Ming Dynasty: Starting from Liaodong Jiangmen

Chapter 22 First Victory
The Jiannu cavalry, dressed in white armor, gleaming against the moonlight, followed closely behind the refugees coming from Yongding Gate. Every moment that passed, more than a dozen men, women, and children fell under their butcher knives.

The rumble of hoofbeats was accompanied by screams one after another, and the Jiannu cavalry got closer and closer.

Li Shunzu initially thought about closing the city gate to protect himself, but when he stood on the city wall and looked at the refugees rushing towards Guangqumen, regarding this place as their last hope, he still hesitated.

We are not saints, but how can our hearts be made of stone?
It is true that Li Shunzu had nothing to do with these refugees, but he could not turn a blind eye while watching the Jiannu slaughter the Han people!
"Raise the stage!"

Yu Kuan came to his side, looking anxious.

This was the first time Li Shunzu saw such a scene. Those Jiannu slaves were very different from the Manchus of later generations. They looked like complete savages. No wonder the Beijing army was afraid of them. Even Li Shunzu felt that there was no possibility of defeating them.

Each of these slave cavalrymen had money rat tails combed on the back of their heads. The leader was so tall that he was simply too tall.

The weapons in their hands were something Li Shunzu had never seen before.

I saw a slave cavalryman cutting open a running adult refugee neatly with a single stroke on his horse. The intestines and flesh and blood splashed on the ground. The refugee didn't even have time to let out a second scream!
Soon, the Jiannu cavalry aimed at a woman who was running towards Guangqumen with a child in her arms.

The woman looked at Guangqumen, which was so close yet so far away, with tears in her eyes and full of hope.

But soon, this hope turned to despair.

The women were killed mercilessly, and the several-year-old baby girl fell to the ground. Heart-rending cries resounded in the sky. The Jiannu cavalry were swirling around the baby girl. It was obvious that they were teasing before the killing!
Seeing this, Li Shunzu suddenly woke up.

Watching women and children being slaughtered and doing nothing, that’s still a man! ?
Li Shunzu's heart was filled with passion, and he soon swallowed up all his fear. He remembered that in history, he also attacked Beijing first, and Yu Qian's method of luring the enemy deep when he was guarding the capital.

These slaves in front of me are all cavalry, just like before, maybe we can use Yu Shaobao's method and try again!
"Dog Jian slave!"

"Fight them!"

"Pass on my order to open the city!"

Li Shunzu's words were like a needle that fixed the sea, reaching the ears of three thousand Liao troops and one thousand Beijing troops outside Guangqumen.

Everyone had no grudges at this moment, and the Liao army began to form a formation under the city. The Beijing army climbed to the city to prepare artillery. Bird blunderbuss were stretched out from the crenellations, and the black holes of the blunderbuss were pointed at the white-armored slaves outside the city.

"Kaesong?"

Yu Kuan was stunned and said in a hurry: "Ti Tai, we shouldn't open the city and let refugees in at this time!"

"I'm not releasing refugees, I'm releasing slaves!" Li Shunzu's eyes turned red and he roared, making Yu Kuan's face look dull. "Let the Liao army enter the city and form a formation. I'm going to catch turtles in a urn for the slaves!"

"As long as they dare to chase them in, I will annihilate them all under the city. Don't let anyone go!"

As the imperial capital of the Ming Dynasty for nearly 300 years, Beijing's defense is by no means comparable to that of an ordinary city.

Without the Wengcheng, there is still the outer city.

Instead of the outer city, there is still the inner city.

Instead of the inner city, there is still a palace city.

Every city wall is high and thick. There are hundreds of crenellations in the urn city, and there are more than a thousand crenellations in the outer city surrounding the city gate. Not to mention these hundreds of slaves, even if the Da Luo gods come in, they will be shot into sieves.

These hundreds of refugees need to be saved, but if you don’t rush out blindly to save them, that would be equivalent to risking death.

Li Shunzu wanted to use these refugees as bait to lure slaves into the city.

Regardless of whether you make progress or not, the results are acceptable.

Yu Kuan suddenly realized that this Titai was not scared to death, but wanted to annihilate all these slaves!
If we could wipe out all the slave cavalry, that would be an unparalleled achievement!
Yu Kuan understood. He squinted at the slaves outside the city and sneered.

"Subordinates, go and prepare now. As long as they dare to come in, none of them will be able to come back!"

"Kill ah-"

"Kill all these bright dogs——"

The cry shook the heaven and the earth, and the sound of hooves was like thunder.

Hundreds of white-armored Eight Banners guardsmen, led by Commander Mao Bali, chased them all the way. Corpses were strewn along the way. Hundreds of refugees were killed for no reason. Jurchen cavalry in white armor were like revolving lanterns on the plain outside Guangqumen. vertically and horizontally.

"Report! Mangui outside Yongding Gate has been besieged by our legion, and there are no reinforcements at Guangqumen!"

"Report! The Liao troops outside Guangqumen fled into Wengcheng, and the city gate is about to close!"

In just a moment, a Jurchen sentry horse galloped over.

Every movement of the Ming army inside and outside Guangqumen was promptly conveyed to Mao Barry's ears. "There are no reinforcements, only these few thousand remnant soldiers. This is God's help for me to regain my future!" Mao Barry laughed, as if in his eyes, the defense of Beijing City was just a shoddy project that would be broken at a touch.

A Jurchen cavalryman on the side reminded: "Batulu, I think it is better to be careful. There are hundreds of artillery at this city gate, and the shield chariot is at Yongding Gate. If you rush into the city and be ambushed, it will be difficult to deal with you when you return."

"We should continue to obey the flag master's orders and patrol outside the city to hunt down the remaining soldiers!"

When Mao Barry heard this, he was furious.

"What did you say!"

"When we attacked Zunhua the day before yesterday, I took you to the top of the city in a long time. The Great Khan personally named me the First Batulu and promoted me to the Commander of the Blue Banner Guards. If you were so afraid of trouble, how could you have the glory you have today? "

"These Ming army artillery pieces look bluffing, but how can they be of any use in actual combat?"

Hearing this, the cavalryman had nothing to say.

There is indeed nothing wrong with this. Not to mention that the more than 100 artillery pieces at the top of Zunhua City were useless during the siege. Let’s talk about the current Yongding Gate. Hundreds of artillery pieces at the top of the city roared and fired in volleys, but they were not hit. one time.

From this point of view, the Ming army's artillery was just to scare people.

The day before yesterday's attack on Zunhua, Mao Bali was just Niu Lu under the Xianglan Banner. As the whole army was the first to board the city, he was personally received and toasted by Huang Taiji. He was promoted to a third-class general officer and was in charge of hundreds of guards under the Xianglan Banner. military.

They all also gained glory with Mao Barry and were promoted to the Guards.

If you can be the first to reach the top of Beijing, it will be an unparalleled achievement!
"We can't let them close the city gate, let me kill them!"

Seeing that all the refugees and Liao troops had retreated into Guangqumen, Mao Bali was anxious and rushed to kill with hundreds of guardsmen, waving a tiger-headed sword and the Ming army at the top of Guangqumen city.

I thought I would be attacked by firearms at the bottom of the city. Although I was not afraid of casualties, the Ming army's firearms were very noisy and could easily frighten the horses. However, I did not expect that when they saw them rushing towards me, the Beijing troops at the top of the city let out a roar, dropped their swords and guns and ran away. .

The city top of Guangqumen is in chaos, exactly like the city top of Zunhua.

Mao Barry laughed heartily, and was convinced that all the Ming troops were just chickens and dogs, so he rushed into the city gate first.

Behind him, hundreds of white-armored Jurchen cavalry roared in.

The refugees entered Wengcheng, but could not enter the inner city anymore. They were huddled under the city.

Seeing the Jurchens entering the city, they cried and shouted.

Mao Barry laughed loudly and ran towards the refugees without stopping.

"Gohan people, do you think the city can protect you?"

"Kill them all and be the first to rush into Beijing!"

Hundreds of white-armored slaves had not yet fully entered the city at this time, only about two-thirds of the way in. However, the barbican was too narrow, and the Maobali butcher's knife that was the first to enter the city had almost touched the refugees who were used as bait.

Li Shunzu no longer hesitated, stood up and shouted loudly.

"Get out!"

"fire!"

"Fire the gun!"

"I'll give these slave soldiers a good beating!"

Just listening to the outer city around Guangqumen, there was a sudden and earth-shattering cry of killing. The city gate slowly closed, and three thousand Liao troops suddenly came out from the hidden houses and shops and advanced in formation around them.

The thousand troops stationed in the capital at the top of the city also stood up one after another. Hundreds of artillery and muskets were mounted on the crenellations and aimed at the slave riders below the city.

Horse hooves resounded throughout the city, swords were flying up and down, and the sound of cannons and cannons was even louder.

Mao Barry was hit by the artillery on the spot. He didn't even let out a scream, and his men and horses were reduced to pieces.

The Jurchen guards were caught off guard, and there was chaos.

The rear army had not completely entered the city and retreated when they encountered an ambush. However, there were still people crowding outside the city trying to get in. Both sides were confused about the situation. For a while, people were on their backs and trampled on each other, causing countless casualties.

Three thousand Liao troops who had been fighting in Liaodong for many years came forward and aimed at the chaotic slave cavalry, killing them indiscriminately.

For a time, hundreds of Jin cavalrymen were besieged in Wengcheng, unable to advance or retreat, crying for their fathers and mothers!
(End of this chapter)