The sun never sets in the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 839 Shelling the Capital
Qian Meng, Qi Dashan and other military intelligence chiefs immediately adjusted their deployment according to the wanted criminals named in the arrest warrant.

The experienced agents under him formed a tracking team to monitor these important targets all the time.

For three consecutive days, dozens of hot air balloons flew over the inner and outer cities of the capital, and even appeared over the Forbidden City. Thousands of leaflets and arrest warrants were scattered.

The common people in the capital looked forward to the bombardment time announced on the leaflet.

The survivors of the Ming Dynasty experienced the bloody rule of "Dashun" like purgatory, and the bloody lessons made the people realize that Li Zicheng, who "does not pay food", is an out-and-out devil.

The common people in the capital are secretly complaining about why the "God of War" made such an unnecessary move to announce the bombardment time?Why remind those thieves to stay away from the artillery at the top of the city?They all hope that the "Nanming" artillery will blow up these animals to death.

The thieves have long enforced the curfew, and at night only the "Dashun" bandits can be dispatched to rob houses and women, and the common people dare to walk around and kill without mercy.

Even so excited, the ordinary people of the capital are still secretly connecting together, even the civil and military officials of the original Ming Dynasty who surrendered are secretly contacting each other.

The "God of War" flyer stated that it was a last resort for the civil and military officials of the Ming Dynasty who surrendered to the thieves, and welcomed them to return to the embrace of the Ming Dynasty. Such words are so heartwarming. The demoted officials who were forced to go bankrupt by the thieves and couldn't even keep their wives at home were moved to tears How many times.

At this time, the residents in the capital, except for a small number of scumbags and green-skinned gangsters who followed the intruder to do evil, the others were waiting for the opportunity to attack the intruder.

This is of course the effect of the propaganda offensive. The leaflets like a goddess scattered flowers let everyone in the capital know the current situation. The residents of the capital knew that the "Southern King" came to save Daming, and that the "God of War" had already surrounded the capital. The intruder can't escape.

On May [-]th, the rumbling sound of artillery came as scheduled, and the entire capital residents were listening attentively, with excited smiles on their faces that could not be concealed.

"God of War" announced the bombardment in a high-profile manner, specifying that the target of the bombardment was the hundreds of artillery deployed at the head of the capital city, focusing on dozens of Hongyi cannons.

How could the intruders sit still and wait for death, using artillery fire to defend the city was one of their life-saving straws. The "God of War" was about to bombard the artillery at the top of the city.

The bandit soldiers did not obey the "God of War" warning to stay away from the city. On the contrary, the generals and military advisers under the bandit's command personally led the old battalion brothers to the city to supervise the battle, but they suddenly found that apart from the "Dashun" army's own gunners, those Ming soldiers who surrendered The gunner ran a lot.

Some fugitive gunners used ropes to fall down the city and ran down to surrender to the "God of War", and some ran into the city to find a place to hide, because they knew that they might not even be able to leave a whole body behind in a confrontation with the "God of War", and there was no chance of victory sex.

A small number of gunners who could not escape were put on the gun positions at the head of the city. The time when the "God of War" announced the bombardment was approaching, and the former Ming army gunners were all trembling.

In order to survive, these gunners did not give up their efforts. They persuaded the gunners of the former "Dashun" army around them, telling them not to try to confront the "God of War". We were looking for death at the emplacement.

Fear was contagious, and soon the gunners of the fake "Dashun" army on the emplacements were shuddering, and they were all looking around, ready to flee the emplacements decisively when they heard the sound of the cannon outside the city.

Seeing that the gunners were talking a lot, the old battalion thieves who guarded the gunners began to pay attention to it, and asked why the gunners were frightened.
Soon they finally realized that the range and accuracy of their own artillery were a thousand miles away from those of the "Nanming" artillery. There was no possibility of trying to confront the "God of War" artillery, and the "Dashun" army could only be passive. The fate of being bombarded.

Knowing the truth, the bandits from the old battalion also kept silent. They couldn't help but believe the warning of the former Ming army's Beijing battalion gunners, and began to pay attention to the fastest route to escape from the city wall.

Li Zicheng personally came to Chaoyang Gate to oversee the battle. He had a binoculars that he had seized somewhere, so he didn't have to squint one eye to adjust the focus to observe the distance, but just stared at the "God of War" artillery formation with one eye wide open.

This kid is not stupid. He saw the black and shiny "Nanming" artillery lined up in the distance, and saw the "God of War" artillerymen preparing for shelling, and immediately realized the rumor that the "Nanming" artillery had a range of more than [-] paces. it is true.

Seeing that the bombardment time announced by the "God of War" was approaching, Li Zicheng hurriedly led a group of generals to leave Chaoyang Gate on the grounds of going to Dongzhimen to have a look.

Fortunately, the intruder had a keen sense of smell and realized that the danger was approaching and fled decisively. Otherwise, he would be killed by artillery fire, because more than ten observers on the fixed hot air balloon rising high had noticed the intruder who appeared at the top of Chaoyangmen. Artillery preparations are in progress.

When the time was up, hundreds of solid iron balls flew towards the cannon positions at the top of the city. This was because the "God of War" didn't want to cause a lot of casualties to the bandits at the top of the city.Try not to let these strong laborers die in the civil war, so that they have the opportunity to start a new life in American colonization.

Even so, hundreds of [-]-pound to [-]-pound iron balls jumped happily and hit many bandit soldiers. When they hit the top of the city, the bricks and stones splashed and caused too many bandit soldiers to bleed. Many lost their brains and died on the spot.

The head of the city suddenly wailed, and the reality taught the bandit soldiers who tried to fight back. Even the bandit leader was not prepared to suppress the fleeing subordinates, and they also sneaked in with the rout soldiers.

"Oh my god, their cannons can really hit this far. Brothers, get out of the city."

"There is no way to defend this city. We will be caught by the 'God of War' sooner or later. It's a pity for the money I have accumulated!"

"Brother, it would be nice if you can save your life. You still want money. Is that money yours?"

"Bastard, run, what are you talking about, it's blocking my way."

On the hot air balloon that took off, artillery observers reported the situation through semaphore. The Zanhua Department of the Chinese Army learned that the artillery positions at the head of the city were no longer defended by the enemy, and issued an order for the engineers to dispatch.

The carriage galloped along the established route, and the engineers came a hundred steps away from the city wall and began to unload materials to build a steel lookout post.

Every site where a lookout post is built has a musketeer of the general flag and five snipers waiting in full force. As long as someone appears at the top of the city, the snipers will decisively kill the enemy to prevent them from igniting the cannons that have been filled and causing casualties to our army. .

As long as you persist for an hour, the task of the snipers will be much easier, because they can climb the lookout posts that are much higher than the capital's city wall to choose a blocking position, and the enemy troops found on the city wall will have nowhere to hide.

(End of this chapter)