The morale of the soldiers guarding the city in the Ming Dynasty can be said to be high at this moment.

Anyone who saw his Majesty's way of humiliating Jiannu and learned about the ins and outs would not be displeased.

In addition, I have seen the rockets sent by the immortal master to Daming before, and there are more than 100 rockets with the same power. The problem of defending the city this time is not big.

The capital already has more than 90,000 people who dare to fight, plus the help of tens of thousands of people.

Not to mention the 200,000 Qing troops under the city, even if there is another 200,000, they also feel that they can hold it.

This is closely related to the recent reform of Emperor Chongzhen and the support that Su Tian gave to Daming.

Even if there are rumors that the Jurchen is invincible, they have nothing to fear.

After all, this is a siege battle. Before this, the Jiannu entered the customs and plundered, but they all walked around the solid city wall, and would not choose to siege the city.

Although the land outside the customs was basically lost, it was due to the internal and external troubles of the imperial court before, and it was devastated by the plague.

Now with the new firearms, basically everyone has at least two rounds of training a day.

After a month, I have strong confidence in the future wars.

After all, the court has money and food, and has such a powerful weapon, I am afraid that it will not be long before everyone will be able to live a good life.

The Qing army under the city was preparing to attack the city, which was different from the way of the Dashun army.

A large number of artillery and other firearms appeared in front of the Qing army, far more than the previous Dashun army.

Since Nurhaci was seriously injured and died after being shelled by Yuan Chenghuan, Huang Taiji has attached great importance to this firearm of the Ming Dynasty after he succeeded to the throne.

In the seventh year of Chongzhen (1634), Kong Youde. After Shang Kexi, Geng Jingzhong and other Han generals surrendered to the Qing Dynasty,

The Qing army began to have red-clothed cannons and formed a heavy artillery unit Wuzhenchaoha, which was one aspect of the improvement of the Qing army's ability to siege cities.

Before going south this time, every time you enter the customs, there will be a premeditated plunder of craftsmen from all over the north.

Artillery and other firearms were built in Liaodong, which laid the foundation for the subsequent siege of the city.

The reason why Jiannu had laid down all the cities except the preferred one before, most of the factors were also related to their emphasis on firearms.

But the city outside the gate was not strong after all.

In the face of a city wall more than ten meters wide like the capital of the Ming Dynasty, it is too unrealistic to blast away with artillery.

You can only rush to a close distance and fire at the people above the city wall.

Therefore, from the very beginning of the Qing army, they used ladders and other siege equipment, and spared no effort to make the Hannu captured before to pack up the number of people.

In an attempt to consume the energy of a wave of Ming defenders.

After all, the siege this time was different from the past, and this time it was a strong attack strategy.

Before attacking the capital, Huang Taiji's siege was a siege instead of attacking, and he encircled the point to help.

The Eight Banners Army's field ability is too strong, the ordinary Ming army is difficult to win in the field, and most of the troops who come to support will be wiped out.

Han generals like Zu Dashou, who were besieged by Huang Taiji for 4 months, opened the city and surrendered when there was no hope of reinforcements.

"Humph! Gou Jiannu will only let the domestic slave and Baoyi rush in front!"

After Li Guoframe observed it with the binoculars, he said to Shi Kefa who was beside him with a gloomy expression.

The Qing army was not as stupid as Dashun, and the dispersion of command led to no united forces.

Although Dorgon was so angry at the moment, his thoughts on attacking the city were still very clear.

The outer city with lower walls was discovered by the Qing army.

A large number of red-clothed cannons were all concentrated in Yongding and You'an. Prepare to storm in this direction.

Deliberately want to open the city gate, or smash the city wall and suppress the defenders above the city wall with firepower.

At the same time as the main attack on the southern city wall, the western city wall dominated by Xizhimen and the northern city wall dominated by Andingmen were feigned.

Only the Chaoyangmen, Dongzhimen, and Dongbianmen in the east were not attacked.

The classic siege of three is missing one, trying to induce the Ming army to rush out from the east and fight them under the city.

This time Daming's way of defending the city really made Zu Dashou Hong Chengchou, a veteran who surrendered to the Qing army, couldn't understand it.

In history, even when the Oirat army hit the capital, they never gave up their strongholds outside the city and all retreated to the capital.

But this time it was so abnormal, so they attacked cautiously.

"Hmph, these Jiannu have a good idea, but unfortunately I have the help of the Immortal Master, so I don't need to leave the city at all."5

Shi Kefa said with a sneer on the wall of the outer city.

"Attention, the order goes on, and when they get close, they will fire. The artillery only hits the other's red-clothed cannons, and their range is not as far as ours."

Li Guoframe ordered that the outer city was the direction of the headquarters of the Beijing army he led.

Therefore, when Jiannu was not attacking the eastern city wall, all the 1,500 flintlock guns allocated by the eastern city wall were also transferred to the outer city on the south side.

"Prince Regent, the artillery should be able to hit the city wall of the Ming army two hundred steps forward!"

"But the strange thing is that the Ming army has not opened fire until now, and the number of arrows has been very small."

Geng Zhongming's grandson, Geng Jingzhong, who is also the commander of the Zhenghuang Banner of the Jiannu Han Army, said to Dorgon with some hesitation.

"Oh? Why is this?" Dorgon also sullen after hearing this, carefully observing the situation of You'an and Yongding.

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It seems that as Geng Jingzhong said, the Han slaves of the Qing army will be wrapped up and will lift the ladder to the position.

But up to now, the Ming army has not fired a gun, which is completely different from the defenders outside the customs in the past.

"Xiaguan guessed that it may be that the Ming army was waiting for our army to approach, trying to cause a lot of damage with limited ammunition." Geng Jingzhong said truthfully.

"Hmph, the firearms of the Ming army have always been rotten. Even if they play this kind of abacus, they will not kill too many coats and slaves. 99

"Send an order, ordering the cannons of Hongyi to attack the city at all costs!

Dorgon said indifferently.

The smallest unit of the Eight Banners Army is the Niu Lu, which is not only a social organization, but also a unit in combat.

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There are 300 households per cattle, and each household has a strong man.

When the whole army was dispatched, there were only 300 people per cow, and there were only dozens of people in ordinary operations.

When the Qing army entered the customs this time, Dorgon led the army out, and led no less than 300 cattle records from the Eight Banners, and only a small part of the family stayed behind in Liaodong.

The so-called 200,000 army is actually full of eight banners, Han, eight, Mongolian and eight banners, but only 100,000.

The tens of thousands of extra people were all Han people who were plundered when the slaves entered the customs before.

After these Han people were brought to Liaodong, the better ones became coat-dressers, and more people could carry flags to enter their household registrations, while the lesser ones could only become domestic slaves, just like livestock.

In addition to the people who came out of Daming, Jiannu also arrested the Mongols and the Hercynian Jurchens in the western grasslands.

Seeing that Dorgon didn't care, the surrounding generals hurriedly followed his orders.

Only Geng Jingzhong was worried, because the defenders of the Ming Dynasty had been going against common sense, and there must be demons.

Sure enough, before the voices of those who gave orders fell, the sound of fierce artillery fire came from the city wall of the Great Ming capital!

The sound was so loud that even the generals who were familiar with the sound of artillery could not believe that a firearm could make such a movement.

The crowd that rushed to the bottom of the city wall fell to the ground like a tide.

It seems that no one can survive under such firepower.

"Impossible! The Ming army cannot have such powerful firearms!"

Geng Jingzhong's eyes widened, completely unable to believe what was happening in front of him.

He was already proficient in firearms, and naturally knew that firearms in the world could not have such great power.

[Kowtow to ask for a monthly ticket for a flower evaluation ticket, kowtow to the big guys!] For a long time.

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