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With the use of two huge lifting equipment like counterweight trebuchets and a drum-type gunpowder packaging and transport device, at least three explosive devices of about 30,000 catties were hoisted over the city in a short period of time. At a distance of about thirty or forty paces, taking advantage of the temporary occupation of the city, the black powder bags of about 10,000 catties each were also transported to the area between the city wall and the earthen embankment in the city by hundreds of people in the fastest way.

The reinforcements of the defenders of the city soon arrived, especially as the troops occupying the city prepared to attack inward. At this time, the new forces of the siege troops who rotated up actually did not know that more than 100,000 catties of black powder had been planted near them, and just as the militia defenders in the city had just recaptured the land through a counterattack, the dense rockets that suddenly shot out from a distance of one mile first detonated the pile of black powder that had been arranged about thirty or forty steps away from the main explosion point.

When the gunpowder smoke brought by the violent explosion completely engulfed the earthen embankment within a radius of ten zhang, an even louder explosion suddenly sounded in the west of the city, which reminded many people in the old Beijing city who still had some impressions of the shocking Wang Gongchang explosion many years ago.

Dozens of tons of black powder, which is not very good, also exerts the power of at least nearly one ton of modern explosives, especially after the scale of black powder reaches a certain level, the power seems to be slightly stronger than normal. Sixty or seventy paces of earthen embankments within a hundred meters scattered in all directions along with the rolling stones, and spread to an area within a radius of at least one mile from inside the city to outside the city.

Because of the preparation for a long time, the casualties and losses of the elite team preparing to attack outside the city were not too large, but the more than 1,000 troops on the head of the city and the defenders in the city of about 1,000 people were completely swallowed up in this series of explosions, and although the defenders within a radius of 200 steps were not all wounded, they were temporarily unconscious in the huge explosion and shock.

Soon after the violent explosion, the defenders seemed to have just regained some consciousness, and were greeted by the sound of explosions outside the city again, and even dozens of stones weighing several pounds falling from the night sky like hailstones.

As many as 200,000 catties of gunpowder at a time, from blasting to projectile attacks, finally opened up an offensive channel with a relatively flat width of at least 100 steps or so for the attacking Ming army outside the city. Some lessons were learned, after the explosion, it was not the heavy infantry with better armor and shield protection that was put into attack, but the rare more than 1,000 armored cavalry with a certain degree of protection, and the armored cavalry composed of these family members was only about four or five thousand people in the Ming army outside the city, and this time, more than 1,000 people were invested just as the vanguard. Horseback hoplites with shields then rushed as fast as they could, into the flat passage that had been blasted by the heavy explosion

The artillery bombardment from the direction of the Forbidden City was carried out at the fastest speed within a few minutes after the explosion, and in just a dozen rounds of fire, 30,000 six or seven double bombs were covered, and the projectiles and gravel hit in a circle of about 200 steps above the direction of the breakthrough were flying sideways, but at this time, the 2,000 elite soldiers of the Ming army who rushed into the city started a fierce battle with the defenders in a wider range of the inner part of the city, and the defense of the city head within a range of four or five miles fell into temporary paralysis, and in this case, The Ming army, which had already been prepared outside the city, began to use the thousands of ladder versions that had been prepared long ago to attack from a range of two years and miles, and soon broke through the defenders' defenses outside Xizhimen on a large scale.

The militia team in the west of the city still had some combat effectiveness, and at the beginning, with the advantage of numbers, it still resisted the attack of the Ming army's elite cavalry at the beginning, which seemed to be a little chaotic. However, when the main force of the Ming army outside the city of at least 20,000 or 30,000 people began to attack the city, the entire city defense in the west of the city quickly entered a state of collapse. When at least two brigades of the Guards Battalion and the Brave Guard Battalion in the east of the city were reinforced by more core militia units, the tens of thousands of main Ming troops pouring into the city seemed to have established superiority throughout the west of the city.

Fortunately, after teaching the brigade before, he also carried out a response plan for many situations after the city was broken and sent it to the command organs of each brigade and militia army, Tian Xiuying and even Zhou Yuji also knew what to do at this time. The direction of the outer city was quickly abandoned in this case. The defenders' defenses were reduced to most of the inner city east of Xiyuan Sanhai. When the attacking Ming army encountered resistance in the south of the city and even in the three seas of Xiyuan, the offensive was temporarily halted near midnight. After all, it is dangerous to attack blindly at night in a well-guarded place of the defenders.

At this time, the main force of the Ming army pouring into the west of the city had reached about 100,000 people, and no matter what the standard was, the capital was breached. Because the side that can be trapped in defense often has a clear weakness in terms of overall strength, when it loses the city wall and other fortifications to rely on and falls into a battle in the city, it means that the defensive barrier is gone.

"What, the emperor is still in the west of the city! Have you ever retreated to Xiyuan Sanhai? Tian Xiuying was also a little anxious at this time, she knew very well that her fate had been linked to the current Son of Heaven to a large extent. If others may have other ways out, then the only way to await their ultimate fate is death.

However, Zhou Dayong, who was in charge of the pro-guard battalion, was not too anxious at this time, which also made Zhou Yuji and others feel that it seemed that the situation should not be so bad.

"In the past few months, preparations have not been made in the city, and there should be a lot of secret passage arrangements in the west of the city, God bless, there should be nothing to do, maybe there will be news soon. Prepare your forces first, and then launch a counterattack to the west after dawn! Zhou Dayong said at this time.

Although the words were relatively calm, even Zhou Dayong at this time did not have much confidence in his heart. Many people in the guard battalion who have experienced a lot of battles don't seem to be optimistic about the combat effectiveness of that team that is not too large, let alone such a powerful blasting attack at night, even if it is at least a mile or so away from Xizhimen, it may not be safe, and there is also the possibility of accidents. In this way, after a brief pause in the battle around midnight, the sound of guns and shouts of killing in the city intensified again. At the cost of abandoning the entire city defense system in the east of the city, the main forces of one brigade of the teaching brigade and four brigades of the Guards Brave Guards took advantage of the night to launch a counterattack from inside the city.

After getting the news, Sun Chengzong, Yuan Keli and others only let go of their hearts at this time, and it seems that there should not be much suspense in this fierce battle that has lasted for many months.