Chongzhen Daming: Starting from Coal Mountain

Time to enter the end of May.

As the weather gradually became hotter, Chongzhen gradually became restless.

Because the Ming army had besieged Beijing for half a year, but the "critical point" he was expecting had not yet arrived. Jiannu's tenacity and tenacity were indeed beyond his expectations.

"Long live, eat a slice of watermelon."

Gao Qiqian presented the cut watermelon up.

Chongzhen happened to feel a little thirsty, so he immediately picked up a piece of watermelon.

Bite down, only to feel the coolness in the heart, it has been frozen.

Chongzhen's face instantly collapsed, and he said angrily, "Where did you get the ice?"

Ice cubes in summer are extremely precious and are reserved for the wounded to apply ice to stop bleeding.

Gao Qiqian was so frightened that Ji Ling knelt down on the ground: "Long live, it was sent by the pseudo-shun messenger, even the watermelon, not the ice cubes that the old slave took from the army on his own initiative."

"This is not an example." Chongzhen said with a straight face.

"Even the ice cubes sent by the pseudo-shun messengers have to be sent to the wounded barracks."

"Oh, by the way, the remaining watermelons are also sent to the wounded barracks for the wounded to eat."

"Yes." Gao Qiqian replied respectfully, and quickly signaled the little eunuch to send the half-cut watermelon and the other two intact watermelons to the wounded barracks, but he was a little upset, why are these Qiu Ba?

Chongzhen asked again: "Gao Banban, where is the pseudo-obedient envoy? Where did he go?"

"Going to Chaoyang Gate to fight outside." Gao Qiqian responded, "Do you want to stop him?"

"It's not necessary, if he wants to see it, just let him watch it." Chongzhen said indifferently.

Chongzhen didn't have the idea that family ugliness should not be publicized, and even thought it was not a bad thing for the pseudo-shun envoys to see the Ming army slumped outside Chaoyang Gate, because this might cause the pseudo-shun to misjudge the strength of the Ming army.

By the way, the Ming army played really badly outside Chaoyangmen.

As early as the end of March, the Ming army had already blasted a huge gap more than ten feet wide on the city wall on the left side of Chaoyang Gate, and then Chongzhen drove the North Korean army to attack.

But the results of the first attack were disastrous.

Because Jiannu has learned Qi Jiguang's "guns and guns" tactic.

Long before the cannons of the Ming army smashed down the city wall, Jiannu had already demolished the houses in the gap ahead of time, clearing out an open space with a radius of nearly a hundred paces.

Then nearly a hundred forts were built around the open space.

It's almost like one cannon at a time, and the intensity of firepower can be called abnormal.

When the North Korean servants rushed through the gap screaming, they were greeted by hundreds of cannons fired in the gap, and all of them were loaded with shotgun shells. On average, each gun was loaded with 300 lead.

Therefore, the final attack result can be imagined.

The hundreds of North Korean soldiers who rushed in were directly shot into a sieve.

For such a result, Chongzhen had already expected it.

Because the tough battle in the age of firearms is more cruel than the era of cold weapons.

This can be concluded by looking at the trench warfare in World War I.

In the battle of the cold weapon era, killing thousands of people in one battle is already a big deal.

Basically, after thousands of people died in the battle, it was time to decide the outcome of the tough battle, either winning or losing.

However, in the First World War, it was not uncommon for tens of thousands or even tens of thousands of people to die in a battle, and its cruelty was two orders of magnitude higher than that of the cold weapon era.

It is because the killing efficiency of firearms is much stronger than that of cold weapons.

In the era of firearms, it is really a heap of human lives.

If it weren't for this, Chongzhen would not have transferred the Korean army.

The reason why the North Korean army was transferred to Beijing was to serve as cannon fodder.

In short, Chongzhen did not expect that Jiannu would collapse immediately after the city wall collapsed.

Therefore, after the first wave of the Korean army's attack failed, Chongzhen decisively stopped the storm, and at the same time ordered the artillery of the Ming army to continue bombarding the walls on both sides of the gap, and continued to expand the gap in the city wall.

Chongzhen planned to blow down all the city walls between Chaoyangmen and Dongbianmen.

Chongzhen did not believe that Jiannu could fill the gap of more than 400 steps with artillery.

It's just that it is undoubtedly a big project to use cannons to dismantle the city wall that is more than 400 steps long. In addition, Jiannu will not wait for the Ming army to dismantle the city wall, but will also repair it, so sometimes it needs to be reworked.

So up to now, the Ming army has only demolished the city wall less than two hundred steps long.

Of course, the Ming army did not blindly demolish the city walls, and occasionally launched raids.

Sometimes it's daytime, sometimes it's nighttime, sometimes it's the Korean army, sometimes it's the Ming army.

Just this morning, the North Korean army launched another attack, which was probably seen by the pseudo-shun envoys, but Chongzhen was not worried about it at all, just look at it.

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But the pseudo-obedience messenger is a discerning one.

After observing the entire offensive of the Korean army, he ran back to Fangshan County overnight to report to Li Zicheng.

That's right, Li Zicheng left the puppet Shun army, Li Yan, Li Guo, etc. in Datong Mansion, but he himself led Song Xiance and Gu Junen to lead [-] cavalry from Zijingguan all the way to Fangshan.

From Zijingguan to Fangshan County, there was almost no resistance.

After arriving at Fangshan, Li Zicheng's army stopped moving forward.

Instead, he sent Ma Bao, who was only in his early twenties but had already experienced many battles, as an envoy, and brought a few watermelons as a gift, to the Chaoyangmen camp to meet Chongzhen.

After Ma Bao delivered the watermelon, he ran to Chaoyang Gate to fight outside on the pretext.

Although the Korean army performed poorly in today's offensive operations, Ma Bao did not despise the Korean army because of this, but gave the Korean army a very high evaluation.

"My lord, the morale of the Korean army is very high."

"There was no Ming army forcing them to attack with a knife, but they all fought bravely to be the first."

"Today, there were more than [-] North Korean soldiers who participated in the battle, and all of them died in the battle, and none of them turned around and ran away."

After a pause, he continued: "Of course, it may also be because Jiannu's artillery fire was too dense. As soon as the North Korean army crossed the gap, they were covered in gunfire, and they didn't even have a chance to escape."

Li Zicheng frowned and said, "The North Korean army has become so brave?"

Song Xiance also said: "What ecstasy soup did Chongzhen pour into the North Korean army?"

Ma Bao really asked, and immediately replied: "I have asked the Korean army, and the Korean army told me that it was because Chongzhen promised that they would be naturalized in the Ming Dynasty after they wiped out the slaves, so everyone fought bravely to be the first."

"So that's it, that makes sense." Gu Junen suddenly realized.

"For North Koreans, the identity of Huaxia is indeed very attractive."

Li Zicheng's eyes lit up and said, "Can Dashun also attract Mongolians to naturalize?"

"This, I'm afraid it won't work." Gu Junen said with some embarrassment, "North Korea has been a vassal state of our Central Plains Dynasty since ancient times, and is deeply influenced by Confucian culture, while the Mongols are not."

"Forget it." Li Zicheng was inevitably disappointed.

After a pause, Li Zicheng asked Ma Bao again, "Where is the Ming army? How do you see the Ming army?"

Ma Bao showed a solemn look on his face: "The Ming army is indeed an elite division, and its soldiers in the infantry battalion are all elite soldiers, and the firearms battalion is even more sharp, unmatched by my Dashun's firearms battalion."

"How sharp?" Li Zi was a little unhappy when he was established.

Ma Bao didn't hide anything just because Li Zicheng was unhappy.

"My lord, the Hongyi cannons of the Ming army can hit two thousand paces away!"

"What? Two thousand steps?" Li Zicheng couldn't believe his ears.

Because Dashun's Hongyi cannon can only hit a thousand steps away, and its accuracy is very poor.

Ma Bao said again: "There is also the self-generated firecracker of the Ming army, which is not only lighter than our Dashun's self-generated firecracker, but also hits farther than our Dashun's, and the lethality is much stronger than ours!"

"When the North Korean army attacked, the Ming army supported it outside the city."

"The infantry of the Ming army was at least a hundred steps away from the Jiannu on the city wall, and the Jiannu were still wearing cotton armor, but the gunshots rang out, and the Jiannu on the city wall fell down row by row."

Li Zicheng's face became more and more embarrassing.

Song Xiance and Gu Junen also looked at each other in blank dismay.

It seems that the firearms of the Ming army are indeed sharper than those of the Dashun army.

This is actually not surprising, because it was a missionary of the Dominican Order who was in charge of casting cannons and flintlock guns for Dashun. The quality of the gun can be imagined, and to be honest, it is not easy to imitate it.

After a long while, Li Zicheng could hold back a sentence: "If I have a chance, I want to see the Ming army's weapons with my own eyes."

Li Zicheng simply wanted to see the firearms of the Ming army, but Song Xiance and Gu Junen heard it wrong, thinking that Li Zicheng was going to raid the Ming army with [-] cavalry.

At that moment, Gu Junen advised: "Your Majesty, you can't."

Song Xiance also said: "Your Majesty must not have such thoughts."

Only then did Li Zicheng realize that the two of them had misunderstood his meaning, and immediately smiled and said, "Where are the two military advisers going? I just want to see the firearms of the Ming army, and I didn't mention fighting with the Ming army. No matter how arrogant I am , and will never take 10,000 cavalry to raid [-]+ Ming troops, after all, it is not like before.”

"The Holy Master Mingjian." Song Xiance and Gu Junen heaved a sigh of relief.

At this time, Li Zicheng suddenly had a whim, and asked the two of them: "Two military advisers, what do you think will happen if I take only a few relatives to meet Chongzhen? After all, I said that I would meet Chongzhen." in Beijing."

"Ah?" Song Xiance and Gu Junen were immediately stunned, how could you have such weird thoughts, my lord?

There is nothing wrong with you being Emperor Dashun, but in the eyes of Chongzhen and Nanming courtiers, I am afraid that you are still the same thief who robbed houses everywhere and turned the entire Ming Dynasty upside down.

So you ran to see Chongzhen with only a few relatives, didn't you think you had a long life?
Li Zicheng said to himself again: "I don't think Chongzhen will kill me directly. The two countries will not be beheaded if they fight each other. Right now, Dashun and Nanming are allies."

"My lord, don't make trouble." Song Xiance really couldn't hold back.

Realizing the aphasia, he quickly said: "What I mean is that Chongzhen is not worthy of the trust of the Holy Majesty."

Gu Junen also said: "When the two countries are fighting, if you don't kill the envoy, you are talking about the envoy, but you are the emperor, how can the king of a country be compared with the envoy? It is absolutely impossible to meet with Chongzhen."