What unfolded in front of Yang Qing was a spectacular picture.

An ancient city filled with gunpowder.

Countless soldiers with ants attached to the city walls.

Beneath the walls was a surging crowd.

Behind the wooden parapets, the musketeers who were constantly firing on the walls, the people who rushed forward to fill the moat with their carts, and the commandos who rushed across the moat with ladders carrying long knives and short spears hanging on their waists. Even the second echelon waiting behind these people, there were also the artillery who were busy firing in front of them, and the cavalry patrolling on the periphery......

Li Zicheng was striking the walls of the northern capital in the most direct and ferocious way.

He didn't have much time.

After all, the Duoduo in the south had already returned to his division.

Li Zicheng had to open the northern capital in five to ten days at most, otherwise he would have to face the encircled Duoduo, although he was not afraid of this situation, after all, Duoduo was behind the Ming army attacking on all fronts. But in that case, he wouldn't be able to open the northern capital with his own hands to find Dolgon's revenge, and this is his main purpose, this guy who stepped into the coffin didn't care about anything else, and his goal in life was to skin and cramp Dolgon.

Other things are not worth mentioning at all.

So he launched an attack on the northern capital the day after he arrived.

Attack on all fronts.

Bullying Dolgon's subordinates without soldiers, in addition to leaving the Western Regions Legion to guard Bolo, the remaining 70,000 troops and more than 300,000 volunteers or people who followed him launched a strong attack from the east, west and north. However, the attack from the south has not yet begun, and the Han people in this city are still waiting, it is obvious that they have been minions for a long time, and they are still unable to adapt to the change of identity for a while, and there are still a large number of old people in the outer city who have a tense relationship with Li Zicheng, and they do not know how Li Zicheng will treat them when he returns to this city. However, Li Zicheng was not interested in the outer city, and Dolgon did not dare to relax his vigilance against the outer city, in short, in the midst of the war, only a small part of the outer city of the northern capital maintained an eerie tranquility.

This is a real bloody battle.

Although the vast majority of the people on the city wall are old and weak, women and children, they are still killing and injuring the Shun troops outside without retreating, relying on the strong city wall.

In the final analysis, this kind of ant-attached siege is actually the most unwise choice for the attacker.

This is true even in the era of cold weapons.

When the cannon musket became widespread, the ant-attached city was almost a suicidal attack.

After all, the Eight Banners are also militarized organizations.

Originally, in history, even if the Eight Banners had been abolished by the time of King Hong, when the Taiping Army attacked Nanjing, even women were in the city to defend, and even the Eight Banners of Fuzhou during the Xinhai period were still stubbornly resisted to the end, not to mention that the Eight Banners were still not rotten in this era. The old and weak women and children, who were themselves militarized organizations, under the leadership of a small number of Baya Laja soldiers, relied on the organization of intermarriage with each other, and constantly attacked the city with all kinds of weapons on the towering city walls.

Even drop the grenades of the defense.

This kind of weapon was also in the Qing army, but because of the small production of gunpowder and the poor effect of this thing, the number was very small, but there was definitely one in the northern capital, and it worked very well in such a defense.

Condescending advantage.

Fortified city walls.

In particular, the Shun army did not have the disadvantage of heavy artillery.

These narrowed the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides to the greatest extent, and in the intertwined roar of shells and bullets, the dead bodies of the Shun army under the city wall were not only increasing, especially at the base of the city wall, with the explosion and fire of grenades, the dead bodies of the Shun army were even piled up.

But there were more deaths on the walls.

The Shun army did not have heavy artillery, and it was impossible for them to drag heavy artillery during long-distance attacks, and the largest was only a six-pound class, in fact, the vast majority were still three-pound level, and this level of artillery could not really threaten the walls of the northern capital, and even the city bricks outside could not necessarily be knocked down. It's just that there are many mortars, but the mortar shells are killing and injuring the city, especially creating fires in the city, and the accuracy of this thing itself is a tragedy, except for being able to smash into the city tower, it is almost impossible to hit the narrow city wall. However, the Shun army had many muskets and a large number of light artillery, dense volleys of guns, and light field guns firing directly at the arrow stacks hundreds of paces away, which were even more deadly on the city walls, and the dead bodies of the old and weak women and children of the Eight Banners were piling up as the battle dragged on.

However, there is no suspense about Li Zicheng's victory, it is strange that he does not win, 100,000 elites can't beat the old and weak women and children, then Li Zicheng is really dead. Victory is inevitable, it's just a matter of how many Shun troops die in the end.

But that's about Yang Qing's.

He's just here to see the excitement, so he won't run out to help! These arrogant soldiers and fierce generals are all old bandits, and letting them die on the battlefield of recovering the northern capital is the best destination for them. Although Yang Qing understands their rebellion back then, it doesn't mean that he likes to keep such a group of guys who are accustomed to killing people and setting fires, they are all unstable factors wherever they are placed!

Especially those generals.

At this time, the first Shun army to climb the city wall appeared in his field of vision......

"Stop him!"

Wu Bai roared on the city wall.

A Shunjun officer wearing three-quarters armor was the first to rush to the city wall, and the two old soldiers of the Eight Banners with spears near him immediately stabbed forward, but the power of the saber in this guy's hand was huge, and his strength in the prime of life was not comparable to these old men. The long scary big knife slashed down with the sound of the wind, and the two spear shafts were cut off at the same time, and the two Eight Banner veterans still wanted to pull out their waist knives, but they were too old to react, and before they could pull it out, the horse chopping knife fell again. The head of an old soldier of the Eight Banners fell, but the remaining chopping knife continued to move forward, instantly cutting off the arm of the second old soldier and slashing it into his ribs.

The latter screamed and fell.

Wu Bai did not hesitate to swing his knife forward, and the officer of the Shun army drew his knife and stepped on the two corpses and roared to meet them, and the knives of the two immediately collided together.

"Wu Bai?"

The officer of the Shun army shouted behind his visor.

Immediately after the two of them took a step back and separated, he took off his helmet directly.

"A black face?"

Wu Bai looked at the familiar face and said with some uncertainty.

"Ha, I still remember grandpa, this is really a narrow road, today we just settle the old score!"

Said with a black face.

He was the Dushikou guard when Dolgon entered the customs, and then the Jin merchants and the Mongols joined forces to break through Zhangjiakou, and the Xuanfu defender was also his main general Zhang Tianlin to meet and was betrayed by Jiang Jiu to seize Xuanfu. He led the defenders of Dushikou to counterattack Xuanfu and joined forces with Liu Zongmin, who went north, but then Dolgon blocked their back route by taking the north, and Duoduo led the Qing army, including Wu Bai, to the north. Zhang Tianlin, who never waited for reinforcements, was wiped out, Liu Zongmin and he could not gain a foothold and could only flee to become a lone army, and almost trapped Taihang Mountain under the pursuit of the Qing army, including Wu Bai, but fortunately, Li Zicheng's return to the division saved them.

Now it's also a meeting of enemies.

Zhang Hei is actually the Lingzhou Jiedu envoy, Li Zicheng sealed four Jiedu envoys in the Hetao area, all of them are small military leaders in the army, and he is one of them with his subordinates. The son has already led the Lingzhou soldiers to follow Liu Zongmin to the Western Regions, he was originally enjoying Qingfu at home, but when he heard about the attack on the northern capital, he took the initiative to take revenge with a hundred old subordinates.

"Defeated!"

Wu Bai sneered.

"Then try again!"

A black face roared.

This guy who is almost fifty is holding a chopping knife and cutting off his head, Wu Bai, who is also already sixty, has a knife in his hand, and Wu Bai almost got rid of the two swords in Mars, and the age gap determines the difference in strength after all. The axle in the hand of Zhang Hei Face, who was blocked, slashed down diagonally again, Wu Bai was somewhat embarrassed to kneel on one side and dodge, and at the same time the knife in his hand stabbed directly into Zhang Hei Face's chest, but the latter's plate armor was not at all able to pierce with his current strength and weapon. The tip of the Yanling knife made a scratch on the wrought iron plate, and then swept under the ribs of Zhang Hei's face, and the excessively long handle of the saber in the latter's hand jerked violently, and it was suddenly whipped into Wu Bai's face.

Wu Bai screamed and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

A black face raised his foot and kicked him in the chest, and Wu Bai immediately fell backwards.

"Guo Tianxing, I have avenged you!"

A black face roared.

The saber in his hand swept diagonally, and the tip of the knife slashed Wu Bai in the waist through the city wall, but at the same time, a gunshot rang out, and a bullet fired at close range hit his back plate armor, just hitting his heart, and the black face immediately fell, pressing on Wu Bai, who was still screaming.

Ten paces away, an eight-banner athlete, holding a musket about the height of his body, watched this scene with trepidation.

Immediately after that, a cold light streaked by.

His head fell with a spurt of blood.

And behind him, more and more Shun army commandos climbed the city wall, and just as his dead body fell, the Shun army, who had cut off his head, ran to Zhang Hei's face in panic, but the Jiedu envoy had already choked. However, this kind of trivial matter is not worth mentioning at all in the battle of hundreds of thousands of people, and the Shun army who constantly rushed to the city wall and slashed with swords no one paid attention to the death of the Lingzhou Jiedu envoy. Similarly, those Eight Banners who were desperately resisting, no one noticed that their Nine Gate Admirals were dragging half of their bodies and screaming in a pool of blood.

Nobody cares if you notice it.

Who cares about others at this time!

If the old and weak women and children of the Qing army could barely support in the defense before, now that the Shun army has climbed the city wall, they will be exposed in their original form, and their cold weapon fighting ability is not at the same level as these Shun army elites. Those commandos wearing three-quarter plate armor and wielding swords were like tigers entering the flock, frantically slashing and killing everything that stood in their way, and those Eight Banners and the old and weak resisted in vain, and then were constantly cut down and even cut down one by one.

The huge chopping knife is like a strange knife.

That's how easy it is to cut off a person's body with one knife!

And with their slashing, more and more Shun troops appeared on the cleaned city wall, not even the heavily armored commandos, even those musketeers also climbed the city wall, and in their slashing, more and more Qing troops fled in terror.

The inner city of the northern capital was in fact breached.