On February 26, the eighth year of Chongzhen, Xuanfu Town. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Since the Yong'an army waved north, Xuanzhen has been under martial law for several days, and the city wall is full of officers and soldiers patrolling back and forth, and an officer and soldier wearing a tattered mandarin duck battle jacket lie on the city wall and sigh.

"Alas, the court is really idle and has nothing to do, what is the force to do Xiao Shuai, Xiao Shuai has made such a great contribution, what can he do if he is crowned king?"

Another officer and soldier walked up to this person, sneakily glanced at the distant Shangguan, and said in a low voice: "What I said is that it is the Yong'an army that is going north now, and even the Tartars can't win the soldiers and horses, I don't want to rush to death." ”

"yes!"

"Even the Tartars can't beat the Yong'an Army, I heard that the Tartars, who are known as invincible, were beheaded by the Yong'an Army in the settlement, and they all annihilated a whole banner, how strong is this combat effectiveness!"

At this moment, an officer and soldier pointed to the distance and said with a puzzled expression: "Look what is that, could it be that the Tartars have come to loot again?" ”

A general banner walked over in a few steps, frowned, and said: "Didn't the Tartars be repelled by the Yong'an army, then this is here..."

"Could it be that the Yong'an Army is coming!?"

As soon as the words fell, a black line rose in the distance, and the sound of neat steps rumbled, and a black armored soldier approached the town.

Under the frightened and frightened eyes of the officers and soldiers, the 100,000 soldiers of the Yongan Army lined up not far from Xuanzhen City, and the officers and soldiers on the city were all shocked.

"Oh my God, this... This..."

But instead of attacking immediately, the Yong'an army stopped as if waiting for something.

This also made the officers and soldiers defending the city very puzzled, after the deputy general flew to report to the military gate, he was also puzzled, could it be that Xiao Yi had the idea of surrendering?

It didn't take long for five giant cannons to be launched from the Yong'an army formation, and seeing that the muzzles of these five giant cannons were aimed at him, some of the officers and soldiers in the city had already begun to flee.

These five giant cannons are Xiao Yi's reliance on attacking the city and pulling out the village, and they are also one of the results of the months of hard work of Qi Haoguang, Wang Xiong and other ordnance craftsmen, and they are named "God Bless Yongan General Cannon".

After months of failure and improvement, in order to develop more advanced artillery, Xiao Yi even asked the Ordnance Division to disassemble the Hongyi cannons captured by the two settlements.

Fortunately, Xiao Yi's efforts were rewarded, and after repeated processes such as cannon casting and gun testing, the Ordnance Division finally succeeded in improving it.

Compared with the bulky first-generation Hongyi cannon, this new type of Shenyou General Cannon has a longer barrel, but the tube wall is only a little thicker, and it is gradually thickened from the muzzle to the tail of the gun, which is in line with the principle of high pressure from high to bottom when gunpowder is burning.

At the center of gravity of the gun body, there are cylindrical lugs on both sides, which can be used as an axis to adjust the firing angle of the military gun, and change the firing range according to the type of lead bullet and the wartime situation.

Compared with the previous artillery, a breakthrough in the Yongan Army's divine blessing general cannon is that this cannon is equipped with a light door, and the trajectory is calculated according to the parabola, and the accuracy is higher.

In fact, Xiao Yi had previously mentioned the matter of crosshairs with Qi Haoguang and others, but Qi Haoguang and Wang Xiong didn't know much about it, and because there were no professional talents in this field, Xiao Yi had to put it on hold.

Before the Yong'an Army set out for the army, the craftsmen of the Ordnance Division cast cannons day and night for several months, and due to the scarcity of raw materials and the difficulty of casting cannons, only these five guns were made, and all of them were brought out by the artillery battalion this time for the possible offensive battles.

At present, the Yong'an army is equipped with a cannon body of about three meters, a caliber of between 110 and 130 millimeters, and a weight of more than one ton.

After these five cannons were launched, Li Mingfu, the general soldier who had just arrived in the city, immediately panicked, and he didn't understand the principle of artillery, so he just drew his knife and shouted.

"Come on, quickly open fire on the door of this army, and blow up these five cannons!!"

After Li Mingfu gave the order, the gunners and officers and soldiers in the city were in a hurry, hurriedly carrying up wooden boxes one by one, pushing solid lead projectiles into the barrels, and directly igniting and firing them.

Solid lead bullets were used to hit the city, and if the gunners in the Yongan Army Vehicle Artillery Battalion knew about it, they might laugh off their big teeth.

Most of the artillery in this city was shipped during the Apocalypse or even earlier, and it was in disrepair, and the gunners had not used it for a long time, so low-level errors were even more frequent.

In addition to the dozen or so small copper and iron cannons in the city, there were more than 30 of them that could not be fired due to the quality of the artillery or the dampness of the lead bullets, and only a dozen of them were finally shot.

But it's also funny, these dozen or so small copper and iron cannons don't have a long range, except for a small roar, they can't kill the Yong'an army in the distance, and the farthest one only shoots a few hundred steps in front of the Yong'an army's formation and falls weakly.

Li Mingfu was shocked when he saw this, and kicked over a gunner, spitting stars splashing everywhere, and the waist knife in his hand waved wildly.

"Rubbish! It's all a waste, launch it, launch it! ”

At this moment, with Xiao Yi's order, five Shenyou Yongan General Cannons in the distance let out their roars, and five huge solid lead projectiles flew onto the city wall.

"Bang!"

"Bang!"

These five cannonballs were fired very accurately, and four of them hit the ruined city wall of Xuanzhen City steadily, and suddenly there was a burst of rubble on the city wall.

A lead bullet hit a battlement, and the battlement was immediately pierced, and the officers and soldiers who were busy working behind were smashed into a puddle of minced meat, and the officers and soldiers defending the city were immediately panicked.

Gradually, they found that no matter how hard they tried, the artillery in their hands could not hit the Yong'an Army at all, while the Yong'an Army's artillery could easily shoot at them.

I don't know how long the roaring artillery continued, the city wall of Xuanzhen, which had been in disrepair for a long time, was already dilapidated, and the officers and soldiers did not even dare to stay in the city.

Li Mingfu did not look like a general soldier, and did not stop the rout, but wanted to flee down the city with his family, and just got up, there was a whistling sound over his head.

A lead bullet smashed into Li Mingfu not far in front of him, and Li Mingfu saw with his own eyes that the five or six family members who were still wearing iron armor just now were all smashed into pieces of flesh at this moment, and the scene of flesh and blood flying in front of him made him sick.

Xiao Yi felt that it was almost over, nodded and was about to order the siege, but Shi Gang on his side pointed to the front and said, "Look, handsome!" ”

Hearing this, everyone looked over, and a white flag hunted in the air.

Xiao Yi naturally knew what it meant, there was something exciting at the moment, he originally planned to have a fierce battle in this Xuanzhen, but he never thought that this Li Mingfu was really so greedy for life and afraid of death, he didn't fight, and he just dropped like this!?

Seeing the gate of Xuanzhen City slowly open, the Ming army in the city pushed down the Ming flag and replaced it with a white flag, Shi Lu and Huangyang looked at each other, and they all saw a strong surprise and surprise in their eyes.

......

Fate seems to have played a big joke with Chongzhen, and Chongzhen's character is destined for what will happen next.

It has been more than half a month since the Yong'an Army moved north, and Li Mingfu flew to report to the Beijing Division as early as the Yong'an Army's advance before it was big, and he did a good job of this.

If at that time, if Chongzhen ordered the king of Qin, withdraw the ancestor Dashou and other Liaodong troops to return to Beijing, with the elite level of the Liaodong army, there may still be a glimmer of life in this matter.

But Chongzhen's performance is the same as Li Zicheng's march into Beijing in history, in the hesitation and imitation day by day, Emperor Chongzhen tremblingly lost the best opportunity to transfer troops to resist the Yong'an Army.

It was not until March 2 of the eighth year of Chongzhen that Chongzhen finally broke out the tough attitude that the emperor should have, and forced Zu Dashou, Wu Sangui, Zhao Shujiao and other Liaodong troops to return to Beijing and Qinwang without going through the court and cabinet.

But this decision came too late, it was always too late, when Chongzhen's edict was led out of the Forbidden City by Ti Cai, the Yong'an army had already conquered Xuanzhen a few days ago, and then Wang Dahu, the garrison of Baozhou, led his family to kill Li Chengsao of Zhizhou, and surrendered to the state.

Since the surrender of Li Mingfu from Xuanzhen, there is no more important town on the road to Beijing to strangle, and the army is in ruins, and the door is wide open.

The Yong'an army marched all the way, and everywhere they went, the local Ming army almost all raised the city and surrendered without much resistance, and the army and the people celebrated.

Until March 3 of the eighth year of Chongzhen, the Yongan army entered the territory of Huailaiwei, and it was not far from the Beijing Division.