Shengjing, the capital of the Qing Dynasty, the center of political power of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but a few years ago, after the Qing army crossed the Yangtze River and officially exterminated the Southern Ming regime, the Shunzhi Emperor moved the capital to Tianjing, but also regarded Shengjing as a companion capital and regarded it as a place of Longxing. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The morning sun was rising, and the first rays of sunlight shone on the gate of Shengjing City.

At this time, the suspension bridge of the gate of Shengjing City had just been lowered, and there were already a few pedestrians by the moat, shuttling between the city gates one after another.

A Qing soldier guarding the city gate was still sleepy, stretching lazily and yawning, even the spear that should have been carried with him was also leaned against the wall on the side.

After yawning, the Qing soldier smacked his mouth, rubbed his eyes, and muttered quietly while rubbing, "That little girl, I almost didn't kill my grandfather, I have an old waist... Before he finished speaking, his squinted eyes suddenly widened, his mouth could no longer be closed, and his eyes revealed a great look of horror.

I saw that in front of this Qing soldier, on the road facing the city gate, dust and smoke were rising, and a torrent of iron horses was like a river bursting the embankment, rushing towards the city gate.

The earth was shaking, and the sound of iron horses stepping on the ground rumbled, like ten thousand people beating drums, which shocked people with fear.

Now it is the period of the rise of the Qing Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty's iron cavalry crisscrosses the north and south of the river, and the slogan of "Jurchen is not ten thousand, and ten thousand are invincible" has resounded throughout this land of China, so although these cavalry are also equally powerful and majestic, they did not scare this gatekeeper soldier, what really alarmed this gatekeeper was that "these people actually did not have braids!! ”

What does it mean to have no braids?

Enemy!!!

Where is this?

The Shengjing of the Qing Dynasty, the accompanying capital, was once the capital.

Although the army has moved south, and the capital has been moved a few years ago, but Shengjing, as the land of Longxing, is still the hinterland of the Qing Dynasty. Actually found the enemy at the back of this Great Qing Dynasty, a large number of enemies, how could this little soldier not be frightened.

"Enemy attack! Closing the gates!! ”

With a wail, the little soldier wanted to rush to the city gate, but before he could turn around, he only felt that his body was suddenly light, his feet rose from the ground, and he stuck to the city wall with a "bang".

"I was nailed to the wall."

That was the last thought in the soldier's mind.

The arrival of the cavalry also quickly attracted the attention of the other soldiers defending the city, and suddenly, there was a chorus of harmony in the city gate tower, and before these cavalry arrived, the people themselves had already turned on their backs.

These cavalry rushed very quickly, and before these Qing soldiers defending the city could put away the drawbridge, they had already rushed to the city gate.

"Bang Bang Bang . . .

There was a burst of gunsmoke, and this time these cavalry shot no longer arrows, but three-god gods, and in an instant, the Qing soldiers in the city gate were killed and wounded.

"It's Guan Ning Iron Rider! It's Guanning Iron Cavalry!! ”

The terrible screams pierced the sky, and the Qing army inside the city gate was suddenly in chaos.

The horror of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, these people have either heard of it or seen it with their own eyes, the words "Guanning Iron Cavalry" have become a nightmare in their hearts, and suddenly encountered the Guanning Iron Cavalry today, and these Qing soldiers guarding the door were almost not directly frightened.

"Defend the gates! Defend the gates! ”

"Put away the drawbridge! Put away the drawbridge! ”

In the end, the elite troops who stayed in Shengjing were still elite, although they suffered heavy casualties, but under the leadership of some leaders, they still organized a resistance in front of them, although they were panicked, but the city gate suspension bridge was still slowly lifted.

This is also related to the fact that these "Guanning Iron Cavalry" did not take the opportunity to attack, only to see these "Guanning Iron Cavalry" rushing to the city gate, it was a series of gunshots, after knocking down a large area of Qing troops, they directly turned their horses' heads and retreated from the side of the city gate, and did not take the opportunity to seize the gate.

However, the "Guanning Iron Cavalry" was endless, and every time the gun rang out, a piece of Qing soldiers fell, and in order to raise the suspension bridge, these Qing soldiers defending the city paid hundreds of casualties.

Seeing that the drawbridge had been raised, and knowing that the results of the battle could not be expanded, these "Guanning Iron Cavalry" finally retreated in a burst of shouts, and stationed troops three miles away, with a posture of besieging but not attacking.

These "Guanning Iron Cavalry" are not the Guanning Iron Cavalry of the Ming Dynasty, but the cavalry corps led by Mu Ji.

Because the cavalry had the fastest footage, Muji's cavalry corps was the first to arrive in Shengjing.

Li Luan's 100,000 troops scattered and marched, surrounded Shengjing from all directions, all the way forward, all the Qing troops were wiped out, and now, the target of this 100,000 army is Shengjing, the ancestral land of the Qing Dynasty.

The soldiers are fast, and it stands to reason that Mu Ji's cavalry corps should take advantage of the situation to seize the city gate, and then go directly into the city, so as to take the initiative. Siege warfare, in the era of cold weapons, has always been a battle with huge casualties, especially on the besieging side, the casualties are definitely several times that of the defending side, otherwise there will be no "multiple is divided, five is attacked, ten is besieged", "the army is strategic, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and the next is to attack the city".

But why did Mu Ji make such a low-level mistake?

Because he has confidence.

Not to mention the various artillery pieces that the follow-up infantry corps will carry, but the hundreds of fire dragons of a dragoon regiment are not something that this small Shengjing City can resist.

Besides, now was not the time to grab credit, and he didn't want to face Lord Arnold's fists.

Not to mention Mu Ji's martial arts outside the city, in Shengjing City, it was already a mess at this time.

There are only more than 40,000 soldiers left behind in Shengjing City, but most of them are infantry, and the cavalry is only 3,000, so they dare not go out of the city to fight with Muji's cavalry corps. However, the cavalry is not good at attacking the city, and Shengjingcheng, as the former capital of the Qing Dynasty, has high walls and thick walls, and these left-behind generals are confident that they can defend Shengjing, and those enemies outside will definitely not be able to break through the iron walls of Shengjing.

After the initial panic, the Qing army in Shengjing City finally stabilized, and all the equipment that could be used to defend the city was transferred from the treasury and transported to the four city gates.

Under the confrontation with each other, the time of five days flew by in a flash.

In five days, 100,000 troops arrived one after another, completed the assembly, surrounded Shengjing City from all directions, and completed the siege.

During this period, the Qing army in Shengjing City would not watch the enemy trap themselves, and they also used stratagems to divide and destroy the army outside the city, but their conspiracies and tricks could not escape the monitoring of the wizard after all, not only did they not eliminate the army outside the city, but they were seized by Musang Muji and planned to make the Qing army suffer heavy losses.

After completing the siege, Arnold, the commander-in-chief of the campaign, finally arrived, and after some observation, he directly ordered to build a high platform around Shengjing City, put a few hundred meters of artillery on top of the high platform, and then bombarded Shengjing City indiscriminately day and night.

With the advantage of high platforms, the range of the cannon has undoubtedly increased a lot, not only to pass over high walls, but also to shoot at buildings in the center of the city.

Under the indiscriminate bombardment day and night, in just a few days, all the houses within 150 meters of the city wall in Shengjing City were razed to the ground, and even the buildings along the line towards the city center were also damaged, and the thick city wall, which was called the copper wall by the Qing army, was also bombarded by artillery at this time, and the cracks were all over the place, and several city gate towers were destroyed into shapeless.

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians in Shengjing City could only survive under the bombardment of these cannons, like turtles with shrunken heads, trembling and fearing all day long, for fear that they would be unlucky that day, and they would be hit by a cannonball falling from the sky, and they would know their lives.

Of course, Arnold didn't know what the soldiers and civilians in Shengjing City were thinking, and now he was shouting every day to increase the number of cannons, and even let the alchemists who accompanied the army refine cannons with a larger caliber, just the shells that were blasted out every day weighed 100 tons, fortunately, Arnold's army was not mortal, and a large number of wizards followed the army, otherwise depending on the consumption of this ammunition, it was not an ordinary army that could keep up.

Another half a month flew by.

In this half month, Shengjing City, the proud city of the Manchu Qing Dynasty and the city of Longxing, was crumbling under the continuous bombardment of artillery day and night, and every soldier and civilian in Shengjing City had deep eye sockets, looking exhausted, and it was obvious that it had reached its limit.

In half a month, Arnold's 100,000 army finally completed the task of extermination, and made the final assembly, and the entire Liaodong Peninsula, except for this Shengjing City, could no longer see a single Qing army, and all the Qing troops were wiped out by this 100,000 army.

The completion of the 100,000-strong army also means the arrival of the general attack.

On this day, the sky dawned and the cold did not disappear.

Outside Shengjing City, the sound of horns rose up at night, and the rumbling cannons that had been resounding for more than half a month finally stopped, but everyone in Shengjing City did not let go of the tense heartstrings in their hearts, because they all knew that the last moment had finally arrived. (To be continued.) )