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Chapter 2094
The Imperial Palace's Grand Internal Affairs Hall.

Li Ye, who hadn't closed his eyes all night, stood on the Dragon Terrace, listening to the rumbling sound of gunfire and the shocking sound of rushing into the palace from outside the city, looking at the position of the city gate with gloomy and complicated eyes.

He didn't expect that his uncle's determination to raise troops to rebel was so strong that he didn't give himself any time to attack the city as promised.

Flashing through his mind was the content of his uncle's reply to his mother last night in the prince's old mansion, and Li Ye's eyes flickered with deep confusion.

Saffron!
Empress Xiaozhi used reason and emotion to persuade her uncle to stop the war and make peace with the letter, but the reply she got was a packet of saffron used for abortion.

Li Ye still can't forget the look of despair and grief that the queen mother looked at the saffron in the paper bag.

My uncle was so cold-blooded that he didn't even care about his own flesh and blood that hadn't been born yet.

Li Ye, who was thinking that his mother could help him with something, saw his mother Chen Jie holding saffron in a daze, weeping in a low voice, and left the prince's old mansion in a daze.

Uncle is so unfeeling to mother and the fetus in her womb, there is no need to do anything else.

Hearing the louder shouts of killing outside the city, Li Ye slumped powerlessly on the dragon chair, staring blankly at the civil and military officials under the dragon platform.

The civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty had long since lost their peaceful appearance, and they all stared dumbfounded at the direction of the city wall where the news of the siege came.

They had the same thoughts as Li Ye, they never thought that the side-by-side king would be so resolute that he would not leave the court with the slightest leeway.

Here, I and others are also discussing with His Majesty the matter of admonishing him to stop the army and make peace.

The King of Side Shoulders had already attacked the city as promised when the sun was three poles high.

There is no one who doesn't like people who stick to their promises, but facing such a trustworthy Liu Mingzhi, Manchu civil and military officials really can't be happy.

The situation has reached such a point, which means that there can only be one of the two between the court and the side-by-side king.

Either the court succeeded in suppressing the rebellion, or the country changed its dynasty.

Many officials who had come to their senses recalled the contents of the proclamation, and secretly glanced at Li Ye who was sitting on the dragon chair with the same restless expression, and lamented in his heart.

Your Majesty, Your Majesty, since you took the throne, you have become more and more proficient in government affairs, and you have the appearance of a wise king.

How can you be confused at this moment?
Xia Gongming, who had been in court for a long time, came out holding the court wat.

"Your Majesty, the King Side Shoulder has ordered the army to attack the city, and the situation has become unstoppable.

It is no longer feasible to persuade the side-by-side kings to strike peace or use tactics of delaying troops, so let's retreat from the enemy with all our strength. "

Li Ye looked at Xia Gongming who looked sad and nodded silently: "This is the end, I can only fight back with all my strength."

"Military Department, Household Department!"

"Chen is here!"

"Food and grass, the equipment for defending the city will be supplied to the hands of our soldiers as quickly as possible, and we will fight back the enemy with all our strength."

"The ministers obey the order."

People in the court were panicked because of Liu Mingzhi's siege of the city as promised, Nangong Ye, Guan Ninghou and a group of generals also rushed towards the city wall at full speed.

Liu Mingzhi's resolute rebellion caught all the officials in the capital by surprise.

"Guan Ninghou, you go to the east of the city, Qingyuanhou, you go to the south of the city, Ren Weibo, you go to the west of the city, I go to the north of the city to find a way to get out of the city, and lead the troops under his command to assist Jing Yuanhou in resisting the soldiers and horses under King Peering. "

"Yes!"

Guan Ning Hou Lu Tao, Qing Yuan Hou Yan Ben Mo, Ren Wei Bo Shen Zhong, these veterans who had already retired to the second line, under Nangong Ye's order, immediately galloped towards the city wall that they were supposed to defend after leaving the inner city .

The sound of artillery fire in the north of the city became more and more intense, and from the main road in the city, one could already see the billowing gunpowder smoke on the city wall, shooting straight into the sky.

Jingyuan Hou Chen Jin's gunners finally saw the strength of the elite frontier army.

The gunners under Jiang Lei's command are elite soldiers who have experienced hundreds of battles and have been trained on the battlefield.

As long as the position of the artillery on the city wall is determined, the artillery mounted on the battlements by the gunners of the Imperial Army, under the return fire of the gunners of the Sixth Guards of the New Army, there must be a cannon within three or five guns that misfiring.

"General, we have only destroyed seven enemy artillery pieces, but we have already lost thirty-two artillery pieces.

Among them, two artillery positions on the east side were hit by shell boxes, and more than 60 brothers were damaged at once. "

Jingyuan Hou Chen Jin leaned out, took a sneak peek at Jiang Lei's artillery position, watched the artillery shells covering the city wall continuously, and hammered the city bricks hard.

The timing of these new army's Six Guards gunners' firing was almost impeccable, and the artillery that clearly occupied a geographical advantage on the pressing city wall had no power to fight back.

If you fire three or five shots, you will be bombarded by flaming shells.

Looking at the mournful artillery general beside him, Chen Jin gritted his teeth.

"Even if all the artillery on the city wall is blown up, we have to continue to fight back.

Once it is bombed endlessly by the enemy, once the city gate is lost, and when they rush into the city, everything will be over.

Don't feel sorry for the loss of how many artillery pieces, you must destroy the enemy's artillery at all costs.

Ben will immediately send someone to the palace to inform the Ministry of War to bring all the artillery in stock for your command.

You have to find a way for Lao Tzu, no matter what you have to destroy their artillery. "

"Yes! The last general takes orders!"

The artillery general had just left when Nangong Ye climbed up the city wall panting.

"Jing Yuanhou, how is the situation?"

"My lord, the situation is not good. The enemy infantry just launched a feint attack to lure our ambush archers to show up, and provide us soldiers with positions for the enemy's artillery fire."

"How about artillery fire?"

"It's not an opponent at all, the hundreds of cannons on the city wall are overwhelmed by dozens of enemy cannons.

Destroyed seven enemy artillery pieces, but we have lost more than 30 pieces, and the crenels on the east side of the city wall have been blasted with three gaps!

Just under the artillery, my soldiers on the north wall lost thousands of troops. "

Seeing Jing Yuanhou's heartbroken expression, Nangong Ye leaned out and took a quick glance at the artillery positions outside the city, and then retreated immediately.

Compared with the disorderly firing method of the imperial guards on the city wall, the gunners under Liu Mingzhi's command fired their guns in a superb way.

The cannons are laid out in a row, and the three cannons are covered with fire.

It can not only take time to cool down the temperature on the barrel, but also effectively suppress the return fire of the artillery on the city wall.

Nangong Ye was simply too familiar with this combat method.

When attacking the city walls of the Kingdom of Jin, Jiang Lei assisted with artillery fire under the command of himself and Deputy Commander Wan Mingliang.

Hundreds of cannons were arranged in separate layers. After adjusting the firing distance, some of them suppressed the enemy troops on the city wall, and some of them bombarded the city gate.

It can be said that the way the gunners of the Sixth Guards of the New Army use artillery is several grades ahead of the artillery of other armies.

"Mr. Yong'an, it's not an option to go on like this. If they continue to bombard them endlessly, the city gate will be broken open sooner or later!"

"Jing Yuanhou, you order the artillery general under your command to pay close attention to the way the enemy fires the artillery, try to learn it, and don't bombard blindly at will. If this is the case, you will not be the enemy's opponent at all.

I will find a way to get out of the city immediately, and lead the soldiers and horses under my command to assist you outside the city, to see if I can share some of the pressure for you. "

"Okay, the general will send the order right away, Mr. Yong'an, be careful, there are at least dozens of binoculars observing the movement on the city wall, and if you are not careful, you may be targeted by the bed crossbow."

"I understand!"

Nangong Ye looked at the back of Jingyuanhou Chen Jin who was touching the battlements towards the gunner's position, and sighed heavily.

Good gunners are honed through countless wars, not seen, and I don't know if the gunners of the Imperial Army can secretly learn something in such a critical and short period of time.

"Report, Commander-in-Chief, bed crossbow, catapult, and siege engine have been debugged, ready to assist gunners and infantry to attack the city!"

Liu Mingzhi put down the binoculars in his hand, glanced around at the soldiers and horses who had completed their formation, and nodded silently.

"Order Jiang Lei to use all artillery fire.

Jin Yunfei was ordered to send out ten catapults, load them with kerosene bombs, throw them towards the city gate, and burn the city gate as much as possible.

Zhou Baoyu was ordered to send two cavalry to charge in a cross circuit, covering and suppressing the defenders on the city wall with the rain of arrows bound with Lei Zhenzi, so as to win opportunities for the infantry brothers to attack the city tentatively. "

"Order!"

"The messenger!"

"exist!"

"Beat the drum to send orders to the three armies, and the cavalry cover the infantry to attack the city!"

The rhythm of the drums changed, and all the soldiers and horses of the six guards of the new army outside the north city wall started to move.

With the assistance of artillery, catapults, and bed crossbows, the standing infantry kept their shields tightly in front of them, and slowly approached under the city wall.

The guards on the city wall heard the enemy situation reported by the lookouts, leaned out and looked out of the city, seeing the perfect formation of infantry and cavalry attacking the city, their hearts trembled suddenly, and a sense of powerlessness rose. idea.

Is this still cavalry?

After abandoning horses as pawns, the close cooperation between the methods of siege is not much worse than that of elite pawns.

However, just as they leaned out, what greeted them was more violent artillery bombardment, which was also mixed with big killers such as stones, bed crossbows and arrows.

When the time came, some stunned Forbidden Army recruits paid the price with their lives for their own carelessness before they could react.

(End of this chapter)