readx; The cannon at the head of Yongding Gate roared angrily!

There were originally three Hongyi cannons on the southern city, and after the three long-range cannons imported from Portugal were urgently transported to the city last night, the number of heavy artillery pieces increased to six. Although www.biquge.info six cannons are not too many for the south city wall that is more than 20 miles long, there is still a moat that is dozens of zhang wide outside the city wall, and only the south of Yongding Gate has a mouth that is very wide. For this width, six cannons can already exert their power.

The Qing army was arrayed three miles away, and Mang Gurtai believed that it was impossible for the Ming army's shells to reach such a distance according to the previous combat experience in Ningyuan, Jinzhou, and Dalinghe, so he would unscrupulously abuse women in front of the battle.

But with the smoke rising from the city, three solid iron bullets weighing more than ten catties have already fallen from the sky with a roar!

The formation of the Qing army was that the captured civilians were in the front, the Han army flag followed closely, and then the Mongolian Eight Banners, and the Manchu Eight Banners dragged behind. These three shells crossed the common people and the Han army flags, and smashed straight into the Mongolian Eight Banners array. The Mongols had just lined up at this time, and the formation was very dense, and when they were caught off guard, at least dozens of horsemen were swept away by shells, and three bloody alleys were smashed out immediately!

And the other three shells hit much closer. Two of them had already fallen to the ground before they could reach the battle, only to hit deep craters; The other happened to fall less than two feet from the banner of Mang Gurtai, and frightened his horse into the air, and almost tossed him to the ground.

Mang Gurtai was taken aback, but not frightened. In his opinion, these cannons that can reach far away are the biggest trump cards of the Ming army. He knew from the Han soldiers that the larger the cannon, the slower the speed of reloading and firing, and the large shooting blind spots, although it could inflict some damage on his own side, it was not enough to stop the siege. So he immediately raised his sword and shouted: "Rush! ”

At the sound of an order, the soldiers of the Han Army Banner immediately drove thousands of civilians and rushed towards Yongdingmen. Behind were twenty improvised chariots, covering the thousands of archers with the white flag and the white flag of the Han army. The other six flags spread out into a wide front, and every five or six people carried a wooden platoon, rushing directly towards the moat.

It turned out that during the siege of the city in the past few days, in addition to feints, the Qing army was not idle. They demolished almost all the houses in Tongzhou, got a lot of timber, and made wooden rafts day and night. With a wooden platoon, it was possible to cross the moat from any point without having to squeeze in from that one-mile-wide opening, which greatly reduced the chance of being shelled by the Ming army.

The Han military flag was originally used as cannon fodder, and compared with Huang Taiji, Mang Gurtai didn't care about the life or death of these traitors. He threw in all the forces of the Han army banner at one time, and more than 27,000 people were killed, excluding those who died before the war. Nearly 30,000 people charged at the same time on a battlefield more than 20 miles wide, and the momentum was huge.

After the Han military banner, there was the cavalry of the Mongolian Eight Banners. Their task was still to fire arrows at the Ming army at the head of the city from 80 paces away, and once the Han army flag broke through the city gate or attacked the city, the cavalry immediately rushed into the city. But because of the barrier of the moat, they could only attack from that one-mile-wide opening. Therefore, Mang Gurtai only invested 2,500 cavalry under the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner first, and the remaining seven banners were on standby, ready to take turns at any time.

And the real main force, that is, the Manchu Eight Banners, Mang Gurtai instead led them back half a mile. Although he has a reckless personality and likes to be brutal, he is not a fool, and of course he refuses to eat Ming army shells for nothing. His wishful thinking was to use the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners to consume the ammunition of the Ming army, and only when the Ming army suffered heavy casualties and ran out of ammunition did he use the Manchurians to launch the final blow.

The Qing army was overwhelming, and Yuan Keli hurriedly said to Zhu Youzhen: "Your Majesty, the city is already very dangerous, there are old ministers here to supervise the battle, Your Majesty should go down to the city first!" ”

Zhu Youzhen almost rudely pushed Yuan Keli away, and while ordering Meng Gong to organize the defense of the city, he ordered someone to urgently summon Xie Sheng. Because he has already seen that the Qing army has invested a large number of troops and siege equipment in the south, which must be the real main direction of attack, and the defensive pressure on the other three sides is not great, and it is necessary to draw troops over. After all, the main force of the Ming army, that is, the Fifth Army Battalion and the Shenji Battalion, had a total of only 30,000 people, and only 6,000 people on each wall, which was far inferior to the strength of the Qing army. As for the 60,000 reserves and 50,000 recruits, they are unlikely to play a big role because the level of training is too low.

The heralds left in a hurry, and by this time the Qing army was rapidly approaching. Because the original three Hongyi cannons were too heavy, it was difficult to adjust the firing direction and elevation angle, and they were basically fixed-point bombardment, which caused very limited damage to the Qing army, and could only play a role in slowing down the enemy's advance.

The three long-range cannons that have just been deployed are relatively much more flexible. Its cannon is nine feet long and has a caliber of about three and a half inches, which is similar to the old-fashioned Hongyi cannon; However, because it was cast in bronze, there was no need to cast the cannon wall very thick for fear of exploding, so the weight was much lighter than that of the three Hongyi cannons.

Not only that, but the maximum range and effective range of these three cannons were also much longer than those of the old Hongyi cannons. Just now, it hit the Mongolian Eight Banners in the first shot, killing dozens of people, which greatly boosted the morale of the gunners, as if they were clockwork, desperately accelerating to pour water on the gun body to cool down, clean the gun chamber, and then reset the gun body, reload the ammunition, and adjust the firing angle.

In daily training, the time required for this complete set of procedures is four times a moment according to the standard set by Xie Sheng. The timekeeping system of this era divided the day and night into 100 quarters, which is about 15 minutes of modern time. Based on this calculation, the time required for each shot is about three and a half points. But now these gunners are full of anger against the Qing soldiers, and the emperor personally supervises the battle, coupled with the first hit, under the multiple stimuli, the reload was completed in less than three minutes.

At the same time, a large number of traitor soldiers were holding the people and had already broken through for nearly a mile. Behind them, dozens of wagons marched side by side, trying to pass through the mouth of the moat at once and minimize the possibility of being bombarded by artillery.

"Put!" Meng Gong gave an order, and the six cannons roared in unison again. Among the three shells fired by the cannon, two of them accurately hit a cart, and the huge kinetic energy smashed this wooden siege equipment to pieces, and the flying sawdust also injured many Qing soldiers hiding behind.

However, there was also a cannonball from the Hongyi cannon, due to the low accuracy, it wanted to bombard the car, but it fell in the crowd of Han military flags that were closer. There were a large number of people in the crowd, and when the cannon went down, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and many innocent people also fell in pools of blood.

Meng Gong, who commanded the opening of the cannon, turned pale with fright. He came out of the Qin soldier system, and naturally knew that Zhu Youzhen loved the people like a son, and now that so many people died under his own guns, how could the emperor spare him?

Zhu Youzhen's face was pale, and he didn't even look at Meng Gong, only squeezed out a few words from between his teeth: "Keep firing!" ”

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