Kowloon wins

Chapter 797 Sweeping the Capital ([-])

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Chongwenmen, as the location of the nine-door admiral's mansion, is naturally not bad for defense. There are twelve cannons on the front of the city. Of course, they are all old-fashioned cannons. In the past ten years since he served as the admiral of the Nine Gates, he has often written about this matter and asked to replace the old artillery on the Chongwen Gate. However, he was always opposed by the officials of the Ministry of Industry headed by Hong Qing, and the old fourteen The Ministry of War in charge also complained a lot about this. Longkodo’s proposal always failed to pass the court meeting. Naturally, this artillery can’t be replaced. Of course, the old artillery returns to the old, and the maintenance is actually not bad No, Longkodo only gave an order, and the gunners who had been on standby for a long time immediately ignited the fuse on the gun. Parabolicly smashed towards Tashan and others who were rushing towards their own position.

"General, be careful!"

The rate of fire of the old-style artillery is slow, and the range is not too far. At worst, it can only hit a distance of about two hundred paces. It can be regarded as a sharp weapon, such as the twelve cannons attacking several people, in the eyes of irrelevant people, it seems like a big deal, but to Ta Shan and others, it is definitely a deadly threat. Because of this, as soon as the cannon rang, the guards who were following Tashan immediately became anxious. Without caring much, they all rushed forward and pressed Tashan to the ground.

"Bah, damn it, Longkodo, you old dog, how dare you plot against me, just wait and see!"

The old-fashioned artillery uses sub-munitions, which are used to deal with intensively charged cold-weapon troops. It is definitely a big killer, but it is not without its shortcomings. This shortcoming is that it has little lethality against low targets, unless it is A direct hit, otherwise, there is no threat at all to the target lying on the ground. Because of this, the salvo of the twelve cannons seems to be firing in a lively manner, but they didn't even hurt Tashan's hair. It made Tashan angry from the heart, before the smoke cleared, Tashan pushed away the guards who were pressing on him, jumped up, pointed at Longkodo who was standing on the gate tower, and cursed .

"Don't stop, then give me a blast!"

Now that Tashan had exposed the fact of treason, Longkodo was ready to go all out, no matter what the consequences would be, at this moment he wanted to kill people to vent his anger, and ignored the uneasiness and uneasiness of his soldiers, let alone cared about the consequences. Tashan shouted and cursed, his face was ashen and he roared loudly.

"The artillerymen obey the order, give me a blast and kill all the cannons on the top of the city!"

Reloading the old-style artillery was extremely troublesome. Although Longkoduo roared loudly and the gunners of the defenders were already reloading frantically, they were absolutely unable to fire the second round before Tashan returned to the front. Well, it was Tashan's turn to vent his anger, but seeing him rushing to the artillery position with a livid face, he gritted his teeth and gave an order.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

The artillerymen of the new army have long been irritated by the arrogance of the defenders at the top of the city, but they have not received the general order and dare not launch a counterattack easily. Now that Tashan has given the order, how can the artillerymen hold back? Under the agreement, they pulled the bolts one after another. One heavy artillery, eight medium-sized anti-aircraft artillery and eight light infantry artillery fired almost simultaneously. The dense shells roared and smashed towards the top of the city. The flames soared into the sky, and as the shrapnel flew across the sky, the howls of misery rang out.

"Counterattack, fire, counterattack!"

When the new army's two public military exercises were made, Longkodo had been to the scene to watch them in person, but watching them was watching, and experiencing the power of the new artillery was obviously two different things. The army had already suffered more than a hundred casualties, and immediately made Long Kedo, who had escaped by chance, furious, and roared loudly regardless of his care.

"Hahaha..., well done, keep going, I don't want to see cannons firing from the top of the city!"

Longkodo was the chief general. Since he ordered a counterattack, the defenders at the top of the city dared not resist. The eight cannons that survived the first round of shelling by the new army immediately launched a counterattack, and the fight was very lively. It's a pity that the shooting range is limited, and it can't reach the new army's position at all, which immediately made Tashan laugh out loud. dead order.

"Boom, boom, boom..."

Since there was an order from Tashan, the artillerymen of the new army were willing to serve. Seventeen cannons bombarded the city head one after another, but it was only three rounds, so they had to stop. After being destroyed by the new army, all the gunners escaped. In fact, not only the gunners escaped, but even Longkodo himself was too bombarded to go to the top of the city. Even if the army artillery didn't enjoy themselves, they had no choice but to stop their shelling, and the city and the city fell into a deadlock...

This Tashan is really impatient!

Although the bombardment in the direction of Chongwenmen didn't last long, it was intense, and the people in the city were unavoidably terrified. Almost all pedestrians in the streets and alleys were terrified, and no one dared to go outside again. Staying there, everyone hid in a hiding place. This made it easier for the cavalry led by Hong Qing to run at high speed. It only took a little more than a quarter of an hour, and Hong Qing's troops were already in the rush. Arriving near Changyou Street on South Street, the road to reinforce Chongwenmen through the road in the direction of Dongzhimen has already been cut off, but Hongqing is not satisfied. If nothing else, the artillery battle at Chongwenmen was too early At this time, the main infantry of Zhang Miao's army, which was supposed to cooperate with the Tashan army to launch an attack from South Street, was still six miles away. If they try their best to break through again, Hong Qing's cavalry army will be in a hard fight.

"Report, my lord, Ma Dapeng has led his troops to leave Dongzhimen, and is rushing here along Changyou Street, he is less than two miles away from our army!"

Hong Qing's premonition of the so-called good and bad spirits was indeed correct. No, before the cavalry had time to arrange the relevant defensive formation, they saw a cavalry scout riding a horse galloping from the direction of Changyou Street. But seeing one of them rolled off the saddle, he knelt down in front of Hong Qing's horse, and reported loudly.

Sure enough!

Hearing what the reporter said, Hong Qing's eyes immediately froze, but she didn't panic, but waved her hand and shouted: "The first and second battalions of cavalry are all here. Get off your horses, face east and south, and form five formations! The third battalion and the fourth battalion are in the middle of the formation, ready to meet the enemy!"

"twitter!"

The cavalry of the new army are all well-trained and elite. They are based on the iron cavalry from the Eastern Expedition. They are very skilled in tactical movements. Under the sudden promise, they quickly followed the drills and used the terrain to form a There are two square formations in the east and one in the south. There are two-person-wide passages on both sides of each square formation for the purpose of adjusting the formation. At the front of each formation are four machine guns to hold down the formation. The first row of officers and soldiers lie down. Falling to the ground, the officers and soldiers in the second row are kneeling, the third, fourth, and fifth rows are standing, and the muzzles of the black holes are pointing straight ahead. They all stood on horseback and lined up on the cross street fifty paces behind the two square formations, ready to respond at any time. More than two thousand people moved in unison, moving quickly and without chaos, showing extremely excellent tactics Literacy.

"Stop the whole army!"

The officers and soldiers of the new army had just set up their defensive formation when they saw a large army rushing out from the corner of the street ahead, led by a general with a square face like the bottom of a pot, galloping on horseback. , I didn't dare to charge forward recklessly, but when I saw him raise his hand, he yelled to stop. In an instant, the thousands of soldiers and horses rushing forward stopped at less than two hundred steps away from the new army formation. distance.

"My lord, the black-faced general riding his horse under his banner is Ma Dapeng."

The officers and soldiers of the new army are basically people from the banner of the capital, both Manchu, Han and Mongolian, and there are quite a few people who are clear about the head of the capital. Hurry up and report to Hongqing.

Hong Qing has a high position and authority, and those who can deal with him are all high officials of the imperial court. He really doesn't know many military generals at the level of generals and lieutenants. The generals have done enough homework, and even though they don't know the face, they have all the information in their hearts. At this moment, when the subordinate reported the name of the black-faced general, Hong Qing's mind immediately appeared. The specific information of Ma Dapeng - Ma Dapeng, a member of the Red Banner of the Han Army, was born in the 29th year of Kangxi, and is now 48 years old. He was born as a Wu Jinshi in the 52th year of Kangxi. In 56 years of Kangxi, he was promoted to a guerrilla general. In [-] years, he was transferred to the Jiumen Admiral Yamen, and his official position was promoted to a general. In June this year, he was promoted to a deputy general. One of the few titans.

"My lord Hongqing is here. I was shocked to hear that Longkodo's army had rebelled. His Majesty was furious and sent me to quell the chaos. You will gather a crowd, but do you want to join the rebellion?"

At this moment, the new army's defensive formation has been formed. Relying on the narrow terrain of the street, it is not difficult to withstand the impact of Ma Dapeng's troops. Once within the range of the new army's firepower, Hong Qing didn't rush to order an attack, but led Li Minxing and several other guards along the gap specially set aside by the front phalanx to the front of the formation. , asked loudly.

(End of this chapter)