Chapter 201: Defeat the White Armor Soldiers
Gualgaturai came to Duoduo with a depressed face.
As the seventh son of Fei Yingdong, a fierce general in the early Qing Dynasty, he followed Huang Taiji to conquer the world more than ten years ago, never tasted a defeat, and was particularly brave, and now he is the Yellow Banner Baya Lazhangjing, leading the strongest elite of the Qing army to defeat the Tang Tong Department in a stone, and then captured Tongguan, all the way across Henan, almost without losing a soldier under his command.
But at this time, he didn't expect that more than 80 of the 100 white-armored soldiers under his command of Baya Lazhangjing would be killed in an instant, and it could almost be said that the entire army was wiped out.
Tulai didn't know how to tell Duoduo, but he could only explain that he didn't expect the Ming army's firearms to be so sharp, to break heavy armor at such a distance, and the accuracy was quite high.
Duoduo drew his sword, but he still didn't kill Tulai in the end, after all, Tulai, as Baturu, was his most trusted brave general, and the white armor soldiers had lost more than eighty at once, and he couldn't kill another one.
But Duoduo still kicked this Turai directly, and he didn't know how to reprimand Turai, and kicking him was just a vent.
The loss of more than 80 white-armored soldiers at once was a great defeat for the victorious Qing army, which had to be retreated before.
Even now, such losses have also caused a great shock to Duoduo's Chinese army, and the real Eight Banners soldiers were brave, but now they have lost more than eighty, which makes people can't help but think that Kaifeng City is only afraid that it will be difficult to overcome.
For the first time, the Qing army began to hesitate.
Duoduo was also a little dignified at this time, and he had already figured out at this time that it was not for no reason that Emperor Zhu Youzhen of the Ming Dynasty appeared in Kaifeng City, but he was afraid that he was relying on his firearms soldiers, and deliberately stimulated himself to dispatch white-armored soldiers.
But this loss, Duoduo can only eat secretly at this time, and now, Duoduo has no intention of retreating, he knows whether the current Ming can be destroyed by himself, it depends on whether this Ming emperor can be killed or captured alive by himself.
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The infantry battalion of the Second Army of the Guards directly killed more than 80 white-armored soldiers in a single firepower attack, which greatly surprised the officials and people defending Kaifeng City, and the people's hearts were greatly inspired.
Lu Daqi couldn't help but open his mouth wide, looked at everything in front of him, and asked Zhu Youzhen incredulously: "Your Majesty, what kind of firearm is this, and it is so powerful?" ”
"Flintlock pistol, Your Majesty has already ordered the ordnance institute to step up the manufacture, and has now begun to prepare for the installation of the Seventh Guards Army and the Exterminating Army, but because of the rush of time, the Qing army went south and the left army was too rushed, and it has not been fully equipped yet, but in a year or two, all the armies of my Ming Dynasty will inevitably be equipped with this gun, and the firearms will far surpass the Qing army!"
Shi Kefa, as the director of the General Armament Department of the Generalissimo's Mansion, first answered Lu Daqi's question for Zhu Youzhen.
Lu Daqi couldn't help but increase his confidence, but then he also said: "However, Your Majesty, although the firearms are sharp, but in the end, the Qing army now has red-clothed cannons, once the Qing army's hundred red-clothed cannons are placed a few miles away, and I open a few rounds of shelling of the city, even if the city wall is strong, it will be blown down, and several fortified cities in Henan are lost because of this, Wechen is worried that once the Qing army shells tomorrow, even if the firearms are sharp, I am only afraid that it will be difficult to resist the siege of the Qing army, and once the Qing cavalry breaks into the city, our army will be difficult to resist!" ”
Zhu Youzhen admitted that Lu Daqi was right, at the moment he really couldn't think that he could sit back and relax if he killed more than 80 white-armored soldiers close to the guard's flintlock pistol, and today's Qing army is no longer a simple Manchu military aristocratic cavalry army, but a mixed army with infantry and artillery cavalry, and because the Qing army suffered a lot of artillery losses in the early days of the war with the Ming Dynasty, the Qing court also attached great importance to the development of artillery, especially the red-coated cannon, especially after a large number of Han nobles surrendered to the Qing court, so that the Qing army's artillery was not inferior or even surpassed the previous Ming Dynasty.
Therefore, before the appearance of cement and reinforced concrete structures, it was indeed difficult to stop the offensive of the Qing army.
Especially Chongzhen eighteen years ago, because of the lack of finance, coupled with the repeated military disasters, in addition to the north of the city near Gyeonggi because of the perennial resistance to the Tartars and constantly reinforced, the city walls have hardly been repaired, and even been seriously damaged, and since ancient times, the solidity of the city wall is related to time, the longer the time, the longer the chemical reaction time of the city brick adhesive soil will be the more firm, now Chongzhen Zhu by the inspection of the south even if repeatedly ordered to rebuild the city wall, but its firmness is still not as good as the old city wall before.
Therefore, once the Qing army concentrates hundreds of red-coated cannons to bombard the city wall fiercely, and then once the gap is opened, the Han soldiers will immediately seize the city gate, and the Eight Banners cavalry will take advantage of this to gallop into the city, and the Ming defenders will have no choice.
The Qing army relied on this artillery to almost attack the city.
This is also the consequence of the traitor of the Han 0 traitor, the Qing army could only fight a little outside the customs, but because of the addition of the Han 0 traitor, the Qing army was opened.
Zhu Youzhen also knew that in the future, the Qing army could not be stopped by simply holding the fortress, so the direction of the guards he trained was field at the beginning, and the main focus was to defend the city.
Now it's just because he came to Kaifeng City, and the Guards Infantry Battalion that accompanied the guards happened to help the officers and soldiers of Kaifeng City fight a beautiful defensive battle, although it has been greatly inspired, but in the eyes of the Guards, it is not a very boastful result, after all, only dozens of enemies were injured.
If the Guards were to participate in field battles, it would naturally be more than that.
But now Zhu Youzhen did not bring a cavalry battalion and an artillery battalion with him, so he did not send an infantry battalion out of the city to fight in the field, so as to avoid being overwhelmed by the Qing cavalry.
"How did you get Zhang Keliang to keep the Tiger Prison?" Zhu Youzhen asked Lu Daqi, Lu Daqi had at least a lot of experience in fighting with Tartars, and it was impossible that there was no way to deal with it.
"The Tiger Prison Pass can be held because the Tiger Prison Pass has been a battleground for soldiers since ancient times, and the terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack, followed by Weichen digging trenches in each line of defense and setting up horse rejection piles, as long as the Qing cavalry is stopped, even if the city wall is broken by artillery, our army can also counterattack!"
Zhu Youzhen patted Lu Daqi on the shoulder as he spoke: "Keep doing this, I will stay here for five days, and you have to hold Kaifeng City for more than ten days!" There should still be a chance to withdraw. ”
"Your Majesty! Why do you want to stay for five days! Why don't you take advantage of the fact that it is now dark and the Qing army will leave the city immediately before the shelling has begun! Lu Daqi roared excitedly, he didn't understand why His Majesty insisted on staying here, even for five days.
The same is true for other officials, everyone is not afraid that Duoduo will slaughter Kaifeng again at this time, but they are afraid that His Majesty the Emperor will be killed here.