The Rise of Ming Dynasty 1646

Chapter 487 Flying Yang Zhihe
Five [-]-jin iron balls crossed the high-throwing curve and smashed down a large area of ​​the Jianlu barracks at the corner of Nanjing City, causing chaos all around.

Huang Ding only thought that the Ming army was going to attack the city, and hastily mobilized heavy troops to guard the south of the city.Even Yang Zhihe, who was ready to attack outside the city, was dragged to the top of the city by him.

After waiting for nearly an hour, only the sound of cannons was heard, but no large group of Ming troops attacked.Yang Zhihe was so angry that he hurt Huang Ding severely, he summoned his troops again, ordered the gates of the city to be opened wide, and he was the first to come out with his whip.

After crossing the moat, you can see the flames shining two or three miles away, which is where the Ming army's siege cannons are located.He immediately turned the horse's head and ordered the soldiers under his command to charge forward.

Yang Zhihe saw that the enemy's artillery was getting closer and closer, but when he raised his eyes, he saw a row of earth barriers slanting in front of him. On both sides of the earth barriers, there were four arrow towers six to seven feet high.

When Huang Ding led his army to Nanjing five days ago, he was taken aback by the large number of siege buildings outside the city. After walking around carefully for a while, he realized that they were all fakes.

Yang Zhihe had already heard what Huang Ding said about this matter, and he knew that these earth barriers were only a thin layer of adobe, which could be crushed by more than ten people standing on them, and the "cannons" were all bamboo tubes painted with black paint.He immediately said loudly: "Don't pay attention to these earth-built archery towers, just take the enemy's artillery!"

Unexpectedly, as soon as his 7000 men and horses rushed to a mile away from the [-]-[-] zhang wide earth barrier, they suddenly heard a series of roars from above, and more than a dozen shells flew across his army formation from above in an instant.Unprepared, the Qing army, which was attacking in a dense formation, was immediately smashed to death, and scattered to both sides screaming.

Soldiers are deceitful, false and true.A few days ago, Chen Yi received Zhu Linming's order, immediately mobilized [-] captives, and personally directed the construction of the engineering battalion. He had already added nearly a foot thick soil behind the earth barrier of this "war project", turning it into a real fortification.

Then more than 300 guns protruded from the earth barrier and fired at the approaching captive soldiers.The Fran cannon also quickly replaces the sub-guns, followed by a round of salvo.

Yang Zhihe was shocked immediately, could it be that Huang Ding lied to him? !With this earth barrier almost as high as the city wall blocking it, how could it be possible to destroy the cannons of the Ming army? !

He also saw torches lit up on the four nearby watchtowers, and he felt even colder, come on, let's go back... Huang Ding, Yang Chengzu and others will inevitably laugh at him.

Thinking of this, he hurriedly asked Ming Jin to withdraw his troops.But as soon as his troops turned around, thousands of Ming troops and cavalry came from the right flank, blocking his way back to the city in an instant...

Deng Shan led four hundred soldiers, without lighting torches, and pushed several flying bridges to the moat on the east side of Nanjing City in the dark.He listened carefully to the movement in the south of the city, and confirmed that the feint attack there had already started. Then he turned around to greet the other hundreds of people, and quietly drove across the flying bridge over the moat with more than [-] vehicles.

Although there was a new moon in the sky, the seven or eight hundred people had just walked a hundred steps away from the city wall before they were discovered by the Qing army at the head of the city.Immediately, the warning drum sounded loudly, and arrows and firecrackers shot from the city one after another.

This chariot is similar to a wooden house with wheels, in which the siege soldiers can hide to avoid being injured by the fire from the top of the city.Originally, these chariots were equipment used by Luck Dehun's army, but Deng Shan recently asked craftsmen to lay two layers of iron sheets on the roof at any cost.

Since the defenders in the east of the city were transferred by Huang Ding to the south of the city for defense, the firepower at the top of the city was not too dense.All of a sudden, the soldiers in the car heard clanging above their heads, but they still rushed to the base of the city wall steadily.

Then the more than 300 people in the car immediately took out steel shovels, chisels, hammers and other objects from their bodies, and began to work under the city wall. It turned out that they were engineers from the Dragon Guards.

Deng Shan led his troops to fight back and suppress the enemy army at the top of the city, relying on the cover of the chariot, but after the lead bullets flew to the top of the city at a height of eight feet, it was difficult to penetrate the cotton armor.The captive soldiers on the city shouted to attract each other, and the crowd gathered more and more.

After persisting for nearly half an hour, three chariots had been destroyed by the Qing army, and another captive soldier was coming dragging the boiling oil.

Deng Shan was sweating profusely when he heard someone blowing a whistle not far away.

It's done!Overjoyed in his heart, he bent down and got into the cart, only to see that the craftsmen had dug a hole more than one foot wide and six feet deep at the root of Nanjing City, and the bluestone slabs of the city foundation were exposed.

He and the soldiers hurriedly took out bamboo tubes thicker than thighs from several large tin boxes, and stuffed them into the small hole they had just dug.There are seven bamboo tubes in total, each weighing about a hundred catties.

Then someone ignited a fuse that was more than two feet long.To ensure safety, there are ten fuse wires in total, and the other ends are all inserted into seven bamboo tubes.

"Withdraw!" Deng Shan yelled, and the crowd gathered in more than a dozen vehicles and rushed away without looking back.At the same time, hundreds of hussars with horses came to meet them in the distance.

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Seeing that he could not enter the Zhonghua Gate in the south of the city, Yang Zhihe ate a few more rounds of firecrackers, so he had to lead his troops around the city, trying to enter the city through the east gate.

Behind him, the Ming army refused to give up. The cavalry continued to charge and cut, and the infantry platooned to follow up. Before he reached the southeast corner of the city, more than half of the 7000 troops were lost.

After he hurriedly ordered the lieutenant general to gather a thousand soldiers, he only brought more than 400 cavalry, and desperately urged the horses to flee.It took him a long time before he dared to look back, and he was slightly relieved when he saw that the pursuers were cut off and the horses were sluggish, three or four hundred paces away.

"Lord Du Si, look!" A guard pointed at the base of the city wall ahead and shouted, "It seems that someone is attacking the city!"

Yang Zhihe raised his eyes and saw that there were indeed six or seven chariots tied up in the city, and there were fragments of destroyed chariots beside the city.

His heart moved, this time he went out of the city to attack the enemy, but almost the entire army was wiped out, even if he was not dealt with by the military law when he returned, he might not get well.There should be no more than [-] Ming soldiers in these vehicles. If they can be wiped out and their heads cut off, it will be considered an explanation.

He immediately waved his saber and shouted: "Follow me!" Hundreds of horsemen then turned slightly and rushed straight towards the root of the city.

Soon, Yang Zhihe's men overturned a car, only to find that it was empty.

How could he be reconciled, and shouted: "Quick, take a look!"

When the third chariot was moved away, all the captive soldiers on the scene gasped - in front of their eyes was a bundle of sparking wires, less than a foot away from the cylinder buried under the city !

"Run!"

"It's gunpowder!"

"Mother!"

Hundreds of horsemen scattered in all directions, Yang Zhihe's reaction was not slow, he pulled the reins violently, turned his hand and stabbed the horse's butt with the tip of a knife.

The war horse neighed, jumped a few feet away, and ran for more than ten steps, when it heard a loud noise like heaven and earth behind it.

It was the explosion of the seven hundred catties of gunpowder that Deng Shan had buried under the city.

Yang Zhihe realized that he was flying up, his body was as light as a swallow, and he even looked at each other with his war horse in mid-air.

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