Chapter 70: Unable to Return to Heaven
By this time, the two sides had begun to be entangled together, under the impact of Zhou Yuji's army, the defense line of the Yu family army began to become precarious at this time, a large number of officers and soldiers opened several passages, and secretly touched the front of the Yu family army's defense line, and then suddenly rushed out from the hiding place and rushed straight to the Yu family army's defense line, which greatly curbed the Yu family's army's firepower advantage.
At this time, the sword players in the Yu family army finally broke out, and they took off the iron-shelled grenades they were carrying, and threw them towards some places where muskets could not reach.
At this time, the officers and soldiers used many obstacles to evade the shooting of the guns of the Yu family's army, and they were all crowded in some corners or corners, and rushed to the defense line of the Yu family army from where they came, so that the Yujia army's muskets could not play a full role, and they had no time to reload and fire, so they could only fight with them with rifles and bayonets.
But the grenade is just the right way to deal with the officers and soldiers, where the noisy and lively, the sword players of the Yu family army will throw grenades wherever they are, and when their grenades run out, they will go to the wounded brothers to find them, this time the officers and soldiers are unlucky again.
Finally arched to the front of Yu Jiajun, and was about to rush out to play for his life, but the head began to hail with iron and fire, and this thing exploded when it landed, blowing up the officers and soldiers hiding behind the wall to the point of flesh and blood, and after each explosion, a group of officers and soldiers screamed and fell to the ground.
As more and more Yu Jiajun discovered that grenades could kill and injure a large number of officers and soldiers, more people took out grenades and began to throw them towards the hiding places of the officers and soldiers.
Zhou Yuji was on the front line at this time, and was leading his troops to attack the front line of Yujia's army, when suddenly a grenade fell near him, only to hear a loud explosion, Zhou Yuji immediately fell to the ground as if he had been shocked.
The soldiers rushed up to rescue Zhou Yuji, and found that one of Zhou Yuji's lower legs was seriously injured, a piece of shrapnel almost cut off half of his lower leg, and his tendons were also severed, and he was unable to walk because of the blood flowing.
So the personal soldiers carried Zhou Yuji to withdraw, but Zhou Yuji ignored it completely, scolded loudly, ordered the personal soldiers to put it down, briefly wrapped his wounds, and continued to order the onslaught.
Just as he shouted to continue the attack, a grenade fell into the courtyard again, and after the explosion, his own soldiers were also blown over, Zhou Yuji fell to the ground again, and was injured by a piece of shrapnel in the lower abdomen, fortunately he was wearing heavy armor, and the shrapnel was blocked, although it penetrated his armor, but it was not deep in his abdomen.
Zhou Yuji lay on the ground, gritted his teeth and asked his soldiers to untie his armor, pulled out the shrapnel from his abdomen with his hands, tore a piece of his robe, wrapped the wound, and stood up again with his big gun, and then shouted again to continue the onslaught.
But although Zhou Yuji is brave, but the generals under his command are far less brave than him, many officers and soldiers have already lost their fighting spirit when they see the brothers in front or around them being blown to pieces, although Zhou Yuji shouted a fierce battle, but seeing who went up and who died, the officers and soldiers still collapsed.
Many officers and men began to hesitate, and some officers and men in front of them were blown up, turned around and began to run back, and the entire officers and soldiers began to become confused.
Zhou Yuji scolded and ordered the officers and soldiers under his command not to retreat without permission, but at this time, he was unable to move and could not prevent the collapse of the officers and troops.
At this time, on their flank, there was suddenly a dense burst of gunfire, followed by an earth-shattering shouting of killing, and a Yu family army suddenly appeared on the side of Zhou Yuji's department, and rushed and struck, Zhou Yuji's department suddenly collapsed and began to scatter and flee.
Zhou Yuji's personal soldiers originally wanted to protect Zhou Yuji and retreat, but they were blocked in a courtyard by a group of Yu family soldiers, although the personal soldiers desperately protected Zhou Yuji, but they were soon slaughtered by the Yu family army, and a group of Yu family soldiers rushed into the courtyard and tied Zhou Yuji to the ground rope bundle.
It turned out that this group of Yu Jiajun was the headquarters of the First Brigade of Yujia Army outside Chaoyangmen, and after some hard fighting, Yujiajun finally broke through Chaoyangmen and entered the city.
Just after Zhou Minghu surrendered and led the army into the city, the two battalions of the Seventh Brigade entered the city and kept killing along the city wall towards Chaoyangmen.
The news of the destruction of Dongzhimen soon spread to the area of Chaoyangmen, and Gao Qiqian was so frightened that he lost his soul in the blink of an eye.
Yang Guozhu, who had just arrived at Chaoyangmen, was also strange, why did he just walk on the front foot, and the back foot of Dongzhimen was broken by Yu Jiajun? So he hurriedly sent people to inquire about the news, and at the same time led his troops to deploy defenses.
At this time, the offensive of Yujia's army outside Chaoyangmen was tight, and the defenders in the city heard that Dongzhimen was broken, and the army's heart was suddenly in chaos, and for a while they could not resist the onslaught of Yujia's army.
In addition, after some of the soldiers of the Yu family army will attack from Dongzhimen, they will immediately kill Chaoyangmen, although Yang Guozhu has the heart to serve the country, but he is unable to control the three thousand soldiers and horses he brought over, some of them are not his former subordinates, and his military orders do not play much role in the chaos, even if it is his subordinates who are directly subordinate, at this time people are panicked and at a loss, plus those officers and soldiers who were originally guarding here, do not listen to his command.
So not long after two battalions of Yu's army attacked from Dongzhimen to Chaoyangmen, the defenders here only resisted a little, and then dispersed, the soldiers of Yu's army quickly dispersed the officers and soldiers guarding the door, captured Chaoyangmen, opened the city gate from the inside, and then Yu Xiaotian led a large number of Yujia troops to swarm in, rushed into the capital.
At this time, the defenders were already scattered and fled, running without a trace, Yu Xiaotian only made a slight arrangement, and dispatched troops to rush to Chongwen Gate, Zhengyang Gate, and Xuanwu Gate in the inner city, as well as Anding Gate Desheng Gate to first control the city gate of the inner city, disperse the defenders there first, drive them out of the inner city or force them to the west of the city, and then find a way to solve them.
As for himself, at this time he led the guards battalion and an elite infantry battalion, and went straight to the imperial city, on the way he heard the fierce battle sound from the noon gate, and knew that it must be the Ming army that began to launch a counterattack on Qiu Qinghui's department over there, so he did not dare to slack off, and ordered all his subordinates to run forward, and rushed to the noon gate as fast as possible, and first solved Qiu Qinghui's crisis.
And when he led his troops to feel the noon gate, it was when Qiu Qinghui led his troops to beat Zhou Yuji's troops and began to collapse, coupled with the fierce attack of the powerful guard battalion and another infantry battalion under his command, Zhou Yuji's troops were almost wiped out by Yu's army in the area of the noon gate, and the rest of the rout troops were scattered into the city.
At this time, the city was full of fleeing routs, these Ming army routs were very corrupt, taking advantage of the rout, many people in the city did the thing of robbing houses and houses, going from house to house, but if they fancy some people's houses, they immediately broke into the door, robbed the people's property, and humiliated women, it can be said that they did all kinds of evil, just to take advantage of the chaos to make a fortune.
At this time, Yu Xiaotian did not have time to take care of these things for the time being, and after defeating Zhou Yuji's department, he immediately sent troops to Xihuamen, at this time, Xihuamen also encountered the counterattack of the official army, but it was far less fierce than the battle on the side of Wumen, after the reinforcements arrived, it was only a moment of effort, and all the officers and troops besieging Xihuamen were defeated, and at this time, the entire periphery of the imperial city was basically stabilized.
The progress of all units of the Yu family army in the Beijing division was very fast, and everyone rushed to the designated place desperately, and the officers and soldiers stationed there launched a fierce street battle, the officers and soldiers saw the Yu family army enter the city in a big way, and the whole army immediately collapsed, and fled to the west of the city.
Although Cao Huachun tried his best to control the soldiers and horses, he was already powerless at this time, and a large number of officers and soldiers began to open the Fucheng Gate, Xizhi Gate, and Desheng Gate one after another, and fled to a place they thought was safe.
At this time, the defense system of the entire Beijing division collapsed, the soldiers could not find the generals, and the generals could not find the soldiers, and a large number of Ming soldiers would take care of their own affairs, and no one could take care of the emperor in the imperial city.
Although the strength of the Yu family army is not very large, but because of the collapse of the morale of the officers and soldiers defending the city, they basically did not encounter too much resistance, but in a few places, they encountered the desperate resistance of a small number of loyal officers and soldiers, but in the face of the superior firepower of the Yu family army, their resistance was very pale, and they were soon either defeated on the spot, or they were beaten to the ground, and the whole army was annihilated.
Therefore, the progress of Yu's army was very fast, and when it was dark, the Zhengyangmen, Chongwenmen, Chaoyangmen, and Andingmen in the inner city had been taken by Yu's army, and only Xuanwumen, Fuchengmen, Xizhimen and Deshengmen were left in the inner city that had not yet been controlled by Yujiajun.
After nightfall, Yu Xiaotian ordered a short rest, first built a barricade defense line at the gates that had been captured, stabilized the current results, and began to draw troops, assemble at Xuanwu Gate and Desheng Gate, and prepare for a midnight attack on these two gates.
And Yu Xiaotian himself led the troops to the outside of the noon gate and observed the majestic palace city shrouded in night from a distance.
For this noon gate in front of you, it is called Chengtian Gate now, Yu Xiaotian is very familiar, outside the noon gate, there is a T-shaped square built in this era, although it is not as big as the later generations, but it is also quite meteorological, in the east and west of the square on three sides, the palace wall was also built, the Chengtian Gate was enclosed, and three palace gates were opened on the southeast and west sides of the southeast and west of here.
And the location of Yu Xiaotian is not actually Chengtian Gate, but the Daming Gate outside Chengtian Gate, now the palace gates here are closed, and the city gate is pitch black, a dead scene.
(Baby daughter was delayed by quacks!) Yesterday morning, I was admitted to the hospital with a high fever, and I tossed all day with a night! At this time, I took time to rush back to code a chapter, and I was sleepy to death, but I had to rush back to the hospital immediately, I don't know the kindness of my parents if I don't raise a child, and I hope everyone in the world will be filial piety! It's not easy to be a parent! If the change is broken tomorrow, everyone must be considerate! Thanks a lot! In addition, I would like to thank the desert laughing spring breeze brothers for their reward! )