The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 251

"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!"

The sound of cannons in Jinan City was like thunder, and a large number of flying rocks shot out from the muzzles of the Franji and Tiger Crouching Cannons.

Puffs of white smoke rose with the orange flames, and the deafening sound of cannons echoed in everyone's ears.

"kill!!"

Deafening shouts of death swept in from outside the city, like huge waves, one wave higher than the other, and each wave stronger than the last! !

The offensive of the Qing army was not hindered by the artillery at the top of the city. The ravine outside Jinan City had already been filled with enough roads for large groups of soldiers to pass through.

A large number of ladders were erected on the outskirts of Jinan City, and the elite of the Qing army in various armors hid behind the followers and auxiliary soldiers and overwhelmed them.

Large shield chariots are displayed under the city wall, and Qing army infantry archers in light armor are hidden behind the shield chariots. They stare at the crenels on the city wall, and as soon as they see an opportunity to make a move, they will immediately jump out of the shield chariot. Shoot the buckled heavy arrow.

The arrows they shot were so ruthless and accurate that they could even cross a distance of dozens of steps and shoot through the narrow crenel to the Ming army archers behind the crenel.

Above the city tower, Zhang Bingwen, the left chief minister of Shandong, stood on the crenel, scanning the battle situation below the city with a gloomy expression.

Zhang Bingwen wears a bright iron helmet on his head, a hood, and a scarlet civil official uniform inside. The official uniform has long since lost its former glory, and the original wide cuffs have been tied with armbands.

A girdle was tied around his waist, and a waist knife was hung on the girdle, and there were several dried blood stains on the waist knife.

Zhang Bingwen's eyes were bloodshot, and his brows were full of exhaustion. He hadn't had a good rest for several days.

The Qing soldiers had been besieging the city for five days. The Qing soldiers encircled and attacked the city from all sides, driving the people to fill in trenches and enlisting armored soldiers to attack the city almost day and night.

Less than half of the [-] officers and soldiers stationed in the city can still stand today.

The generals suffered heavy casualties, and the soldiers were exhausted, almost exhausted.

In the past few days, news of casualties came to his ears one after another, and a list of dead victims was presented in front of him.

Although the young men recruited in the city are brave and brave, they are not soldiers after all, and there are not many armored soldiers in the city for their use.

Many of the young and strong are armed with simple weapons such as wooden sticks and wooden spears, and there are not even a piece of armor for a hundred or so people.

They still have the power to fight against the Qing army's followers and auxiliary soldiers, but they have no way to resist the Qing army's vest soldiers and heavy armor soldiers who are caught in the Qing army's follow-up team.

Those armored soldiers of the Qing army wore several layers of heavy armor, which could not even be pierced by knives and arrows.

But the sharp knives in the hands of those Qing army soldiers could easily cut through the flesh and blood of the strong men in the city who were not wearing armor.

Every Qing soldier who ascends the city can bring huge casualties, and only when countless soldiers fall down can they be driven down the city or beheaded.

But even so, no one flinched.

Everyone knows the consequences after the city is broken, and everyone knows what will happen after the city is broken.

The city of Jinan was strewn with corpses, and the dead were relatives. Even the walls were covered with corpses from both sides. The flowing blood accumulated on the city walls, and even the city bricks were dyed crimson.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The battle drums outside the city were like thunder, and a soldier of the Qing army, wearing a blue armor and holding a smooth knife, also boarded the top of the city at this time.

The armored soldier of the Qing army has a big head and a thick neck, with a beard all over his face, a very long knife mark on his cheek, and blood stains on his armor. The flag badge on the back shows his status as an officer.

Although the establishment of the Qing army has undergone several changes, it is still generally similar to the Ming army. The Qing army's Jiabing is the special leader in the army, which is equivalent to the small banner officer of the Ming army.

Before the Qing army made it to the city, Yu Ding and the followers of the Qing army had already opened a gap, and the soldiers guarding this place had been killed by them.

Seeing the armored soldiers behind them ascending the city, Yu Ding, a few Qing soldiers, also regained their spirits, while the expressions of the Ming soldiers and Ding Zhuang who were guarding the city changed.

Every time the Qing army attacked, once a gap was opened, if they could not be driven off the city wall in time, they would immediately send a large number of armored soldiers to climb the city from that place.

"Rush over and drive them off the city wall!!"

I don't know who shouted loudly, and all the Ming soldiers and Ding Zhuang on the city wall swarmed away.

"Kill!!"

A group of Ming soldiers and Ding Zhuang on the city wall shouted and moved forward. They shouted loudly, trying to suppress the fear in their hearts.

"Nikan who doesn't know how to live or die."

Facing the swarming Ming army men, the Qing army Zhuanda who climbed onto the city wall just snorted coldly.

The Ming army and Ding Zhuang in front of him had few weapons that could harm him.

The original Ming army formation on the city wall, which was relatively neat, was already scattered by Yu Ding, who climbed first. These young Ming soldiers came in a swarm, and they came chaotically. Although they looked quite powerful, they were all flaws.

The Qing army Zhuanda didn't hesitate at all. He lowered his body, leaned forward slightly, and jumped out quickly.

The snow-white light of the sword appeared in front of everyone's eyes, and the sound of the sword piercing the flesh echoed in everyone's ears.

The two soldiers of the Ming army who rushed to the front collapsed to the ground, with blood gushing out of their throats.

After the Qing army expert sealed his throat with a knife, he suddenly slumped his shoulders and slammed into the crowd fiercely.

The one who was hit first was a young man wearing a blue scarf and short brown clothes. He didn't expect the sudden impact at all, and fell backwards uncontrollably.

The huge impact almost made him lose his breath, his mind went blank, and he could no longer control his body.

A few people behind were caught off guard and brought to the ground, and the crowd was also stagnant.

The light of the saber reappeared, and the Qing Army Boda suddenly took a step back, drawing a huge semicircle in the air with the saber in his hand, and several people were knocked to the ground by him.

During the confusion, someone raised a weapon and stabbed at the Qing army chief.

The Qing army specialist waved his knife in his hand, separating most of the weapons, but he was still stabbed by a wooden spear.

Although the wooden spear could not penetrate the armor of the Qing army specialist, it was enough to make the Qing army specialist lose his balance.

Losing balance means showing flaws.

The moment the flaw was revealed, several Ming army soldiers and Ding Zhuang holding daggers jumped out from the crowd.

Facing the heavy armor of the Qing army, they also had their own set of methods during the fierce battle for several days.

Although the wooden spear and wooden spear did not break the armor, they still had a lot of power. As long as they could knock the heavy armored soldiers to the ground, the combat power of the heavy armored soldiers would be almost nothing.

At this time, someone comes with a short knife and stabs it directly through the gaps in the armor or the exposed parts, and it can be quickly dealt with.

This style of play is often a helpless move, and often requires the sacrifice of several people or even a dozen talents to barely do it.

Moreover, this is a tactic that can only be used when defending on the city wall. The heavy armored soldiers on the plains are like a wall covering the plains. No matter how many people there are with wooden spears and spears, it is useless.

However, this tactic that has often worked in the past has not been able to successfully bear fruit.

Two feathered arrows shot out suddenly, one after the other. The two Ming army light soldiers rushing at the front were shot to the ground by the arrows on the spot.

The last one, Ding Zhuang, who was holding a short sword, was already a step slower. The Qing army Zhuanda regained his footing, turned the sword in his hand, and fell on the green bricks of the city wall on the spot.

The incoming feathered arrows were shot by the armored soldiers of the Qing army who ascended the city later. Following the position of the gap, three armored soldiers of the Qing army boarded up in just a blink of an eye.

One of them rushed forward with a sword and shield in his hand, and the other two armored soldiers of the Qing army held bows and arrows and fired arrows continuously. More armored soldiers of the Qing army were coming down the ladder under the city wall.

The faces of all the Ming soldiers and Ding Zhuang who defended the city were full of fear, and they were all wandering around, no one dared to step forward.

The situation deteriorated rapidly, and it was no longer a situation they could handle.

There was a smirk on the face of the Qing Army Specialist, the meritorious service of first ascending was close at hand, and the world position he got was enough for him to be promoted to the distribution of Shiku.

But in the next moment, the sudden change caused the expression of the Qing army specialist to suddenly change. He wanted to say something, but before he could say it, the sound of the firecrackers had already overwhelmed everything on the city wall. noise.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!!"

Thick white smoke rose suddenly from the crowd, and several huge blood holes exploded on the body of the Qing Army Specialist, and blood gushed out suddenly, and the double-layer heavy armor he wore did not provide any protection.

The gunmen of the Ming army fired their cannons at a distance of more than ten steps. The cannons at this distance were enough to break through all armor.

The Qing army's broken body fell heavily to the ground, and several Qing army soldiers and followers were also knocked to the ground by the sudden burst of fire.

"kill!!"

Zhang Bingwen held the Yanling knife in his hand, and led his guards to finally plug the opened gap.

A soldier of the Qing army on the ladder had already boarded the crenel at this time, and two spears pierced straight from left to right.

The spear didn't pierce the armor of the armored soldier of the Qing army, but it turned his body to the side for fear, and he turned over and fell down.

The armored soldiers of the Qing army rolled and fell down, bringing down the armored soldiers who were climbing under the ladder along the way.

Several sounds of heavy objects falling to the ground came from below the city wall, and Zhang Bingwen squinted his eyes and looked down along the crenellations.

The armored soldier of the Qing army who fell down first lay motionless on the ground, and he was already dead.

This section of the city wall is three feet long, and a suit of armor weighs at least more than 200 kilograms. How can you survive if you fall like this?

Few of the soldiers brought down by him were killed on the spot, but most of them were also thrown heavily, and they lost much combat power for a while.

The danger of this section of the city wall was temporarily disintegrated.

only……

Zhang Bingwen turned his head to look at other sections of the city wall. Fierce battles were erupting on the walls everywhere.

The intensity of the Qing army's siege was unprecedented, far exceeding their imagination.

At the beginning, no one could have predicted that the Qing army would attack Jinan, so there was not much preparation in the city of Jinan, and the defenses in the city were seriously lacking.

Many of the rolling logs and lapping stones were obtained from the dismantling of residential houses. There was not much gunpowder prepared at all. Now these are almost used up, but the reinforcements... have not arrived for a long time.

"Reinforcements...still no news?"

Zhang Bingwen leaned on the Yanling Saber and asked left and right.

His response was still a long silence.

But at this moment, the sound of war drums outside the city was still resounding over the plains, and the armored soldiers of the Qing army were rushing towards them like a tidal wave.

……

Jinan Prefecture, Yucheng.

In the first year of Tang Tianbao, Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty took the meaning of "the old city of Yuxi" in the south of the city, and changed the name of Zhu'a County, which had been used for 700 years, to "Yu".

Therefore, the name of Yucheng has been used until now. This city has experienced wind, frost, rain and snow.

After the fall of the Tang Dynasty, it went through the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, and several dynasties of the Song, Liao, Jin, and Yuan Dynasties until the Ming Dynasty. There were no swordsmen in Taiping for more than two hundred years.

However, the peace of more than 200 years was finally broken...

A few days ago, the Qing army of the brigade swept over Yucheng and almost wiped out the surrounding villages and towns.

But now, just above the official road outside Yucheng, the originally fairly wide official road was densely covered with crowds, and the team stretched and meandered all the way to the horizon, and the mighty road could not be seen at all.

The cavalry of the brigade rushed over the fields on both sides of the road, and countless footsteps stepped on the official road to bring up the wind, snow and mud.

On the official road, red flags are flying, guns and spears are everywhere, and the soldiers of the brigade are marching southward.

Most of the soldiers in the team were wearing red mandarin duck war jackets, hats on their heads, and spears or blunderbusses on their shoulders.

The clothes and weapons on their bodies all showed their identities to the outside world. The army marching south outside Yucheng was the Ming army!

Chen Wang pulled the horse and led the guards to stand beside the official road. At this time, his eyes were on the farthest point in the north.

There is a sea of ​​red above the official road, and countless soldiers of the Ming army wearing mandarin ducks and jackets are marching, and it is a striking red.

Jialiangma and Ye Bushou, who were in charge of reconnaissance and scouting, galloped back and forth on the outside of the official road, passing on the enemy situation and road conditions ahead, and guiding the correct marching route for the army.

Yucheng is more than 130 miles away from Dezhou and only a hundred miles away from Jinan, and is located in the middle of the two cities.

Chen Wang held a riding crop in his hand and his eyes moved back and forth on the marching soldiers above the official road. His eyes were like deep wells, making it difficult to see his thoughts and thoughts.

"Jinan..."

Chen Wang turned his head and headed southeast.

The southeast is the direction of Jinan and their final destination.

The storm caused by the flapping of his butterfly wings has already changed the entire situation of the battle.

In the original historical process, after Jiazhuang was defeated, Sun Chuanting believed that it was important to defend the important areas, and he should strictly defend and wait for an opportunity to launch a counterattack, instead of procrastinating.

Liu Yuliang's Qing army lingered and even caused local disputes, which aroused Chongzhen's dissatisfaction.

Gao Yingxiang stayed behind closed doors, and Zu Kuan did not dare to lead his troops south to rush for reinforcements...

But right now, except that Gao Yingxiang is still lingering in Linqing and dare not rush to help, everything is completely different from the original progress.

"Ugh——"

The low and melodious sound of riding a horn came slowly from the northeast direction.

Chen Wang turned his head and followed the sound to the northeast.

Wherever you look, you can see the red wave flowing all over the mountains and plains towards the southeast like a tide.

Countless red flags fluttered, countless red armors shone, and countless war horses galloped causing thunderous roars, mixed with deafening shouts, soaring into the sky!

In the midst of the tide, a big azure blue banner stood in the center of the tide, with a big "ancestor" character embroidered with white silk thread on it!

　Shandong chief envoy Zhang Bingwen, a native of Tongcheng; in the 11th year of Chongzhen, the soldiers went to Jinan, and they defended each other, but no reinforcements came. In the first month of next year, the city collapsed, street fighting, exhausted, and died; his wife Fang and concubine Chen, and voted Minghu died.

　　Shandong Governor Liangdao counseled Deng Qian, a native of Xiaogan; in the 11th year of Chongzhen, soldiers came to Jinan, and proposed to refuse to defend and fight on the city;

　　Lu Can, an official in Jinan, was born in Pinghu; in the 11th year of Chongzhen, the soldiers went to Jinan and defended the city like Zhang Bingwen. The city was broken and he died.Wife, Sun, concubine, Wang and Zifan died together with 37 people.

　　The Shandong branch patrolled Jinan Road and participated in the Zhou Zhixun, a native of Huanggang; in the 11th year of Chongzhen, the soldiers came to Jinan, defending the city like Zhang Bingwen, and died after being defeated.His wife Liu, his concubines Yang and Wang died together, and they all died behind closed doors.

　　Weng Hongye, the deputy envoy of Shandong Tixue, was born in Qiantang; in the 11th year of Chongzhen, he and Zhang Bingwen defended the east city of Jinan, the city was destroyed, and he was thrown into the fire to die.

　　Tang Shixiong, a native of Guanyang, was transferred to the Shandong capital for salt transport; in the 12th year of Chongzhen, the soldiers came to Jinan, guarding the west gate, and were killed.

　　Gou Haoshan, the magistrate of Jinan, was born in Liquan; in the 11th year of Chongzhen, he was moved from Huguangdao Yushi to the left, and Jinan was broken and died.

　　Jinan Tongzhi Chen Yuyou was born in Kunming, Yunnan, and was a native of Shangyuan. In the 11th year of Chongzhen, Jinan was defeated and died.

　　Xiong Liexian, a general judge of Jinan, was from Huangpi. In the 11th year of Chongzhen, the city was destroyed and he and his two sons died.

　　In the 12th year of Chongzhen, Jinan was besieged, and strong men were recruited to defend it. The city was destroyed and killed.His wife, Laishi, threw himself into the lake and died, and Zi Tingliang followed him.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)