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"Master, let's attack the city!" Fu Biao, commander of the First Brigade of the Fourth Division, came to Jin Yinghu's side and spoke.

"Don't worry, push the cannon up first, and put a few cannons on the city later!" Jin Yinghu said with a smile, he could basically expect that the Qing army in the city would not dare to go out of the city to fight the Mawei army. As for why, just look at the messy city now. All the generals of the Mawei Army saw the scene on the tower of Yongding Gate from the telescope, which was really a panic, and the Qing army continued to go up to the city wall to make a defensive posture, and the panic on the face of the Qing army was vaguely visible.

"There is a Qing Tartar emperor living in this Beijing city! According to the intelligence, the defense of the city was very good, and there were 60,000 soldiers and horses five days ago. The latest information, Kangxi has incorporated all the clothed slaves from the royal family into the army, although some of the clothed slaves have been transferred at the beginning of last year, but that is only a small half, and now Kangxi can also be ruthless, most of them have been transferred over, forming a new army of 40,000 people. With the addition of the troops that had been there before, there was an army of 100,000 in the city. ”

"What? Lakh! So much! Fu Biao couldn't help but be surprised.

"How about it, do you still want to attack the city?" Jin Yinghu smiled and said, but there was no meaning to laugh.

"Obediently, 100,000 horses, let's only 10,000, it's really not enough. This Qing court has reached a critical moment, these Qing troops must be desperate, even if we break the city gate and attack the city, then we will be unlucky in the end. Those Qing troops will not collapse so quickly. ”

"It's good to be clear. This capital is no different. The Qing court will defend it to the death. There are so many troops in the city, and there are too few of us to have such a small number of people. And I'm sure that after Min Baxi fled back to the capital, before we got here, Kangxi's holy decree to transfer troops into King Qinjing had already been issued. It is estimated that it is now fast and has reached the territory of Shanxi. ”

"That is, at this time, they have not to rush eight hundred miles! Eight hundred miles a day is fake, but three hundred miles can still run out. So what's going on with us? Just just casually put two shots and shoot two shots? ”

"And what do you want?" Jin Yinghu said with a blank look.

"Uh. You have the final say! Hey! Fu Biao snorted and said.

At this time, the neat queue of the Mawei Army has advanced to the position of 500 meters of Yongding Gate, which is in a moderate position, and the range of the cannons at the head of the Qing army is estimated to be so much, and the point is that there are not many cannons on the tower of Yongding Gate. In order to deal with Wu Sangui and Geng Jingzhong, the Qing court has been casting cannons on a large scale in the past two years, and how can the Wu army and Geng Jun use cannons to attack cities and conquer cities many times, and how can the Qing court not understand the role of cannons in it? However, one-third of the artillery cast in the past two years was sent to Yue Le's side and transported to the front line to fight Wu Sangui. Most of the rest was equipped with several naval ships and artillery batteries. The last part was intercepted by the pearl. It is used to guard the capital. As a result, several of the main gates were already filled with new artillery, totaling one hundred and twenty guns. There are a total of twenty guns here in Yongding Gate, and these twenty are all powerful copper cannons. It was named Kamui Invincible General Cannon.

The name of this Shenwei Invincible General Cannon coincides with the Great General Cannon in the Mawei Army, but it doesn't matter, Kangxi's own name. This is recorded in the history books of later generations, and the name appeared two years earlier. These cannons at the head of the city are all bronze breech guns, with inscriptions on them: 'made on February 10 of the 14th year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty', the all-copper cannon is a little heavier than the iron cannon, the cannon weighs a total of 2,300 catties, the cannon body is seven feet four long, that is, two meters and four, and the caliber is three inches and three (one hundred and ten millimeters). The barrel-shaped barrel is thin in the front and thick in the back, with five hoops on it, ears on both sides, and a ball crown on the tail. There are 'stars' and 'buckets' directly above the muzzle and bottom for aiming. The fire door is rectangular, each shot is loaded with three to four catties of gunpowder, and the shells weigh seven catties.

The artillery assigned to the front line infantry army was loaded with wooden artillery carts, which were used to attack and defend the city and field battles, and the troops on the capital side were not equipped with cannons at all, and they were all used to defend the city. In the eyes of Mingzhu and other ministers, on this side of the capital, the enemy army either can't hit this, once it really hits here, the enemy army will definitely be strong, and the role of these cannons to defend the city is far greater than the field battle out of the city. And even if they go out of the city to fight, they have tens of thousands of troops.

As soon as the footsteps of the Mawei Army stopped, all the soldiers let out an earth-shattering roar:

"Ponytail!"

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

"Victory!"

The 10,000 soldiers roared in unison, and the sound shook the sky, and the terrifying commander of the Nine Gates, Bahamu, who had just arrived at the head of the city, stumbled and almost didn't fall to the ground. Bahamuk is an authentic royal prince, his grandfather is Nurhachi, his grandfather is the third brother of Huang Taiji, he is the same generation as Kangxi, but he is much older. He is already forty years old this year, and he has also experienced in the army, and he has only been promoted to the commander of the Nine Gates for less than half a year.

"Is the cannon ready? When you're ready, fire the cannon first, and just aim at the city gate and bombard, don't worry about other places. Jin Yinghu ordered.

"Order!" The herald next to him immediately gave the order.

"Blossom shell preparation, one round loading, ruler five hundred and five, fire!"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

"Tom Tom"

The Fourth Division did not have many cannons, the same as the one on the Yongding Gate Tower, with a total of twenty twelve-pounder cannons. Of course, those three-pounder cannons are not counted, and the three-pounder cannons can only hit less than two hundred meters away, and there are many of them used to siege cities, but they can be of great use in field battles.

Twenty cannonballs hit the city wall almost accurately, but not all of them hit the city gate tower, only three hit the city gate tower, many others exceeded or missed, and a few did not reach the city wall. But it was these three shots that directly hit the tower of the city gate, causing a lot of losses to the Qing army at the head of the city. On the city wall, which is where the Qing army is the most dense, a single shell hit took the lives of thirteen or fourteen Qing soldiers.

Hearing the sound of cannons, the ministers in the city panicked. And it's not just ministers. Even the ordinary people in the city panicked. It was when the Qing army entered the customs. That's not much, but Li Zicheng used a lot of artillery in the days when he attacked Beijing, and those cannon sounds are still fresh in the memory of those old Beijingers.

"It's over, it's over! The Mawei army outside the city has begun to attack the city! ”

"The Mawei army outside the city is strong, with more than 100,000 men and horses, otherwise how dare you attack the capital garrisoned by 100,000 people?"

"It's over, the Mawei Army outside the city has hundreds of cannons, and the city gate will be breached soon!"

"The Great Qing Kingdom is finished, let's hide first. The provincial turned around and was arrested to be a strong man! If you go to the city, you're basically dead, and the cannon is so powerful! ”

All kinds of gossip flew around the inner city of the capital, the outer city was under martial law, and the inner city of the capital was already in chaos in less than a quarter of an hour. When it was learned that the Mawei Army had arrived outside the city, the Ministry of Intelligence sent many intelligence officers to walk around the city to spread rumors, exaggerate the strength and combat effectiveness of the Mawei Army, and belittle the Qing Army, which had a good effect.

"Quick! Another gold medal was issued, and Prince Tu'an led the army back to the capital! Kangxi, who was much calmer than in previous years, also began to panic, because he was too quick when he got up. The flower feather behind the crown leaned to the side, and the golden pearl on her chest hung from the corner of the table. The rope was broken, and one hundred and eight pearls were scattered all over the ground. Don't think that only the ministers of the Qing court only hung court beads on their chests, but also had them on the emperor's chest. Like the morning beads of the officials, he hung on his neck and hung down on his chest. All the pearls are one hundred and eight, and every twenty-seven pieces are inserted into a large bead, and the large beads are four in total, which are called divided beads. The court beads of officials need to be different according to the size and status of the officials, and the beads and silk colors are different.

The beads are made of eastern pearls (pearls), coral, jadeite, amber, beeswax, etc., and are decorated with bright yellow, golden yellow and stone blue and other colors, and are hung on the chest from the neck. Imperial officials, all civil officials of the fifth rank, military attaché of the fourth rank or above, military aircraft department, guards, Ministry of Rites, Guozijian, Taichang Temple, Guanglu Temple, Honglu Temple and other subordinate officials, as well as the five rank of officials and women, can be hung up. Its Middle East beads and bright yellow silk can only be used by the emperor, empress and empress dowager.

Chen Tingjing, who was lying down, looked at the Chaozhu rolling around, feeling that this was like the Qing Dynasty, and the last glimmer of hope seemed to be as stretched as this Chaozhu. Kangxi finished the order and put on a suit of armor. The armor is divided into armor and bib, the armor is equipped with shoulder guards on the shoulders, and there are armpit guards under the shoulder guards; Wear a metal heart shield on your chest and behind your back. This set of armor was left by Huang Taiji, first left to Shunzhi, and now it belongs to Kangxi, and Kangxi will not give this thing to others, after all, this is what the emperor can wear.

"Let's go, go out of the palace with me, I want to go up to the city tower to cheer for the soldiers!" I don't believe that my great Qing Dynasty will lose to a little rebel! "Kangxi also adjusted his feelings soon after losing his temper, but his eyes are still red, young man, he still has to be a little ruthless.

Now, Kangxi, the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, if he takes the initiative to "drive the expedition in person", it will indeed boost morale; But now he is being forced into battle, which means that the Qing Dynasty is indeed in danger.

"Majesty!" Chen Tingjing shouted.

Kangxi Du had already passed the initial panic, his expression was a little calm, and he said to Suo Etu and Chen Tingjing: "Suo Etu go to Mingzhu to have a look, let him lead the troops directly to Yongding Gate, the Mawei Army did not attack other city gates at all, and they are not many in number, it is impossible to disperse and attack the city." Let him bring all the firearms of the Shenji Battalion to Yongdingmen, the rebellious rebels have a lot of firearms, I don't believe that my Shenji Battalion will be worse than him! ”

"Wow! But Your Majesty, if there is still a large army in the follow-up of Geng's rebel army, what if they make a detour to attack other city gates? Suo Etu asked worriedly.

"Do you still want to ask me? You are in charge of patrolling the other gates, and a new army of 40,000 clothed minions will be under your command as a reserve, ready to reinforce the endangered city gates! ”

"Wow!"

After this was clear, Chen Tingjing and Suo Etu also knew that now was not the time to talk nonsense, so they hurried out of the palace in response. Kangxi then took the guards and went straight to Yongding Gate. As far as I could see along the street, everyone was panicked, panicked, and the street was in a mess, and the fallen parasols rolled into the basket in the middle of the street. The women trotting with their burdens, the crying children, and the closed shops are different from the inner city where people live, but the outer city where Han people live outside Zhengyangmen is quiet. All Han Chinese were ordered to stay at home and not to go out, otherwise they would be killed.

In addition to the patrolling Eight Banners on the street, there was not a single Han man in sight, and the layers of houses were so quiet that they were frightening, as if this was a dead city. Do not perish in silence. Just erupt in silence! Kangxi also seemed to know that this was not a dead city, hundreds of thousands of Han people were not dead, they may be waiting quietly in silence, and at any moment they may erupt like a volcano, quickly drowning the Manchu people who have been oppressing them under the lava of anger.

Looking at the big outer city, the outer city that was so quiet that he didn't hear a sound, Kangxi suddenly felt suffocated. From Zhengyang Gate (the main gate of the inner city) to the south, after the mouth of the Zhushi, it is the overpass, and there are white marble railings on both sides of the overpass. There is a pavilion in the north of the bridge in the east and west, the bridge body is very high, three beams and four columns, and the bridge is a small river dragon whisker ditch from west to east. The emperor of the Ming Dynasty must pass through this bridge when he wants to worship the Temple of Heaven in Yongding Gate, so it is named Tianqiao.

Outside the city, the Mawei soldiers pressed Yongding Gate, and if Kangxi wanted to go to Yongding Gate, he would naturally pass through the overpass, which provided an opportunity for people with intentions to ambush in advance. When Kangxi galloped on the overpass with two hundred guards, a crackling sound suddenly came from a courtyard on the bank of the river, like bursts of gunfire, which startled Kangxi and his guards to stop their horses. Although everyone quickly came back to the senses that this was someone setting off firecrackers, Kangxi, who was taken aback, couldn't help but be furious, he pointed to the courtyard where the smoke came out and shouted: "Go and see." Who is setting off firecrackers, all of them are beheaded! "When is this, you still set off firecrackers, do you want to celebrate the end of the reign of the Qing Dynasty in advance?

The shrewd Kangxi guessed wrong this time, this firecracker sound is not to celebrate anything in advance. And it was he who gave the funeral. Before the sound of firecrackers stopped, four masked men dressed in black suddenly appeared on both sides of the overpass, threw four explosive packets at the bridge, and then turned around and ran. Four explosive packets made a loud explosion, boom! Rumble! Rumble! Rumble! For a moment, the earth was shocked, the whole city trembled, the entire overpass was arched by a huge force, and the guards in front of Kangxi just let out a short exclamation, and together with the war horse, they were swept into the air by a strong shock wave. War horses and guards were torn apart by invisible forces in the air, and blood rained down

This explosive bag was still not very accurate, and it was not thrown in front of Kangxi, because Kangxi's escort team was also quite dense, when he saw someone throwing something over, two of the nearest imperial guards threw Kangxi down and protected him, and the explosion did not hurt Kangxi. When Kangxi came to his senses, the bridge was in shambles, and about 60 guards were killed and injured. And if you look for those few people in black again, they have long disappeared. There are streets and alleys not far from here, and you can't see people when you turn around or turn around. (To be continued......)