Chapter 59 Persuasion

When Yu Xiaotian heard this, he put his pipe on the case, and his eyes had brightened. He immediately asked Liu Tong, "So can this smart tiger persuade Yang Guozhu to defect?"

Liu Tong shook his head and said, "I'm afraid this won't work. Yang Guozhu is loyal. Although he also hates Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, I'm afraid it's impossible to persuade him to defect!"

Yu Xiaotian touched his chin, leaned against the back of the chair, picked up his pipe, took a sip, and then asked, "Where's the smart tiger?"

Liu Tong showed a treacherous smile at this time and nodded, "This is promising! This time, the lord entered Beijing under the banner of Qing Jun's side, called to kill Yang Sichang and Gao Qiqian, Xue Guoguan, Liu Yuliang and others, and made Gao Minghu very happy to say in the article that he wanted to complain about Lu Junmen.

Although Gao Minghu did not explicitly say that he would open the city to surrender, his attitude was obviously very ambiguous! My subordinates have sent people to contact our people in the city yesterday to tell Gao Minghu that as long as the master enters Beijing, the first one will kill Gao Qiqian and Yang Sichang to avenge Lu Junmen!

At present, there is no news in the city, but according to the estimation of the humble position, it is very likely that Gao Minghu will defect. This time, the lord took Chaoyangmen as the main target and mastted to attack Dongzhimen, which is indeed in the middle and inferior position!

But the humble position should remind the lord that once you start to attack Dongzhimen, don't fight too hard there, try to suppress shooting, and don't kill more. Otherwise, the inferior position doesn't know what will happen! This smart tiger is rumored to be very sympathetic to his soldiers, but don't let the guys of the 4th and 7th Brigade hit the wind and kill Gao Minghu!"

After hearing this, Yu Xiaotian immediately laughed, stood up and walked to Liu Tong, slapped Liu Tong on the shoulder heavily, and said with a smile, "If the siege is successful this time, Liu Tong will be the first! OK! Just do as you said, come and ask Qiu Qinghui, the commander of the Fourth Brigade, to come and see me immediately..."

With the launch of the Yu's army offensive, the whole capital was suddenly shrouded in a rumble of gunfire. Hundreds of various types of cannons were lined up outside Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, building a strong artillery position, a cannon, and a black hole gun mouth pointed straight to the city.

With Yu Xiaotian's order, the general attack began. Yu Jiajun once again took out their specialty, first bombarded with artillery, and then rushed with infantry.

Outside the Chaoyang Gate, more than a dozen 24-pound siege heavy guns began to roar at the same time, spitting out dazzling light, flashing out a mass of flames, and then raised a large area of smoke.

The huge gunfire immediately resounded over the whole capital, and the rest of the 12-pound wild guns and a small number of six-pound long guns were not willing to show weakness, followed by alternately.

Dozens of cannons, one after another, hit various types of shells like hail on the city wall of Beijing. The bricks and stones flew around on the wall, and the defenders shouted screams and rose to the sky.

If you look carefully, you can find that although the artillery fire of Yu's army is very fierce, it does not focus on bombarding the city wall, but concentrating all the firepower between the wall stacks, as if hitting a target, knocking off the stacks one by one.

The stack is an important part of China's ancient city wall, which also refers to the women's wall, which is mainly used by defenders to hide or look at, and to release arrows under the city through the lower perforation.

This time, the whole army reached an agreement on the way to attack the city. They all realized that it was basically impossible to rely on the guns at hand to bomb down a section of the wall, and they did not have so much ammunition, let alone wasted so much time.

Therefore, they should disintegrate the fighting will of the defenders on the wall as quickly as possible, and also eliminate the various types of artillery placed on the wall. These artillery will pose a great threat to the siege troops and must be knocked down as soon as possible to clear the passage for the next siege troops.

If you want to do this, you must first remove these dense stacks and remove the stacks, and the defenders on the wall will lose their support and cover. Next, they will become the hunting target of the army. Otherwise, the defenders will hide behind the stacks, which can not only easily look out of the city, but also use the stacks to cover. Protect, shoot arrows or shoot arrows at the bottom of the city from the hole under the stack.

In addition, a large number of artillery will also fire at the bottom of the city with the help of stacks, which will seriously weaken the lethal power of the infantry of the family army and cause immeasurable casualties to the attacking Yu family soldiers.

So before the general attack began, Yu Xiaotian ordered the artillery to concentrate all their firepower, first hit the stack, look for the artillery on the stack, and knocked off the artillery before the infantry attack began.

So before the war, the artillery had already divided the area they were responsible for, and even each stack was assigned to each gun.

When the general attack order was issued, the artillerymen immediately aimed at their pre-selected targets and began the first round of fierce shelling.

The accuracy of the first round of artillery volley is not very high. The artillery needed a calibration process, so some shells fell on the wall, smashed a large pit on the wall, collapsed a lot of city bricks, stripped off some city bricks, and exposed the main body of the rammed city wall under the city bricks.

In addition, some shells hit high, flew directly over the city wall, flew into the city, and then fell heavily into some houses in the city.

Among them, several 24-pound cannon shells simply flew several miles away and landed far away in the city. Several houses were destroyed on the spot, and there was a sound of exclamations and screams in the city.

As long as it is a war, it will inevitably cause civilian casualties, which is also inevitable. It also puts some pressure on the people in the city. After all, this time Yu Xiaotian's banner, but on the Qing Dynasty side, what he wants to deal with is not the emperor or overthrowing the Ming Dynasty, but against the court. Those courtiers who eat people and don't do anything.

Even yesterday, Yu Xiaotian also made a special order to publicize the defenders in the city in the area of Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen, Guangqumen and Zuo'anmen, ordering the defenders to give up resistance, or to name the current saint to ask more than 40 ministers such as Yang Sichang, Gao Qiqian, Chen Xinjia and Xue Guoguan. Tie it up and send out the city diplomacy to Yu's army for disposal.

If today's emperor agrees to the conditions put forward by Yu Jiajun and hand over these treacherous people who harm the country and the people, then Yu Xiaotian expressed his willingness to withdraw his troops back to Fujian immediately.

In fact, these words are only for ordinary soldiers and ordinary people. The purpose of doing this is to divide the relationship between ordinary officers and soldiers, ordinary people and these ministers, so that it is really not cost-effective to fight with the family army. They are working for these officials and masters, which is really not worth it.

And Yu Xiaotian's result of doing this has indeed had a quite good effect. Through this period of time, Yu Xiaotian has spread the usual deeds of these ministers and their bad deeds in advance.

It can be said that these people have already become some stinky fish and rotten shrimp in the eyes of ordinary officers and soldiers and ordinary people, and their reputation has long been made to be smelly.

So now Yu Xiaotian proposes to kill these guys, which can be said to be in line with the hearts of the people. Among the ordinary low-level class, there is quite a market.

Of course, Yu Xiaotian is also very clear that he is so forced to the palace. Emperor Chongzhen in today's palace will certainly not agree. If he agrees to Yu Xiaotian's request, what dignity does the emperor have? Isn't it just Yu Xiaotian who has the final say in this world? Yu Xiaotian said to arrest whoever he said, and kill whoever he said to kill. What is his emperor?

Therefore, the ultimate goal of such a big publicity is just to disintegrate the fighting spirit of the defenders, which makes the defenders feel that it is really not worth fighting with the army.

Moreover, Yu Xiaotian also had to copy the loudspeaker and constantly preach to the soldiers defending the city, saying that the Yu family's army went to Beijing only for the Qing Dynasty side and would never kill innocent people indiscriminately. As long as the defenders opened the city and welcomed them into the capital, they would definitely ensure their safety and protect their property.

And such propaganda is obviously very lethal. After a day of continuous propaganda, the court has no response, but the morale of the defenders has become more and more low. Many people complain in private that this battle is really not worth it.

They fought with Jiannu because Jiannu is a foreign bandit and a robber. If you don't hit him, he will kill you, so you have to fight, but Yu Jiajun and others all know that this time he came to fight Jiannu, and indeed destroyed the Jiannu army. They rebelled, which was forced by the court to do nothing. Now they want to come to Qingjun's side. What are they doing? It's not worth fighting with Yu Jiajun.

And Yu Jiajun made it clear that if they don't do their business after entering the city, they will never kill innocent people indiscriminately. These soldiers only eat food and get salaries, and they are also innocent people. It's better not to tear their faces with Yu Jiajun.

But the defenders don't want to fight in their hearts, but Gao Qiqian is a bastard who is determined to fight! Because this time Yu Xiaotian attacked the capital, he said it too clearly. After entering Beijing by name, he had to talk about his superior first.

So once Yu Xiaotian is allowed to attack the city, he will die immediately. He can't agree to anything. It turns out that the bottom is gone. If the top is cut off again, it will be too sad, so he still takes the head of the item very seriously.

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