Yue Le's arrangement was very reasonable, and the tactics were used properly. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 infoIt's a pity that the weapons of the Qing army are not as good as the Ming army, and the morale is also falling rapidly. As the number of Qing soldiers killed increased, a large number of Qing soldiers began to surrender. After all, the Qing army was still a feudal army, and it would definitely collapse when the casualties reached a third.

There are fewer and fewer Qing troops in the city who are still resisting stubbornly, and more and more surrenders, and even many of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners have surrendered to the Ming army, especially the Mongols, who will not fight to the death.

Not to mention the temporarily recruited Minzhuang and the people in the city, it was impossible for them to die for the Manchus. What's more, this battle was fought in their homeland, if they fought to the end with the Ming army, their homeland would be really destroyed, and if they surrendered early, maybe they could still leave the house down.

The power of the Ming army's flowering shells was really powerful, and when a twelve-pound shell fell, a large part of a house was blown down, and if it was not a very strong house, a single shell would blow up all the houses. Three shells fell, and the sturdy house was essentially in ruins.

Even solid shells fired from a three-pounder cannon have a very noticeable destructive effect on houses. A three-pounder cannon hit the house with a shell, making a big hole. But the rate of fire of the three-pounder cannon was very fast, and in the blink of an eye, a house was riddled with holes, and the walls were full of holes.

With the attack of the Ming army, the Qing army in the city collapsed one after another and surrendered in batches. After the surrender of the Qing army, the common people in the fighting neighborhood were rescued and sent outside the city by the Ming army auxiliaries.

The fierce fighting in the city lasted all day, and after dark, the remaining Qing army relied on the strong buildings to survive, and the Ming army did not dare to attack rashly at night, but only surrounded the Qing army.

The last remaining group of Qing troops was not very numerous, with more than 20 white-armored soldiers, more than 50 Goshha, more than 100 ordinary Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers and more than 800 Huguang Green Battalion soldiers who were most desperate to serve the Qing court.

Why did these green battalion soldiers die for the Qing court? Because many of them were the domestic slaves of some gentry and Qing court officials in Huguang, and grew up in the courtyard of the deep mansion since childhood, their heads of families have now suffered misfortune, either killed, or their land confiscated, and their homes have been raided. So when those gentry and Qing court officials formed the Huguang New Army, these family slaves all signed up to join the Huguang Green Battalion New Army.

Now the Qing army is trapped in a small part of the center of the city, but the buildings around the prefect's yamen are extremely strong, and they have been rebuilt by Yue Le as strong as an inner city in the city, and every house is a fortress, and if the Ming army wants to attack it, it will inevitably pay a considerable price.

"The Tartars were compressed by us near the prefect's yamen, and there were no people in there, right?" Wang Yuyou asked a local captive.

The man replied, "My lord, there are no more people in there, and all the people are on the periphery." When the king arrived and captured the periphery, the people were rescued from the city. ”

Wang Yuyou asked the Minzhuang to go down first, and then called Wang [Fu] Chen, Zeng Yangxing and others: "There are no more people near the prefect's yamen, and the Tartars are defending with strong houses, and they have also built a stone wall on the periphery. If our army attacks, there will inevitably be many casualties! Tomorrow morning, attack with fire! ”

Although the fire tank was a backward weapon, the extraction of oil from places such as Java and Sumatra allowed Nanyang to master the simplest method of distilling oil, in addition to kerosene that could be lit, residue oil and a particularly flammable oil. In fact, that kind of oil is gasoline, although the refining amount is not large, but the extremely dangerous gasoline was useless at all in that era, and could only be used as a weapon, and all the Ming army was equipped with a small number of fierce oil tanks, which could be used as a weapon to defend the city.

Early the next morning, the Ming army launched an attack.

Two 64-pounder mortars and eight 12-pounder mortars were moved into the city, and the Ming army also pulled in six 12-pounder cannons, and the Ming army set up the cannons and launched an artillery bombardment on the last fortifications of the Qing army.

The cannon rumbled, and the mortar shells and the solid shells of the cannon smashed into the wall, and after several rounds of shelling, the wall was blasted into a huge gap. Then the stragglers of the Ming army climbed onto the roofs of the buildings on the periphery and fired at the Qing troops on the wall with rifled guns to suppress the Qing firepower.

In order to prevent the fire from spreading and burning down the entire northern city, Wang Yuyou also ordered the auxiliary soldiers and Minzhuang to tear down all the buildings north of the prefect's yamen, remove all the flammable materials, pile up sandbags, and ambush musketeers in the back to prevent the Qing army from escaping from the north.

The twelve-pounder mortar continued to fire, firing flowering shells, and with the rifled guns in the hands of the skirmishers, the Qing army was unable to raise its head.

The Ming army auxiliaries pushed shield carts, pulled firewood and fierce fire oil cans, and advanced up to the last fortifications entrenched by the Qing army. The Qing soldiers hiding inside kept shooting arrows, although there was a shield car to protect it, but there was still a fierce fire oil tank on a shield car was ignited, the oil tank exploded, and the six auxiliary soldiers were on fire, crying and struggling in the fire.

The other shields rushed thirty paces away from the building, and the auxiliaries picked up the bundles of firewood, placed them on improvised trebuchets, and threw them over. Then he smashed the fiery oil canister into the building.

Then the auxiliaries pushed the shield cart and knocked down the four fierce fire oil tanks twenty paces away, and the spouts were aimed at the buildings full of firewood and sprinkled with fierce fire oil, and spewed out orange fire dragons.

The buildings near the prefect's yamen soon burst into flames, and the furniture in the houses and the wooden beams on the roof were ignited.

The Qing soldiers, who were burned by the fire, had to flee from the building and flee to the north.

Rows of bullets immediately shot from behind the sandbags, beating the Qing troops who rushed out to the ground.

"Sons, rush with Ben! It's time to be loyal to the court! "Mulima took the last twenty or so white-armored soldiers, more than fifty Goshha, and more than a hundred Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers, dressed in heavy armor, opened the northern gate, rushed out from the inside, and launched a final charge against the Ming army.

The four sub-cannons spit out fire, more than 200 rifled guns and more than 1,000 smoothbore guns were fired one after another, and Mulima, who was riding a tall horse, was killed with men and horses, and the rest of the nearly 200 elite Eight Banner soldiers were all beaten into a hornet's nest.

In the prefect's yamen, Yue Le threw a knife in front of Jie Shu and let him commit suicide.

"Uncle Huang, I don't want to die! I'm just twenty-one years old and I don't want to die! Jie Shu cried and begged.

"If you don't die and fall into the hands of Ming Dog, then life is better than death!" Yue Le sighed, picked up the knife and prepared to wipe his neck, but he couldn't do anything.

"Jieshu, you can help me, life has been difficult since ancient times, and I am the only one who dies." Yue Le said.