Text Chapter 984 Artillery Battle
Chi Qilong returned to the camp and told Dolgon what he had seen and heard, Dolgon immediately frowned, could it be that Wu Sangui did not mean to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty? Or did his own snub behavior finally anger Wu Sangui?
He didn't care about dinner, so he immediately summoned Ning Wan and Hong Chengchou, and also had to set the white flag master Duoduo to discuss countermeasures urgently.
When Duoduo heard that Azig had lost seven thousand cavalry under Ningyuan City, he was immediately furious, "Regent, do you still need to discuss?" Wu Sangui killed the 7,000 warriors of the Qing Dynasty, obviously he has no sincerity to take refuge, that is, he wants to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty, and this king will not accept this kind of two-faced person!"
"Don't be impatient!" Dolgon glared at Duoduo, there is the wise Ning Wan and me, and the former Ming Inspector Hong Chengchou, they know more about the temperament of the Han people.
Ning Wan put up his hands and said lightly: "The regent Mingjian, Prince Yu's words, are not unreasonable, if Wu Sangui really wants to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid that he will not take the initiative to attack the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty, and when the minister heard that Prince Ying was close to the city wall, it was the Ming army who took the initiative to attack!"
"Thousands of cavalry of the twelfth brother approached Dongcheng, which may have caused Wu Sangui's misunderstanding," Dolgon was bent on subduing Wu Sangui, and then took Wu Sangui's army, who was familiar with the situation in the Han land, as the vanguard to gain a foothold in the pass, "If the twelfth brother didn't take thousands of cavalry ......"
"The regent believes in Wu Sangui so much?" Duoduo pursed his lips, "Wu Sangui has been fighting with the Qing Dynasty for so long, his heart will be different!"
"It is precisely because Wu Sangui has been fighting with the Qing Dynasty for a long time that he is quite jealous of us," Dolgon said with a smile: "The king of Ming Japan personally led his troops to interrogate Wu Sangui in person. ”
Hong Chengchou arched his hand and said: "Regent, your subordinates are strange, how could Wu Sangui deploy new firearms?" According to the account of Prince Ying, the firearms of the Ming army had a range of 200 paces, and the ministers were in ...... When His Majesty was in the Ming Dynasty, this kind of firearm was unheard of......"
"Could it be a firearm newly invented by Daming?" Dolgon glanced at Hong Chengchou, and said in his heart, it has been two years since you left Daming, who knows what new firearms Daming invented?
Duoduo was very uninterested in Wu Sangui, and was very dissatisfied with Dolgon's attitude, "The regent will go to the city tomorrow, and he can let the Han army take the lead, and if necessary, let Wu Sangui taste the power of the red-clothed cannon!"
Dolgon bowed slightly, Duoduo was right, no matter what Wu Sangui was thinking, the Qing Dynasty must maintain its military superiority, if there was no huge military pressure, how could Wu Sangui submit to the Qing Dynasty? Hong Chengchou had been captured that year, and in order to force him to surrender, Huang Taiji still took Concubine Zhuang in......
After dark, it was dark outside the city, and it was a long time before the waning moon hung up in the middle of the sky.
In the hazy shadow of the moon, the cavalry of the first battalion was waiting on the mountainside, and the rangers scattered to the east of Ningyuan City, approaching the large camp where the Tartars were stationed.
If you look closely, there are some discontinuous black shadows on the sea, quietly approaching the shore, and after entering the Ningyuan River, they go up the river and have been mooring at the wharf outside the West Gate.
The soldiers who answered the dock, after identifying themselves, did not say a word, and quietly transported the food and supplies on the ship back to the city in the dark, and the empty ship did not stop, and then returned to the sea and anchored on the sea.
Although Liu Yunshui is in Shoushan, he has always been on guard, paying attention to the transport team outside the southern city, his task is to protect the smooth passage of transportation, if there is a Tartar cavalry, the cavalry of the first battalion must go up, even if the grain is burned, it cannot be left to the Tartars.
Fortunately, the Tartar rangers were intercepted in the east of the city, and they did not notice the short-distance transportation between the southern city gate and the Ningyuan River! It wasn't until after the time of the child that all the food and supplies on the ship were transported back to the city, and Liu Yunshui's hanging heart returned to his chest.
After dawn, the Mandate of Heaven resumed yesterday's deployment, with the four regiments of the 1st Division of the 3rd Battalion deployed at the east and north city gates, and the 2nd Division deployed at the west and south city gates with their backs to the Tartars, basically resting.
Dolgon personally led all the elites of the white flag, with the Han Eight Banners as the lead, leaving Duoduo's inlaid white flags and the Mongolian Eight Banners to stay in the camp.
Li Zicheng received the information that the Tartar cavalry was approaching the city, and immediately rushed to the head of the eastern city, and saw tens of thousands of cavalry approaching the trench from a distance.
Wu Sangui hurried to the head of the city, bowed his hand to Li Zicheng, and said, "Your Majesty, this is a white flag, Dolgon should be here, how will your subordinates deal with it?" ”
Li Zicheng understood what Wu Sangui meant, Dolgon came to the city in person, if it wasn't for a direct attack on the city, he would definitely send an envoy, maybe it was still that Chi Qilong, Chi Qilong had seen himself in Datong, and he couldn't meet him for the time being, "If the envoy is still Chi Qilong, don't let him enter the city for the time being, let Dolgon enter the city in person, just one word, drag!"
There were too many cavalry of the Tartars to fight them in the field for the time being, so they had to be constantly consumed, and when the number was almost the same, they would gather cavalry and gunners and annihilate them outside the city in one fell swoop.
Wu Sangui nodded, his eyes fixed on the Tartar cavalry outside the city, Dolgon may have learned to be obedient, and stopped advancing five hundred places in front of the trench.
Chi Qilong rode alone to the city, shouted to open the door, and asked Wu Sangui to go out of the city to meet the regent in person.
But Wu Sangui only accosted him at the head of the city, and he told Chi Qilong that the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty was pressing, and the army in the city was unstable, so he did not dare to open the door easily, and if the regent was sincere in surrendering, he should withdraw the cavalry.
Chi Qilong also talked about the Ming army's initiative to attack the Qing cavalry yesterday, and the reason given by Wu Sangui was because the Azig army pressed the border and threatened the safety of Ningyuan City, which was exactly the same as yesterday's excuse.
In the city and down the city, the two exchanged words for a while, each saying their own reason, which was completely confused and had no result.
Chi Qilong had no choice but to report back to Dolgon, who naturally would not withdraw his troops, but Wu Sangui avoided it, and he was also a little annoyed, so he ordered Duoduo to suppress the formation and let the soldiers of the Han army try to attack with firearms.
The Han army was headed by the Yellow Banner Gushan Ezhen Zu Zerun, and launched all the artillery.
The artillery of the Eight Banners of the Han Army is mainly red-coated cannons, there are also many tiger squat guns, and even a few Franky artillery, although they all fire solid shells, but the caliber and range of each cannon are different.
Zu Zerun asked the soldiers to line up the artillery at the front of the trench, and the red-coated cannon with the longest range was aimed at the head of the city, while the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Furlong machine gun was less than a thousand paces, so they could only fire at the trench under the city.
Li Zicheng saw that the Tartars launched all kinds of artillery, so he smiled and said: "Uncle, at such a distance, can the Tartars' artillery shoot to the head of the city?" ”
"The red-coated cannons can barely shoot into the city, but the tiger squat cannon and the Franco cannon can only destroy the trenches under the city......"
"Sabotage?" Li Zicheng said with a smile: "Wouldn't the head of the city also have red-clothed cannons?" ”
The 1st Division of the 3rd Battalion also has nearly 200 mountain artillery, of course, it will not be idle, and last night the transport team entered the city, and in addition to food, it also transported some flowering shells, and the ammunition was very sufficient.
Soldiers on both sides are calibrating their artillery.
At the head of Ningyuan City, the red-clothed cannons and mountain cannons have long been prepared, and they are directly calibrated, and the Han army flag gunners of the Qing Dynasty under the city need to transport the artillery to the front of the battle, and then start debugging, and the time is slightly behind.
Wu Sangui stood beside Li Zicheng, watching the gunners slowly and methodically debugging the artillery, his heart had already risen to his throat, "Your Majesty, the range of the red-clothed cannon should be able to go to the city, the emperor should leave the city to avoid it......"
Li Zicheng nodded, the red-coated cannon not only has a long range, but also has a large caliber, and there is no bunker on the head of the city, in case it is hit by a solid bullet fired by the red-coated cannon, the consequences are unimaginable.
Casualties in war are necessary, but there is no need to risk and be injured in vain.
He temporarily transferred the temporary command to Zhou Fengwu, the commander of the first division of the third battalion, and left the observation soldiers, so he left the city with his own soldiers and entered a camp under the city.
"Boom...... Long ......"
After a while, the mountain artillery on the top of the city was the first to shoot, and the flowering shells flew in a wonderful arc towards the artillery positions of the Tartars, and soon after, the red-coated cannons on the head of the city also began to shoot.
The gunner of the Han Army Banner was busy loading the bomb, but he didn't expect an explosion to come from the city, and he knew that it was not good, but it was too late, and the shells had already flown in an arc overhead.
What they didn't expect was that after the shell landed, it exploded again, not only injuring the runner, but even the artillery that was about to be fired was overturned by the huge impact......
In the first round of shelling, the artillery of the Mandate of Heaven was mainly a test firing, and there were not many shells that completely hit the target, but from the second round, flowering shells rained down on the artillery positions of the Tartars, whether it was the gunners or the various artillery itself, they were all fatally hit, and the small tiger squat guns and Franky guns were overturned in large numbers.
The red-coated cannon also began to fire, joining the attack and destruction, although the solid bullet will not explode, but the energy of the forward rush is very large, as long as the solid bullet is hit, the person is smashed into a meat pie, the artillery will also be seriously damaged, and even the value of repair is gone.
From the moment he heard the first cannon on the city, Dolgon had an ominous premonition, why did the artillery on the city fire just before the Qing Dynasty? Could it be that the artillery at the head of the city has been waiting for a long time?
As the flowering shells exploded in the artillery positions of the Qing Dynasty, Dolgon's heart sank to the bottom of the Liuhe River in an instant, why did the artillery shells of the Ming army explode when they landed? Near the drop point, the gunner's limbs and blood flew together, not even a single intact corpse, the heavy red-coated cannon was better, and the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Franc machine gun were all blown apart......
Only then did Dorgon believe Dord's words: Wu Sangui was not ready to take refuge in the Qing Dynasty!
Could it be that Wu Sangui has been deceiving himself and deceiving the Qing Dynasty?
At this time, Wu Sangui was looking down from the battlement in the corner, and saw that the Tartar artillery position was in a mess, so he hurriedly pushed away the soldiers around him, and trotted to Li Zicheng's side, "Report to the emperor, the Tartar artillery has been blown up by our mountain artillery, and even the city is safe......
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