Ming Empire

Chapter 135 Beginning of a large-scale siege

Chapter [-] The large-scale siege begins

Only then did Sun Chuanting get up from his seat, walked to Cao Yue's side, and gave a thumbs up as a sign, "Boy, you are cruel enough."

"If one day you also surrendered to become a slave and become a big traitor, I will treat you the same, chop off your head and hang it on the top of the city!" Cao Yue snorted heavily at Sun Chuanting, "I, Cao Yue, hate the most in my life. What they want is to betray the country and seek glory, and help foreigners bully and slaughter the traitors of the Han people, no matter who they are, they will kill one when they see one, and will never tolerate it."

Sun Chuanting couldn't help shrinking his neck, took two steps back, looked at Cao Yue seriously a few times, and then laughed: "Boy, you are ruthless, ruthless enough, but I like it. But, I have to think carefully, should I Get rid of you first, so as not to be cut off by you one day, haha!"

"You have no chance to kill me!" Cao Yue also laughed loudly.

After looking at each other and laughing for a while, the two sat down again to discuss countermeasures.

The lobbyist sent was killed, and Dorgon would definitely be furious when he knew about it, and the large-scale siege would begin immediately.

"Get ready for a bloody battle, soldiers!" This is what Cao Yue told the defenders.

After Ning Wan, my severed head was soon hung high on the north gate of Datong, and his body and the corpses of his two entourages were also hung on the top of the city.

Cao Yue beheaded the Jiannu envoy who came to persuade him to surrender and the big traitor Ning Wanwo who returned to Jiannu to show the public, and threatened that anyone who dared to surrender Jiannu as a traitor would be beheaded by him. It caused a great stir among the soldiers.Most of the people felt elated, while some people who harbored evil intentions were scared out of their wits.

Cao Yue is really not a person who plays cards according to common sense. The envoys sent by Jiannu dared to kill him so blatantly, but when he thought that this guy had led an army to break through Shengjing, destroyed Shengjing, and massacred Jiannu, he almost It is understandable to destroy the root of slavery.He already has a sworn feud with Jianu, no matter what he does, it will not be too much.

Cao Yue's actions, of course, made Dorgon angry.

Of course he expected that Cao Yue would not give up resistance and surrender, but he did not expect that Cao Yue would be so ruthless that he killed all the envoys he sent and hung their bodies on the top of the city for public display, which was tantamount to slapping him in the face in public.

Originally, Dorgon didn't think of the trick of persuading Cao Yue to surrender. This was Ning Wan's own suggestion to go, saying that he could shake the morale of the Datong Army, and at the same time check the defense situation in the city. He believed that there were many officials or generals in the city who would not It's not that he is determined to fight with Daqing, or that he can win over someone to respond internally.It is even possible to let the followers spread the news quietly, causing panic among the soldiers and civilians in the city.

After Ning Wan, I was willing to meet Cao Yue myself, and Dorgon finally agreed, but unexpectedly, Cao Yue killed him.

Fan Wencheng, who originally supported Ning Wan and I to go to Datong City to meet Cao Yue, was also hit hard.Also as ministers of the Ming Dynasty, he and Ning Wanwo were highly trusted and reused by Dorgon. Although they were still slaves with little status in the Manchu Dynasty, they saw that the Manchu forces were slowing down with their assistance. Slowly growing, they also have a sense of accomplishment.

Fan Wencheng thought that through their suggestions and suggestions, the Qing Dynasty would become stronger in the end, and they also became the heroes of the founding of the Qing Dynasty.Their deeds will be written in the annals of history, and they will also be proud of those who struggled for the sake of death.But Ning Wanwo's death, and Cao Yue's message that any traitor who surrendered to the Qing Dynasty would be severely punished made him feel a chill.

To kill Ning Wanwo, and to kill all the traitors who defected to the enemy, Cao Yue asked the special personnel lurking outside the city to spread the news.

The special personnel successfully spread the news, and of course it reached the ears of Fan Wencheng and others.

If it was changed to before, they would not care about it at all, but now it is different.

Cao Yue severely damaged the Qing army under the city of Datong, Ning Wanwo was beheaded, and Dorgon did not have much confidence in defeating Cao Yue, which made Fan Wencheng and others feel scared.

Geng Zhongming's death that day had a lot of influence on those Han officials and Han troops who surrendered. Ning Wan's death shook the hearts of the Han Army's Eight Banners troops. Dorgon didn't expect this to happen. Immediately began the siege.He strictly ordered the troops under his command that if they fail to fight well, they will be severely punished, and if they flee or defect on the battlefield, all relevant people will be implicated.

Jiannu's large-scale siege began the day after Ningwan I was killed.

Jiannu set up artillery positions outside the city of Datong. In order to reduce the casualties during the siege and also to embolden the besieging soldiers, they fired artillery before the siege began.

Because Jiannu's artillery battalion was well-prepared and well-prepared and concealed, the troops sent by Cao Yue did not find out where their artillery was installed. It was not until Jiannu's artillery started firing that they discovered the location of the artillery.

Cao Yue did not show weakness, and immediately ordered the artillery on the top of the city to start fighting back.

In the Ming Dynasty, there were no scenes of artillery shooting at each other in the war. Under normal circumstances, artillery was used to bombard the defenders on the top of the city, or the defenders on the top of the city were used to bombard the enemy who was attacking the city.There is no artillery firing, the main reason is that the artillery range is not far, and the other is that the accuracy is too low. Of course, the more important thing is that today's commanders do not have such awareness.

The red-clothed cannons used to build slaves were all red-clothed cannons with a longer range. The red-clothed cannons were front-mounted heavy-duty smoothbore cannons made in Europe in the early [-]th century. They were introduced to China in the late Ming Dynasty. Firearms are much more advanced.

Compared with the red cannons, the large-caliber firecrackers equipped by the Ming army had less gunpowder, and the gunpowder gas was not well sealed, so the firing range was shorter. In addition, they were prone to overheating and had a slow rate of fire.Moreover, the copper is too soft, and each shot will cause the barrel to expand, and the shooting accuracy and range will drop very quickly.However, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, the national strength was weak, and it was impossible to cast and import more expensive red cannons.

There are not many red-clothed cannons in the Datong Army, only more than [-]. The others are various types of homemade artillery with a short range, including the Fran cannon with good lethality.Cao Yue didn't have much to do about it. After all, imitation also required technology, personnel and equipment, and it was not easy to transport it to Datong if it was purchased. After all, it was a big thing weighing several tons.And when many traitors surrendered to the enemy, they brought all the red cannons equipped in their army with them. Now the Jiannu army is equipped with more red cannons than Cao Yue's army.But Cao Yue didn't care about anything. Seeing the Jiannu artillery start to bombard, he immediately ordered more than a dozen red cannons at the top of the city to shoot at the Jiannu artillery position.

Jiannu's artillery landed on the top of the city first, and knocked down a large area of ​​soldiers of the second battalion of muskets who were ready to shoot. Blood, flesh and broken bricks flew across the top of the city, and a large section of the city wall was enveloped in black smoke.

And just when Jiannu's artillery began to shoot, the tens of thousands of Han Army Eight Banners and Mongolian Eight Banners on standby under the city also started the first wave of large-scale siege!
(End of this chapter)