I will be the prince at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 144
Five thousand Mauser riflemen and one thousand grenade launchers lined up in six rows and approached the southern city wall of Shengjing with neat footwork. Gao Shun held a small round shield in one hand and a Yanling knife in the other. Pointing directly at the top of Shengjing City, he said sharply:

"My sons and daughters of the Ming Dynasty, the city in front of me is called Shengjing, which is the home of the Tartars. But this city was not called Shengjing in the past, but Shenyang Zhongwei, which was established by Emperor Taizu in the 20th year of Hongwu. Liaodong is under the jurisdiction of the commander and envoy.

In March of the first year of Apocalypse, Nurhachi led the Tatars to occupy this place and changed its name to Shen Yang.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen, Emperor Taiji of the Tatars changed Shenyang to the current Shengjing and became their capital city. This city was originally Shenyang Zhongwei of our Ming Dynasty, but now it is occupied by barbarian Tartars. Today My Ming Dynasty is going to recover this city, men of Ming Dynasty, can you do it? "

"Yes." The six thousand Ming soldiers roared in unison, and the sound shook the sky.

Gao Shun nodded in satisfaction: "Okay, all of them are there, follow me to attack the city!"

"Siege the city, siege the city." The [-] Ming soldiers yelled and ran towards the Tianyou Gate.

The main force of the Tartars defending Tianyoumen and Deshengmen was the Xianglanqi and Xianghuangbanners commanded by Kabula. After the Huwei cannon stopped shelling, Gabula led the Tartars of the two banners to the top of the city and sent troops Plug the blown gap.

At this time, the Ming army was less than a hundred feet away from the city wall. Gao Shun held up the Yanling knife and shouted loudly: "All obey the order, raise your guns and fire!"

"Boom tom tom, boom boom..."

There was a dull sound of grenade firing and gunfire, and a thousand grenades and thousands of bullets were fired at the Tartars near the city wall.

"Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom, boom."

The sound of the grenade exploding, the sound of bullets shooting into the body of the Tartars, and the sound of the bullets hitting the city wall became one sound, and accompanied by the screams of the Tartars one after another.

In particular, the Tartars who blocked the gap were completely killed and injured in this concentrated fire attack.

As for the Tartars at the head of the city, as long as they dare to show their heads, they will immediately attract a blow like a storm.

The city wall of Shengjing City is seven feet five inches (about 2.80 meters) high, with a circumference of 32 miles (about 16 kilometers) and an area of ​​about 11.9 square kilometers.It is an irregular round shape, built of rammed earth, with eight gates, which are relatively simple to close, with two gateposts built of bricks, with a horizontal beam on it, and a polio tile roof.

The eight gates are the eight city gates of Shengjing, and the south: Desheng gate and Tianyou gate.To the west: Huaiyuan Gate and Wailao Gate.To the north: Fusheng Gate and Dizai Gate.To the east: Fujin Gate and Neizhi Gate.In this way, Shengjing City has the sayings of "eight gates" and "eight gates".

Now Gao Shun is leading the army to attack Tianyoumen and Deshengmen in the south. This was originally the defense area of ​​Xianglan Banner and Xianghuang Banner. city ​​gate.

So now, these four city gates have concentrated most of the soldiers and horses of the Tartars, and Tianyou Gate and Desheng Gate alone have gathered nearly [-]% of the troops of the Eight Banners.

The Tartars, who were bombarded by the shells fired by the Huwei cannon, slowly came out of their hiding place after the Ming army stopped shelling. Now seeing the Ming army attacking the city, countless Tartars bowed their bows one after another. Take the arrow and prepare to give the Ming army a head-on blow.

However, they were bombarded head-to-face with grenades from the Ming army, and the sharp-pointed bullets fired by the Mauser rifles were fired like a shower, and thousands of casualties appeared immediately.

However, these Tartars also showed their bravery at this time. They braved the hail of bullets and shot the arrows in their hands towards the city, causing a lot of trouble to the attacking Ming army.

But they only shot one arrow, and they were shot and killed by the Ming army.

Under the precise strikes of the riflemen and grenade launchers, the Tartars at the head of the city suffered heavy casualties in an instant. Gabra saw that more than half of his troops had been lost in the blink of an eye, his eyes were red, and he loudly ordered the Tartars to fight back.

The remaining Tartars had no choice but to poke their heads out from under the battlements, and shot the arrows in their hands without aiming, and then quickly got down on the ground.

The arrows shot blindly in this way were not accurate at all, and naturally caused very little casualties to the Ming army.

As this ebbs and flows, the counterattack force of the Tartars weakened, which naturally gave more opportunities to the attacking Ming army, and soon the Ming army reached the gap and rushed into the city.

Seeing the urgency of the situation, Gabra, who was covered in blood, couldn't care less about cursing the surrounding Tartars. He drew out the scimitar at his waist and rushed towards the gap with a loud roar.

The heroic Gabra was immediately exposed in front of the Ming army. Several soldiers of the Ming army with sharp eyesight and quick hands, seeing that it was a Tartar general, raised their guns and shot at Gabra.

"Ba Ba Ba" gunshots rang out, Gabra was shot several times in the body immediately, his body swayed, the scimitar in his hand fell to the ground with a "bang", and he fell on his back.

Seeing Kabula's death in battle, the Tartars, whose morale had been slumped, fell into chaos.Taking advantage of this opportunity, the Ming army shouted and rushed into the city continuously.

Zhu Cixuan suddenly heard the shouts of the Ming army, raised his binoculars and looked towards the city gate, and saw the Ming army pouring into the city like a tide.

He said happily, "Okay, the city is broken." He immediately shouted to Zhang Liao in front, "Wen Yuan, lead the cavalry to attack."

When Zhang Liao heard Zhu Cixuan's order to attack him, Zhang Liao, who had been waiting for a long time, immediately urged his horse to rush out, and at the same time shouted: "The cavalry follow me to attack."

Twenty thousand cavalry followed Zhang Liao and charged Shengjing.

"The city is broken, the city is broken! Go to the ducks! Brothers, go to the ducks! Kill the Tartars..."

Shouts of shouts shook the sky, and the cheers of tens of thousands of people were not taken lightly. The little emperor Xuan Ye who ran back to the palace heard the cheers of the Ming army, his face turned pale, and he said to a guard beside him, "Hurry up and go out!" Look, what's going on outside?"

"twitter!"

The guard ran out quickly, and after a while, he ran over panting.In a panic, he ran in front of Xuan Ye, knelt down on the ground, and said out of breath:

"Your Majesty, something is wrong. The Ming army has broken through Tianyou Gate and Desheng Gate. Lord Suo and Ye Bilong are now leading their troops to fight and retreat, heading towards the imperial palace."

The little emperor Xuanye swayed, fell to the ground, and muttered to himself: "It's over, I'm done."

The weather in Shengjing in March is still very cold, and the streets and alleys in the city are still covered with snow. In the past, at this time, the disciples of the Eight Banners in Shengjing were all huddled in their houses, roasting by the fire, eating beef and mutton, drinking Drinking kumiss, listening to the ditties hummed by the women of the Ming Dynasty captured from the pass, and watching them dance in thin clothes, it was very pleasant.

When the interest came up, he even threw these smart women down and galloped on them, venting their remaining energy.

But today is obviously not possible. More than [-] Ming troops surrounded Shengjing, which has hundreds of thousands of entrances and [-] brave and skilled troops. This was unimaginable in the past. At that time, hundreds of warriors could drive tens of thousands The Ming army fled desperately, but now it's the other way around.

In Shengjing City, thousands of rifles kept spouting flames, sending bullets into the bodies of the Tartars with lightning speed, destroying everything in front of them.

The soldiers on both sides were jealous. For them, this war has nothing to do with right or wrong, but it is a battle where the fate of the two nations is at stake.

"bang bang bang"

Continuous gunshots and huge roars rang out in the city one after another. More than [-] soldiers and horses from the Ming army and the Tartars fought life and death in the city of Shengjing.

(End of this chapter)