Dashun Yongchang

He Tuo looked at Sasuka and said: "It may be difficult for the Shun army outside the city to rely on the fortresses to defeat them. It will take until the cannons from the Ten Kings Army arrive to blow up these fortresses.

Since Emperor Dashun is in the city, and we have seized another city gate, it is better to occupy the Acropolis first, even if the Emperor Dashun cannot be captured and the Acropolis is captured, the Shun army will have no chance to come back. "

Sasuka glanced at the Guan Ning army who was retreating faster and faster, nodded and said: "Such an enemy platform really can't take the lives of the Manchus. The army is useless.

It is better to let those Han people continue to besiege here, and we urge the Guan Ning army to seize the city.In my opinion, don't all enter the city, and then go around from the outside of the city to the east and west gates in two ways, and then attack the two gates from the inside and the outside. As long as one more gate is captured, the Shun army in the city will no longer be able to defend.With any luck..."

Although Sasuka shut his mouth abruptly, He Tuo knew that the other party was thinking about whether he could capture Emperor Dashun. Although this was a very slim chance, after all Li Zicheng was the emperor on horseback, not a powerless scholar Well, if they really want to run away, they really can't stop them, but if they can really catch Li Zicheng, this is really a great feat.

He Tuo pretended to be nonchalant and said to Sasuka: "We each have 3 Manchurian, Mongolian Niulu and 6 Han Niulu in our hands. Let He Jinzhong dispatch 3 troops, and then I will enter the city. How about you command and attack the east and west gates outside the city?"

Of course it is much safer to command outside the city at this time, but there is no such thing as safety on the battlefield. Now that they are all on the battlefield, of course they have to fight.In the past few days, rumors have spread in the army that the Shun army has ravaged the people outside the city and moved a large amount of wealth into the city. These rumors come from those gentry survivors who were confiscated by the Shun army. They escaped the Shun army by chance. Therefore, they came to ask Daqing to take back for them the family property distributed to the village by the Shun army.

Regarding the complaints of these squires, the ten kings took over one by one, but they are still fighting, so they can't help them return to their hometowns and take back their property for a while, but it is always true that most of these squires' property has been transported into Tianjin Acropolis of.In addition, Emperor Dashun didn't run away, and the utensils used by the emperor must be precious utensils inlaid with gold and silver. How could this battle be so exciting?

He Tuo immediately opposed Sasuka's suggestion. He thought that his subordinates had already crossed the North Canal first, so it would save time to enter the city first. Sasuka's team was still on the north bank and waited for his subordinates to cross the river before entering the city. Li Zicheng said Might have already run away.

The two argued for a long time, and finally Sasuka made a concession, but demanded that Hetuo's seizure in the city should be given to himself half, and Hetuo returned [-]%, and the two reached an agreement.

Of course, He Jinzhong, the commander-in-chief of the Guanning Army who was summoned by the two Merle Zhangjings with red flags, would not refuse their request. The two Mandarins are now his supervisors, so how dare he make trouble with the supervisors.What's more, the battalion on the north bank was also fought too badly. He no longer wanted to force his subordinates to fight hard. The Guan Ning Army, which lost its fundamental place outside the pass, is now one less than one dead. These three triangular fortresses are mutually horned. It's like a grindstone of flesh and blood, no matter how many people fill it in, you can't see the bottom line.

When He Jinzhong and other officers and soldiers of the Guanning Army were afraid of the triangular fortress of the Shun Army, Tian Hu, who was standing on the wall of the yamen of the Ministry of Finance and Watching the battle, felt a little cold when he saw the bloody battlefield. Ma Chongxi was rather pale and said: "How can this be considered a war? It's completely a target. A few cannons and a team of musketeers are like this. As long as the gunpowder and cannons are not finished, no one can get close. In the future What's the use of waiting for me to practice martial arts?"

Ma Chongxi looked at an enemy school who was attacking Dongbao 7 or 80 paces away. He could see his martial arts skills while moving and dodging, but he was hit by a shell from the side unexpectedly. Coming from the artillery beneath their feet.

There is no more aggrieved way to die than this. Although there are horse faces at the top of the city for the defenders to shoot at the enemy troops in the corner, after all, there are not many protrusions on the horse faces, and it is difficult for artillery to shoot down.Fortunately, the city wall and the horse face are separated, the artillery can shoot flat instead of downward, and the attacker will be fired from the flank regardless of the point of attack. .

And the more inconvenient the warrior wearing heavy armor, the easier it is to be focused by firearms, because it is too easy to aim.As for the ordinary soldiers wearing cotton or paper armor, although they are more flexible, they can't resist shotguns at close range.The three forts were all built on gentle slopes, and there was almost no dead angle for artillery shooting, unless they could run across the gentle slopes and jump into the deep trenches, but in this way they became the targets of musketeers and archers.

Ma Zhongxi, who was in a somewhat complicated mood, couldn't help but spit and cursed in a low voice: "Damn it, these scholars are really insidious. They don't want to fight face to face, but want to shoot cold guns behind their backs. It's really not a thing."

Tian Hu looked at Ma Chongxi in astonishment, thinking, "Didn't you think about stabbing other people's butts all day when you were fighting, and you have the nerve to say that scholars are sinister... But it seems that scholars also like to stab people's butts, you are just like one Fox."

Seemingly noticing the strangeness in Tian Hu's eyes, Ma Zhongxi touched his face and asked with some doubts, "Is there something dirty on my face?"

"Oh, no. I was thinking that the Lord told us to retreat into the camp to defend ourselves after being attacked, but what should we do in the city now? Even if it is to lure the enemy, it is too much to lure now, right? Nothing will go wrong, right? ?” Tian Hu changed the subject.

Ma Chongxi turned his head and glanced at the north gate behind him, and then looked at the south bank of the river before he said: "Qihou has always acted steadily, he guards the Henan and the west gate, and will definitely not let the Lord get into trouble. But we have to be careful." Now, the Sangui Army will soon be able to overwhelm us in numbers if they cross the river in such a steady stream. If their cannons are also brought in, it will be difficult to fight in the future."

Tian Hu thought for a while and said: "We have brought back all the ships in the Beijing area. They should have no ships to transport cannons, so it is impossible to transport Hongyi cannons up so quickly. If they are just small cannons, they should threaten us. not big.

But I am a little worried, since the Sangui Army has arrived, the Duoduo Army is probably coming towards us, and I don't know if Bohou and the others can retreat unscathed? "

Ma Chongxi's mood also became a little heavy. He looked to the northwest, but there was still no movement there.However, out of the corner of his eye, he caught sight of the "insidious scholar" leading several officers to observe the battlefield on another high platform dozens of steps away. s contact.

Han Lin, who was leading a few students to observe the actual combat effect of the Triangular Fortress, did not know that he had been regarded by Ma Zhongxi as a "sinister scholar". He translated the Italian bastion construction method brought by the Jesuit missionaries, but before that he was only talking on paper.

Because Han Lin, who is a Jinshi, could not go to Liaodong to guard the fort, and then let the Qing soldiers come over and attack a dozen forts to verify whether the western fortresses are useful or not.So, with the help of missionaries, scholars who had no actual combat experience translated a book about building castles, and then Ming craftsmen built a series of forts in Liaodong according to this book, and then they didn’t understand what a bastion was. The soldiers of the Ming army guarded it in their own way, and then they were educated by the Qing army, which made a lot of artillery. Then everyone felt that the enemy's platform in the west was not as good as China's Sifang City, because it was too small to hide soldiers.

Although a certain person has never learned the technique of building a bastion from anyone, he can't help but see a lot of movies and online articles, and as a later generation who is familiar with gunpowder weapons, he would never consider using hand-to-hand combat to defend the city.A bastion is a combat system that combines defense and offense, not a fortress. The reason why bastions are small and strong is to reduce the front of the battle, reduce the number of enemy troops attacking, and then rely on gunpowder weapons that do not consume physical strength to kill .

Under someone's description, Han Lin, who already had a solid foundation in mathematics, suddenly came to his senses. After decomposing the enemy's platform into points, lines and planes for design, war became a mathematical problem.The so-called comparison of the strength of the attacking side and the defending side is not the condition for determining the outcome in this mathematical problem. The density of the defensive side's firepower and the maximum number of people that the attacking side can deploy in one attack are the conditions for determining the outcome. The density of firepower overwhelms the number of attackers, so in the mathematical world, this is a fortress that will never fall.

After figuring this out, Han Lin's construction of the fort was no longer a complete imitation of the Western enemy's station, but designed according to the mathematical equation he calculated.Too focused on the flaws of the new enemy platform system, Han Lin even ignored the corpses lying around the enemy platform and the howling wounded.

He observed the battlefield with binoculars, and said to Ye Yunlin and other disciples beside him: "...Remember, the height of the enemy's tower should not be built too high, and the cannons and guns should be in a straight line with the attacking enemy as much as possible. Therefore, a gentle slope should be built on the periphery of the enemy platform, so that the enemy will not deviate from the straight line of the muzzle and muzzle when running... The artillery and guns are still not powerful enough. It is easier to aim on the enemy platform, and it should be shot closer, so The power of artillery guns should be enhanced, not to increase long-range accuracy..."

Chapter 84 New Combat System

The Wang Tizhong Regiment was stationed in the northwest of the Acropolis of Tianjin, where a river flowed from the west gate to a large pond, and then flowed out of the city from the gate on the west of the north gate. into the Haihe River.

Because of this large puddle, an independent piece of land appeared in the northwest corner of the city. There is not only a military camp but also a Chenghuang Temple here. There is an east-west road between the puddle and the Yamen of Tianjin Bingbei Road.

The Wang Tizhong regiment set up artillery positions in the north of the puddle, shooting from northwest to southeast, and set up muskets and bows and arrows on the wall of the Bingbei Road Yamen, forming a cross-shooting position for the enemy advancing along the road. Many barricades were erected.The enemy army attacked three times, leaving thirty or fifty corpses each time, and became more honest after that.

The regiment is a new organization Li Zicheng came up with after he retired from Shanhaiguan. An infantry regiment contains about 953 combat soldiers and 300 logistics personnel, a total of 1253 personnel.Divided into 3 infantry battalions, 1 guard platoon and 6 tiger squatting guns.

Wang Tizhong ordered Deng Shensan to guard the north of the puddle, and placed the six tiger squat guns on the north side of the puddle, in order to let Deng Shensan's third battalion take advantage of the reasonable conditions of the terrain to kill and injure the enemy troops who attacked him along the road.The Cai Quancai Battalion is responsible for guarding the area to the east and south of the Bingbeidao Yamen, and must not let the enemy approach the Bingbeidao Yamen or directly insert itself behind.

Wang Tizhong's most trusted department, Wang Deren, stood guard on the avenue and in the yamen of Bingbei Road. On the avenue, they fought on barricades made up of horses and furniture, while in the yamen they used platforms built along the walls to shoot down from above.

Although the enemy's raid on the city gate happened suddenly, the staff headquarters under the Marshal's Mansion organized the military system and implemented a defense zone system in the city before that, and the staff headquarters also assigned staff officers to each army and regiment. The defense plan and contingency plan in the defense zone, and then order all armies and regiments to familiarize themselves with the tasks of their respective parts.

Although I don't know what the Marshal's Mansion is going to do, but after the General Staff Headquarters decomposes a large plan into the tasks of each army and regiment, the staff officer in the regiment then decomposes the tasks of the regiment into each platoon. became very clear.

In the past, if there was an emergency in the army, at least the general had to wait for clear instructions from the general before everyone knew what they were going to do, and then no one knew how much help they did to defeat the enemy. , so once they see someone running away, the whole group will run away, and the group will start to run away, and the other group will follow suit, and then the whole battalion will collapse.

Therefore, the army is most afraid of being attacked suddenly during the march. Except for strong soldiers such as the Qi family army and the Baigan soldiers, it is difficult for other Ming troops to guarantee whether the soldiers underneath will break up before the main general reacts.Therefore, when the Qing army fought against the Ming army, dozens of people often defeated the record of hundreds or thousands of Ming troops. This is actually a problem. He also ran away.

Therefore, the generals of the Ming army can only support the servants, because at least the servants will not run away by themselves and leave the patriarch behind.However, the more servants there were, the weaker the bond between Ming generals and ordinary soldiers was because neither side trusted the other.That's why Wu Xiang said to Chongzhen: Although he leads an army of 3, he can only use 3000 servants.

The staff system established by the Marshal's Mansion this time can be regarded as a patch for the old army command system. Although the peasant army is stronger than the Ming army, it is stronger in the consciousness of ordinary soldiers, not in the way the army is commanded. In fact, after all, most of the soldiers of the Peasant Army were from the victims of disasters in Shaanxi and Henan. They had a deep-rooted hatred with the Ming Dynasty, so they basically would not run away in battles with the Ming Army.

In addition, Dashun had just been founded less than half a year ago, and those who followed Li Zicheng were the backbone of the peasant army. They were convinced of Li Zicheng. As long as Li Zicheng did not abandon them to run away, these soldiers could obey the orders of the army of.

The establishment of the staff system is equivalent to Li Zicheng directly giving his orders to the regiments, so that the morale of the soldiers will be more secure. After all, obeying the orders of the general and obeying the orders of Emperor Yongchang are completely different feelings .The main general may still deceive them and let them be his queen, but at least Emperor Yongchang will not give up on them so easily.

A middle-level general in the Peasant Army like Wang Tizhong felt that his power had diminished immediately after the establishment of the staff system. In the past, he was the general of an army. As long as his superiors did not speak, he was the only one in the army who had the final say.

However, during the Battle of Huangtuzhuang, Emperor Yongchang set up merit-examination and punishment departments in each army, which took away the power of rewards and punishments for generals, and this time the establishment of the staff system took away the power of command for generals. What remains is the power to lead the army and make decisions on the fly, and it has to be supervised by the lieutenant Kaogong and the staff officer. In this army, it is not the general who has the final say.

Although this made the generals at all levels in the army a little dissatisfied, no one dared to complain to Emperor Yongchang. After all, it was not the time when everyone just entered Beijing to put their swords and guns into the warehouse to enjoy the fruits of victory. period of war.

The Manchus and the cavalry of the Sangui Army in the battle of Huangtuzhuang were still astonishing. If His Majesty Yongchang hadn't discovered something wrong early in front of Shanhaiguan, and arranged a backup in Huangtuzhuang, I don't know how many people would be able to return to Shaanxi.

Since His Majesty Yongchang saved everyone and defeated the pursuit of the Manchus and Guanning Army cavalry in the Battle of Huangtuzhuang, His Majesty Yongchang's adjustment of the army is correct.

What's more, soldiers and low-ranking officers at the bottom also welcome the existence of the Kaogong Colonel, because the Kaogong and Punishment Department gave seven tiers of merit in each battle to the grassroots soldiers below the sentinel, and reserved the third tier for middle and senior generals.Although the merit evaluation system of the Peasant Army is fairer than that of the Ming Army, it still pays attention to the merits of officers.

Just like the Peasant Army has just entered Beijing, the generals can use the soldiers of the headquarters to talk to His Majesty Yongchang about friendship, saying that His Majesty is in the country, and we want to be a rich man because of our efforts for His Majesty.Now it is His Majesty Yongchang who uses the support of the soldiers to contain the generals at all levels. If he really angered His Majesty Yongchang during the war, then his death would be in vain. No one will help you out.What's more, General Quan, the toughest man, has been sent to the front line. Now who dares to say something in front of His Majesty.

Of course, after these dissatisfaction broke out in the war, Wang Tizhong stopped complaining.If in the past, the city gate was taken by the enemy by surprise, unless all his troops were in the camp and he could still try to make some counterattacks, he would definitely take his confidants out of the city immediately, and then gather and flee outside the city. For the subordinates who are out of the city, this is the best choice to save their lives.

And even if the army is in the battalion, he can capture officers at all levels, and officers at all levels can also control their basic subordinates. If he wants to make effective command, it will take more than 2 quarters of an hour. It will take more than half an hour for the soldiers to get ready to leave the camp.But this time when the city gate was raided, it took only half an hour for the fastest platoon to reach its defensive position.

Under the plan formulated by the staff officer, the soldiers know where to assemble, and the officers at all levels know what their first task is. Flies on the head, and the soldiers also know that the best chance of survival is to follow the group.

Even those officers and soldiers who were not in the battalion at the time of the raid knew to run to the nearest containment site and wait for orders.In short, when the enemy raided the city gate of Tianjin, they thought that the army inside the city was defenseless, and that it was easy for an organized army to attack an unorganized and scattered army.However, after the staff system was equipped with various plans and defense zone systems, the Shun army had always been on guard.

Moreover, command flags were set up on the drum towers, east and west gates and several high platforms in the city. When the defense plans of each city area were launched, the staff officers of each regiment obtained contact from these flags and carried out coordinated operations.Facing the rapidly stabilized military spirit, Wang Tizhong suddenly felt that there was nothing wrong with the staff system. At least it made the chief general less responsible, or it was easier to be the chief general, because the staff officer would take care of most trivial matters.

A defense with a plan and a defense without a plan are completely different things.For example, the six-door tiger squatting cannon placed on the north side of the puddle has become a big killer to control the rhythm of the battle in such a battle.

The tiger squatting cannon, which is more than two feet long, has a diameter of more than two inches, and weighs 49-50 kilograms, is a sharp weapon invented by Qi Jiguang to deal with Japanese pirates.This small light cannon is equipped with a fixed iron bracket, which can shoot hundreds of gravel or small lead, which is simply an irresistible artifact for those unarmored Japanese pirates.

But the tiger squat gun also has many flaws. It is difficult to adjust the angle after it is fixed. It is actually not very powerful against enemies wearing heavy armor or cotton armor.Of course, the power mentioned here refers to long-range shooting, from a distance of more than a hundred steps to two or three hundred steps. It is impossible for the cavalry to get close to the tiger squatting cannon before firing within a hundred steps in the Northland battle, because the Qi family army is not so well-trained after death. the Ming army.

According to the experiments of the Firearms Battalion, the most powerful distance of the tiger squatting gun, which is the so-called effective range, is 40-60 steps.Now, the distance from the six tiger squatting guns on the north bank of the puddle to the southern avenue is just over 50 steps.Of course, if the distance had not been measured and the gun positions had been established before the battle, the six tiger squatting guns could not have moved to such a suitable distance so quickly.

As a result, the enemy army attacking Wang Tizhong's regiment encountered great difficulties. If they attacked along the main road, they would be bombarded in vain by the Shun Army's tiger-squatting cannons. No matter how good the archers were at this distance, it was impossible for them to shoot at the artillery, let alone There are also muskets and archers of the Shun army shooting on the high wall to the south.And if you want to attack through the puddle, the puddle is really deep and 2 to 30 steps wide. You can't swim through it without wearing armor.

If they did not attack along the avenue, but entered the alleys between buildings, the soldiers of the Guan Ning Army who were not familiar with the terrain would be sending their heads to the Shun Army.The Shun Army directly blocked the lanes in some places. After dividing the offensive team of the Guan Ning Army, they surrounded it from the front and shot at the walls on both sides. They could kill 30 to [-] people at once.Wu Guogui was also more and more frustrated during this journey. Even if he was proud of his martial arts, he was injured in many places, but he didn't kill a few Shunjun.

Chapter 85 Is the city a trap?

Rushing into a courtyard by the road, there was still no one in sight, only a row of wooden shelves leaning against the earthen wall. Wu Guogui took a look at the situation in the courtyard, and then ordered the two soldiers beside him to open the closed gate of the main room.

The expressions of the two soldiers were obviously a little hesitant. The houses in this city were completely different from the houses they encountered when washing the city in the past. There seemed to be traps in every house here, and they had already suffered a lot. When encountering a house without traps, there is nothing in it, neither women nor treasures, so Wu Jun's morale has dropped a lot.

However, under Wu Guogui's reprimand, the two soldiers still walked slowly to the front door of the main room, pushed it lightly a few times, then turned their heads and shouted loudly to Wu Guogui, who was seven or eight steps away: "My lord, the door is open. It's tied up and can't be opened."

Wu Guogui scolded angrily: "Does the door of your house open inward? Pull the door outward, you bastard."

The two soldiers looked at each other, and secretly let out a groan in their hearts. They carefully stood on both sides and pulled out the copper ring on the door. This time, it opened with a single pull.The two quickly jumped to the sides, but soon they were stunned again. Inside the opened door, they used wooden boards to block the lower half of the door. The wooden boards were as high as the chest and abdomen, preventing outsiders from entering.

"What the hell do you mean, instead of bolting the door, block the door with wooden boards?" When the two were suspicious, Wu Guogui urged the two to probe in to see what was going on in the room, and the two soldiers had to move closer to the door.

But before they can distinguish the situation in the dark room, a three-eyed bludgeon sticks out from the left and right sides of the room and hits their faces. The Wu army soldier standing on the left is more alert. Something poked it and fell down. As a result, the iron sand in the three-eyed gun rubbed against his right ear and shot out, knocking off half of his ear. He managed to escape the critical point, but the one on the right was not so lucky. He was hit in the face by the three-eyed bludgeon, and his face was covered with flowers, and he fell to the ground and did not move.

Hearing the screams of the wounded soldiers, Wu Guogui did not rush forward to save them, but subconsciously looked up at the movement on the right partition wall. Sure enough, he saw several gun barrels sticking out of the wall. Turning around hesitantly, he ran out of the yard and shouted loudly: "Get out, get out quickly, there is an ambush in the yard."

The Shun Army soldiers who were preparing to flank the Wu Army soldiers in the courtyard looked blankly at the courtyard, except for a Wu Army soldier lying on the ground covering his ears and about to surrender, there was no one else in the courtyard.On the second floor of a wooden building at the end of this alley, a Shunjun officer who was watching the movement of Wu Jun couldn't help but spit out and said, "Your grandma, these Guanning dog thieves are getting worse and worse." It's getting more and more treacherous, it's not fooled..."

Wu Guogui and others who escaped from the yard here still did not escape the fate of being besieged and killed by the soldiers of the Shun Army, but fortunately they did not fall into the trap of the Shun Army too deep, leaving behind the lives of a few soldiers in the rear, and took a few alleys , or got rid of the pursuit of the Shun army behind him.Just when Wu Guogui wanted to take a rest, there was a sudden sound of footsteps from the side alley, and he hurriedly ordered the remaining 2 to 30 soldiers around him to lie in ambush on both sides of the alley, wanting to fight back, but in the end It was a group of our own people who rushed out of the alley.

Seeing the man who was wounded in one leg and rushed out of the alley with the support of the soldiers, Wu Guogui quickly stopped his companions who were about to attack, and shouted to the wounded: "Brother Sanyi, you are being sent by the Shunjun Army!" Ambush?"

Fu Sanyi, who originally planned to close his eyes and call for surrender, quickly changed his words after hearing Wu Guogui's voice, "So it's Brother Guogui, and it's great that you are here. We were ambushed by the Shun Army just now. More than half of the brothers. Are you... where are you going?"

He opened his eyes and glanced at the appearance of the soldiers beside Wu Guogui, and Fu Sanyi immediately realized that the other party had also fled back, but the situation was a little better than his side, so he changed his words abruptly.

Wu Guogui first ordered the two of them to watch the wind at both ends of the alley, and then said bluntly to Fu Sanyi: "We also escaped from an ambush, and there is nowhere to go for the time being."

"Everyone rest for a while." Fu Sanyi yelled, and then motioned to his cronies who supported him to put him down, sat down on the side of the road against the earth wall, then looked at Wu Guogui and asked, "Is there any water?"

Wu Guogui touched the water bag on his waist, and found that a hole had been opened at some point, and the water inside had already flowed out.At this time, the soldier behind him handed him a half-full water bag. Wu Guogui took the water bag and walked to Fu Sanyi and handed it to him. Then he sat on the ground and rested.

Fu Sanyi took several sips of the water bag in his arms, and then he felt that his throat was not so scorched. He handed the water bag back to Wu Guogui, and then said a little angrily: "The taste of this battle is not right. The army that lost the city gate How could they be so calm and composed to fight with us in the city? Aren't they afraid that we will occupy the gates around the city and lock them all in the city?"

Wu Guogui wiped the mouth of the water bag, took two sips to moisten his throat, and threw the water bag to the soldiers nearby.Seeing these soldiers sharing the little clear water, he also nodded in agreement with Fu Sanyi's words, and responded: "It's true that something is wrong. We have captured the North City Gate for almost an hour, but so far we haven't disrupted the command of the Shun Army in the North City." , This is obviously a ghost. In my opinion, we should withdraw to the north gate and tell Vice General Xia that we can't fight anymore, there must be an ambush in this city."

But Fu Sanyi shook his head and said: "Perhaps there is indeed an ambush in the city, but Vice-General Xia is unlikely to listen to your persuasion. He took the city gate with great difficulty, and it seems that he has miraculous achievements in his hands. At this time, there is an ambush in the city." The army's ambush, isn't this a slap in the face of Vice General Xia? What's more, now that a large number of troops have entered the city, the sentence that there may be an ambush in the city can persuade the troops to retreat? Who will bear the responsibility for the withdrawal? Who will bear the move? You need to know that it is the Manchus who have the final say now, and if they don't speak up, even Wu Zongbing here can't retreat lightly."

Wu Guogui looked at the sky above the alley. The afternoon sun slanted down on the half-drawn earthen wall. Although he felt a bit cool hiding in the shadows, he still felt the heat of the sun.After nearly an hour of fierce fighting, the dry food before noon was almost consumed, and with the loss of water, he just wanted to soak in a certain pond and drink a sip of light wine to get rid of the inexplicable heat in his body.

Thinking of this, Wu Guogui no longer wanted to continue this hopeless battle in the city. He whispered to Fu Sanyi: "Then go out of the city directly. Our original task was to capture and defend the pontoon bridge. There is no need to be buried in the city."

Fu Sanyi smiled wryly and lowered his voice, "If we had captured the city gate just now, we would not have cared about going out to General Xia. Now the city gate should have been controlled long ago. If we leave the city at this time, it is considered a cold escape."

Wu Guogui's expression changed after hearing this, and he didn't make a sound for a while, while Fu Sanyi said to himself again: "I just don't know what kind of trap the Shun army has set up in the city. If we know, we should be ready and wait for the Shun army When the trap is launched, we can avoid it and get out of the city in the chaos..."

After Wu Guogui heard this, his heart suddenly moved and he said: "Fire."

Fu Sanyi didn't understand, so he said: "What fire? Brother Guogui, what do you want to say?"

Wu Guogui recalled it for a while, and then said word by word: "Before we found a lot of empty yards. There were a lot of wood in these yards. I even smelled the smell of sulfur. I didn't take it to heart before. Now It seems that Shun Jun's trap should be to set fire to the city."

"Don't they want the Acropolis?" Fu Sanyi said a little surprised, but soon he realized, and suddenly realized: "Indeed, the purpose of the Shun Army is to go south, not to defend Tianjin City. This city is really not good to them. What's the use, what a vicious intruder. But if they can't take back the north gate, the fire will burn the buildings in the city, and burn a few of us to death? Aren't they afraid that the army will become angry and chase them down?"

Wu Guogui stood up, let out a long breath and said: "I don't know how the Shun army will take back the North Gate, but the military book says that there is nothing better than fire and water to kill the enemy by tactics, since Tianjin City can't use water, it can only use fire. If we use fire, we will be courting death if we stay in this alley. No matter what, we have to go back to the north gate first, and then play by ear, so as to have a way out."

Fu Sanyi signaled his subordinates to help him up, and then said to Wu Guogui, "I still have about 20 people here, and I will follow your command, brother Guogui, as long as you can lead everyone to find a way out."

Wu Guogui glanced at the eyes of the surrounding soldiers, and did not refuse. He just clasped his fists and said after a four-way salute: "Everyone is willing to listen to me, and I, Wu Guogui, will not leave anyone behind. But if you don't want to, please return now." Stand up, let’s talk and let’s go.”

The soldiers standing, sitting, or lying in the alley all stood up and bowed back to Wu Guogui, expressing their willingness to obey his orders.After such a bitter battle, the soldiers of the Wu army who were thinking of entering the city to loot had lost confidence, and now they only wanted to leave this damned city first, so as not to throw their lives here in vain.

With Fu Sanyi's team gathered, Wu Guogui's side has recovered to 50 or [-] people, and it seems that he has a certain fighting power again, which makes him quite satisfied.In such an unknown city, the chances of surviving someone with someone in their hands and someone without them are very different.

At this time, Wu Guogui had given up the idea of ​​relying on his own force to rush to the defense line of the Shun army. Now he can understand that the Shun army really likes to put cold guns and cold guns. An unknown soldier of the Shun army was killed with a gun. He practiced martial arts for many years not to die here.

Just when Wu Guogui returned to the north gate with this group of remnants and defeated generals, Merezhang Jinghetuo of Xianghong Banner led more than a thousand new forces into the city. As soon as he entered the city, he said to Vice General Xia who came down from the top of the city: "I don't care about other things. I came to the city only for Emperor Dashun. Vice General Xia led your troops to fight south along the North-South Road, and I will follow behind you. This time, if you advance, you will not retreat. Anyone who dares to turn back will be killed .”

Hearing He Tuo's murderous words, Xia Dengshi swallowed the words again, and could only reply: "Yes."

Chapter 86 A Different Army

When Xia Dengshi was driven from the city gate by He Tuo to the front line to join the battle, Kong Xigui was beaten so hard that he almost suffered internal injuries.Although his subordinates were still full of morale when they entered the city before, they thought that they could let go of looting after killing a few strongholds of the Shun army in the city.

Relying on the belief that they will be able to plunder after the battle, these Jizhou soldiers who usually steal and play tricks have shown extraordinary courage. Not only have they rushed through several intersections in the northeast city, but they have also approached the Drum Tower less than ten steps away. The place.

The Bell and Drum Tower located in the center of the city is like a deformed city gate, except that the gates are opened from east to west, from north to south. The lower part is a masonry structure and the upper part is a wooden attic. A bronze bell.The ancients said that bells and drums in the morning and evening drums mean that the city gates are opened by ringing the bells in the morning, and the city gates are closed by beating drums at night.

Generally speaking, the Bell and Drum Tower is also the best place for the generals to observe the four city gates during wartime. Therefore, as long as the Bell and Drum Tower is lost, the battle should be won for the most part.But the well-prepared Bell and Drum Tower is also the most difficult to fight, because this tower erected in the middle of the road not only blocks the impact of the cavalry, but also has the advantage of condescendingly shooting the enemy.

Of course, in the last years of this dynasty, there were not so many tough and brave troops. As long as a city gate fell, the soldiers in the city would often flee in all directions, and those guarding officials and gentry who did not want to surrender generally stayed at the gate tower or committed suicide in his own mansion.

Kong Xigui met unreasonable Shunjun soldiers this time. They had already captured the north gate, and even occupied a lot of space in the northeast city, but the Shunjun soldiers in the city were unwaveringly sticking to their floodgates. The ground, and even the ability to build barricades and counterattack with the whole team during the battle, this is so disgusting.

"Everyone came out to serve as a soldier just to fight for wealth and honor. You even lost the gate of the city. Is it necessary to fight us in the city? You escape from the city and we loot it in the city. Don't you have the best of both worlds?" ?” Of course, he could only think about this kind of words in his heart, but he didn’t have the face to say it publicly.

However, such things as morale are "failing again and again and exhausting three times", since they can't break the barricades of the Shun army.It can't be said that they can't be hit at all. If they press on them regardless of their lives, the Shun army will still retreat, but when they retreat to the barricade in front of the Drum Tower, the tiger squatting cannons on both sides of the Drum Tower and the solid courtyard walls on and on both sides of the Drum Tower The firearms soldiers and archers on the ground can carry out a joint attack against the dense troops rushing to the front.

Faced with this kind of three-dimensional attack, the infantry in the forward formation could fall 3 to 40 people at once, and then the infantry of the Shun Army ran out of the barricades to counterattack, driving Kong Xigui's men back two or three barricades.These low barricades formed by throwing simple tables and chairs on the street, although not high, are enough to prevent them from arraying and attacking.

Kong Xigui had never fought such a back-and-forth battle. Ever since the Ming army gave up the three guards and stood firm on the Great Wall, their ability to fight has deteriorated more and more.In the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, Zhu Xungui could command a mixed army of firearms and cold weapons to fight. The first generation of Qian Guogong was even able to discharge a column of musketeers firing serially, defeating the elephant soldiers of the chieftain of Yunnan, but in the early years of Jiajing, the frontier army and The Mongols fought in waves, and the general rushed forward with his servants, defeating the core Mongolian troops in a wave, and then the ordinary soldiers stepped forward to end the battle.

The battle of Bichiguan is the most true portrayal. Li Rusong used the same wave of dealing with the Mongols to deal with the Japanese army, but he almost overturned the car.Although the Japanese themselves have fought village battles for hundreds of years, the Japanese army trained in actual combat is still an army that is not comparable to the Mongols who have degenerated into nomads.

The battle of Bichiguan caused the Li family to lose a large number of servants, making it difficult to suppress the savage tribes in the northeast, and gave the wild boar skin a chance to grow.Kong Xigui was far inferior to Li Rusong, he didn't even dare to rush to the front of the formation to fight in person, so Kong's morale was quickly wiped out by this tug-of-war.

Kong Xigui even had the illusion that at first the soldiers of the Shun Army were not so familiar with this method of warfare, but as they continued to fight with his subordinates, the Shun Army on the opposite side began to become more and more accustomed to this bloodletting tactic.Kong Xigui thought about it, and the best word to describe this kind of tug-of-war is bloodletting. It's like killing a chicken. You just need to cut the blood vessels in the neck and let the blood out. After a while, the chicken will not move on the ground.

Shun Jun is now relying on the barricade of the Drum Tower as a backing, and has repeatedly fought back and forth with his subordinates for this section of the street. In less than half an hour, he has already lost 30 or 300 of his subordinates here, at least three of them One-tenth is regarded as an elite soldier, and even the servants around him have folded in nearly [-] people, and he only raised [-] servants.

But just when he was about to retire, Xia Dengshi came up again with soldiers.Xia Dengshi, who was driven down from the city gate by Hetuo, was also full of anger. Sitting on the top of the city and watching for so long, he also felt that the Shun army in the city was a little strange. After Kong Xigui's reinforcements entered the city, the Shun army started to fight in a disciplined manner. Although the Shun army abandoned part of the northeast city, the main reason was to shrink their troops to prevent them from breaking through to the East Gate and Dongmen Street.