Take the arsenal to Da Ming

Chapter 278 Capture Shengjing
Although He Luohui tried his best to mobilize the whole city's strength to defend the new army's attack, he never thought that the new army's siege tricks would be so many and so frightening.

From the very beginning, the terrifying artillery was mobilized to penetrate the walls of the Urn City and the inner city at once, something that has never been heard before.

Then there are several types of artillery with terrifying lethality. In front of this artillery, the human body is not much different from ants.

Without the slightest mental preparation, the defenders in the city were nearly half of the elite, and they suffered heavy losses before they formally fought face-to-face with the new army.

How do you keep this?He could only use human lives to fill it, so he could only transfer some of the few remaining elite defenders to recruit or even arrest strong men in the city.

However, the new army was also elite, and He Luohui met admirable opponents, the white pole soldiers and wolf soldiers, who were no less fierce than the elite Eight Banners Army.

Not only do they have an advantage in force, but more importantly, they also have the terrifying firearms to cheer them up. The battle has been unequal from the very beginning.

I have never seen the lives of the Eight Banners children so worthless, they were beheaded in batches, but they still couldn't stop the fierce attack of the new army.

Even if some disadvantages were sometimes recovered by virtue of geographical advantages, they were quickly reversed by the new army through tactics and reinforcements.

Until the real new army goes into battle in person, they have terrifying muskets, which can be devoured like terrifying beasts.

After finally gaining a little advantage, they were quickly submerged and suffered heavy losses.

Then, they easily blasted the city gate open with an unknown gunpowder.

The reason why it is called unknown gunpowder is that normal black powder is not so powerful at all, and the black smoke produced by black powder will be very thick.

But this kind of gunpowder is not like this. Not only is it powerful, but the black smoke produced is also much smaller.

In the battle of defending the city, once the city gate is breached, it is almost considered a failure for the defenders.

He Luohui knew that he was doomed to fail, but he had nowhere to go, so he had to gather all the people in the city to fight the new army who had invaded the city.

But because the new army invaded the city too quickly, the organized people didn't even have a chance to train. Many people were just given weapons and let them fight the new army.

Untrained soldiers, no matter how brave and skilled they are, are no match for regular soldiers who know how to fight.

The street fighting was very fierce, and the bustling Shengjing was immediately soaked in blood. The wolf soldiers who were on the rise fully exposed their wolf nature, as long as they were not their own people, they almost killed anyone they saw.

In Shengjing City, besides the Manchus, there are also many Han Chinese, but because of their shaved hair, it is difficult to tell them apart directly by their appearance.

Even if they could tell the difference, it didn't matter how many wolf soldiers there were. For them, everyone in Shengjing City could be killed.

It wasn't until Tang Ning realized that he immediately forbade the killing of all those who put down their weapons. On the one hand, he was not a person who liked massacres. Another important reason was that Sheng Jing could not be massacred.

If it is just to win an empty city, the meaning will be much less, and it will force the Qing army occupying the capital to retaliate.

The Han people didn't know how many more people there were than the Manchus. If they slaughtered and retaliated against each other like this, it would be a disadvantage for themselves. After all, the Manchus only had so few people, and if they killed them all, they would not have as many people as the entire capital.

What's more, the Manchu Eight Banners have entered the hinterland of the Central Plains. If they retaliate recklessly, the entire Central Plains may be filled with mountains of corpses and seas of blood.

If this happened, he, Tangning, would probably be criticized too.

Although the Manchus were fierce, they were not all desperadoes who were not afraid of death. After knowing that resisting would lead to death, many people still had to put down their weapons and choose to surrender.

Among them, most of the troops were temporarily formed by civilians. Most of the original defenders still chose to resist, but their numbers were not many, and under the joint encirclement and suppression of several units of the new army, they were also decreasing.

Some people wanted to abandon the city and flee, but the entire Shengjing was surrounded by the new army, and there was no way to escape.

The battle continued until late at night, and the battle in Shengjing City was basically over until the next morning.

The accompanying capital of the Qing court, Shengjing, was truly captured by the new army.

More than [-] people were captured, and more than [-] people were killed or injured by the defenders in the city and civilians who participated in the war.

The new army also suffered more than 300 casualties, among which the wolf soldiers suffered the most casualties, exceeding [-].

Because they participated in the first few fierce battles, and they also rushed to the front after they entered the city.

The white pole soldiers suffered more than [-] casualties, while the new army suffered less than [-] casualties.

After Tang Ning entered the city, a group of wolf soldiers came to him with a bloody head to ask for credit. It was the head of Shengjing General He Luohui.

The new army and the white soldiers on one side seemed a little unhappy, because they didn't think that their combat power would be any different than the wolf soldiers, but these wolf cubs were too good at grabbing food.

If the new army took the head, the white soldiers would not have any jealousy, because they deserved it.

Without the firearms of the new army, I am afraid that even the city gate has not been breached, let alone the battle to kill Shengjing General He Luohui.

Tangning naturally knew that everyone, including her new army, was against each other.

However, he didn't care much, and was quite supportive, because this was a kind of healthy competition, which just showed that these armies were all elites. If they were not elites, they would be ashamed to participate in this kind of competition.

The ones who felt the most deeply were probably the descendants of Shang Kexi's troops. They never expected that in such a short period of time, the mighty Manchu capital would be captured in such a short period of time.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have dared to imagine it, because it was too incredible.

Many of them have followed Shang Kexi to surrender to the Qing army for more than ten years, and they have truly seen the power of the Manchu Banners, the incomparable power of the Manchu Banners, and the strength of the Manchu Banners has been engraved in their hearts.

It wasn't until Azig was defeated by Tang Ning that their awe of Man Banners weakened a bit, but at that time they never thought that Tang Ning would attack Sheng Jing.

They didn't know Tangning's true ambition until they knew that the goal of the trip was to go north and keep approaching Liaodong when they were floating in the sea.

But even so, they were still very nervous, because they couldn't afford to lose more than Tangning. Once the failure fell into the hands of the Qing army, they could imagine their miserable end.

But the final fact is that these surrendered troops didn't even have a chance to make a move. The white soldiers and wolf soldiers combined with the new army broke through the tightly guarded city of Shengjing within a few days.

If Tangning hadn't issued a stop-kill order in time, the entire Shengjing city would have been killed.

This is the first time that the Han invaded the core city of the Manchus, and it was also the most important accompanying capital, the former capital Shengjing.

Its significance and achievements are really unimaginable. Even those who have not done much to surrender the army feel a sense of pride for no reason.

……

The scouts have found out that the Qing army's reinforcements are only less than a hundred miles away from the outskirts of Shengjing, and they will arrive at the city of Shengjing the day after tomorrow at the latest.

While there was still time, Tangning immediately organized personnel to dispose of the corpses in the city, and the wounded also needed urgent treatment.

As for the damaged city wall, he didn't even bother to ask people to repair it. When Hauge came with reinforcements and was willing to attack from the gap, let them attack.

(End of this chapter)