Chapter 60 Start

Gao Qiqian, with a group of brocade guards and small eunuchs, in the name of the supervision of the army, went deep into the officers and soldiers of the city defense under his jurisdiction in the past two days, carried out a close inspection, urged the city garrison and military affairs to fight to the death, and asked for the emperor's will, claiming that if anyone retreats in the battle, he would kill his head.

On the morning of the general attack, Yu Xiaotian also asked his men to give an ultimatum to the defenders in the city at the gates for the last time, and shot a letter to the city. It was a letter of persuasion written by Yu Xiaotian to these defenders. In the letter, Li Chen, who was very "heartbroken", was forced to rise up to attack the capital this time. In this way, he angrily scolded some officials in the court for being greedy and did not want to serve the country, but framed Zhongliang.

If he is going to attack the city now, he will definitely cause some casualties to the defenders. He is very sad and unbearable about this, but for the sake of the Ming Society, he has to do so. He hopes that these officers and soldiers can return lost their way, take down the high and sneak down, open the gate to welcome him into Beijing. After he eliminates these hordes in the court, he will definitely Return the world to a bright universe, and return Lu Xiang to an innocent person.

This letter was copied a lot by military scribes and scattered into the city by archers. Some of the letters shot to the head of the city were immediately confiscated by Gao Li's men, but some of the letters still fell into the hands of the garrison. Some people could not understand the words, so they quickly found a literate to read it.

The content of this letter immediately spread among the defenders like the wind, and everyone who had heard the content of this letter became more demoralized.

As soon as he arrived in the morning, Yu Xiaotian issued an order for the general attack, and then the artillery position had already been arranged immediately sounded like thunder.

All types of shells roared and hit the stacks on the wall. After the first and second round of school shooting, the artillery of the Yu family army became bigger and more accurate.

Within hundreds of steps, with the accuracy of artillery and the quality of artillery, the goal of stacking is a piece of cake.

In addition, the enemy buildings in the city are not a problem. It can be said that after the school shooting, the next shelling was almost empty.

Under the heavy artillery bombardment of the family army, the enemy platforms were quickly beaten by bricks and stones. They were destroyed one after another and collapsed. The officers and soldiers who fought against the enemy Taiwan fled the enemy Taiwan one by one.

With the launch of the shelling by the Yu family army, the officers in the city were also ordered to start to fight back. At this time, the number of artillery on the wall was no less than that of the Yu family army, and many of them had some heavy Hongyi cannons. These gunners who operated the guns were raised high and ordered to fire back immediately.

So the officer's gunners were reluctant to set fire, and saw that the city wall suddenly spewed out flame smoke, and the cyan, black and gray smoke suddenly permeated the whole battlefield.

The various types of shells of both sides roared through the air and hit the top of the other party's head. Such a scene can be said to be unprecedented in the history of the Ming Dynasty. At the beginning of the war, firearms became the master of the battlefield.

Unfortunately, the artillery of the officers and soldiers are mostly old-style guns, with close range and poor shooting accuracy, and the training of the gunners is extremely lacking. In addition, many artillery have nothing to aim at all. It depends on the gunner's experience to aim. The amount of charge is also determined by the gunner's experience, which makes their artillery accuracy very poor. .

At the beginning of the artillery battle, the officers' artillery was completely suppressed by the artillery fire of the Yu family army. Although they also fired a lot of shells, most of the shells fell on the open space, which did not pose much threat to the artillery position of the Yu family army.

Moreover, Yu's artillery position was well built. The main body was piles of soil, and a lot of cloth bags were brought from Tongzhou. The sand piles were filled in front of the gun position of the artillery in advance. In order to absorb the kinetic energy of the shells, they also made a lot of wicker baskets and installed sand piles in front of the artillery.

The main types of artillery in this era are still solid bullets. The officers and soldiers are only equipped with a very small number of flowering bombs, and the operation of flowering bullets in this era is very complicated. It is necessary to temporarily cut the signal tube to set the explosion time of the shell. In addition, it is also easy to cause accidents, resulting in bombs or rigid It exploded as soon as it was fired, causing a lot of casualties to the operating gunner.

Therefore, even if the officer is equipped with a small number of flowering bombs, few people dare to use them, and can only use solid iron or stone shells to shell.

The most important thing for these solid bullets to play a role is to make full use of the bounce effect, rely on the shell to bounce and continue to rush forward, killing living targets or enemy equipment along the way.

Now in the artillery battle, although the officers and army fired a lot of shells, they lost their effect in front of the perfect artillery positions of the family army. Even if some shells fall in front of the artillery positions, the shells jump forward and rush forward, and they will mostly be blocked by these wicker baskets, sandbags and earth piles, and the artillery on the position cannot be destroyed.

Unless the shell is accurately smashed into the gun position, it is possible to destroy the cannon of the Yu family army. Therefore, in the face of the inferior artillery skills of the officers and soldiers, the artillery position of the Yu family army basically did not suffer much loss.

In contrast, the gunners of the family army are well trained, the sights are advanced, the shooting is quite accurate, and the city stacking is basically like playing without any pressure.

Although the female wall of the city stack itself is also very strong, it is far from the main body of the city wall. There is no problem with bows and arrows, but it is impossible to block the shells.

As long as it is hit by shells, the masonry will immediately fall down, and the officers and soldiers hiding behind the stack will also be unlucky. Either they will be directly bombarded, killed and injured by masonry, and may even be buried alive by the collapsed masonry.

For a moment, the defenders in the city were beaten with exclamation and screaming, running around the city wall to avoid flying shells and splashing masonry.

Gao Qiqian was still personally supervising the battle on the wall. When he saw that the artillery fire of the Yu family was so fierce, he was so scared that his face turned pale. He escaped from the wall with his tail between his legs, jumped under the wall and shouted, and continued to urge the officers and soldiers to guard.

Yu Jiajun's tactics are quite effective. The stacks were knocked off one by one by one in the roar of cannons. The originally well-crafted city wall soon turned into the old lady's gums, and there were gaps everywhere. Officers and soldiers dared not stay on the wall at all, let alone drill behind the stacks. Who hid in the stacks? Later, whoever may become the next victim and be knocked over by the shell with the stack.

As for the artillery on the city, they are the key objects of the family army. The artillery has special observers to indicate the target for the gunners. They stare at the city wall and search every stack on the wall with low-power binoculars. As long as they find cannons with officers and soldiers, they will immediately provide them with artillerymen. Instructions.

The gunners immediately adjusted their guns according to their instructions and aimed at the positions of these guns, and then fired guns to destroy them.

At the beginning, the gunners of the officers and soldiers fought happily, but it didn't take long for them to find that things were not good. Many artillery fire would soon lead to the artillery bombardment of the Yu family army under the city. In a short time, many artillery were destroyed by the artillery of the Yu family army.

Even if it was not hit directly, the shell hit the women's wall, and the splashed bricks and stones also smashed the gunner with flesh and blood, and the gunners in the city were killed and injured very badly.

Originally, the morale of the officers and soldiers was not high. After discovering this, many gunners hurriedly stopped firing, and even quickly dragged the cannon back, and dared not let the cannon appear again to avoid the shelling outside the city.

The original lively artillery on the wall was completely dumb in less than half an hour. Either it was destroyed by the Yu family army on the spot, or it was so scared that it shrank back and did not dare to show its hair and fight back.

After the initial rapid shooting, the artillery of the Yu family army completely suppressed the official artillery on the wall and began to slow down the shelling speed. They continued to knock down the piles on the wall in an orderly manner, cut down many piles and turned them into piles of rubble.

Needless to say, the officers and soldiers have been killed and injured a lot. The rest either lay on a safer place on the wall, holding a shield to protect their heads and dare not get up, or fled to the wall, so that few people could hardly be seen on the wall.

The shelling lasted for a whole hour. At noon, the Yu family's military engineers and siege infantry, who had been waiting for the night, received an order from Yu Xiaotian. Then the officers pulled out their waist knives one by one, raised their heads, and made a cry like a wolf howling: "Brothers, come with me!"

Countless officers and soldiers pushed various siege equipment or carried many siege equipment on their shoulders. Like a tide, they swarmed out of their starting place. Under the leadership of countless officers, they only rushed towards the city wall.

The shouting suddenly resounded throughout the battlefield, like a tsunami, rolling all over the capital.

At this time, the engineering troops finally came to show their power. Although they were not the main attacking force, they were responsible for the main attacking force to open up the passage close to the city wall.

Yu Xiaotian directly gave up attacking the city gate, because all the outer gates of the capital were built with a strong barbican city. Even if he entered the barbican city, he still could not enter the city, so he simply ordered the attacking troops to directly attack the city wall, and Pan Cheng went up and captured the gate.

So they have to open the passage near the city wall first, but it is not a simple task to open this passage.

Because the capital of the Ming Dynasty, the capital of the capital of the Ming Dynasty, is the capital of the Ming Dynasty, and all kinds of fortifications have been built very complete. In addition, after the year of Chongzhen, the slaves entered the customs several times. The first time they entered the customs and went straight to the capital city, which made Chongzhen very nervous and did not hesitate to spare manpower and material resources. After that, he vigorously strengthened the city defense.

So looking around the world, few cities can have such perfect fortifications as Beijing.

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