Chapter Ninety-Nine: The Battle of Peking VI

The battle for Peking, however, was paused for a while, and three days later, it was fought again.

However, this time He Hutou's routine didn't work.

Because Ao Bai soon discovered a problem, that is, no matter how powerful the Xia army's artillery was, it was impossible to destroy the Beijing city wall, and he placed most of his soldiers in the Tibetan soldier cave.

Even at any cost, a large area of Tibetan caves was excavated on the inner side of the Beijing city wall, although the Beijing city wall is very thick, but such a move will still affect the structural strength of the Beijing city wall.

But the Qing army didn't care about anything else.

Whenever the Xia army was bombarded by artillery, the Qing army hid in the cave of the hidden soldiers, and waited for the Xia army to come up before going to the city to fight.

The Xia army had no way to adjust the tactics of the Qing army for a while. The reason is very simple, where is the aiming accuracy of the cannon, and it is simply an impossible luxury to let the soldiers step on the cannon point to go to the city.

Although there is a group of people who dare to die.

It's not a former Qing soldier whose family was buried in the fire.

These people hated the Qing army to the core.

The reason is simple, the Qing court has never been kind to the people of Beijing.

When the Qing army entered the customs, the people in the inner city of Beijing were driven to the outer city, and I don't know how many families were bankrupt, and there was a matter of enclosing land, and the Han people even turned people and lands into slaves of the nobles.

That's it.

People in troubled times are not as good as peace dogs.

Born in troubled times, you can only survive, even if you can survive and be a dog. People in peacetime have no idea how low the bottom line is in despair, and what they are willing to pay in order to survive.

It's just that in this situation, this fire has cut off all their hopes.

How much did I pay to survive at the beginning, and now I hate the Qing court.

The Chinese people have always been like this, with two sides, one is extremely docile, no matter what the above does, they can bear it. On the other hand, when the oppression exceeds the limit. They will let you know, what is called, the tide of dying.

Now these people are, almost as dead men.

Most of them are like walking dead, but when it comes to fighting the Qing army, they step forward one by one.

Maybe let them calm down and start a new life.

But between letting Xia Jun die in battle or letting these people die in battle, Cao Zongyu and He Hutou both made the same choice.

On a siege without fancy fancy. It lasted five days.

Within five days, under the supervision of Cao Zongyu, the Xia army chose four breakthrough points, attacked day and night, and prepared to pull out the city of Beijing in one go.

With the Qing army descending as the vanguard, all departments took turns to fight.

Not to mention anything else, the Xia army's artillery exploded nearly ten.

You must know that Zhang Xuan has the most quality of artillery

I can't take it enough. Any unqualified artillery cannot be assigned to the army. Even so, it was still blown up.

This is not a question of the quality of the artillery.

It's that artillery is used too often.

Many artillery pieces do not stop at all, almost heat the barrel of the gun, wipe it with a wet towel to cool, and then fire again, and the cycle repeats.

This limit of use has already exceeded the limit of the cannon itself.

Naturally, the problem of blowing up the chamber will occur.

But at this time, even if there is a continuous explosion of the bore**. Some people even believe that this batch of cannons, one or two hundred Hongyi cannons, is at risk of being scrapped after this battle.

It is even believed that if it does not stop, the problem of large-scale bombing is very likely to occur.

Cao Zongyu promised to reduce the frequency of firing, but refused to stop firing the artillery, and said directly to the artillery commander in charge of firing the artillery: "The whole army can be sacrificed, is the gunner's life more precious than others?" ”

In fact, among the Xia army, the lives of gunners are indeed more precious than ordinary people.

Guy firing is a technical job. And among the artillerymen, the proportion of officers is the highest. It is the officers who have almost the ability to fire artillery independently.

And almost all the officers came out of the martial arts hall. Lecture on the Wutang artillery series.

Because if you don't learn math well, how can you shoot the cannon accurately?

was provoked by Cao Zongyu like this, the artillery commander personally went into battle and replaced the gunners below. And the cannon emplacements were separated a little. Avoid blowing up one cannon and affecting the other cannons.

You know, all artillerymen know that their cannons can explode at any time, but they still continue to fire.

The reason why this is so is not that Cao Zongyu does not feel sorry for the artillery.

How can it not be distressed.

Artillery training is the most expensive, even higher than cavalry.

Now that the Qing army has collapsed on a large scale, although the Xia army has not yet raised horses, horses are not as scarce as they were at the beginning, and the cost of cavalry has dropped a lot.

But the cost of artillery is not likely to fall.

If you don't let the artillery open fire fully, how can you get an elite gunner, when the cannon goes off, it never asks for money.

It's just that Cao Zongyu knows.

If you can't attack the city in the early stage, you can only have a long siege in the future.

Li Dingguo was on the front line of the Great Wall, and the cavalry of the Eastern Captives made a big move, and the Eastern Captives tried to bypass the Great Wall several times and break under the city of Beijing. Now Li Dingguo can still hold on.

But after a long time, it will be lost.

Maybe the Qing army turned the tables under the city of Beijing.

Therefore, no matter how many people die, Cao Zongyu doesn't care. He only needs the city of Beijing. Now it's a breath, this breath overwhelms the Qing army and crushes Beijing's eggshells.

Or let Beijing collapse, the morale of the Xia army is exhausted, and it can only be besieged for a long time.

However, the Xia army suffered, and the Qing army suffered even more.

Ao Bai did not know at the head of the city

For how long.

He lost his sense of both sunrise and sunset. I only know that when I saw the Xia army of the brigade, I rushed over, killing from beginning to end, killing people has become a very mechanical habit.

The spirit of Ao Bai is in a trance.

In the midst of the battle, he often had the feeling that he was asking himself, what am I doing? Oh, I'm killing?

The body reacts faster than the brain.

Ao Bai is still like this, not to mention the various departments of the Qing army.

The Xia army suffered heavy casualties, but there was still rotation, but the Qing army had no rotation to speak of. The loss of the outer city is also the loss of tens of thousands of conscripted troops.

This if the inside is pure.

Today, almost all of the defenders of Beijing were brought from Liaodong by the Qing court. Everyone knows that after the Xia army broke the city, it was impossible to let them go.

With the rise of the Qing court, these people were some of the people who benefited the most.

Now that the Qing court has failed, they will naturally have to pay the price for what they have done before.

Therefore, in the city of Beijing, as long as there are men, they are all in battle. In order to survive, their morale is even more explosive. During the battles, I didn't know how many people I saw, jumping off the city wall with Xia Jun in their arms.

even threw himself into the Xia army with a gunpowder bag.

It is precisely because of the fight so strong. They were able to endure the five-day, almost purgatory-like siege of the city.

The artillery on the Xia army's side blew up and finished all the flowering shells, after all, there were not many flowering shells. Because of instability, and even accidents with artillery bore, there are several cases related to flowering shells.

But the artillery of the Qing army was worse than that of the Xia army.

First of all, the artillery of the Qing army is the key attack node of the artillery of the Xia army, maybe the artillery of the Xia army is not accurate enough, but as soon as the artillery of the Qing army fires, the shells in all directions will be smashed over.

The artillery of the Qing army was smashed a lot, but more often the gunners of the Qing army died. After the death of a large number of experienced gunners, a large number of non-commissioned officers of the Qing army were temporarily trained, and then the ducks were put on the shelves.

As a result, the rate of bombing of the Qing army's artillery increased greatly.

It's not that the artillery of the Qing army has been used to the limit, it is not that the artillery of the Qing army is better than that of the Xia army, but that the artillery of the Qing army has not been used to the limit, and it has been blown up by these novices first.

Because of this, the Qing artillery firing almost stalled, and only the small artillery at the head of the city insisted on firing.

It was only shotshots.

A large amount of gunpowder was also distributed, which became a suicide weapon for the Qing army.

It's just that willpower can't defeat steel, and the world is always material. If you count the consumption of Xia Jun under the city of Beijing, three or four million taels is not enough. More of them are Zhang Xuan's old team that cannot be measured by silver.

No matter how Ao Bai and Fan Wencheng struggled.

Half a month after the Battle of Beijing began, this battle came to an end. The Qing army has its last breath left, but it doesn't know who this lucky one is.