Just when Ahani, the deputy commander of the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner, was angry and wanted to strangle the Han people on the wall of Shengjing City, the three three-jin rifled flat-fire guns of the Second Army of the Guards Army also began to fire three three-pound shells outside the three gates of Huaiyuan Gate, Neizhi Gate and Tianyou Gate.

Although there are many guns in the artillery battalion of the Guards, there are about a thousand guns in a regiment, but most of them are smoothbore guns, and there are not many real rifled guns.

After all, even a powerful empire during World War II could hardly have the scale of thousands of rifled guns on a one-time expedition, not to mention the Guards, and there were fewer flat-firing guns, but as long as it was a rifled gun, its rate of fire, firing range and bombardment accuracy were much higher than that of smoothbore guns.

Although it was only three catties of small cannonballs that bombarded the city gate of Shengjing City at this time, the power was not inferior to the twelve catties of solid iron shells of smoothbore guns, not to mention that these three-catty rifled cannon shells still accurately bombarded the latch gate under the city gate.

Rumble!

The three shells were fired almost simultaneously at the three gates of Huaiyuan Gate, Neizhi Gate, and Tianyou Gate.

At this moment, Ahani, the deputy commander of the capital who was on the wall of Shengjing City, couldn't help but stop holding the hand that grabbed the throat of the people of the Han family, looked outside, and his face was full of horror: "These Ming troops actually fired cannons!" ”

"Pull back first!"

Ye Keshu, the head of Shengjing, was also stunned at this time, but at the same time he was also very disappointed, he didn't expect the Ming army to still fire the cannon, but then he couldn't help laughing, and said to the people of the Han family:

"You have all seen it, the Ming army you are looking forward to will not take your lives seriously, they are Nanban, they will not only enslave you but also kill you!"

"My lord is right, you can still live as a slave of the Qing Dynasty, but if you can rely on what the group of Ming dogs outside can do, you can only be a dog!"

At this time, a representative figure of the Han military landlord named Li Jiuyuan flattered Ye Keshu with a smile at this time.

As soon as he said this, the other Qing army banner soldiers all laughed, and some Han gentry also ignored the poor Han people on the city wall, and showed a smile and flattery.

Ye Keshu patted Li Jiuyuan's shoulder: "Li Jiuyuan, a good minion, what he said is very reasonable, following the Ming dog outside can only be a dog!" ”

At this time, the shells of the Guards flat-firing guns had directly collapsed the three gates of Huaiyuan Gate, Neizhi Gate, and Tianyou Gate to the ground, and the clattering thick wooden city gate fell to the ground, exposing the light in the city.

The Qing troops inside these three gates turned to look at the gates that suddenly made a loud noise.

"Kill!"

The cavalry battalions of the First Corps of the Second Army of the Two Guards, which had been on guard near the three gates, rushed in first.

The commander made Mao Jukui take the lead, Rao is he is actually alone at this time to face a large number of Qing troops in the city, but at this moment he is not afraid, three bows and arrows were shot out, and immediately hit three Qing soldiers, one shot to the throat of the Qing army, one shot to the eye socket of the Qing army, and one shot to the chest of the Qing army.

Mao Jukui rode his horse, because the distance was very close, close enough to collide with these Qing soldiers in a few seconds, Mao Jukui immediately reined in the reins and turned the horse's head, when the horse slowed down rapidly, when the whole person jumped forward because of inertia, he pulled out his war knife and cut it down directly, and immediately cut off the heads of four Qing soldiers, and there was almost no pause when the sharp Guards cavalry alloy steel knife slashed.

And these Qing troops at the city gate were stupid!

The Qing officers and soldiers did not expect that the city gate would be broken so quickly, they all thought that the Ming army would fire cannons on the city wall first, so they had only proudly watched the scene of the Han people on the city wall about to be bombarded to death, but they did not expect that the Ming army was the first to attack and break through the city gate, so these Qing troops were very caught off guard.

"What's going on?"

At this time, Ye Keshu, the governor of Shengjing, who was also in the Huaiyuan Gate area, also saw the scene of the city gate suddenly broken, so he was extremely surprised and asked, and at the same time, the whole person was also a little confused, as if he had been knocked on a stick, and the moment he saw the city gate suddenly break open and the Ming army appeared The moment he saw a large number of iron horsemen under his command being bombed and killed by the Ming army was even more shocking.

"Oh my God! No, how many firearms did the Ming army have that could break the cavalry and break the city gate, could it be that the iron box that I saw that day was not successful, but it would not have broken the Shengjing City of the official so quickly! ”

Ye Keshu exclaimed, clenched his fists in pain, and looked at the Ming army in front of him who was killing in the Qing army's camp, and he only instinctively shouted: "Hurry, stop them, stop them!" ”

Ahani, the deputy commander of the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner who was in charge of the defense, also forgot the severe pain in his left hand, and hurriedly killed him with a hundred armored soldiers and thousands of Qing army banner soldiers.

At this time, Mao Jukui and his cavalry had already entered Zhengyang Street, and these Qing infantry wanted to use a spear array to resist the Guards cavalry, but the Guards infantry behind the cavalry had already aimed at these Qing infantry who formed a spear formation, and shot these Qing infantry to the scene, disrupting the blocking formation of these Qing infantry, and sometimes the Guards artillery who followed the rear and rushed into the city would also see the opportunity to put a cannon on the Qing army behind.

As mentioned earlier, not all the artillery equipped by the artillery of the Guards Army was rifled guns, so it was the smoothbore guns that were mainly responsible for bombardment at this time, and I saw that the solid iron bullets fired by these smoothbore guns fell directly into the Qing army camp that was rushing towards Huaiyuanmen, and in a moment it was hard to plow a mountain of corpses and blood in the Qing army camp.

At this time, the deputy commander Ahani also happened to take a cadre of Qing troops to kill, but when he saw countless shells falling, he also panicked, and hurriedly withdrew with the Qing army, but there were still Qing troops who were directly smashed, and some even brought the entire houses next to the street were also smashed, and because of this, the Qing army was completely panicked and began to run from other streets in a hurry.

The 70,000 men and horses of the Guards entered from the three directions of Huaiyuan Gate, Neizhi Gate, and Tianyou Gate, and quickly occupied the three main streets corresponding to these three city gates.

The Qing army all retreated to the vicinity of the Shengjing Imperial Palace.

At this time, Ye Keshu and his Manchurian Eight Banners, deputy capital, as well as the Han gentry and landlords who supported the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Ye Keshu watched more and more Qing troops come back from defeat and heard the sound of fighting that was getting closer and closer, and the whole person also collapsed and knelt on the ground, and the head touched the ground: "Long live the Lord!" The minion is sorry for you, the minion failed to hold Shengjing City, why is this happening, why is this! ”

"Because you are not worthy to rule the world!"

Mao Jukui had already come here with the cavalry at this time, and these Qing officers and soldiers had no military heart to resist, and they all looked at Mao Jukui and other Ming troops in fear.

Li Jiuyuan shouted even more: "Master Jun, the younger one is the younger brother of Li Jiusi, the former commander of Liaodong, and the lower official has also been a thousand households in Fushun, and he is an official of the Ming Dynasty, and the lower official is thinking about the Ming Dynasty day and night, these have nothing to do with the small ones, it doesn't matter!" ”

(End of chapter)