Chapter 341: Capture of Qingzhou City [1st Update]
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On the night of the camp outside Qingzhou City, under Li Yuntian's order, Jin Rong had people fill in a moat outside the north gate of Qingzhou City with earthen bags overnight, for which hundreds of people were "shot" and wounded by archers on the city wall. The fastest and most stable update is dìngCopy this address viewing%2e%62%78%73%2e%63%63
Just when the defenders of Qingzhou City thought that Li Yuntian would launch an attack on the city the next day, a strange scene appeared, for three days in a row, the Ming army only put on an offensive posture at night to "disturb", and during the day it was calm, there was no sign of attacking the city, and I don't know what kind of ghost idea he was fighting.
Regarding Li Yuntian's move, not to mention the soldiers in the camp, even Jin Rong couldn't figure out Li Yuntian's intentions, if Li Yuntian wanted to use suspicious tactics, why didn't he continue to "disturb" the defenders of Qingzhou City during the day? Wouldn't it be better to do this, making the defenders of Qingzhou City tired of coping.
After dinner on the fourth day, Li Yuntian summoned Jin Rong and other high-ranking military attaches to his camp to discuss matters, and told them to launch an attack on Qingzhou City at dawn, so that their soldiers could rest in advance and prepare for the attack.
To Jin Rong and the others' surprise, Li Yuntian did not arrange siege tasks for them, but arranged the assignment of tasks for everyone after attacking Qingzhou City.
Although everyone was suspicious, since Li Yuntian did not explain the reason, then they could only act according to Li Yuntian's orders, secretly speculating in their hearts whether Li Yuntian had bribed the defenders in the city, and then the inside and the outside should join forces to take Qingzhou City.
In the early hours of the morning, north of Qingzhou City.
Li Yuntian stood on a mountain bag surrounded by Jin Rong and others, looking at Qingzhou City under the cover of night with an expressionless face, and behind him was densely packed with soldiers wearing armor.
"Pass my military order, and launch an attack on Qingzhou City with the number of heavenly thunder attacking the city." After looking up at the sky, Li Yuntian turned his head and said to the herald beside him with a cold expression, "If you dare to 'rape' and 'adulterous' captives, you will be killed!" "[33815671 ruling the Ming Dynasty] 338 ruling the Ming Dynasty 341
Hearing this, the herald arched his hand at Li Yuntian and hurriedly conveyed Li Yuntian's military order to the besieging troops.
"My lord, what is the Heavenly Thunder Strike City?" After the herald left, Jin Rong couldn't help but ask curiously, like the people around him, he was also confused about Li Yuntian's military order.
"Heaven must not be revealed!" Li Yuntian smiled slightly when he heard this, looking a little unfathomable.
After about a cup of tea, under Li Yuntian's gaze, a city wall in the north of Qingzhou City suddenly flashed with fire, forming a huge ball of light.
"It worked!" Seeing this, Li Yuntian couldn't help but look happy, and his fists were clenched together.
Immediately, everyone at the scene suddenly felt that the earth suddenly trembled, and then a huge sound came from Qingzhou City, the sound seemed a little dull, as if it was a thunderstorm, and it was heard very clearly in the silent night sky.
Faced with the sudden scene, Jin Rong and the others couldn't help but be stunned, looking at each other, and many people had shocked looks on their faces, not knowing what was going on.
"The thunder has arrived, the city of Qingzhou is broken, enter the city quickly!" Li Yuntian saw that everyone was frightened by the loud noise of Qingzhou City, so he stretched out his hand and pointed to the northern city of Qingzhou City, which was shrouded in black smoke, and gave the order to attack in a loud voice.
It was only at this time that the people around reacted, and it turned out that this was what Li Yuntian said about the Heavenly Thunder Attack City.
Then, the soldiers waved the weapons in their hands, shouted, and rushed towards Qingzhou City like a "tide", and the swords and guns in their hands shone a little cold under the moon.
When they got closer, the soldiers besieging the city found that a city wall on the north wall of Qingzhou City had collapsed, and the remaining wall was black, forming a large opening of more than ten meters, leading directly into the city.
Since the moat at the site of the collapse of the city wall had been filled in three days earlier, the soldiers rushed into the city through the dusty gap, endured the strange smell of the air, and engaged in a fierce battle with the defenders who had risen in a hurry.
The next morning, Qingzhou City was conquered by the Ming army, except for the enemy general Yang Yong and a few rebels who took advantage of the "chaos" to escape, the rest of the rebels were either killed or captured, and the Ming army can be said to have achieved a great victory.
After entering Qingzhou City, the first thing Li Yuntian did was to organize people to repair the gap on the north wall of Qingzhou City.
At this moment, except for a very few people, no one would know that this section of the city wall was blown down by the explosives newly developed by the Academy of Sciences. [33815671 Ruling the Ming Dynasty]338 Ruling the Ming Dynasty 341
In fact, when Li Yuntian was in Hukou County, he had already begun to let people study explosives, and after the establishment of the Academy of Sciences, those people who studied explosives entered the Academy of Sciences.
With the help of some simple information provided by Li Yuntian, after four years of unremitting efforts, it was not until July this year that the Academy of Sciences developed an explosive that met his requirements, and Qingzhou City became a place to test the power of explosives.
Judging from the gap in the north wall of Qingzhou City, Li Yuntian was very satisfied with the power of the explosives, and the next thing to do was to improve it and continue to improve its power.
With the recovery of Qingzhou City by the Ming army, those officials appointed by the Han King in Qingzhou City were unlucky and were arrested and imprisoned.
Due to the important geographical location of Qingzhou City, Li Yuntian knew that the King of Han would never sit idly by and watch Qingzhou City be captured, and would definitely let the rebels counterattack, so he transferred 10,000 men from Jinan Mansion while reorganizing his army in Qingzhou City, and was ready to meet the enemy.
Sure enough, the King of Han was taken aback when he learned that Qingzhou City had changed hands between **, in his opinion, it was impossible for Yang Yong to sit in Qingzhou City, and he knew very well the strength of the Ming army in Jinan City, and he was simply unable to capture a city as big as Qingzhou City.
Besides, Le'an's garrison will not ignore the siege of Qingzhou City without rescue, and when Le'an's reinforcements arrive, the Ming army attacking the city can only flee in the wilderness.
As a hub connecting the eastern and western parts of the rebel army, Qingzhou City must not be lost in the eyes of the Han king, otherwise the rebels will be cut into two parts that cannot be taken care of, leaving the Ming army free to deal with the rebels in Dengzhou and Laizhou.
As for the widely circulated statement that the Ming army invited Tianlei to help in the war, King Han scoffed, he didn't believe in any Tianlei, it must have been Li Yuntian's ghost.
In desperation, the King of Han asked Lu Ping to guard Dezhou City, and he hurried to Le'an City with 30,000 horses, and then gathered another 20,000 people in Le'an, combined 50,000 troops, and rushed to Qingzhou City with murderous spirit.
Under the mobilization of Li Yuntian, the strength of Qingzhou City has reached 40,000, and the gap in the city wall that has been blown up has been repaired by more than fifty percent, although it is not as strong as the original city wall, but it is enough to resist the rebels for a while.
After Zhang Hao learned that the King of Han attacked Qingzhou, he immediately led the army to launch a fierce attack on the city of Dezhou, wanting to take advantage of the absence of the King of Han to take the city of Dezhou, but was met with fierce resistance from the rebels of Dezhou, and the two sides fell into a bitter battle.
King Han did not go to Qingzhou City, he led the soldiers and horses to Dezhou halfway, and when Li Yuntian knew, it was too late, and King Han had already left the boundary of Qingzhou City.
Zhang Hao never expected that the King of Han would actually kill a horse pistol, and when the King of Han suddenly appeared on the left side of his camp and commanded the army to charge, the Ming army camp couldn't help but fall into chaos.
Seeing this, Lu Ping of Dezhou City opened the city gate and attacked, pinching the Ming army in front and back, causing the Ming army to be defeated and flee.
In this battle, the Ming army suffered as many as 40,000 or 50,000 casualties, accounting for almost half of the troops in Zhang Hao's hands, while the rebels only paid the price of more than 10,000 people.
Zhang Hao was worried that the king of Han would chase after him, so he led the people back to Jingzhou City, so as not to swallow the remaining army by the king of Han, and at the same time pleaded guilty to Emperor Xuande.
At the same time, there was also bad news from Xuanfu Town, under the command of the commander of Shanxi Xingdu Sidu and Qingyi Hou Bai Dexiang, the 100,000 troops of Shanxi Xingdu finally occupied Xuanfu Town after a fierce battle.
For this reason, the defenders and remnants of Xuanfu Town had to retreat to Juyong Pass, and joined forces with the defenders of Juyong Pass to resist the attack of Shanxi Xingdu Division.
It is rumored that Bai Dexiang has offered a huge bounty, as long as he captures Juyong Pass, he will be rewarded to meritorious military attaches and sergeants, which makes the morale of the army of Shanxi Xingdu Division high, and everyone wants to get those rewards.
However, after gathering the strength of Xuanfu Town, the Ming army in Juyong Pass reached 80,000, and the total strength of Shanxi Xingdu Division was only 80,000, and it was not easy for Bai Dexiang to take Juyong Pass.
Lu Zhongqian and Zhou Zheng fought inextricably in Zhending Mansion, and both of them were very detailed about each other's details, so the two sides fell into a scuffle, and Lu Zhongqian was dragged by Zhou Zheng in Zhending Mansion, and it was difficult to move forward half a step.
Now, the King of Han wiped out 40,000 or 50,000 Ming troops with a single return of the horse, which made Zhang Hao have to change from offensive to defensive, and at the same time, Emperor Xuande was invisibly inferior in this war.
After defeating Zhang Hao, the king of Han led his army back to Le'an, and then sent a letter to Li Yuntian, telling him that as long as Li Yuntian surrendered, then he would make Li Yuntian the prince of the country after inheriting the unification, hoping that Li Yuntian could serve him, otherwise he would personally lead the army to Qingzhou City.
It is impossible for Li Yuntian to follow the King of Han, so naturally he will not agree to him, while letting people repair the city wall of Qingzhou City that was blown down, while dispatching troops to prepare for the attack of the King of Han.
After the first two troop transfers, the strength of Qingzhou City had reached 40,000, and Li Yuntian believed that the King of Han would not be able to break through his defense.
In view of the fact that the king of Han likes to attack the east and the west to sneak attack, Li Yun also strengthened the defense of Jinan City and Jining City, lest the King of Han suddenly turn to attack Jinan City and Jining City, and dare not be careless about this matter.
Just when Li Yuntian was actively preparing for war in Qingzhou City, King Zhao of Zhangde could no longer hold back and wanted to raise troops to rebel, bypassing the garrison of Kaifeng Mansion and heading south to capture Nanjing City first.
However, his approach was rejected by Shi Hu Yongxing, the governor of Zhao Wang's mansion, in Hu Yongxing's opinion, King Zhao can't act rashly now, otherwise not only Henan Dusi will pursue King Zhao, but Niu Shihao will also send troops to come, and then King Han will fall into passivity.
King Zhao was finally persuaded by Hu Yongxing and was ready to wait and see, but he had already secretly contacted Qin Bogui's old ministry in Henan again, promising to be a high-ranking official, ready to lure them to take refuge, and the situation became more and more complicated