Daming Military Empire

Chapter 50 Guarding the Capital
According to historical records, for the first time, Huang Taiji detoured into the Mongolian grassland and entered the pass. First, he ambushed the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, Zhao Liaojiao, and then took Zunhua and Santun camp lightly. and go.

It was all caused by the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youjian being suspicious and not listening to Yuan Chonghuan's warning. Now that the Chongzheng Emperor Zhu Cijiong is in power, he already knew that Huang Taiji was going to attack the pass, so naturally he would not fall into his trap.

First of all, Zhao Ledao, the general soldier of Shanhaiguan, didn't take the bait, and stood firmly on the front line of Yongping, Qian'an, and Luanzhou, without moving at all.Then Sun Chengzong slammed Huang Taiji severely in Zunhua, but he lost nearly 2000 troops.

Are you still going to surprise the Santun Camp?Huang Taiji hesitated for a while and decided not to go. The master who likes yin people is also afraid of being yin by others. Sun Chengzong has come to Zunhua, and Yuan Chonghuan may be in Santunying. If he runs over by himself, he is looking for abuse!
He was so frightened by Sun Chengzong, and he had already begun to be suspicious. He thought that the main force of Liaodong had been transferred to the front line of Zunhua and Santunying. Naturally, he would not go to Santunying again, but directly led [-] cavalry to Daming The capital rushed to him.

I'm going to kill your little emperor, and see who dares not go to the capital to serve as the king?
This time he really completely miscalculated, no one went to Qin Wang, Qin Liangyu led the elite of the [-] Army Battalion and the Shenji Battalion to guard the capital, it is simply impossible for him, Huang Taiji, to break through the capital thing!

Therefore, on November [-]th, when Huang Taiji came to the Daming capital, he was disappointed to find that there was no one outside the city, not to mention the Guanning cavalry in Liaodong, and even the troops of King Qin from all over the place were not seen. The security is heavy, and there is nothing under the city wall!

Huang Taiji is so depressed. He really doesn't want to attack the city head-on. Zunhua has internal support. He wants to steal the city. There is no internal support for him in the capital of Ming Dynasty. The city wall is more than twice as high as Zunhua's, and there is also a moat , the red-clothed cannon and the Franc cannon must be indispensable. The capital of Daming can be said to be the strongest fortress in the world at that time. Except for breaking it from the inside, it is useless for anyone to come.

From the first day of October to the 2th of November, another 12 days have passed. Wang Gong Factory has produced nearly 6 grenades, plus the remaining [-] grenades. Fully equipped with [-] grenades! [-] horses, an average of two per person!Even the number of landmines has reached a terrifying [-]!
What is this concept?Not to mention, if Huang Taiji dares to attack the city, he will know how powerful he is.

Does Huang Taiji dare to attack the city?Of course he dared, attacking the city does not mean that it must be attacked. Is a feigned attack also an attack? His plan is to attract all the troops of King Qin of the Ming Dynasty to the capital, so that he can easily capture Jizhou Town. Now no one has seen it. One, of course it was to feint to attack the capital and frighten the little emperor Zhu Cijiong.

Is Zhu Cijiong afraid?He personally said that he was afraid of a woolen thread. The city wall was nearly ten meters high, and there were more than 10 landmines and grenades. In the capital city, that is nothing short of idiot talking in sleep!

At this moment, Zhu Cijiong was sitting high on the gate tower of Guangqumen, holding a telescope and preparing to watch a good show.

Why Guangqumen?This Guangqu Gate is not due south, nor due north, nor due west, nor due east, but a side gate on the southeast corner of the capital. Why did Zhu Cijiong come here to watch the play?

Of course, it wasn't that Zhu Cijiong predicted things like a god, but because of historical records, Huang Taiji's first sneak attack on the capital, and the battle to defend the capital broke out outside Guangqumen.

The trajectory of history is difficult to change. After going around in circles outside the capital, Huang Taiji really chose Guangqumen.

At this time, outside Guangqu Gate was Huang Taiji's 5000 troops, while on the city wall were [-] elite soldiers from Shenji Battalion and [-] troops from the Third Army Battalion.

Huang Taiji carefully observed the terrain outside Guangqumen with a telescope, and then ordered Daishan beside him: "Brother, you lead the Second Mongolian Banner to fill up the moat outside Guangqumen."

Aixinjueluo Daishan is actually the second son of Nurhachi, the founding king of the Later Jin Dynasty, but because the eldest son Chu Ying was abolished, Huang Taiji generally called him the eldest brother.This generation of goodness is not Tabai, he is brave in battle and highly skilled in martial arts. He is the famous "Guying Batulu" in the later Jin Dynasty!
Baturu, you know, is the number one Jurchen warrior!How brave this Daishan is can be seen from the title, let alone filling the moat, even if Huang Taiji asked him to directly attack the city wall, he would dare.

By the way, how to fill the moat?It depends on what is the main arm of the siege. If it is infantry, it will generally build some wheelbarrows, and use the cart to push large bags of soil into the moat; On the back, he galloped forward and threw it into the moat.

The moat is generally within the range of bows and arrows. It is more dangerous to fill the moat. If you have to brave the rain of arrows to fill up the ten-meter-wide moat, at least you will lose thousands of people. Huang Taiji asked Daishan to lead the Second Mongolian Banner to fill it. He didn't want to waste the elite of his clan on such unskilled things as filling the moat.

Daishan has experienced many battles, and naturally he did not do such small things as filling the moat. After receiving the order, he directly ordered the Mongolian Erqi to start loading soil. With 2 horses, it is almost enough to throw two or three bags per person. If the riding skills are better, in fact, not many people will be lost.

Soon, the first team finished packing the soil. Daishan took the bag of soil packed by the guards and weighed it in his hand, then shouted: "First team, follow me."

Then he led a thousand riders to rush towards the moat. When he was still about ten steps away from the moat, he threw the earth bag in his hand forward. Running back, the bag of soil accurately fell into the moat under the action of inertia, splashing a huge splash.

Others are not as good at riding as he is, nor as strong as him, they can only honestly approach the moat and throw. The strange thing is that the Ming army on the city wall did not let go of an arrow, just looked at it so stupidly. They filled with soil and there was no response at all.

Huang Taiji didn't pay attention to Zhu Cijiong on the top of the city gate. He thought that the group of generals was surrounded by the heroic female general Qin Liangyu, but he didn't know that there was a little emperor sitting beside Qin Liangyu.Zhu Cijiong looked at them filling the soil with a telescope, and said in a broken voice: "Hurry up, hurry up, when will you fill up with such care."

Naturally, Huang Taiji didn't know what he was muttering about, if he knew, he might think that the little emperor had gone crazy from fright!
In fact, Daishan commanded the Second Mongolian Banner to fill in quite quickly. He personally went into battle and threw no less than ten bags of soil, and the moat was filled in less than half an hour.

Huang Taiji didn't care what the Ming army in the city was doing. Seeing that the moat had been filled, he immediately ordered: "Dorgon, Duoduo lead the red flags and the blue flags, go up and dig them for me!"

Dorgon and Duoduo said loudly: "Zha." Then they rode their horses and galloped towards the phalanx bordered with red flags and bordered blue flags.

Why use the word digging?It turned out that Hou Jin had a habit of siege the city, that is, he liked to dig the city wall. A dozen or so people directly pushed the chariot wrapped in cooked cowhide on the city wall, and then dug into the city wall frantically. Many city walls in Liaodong were dug and collapsed by them like this. of!

Zhu Cijiong watched countless cowhide carts rushing towards the city wall from the top of the city gate, and couldn't help shouting excitedly: "Here, here, finally here, hurry up, let Shenjiying prepare, one person will throw one for them." pieces."

Qin Liangyu glanced at him with black lines all over his face, and walked down the gate tower helplessly.

Huang Taiji watched more than 1000 carts quickly approaching the city wall, his face flushed with excitement, he didn't expect that the generals defending the city of Ming Dynasty were so good, he couldn't even shoot arrows to fill the moat, and now that the city is under attack, he unexpectedly Don't let the cannons go, don't be too bad to take down the capital of Daming, by then
He was in the middle of obsession, "Boom boom boom boom", there was a continuous sound of explosions in front of him, and just as the carts approached the city wall, the ground suddenly exploded.Thirty steps in front of the city wall were completely covered by smoke and dust!Before he could figure out what was going on, there was another "boom, boom, boom" explosion, and then, the embroidered red flag and the embroidered blue flag that attacked the city screamed back, only half of them back to be precise , and generally drowned in smoke and dust.

What's going on here, it's impossible to be haunted in broad daylight!
Huang Taiji stared at the scene in front of him dumbfounded, completely bewildered.

(End of this chapter)