"Haha, these Daming Qiu Ba still have the strength to shout."

Liu Zongmin said with a sneer.

Judging from the information he had obtained, the soldiers at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty had even eaten their meals, and it only took a few hours to break the city.

But what Liu Zongmin didn't know was that he originally thought it would be easiest to break through the west wall, but now he is going through a defense switch.

"Our only weakness is that the soldiers below do not know much about firearms."

"Wait until you get to the city wall, and order these Ming army to fire a few more shots and let the soldiers get used to it in advance!"

When they were about to separate, Meng Tian said to Wang Ben.

In fact, the two still held a very cautious attitude towards this order to support Daming.

After all, in a very unfamiliar place, the soldiers are also a little cautious.

But fortunately, they replaced the sophisticated iron weapons, and regardless of the title, they all had a suit of armor.

This is very helpful in boosting morale.

Moreover, this group of soldiers are basically the ones who participated in the quelling of the domestic rebellion in Daqin.

So when I heard that it was a fight, the rebels suddenly felt that this was a group of rabble.

When Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin rose up, the rebel army was still sorting out the captured Ming army equipment in the city.

Meng Tian and Wang Ben had already led the troops to the head of the city.

They had a clear division of labor, Wang Ben guarded at Xizhimen in the northwest corner, and Meng Tian guarded at Guangning Gate on the west side of the outer city.

These two gates are the main attack directions of Shunjun pointed out by Su Tian.

Boom~ boom~ boom~

All parts of the capital were still in the tranquility before the storm, but suddenly there was a joint artillery bombardment from the west side of the city wall.

After a few beeps, the sound of firearms such as shotguns and muskets also appeared.

The people of the capital thought that the Dashun army had begun to attack the city.

This is actually Wang Ben of Meng Tian, ​​who let the 1,000 Ming army "050" left at each city gate open fire so that the soldiers of the Qin Dynasty can adapt to the sound and power.

However, the sudden sound of the cannon made the Dashun military camp scattered.

Liu Zongmin rushed out of the military tent in a rage, and before he ordered the general attack, these stupid donkeys fired in advance.

In his opinion, the Ming army would not be so foolish as to fire the artillery before attacking the city.

Today's artillery, even if it is mounted on the city wall, has a range of no more than 500 meters.

"What's the situation? Who the hell ordered the fire! Laozi killed him alive!

"Master Marquis, it's not the cannon fired by our army, it's the Daming army on the city wall. They don't know what they are doing, they just shoot empty guns."

An officer under his command came over to report to Liu Zongmin in confusion.

In January of this year, Li Zicheng declared himself king in Xiyi'an, and divided Liu Zongmin as Ruhou.

It turned out that he was the second-in-command of the peasant army, and now he is the highest commander of the troops besieging the capital.

"What's the matter? Mala, it seems that these Ming army can't wait to die.

"Pass my order, the troops will attack in advance, and the outer city must be captured before sunset!

When Liu Zongmin heard it, he was first shocked, then turned from confusion to anger.

Immediately ordered an advance attack, the ordering army immediately went to order.

In this way, the battle to defend the capital started ahead of schedule.

Dashun's rebels swarmed towards the capital in all directions, and did not use the method of warfare to surround three and one.

Although they were all commanders of Dashun in name, the troops that attacked each faction had their own factions.

Some of them were subordinates who had followed Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin. These people were also the elites of the pro-military army.

They mainly attacked the west side, and attacked Xizhimen and Guangningmen, that is, the city gate where Meng Tian and Wang Ben were.

Aside from this part of the Dashun elite, the remaining troops are mainly divided into two types.

One was a rogue from other areas, and slowly took refuge in Li Zicheng.

The second is the rebels who surrendered to Li Zicheng in the Ming Dynasty.

These troops, although Li Zicheng and Liu Zongmin gave them the task, just feinted.

But in the face of the temptation to enter the city first, they can grab the gold and silver treasures first, so that they also want to break through their own city gates.

"Humph, here we come, it really is a gang of rabble."

Meng Tian looked at them sprinting without formation, and even wanted to laugh a little.

The city walls of this capital are extremely generous, but any normal troops will not be breached too quickly.

It is even more unrealistic to want to blast the city wall with cannons. After all, the so-called cannons in the Ming and Qing Dynasties are mostly hitting people.

It might be okay to blast a slightly thinner earth wall with kinetic energy, but if the city wall is nearly 20 meters wide with blue bricks like the capital, don't even think about the artillery at this time.

"Fill arrows, blast the cannons on the opposite side, and don't let them in."

Meng Tian gave an order to the 1,000 people left behind in Daming. He knew that Li Zicheng's troops wanted to move the artillery into range and start bombarding the city gate.

The screams of killing, the sound of artillery, at this moment, the city walls of the capital were full of fire, and smoke filled the air.

Emperor Chongzhen was like sitting on needles and needles, and he took Wang Chengen all the way to the Meishan Mountain to observe the situation in the outer city as he did before his last death.

As if it were a lifetime away, in his memory, at this moment, it should be the scene of the outer city being destroyed and the fire soaring into the sky.

But now, the outer city is safe and sound, and the Daming dragon flag is still on the walls everywhere.

"It's really a life-defying change! I..."

He recalled his own experience before seeing Su Tian, ​​and was immediately speechless with excitement.

It seems that Daming Jiangshan has been preserved...

According to the level of the Ming army stationed outside the capital city when Shunjun attacked the capital two days ago, it would be scattered as soon as it collapsed.

Liu Zongmin originally thought that the Ming army had already been corrupted, and even if it was defended, it would not be possible to defend it for long.

At most 2 hours, at least it can break through the Guangning Gate in the outer city.

But after fighting for such a long time, the Shun Army killed more than 1,000 people in the main attack of Guangning Gate, and the number of wounded was innumerable.

The tenacity of the Ming army defending the city far exceeded Liu Zongmin's imagination.

He didn't understand why the Ming troops outside the city had run away before they even fought.

The rest also surrendered as they approached.

Isn't that on the wall of the city, is it not the stinky bastard of the Ming Dynasty?

Shaking his head, he pushed this seemingly unrealistic, yet correct, idea to the back of his mind.

He roared at his subordinates: "What's the matter, the city wall can't be attacked?

"Back to the Marquis, the Ming army is too tenacious, and it is very capable of fighting. Even if the brothers climbed the city wall, they were quickly hacked to death and thrown down."

The general also looked worriedly at the siege troops.

It was getting dark soon, and they hoped that they would be able to consume the physical strength of the Ming army.

The Ming army, who only ate half a sheet of pancakes a day, was completely exhausted.

Unfortunately, what they didn't know was that Meng Tian on the city wall prepared dried meat for the soldiers.

If you are hungry and eat meat directly, the ability to fight hunger is far stronger than that of Shunjun who only eats dry food.

"Boom! He can't attack, what's wrong with him, he opened the gate and the cavalry rushed in!"

Liu Zongmin was so angry that he lost so many people at this gate, and it was not worth the gain if he attacked it.

These people are the foundation of Dashun's establishment of the country. Without these pro-military elites, he and Li Zicheng would not be able to control the rogues.

"The artillery... The seven or eight artillery pieces here have a range not as far as the Ming army's, and the Ming army's artillery shells exploded before they reached the front.

"It's... is transferring artillery from other units."

The general was also a little bit overwhelmed, his face full of cold sweat and sweating to answer Liu Zongmin.

"Three Guards! No matter the cost, San Guardian must break through this Guangning Gate! Otherwise, come and see you!""

Liu Zongmin whipped him fiercely and gave a death order.

What a hell, the previous Ming army, even when they were at Ningwu Pass, was not able to fight like this.

"Yes, yes..." The man hurriedly sent someone to mobilize artillery.

Li Zicheng was also a little anxious at this time, since he sent troops out of Shanyixi after the New Year.

It seems that I haven't seen such a bad time, and the time with Zhou Yuji was a little longer, but it took a lot of time to clean up the streets after the gate was broken.

This is the second time that he has completed a full circle of tours, and when he comes back, he will discuss with Liu Zongmin first.

After four or five hours of continuous attack, is it time for Ming Jin to withdraw his troops?

"I found that Dongzhimen and Chaoyangmen are relatively weak. Our army almost occupied the city wall a few times. Should we attack the main direction? Li Zicheng asked.

"No! Immediately mobilize the artillery to come, and the Guangning Gate must be opened!"

Liu Zongmin said paranoid that in the past three months, he seems to have become accustomed to going along, and so far he has not encountered any decent resistance.

If you change direction at this time because the bones are hard to chew, you won't be able to make it through in the face.

"This...then take a look at it first." Li Zicheng was no longer able to persuade Liu Zongmin.

At this time, the internal contradictions of the peasant army were already very serious.

The goal has changed from grain wealth, to make the local tyrants equalize the land production, to peeping the world. Many people have been changed by power.

It didn't take long for a large number of artillery pieces to gather near the Guangning Gate, and the firearms on the Ming army's city walls were restricted.

There is no way to target so many artillery pieces, the city gate is broken, it is only a matter of time.

"General!" The Jinyiwei Qianhu, who were left behind by the Daming Army, were a little overwhelmed.

It stands to reason that the city gate should have been sealed with piles of material just now, but Meng Tian never gave the order.

"Order the cavalry, prepare to take on the enemy! 35

Meng Tian smiled and signaled that the Ming army would continue to do his job well.

The Daqin herald blew the bamboo whistle on Guangning Avenue.

The Daqin cavalry, who had been waiting for a long time, quickly prepared their horses and prepared to charge.

This is……

The defenders near Guangning Gate in the Ming Dynasty were stunned.

In my heart, I called my mother too...

Big brother, why are you guarding the city, why are you greeting the cavalry?

Are you ready to rush out of the city gate now? Are you joking?

Liu Zongmin saw how stupid the Ming army was when the city gate was about to be broken.

After observing for a long time and finally confirming, he was immediately overjoyed.  …

"Prepare to rush in with Ben Hou, the cavalry is in front! The infantry is behind, rush!

With that said, he mounted his war horse and prepared to lead the team to the city gate.

Once the Dashun army rushed into the city gate, then the outer city of the capital was already captured.

But he didn't know what kind of terrifying existence was waiting for him on Guangning Avenue.

Liu Zongmin, who led the cavalry into the city gate, found that there was no Ming army blocking the city gate.

It seems that the goalkeeper has completely given up on goalkeeping, right?

Either retreat, or run away.

Unfortunately, before he could be happy for a long time, he found that across the street, a man dressed as a Jin Yiwei was standing on the roof and waving the Daming Dragon Flag desperately.

Only then did he come up with a curious idea, and he hadn't opened his mouth to ask the people around him.

It was obvious that the earth trembled.

"What the hell is going on here..."

Liu Zongmin seemed to be frightened, and the speed of the horses under him slowly slowed down.

This feeling is too familiar, it is the shock when the large-scale cavalry charges.

But the cavalry of the peasant army has never had such a big momentum again.

I could not afford to eat before I revolted, so how many horses can I form a cavalry?

Even if there are hundreds of thousands of troops now, the horses are only in the early 10,000s, and they are still scattered under the banners of various army generals.

Even if it was Liu Zongmin, the number of cavalry he could lead was only 3,000, and only a few hundred rushed into the city gate at this time.

"Lying in a groove! 9

"impossible!"

"what is this?"

The few people who rushed to the front with Liu Zongmin, when they saw that it was actually the big drum cavalry, were shocked and couldn't believe their eyes.

I saw the cavalry on the opposite side coming back to them in a mighty manner, and at a glance, I couldn't even see the tail behind.

How many people are there?

Three thousand? Five thousand? Or eight thousand?

What made them even more terrifying was that when the other party rushed to a close distance, they realized that the other party's horse was unusually tall.

The sense of oppression made even the warhorse under Liu Zongmin panic and restless.

"Get out! Get out!" Liu Zongmin had a bad premonition, as if death was approaching.

Want to quickly escape out of the city, but now only 30% of the troops come in.

Where is it said that you can quit.

He didn't give him time to react at all, he wanted to drink loudly and let the people behind him spread out to make room for him.

But before he could say anything, Da Qin's cavalry had already rushed to him.

At the top were the thousands of thoroughbred horses that Su Tian had just purchased, and their shoulder height was about half a meter higher than the horses of the Dashun Army.

The strong sense of oppression made Shunjun's warhorses lose their minds, and anxiously threw the rider off the horse and began to flee to other places.

Poor Liu Zongmin, a hero of a generation, he didn't even have a chance to swing his sword after he fell to the ground.

In an instant, he was drowned by the heavy cavalry of the Qin Dynasty, and was trampled into mud, which was his final destination. 4.7

The impact of the pure-blooded horse was infinitely magnified in this narrow street.

The Dashun Army who rushed in had no chance to fight back at all. They were either cut off, or fell down after being hit and trampled to death.

Those who entered the city gates, at least died, to understand.

But the people outside the city gate were not so lucky.

Originally, it was a dream of burning, killing, looting, and occupying a few girls after entering the city.

It was pulled back to reality by the sudden cries and screams.

Looking up again, they saw a large knife falling from a high place.

In an instant, I felt that I was flying, and only after I landed did I realize that my body was in a different place.

"what is this?

"Where did the Ming cavalry come from?"

"Run, run!"

Because Liu Zongmin mobilized all the artillery in front of Guangning Gate, and now Daqin cavalry rushed out.

The robbers didn't even have a chance to open fire, and all the cavalry they killed were cut down.

The only artillery that could damage cavalry, the rebels never had the chance to use it.

"what happened?"

Li Zicheng just received the news that the outer city was breached,

A happy expression was still on his face.

It was found that there seemed to be a collapse at the Guangning Gate.

And it was his own Dashun Army that broke up.

He and several surrounding Shunjun officials were shocked and widened their eyes.

This is so unbelievable, he broke the city and the troops broke up?

But without anyone telling him, he already knew what was going on.

Because of the shock of a large number of cavalry charging, people far away in Xizhimen felt it clearly.

"Follow me to see!" Li Zicheng turned his horse's head and prepared to go towards Guangning Gate.

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