Chapter 757: Running away
Half an hour passed in a flash, and Jiang Ningjun also faithfully fulfilled his promise, and in the roar, one after another flowering bombs flew towards the south city gate.
"Boom...... Boom ......"
With a loud explosion, the green bricks on the city wall flew everywhere, accompanied by a terrible wail, and some Qing soldiers hiding behind the city wall smashed flesh and blood.
A Qing soldier who was so frightened by the explosion was that he stood up in fright, left his hiding place and ran around the city walls.
"Bastard...... You idiot, hide and don't run around! ”
One of the people next to him stood up and grabbed the Qing soldier and pushed him hard, pushing him to the ground, raising the leather whip in his hand and scolding him headlessly.
"Damn dog minion, if you want to fucking die, you can jump from here with the Ming army when the Ming army attacks the city, no one wants to die before the Ming army attacks the city, otherwise the master will chop you alive!"
The Qing army was naturally clear about the strength of the Jiangning army's artillery fire, and it stands to reason that the best way to avoid the artillery fire was to let the soldiers all hide in the hiding hole under the city wall, so that no matter how powerful the Jiangning army's artillery fire was, they would not be able to take them.
Although the truth is so, they can't do it, because they must leave a certain amount of troops on the city wall, otherwise if the Ming army takes advantage of the opportunity to attack the city during the shelling, they will not laugh off their big teeth when they look at the empty city.
And what about those who couldn't hide in the cave, they could only hide behind the battlements.
Moreover, the Qing soldiers who were placed at the head of the city were not the elite of the Eight Banners, but some Aha and armored people.
Aha is a slave, or a Han Chinese, or a Korean, or a member of the various tribes of Liaodong. These people had no armor, and some of them even did not have weapons, and when they went to war with the army, they were generally only used as miscellaneous labor or cannon fodder, or to feed horses and make weapons, or to fill in ditches, or to dig city bricks.
These people are the most numerous, in the tens of thousands, but they also have the lowest status.
Although the number was large, it was not listed as the number of Qing I troops. These people are also the largest of the Qing army's auxiliaries, because their families are all left behind, once they escape, they don't want to live, so they can't help but sell their lives.
The Clothed people are mostly the tribes of the Northeast People, and the ethnic groups are diverse, mostly the Oroqen people, Xibe people, Evenki people, Sauron people, Daur people, Hezhe people, Kuyi people, etc., and the Manchurians call them savages, and they are mostly collected from various mountain rivers.
Because these people are strong, they are the main targets of cannon fodder in the Qing army. The dead soldiers are in front, the sharp soldiers are behind, and the soldiers who should be executed, many of them are from these tribes. Due to the frequent battles, these soldiers of the Northeast tribe who were used as cannon fodder, and in the back, many tribes disappeared.
For example, in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, they were still a large tribe with a population of tens of thousands, but after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, only a few thousand people died in the whole clan. Until later generations, the total population of the Hezhe people in the world was less than 30,000. This is the price of being cannon fodder.
And now, those elite bannermen naturally hid in the cave under the city wall, and at the head of the city were those Aha and the armored people.
Ahha's task is to repair the damaged city wall, carry supplies and other debris, and the armored man is responsible for resisting the Ming army who climbed the city wall until the bannermen arrive.
Although the armored people are called dead soldiers and heavy armored soldiers, they are actually no different from slaves, they also have no freedom, and they cannot escape, otherwise what awaits them is the end of the whole clan being annihilated.
On the other hand, the Manchu bannermen are different, the most elite of them are the Bayala soldiers, and the rest are the vest soldiers and cloth armor soldiers, these bannermen are the most elite and main combat force of the Manchus.
As the supreme person in charge of the South City Gate, Abatai didn't need to go to the city to risk himself, but he scolded the generals who persuaded him to go to the cave to hide the soldiers, and hid in a corner to observe the enemy situation with a clairvoyant mirror.
Seeing that Abatai, who was the supreme commander of the South City Gate, had done this, how could the rest of the officers dare to hide in the cave by themselves, so they could only stay in the city together.
Watching the shells fall on the head of the city and explode continuously, blowing up a man named Aha and the man in armor into pieces, Abatai didn't lift his eyelids, and still calmly lay behind the battlements and calmly observed the situation outside.
For him, it didn't matter how many Aha and the armored men died.
It doesn't matter if these slaves are dead, there are as many Han people in Liaodong and even as many as there are in the Ming Dynasty. The same is true for the armored people, just go to the deep mountains and old forests to catch them, as long as the full people are still there, neither the armored people nor Aha can set off big waves.
"Boom ......"
A violent explosion sounded less than thirty meters away from Abatai, and after the explosion, the violent shock wave blew a shallow pit the size of a table on the ground, and the violent shock wave knocked the surrounding green bricks and debris everywhere, and even Abatai was hit by two gravel and the armor on his body made two muffled sounds.
Although he did not cause harm to Abatai, he still frightened the surrounding Goshha and his generals and persuaded them one after another.
"Lord Belle, you better go down, it's too dangerous here."
"Lord Belle, you are a daughter, you can't stay here any longer, in case there is a good one, who will take us to fight!"
"Shut up all of them!"
Abatai glanced at everyone coldly, "Your Majesty entrusts me with the South City Gate, unless I die, I will never go down, if you are afraid, go down yourself!" Besides, if Shengjing City is broken, where can we flee to, don't forget that your wives and children are all in the city! ”
Everyone looked at each other helplessly, if Abatai didn't leave, who would dare to go.
Besides, Abatai is right, if the Ming army breaks through Shengjing City, not only them, but even their wives and children will all have to die.
But what Abatai didn't know was that when the Ming army was shelling the south city gate, a long carriage was quietly gathering from various streets, and after a certain street turned, it came in the direction of Xicheng.
"Drama...... 戞......"
On the carriage at the head, the coachman who drove the carriage kept shouting, driving the horses to speed up, as long as they turned another corner to the west gate, and they were waiting for them at the gate of the city.
As soon as he thought of this, the anxious coachman swung his horse's buttocks hard, and the painful horses immediately sped up and ran forward.
But at this moment, a group of centaurs suddenly appeared in front of them, and shouted:
"Stop now!"
"Hiss ......"
The startled coachman quickly grabbed the reins of the horse, and the horse was forced to raise his head forward, and the whole carriage came to a sudden stop, and the coachman sitting in front of the carriage was also thrown to the ground.