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

Chapter 28 Battle of Kunming ([-])

Zhu Cixuan, who was wearing a coir raincoat, said to Mu Zhongliang beside him, "Let him come over."

The cavalryman quickly came to Zhu Cixuan, clasped his fists in salute, and said, "His Royal Highness, Guangtong is twenty miles ahead, and King Gongchang has successfully entered Guangtong. King Jin notified all the troops to enter Guangtong to rest."

"Oh? Guangtong won it so quickly?" Zhu Cixuan asked suspiciously.

"His Royal Highness, when King Gongchang's army arrived in Guangtong, they did not meet the army of Tartars. According to the local people, the Tartars in the city hurriedly withdrew from Guangtong yesterday and headed towards Kunming."

oops!The Tartar learned to be clever, and knew that Guangtong's defenders could not defend Guangtong, so they withdrew from Guangtong's defenders and went to Kunming.From the looks of it, the Tartars wanted to concentrate their forces to defend Kunming. In this way, the Tartar defenders in Kunming were not [-], but included troops from several nearby cities.

After the soldier left, Zhu Cixuan led his army straight to Guangtong. At night, the entire army was stationed in Guangtong.In the next few days, the army went all the way unimpeded, passing through Lufeng and Anning to the outside of Kunming.

However, when Zhu Cixuan entered the gates of the three cities of Guangtong, Lufeng, and Anning, no skill cards appeared in his mind. Zhu Cixuan wondered if the skill cards would only appear in the captured cities when he was in the army. Wait for the capture of Kunming to see if there are any skill cards. If there are, if you want skill cards, you need to lead your own army to capture the city.

In view of the fact that the defenders of Kunming, Abu Tu, withdrew the defenders of several cities around Kunming, and the strength of the Kunming Tartars also soared to [-], which gave Abu Tu a certain amount of confidence. He decided to stick to Kunming and fight a war of attrition with the Ming army. , The large amount of grain and grass stored in the treasury of Kunming, Bingjia and silver are the confidence for him to stick to it.

He also fantasized that he held back the main force of the Ming army in Kunming, and the [-] elite army of Zhao Butai, the general who conquered the south, suddenly appeared and dealt a fatal blow to the Ming army, which would be a great achievement for him.What he doesn't know is that the army of his fantasies will never appear.

Dawn breaks, the sun jumps up the mountain, with a few pieces of bright red morning glow, the sun shines down from the gaps in the clouds, like countless giant dragons spouting golden waterfalls, illuminating the land between the mountains and the majestic mountains. The majestic city of Kunming.

"Dong dong dong" was dull, and the passionate drum sounded outside Kunming, and teams of Ming troops drove out of the camp and assembled outside the city.

The sound of war drums from the Ming army outside the city awakened Abutu. He hurriedly put on his clothes, and led his bodyguards to the tower at the south gate. The cannons in red clothes were pulled to the front of the Ming army. He counted them and there were as many as thirty. .

Although there are more than ten red-clothed cannons at the head of Kunming City, they are distributed in six city gates, only the south gate and the north gate have four red-clothed cannons, and the other four gates each have only two. Moreover, the red-clothed cannon was extremely heavy, and it was difficult to move on the city wall. It could also be said that it could not move at all in a short period of time.

At this time, he saw the Ming army starting to roll out trebuchets, pushing them to the front of the red cannons, and his heart twitched. The red cannons were not enough, and he added trebuchets to bully people. This bullying method!

Soon, he was rewarded by the defenders of the other gates. The Ming army had surrounded the North Gate, Daximen, and Dadongmen.Even Xiaoximen and Xiaodongmen have cavalry from the Ming army.At this point, the entire Kunming city was surrounded by the Ming army.

Standing beside Zhu Cixuan on horseback, Mu Zhongliang was filled with emotion, and said, "Your Highness, this Kunming city was built by Mu Ying, the ancestor of my Mu family, who invited Fengshui master Wang Zhanhai from the palace to help build it.

Master Wang surveyed the mountains and rivers around Kunming, and found that the main vein of Kunming is Changchong Mountain, which "winds northward". All the way is lush and lush, and when it reaches Kunming, the top rises abruptly, and it is in the shape of a finished character, tending to dry and separating, with nine ups and downs.

So Master Wang built the city of Kunming in the shape of a tortoise, taking the meaning of the intercourse between a tortoise and a snake, to benefit Kunming and the people.And buried three stones in the city, the first stone said: "500 years later, Yunnan will win the south of the Yangtze River"; the second stone said: "500 years later, the king will prosper"; : "everything should take the lead here".

The entire city of Kunming has a circumference of more than [-] Zhang and a wall of [-] Zhang high. There are six gates in total, and towers are built on top of the six gates.The six gates are East Gate Weihe Gate, commonly known as Dadong Gate, Northeast Gate Yongqing Gate, commonly known as Xiaodong Gate, North Gate Baoshun Gate, commonly known as North Gate, Southwest Gate Hongrun Gate, commonly known as Xiaoxi Gate, and Ximen Guangyuan Gate. Commonly known as Daximen, Nanmen Lizhengmen, commonly known as Dananmen, I lived in this city when I was a child.Now that we have taken this city, I can go home and see. "

Zhu Cixuan laughed loudly and said: "Okay, after the capture of Kunming, the crown prince will give you a holiday, go home and have a look."

"That's a good relationship, thank you Your Highness the Prince." Mu Zhongliang also laughed.

As the messengers conveyed the orders one by one, the Ming army rolled out several nest carts. This kind of nest cart was as high as four feet, which was a bit higher than the top of Kunming city. Soldiers could climb up the nest from the wooden ladder behind. You can use bows and arrows on the nest cart to suppress the enemy troops on the city wall. You can also put down the baffle on the nest cart and put it on the city wall when you approach the city wall. The soldiers in the nest cart step on the baffle and rush down from the heights. Go up the city wall.

Now there is no need to get close to the city wall. These nest vehicles are avoiding the shooting range of the red cannons, and stop at a distance of 300 feet (that is, [-] meters) from the city wall. The soldiers in the car were very safe. After the nest car arrived at the designated location, a guard of the Eastern Palace with a Mauser rifle climbed onto the nest car, set up a rifle on the baffle of the nest car, and aimed at the Tartars on the city wall.

At this time, Bai Wenxuan, king of Gongchang, led [-] troops to surround the north gate, Chieftain Si Muyi of Zheledian led [-] troops to surround the east gate, and Yuanjiang chieftain Nasong led [-] troops to surround the west gate. The Duke of Guangguo congratulates Jiuyi to lead [-] soldiers to support the four gates at any time.

Standing on a high place, Li Dingguo saw the Ming army in the binoculars and was ready to attack, so he waved his hand and issued the general order to bombard Kunming.

Soldiers of the Ming army holding torches lit the matchlocks of the red cannons, and the red cannons roared angrily, and the shells came out of their chambers and hit Kunming.

(End of this chapter)