Chapter 408: Attacking the Qing Capital (Part II)

(PS: It's the end of the month, ask for the last month-end monthly pass for this book, and the last monthly pass for this book.) When the Fat Army's infantry ace soldiers launched a charge, the time was already close to the unitary hour of evening, and there was not much time left before it was dark, seeing that the city had already dawned, Lu Fatzi not only asked the auxiliary army to distribute torches to the main soldiers to prepare for the night battle, but also gave An Jiarong and Li Xiongfei an additional order, within an hour, it was necessary to capture a city wall position of sufficient width, so that the follow-up army could go to the city endlessly, so that it was convenient to put in the reserves of the new army after dark, and completely break the stalemate of the entire battlefield.

The order was conveyed, and the Qiqi soldiers who rushed to the front charged faster, holding a shield to protect their heads, faces, chests and abdomen, like a sharp arrow, rushing towards the Yanjing city wall at a flying speed, rushing to the moat in a moment, stepping on the pontoon bridge and starting to cross the river, the Qing army archers and musketeers on the city wall hurriedly opened fire and released arrows, but they were shocked to find that these fat soldiers with white cloth were not only dressed differently from ordinary fat soldiers, but their movements were even faster and terrifying. The undulating pontoon bridge is like flying, flexible and fast like a monkey in the mountains, and it rushes across the pontoon bridge in the blink of an eye, and the speed of crossing the bridge is more than twice as fast as that of ordinary fat soldiers.

"Soldiers! It's Lu Gou's Pawn! Several Qing veterans who fled from the Yangtze River battlefield roared in despair, roaring wildly and reminding their companions, "Hurry up and release the arrows!" Shoot! Shoot those Lu dog soldiers with white cloth wrapped around their heads! They are the number one elite of Lu Dog's foot combat, and they must not be allowed to get close! They are all madmen on the battlefield! It's all crazy people who don't want to die! ”

The veteran reminded that countless Qing army archers and musketeers hurriedly fired their guns and arrows, and concentrated on shooting at the soldiers, but the soldiers used practical actions to give these Qing soldiers who had not fought many battles in Gyeonggi a battlefield practice lesson, the small shield in his hand always protected the vital point, running like flying under his feet, walking on the ground on the battlefield full of corpses and debris, and he could also do skilled cooperation in fast running, and he raised his shield in a group of three to block the bow and arrow muskets fired from the other three directions except the rear, although the bow and arrow bullets of the Qing army were fierce, But they have never been able to stop these bald demons from taking half a step.

At the same time, the archers and musketeers of the Fat Army who were hiding behind the small fortifications also strengthened the cover of the Fat Army, and the bow and arrow muskets focused on shooting the Qing soldiers above the Fat Army, and the Fat Army officers and soldiers who were stuck in front of the Fat Army also consciously moved out of the way, allowing the most reliable companions in these hard battles to charge forward and open the way for all the Fat Army officers and soldiers.

It took less than half a cup of tea to rush through the moat, and An Jiarong, the main general of the Qilu army, was the first to step on the ladder car, stepping on the steps that had been filled with the corpses of the soldiers of the army, almost rushing to the top of the city wall like flying, and as soon as one foot stepped on the city wall, the shield in An Jiarong's left hand was thrown out horizontally, and the iron-clad shield spun and flew out, hitting a Qing army sentry straight through the front door, and the sound of heavy objects colliding and bones shattering also sounded on the face of the unlucky Qing army sentry chief, and the Qing army sentry commander didn't even see what hit himself clearly, He fell on his back on the wall, covered in blood, and rolled on the ground with his shattered cheekbones, howling like a dying wild dog.

Without waiting for the fat soldiers next to him to applaud, the knife light flashed in the sunset, and a cold and shining Xueliang Japanese knife had appeared in An Jiarong's hand, accompanying An Jiarong's body to rush into the densest place of the Qing army's ranks, the knife light flashed again, and the heads of the two Qing soldiers had already flown into the air, and the blood in the neck cavity also spurted up more than a foot high, and the surrounding Qing soldiers were almost stunned, but An Jiarong was merciless, and with a cruel smile on his face, another Qing soldier in front of him was split off with his head and shoulder, Holding the knife and retracting it violently, the iron elbow of his left hand smashed into the face of another Qing soldier, smashing the bridge of the Qing soldier's nose to pieces, and his eyes were spurting blood. It was also at this time that the bodies of the three Qing soldiers who had their heads cut off by An Jiarong with two knives slowly fell.

"Ghosts! Ghost! Seeing An Jiarong so brave, he killed five enemies in a row in a blink of an eye, and the Qing soldiers next to him were all so frightened that their legs trembled, and they couldn't help screaming and retreating. However, the nightmare of the Qing soldiers has just begun, and in the sound of the Chinese Great Zhou slogan, the demon of the Qing soldiers wrapped in white cloth jumped on the city wall like flying, threw away the useless shield and pounced on the Qing soldiers, and also turned the door to pick the most dense place of the Qing soldiers.

In fact, for the Fat Army, the biggest difficulty in breaking through Yanjing is not the hand-to-hand combat of knives and guns, no matter the melee street fighting, the Yanjing defenders formed by Jie Shuqi are not the opponents of the Fat Army at all. For the Fat Army, the biggest difficulty in breaking through Yanjing is how to put troops on the battlefield at the top of the city wall, basically as long as an elite soldier of the Fat Army can be sent to the Yanjing City Wall, hold a foothold, so that the reinforcements of the Fat Army can go to the city endlessly, and the Fat Army can have a stable chance of victory. And now, a ladder car of the Fat Army with little hope at all miraculously leaned on the wall of Yanjing City, opened the siege road, and the soldiers who were known as brave as flying and invincible all rushed to the wall of Yanjing City, and the Fat Army entered the countdown to break through Yanjing.

In the thunderous cheers, the number of fat soldiers who had been kept at 800 became more and more courageous, scattered into several squads on the city wall and rampaged as if entering a no-man's land, killing people when they saw them, slashing when they saw the enemy, swords and knives were attacking and chopping, there was no block and rarely dodged, killing all the enemies covered in blood but still laughing loudly, killing several times the enemy of their own defeat and retreating, the Qing army was all shocked, and they all evaded and retreated, and they couldn't stop this group of madmen who didn't want to die.

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the frantic rush of the soldiers to expand their positions, the infantry of the Fat Army under the city wall also stepped on the ladder car and poured onto the city wall, as well as those flying ladders that have not played an effect, and also took the opportunity to take the city wall, the soldiers of the Fat Army stepped on the ladder and planted one after another white military flags of the Fat Army on the head of Yanjing City, and the morale of the Qing army defenders was even more shaken, and the Fat Army seized several city wall positions in a row.

At the same time, the fourth wave of siege teams led by Li Xiongfei finally crossed the moat, and also brought two brand-new siege ladder vehicles, the Qing army panicked, and the rockets shot out were few, which did not cause much damage to the two ladder vehicles at all, and the two ladder vehicles took the opportunity to lean on the city wall one after another, and the fat army rushed up with cheers and charged, rushed up the city wall and started a bloody battle with the Qing army defenders, fighting for the city wall position inch by inch, and the blood flowed in vain.

At this time, the main force of the Fat Army's combat effectiveness, experience and weapons and equipment and other advantages were finally shown, equipped with grenades An Jiarong and Li Xiongfei two teams threw out a large number of grenades to open the way as soon as they encountered resistance, and rushed up to break up the enemy group to fight zero, the tactics were skillful, the morale of the soldiers was high, and they chopped and slashed and poked, the offensive was like a raging fire, and the wall section that could be controlled was getting bigger and bigger, the Qing army reinforced the counterattack several times, and were killed and retreated by these two elite soldiers of the Fat Army, Jie Shu was so anxious that he sweated, But there is nothing to be done.

Li Xiongfei's 4,000 troops soon had nearly half of the soldiers rush to the Yanjing city wall, and joined forces with the Qiqi soldiers to control a section of the city wall wall nearly a mile long, and even controlled the upper city horse road of this section of the city wall, condescendingly repelled several charges of the Qing army reserves, forcing the Qing army reserves to go to the city from other horse roads, Jie Shu personally led the army to counterattack several times, and was also blown up by An Jiarong and Li Xiongfei's team grenades, killing them to lose their armor, and more fat army soldiers took the opportunity to rush to the city wall, Take control of the captured city wall position and begin to attack the enemy platform next to it.

It is also impossible to deny the Qing army's will to resist and its determination to defend the city, in the case that the Fat Army has captured part of the city wall, and also in the case of helping the people to flee for their lives, the Yanjing Qing Army with the Fengtai garrison and the Miyun garrison as the core has never completely collapsed, and has been launching a counterattack against the Fat Army.

An Jiarong and Li Xiongfei only discussed a little, and soon freed up twenty grenade bomb throwers, and let them collectively throw grenades above the enemy platform, in the rumbling explosion and billowing gunsmoke, the Qing soldiers hiding above the enemy platform cried wolf howl, or died on the spot, or fell off the city tower like a plane, the Qing soldiers on the platform were empty, and the fat soldiers took the opportunity to use the human ladder corpse ladder to the stage, Captured the most threatening Qing enemy platform next to the position, and at the same time asked for rocket reinforcements from the rear, preparing to condescendingly bombard the Qing defenders on the other side of the enemy platform with rockets.

The rocket was quickly sent to the city wall, Li Xiongfei's 4,000 troops also all boarded the city wall, and the fifth wave of the Fat Army siege team also carried torches, and under the leadership of Yao Yi, the brave general of the Fat Army, pushed the ladder cart to the Chaoyangmen City Wall, although the Qing Army defenders on the Chaoyangmen City Wall were still shooting arrows with all their strength to stop it, it was already the last dying struggle, and it was a matter of time before the Chaoyang Gate was lost.

"Boom, boom!"

Evil has evil retribution, not not to report, the time has not come, it was just dark not long after, Dongzhimen came to the side of an earth-shattering violent explosion sound, and then, a section of Yanjing city wall collapsed, and there was a sound of earth and rock collapse that made the Qing army defenders tremble, the original responsible for attacking Dongzhimen The fat army Gao Dejie team buried medicine through the wall, and blew up a gap of two zhang wide on the north wall section of Dongzhimen, and the fat army attacking Dongzhimen cheered and shook the sky, and rushed into the city from the gap. Slaughtered the unprepared Qing army reserves behind the city walls. Huang Shibiao, the deputy general of the Fat Army who led the Fat Army to attack the city, also became the first general of the Fat Army to enter Yanjing City.

Hearing the sound of the violent explosion of the Dongzhimen blasting tactics, Lu Fatzi was inevitably a little dumbfounded, because Lu Fatzi had already learned from the local people that the thickness of the city wall of Dongzhimen was more than one zhang thicker than that of Chaoyangmen, and the bottom was nearly ten zhang wide (28.5 meters).

Then send the herald to inquire carefully, Lu Fatzi couldn't help but feel a little crying and laughing, it turned out that Dongzhimen was too thick and too heavy, part of the foundation had sunk, cracks appeared inside the wall, and the sappers of Gao Dejie's team took shit luck, and when digging the city, they happened to dig one of the big cracks, and the progress of the city digging was much faster than Chaoyangmen, and the Qing army guard Li Zhending, who guarded the Dongzhi Gate, encountered the fat army's city digging and blasting tactics for the first time, and the fat army's city digging and blasting tactics were insufficient. Therefore, the sappers of Gao Dejie's team won before Chaoyangmen.

"Forget it, anyway, it is impossible for Lao Tzu to go into battle to kill the enemy in person, and it is impossible to be the first to enter Yanjing City, and it is the same for that team to enter the city first."

With a self-consolation sentence in the spirit of Ah Q, Lu Fatzi quickly dispatched his troops again, and took precautions to send eleven thousand-man teams in one go, ordering them to rush to Yanjing and the other eleven inner and outer city gates to fortify them, block the mites fleeing out of the city and clear the defeated soldiers. After arranging their respective fortification destinations, Lu Fatzi said viciously to the eleven new and old Fat Army generals: "Catch the people with dog flags, don't leave prisoners, kill them all!" Then tell the people who fled out of the city that if they report and expose the flag people hiding in their ranks, regardless of men, women, old and young, whether they are Han Annihilation Banner, Mengjang Banner or Full Dog Banner, a flag dog will be rewarded with two taels of silver and a bucket of grain, and they will be cashed on the spot! You must kill all the flag dogs in Yanjing City for this king! ”

"Obey the orders of the prince!" The eleven generals of the Fat Man Army clasped their fists together and agreed neatly, Lu Fat Man waved his hand again, and the eleven Fat Army generals immediately rushed away, and each led the army to the city gate for which he was responsible for fortification and blocking.

Soon after this group of troops left, the fat army engineers finally put the explosives into the hole in the wall of Chaoyangmen City, ignited and retreated, with a deafening loud bang, a gap of more than two zhang wide was also blown out on the wall of Chaoyangmen, and the soldiers of the Fat Army flocked into the city, while slashing the defenders behind the city wall and helping the people, while attacking the city wall from the horse road, helping the fat army on the city to kill the Qing army defenders on the city wall. After fighting for five or six hours, the Qing defenders, who were exhausted, saw that the general situation was gone, and fled or threw down their weapons and surrendered.

"My surname is Fucha, I surrender!"

I don't know that the smart flag man shouted out his surname and knelt down to surrender, and suddenly countless flag men followed suit, throwing down their weapons and kneeling and shouting their surnames, or showing that they were just Han Annihilation Banner and Meng Annihilation Banner, hoping that the fat soldiers who had been resolutely carrying out the four killing orders could spare them from death. But it's a pity that under the pretext of the Yanjing Eight Banners Army's desperate resistance and injury to too many Fat Army soldiers, Lu Fatzi has already passed the order of the slaughter of the inner city of Yanjing to every Fat Army team, so these surrendered Eight Banners soldiers not only failed to get the kind treatment of the Fat Army soldiers, but were also cut in two on the spot by the wolf-like Fat Army soldiers to atone for the blood debt owed by their sinful nation.

In the firelight, the soldiers of the Fat Army wearing white felt hats are like a tide, constantly pouring into the inner city of Yanjing, pouring up the wall of Yanjing City, seeing that people are cut down without saying a word, blood is splashed on and under the city at the same time, the will of the defending soldiers and the people who help the war collapse, or surrender to the ground, or flee to other city gates that have not been attacked by the Fat Army, and more are to flee into the houses in the inner city to hide, waiting for the end of the battle and then surrender to the Fat Army that has killed the red eye, increasing some chances of saving life. Only a small number of Qing soldiers and generals who were born in the four surnames of evil slaves were still dying on the city wall under the leadership of Jie Shu, but they were also broken candles in the wind, and there was not much time.

In the first year of Honghua in the Great Zhou Dynasty and the first year of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty, at the beginning of the eighth morning of the seventh month, Dongzhimen was the first to be opened by the soldiers of the Fat Army from the inside, and the main force of the Gaodejie army entered the city from the city gate, seizing all the upper city roads of Dongzhimen, and Li Zhending, the Qing army guard in charge of Dongzhimen, was surrounded heavily.

At three o'clock, Li Zhending's cousin Bakda was killed, and he was trampled to death by his own defeated soldiers when he led the supervising team to urge the soldiers to fight, and Li Zhending, who had long wanted to fight, ordered the remaining more than 700 Qing soldiers around him to lay down their arms and surrender, but was unexpectedly rejected by Gao Dejie, the general of the Fat Army, and the soldiers of the Fat Army rushed up and slaughtered more than 700 people including Li Zhending.

When the ugly time was right, Chaoyang Gate was also opened from the inside by the Fat Army, the main force of the Fat Army calmly entered the city, surrounded the defenders of the Chaoyang Gate City Wall, knowing that the Fat Army could not forgive their mite Prince Qingkang Jieshu led the army to fight to the death, dying and struggling on the ruins of Chaoyang City Tower, fighting to the death.

At the same time, the gates of Yanjing were opened, and the soldiers and civilians fled out of the city one after another, but they were blocked by the fat army on the side of the moat bridge, and the soldiers of the fat army kept shouting, "The green battalion soldiers don't kill, the people don't kill, sacrifice a banner person, regardless of men, women and children, each person will be rewarded with two taels of silver, and a bucket of food!" Countless mite Qing butchers disguised as Han people who fled for their lives out of the city were pushed out of the crowd and presented in front of the fat army, and then they were beheaded by the fat army on the spot, and the moat was almost filled with floating corpses.

The ugly hour is about to pass, there are less than ten people left around Jieshu, seeing that the soldiers of the Fat Army are approaching step by step, the blood-stained Jieshu is desperate with a knife in his neck, and shouts at the soldiers of the Fat Army: "Please tell the Lord Lu of the Great Zhou, God has the virtue of a good life, please don't open the killing ring, our banner people can surrender to the Great Zhou!" ”

After that, Jie Shu killed himself, and when his words before his death were brought to Lu Fatzi, Lu Fatzi snorted loudly, "Now I think that God has the virtue of a good life?" When we slaughtered our compatriots of all ethnic groups in China, why didn't we think that God had the virtue of a good life? The order of the whole army, the order of Yanjing Mite City chicken dog not to stay, will never be changed! There are those who deliberately set up for the enemy to flee for their lives, no matter who they are, they will be killed! For Lao Tzu, uproot the mite poison in Yanjing City, and don't leave it at all! ”

(To be continued)