The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 748 Losing So Quickly

"Damn it, I'm so scared, I thought it was such a powerful weapon." Li Guo scolded with a smile.

There was laughter all around, and some people didn't take it seriously: "Keep your eyes wide open for a while, whoever gets hit is an idiot."

The throwing distance of the trebuchet is a bit far, about 500 meters. If you look up, you really have time to hide.

Yuan Zongdi was also laughing at first, but suddenly he saw a large number of carriages dragging cannons in the rear of the Ming army. At a glance, there were at least a hundred cannons.

The Ming army used trebuchets instead of artillery, which really puzzled him.

At this time, the Ming army had already begun to adjust, and judging from the weight just now, the distance was still not enough.

This will either increase the weight of the counterweight box or push the trebuchet forward.

The terrain outside the city is relatively good, so it is natural to push the trebuchet forward.

Xu Bicheng gave an order, and all the trebuchets were pushed forward two meters.

"Try again." Xu Bicheng said.

Before the words were finished, bang, another weight box slammed down.

Whoosh, the medicine ball flew up again.

The peasant army on the city wall was watching with a smile on their faces.

"Here we come, my dear mother--" Someone didn't take it seriously, watching the medicine ball flying and yelling on it.

Seeing that the medicine ball flew to the highest point of the arc, the man laughed and cursed, while squatting on the front crenel, and his whole body shrank under the crenel.

Bang, the medicine ball slammed heavily on the city wall, then jumped up, plopped, hit the crenel behind the city wall, and slowly rolled to a stop.

The peasant army suffered no casualties.

There was another round of cheers on the city wall.

"If you see it, just hide like this." The person who just hid from the crenel stood up triumphantly.

"What's the use of this thing? Siege the city with this?" Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi really couldn't figure it out.

If there are hundreds of these things, it might hurt a little if they are continuously thrown on them.

But now there are only about [-] below, so I'm afraid it won't be effective.

"Ding Yi is nothing more than that." Even Yuan Zongdi was lost at this time, because he really couldn't see what the use of this trebuchet was.

Probably to scare the brothers on the wall.

Xu Bicheng in the city laughed, and he waved his hand: "Cast freely, put out the cannon first, then spread to the two wings, throw ten rounds."

"promise."

Order to hurry down.

Free cast.

The hoarders got excited one after another and loaded petrol bombs.

This petrol bomb has the same weight and about the same size as the solid ball just now, and the error in the throwing distance will not be too large.

Some are directly ignited, and some are not lit first.

Then aim at the place where the cannon is on the wall.

Bang, the counterweight boxes fell one by one, swish swish, and the first wave of 25 large catapults flew up one after another.

"Hiss..." Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo finally saw clearly that the other party was throwing fuel into the fire.

They watched in horror as big fireballs flew over, but none of them were ignited, which made them even more puzzled.

Yuan Zongdi watched a big fireball fly towards the city wall, and the people on the city wall also realized that the route was wrong, and suddenly scattered and hid in all directions.

"Plop" the big fireball hit the back of a cannon, the fireball seemed to shatter suddenly, and then with a whistling, a large amount of flames spread around, enveloping the cannon all at once.

After the fireball, which was smaller than a human head, immediately burned a large area of ​​the city wall, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi looked a little ugly.

"I've never seen such powerful kerosene." Yuan Zongdi said in a deep voice.

Bang, before the words were finished, an unlit fire fell into the human world, and some people couldn't dodge, and were covered in gasoline.

There was a strange smell in the air.

The man was terrified at first, and then realized that it didn't burn, so he couldn't help laughing: "I'm scared to death."

Yuan Zongdi felt that something was wrong, and immediately shouted: "Lao Liu, you go down, go down the city wall."

"Oh." The man replied.

Whoosh, a ignited fireball flew over again in the air.

In everyone's eyes, it plopped and hit the old man more than sixty meters away.

Huh, the fire spread from more than ten meters away to Lao Liu not far away, and then a little spark flew to Lao Liu.

Huh, Lao Liu was instantly ignited and turned into a burning man.

"Ah" the sixth child screamed, fell to the ground, and rolled over.

The ground where he was hit just now was full of gasoline.

Wherever it rolled, it burned, and the ground was also burned.

"This, this, this—" Li Guo's eyes widened, and he couldn't believe it.

Just now the sixth child burned too suddenly, and the whole person turned into a burning man in an instant.

The fierce fire oil of the Ming army was terrible.

"I'm afraid it's not good." Li Guo looked at Yuan Zongdi at this time, and found that Yuan Zongdi was also looking at him, and both of them had a feeling at the same time that the city might not be able to hold it.

At this time, the Ming army's trebuchets continued to throw upwards, burning all the artillery in just three rounds.

Gunpowder was still ignited on the city wall, booming, and there were explosions from time to time.

The city was in chaos, and there were screams and panic from the peasant army everywhere. Everyone avoided and did not dare to stand where there was fire.

After the Ming army discovered that the artillery was destroyed, the small trebuchet also began to push forward.

The range of the small trebuchet was within 300 meters, and the Ming army pushed it directly to within 200 meters, and then reduced the counterweight.

Bang bang bang, more petrol bombs are thrown at the top of the city.

After seven rounds, even Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi couldn't stand at the top of the wall.

The top of the city is full of flames, and it is completely useless to pour water and pile up sand.

Even the ground can be burned.

"Let's go, let's go" Without Li Guo's order, everyone ran down the city like a pack.

Yuan Zongdi ran down with Li Guo, and said: "If the city can't stand people, the city will definitely not be able to defend it. In my opinion, gather a group of troops and rush out to destroy their catapults?"

"The officers and soldiers are powerful and have cannons. I'm afraid it won't be easy." Li Guo said in a deep voice.

"If we continue like this, we will definitely die." Yuan Zongdi said.

Li Guo thought for a while, and nodded in approval.

Yuan Zongdi said again: "I just checked. Although the Ming army surrounds all directions, there are fewer soldiers and horses in the south. Let's rush out. If we can kill the blood, we will run to Chang'an. Otherwise, we will die sooner or later."

It is definitely not possible to defend the city. They cannot stand on the top of the city, and the Ming army will break the city sooner or later.

And now that there is no artillery at the top of the city, it is even more difficult to defend.

"Fight." Li Guo also made up his mind.

After the two went down the city wall, they immediately assembled their soldiers and horses.

But at this time Ding Yi's large catapult was also pushed within 300 meters, and began to throw it into the city near the city gate.

From time to time fireballs fell on the street and then burst into flames.

The place near the city gate became more and more panicked.

Yuan Zongdi and Li were in a hurry. If the fire continued like this, the gates leaving the city would be blocked by flames.

"Quick, quick, get on your horse and rush out." There are 1 defenders in their city, but they are divided into four places.

In order to gain time, the two gathered more than 3000 elite riders, and they couldn't wait anymore.

"Open the city gate, rush."

With a bang, the city gate to the south opened suddenly, and Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo rushed out with more than 3000 cavalry.

Seeing that the city gate was wide open and peasant troops rushed out, the Ming army was not in a hurry.

The commander defending the south gave an order, and a large number of gunmen in the back row slowly moved forward.

In this battle, Ding Yi had more than 3 soldiers and horses. In addition to recruiting other town soldiers and horses, they still used swords, shields and spears. Their own more than 1 soldiers and horses were basically gun soldiers.

There are four gates in Yan'an, and each gate is guarded by at least [-] musketeers.

Three thousand blunderbusses against three thousand cavalry, plus the Ming cavalry behind the blunderbusses.

This is simply an unequal massacre.

None of the Ming army's trebuchets moved back and continued to throw.

The gunmen walked to the front of the catapult fuselage one after another.

"Fight." With an order, bang bang bang, the sound of gunfire continued on the field, almost recreating the scene under the city of Yulin.

The Peasant Army began to be bombarded from more than 100 meters away, and the Ming Army's five platoons were beaten one by one.

The peasant army suffered nearly a thousand casualties.

"Rush." ​​At this moment, more cavalry rushed up from behind the Ming army.

Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo collapsed immediately.

It's useless if they don't collapse, because all the subordinates collapse.

As soon as they charged up, they were almost knocked out by a quarter of the Ming army's musketeers. At that time, some people couldn't take it anymore and turned their heads.

Then more cavalry from the Ming army rushed up from behind, and Yuan and Li's troops collapsed immediately.

Everyone turned their heads as if fleeing for their lives, and wanted to run back to Yan'an.

Yuan Zongdi and Li Guo couldn't help shouting desperately: "If you go back to the city, you will die, rush out, and rush again."

"Rush back, rush back."

The two roared on the field, but no one listened to them.

At this time, there was still a continuous peasant army rushing out of the south gate, but their forward was defeated by the Ming army and ran back.

The two groups of people collided directly outside the city.

Yuan Zongdi looked pale and said, "It's lost, it's lost."

He didn't expect to lose so quickly.

The Ming army did not attack the city, they had already collapsed first.

Now those who wanted to go back and those who wanted to come out collided outside the city, while the cavalry of the Ming army charged forward, and the gunmen of the Ming army also approached step by step.

The horses galloped on the scene, and there was chaos everywhere.

There is also a bold peasant army who wants to rush back. On the opposite side, the arrows are flying like rain, which is more powerful than the Mongolian army.

Few of the Peasant Army could ride and shoot, and those who were shot immediately fell off their horses.

On April [-]th, Ding Yi and Yan Xiong joined forces to break through Yan'an.

After breaking through Yan'an, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi were captured alive, and [-] peasant troops were surrendered.

In the original history, these two men joined forces with the Ming Dynasty to fight against the Qing Dynasty until the end, but Ding Yi did not kill them, but locked them up temporarily.

Then the [-] peasant army was disrupted, [-] were sent to Yulin, [-] were sent to Suide, [-] were left in Yan'an, and [-] officers and soldiers were left in Yulin, [-] in Suide, and [-] in Yan'an for guarding and training. them.

In this way, after Ding Yi took down Yan'an, he only had [-] soldiers in his hands, [-] soldiers were hoarded, and nearly [-] soldiers were stationed in the three places.

In order to prevent the rest of the troops in Shaanxi from coming to fight, Ding Yi asked the remaining soldiers to train the peasant army well. Within a year, they were not allowed to issue weapons to them. Used to stabilize the morale of the army.

In fact, at this time in Shaanxi, only Xi'an still has a large number of invaders, and other places have 1000 to [-], which is not a climate.

On the [-]th, after a short rest, Ding Yi led [-] soldiers and [-] hoarded troops from Yan'an to the east and entered Shanxi.

It is almost exactly the same as Li Zicheng's route when he entered Shanxi.

Along the road, the Chuangjun troops from all over Shanxi surrendered one after another, because they were all officers and soldiers who surrendered in the first place.

Chen Shangzhi, the general of Pingyang, decisively surrendered Ding Yi again.

Xie Zhiliang, the general of Shanxi, proposed to kill him directly. Ding Yi shook his head with a smile, and locked him up first, and settled the score later in the autumn, otherwise no one would surrender later.

It is obviously very troublesome to attack one city after another.

So Ding Yi reenacted the scene of Li Zicheng's entry into Shanxi, surrendered all the way, and arrived at the foot of Taiyuan City on the [-]th.

(End of this chapter)