Chapter 63 Attack 3

Are you kidding? This was originally caused by you guys. Now they want to kill you by name, but they don't want to kill me, Cao Huachun. Your boy just ran back, patted his chest and asked the saint for credit, and took over the guard in the east of the city. Now it's only one day, you can't stand it.

Now the Yu family army concentrates its strength, attacking Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen, and constantly attacking Guangqumen, which just makes the three battalions of Beijing and the officers and soldiers of the brave guard battalions breathe a sigh of relief. Now you want them to take over your men and guard Chaoyangmen, which is simply a joke!

What are the virtues of the officers and soldiers of these three battalions and brave guards battalions? It's better to make the people safer to defend Chaoyangmen, and Cao Huachun did not dare to easily mobilize these officers and soldiers under his command, for fear that at this time, the Yu family's army will shoot and change places to attack the capital. At that time, it will be easy to send soldiers to high and dive, and it will be difficult to come back.

Therefore, Cao Huachun insisted on sweeping the snow in front of each door and who would take care of anyone, so he severly refused the request of Gao Qian.

In desperation, he had no choice but to transfer a group of officers and soldiers from Guangqumen and strengthen them to Chaoyangmen. In addition, he inquired about the situation on Dongzhimen.

Dongzhimen was also attacked by the Yu family army that day, but on the whole, the attack of the family army was not too fierce there, and it did not go this way. They bombarded the women's wall on the city with cannons, mostly hitting the wall and smashed a lot of bricks, but the officers and soldiers there were not many casualties there.

Yang Guozhu also claimed that they killed hundreds of rebels on that day and repelled several attacks by the rebels. After listening, he was more or less relieved about the defense of Dongzhimen. He completely determined that the direction of Yu's army's main attack this time must be Chaoyangmen, so he quickly found a way to transfer to Chaoyangmen. The soldiers sent generals to try to defend the Chaoyang Gate.

The next day, Yu Xiaotian launched a fierce offensive outside the Chaoyang Gate again. Under the cover of rifles and cannons, the new barracks entered the battle again. According to Yu Xiaotian's request, three passages to the city wall were completely opened within half a day.

At noon, the new battalion that completed the mission was withdrawn to rest in the battalion, and a group of ready infantry then began to pass through the three moat channels and rushed straight to the sheep and horse wall inside the city river.

At this time, the officers and soldiers who were lurking on the sheep and horse wall were scared. They only resisted a little, then dispersed and fled to both sides. As soon as some officers and soldiers closed their eyes, they simply lost their guys and knelt on the ground and surrendered. There was still a way to survive. If they didn't surrender, they would fight with the Yu's army, which was difficult to catch up. He was beaten to death when he came down.

Yu's army's offensive troops took down the sheep and horse wall with little effort, but taking down the sheep and horse wall does not mean that they have opened the passage to the foot of the city wall.

This sheep and horse wall still prevented the Yu family's siege equipment from approaching the city wall, so the engineering company immediately followed and began to dig holes at the foot of the sheep and horse wall.

Under the crazy excavation of these miners, big holes were immediately opened at the foot of the sheep and horse wall.

Then a large number of explosive bags were carried up from behind and filled into these holes. The engineers quickly blocked these holes, and then the attacking troops withdrew all out of the moat with an order.

I only heard a series of earth-shaking roars from the ground. The sheep and horse wall was more than 100 meters long and suddenly arched upwards, and then the earth and rocks rose to the sky, and the smoke and dust shrouded the wall around the Chaoyang Gate.

The people on the wall, including the people on the wall, felt a violent vibration under their feet. After the dust and gunpowder smoke dissipated slightly, they looked down. About 20 steps down the wall of the city wall, and now more than 100 steps have turned into ruins.

This blasting operation completely destroyed this section of the sheep and horse wall. The engineers and infantry went into battle together, cleaned up the ruins on the ground and poured them into the moat. They took the opportunity to widen the three channels with these earthwork, which was a complete opening of the passage for Yu's army to attack the city wall.

As soon as Shen Shi arrived in the afternoon, the last general attack order of the Yu family army was issued, and dozens of temporary siege equipment were pushed by a large number of Yu family soldiers to the front of the two armies and began to rumble towards the city wall. Among these vehicles, it is mainly a ladder car. After folding, the height is only about four or five meters high, but after pulling up with a rope, the height can almost reach more than three feet, just enough to reach the upper part of the wall.

In addition, there are some cave cars, which mainly provide the attacking troops with a relatively safe attack site at the foot of the city wall. In addition, they can also provide engineers with a safe place to destroy the foot of the city. As for other vehicles commonly used in the siege, there are not too many vehicles that attack the city gate, such as rushing vehicles, I didn't think about it at all.

In addition, when the attack began to launch after dawn, a battalion of recruits, under the mobilization of a group of military craftsmen, harvested a large number of logs from nearby and transported them to the battlefield. Under the dispatch of craftsmen, they began to build more than a dozen wooden frames more than 200 steps away from the city wall. Tower.

The people are powerful. Although the workmanship of these high towers up to about ten meters is very simple, they are built very fast. In just half a day, more than a dozen towers were built by the Yu family army. The wood combination parts were all firmly nailed together with large iron nails prepared in advance, and then died with hemp rope. Tie it up to make it stronger.

On the tower is a small platform for about ten soldiers to observe and shoot.

More than 200 steps are far away from the officers and soldiers. Except for a small number of Hongyi cannons that can pose a direct threat to these high platforms, the rest of the artillery* is basically difficult to destroy these high platforms.

At this time, the officers and soldiers no longer have Hongyi cannons on hand. Under the fierce shelling by the Yu family army for two consecutive days, there are several Hongyi cannons around Chaoyangmen, which have already turned into a pile of scrap iron and been destroyed on the gun position.

Even the remaining Dalian pearl cannons do not dare to appear rashly at this time. As soon as they appear, they will definitely attract fierce shelling by the family army, which scares the officers and soldiers to rather not fire cannons than send cannons at the city.

What was urgent was jumping up and down, but he did not dare to go to the wall to supervise the battle. He just drove some eunuchs to the wall, went to the city to supervise the battle on his behalf, and ordered the defenders to defend desperately. He could not let the Yu family attack the wall.

Immediately after more than a dozen high platforms were built, a group of snipers and sharpshooters climbed up. Each of them carried a second-generation wolf tooth rifle with good accuracy. After standing on the high platform, they began to aim the muzzle at the wall.

The city wall of Beijing is eight meters high, which is less than three feet, but these high platforms are ten meters high, which is more than two meters above the height of the city wall, which is almost equivalent to overlooking the front wall. Standing on it, you can almost see the situation on the wall. This time, these 100 divine shots are ruined. Hands.

More than 200 steps away, it is the distance that can effectively exert their firepower, and they don't have to worry about being counterattacked by the officers* or crossbows on the wall. Even if the officers' guns can pose a threat to them, they must at least have a chance.

Before the high platform is built, if the officers and soldiers shell desperately to prevent these high platforms from being built, there is still a chance, but when they set up the high platform and the sniper sharpshooters climb the high platform, the officers and soldiers will have no chance at all.

Soon the officers and soldiers also realized the threat posed to them, so they quickly mobilized some remaining cannons to bombard these high platforms. In addition to the cannons, now they really can't find anything to destroy these high platforms, so under the order of hiding, the officers and soldiers had no choice but to risk a few The 500-jin general gun and several Dalian pearl cannons (Big Franco machine guns) were rebuilt.

However, without waiting for them to adjust the cannon, the snipers on the high platform had found their actions and immediately opened fire at the position of several officers and military cannons under the instructions of the observer.

Before they could finish the cannon, those officers and soldiers were knocked over on the wall one by one, so that they couldn't raise their heads at all, not to mention loading and pushing guns for aiming and firing.

As long as the officers dare to approach these artillery, they will immediately be shot by the snipers. Therefore, the officers and soldiers can only stare at the dozens of high platforms more than 200 steps away from the city, but there is nothing they can do.

After these snipers suppressed the artillery in the city, they began to search for high-value targets on the wall, especially those who were armored or dressed in obviously different from other ordinary officers and soldiers, who were their key care.

In just a moment, several officers and soldiers on the city wall were killed, and a general who presided over military affairs here was also broken. They also broke one leg and screamed like killing pigs. They were snatched off the city wall by their own soldiers, and even two generations of potential eunuchs who supervised the battle in the city, because their clothes were too fresh. Liang became the target of hunting. One was shot in the head on the spot, and the other was pierced through his lower abdomen. After lifting it, he swallowed his breath after a short time. He scared the high dive to the soul and did not dare to go up the wall.

At this time, none of the officers on the wall dare to show their heads. They hid tightly and didn't want them to command the battle. Under such a high-intensity fire suppression, the defense system of the officers and soldiers around Chaoyangmen is almost in danger of total collapse at this moment.

Gaoqi dived to this moment and was really driven crazy. He sent someone to carry a few boxes of silver on the spot, among which there was a batch of silver he had privately hidden, which was placed directly next to the road under the inner wall, ordering anyone who could get five taels of silver as long as he went to the city to guard.

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