September 26, 13th year of Chongzhen.

The Jingbei Army, which claimed to be Fengtian Jingnan, finally arrived at the Guangqu Gate in the outer city of Jingshi.

As the saying goes, there are tens of thousands of people, boundless and boundless, and the Jingbei army came with the power of the great victory in Tongzhou, and the momentum is naturally not comparable to the Beijing camp defending the city and the Baoding soldiers under the Guangqu Gate.

Due to the strong city wall of Beijing, Li Xingzhi did not dare to rashly attack, but laid out a camp along the area of Guangqu Gate, Guangning Gate and Desheng Gate, with 8,000 troops of the Miyun Army of the Fourth Town and Tangtong stationed at Guangqumen, and 6,000 remnants of Guanning from Xinsi Town and Gaodi stationed at Deshengmen, and he himself commanded the Manchurian and Han green banners and iron soldiers stationed at Dongbianmen between Guangqumen and Desheng Gate.

In addition, Li Xingzhi carried 50 Hongyi cannons into Beijing this time and arranged them at the junction of the three Dazhai as fire support for his side.

Just after noon.

Under Li Xingzhi's military order, the fourth town of the Jingbei Army and the new fourth town arranged a total of 18 hollow military formations between Guangqu Gate and Desheng Gate, and the surrendered troops of Tang Tong and Gaodi were arranged between the two large formations.

Before the siege equipment such as ladders, rushing cars, wells, and shield carts urgently built in Tongzhou were also neatly pushed down in the big array.

In the earth-shattering drums and cannons, the Jingbei Army set up two big flags, one is the king flag of the German king Zhu Youshu, the other side is the big book Emperor Ming Penglai Hou Li six big characters, the left and right sides of the two big flags are hung two long white flags, one book "Fengtian", the other side is the book "Jingnan!" ”

"Go and report to Your Majesty, Huang Shuai is right, Tang Tong and Gao Di really rebelled, so don't worry, our Beijing city is high and wide, and there are 3,000 Baoding soldiers under the Guangqu Gate, and it is absolutely impossible for Li Cheng to capture the outer city of my Beijing Division."

Looking at the strict military formation under the city, Li Guozhen, the uncle of Xiangcheng, was a little nervous, after all, this was the first time that his old man supervised the army to defend the city, and his opponent was the famous Shandong army.

"Chuan Ben Marshal ordered that the Miyun soldiers and the Guanning army attack from the left and right flanks to attack the Baoding army stationed under the Guangqu Gate, and tell Tang Tong and Gao Di that this battle can only be defeated, not won, but it cannot be defeated at the touch of a button."

"Whoa!"

On the three-zhang Yuan Rong car, Li Xingzhi stood by his sword, and beside him was Zhu Youshu, the king of Germany, whose face was extremely pale.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

With the issuance of Li Xingzhi's military order, the twenty-five Hongyi cannons arranged between the Guangqu Gate and the Dongbian Gate were lit by the gunners in turn.

More than 20 iron bullets fell on Huang Wenchang's camp under the Guangqu Gate like a heavy hammer and a drum.

After the entire Jingbei Army's large array, a choking smoke of gunpowder suddenly filled the air.

The effect of the first round of shooting was not good, only two iron bullets smashed on the wall of the Ming army under the city, and the rest of the iron bullets either fell in front of the wall of the Baoding army, stirring up dust in the sky, or smashed on the thick wall of Beijing, laying countless brick and stone debris.

There was no need for Li Xingzhi's orders, and one by one the artillerymen of the Jingbei Army hurriedly adjusted the muzzle of the gun and added medicine.

"Bang, bang, bang."

There were bursts of artillery roar in the Jingbei army's formation, and this time seven or eight iron bullets directly hit the wall of Baoding Wall, and even one iron bullet hit the watchtower of the Ming Army's military village.

Obviously, the wooden walled walls and watchtowers could not withstand the bombardment of iron bullets weighing more than two catties, and all the parts hit by the cannons were either blasted out of the crater with the mouth of the bowl, or the keel that was smashed was shattered and collapsed.

"Open the cannon, open the cannon, fire the cannon to Lao Tzu!"

Liu Wenxiu, the general of the new four towns commanded before the battle, roared hoarsely, as the godson of Zhang Xianzhong, the eighth king, Liu Wenxiu, the thief, never thought that he would be able to shell Beijing City one day.

In the rumbling cannon, 3,000 Miyun soldiers and more than 1,000 Guanning troops pushed up countless shield carts and pressed towards the camp of the official army under the Guangqu Gate.

"Damn, Li Xingzhi is really going to fight this dog day, quickly give Lao Tzu the whole team, the white pole soldiers are in front, the mandarin duck soldiers are behind, and the long-range soldiers are deployed in the gap in the white pole soldiers' military formation, let's go out of the village to meet the enemy, and inform Li Guozhen to cover Lao Tzu."

Looking at more than a dozen Baoding soldiers who were smashed into pulp by cannons, Huang Wenchang was furious, and lifted the Qinglong broadsword on his side and pointed directly at Li Xingzhi's general flag.

"Huang Shuai waved the flag, passed the order of the governor, bombarded Li Shun's artillery position, and covered Huang Shuai's attack."

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

The Jingbei Army had Hongyi cannons, and the Beijing Division also had a considerable number of Hongyi cannons.

At that time, the slave chief Hong Taikou plundered Gyeonggi, and once fought Yuan Chonghuan under Guangqumen, Yuan Chonghuan relied on the cover of the Hongyi cannon in the city to repel the Manchurian soldiers who were known as invincible in the world.

Although there are only more than ten Hongyi cannons deployed at the head of the city, after all, the position of these artillery guns is much higher, standing high, and seeing far away, this also applies to artillery.

"Boom, boom, boom......!"

More than a dozen gunners of the Beijing camp waved the torches in their hands heavily, and the fire rope connecting the gun barrel was ignited instantly, and as the fire on the fire rope flashed, the artillery of the Ming army spewed out dazzling tongues of fire.

The gunners of the Ming army, who had not practiced for a long time, obviously did not eat too accurately in adjusting the gun positions and the loading amount of medicines, and the first round of artillery bombardment of the officers and troops did not hit the artillery array of the Jingbei Army on the opposite side, but into the military formation of the Jingbei Army.

The sharp cannon sound was very ear-piercing, with a loud "boom", a cannonball hit a shield car, and the shield car that exploded was torn apart on the spot, and the sawdust flew everywhere, and the round car bounced into the air at once, and instantly smashed to the ground, "pop", and scattered all over the ground.

More than a dozen Miyun soldiers hiding behind the shield cart were blown up by the cannons, and they didn't know how many places they were divided into, and there were mostly scattered stumps and broken arms everywhere.

With the missiles of lead, iron and stones, more than a dozen Miyun soldiers were killed or wounded, and within the range of the cannons, there was a mess, and the screams rose and fell with each other.

There were also many Miyun soldiers who were directly hit by the cannons, and their bodies were blown up into many pieces, and broken bones and broken flesh flew everywhere, so it was not terrifying.

The Miyun soldiers who were injured by the explosion only hated that they couldn't die early, and they were so painful that they kept rolling and wailing on the ground, screaming miserably.

"Okay, Li Guozhen's cannon is good, Zhang Da, you bring two mandarin duck soldiers from the infantry team and a white pole soldier from the infantry team to twist Tang Tong's head off as a night pot, Xu Zhijian, you take someone to fight Gaodi."

The mistake of the officers and soldiers defending the city hit the auxiliary car, which made Huang Wenchang, the chief soldier of Baoding, overjoyed, and Li Xingzhi let Tang Tong and Gao Di, the two cowards, be the vanguard, which was obviously to make himself meritorious.

"Okay, just like that, just like that!"

Li Guozhen, who failed to hit the artillery position of the Jingbei Army, saw that the whole army of the Baoding Army was dispatched, and changed the military order of the rebel artillery array on the spot.

He knows the city wall of Beijing, and with Li Xingzhi's Hongyi cannons, he may not be able to break through the city wall of Beijing for a year, so his artillery team might as well cover the Baoding soldiers who attacked.

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