Chapter Eighty-Eight: The Qing Army Is Defeated

Azig and Yanguli experienced the battle of Changping, and suffered a loss at the hands of Huang Degong, so they naturally knew that the Ming army was now fierce in firearms, and Huang Degong relied on firearms to take the forbidden army that had not been famous before to let 100,000 Qing soldiers stare at the city of Changping, and Yanguli would never believe that the capital of the Ming Dynasty would be worse than Changping.

However, they entered the customs with 100,000 troops, not only to plunder, but also with political tasks this time, and if they didn't come to the capital of the Ming Dynasty to go around, and by the way, attack the capital to make the prestige of the Ming Dynasty lose their prestige and make the Qing soldiers famous, wouldn't it really be a trip in vain.

When he waited five hundred paces away, seeing that the artillery on the head of the city had not yet sounded, Yanguli sneered and shouted to the soldiers around him: "Pass my order to the besieging army to disperse and be careful of the firearms at the head of the city and start charging!" ”

Yanguli knew the power of the Ming artillery, and Huang Degong's elite forbidden army could fire several rounds in a minute, and if it was divided into three consecutive shots, it could maintain the suppression of firepower. But Yanguli had a plan in his heart, and he failed to capture Changping at that time because Changping City was too small, and the Qing army could not climb to the head of the city at one time, and the forbidden army of tens of thousands of people guarding a small city could naturally easily deal with it.

But the capital is so vast, if it can attack from many sides, then the Ming army will be fierce and take care of the other, as long as the Qing soldiers can quickly climb to the top of the city, once they gain a firm foothold, they can't really break through the capital of the Ming Dynasty in one fell swoop, and make immortal achievements!

It's a pity that Yanguli thought that he had an impression of the Ming army before, and despised Yang Su's careful preparation for them, knowing that the Qing soldiers would only attack the north gate, although Yang Su would not draw troops from the other three gates, but he mobilized most of the artillery to use it uniformly, in order to catch the Qing soldiers off guard.

At this time, the Qing soldiers rushed to the city in the car has been less than 100 steps, and finally the artillery on the head of the city began to exert its might, with the sound of bursts of cannons, that is, the city walls trembled, the sound of the Ming army's artillery is by no means smaller than that of the Qing soldiers, and the cannons are loaded with scattered bullets.

With the large smoke rising from the city, the entire north of the capital was shrouded in smoke at this moment, and countless small cannonballs smashed towards the Qing soldiers under the city wall, that is, the Qing soldiers were wearing several layers of heavy armor and holding iron shields, and they still couldn't stop this kind of divine might, and the artillery was worthy of being the god of war!

Several rushing cars in front of the line were directly smashed to pieces, and the Qing soldiers who were originally desperately charging were still scattered as much as possible according to Yanguli's orders, and they also suffered heavy casualties at this moment, and there were no less than 1,000 Qing soldiers killed and wounded under the shells this time.

Qing soldiers with a strong physique, and a shield and heavy armor to guard, if the cannonball does not hit the vital point, at most cut off the hands and feet, or leave a hole in the body, hard resistance to the impact of the cannonball, at this time although the body is seriously injured, but not yet breathless, even more can raise a knife to charge, but the lead bullet remains in the body, after all, the body will be broken and it will be difficult to escape death.

At this moment, screams broke out in the camp of the Qing army, and a large number of Qing soldiers fell in the sound of artillery.

Fortunately, the Qing soldiers also knew that they would definitely suffer the baptism of artillery on the city, and they never thought that the artillery of the Ming army would be so large, and hundreds of artillery salvos would be fired, which they had never heard of before. At this moment, although he was shocked by the artillery of the Ming army, he was still relatively calm, and under the threat of several Han army banners and armor that followed the charge, he began to regain his strength and continue to attack the city.

Without giving the Qing soldiers any time to react, as soon as the cannon stopped, the gunfire rang out, and the flintlock pistols on the head of the city began to shoot continuously, and the three-stage shooting actually appeared in the early Ming Dynasty, when the Shenji battalion was invincible against the cavalry of the Yuan Dynasty, and the test was this round of shooting. Now the reloading speed of the flintlock pistol is undoubtedly much faster than that of the bird gun, so naturally there is no need to worry about the interruption of firepower, and within fifty steps, even the Qing soldiers wearing several layers of heavy armor can break through.

The Qing soldiers under the city continued to charge under the order regardless of the casualties, but before the Qing soldiers jumped on the ladder to the city, the second round of artillery began to fire a salvo, hundreds of artillery shots, plus the line of flintlock pistols at the head of the city to shoot, the Qing soldiers under the city are live targets at the moment, and they are trapped in advance and retreat!

Under these two rounds of shelling, the Qing soldiers were killed and wounded more than 2,000 people, and they had not rushed to the city and died in two percent, the Han army flag was never more elite than the eight banners, and the Qing soldiers who were still vigorous just now were completely defeated at this moment, and there were screaming Qing soldiers everywhere, they threw down the ladder in their hands like a tide, and the shield began to flee frantically, trying to escape from this hell on earth.

At this time, there was a burst of gunfire on the wall, watching the people around him continue to vomit blood and fall, the red-eyed Qing soldiers directly slashed and killed the people who were blocking in front of them, and the Qing soldiers were completely defeated for a while.

The fourth round of firearms soldiers on the head of the city stepped forward on the women's wall to shoot a volley at the Qing soldiers who fled below, and there were bursts of blood mist behind the Qing soldiers who desperately escaped backwards, and then they staggered, and continued to flee in fear with their bodies, at this time most of the Qing soldiers had fled from the city more than 100 steps, that is, the flintlock pistol was amazingly powerful, and it was extremely difficult to penetrate the armor and kill the Qing soldiers at such a distance, unless it was to hit the vital point.

Yanguli stood in front of the army formation with the yellow flag, and watched in amazement as the Qing soldiers retreated like a tide, his face was pale and his heart was like ashes. Even if the Han Army Banner is a consumable in the eyes of their people, but this battle didn't even get close to the city, so there were so many casualties, and if they were replaced by Eight Banners, it would not have a good result.

Moreover, this battle was defeated in the capital, the morale of the soldiers has been greatly lost, and it is impossible to continue to attack the city, no one dares to step forward to face the artillery fire of the Ming army, and Yanguli will definitely not be able to consume the precious soldiers here!

"This group of minions dared to flee without receiving an order, and they should be beheaded according to the military order! Escort them all to me, and behead them before the battle! Dressed in white armor and riding to the front of the battle with a gloomy face.

"The king of the county, it's not that the Han army banner refuses to die, but the Ming army's firearms are too fierce, and I didn't expect the Ming army to have hundreds of cannons in the city, this battle can't blame the banner soldiers, behead a few Jia La's foreheads, and reduce their wives and daughters to slaves!" Yanguli shook his head and persuaded him.

"Well, as the Duke says! Pull these Jialama down and behead them for public display! Although Azig is brutal by nature and has a very perverse personality, he is still very convinced of Yanguli, a veteran who is deeply regarded by Huang Taiji, not to mention that Yanguli has followed Nurhachi for many years, and he is still his brother-in-law according to his seniority.

"The Duke will send Mongol soldiers to attack again, right?" Azig said again.

"There is no need, the emperor ordered us to attack the capital in order to force the soldiers and horses from all over the Ming Dynasty to come to the king of Qin, and then to raise the prestige of my Qing army, otherwise it will capture the capital, but my army has suffered heavy casualties, isn't it worth the loss? Now that you can't do anything, you should abandon the capital and go straight to Xiong'an New Town! Yanguli sighed.

"Okay, let's go south to Xiong'an early tomorrow morning!" Azig is also a fierce general in the army who knows the severity, not to mention that he had to obey Huang Taiji's order first, and he took his own soldiers back to the camp with a whip.

Yanguli looked up at the capital that was still looming under the thick smoke, and suddenly remembered the battle of Changping, and suddenly felt worried.

The greatest advantage of the Qing Dynasty over the Ming Dynasty was the 250,000 elite soldiers, and now the Ming army has such powerful firearms to help, that is, ordinary soldiers can easily kill them as long as they line up and hold firearms, so how should the Qing Dynasty deal with it in the future?