Chapter Eighty-Six: The Qing Army Siege the City

Early the next morning, the Qing army had been killed at the foot of the capital, tens of thousands of Qing soldiers wantonly drove tens of thousands of Ming Dynasty people through the capital, and even the Qing soldiers deliberately provoked the Ming army in the city, beat the people from time to time, and even raped women in public. Seeing that the soldiers of the Ming army at the head of the city were furious, they couldn't wait to open the city gate and fight to the death with the Qing soldiers.

The head of the capital city is not the people of the three major battalions in the capital, but Yang Su's Jinyi Guard's pro-army and some of the forbidden troops stationed in the capital, as well as the strong men who have been recruited to defend the city in the past few days.

There must be brave men under the heavy reward, Yang Su to the land of the Huangzhuang as a reward, and to defend the city, the Ming Dynasty is not strong to dare to fight with the Qing soldiers, just a few days to gather 100,000 strong men, if you want to rely on them to go out of the city and the Qing soldiers bloody battle of course, but the operation of the equipment to defend the city is more than enough.

The Qing soldiers entered the customs this time, broke into the interior to plunder, conquered 12 cities near the Beijing Division, and fought 46 battles in a row, except for the battle of Changping, which won first and then lost, and was defeated by Huang Degong, the rest were all great victories. Killing tens of thousands of Ming troops, capturing more than 100,000 people, and robbing millions of gold and silver, it can be said that he was complacent.

At this time, Abatai led the blue banner to besiege Changping, and the Yanggul Zhenghuang banner and the white flag of Azig, plus the remaining five banners, as well as the Mongolian cavalry and part of the Han army banner, a total of more than 80,000 people attacked the capital.

The Qing Dynasty now has 250,000 armor, 100,000 Manchurians, 50,000 Han army banners, and the original Mongolian cavalry only has more than 50,000 people. Now the Qing Dynasty has 100,000 martial artists who practice the tendon realm alone, and there are Buddhism and demon clans behind them, and their strength is unprecedentedly strong.

Azig as the commander of the entry into the customs, took away two of the three flags, it can be said that most of the elite of the Qing Dynasty at the moment are in his hands, the Qing soldiers are arrogant under the victory, while sending troops to drive the people to camp for it, while blowing the horn of attack, with the horn sounding, Yanguli as the vanguard with the yellow flag of the department, has been placed under the city. One by one, the cows were formed as a small array, and the five cows were placed in a large array, and finally the yellow armor that covered the city shone in the sun.

The Qing soldiers implemented the cattle recording, in fact, it is the revision of the military household system of the Ming Dynasty, each cattle recorded 300 households, each household out of a strong man, the father died and the son succeeded, the brother died and the younger brother died, and the soldiers were soldiers in wartime and the people in peacetime. Five Niu Lu are Jia La, and five Jia La are solid mountains, which are similar to the number of guards of the Ming army.

Yanguli and other Qing soldiers set up a position, and saw that although the Ming army at the head of the city was panicked, they were still methodically hiding under the women's wall and sorting out their equipment, looking at the dense firearms and gloomy muzzles at the head of the city, they couldn't help but sink their faces. Two days ago, the battle in Changping made them all depressed, and their faces were gloomy!

It is known that the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000, the invincible Eight Banners, and the city gate should be opened, but after entering the city, it was driven out by the Ming army, which is undoubtedly a great shame for them.

Only this defeat was at the hands of the forbidden army of the Ming Dynasty, and most importantly, it completely underestimated the ferocity of the firearms on the opposite side. No matter how fierce the Qing soldiers are, no matter how strong the martial arts are, they are only flesh and blood, and they can wear several layers of heavy armor to walk like flying, but they can't beat bullets.

"Order the Han army to attack the city first!" Yanguli waved his hand and shouted. This is also the practice of the Qing soldiers, the Manchu people are all soldiers are 100,000, the death of one makes the emperor Taiji distressed, the Qing soldiers and the Ming army have always been the pioneers to make the Han Eight Banners attack first, then the Mongolian soldiers, then the soldiers and horses of the various tribes in the Northeast, and then the Mongolian Eight Banners, and finally the Manchurian Eight Banners.

For the Qing soldiers, it is a good thing to die some Han Eight Banners, no one will go to the Ming Dynasty to catch it, the Ming Dynasty has nothing but a lot of people, and the same is true for Mongolian soldiers, there are many Mongolian tribes, as long as they do not consume the elite of those big tribes, the rest will not be counted.

After the battle, more than a dozen rushing cars were pushed out, and the Qing soldiers could break through the fortified city, of course, relying not only on the courage of the soldiers, but also on the siege equipment was also very elite, and the rushing car was as high as several zhang, and the rushing car could use its own height to shoot directly into the city from the car, and it could also be used to approach the city wall, destroy the female wall, and directly attack the Ming army on the city wall. The car was also loaded with crossbows and cannons.

Waiting for Yanguli's order, the Han army banner immediately pushed the rushing cart to the city, and there were more than 10,000 auxiliary soldiers carrying hundreds of ladders to follow the rushing cart. The rushing car of the Han military banner marched three miles below the city and suddenly stopped. Then a gunner launched more than a dozen red-coated cannons from the rushing car.

The Ming army on the head of the city is far away, and you can also see the huge size of these dozen cannons, at least tens of thousands of catties, which is even bigger than the artillery on the head of the city.

This is also because of Yang Su, Yang Su can't look down on the bulkiness of the red-coated cannon, although the red-coated cannon is extraordinary, but in fact, it is inefficient, and the field battle is almost useless, and it can only be used to defend the city, but the elite Ming army of the Qing Dynasty is powerless in the field, and the Hongyi cannon has become the strongest weapon of the Ming Dynasty against the Qing Dynasty iron cavalry. At that time, the tactics were: lure the cavalry of the Qing Dynasty into the range of the Hongyi cannon at the head of the city, and then shoot with the Hongyi cannon, the effect is very significant, and dozens of people can be killed in each battle to become a big victory! You can play in the court and get the emperor's commendation!

How can Yang Su be willing to use, and to deal with the invasion of the Qing soldiers just by defending the city is doomed, the cost of the red-coated cannon is huge, the cost of a 10,000-pound cannon is not less than 10,000 taels, and the scrap rate is extremely high, the bigger the cannon, the more difficult it is to build. Therefore, the red-clothed cannon was disliked by Yang Su.

Yang Su watched the Qing soldiers push out the red-clothed cannon, and couldn't help but shake his head and sigh: "Kong Youde should be damned!" ”

It is one thing for Yang Su to look down on the red-clothed cannons, but the red-clothed cannons are indeed good for the siege of the city, and the walls of some small cities were directly destroyed under the first shot. However, if the Qing soldiers wanted to break through the walls of the capital with red-clothed cannons, it was of course wishful thinking. It's just that the artillery will undoubtedly have a great impact on the morale of the Ming army.

"The emperor's Tatars have launched the red-coated cannon, and I ask the emperor to leave the city immediately! The minister is willing to supervise the war for the emperor! Xiao Ming's face was pale and he knelt on the ground and prayed.

Wen Tiren and the others also knelt down together and persuaded Yang Su: "Please also ask the emperor to put the safety of the society as the top priority and leave the city immediately!" ”

Yang Su knew the severity of the cannonball, the cannonball had no eyes, let alone him, that is, the true body of the fairy god was here, if he was hit by a cannon, he was afraid that he would die, Yang Su nodded and led everyone out of the city, and the method of defending against solid bullets sounded, and immediately ordered: "Let the soldiers separate as much as possible, find a good cover, and then pile up the sacks under the city and put them under the female wall to prevent ricocheting!" ”