Chapter 30: Arson

At the moment of the explosion, Qin Hui took the opportunity to pick up his horse and galloped, and disappeared into the deep night in a blink of an eye, facing the collapsed city wall, Huang Taiji, as Qin Hui said, could no longer care about any gold and silver treasures and the life of a scholar. Pen | fun | pavilion www. biquge。 info

At this moment, Huang Taiji's was stunned by this surprise that fell from the sky, all the Jurchens have never had the luxury of being able to lay down the capital of Emperor Ming, but at this moment, Emperor Ming's capital actually collapsed a section of the city wall in front of the army led by him, is this the favor of Changshengtian?

"Amin, Mang Gurtai, Azig, Abatai, Er and other four people each led 20,000 horses and horses, and attacked the imperial city of Emperor Ming at any cost, and the Ming army must not be allowed to fill this gap, remember to capture Emperor Ming's child alive. Dai Shan, Ben Khan gave you a thousand soldiers and horses to sit in the big camp. Yue Tuo, Zilharang, as Ben Khan led the rest of the men and horses to block Yuan Chonghuan's barbarian reinforcements" As Huang Taiji's military order was issued, the Jurchen army immediately set off, the horses roared, the voices of the people were boiling, and the army galloped out.

The Ming army on the city wall also reacted at this time, lit the artillery and began to fire at the Jurchens who were galloping towards the city, and there were groups of heavy infantry who began to surround the gap that was blown up. For a time, the galloping of war horses, the shouts of soldiers, the sound of "whoosh" and "whoosh" arrows accompanied by the roar of artillery, the war fell into a white-hot scene in this dark night, countless soldiers sacrificed their lives under the city, and the gap in the city wall became an extremely terrifying meat grinder at this moment.

Yuan Chonghuan's camp

After hearing the explosion, Yuan Chonghuan instinctively sensed that something was abnormal, and sent out a scout horse while rearming for battle. The sent probe horse has not returned, there is artillery and shouts in the distance, this time there is no need to probe the horse, Yuan Chonghuan also knows that something is wrong, the situation is urgent, it is too late to wait for the return of the probe, Yuan Chonghuan plans to lead the army to set off, but before Yuan Chonghuan's army set off, there was a thunderous sound of horses' hooves outside the camp.

The 20,000 horses led by Huang Taiji had arrived not far from Yuan Chonghuan's camp. The army is facing each other, the atmosphere of the battlefield is more and more solidified, I don't know how long Yuan Chonghuan sent the war horse finally returned, but the news brought back by the horse made Yuan Chonghuan angry, "The city gate collapsed, the defenders are fighting with the Jurchens in the gap", Yuan Chonghuan, who heard the news, was worried that the imperial city was lost, and took the initiative to lead the army to attack, the cavalry of the two armies accelerated the charge, looking at it at a high altitude, it seemed that two waves of different colors collided together, at the moment when the waves approached, ignoring the soldiers rolling to death in the impact, although Yuan Chonghuan's army was more numerous, but the Huang Taiji Jurchens are all elite troops who fight all year round, and the quality of individual soldiers is not comparable to Yuan Chonghuan's current newly established Guanning cavalry. The cavalry that collided with each other gradually lost the horsepower of the charge and fell into a positional battle, and the two sides were anxious with each other.

The heavy infantry of the Ming army in the battle for the gap in the city wall was finally broken away by the cavalry of the Jurchens, and countless Jurchens rushed madly towards the city along the gap.

Now the soldiers and horses guarding the outer city, all of them are the Beijing camp men and horses trained by Sun Chengzong, there are 50,000 soldiers guarding the city at night, and 50,000 soldiers are resting in the military camp in the center of the outer city, so as to reinforce the surrounding city walls at any time, when Chongzhen was in the outer city when the new soldiers who defended the city, after Chongzhen returned to the inner city, they have all been dropped into the inner city defense, and now the entire outer city is left with the 100,000 Beijing battalion trained by Sun Chengzong.

These people in the Beijing camp, Chongzhen has long wanted to rectify it, but the relationship in the Beijing camp is complicated, and there are a lot of messy imperial relatives in it, that is, Chongzhen himself, the emperor, wants to completely rectify the military camp It is an extremely troublesome thing, but after Sun Chengzong's rectification, the current Beijing camp does have some combat effectiveness.

Chongzhen looked at the battlefield in the city on the city wall, and saw countless soldiers who were originally resting in the camp, picking up their weapons and going to support Guangqumen, at this time the Jurchen cavalry had entered the city, and the Jurchen iron cavalry in the city was received, let go of the horsepower and galloped, and this group of support men and horses rushed out in a hurry. In the face of the Jurchen iron horse, soon showed a trend of rout.

After seeing the Jurchen cavalry entering the city on a large scale, many soldiers began to abandon the defense of the city and flee backwards. Slowly, the eighty or ninety thousand fully equipped Beijing battalions were chased and beaten by the Jurchens who were slightly inferior to themselves, and they retreated frantically from Guangqu Gate to Guangning Gate along the way, but all the shoes of these soldiers were ordered by Chongzhen to be replaced with iron shoes, and they couldn't run, and they were chased and killed by the Jurchens all the way.

"The Beijing camp is really rotten, I left the manpower of the Beijing camp in the city, so many siege crossbows, they were defeated before they came in handy" It's no wonder, it's not the old slippery head in the military camp who can be in the Beijing camp, or the descendants of the emperor's relatives and relatives, these people want them to use their lives, don't think about it, but I want you to fight with the Jurchens for my Daming today, you don't want to fight, you want to run away, this is unbearable.

"Big companion, has Lu Aiqing outside the city been contacted" Chongzhen asked Wang Chengen who was following him.

"Back to the emperor, Lord Lu has already set off," Wang Chengen returned.

"Sun Aiqing, let's start" Sun Chuanting, who received the order, turned around and strode away.

Soon after Sun Chuanting left, there was an explosion on the surrounding city wall, all the stairs leading to the city wall in the city were blown up with gunpowder, after the explosion, the direction of Guangning Gate was ignited with a skyrocketing fire, with the help of the surrounding firelight, many people saw clearly that the ground was covered with ditch marks, and the fire oil in the ditch slowly flowed slowly along the ditch to the direction of Guangqu Gate, and a large number of firewood was also exposed in some collapsed houses under the fire.

The whole city of Beijing is a "convex" shape, and the outer city is the rectangle below the word "convex", the defeated soldiers ran all the way to the Guangning Gate, at this time the front of the fire ignited, the fire flowed along the ground with the oil of fire, slowly approaching the defeated soldiers, on both sides is the tall city wall, on one side is the sky-high fire, on the other side is the Jurchen holding high the butcher's knife, the desperate rout, had to pick up the weapon and the rear Jurchen to play with their lives, hoping to kill a bloody road before the fire comes.

At the moment of the rout's counterattack, in the inner city, countless trebuchets lined up, began to face the entire outer city, covering the scattering of countless thistles, for a time the sky was full of thistles falling like raindrops, countless Jurchen cavalry, people turned on their horses, seeing this scene, the routs who were forced to a dead end by the fire became more and more crazy to rush towards the Jurchens, and the iron shoes that were originally fleeing for their lives played an incomparably huge effect in the night when the ground was covered with thistles.

Yuan Chonghuan and Huang Taiji's army fought together anxiously, Yue Tuo and Yuan Chonghuan fought alone on one side, both sides, you come and go, so lively, Huang Taiji in the distance pulled out an arrow, the bow is like a full moon, a "whoosh" arrow, nailed to the chest of Yuan Chonghuan who fought with Yue Tuo, Yue Tuo took the opportunity to cut off Yuan Chonghuan's horse leg with a knife, saw Yuan Chonghuan injured and fell off the horse, Yuan Chonghuan's personal soldiers stepped forward to save each other, occupied the time to block Yue Tuo, snatched back the seriously injured Yuan Chonghuan, the personal soldiers escorted Yuan Chonghuan to retreat, Huang Taiji was worried about the war in the city, He was also unwilling to entangle with Yuan Chonghuan, so he led Yue Tuo and Jierharang to Guangqumen.