Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 805 Cement Reinforced City Gate Tower?Dorgon wants to defend the half moon

So many cannons on one side of the city gate?
How can this city be guarded?
Dorgon looked at the Guangming Cannon outside the city, and felt a chill in his heart.

It was also at this time that he realized that he and Da Qing still didn't know enough about Da Ming.

He knew that the Daming Navy is very powerful now, but he didn't expect that the Daming Navy would come to surround Jingjing so quickly, not to mention bringing so many artillery.

It was also at this time that he felt more and more that the strength of Daming was mainly due to its strong ability to manufacture artillery, muskets and other armaments.However, with the size of Daqing, when Daming was not terminally ill and even rejuvenated, it was completely impossible to be an opponent.

Unfortunately, he understood this too late.

Looking at the terrified expressions of the generals inside and outside the city gate tower, he knew that it would be difficult for him to stay in Jingjing for a few more days as he had imagined before, so as to delay Dong'e and the others.

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Four miles away from the east gate.

The commander Zeng Ying who besieged Jingjing, and the two deputy commanders Huang Fei and Yan Yingyuan were all on a man-made slope of ten feet high, each holding a pair of binoculars to look at the city wall of Jingjing.

A few days ago, Zeng Yingcai led the main force of the North Route Army to take Xianjing. If they took the land route, the mountain road was difficult, and it was impossible to come to Jingjing hundreds of miles away so quickly.

But Xianjing (Xianxing) is also a seaside city, and Zeng Ying took Tibiao Town on a navy boat and only appeared outside Jingjing at this time.

Otherwise, he, the coach, might miss the final battle against the Qing Dynasty.

"Just now I saw a man dressed as a high-ranking general of the Qing Dynasty enter the city gate. I don't know who it is. Now that the artillery is ready, why not hit him first, maybe you can kill the Qing prisoner with one round of artillery A general." Huang Fei put down his binoculars and suggested.

Zeng Ying also put down the binoculars, and said rather boredly: "The so-called Jingjing City Wall of the Qing Dynasty, I am afraid it will not be able to stop several rounds of bombardment by the Bright Cannon."

Then he signaled to the messenger behind him to let the gunner fire.

As for Yan Yingyuan, he didn't express much opinion.

Although he has been in the army for a long time, and he has been the deputy admiral of the Dongyang Navy for nearly two years, but he thinks that his experience in commanding tens of thousands of troops to attack the city is much worse than that of Zeng Ying and Huang Fei. Participate with a learning attitude.

But after listening to Zeng Ying's words, he couldn't help thinking that with the strength of Ming's army today, Qinglu was naturally not enough to be an opponent.

Perhaps only by crossing the ocean and competing with those European maritime powers can the Ming army find its opponent again.

Of course, this is just his guess.

According to his experience in Nanyang, the Dutch and Spanish navies are undoubtedly strong armies, but as far as the army is concerned, the Spanish army is okay, while the Dutch army is a bit weak, and may not be as elite as the Qing Dynasty.

boom boom boom

When Yan Yingyuan's thoughts were flying to Nanyang and Europe, the thirty bright cannons roared, firing shells and bombarding the city wall.

Although under the control of Aimee Zhu's control over the technology related to smokeless gunpowder, it has not yet been used in explosive ammunition.

But even with black powder as the raw material, after many years of innovation and optimization by many outstanding craftsmen and even scholars (scientists), the power of Daming's flowering bullets has been greatly improved compared with the first year of Zhaowu.

Although the Qing prisoners were prepared and even built fortifications similar to artillery pits on the city wall, dozens of people were killed or injured by this round of flower bombs, and many wall bricks and even wall stacks were also damaged.

But after watching the effect of this round of shelling, Zeng Ying used the binoculars to look at the city gate again, and then said with an ugly face: "Some businessmen in the country really deserve to be killed! They even sold the cement to Qinglu!"

Huang Fei and Zeng Ying also looked at the gate tower again when they heard the sound, and suddenly found that the mud layer on the outside of the gate tower fell off under the bombardment of multiple explosive shells, but the inside was intact. Looking carefully, it turned out to be made of cement and rocks. It was made of bricks, and some places were even painted with a layer of cement!
Although judging from this city gate tower, the cement that Qing Lu bought secretly from Daming must not be much, probably only enough to build a city gate tower, but it still made Zeng Ying and Huang Fei angry.

Huang Fei said: "It seems that His Majesty didn't kill the collaborators and traitors of Shanxi merchants hard enough in the past, and failed to scare some greedy people. It's only been a few years, and they have seen money-minded traitors again."

Yan Yingyuan was also very angry, but knew that this was not the time to care about this matter, so he persuaded: "A city gate tower has little impact on the war. This matter will be reported to His Majesty later, and it is enough for the imperial court to strictly investigate and deal with it."

"Jianheng is right." Zeng Ying nodded and extinguished her anger, "Don't say it's just a city gate, even if this Jingjing is all built with cement, I will destroy it too!"

Immediately ordered the battalions and headquarters to attack the city step by step.

After taking over Liaoxi and Liaodong, and invading North Korea, the Ming army has accumulated a lot of experience in coordinating infantry sieges.

At this time, only [-] cannons were caught on the top of the city and bombarded for three rounds, especially the places where the Qing army placed the Hongyi cannons under the drone investigation were all taken care of, which made the ten Hongyi cannons on the east wall Six of the guns were rolled down from the gun positions before firing, and it was difficult to reset them for a while.

Although the remaining four Hongyi cannons fired, they could hardly pose a threat to the Ming army's artillery positions due to their bullet power, firing frequency, and range.

In the end, the Hongyi cannons on the top of the Qing army's walls were almost a decoration, and they couldn't work at all.

The East City Gate was taken care of by two large-caliber bright cannons with live ammunition.

But the Qing army had long been prepared for this move, and sealed it with earth and rocks behind the city gate. Even the Ming army's heavy artillery could hardly break through it for a while.

Zeng Ying didn't want to wait any longer. Seeing that three rounds of shelling had passed and there was no movement on the east wall, he immediately ordered the infantry to attack the city.

The ladders, siege vehicles and other equipment used by the Ming army to attack the city were all assembled from high-quality wood and light steel.

Without the support of cannons, the Qing soldiers had no choice but to wait for the ladders and siege vehicles to approach the city wall.

When the Ming army stepped on the city, the surviving Qing captives at the top of the city immediately began to defend under the scolding of the general.

The old methods are still used-bows and arrows, musket shooting, rolling stones, throwing gold juice, and so on.

Because Dorgon himself was in charge of the east city wall, and the troops he used were the Eight Banners Army of Manchuria and Mongolia, even though he suffered close to one-fifth of the casualties in six rounds of artillery fire, the remaining four-fifths of the generals still did not flee. to defend.

Although the Ming army under the city oppressed the city with flintlock gunners, the Ming army who stepped into the city still suffered increasing casualties under the defensive routine of the Qing captives.

Dorgon was slightly exposed on an arrow stack of the cement-reinforced gate tower, seeing this scene, he felt a little relieved.

In consideration of boosting morale, he said to the left and right guards: "Although the Ming army's artillery fire is fierce, as long as we survive, they still have to attack the city honestly.

As long as they attack the city, they will suffer casualties.If we continue to withstand the first few waves of attacks, the Ming army will definitely not be able to bear the casualties and retreat.

In this way, it is not a problem for us to guard Jingjing for a few days, even for ten and a half months. "

As for the Ming army's retreat, Dorgon did not dare to say it.Even if it boosts morale, it cannot be completely divorced from reality.

When the battle reached this level, if they were not destroyed, the Ming army would not be able to retreat.

The surrounding guards were heavy-hearted, and their status was not considered high. Even Feng Quan shrank in the corner, not sure if it was pure fear, or thinking about something, but for a while, no one answered Dorgon's words, which made him a little embarrassed.

But soon he didn't have to think about it, because something more embarrassing happened.

When the gunfire of the Ming army paused for a while, there were shrill shouts from the south and north directions——

"The city is broken!"

　First more.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)