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Chapter 405 Attacking Qingdu (Part 1)

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    On the first day of July, fifty Hongyi heavy cannons and one hundred and twenty sub-cannons were transported to the city of Beijing, and they were lined up three miles away from Chaoyangmen.  The hard-core old gangster is still the usual taciturn, shrugging his eyelids as if he is not awake, but from his unusually careful attitude of personally checking and checking each cannon, it can be seen that this hard-core old gangster has also passed away.  I was so excited that I couldn't help myself, and the skinny veteran who was calculating the abacus was trembling slightly with nervousness when calculating the ruler.

    Jiexuan was not the only one who was so excited, and Jiexuan's reaction was quite calm. Countless literati with backbone who volunteered to join the fat army burst into tears on the spot, and some literati cried while telling the formation to wait.  The soldiers of the Fat Man Army said that this was the second time that the Han Chinese attacked Beijing, the capital of China, which was occupied by Huawai barbarians. The last time it was Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, this time it was the Fat Man Army.  The end of the Yuan Dynasty, this time the Fatty Army broke through the city of Beijing, and it can also be declared that the mite, which is more cruel, vicious and cunning than the Yuan Dynasty, is over. Every soldier of the Fatty Army who participated in the siege will be remembered forever  .

    Driven and brainwashed by these traitorous literati, to be honest, the fat army officers and soldiers who are not highly educated and class conscious are gradually excited and excited.  My name and deeds are printed on the book and written on the painting.  But it is a pity that the defenders of the Qing army in Beijing did not have the courage to go out to fight in the field. Even after seeing the fat army's artillery transported outside the city for adjustment, no Qing army general and soldier dared to go out of the city to destroy the fat army.  This is true of the artillery formation, including Jie Shu.

    The artillery calibration is over, and the artillery battle is about to begin. According to Fatty Lu's request and the habit of the Fatty Army, Fatty Lu, who served as the vanguard of the siege, sent two envoys, one Han and one mite, to trot to the foot of Beijing city with a white flag in their hands.  He mite language called for surrender and publicized the policy of the Fat Man Army.  The Han envoy shouted, "Han compatriots in Beijing, don't blame us for not reminding you in advance that the prince of the Great Zhou Yue has a grand decree.  , Keep it for the official position! Dare to follow Man Gou to fight, want to be a hardcore traitor to be buried with Man Gou, catch one and kill one! The whole family will not stay!"

    "Brother Mizhou in Beijing, you heard me clearly." The messenger of the Miren shouted in ugly language, "Kaicheng surrendered, and the people of Mizhou in Beijing only killed Aixinjueluo, Niu Gulu,  The four surnames of Hesheli and Tong Jia! Dare to resist, the people of Mizhou in the city of Beijing will not spare any chickens or dogs!"

    The answer to the Fat Army envoy's surrender was, of course, the rain of arrows and bullets that fell overwhelmingly. The two Fat Army envoys fled back in embarrassment with injuries.  Since the Han mite soldiers and civilians in Beijing refused to appreciate it, they had long been suffocating to eradicate the mite legacy from Beijing. Fatty Lu and the Fatty Army can also do it freely.  With Hu Tongchun's order, one hundred and seventy artillery pieces of light and heavy guns were ignited together, and the extremely fierce offensive and defensive battle of Beijing City also kicked off.

    In addition to shocking the defenders and shaking the morale of the enemy, the artillery volley of the Fat Army's army also had another important purpose of destroying the fortifications on the city wall of Beijing, especially the Chaoyangmen Tower, which was four stories high and full of arrow holes.  The primary target of the heavy artillery is to destroy the enemy. In order to deter the enemy more effectively, the Fat Man Army also used high-precision shells with three good explosives inside. More than half of the 170 shells hit the Chaoyangmen tower accurately, and the explosion sounded earth-shattering.  It also echoed on the walls of Beijing.

    Amid the deafening explosions, the brick and wood Chaoyangmen tower was struck like an invisible sledgehammer, the bricks, stones and tiles were splashed immediately, the roof was smashed through, the walls were smashed, and the windows were directly smashed through.  Now, every arrow hole in the window was spraying flames and smoke. The violent explosion shook the soldiers of the Qing army on the city wall to stand unsteadily.  A few shells happened to hit the window of the Tibetan barracks and directly smashed into the room and exploded. Countless flesh and blood spewed out of the window, and the screams of dying made every defending soldier and civilian feel terrified.

    The violent shelling continued, and the defenders on the Chaoyang Gate were also in bad luck. The shells of the Fat Man Army dropped almost every moment, and they exploded as soon as they hit the ground, blowing up countless Qing soldiers who were caught off guard and had no time to escape.  The tall and mighty Chaoyangmen city tower collapsed and crumbled, and the soldiers and civilians who defended the city ran for their lives, crying and screaming, and became a mess, and their morale was also greatly frustrated.

    In order to boost morale and suppress the artillery fire of the Fat Man Army, Jie Shu, who was hiding in a blind spot under the city wall, also ordered the Qing army to gather all the artillery on the city wall, aim at the artillery array of the Fat Man Army and fire back.??In this way, the soldiers on both sides of the war did not understand a detail, that is, the fat army's sub-cannons gradually adjusted their firing angles. In addition to suppressing the Qing army artillery and bombarding the Qing army reserve behind the city wall, there were many  Blossoming shells gradually fell on the city wall battlefield where soldiers from both sides were intertwined and mixed, killing more Qing soldiers, suppressing more defenders' bow and arrow musket fire, and also killing and wounding a large number of Fatty Army's own people.

    When arranging the siege tactics in advance, the old Qing traitor Jiexuan was very opposed to this cruel tactic of Lu Fatty, but Lu Fatty told him quietly, "Don't worry, the siege vanguards all surrendered from the Mangou side.  Most of the soldiers who surrendered are full of dog bannermen, so I can fight at ease." Then Jiexuan Laoqing did not object, and when the battle entered a fierce battle, taking advantage of the opportunity of the soldiers on both sides killing their heads, Lao Qing  Jian began to command skilled gunners to bombard the melee battlefield with flowering bullets.

    Of course, the new recruits are not fools, and they will not be foolish as cannon fodder, but after hearing the order to break Beijing and disband military discipline in the inner city of Beijing for seven days, these new recruits who have not received a penny of military pay for more than half a year are also concerned.  Not so much.  In addition, there are some new recruits who really want to serve their lives for the Fat Army, and want to perform well to get high-ranking officials and generous salaries and win the trust of the Fat Army.  The charge was naturally more valiant, so although the Fatty Army suffered heavy casualties, their morale remained good.

    The bloody battle lasted for more than an hour and a half, and more than half of the 5,000 forwards who rushed to the city of Beijing suffered more than half of their casualties.  The second siege team, also with 5,000 people, also carried two siege ladder vehicles, and one of the two ladder vehicles of the Fatty Army had been completely burned, and the other was also burned  At eight o'clock, almost all the infantry of the Fat Man Army who rushed up the city wall were killed by the outnumbered Qing army and failed to snatch the position on the city wall.

    Seeing this scene, the main generals of Fatty's Army were all anxious. Hu Tongchun, An Jiarong, Yao Yi, Li Xiongfei and other fierce generals flocked to Fatty Lu to fight, hoping that Fatty Lu would agree to let them lead the elite charge and break the deadlock as soon as possible.  But the fat man flatly refused, and folded his hands on his chest with a relaxed expression, and said shamelessly, "What are you in a hurry for? All you have are elite soldiers from our team. What are you rushing to do at this time? Sending you to death for nothing?"

    "But my lord, the continuous attack on the city has dealt a great blow to the morale of our army." Li Xiongfei reminded: "Please pay attention, my lord, the morale of our second wave of siege teams is not as high as that of the first wave."

    "Normal, that's how siege warfare is. We must be prepared for heavy casualties and long time-consuming." Fatty Lu looked more relaxed, and said with a smile: "Don't worry, there will be a turning point. At the very least, our engineers are already in Beijing.  A hole has been dug under the city, and more than half of our pontoon bridge has been built. When our engineers succeed, the battlefield will turn around."

    Li Xiongfei, Hu Tongchun and other generals were skeptical, so they had to temporarily suppress their nervousness and eagerness, while Fatty Lu looked at the blood-stained battlefield of Beijing City Wall in the distance, and said to himself with great confidence: "Also, I want to help Mangou!"  The people in Beijing guarding the city should probably have a guilty conscience and want to run away, right? A country doesn¡¯t know that there are people, and the people don¡¯t know that there is a country. Regardless of the former Qing Dynasty and the later Qing Dynasty, since the people are treated like assholes, they don¡¯t want to win the sincere support of the assholes.  Support." (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.  hlnovel.com
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