Chapter 170: The Fall of Uiju
After the capture of the Jin State, the second Belle Amin was about to order Liu Xingzuo to personally go to the city to persuade him to surrender, at this time, Azig said: "These Han barbarians don't know whether they are dead or alive, why should the second Belle waste their tongues?" Just one city of Yiju, how can it stop my Dajin army?! Now that my army has been under the city for a long time, why don't you attack the city quickly?! ”
At this time, Liu Xingzuo said: "Twelve Baylor's words are wrong! Although our army is ten times outnumbered by the enemy, all of them are veterans of long-term battles, and they are precious, and if we can persuade the defenders of the city to surrender without spending a single soldier, it is also a good thing for our army, so why should we not do it? ”
Azig had already discriminated against the Han people, so seeing Liu Xingzuo, a Han general, in a high position in the general army, he was not very pleasing to the eye, but now when he saw him contradicting himself again, his heart was suddenly furious, so he pointed at Liu Xingzuo with a horsewhip and said cruelly: "Liu Aita, don't think that Xian Khan took a Jurchen name for you, and you became a noble person of the Aixin Jueluo family." Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info After all, you Han people are just the minions of my lord of the Golden Eight Banners. Since you say that my Dajin soldiers are valuable, then the Fuzhou soldiers under your command will first capture the city of Yizhou in front of you. ”
As soon as Azig's words fell, Amin looked at Liu Xingzuo and said lightly: "Liu Zongbing, please!" ”
Liu Xingzuo was furious in his heart, but his face was not moved, knowing that it was useless to say anything, the first wave of siege must be himself, which is also the habit of the Houjin army, in fact, it is to use the Han people to surrender troops and generals as cannon fodder, and consume the artillery stones and arrows in the city.
Liu Xingzuo endured his anger, bowed down and clenched his fists and said, "The last general listens to the order!" ”
After saying this, he looked back at Liu Xingzhi, Jin Yingkui and others who were full of anger but dared not speak angrily, and shouted: "Pass the order and prepare to attack the city!" ”
One after another, the orders were passed down, and the 5,000 Fuzhou soldiers under the command of Liu Xingzuo soon took action, and a team of Han soldiers, under the supervision of the Jin military supervision team after the red flag of the Azig department, carried the ladders, carried the moat bridge, and pushed the siege vehicles assembled in advance, and marched quickly to the city near the west gate of Yizhou City.
Soon came to the city a hundred steps away, at this time the city head was suddenly also a drum sound, Mao Kexi ordered the ignition of the cannon, towards the siege of the enemy shooting, with the beginning of the siege of the city, the siege of the enemy army continued to scream and fall to the ground.
It's a pity that at this time, there were no Hongyi cannons like Jinzhou and Ningyuan in Yizhou City, and there was not even a Franc machine gun, and some were just dozens of old-fashioned front-mounted cast iron tiger squat cannons.
The caliber of the Tiger Squat Cannon is very large, but the range is not far, and when it is loaded with scattered shells, the power is okay, but once it is loaded with a solid projectile that matches the caliber, the power becomes extremely limited.
Fortunately, the Mao Kexi and Mao Kejin brothers, who are accustomed to fighting, both know this characteristic of the tiger squat cannon, so they use scattered bullets, mix loose things such as broken stones and iron triangles with gunpowder, pour them into the barrel of the tiger squat cannon, light the pre-filled fire rope at the fire door, and then shoot out the gravel and iron triangle and other objects with a cannon sound, one by one, if you shoot at close range, for the enemy army with dense formation, the power is also okay.
However, one of the fatal drawbacks of the Tiger Squat Cannon is that after the first shot, the barrel needs to be cleaned, and the second reload point takes a long time.
Therefore, if it is used in the field, it often only has one or two firing times.
Now placed at the head of the city, it was safe to reload the second time, but after the second shot, the enemy army has already attacked the city.
The Tiger Squat Cannon's too thick barrel makes it impossible to shoot at all, and usually when the enemy army reaches the city, the Tiger Squat Cannon will lose its effectiveness.
This time it was the same, the tiger squat cannon only fired three rounds, and the bow and arrow salvos of the defenders at the head of the city only shot five or six waves, and the Fuzhou soldiers besieging the city had already arrived under the city.
A number of ladders and siege vehicles leaned on the city, and one by one the Han soldiers of the Fuzhou soldiers braved the rolling wood and stones of the Dongjiang Army under Mao Kexi, and climbed to the top of the city.
The rain of arrows shot at the head of the city also caused Mao Kexi's troops to suffer a large number of casualties, and people continued to scream and fall to the ground after being hit by arrows.
Seeing that there were more and more Fuzhou soldiers climbing to the top of the city, Mao Kexi shouted to the soldiers on the left and right: "Order the people's army to go to the city!" Order the People's Army to go to the city! ”
With the order issued, the 3,000 civilian troops who had been used as reserves, that is, the Han Chinese who had been temporarily recruited and armed in the past few days, were soon driven to the city and forced into battle.
With the arrival of this new force, the defenders at the head of the city suddenly appeared to be outnumbered, and they all showed the ferocity that the soldiers of Dongjiang Town already had.
A knife slashes through, and the knife hits the bone; A shot was stabbed, and the gun was bloody.
Finally, relying on the numerical advantage of the city, Mao Kexi and Mao Kejin's defenders wiped out all the Fuzhou soldiers who attacked the city.
The Fuzhou soldiers under the city watched the head of the city completely fall into the hands of the defenders again, and watched the ladders and siege vehicles destroyed by the defenders of the city, and began to hesitate and stop.
Not far behind him, the supervising team composed of the Red Banner Guard, the so-called Eight Banners, kept shouting loudly, and slashed and killed the Fuzhou soldiers who dared to retreat.
At this moment, the Fuzhou soldiers located between the defenders at the head of the city and the Red Flag Supervision Team behind them really had no way to go to the sky, and there was no way to enter the ground, and they suddenly fell into a situation of being hit at both ends.
Some of the Fuzhou soldiers who were close to the city wall simply knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands, and surrendered to the city under the city in exchange for mercy from the defenders of the city.
Seeing this from afar, Amin ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops, ending the first wave of the offensive.
And those Fuzhou soldiers who knelt down and surrendered under the city, after returning to their own positions, were naturally crushed and slashed by the Red Banner Guard's Tooth Ladus Clan.
Liu Xingzhi and Jin Yingkui were indignant, their eyes were split, and they stepped forward one after another, wanting to ask for an explanation for their subordinates, but they were all stopped by Liu Xingzuo.
A wave of offensive, all 5,000 men and horses were invested, less than 4,000 returned, and more than 1,000 casualties, many of which were hacked to death by the Red Flag Swinging Tooth Lama Clan, Liu Xingzuo was also distressed, after all, this is the only capital of their brothers, without these thousands of soldiers under their hands, their brothers will not mention any status treatment in the Jin Kingdom after the construction of the captivity.
Although Liu Xingzuo was angry in his heart, but now that he is under the eaves, how can he not bow his head, he can only endure himself.
The second Belle Amin, the lord of the blue flag, called Azig and Liu Xingzuo, pointed to the head of the city and said: "The Fuzhou soldiers have fought well, the defense of the city has been chaotic, and if there is another onslaught, this city will be broken today!" ”
As he spoke, he looked at Liu Xingzuo, then at Azig, and said: "Twelve Baylor, the Han army under Liu Aita has lost its spirit now, and the next thing is to see you with the red flag." The Fuzhou soldiers can attack the city, presumably you will be able to take it in one fell swoop with the red flag! ”
Azig looked at Amin, then at Liu Xingzuo with slanted eyes, and without saying a word, he turned the horse's head and left.
Soon, the 20 Niu Lu and 6,000 people who were enlisted with the red flag marched under the supervision of their respective Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen, carrying new ladders and pushing siege vehicles, passed through the trench bridge left by the Fuzhou soldiers.
The tiger squat cannon on the head of the city roared again, and the shotgun hit the besieging red flag soldier Ding, who had cotton armor on his body, snorted and continued to move forward, while some who did not wear cotton armor were directly hit by the shotgun, screaming and rolling to the ground.
At this time, the soldiers of Dongjiang Town can be different from the Nanming army after the Manchu army entered the customs, the so-called Jurchen is not ten thousand, and Manchu is invincible, it is a joke in their eyes, which veteran of Dongjiang Town has not killed a few Jurchen soldiers until now? !
After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, the scene of the Southern Ming army breaking and fleeing when they saw the pigtailed soldiers had not yet appeared in the current time and space.
More than a dozen tiger squatting cannons, after rounds of shelling, on the ground about a hundred paces below the city, hundreds of soldiers with red flags fell to the ground and wailed.
However, soon, the soldiers with the red flag rushed through the death zone that was only a few meters wide where the Tiger Squat Cannon could play a role, and entered the blind spot of the Tiger Squat Cannon's power.
The rolling wood and stones at the head of the city and all kinds of things defending the city were thrown down one after another, and a group of soldiers with red flags who bravely attacked the city were killed and injured.
However, with ladders and siege engines once again approaching the north and west gates at the same time, this small city of Uiju on the banks of the Yalu River finally ushered in the same fate as in history.
Mao Kexi was at the head of the West Gate, Mao Kejin was at the head of the North Gate, looking at the ugly and vicious soldiers with the red flag who were constantly pouring up under the city, and the two brothers knew that the city was about to be destroyed.
But for the two people who crawled out of the pile of dead, it was not so easy to admit defeat, and commanded their soldiers and civilian troops respectively to make the final resistance. Slashing, stabbing, and fighting.
As more and more soldiers rushed up, the soldiers of Dongjiang Town under the command of Mao Kexi and Mao Kejin brothers finally exposed their nature of bullying the weak and fearing the hard again, some knelt down and surrendered, and some scattered in a hurry, and those who were forced to resist at the head of the city also fled down the city wall with the rout, and the flow of people crossed the small city and fled to the south gate.
Mao Kexi and Mao Kejin brothers gradually left more than 500 cronies in the Chinese army, but in the face of more and more soldiers who poured into the city, Mao Kexi and Mao Kejin brothers showed their fierce nature, especially Mao Kexi, although he was a big traitor in later generations, but he was indeed worthy of being able to leave a name in history and be crowned king by the Manchu Dynasty.
At this time, he still wanted to give Jianyu a big one, commanded his soldiers, turned the muzzle of the few tiger squatting cannons that could still be used, loaded them with scattered gunpowder, and rushed at the Jianyu soldiers who were constantly pouring in the city. Boom! Boom! "Six shots were fired in a row.
Of course, the power of the Tiger Squat Cannon to fire flat at about 100 paces should not be underestimated.
After several deafening cannon shots, the head of the city was filled with gunsmoke, and hundreds of people behind the gunpowder smoke were densely packed on the city wall, and the soldiers who were about to rush over were flesh and blood, falling to the ground in pieces.
At this distance, whether you have armor or not, it is always worn by the middle, and in this era, there is basically no possibility of cure, either you die on the spot, or you die after a few days of wailing.
Taking advantage of the stagnation of the offensive at the head of the city, Mao Kexi and the Mao Kejin brothers took the hundreds of cronies and Chinese troops who were still guarding the city head and quickly ran down the city and fled to the south gate.
A moment later, the soldiers who rushed to the top of the city opened the gate of Uiju from the inside of the city, and the city on the east bank of the Yalu River fell as it had been in history.