Chapter 1077 Chapter 1080 Breaking through the mountain city
On December 20, the fourth year of Wuding, after besieging the mountain city of Nanhan for nearly a month, the Wei army finally began a general attack.
Below the mountain city, the Wei soldiers were all over the field, occupying the battlefield, and the Koreans near the mountain city also came to help the battle under the organization of the Shi clan.
For a time, below the mountain city, people shouted horses and neighed, drums and trumpets were endless, and uncountable figures appeared below the mountain city.
On the mountain city, the remnants of the Qing army were waiting for them, they shouted loudly, commanded some dependents, and carried the rolling wood and stones onto the city wall.
Below the mountain city, the Wei army infantry participating in the siege was making pre-battle preparations, and the officers of various bureaus and divisions recruited the teams below to emphasize the siege of the city.
The terrain of the mountain city of Nanhan was dangerous, and it was difficult for the Wei army to deploy its soldiers and horses, so Li Dingguo reorganized several troops and horses into a group of twenty-four, each group had a melee killer team and a musket team, so as to adapt to the dangerous terrain.
Gao Yihuan rushed from Seoul to the mountain city, rode a horse and stood under the Chinese army, and observed the situation in the city with a clairvoyant mirror.
Seeing a broken triangular yellow dragon flag fluttering at the head of the city, Gao Yihuan sighed in his heart, if there was no me, the Qing army would have occupied the Central Plains, and the Ming army would be forced to a dead end by the Qing army.
It's been thirteen years, and there's finally an end.
Gao Yihuan put down the clairvoyant mirror and said to Li Dingguo: "Dingguo, are you sure?" ”
Li Dingguo said with a smile: "Your Majesty, this city will be broken today." ”
Gao Yihuan bowed his head with satisfaction, "It has been nearly 40 years since the old slave rebelled and the slave was built to plague China. ”
Haoge is extinguished, although there are still Geng Zhongming, and in the deep mountains and old forests in the northeast, a remnant has not been annihilated, and Fulin does not know what to do, but in Gao Yihuan's view, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has become history.
At this time, Gao Yihuan retracted his gaze, and on the hills in front of the Chinese army, the artillery deployed by the Wei army had already been prepared.
At the foot of the mountain, it was difficult for the army to deploy and the artillery to be erected, so the Wei army chose to open a road and transport the artillery to the nearby hill.
At this time, on several hills, a gong sounded, and a big red cannon retreated violently, making a loud noise, and a black iron bullet flashed in the air, smashing into the city wall on the opposite hill, and the bricks and stones were shattered suddenly.
Li Dingguo said: "Your Majesty, the bombardment has begun!" ”
The city wall of the mountain city was bombarded by the Wei army artillery for many days, the Wei army collapsed during the day, and the Qing army rushed to repair it at night, and the city wall was already full of desolation.
The Wei artillery bombarded for many days, the artillery position did not need to be adjusted, after the bombardment of one cannon, immediately a hundred cannons fired in unison, the artillery positions on each hill suddenly burst out of the deafening sound of artillery, thick white smoke covered the mountain, more than ten catties of iron bullets rushed out of the cannon port and smashed into the city wall, the mountain city was dusty, and countless gravel rose into the air and fell like hail.
Behind the city wall, the Qing soldiers and their dependents trembled, and at the foot of the mountain, the Wei soldiers who were accustomed to seeing the world did not fluctuate.
If it weren't for the steep slope of the hill and the mountain city built on a high place, the mortar cannons would not have been able to attack, otherwise the flowering bombardment would have broken the city long ago.
The walls of the mountain city were smashed by artillery, the vision was unclear, and there were screams for help everywhere, and many family members who were injured when they were smashed let out desperate screams.
In the city, the tents of the Qing army, as well as the buildings in the city, were also smashed by shells.
Hauge and Sonny walked on the city wall, the Qing army in the city could only hide behind the wall and be bombarded, a cannonball shattered the wall battlements, wrapped in countless gravel, swept a piece, and the Qing army hiding behind the wall suddenly screamed and wailed.
The guards who followed behind Hauge hurriedly divided a few people and dragged the wounded soldiers down the city.
At this moment, several more shells hit the city wall, and a section of the wall fell with a bang, and a thick cloud of dust rose into the air, completely submerging that section of the wall, and the wounded soldiers and guards were all submerged in masonry.
For a moment, the collapsed stones rolled downward, like a waterfall pouring down from the mountain.
At the collapse site, the Qing army was in chaos, and many dependents took the opportunity to run away from the city wall.
Hauge and Sonny were already terrified when they saw this scene, and almost at the same time, at the foot of the mountain, there was a faint sound of drums, and the Wei soldiers climbed up in the field.
Sonny trembled and said, "Your Majesty, the Wei army is about to attack the city." ”
In the middle of the Wei army, hundreds of horns sounded, giving the signal to attack.
The wild Wei army began to climb along the mountain and towards the mountain city.
The scene in front of him is enough to make any battle-hardened veteran of the battlefield frightened.
Hauge looked down and saw a dense patch, and the crowd was not enough to describe the scene in front of him.
The soldiers of the Wei army climbed to the top of the mountain in turn, and the Qing army on the top of the mountain smashed down the rolling wood and stones, and from time to time the Wei army was smashed and rolled down the hillside.
Nearly 1,000 Wei troops climbed from below the collapse, and the Qing troops above were buried under the bricks and stones, and they successfully approached the city wall before the Qing troops who arrived shot bows and arrows and smashed down the stones.
At this time, the Wei general roared, and the killer team in front, with a shield, continued to rush forward, and the musketeers in the back, raised the musket, and it was a salvo, "bang bang" in the gunshot, the Qing army who raised the stone was beaten and rolled down.
Under the cover of the musketeers, the killer team crashed into the smoke and climbed the walls along the crumbling stones.
They groped all the way, and as soon as the first few Wei soldiers were about to board up, sharp spears stabbed at them, and several Wei soldiers were stabbed and rolled down screaming.
The Wei soldier next to him, but with a shield block, he grabbed his body forward, slashed out with a knife, and hacked a Qing soldier to death.
At this time, the follow-up Wei soldiers climbed up, and the Qing soldiers also rushed to the gap, and the two sides collapsed in each and began to fight desperately.
At the place of collapse, the Qing army, which occupied the geographical advantage, formed a spear array, constantly assassinating the Wei army, and on the city walls on both sides, the Qing soldiers kept firing arrows, and threw a sky-shaking thunder from time to time.
The Wei soldiers in the fierce battle fell down the slope, and the Wei army suffered heavy casualties.
At this time, a group of Wei army bombardiers rushed to the collapse site, and more than a dozen earth-shattering thunderbolts flew to the city heads on both sides, as well as the rear of the Qing army.
"Boom, boom!" A series of explosions sounded, and in the violent white light, the corpses of the Qing soldiers at the head of the city were thrown away, and the two arrows suddenly stopped.
The Wei soldiers seized the opportunity, and immediately roared angrily and attacked forward.
Under the command of the Chinese army, Gao Yihuan listened to the buzzing and killing sound coming from the direction of the mountain city a few miles away, looked at the battlefield with a clairvoyant mirror, and watched the soldiers on both sides desperately kill with a calm expression.
There were not many Qing troops in the city, and although they had a geographical advantage, they could not withstand the continuous attacks of the Wei army.
At the place of collapse, the corpses of both sides covered the ground, and the Wei soldiers stepped on the bodies of their comrades and attacked upward, and finally the Wei army began to climb the city.
The soldiers who boarded first were quickly killed by the Qing army, but the Wei army continued to come up, and finally occupied more and more Wei troops on the heights, and the Qing army could no longer resist, and some people began to turn around and flee to the back, and as long as someone fled, the Qing army in the gap was scattered in an instant.
Li Dingguo put down the clairvoyant mirror and said with a smile: "Your Majesty, it's in!" ”
Gao Yihuan bowed slightly, and said a sentence that the Qing army had said countless times, and he said calmly, "After the city is broken, there will be no chickens and dogs!" ”