Fengyang City is broken?
Shang Kele, who was supervising the battle of the Han army with a blue flag and a blue flag, looked at the green soldiers in front of him who were rushing towards the gaps like a tide. It was really incredible - the Ming army guarding Fengyang was too useless, wasn't it?
At this level, Duduo is still in a tough fight... What's going on? Could it be that the crown prince of the Zhu family sent all the troops he could fight to Shandong?
He was thinking wildly in his mind, but he didn't stop walking. He followed the green battalion soldiers in front and waded through the knee-deep muddy water in the moat and rushed under Fengyang City Wall.
The more than 300 Eight Banners Han troops and more than 100 coated slaves who followed him were all armed with rattan bows and arrows. They immediately formed a rattan formation to protect the Zu Ke Lezu uncle.
There were also dozens of slaves who dared to die. Everyone wore two layers of heavy armor and protected their heads and faces with shields. They shouted loudly and climbed up the bamboo and wooden ladders to the gap.
"Master Qi, our dead soldiers are charging forward!" Niu Lu Zhangjing, who was protecting Shang Kele, shouted.
"Okay! Let's go up too!" Shang Kele saw that his Han army had also entered the gap, and then he felt relieved and rushed forward at the lead... Well, those who rushed in front of him were not counted as soldiers. , can only be regarded as cannon fodder!
So he was the first batch of Eight Banners warriors to rush to Fengyang City!
The indomitable Shang Kele wore three layers of armor to "lead the troops": a layer of cloth-covered iron armor, a layer of chain armor, and a layer of cotton armor lining the inside. Ordinary arrowheads can't hurt him at all, but now that there are fire blunderbuss, if you really use them well, you can still kill him with one blow.
But now there is no crackling sound of gunfire, indicating that the Ming army inside either does not have fireguns, or has been defeated by the Green Camp soldiers who entered earlier.
So now is the time for the Heavenly Soldiers of the Eight Banners to show their bravery!
After Shang Kele figured it out, he no longer needed the protection of the shield. He took a three-foot-long Kanto broom from a soldier beside him - it was a kind of knife with a long handle that could be held with both hands. Straight back machete. Due to the limited length of this weapon, it is not very useful when fighting in formation, but it is a powerful weapon in street fighting and melee. Many Eight Banners soldiers who mainly prepare their own weapons will build themselves such a sword for use in close combat.
Following Shang Kele, many of the Han soldiers with blue flags also took out the Kanto broomstick, and most of the rest took out lancets or wild goose feather knives plus a shield. All are equipment that are beneficial to melee combat!
Shang Kele opened his throat and shouted: "Anyone who is not afraid of death will rush at me like crazy!"
The Han soldiers with blue flags following him also shouted: "Follow Master Qi! Master Qi is mighty..."
Amidst the shouts, Shang Kele was the first to climb up the bamboo ladder and climbed up a gap.
Once they reached the gap, Shang Kele was sure that the Ming army defending the city had collapsed. The remaining soldiers who retreated from the dilapidated city wall and the nearby Houyoujiadi Gate had lost the courage to resist, or retreated to the Yuehua Mountain and Phoenix Mountain in the south, running away while shouting: "The Tartars are powerful! Traitors are powerful!”
The green battalion soldiers who had rushed into the city scattered into groups, either chasing the fleeing Ming army, or rushing towards the dilapidated streets of Fengyang City with murderous intent. Some green battalion soldiers rushed towards the rear right gate. .
As long as this city gate is captured, a large group of people from outside the city can rush in, and Fengyang City will be impossible to defend - there are more than 30,000 people outside the city! How many can there be in the city? There are only a few thousand in the sky, how can you resist?
Seeing the scene of Ming troops fleeing in all directions in the city, Zu Kele, Zu Qiye, was not worried that the green battalion soldiers would not be able to grab the gate on the right side of the back, so he shouted to his subordinates who were climbing up behind: "Follow me, go to the imperial city." Let’s take advantage of it!”
Fengyang Fucheng has three walls, the outermost layer is the outer city, with a circumference of more than 60 miles, nine city gates, and eighteen water gates. What is now being conquered by the Qing army is the outer city.
The second city is the forbidden wall, with a circumference of nineteen miles and four gates. It is located in the middle and southern part of Fengyang Fucheng, backed by Yuehua Mountain, Phoenix Mountain and Long live Mountain. The south side of the forbidden wall is the essence of Fengyang City. The Forbidden Wall was an imperial city, and high-ranking officials and dignitaries stationed in Fengyang were not allowed to live in it. Therefore, to the south of the Forbidden Wall were numerous official residences and government offices, as well as the city's commercial district.
The third city wall is the palace city, with a circumference of seven miles and four gates. It is inside the forbidden wall. Zhu Yuanzhang originally wanted to make Fengyang the capital, so he also built the imperial city and the Forbidden City, but they remained vacant for more than two hundred years. The buildings inside have long since fallen into decay.
Because Fengyang City is very large, covering an area of more than 50 square kilometers, most of the places are open. Crops are planted in many places, and some places are enclosed and made into pastures to raise horses. ——The southeast of the Ming Dynasty does not produce good horses, and there is no large grassland to raise horses.
Therefore, the Generalissimo's Mansion and the Ministry of War chose the northern part of Fengyang Outer City, which has few residents, to serve as a horse farm. Now it has been circled and grass seeds have been sown.
However, the stallion has not been bought from India yet, so there is only a horse farm, but no horses. These days, because the Qing army crossed the Huaihe River, many refugees fleeing from the war poured into Fengyang City and were placed in the racecourse by Zhu Chunchen.
At this moment, the Qing troops entered the city, and the people who were hiding in Fengyang Racecourse were already frightened. They rushed out screaming and screaming, and ran away screaming on the broken and muddy streets. The shrill shouts aroused the ferocity of the Qing soldiers. A killing that was all too common during the transition between the Ming and Qing dynasties in history swept through half of Fengyang City like a strong wind.
At this time, outside the right gate of Fengyang City, Monk Kong Youde was happy to have gathered tens of thousands of Han soldiers with red flags and blue flags - Fengyang City seemed to have been broken!
The next step is to burn, kill and loot. Where is the need for the green battalion cannon fodder? Of course it was the uncle of the Eight Banners and Han Army who got rich.
Shuo Zhan, who was responsible for supervising the battle, took thousands of real Manchu warriors and formed a formation to supervise the battle. Although Fengyang City was broken, the rules of the Qing army's war could not be broken. You still have to supervise the battle at the first level!
Now that the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are going into battle, of course they have to be supervised by the Eight Banners of Manchuria!
The city gate has been opened by the green battalion soldiers, the suspension bridge has been lowered with a creak, and then the earth-shattering sound of war drums has sounded.
The tens of thousands of Han soldiers who had been waiting impatiently suddenly let out an earth-shattering cry: "The Qing Dynasty will be victorious! Kill, kill, kill... kill all the Nikans in the city!"
This shouting sound shook around the battlefield, making the people in the city even more panicked, and also made the Qing soldiers who had entered the city even more crazy, burning, killing and looting.
Zu Kele still tried hard to restrain his men, and even detained thousands of Green Camp soldiers. A team of more than a thousand people headed south along Youjia Di Street. Along the way, when they saw Han people fleeing in panic, they did not kill or loot them, but just moved forward with their heads covered.
His goal was to rush through the mountain passes of Yuehua Mountain and Fenghuang Mountain as soon as possible - the Qing army that broke through from Youjia Di Gate had to break through this mountain pass if they wanted to attack Fengyang's forbidden wall.
The Ming army defending the city seemed to have completely collapsed. They were just running around, unable to organize resistance at all. After approaching Fenghuang Mountain, they even ran towards the mountain.
Shang Kele didn't care about them. He just took the lead and rushed forward. In the blink of an eye, he had already killed them through the gap between Phoenix Mountain and Yuehua Mountain. While charging, he shouted: "There are millions of soldiers from the Qing Dynasty." La! The Heavenly Soldiers of the Qing Dynasty are coming..."
The Qing Dynasty has millions of heavenly soldiers! It sounds really scary!
But... Shang Kele didn't even shout a few times. Not long after crossing the mountain pass, he couldn't shout anymore.
Because he was ambushed!
Someone has ambushed a bastion south of the mountain pass!
In the dilapidated Fengyang City, there is actually a bastion with eight solid gun towers, one of which is right on the inside of the mountain pass between Phoenix Mountain and Yuehua Mountain. Because of the mountain cover, Shang Kele and the others didn't see it at first. When they rushed through the mountain pass along the street, they realized that they had rushed between two gun platforms...
