Ming Dynasty entry: I am Chongzhen, the greatest emperor of all time!

Chapter 56: The Bloody Battle of Deshengmen

"boom!!"

As Li Zicheng's trusted general, General Li Guo of the Left Camp, raised his whip again, the eighteen captured Liaodong general cannons and more than forty ordinary cannons roared in unison.

The rubble from the explosion at the Deshengmen battlements fell like rain, and the dust from the arrow tower beams fell all over Zhu Youjian's head.

"The Shenjiying's big cannons should be replaced with big pills! The small cannons should be replaced with iron sand!" Wu Xiang's roar pierced through the smoke and dust.

Ten red cannons on the city wall roared one after another, and the solid shells went straight to the artillery formation in front of the rebel army.

In this era when the range of artillery does not exceed five miles, altitude determines the outcome of artillery battles.

What's more, the ten red cannons were given by the system, and the Shenjiying added purple attributes to increase accuracy.

Ten solid artillery shells whizzed into the artillery formation of the rebel army, and more than 2,000 surrendered soldiers hurriedly dispersed.

But it was still a step too late, and the surrendered soldiers who were cleaning the gun barrel were torn in half on the spot.

As the shells bounced on the ground, several more people were torn to pieces.

Several small cannons were also smashed.

Li Guo, who was dressed in black armor, couldn't help but take two steps back, but he was not panicked at all. Like Wu Xiang, he also asked people to replace the general's cannon with standard solid shells.

Prepare to compete with the cannons of the Shenjiying.

At this moment, the iron sand fired from hundreds of small cannons in the Shenji Camp formed a death net three hundred steps away.

The bandits pushing the goose carts fell down like straw, but more surrendered soldiers immediately filled the gap.

Among the hundreds of goose carts, thirty strange vehicles were pushed out of the front line by the dead soldiers, and the wooden wheels wrapped in iron sheets crushed the blood on the pile of corpses.

The car had four wheels and no bottom. The surface was just a layer of wooden boards covered with cowhide and mud.

However, the surrounding rebel troops attached great importance to these vehicles and were even willing to sacrifice the goose carts in order to deliver these thirty wooden carts to the base of the city wall.

Seeing the commotion below the city walls, Wu Xiang's eyelids twitched. "It's a chariot! The rebels are trying to blow up the wall!"

This type of vehicle appeared in the Southern and Northern Dynasties. It was mainly used to escort soldiers to dig city walls. When firearms first appeared in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the chariot gradually withdrew from the battlefield.

It was not until the early Ming Dynasty that someone discovered that they could use chariots to escort death squads to the foot of the city walls and install gunpowder cans to break through the city.

And as long as there is enough gunpowder, even an entire section of the city wall can be blown down.

How could Wu Xiang dare to let these thirty chariots approach?

He grabbed the command flag and waved it fiercely, "Switch the Eight Oxen Crossbows for rockets! Aim at the chariots and fire!"

Three huge crossbows roared at the same time, and arrows wrapped in oilcloth flew across the roof of the chariot.

The musketeers of the Shenji Camp immediately concentrated their fire, and the burning hemp wool ignited the gunpowder inside the chariot, sending a cloud of explosion into the sky.

Clear the area around the car and the surrounding area of ​​more than ten meters.

Zhu Youjian was hit by the air wave and his ears were buzzing.

I could vaguely hear someone shouting, "West Corner Tower!"

Zhu Youjian quickly turned his head and his pupils suddenly shrank.

Five six-zhang-high towers were pressed against the city wall during the chaos, and the elite soldiers of the old camp were jumping from the roof into the battlements!

Wu Xiang, however, remained calm and waved the banner in his hand again, "Order the Brave Guard Battalion to advance, and the archers to switch to firing rockets, and focus their fire on the tower!"

"The Tiger Guards are going to the East Corner Tower."

The city wall of the capital was very spacious, and thousands of brave guards arrived there in less than half an hour.

At this time, hundreds of soldiers from the old camp had formed a simple battle formation.

Wang Erhu laughed grimly and rushed forward with the Yongwei Battalion screaming.

Not to mention a hundred people, even a thousand people cannot stop the well-equipped Brave Guard Battalion with dozens of entries!

Wang Erhu chopped more and more vigorously, and waved away the soldiers who wanted to bandage him.

After shaking off the blood plasma that was covering his eyes, he saw that the rebels were still jumping out of the flying building.

These soldiers from the old camp may not be able to defeat the Yongwei Camp, but they will have no problem defeating the new army that has no combat effectiveness.

Wang Erhu yelled, "Fuck him! Form your formation!"

The iron-studded military boots crushed the broken stones, and the heavy-armored infantry of the Yongwei Battalion immediately formed a human wall around the exits of the five flying towers.

The rhythm of the thrusts of the fine steel spears was in sync with the war drums. The bandits at the front were pierced by five spears at the same time, and their bodies were hung on the spear tips as shields.

"Fire!" Li Guozhen waved his flag and twenty barrels of kerosene poured down from the city walls.

The ignited rain of arrows instantly turned the five flying towers into torches. The bandits, covered in flames, fell screaming, and white smoke rose above the moat.

Chuangni's reaction was also surprisingly fast.

When they see a breakthrough somewhere, they will rush to that direction at all costs.

Don't care about casualties at all.

Artillery fire and arrows flew across the sky, and blood, flesh and screams splattered everywhere.

The brutal bloody battle lasted until noon.

When repelling the enemy troops who were climbing the city wall for the eighth time, Zhu Youjian's golden armor with coiled dragon patterns had been shrouded in smoke and fog, and its original color could no longer be seen.

The corpses of the rebel army piled up into a low wall in front of the Yongwei Camp, and blood flowed on the wall like a stream.

"Long live! Long live!"

Cheers broke out from the city walls.

Zhu Youjian rushed to the arrowhead and happened to see Li Zicheng's golden dragon banner slowly moving backwards.

The sound of the gong echoed throughout the army's formation.

Hundreds of thousands of rebel troops finally retreated.

Looking at the swaying flag of the rebel army, the young emperor suddenly found himself laughing. It turned out that when people are in desperate situations, even fear can turn into pleasure.

In the fields of dozens of miles in radius, the broken shield carts lay like the corpses of giant beasts.

A small section of the moat that had not yet been filled was so thick that it could not flow, and arrows floated on the surface like reeds.

Wang Erhu was bandaging his wounds at the battlement, his heavy armor was cut into pieces like a fishing net.

There were only less than 700 people left in the Yongwei Camp, and their iron armor was full of arrows. From a distance, they looked like iron hedgehogs.

Zhu Youjian returned to the city wall somewhat exhausted, and Wang Chengen hurriedly served him hot tea and pastries.

Although he was extremely hungry, he did not reach out immediately, but instead called over a few young eunuchs.

"Issue an order to the entire army: Each man will be awarded one mu of land. This will be distributed immediately after the rebels retreat. Anyone who kills one person will be awarded five mu of land. Those who have military merit will be rewarded according to their merit. Have the Ministry of War and the Cabinet quickly review this."

"Send the food supervisor to prepare dry rice and cooked meat immediately to provide an extra meal for the entire army!"

After finishing the arrangements, he picked up the pastries and started to gobble them up.

At first he wanted to reward him with silver, but then he thought, what should he do with the silver?
Just keep writing blank checks.

Even an outsider like him could see that in today's battle, the Chuang army did not use its full strength.

The whole process was just a joke, and they only sent surrendered troops and refugees to attack the city.

In this way, the capital had to use all its trump cards to barely resist.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the new army has no combat effectiveness.

In the next few days, after collecting the money of the wealthy merchants and the remaining property of the nobles, we still have to work hard to draw entries and train the new army.

At the end of the day, 10% of the 50,000 new troops were killed, but the eyes of those who survived were different.

Because they have seen the real Shura field!
Just as he was thinking about it, another young eunuch came running to report.

Empress Zhou requested permission to take the palace ladies and imperial doctors out of the imperial city to treat the wounded and cook military rations, vowing to live and die with the capital.

The students of the Imperial Academy once again bowed in front of the emperor and requested that he recruit them into the army.

Zhu Youjian took off his golden helmet in a trance, and a strand of black hair fell in the wind.

The bronze mirror held by Wang Chengen reflected the beginnings of frost on the temples of the thirty-year-old emperor.

The spring breeze brought the sound of bangzi from the direction of Guangqumen, accompanied by the ramming songs of the laborers repairing the city walls.

"The golden bowl is broken, the jade pillar is tilted, the emperor is guarding the country's gate——"

"A gentleman dies for his country, while the common people build the Great Wall."

At this moment, Zhu Youjian smiled again.

He finally revitalized the corrupt Ming Dynasty, the last Han dynasty in Chinese history!

(End of this chapter)