Chapter 383: The City is Broken
The sound of artillery continued, and dozens of red-clothed cannons from both sides of the Ming and Qing dynasties were still bombarding each other. Pen~Fun~Pavilion www.biquge.info everyone is waiting, waiting for the moment when the city breaks!
With the bombardment of the Qing army's artillery shells, the pit that was blasted out in the north section of the west city wall of Yangzhou became larger and larger, and a large number of mud blocks rolled down with the shells, and the cracks on the city wall were still clearly visible even from miles away.
Berenikan marched slowly on horseback with more than a thousand Eight Banner soldiers, waiting for the moment when the city was broken.
"Boom" with another round of cannon sound, Yangzhou city wall suddenly cracked, the city wall collapsed with an astonishing formation, the three-zhang high city wall collapsed like a pile of sand, falling at a speed visible to the naked eye, with a loud sound of the four fields, the sky full of dust flew and filled the sky. I saw that the west city wall of Yangzhou collapsed a gap of more than 20 zhang long.
"The city is broken!" Nikan snored, the horsewhip was pointed directly, and the war horse under the crotch of his legs was clamped, and the snowflakes swooped out.
"The city is broken!" The six Eight Banners of Niu Lu urged the war horses, followed closely behind Nikan, and galloped towards the city wall of Yangzhou.
"The city is broken!" The Qing army array behind Duoduo let out an earth-shattering cheer. The city wall was broken, and the whole Yangzhou was like a beautiful girl who had been stripped of her clothes, waiting for them to ravage and conquer.
"The city is broken!" Even more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers also let out bursts of cheers, yesterday when filling in the moat paid a huge sacrifice, in order to kill into the city to have a good time, money and beauty, the soldiers are not long in coming? However, the first to enter the city to enjoy it must be the Eight Banners Uncle, and it will be their turn when they are satisfied. Although people are the masters, they can't eat fatty meat, so it's not bad to get some soup and water!
"Sons, Yangzhou has been broken, let's enjoy it. Kill all the men inside and conquer the women inside. The whole Yangzhou is ours! Attack Yangzhou, and don't seal the knife within ten days! Pointing to Yangzhou in front of him, Duoduo looked back and made a promise to the Eight Banners under his command.
"Okay, Prince Yu Chitose, Chitose, Chitose!" Tens of thousands of Eight Banner soldiers let out an earth-shattering cheer.
Under the dispatch of Duoduo, a group of Eight Banners rushed towards Yangzhou. The first to send the Nikan Department is about to run to the gap in the city wall, and what the other Eight Banners soldiers have to do is to rush in along the gap that Nikan has killed, rush up to the city wall to kill the Ming army at the head of the city, and open the city gate to let more Qing troops enter the city!
At the moment when the city wall collapsed, all the Ming soldiers on the head of Yangzhou were dumbfounded. Although they knew that the city wall would be destroyed sooner or later, and although they had transferred all the soldiers' materials on that section in advance, when the city wall was really broken, all the soldiers were still extremely frightened in their hearts.
Is the city broken? For all soldiers, this city wall is the last line of defense in Yangzhou, and with it, more than 800,000 soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou are safe. But now that the city wall has been breached, does that mean that Yangzhou will fall? What am I going to do?
Although many soldiers knew that Su Lubo had already made arrangements and had made full arrangements for the destruction of the city, when the city wall was really broken, many people were still very panicked.
The idea of putting down the weapons in their hands, running away from the distance, and running as far as possible, lingered in the minds of many soldiers. Do you swear to fight to the death or lead the team to surrender? It's hard to choose, some generals are thinking hard.
"Shoot it, fuck it, what are you thinking?" Liu Zhaoji, the guard of Xicheng, scolded angrily and kicked the archers beside him. Under the city, the cavalry of the Qing army had swept like a dark cloud, and in a blink of an eye, they were at the side of the moat.
Hearing Liu Zhaoji's order, the Ming archers on the city wall hurriedly shot arrows under the city, but in a panic, their movements were extremely deformed, and many archers were so nervous that they couldn't even draw their bows.
In addition to Liu Zhaoji and other deputy generals of the general army, the archers of the Ming army were the newly established archer battalions of the Daishan Army. However, because they were all novices, they were not arranged on the city wall, but under the order of Ren Siqi, they gathered behind the barricades, waiting to cover the Qing army attacking the city.
And the 3,000 musketeers of the Daishan Army also divided 2,000 and arranged them behind the barricades. Therefore, in addition to the more than 1,000 archers directly under the generals, the long-range firepower on the city wall left 1,000 musketeers of the Daishan Army.
Unlike the archers who hurriedly shot arrows at the Eight Banners galloping from the city, the musketeers of Qiandaishan at the head of the city did not rush to shoot, but invariably aimed their guns at the twenty zhang gap that was blown open.
"Fire, fire!" The commander of the artillery team, Chen Yujie, kicked the artillery on the fort, and commanded the artillery other than the red-coated cannon to fire at the galloping cavalry of the Eight Banners.
Six Niu Lu 1,800 Eight Banner cavalry lined up in a huge array and roared towards Yangzhou, and dozens of artillery pieces that opened fire hastily bombarded into the array, causing very minor casualties.
Ignoring the attack of the city's artillery, he galloped his horse and disdained the scattered feathered arrows. Each of the 1,800 cavalrymen wore at least two layers of armor, the inside was cotton armor, and the outer part of the cotton armor was covered with a layer of chain mail, and some of the stronger ones were even given three layers of armor. The rain of arrows from the city's head could not break through their powerful defenses.
Feeling the scattered arrows in the air, Nikan smiled coldly, the Ming army at the head of the city was already in chaos, maybe they would flee in a hurry before they could lead their troops to kill them!
When the horse was killed to the side of the city wall, due to the collapse of the city wall, there were bricks and mud everywhere under his feet, and the war horse naturally could not gallop in, so he threw the saddle and dismounted, and led a group of men to climb into the rugged pile of bricks and dirt. The war horse naturally stayed outside the city, and the purpose of riding the horse was to quickly rush over and kill the Ming army by surprise.
The sparse bows and arrows on the city wall kept falling from the top of their heads, but there was no Ming army to stop them, so the Ming army must have fled in panic. Looking up at the walls on both sides, you can definitely climb up along the collapse.
But Nikan didn't make such a choice, the Ming army on the city wall was naturally dealt with by the other Eight Banner soldiers who followed behind, and now what he had to do was to enter the city, directly defeat all the Ming troops who dared to resist, enter the governor's mansion, and capture the Ming governor Shi Kefa alive!
Due to Ren Siqi's strict blockade of the city, the Qing soldiers still did not know that the Ming army in the city had changed commanders, and the news that Shi Kefa was seriously injured and could not be a director has not yet spread.
Waiting for the rain of arrows overhead, I finally climbed over this rugged gap, and when I looked into the city, I could see the overlapping eaves in the city.
"Sons, follow me in and capture the puppet Ming Inspector Shi Kefa alive!" Nikan roared, swinging his mace into the city. (To be continued.) )