao Bai ----," I don't know who whispered.

The shadow of the name tree of man.

Before Aobai, he had a reputation in the army, but it was far from shaking the world, many people knew that Aobai was the vanguard to break Zhang Xianzhong, and it is said that he was the one who killed Zhang Xianzhong with an arrow.

However, the spread of his fame is still quite limited.

But the battle of Beijing was fought here, Ao Bai completely made a reputation, whether in the Qing army, or in the Xia army, even in the daily discussion of the people in the south of the Yangtze River, they all know that the Qing army has a fierce general, and there is the courage of ten thousand people.

Xia Jun didn't know how many generals were killed by Aobai.

It can be said that the fame of Ao Bai is completely paved by the flesh and blood of the generals of the Xia Army, and with such a reputation, it is impossible to make the officers of the Xia Army below not afraid.

Qin Meng snorted coldly and said, "What about Aobai? Are there still fewer famous generals in the Qing army? It's good that Aobai is here, because the head of Aobai is very valuable. ”

"As mentioned above, no matter who you are, if you have to worship the head, you will be promoted to the first level. That is, if you don't have any credit at all, you can also be a viscount. ”

"The famous lord of the imperial court, it is said that it will not be hereditary in the future, and it is the blessing of generations of children and grandchildren."

For a while, the morale of the officers and non-commissioned officers below was boosted. Qin Meng even ordered the whole army to gather, leaving no rear team, and he himself took his own soldiers into battle.

However, it was the defeated army that had just retreated at the forefront.

This is to give them the opportunity to atone for their crimes.

Almost as soon as Ao Bai had settled down, Qin Meng's offensive came up again. However, Ao Bai had expected this for a long time.

A fight is inevitable.