The ruthless emperor in the late Ming Dynasty forced Chongzhen to abdicate at the beginning

Chapter 278 Three Rounds of Shelling Solved
On the second day, at dawn, Huang Degong led a large army and pressed down on Guihua City.

And until dawn, the cavalry of Tumote's troops still hadn't returned, and there was no trace of the [-] rounds, and they didn't know where they were led.

Neither Huang Degong nor the other generals of the Ming army cared much about the life and death of the two sides. Similarly, yesterday's battle was just a trivial matter to them, and everyone still had something to say.

To the Fourth Army, yesterday's battle was nothing, but to the Tuxietu, it was like the sky falling and the earth falling. The whole night, the city was filled with sadness and fear.

In the end, Agula still decided to stay in Guihua City and negotiate with the Ming army. As long as they can persist, the Ming army will not be able to attack for a long time, and they will definitely compromise in the end.

Although the wall of Guihua City is not high, it is enough to block the opponent's chariots and infantry. They stand on it and shoot arrows. If you don't believe it, you can't defend it.

At this moment, more than 5 people and more than [-] livestock are crowded in the small Guihua City. It has been crowded to the point where the feet of the platform have not changed, and all the buildings that can be demolished have been demolished. Even the elderly and children are heading for the city. Those who can carry wood and rocks, as long as they can draw a bow, have bows and arrows on their backs, and machetes in their waists, ready to help them go to the city to defend against the enemy at any time.

At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Degong arrived at the city with his army. Seeing that the other party had really hid in the city, all the generals couldn't help laughing.

Even ordinary soldiers laughed.

Everyone couldn't help laughing, let's not say that an isolated city cannot be defended, just such a small city, crammed with so many people and animals, how many people will die in a round of artillery fire or a round of arrow rain?
"General, let's send someone up and let them surrender!"

"There are many women and children on the top of the city, it is really invincible!"

All the generals nodded frequently, and the fighting spirit and excitement when they came had disappeared.

This situation is not a siege at all, but a massacre, so that they do not feel the slightest sense of victory.

Huang Degong also nodded with a wry smile. In this situation, if they were Han people, they would have surrendered without taking the initiative to send someone to shout.

Without reinforcements, without surrender, what else can tens of thousands of people do in an isolated city?
But what Huang Degong and the generals didn't expect was that the other party still refused to surrender directly and still wanted to negotiate terms, which almost made everyone laugh angrily.

"General, even if they want to toast and not eat fine wine, then let them taste what it's like to sit in a lonely city!"

"The army is besieging the city, push up a hundred Fran cannons, and blast for half an hour first!"

Huang Degong said in a deep voice, as for building siege equipment and the like, it is a waste of time.

As the order was issued, the army immediately deployed, and in less than half an hour, the small Guihua City was completely surrounded. More than 100 Francine cannons approached from all sides and stopped a hundred steps away from the city wall. Just outside the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.

Boom boom boom!
As soon as the sound of the cannons sounded, it was continuous and endless. Iron pellets, the size of a child's fist, crossed the city wall and smashed into the city.

Immediately there were screams in the city one after another.

All of a sudden, the whole city was in chaos. Countless animals were frightened and ran around, and children screamed in fright and ran around everywhere.

Agula on the wall looked at the shells falling into the city from all directions, and his face was full of shit.

He didn't expect that the Ming army still had so many cannons, so how could they defend it?
If I knew I should have run away last night.

But he also knew that even if he escaped, he would be close to death, and if he fled back to Mobei, he would be annexed by the other two tribes. Besides fleeing to Mobei, there was no other place to go.

After half an hour of shelling, all the Mongols were ashamed. Although the Ming army stopped shelling, they still had no plans to attack the city.

"Listen to the Tartars on the wall, my general is kind and doesn't want to cause more killings. If you are stubborn, the next thing you will do is not solid bullets, but shotgun bullets."

A low-ranking general of the Ming army came to the gate of the city on horseback and yelled loudly in Mongolian.

"What about the sweat?"

All the leaders looked at Agula, and they had long lost their minds.

"Don't be afraid. Although the cannons of the Ming army can hit the city, their real lethality is extremely limited. As long as everyone is told to hide, they will definitely attack the city when they see that the cannons don't work. Let them experience our bows and arrows then. They are so powerful, they will naturally agree to our conditions."

Agula obviously still didn't give up, and he cheered up, mainly because of the thousands of solid bullets just now, although many animals were killed, but not many people were killed, which made him no longer afraid of cannons at the beginning.

But here, the Ming army was completely irritated when they saw that the opponent hadn't surrendered. The shieldmen raised their shields to protect the gunners, and moved forward another fifty steps, and then replaced them with subguns that fired shotguns.

"Fire arrows!"

Seeing that the opponent pushed the cannon so close, Agula immediately let out a loud shout and bent his bow and set his arrows.

The other Mongols also drew their bows like a full moon, and shot towards the position of the cannon.

bang bang bang...

For a moment, dense arrows fell like raindrops and hit the shield, making the shield full of feathered arrows like hedgehogs.

The shieldmen had already covered the cannon and the gunner tightly, like a tortoise shell, and continued to operate the cannon without being affected at all.

boom boom boom…

Not long after, the cannons of the Ming army also counterattacked, and the tiny iron beads were sprinkled on the top of the city, which was more dense and terrifying than the arrow rain.

Even if half of them hit the earthen wall, the remaining half still fell on the top of the city and inside the wall. The Mongols under the wall had no shields, and Guihua City had no towers. Facing the iron beads, Leather armor is like paper.

The Mongols on the wall fell in pieces, and most of them did not die, but fell to the ground and howled in pain. For a while, the shrill screams resounded throughout Guihua City.

Compared with solid bullets, which beat people to limbs and flesh, shot bullets are not so powerful, but this kind of beating people to death is even more painful.

Facing the continuous bombardment of shotguns from the Ming army's artillery, the Mongols did not dare to stay on the wall anymore, and many people jumped off the city wall to avoid it.

And when the Ming army concentrated their artillery fire again and blasted a city wall with solid bullets, and directly knocked down a large section of the city wall, Agula finally gave up resistance.

Even if he didn't give up, the other Tuxietu people didn't intend to carry on anymore. The city walls collapsed. Once the Ming army really came in and fought hand-to-hand, they would be even more unable to win, and everyone would die in the end.

Seeing that these Mongols finally put down their scimitars and bows and came out of the city, Huang Degong also heaved a sigh of relief.

He was afraid that these Mongols would be brainless. He was not worried that after entering the city, they would fight hand-to-hand and cause too many casualties, but he was worried that the soldiers would accidentally kill all these Mongols after killing them.

Although the other party still has a population of more than 5, they don't have any decent armor, and it won't be long before they can really kill them.

The infantry battalion alone can kill all the people inside within a quarter of an hour, not to mention the two thousand gunfire soldiers.

An hour later, all the Mongols came to the open space outside the city, crouched obediently on the ground, and even the wounded were carried out.

It was only then that Huang Degong got them under control, screened them one by one, and then went to the city to clean them up.

(End of this chapter)