Chapter Ninety-Five: The Battle of Beijing II

The first day of fighting was just the beginning.

After that, the war was not so easy.

After the first day of fighting, both sides understood each other's routines.

There are also a lot of changes between each other. And it came back again. Cao Zongyu also used the plan of fiction and reality.

After all, there were too many places for the Qing army to defend, and the city wall of more than 40 miles was guarded by more than 100,000 people, which was a little stretched. Cao Zongyu made a big fuss, but focused on attacking.

In many places, the thunder is heavy and the rain is small. But there are some places where the fighting is quite tragic. Even Xia Jun's first part actually landed first. However, he was immediately driven down.

This also shows the shortcomings of the Qing army.

Although most of the Xia troops attacking the city were the original Qing army and new soldiers, it does not mean that the combat effectiveness of these Xia troops was poor.

It depends on who you compare it to.

The army conscripted by the Qing army is much stronger.

If it weren't for the fact that there were still 20,000 or 30,000 elite soldiers under Aobai's command, I am afraid that this situation would not be easy to clean up.

And so on for several days.

The Xia army was under the city and died more than 10,000 soldiers.

And the losses of the Qing army were not small.

Just with a few days to defend the city. These soldiers temporarily recruited by the Qing army seem to be accustomed to the Xia army. It seems that there is nothing to be afraid of fighting, there is no need to aim, just wait for the officer to give the order, and shoot at the city.

Anyway, the fire gun is not accurate.

Under the protection of the city wall, although it could not completely block the killing and wounding of the Xia army's firearms.

But by and large, the number of deaths is not too great.

It's just that where they don't know, the rhythm of the battle is changing. 、

He Hutou looked at the Yongding City Gate from afar.

Near the Yongding Gate city wall, there are traces left by countless smoke and fires, which shows that in a few days, there were many fierce battles here in Yongding City.

Moreover, the moat outside the Yongding Gate has also been filled, and the army can reach the Yongding Gate City.

In the past two days, there was a bluff outside the Yongding Gate, and there was no onslaught.

The guards above the Yongding Gate have been a little lax, and some soldiers have even been transferred here to support other aspects, especially in the direction of the inner city.

There are many reasons why He Hutou put his target here.

First of all. That is, the Qing army's defensive attitude towards the outer city and the inner city is different, and the people in the inner city are all old people from Liaodong and the families of the Eight Banners. And the outer city is inhabited by Han people.

In this way, can the attitude towards the inner city be the same as the outer city?

Secondly, it is inconvenient to transport artillery on a large scale.

One or two artillery transports can still be hidden in the army, but it is unlikely that more than a hundred artillery guns will be transported without being discovered.

The south of Beijing is the only viable place.

cause

Not far south of Jingshi is the Lugou River. The waterway leading to Beijing is naturally not one, and there is also a waterway from Tongzhou to Jingshi, which is part of the canal, but it is seriously silted up. The Qing army was worried about the Xia army's sailors, so Ao Bai personally led people to fill in a paragraph.

Therefore, it cannot be used.

The Lugou River is not the main waterway, but it has escaped.

The artillery was transported from Tianjin, ashore from the Lugou River, and about ten miles to the north, and then arrived at the firing position.

Another reason is that Yongding Gate is the main gate of the outer city of Jingshi.

From Yongding Gate to Xuanwu Gate, go straight all the way, and there is no hindrance.

And the Yongdingmen transfer troops couldn't be more convenient.

So the Yongding Gate was finalized.

However, Yongding Gate is so important, Dongyu will naturally not be defenseless. But what if you are prepared, He Hutou has long been influenced by Zhang Xuan and has become a cannon.

Although the Qing army fought with the Xia army before, it became common for a major battle to use dozens of hundreds of cannons. But it is rare to bombard a target with so many cannons.

This time, for He Hutou, it was the first time.

And He Hutou didn't know that his attack this time was listed as a key case in the martial arts hall. It influenced the Xia army for more than 100 years in the future, and the concepts of artillery bombardment, infantry and artillery coordination, etc., have become familiar terms for martial arts scholars.

He Hutou stood on top of the arrow tower and said to the people around him, "Let's start." ”

With a "boom", a rocket shot up into the sky and exploded in the sky.

Sergeant Xia suddenly activated.

As if by magic, they tore down the outer walls of the camp and dismantled the wooden sheds one by one.

What I saw on the city wall before, like a building with layers of barracks, is gone.

There was only one gun emplacement left.

This gun position is extremely dense.

There is a gentle slope behind the cannon, and the cannon behind it is half a body high, and the cannon in the back is half a body higher than the cannon in front, and the cannon in the third layer is half a body higher than the cannon in the second layer.

It was so densely arranged, between the cannons and the cannons, the density was too close. Once the artillery of the Qing army hit, it was easy to hit. However, there is no way around it.

Because of technical problems.

To be honest, more than a hundred cannons intensively bombarded one coordinate. Never tried it before.

Today, for the first time in this arrangement, many gunners were a little confused, and at the same time, in order to hide the artillery positions, they made this move.

Such a situation naturally attracted the attention of the Yongding Gate Tower.

The guards on the upper floor of Yongding Gate City saw the dense cannon muzzle, which was already dark and reflected by the sun on the cannon body, and his first feeling was not to believe it.

He tried to wipe his eyes. Looking at it again, I have to admit the reality. After admitting the reality, he immediately grabbed the soldiers next to him and said

said: "Hurry up and see General Ao." Explain the situation and let General Ao come to the aid quickly. ”

He didn't know how the Xia army was going to fight, but artillery as a strategic-level weapon, although with the popularization of artillery between the Xia army and the Qing army, the importance of artillery declined somewhat.

But gathering so many artillery pieces must be the main direction of attack of the Xia army.

He guessed right.

There are just no rewards.

As soon as his own soldiers got off the city tower, they heard an earth-shattering loud noise, which was the roar of more than a hundred cannons, and the gunpowder smoke seemed to have become substantial, spreading out in a circle above the artillery position of the Xia army.

For a while, whether it was the Qing army or the Xia army, their hearing was occupied by countless buzzing sounds, and even if they were close to each other, they couldn't hear each other's words.

Only the other's lips could be heard opening and closing.

The Yongding Gate guard, looking at the countless cannonballs flying over, seemed to be slow, but in fact the speed was very fast.

But in the blink of an eye, it smashed into the Yongding Gate Tower.

It's just that the accuracy of the Xia army's artillery, although it is good, is just good. I can't say how good it is, even if the target of the Yongding Gate Tower, not all of them can be hit, dozens of them cross the city wall and enter the city, and dozens of them are smashed on the city wall.

Only about ten smashed into the tower.

It's just that for the Yongding Gate guard, these ten are nightmarish existences.

After the Xia army opened fire, he immediately hid in the city tower to take refuge.

But I heard the sound of explosions one after another. For a while, he didn't know what he was doing, could it be that the artillery at the head of the city was blown up?

For the flowering bullet, the Qing army general did not understand at all.

But I saw that a flowering bullet seemed to be a little too long, and smashed through the city tower from above, and smashed in front of this guard.

The general immediately noticed that there was a fuse on the flowering bomb.

The flowering shell is a hollow shell with a fuse in the middle, and when the cannon is fired, the fuse is also ignited, and the fuse is used to control the explosion.

It's just that sometimes, if one doesn't pay attention, the shell explodes in the chamber.

It's too unstable.

Such flowering bombs were also available in the Ming Dynasty, but they were mostly used to defend cities, such as 10,000 enemies, such as soldiers, just fill them with gunpowder and throw them down.

The Ming Dynasty didn't care about the safety of the gunners, anyway, the firearms of the Ming Dynasty were just as dangerous, so they naturally didn't care about the flowering bullets.

But Xia Jun rarely used flowering bullets.

Just when the Qing army general wanted to understand all of this, the flowering bullet in front of him also exploded violently, and the Qing army general was in this explosion, and his bones were gone. Lian Yongding Gate Tower was lit somewhere, and a raging fire was ignited.

A black smoke rose into the sky, like a black dragon with teeth and claws, so that all the dozens of miles around Beijing City could be seen.

As if they had seen the order, the Xia armies immediately stepped up their attacks.