Chapter 245: Secret Weapon
The first wave of shelling, with the nature of debugging, the gunner had to observe the landing point of the flowering shells he emitted, so the flowering shells were not salvos.
One by one, the flowering bullets fell to the ground, and most of the flowering bombs did not fall on the city, and the flowering bullets that fell on the city's head still brought a shock to the Jurchen soldiers.
The soldiers who were lying on the wall of their daughters just now and looking down were blown into eighteen pieces by the flowering bombs one by one, and those who were lucky not to be shot were also shocked by the flowering bullets and had a burst of tinnitus.
Most of the wounded soldiers still breathed, and they looked at their mutilated bodies, and then at their companions, and for a time they were crying in fright, like children who could not find their mothers.
"Damn, this artillery of the Ming army ......" the garrison at the head of the city scolded, he was not injured, but there was a ringing in his ears, and he couldn't hear anything in his ears.
"Ezhen, the artillery of the Ming army is too powerful, what should I do?"
The guard couldn't hear anything, and after the soldier gestured with his hand, he understood what to do. How does he know, maybe Huang Taiji knows, but Huang Taiji is not in the city now.
"Damn, don't we have artillery too? Boom me, boom his wolf-bitten Ming army. ”
The soldier gestured with his hand, indicating that the range of the tiger cannon could not reach the position of the Ming artillery at all.
"Lao Tzu doesn't care, he just can't bomb, and he will scare the Ming army and give me a bang."
The Jurchen gunners also began to aim at the Ming army, in fact, they didn't need to aim at all, anyway, the range of the tiger cannon was not enough, and it was impossible to scare the Ming army, at most it would give the Jurchen soldiers in the city a strong courage.
The Jurchen soldiers had just loaded the Huju cannon with shells, and the second wave of flowering shells of the Ming army had arrived, and this time, more than sixty percent of the flowering shells fell on the city.
Dozens of flowering shells blew the city into ruins, and even the tiger cannon, which had just been loaded with solid shells, was destroyed by flowering shells.
The casualties were even greater, there were almost no intact soldiers left on the city, and the guard who was still in command just now was also blown up by a flowering bomb that fell beside him, and when he ascended, his body was still a whole, and when he fell, the plane had already fallen apart.
No one noticed the corpse of the guard, and all the Jurchen soldiers who were alive were shocked by the flowering bomb, and their reactions were slowed down a few beats, and they waited until the flowering bomb exploded before they found the wounds on their bodies.
What to do?
There is no one in command of the city now, and no one can answer such a question.
The Ming army was still loading the flower shells, but the Jurchen soldiers at the head of the city could no longer be seen, they were either rolling on the ground and howling, or squatting on the ground with wounds and crying, and the daughter wall blocked their view.
The flowering shells completed another wave of shooting, and the cries in the city immediately disappeared, and the broken corpses, like dried meat, were scattered around the city.
Zhu Youzhen felt very strange, the flowering bomb had been launched three times, and the defenders on the head of the city had disappeared, but the city wall was not moving, could it be that Shengjing was also a strong city? Or are the walls poured concrete?
"Your Majesty, if the city walls are strong, we can try to blow up the city gates, and there is no moat anyway." Wang Mujiu is like a roundworm in Zhu Youzhen's stomach, and he can see Zhu Youzhen's thoughts at a glance.
"No moat? Not far south of Shengjing, isn't it the Hunhe River? If they were able to build such a thick wall, wouldn't they bring in the water of the Hunhe? Zhu Youzhen shook his head with a smile, nomads, there are too many things that people can't see through.
"Your Majesty, the last general inspected outside the four gates yesterday, although there is the Hunhe River in the south, but the topography of Shengjing is high in the northwest and low in the southeast, and the water of the Hunhe River cannot be led through at all."
"Ao," Zhu Youzhen looked at the periphery of Shengjing, "This is really a good place, surrounded by mountains and rivers, you should be able to escape the heat in summer, and there are mountains blocking it in winter, and the cold wind from the north can't blow, Nurhachi chose a good place, but unfortunately, they don't know how to be satisfied, so they invade the Ming Dynasty." ”
"Your Majesty xià......" Wang Mujiu didn't know what Zhu Youzhen was feeling.
"Ao, don't care, let the artillery bombard the city gate, Haoge's army may turn back to reinforce Shengjing at any time."
"Yes, Your Majesty." Wang Mujiu personally went to convey Zhu Youzhen's military order.
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
"Boom...... Long ......"
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Eighty artillery pieces, all aimed in the direction of the south gate, because the target was too concentrated, several flowering shells collided in the air, however, the collision did not affect their fall and explosion.
The wooden gate was torn apart by several flowering bombs, the debris was ignited by the fireworks of the flowering bombs, and petite Kong Ming lanterns flew low in the sky, and disappeared in an instant.
"Your Majesty, the city gate has exploded, which army will advance into the city?" When Wang Mujiu was in Shaanxi, he had seen the flowering bomb blast open the city gate, but today it was the capital of Jiannu, he couldn't suppress his excitement, and he really hoped that he was the first person to enter the city.
"Don't worry, Mu Jiu, why do you look like a child? The city gate was blasted open, but there may still be Jurchen soldiers under the city, and they may have retreated long ago in order to avoid the flower bullets. Zhu Youzhen's heart was also quite excited, just like the afternoon of the wedding day.
"The artillery fire extended two hundred paces into the city, with two flowering shells per cannon."
"Your Majesty, I see."
After two rounds of shelling, the artillery fire extended forward another three hundred paces, again two rounds.
"The second royal division, enter the city, be careful that there are ambushes in Jiannu." Zhu Youzhen's heart was surging, since he crossed over to Daming, the biggest stone in his heart, seeing that he was about to move away, he really wanted to cry happily, for Daming, and for his lonely self.
The man has tears and doesn't let them go, fuck it, Zhu Youzhen is already crying in his heart.
"Yes, Your Majesty."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Zhu Youzhen was stunned, how could there be two people's answers? Could it be that the tears in my heart reflect the language in front of me? He looked to the place where the voice came from, and it turned out to be two people.
One is Wang Peng, the commander of the Royal Second Division, and standing beside Wang Peng is Wang Mujiu, the commander of the Royal First Army.
"Mu Jiu?"
"Majesty!"
"Okay, Mu Jiu, after entering the city, you must be careful, the destruction of Jiannu is imminent, you must protect your brothers, and you must protect yourself."
"Thank you!" Wang Mujiu lay on the ground and respectfully kowtowed to Zhu Youzhen.
The second royal division entered the city, and did not encounter the Jurchen soldiers who blocked it, and the southern city gate had been repeatedly cultivated by flowering bullets, if there were still Jurchen soldiers there, it must be wounded soldiers, or dead people.
After more than 10,000 soldiers entered the city, they still did not hear the sound of gunfire, and Zhu Youzhen estimated that the Jurchen soldiers near the city gate may have been stunned by the artillery fire or fled.
"Ge Si'er, take your cavalry into the city, don't slaughter the people in the city, most of them are Han Chinese, open the south city gate first, your full army seat, I'm afraid you are going crazy in a hurry."
"Yes, Your Majesty."
Ge Si'er led the cavalry into the city, but the royal third division and Zhu Youzhen still stayed outside the city.
Finally, the sound of flintlock guns can be heard in the city, and street fighting begins.
Zhu Youzhen is not worried, the Ming army has both the range advantage of flintlock pistols and the huge advantage in numbers, and now it is the capital of Jiannu, and Zhu Youzhen is not afraid of casualties among soldiers.
By noon, the Ming army had occupied four city gates, and most of the Ming army had entered the city, and the sound of flintlock guns was everywhere in the city.
Before then, the gunfire gradually thinned out, and Zhu Youzhen, as the last army to enter the city, also entered the city through the east gate.
The battle is not over.
Shengjing is the capital of the Dajin Kingdom, in the Shengjing City, there is an inner city, Qingning Palace, Dazheng Palace, Shiwang Pavilion these important institutions, are in the inner city, after the Ming army swept the outer city, the princes and ministers of the Dajin Kingdom, under the protection of the soldiers, all retreated into the inner city.
Zhu Youzhen stepped on the corpses and blood of the Jurchens, and entered the city through the east gate, he thought that Shengjing had been conquered, because the sound of flintlock guns was already quite sparse, and the Jurchen soldiers should either be dead or surrendered.
But after he entered the city, he found the inner city, although the inner city is not large, but the city wall is made of bluestone, which looks more solid than the outer city wall.
"Majesty, what should I do? Do you want to bring in artillery? Wang Mujiu and Hong Chengchou came to greet Zhu Youzhen together, and he knew that Zhu Youzhen would never use his life to attack the inner city.
"Artillery into the city? Yes, yes, but the artillery weighs more than a thousand pounds, and it is quite inconvenient to enter and exit the city, so let's talk about it later-how many soldiers are there in the inner city? "Entering the outer city of Shengjing, Zhu Youzhen is no longer in a hurry, even if Haoge's army rushes back, he doesn't have to worry, with the fortified city of Shengjing as a defense, it is estimated that Haoge has nothing to do.
"Your Majesty, according to the corpses in the outer city, we have preliminarily calculated that there are still fifteen to twenty Niu Lu in the inner city, and this does not include the coats of dignitaries."
"Baoyi is a slave, he is a farmer and shepherd sheep for the dignitaries, they are not soldiers, many of them are Han, they have no combat effectiveness, our opponents are mainly soldiers with yellow flags."
“……”
"Is Huang Taiji in the inner city?"
Wang Mujiu was noncommittal, "Your Majesty, we don't know Huang Taiji, and we haven't found any particularly valuable people. ”
Zhu Youzhen smiled, "It seems that Huang Taiji is still in the inner city." ”
"陛xià......"
"Don't worry, fence off the inner city first."
"Your Majesty, we have surrounded the inner city to the fullest, unless it is a mouse that will make a hole, otherwise, even if it has wings, it will not be able to fly, your Majesty can rest assured." Hong Chengchou seized the opportunity and grabbed a sentence.
"Rats? Punching holes? Zhu Youzhen was thoughtful, his gaze subconsciously swept to the ground: "When they build the city, will they leave a secret passage that leads directly to the outside of the city?" ”
Wang Mujiu shook his head, "Your Majesty, this, we don't know, we already know that we will leave a few living mouths to ask." ”
"It's useless to leave a living mouth, how can an ordinary soldier know about such a highly confidential thing? Summoned Man Gui and asked him to arrange soldiers to patrol outside the city day and night, and as long as they found the Jurchens appearing, they would all be killed! ”
"Yes, Your Majesty," Wang Mujiu was about to leave, and then stopped, "Your Majesty, what should I do about attacking the inner city?" Do you want to attack today? ”
Zhu Youzhen looked up at the sky, the sun was already hanging halfway up the mountainside, if the siege started from now on, when the city was broken, it was almost night, the sky was dark and crowded, in case Huang Taiji slipped while it was dark, it would leave endless scourges, "Tomorrow, it's going to be dark, you have to strengthen your defense at night, don't let Huang Taiji run, as for the siege, I have my own secret weapon." ”