On the first day of the seventh month, 50 Hongyi heavy artillery and 120 sub-mother cannons arrived at Yanjing City, lined up three miles away from Chaoyangmen, and the chief instructor of the Fat Army artillery team Jiexuan personally commanded the gunners to aim and adjust, although this hardcore old Qingjian is still the usual silent, shrugging his eyelids as if he has not woken up, but from his unusually careful attitude of personally proofreading and inspecting one artillery by one, it can be seen that this hardcore old Qingjian has also been so excited that it is difficult to take it easy. The thin veteran who was going to count the ruler was trembling slightly with nervousness. [Full text reading]

The excited Qing Annihilation not only revealed one, and the reaction of the revelation was also quite calm, countless backbone literati who took the initiative to join the fat army from Rong cried loudly on the spot, and some literati cried while telling the fat army soldiers who were waiting in formation, saying that this is the second time that the Han people have attacked Yanjing City, the capital of China entrenched by foreign barbarians, the last time it was Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, this time it was the Fat Army, the last time Xu Da Chang Yuchun broke through Yanjing City, announcing the end of the Yuan Dynasty, this time the Fat Army broke through Yanjing City, It can also be announced that the mites, which are more brutal, vicious and cunning than the Yuan Dynasty, are finished, and every soldier of the Fat Man Army who participated in the siege of the city will remain famous forever in the history of the Thousand Autumns.

Driven and brainwashed by these Qing literati, to be honest, the soldiers of the fat army who are not high in education and class consciousness are also gradually excited and enthusiastic, only hoping that the Yanjing Qing army will go out of the city to face the battle, kill one happily in the wild, and print their names and deeds in books and write them on Danqing. But it's a pity that the Qing defenders in Yanjing City don't have the courage to go out of the city to fight in the field, even if they have seen the artillery of the Fat Army transported outside the city to be adjusted and adjusted, no Qing army general and soldier dare to shout out of the city to destroy the Fat Army artillery array, including Jieshu.

After the artillery calibration was over, the artillery battle was about to begin, according to the requirements of Lu Fatzi and the habits of the Fat Army, Lu Fatzi, who served as the pioneer of the siege, sent two messengers from Hutong Chunxian, one Han and one Mites, to the city of Yanjing with white flags in hand, shouting and surrendering in Chinese and mite language, and publicizing the policy of the Fat Army. The Han envoy shouted, "Han compatriots in Yanjing City, don't blame us for not reminding you in advance, the prince of the Great Zhou Yue has a will, the Han people do not resist, do not harm their surnames, do not take away their family property, give back the fields and shops for the people, and retain the original positions of the officials!" Dare to follow the full dog to resist stubbornly, and want to be a hardcore man to bury the full dog, catch one and kill the other! The whole family is not left! ”

"Brother Mites in Yanjing City, you have heard clearly." The mite messenger shouted in an ugly mite language, "Kaecheng surrenders, the mite people in Yanjing City only kill the four surnames of Aixin Jueluo, Niu Colu, Hesheli and Tong Jia!" Dare to resist, the people of Mites in Yanjing City, chickens and dogs are not left! ”

The two fat army envoys fled back with injuries and embarrassment, but in any case, don't say it was unpredictable, the fat army symbolized the surname and said hello, since the Han mite soldiers and civilians in Yanjing City refused to appreciate it, they had long been holding back their bad intentions to uproot the mite poison from Yanjing, and the fat man and the fat army could also let go of their hands and feet. Hutongchun gave an order, and one hundred and seventy light and heavy artillery pieces were immediately ignited together, and the fierce offensive and defensive battle of Yanjing City Pool also kicked off.

The artillery salvo of the Fat Army, in addition to shocking the defenders and shaking the morale of the enemy, another important purpose is to destroy the fortifications on the wall of Yanjing City, especially the Chaoyang Gate Tower, which is as high as four floors and full of arrow holes, is the primary destruction target of the heavy artillery of the Fat Army, in order to more effectively deter the enemy, the Fat Army also used all the high-precision flowering shells containing three good explosives this time, more than half of the 170 shells accurately hit the Chaoyang Gate Tower, and the earth-shattering explosion sound also echoed on the wall of Yanjing City.

In the deafening explosion, the brick and wood structure of the Chaoyang Gate City Tower was like an invisible hammer strike, the brick and stone tiles suddenly splashed, the roof was smashed through, the wall was smashed, the windows were directly smashed, every window arrow hole was spraying flames and smoke and dust, the violent explosion shook the Qing army defenders on the city wall to stand unsteadily, the Qing soldiers and officials hiding in the city tower cried wolf, holding their heads and jumping up and down, occasionally a few shells happened to hit the window of the Tibetan military room and smashed directly into the room and exploded, Countless flesh and blood suddenly splattered out of the window, and the terrible death screams made every defender and civilian feel terrified.

The fierce shelling has continued, the defenders on the Chaoyang Gate have also fallen into a lot of bad luck, the shells of the Fat Army are falling almost every moment, and they are also blown up when they hit the ground, blowing up countless Qing soldiers who were caught off guard and did not have time to flee for their lives, and the flesh and blood were splashed, and the bricks and stones of the tall and mighty Chaoyang Gate City Tower collapsed and crumbled, and the soldiers and civilians defending the city ran for their lives, crying and screaming to shake the sky, and the chaos became a mess, and the morale was also greatly defeated.

In order to boost morale and suppress the artillery fire of the Fat Army, Jie Shu, who was hiding in the dead corner of the artillery under the city wall, also ordered the Qing army to concentrate all the artillery on the city wall, aiming at the Fat Army artillery array and firing back, at the same time, there are quite a lot of various artillery pieces in Yanjing City, and the number is almost the same as that of the Fat Army, but what makes Jie Shu desperate is that the artillery of the Qing Army is not even worthy of lifting shoes for the Fat Army Artillery Team in terms of range, rate of fire or shooting accuracy. Immediately, the full revenge of the Fat Army artillery team was invited, and one artillery gun after another was blown down the city wall, and one gunner after another was shattered, and in the blink of an eye, it was completely dumb. As for the artillery on the other city walls, if they want to be transported to Chaoyang Gate to help in the battle, I don't know if it was that year and month.

After more than 20 artillery pieces on Chaoyang Gate were completely destroyed, the Qing army defenders could only be beaten and could not fight back, but the fat army artillery array was more and more fierce, and the flowering shells and solid shells were continuously poured on the heads of the Chaoyangmen defenders, the houses and streets on the inner side of Chaoyang Gate were almost razed to the ground by artillery fire, and the tall and mighty Chaoyangmen city tower was also bombarded with holes, almost collapsed, and the defenders were killed and wounded in the artillery fire, and the blood flowed like a river, and the entire Chaoyang Gate was shrouded in gunsmoke. Jie Shu, who swore to defend Yanjing to the death, was helpless, and could only secretly pray for the blessing of the ancestors of the mite Qing Dynasty, and bless the fat army's ammunition to run out quickly and end the shelling as soon as possible.

Jieshu's prayer is destined to have no effect, thanks to the blessing of the emptiness in the north, the fat man's main force almost did not fire a single shot along the way in this Northern Expedition, the ammunition brought from Nanjing is quite sufficient, and there is the benefit of water transportation of the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, the fat man's artillery team can also let go of the squandering and waste of hands and feet, the fierce shelling has never ended since noon, at most, the barrels of the guns are cooled in turns, and the gunners take turns to rest, and a considerable number of artillery pieces are always kept firing continuously, Little by little, destroy the fortifications of the defenders on the Chaoyang Gate.

Even at night, the artillery of the fat army has never stopped, and it keeps roaring and continuing the Chaoyangmen city wall, and when it is more than half of the third watch in the night, the battered Chaoyangmen city tower finally can't withstand the continuous explosion and its own weight, and it makes a loud bang, turning into a pile of bricks and tiles, burying countless Qing soldiers and militia alive, and the Qing army defenders on Chaoyangmen have completely lost their hiding place.

Immediately afterwards, the fat army sappers swam across the river under the cover of night, touched the bottom of the city wall of Chaoyangmen, and wanted to dig the city wall to bury explosives, but Jieshu, who had already suffered a big loss, was very vigilant against this, not only filled the coffin under the city wall, but also constantly used the rope to put down the soldiers to patrol under the city wall, the fat army sappers were found as soon as they crossed the river, and the city wall immediately fired arrows, shooting more than a dozen fat army engineers, fortunately, the explosives of the fat army had not had time to transport across the river, and immediately retreated when the plan failed, This did not allow the precious explosives to be snatched away by the Qing army.

The plan to dig the wall and bomb the city failed, and the Fat Army was not in a hurry, and the artillery bombardment did not stop until it was full of dawn, and then moved to the Dongzhimen in the north under the cover of the Fat Army's infantry brigade, and went there to bombard the city fortifications of Dongzhimen. In this way, Jieshu, who has accumulated a lot of battlefield experience, immediately understood that the main attack point of the Fat Army must be one of Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, so Jieshu had to adjust his plan and arrange a large number of troops in the eastern part of Yanjing's inner city, ready to throw himself into the battlefield of the city wall to kill the enemy at any time.

It took another day to collapse the Dongzhimen Tower, destroying most of the city fortifications on the Dongzhimen Tower, and Lu Fatzi, who received the news, led the main force of the Fat Army to the west unhurriedly, and joined the forward team of Hutongchun, and also set up a large camp at the best siege distance of 20 miles away, and began to arrange tactical preparations for attacking Yanjing City.

Considering that it is difficult to attack the city with a light ladder at the height of the four zhang height of the Yanjing city wall, Lu Fatzi rejected the suggestion of a strong general to immediately attack the city, and planned to follow Li Zicheng's ladder car tactics of attacking Yanjing, using a large ladder car to lean on the city wall to attack the city, but the bridges on the moat of Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen only allow one ladder car to pass at a time, which is easy to be destroyed by the defenders and the ladder car leads to the failure of the siege, and at the same time, the moat of Yanjing is quite perverted, and it is not easy to fill it. Therefore, Lu Fatzi had to decide to adopt multiple tactics to attack the city, one is to build a pontoon bridge to speed up the crossing speed of the siege team; the second is the combination of ladder trucks, flying ladders and simple siege tables; The third is to build a large number of temporary fortifications on the side of the moat to protect the archers and musketeers, concentrate artillery fire, bows and arrows, and muskets to cover the siege team, cover the battlefield with artillery fire, and increase the chance of victory.

The order was conveyed, the poor fat army began to suffer and suffer, carrying heavy sandbags, rushing to the moat against the overwhelming rain of arrows and bullets, and building small anti-arrow fortifications with sandbags, the Qing soldiers in the city desperately shot and fired arrows to stop, killing a large number of fat army engineers, fortunately, the artillery cover fire of the fat army was very strong, which greatly suppressed the firepower of the defenders, and also greatly caused casualties among the defenders.

At the same time, the fat army that had infiltrated Yanjing City also began to make trouble and sabotage, although these fine works could not open the city gate to receive the fat army into the city, but the fat army was posted everywhere to appease the notice, shaking the hearts of the army and the people in the city, Jieshu searched and arrested many times, with little success, the morale of the defenders who were not high continued to be low, and there was even a situation where the patrol soldiers under the city fled into the fat army and surrendered.

On the fifth day of the seventh month, the Gao Dejie division of the Fat Army, which had been disgraced under the city of Baoding, finally arrived at the Yanjing battlefield and joined the main force of the Fat Army, with a total strength of more than 140,000 people and more than 260 artillery pieces. Lu Fatzi and Gao Dejie, the two bad breeds, immediately began to organize siege cannon fodder, and organized the new troops and recruit groups into separate teams to serve as the vanguard to attack the Yanjing city wall.

On the sixth day of the seventh month, more than 500 small anti-archery fortifications were built, enough ropes, pontoons, boats and planks to build 20 pontoon bridges were prepared, and the ten large siege ladder trucks built by the Fat Army were also covered with fireproof stucco, and countless siege weapons such as wooden tables and portable flying ladders were prepared.

On the seventh day of July, the sky was clear, and the general attack of the Fat Army on Yanjing Jiancheng finally began, Gao Dejie led the army to attack Dongzhimen, and Lu Fatzi personally commanded the battle of Chaoyangmen.

This is a regular siege battle with standards that are enough to be written in the textbook, and the experienced Lu Fatzi and Gao Dejie are not willing to take any risks, and they all arrange the siege according to the most traditional tactics. The first step was to line up the large and small artillery outside the city gate and concentrate fire on the defenders of the city; The second step is for the archers and muskets to step forward and shoot and release arrows after hiding in the small fortifications that have been built before, which is also to suppress the defenders of the city; The third step is the infantry siege brigade of the Fat Army, sending a neat queue, shouting the slogan of the Great Zhou, carrying the flying ladder and the siege table, pushing the heavy and huge siege cloud vehicle strode forward, and launched a charge towards the Yanjing city wall, the Yanjing City horn cannon sounded, and the most cruel and bloody battle since the Northern Expedition of the Fat Army began, the siege brigade of the Fat Army was almost close to the moat, and the Yanjing City Wall was like a volcanic eruption, spraying out bursts of dense arrow rain, and the infantry of the Fat Army kept falling in the arrow rain, and also kept charging, The Fat Army Archers and Musketeers hiding behind the small fortifications shot desperately and released arrows, and the Fat Army Artillery Brigade in the distance also loaded and reloaded at the fastest speed, desperately pouring artillery fire on the wall of Yanjing City, and the attackers and defenders suffered heavy casualties together.

The first team of Fat Army infantry rushed across the moat under the cover of the long shield hand, and began to attack on one side in a roundabout way, and then the second team spread out to the other side, and the third team was the killer siege ladder car of the Fat Army The city wall also began to rain rockets frantically, in a vain attempt to burn the ladder car with rockets, although the ladder car of the Fat Army was covered with fire mortar, but it could not withstand so many rocket salvos, plus the movement speed was relatively slow, and the fire began to rise on the body.

The first ladder truck on the side of Chaoyang Gate finally rushed through the moat and began to approach the city wall on the left side of the city gate, and the infantry brigade of the Fat Army behind swarmed across the river, together with the two infantry teams that had crossed the river before, together with countless simple flying ladders on the city wall, the infantry of the Fat Army howled and began to climb above the city wall, expanding the attack surface as much as possible, creating psychological pressure that could break the city everywhere.

Correspondingly, the Qing army defending the city was also under the command of Qing army generals such as Jieshu and Li Zhending, and launched an all-out counterattack, sheep's head stone, wood, lime bottles, boiling oil and gold juice and other defending weapons smashed under the city like no money, bows and arrows and muskets were never broken, and the artillery of the Qing army also risked being targeted by the artillery of the fat army to open fire with all their might, desperately bombarding the fat army under the city, killing the city and the city, and the scene was boiling like boiling rice porridge.

The first ladder car finally caught the city wall, the infantry of the Fat Army stepped on the ladder and charged up, the defenders of the Qing Army fought back, and the Fat Army fought back wildly, and the Fat Army fought wildly across the arrow stacks, and the second ladder car hiding in the distance also quickly began to charge, and the Fat Army sappers also began to charge with boats, pontoons and ropes, etc., and grabbed the pontoon bridge across the river on the battlefield of bullets. There are also a large number of fat military sappers carrying siege tables, sneaking like rats under Yanjing City, hiding under the table and starting to dig the city.

The siege battle has entered the white heat from the beginning, and the eastern city wall of Yanjing has also become a huge meat grinder from the beginning, hundreds of flying ladders continue to set up the city wall, and the fat soldiers step on the flying ladders, and constantly rush up the city wall with stones and trees as dense as hail, and continue to fall from a height, screaming and falling into the dense crowd of siege teams. Bows and arrows, bullets and cannonballs flickered like locusts in the sky, and the sound of explosions continued to sound above and below the city, merging with the earth-shattering shouts of slaughter, resounding through the sky.

The first ladder car finally ignited a skyrocketing fire, and gradually collapsed to lose the siege effect, but fortunately, the sharpening knife did not mistake the woodcutter, and the previous artillery bombardment of the Fat Army was not a waste of ammunition, after the city tower on the Chaoyang Gate City was completely destroyed in advance, the rocket launch density of the Qing defenders was weakened by at least two-thirds, and the second siege ladder of the Fat Army was also able to break through the moat and lean on the right side of the city wall of Chaoyang Gate, and more Fat Army soldiers were able to rush up the city wall on the wide and strong ladder car.

In the melee, knives and guns were exchanged, and every soldier on both sides of the war was red-eyed, and because of this, the soldiers on both sides did not get to a detail, that is, the fat army's guns gradually adjusted the angle of fire, in addition to suppressing the Qing artillery and bombarding the Qing army reserves behind the city wall, there were also a lot of flowering shells that gradually fell on the battlefield of the city wall where the soldiers on both sides were intertwined, killing more Qing soldiers, suppressing more of the defenders' bow and arrow musket firepower, and also killing and wounding a large number of the fat army's own people.

When arranging siege tactics in advance, Lao Qing Jianxuan was very opposed to Lu Fatzi's cruel tactics, but Lu Fatzi quietly told him, "Don't worry, the people who served as the siege vanguard were all surrendered from Mangou's side, and most of them were Mangou banner people, so I can fight with confidence." Then he revealed that Lao Qing Zhan did not object, and when the battle entered the white heat, taking advantage of the opportunity of the soldiers on both sides to kill their heads, Lao Qing Jian began to command skilled gunners to bombard the melee battlefield with flowering shells.

Of course, the new soldiers are not fools, and they will not be stupid to be cannon fodder, but after hearing the order to break through Yanjing and disband the military discipline in the inner city of Yanjing for seven days, these new soldiers who have not received a penny of military pay for more than half a year can't take care of so much. In addition, there are some new recruits who really want to work hard for the Fat Army, want to perform well to win the trust of high-ranking officials and win the trust of the Fat Army, and in the future, they will enslave more new soldiers in the Fat Army to be cannon fodder, and they will naturally be more brave in the killing, so although the Fat Army has suffered heavy casualties, its morale has always maintained a good level.

The bloody battle lasted more than an hour and a half, and all of the five thousand forwards who rushed to Yanjing City suffered more than half of the casualties, the corpses were piled up more than a zhang high under the city wall, and the blood and water dyed the moat that was more than ten zhang wide and red, and Lu Fatzi finally put into the second siege team, which was also five thousand people, and also carried two siege ladder vehicles, and one of the two ladder cars before the Fat Army had been completely burned, and the other was also burned to the ground, and almost all of the infantry of the Fat Army who rushed to the city wall were killed by the Qing army, Failed to capture the city wall position.

Seeing this scene, the main generals of the Fat Man Army were all anxious, and Hu Tongchun, An Jiarong, Yao Yi and Li Xiongfei and other fierce generals rushed to Lu Fatzi to ask for battle, hoping that Lu Fatzi would agree to let them lead the elite charge and break the deadlock as soon as possible, but Lu Fatzi refused, and put his hands on his chest with a relaxed expression, and said shamelessly: "What are you anxious about?" You all have elite soldiers in our team, what are you rushing up to do at this time? Death in vain? ”

"But Lord Wang, the continuous siege of the city has dealt a great blow to the morale of our army." Li Xiongfei reminded: "Please pay attention, the morale of our second wave of siege troops is not as high as the first wave. ”

"Normally, siege warfare is like this, you must be prepared for heavy casualties and a long time." Lu Fatzi's expression was more relaxed, and he said with a smile: "Don't worry, there will be a turnaround, at least, our sappers have already dug holes under Yanjing City, and our pontoon bridge has been built more than halfway, and when our sappers succeed, there will be a turnaround on the battlefield." ”

Li Xiongfei and Hu Tongchun and other generals were suspicious, so they had to temporarily suppress their nervousness and eagerness, while Lu Fatzi looked at the blood-filled Yanjing City Wall battlefield in the distance, and said to himself with great confidence: "Also, I think, those Yanjing people who helped the dogs to defend the city probably should almost want to escape, right?" The country doesn't know that there are people, and the people don't know that there is a country, regardless of the former Qing Dynasty and the later Qing Dynasty, since the people are treated as fart people, don't want to get the sincere support of the fart people. ”

(To be continued)