Haisheng Mingdi

Chapter 687
North of the city.

Liu Mu stood on the fort holding his big knife, shouting again and again, "Tell those little bastards, although the mission we received was a feint attack to cover, but no one stipulated that the feint attack cannot be changed to the main attack. , The first to enter the city will be the first to win."

"Fuck it."

Yingzhou used to belong to Henan, and it was called Yingchuan in the Zhengde period, which was also affiliated to Henan.Later, it still belonged to Fengyang Mansion and belonged to Nanzhi, but Yingzhou Wei was under the command and envoy of Henan Capital.

The northern city of Yingzhou was built in the Ming Dynasty, surrounded by bricks and stones.

There is Wengcheng, the moat is connected with the Ying River, and the East City God's Pool and the South City God's Pool are connected to the Ying River.

Outside Cheng'en Gate of the north gate, there is Wengcheng. There are two gates on the left and right of Wengcheng, which are the west gate Tongbianmen and the east gate Dahuaimen.

To the north of the Wengcheng is the North Moat, and to the north of the North Moat is the Yinghe River.

Yingzhou is the northwest gateway of Fengyang. As a whole, one city was added to the north and south of the old city. It is indeed not bad in the traditional city. Even after several repairs, the city wall is still covered with bricks, and there are urn towers, enemy towers, moat etc.

But what they were facing was the imperial camp of the Northern Expedition, not to mention they had practiced with this city for two years.

Many bridges have been built on the Yinghe River in Beicheng, and more than ten sections of the North Moat have been blocked.

Not to mention that the Eighth Town dug a tunnel under the city wall as early as it did.

Liu Mu was also a general from Long Yuanxun, who appeared in martial arts. He was already a general at the end of Chongzhen. Later, when the emperor returned to Zhejiang, he even granted him the banner of Warrior Town, and became a town in the imperial camp. Afterwards, he guarded Yanzhou.

At this time Zheng Zunqian wanted to make the main attack, let him feint to cover, Liu Mu readily agreed, but once the battle started, he would have a showdown with his generals, there was no main attack and feint, it all depended on his ability.

There was a loud bang.

A section of the city wall in Beicheng collapsed, followed by another loud noise, and another section of the city wall collapsed.

At this time, there were not many defenders in the city. All the three tribes and eight banners plus family members, Baoyi, etc. were less than 2 people. They focused on guarding the Wengcheng, which was a battleground during the war.

Who would have thought that the Ming army did not emphasize martial ethics, and launched tunnel blasting techniques in three directions.The Qing army defended the city in the past two years, and they also took precautions against the tunnels. They even succeeded in finding the location and destroying more than a dozen tunnels by reverse excavation, but they couldn't hold back the Ming army's digging.

Suddenly, more than a dozen large gaps appeared in Beicheng, as pitiful and helpless as a toothless old woman.

After digging into the ditch under the city wall, the artillery began to shoot fiercely, and then the musketeer jumped out of the ditch with the bayonet-mounted musket and rushed forward.

The artillery of the Ming army fired uninterruptedly. Although the Tartars on the top of the city were fighting trapped beasts, their few cannons were almost destroyed in the two years of confrontation, and the remaining ammunition was exhausted. At this time, it is not as good as a fire stick.

Bursts of smoke bloomed over the battlefield, like beautiful fireworks.

The musketeers shouted and charged, and the city was besieged for almost two years. It was too long to wait for this day.

The Tartars tried to rescue the gap and plug the gap, but when they rushed over, what greeted them was endless artillery fire and open flame gunners who also rushed to the gap.

Rows of blunderbusses came, and the Eight Banners in cotton armor were also shot and fell to the ground. Before the ones behind rushed over, another row of blunderbusses came.

They also began to fight back with muskets, bows and arrows, and even thrown guns.

Several Ming soldiers in the front row fell, but those behind made up for it.

The Ming army fired guns row by row. After the front row finished shooting, the second row rushed to the front of the first row to fire the guns, and then the third row ran to the front again.

After the four rows were finished, the first row had already been loaded and ran to the front to fire the guns.

A volley of guns was shot, and the volley turned in.

There is no gap in firepower.

The firepower of the Ming army was fierce, and they were all wearing cotton armor and cotton helmets. The Tartars who charged into the gap could not stand at all. They fought back desperately, but caused much less casualties to the Ming army.

Soon, one gap after another was flooded by the Ming army like a tide, occupying them one by one.

After the capture, the Ming army did not stop, and continued to rush into the city.

At this time, the small artillery teams and gun teams at each post quickly followed the high ground occupying the gap, mounted guns and guns, and began to support the musketeers entering the city condescendingly.

The Qing army focused on guarding several urns and enemy towers.

But the Ming army didn't attack the Urn City at all, and didn't want to seize the gate, but directly opened a hole in the city wall.

The speed of breaking through the city was so fast that the Tartars were caught off guard.

A group of artillerymen carried the three-pound cannon weighing about [-] kilograms, screaming, and directly carried the cannon into the city. The gunners quickly found a position, then set up the cannon, and loaded it.

boom.

The three-pound iron bullet whizzed out, and directly blasted into a group of Tartar soldiers who came to fight for it in the distance. On the not-so-wide street, this cannon directly smashed and bombed and rolled away 30 people.

Another three-pounder was brought in by the artillerymen.

The roar of artillery fire was everywhere.

Yingzhou City had already been surrounded by flowers, and the hungry and thirsty soldiers of the imperial camp of the Ming army rushed into the city screaming like chicken blood.

Even cavalry rushed into the city on horseback, rampaging along the streets.

Drum Tower in the city.

Luke Dehu is winding, this clear bow is in good condition.

Orders arrived one after another, reporting to him that the battle was critical.

The Ming army is serious.

Unstoppable.

"The Ming army from the north, east, and south are attacking extremely fiercely. They have broken through the city like a tide, and the west city has not yet been broken."

Luckard stood up, "Follow me to Simon!"

Le Kede got down from the Drum Tower, got on his horse, and led a group of soldiers to ride to the west gate. Now there are only a few hundred horses in the entire Yingzhou city.

But Luck Dehun who rushed to the west gate did not open the gate to escape.

"Block the door."

"My lord?"

"Don't you understand the obvious trick of Ming thief? Attacking from three sides, but deliberately let go of the west gate, this is to make us abandon the city and flee, but do you think we can escape now that we have left the city? The first floor of the city gate Not to mention the trenches on the first floor, we have no horses now, and going out of the city is nothing but death."

He pulled out the Shun knife, "Even if we die, we can't do what the bandits want. We will burn with the city, and kill enough!"

Luck Dehun ordered the nearby houses to be demolished, moved the wood, bricks and stones to block the west gate, and then led troops to the west gate tower to take command. Anyone who tried to move away to block the escape would be killed without pardon.

He asked to start a street battle with the Ming army, relying on houses to resist until every soldier died.

"Never surrender!"

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Outside the city, Chen Qianfu and other civil officials who were fighting on the outside of Erli watched with enthusiasm. The scene of thousands of troops roaring and fighting was indeed exciting.

Especially seeing that the big city guarded by tens of thousands of Tartars collapsed in an instant under the fierce attack of the Ming army, and directly blasted dozens of openings in several walls, and rushed in like a tide.

Daming has fought Jianlu for decades, and suffered countless defeats. Even the mention of Jianlu later has psychological shadows, but now they are actually fighting so embarrassingly.

This is unbelievable, and it is also extremely exciting.

Zheng Zunqian, who was in charge of the command, frowned and was very dissatisfied when he heard the messengers report the battle situation one by one.

Liu Dadao really wanted to fight for merit.

But Luck Dehun actually wanted to fight to the death in the city, and blocked the west gate by himself.The battle did not go as expected, the Tartars did not flee and were very tenacious.

The next step is to fall into street fighting in the city, which will undoubtedly increase casualties.

Gritting his teeth, Zheng Zunqian gave the order.

"Since the Tartars don't know how to flatter, there is no need to show mercy. Orders are issued to clean up the streets and alleys after entering the city. You are welcome, as long as you don't put down your weapons, you will be killed without mercy."

"Let all the generals be careful and don't underestimate the enemy. Although the city of Yingzhou has been destroyed, the Tartars in front of them are desperate. If anyone is reckless, I will increase unnecessary casualties. I will deal with him according to the military law. "

"Use the cannon to open the way, don't be reluctant to give up the cannonball, just bombard it. If it is difficult to attack those stubborn Tartars occupying the house, just light the building and burn it down."

"Anyway, there isn't a single innocent person in the entire Yingzhou city anymore. The people living inside are all Tartar enemies. At worst, the entire Yingzhou city will be bulldozed, and another one will be rebuilt in the future."

Chen Qianfu was surprised when he heard the order.

Some people can't help but think that this is too indiscriminate.

But Zheng Zunqian just said, "This is a battlefield. I am the commander of the battalion appointed by His Majesty. I have the final say on everything on the battlefield. If there is any problem, I will naturally be responsible afterwards."

When Chen Qianfu saw this, he immediately stopped the official.

"Dudu Zheng is right. This is a battlefield. The battle is still left to Dudu Zheng and other soldiers. Let's go to the back and inspect the field hospital to see how the stretcher team and medicines are prepared."

He has no sympathy for the Tartars, and he doesn't want to use civil servants to suppress military officials. The emperor gave Zheng Zunqian power, and he, the governor, can't suppress it.

Why bother to make this boring, Zheng Zunqian was for the uprising at the beginning, but even his father dared to force the ruthless person who turned over the key and took the money.

The messenger led the order and left.

Zheng Zunqian watched Chen Qianfu and others leave, and he was not too polite. For him, the most important thing now is the battle in front of him. It is not a problem to win Yingzhou, but he must minimize casualties to be worthy of the emperor's trust .

Any trainee officer from the lecture hall can win this battle, but it must be won beautifully.

"Why should the governor worry too much, once the city wall is broken, we will win."

"Of course I know we won, but we can't have too many casualties."

"Please rest assured, Commander, there will be no casualties. We are not a few years ago now. The soldiers are all wearing excellent cotton armor, not to mention the abundance of cannons and small cannons. When the Tartars guarded the top of the city, they all It's not worth the slightest bit. Now that the city is broken, they want to fight in the streets. Even if they have the determination, what can they use to fight?

They have no guns or blunderbuss, just bows and arrows?

What use are those houses?Once a shot is fired, it will be reduced to slag. If it doesn't work, a few rockets can be fired.In close combat in the streets and alleys, we have an overall advantage. "Deputy Admiral Liu Guangshi said with a smile, this is also Shaoxing Broadsword, but he is less famous than Liu Mu. Liu Guangshi is a ranger, just like Zheng Zunqian, and Liu Mu is a general.

"Liu Mu's No. 18 town has already entered the city. Why don't you just call back the No. [-] town of Lord Guo and let them take charge of the west city? Now that there's street fighting, there's no need to ambush outside the city."

"Okay, just leave the three cavalry marks from the three towns to intercept them outside the city, and No.18 town will also go into the city to clean up." Zheng Zunqian looked at the sky, "Try to do it as quickly as possible, don't delay until tomorrow."

When Zhu Zhongyi received the military order, he was taken aback for a moment, then sighed.

"It seems that we have no chance to catch the big fish like Luck Dehun, let's go back, fight in the streets of the city, clean up the rat holes and fight the rats."

Only half an hour after the battle started, Xu Zhongyi's No.18 town also returned to the city to join the battle.

The new imperial battalion in the three towns, with more than 4 horses and more than 3 soldiers, poured into Yingzhou City like a tide, cleaning up and sweeping up the streets, and when they encountered resistance hiding in the courtyard buildings, they directly pulled the battalion cannons Come up and bomb, if it doesn't work, then call the heavy artillery of the artillery mark to wash the ground.

Where did the Ming army fight this kind of battle before?
After the bombardment, a volley of guns was fired, first to control the streets and alleys, and then to clean up house by house. With Zheng Zunqian's military order, they can safely bombard and shoot, and they can kill when they meet without worrying about other things.

The sun rose to the middle.

The heat is scorching.

The battle in the city was coming to an end. The Ming army controlled more than 100 streets and alleys in the city. Most of the houses and shops in the city were also cleaned up. Although there were still some left, they could not be turned into waves.

Yiqi galloped to the commander-in-chief outside the city.

"Report, Lord Guoxing has already cleared the West City and beheaded Luck Dehun."

"Report, the eighth town has cleared the east city."

"Report, the seventh town has wiped out the southern city."

"Report, Beicheng has been cleared."

Zheng Zunqian finally showed a smile on his face after hearing the good news one by one.

"Go, enter the city!"

(End of this chapter)