Chapter 31: Before the Decisive Battle!
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Five miles outside Beijing, Li Zicheng, who was dressed in a red jacket and robe, sat on top of the handsome car, and he was commanding the Dashun army to attack the city with a solemn face, but he suddenly sneezed.
Around Li Zicheng, dense human heads were constantly shaking, spreading from five meters in front of Li Zicheng to under the city walls of Beijing, and the almost boundless Dashun soldiers had surrounded the city of Beijing!
"Rush, !!"
Thousands of Dashun soldiers continued to pour into the city of Beijing, hundreds of siege equipment were carried under the city wall, and countless Dashun soldiers climbed along the ladder to the city wall like a tiger climbing the wall.
As far as the eye can see, the Beijing city wall, which is dozens of meters high, is as if it is full of soldiers the size of ants!
The siege cones weighing thousands of pounds bombarded the Beijing city gate again and again, and each bombardment made a huge sound like lightning and thunder, as if it was going to bombard the entire Beijing city into powder!
"Bang bang bang-"
Hundreds of tiger squat cannons, Franky cannons, and Hongyi cannons on the city wall of Beijing continue to pour down continuous artillery fire, and tens of thousands of Ming archers continue to fire countless arrows, and hundreds of Dashun soldiers die every minute!
The artillery fire of the Dashun army is not weaker than that of the Ming army in Beijing, and there are solid shells bombarding the battlements of the Beijing city wall all the time, and the scattered stones are taking the lives of many Ming soldiers all the time!
And such a scene of death battle is not only Li Zicheng, but also the nine gates of Beijing!
With the passage of time, the offensive of the Dashun army became more and more ferocious, and more and more of the Dashun soldiers who could not be killed attacked on the city wall, and the defensive strength of the Ming army became weaker and weaker, and tens of thousands of archers were exhausted, and the counterattack force began to become much worse than before!
Even, there was a section of more than 200 meters long that had been occupied by the Dashun soldiers, and countless Dashun soldiers excitedly climbed up the ladder!
If it weren't for the Ming army guards with more than 100 families to kill the enemy desperately and drive these Dashun soldiers off the city wall before there were more and more enemies, I am afraid that this city wall would have been completely lost!
Carrying out the ant-attached siege with almost endless troops, like a grinding disc of flesh and blood, the Ming army defending the city is the tactic executed by the Dashun army!
The Ming army defending the city of Beijing is not a lot at all, under the stiff pull of Emperor Chongzhen, the Ming army in Beijing has nearly 200,000 people!
It stands to reason that the gap between the soldiers of the two armies is not too big, and the ant siege should not have much effect on the Ming army in Beijing.
But in fact, this tactic is extremely lethal to the Ming army!
You must know that although there are more than 100,000 Ming soldiers in the Beijing camp, these Ming soldiers are not only rarely trained three times a year, but also deprived by many superiors and officials.
With such treatment, what combat power can you expect these Ming soldiers to have?
To tell the truth, the garbage-like rogue soldiers may be able to fight three of these Ming troops!
Such a Ming army, in the face of countless fierce and vicious soldiers of the Great Shun Ant Siege, can still afford to hold the sword in his hand is not bad!
In the history of modern earth, it took a little more than a day for Li Zicheng's Dashun army to capture this tall and majestic city, which can be called the world's first......
If it is replaced by 50,000 Beiwei troops to defend Beijing City, under the condition of perfect food logistics, let alone a mere 500,000 Dashun army, even if all the millions of troops in the world are sent to Beijing City in this era, it will definitely be in vain!
Obviously, Li Zicheng and others also think so, and they feel that the capture of a city like Beijing can never be done in a month or two months.
Therefore, before the siege of the city, the 500,000 Dashun army was very seriously prepared for a protracted war, and tens of thousands of Dashun soldiers were distributed in the major Xiongguan important places around Beijing, and they were deeply afraid of being surrounded by the army of King Qin from all over the country.
With the manpower and material resources of Jiangnan in the late Ming Dynasty, if you can gather the power of the gentry to Qin Wang, you can even form a million army!
Therefore, Li Zicheng and others were also prepared to leave those Dashun soldiers as cannon fodder as cannon fodder once the situation was not right, and planned to run away directly with the 60,000 elite old battalions......
Moreover, even Emperor Chongzhen himself thought so, he felt that with the solidity of Beijing City and the strong combat effectiveness of hundreds of thousands of Beijing battalion troops, it was more than enough to defend Beijing City for half a year.
Even if it doesn't take half a year at all, there is no need for the army of King Qin, as long as the Dashun army can't capture Beijing City in three months, the Dashun army, which has run out of grain and grass, has only one way to go by self-collapse!
Therefore, even though he had long known that the Dashun army might invade Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen still refused to retreat to the very safe city of Nanjing in advance.
For the sake of safety, the prince wanted to retreat to Nanjing City with the royal family first, but Emperor Chongzhen still dragged the prince to prevent him from retreating.
As a result, the Dashun army broke through the city of Beijing in one day, and Chongzhen's family was directly served in one pot......
Presumably, when Li Zicheng learned the news of the attack on Beijing City, he was definitely happy.
Presumably, when Emperor Chongzhen learned the news that Beijing City had been breached, he was absolutely confused.
Presumably, when the prince learned the news that Beijing City had been breached, he definitely had a dog's expression on his face.
If the crown prince could retreat to Nanjing City in advance, and after the city of Beijing was broken, he would come forward to preside over the overall situation of the Ming Court, and it was really hard to say whether the Ming Dynasty would fall.
Therefore, Emperor Chongzhen is really desperate like this, and if he disagrees, he will kill the whole family, so I will ask you if you accept it!