There is no such thing as the Kangxi and Qianlong eras

Chapter 40 The whole city was broken
"Boom boom boom!"

The eight tiger-crouching cannons were lined up in a row and fired indiscriminately at the city walls.

The Han soldiers under Nie Yu's command are really not very good at artillery firing.

None of the shells hit the target; they either missed the target or flew too far.

But this is not important. What he wants is to train his soldiers through actual combat, both to train gunners and combat soldiers.

The Manchu city of Jingzhou is a Manchu city within a city. The city walls are not high and solid. Moreover, all the Eight Banners soldiers stationed in the Manchu city have been taken to Hunan by the general of Jingzhou. The remaining 300 Eight Banners soldiers who stayed behind have now become the souls killed by the Han soldiers.

Now those heads are in Yidu and Zhijiang counties, where they are being preserved by nitrate treatment in preparation for their future use.

On the city walls, Cheng De's face was filled with fear.

This guy was very lucky, because he was the right deputy governor of Mancheng, so Cui Longjian had no authority over him. He just gave each other face and visited him every day. Today he happened to get up late and escaped the butcher knife of the Han soldiers.

While the Han soldiers were sweeping the city gates and capturing the city walls, Cheng De immediately closed the north and south gates of the city, and summoned all the Manchus in the city who could wield swords to defend the city.

Now it seems that this is still a bullshit!
Cheng De could never imagine how the rebels could have artillery.
Looking at those Manchus who were temporarily organized to defend the city, there were family members of the Eight Banners soldiers, ordinary mixed-living Manchus, and even the elderly, women and children. Their fighting power could not be said to be uneven. They were completely unable to fight!

"Traitors...traitors are about to fire again!"

"Quick! Get down and hide!"

"Boom boom boom!"

The Eight-Gate Tiger Crouching Cannon fired again.

The power of the Tiger Crouching Cannon is indeed not as good as that of ordinary artillery, but it also has its advantages. In addition to being light and flexible, its biggest feature is that it is an indirect fire artillery (the ancestor of the mortar).

The Tiger Crouching Cannon's maximum angle of fire can reach 45 degrees. Coupled with the inherently slender design of the barrel, it is difficult to say what its range is on flat ground. However, if it is fired from an upward direction, not to mention a hundred meters, at least seventy or eighty meters is not a problem (ensuring a certain level of accuracy, it can actually hit a height of 150 meters).

Seventy or eighty meters. There were no city walls this high in ancient times. The most famous Tongwan City was less than thirty meters.

It can be said that the Han soldiers did not have to do anything, they could just use the tiger squat cannon to fire from below, and they would always be able to hit the Manchu guards above.

Even if they can't be killed by the bomb, they can at least break down their psychological defenses and cooperate with other Han soldiers to storm and capture the city.

"Boom boom boom!"

"Boom boom boom!"

After three or four consecutive shells, two shells finally landed on the city wall.

A shell landed at a very high speed and hit a Manchu soldier right on the head, causing his head to burst like a watermelon.

A Manchu soldier standing nearby had no time to dodge and his face was splattered with brain matter and blood.

"Ahhh!"

"People are dead! People are dead! People were killed by the rebels' artillery shells!"

Now everything is in chaos. Most of these Manchu soldiers are mixed Manchus living in the city. To put it bluntly, they are a group of idle people who do not do any work.

On weekdays, they neither worked nor made progress. They just received the imperial salary, ate, drank and had fun. When they spent all the money, they would starve. The imperial court asked them to give up their bannerman status and reclaim land, but no one was willing to do it.

They would rather live in the city and wait for death. Kangxi, Yongzheng and Qianlong were all powerless to deal with them. Later, Jiaqing implemented new reforms and forced a group of Manchus to go outside the Great Wall. As a result, they all cried and begged for mercy, and those who went almost starved to death.

It can be said that they are a group of parasites in the country, a bunch of ruffians. It would be fine if you let them bully the Han people, but you also let them fight and risk their lives.

Isn't this a joke?
There was a small chaos among the Manchu soldiers on the city wall at first, and then as if it was contagious, the entire section of the city wall fell into chaos.

"No one can make a scene! Come back here! If the rebels break in, none of us will survive!"

Cheng De brought his personal soldiers and tried his best to stop the attack and maintain the situation, but it was completely useless. Perhaps some people could understand what he said, but the city walls were in chaos everywhere. Even if they wanted to organize to defend the city, they had no way to do so and could only be swept up and run around.

"Haha, this is the so-called Eight Banners!"

Nie Yu sneered, then took off the electric speaker hanging from his waist and turned it on.

"Reverse the Qing and restore the Han! The entire army will attack the city! Kill!"

"Reverse the Qing and restore the Han! The entire army will attack the city! Kill!"

"..." Holding the electric loudspeaker in his hand, the deafening shouts and cries of killing could not be stopped even with earplugs.

Chen Younian's face was filled with excitement. He held a knife in one hand and a spear in the other, and shouted to his personal guards: "Brothers, follow this captain and charge forward! Overthrow the Qing and restore the Han! May the great general win!"

"Kill! Overthrow the Qing and restore the Han! May the great general win!"

"The general is victorious!"

More than 800 Han soldiers carried out wooden ladders from the back and placed them on the city wall.

Chen Younian took the lead, hung his spear on his back, bit the knife handle in his mouth, and climbed up quickly.

The city wall was several meters high, and he climbed it very quickly even in his cotton armor. In the blink of an eye, he was on top of the wall.

The Manchu soldiers running around inside didn't react until they saw an "Eight Banners Soldier" wearing familiar Manchu cotton armor jumping up.

No, why does this "Eight Banners Soldier" not have a braid and is bald?
"Pfft!"

Chen Younian chopped down with his sword, and with such force, he cut off the head of a stunned Manchu soldier on the spot, and the headless body fell limply to the ground.

"Traitor...traitor! It's a traitor!"

"Run! The rebels have taken over the city!"

At this moment, Chen Younian was like a hungry wolf jumping into a sheep pen, holding a knife in one hand and a gun in the other, chopping anyone he saw. After chopping, he used his spear to knock down the running Manchu soldiers.

After killing for a while, he felt that wielding the spear was inconvenient and too tiring.

He threw away his spear, picked up a sword from the ground, and started rushing in and killing people with both swords.

Some Manchu soldiers could not escape and wanted to besiege and resist, but they had no armor. Chen Younian was wearing authentic cotton armor with a stab-proof lining inside.

After a round of hacking, several of the besieging Manchu soldiers were killed, and only a few holes were cut in his cotton armor, but nothing inside was hurt.

Now, no one resisted, and those who were still alive ran away quickly. In order to run faster, some even raised their butcher knives against their own people.

Similar things were happening everywhere on the city walls. From time to time, a Han soldier would climb up and join in the massacre. Because it was so easy, the Han soldiers even lost their formation.

A siege battle turned into a crushing victory!
The gap in military quality and the difference in weapons and equipment are too great, so it is normal to have such a result.

"Quick, follow me and break out together!"

Seeing that the situation was hopeless, Cheng De finally gave up his illusions and retreated with his personal soldiers.

It didn't take long for the Han soldiers to completely control the city walls.

Two teams were left to guard the north and south gates, and the remaining 700-odd Han soldiers all swarmed through the city.

Because both the north and south gates were closed, these Manchu soldiers could not break out head-on and could only run around the city like headless flies.

"Master, why are you back?"

In the Right General's Office, Cheng De's wife and children were quite frightened when they saw Cheng De returning with his troops.

"Hurry, take the children and follow me. Let's break out. Don't take anything except your gold and silver."

Cheng De’s wife didn’t know what was going on, so she could only obey and go back to pack her things and call the children.

Soon, he was seen pulling a son and a daughter, and both children were rubbing their sleepy eyes.

"Mother, I still want to sleep!"

"Ama, didn't you promise to bring me some candy?"

Cheng De was not angry. He was about to pull the child over and carry him on his back to leave when he suddenly heard shouts and screams coming from outside.

"Kill! Kill all the dogs!"

"Have mercy, have mercy! I'll take you to find the Right Commander-in-Chief. I saw him return to the Right Commander-in-Chief's Office!"

(End of this chapter)