Chapter Ninety-Six: The Battle of the City
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On the appointed day, Zhu Houzhao's 3,000 new troops from Jiangsu and Zhejiang were all ready to go. In order to give this army a greater hope of survival, Zhu Houzhao equipped them with a full 80 thunderbolts and enough ammunition.
At the same time, he opened the gates of the city late the night before, and released a force of 500 men to carry out earthwork in the open space outside the city, and dug trenches deep enough less than a mile from the city walls. This method is also mostly used by the Ming army when fighting, but they call it a horse trap, and the large drop allows the fast-running horses to break their leg bones in an instant, slowing down the enemy's sharpness.
Therefore, ordinary Ming troops will not stay in the trap pit, but Zhu Houzhao's army did dig the pit to bury its own people. If there is enough time, Zhu Houzhao will even let them build a bunker.
Of course, all this is luxury.
They still need to trade human lives for huge casualties on the Tatar side.
Before the appointed time arrived, the little Tatar prince appeared near the western city with his armament. The royal banner belonging to the Great Khan of Tatar sounded fiercely in the north wind, and the wolf's head on it was fierce and fierce.
The little Tatar prince rode at the forefront of the Tatar army, and he sneered at the defenses made by the Ming army that were meaningless in his eyes, and the new army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, whose entire population was destined to be slaughtered by himself. However, it is obvious that these things are not in his eyes, and what the little prince is desperately trying to find now is where Zhu Houzhao, the son of the great tomorrow, is.
"The emperor of the Ming Kingdom, don't you dare to come out to fight as agreed?" The little prince shouted arrogantly under the city gate, according to what he thought was such a dangerous thing, the **** of the Ming Dynasty would not risk his life at all and put himself in such a mortal predicament.
"Ben Da Khan knows that your emperor does not dare to come out, and the emperors of the Ming Dynasty are all bad seeds!" The little prince laughed and mocked wantonly: "Back then, the Warat people were able to capture your emperor from the 200,000 army with 60,000 iron horses, and today Lao Tzu is only stronger than Yexian, not weaker, not only to slaughter your emperor, but also to seize back the land that belongs to us and rebuild the glorious glory of our Yuan capital!" ”
"Zhu Houzhao, if you have eggs, get out of here and have a real fight with Ben Da Khan! Lao Tzu will tell you with practical actions that only intrigue and trickery are useless! Just know the bastard of the chin bean! Apparently the little prince still remembered the humiliation he had received.
Today's victory began to blow Zhu Houzhao mentally.
The Ming army under the city was always silent, only a few generals patrolled back and forth in the trenches, and they didn't dare to be careless about life-threatening matters, especially when the emperor was still under their protection.
On the contrary, the Ming army on the city wall was no longer calm, and under the deliberate arrangement of some people, some people began to recall loudly the glorious performance art of the Tatar mission running naked all the way out of the Ming Kingdom, thousands of people told at the same time, and the sound could almost pierce the sky.
"Tsk, it's really heroic, and he has been demonstrating for hundreds of miles bare-chested, but since no girl is willing to go with him, it can be seen that the things under his crotch are really invisible, and he can't find it even if he picks up the thick hair, right?"
The little prince heard the loud discussion of the voice opposite, and his face suddenly turned pale with anger, and this envoy was almost the most humiliating moment in his life, and it had become a magic wand in his heart, and countless nights made him deeply inferior after stripping naked, so that when he made love with his daughter-in-law later, he wore clothes to play.
So after hearing this, the little prince immediately planned to go crazy, and the hooves of the ten thousand Tatar iron horsemen behind him kept trampling on the ground and making a rumbling sound, and it was obvious that he was on the verge of agitation, and he could rush out at any time.
"Don't be in such a hurry, right?" One of the Ming soldiers preparing for war outside the city walked out of the trench and said expressionlessly: "What the big guy said is the truth, what has happened cannot be erased, it is just a stain for a lifetime, just remember it." ”
When the little prince saw this person, he immediately wanted to scold, he would never forget that damn face for the rest of his life, he was arrogant when he was proud, and he was so arrogant when he was down.
"Zhu Houzhao, don't be in a hurry." The little prince laughed cruelly: "I won't kill you, when I capture you, strip your clothes in front of your civil and military officials, and make a parade around the city wall for the last time, it must be excellent!" ”
"Hehe, if you can come and catch me, listen to me!" The person who came out of the battle turned around and went back without hesitation: "The premise is that you can come to my side!" ”
The little prince also sneered.
"The whole army will attack and take down the Ming Emperor, if anyone dares to hurt him in the chaos, Ben Da Khan will cut off his head!" The little prince shouted wildly.
An intact Ming Emperor is what he desperately needs, the Ming Kingdom is broken, and the living Zhu Houzhao is far more useful to the little prince than the dead, coercing the Son of Heaven to order the princes to take other large areas of land without blood.
There were no pitfalls between the two armies, it was all flat land, but anyone who looked a little more could tell that some places were renovated.
More than 10,000 Tatar cavalry, under the command of the little prince, rushed towards the Ming army's position like an angry tide with the momentum of wind and thunder.
Zhu Hou looked intently at the direction in which the Tatars were heading, his fingers interlaced, slightly distorted.
The damage caused by the explosion of Buddha Nu Tang Lian buried in the ground was too small, so Zhu Houzhao did not set up those iron cucumbers that exploded by pulling fibers in that land.
But he got something else, enough for the Tatars to drink a pot.
A hundred dead men lurked beneath the land, and their distribution was irregular. In each small cellar there was a person, more than ten catties of gunpowder.
can do such an equivalent conversion, about five grams of gunpowder can successfully blow up a person's palm, and the amount of more than ten catties is enough to open the mountain!
After the sound of the horses' hooves of the Tatar army sounded above the dead soldiers, more than a hundred Ming dead soldiers made the first last move, flicking the fire fold and lighting the fuse.
A hundred brilliant roses with blood colors rose from the ground, countless Tatar horsemen disappeared and split into pieces of corpses, and more horses were frightened by the explosion, and galloped faster, but the formation was also chaotic, and the remaining horsemen crashed into each other and lost countless times.
At this time, more than a thousand Tatars knelt.
But seeing such a result, Zhu Houzhao did not show a sense of achievement, there were so many hundred warriors in exchange for the results, and he really had no face to rejoice.
Soon the Tatars regrouped and continued to rush towards Zhu Houzhao and others, still as the old saying goes, after approaching, the cavalry killing the infantry is no different from cutting wheat.
After the distance was closer, the two sides began to rely on long-range weapons to hurt each other, and the Tatars were obviously more numerous than the Ming army, so under the consumption of the Tatar numbers between the dense bullets and bullets, the casualties of the Ming army were not few.
Zhu Houzhao looked at the elite troops that were constantly being reduced in distress, but he didn't have the slightest solution, the war was so cruel.
However, in the next distance, Zhu Houzhao believed that his Ade's team would definitely make the Tatars suffer a lot.
Not surprisingly, after the Tatar two-plate axes were rounded, the firearms of the Ming army began to exert their terrible lethality. Dozens of thunderbolts let out a roar, opening up a rain of flowers in the sky within a sufficient killing distance, and a salvo of fire brought down hundreds of Tartar horsemen.
But this is also a drop in the bucket, there are 50,000 Tatar troops here at the main gate, and the little prince who has hundreds of casualties is still ignoring acupuncture.
In the blink of an eye, the Tatars braved the rain of bullets and bullets to kill the Ming army's army at a distance of only more than fifty steps, but the Ming army's three-plate axe has not yet been completed, and countless iron cucumbers have been scrapped out of the trenches, and the density of iron cucumbers at this distance is much more terrifying than that of Thunderbolt, and thousands of Buddha angry Tang Lian You fall towards the Tatars from different directions.
It was also a three-stage attack of learning the bird's gun, and the iron cucumber did not stop for a moment after the Tatars approached. After delaying each other, the Ming army began to approach the city gate in a roundabout way by relying on the standing positions dug up overnight.
The trench on the face completely blocked the cavalry advantage of the Tatars, and no matter how good a war horse was, it was impossible for a horse to jump like a dog on the trench.
Therefore, on the various criss-crossing trenches deliberately dug by the Ming army, the Tatars were divided into small pieces one by one, and they lost the possibility of charging again, and one by one they became live targets.
The little prince looked at the scene in front of him coldly, and said in a cold voice: "The whole army is pressed, even if you use people, you have to fill in those ditches, remember, my goal is to capture the Ming Emperor alive!" ”
Tens of thousands of troops pressed up, and even the little prince himself was involved, and the Emperor of the Ming Kingdom dared to stand in front of the battle, and he had no reason to be at the back of a grassland man who had experienced a hundred battles.
At the same time, the little prince did not have the habit of putting his eggs in the same basket, and after the battle of the West Gate began, several other gates also launched a tragic siege battle almost at the same time. As a result of the battle the day before yesterday, this time the Tatars almost met almost twice as little resistance.
The training in the east city and the north city were in a hurry, and the Ming army who was watching the battle on the city wall of the west city hurriedly rushed to reinforce, leaving only about one or two thousand troops still carrying out Zhu Houzhao's task.
The large-scale clash of tens of thousands of horses and horses was quite difficult to describe, with dead people everywhere, and there were fierce howls, shouts of killing, and scolding of mothers everywhere.
All the people have become beasts, even Zhu Houzhao outside the city is no exception, although he was protected in the center by more than a dozen Jiangsu and Zhejiang new troops, but the flintlock pistol in his hand still kept spitting flames, and the iron cucumbers around him were also thrown out by him constantly.
There were even quite a few Tatar men who had fallen off their horses, and he took the opportunity to stab them a few times, and the combat methods were extremely obscene, which was obviously not the style of taking the lead in the past.
In addition to the remaining 800 fans of the East Factory and less than 500 Shenji Battalion soldiers under his command, there are also 2,000 new troops from Jiangsu and Zhejiang to help. Wang Shouren was responsible for guarding the eastern city, and his subordinates were the soldiers of the five military battalions who had lost more than half of their numbers, and even the 3,000 battalions were pulled up by him on the city wall, and the number was relatively large, but it was only 5,000 people.
The remaining less than 1,000 soldiers of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang New Army are the screws of Beijing City, and they need to be screwed wherever they need to go.
No matter how bravely the soldiers of the northern city killed the enemy, the defense of the city wall became precarious, and the Tatars killed the city wall several times. Especially the city gate is even more tragic, the city gate that was bombarded into pieces by artillery has collapsed, and the new army of Jiangsu and Zhejiang has not stopped the surging Tatar cavalry after killing and wounding again and again with iron cucumbers and thunderbolts.
After Zhang Yi cut down a Tatar soldier, he immediately roared when he heard the news: "Why don't you hurry up and push the fire dragon cart over and burn those bastards!" ”
The gates of the city had become purgatory, and stumps and broken arms were everywhere. The new army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang had already started suicide attacks, with a large pile of iron cucumbers strapped to their bodies, they roared and rushed to the Tatars in the city gate cave, and then they all died with a loud bang, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere.
"Brothers in Jiang and Zhejiang, get out quickly!" After the fire dragon car was in place, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion yelled at the people inside to withdraw.
But where did the two armies fight and withdraw? After hand-to-hand combat, the new army in Jiangsu and Zhejiang almost risked their lives to block the advance of the Tatars, and the scimitars fell, and the heads were rolling.
Seeing that there were still more than 300 new troops from Jiangsu and Zhejiang and the endless Tatars entangled in the city gate cave, the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion only had time to withdraw a small part, and it was difficult to stop the fierce attack of the Tatars.
"It's too late!" The soldiers of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang New Army, who were fighting to the death in the cave of the city gate, shouted loudly: "Don't take care of us, just do what you want!" Brothers, stop this pack of Tatar dogs and blow them up! ”
Boom Boom! Countless explosions rang out, and the city gate was darkened.
Immediately afterward, more shouts of killing rang out, and countless Tatars emerged from the fireworks that had not yet dispersed from the cave in the city gate.
The fire dragon car operator of the Shenji Battalion touched the tears on his face and shouted: "You must not let this group of barbarians rush into the capital and burn it for me!" ”
Boom, countless oil spewed out from the dragon car, and at the same time, a fire dragon spewed out a few feet away from the oil, and countless Tatars were immediately buried in the fire. But this was not a long-term solution, and after the previous wave of Tatars had burned out, some people continued to rush in.
The city tower on Wang Shouren's side is already in a similar situation, and the loss of the city gate is just one after another.
"Retreat to the inner city walls!" Wang Shouren and Zhang Yi ordered almost within an hour that the city walls of the capital had an urn city in addition to the outer city, and there was also an inner city inside the urn city.
Outside the west gate, the trenches dug by the new army had long been filled by the surging Tatars, and outside the city gate had once again become a flat river.
At this time, the 3,000 New Army had been halved, and the tragic head bombs at the north gate began to be staged here.
But in spite of this, they retreated, and soon retreated to less than a hundred paces under the walls.
The little prince looked at the open city gate and laughed: "Warriors, quickly kill all these bright dogs and rush in with me!" Remember the life of the dog who left Zhu Houzhao, and the world will be ours when you rush into the city gate! ”
The red-eyed Tatars cheered up again, this short road has fallen a full 10,000 Tatar men, although less than 5,000 died, but the wails everywhere still fiercely stimulated their nerves, now victory is in sight, how can not rise up bravely?
"Your Majesty, you enter the city quickly, and the last general will lead the army to break off!" A general of the Ming army no longer cares about humility, and fiercely pushes Zhu Houzhao to escort him towards the city gate that opens a crack, so he obviously plans to die in exchange for the emperor's life!
Above the city tower, the Tatars rushed to a distance of a hundred paces, and suddenly the fire shook the sky, and hundreds of tiger squatting cannons roared at the same time!
This is Zhu Houzhao's backhand, leading the Tatars to rush into the range of the close-range but powerful tiger squat cannon, and this batch of killing weapons approved by Emperor Hongzhi and have been stored in the capital let out the final roar.
Everywhere, this is truly everywhere. The shells fired by these Tiger Squat cannons were all very rudimentary bursting shells, and although the possibility of mute fire was not small, it still managed to cause great results among the Tatar crowd at such a time!
Back then, Yu Qian used such a weapon to win a battle to defend the Beijing Division, and this time Zhu Houzhao believed that he could do it too!
Even if the soldiers under his command are not as many as Yu Qian's, even if the army of the first is not as fierce as the wolf rider of the little prince!
There is no goal, there is no buffer, and wherever the Tatars are denser, they will be taken care of. The remaining Ming soldiers also gathered together at this time, and built a new Great Wall with iron cucumbers and flesh and blood at a distance of less than a hundred steps from the city wall.
Explosions, a large number of explosions sounded from time to time. Behind them is a vast minefield, under which there are also 100 Ming soldiers and hundreds of catties of gunpowder, which will be the last defense of the capital.
The closer he got to the city gate, the more excited the little prince became. Obviously, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty still has some women's kindness and is unwilling to give up the remaining Ming army outside the city, but this is a rare opportunity for the Tatars!
However, at this time, it seemed that God's favor for the little prince had finally run out, and a cannonball was lucky enough to hit the little prince's horse.
Rumble!
The little prince was overturned to the ground with his men and horses.
However, at the moment when he fell, it seemed that the heavens favored him again. As the Ming army moved to the defensive line at its last, countless fires rose from the ground, killing the thousands of Tatars who had gathered at the front gate and were engulfed in the firelight.
The distance here is less than twenty steps from where the little prince fell to the ground!
The little prince was completely unconscious under such two strong explosions in succession.
Zhu Houzhao has been paying attention to the whereabouts of this little prince, and when he saw the enemy chief being overturned by explosives in the chaotic army, he immediately roared: "The enemy chief is dead!" Soldiers, open the gates and charge with me! ”
Driven by Zhu Houzhao, thousands of Ming troops immediately roared, and the cry of the little prince's death echoed in the battlefield of tens of thousands of people.
The little prince's army searched everywhere and finally found the little prince covered in blood under a horse that had been half blown apart.
The Tatar army was moved, and under the call of the Ming army, they had no intention of fighting, and they stopped their horses' hooves one after another, waiting for the orders of their own khan.
But the little prince no longer had the ability to give orders, and the little prince, who was in a state of confusion, ran towards the main camp with the little prince on his shoulder.
With this run, the only remaining military spirit of the Tatar army was suddenly lost at this moment, and the Tatar army, which had killed half of the people, faded like a tide......