Whistles sounded one after another, and three militia regiments withdrew from the city wall and were regrouping.
The engineer battalion and baggage regiment took over from them and continued to guard the city wall and engage the Mongols.
At this time, the Mongols changed their style of play. Because the casualties were too great. The all-out attack has been changed to a focused attack.
The main attack direction was in North City, with a total of 30,000 people invested, while the number of personnel in East City and Nancheng was reduced to less than 10,000.
Khan Ahai and Buyan Ahai planned to concentrate their efforts and make a breakthrough.
The fighting intensity in Dongcheng and Nancheng has been greatly weakened. It has become a sheep attack.
The Mongols used various objects, including corpse cover and city walls to shoot at each other. Muskets and bows and arrows came and went, shooting fiercely at each other.
At this time, Beicheng is the real battlefield.
The Mongols concentrated their forces and attacked wave after wave. Some exterior wall steel panels have been deformed and damaged. But steel tube scaffolding is very strong. The Mongols couldn't push it down or destroy it.
The double-layer steel pipe bracket effectively resisted the Mongolian impact.
Every time the attack hit the city wall, the defenders used repeating guns and grenades to fight back and push them back. Hand-cranked Gatling guns intensively fired at their troops in depth, disrupting their attack sequence and formation.
The casualties were too great, and this chariot city was like a rotating knife rack, bleeding the Mongols.
The three militia regiments that had withdrawn simply ate something and rested for an hour before gathering in the open space on the inside of the north city wall.
They sat cross-legged on the ground, all wearing plate armor, holding Swiss halberds more than three meters long, and formed a battle formation based on battalions.
A battalion of five hundred men formed five parallel small square formations. A small square formation of one hundred people is exactly a squadron. There are ten people in the square formation horizontally and vertically.
More than a hundred square formations have been assembled.
Each corps of the gunpowder-assisted grenade battalion is equipped with a launcher and four ammunition soldiers. Each hundred-man phalanx is equipped with a grenade corps.
The launcher, in addition to a grenade on the launcher, carries four ammunition on the back. The ammunition carriers carry ten grenades each. There is also a double-barreled short-fire gun as a self-defense weapon.
In this way, each corps has a base number of ammunition prepared, totaling forty-five grenades.
Yang Fan appointed Zhou Yuji Qianhu as the chief general and led three regiments of militiamen to attack.
The militiamen of the three regiments, totaling 10,800 people, plus 500 people from the grenadier battalion, totaling 11,300 people, are about to leave the city to fight the Mongols in a bloody battle.
Zhou Yuji was a rare good general in the late Ming Dynasty. Unlike Sun Chuanting and other civil servants who knew soldiers, he was a pure general like Wu Sangui.
Zhou Yuji was born in Liaodong. The courtesy name is Cuipiao, a native of Jinzhou Wei in the late Ming Dynasty.
According to the Zhou family tree, its origin is Fenghu Mountain in Suining, Jiangsu today. But in the distant ancestors' time, they moved to Penglai, Shandong. Later, he moved to Jinzhou, Liaodong again. He himself is a native of Northeast China.
Yang Fan respected loyal ministers and good generals from the bottom of his heart and looked down on Wu Sangui and his like.
Zhou Yuji and his wife finally fought with 3,000 people at Ningwuguan in Shanxi Province against King Chuang's 300,000 troops, forcing King Chuang to give up and retreat several times. In the end, after a hard fight, both of them fought hard and died for their country.
Every time he read this, he was very sad.
The era of the late Ming Dynasty was an era of heroes.
Emperor Chongzhen had a lot of talents of all kinds in his pocket.
It's a pity that he didn't make good use of any of them.
The last great talent is Sun Chuanting.
The emperor took him out of Jinyiwei Prison and asked him to fight against King Chuang.
At this time, Sun Chuanting had been unjustly imprisoned for more than four years and served as the superintendent while awaiting punishment.
The emperor never trusted him.
Even though he died in the battle, the emperor still suspected that he had faked his death and persecuted his family members.
History books say that Chuan Ting died and the Ming Dynasty died.
The history of the late Ming Dynasty is a tragedy of heroes.
Chongzhen was diligent, frugal, powerful, knowledgeable about politics, knew how to advance and retreat, and was decisive in killing.
If he were born in a peaceful and prosperous age, he might be able to become Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty. It's a pity that his life and death were chaotic, he had too many problems with his character, and his ability was not enough to deal with such a complicated situation.
Not only did he harm himself, but he also harmed a large number of loyal ministers who worked for him.
In November 1642, Zhou Yuji accompanied the Minister of War and fought with the Qing army for three days and three nights in Yangliuqing.
At that time, more than 70,000 Qing soldiers entered the pass and plundered a large amount of materials and young and middle-aged people from Shandong.
After passing through Yangliuqingbei and returning to the outside of the pass, the Ming troops from all over Shandong and Hebei provinces either fled or withdrew their troops to make way.
Zhou Yuji had received the imperial decree at that time and was transferred from Yang Liuqing to Shanxi as the commander-in-chief.
At that time, Zhou Yuji had already led his troops to leave. There is absolutely no need to take this trip into troubled waters.
But when he heard that the Qing troops were passing through Yangliuqing, he led his cavalry back to Yangliuqing and used the terrain to defeat the Qing troops. The Qing troops suffered thousands of casualties.
In this battle, cavalry faced cavalry head-on. It created a rare example in the history of Ming and Qing wars in which the Ming army defeated a large number with a small number.
When Yang Fan established the Hexi Guards Qianhu Station, the emperor treated the officers wantonly. Zhou Yuji was originally a sixth-rank chief in the Ministry of War.
He didn't want to waste his time in the agency and squander his seniority, so he took the initiative to request to be transferred to the combat unit to lead troops.
He was a personal soldier of Zhang Fengyi, Minister of War. Because of his bravery in battle, he was discovered by Zhang Fengyi, who was an official in Liaodong, and was accepted as a personal soldier, and he became prosperous from then on.
Because there were people above, his wish came true quickly.
After he was transferred, Yang Fan cultivated him a lot.
Zhou Yuji led his fifty soldiers, all riding Mongolian horses transferred by Yang Fan. Stand by within the city walls.
As the charge sounded, the grenade launchers of each hundred-man phalanx immediately fired grenades outside the city wall.
They stood at the back of the team because no one could stand behind the launch tube during launch, otherwise they risked becoming roasted sparrows.
There are five people in a corps. The corps leader is responsible for firing, and there are two ammunition handlers on each side responsible for loading. Two men holding handguns guarded and protected the shooter.
At this time, it was the climax of the Mongolian attack. A large number of Mongols once again attacked the city wall.
After the defense change, it was obvious that the defensive strength on the city wall was weakened, and the Mongols immediately seized the opportunity to attack crazily.
There is a centurion in front of the door, and everyone is jealous today.
They impacted over and over again, rushing up and being beaten back again.
At this time, they reached the bottom of the wall again, and the simple ladder was finally set up on the wall. He held the machete between his teeth and struggled to climb up.
Rasheebu Khan said that the first one to climb will be rewarded heavily.
His master, Dorje Tabu Nang, was supervising the formation from behind.
A Han man on the city wall stabbed the Mongolians swarming up with his halberd. However, after the defense change, the number of defenders on the city wall decreased, giving the Mongols an opportunity.
Duoji took the opportunity to climb up. When he emerged from the city wall, he was stunned.
Inside the wall, dense military formations were as silent as water, bringing powerful pressure.
Then, he saw a person behind the phalanx carrying something like a pipe.
Then, a bugle sounded.
The man pulled the flintlock-like trigger.
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