Chapter Eighty-Five: Attacking Bukhara and Forcing the Khan to Surrender

When all the Mongols had arrived in Bukhara, Ninde gave them an order: "Rest well for the night, and attack Bukhara tomorrow." ”

A Mongol Wanhu asked: "General Ning, can you attack Bukhara tomorrow?" ”

"War starts tomorrow, but you can't enter the city tomorrow!" Ningde's answer disappointed the Mongols a little.

When we were having dinner together in the evening, the Ottoman envoy asked puzzledly: "General Ning, I saw here, Yue is that there are many others more than you, why don't they attack you, and they are surrounded by you?" ”

"Huh! They are afraid of us, and they only feel safe by hiding in their own cities and camps. Ningde replied.

"What do you do to make these proud moons, i.e., others, so afraid of you?"

"Tomorrow we will attack them, I invite you to watch the battle, and then you will know why we are they and why they are afraid of us!"

"Is this true? Won't reveal your secrets? The Ottoman envoys couldn't believe it.

"Your Ottoman Empire is our friendly country, and we have nothing to hide from you!" After Ning De finished speaking, he didn't believe it at all, but the Ottoman envoy was still very excited and said, "It's really my luck to see you go to battle with my own eyes, thank Allah!" ”

Of course, he was lucky, and he could learn a lot about watching the kiln people and the war, and these may have made a great contribution to the Ottoman Empire. He didn't expect that the generals of the Yaogang people were so heartless, and they would use military secrets to reveal themselves in front of outsiders. How did he know that they still had to cultivate for five hundred years! It's too far off.

Bukhara's twelve-kilometer-long city wall, Ningde they were only preparing to attack the northern side this time. The northern wall has four gates with towers on both sides. The city walls are full of cannons, and they are still a little afraid of these earthen cannons, although these cannons are incomparable with the cannons of the kiln gang people, but the cannonballs they shoot can still cause great casualties if they fall into the kiln gang people's team. The first thing the generals of the kiln gang dealt with was these cannons.

At night, Ningde and the others shone their searchlights on the walls of Bukhara, and constantly used loudspeakers to broadcast to the fortifications inside the city and outside the city of Yue, which is the others, to interfere with the Yue, and then quietly pushed the 130-caliber heavy artillery to the front and concealed it.

As soon as the morning dawned, the kiln gang people were already on standby.

Under Ningde's order, the 130 cannons lifted off their camouflage, shook the muzzle of the cannon and aimed directly at the northern wall of Bukhara. Before the moon on the towers of Bukhara and the camp outside the city could see what was going on. The earth-shattering sound of cannon rang out. The earth trembled uncontrollably.

The envoys and members of the Ottoman Empire did not expect such a terrible cannon sound, they were so frightened that they regretted coming out to watch the battle, in fact, they were still far from the artillery position!

The walls and gates of the majestic city of Bukhara, as well as the enemy towers on the city, were hit by shells one by one and were blown to pieces. The city wall was also bombarded by 130 heavy artillery sections in sections, turning from gaps into collapsed ruins everywhere. More than 100 heavy guns of 130 guns constantly bombarded the northern city wall, and the cannons and soldiers in the city did not know where to fly for a long time. The countless infantry cannons and light and heavy mortars of the Yaogang people also bombarded the three defensive positions of the Yue, that is, the other army, outside the northern city wall at the same time. These defensive positions they inherited the methods of the Mongols, and there were also summaries after many years of warfare, that is, others were working hard. However, these were fortifications for the era of defense against cold weapons, and there were not even decent anti-artillery trenches. Trebuchets and other trebuchets that had been painstakingly built, along with wood and masonry, flew everywhere along with the fragments of the soldiers' corpses. Fanatical religious beliefs can't stand the baptism of iron and fire, and when the cannonballs fall, the moon that is not killed by the other soldiers, crashes everywhere in a scattered spirit. At this point, their prayers were useless.

After 130 heavy artillery bombarded the northern city wall along the city wall from east to west, the north city wall and the enemy towers on the city wall, which had been carefully built by unknown people for thousands of years, together with the four city gates with enemy towers, became a pile of ruins in the smoke and dust, and they were terrifyingly piled there.

After the bombardment of the city wall, 130 heavy artillery joined the chorus of bombardment of the positions of the army outside the northern city wall. After these heavy artillery began shelling according to the predetermined coverage area, those who had just been bombarded by infantry artillery and mortars were known to others, and the original shelling was simply a side dish, and now it is the main dish that has come up. Many of the months that did not die that others completely collapsed.

When the Mongols saw such shelling, they repeatedly asked to rush in with their troops. However, Ningde did not agree to their request, but ordered the Yaogang infantry to follow slowly behind the tracked tractor, attacking and using rifles to eliminate those soldiers who were not yet dead. The tracks of the tractor can easily crush those wooden fences under the tracks, like crumpling toys. At this time, the Yue Jibei soldiers here are also staring at the confused eyes, waiting to be killed one by one, they have no sense of resistance at all, and they don't even have the consciousness of normal thinking, in fact, if they don't die, they are also a shell.

The Ottoman envoys held the binoculars provided to them by Ningde and watched this scene, and their backs were cold. What he thought in his heart was that he resolutely could not let the imperial sultan fight with the Ming army. The Ottoman Empire simply did not have any means to confront the Ming army. At this time, the envoy did not know, because when the Ottoman Empire was discussing the battle with the Ming army, he said the truth of what he saw and was almost dragged out and burned to death. Although he didn't die, he was still in prison.

The Khan in Bukhara was too familiar with the sound of the Kiln Gang people's cannons, and he did not expect the Kiln Gang people to concentrate all their artillery fire on the north. Because the Shahkud Canal runs through the city, and from Bukhara through the city, this is where Bukhara is weak. It's also where they put a lot of thought into it.

The cannon sound of the kiln men continued to destroy the determination of the officers and soldiers inside and outside Bukhara, as well as the people and believers to defend Bukhara. When the Khan learned that the northern city wall and the enemy towers and gates of the city had been blown up, and that the camp outside the city was also in flames, the Khan and his ministers understood that the Yaogang people were not looking for the weak points of Bukhara at all, but were going to smash Bukhara open like walnuts.

One of the ministers said: "King Khan, Allah will bless us, and in our city of Bukhara, there are countless mosques, countless shops, countless houses, and countless devout people who are willing to fight for Allah, so we will put the Ming army into the city, and we will use street fighting to our strengths." When the Ming army entered the city, their artillery could not be used. ”

When a person says this, many people immediately respond, "Yes, yes! King Khan, let's let the enemy in! ”

Khan's nose was crooked, "Don't we care about the hundreds of thousands of officers and soldiers outside the city?" ”

The Khan's words reminded them that only the three lines of defense in the north outside the city had been attacked, and there were still a few directions that had not been attacked, and there were still many officers and soldiers there. But then they thought that the entire northern side of the city had been opened, and the positions in other directions were useless for the city. But none of them dared to say it.

The Khan, who had calmed down, immediately ordered the defenders in the city to send a part of their forces to attack outward, and the troops outside the city also attacked the positions occupied by the Northern Ming army from both sides.

Although these Yuebei troops were frightened by this artillery fire, when the order came, they shouted Allah's long live, brandished their scimitars, and rushed towards the positions occupied by the Yaogang people.

Soon, the cannonballs of the kiln men flew towards them like eyes.

This time, these months have not been listening to the explosion of shells, but have really felt the power of shells, but many people have felt the power of shells, and they have never had the opportunity to appreciate anything else. Where can flesh and blood withstand cannonballs. No matter how fearful of death is, believers are not willing to die immediately. The month is goodbye to the army retreated.

The shelling stopped, but something even more terrifying happened to them, two planes flew over their heads, and many people saw a few black things falling from the big birds flying in the sky, and these things, before they could see what they were, exploded violently, killing many people. The two large birds that had flown away flew back again, and began to slaughter them with tongues of fire, and the fiery 12.7mm bullets shattered the soldiers who had been separated for many months. The month that didn't die, that is, someone else was simply crazy. They screamed that the devil was coming, and they were running around. In the city of Bukhara, there was also panic. A lot of people are spreading the word that the army will magic.

Of course, the Khan didn't believe in magic, but there was no way for him to be rumored all over the city. However, to the Khan's relief, the Ming army attacked outside the northern city wall and did not attack the city.

Soon someone brought in a package to the Khan, with the words "The Khan's Confession" written on it. When I asked, I found out that it was a cloth umbrella floating down from the big iron bird flying in the sky, and the officer of Yue Ji Bei received this package and looked at it, which said that Yue Ji was the king of the Khan. They didn't dare to move, and sent someone to send it over.

The Khan did not dare to open the package himself, and ordered one of the guards to open the package, which turned out to be only a letter.

It turned out that this was a letter of persuasion written by Ningde to the king of Khan.

The letter told the Khan: "We will completely occupy the city of Samarkand in one day. Bukhara can be done in one day if we want to occupy it. However, after Samarkand was occupied by us, it was the Mongols who entered the city first, so there were no living people in Samarkand. We don't want Bukhara, which is thousands of years old, to become a city full of dead people. Surrender ye. Today we destroyed the northern wall of Bukhara and occupied the positions outside the northern wall, just to let you see with your own eyes the combat effectiveness of our army. If you don't surrender, we can do just that, flattening part of it with shells, and we will occupy another part. In that case, it is not known how many people will be left in Bukhara. Please think twice.

If you don't give us an answer today. So we went into the city. Let your hundreds of thousands of troops outside the city immediately disarray, and we can completely destroy them! It's a warning for you! ”

The Khan had to admire the Ming army. He knew too well what Ning De was saying in his heart. If the defenders outside the city knew that the Ming army had invaded the city, the defenders outside the city would naturally think that they had been defeated and would be in chaos, and they would easily be wiped out by the Ming army, which had an absolute advantage.

The Khan reluctantly handed the letter to the ministers to read.

One of the ministers said, "King Khan, let's not listen to them. If the Ming army could capture Bukhara so easily, they wouldn't have bothered to persuade you with so much talk! ”

"We still have hundreds of thousands***, and we will fight the infidels to the end. Allah will bless us! ”

"Bloody battle to the end....."

Seeing the angry looks of everyone, King Khan knew in his heart that they had not yet encountered a real threat, but he knew that the idea of surrendering must also be dispelled, otherwise he might die earlier.

The Khan knew that it was impossible to attack and seize the lost positions, so he only had to order the fortifications everywhere to be reinforced, and fight to the death with the Ming army with the fortifications. At the same time, it was ordered that artillery fire was placed at positions occupied by the Ming army.

The artillery inside and outside Bukhara began to fire frantically at those places that had already been occupied by the Ming army. Although the range, accuracy and power of these earthen cannons are very different from those of the kiln gang people, many shells still fell around the kiln gang officers and soldiers, causing them some casualties.

Where did the angry Yaogang artillery suffer such a loss, and they began to counterattack, and soon the artillery inside and outside Bukhara was dumb.

Ningde ordered the infantry to occupy both ends of the bombed city wall in order to better threaten the Yue, i.e., others, inside and outside the city.

The infantry used light and heavy machine guns to cover the infantry to climb along the broken part of the collapsed city wall to the city wall, which was a classic tactic of the kiln gang people. A few infantrymen who had just boarded the city wall looked up and were startled, it turned out that thousands of soldiers who were lying on their stomachs were lying on the city wall, and they did not dare to raise their heads due to the suppression of light and heavy machine guns.

Several infantrymen raised their guns and began to fire "da-da-da". The moon here is that others didn't expect the Ming army to board from here, and before they could figure it out, what made them even more unclear was that these people didn't know what magic weapons to use, breathing fire, and sending the big flesh and blood of the brothers around them flying. The moon here is that others do not care about Allah's affairs, and they flee in a swarm, and several infantry in the city escape, escape with their hands **, throw at them, "boom" the explosive hand **, huddle them together and run to the ground one by one.

The infantry followed, charging up one of the enemy towers on the ramparts. The infantrymen who followed behind also dragged up the heavy machine guns. A few heavy machine guns are mounted on the enemy tower, and the range that can be controlled is too large. Needless to say, the city wall in sight is on the moon, that is, other soldiers dare not show their heads, and outside the city and in a large area of the city, that is, others do not dare to show their heads.

This happened almost the same at both ends of the wall north of Bukhara.

Seeing this scene, the Mongolian Wanhu who was watching the battle with Ningde had to be subdued. If their soldiers had occupied the walls, they didn't know how many people would have died in a bloody battle.

The Ottoman envoy asked Ningde through the general: "General! You have such a strong military force, why don't you just attack the city of Bukhara? ”

"Hmmm! I want to die less, and I want to hope that the Khan can lead his troops to surrender! Ningde put down the binoculars and said.

"They are all pious Muslins and will not surrender!" The Ottoman envoys still wanted to defend Muslin's dignity.

"Huh!" After listening to the general affairs, he translated the words of the envoy.

All the kiln gang people present laughed.

Ningde said: "We have seen too many *** who surrender and change religion!" King Yarkand Khan is a representative of this. They all want the people to be more religious, and they themselves will not be so stupid. Let me tell you, there is a high probability that the moon is the other khan's king will finally surrender. In fact, this is a good thing for himself, and it is also good for the people. Otherwise, the people would have been fooled by him and died, and they would have been wronged! ”

The envoy still had a hundred reasons in his heart to refute Ningde. Because for thousands of years, all the various statements against *** have been refuted by theorists of the seminary one by one. It's just that the envoys know that if they say so much here, these heretics won't listen to it, and if they don't get it, it will affect their mission.

The infantry occupied both ends of the wall, and the moon was attacked several times, and the corpses were piled up on the wall but not recovered.

Ningde ordered the artillery to be pushed to the front, and the artillery opened the way to launch a parallel attack into the city.

The 130 cannons fired flat, bombarding the mosques, shops, residences and other buildings in front of them into ruins, and waited for the smoke and dust to dissipate, and the infantry wearing masks went over to occupy them. This kind of fighting, the fight is artillery, that is, others can't see the Yaogang infantry at all, so they were blown up along with their stealth buildings, and even the corpses were buried in the ruins. Those *** who have just recovered from the shock of the kiln bombardment and are fanatical have no chance to fight with their opponents.

This style of play opened the eyes of the Mongols and the Ottoman envoys. This is a war, it's easier than hunting. Not only were the kiln soldiers basically free of casualties, but they also wore masks to fight, and some soldiers were reluctant to wear masks and were reprimanded by officers. It's unheard of to pay attention to the health of the soldiers while fighting.

The Ottoman envoys knew that no one would believe them when they went back to talk about it. What made them even more strange were the war correspondents, who carried their cameras and followed the forefront of the army, constantly taking pictures.

The envoy pointed to the busy photojournalists and asked, "General, what are those people doing?" ”

"Even! That's photojournalists, they're documenting the reality of the battlefield. Ningde said, "The big leaders in our family, as well as our people, are very concerned about the situation at the front, and if they can't come, we will record it with a camera and show it to them later." ”

Ning De rolled his eyes when he saw them listening, knowing that they didn't understand, he smiled and said, "You will soon come to our kiln, you can see the movie in the kiln, and then you will know what is going on!" ”

"Even! I've heard about movies. The envoy understood, "They're doing this to see what is happening here in your movie?" ”

"Yes, yes!" Ningde nodded and said.

The Kiln Gang attack was slow to progress, as they wanted to destroy one building after another. This kind of play is too much pressure on the moon and others. The fanatical religious belief could not be supported, and many officers and soldiers and believers who were holding on to the building abandoned their positions and fled to the rear, forming a torrent of backward flight for a while. The city of Bukhara was already crowded with people, which caused a lot of chaos.

The king of Khan, who was hiding in the summer palace of Bukhara, kept hearing the news that this place was captured and that there was being captured, and the sweat that flowed from it had soaked his clothes. He found that the ministers who had called for resolute resistance were gone. The Khan said, "When it comes to the real thing, you fools will know that you have to save your life." It's too late now, the Ming army won't let go of a single person! ”

At this time, a minister saw the Khan's thoughts, and asked tentatively: "Khan, can't go on like this!" Can we also send people to talk to the Ming army and see if they can stop the attack first? ”