Chapter 64: Chongzhen's Reflections
Under such a heavy reward, and it was cashed on the spot, a group of guys who were not afraid of death were really gathered, and these people pushed some wooden girl walls, and carried a lot of swarm of bee rockets that had not been used much, and went up to the city wall with a sigh, at this time the battlements had been knocked almost by the Yu family army, and there was almost no hiding place on the city wall, and these wooden girl walls became the last place to hide on the city wall.
The wooden female wall is a small car, with wooden wheels, made of thick wooden boards, some of which are wrapped with iron sheets or raw cowhide, to enhance the ability to resist bullets or arrows, and there are holes and perforations up and down on it, until this time, it is considered to be remembered by the officials and soldiers and made to the city wall.
Although these wooden female walls are not strong enough, they can still block the penetration of the Minne bullets made of pure lead more than two hundred steps away, so that after dozens of wooden female walls are pushed up the city wall, they really restrain the snipers on the high platform of the Yujia army outside the city to play an effective role.
Although the snipers repeatedly shot at these wooden walls, they could not effectively kill and injure the officers and soldiers hiding behind, so they had to call in artillery to help solve these problems.
But at this time, behind the wooden girl wall, suddenly set up a wooden vat, after the lid was opened, after a short time, I saw a sudden rise of gunpowder smoke on the city wall, only to see that after an instant, thousands of rockets, really like a swarm of bees, whistling and pulling a stream of green smoke, rushed out, pulled out a dense thousands of smoke trails in the air, and flew towards the city.
Seeing this situation, Yu Xiaotian's pupils shrank suddenly, during this time, his battle was a little too smooth, and he actually forgot about the big killer weapon of a swarm of rockets.
A swarm of rockets is also a very important weapon invented during the Ming Dynasty, and it is very powerful as a battlefield suppression weapon.
These swarm rockets, from three loaded divine arrows to twenty fire dragon arrows, and even thirty-two swarms of bees, and even a hundred tigers running arrows loaded with hundreds of rockets at one time, all the rockets are concentrated together, ignited and launched in turn, which can indeed create a very strong fire suppression effect in an instant.
Moreover, these swarm rockets can be launched to a distance of more than 200 steps at most, and they are all heavy arrows, and the front end of the arrows is a sharp iron arrow cluster, relying on gravity and speed, with strong penetrating power.
In the past two days, the official army has not used this thing, so that Yu Xiaotian even forgot about these things, but he did not expect that at this critical moment, the official army defenders actually invited so many swarms of bees and hundreds of tigers to run arrows together, and in an instant, a burst of fire rain was created.
Dozens of barrels of bees and hundreds of tigers rushed to light together, and thousands of rockets were launched in an instant, which were scattered all over the city.
And at this time, when a large number of attacking troops of the Yu family army charged towards the open gap, and in an instant, the rain of rockets covered the heads of the attacking Yu family army.
In just a short time, Yu Jiajun fell hundreds of soldiers, some of whom even directly inserted a few rockets into their bodies, and died under the city on the spot, and a group of soldiers were injured by this rain of arrows, and they also fell on the way forward.
This is the first time in the past two days that Yu Jiajun's army has suffered such a fierce counterattack, and the first heavy casualties it has suffered, Yu Xiaotian only felt a pain in his heart, and scolded angrily and shouted: "Artillery, fire with all your might!" Sweep away these bastards in the city! ”
After the start of the battle today, in order to save ammunition, the artillerymen did not fire at full speed as they did yesterday morning, but only observed the movement on the city wall, and from time to time fired at some places where the crowd gathered, or knocked out some remaining battlements.
At this moment, the officers and soldiers suddenly pushed up the city wall so many wooden women's walls, and also made so many swarms of bees, which instantly caused huge casualties to the attacking infantry brothers, and they were also angry when they were not used for filial piety.
The artillery officer felt that he couldn't stand the infantry brothers who were attacking, and at this moment they all seemed to be stuck in the buttocks, and they jumped up and scolded and ordered to fire at full speed.
On the artillery position, which was not very lively, it was suddenly like a volcano erupting again, and dozens of light and heavy artillery pieces fired at the same time again, smashing the shells into the city wall like hail.
After two days of continuous shelling, the gunners on each gun position have already marked the most accurate aiming point, this time the fire salvo, each cannon fired three or four cannons in a row at the fastest speed, dozens of cannons within a minute, poured one or two hundred cannonballs on the city wall, these cannonballs whistled and fell on the city wall, almost a moment later, and then look at the wooden female walls on the city wall that had just been pushed up, they turned into debris one after another, and were torn apart by the cannonballs.
And those outlaws who received heavy rewards and didn't want to die didn't even have a chance to escape, and were almost torn apart on the city wall on the spot by the cannons of the Yu family's army.
And the snipers on the high platform were also angry, one by one they wielded their wolf tooth rifles, quickly reloaded, and then immediately aimed accurately, as soon as they saw an officer and soldier appear on the city wall, they immediately opened fire and killed them.
As a result, a group of outlaws who had been gathered with great difficulty, from their arrival in the city, the launch of a swarm of bees, to their destruction, the whole process took less than a quarter of an hour, hundreds of officers and soldiers who wanted money and did not want to die, one by one fell to the city wall, leaving only more than 100 outlaws, one by one panicked like frightened rabbits, screaming and rolling down the city wall from the horse road in the city.
Look at their faces one by one are either blackened or covered with dust, in short, all of them are colorless, after getting off the city wall, they are all two trembling, some people are simply wet inside their crotch, and they are so frightened that they pee their pants.
They've seen this kind of firepower there! Those hot cannonballs fell down on the city wall like hailstones, and I watched many colleagues, just in the blink of an eye, together with the wooden girl wall in front of them, they were bombed into slag, the kind of scene where the human body suddenly burst and was torn apart in front of them, and the flesh and blood flew everywhere, I am afraid that it will become a lingering nightmare for them in this life, so don't look at them take a few taels of silver, but at this moment, they all feel afraid of the impulse just now.
Gao Qi knew that something was wrong, and hurriedly continued to urge the officers and soldiers to go to the city to defend it, but at this time, the officers and soldiers were all frightened, and no one responded for a long time.
So Gao Qiqian directly recruited the guards, reprimanded the guards, and invited Shang Fang's sword, claiming that if they didn't go to the city to defend again, they would be beheaded on the spot.
Under the pressure of Gao Qiqian's life, the official army once again reluctantly climbed the city wall, picked up the rolling wood and stones, and began to throw them towards the city to prevent the Yu family army from attacking the city wall.
Next, before dark, the Yu family army launched a fierce offensive and almost attacked the city wall, but before dark, the official army got more than a dozen enemies on the city wall, set fire and dropped the city wall, destroyed several ladders of the Yu family's army, burned and burned dozens of Yu family army generals, which was able to stop the attack of the Yu family army.
Yu Xiaotian saw that it was getting late, and continuing to attack the city was beneficial to the enemy and unfavorable to himself, and doing so might cause greater casualties, so he ordered Mingjin to withdraw his troops and ended the general attack the next day.
The onslaught of the Yu family's army on Chaoyangmen for two consecutive days not only caused great casualties and pressure to the defenders of Chaoyangmen, but also caused a very big shock to everyone in the Beijing Division.
Chongzhen is listening to the rumbling cannons and the dense muskets that come into the palace in the area of Chaoyang Gate and Dongzhi Gate all the time, as well as the constant shouting and killing at that moment, it can be said that it is as uncomfortable as sitting on pins and needles, and now he has gone to a Jiannu army, but he has attracted a more ruthless guy than Jiannu, this Jingshi is swaying in the wind and rain, and it seems that there is a danger of overturning at any time.
It was not until this time that Chongzhen really began to feel regretful, regretting that he did not listen to the advice of some ministers at that time, not to regard Yu Xiaotian as a revenge, and to persuade him to appease Yu Xiaotian as much as possible, and not to blame him at this time, but he didn't listen at the time, and he always wanted to solve Yu Xiaotian as quickly as possible, and return the next peace tomorrow to achieve his great achievements as an emperor of Zhongxing.
But now it seems that he thinks things too optimistic, when Yu Xiaotian came to Tianjin Wei, he still had a chance to appease him, as long as he moved his mouth, more or less allocated some food and salary to Yu Jiajun, and then sent officials and troops to respond to Yu Xiaotian's department and defeat Jiannu, then Yu Xiaotian had no excuse to raise the army and make trouble.
Even if he didn't do it at that time, when Xiaotian led Yu Jiannu to win the decisive battle of Tianjin Wei, he only needed to reward Yu Xiaotian and his soldiers as soon as possible, instead of sending a large army to attack Yu's army when the battle of the Yu family army had just ended, then there was still room for redemption in this matter.
Didn't Yu Xiaotian want a name? As long as he did this at that time, then if Yu Xiaotian still raised troops and rebelled like this, it would be a great rebellion and unpopular.
After so many years of turmoil, Jiannu entered the customs and plundered the Quartet for half a year, the people around Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty, and even the people in Beizhili, Shandong and other places, have long been at ease, and do not want to bear any more military disasters, if he does not send troops to fight the Yu family army first, and gives Yu Xiaotian a rebellious excuse, then Yu Xiaotian will not dare to move.
The common people will not be inclined to him for this, and they will all attributed to the court, but he was still blindfolded by lard, but he listened to the pry of Liu Yuliang and others, and miscalculated the combat power of the Yu family's army.
So much so that the two strong forces he had at hand were instantly overturned under the Yu family's army, leading the Beijing division to be in danger, and also giving Yu Xiaotian a good opportunity and excuse to rebel.
(Thanks to GZG1972 friends for the tip!) )