Zhu Chunchen was appointed as the commander-in-chief of the former enemy, but the emperor stayed on the city gate tower and refused to leave, so the significance of being the commander-in-chief of the former enemy was not great. In fact, he emptied his command authority.
"Let the students from the student team supervise and tidy up all the utensils on the city wall first. Do not pile them up randomly, especially gunpowder and grenades. You must be more careful. All soldiers defending the city must fight according to the order and do not fire cannons at will.
A blunderbuss, a method of on-the-spot execution that disrupts military discipline."
As soon as the students from the school arrived, Chongzhen quickly ordered them to disperse on the city wall to serve as messengers and supervisors. The command and order system must first be made to operate efficiently, but he could no longer yell and have no rules like Zhu Chunchen did before.
Logically speaking, Zhu Chunchen is also a serious son of a general, but why can he be so amateurish in his work? Doesn't his family have any inheritance and education?
After the students of the student team climbed onto the city wall, the order of the army quickly became smoother. At least they no longer fired blindly, but had a direction and began to target the places where the Qing troops were concentrated, with targeted bombardments.
The Qing army did not prepare any large-scale siege equipment, and they did not bring heavy artillery when they entered the pass this time. In fact, they did not have much means to deal with a heavily fortified city like Beijing. They could only wander outside the city, and from time to time, elite cavalry would rush under the city wall and shoot.
A burst of arrows, or two shots from a small earthen cannon.
The Qing army that rushed to the city couldn't stand its ground. Hand grenades were most useful from a high position. The distance they threw was almost exactly the same as the Qing army's bow and arrow. After wasting more than a thousand grenades, the Qing army retreated to the range of the grenade.
Turn outside in circles.
The offensive and defensive battle between the two sides was not fierce, but it also caused certain casualties. The Qing army, which did not understand the performance of grenades at first, was killed by one or two hundred people, and about twenty soldiers from the Beijing camp who defended the city were also injured.
Speaking of these twenty injured soldiers, Zhu Youjian was very angry. These soldiers were not injured by the Qing army at all. They were simply manipulated to death by themselves. Some had their eyes damaged by gunpowder, and some were fired.
Some were injured by the explosion. Others broke their bowstrings while pulling their bows, causing serious injuries to themselves.
The first day of fighting ended without incident. In the evening, Chongzhen and Zhu Chunchen lived on the tower and were on duty to prevent the Qing army from attacking at night.
A military meeting was also held in the Qing army camp that night. Turg summoned Zhun Ta, Fu Kachan, Liang Huacheng and other generals who came with him to attack the city to discuss how to attack tomorrow.
"Zhunta, today you have been leading troops to fight under the city for nearly a day. Do you feel that there are any loopholes in Minggou's city defense?"
"It's easy to say about the rest of Minggou, but there seems to be a lot of sky-shaking thunder on the top of the city. They don't know how to make these sky-shaking thunders. They are very powerful. Many of us have been caught by these vicious firearms.
, today we didn’t make any impact, but more than two hundred people were killed or injured. With the suppression of the thunder, it will be difficult for us to rush to the city wall."
"It seems that we have underestimated Ming Gou. I have also seen the power of their thunder. As long as it explodes close by, it will be difficult to escape within dozens of steps. The most troublesome thing is that there is a high wall to facilitate them.
Thunderbolts are easier to throw down. We can't continue fighting like this, we have to change our tactics. Since Minggou relies on his sharp firearms and is confident on the city wall, tomorrow morning the army will attack Chen Xinjia's camp. Seeing that there is no high wall, they
Is there any other way to defeat the might of our Eight Banners troops?"
After resting casually for a night on the Anding Gate Tower, the next morning when I woke up, the eunuch accompanying me reported the latest changes in the military situation. The Qing army's transferred battle target was to attack Chen Xingjia's camp in the northeast corner.
He quickly got up, stood on the high ground of the city gate tower, and used a telescope to observe the battle situation. The Qing army should not be underestimated. It can be seen from the time when the battle started how strong their combat effectiveness was. The sky was just getting brighter at this time, and in the telescope,
It was impossible to fully observe the battlefield situation, but in my ears I could hear the rumbling sound of artillery and the faint sound of people shouting. The war was pushed to a feverish stage so early. One can imagine the organization and response capabilities of the Qing army.
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Chen Xinjia's camp should be okay for the time being, but they cannot take it lightly. They only have one military camp now. If the Qing army continues to attack unscrupulously, it will be difficult to predict as time goes by.
"Pass an order to the First Brigade of the New Army of the Yongwei Battalion to assemble quickly and reach Deshengmen within two hours, and then go out of the city to form an array to fight the enemy in the field."
Zhu Youjian didn't know whether the new army could fight or be useful. But he knew that if he sent these uncles from the Beijing camp out, it would be no different from delivering food to people.
On the training ground, they will definitely not become a strong army. Now let them go to the battlefield, and it is indeed risky and radical to face the strongest opponent, the Eight Banners Soldiers, from the beginning. But now there is only this hand of cards to play, and they are not needed
What else can be done?
An hour later, Liu Yuanbin led the whole brigade to Desheng Gate. Chongzhen rushed over and offered a bowl of water and wine to the soldiers who were leaving the city to fight. After saying a few impassioned words, he called Liu Yuanbin to the side for a special explanation.
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"Yuan Bin, this is the first time for the new army to go into battle. It is better to be cautious. You have brought a lot of thunder, so I am not afraid of the soldiers rushing in front of you. But the soldiers also have some artillery in their hands. You have to pay tens of millions of dollars.
Pay attention to the defense against artillery. New soldiers are afraid of artillery, and veterans are afraid of arrows. After you lead the troops out of the city, the first task is to build trenches. With trenches, the Qing army's artillery will not have much effect."
"The general will obey the holy instructions and will definitely lead the new soldiers to attack the bandits outside the city."
"Remember, I not only want to win, but I also want you to bring all these new troops back to the city. I will beat drums and cheers for you on the city wall when you go out to fight."
Accompanied by the drums of the Emperor of Heaven, the new army of the Yongwei Battalion, which had only been established for about two months, left the city from Deshengmen and rushed to the battlefield.
"As expected, Ming Gou was transferred out of the city by us!" Turge, who was on the battlefield outside the city, was not entirely focused on attacking Chen Xinjia's camp. He was very concerned about the trends in the city. With Ming
The army has been fighting for so many years, and Turge still knows the strength and weakness of each opponent. Compared with the first wave of Ming army Qin Wang's soldiers who rushed to the battlefield, the Ming army in the Beijing camp was definitely a soft persimmon.
If you can pinch soft persimmons, why should you chew hard walnuts? Seeing the Ming army coming out of the city, Turge quickly called his deputy general Fu Kachan.
"Fu Kachan, take your headquarters Zalan and immediately pounce on the Ming army that has just left the city. You must use the shortest possible time to annihilate this Ming army. Remember, you must be fast and you must entangle them.
Get close! Otherwise, by the time they react and flee under the city wall, with the support of the artillery on top of the city, the fighter plane will be lost."
Killing them as soon as they come up is what Turg, who has been on the battlefield for a long time, is ruthless about. He observed that the number of Ming troops leaving the city this time was not large, which was a good opportunity to kill them. The Qing army has long been
War thinking is that instead of attacking across the board, it is better to defeat one enemy. As long as the last enemy army is defeated, the momentum and pattern of the entire battlefield will be very different. Especially opponents like the Ming Army, their battlefield mentality is very unstable
, as long as you are defeated all the way, the rest of the way will be tense, and you will collapse if you don't fight.