The First Artillery Regiment also landed in Dagukou with the First Division, and several auxiliary troops including Taiwan indigenous soldiers also landed one after another.
Some artillery regiments and artillery were sitting in small fast ships, heading towards Tanggu along the Baihekou, and some infantry were sitting on various fishing boats collected along the Bohai Sea coast, and they also went upstream. After all the cavalry regiments landed, they rushed to the scene as mobile troops. Yang Liu and the sailors were guarding Bijiazhuang.
When the cavalry arrived, it happened to be a cavalry unit belonging to the three major camps of the capital to reinforce Tianjin Wei. Just arrived near the battlefield, there were about 2,000 cavalrymen in the Beijing Army. They were the infantrymen of the Tianjin Wei Guerrilla Battalion who attacked Bijiazhuang. The flank was running on the plains several miles away.
Lu Xiaotian, the commander of the Chinese cavalry regiment, followed the tradition of ringing horses and launched harassing attacks. He continued to move around the periphery of the official army's infantry, and continued to slaughter to shoot the flanks and rear troops of the official army.
The cavalry of the Beijing army could not bear it and launched an attack on the cavalry of the Chinese army from the flanks.
Looking at the scattered formation of Ming cavalry and the slowly unfolding fan formation, Lu Xiaotian and deputy commander Andrei looked at each other and smiled. Andrei raised his hand and "spang," and closed the mask of his helmet. "Do as you do it, the Chinese army will win," said the voice.
The cavalry shouted "I will win," and quickly arranged in five rows. They stopped and stood like a wall, facing the direction of the official army. The first row of 200 heavy armored cavalry were fully equipped with hangers, and everyone rode on them. He held the best Andalusian and Arab war horses, holding a two-meter-long spear under his armpit with one hand and a lance in his other hand.
The so-called rifle is actually the standard flintlock musket of the infantry brothers who saw off the barrel.
In the chaotic stormtroopers of the Ming army, some archers shot arrows, but such archery shooting was no different from being a stuttering for the full set of steel plate armor of the heavy armor cavalry in the first row.
When the Ming cavalry rushed to 50 yards of the Chinese cavalry position, the Chinese cavalry's rifle opened fire. "其其" and "其". After the first heavy cavalry fired a shot, they immediately bent down on the back of the horse. They inserted their rifle into the holster hanging on the saddle. At the same time, they lay down like this, just giving their comrades in the back row a space to shoot.
In the second row, the third row and the last, all the Chinese cavalry soldiers repeated the heavy cavalry movements, and then the entire Chinese cavalry array was launched together, like a huge rock that could not stop being crushed towards a group of ants.
The Ming cavalry had no experience in using muskets in cavalry combat. With the five rounds of muskets, the forward line of the cavalry in Beijing was already in chaos. Although the entire army was still advancing, it had lost its speed, that is, it lost it. With the momentum of charge, the heavy cavalry of the Chinese army was reasonable and crashed into the group of cavalry like a wall; other light cavalry of the Chinese army moved towards the two wings, intending to surround the two wings of the cavalry of the official army.
The short Mongolian horses riding by the official cavalry, and the three hippos had good endurance, but they had no chance to collide with the heavy cavalry head-on. Moreover, the official cavalry's wooden pole spear stabbed the heavy cavalry's plate armor. Often it breaks for several sections; while the Chinese army's bamboo pole iron spear tips can often wear the Beijing cavalry and the people and horses together. The Beijing cavalry never expected that they would fight in this way, and immediately caught off guard. Being in a passive situation...
The Beijing army was completely defeated after half an hour. Because the Chinese infantry rushed from the river were trampled on the rear route, only more than 300 cavalry left for 2,000 cavalry escaped from the battlefield, more than 500 were captured, and the rest were not dead. Instant injury.
The Chinese army also lost 200 cavalry, most of which were light cavalry. At the end of the battle, a group of official cavalry rushed out to break through and fought to the death, and had a light cavalry hedge against the Chinese army's light cavalry battalion. Such a battle It is often a head-on duel, and one life is for one life. The death rate is very high. The former commander of the Central Tunnel of the Liaodong Dusi, Li Xiao, a hundred households, brought his brothers to join the Chinese cavalry. Now he is the deputy battalion commander of the Light Cavalry Battalion. After interrogating the captured officers and soldiers, he found that the last group of officers and cavalry came from the same place as him, all of them were Liaodong border troops who had just been transferred to Beijing.
After almost the entire Beijing cavalry collapsed, the official and infantry did not leave the city and stood firm and waited for assistance.
The Chinese army gathered the highest technological armed forces of this era and surrounded the Tianjin Guard. Only four gates were arranged for defending the city cannons on the Tianjin Guard. The long four-sided city walls could not withstand the fire of the cannons due to the corresponding artillery structure. recoil.
The Chinese Army launched nearly 300 large and small artillery pieces at one time, including 4 kilogram-level siege cannons, 4 "Sky Thunder" mortars that fired heavy flowering bullets, and 6 "Sky Thunder" smaller ones "Mound cannons and more than 50 light field cannons that fired flowering howitzers. In addition, thousands of thunder rockets were also arranged under Tianjin Acropolis.
Except for the plains and depressions in the south, there are rivers flowing across the other three sides. The natural moat hindered the Chinese infantry from siegeing the city, but it could not stop the cannons from bombing the city. Moreover, the Chinese army successively dug countless trenches around the Tianjin Wei. The cannon was moved within 200 steps of the Tianjin Anchor Wall. At this time, a small number of original artillery of the Tianjin Guards had been completely destroyed by the Chinese army's artillery fire.
While the First Division landed at Dagukou, the Chinese army cut off the waterway of the canal transport, the vanguard approached Wuqing County, and cut off the main transportation route from Tianjin Wei to Shanhaiguan. The Chinese army sailor musket team went straight to the gate of Cangzhou City. The Upper Chinese Fleet was active along the Bohai Sea coastline, causing all the famous Changlu Salt Fields along the Tianjin Wei coast to be controlled by the Chinese Army.
At Changlu Salt Field, the Chinese Army announced a fair trading policy, and then opened a market in Tanggukou to publicly announce to the surrounding neighbors that the Chinese Army protected the business. The Chinese Army and the Chinese Company's jurisdiction both need salt. The company's business department that followed the Chinese Army landed in the business department. The actions of the personnel who took the initiative to ask the owner of the salt farm to pay shocked the local businessmen.
Printed flyers such as the so-called "Seven Hate" and "Six Oaths" are circulating everywhere throughout the Bohai Sea coast, and even the same content has appeared in the capital. Although most people are shocked and suspicious of the content of the flyer, the Chinese army is It is indeed obvious to all. When a few people were doing business with them, they were very satisfied with the extravagance of the Chinese soldiers. Moreover, the Chinese army opened the military ration city warehouse and moved a large amount of grain to distribute it to The people from all corners of the countryside were transported to Shandong to save the victims of Shandong.
Although some landlords and officials openly resisted the Chinese army, the Chinese army generally killed these leaders, and the rest of the people were driven away; and the Chinese army ignored the officials and gentry who dealt with the Chinese army with an uncooperative attitude; For a few active partners, the Chinese army asked them to be responsible for local commercial trade. News about the Chinese army's pirates' military discipline and being friendly to the people spread wildly. In a few days, the local people gradually became no longer afraid of "pirates" "The Chinese army went out of their homes to do business with the Chinese army. The Chinese army opened two recruitment sites in Tanggu and Tianjin Acropolis, piled up a lot of silver there, and recruited people to work publicly: either to broaden the river or to go The construction of a wharf in Dagukou was paid on the spot, and the money was paid to the local people in a lot of money. The people around Tianjin Wei had never seen so much money in their lives. Moreover, the Chinese army had excellent military discipline and soldiers treated others. There is harmony, so there are endless people who come to work.
The chief assistant of the cabinet, Fang Congzhe, suggested to Emperor Wanli that the court would issue a "King Responsible Order" to the whole world, calling on righteous men from all over the world to destroy pirates. The censor who had just returned from Shandong to provide relief to hungry people reported to the court, saying: As today, everyone is here The disasters are constantly incurred, especially Shandong; people from all over the country are frightened and uneasy. If a large number of troops are drawn into Beijing to serve the king at this time, it will inevitably weaken the garrisons in various places, and thieves may take the opportunity to rise.
After several consecutive days of discussion, news of the defeat of the cavalry of the Beijing Army came. At the same time, the incident of Tianjin Wei being surrounded also spread to Emperor Wanli.
Emperor Wanli held a morning court for three consecutive days and summoned all ministers to discuss matters.
Now the actions of the Chinese army have shaken the foundation of the capital: the cut-off of the canal transport means that millions of people near the capital, including His Majesty the Emperor and his ministers, will face the crisis of food cuts.
A minister of the Ministry of War in the court submitted a memorial to mobilize the Liaodong border troops to enter the pass to resist the pirates, and let the Liaodong general Li Rubai be the head commander. Some people immediately felt that the Li family's military power was too great and expressed their opposition, demanding that the Shanhaiguan general Du Song be the head commander and commander. The Liaodong Army entered the pass.
Xuanda and Jizhou troops have arrived near the capital one after another. The court really needs to appoint a commander to lead the entire army to counterattack the Chinese army. However, at this critical moment, the Ming court began to make old problems again: intrigue among the ministers, Needless to say, the chief assistant Fang Congzhe weighed the pros and cons, and could not make a decision to balance the forces of various factions.
Therefore, although some troops of the Liaodong Army have been ordered to start moving south, and the border troops from Xuanda, Jizhou and even Shaanxi have gathered in the capital, the commander of the army has not been sure of it.
On the fifth day after Tianjin Wei was surrounded, the Chinese army completed the construction of trenches and concentrated all heavy artillery in the trenches 200 feet away in the south city. The attempt of the government troops in the city to sneak attack the artillery positions was used by the Chinese army and infantry, which was on high alert. The dense flintlock fissures were repelled, and the continuous trenches were covered with hair-type rotors and fire mines. The officers who attacked at night stepped on the mine and were bombed into the air, revealing their tracks, and were thus guarded by the Chinese army in the trenches. repel.
Finally, the heavy artillery of the siege began to show its power.
A few days ago, the Chinese military used flowering bombs to bombard the Tianjin Acropolis, blowing up all the cannons and defense facilities of the Tianjin Weiming Army garrison troops. The long-range thunder rockets kept firing into the Tianjin Acropolis, burning the city. Many buildings.
Now, the heavy mortar cannons are fired, and the heavy cannons are fired.
The 50-pound flowering bullet fell on the city with a trajectory clearly visible to humans. After the explosion broke out, people and objects within a radius of dozens of feet were swept away. The smallest thunder thunder was parabola It fell behind the city wall and blew up the Ming army on standby on the inside of the city wall.
The cannon fired several dozen kilograms of iron bullets and hit the city gate tower hard, one after another, gradually punching the city wall out of the gap, gradually expanding the gap, slowly the city wall collapsed on a small scale along the gap...4 doors heavy Cannons above 2,000 kilograms aimed at the same corner of the south city gate and continued to bombard: one shot every two minutes, two gates were designed at the same time; after firing ten shells in a row, the other two gates fired in the same place in turn; ten days a day In two hours, the deafening shooting sound of these four cannons will take eight hours.
In the evening, Liu Yi, the guard of Tianjin Guard, cursed angrily: "Zhi Niang, this pirate is really rich and has no place to spend. He just stares at one place to fight so many shells. Do they really want to use cannons to open Tianjin Guard? ”
The next day, the shaking South Gate was bombarded by a solid iron egg weighing thirty kilograms again. At the same time, all the flowering artillery shells were concentrated in this place. The continuous explosions had blown up a radius of dozens of feet near the South Gate. No man's land.
At noon, after being hit by several solid iron eggs weighing 50 kilograms, the south gate finally collapsed with a loud bang, forming a five-meter-wide rocky slope at the south gate of Tianjin Wei.
Countless Chinese soldiers jumped out of the trenches and rushed into the Tianjin Acropolis. The Chinese army artillery fire quickly extended and bombarded the city.
One hour later, Tianjin Wei was captured by the Chinese army.