Hu Guozhu lined up under the city of Beijing and sent people to shout, almost all the siege battles before the shouting is a routine rule, one is to see if there is a chance to persuade the defenders to surrender, the other is to break the morale of the soldiers defending the city, it is best to let the soldiers in the city have no fighting spirit, so that the siege is easier.

Before the army set up a formation to attack the city, a soldier first ran to the city and shouted: "Brothers at the head of the city, listen, your emperor has been proven to be an impostor, he is not the bloodline of the Ming Zhu clan at all, now our Great Zhou inherits the will of heaven and the people, and will become the lord of the world in the near future. ”

As he spoke, he turned around and pointed: "My Great Zhou gathered an army of 200,000 this time, if you want to use your mantis arm as a car, don't blame us for being polite, everyone is Han, don't kill each other and make people laugh!" ”

Someone at the head of the city immediately began to respond: "Listen to the brothers below, Xia Guoxiang has already killed the monarch in Hangzhou to stand on his own, and now he is preparing to destroy your General Hu Guozhu, and the news will reach your ears in less than two days, and then you are afraid that you will not have the heart to attack the city, and there is one thing you are afraid you don't know, Wu Shifan has ordered Yunnan to be ceded to us in order to please our Ming, you don't believe it to ask, it won't take three days for the news to come over, you have a lot of brothers in Yunnan, right? If you follow the road of Da Zhou to the dark again, you will become a homeless lonely ghost! ”

The two sides shouted to each other for a while, some believed, some did not believe at all, of course, they could disturb the morale of the three percent of the soldiers, their goal had been achieved, and then with the sound of war drums, the siege battle officially began.

This attack on the city of Beijing is not the same as other city gates, the Beijing city gate is divided into nine gates of the inner city, seven gates of the outer city, and four gates of the imperial city. Therefore, in later generations, Beijing City had the saying of "Inner Nine and Seven Imperial Cities Outside", and some people excluded the seven gates of the outer city and called Beijing the Four Nine Cities.

The seven gates of the outer city are in the clockwise direction, and the east city wall is the Dongbian Gate and the Guangqu Gate respectively; Zuo'an Gate, Yongding Gate, and Right Ann Gate on the south city wall; Guang'anmen and Xibian Gate on the western city wall.

The north city wall did not open the city gate, because Liu Bingzhong, who was responsible for presiding over the construction of the capital when the Yuan Dynasty built the capital, believed in the easy, and opened one less gate in the north, in order to conform to the yin and yang gossip said that "the north is not complete", in order to avoid risks.

Among the seven city gates, the east gate and the west gate are all small city gates, which are opened for the convenience of the people to enter the city, and the tallest city gate is the Yongding gate of the south city, which is more than four zhang high.

Since he wanted to attack the city and the number of people was superior, Hu Guozhu naturally chose seven outer city gates to attack at the same time, and the northern city had the least number of troops because there was no city gate, and the remaining three city gates were basically equal in number.

The defenders in the city were only more than 50,000 people, and each city gate was equipped with enough troops under Qu Songtin deployment, and 20,000 reserve soldiers were also set aside.

At the beginning of the war, no one knew whether it was a fierce attack and a feint attack on that side, leaving 20,000 reservists ready to respond at any time.

The vigorous Beijing offensive and defensive battle kicked off, as soon as the city head was artillery and bows and arrows poured down, the first battle was very important, we must curb the sharp spirit of the Great Zhou army, one drum, and then decline, three and exhausted, only when they are exhausted, the Ming army can easily deal with them.

The siege troops of the northern city were the first to rush under the city walls, and they did not need to cover the extremely heavy ordnance of the battering ram, and they naturally ran faster than the rest of the city.

These people's ladder has just set up the city wall, and they have been poured fire oil down the ladder, they have all seen this kind of scene, one by one they are not afraid of the soldiers defending the city to light the fire, and rush upward, the soldiers at the head of the city are not in a hurry to light the fire, just waiting for the first soldier to rush up from the city head is still a person high distance, the torch that has been prepared has long been touched the fire oil on the ladder.

However, the siege soldiers had already prepared, tore off their shirts to block the fire in front of them and continued to climb up, the archers on both sides began to aim at these people to shoot, and the defenders at the head of the city also began to pour pots of gold juice down.

The north city is quite good, the other three city gates, just when those soldiers covered the siege ram under the rain of swords to the city, suddenly heard a deafening explosion, and then looked back, the corpse of the soldiers holding the battering ram had already been torn apart, and the battering ram fell heavily to the ground, but the people around were all confused by the explosion, and now they couldn't hear anything clearly.

Hu Guozhu was taken aback: "What kind of trick is this?" Why haven't you seen it before? ”

"It should be a firearm buried in the ground, I have seen it in ancient books, because this thing is fixed, if people don't take that road or others take that road, it will become a useless thing, so gradually no one uses it."

"You see how good this thing is for defending the city, how can you say it's useless!"

"General, this is Beijing City, if it is placed in a small city, who dares to bury these things near the city gate, is not afraid that the city wall will collapse? That is, a big city like Beijing dares to use these things, and the people of the Ming Dynasty have a deep attainment in firearms. ”

"I'm not listening to your nonsense, how do you solve this thing?"

"It's been solved, as long as people step on it, it's solved, and there will be no risk, if it's in normal times, you can't find it without spending some effort, and now it's attacking the city, and the city is raining arrows, and we don't have time to check whether there is such a firearm."

The soldiers in front of them had already reacted at this time, but just now because the ground shook and the mountains shook, many shield bearers fell to the ground, and were shot indiscriminately by the archers at the head of the city, and the losses were somewhat heavy.

If you want to break through the gates of Beijing, it is not something that can be done overnight, but it is necessary to do it anyway, as long as the gates are knocked open, the army has already entered the city of Beijing with one foot.

Soon, these three city walls were also set up with ladders on the besieging side, and the soldiers under the city climbed towards the city head one after another, the advantage of these people is that they are used to fighting under Hu Guozhu's hands, and they don't need Hu Guozhu to come forward to motivate, knowing that as long as the city is broken, Hu Guozhu will definitely not treat them badly.

Liao Dekai was also standing on the city wall at this time, looking at this scene, he couldn't help but be glad that it was the Mongolian cavalry that attacked Beijing City, if these people were replaced, I am afraid that it would not take an hour, and Beijing City would have fallen. The siege method of the people and the siege method of the Mongol cavalry are one in the sky and one in the ground.

(End of chapter)