Chapter 427: The Battle of Shenyang (14)

After the east turned white, the trumpet of the Ming army sounded, and when most of the soldiers and civilians of Shenyang City were still hiding in the quilt, the battle of the inner gate began.

The artillery phalanx was as powerful as when it bombarded the Great South Gate, and there was a roar, and iron bullets whistled towards the city, kicking up pieces of gravel and dust.

The deadly iron that kept falling from the sky made the golden soldiers defending the city sweat coldly, they curled up and covered their ears to endure the vibration of their bodies, in order not to let themselves be choked by the dust, their mouths were close to the ground and they exhaled loudly, even if their mouths were full of dust, they did not dare to close their mouths, because the consequences of doing so would only make it more difficult for them to breathe.

Most of the iron bullets hit the city wall, but a few of them crossed the city wall and smashed directly on the stones piled up behind the city wall, which were used by the Jin army to block the gap. Seeing that the artillery shells of the Ming army showed no signs of stopping, the clever Jin soldiers immediately scattered with a bang and hid far away from the stone pile, so as not to suffer an unwarranted disaster. The inexperienced Aha stood there stupidly at a loss, and when the Ming army's shells fell again, he couldn't run if he wanted to, and his body was smashed into pieces by rubble.

At the head of the city, the sound of broken bones from being hit in the body was loud, and the sound of wailing also made people's hearts tremble. The flowering shattered iron shell is the most difficult to dodge, obviously the cannonball explodes far away, but it can blow itself up, making it impossible to prevent it. At the end of the day, almost all the golden soldiers chose to lie on the ground, and no one had the courage to stand there anymore.

An iron ball fell impartially from mid-air and smashed on the back of a lying armored soldier, and immediately smashed the armor out of a big hole, and the rolling iron ball jumped heavily from the ground with human flesh and blood, flew to the wall on the other side, and shot back between the fires and smashed another unlucky golden soldier, smashing the root of this person's thigh, which was miserable.

In order to reduce the damage of the Ming army's artillery, at the suggestion of Sun Degong and other Han generals, the Jin army piled up a lot of burlap bags containing soil on the city wall. These dirt bags dissolved the power of the iron bullet to a certain extent, so that there were not many gold soldiers who were hit by the iron bullet jumping shot, most of them were hit by the flowering iron shell and died, and also made many injured gold soldiers ambushed on the head of the city, and it was much more difficult to run from this area to that end

In the roaring cannonballs, Sun Degong shouted loudly on the top of the city in embarrassment, asking the gunners of the Han army to remember the landing point of the Ming artillery shells just now, and then carry the artillery to those places that have been blown up, so as to avoid being hit by the Ming army's shells.

The powerful artillery of the Ming army shocked Sun Degong, and made him even more unbelievable, the Ming army in his memory had never concentrated so many artillery pieces in World War I, and there were dozens of guns in the sky. can look at the momentum of the Ming army on the other side, it is clearly a salvo of hundreds of cannons, and the reckless Gurtai really has no big words, this Ming army is really strong.

But it doesn't matter, it doesn't matter, no matter how many artillery the Ming army has, it can't continue to fight, and the cannon always has to dissipate heat, and it always has to dissipate heat

Sun Degong couldn't help but cheer himself up, and he also kept cheering for the Han army under his subordinates. Sure enough, after six rounds rang, the Ming army artillery under the city slowly became dumb, taking advantage of this opportunity, Sun Degong hurriedly ordered the Han army to move the only remaining more than ten artillery pieces in the city to a safe place, and then quickly counterattacked the Ming army.

Only seven or eight of the more than a dozen artillery pieces were fired, but only half of them could hit the Ming army's artillery array. When the four big iron balls smashed quickly from the city, the Ming army's artillery array inevitably stirred. Qianhu Dong Zhong and Shen Yi immediately ordered someone to find out the location of the Jin army's artillery, and then let more than a dozen Western light artillery that could still fight bombarded it.

After the cannon sounded, the artillery of the Jin army on the head of the city was dumb. The shells of the Ming army did not blow up those artillery, but they killed many gunners, and even Sun Degong himself was shot in the shoulder by an iron shell, and his forehead was full of beads of sweat the size of beans

After the bombardment was over, Mang Gurtai couldn't wait, and ordered his subordinates to take the city without asking Shi Dayong for instructions. This time, instead of 500 bannermen, he sent more than 4,000 people to rush to the city wall. Of these more than 4,000 people, 3,000 people were Han people who belonged to him with blue flags that were forcibly recruited by Mang Gurtai last night, and if it were not for the Ming army not allowing him to levy the rest of the Han people of the banners, Mang Gurtai would have been able to pull up tens of thousands of soldiers and horses overnight.

In the case that the cannon can only cause casualties to the Jin army and cannot break the city gate, there will always be casualties if you force the city to enter the city, after all, it is not the Han army that has no fighting spirit to defend the city, but the elite of the Eight Banners who stay in Shenyang.

Victory was in sight, and Dayong certainly did not want the soldiers who had followed him all the way to fall in front of the last gate, so he did not interfere with the Han people who had sent him to use the blue flag as siege cannon fodder, but tried his best to provide armaments and supplies so that Mang Gurtai could successfully capture the city. At this time, it no longer makes sense to care whether it is the Han or the banner people who die.

The commander of the capture of the city is Mang Gurtai's henchman Bai Jia, this is a general of the Eight Banners who can write and fight, and the text that Mang Gurtai shot into the city is his single-handed. In order to capture the city in one fell swoop, Mang Gurtai handed over all the banner soldiers brought from Liaoyang to Bai Jia, and also let the swinging tooth lamas who escaped from Shenyang with him also follow Bai Jia to seize the city.

In short, in order to take the inner city, Mang Gurtai has already given everything he has. If he fails, he has nothing. Epilon advised him not to be so desperate, although the Ming army's artillery fire caused damage to the city wall, and also killed and injured a lot of gold soldiers defending the city, but the defenders still have the strength to counterattack, now send all the people up, in case the siege fails, their own vitality is greatly damaged, where is there room for bargaining with the Ming army. When the Ming army conquered the inner city, there would be nothing to do with their father and son. Mang Gurtai insisted on his own opinion, did not listen to the persuasion of Epilun, and was bent on taking the inner city in front of the Ming army, and he must not let the Ming army grab this great achievement of breaking the city. Epilon was puzzled by Amma's stubbornness, but he could only obey.

Why did Mang Gurtai insist on robbing the inner city? He didn't want to hoard the wealth in the inner city, but wanted to get the right to dispose of the more than 30,000 women and children of the Eight Banners. These women and children and men all went out with Hong Tai's army, if they came back and found that their relatives were in the hands of Mang Gurtai, would they still work for Hong Tai?

Mang Gurtai had a good idea, he was worried that Shi Dayong also knew the value of those women and children, so he had to let his people break the city first no matter what, so that he would have more confidence to negotiate with Shi Dayong. He doesn't want half, he wants all

Bai Jia understands his master's thoughts very well, and he also knows the value of those Eight Banners women and children in the inner city, so he wears three layers of heavy armor and goes all out to break the city in one fell swoop.

After rushing to the city wall, Bai Jia immediately commanded the Liaoyang banner soldiers to shoot arrows at the defenders at the head of the city. The archery skills of the Liaoyang banner soldiers are very good, and many golden soldiers who poked their heads out were shot by them, and they showed no mercy to their subordinates at all.

It is no wonder that these Liaoyang banner soldiers who originally belonged to the Zhenglan Banner were ruthless, because they all came to this Shenyang City with bitter hatred. The Hupiyi tragedy has made them hate the Jin army in Shenyang City to the core, and they will all be holding back their strength to attack the city to avenge their dead relatives. The riches of the inner city also drove them mad, and the Great Belle promised to let them sack the city for a day after it was broken.

Hatred and the desire for wealth, women, and slaves made the Liaoyang bannermen red-eyed, their eyes fixed on the battlements at the head of the city, and a sharp arrow always stretched on the bowstring.

After discovering these Liaoyang banner soldiers, the Jin army at the head of the city also immediately organized archers to suppress them. The banner soldiers were all double-armed, and only showed a pair of eyes, which made the Jin army at the head of the city have no way to take them, but those Han people who did not wear armor were easy to shoot and kill.

Hundreds of ladders were erected on the city wall, and the cannon fodder of the Han people crawled towards the city like ants under the urging of the banner soldiers, and countless people were shot and fell by the golden soldiers on the city, and countless people followed.

The city is equipped with a powerful crossbow, and the scene after the arrows are almost unbearable to witness, and the arrows of the strong crossbow can easily shoot people at close range.

In the face of the dripping death, the Han people were timid, and they realized that the Jin army at the head of the city was not as unworthy of a battle as the banner soldiers said, and if it continued like this, they would probably all die under the city, so their pace became slow, and they would rather be whipped by the bannermen than give their lives.

Seeing this situation, Bai Jia immediately made a decision, he bit the big knife in his mouth, stepped on the ladder and climbed to the top of the city wall, and countless flag soldiers behind him also carried their bows and arrows on their backs, biting the long knife and climbing up.

The bannermen who did not wear armor did not care about the soreness of their arms, and shot arrows with all their strength to suppress the head of the city. Many of the golden soldiers who wanted to check the situation showed their heads like a bird with an arrow falling from above. However, more of the golden soldiers hid behind the battlements and threw stones and logs down. Under their strong counterattack, dozens of brave flag soldiers were smashed down in mid-air, and Mang Gurtai, who could see in the distance, was so heartbroken that his facial features were squeezed together.

Finally, after paying hundreds of lives, Bai Jia climbed up to the city with a few reckless Gurtai swinging teeth, and then fought with the golden soldiers in the city.

The enemy with money rat tail pigtails killed you to the death, which is very embarrassing.

The fierce battle between Bai Jia and the tooth swingers freed up a large open space on the city, and more and more flag soldiers climbed up and then joined the battle group.

Seeing this, Mang Gultai's long-lost smile once again appeared on his face, but it didn't last long before disappearing.

Jin Bing really deserved to be the elite of the Eight Banners, and Sony, Ilintai and others were also worthy of being the famous generals of the Eight Banners.

These swinging teeth belong to the Daishanzheng Red Banner and the Khan's Palace, and they are all brave warriors of each banner, the elite of the elite. Their appearance, so that the city of the armor and Han soldiers spirits greatly lifted, in the face of the swarming banner soldiers and Han people did not retreat, and so on to the addition of the tooth la, the banner soldiers in the city suddenly did not know, the area controlled by the city was gradually reduced, gradually has been exhausted, at any time there is a possibility of defeat and retreat.

Bai Jia's back was already full of golden soldiers' arrows at this time, he waved the long knife in his hand, and kept roaring and rushing up, rushing up, but he retreated again and again. The swinging teeth of those Jin troops were really powerful, and they could block the attack of three or four armored soldiers alone, making the casualties of the banner soldiers attacking Shangcheng too great.

Seeing that he was about to be driven out of the city again by the Jin army, he suddenly heard the roar of cannons, and then there was an explosion above the city, and the stumps and broken arms were thrown everywhere.

The Ming army opened fire, attacking indiscriminately, whether it was the Jin soldiers or the banner soldiers of Mang Gurtai, as well as the Han people under the city, all within the coverage of artillery fire.