Chapter 48: Attack on Pyongyang
Today's Qing army is different from the Qing army that conquered Korea 31 years ago, and it used cavalry to quickly maneuver, avoid the fortified city, and directly take the Korean royal city. The Qing army now has a large number www.biquge.info of Han Eight Banners and Korean Green Battalions equipped with firearms, which can completely attack the fortified cities of Korea.
Under the city of Pyongyang, artillery roared, and the newly surrendered more than 20,000 Korean green battalions began to attack the city under the supervision of the Eight Banners.
The Eight Banners of the capital like Etuhun basically belong to the soy sauce fighters, and Etuhun and his Eight Banners soldiers stand behind the North Korean Green Battalion soldiers, holding steel knives, responsible for supervising their siege.
The artillery of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty was laid out, and Zhang Asi held a steel knife in his hand and stood in front of the gunners of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty. Zhang Asi, who has repeatedly made military exploits, has been promoted at this time, and under the recommendation of Etuhun, Zhang Asi became a deputy military academy of the eighth grade, although he is only a low-level officer, but he already feels that he has stood out, and with an official position, he can be regarded as a glorious ancestor when he goes home.
"Forecast, release!" Zhang Asi, who was wearing a lightning rod helmet, fell with a knife in his hand.
Rows of gunners of the Han Eight Banners picked up torches and stabbed at the fire gate behind the artillery, and one by one the guns spewed fire, and the shells whistled and smashed towards the city of Pyongyang.
At the same time, the gunners of the artillery battalion of the North Korean Green Battalion also set up their cannons and fired overwhelming shells at the city.
The shells sent out by the Han Eight Banners and the Korean Green Battalion in turn, continuous white smoke rose from the artillery positions of the Qing army, and the shells flew up to the head of Pyongyang, smashing the bricks of the stone city at the entrance of the female wall, and some weak points were pierced by the shells. The broken stones and bricks behind the female wall battlements burst like shrapnel, and the North Korean soldiers hiding behind screamed and fell countless times.
The gunners used mops to clear the chambers and reload the gunpowder and shells, and about a minute later, a deafening roar broke out again from the Qing artillery positions, and the shells whistled down on the city of Pyongyang.
After an hour of shelling, more than 3,000 North Korean Green Battalion auxiliaries and 5,000 temporarily recruited North Korean people pushed their shield carts and slowly pushed towards the Pyongyang city wall.
Among the more than 5,000 people, only a few have shaved money rat tails, and most of them still have the original hairstyle and wear the original clothes. This is because Tuhai considered that the premature forced shaving of hair and clothing would trigger a strong backlash from the North Koreans, so he only shaved the heads of the North Korean soldiers and officials who surrendered.
The 2,000 elite Eight Banner soldiers outside the pass all dismounted and acted as archers; Another 5,000 Han and Eight Banner Bird Bearers also followed. The warlord's team, composed of 5,000 capitals and eight banners, stood behind the Korean Green Battalion auxiliaries and Minzhuang.
"Fire!" The North Korean officers at the head of the city roared hoarsely.
The various artillery pieces of the North Koreans spewed fire at the head of the city, and the shells smashed into the shield cart formation, and the blocked shield cart sawdust flew sideways, and fragments shot in all directions, and the Korean green battalion auxiliaries and people behind the shield cart screamed and fell to a large area. One of the shield carts was directly hit by a twelve-pounder shell from the Hongyi cannon, and the entire shield cart flew up, whirling in the air, knocking over several auxiliaries.
The artillery of the Qing army also opened fire, and the Han Eighth Banner Army adopted the method of concentrating dozens of cannons to bombard one of the North Koreans' artillery positions, and rows of shells smashed on it.
As the shield cart approached, the North Korean soldiers at the head of the city used bows and crossbows and bird guns to shoot fiercely at the advancing North Korean green battalion, the arrows were like flying locusts, and the projectiles were like torrential rain, and many arrows and projectiles passed through the gap between the shield cart and the shield cart, and a large number of Korean green battalion soldiers let out a terrible scream and fell down one after another.
"Put!" The small flags in the hands of each leader of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty waved.
Rows of Han Eight Banner soldiers walked out of the wooden shield formation behind the shield cart, stood behind the shield cart, raised the gun, aimed at the city head and pulled the trigger, the fire rope pressed into the medicine pool, the bird gun made a continuous sound, the white smoke rose up, the stones on the city head splashed, and the projectiles drilled through the battlements and shooting holes knocked down many Korean soldiers.
The war drums rumbled, there was a neat shout, and more than 2,000 archers of various flags stepped forward, they took arrows in their hands, squatted down with their waists, their steps separated in a figure-eight shape, and the arrows pointed obliquely at the sky, throwing them from a distance. The vibration of the bowstrings rang out, and the arrows whistled like rain, covering the sky densely.
The archers of the Eight Banners outside the gate are indeed quite powerful, in the blink of an eye, each archer shot out more than 20 feather arrows, the arrows they shot were accurate and ruthless, and the arrows that rose in the air fell accurately on the city, and suddenly the city wall was like a large piece of reeds grew, and a scream sounded behind the female wall battlement.
The drums shook the sky, the trumpets sounded, and the Korean green battalion soldiers launched twenty nest carts, on which stood a hundred of the most elite Baijia Bayalas, each holding a two-stone bow in their hands, they stood on the nest cart high above the head of the city, condescendingly, and shot straight at the head of the city with armor-piercing arrows.
Baijia Bayala is worthy of being the elite of the Eight Banners, and the arrows shot from a distance of one hundred and twenty steps are tricky and vicious, and every arrow shot straight out, a North Korean soldier fell from a critical arrow.
Under the cover of the musketeers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the bows and arrows of the Eight Banners of the Manchus, the soldiers of the Korean Green Battalion stepped forward with their shield carts, threw sandbags into the moat, and quickly retreated. The shield cart behind pushed up again, and countless sandbags were thrown down. Although the North Koreans at the head of the city shot arrows and killed many North Koreans, they could not stop the North Koreans from filling the moat.
More and more sandbags fell, and the ice, which had been chiseled by the North Koreans themselves, could not support the weight and collapsed, and the sandbags sank into the water.
The fire oil tank at the head of the city fell like a hailstone, and the North Koreans also moved out the fire oil tank and spewed flames at the city bottom. Rockets from the head of the city kept shooting at the bottom of the city, and these rockets were gunpowder arrows.
The gunpowder arrows used by the Korean defenders were shot with a bow after adding a powder jar to the front of the arrow. Gunpowder arrows fell under the city, and explosions occurred one after another, and countless auxiliary soldiers working under the city fell.
At this time, suddenly a North Korean archer was shot in the throat by an armor-piercing heavy arrow shot by Bai Jia Bayala, and before the newly lit gunpowder arrow could be shot, the North Korean archer fell backwards, and the gunpowder arrow fell on the head of the city, and exploded into a fireball with a "boom", and several North Koreans around him let out a cry.
The gunners of the Han Eight Banners also pushed their cannons forward, advancing the cannons to a position of one hundred and fifty paces from the head of the city, and at such a close distance, the cannonballs could be fired accurately.
"Fire!" Zhang Asi yelled.
The overwhelming array of cannonballs swept through their shield cart formations and smashed into the city, adding to the woes of the Mongol Korean army.
The North Korean Green Battalion filled in the moat, and then the North Korean Green Battalion soldiers in armor and armed with shields and swords carried improvised ladders and rushed to the city wall with a shout. Soon, the North Korean Green Battalion soldiers set up a ladder under the city, and groups of North Korean Green Battalion soldiers climbed up to the top of the city.