At the third update that night, the defeated soldiers of the government army who had finally calmed down temporarily set up camp outside the west gate. Liu Yi, the commander of the Tianjin Guard, was inspecting the city head, with a circumference of more than 9 miles and a height of 3 zhang and 5 feet above the city wall. The lit torch was scattered by the guards.
The Great Cellar Field outside the West Gate is the place where Tianjin Guards are trained. Now it has become a temporary camp of more than 400 defeated soldiers. Several doctors sent in the Acropolis are treating the wounded soldiers. There are constant screams of ghosts and wolves in the camp, and most of the doctors have not. I have seen a firearm injury and I have no idea where to start, so I can only bandage it.
There is a circle of fences outside the campus. The sentries beside the walls are the personal soldiers of Liu Yi, the commander of Tianjin Guard sent by the city. They could still look around vigilantly at the beginning. After the third update, all the sentries could not bear it. I slept all over the floor outside the fence.
Suddenly, in the field dozens of steps south of the university field, a group of black shadows rushed to the fence wall. They quickly picked up the trigger-type steel arm crossbow to aim at the sentry that was tilted around the university field, pulled the trigger, A few whizzes were heard, killing more than a dozen sentrymen. Then, the group of black shadows quickly used the wheel mechanism of the crossbow tool to rush over the fence wall.
This was a one-sided massacre. The defeated soldiers were still in shock and immediately exploded and ran around shouting and screaming.
"Pirates, pirates attack the camp," someone finally discovered the identity of the sneak attacker. No one thought of resisting, and everyone rushed to Tianjin Wei Ximen.
Suddenly, the entire Tianjin Acropolis sounded loudly, and more torches on the top of the city were lit and the lights were brightly lit.
Liu Yi was lying in the small schoolyard in Xicheng. He heard the sound and jumped up and shouted repeatedly: "I will order you to the West Gate. The West Gate will never be allowed to open the door." He led more than a hundred of his personal soldiers to roll and crawl towards the West Gate. Hurry up.
A group of Tianjin guards who escaped from the large campus shouted under the city of Ximen: "Open the door, brothers in the city, help me,"
The defenders of the West Gate received the order and ignored the cry of the survivors of the large campus under the city and were determined not to open the door.
There is Jigu Temple in the west of Tianjin Acropolis. Its Sutra Pavilion was built in the seventh year of Wanli (1579). Because the eaves are everywhere, the wind chime Ding Dong is commonly known as the bell pavilion. The group of defeated soldiers escaped from the large-scale camp and saw the city gate live or die. He had to run straight to Jigu Temple. The group of Chinese soldiers behind him also lost interest in them. After chasing for a while, they returned to the colonel.
Yang Liu lay on the fence wall at the entrance of the east gate of the university. He saw the Tianjin Wei West Gate a hundred steps away, the city gate was closed, and the city head was constantly throwing lit firewood out of the city.
"Damn, the government army is just not fooled and will not let the defeated soldiers enter the city. It's really..." After looking for a while, Yang Liu sighed and turned to his subordinates and said, "Forget it, we don't have heavy firearms, explosives." I was not able to bring enough to break the city walls... I sent an order to withdraw,"
All night, Tianjin Guards issued alarms several times, and the whole city was in a state of chaos. In fact, the only attempt by the Chinese army to attack the large colonel was to attack the other Tianjin Guards. The alarms of the remaining Tianjin Guards were all false alarms, guarding Liu. Yi was shocked several times a night and never slept for a night.
In the morning, as soon as the sun rose, Liu Yi was half-deadly angry by the scene seen by the South Gate; the Taiwanese pirates occupied the village of the local landlord Bi Laoliu, and they were erected. The large blue-bottomed Chinese-shaped flag was set up without any scruples, and they set up camp under the eyes of the Tianjin guards. Moreover, according to the observation of the defenders at the city, there were only a few hundred people coming and going in the village.
However, he did not have a telescope and did not find that more than 1,000 people had actually gathered in Bijiazhuang, as well as two PILI rocket launchers transported overnight, three 3-pound light field guns, and one was used to fire flowering artillery shells. Six-pound cast iron cannon, a professional artillery sentry rushed to join Yang Liu's troops overnight.
Yang Liu concentrated the artillery in the gate north of Zhuangzi. The rocket was carried to a slope outside the wall north of Zhuangzi. More than a thousand sailors and musket players were divided into two teams, one team was digging trenches outside Zhuangzi. The other was The team was busy chiseling gun holes and gun holes on the wall in the village, and setting up wooden frames to allow people to stand inside the wall and shoot outward from the top of the wall.
There are canals and other rivers flowing through the north, east and west of Tianjin Acropolis, which is a natural moat; the southwest part of the city is low-lying and facing the sea, so it is easy to release water to form a water barrier.
Bijiazhuang is right next to the canal sluice, which can prevent the Ming army from opening the gate and flooding the depressions in the south of the city.
The guerrilla battalion officers and soldiers who rushed back from Wuqing entered the city. Liu Yi immediately asked the guerrilla Cao Huan to lead his troops out of the city, capture Bijiazhuang, and eliminate the outpost troops of the pirates.
At this time, the landing operation of the main Chinese infantry unit was very unsuccessful. Dagukou was located at the mouth of Baihe River, more than 90 miles east of Tianjin Wei and more than 280 miles from the capital. The sailor musket team chased Tianjin Wei one day and one night. It's already lost momentum.
The First Division and affiliated troops of the Infantry Army, the main force of the land war must land at Dagukou. In fact, it is not easy to approach Dagukou from the sea. The turbid river water is wrapped in mud and sand, forming a range of nearly 10 miles outside the estuary. A circle of underwater sand dams. According to the information inquired by the Chinese army from local fishermen, at the low tide of the estuary in the spring, the top of the dam is only five or six feet away from the water surface above. Because the water level is too shallow, large ships such as flying leopards and flying tigers are The boat must be moored 2 miles away from the coastline. If you want to go upstream along the river, the river channel is very winding and often requires the help of local people to divert water.
Therefore, the soldiers of the First Division scored in batches and climbed rope nets from dozens of large transport ships to small boats, moved to small clutches of the fleet, patrolled the boats, entered the estuary, landed behind the fort, and gathered in large numbers. Heavy firearms, gunpowder, cannon bullets, food and supplies, etc. must be transferred many times before logging in.
This made the Chinese Army landing troops slow. Fortunately, the early landing of the sailors and musket team was very successful. The sailors took the initiative to go deeper inland, occupied some villages, expanded the Dagukou landing bridgehead, and ensured the landing operations of the infantry brothers. .
On the other hand, the Ming Dynasty's official army was also very slow. Within three days after the First Infantry Division landed, no Ming Dynasty official army unit around Tianjin Wei launched an attack on the Dagukou landing field, which made Chen Zhongji Fan Tao and other Chinese generals shouted that they were lucky.
During this period, the Tianjin Guerrilla Battalion launched an attack on the Bijiazhuang stronghold of Taiwan's pirates, and the result was quite tragic. The Tianjin Guard of the Ming army was considered an elite force in the important area of Jingqu, with a large number of firearms. However, in Yang Liu, It seems that the Ming army has so many firearms, but it is a bad thing. After the officials and soldiers left the city in a mess, they fired firearms from afar at Bijiazhuang. However, there was almost no bullet, and the shells hit the target. The so-called quick gun used by the Ming army It is just a round tube rolled out of iron, with bad quality and a fire door gun; the soldier must hold a gun in one hand and a fire twist in the other hand to ignite the fire, so there is no point in aiming; the bird gunner's situation is slightly better, but the number of people is too Few; the artillery such as the Folang machine used by the Ming army did not have gun ears, and the sights could not adjust the angle and pitch angle, which was inconvenient for transportation.
The gunpowder used in the Ming munitions was also powdery black gunpowder, which was not as purity as that of the Chinese Army's granular gunpowder, and the explosion effect was poor, and there was no standard in the formula.
Therefore, the Ming army kept firing firearms during the attack, with a shocking momentum, but did not hurt a Chinese sailor. Moreover, the officials and soldiers fired firearms randomly, causing smoke from the battlefield to fill the battlefield. Not only did the Chinese army find it difficult to observe the enemy situation, but the Ming army did not know the opposite. In the case, I just rush forward, and because I can't see the direction clearly between each other, the formation quickly became chaotic.
When the Ming army entered the range, Yang Liu curled his lips and sneered disdainfully, and ordered the artillery to open fire first.
There are ten wooden guide rails on the Pili Rocket, and ten straight-rod rockets can be ignited with fuses at the same time. Twenty Pili Rockets landed in the Ming army's storm formation, or exploded directly above the head of the official army; then, An explosion of flowering bullets fell into the crowd of officials and soldiers. With a loud bang, human limbs splashed everywhere...
The first charge of the officers and soldiers collapsed.
Travel Notes Cao Huan spent half a day and finally organized the second attack on Bijiazhuang. This time, Tianjin Wei launched a general cannon and fired several shots into the Zhuangzi with a loud bang. The solid shells penetrated the Zhuangzi. On the courtyard wall, the Chinese soldiers were all lying in the trenches and corners, unscathed.
Then, a small team of cavalry rushed out of the chaotic official army, with about 200 people rushing towards the Chinese army's positions.
As usual, the Chinese army was bombarded by rockets at long range, with six-pound cannon firing flowering artillery shells. Finally, at a distance of 50 steps from the manor, three 3-pound light field cannons fired shotguns at the same time, and dozens of kilograms of iron sand opened a large net to welcome the official cavalry; At the same time, 1,000 sailors and musket teams fired in turn on the trench and the courtyard wall, and only more than 50 of the 200 cavalry were able to escape. The official infantry who followed behind stopped charging and turned around and fled back to the Tianjin Acropolis.
From then on, the officers and soldiers of the guerrilla battalion were killed and unwilling to leave the city to fight.
The garrison commander Liu Yi was at a loss and desperately sent an emergency report to the capital and nearby places, demanding quick reinforcements.
Dagukou suddenly fell, and the court was shocked when he heard the news. Even Emperor Wanli, who had not met the minister for many years, was shocked. He was very rare to come out of the deep palace to summon the cabinet ministers and ask about the whole story. From Tianjin Wei to the north Wuqing County, Baoding and other departments immediately announced martial law inside and outside the capital.
The most urgent task is to reinforce Tianjin Wei. The question is where the reinforcements come from. Some time ago, the imperial court dispatched troops from the whole country to the south, but now it is necessary to deal with the Chinese army that suddenly attacked the Jingqu area. Apart from the nine border troops, there is only one The Beijing army is already in trouble. The problem is that the three major battalions in the capital have actually been corrupt as a whole. They lack personnel, weapons and money. They are short of everything. They are barely used to defend the city. If they are allowed to leave the city to meet the enemy, it is difficult to guarantee that they will not flee in the face of battle.
It is the most feasible to mobilize the border troops to support the king at the moment, but where to mobilize the border soldiers? The court officials argued endlessly, some wanted to mobilize Xuanda, some asked to mobilize Liaodong soldiers into the pass... It was still arguing between the court. At that time, the First Division of the Chinese Army Infantry Army finally landed.