Chapter 278 Three rounds of shelling will solve the problem
At dawn on the second day, Huang Degong led his army and pressed forward toward Guihua City in a mighty manner.
And until daybreak, the cavalry of Tumut's tribe still hadn't come back, and there was no trace of those ten thousand Huihui, and they didn't know where they were led.
Neither Huang Degong nor other Ming army generals cared much about the lives of both sides. Similarly, yesterday's battle was just a trivial matter in their eyes, and everyone still had unfinished business.
To the Fourth Army, yesterday's battle was nothing, but to Tuxie Tubu, it was like the sky was falling and the earth was falling. The whole night, the city was filled with emotions of sadness and fear.
In the end, Agula decided to stick to Guihua City and negotiate with the Ming army. As long as they could hold on, the Ming army would be unable to attack for a long time and would eventually compromise.
Although the wall of Guihua City is not high, it is enough to block the opponent's chariots and infantry. They stand on it and shoot arrows. If you don't believe it, you will not be able to defend it.
At this moment, the small Guihua City is crowded with more than 50,000 people and more than 100,000 livestock. It has been so crowded that the base of the platform has not changed. All the buildings that can be demolished have been demolished. Even the elderly and children are moving to the top of the city.
Those who were carrying wood and stones, as long as they could draw a bow, carried bows and arrows on their backs, and carried scimitars around their waists, ready to help go up to the city to defend against the enemy.
At ten o'clock in the afternoon, Huang Degong and his army arrived at the city. Seeing that the other party had actually hid in the city, all the generals couldn't help laughing.
Even ordinary soldiers laughed.
Everyone couldn't help but laugh. Not to mention that a lonely city cannot be defended. With so many people and animals crammed into such a small city, how many people would die if a round of artillery fire or a rain of arrows fell?
"General, it's better to send someone up and ask them to surrender!"
"There are many women and children on top of the city. It's really hard to win!"
All the generals nodded frequently, and the fighting spirit and excitement they had when they arrived had completely disappeared.
This situation was not an siege at all, but a massacre, leaving them without the slightest sense of victory.
Huang Degong also nodded with a wry smile. If the Han people were in this situation, they would have opened the city to surrender long ago if they had to take the initiative to send people to make a statement.
Without reinforcements and surrender, what else can tens of thousands of people do in an isolated city?
But what Huang Degong and all the generals didn't expect was that the other party was still unwilling to surrender directly and still wanted to negotiate terms, which almost made everyone laugh.
"General, they want to be toasted instead of eating and being fined with wine, so let them have a taste of what it's like to sit in an isolated city!"
"The army will besiege the city. Push up a hundred French cannons and blast them for half an hour!"
Huang Degong said in a deep voice, as for building siege equipment or the like, it is a complete waste of time.
As the order was issued, the army immediately deployed. In less than half an hour, the small Guihua City was completely surrounded. More than a hundred French cannons approached from all sides and stopped a hundred steps away from the city wall.
, just outside the range of the opponent's bow and arrow.
Boom boom boom!
As soon as the cannon fire sounded, it was continuous and endless. Iron pellets the size of a child's fist crossed the city wall and smashed into the city.
Suddenly, screams erupted in the city.
For a time, the whole city was in chaos. Countless animals were frightened and ran around. Children were so frightened that they screamed and fled everywhere.
Agula on the wall looked at the cannonballs falling into the city from all directions, his face was full of shit.
He didn't expect that the Ming army actually had so many cannons. How could they defend it?
If I had known earlier, I should have escaped immediately last night.
However, he also knew that even if he escaped, he would have a narrow escape. In the end, if he escaped back to Mobei, he would be annexed by the other two tribes. Besides, there was no other place to go except to escape to Mobei.
After half an hour of shelling, all the Mongolians were ashen-faced. Although the Ming army stopped shelling, they still had no intention of attacking the city.
"Tatars on the wall, listen, my general is kind and does not want to cause more killings. If you continue to be stubborn, the next step will not be solid bullets, but loose bullets."
A low-level Ming army general rode to the city gate and shouted loudly in Mongolian.
"What should I do with the sweat?"
All the leaders looked at Agula, and they were already at a loss.
"Don't be afraid. Although the Ming army's artillery can hit the city, its real lethality is extremely limited. As long as we tell everyone to hide, they will definitely attack the city when they see that the artillery is ineffective. Let them see our bows and arrows.
If we are so powerful, they will naturally agree to our conditions."
Agula obviously still didn't give up, he cheered, the main thing was the thousands of solid bullets just now. Although many animals were killed, not many people were killed, so he no longer had the fear of cannons at the beginning.
But here, the Ming army was completely enraged when they saw that the other side did not surrender. The shield bearers raised their shields to protect the gunners, advanced another fifty steps, and then replaced them with muskets that fired shotguns.
"Fire the arrow!"
When Agula saw the opponent pushing the cannon so close, he immediately shouted and bent his bow to draw an arrow.
Other Mongolians also drew their bows like a full moon and fired towards the location of the cannon.
Bang bang bang…
Suddenly, dense arrows fell down like raindrops and hit the shield, making the shields look like hedgehogs filled with arrows.
The shield bearers had already shielded the cannon and the gunner from the air, just like a turtle shell, and continued to operate the cannon without being affected at all.
Boom boom boom…
Not long after, the Ming army's artillery also launched a counterattack, and tiny iron beads rained down on the city head like a blanket, which was more dense and terrifying than the rain of arrows.
Even if half of it hit the earth wall, the remaining half still fell on the city head and inside the wall. The Mongols under the wall had no shields, and the Guihua City had no towers. Facing the iron beads,
The leather armor is almost like paper.
The Mongolians on the wall fell in pieces, and most of them did not die. Instead, they fell to the ground and howled in pain. For a time, the shrill screams resounded throughout the entire Guihua City.
Compared with solid bullets, which can beat a person to pieces with limbs and flesh flying everywhere, shotgun bullets are not as powerful, but this kind of beating to a person half-dead is even more painful.
Facing the continuous bombardment of shotguns from the Ming army's artillery, the Mongols simply did not dare to stay on the wall any longer. Many people jumped off the city wall to escape.
When the Ming army concentrated their artillery fire again and blasted a city wall with solid bullets, destroying a large section of the city wall, Agula finally gave up resistance.
Even if he didn't give up, the other Tuxietu people would not be able to carry on any longer. The city walls had collapsed. Once the Ming army really came in and fought hand-to-hand, they would be even more unable to win, and everyone would die in the end.
Seeing these Mongolians finally putting down their scimitars, bows and arrows and walking out of the city, Huang Degong breathed a sigh of relief.
He was afraid that these Mongolians would be ruthless. He was not worried that after entering the city and fighting in hand-to-hand combat, there would be too many casualties, but that the soldiers would accidentally kill all the Mongolians after they were red-eyed.
Although the opponent still has a population of more than 50,000, they don't have any decent armor, so it won't take long to actually kill them.
The infantry battalion alone can kill everyone inside within a quarter of an hour, let alone the two thousand fire rifle soldiers.
An hour later, all the Mongols came to the open space outside the city, squatting on the ground obediently, and even the wounded were carried out.
Huang Degong then ordered people to control them, screen them one by one, and then go into the city to clean them up.