Volume 2 Chapter 24 Guarding the Capital
According to historical records, Huang Taiji first detoured through the Mongolian steppe to enter the pass, first ambushed Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and then lightly took Zunhua and Santun camp, and tore the Zunhua defense line to a pulp before Shi Shiran went to the capital.
It was all caused by Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen's suspicion and suspicion, and he did not listen to Yuan Chonghuan's warning, and now Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong is in power, and he has long known that Huang Taiji is going to sneak attack Guannei, so naturally he will not fall for his evil.
First of all, Zhao Shujiao, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, did not take the bait, and steadily guarded the front line of Yongping, Qian'an, and Luanzhou, and did not move at all. Then Sun Chengzong slammed Huang Taiji in Zunhua, which caused him to lose nearly 2,000 men.
In the end, do you still want to go to the surprise attack on Santun camp? Huang Taiji hesitated for a while but decided not to go, the lord who likes yin people is also afraid of being yin by others, Sun Chengzong has run to Zunhua, Yuan Chonghuan may be in Santun camp, and if he runs over again, wouldn't he be looking for abuse!
He was so frightened by Sun Chengzong that he had already begun to be suspicious, he thought that the main force of Liaodong had all been transferred to the front line of Zunhua and Santun Camp, so naturally he would not go to Santun Camp again, but directly led 100,000 iron horsemen to the capital of Daming.
I'll go and kill your little emperor, and see who dares not to go to King Qin in the capital?
This time he really miscalculated completely, no one went to King Qin, there were Qin Liangyu leading the elite of the 60,003 military camp and the Shenji battalion to guard there in the capital, and it was impossible for him to break through the capital with this little bit of Huang Taiji!
Therefore, on November 20, when Huang Taiji came to the capital of Daming, he was disappointed to find that there was no one outside the city, not to mention the Guanning iron cavalry in Liaodong, and even the army of King Qin in various places did not see it, the city wall was heavily guarded, and the city wall was empty!
Huang Taiji is depressed, he really doesn't want to attack the city head-on, Zunhua has an internal response, he wants to steal the city, there is no internal response in the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the city wall is more than twice as high as Zunhua, and there is a moat, the red-clothed cannon and the Franco cannon must be indispensable, the capital of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the strongest fortress in the world at that time, except for breaking it from the inside, otherwise it is useless for anyone to come.
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From the first day of October to November 20, another 50 days have passed, and Wang Gongchang has created nearly 100,000 grenades, plus the original remaining more than 20,000, and the Third Military Battalion and the Shenji Battalion are now fully equipped with 120,000 grenades! 60,000 horses, an average of two per person! Even the number of landmines has reached a terrifying 50,000!
What is this concept? Let's not talk about it first, if Huang Taiji dares to attack the city, he will know that it is powerful.
Does Huang Taiji dare to attack the city? Of course he dares, attacking the city does not mean that it must be captured, a feint is also an attack, his plan is to lead all the troops of King Qin of the Ming Dynasty to the capital, and then go to take Jizhou Town lightly, and now no one has seen a single one, so it is natural to feint and attack the capital, scaring and scaring the little emperor Zhu Cijiong.
So is Zhu Cijiong afraid? He personally said that he was afraid of a wool, the nearly ten-meter-high city wall, and more than 100,000 mine grenades, Huang Taiji may not be able to lead a million troops to attack it, only 100,000 horses, and if he wants to capture the impregnable capital, it is simply a fool's dream!
At this time, Zhu Cijiong was sitting on the gate tower of Guangqu Gate, holding a telescope and preparing to watch a good show.
Why Guangqu Gate? This Guangqu Gate is not due south, nor due north, not due west, not due east, but a partial gate in the southeast corner of the capital, why did Zhu Cijiong come here to watch the play?
Of course, it is not that Zhu Cijiong is like a god, but because historical records record that Huang Taiji attacked the capital for the first time, and the battle to defend the capital broke out outside the Guangqu Gate.
The trajectory of history is difficult to change, and after Huang Taiji went around and around outside the capital, he really chose Guangqumen.
At this time, outside the Guangqu Gate was Huang Taiji's 100,000 troops, and on the city wall were 5,000 elites of the Shenji Battalion and 5,000 men and horses of the three military battalions.
Huang Taiji carefully observed the terrain outside the Guangqu Gate with a telescope, and then ordered Dai Shan beside him: "Big brother, you lead the Mongolian Second Banner to fill in the moat outside the Guangqu Gate. ”
Aixin Jueluo Daishan is actually the second son of Nurhachi, the founder of the Later Jin Dynasty, but because the eldest son Chu Ying was deposed, Huang Taiji generally calls him the eldest brother. This generation of good is not Tabai, he is brave in battle, strong in martial arts, and is the famous "Guying Baturu" in Houjin!
Baturu, you know, is the first Jurchen warrior! How brave this generation of good is, it can be seen from the title, not to mention that he is going to fill the moat, even if Huang Taiji asks him to attack the city wall directly, he will dare.
In other words, how to fill this moat? It depends on what the main troops of the siege are, if it is infantry, they will generally build some wheelbarrows, and use them to push large bags of soil into the moat; If it is a cavalryman, then fill it with a small bag, carry it directly on his back, and rush over with a whip and throw it into the moat.
The moat is generally within the range of the bow and arrow, and it is more dangerous to fill the moat, and it is necessary to brave the rain of arrows to fill the moat ten meters wide, at least wait for the loss of thousands of people, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is filled with human lives, so Huang Taiji asked Dai Shan to lead the Mongolian two banners to fill in, and he didn't want to consume the elite of his clan in filling the moat, which has no technical content.
After receiving the order, he directly ordered the Mongolian two horsemen to ride a team of 1,000 people and began to load soil, 20,000 horses, and each person lost two or three bags, and if the riding skills were better, in fact, there would not be many people lost.
Soon, the first team packed the soil, and Dai Shan took the bag of soil packed by the guards and checked it in his hand, and then shouted: "The first team, follow me." ”
Then he led a thousand horsemen to rush to the moat, and when he was still ten paces away from the moat, he threw the dirt bag in his hand forward, and then he turned around and made a beautiful drift, and ran back with his horse, and the bag of soil fell into the moat accurately under the action of inertia, splashing a huge splash.
The others didn't have such good riding skills as him, nor did he have as much strength, so they only honestly approached the moat and threw it, and the strange thing was that the Ming army on the city wall didn't let go of an arrow, just watched them fill in the soil so stupidly, and didn't react at all.
Huang Taiji didn't pay attention to Zhu Cijiong on the tower of the city gate, he thought that the group of generals was surrounded by the heroic female general Qin Liangyu, but he didn't know that there was a little emperor sitting next to Qin Liangyu. Zhu Cijiong watched them fill in the soil with a telescope, and said in pieces: "Hurry up, hurry up, when do you have to fill in so carefully." ”
Huang Taiji naturally didn't know what he was muttering, and if he knew about it, he might think that the little emperor had become a nervous disorder!
In fact, Dai Shan commanded the Mongolian Second Banner to fill it quite quickly, and he personally threw no less than ten bags of soil into battle, and the moat was filled in less than half an hour.
Huang Taiji didn't care what the Ming army in the city was doing, he saw that the moat was filled, and immediately ordered: "Dolgon, Duoduo collar inlaid with red flags, inlaid with blue flags, go up and dig for me!" ”
Dorgon and Dorgon said loudly, "Za." Then he beat his horse and ran to the phalanx with red and blue flags.
Why do you use the word digging? It turns out that Houjin Siege has a habit of digging the city wall, that is, he likes to dig the city wall, and more than a dozen people directly push the chariot wrapped in cooked cowhide on the city wall, and then dig into the city wall frantically, and there are many city walls in Liaodong that are dug down by them in this way!
Zhu Cijiong watched countless cowhide carts rushing towards the city wall from the city gate, and couldn't help shouting excitedly: "It's coming, it's coming, it's finally here, hurry up, let the Shenji Battalion prepare, and one person throws one for them." ”
Qin Liangyu glanced at him with black lines on his face, and walked down the city gate tower helplessly.
Huang Taiji watched more than a thousand carts quickly approach the city wall, his face was flushed with excitement, he didn't expect the Ming city's defending generals to be so dish, he couldn't even release arrows to fill the moat, and now he is attacking the city, he didn't even let go of a single shot, don't really be a bad one to capture the capital of the Ming Dynasty, by that time......
He was just obscene, "boom, boom, boom", and suddenly there was a continuous explosion in front of him, and as soon as the carts approached the city wall, the ground suddenly exploded. Thirty paces in front of the walls were completely covered in smoke and dust! Before he could figure out what was going on, there was another explosion of "boom, boom, boom", and then the siege of the city with red and blue flags screamed and retreated, only half of them to be exact, and generally drowned in smoke and dust.
What's going on, it's impossible to be haunted in broad daylight!
Huang Taiji looked at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, and his whole person was blinded.