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"Don't chase it yet! I'm going to tear these thieves to pieces! Kangxi gritted his teeth and roared. He himself was not injured by the explosion, but he was affected, he was originally riding on the horse by the imperial guards just pounced on it, and it was very painful to fall off the horse, and at this moment his left leg was completely sore, and the knee was painful for a while, don't think about it, it must have hit the bone.

"Wow!" The imperial guards were already frightened, if Kangxi was killed just now, then even if they survived, they would be beheaded by the whole family. Therefore, at this moment, these guards hated the four assassins just now, and when they heard the order, they raised their legs and chased after them.

The Ministry of Intelligence originally didn't know that Kangxi would come out of the palace, but the outside of the gate has always been watched by special people. At first, when he saw Kangxi go out of Zhengyangmen, the person in charge of the intelligence department on the Zhengyangmen side was still surprised, but then he decided to organize an assassination operation. The incident was rushed and the preparations were not sufficient, so I was afraid that four members of the special combat team were ambushing under the overpass with explosives bags on their backs. As for why he didn't use a rifle to shoot Kangxi from a long distance, first, it was because Kangxi had too many guards around him, and he blocked Kangxi tightly. The second is that the time is too rushed, from the task assignment to the assassination, the whole process time must coincide with the time of Kangxi's advance. Kangxi didn't stop when he left the palace gate, and the speed of riding a horse all the way was much faster than walking.

"Keep going, I want to see what kind of powerful method Geng's rebel army is!" Kangxi sent out a team of guards to pursue the Assassins. Then regardless of the continued to go to Yongding Gate.

His decision was immediately opposed by Tong Guogang, the deputy commander of the guards around him. Tong Guogang is Kangxi's uncle. He was the eldest son of the crown prince and the Taibao Tong Tulai. The younger brother of Empress Xiao Kang Zhang. In the first year of Kangxi, the hereditary third-class Jingqi Nihafan was awarded the Minister of the Interior. At the beginning of last year, the Chahar king Burni rebelled, and he was awarded the rank of general of Anbei and led his division to Xuanfu. After King Chahar's rebellion was quelled by Zhou Peigong and Tuhai, he was also recalled to the capital and now serves as the deputy commander of the guard of the Minister of the Interior. Responsible for palace guards. "Your Majesty, the ministers risked their lives to admonish, Your Majesty, you can't go forward! There may be traitors in ambush ahead, it is very dangerous, the emperor, you have a golden body, don't take it lightly! ”

"Fart, I want Emperor Taizu Gao and Emperor Taizu Wen to fight on the battlefield one by one, what can the little assassin do? Keep going! I want to see what the rebels are like, and I want to know their confidants! After Kangxi finished speaking, he continued to board a royal horse, and waved his big hand: "Keep going!" ”

"Slow!" Tong Guogang suddenly shouted. "The emperor wants to continue to move forward, and the slaves will not stop him. However, I also asked the emperor to wait for the ministers to send people to the front to inspect it. Tong Guogang finished speaking. He immediately commanded: "Take fifty people, give me a careful search of the road ahead, and at the same time notify the Admiral of the Nine Gates to send someone to answer." Go back quickly! ”

"Wow!"

"If you're thoughtful, then go slower. In addition, he ordered the infantry army to command the yamen, and asked them to thoroughly investigate the hidden thieves in the city, and not let go of every street. They can ambush me here, it's already very telling, I don't know how many thieves have infiltrated into the inner city and outer city, if they cooperate with the rebels outside the city, you should think about the consequences! However, the most important thing to check is still in the palace, and I left the palace on a temporary basis, and I didn't make arrangements in advance, but I was ambushed in advance, and there must be someone in the palace who colluded with the thief. The affairs in the palace will be handed over to you, and the investigation must be stricter than outside the palace! ”

"The minions obey! The emperor can rest assured that the ministers will definitely find out all these anti-thieves and cut them with a thousand knives! Tong Guogang chuckled in his heart, this is dissatisfied with his work, too, anyone who encounters this thing will be in a bad mood, and he has already trusted him if he doesn't immediately blame him.

"Let's go!"

At this moment, Yongdingmen was already in a panic, Bahamu didn't dare to stay on the city gate tower at all, staying on the city gate tower was equivalent to being hit by the Mawei army as a target. The cannons of the Mawei Army can have such an accurate head at a distance of five or six hundred meters from a long distance, and the defenders of the city head are not at all backhanded.

"What are you doing coldly, firing guns, fighting back! Shoot me all! Bahamu yelled angrily, the rebels have artillery, they also have it, not at this time, then how long will it last.

"Fire!"

The maximum firing range of these Shenwei invincible generals is seven or eight hundred meters, even if it hits more than 1,000 meters, it is not unusual, but the effective firing range is not much, no more than 500 meters. Only within the effective range can it really have the effect of killing and injuring the enemy, otherwise it will be a waste of shells.

"Tom Tom"

There was also a burst of artillery fire on the Qing army's side, and the shells flew to the side of the Mawei army, but none of them were fired into the Mawei army's array, separated by hundreds of meters, where was it so easy to hit. The Mawei army is already the third round of artillery fire poured over, half of that is, a full ten shells fell on the city gate tower here, the city gate tower of Yongding Gate and the nine gates of the city in Beijing are all composed of arrow towers and city gate towers of the towering building of the double city tower, the gate tower is a huge pavilion or hall with three eaves and two layers. This series of shells fell on this city tower and exploded one after another, causing great damage to this city gate tower, looking at the progress, it is estimated that there will be a maximum of half an hour, and then a hundred and ten more shells, this city gate tower should be completely destroyed.

Bahammu observed the enemy situation with a clairvoyant mirror from the side of the tower, and found that the Mawei army was not pressing at all, but was only attacking from a distance with artillery. Although his own side also fired back with artillery, it seemed to have little effect, the Mawei Army did not hurt a dime, and their own cannons either missed or overshot, and the firing speed of these cannons on their own city seemed to be much slower. People fired three shots, and you only fired one shot, which is obviously the rhythm of being beaten.

"Why haven't the soldiers and horses of the Xiao cavalry battalion arrived yet, more than 10,000 rebels have gathered outside the city, once the city is attacked on a large scale, the soldiers and horses of the Han army on the side of Yongdingmen are far from enough!"

"Back to my lord, I have already sent someone to urge, it shouldn't take much time."

The main force of the Beijing garrison is the Xiao Cavalry Battalion. All of them are Manchu children. The sub-district was stationed in the inner city of Beijing. The yellow flag is in Andingmen, the yellow flag is in Desheng Gate, the white flag is in Dongzhi Gate, the white flag is in Chaoyang Gate, the red flag is in Xizhi Gate, the red flag is in Fucheng Gate, the blue flag is in Chongwen Gate, and the blue flag is in Xuanwu Gate. Each flag is equipped with an official hall, a barracks and a stacking house (outpost). Except for the Snap Riding Camp. The Beijing city defense garrison also includes the forward battalion, the guard battalion, the infantry patrol battalion, the Jianrui battalion, the firearms battalion, the Shenji battalion (newly established the year before last), and the tiger gun battalion.

From the beginning of Zheng's army to attack Jiangnan, Kangxi felt that the capital would also be threatened, so he set up eight banner guard camps in the nine gates of the inner city, except for Zhengyang Gate. It was defended by the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and was divided by the soldiers of the Manchurian, Mongol and Han armies. However, the leaders of the city gate, that is, the officers responsible for the guarding of the city gates, are all served by officers of other flags: the leader of Andingmen is blue, the leader of Deshengmen is blue, the leader of Dongzhimen is white, the leader of Xizhimen is red, the leader of Chaoyangmen is white, the leader of Fuchengmen is red, the leader of Chongwenmen is yellow, the leader of Xuanwumen is yellow, and Zhengyangmen is rotated by the eight banners.

Among the seven gates of the outer city, the Han army with the yellow flag is on the east gate, the Han army on the yellow flag is on the west gate, the Han army on the white flag is on the Guangqu gate, and the Han army on the red flag is on the Guang'an gate. The blue and white flags of the Han army are on the left of the gate, and the red flag of the Han army is on the right of the gate. The blue flag Han army is on Yongding Gate. After the defeat of the Zheng army on the Yangtze River this year, Kangxi ordered the construction of eight banner duty houses at the gates of the inner city, and the scale of the newly built office houses was not small, each city gate was 460 barracks, 90 gate guard rooms, and 15 change rooms, a total of 3,680 rooms. In addition, there were 16,000 barracks outside the city for the soldiers of the Eight Banners, 2,000 for each banner, 1,500 for Manchurian soldiers, and 500 for Mongol soldiers. In addition, there are 135 stacking houses on the inner city wall, of which 106 are stored for flags, artillery, gunpowder, and muskets.

Kangxi also put a lot of effort into the safety of the capital, I don't know why, he always feels insecure, and only by constantly strengthening the defense of the capital can he feel a little at ease. It was these actions that cost one million taels of silver, of which 400,000 was Kangxi's own private money. Of course, this does not include the cost of more than 100 cannons. Generally, the weapons used to guard ancient cities include artillery, firearms, bows and arrows, etc. Decades ago, when the Qing army attacked Beijing, and later in the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, when Li Zicheng's army besieged Beijing, the defenders on the city wall fired back artillery. But at that time, the power of the cannons was not good, and the number was small, so Kangxi made up his mind to place many cannons at the head of the city.

The city wall of Beijing City is similar to that of Jinling City, all of which are as tall and majestic, and if you want to collapse the city wall with cannons, it is basically impossible, unless there are hundreds of cannons to bombard a place, otherwise at most it is like Yongding Gate now, the bricks and tiles on the city gate tower are broken, and the houses are knocked down. If you want to make a gap in the city wall, you can't do it with a few cannons of the 4th Division outside the city. In later history, in the Second Opium War, due to the strong defense of Beijing, the British and French troops who had reached the line from Deshengmen to Andingmen in northern Beijing had to give up their attempt to attack Beijing and attack the Old Summer Palace and Haidian instead.

In the later campaign of the Eight-Nation Alliance to attack Beijing, the city of Beijing also showed a strong defensive role. According to the records of the coalition forces, the Qing garrison took advantage of the high and wide walls of the inner city to condescendingly shoot at the besieging army on the wall. The Russian and Japanese troops tried to blow up the gates of Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen with cotton wool, but the soldiers who tried to light the fuses were repeatedly killed by the defenders on the wall. In addition, the urn city, enemy platform, and corner tower of Beijing also assisted the Qing army in building a number of powerful firepower positions in this battle. For example, at night, although the Russian army broke through the gate of the Dongbianmen Arrow Tower, it was still attacked by the Qing army in the urn city and could not advance until the arrival of reinforcements the next morning. Even after the coalition forces broke through the outer and inner cities, the walls and gates of the imperial city still played a certain defensive role.

When the coalition forces reached the city, the US military bombarded the Tiananmen Gate with artillery, but failed to blast it open, and finally used the ladder sent by Japanese engineers to enter the city before occupying it. In addition, during the "Guang'anmen Incident" on 25 July 1937, a Japanese army brigade stationed in Fengtai drove into Beiping City on the pretext of "protecting overseas Chinese" and "protecting the embassy area of Dongjiaomin Lane." When its convoy entered Guang'anmen, more than 20 Chinese troops defending the city gate condescendingly sniped at it with machine guns, forcing the Japanese troops to abandon their attempt to enter Beiping.

"No, my lord, although there are a lot of horsetail troops outside the city, why don't you see a cloud ladder or any other siege equipment under the mark? Could it be that there are not many rebels outside the city who come to attack the city, just to show off their strength? The gate leader of Yongding Gate said suspiciously.

"Don't say it's really like this, he didn't send the rebels outside to fill the river! They can't cross the moat in front of them, so what are we afraid of him doing! The order went down, so that all the soldiers on the tower of the city gate were scattered, and the rebel artillery was sharp, so as not to be injured in vain. However, our cannons will not stop, and they will hit me hard. Bahamu was also a fan of the authorities just now, and he panicked for a while, and then his subordinates mentioned it and found that the Mawei Army did not look like a siege at all. There is not even a gate on the side, and there is a moat twenty or thirty meters wide on both sides.

"The emperor has arrived!" He had just breathed a sigh of relief when such a shout came from far behind.

"Quick, take over!" Bahamu did not dare to slack off at all, and immediately took the commander of the Southern Patrol Capture Battalion and other officials of all sizes down the city wall to pick him up.

"The slave knocks on the emperor! The emperor is auspicious! Bahamu first knelt down on one knee and said goodbye.

"See the emperor!"

"Get up, what's going on outside the city." Kangxi asked with a frown.

"Back to the emperor, outside the city were Geng's rebel army, with a total of about 10,000, but they did not carry engineering equipment, nor did they approach the city wall, but only shelled the city gate tower with cannons from afar, and there was no loss elsewhere. According to the minions, the rebels do not want to attack the city, but just want to show us their might. Bahamu replied truthfully about what he had seen.

Kangxi looked around, and these defenders were all in an orderly manner, but nodded with satisfaction. In fact, he didn't know what the chaos was like here at the beginning, the Mawei Army had been shelling for half an hour, but there was no siege, if it kept realizing the panic, then this pacesetter horse would be too wasteful. "Let's go up to the city wall with me."

"Alas, Your Majesty, you can't go up from the city gate tower, if you want to go up, please go up from this side. The rebels have been nailing the gate tower and bombarding it incessantly, as if it must collapse the city gate tower. Therefore, it is dangerous above, and the emperor is asked to go up from this side. ”

"The city gate tower is quite sturdy, but it can't be blown down by three or two cannons! Listening to this cannon sound, there shouldn't be many cannons outside the city! ”

"Yes, the emperor, the slave has seen it, the rebels outside the city have a total of twenty cannons, and it is impossible to break through the defense of the capital with twenty cannons!" As soon as his words fell, there was a loud bang on the city gate tower not far away, and the pavilion on the city gate collapsed from the west, and half of the third to second floors collapsed, and Kangxi, who was not far from the city, happened to see this scene. (To be continued......)