Chapter 104: The Large-scale Siege Begins

Sun Chuanting got up from his seat, walked to Cao Yue's side, and stretched out a thumbs up, "Boy, you are ruthless enough." ”

"If one day you also surrender to Jiannu and become a big traitor, I will treat you the same and cut off your head and hang it on the city to show the public!" Cao Yue snorted heavily at Sun Chuanting, "What I Cao Yue hate most in my life is betraying the country for glory and helping foreigners to bully and slaughter Han traitors, no matter who it is, I will never tolerate it when I see one and kill the other." ”

Sun Chuanting couldn't help but shrink his neck, took two steps back, looked at Cao Yue seriously, and then laughed: "Boy, you are ruthless, ruthless enough, but I like it." But, I'm going to think about it, whether to get rid of you first, so that I don't have to be cut off by you one day, haha!"

"You don't have a chance to kill me!" Cao Yue also laughed.

After looking at each other and laughing for a while, the two sat down again and discussed countermeasures.

The lobbyist sent by him was killed, and Dolgon would have been furious when he found out, and the massive siege would begin immediately.

"Prepare for a bloody battle, soldiers!" This is what Cao Yue told the soldiers defending the city.

Ning Wan's severed head was soon hung on the head of the north gate of Datong, and his body and the bodies of his two followers also hung on the city.

Cao Yue cut off the head of the messenger of Jiannu who came to persuade him to surrender and the traitor who surrendered to Jiannu, and threatened that anyone who dared to surrender to Jiannu as a traitor would cut off his head to show the public, which caused a great stir among the officers and men of the Datong Army. Most of the people felt their eyebrows raised, and some of the people with evil intentions were frightened.

Cao Yue is really not a person who plays cards according to common sense, and the envoys sent by Jiannu dare to kill them so blatantly, but when he thinks that this guy has led the army to break through Shengjing, destroyed Shengjing, and slaughtered Jiannu on a large scale, almost destroying Jiannu's roots, I feel understandable. He already has a common enmity with Jiannu, no matter what he does, it is not too much.

Cao Yue's actions, of course, made Dolgon angry.

Of course, he expected that Cao Yue would not give up resistance and surrender, but he didn't expect that Cao Yue would be so ruthless, killing all the messengers he sent, and hanging the corpses on the head of the city to show the public, which was equivalent to slapping him in the face in public.

Originally, Dolgon didn't think of persuading Cao Yue to surrender this trick, this was Ning Wan's own proposal to go, saying that he could shake the military heart of the Datong army, and at the same time inspect the deployment situation in the city, he believed that there were many officials or generals in the city who were not desperate to fight with the Qing Dynasty, or who could win someone to deal with. You can even let the entourage quietly spread the news, causing panic among the soldiers and civilians in the city.

Ning Wan I was willing to go to meet Cao Yue, and Dolgon finally agreed, but unexpectedly, Cao Yue actually killed him.

Fan Wencheng, who originally supported Ning Wan and me to go to Datong City to meet Cao Yue, was also hit hard. Also as the vassals of the Ming Dynasty, he and Ning Wan I were trusted and reused by Dolgon, although in the Manchu Dynasty, they were still minions without much status, but they also had a sense of accomplishment to see the Manchu power slowly grow with their assistance.

Fan Wencheng thought that through their contributions, the Qing Dynasty would eventually become more powerful, and they would also become the heroes of the founding of the Qing Dynasty. Their exploits will be written in the annals of history, and they will also be proud of those who fought for the sake of the Ming Dynasty and did not know what to do. But Ning Wan's death, as well as Cao Yue's transmission that any traitor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty would be severely punished, made him feel a shudder.

Kill Ning Wan and me, and kill all the traitors who surrendered to the enemy, this news Cao Yue let the special personnel lurking outside the city spread it.

The special personnel successfully spread the news, and of course it also reached the ears of Fan Wencheng and others.

If it were before, they didn't care about it at all, but now it's different.

Cao Yue inflicted heavy losses on the Qing army under Datong City, Ning Wan I was beheaded, and Dolgon did not have great confidence to defeat Cao Yue, which made Fan Wencheng and others feel afraid.

Geng Zhongming's death that day had a lot of impact on the Han ministers and Han troops who surrendered, and Ning finished my death, which made the Han army's Eight Banners feel shaken. He strictly ordered his men and horses that if they failed to fight, they would be severely punished, and if they fled or defected on the battlefield, those involved would be implicated.

The large-scale siege of Jiannu began the day after I was killed.

Jiannu set up artillery positions outside Datong City, in order to reduce casualties during the siege, and also to give courage to the besieging soldiers, they used artillery fire before the siege began.

Because Jiannu's artillery battalion was very well guarded, and did enough to be prepared and concealed, the men and horses sent by Cao Yue did not find out where their artillery was located, and it was not until the Jiannu artillery began to fire that the location of the artillery was discovered.

Cao Yue did not show weakness, and immediately ordered the artillery on the city to start firing back.

During the Ming Dynasty, there was no scene of artillery firing in the war, and under normal circumstances, artillery was used to bombard the defenders on the city, or the defenders on the city were used to bombard the enemy troops attacking the city. There is no artillery fire, the main reason is that the artillery range is not far, and the accuracy is too low, of course, more importantly, today's commanders do not have such awareness.

The red-coated cannon was a front-loading heavy smoothbore cannon made in Europe in the early sixteenth century, which was introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty, and in terms of manufacturing technology, it was much more advanced than the large-caliber firearms widely used in the early Ming Dynasty.

Compared with the red-coated cannons, the large-caliber guns equipped by the Ming army had a small amount of gunpowder and a poor gas seal of gunpowder, so the firing range was short, and in addition, it was easy to overheat and the rate of fire was slow. Moreover, the copper is too soft, and each shot causes the chamber to expand, and the shooting accuracy and range drop very quickly. However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the national strength was not enough, and it was unable to cast and import more expensive red-coated cannons.

There are not many red-coated cannons in the Datong army, only more than 20, and the others are all various types of home-made artillery with a very close range, including the Franc machine gun with good lethality. Cao Yue didn't have much to do about it, after all, it also needed technology and personnel and equipment to imitate, and it was not easy to ship it to Datong if it was purchased, after all, it was a big guy weighing several tons. When many traitors defected to the enemy, they brought all the red-coated cannons equipped in their army, and now there are more red-coated cannons in the Jiannu army than in Cao Yue's army. But Cao Yue didn't care about anything, and when he saw that Jiannu's artillery began to bombard, he immediately ordered more than a dozen red-coated cannons at the head of the city to shoot at Jiannu's artillery position.

Jiannu's artillery fell on the city first, knocking down a large area of the soldiers of the second battalion of muskets who were ready to shoot, and the city head suddenly flew flesh and broken bricks and stones, and a large section of the city wall was shrouded in black smoke.

And just when Jiannu's artillery began to shoot, the tens of thousands of Han Army Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners on standby under the city also began the first wave of large-scale siege!