Chapter 715 Tu Ji'an
The first town of the Taiping Army, under the command of the town general Ge Yi, gathered under the city of Ji'an from three directions. At the same time, in the fifteenth town and Xinyi Town also began to attack the other three gates of Ji'an. Originally, the deployment of the fifteenth town and Xinyi Town before the war was just an assist to restrain the defenders of Ji'an. The main attack direction was still the South Gate, and the first town was responsible. However, after the battle, the generals of Xinyi Town, Wang and the auxiliary minister of Xinyi Town sent a petty horse to ask Zhou Shixiang to change the assist to the main attack. Zhou Shixiang happily agreed and ordered Dong Changqing to amend the military order. All the troops were the main attackers, and those who first sent Ji'an to the first award were the first awards. This order was given, and the military commander's office had just awarded the military title system, and all the generals of the town wanted to be awarded the first awards, so everyone was brave and their fighting spirit was high.
The four gates attacked together, and the Qing army immediately felt the pressure. Zhou Shixiang ordered the artillery to advance the quickly moving tiger squat cannons and various light copper cannons to suppress the Qing army in Ji'an with fierce artillery fire. The Qing army also made a desperate bet. Liu Guangbi, Yang Wenyuan and others brought the equipment that could be used to defend the city to the top of the city. "Ten Thousand Enemies", fire bottles, lime, wood, and stones piled up on the top of the city. The large pot of the set was boiled with hot oil and boiled the manure and splashed. Just wait for the Taiping Army to come up and fell down the city and burned them to death.
The first town approached the city wall, and the surrendered troops received the order to retreat. They were immediately amnesty, but they knew that they could not attack the Taiping Army's array from the front, and they all carefully bypassed from both sides.
The Qing army's artillery was basically silent, and now the Taiping army's artillery was roaring. Looking at the red ocean under the city approaching the city wall bit by bit, the Qing army was extremely nervous.
General Yang Wenyuan held the sword tightly in his right hand, and did not dare to breathe. He stared at the oppressed Taiping Army, and seemed to have no smell of the stench from the big pot behind him. The same was true for the Qing soldiers around him, and everyone stared at the Taiping Army, but their faces were pale and bloodless. Some archers' hands were strangled with deep marks because of the tight bowstrings. The young and strong men were also disdainful, and everyone was timid, but they gritted their teeth to hold on to their posts. Some even fantasized that when the long-haired thief climbed the city, they could kill someone by chance, so that they could catch silver in the admiral's silver box.
What surprised the Qing army was that after the Taiping Army attacking the South Gate approached, it did not rush up to the city like the surrendered troops, but instead formed square formations under the city under the guidance of drums and suona.
The Qing army did not understand what the Taiping Army was fighting, and their eyes were full of confusion, but soon they figured out what the Taiping Army was going to do.
"Prepare, let it go!"
With the order of the officers, more than 3,000 gunmen in the first town pointed the guns at the city and fired the muskets in their hands. Rows of soldiers fired in turn, with leads covering the sky, and the sound of lead bullets flying everywhere above the entire city wall, and the city wall was also "bang" loudly. The Qing army on the city was not on guard at first, but was swept down by dense guns. Then he realized that there was no one in the city again, and they were all lying down to avoid guns.
The Qing army was all depressed. The Taiping Army did not attack the city, but only used dense muskets to suppress the city, so that they did not dare to raise their heads. How could they talk about killing and injuring the enemy?
General Yang Wenyuan of Ji'an had never experienced this kind of fighting style and was panicked for a moment. When he realized that he wanted to look at the Taiping Army's movements, a gun hit him with Hongying, which made his helmet tremble and shook him so much that he shook back.
The 300 soldiers equipped with the latest flintlock guns in the first town are all veterans of guns in the army. Compared with the correct head and the slower fire rate, these flintlock guns fired by flint are not only easy to use, but also very powerful. The only regret is that the drug reload has not yet been improved, but overall it is much more powerful than the previous ones.
The 300 flintlock rifles aimed at an area at the top of the city, with a team of hundreds of people in a continuous shooting. With such dense firepower, although the Qing army on the city was covered by the city wall, many people were killed and injured, and even felt like they were pressed down and could not lift their heads. The feeling was like not breathing in the water, which made people's hearts beating and they wanted to go crazy.
With a "boom", Liu Guangbi, who was on the center of the city tower, turned the flagpole down with a "squeak", and Liu Guangbi was so scared that he ordered his personal soldiers to raise the flag again, otherwise it would be an extremely heavy blow to the morale of the defenders.
During the reign of Jin Tiancong, Liu Guangbi fought with the Eight Banners during the reign of the Jin Tiancong. He had never seen such a powerful Ming army with firearms. He had always led his troops to suppress the Ming army to fight. This time he was suppressed by the Ming army and was very uncomfortable. At the same time, he secretly admired that the thief scholar was indeed well-known. No wonder King Pingnan Shang Kexi, King Jingnan Geng Jimao, Prince Jian Jidu, General Jian Luoto, and Admiral Guangxi Guoan and others beat him, but even Hu Wensheng died. With such combat power and such tactics, who can dominate the world?
While admiring, I hate it even more. Since the refugees rebelled during the Chongzhen period, the world has been in chaos for 30 years. Now, it is finally easy to abandon the country by the Ming Dynasty, and Yunnan and Guizhou have been pacified. The Qing Dynasty is about to unify the world. It is the time when the people's rehabilitation will recover. This thief scholar has emerged in vain, causing a big change in the situation and the war will continue, but I don't know how many people will die in vain.
Liu Guangbi gritted his teeth and wanted to swallow the thief scholar alive, but at this moment he was trapped in the city tower and unable to move.
When the Qing army in the South Gate was pressed to the top of the city and could not move, the attacks of the other three Taiping army became more and more intense, and the Qing army suffered heavy casualties. The generals of the gate kept sending people to ask the admiral to send reinforcements. Where could Liu Guangbi get reinforcements? As time went by, the gunmen of the Taiping army were also familiar with each other, and the cannons were shot more accurately. Even if the Qing soldiers in the city were hiding behind the battlements, they often asked the cannons to hit. In order to avoid the stones that the cannons fell, they jumped out, but as soon as their heads came out, they were hit by the guns under the city.
The great casualties were difficult for Liu Guangbi, Yang Wenyuan and others to accept. No matter how many young and strong people died, they didn't care, because these could be supplemented at any time. As long as there were still people in Ji'an City, they would not be afraid of not being able to recruit people. However, the losses of those veterans over the years could not be supplemented, especially the personal soldiers of the Supervisor. These were their survival capital, and they would be killed if they were beaten.
Liu Guangbi's heart twitched violently. At the beginning, he hoped to use young and strong men to consume the Taiping Army's firearms, consume their troops, and then severely damage them with his direct commanders. However, the Taiping Army's fighting method that only relies on powerful firearms to suppress the city but does not attack the city made him unable to use it.
The sound of cannons and guns kept ringing, as if it would never stop. God knows where the long-haired thief got so many muskets and medicines.
Liu Guangbi felt crazy, as if he was going to torture people, but he refused to torture them all at once. He just slashed them down one by one, and it made him suffer from phosphorus injuries all over his body, and it made him blood flow like a pillar, and it made his flesh and bones appear, and it made him die.
The young and strong men in the city could not stand the suppression of being beaten and began to flee on the city. The Qing army immediately suppressed. Yang Wenyuan's personal soldiers took a knife and fell, and dozens of people fell to the ground. The young and strong men were panicked and did not dare to escape under the city. They squatted there against the city wall.
No matter how fierce the Taiping Army's cannons and guns were, as long as they did not attack the city, the city would not be lost. Let the Taiping Army fight for a while, and the Qing army had a clear understanding of it, and felt that the Taiping Army was very stupid. If the attack was at this time, the defenders on the city would not have the strength to fight back. These fools did not take advantage of this to seize the city, but only fired guns there randomly. How many medicines would there be? When the medicine was finished, you had to climb over the city, and then the defenders would come back to their senses. How many lives would you have to fill in with the eighteen kinds of equipment?
There were many Qing army generals who were holding this idea, and Liu Guangbi thought so, but they didn't know that in the Taiping Army under the city, a group of soldiers with red sleeves with red sleeves had already crawled into the cave in the city gate with square shapes wrapped in silk.
Zhou Shixiang held the Qianli Mile Mile and stared at the South Gate, waiting for the loud noise. Soon, a loud noise came, and there was a black smoke in the city gate, and the heavy city gate was blown away. The stones piled up behind the city gate were like flowers scattered towards the city and smashed down toward the city.
"The city gate is broken!"
The Qing army was shocked, and the young and strong man at Hou Ming was frightened. Liu Guangbi was shocked. He didn't care about the cannons and guns flying above his head. He lay on the wall and looked down at the city. He immediately took a breath of air conditioning. In his sight, countless red-clothed Taiping Army had already rushed into the city gate.
As soon as the southern gate was broken, the Qing army was in chaos. Liu Guangbi, Yang Wenyuan and others hurriedly led their troops to drive out the Taiping army that had attacked the city. Thousands of young and strong men under the city were forced to fill the city gate by the Qing army, but they could not stop the Taiping army rushing in. Some young and strong men were eager to escape, and at this critical moment, they directly picked up weapons and fought with the Qing army that had suppressed them.
This situation happened, and Liu Guangbi knew that it was broken, so he could no longer control the situation in the city. () Before the Taiping Army had completely captured Nancheng, he led his personal soldiers to the north gate, trying to escape from there and escape to Jishui. But before he could reach the north gate, the north gate retreated towards the north gate. Needless to ask, the north gate was also lost.
Liu Guangbi felt the sky was spinning, and in a hurry, he had nowhere to go. He led his remaining personal soldiers to run east and west in the city like a broken dog, and was finally surrounded by the Taiping Army in a private house and set fire to death.
After the city was broken, the general Yang Wenyuan led his troops to fight bravely and retreated to the government office with the prefect Lu Guoxiao and others. Yang Wenyuan knew that he had no choice but to do anything, so he was very crazy and fought to the death. In the end, he was captured alive by the Taiping Army and tied up in front of the government office and beheaded on the street. The prefect Lu Guoxiao, Tongzhi Tu Wenjun, magistrate Liu Tongying and other officials from Ji'an and his family were executed by the Taiping Army. The Taiping Army entered the city, walked along the streets and alleys, searched houses and houses.
The Qing soldiers and the young and strong soldiers were found. Once the soldiers were discovered, they were immediately killed. The young and strong soldiers were pulled out of the city, and they were trapped more than 4,000 Qing soldiers and more than 20,000 Qing soldiers were captured. That night, the Taiping Army divided the young and strong soldiers into several camps, and killed three people with one gentry, and killed more than 6,000 young and strong soldiers. The next day, Zhou Shixiang ordered all the gentry families and their families to be taken out of the city, and all the elderly and weak were driven into the river and drowned.
Chapter completed!