Chapter 246: Huang Taiji is gone
That night, Zhu Youzhen summoned several technical soldiers and discussed with them for more than an hour.
Early the next morning, Zhu Youzhen came to the east gate of the inner city, followed by the same technical soldiers who had studied with him for half a night last night, and they were also pushing two small wooden carts.
"Your Majesty came so early?" Wang Mujiu was still yawning, obviously not long after getting up.
"Did Huang Taiji make any noise last night?" Zhu Youzhen is most concerned about Huang Taiji, the situation is very good now, if the protagonist Huang Taiji runs away, I don't know what will happen in the future.
"Back to His Majesty, there was no movement, not only the east gate, but also the other gates, and there was no movement."
"No?" Zhu Youzhen frowned, if Huang Taiji did not move the night before yesterday, he could completely understand that although the Ming army had completed the siege of Shengjing overnight through the way of a surprise attack, no one could give a definite answer to whether it could break through Shengjing or not.
Huang Taiji naturally believed that with the thick walls of Shengjing, coupled with the fact that the Jurchen soldiers had no way to retreat, they would fight to the death, so he could still calm down in the encirclement of the Ming army.
After yesterday's war, in the face of the superior firearms of the Ming army, the bravery of the Jurchen soldiers was only exchanged for tragedy, and the fierce and fearless death of the Jurchen soldiers was only exchanged for a corpse.
In less than a day, the outer city was breached by the Ming army.
If Huang Taiji hadn't drunk too much mare's milk wine, he must have realized that the inner city could not be defended for a long time, since the inner city could not be defended, the night was a good opportunity to break through, the moon was dark and the wind was high, and it was entirely possible for him to escape at night.
Why did he give up such a good opportunity?
Does he already have a countermeasure?
Or are you ready to die?
Zhu Youzhen has never heard that nomads also have martyrdom, this Huang Taiji, at this time, it is still impossible to guess.
"Your Majesty, are you attacking the city now?"
"Oh, Mu Jiu, don't worry," Zhu Youzhen pointed to a few technical soldiers behind him, "They are the secret weapons I said." ”
"Them?" Wang Mujiu seemed to be looking at an unnamed creature from the Mariana Trench, "Your Majesty, aren't they ordinary soldiers?" ”
"They were originally ordinary soldiers, but they have mastered techniques that others have not mastered, and now they are no ordinary soldiers, they are my treasures, and I am reluctant to take them out in normal times."
"陛xià......"
"Mu Jiu, you prepare to enter the city first, and I let them open the city gate first."
"Your Majesty, the last general saw it yesterday, this east gate is made of pig iron, I'm afraid it's not easy to open it."
"Mu Jiu don't worry, let's take a look at these soldiers first." Zhu Youzhen gestured to them, signaling that they could start.
The soldiers, without saying much, put down the package behind them and immediately took action.
After a while, two huge balloons appeared on the ground, and the balloons were sewn with dense red cloth and were very strong.
They also removed two uncovered wooden frames from the two carts, and the inner layer of the wooden frame was wrapped in a layer of white iron sheets, which contained red-hot charcoal, which had apparently been lit long ago.
"陛xià......"
Zhu Youzhen waved his hand and signaled Wang Mujiu not to disturb the soldiers' work.
At the moment when Wang Mujiu turned his head and spat at the mouth, the two huge balloons had been completely loaded.
"陛xià......"
"Go, this is your first time participating in the battle, you must be careful, and you must stay away from the Jurchen arrows." Zhu Youzhen was also a little nervous in his heart, as if it was not those soldiers who were about to ascend to the sky, but himself.
"Yes, Your Majesty, we'll be careful."
"You must pay attention to the direction of the wind, the direction of the wind in the sky, it is not the same as on the ground, there may be a whirlwind."
"Your Majesty, we understand."
"Okay,." Zhu Youzhen waved his hand, but his eyes kept staring at the two huge balloons.
The balloon began to rise slowly, and on the huge balloon, two soldiers were carried, one of whom controlled the rope to grasp the direction of the balloon, and the other constantly adjusted the charcoal brazier hanging below.
The two balloons rose to a height of 100 paces one after another, and then slowly floated towards the city with the help of a slight east wind.
Wang Mujiu was as excited as a child, he kept spinning on the ground, chasing the traces of the balloon, "Your Majesty, can the balloon really go to the sky?" Let me go to the sky that day to see, no, I want to go to the moon to see if there is Chang'e, whether Wu Gang is cutting down trees......"
"Haha," Zhu Youzhen was amused, "Mu Jiu, this is a firearm—okay, when I return to the Jingshi, I will ask the people from the Firearms Bureau to send you to the sky to see." ”
"Your Majesty, you have no jokes!"
"Haha, Mu Jiu still depends on me, in fact, when you return to Jingshi, I will definitely be able to satisfy you, as long as you go to heaven, you are not afraid."
"What is there in Heaven to fear? His Majesty remembered today's promise, and when he returned to the capital at the end of the year, he must go to heaven to see. ”
The two balloons flew towards the city one after another, and the Jurchen soldiers in the inner city had already discovered these two monsters, and there was a commotion in the city.
The Ming army's endless emergence of new firearms has already scared them.
The guard Alimu was also stunned, what happened to the Ming army? Are they humans or demons?
"Ezhen, do you want to try the arrow?"
"Yes, yes, release the arrows, shoot them down, I want to see if the body of the Ming army is made of meat." Alimu himself also drew his bow and arrows and aimed at the balloon in the air.
"Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh......"
A large number of Jurchen arrows shot vertically into the sky, where the balloons appeared.
The Jurchen arrows shot forward on the flat ground, and the range was only sixty steps, but now they were shooting upward, and the range was definitely less than sixty steps, while the balloons of the Ming army were at a height of 100 steps, and the arrows naturally could not be shot.
"Oops, oops......"
Instead, the Jurchen soldiers let out a scream.
It turned out that the arrow shot upwards, and after reaching the highest point, it would fall naturally, and the Jurchen soldiers just paid attention to whether the arrow hit the balloon, but forgot that the arrow would fall.
The falling arrows pierced the soldiers' bodies one after another, and the most arrows were hit in the shoulders and arms.
"Oh, who's going to shoot me?" Alimu was shot in the right ear by a falling arrow, which fell so fast that it pierced through his right ear and pierced deep into his leather armor.
The first balloon swirled above the city gate, and the height dropped a little, and finally, the two controllers gestured to each other.
A "10,000 enemies" bomb hanging on a balloon is swaying slightly in the wind at the moment. The upper hand gently unfastens the lanyard, and the lower hand puts the lead # into the charcoal brazier and ignites it, and then makes a successful gesture.
The operator above let go of the lanyard, and the "10,000 enemies" weighing 80 catties sank sharply and fell rapidly towards the city gate......
"Bang ......"
With a loud bang, the east city gate covered with pure iron was lifted high, and the pure iron was deformed, although it was not broken, the wooden hinges connecting the pure iron and the city wall had been broken, and the city gate was crooked on one side of the city wall.
The Jurchen soldiers who shot arrows just now staggered one by one, some lay on the ground and couldn't get up, some lay on the ground and didn't want to get up, and some lay on the ground and didn't dare to get up.
Alimu was lying on the ground, his left calf was gone, he groped on the ground for a while, his calf was not found, but he grabbed someone else's calf and stuffed it into the broken leg of his own calf.
The Jurchen soldier was so angry that he kicked Alimu hard, but unfortunately, he just kicked Alimu's wound, and Alimu screamed miserably and fainted.
The balloon that had already been dropped lowered its angle to the left, and with the pressure of the east wind, it slowly flew out of the inner city from the south gate.
The balloon behind was concocted in the same way, and a "10,000 enemies" was dropped near the south city gate.
The south gate is like a kite with a broken string, it finally breaks free from the shackles of the city wall and regains its free body.
"Your Majesty, the south gate is going to blow up?" Wang Mujiu opened his mouth wide, almost speechless, his gaze constantly wandering between the balloon and the south city gate.
"It's exploded, haven't you already seen that the south gate has collapsed?" Zhu Youzhen breathed a sigh of relief in his chest, this was the first time that a hot air balloon participated in the battle, and he was not very sure, fortunately, the bow and arrow of the Jurchens did not pose any threat to the hot air balloon, and the two "ten thousand enemies" did not fail, and the south gate was finally blown open.
"Your Majesty, how many secret weapons are there......
"Mu Jiu, what are you talking about......"
"Your Majesty, the last general said...... Mean, is it time to attack the city? Now that the south gate has been blown open, should we hurry into the inner city? It's also good to catch Huang Taiji a moment earlier! ”
"Wait," Zhu Youzhen stopped Wang Mujiu, "first collect the grenade and throw it in from the city gate." ”
"His Majesty is going to sweep away the Jurchen soldiers near the city gates?"
"Of course, the ambush here is the most dangerous for our soldiers."
"Your Majesty, I understand, I'll go."
When Wang Mujiu left Zhu Youzhen, he personally led the soldiers and threw grenades at the city gate, and several grenades were thrown at the far, near, left, right, and even behind the root of the wall.
Before the smoke cleared, the soldiers of the Royal Second Division, with a strong smell of sulfur, squeezed into the south gate of the inner city.
Zhu Youzhen's caution was right, as soon as the soldiers stepped into the inner city, they saw that the ground was full of Jurchen soldiers, they were either dead or not dead, and they were also wounded soldiers who had lost their ability to fight.
Flintlock pistols and bows and arrows, another fair duel unfolds in the inner city.
The Ming army was not in a hurry to occupy the palace buildings, but made the main goal of killing Jurchen soldiers.
When all the inner city gates were opened, the sound of flintlock pistols had already thinned out, and the battle was one-sided, even in the inner city of the capital of Daejin Kingdom, even in front of the Great Khan of Daejin Kingdom.
The Ming army searched house by house, from the Ten Kings Pavilion to the Dazheng Palace, from the Phoenix Tower to the Qingning Palace, a large number of Jurchen soldiers died, a large number of princes and ministers died, and a large number of palace maids and concubines died.
They died before the Ming army came in, and they were not killed by the Ming army.
If they didn't commit suicide, it was their master who killed them.
Zhu Youzhen stared at the pile of corpses for a while, and suddenly, he exclaimed: "The inner city has been breached, but what about Huang Taiji?" ”