Yanjing.

Tang Sheng's mixed battalion set out from Tianjin, all the way to the north, and finally arrived outside the Desheng Gate at dawn on the third day, and soon after noon, Shi Lang's Zhenhai Division also rushed to the canal wharf outside the Desheng Gate, and after unloading the Hongyi cannon from the naval division's warship, the Central Army immediately began to get busy, preparing to attack the city.

The two thousand Jiannu who stayed in Yanjing were the bannermen with the blue flag, and the banner owner Fei Yangwu was the eighth brother of Zierharang, and Jierharang was imprisoned and died after losing the political battle with Dolgon, and Fei Yangwu inherited the blue flag from Zierharang, but the relationship between Fei Yangwu and Dolgon was not good, so the blue flag was repeatedly suppressed, and Fei Yangwu, the banner owner, was also in power.

In this battle of Jining, Dolgon took away the elite in the blue flag, leaving only 2,000 old, weak, sick and disabled to Fei Yangwu.

At this time, Fei Yangwu was pacing back and forth restlessly on the arrow tower of Desheng Gate, and beads of sweat were already dripping on his bare head, and the Ming army soldiers were pressing, and they also carried powerful Hongyi cannons, only the two thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people in the city were obviously impossible to defend for a long time, but there was no news from Dolgon's side, and Fei Yangwu did not dare to withdraw his troops easily.

Although Fei Yangwu and Dolgon have a bad relationship, he is a Jurchen no matter what, and he knows the important surname of Yanjing.

Fei Yangwu knew that if Yanjing was lost, then the Jurchens would lose their last foothold in Guannei, and more seriously, once Dolgon lost the battle of Jining, then the Eight Banners Army and the Mongol Army might be cut off by the Ming army and eventually end up with the destruction of the entire army.

Therefore, without Dolgon's will, Fei Yangwu had to defend Yanjing even if he knew that he was dead.

The only thing that made Fei Yangwu feel fortunate was that Yanjing was the capital of the Ming Dynasty after all, and the former Ming Emperor Chongzhen placed forty-eight Hongyi cannons and more than 100 large and small earthen cannons on the tower of Yanjing Nine Gate City, although the thieves destroyed some of the cannons when they withdrew from Yanjing, but still left a considerable part of the cannons to the Qing army.

Later, the Battle of Liaocheng broke out, and Tong Yang's surname dismantled the only nine Hongyi cannons from Yanjing City to enrich his artillery team, but in the Battle of Liaocheng, the Ming army's artillery team was blown into scrap copper and rotten iron, and Tong Yang's surname was also killed, and Jiannu lost the talent and technology to cast Hongyi cannons.

However, even so, there are dozens of earthen cannons at the head of Yanjing City, although the power of these earthen cannons cannot be compared with the Hongyi cannons, but the Ming army outside the city is still quite lethal when it is placed on the top of the city, and because of the angle of fire, it is difficult for the Hongyi cannons outside the city to hit the earthen cannons on the city.

Before the Ming army began to attack the city, Fei Yangwu asked people to transport these dozens of earthen cannons to Deshengmen, and with these dozens of earthen cannons, Fei Yangwu finally had some confidence in his heart.

But thinking about it again, Fei Yangwu felt a little sad in his heart, thinking that when the Eight Banners Army was at its peak, he dared to attack the Shangqianming Army in less than a hundred Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, but now, he used two thousand Eight Banners to deal with more than 10,000 Ming troops outside the city, and he actually felt frightened, such a gap is really too big.

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On the hill outside Desheng Gate, Tang Sheng and Shi Lang were holding monoculars to observe the movements of Jiannu at the head of the city.

Shi Lang was the first to see the earthen cannons on the city, and said in a lost voice: "Good boy, there are dozens of earthen cannons on the city." ”

"Fuck." Tang Sheng licked his chapped lips and scolded, "Fortunately, Lao Tzu has a little more heart, if he pulls the Hongyi cannon outside the city gate and bombards the city gate as soon as he comes up, he will really suffer a big loss!" ”

Of course, the effective range of the Hongyi cannon is greater than that of the earth cannon, but this is not the case under certain conditions.

For example, when bombarding the city gate, because the Hongyi cannon had to be loaded with solid iron bullets when bombarding the city gate, and it had to aim at the city gate for direct shooting, so the range of the Hongyi cannon was greatly shortened, and the range of the earthen cannon on the city exceeded the Hongyi cannon under the city.

Shi Lang thought for a while and said: "The gate of Yanjing City is thick and heavy, and the outer surface is also nailed with a thick iron sheet with copper nails, and the door frame of the frame door is made of hemlock wood, which is enough for one person to hug the thickness and thickness of it, and it is not easy to blast it open. ”

Tang Sheng thought for a while, and shouted, "There is a move." ”

"Oh?" Shi Lang couldn't help but ask, "What move?" ”

"You'll know then, hehe." Tang Sheng smiled and said, "Look at me." ”

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Desheng Gate City Head, Arrow Tower.

When Fei Yangwu was leaning on the archery hole and looking down, a loud military horn suddenly sounded outside the city, Fei Yangwu had never heard the military horn of the Ming Central Army, and was taken aback, and asked in a condensed voice: "What is this sound?" ”

The Ezhen people around Fei Yangwu looked at each other, but they couldn't answer.

In the midst of the suffocating waiting, a sharp-eyed Jia Lazhen suddenly shouted: "Master, look, the Ming army is coming!" ”

When Fei Yangwu hurriedly looked back, he saw that the Ming army was slowly approaching the Desheng Gate in a neat queue, Fei Yangwu roughly estimated that there were two or three thousand people in this Ming army, all of them wearing blue cloth and cotton coats, all of them with big-brimmed hats, and all of them holding muskets in their hands.

The front end of each Ming army musket was also inserted with a bayonet with a bright handle, and thousands of bayonets converged into a cold forest of death, reflecting a dazzling cold light under the slanting sun, almost confusing Fei Yangwu's eyes, Fei Yangwu looked around, and the Gushan Ezhen, Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen around him all looked solemn.

This Ming army is completely different from the Ming army that Fei Yangwu was familiar with before, both in terms of clothing and equipment, and it is obvious that this is the most elite Ming Central Army in the legend.

"The Central Army of the Ming Dynasty!"

Fei Yangwu roared angrily, "Damn, this is the Ming Central Army, these guys are fucking muskets in their hands, and the range is far greater than our bows and arrows, open the cannon, fire the cannon immediately, you must not let these damn guys get close to the city wall, otherwise it will be a big trouble!" ”

"Wow!"

A solid mountain Ezhen took the order.

Soon, a deafening cannon sound sounded at the head of Yanjing City, and the only dozen or so earthen cannons on the head of the city spat out red tongues of fire outside the city at the same time, and a large number of stones, iron pellets, and broken porcelain and other fragments filled in the barrel poured down, forming a tight barrage at a distance of two or three hundred steps, and there was no dead angle for shooting.

The artillery of the Central Army of the Ming Dynasty really wants to shoot under such a barrage, and there is absolutely no life or death!

However, Jiannu's artillery fire did not cause any damage to the Central Army outside the city, because the musket team marching forward in a neat line was still four or five hundred paces away, but as soon as Jiannu's artillery stopped, the Central Army suddenly began to sprint, advancing about three hundred steps at a very fast speed, and then stopped abruptly.

At this time, the central army was still at least one hundred and fifty paces away from the city wall, and had already entered the effective range of the muskets, but Jiannu's bow and arrows could not shoot so far, and in the sound of the officer's command, the two thousand musketeers of the mixed battalion quickly formed a firing line, four rows in front and rear, each one hundred and five hundred, but what was strange was that the musketeers in the fourth row did not carry muskets, but only held a dragon king cannon in their hands.

"Fire!"

As soon as the officer gave an order, the dense gunshots rang out, and the front of the central army was filled with gunsmoke, and the first row of lead bullets had already whistled to hit the city, and the battlements at the head of the city were smashed into broken bricks and flying, and the smoke and dust were filled, and dozens of Jiannu were hit, screaming and falling in a pool of blood, and two unlucky eggs fell directly from the city head more than ten meters high, most of them were not alive.

Jiannu, who was waiting with a bow at the head of the city, immediately bent down and curled up his body behind the battlements as much as possible.

The Ming army fired at this distance, and the Jiannu archers did not have any power to fight back, only the dozens of earthen cannons could threaten the Ming army, but it was a pity that the dozens of earthen cannons were reloading ammunition, and they couldn't shoot back at all, compared with the Hongyi cannons, these dozens of earthen cannons also had a fatal weakness, that is, the procedure for loading ammunition was too complicated, and it took an unbearable amount of time.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The Ming army came with two rows of guns, and the Jiannu at the head of the city all got down, and no one dared to come forward anymore.

Fei Yangwu, who was hiding in the arrow tower, couldn't help wiping the cold sweat on his forehead, thinking that fortunately there was a strong city to rely on, if the two armies met in the wild, he was afraid that even the two rounds of the Ming army's two salvos could not be stopped with his two thousand men and horses.

Just when Fei Yangwu was rejoicing, he suddenly found that the fourth row of musketeers of the Ming army was pressing forward.

"Huh? What do these Nanming barbarians want to do? Fei Yangwu was shocked and said in amazement, "There are no siege vehicles and no ladders, what is the use of sending such hundreds of infantry close to the city wall?" Could it be that they can fly directly to the city? These Nanming barbarians shouldn't have broken brains, right? ”

Behind Fei Yangwu, the Gushan Ezhen and Jiala Ezhen also looked at each other, not knowing why.

At the head of the city, seeing the Ming army approaching the city wall, many Jiannu instinctively stood up and wanted to shoot back, but at this time, the gunfire started again, and dozens of Jiannu fell to the ground in response to the sound and fell in a pool of blood, and the remaining Jiannu quickly shrank their bodies under the battlements, and no longer dared to probe easily.

Anyway, it's just a few hundred infantry rushing over, what threat can there be?

The five hundred officers and men of the Central Army suddenly began to accelerate when they were only less than fifty steps away from the city wall, and when they were about to rush to the edge of the moat after sprinting forward for more than twenty paces, the five hundred officers and men of the Central Army raised their right or left arms in unison, grasped the dragon king cannon in their hands and threw it viciously at the head of the city.

According to the training standards of the Central Army, the bomb throwing distance of 50 paces (75 meters) is excellent, and 30 paces is qualified, and these 500 grenadiers are Tang Sheng's "one out of ten" from the mixed battalion, and it is not difficult to throw the Dragon King Cannon on the top of the city at a height of 12 meters at a distance of less than 20 steps from the city wall.

Before Jiannu at the head of the city could react, more than four hundred dragon king cannons emitting black smoke had already fallen on the city.

Time seemed to stand still for a few seconds, and the next moment, a dazzling red light suddenly rose from the city, accompanied by a deafening huge explosion, the city was suddenly splashed with rubble, smoke and dust, Fei Yangwu, who was hiding in the arrow tower, suddenly felt that the floor under his feet began to shake violently, and he suddenly fell to the ground because he was unstable.

Two Goshha hurriedly rushed forward to help Fei Yangwu.

Fei Yangwu patted the dust on the horse coat in embarrassment, and then looked at the city through the arrow hole, his face was suddenly like ashes, only to see the head of the Deshengmen City filled with smoke and dust, and the violent explosions sounded one after another, accompanied by a cluster of blooming red light and a deafening roar, countless severed limbs and remnants were flying in the air, as well as dozens of earthen cannons, which were also blown into the air, and when they fell, they had become broken copper and rotten iron all over the ground......

The five hundred soldiers of the Ming army under the city wall did not turn around and retreat until they threw all the ten dragon king cannons they had brought with them.

In less than two minutes, more than 4,000 Dragon King Cannons exploded intensively on the narrow tower of Desheng Gate, you can imagine what terrifying power it must be? There is no dead end in the city with the fragments flying in the sky, and almost none of the Jiannu guarding the city can survive, the lucky ones are only injured and fall to the ground, and the bad ones are killed directly!

Suddenly, the gunfire stopped, and the explosions stopped.

The bitter north wind blew through the city, and finally swept away the smoke and dust in the sky, Fei Yangwu finally saw the situation on the city, but he preferred to believe that it was just a nightmare, he didn't want to believe that all this was true!

Almost all of the 800 Jiannu who were still alive at the head of the city just now fell in a pool of blood, and there were blurred severed limbs and limbs as far as the eye could see, several Jiannu were blown into two by the waist, and they were wailing in pain, and several Jiannu were cut off half of their heads by fragments and were convulsing in a pool of blood......

Only a few dozen Jiannu survived.

These dozens of lucky Jiannu with the residue of the smoke and fire all over their bodies, all of them had round eyes, and the eyes showed a dull look, Fei Yangwu only hoped that this was a nightmare, but they had experienced this terrible nightmare firsthand, or they continued this terrible nightmare, because their surroundings were still full of the wails of their companions before they died, and the terrifying scenes that could be seen everywhere......

Before Fei Yangwu and Jiannu woke up from their terrible nightmare, the Ming army began to attack the city.

Tang Sheng gave an order, and the two Hongyi cannons were dragged outside the Desheng Gate, and after more than a dozen deafening loud noises, the solid Yanjing City Gate was blown into pieces under the impact of the last two solid iron bullets, and the two hundred infantry of the baggage brigade quickly stepped forward with a cloud ladder and set up a temporary bridge over the moat.

The change was sudden, and Fei Yangwu didn't have time to transfer the other nine Jiannu to Deshengmen!

In the roar of the landslide and tsunami, the soldiers of the Central Army of the mixed battalion and the 5,000 soldiers of the Zhenhai Division swarmed in, like raging locusts that overflowed through Deshengmen and rushed into Yanjing City.

Yanjing City ...... It's finally gone!

(To be continued)