The sound of cannons and shouts shook the four fields, and when the time came, outside the thirteen gates of the inner and outer cities, there were bandwagers of thieves galloping and whistling. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

And in the east of the Dongzhi Gate and Chaoyang Gate in the inner city, the Guangqu Gate and Yongding Gate in the outer city, and outside the city gate in the south, there are even more black pressure and are full of thieves' soldiers and horses, and the vastness is endless.

They lined up nearby, beside the houses of each gate, and on the fields outside the city, crowded with people, and the seedlings in the wheat fields near the city and the vegetables in the vegetable fields had long been trampled by each of them unceremoniously.

Outside the Chaoyang Gate, there are many soldiers and horses of the right battalion wearing red uniforms, and the banner they hold is also bright red.

Unexpectedly, there was a thunderbolt on the arrow tower, and the Hongyi cannon hit sharply, and the whistling cannon rushed into the crowd, and a burst of blood danced, accompanied by arms and thighs flying wildly, and then cried dad and shouted Niangzhong, the right battalion Shunjun who was lucky for the rest of his life threw down the long ladder, turned around and ran, only hating his father and mother for having two legs.

Liu Xiyao, the general of the right battalion who was standing in the Guanxiang, frowned, the city gate is not easy to beat, it seems that it is still necessary to fill in the trenches and attack the city walls everywhere.

Chaoyang Gate is the city gate where the grain enters and exits, it is called the "grain gate", it is also called the "strange goods door", not only the grain truck goes here, but also the rare treasures from all over the country also pass through here, so the Guanxiang houses here are lined up one after another, and the Guanxiang Street is also very wide.

The pavement is paved with bluestone slabs, and the power of cannonballs hitting it is unimaginable.

Moreover, this Chaowaiguanxiang Street is facing the arrow tower, and the sergeants rush from the street, crowded and dense, and every time the shells sweep through, it is a bloody alley, which is unbearable.

Chaoyang Gate has a huge urn city, the entrance of the city gate is open on the side of the urn city, although there is a stone bridge built on the moat to walk, but even if it is lucky to pass the fire strike of the front arrow tower, run to the city gate, and have to face the firepower of the urn city and the city wall on both sides, the soldiers who attack the door are killed and wounded heavily.

At this time, the drizzle was misty, and although the power of the bows and arrows at the head of the city was greatly reduced, and there were often situations where they could not hit and shoot far, the terrain near the city gate was narrow, and their power was still extraordinary.

The special moat stone bridge is not big, only a few steps wide, when the dense sergeants rush across the bridge, people are often squeezed down the moat, Dashun's military superiority, it is difficult to expand at all.

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"Beware, the thieves' infantry is about to attack."

In the middle of the day, on the Yongding Gate, Fu Yingchong suddenly noticed that the thieves on the other side of the Guan Xiang were moving.

At this time, the Yongding Gate oblique pass box has been beaten into a piece of broken bricks and tiles, especially close to the city gate of the houses are mostly in ruins, in view of this, the thieves who attacked the Yongding Gate do not dare to lean on the house anymore, they disperse to the field, and continue to bombard the arrow tower and the city wall.

With the accuracy of the artillery at this time, it is naturally difficult to hit those gun positions that are only small to the naked eye, so Fu Yingchong and the other gunners have no choice but to ignore it. Fortunately, there are strong walls in the way, as long as they are not very unlucky, the thieves' artillery is not a big threat to them, at most there is a little psychological pressure.

However, at this time, Fu Yingchong saw that under the cover of the ruins, a large number of thieves were coming, and they were scattered very widely, obviously afraid of the threat of the city's artillery.

Looking at their goal, it is the Yongding Gate that they are in charge of.

A soldier said a few words in Fu Yingchong's ear, Fu Yingchong nodded, and he shouted: "I have listened to Fu Ye's orders, don't shoot the bow and arrow first, all the Lu Mi guns will be concentrated, and they will be divided into three layers, and I will fight only when I say fight...... There is also one person who sees one, don't mess around...... The Nine-Headed Bird and the Hundred Sons are also ready, and they will be ...... after the Hammer."

He screamed and ordered the arrangement, because of the drizzle, the archers lost their bow and arrow strength, so Fu Yingchong let the bow and arrow not shoot first. Although firearms such as bird guns and Lu Mi guns cannot be fired due to moisture, as long as they are fired and hit, their power can still be guaranteed.

At this time, Fu Yingchong's prestige was quite high, and as soon as he finished his order, all the soldiers immediately howled: "Only Fu Ying's horse is the first to look." ”

"Kill the thieves!"

Fu Yingchong's arrangement, a large group of Shunjun foot soldiers wearing yellow uniforms still kept touching, they had a large number of archers and firearms in front of them to cover, and the crowd behind was carrying some cloud ladders, the cloud ladders were extremely long, but because the city wall of the capital division was too high, ordinary cloud ladders could not be set up at all.

They came silently, climbed the sloping official road, and walked a long way along the road by the moat, and soon came not far from the somewhat uneven stone bridge of the moat.

The flow of people in Beijing is dense, and there are arrow towers and urn cities, most of the city gate entrances are also built on the side of the urn city, if the enemy comes, they will suffer from both sides of the firepower, the protection is tight, so each gate moat is not set up with a drawbridge, but a stone bridge is specially built.

There is also a stone bridge on the moat of Yongding Gate, but the entrance of the city gate of this place is open directly below the arrow tower, but it is the reason why most of the enemies of the Ming Dynasty came from the north.

Seeing that the thieves were not far from the stone bridge of the moat, they suddenly shouted and began to shout and charge, and at the same time, the archers and firearms men who were covering also opened their guns and shot arrows.

Fu Yingchong looked nervously at the thieves outside the city, and when he heard what the soldiers beside him said, he shouted: "The first layer of Lu Mi Gunner, fight!" ”

The gunners who were also very nervous at the battlements on both sides of the arrow tower heard the order, and immediately opened the first row, and their gunpowder smoke was continuous, and the thick white smoke rose densely, and they concentrated more than two hundred Lumi guns, and they fired a volley, and the thieves who charged intensively immediately fell down nearly a hundred.

"The second layer, fight!"

There was another violent volley, and an even thicker white smoke erupted from the battlement, and the charging thieves fell down in a large area with a bang, and the crowd of them who had been shot rolled on the ground screaming with all their might.

"The third layer, fight!"

The defenders at the battlement fired another volley, and the battlement of the city wall had already been covered by dense gunsmoke, and they fired another volley, and saw a flash of fire in the white mist, and then there were more thieves on the other side of the moat who fell to the ground in pain, and the pain of being shot made them roll on the ground and struggle desperately.

The defenders fired three volleys, and the rogue soldiers rushing to the stone bridge were almost empty, and the moat was full of people groaning in pain, and the corpses of the wounded were one by one.

Fu Yingchong saw that the remaining thieves were a little overwhelmed, but there were still some thieves who rushed to the stone bridge, and he shouted: "Hundred sons, nine-headed birds, all fight on the side of the stone bridge!" ”

There were several hundred guns on the battlements of the urn, as well as nine-headed birds, and it was said that the main shooters of those hundred guns rotated the vertical pole and aimed at the stone bridge from the side. The deputy next to him took the fire rope and put it on the fire door, and there was a loud bang, and long gunpowder smoke erupted.

In the bright flames, nearly a hundred large and small projectiles from each door scrambled to drill out of the chamber and threw them at the thieves on the other side of the stone bridge.

The blood mist soared wildly, and the projectiles hit the stone bridge and sparked, and the thieves who rushed to the stone bridge continued to spew blood arrows, and then their bodies trembled, and they lay crooked on the stone bridge. Baizi shot one by one, and the bridge deck, which was not wide at once, was a large pile of corpses, lying in a mess, and blood was dripping.

There were also a few thieves carrying ladders, covered with blood on their faces, tumbling into the moat next to them, and the long ladders also poured into the river, and they floated up and down together on the bridge.

"Bang!" A nine-headed bird burst out of a dense fire, and in the billowing smoke, several thieves near the stone bridge fell to the ground, their bodies covered with blood holes, rolling on the ground and howling fiercely......

Behind a ruin in Guanxiang is the banner of the patrol camp, now as the old battalion soldiers, they can comfortably supervise the battle and watch the battle, and the battle is mostly a matter of the outer camp. On the edge of a ruined wall, Lao Hu tiptoed towards the city, looking at the battle situation above and below the city, Lao Hu said: "Which good man guards the city, so fierce?" ”

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At the beginning of the Shen period, the thieves' attack on the Jingshi became more and more urgent, and now not only the southeast city gates, but also the Guang'an Gate, Fucheng Gate, and Xizhi Gate in the west, all of them began to attack. Wang Chengen and Li Guozhen, who supervised the city defense, patrolled the defense in all directions, exhausted.

Listening to the guns rushing into the sky everywhere, everyone inside and outside the Beijing Division was panicked and frightened. The streets were deserted, and everyone locked themselves in their houses, their feet trembling as they prayed to the gods and Buddhas for the safety of themselves and their families.

There was no one inside and outside the noon gate, but Fan Jingwen, Zhou Fengxiang, Ma Shiqi and others were still on duty, because they had retired from the court and the situation was urgent, they gathered at the door of the hall to speak.

At this time, Xiangcheng Bo, who was ordered to supervise the Beijing camp to guard the city, Li Guozhen suddenly came by horse, and in the wet and cold weather, You Khan was stained with clothes, and when he got off the horse, his clothes were changed, and everyone was stunned.

At this time, the chamberlain stepped forward to stop Li Guozhen, and Li Guozhen sighed: "When is it, the monarch and the ministers want to see each other, and there are not many." ”

Soon Li Guozhen was announced to the palace, and Emperor Chongzhen greeted him, and he hurriedly asked, "How is the city guarding?" ”

Li Guozhen suddenly knelt on the ground, and he cried: "The defenders of the city refuse to use their lives, one person is whipped, and one person is lying down as before, and Weichen is helpless." ”

He said: "Only the Yongding Gate City Shoufu should serve his life and scatter his wealth to reward the army." The rest of the gates, many of them pretended to defend the city, and the empty cannons were outward, and the lead was not real, and they roared with gunfire in vain. There are also guards who do not strike downward, but send upwards, and hit the air, without hurting a thief, and only making a sound. ”

Emperor Chongzhen trembled and listened, his tears rained down, and he cried: "The ministers have come by mistake! ”

At one time, dozens of civil, military and internal officials held each other and wept to the ground, and the voice was heard through the palace.

Emperor Chongzhen cried and returned to the palace, Li Guozhen galloped away, and the ministers also dispersed.

Back in the Qianqing Palace, Emperor Chongzhen's tears were not dry, he was exhausted, and he hesitated in the cabinet, whether to summon Wang Dou? At this time, it is still possible to send elites out of the city to ask for help, after all, the city wall of the capital division is sixty or seventy miles long, although there are many thieves, it is impossible to besiege them in groups, just need the messenger to Wang Dou......

The elite soldiers under his command are like clouds, not to mention anything else, the fierce generals under his command, Han Chao is close at hand, and only a few thousand people need to come, and the defense of the Beijing division is considerable.

It's just that......

Soon after, Emperor Chongzhen issued several decrees, one was to establish the chief military officer of the Beijing battalion, Fu Yingchong, as the Dingcheng Bo.

The second is to let all the eunuchs in the palace go to the city to defend, and all thousands of people will be cleaned, including 300,000 Chinese and foreign treasury gold.

On that day, there were those who wept bitterly and lost gold, or three hundred gold, or four hundred gold, and each gave brocade clothes and thousands of households.

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In the middle of Shen Shi, the thieves began to attack the city, shouting and killing shook the sky, and the tide of thieves poured all over the city walls of the capital division.

The sound of the cannons was very good, and the arrows were like locusts flying in the sky, and the arrows rained down, and they continued to fall into the city. The sound of firecrackers above and below the city came one after another, and the smoke from the guns was connected with the rain and fog, mixing into a dense and inseparable fog.

"Golden juice, pour!"

With Fu Yingchong's roar, the defenders of the city scooped up the cauldron of dung juice burning on the city wall, and poured it under a cloud ladder that had been erected.

Boiling dung juice poured down, shining with a golden glow. Then there was a terrible howl, and some of the thieves who were about to enter the city were doused with dung and rolled on the ground, and some howled and threw themselves into the water of the nearby moat.

The old camp of thieves drove out the camp to fill in some moats, and found the nearby residents, and forced them to fill in the wood and stones, and from time to time there were ladders about to be erected at the walls of each gate.

The soldiers around him hurriedly said something from time to time, and then Fu Yingchong commanded desperately, and suddenly he saw a cloud ladder leaning over, and hurriedly shouted: "Over there, over there, come over quickly!" ”

He roared, and the nearby defenders heard this, and hurriedly pushed the rope pulley over, facing the direction of the ladder, and then many people struggled to raise their wolf teeth and shoot down the ladder. The rope twisting pulley turned with a rattling sound, making a creaking sound, and even caught the spark, in the blink of an eye.

The wolf's tooth slapped from the head of the city to the foot of the city, and some thieves who climbed on the ladder were constantly slapped away, they either spurted blood from their mouths, flew away from the air, and then fell heavily from the city wall more than ten meters high, plus they were slapped by the wolf's fangs, and they were not dead or crippled.

Or it fell straight down, slapped below by the wolf's teeth, several people were stacked together, and it was slapped into a thin patty, the bone marrow was broken, and the internal organs were bursting, which was miserable.

The wolf's tooth slap is made of hardwood, weighs hundreds of catties, is extremely wide and thick, is full of iron nails, and the two ends are connected with iron locks, and is connected to the winch on the city, and can be recovered after the shooting, and is known as a sharp weapon for defending the city. There is also the night of righteousness, which is also a sharp weapon for defending the city, but it is made of logs, and it is also nailed with countless iron nails.

There was another cloud ladder to lean over, and Fu Yingchong roared: "Crash over!" ”

A bunch of squad soldiers carried a thick batting rod, they roared hoarsely, and hit the ladder, with a bang, the ladder and the battering rod collided together, but they could not be overturned immediately, it turned out that many thieves below were desperately resisting.

Looking at the wrestling between the two sides, they couldn't tell the winner, Fu Yingchong roared: "Come here." ”

One of the defenders came with a dung scoop, which was full of boiling dung juice and the stench was so foul that he poked the dung scoop out of the city, and several arrows flew by, and he quickly fell.

There was a terrible scream below, and then the ladder was overturned, and several more terrible screams were heard, apparently a thief was crushed by the falling ladder.

The thieves attack the city urgently, there is no sheep and horse wall on this side of Yongding Gate, the two sides of the moat are relatively gentle, more like a beautiful stream, after the thieves fill in the trench, they can directly rush to the city.

What did the soldiers beside him say, Fu Yingchong hurriedly looked at it, and another large group of thieves came to the city, and there were quite a lot of them, and he shouted: "Fire pot, prepare." Ten thousand enemies, all taken. ”

More than a dozen porcelain jars filled with fierce fire oil were spooned by long iron spoons with wooden handles, and there were leads on the outside. There were also huge 10,000 enemies, the size of a human head, with a lead at one end and a wooden handle at the other. A large number of defenders gathered here, either spooning the fire pot, or holding 10,000 enemies, all nervously listening to Fu Yingchong's orders.

Fu Yingchong peeked at the outside again, and he hurriedly shouted, "Point." ”

Immediately the torch was brought and ignited the porcelain jar held by each person and the ten thousand enemies in his hand, and the porcelain jar immediately turned into a fire jar, and the lead of each ten thousand enemies also quickly sparked.

Fu Yingchong roared, "Throw." ”

One by one, the fire pots and 10,000 enemies were thrown out of the city, and the thieves outside screamed in horror, and the explosions under the city were continuous, accompanied by the roar of fire, and then there was a howl that did not resemble a human voice.

After the special fire pot burst, the thick flames rose high, and after the thieves were splashed, even if they threw themselves into some moat water, the fire on their bodies still burned until they were burned alive. Oil. Bullet Resemblance......

Yongding Gate is the main attack of the thieves, the thieves and ants are attached to the siege of the city, the military situation is urgent, Fu Yingchong roared and commanded, constantly running around, and the main energy was still on distributing rewards.

He has a promise to practice, which makes the morale of Yongdingmen extremely high.

"Fu Shuai, the small decapitation level!"

A soldier came over with the head of a thief.

Fu Yingchong laughed: "Okay, Master Fu is a good talker, and I will reward you with fifty silver yuan!" ”

"Fu Shuai, the little one is suspected of killing a thief."

"Suspicious? Five silver dollars. ”

"Fu Shuai, the little one shot a thief to death, Tian Guerrilla can testify."

"Good brother, take the fifty silver yuan, continue to fight, Master Fu will definitely not treat you badly."

"Uncle, the silver round in the silver box is empty."

"Don't be afraid to go to Fuzhong to move silver again, I've made a lot of money in the past two years. Lao Tzu also figured it out, and the daughter came back after being scattered, hahahaha......"

Fu Yingchong scattered his wealth and sacrificed the army, and the Beijing division was driven, although everyone had different thoughts at this time, they had to admire Fu Yingchong as a good man. Many people who know him find it even more incredible, this Fu Daya is only foolish on weekdays, and he looks like a Jingyouzi, but it turns out that he is really different at a critical time.

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Night slowly falls, the Yongding Gate city wall is brightly lit, dense torches are burning, lanterns are hung one after another, looking at all parts of the Jingshi City Gate, it is the same. Looking at the interior of the city, it is full of bright lights, and the dark night is like a vast star, but it is much dimmer than before.

The drizzle came one after another, and the spring was cold, and most of the sergeants took refuge in the grass factories to avoid the rain, or roasted around the campfires.

Near the Yongding Gate Tower, a large number of bonfires were burned here, the bonfires were filled with a strong aroma of wine and meat, and the laughter and laughter were full of soldiers guarding the city, and then one by one the bonfires spread over, and the side was also full of people.

Around the fire, everyone drank and ate meat comfortably, and the soaring meat dispelled the chill on their bodies and brought them plenty of strength.

"Brothers, listen to me."

Fu Ying stood up fiercely, he was holding a big bowl in his hand, his thin face was flushed, full of high spirits and pride.

The four armor soldiers who were inseparable from him stood silently nearby, as if they wanted to merge with the darkness.

"Everyone eats and drinks well, it's not enough, my brother immediately asked the restaurant to send it. But remember, drink less wine and eat more meat. Eat well, drink well, defend the city well, and fight the thieves well. The brothers promised that if the thieves attacked for a day, they would not let the brothers go hungry and freeze for a day. If you play well, you will get a big reward! ”

There was a boiling howl on the city wall: "Follow Fu Shuai to fight the thieves......"

The night is deeper, and the lights are still bright everywhere in the capital, but looking at the thief camp from afar, in addition to the sparkling fires, the shadows between the two are as frightening as ghosts.

As the night grew darker, the soldiers guarding the city relaxed, and slowly many people became sleepy, leaning against the city walls and sleeping by the campfire, except for the soldiers who kept vigil.

Missing five drums, Fu Yingchong in the city tower suddenly woke up, there seemed to be any movement outside the city?

At this moment, a terrible cry pierced the dark night sky: "Night attack ......"

"Shearing thief."

"It's a child soldier......"

Fu Yingchong was startled, and hurriedly leaned out of the city tower, only to see light figures rising up from all over the city wall. Iron hooks were thrown up the city, and some ladders approached, and then some dexterous figures jumped down from the ladders and the city.

By the light of the fire, there were children of fourteen or fifteen years old, even thirteen or fourteen years old, all with tyranny, cruelty and inhumanity in their eyes.

Fu Yingchong took a deep breath of cold air: "Shearing thief." ”

Hearing that the thieves plundered the embroidered drapery, etc., then wrapped the boy, galloped in the city for fun, and built the siege night attack every time with the first board.

The thief is a middle-aged boy, accustomed to killing and plundering, and Min is not afraid of the dead.

The child soldier is also the shearing thief. (To be continued.) )