Forty-eight years of Qianlong

For the Beihai Navy, it is really not difficult to attack Shengjing City from a military point of view. The trouble is to minimize civilian casualties.

The time for the general offensive was set at 4:15 a.m. on the sixth day of August, which was the time when people were most sleepy and relaxed. At 02:30, the vanguard battalions of each regiment, which were the main attackers, entered the predetermined attack position under the cover of night to lurk.

Over the past few days, the troops on the Eastern Front have fought against the sentries of the Qing army many times.In the eyes of ordinary people, the Eight Banners armored soldiers with superb martial arts skills are not enough to meet the scouts composed of Ewenki and Daur people, and they suffered heavy losses. So now the Qing army dare not send people out of the city at night.

"Let's get started." Deng Fei looked at his watch, the time was up.

Zhao Xin nodded noncommittally, and under the eager eyes of everyone in the headquarters, he took a big sip of warm tea, then picked up the walkie-talkie on the table, and gave the order to start the attack.

"Tom!", "Tom!", "Tom!"

Several red flares rose from the dark night sky, illuminating the dark earth.This kind of scene has long been familiar to the Qing army stationed on the city wall and the strongholds outside the city gate in Shengjing; knock.

From the first night of harvesting the sorghum, the Eastern Front Command requested flares. Although the frontline troops did not understand the command's intentions, they still complied.Sure enough, when the Qing army first started, they thought that the Northern Navy was going to attack the city, so the gongs on the top of the city were loudly ringing.No one dared to sleep all night.However, it only lasted for three days, and the Qing army couldn't bear it anymore, and in the daytime, they all looked like black-eyed chickens, with two dark circles under their eyes.

The artillerymen were the first to attack.The Eastern Front Command split the two 75mm artillery battalions and the 122 howitzer battalion directly under the headquarters, and deployed them in the east, north, and west directions of Shengjing City, and the positions were only two kilometers away from the city wall.When the artillery company commanders of various places gave the order to fire, 36 75mm field guns and eighteen 122 guns fired directly at the Wengcheng of Fujinmen, Fushengmen and Wailongmen.Since the azimuth scales of each target had been determined in advance, there was no test firing at all.

The whole city of Shengjing suddenly became trembling, and one after another shells whizzed towards them, fierce and dense, like a thunderstorm and a fiery storm toppling down.Bricks collapsed, crenels exploded, limbs were torn apart... the whole city was shaking and shaking.Red and green tracer bombs flew wildly on the city wall like meteors, smoke after smoke, flame after flame, raging on the city wall, blinding people's eyes.

In the light and shadow of the flames, red and black mixed with purple and black, the smell of gunpowder smoke, burnt smell, bloody smell, dusty smell, turbid and unpleasant smells invaded the mouths and nostrils of the defenders. Coughing, sneezing, and even being choked so hard to breathe.

Three years ago in 160, that is, five years after Jin Tiancong, Huang Taiji ordered the reconstruction of Shengjing City.The Shenyang Guard City Wall built during the Ming Dynasty was made of bricks on the outside and soil on the inside. After reconstruction, it is based on stone, with bricks on the inside and outside, and compacted soil in the middle.The height of the city wall has increased from the original two feet five to three feet five, and the wall thickness is one foot and eight. There are eight gate towers, four turrets, and 651 crenels.

At the eight city gates, there are concave-shaped urns, the height of which is the same as the height of the base of the gate tower. The front is closed, and the two sides are connected with the city wall, and an arched gate is opened on each side.In order to prevent attacks from battering rams and other weapons, the gates on both sides of the urn city are not on the same straight line as the gates they protect.

Three years later, Huang Taiji personally decreed to name the eight city gates, with Manchu script outside and Chinese script inside.The so-called "inherit the blessings of God from above, convey the feelings from below, cultivate the rule of law internally, fight against soldiers outside, appease the people who have already won, and care for the tribes outside the vassal, creating prosperity of merit."

After 10 minutes of shelling, the attacking troops that had already been ready to go were dispatched.Under the cover of machine gun fire, they carried the assault boats that had been inflated in advance, and ran quickly along the roads on the various gates, and came to the moat in a blink of an eye.

The moat in the outer city of Shengjing was also re-excavated by Huang Taiji's order, and it was re-cleaned in the first few years.The river is nearly 50 meters wide and three meters deep, connecting the Hunhe River from north to south.

The 100rd Battalion and 1rd Company of the [-]th Regiment where Su Wan belonged was the assault company that attacked Xiaoximen. Under the leadership of the company commander Xu Jian, more than [-] of them used engineering shovels as oars to paddle desperately. Ten black rubber boats It took only [-] minute to cross the moat.At this time, the artillery fire from the Beihai Navy had already extended to both sides of the Wengcheng. Xu Jian ordered a platoon to stand under the city and shoot at the collapsed Wengcheng tower, while the other platoon took cover behind them. Bao came to the coupon hole outside the arched door on the east side.

This coupon hole is the same as other city gates. The inside is entirely made of stone blue bricks, and the joints are made of glutinous rice egg white ash, and the surface is painted tightly. The inner city gate is nearly five meters wide, and the inside and outside are made of thick wood. The plate is covered with iron sheet and then covered with nails.

"adhesive tape!"

Following the squad leader's order, several soldiers took out tapes and firmly stuck two packs of ten kilograms of explosives near the middle of the two doors. .When everything was ready, two soldiers pulled the fire hose, and then everyone retreated outside the doorway.

"hidden!"

The time of 30 seconds is short or not, and whether it is long or not.Su Wan half squatted and stood on the slope of the moat, holding a machine gun and shooting towards the turret. He was so addicted that he didn't pay attention to the reminder behind him. He only heard a loud noise behind him, and a shock wave immediately knocked him to the ground. Come to eat mud.Immediately afterwards, countless gravel, sawdust, and iron pieces whizzed past his head.

The troops used drones to reconnaissance before, and they already knew that the Qing army blocked the gate of the Wengcheng with sandbags and logs, so the ammonium nitrate explosives used for the blasting used a full [-] kilograms.

When the gunpowder smoke cleared, two soldiers from the demolition squad took out their large flashlights and took a look into the hole. They saw that the two city gates wrapped in iron sheets had been broken into pieces, and only a few broken wooden planks were left hanging on the gate hinges.And the blockages behind the city gates are gone.

"Come on!" Following the platoon leader's order, more than a dozen soldiers passed through the city gate and soon came to the Wengcheng.There is a small temple under the urn city of Xiaoximen, which is close to the root of the urn city wall. It is the Zhenwu Temple dedicated to Xuantian God.

Speaking of which, Beihai Town and Emperor Zhenwu are quite related.When the city of Fuerdan was first attacked, the migrant workers found a basalt statue in the Suifenhe Valley.Although Liu Sheng banned burning incense and worshiping at that time, Jiang Tenglin was punished for this.However, when the scale of Fuerdan City grew, the Xuanwu statue also became a local scene.Since then, there have been rumors among the people in Beihai Town that Zhao Xin is the reincarnation of Emperor Xuanwu.

But for Xu Jian and his soldiers, no one is in the mood to go to the temple to worship the gods, and there is a city gate not far away that is about to be blasted!
At this moment, a dozen pine oil torches were suddenly thrown down on the walls of the Xiaoximen Tower and the Urn City, and then dozens of Qing soldiers with muskets and bows and arrows shot indiscriminately at the Urn City. Someone lit a gourd filled with gunpowder and iron sand and threw it down.

"Machine gun cover! Su Wan! Where are you going!"

"It's here!"

While talking, Su Wan, who was covered in dirt, ran over with his machine gun in his arms. He stood in the dark at the corner of the door opening, raised his machine gun, and aimed at the gate tower outside the gate. The blue bricks of the crenel were full of flames.Soon, two more machine gunners climbed onto the roof of the Zhenwu Temple and joined the shooting while lying on it. The Qing army behind the crenel suffered heavy casualties in a blink of an eye.

The Qing army behind the city wall no longer dared to stand up, and whoever showed up would die.They can only ignite the few flying thunders in their hands, and then throw them down aimlessly.

"Boom!" After Feilei exploded, a puff of smoke rose first.

"Shua!" It was iron sand flying around after the explosion.

"Boom!" A grenade was thrown onto the city wall.

Seeing that the counterattack of the Qing army was suppressed, the demolition squad rushed forward again.The same operation, the same 30 seconds, this time Su Wan heard the prompt, but because he was standing at the entrance of the Wengcheng, the echo caused by the huge explosion almost shattered his eardrums.This guy is not stupid, but stunned. It belongs to single-threaded thinking and only pays attention to the one thing in front of him.

The city gate was blown open, Xu Jian reported to the battalion commander with a walkie-talkie, and then rushed up with his men, and arrived at Xiaoshizi Street in a blink of an eye.

The dark night sky began to turn white, and the figures on the street became faintly visible. The shelling of the Beihai Navy stopped as several city gates were opened, but as a large number of follow-up troops crossed the moat and entered the city, the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing was on the contrary. Intensified.

Xu Jian took his hands down to the top of the city tower. The dead and injured Qing soldiers and Minyong were lying everywhere, with no place to set foot.

"Attention! There are people in the city gate!"

A soldier heard movement in the gatehouse and sounded the warning.The people in the third row and the second row quickly surrounded them, and the leader of the second row shouted: "Come out! Put down your weapons! Put your head in your hands!"

As soon as the words were finished, the remnants of the Qing army in the gatehouse responded with two strange cannons loaded with shotguns.With the flash of flames, two strange cannons like large shotguns sprayed out more than 30 iron bullets, and the two soldiers of the third company closest to the door were injured and fell to the ground.Immediately afterwards, more than [-] Eight Banners armored soldiers, armed with knives and guns, rushed out screaming and howling under the leadership of the gatekeeper.Su Wan yelled "I'm coming", and after a shot, a pile of corpses lay down at the door.

The health workers of the company ran to the soldiers who had been shot, and after inspection, one of them was punctured in the shoulder, and there was no major problem; the other was disabled, shot in the abdomen, and his intestines were exposed.

Xu Jian ordered the second platoon to clean the gatehouse to see if there were any living enemies, and arranged for the wounded to be escorted out of the city. Then he walked to the city wall and raised his binoculars to observe the city.

At this time, the large troops of the Northern Navy had entered the city one after another from the Outer Gate, and the first hundreds of people who came in ran quickly along the base of the city wall to the south. Beijing's inner city is completely surrounded.

The field of view of the telescope ranges from near to far. There is a large-scale temple more than 100 meters east of Xiaoximen. There are constantly running figures running in panic, and the temple is also crowded with people.Xu Jian thought for a while, then ordered the first and second platoons to stay at the city gate, while he led the third platoon to have a look.When he came to the mountain gate of the temple, he saw a large archway outside.Because of the twilight of the sky, you can see the four characters "Longevity without borders" written on the plaque above.

He really came to the right.About 300 remnants of the Qing army and bannermen who escaped hid in it.These people have been frightened, and they are kneeling in front of the main hall and kowtowing for the blessing of the Buddha.On the ground outside the gate of the temple, all kinds of weapons and weapons were thrown, obviously thrown by the Qing army who fled in.

When Xu Jian brought people to the front of the mountain gate, several Beihai soldiers were arguing with some monks at the gate.The monks stood in front of the door, and the soldiers were helpless.

"what happened?"

The soldier at the head saw the two vertical stripes on Xu Jian's helmet and knew that the other party was a captain and company commander, so he hurriedly saluted and said, "Sir, we want to go in and search, but these bald donkeys won't let us in! His mother Yes! If it hadn’t been mentioned in the previous meeting, we must make them look good!”

At the pre-war meeting held in the regiment, the main buildings in Shengjing City were marked and explained.In addition to the imperial palace, the General's Office and the Wubu Yamen in the inner city, the Wanshou Temple in the outer gate is also one of the most important buildings.

This place is known as the "Buddhist ten-party resident jungle".In the temple, there is a "Tripitaka" bestowed by Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty in the fifth year of Zhengtong.Today, in the entire Liaodong area, there is only one monastery with such a rich collection of Chinese scriptures, and there is no other semicolon.

In this regard, the Eastern Front Command made a request to the siege troops to avoid destroying the Wanshou Temple as much as possible during operations.Of course, if the Qing army relied on the temple to resist stubbornly, they must be resolutely eliminated; if they just hid in the temple to survive, then as long as they checked and confirmed that they would no longer resist, then let them go.

At this time, I saw the oldest of several monks stepping forward two steps, bowed his body and clapped his hands together, and said, "Amitabha! All soldiers, this place is a holy place for Buddhism. Please forgive me."

Xu Jian looked him up and down. This monk looked about 50 years old, with a medium build, wearing a clean sea blue, a Chinese character face, straight nose and wide mouth, deep eyes and low eyebrows.

Xu Jian said coldly, "What are you doing?"

"Uh, the poor monk is a monk from Wanshou Temple." The monk thought, what else can I do with my clothes?
"What's your name?"

"The poor monk's name is ingot."

Xu Jian was stunned for a moment, and wondered why there were monks with such a name.The surrounding Bei Haijun also showed weird expressions, thinking that the monk's dharma name is really interesting, could it be that he is crazy about money?
Xu Jian nodded and said: "Master Yuanbao, our people found that many Qing soldiers fled into the temple. It's a war now, so we have to go in and take them away."

Monk Yuanbao said: "The official's words are wrong."

Xu Jian interrupted: "There are no masters and slaves in our Beihai Navy. Officers and soldiers are equal. You can call me Company Commander Xu."

A hint of surprise appeared in the eyes of Monk Yuan Bao, and he said: "Commander Xu, you have also seen the weapons all over the floor. Those people are just poor people who are just trying to survive. Besides, the temple is not only the officers and soldiers who put down their swords and guns, but also the old and weak women and children. There are also quite a few children, all of whom came here to seek refuge."

After he finished speaking, he recited the Buddha's name, and said: "A few years ago, Master Chengche mentioned the matter of your ministry, saying that the Beihai Navy is kind and righteous to the people, and King Zhao is the reincarnation of a holy king who saved the people from suffering."

Xu Jian ignored the other party's compliment, but he noticed a name keenly, so he interrupted: "Chengche? Do you know Master Chengche from Wuya Temple?"

Monk Yuan Bao thought that sure enough, it seems that Uncle Cheng Che is very famous among the North Sea Pirates!He was about to speak again when Xu Jian raised his hand and interrupted: "I don't care what your reason is, now we have to search the temple! Don't talk about your Wanshou Temple, I will enter even the imperial palace! Everyone listen! After entering, only those who wear Qing army uniforms will be taken away, the old and weak, women and children will not be cared about!"

At this time, a soldier behind him said in a contemptuous way: "Commander, the Buddha will blame us for rushing in like this."

Xu Jian said angrily: "Fart! We didn't go in to burn, kill and loot, but to catch the enemy! A group of people guarded the door, no one is allowed to go out without my order!"

After finishing speaking, he waved his hand, and more than 40 Bei Haijun rushed forward, knocked away the blocking monks without any explanation, and rushed in with a hula.

[-]. Monk Yuanbao was a real person in history. He later went to Changchun and was the founder of Wanshou Temple in Changchun.[-]. The reason why the writing has been slow these days is because the content of the previous chapter was basically overturned and rewritten.I feel that I have entered a dead end, and I can't continue writing without rewriting.