The sound of the golden drum sounded again, and the Ming army continued to fill trenches, pull out stakes, and attack the city, sometimes in the east, sometimes in the west, sometimes in the south, sometimes in the north. The captive soldiers of the Ming army who were originally from the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps,
They kept shouting in the trenches outside the city to carry out political disintegration. The Tianwei cannon fired occasionally to keep the Qing army in peace.
Golden drums, feint attacks, shouting, and shelling are not the main purpose, but to cover up the sound of tunnel excavation and interfere with the "pop listening" method that the Qing army may adopt. In the trench in the west of the city, the engineering team was nervously carrying out
Soil work started. Because this place is only 200 meters away from the city wall, the amount of excavation work can be reduced to a minimum. They started construction at midnight last night and installed supports according to the progress of the project to increase load-bearing and avoid landslides. At the same time, they used columns as boundaries.
, the middle part is the excavation section, leaving space on both sides to transport out the soil and slag, and continuously fill the deep trench.
Near noon, Yang Shen ended his city defense inspection, and the accompanying Qing army generals dispersed. Guerrilla Shao Mengkai, escorted by several soldiers, rode back to his home.
The streets were noisy. Qing soldiers broke into houses and took away quilts from people's homes. They took the opportunity to loot some more before leaving with satisfaction.
The heartbreaking cries of a woman were heard, and several Qing soldiers dragged and dragged a girl out of a commoner's home. The girl's mother was crying behind her, begging the Qing soldiers to let her daughter go.
"Damn it!" A Qing soldier kicked the white-haired old woman to the ground and cursed: "Get out of here, or I'll kill you if I keep insisting on you."
The old woman covered her stomach with one hand, unable to get up from the pain, and stretched her other hand forward, trying to take back her beloved daughter.
"What's going on?" Shao Mengkai reined in the horse's head and asked gloomily.
Several Qing soldiers hurriedly stopped. One of them came forward and reported: "Sir, the young men are being ordered to arrest prostitutes and take them to the city wall."
Well, Shao Mengkai snorted softly and glanced around. The person who was arrested was obviously a girl with delicate features, so she was not a prostitute. He knew clearly in his heart that these guys must have taken advantage of the situation and took the opportunity to fulfill their lust.
"Sir, you guys, let's go now." Seeing that Shao Mengkai didn't say anything, the Qing soldiers wanted to escape first.
"What is the crime for plundering people's property and forcibly robbing people's women?" Shao Mengkai suddenly asked coldly, and turned to his own soldier captain.
The captain of the soldiers was stunned, but when he came into contact with Shao Mengkai's icy eyes, he seemed to have some realization, and immediately raised his eyebrows and shouted: "According to military regulations, you should be killed!"
"Behead him in public." Shao Mengkai narrowed his eyes and gave the order briefly and coldly.
Several Qing soldiers couldn't believe their ears and were dumbfounded. Military law is military law. When have they been implemented seriously? They saw several soldiers dismounting and drawing swords. They fell to their knees and screamed: "Sir, spare your life."
, the young ones are all your subordinates, just let this go..."
Shao Mengkai's face was expressionless, and he slashed downwards with his palm. The sword flashed and blood spattered. Several human heads rolled to the ground bloody.
"Any officer or soldier of our unit who violates military discipline will be killed without mercy!" Shao Mengkai took off his waist knife, threw it to the guard captain, reined in the horse's head, and galloped away under the surprised and fearful eyes of the soldiers on the street.
Damn it, what time has it been? These bastards have not forgotten to rob and commit adultery. They are beautiful. After the city is broken, I will have to take the blame. Shao Mengkai's confidence in defending the city is even lower, thinking of the Ming army's prisoner policy
, he also had to leave a way out for himself.
As soon as I returned to the house and sat down, the concubine from Yongchang Na came to greet me with a bulging belly, and asked worriedly about the situation in the city.
Shao Mengkai looked at his concubine's swollen belly and felt sad, so he could only say a few words of comfort. When the food was served, he forced a smile and ate with his concubine. After the meal, Shao Mengkai politely asked his concubine to pack his things and go back temporarily.
Go and live with your parents' family.
"Husband -" the concubine asked hesitantly: "Why did you let me go back to my parents' home? Is it because the city cannot be defended? Were you lying to me just now?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Shao Mengkai deliberately lowered his face and said, "My husband is busy guarding the city these days and can't take care of his family. He was afraid that his servants wouldn't take good care of him, so he asked you to go back to your parents' home first."
The concubine sighed softly, stroking her belly and said faintly: "Last night, there was a lot of banging and banging, and I was so worried that I didn't sleep all night. Husband, if you can defend this city, you can defend it. If you can't defend it - be better."
To cherish yourself, you must take care of your body and the flesh and blood in your belly."
Shao Mengkai smiled bitterly to himself, and after some coaxing, he sent the concubine back to her parents' home. Then he sat alone in the room, thinking about it, and finally came up with an idea. Although he was not sure, there was no harm in giving it a try.
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There are many fires and drums in night battles, and there are many flags in day battles, so that the enemy's ears and eyes are confused and he does not know how to prepare our plans, so we will win.
Although the tunnel had been dug in the middle of the night and the gunpowder had been filled, Zhu Yongxing thought again and again and still did not adopt a night battle with many variables. With more soldiers and generals, it is better to fight in an upright manner and win steadily!
In order to have a complete plan, Zhu Yongxing personally went down to the trench, drilled into the tunnel, and inspected all the work of blasting and attacking the city. Only when he felt that there were no problems, he returned to the camp and had a good sleep.
Early the next morning, the Ming army had a full meal. After a short rest, various troops began to act according to the battle plan. The feint attack troops set up their posture in the east of the city, while the main offensive troops lined up in the west of the city.
The Qing army defending the city also noticed that the Ming army's actions were different from the past. Yang Shen and other generals realized that the enemy was about to attack the city, so they all dressed up and commanded the defense in their respective city defenses.
The royal flag with the word "Min" was raised respectively in the Ming army's formation in the east and west of the city. This was the first time Zhu Yongxing had raised the royal flag since he came to western Yunnan.
"Your Highness is a thousand years old, a thousand years old!"
"God favors the Ming Dynasty, and the Tartars will be destroyed."
"Mighty, mighty!"
"God bless our army and it will be invincible."
"Wan Sheng, Wan Sheng!"
The soldiers of the Ming army shouted, banged their weapons, and made a roar like a mountain roar and a tsunami.
When the pseudo-clan came to the battlefield, Yang Shen stood on the west city, his face suddenly became solemn, and his fists were clenched tightly subconsciously.
Sure enough, he was here! Shao Mengkai stood on the east city tower, his pupils shrunk, and he didn't know what he was feeling. In the battle of Tengchong, most of the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps were destroyed. Even he and Zhang Yong narrowly escaped death, and the haze of the disastrous defeat was still there.
Hard to get rid of.
Zhu Yongxing looked solemn and majestic. Looking at the red flag waving in the distance by the engineering team, he nodded slightly and made a gesture. The Ming army beside him immediately waved his flag and ordered.
The cheers gradually fell silent. Tens of thousands of Ming troops stood motionless facing the city. The Qing troops on the city were waiting in full formation, and a murderous atmosphere filled the world.
Time passed by minute by second. Gao Wengui, the Duke of Chang State who was in charge of the main attack, seemed a little impatient and turned his head to ask.
"Your Highness..." As soon as Gao Wengui opened his mouth, he felt the ground beneath his feet suddenly shake, followed by a deafening explosion, cutting off the words he had not yet had time to spit out.
Gao Wengui turned his head to look at the city. He could no longer see any city walls, only smoke filling the sky and columns of smoke rising into the air.
The soldiers of the Ming army who were waiting in formation did not see clearly what happened. Some Ming soldiers with particularly good eyesight felt that they seemed to see the west city wall of Yongchang burst from the inside out, and the bricks and dust inside rose into the sky.
It seemed as if a monster was about to emerge from the belly of the city wall. At the same time as the loud noise, the monster jumped into the air from the ground, and the smoke and dust it brought up completely obscured this section of the city wall, and nothing could be seen.
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All the Ming soldiers raised their heads and looked at the plume of smoke that kept going upwards. After a while, a rain of gravel fell near the blasting point, and a large amount of brick dust fell back to the ground from the air, falling far away, even
It fell on the head of the Ming army arrayed in the distance.
A two-foot-long city wall was blasted with a large gap. Smoke and dust filled the air, mixed with the choking smoke of black gunpowder and the wails of the injured. Broken bricks and rubble were scattered everywhere, and the scene was a mess.
"Block the opening. The enemy is attacking the city in a cave. Go and block the opening." After a moment of panic, the Qing generals who came to their senses roared in panic and ordered the Qing troops under the city to rush to the gap for reinforcements.
The Ming army seemed to have made a big mistake in not launching an attack at the first moment. If they had taken advantage of the smoke and dust, they would have probably broken through.
The generals of the Qing army were happy about this, but they also felt a sense of panic, because the general Yang Shen had been on the city just now, but now he had disappeared.
The smoke and dust at the city wall dispersed, and the busy figures of the Qing army could be seen. Zhu Yongxing pursed his lips slightly, revealing a sly sneer, and once again ordered the flag soldiers beside him to wave the flag.
Seeing that there were more and more soldiers at the gap, the Qing general breathed a sigh of relief and said, "I'm so lucky. I'm really blessed by the Bodhisattva." He wiped away the dense beads of sweat on his forehead with fear.
The ground beneath our feet suddenly trembled violently again, and with the deafening explosion, a large number of Qing troops were blown away together with broken bricks and rubble.
What is going on? The Qing army general was in severe pain all over his body. He was pressed tightly by the newly fallen rocks of the city wall. His consciousness gradually became blurred. In the smoke and dust, he heard the sound of the Ming army's golden drums and shouts of killing.
The double-layer tunnel blasting was a high-end gadget. Zhu Yongxing showed a cheerful smile on his face. Surrounded by him were Ming troops who kept rushing towards the smoke-filled city wall. Cloud ladders and planks were set up in trenches to form passages. Some Ming soldiers were
Advance along the trench, and then climb up from the filled-in trench around the city, which is only two meters high.
"Our army is victorious." Zhao Wang Bai Wenxuan put down his telescope. The smoke gradually dispersed. He had already seen the red flags on both sides of the collapsed city wall. The Ming army was pouring into the city from the gap. The fighting would continue for a while, but victory
It's just a matter of time.
"The city was destroyed in two days!" King Li Dingguo of Jin could not say he was excited, but he was filled with emotion. He raised the telescope again and continued to observe.
Gao Wengui, the Duke of Chang State, who was in charge of the main attack, had already led his troops into the city from Zhenshuo Bowu Province. He had many captured soldiers from the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps. He fought and shouted to persuade them to surrender, which also quite disrupted the Qing army in the city, which was mainly composed of the Gansu and Shaanxi Green Camps.
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