Chapter 25: The Imperial City Artillery Battle
"Boom" "Boom" A few cannon sounds sounded that frightened Huang Taiji and many Baylors, but the distance was too far, and most of the shells were missed, "Chongzhen, this kid is too much of a thing, he actually plays yin" Amin scolded angrily. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Amin didn't finish scolding, the sound of the cannon came again, this time I don't know if it was the cannon fired by the lucky Ming army, a cannonball grazed Huang Taiji's personal guards and penetrated the past, although it did not hurt Huang Taiji and many Baylors, but after the cannonball, the unlucky ghosts in that column disappeared with people and horses, leaving only a long blood stain, and finally the cannonball jumped a few times on the ground, rushed into the camp, and the camp of the Jurchens jumped for a while.
Huang Taiji, who was originally indifferent, couldn't keep his demeanor when he saw the cannonballs ploughed out near him and got blood marks, and this scene in front of him reminded Huang Taiji that his Amanurhachi was killed by the Ming army's cannons, so he could no longer suppress the fear in his heart, lifted the horse rope, turned around and ran towards his camp.
Many princes and ministers behind Huang Taiji, saw that their khans had run away, so they followed behind, no one wanted to stay and suffer from the shells, although the accuracy of the artillery shells of the army was extremely different, but the shells did not have long eyes, under the range of the cannon, every time the cannon sound came, everyone was shocked with the sound of the cannon, under the muzzle of the cannon, that is, with the modern use of revolvers, the feeling of gambling on the last bullet is almost the same, too exciting, no one knows if they will be unlucky today, You must know that Nurhachi was unlucky enough to be killed by a cannon, and there are such examples in the past, whether it is the guards or the princes and ministers who are guarded, one runs faster than the other.
"It's a pity, I didn't kill Huang Taiji, and then Huang Taiji is estimated to jump off the wall in a hurry, Sun Aiqing, you are ready to deal with the siege of the Jurchens, I will live here today and not return to the palace" It is rare to see a large-scale siege battle, Chongzhen did not plan to run back to the palace like this.
"The emperor can't, the Jurchens outside the city may attack the city at any time, it's too dangerous" Hearing Chongzhen's crazy idea, Wang Chengen and Sun Chuanting were scared half to death, if something really happened to Chongzhen, everyone's heads here would not be enough to cut off.
"It's okay, isn't there an enemy platform here, I'll take a look in the enemy platform, I won't come out to make trouble for you" Chongzhen made up his mind not to return to the palace, the city wall as high as the third floor, the moat more than fifty meters wide under the wall, and the enemy platform on the city wall, stay in the enemy platform, as long as you don't break the city, you are still very safe.
"Emperor" Just when Sun Chuanting and Wang Chengen were about to persuade each other again, Chongzhen had already turned around and walked in the direction of the enemy Taiwan. Wang Chengen behind him had no choice, so he had to face Sun Chuanting, "Lord Sun, you have also seen the emperor's attitude, now the emperor is on the city wall, for the emperor's safety, before the emperor leaves, the enemy army must not be allowed to cross the moat, otherwise it will surprise the emperor, it is not for you and me to bear."
After Wang Chengen and Chongzhen left, Sun Chuanting had the urge to scold people, what kind of bad thing is this, you are an emperor who is not good to stay in the palace, and run to the city wall at this time, isn't this making trouble for yourself, and you can't say that the enemy is on the platform, and you don't cause trouble for yourself, but as long as you, the emperor, are on the city wall for a day, for yourself, the guard, it is extremely troublesome.
However, in his heart, Sun Chuanting had no choice but to arrange people to protect Chongzhen's safety, and soon many cannons on the other city walls were pulled over by Sun Chuanting and placed on the city wall where Chongzhen was. Even the soldiers guarding the city, Chongzhen is a city guarded by Sun Chuanting with his own personal soldiers.
Huang Taiji in the sweat tent
Along the way, Huang Taiji galloped wildly, and when he returned to his big tent, he took out a long knife and slashed open a table in front of him, and exhaled angrily, "Chongzhen Xiaoer, you are too bullying," how many years have he not been so embarrassed, and now he actually let Chongzhen, the little emperor, play tricks.
One after another, several other Bellors, who held the power of the army, also returned to the tent, and Huang Taiji held a long knife in his hand, turned around and ordered, "Amin, Mang Gurtai, you two are now leading the people of the headquarters to attack the city immediately, and I want Chongzhen, the emperor child, to pay the price." ”
"Deling" Amin and Mang Gurtai were also angry, and immediately went to the camp to gather their own men and prepare to attack the city after receiving the order to siege the city. Soon more than 20 cannons captured by the Jurchens in the city of Jizhou were pushed to the front line, and a group of Mongols and Han people who were forced to come, resisting large and small sandbags and carrying long ladders, were ready to fill the moat under the cover of the army.
The Jurchens put on a siege posture, and the Ming army under the command of Sun Chuanting, a large number of sergeants went up to the city wall, a pair of logistics soldiers, resisting bundles of various arrows, carrying boxes of cannonballs and began to carry them to the city wall to prepare for battle. A large number of fire and oil bombs are ready.
In the oppressive atmosphere before the war, the Jurchen side took the lead in firing cannons, "boom" "boom" one by one cannonballs hit the city wall, and in an instant countless gravel flew on the city wall, some unlucky soldiers were hit, wailing and falling down the city wall, and countless sappers and slaves below howled under the cover of artillery fire to launch a desperate charge.
After the Ming army was shelled, they immediately fired a counterattack, and the artillery muzzles on the city wall rushed out of the fire, and one by one solid iron ball shells rushed out, plowing out blood grooves in the enemy army below.
After the group of sappers and slave soldiers rushed out of a certain distance, the giant crossbows on the city wall began to wield, and the spears with the thickness of the arms were used as crossbow arrows, under the strong force of the giant crossbows, the group of slave soldiers without armor were hit, and they often penetrated the bodies of several soldiers before they pierced into the ground, and soon there were spears on the ground that skewered the human flesh of this group of people, and what was more, some of the spears fired by the giant crossbow were nailed to the ground and had not yet died, and the severe pain made these people let out a wail.
Many of the lucky ones who rushed through the rain of cannonballs and arrows approached the moat and filled the sandbags into the river, and before the slave soldiers who threw the sandbags could run back, the lucky slaves fell into the moat with the sandbags in a rain of arrows.
Many fierce dead soldiers mixed in the slave soldiers to push the long ladder into the moat, and then jumped into the river to swim in the direction of the city wall, these dead soldiers often did not rush to the other side, they were shot to death one by one by the Ming army on the city wall with strong bows and crossbows.
Chongzhen stood in the enemy platform and watched the war below, the shells on both sides in mid-air ploughed out blood marks on the ground, the spears fired by the giant crossbow strung out human flesh skewers on the ground, and the moat was full of dead bodies shot by the crossbows, but this seemingly extremely tragic battlefield was just a tentative siege by the other party, Chongzhen understood that the real siege had not yet begun, these people were just substitutes for the dead sent by the enemy army to test the reality in the city, and human life has always been as cheap as a dog in troubled times.