It was Zhu Chunchen's idea to build a bastion in the dilapidated Fengyang City. I don't know how he came up with this idea? Anyway, this famous general came up with a sudden idea and came up with a solution of "ambushing a fortress in the city" before facing the two major problems of defending the city: a large number of soldiers and limited funds.
Fengyang Bastion was built on the basis of the forbidden wall and the palace city. The core of the fortress is the palace city with a circumference of seventeen miles. The palace city is built of bricks, five feet high and two feet three feet wide. In order to save money and effort, Zhu Chunchen simply ordered people to demolish part of the forbidden wall to get bricks. Eight solid gun platforms about three feet high were built with the city bricks taken from the city. The remaining bricks were used to build a cannon-proof slope on the basis of the palace wall, and the width of the wall was increased to three and a half to two and a half feet.
While converting the forbidden walls and palaces of Fengyang City into bastions, Zhu Chunchen also had three mountain cities built on Fenghuang Mountain, Yuehua Mountain and Longevity Mountain to protect Fengyang bastion from a high position.
In addition, most of the buildings in Fengyang Nancheng were demolished. The Left-behind Department of Zhongdu and its subordinate yamen all moved into the bastion to work, and the military camps of the Left-behind Department also moved into the bastion.
Therefore, the prosperous place in the south of Fengyang City that Shang Kele and the others longed for no longer existed.
Waiting for them were only two gun platforms and a large general cannon mounted on the gun platform!
"Ambush! There is an ambush... There is an ambush in the castle!"
"Quick, quick... back off!"
"It's too late, protect Master Qi!"
Shang Kele couldn't come out with Coke this time, and his soldiers of the Han Army with the Blue Banner also screamed in fear like frightened prey.
There must be a gun on the gun stand! Or else call Mao a blunderbuss? And these guns must have been aimed at the unlucky ones like them... Moreover, these people rushed into the space between the two guns in a daze. There were guns on the left and right, and a taller one directly in front. Core Fortress - There must be artillery on the Core Fortress too!
There are cannons mounted on three sides. This is a crossfire with no blind spots! No place to hide...
Zhu Chunchen was standing on the high wall of the core fortress of Fengyang Bastion at this time, holding up a monocular telescope and looking around, and murmuring: "Why are these people... all infantry? It seems that There are no big fish anymore, what a pity! What if Haug rushed in? "
This guy has such a beautiful idea, he even wants to trick Hauge into killing him with a cannon!
It's a pity that Hauge is not so impulsive, and he, Zhu Chunchen, is not so lucky.
Boom boom boom...
At this moment, the general cannon placed on Fengyang Bastion had fired. It was impossible to provide such good things as Hongyi cannon and three-pound regiment cannon to the Zhongdu Remaining Department in large quantities, so a total of two Hongyi cannons were given to Zhu Chunchen.
Therefore, Zhu Chunchen could only do the next best thing and ask Zhu Cixiang to order more general cannons. At the same time, he also mobilized the blacksmiths in Fengyang Prefecture to cast the general cannons themselves. In the end, more than a hundred general cannons were obtained - most of them were second-hand goods collected by Zhu Cihong from cities and fortresses in various parts of the southeast. They were left over from when Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang fought against Japanese pirates. At that time, there were still people in the Ming Dynasty who could do things, so they forged some useful general cannons, which solved Zhu Cixi's urgent need.
It will also kill Shang Keke!
Although he was covered in three layers of armor and was protected by dozens of soldiers under his command with rattan shields and bodies as if they were risking their lives, nothing could be saved.
Because dozens of wretched regiments of Qing soldiers were themselves a big target for attracting firepower, the 24 general cannons placed on two gun platforms and a high wall were all aimed at this "target", resulting in a violent bombardment.
Because the distance is a bit far, and the range of the general's cannon is relatively short, the range is even closer when firing shotshells, so all the bullets fired this time are solid bullets. 24 stone bullets fell from the sky, all hitting Shang Kele. Some of them even bounced up and swept through the crowd of green soldiers of the Qing army who were fleeing in panic! The hard stone bullets hit or penetrated a person's body, or passed through a certain part of the body. Blood and flesh immediately flew everywhere, screams and screams could be heard endlessly, and the air was filled with blood.
Shang Kele and the others didn't do well either. Three stone bullets hit them right in the middle!
What vine shield, what armor, what warrior, but in front of the stone bullets shot by the general's cannon, they are just a pile of rotten flesh.
Shang Kele only heard a frightening "pop" sound, and then felt his right calf being hit hard by something. A sharp pain came, and he couldn't stand up, so he fell forward.
He knew something was wrong, so he quickly endured the pain and looked at his right leg. At first glance, his heart felt cold and his hairs stood on end... His right calf was gone, only The blood spurting out!
There was too much blood! Shang Kele cried anxiously, why is there so little blood on his body? This method of bleeding will quickly dry up the blood, and the person will die...
He struggled to cover it with his hands, but before he could reach the wound where blood was gushing out, a cry of death suddenly came from his ears!
"Kill the Tartars! Kill the Tartars!"
It turned out that Zhu Chunchen had ambushed 1,000 knife players in the trenches in front of the two gun towers, and now he was out to harvest the heads of the Tatars!
These sword players are all capable of javelin. After rushing out of the trench, they held a shield in one hand and a javelin in the other. Before rushing into the crowd of fleeing Qing soldiers, they threw two waves of javelin.
The Qing soldiers, who had been in chaos for a long time, could not stop them at all. Immediately, two to three hundred people were stabbed into bloody gourds by javelins. Some people did not die immediately, but fell to the ground screaming, spitting blood, and twitching desperately...
Shang Kele was so frightened by this scene that he didn't care to cover the wound to stop the bleeding and just crawled desperately. But how fast does it climb?
In the blink of an eye, the cry of "Kill the Tatars" came from behind him...
At this time, someone grabbed the braid on the back of Shang Kele's head and pulled hard. His neck was stretched out, and a bright knife was stretched out in front of his eyes.
Is this going to cut your neck?
Shang Kele was so frightened that he cried, "No, no, no, I'm not a Tatar, I'm not a Tatar..."
Then there was a soft pop, and Shang Kele, who was not a Tatar, had his throat cut...
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When Shang Kele had his throat cut, his godbrothers Shang Kexi and Shang Keai were leading a large group of Eight Banners Han troops to pass through the Houyoujia Di Gate and advance along Youjia Di Street.
Shang Kexi, Shang Keai and Kong Youde were all taking the lead at the moment, riding horses at the front of the team. Behind the three people were the mighty Eight Banners Heavenly Soldiers.
The three of them were all in a happy mood at this time, and did not disturb the defenders in Fengyang City. They were still walking and talking and laughing. Even though I heard the sound of a burst of bombardment from the General Cannon in front of me, I didn't take it seriously... Wasn't it just some General Cannon or Franco machine cannon? Most of them were mounted on the Fengyang Forbidden City Wall. What's so great about this? Just stay away and you won't be able to hit him!
But just as Shang Kexi, Shang Keai, and Kong Youde took the lead and continued to advance, hundreds of defeated Qing soldiers had already ran out of the mountain pass between Fenghuang Mountain and Yuehua Mountain, crying. While running, he was still crying: "There is an ambush, there is an ambush..."
Is there an ambush? Shang Kexi and Kong Youde looked at each other with expressions of indifference.
What's there to fear about an ambush?
Shang Kexi winked at Shang Keai, and Shang Keai immediately rode forward with Bai Shi and stopped the Green Camp soldiers and the Eight Banners Han Army who were desperately escaping. These guys who "escaped before the battle" saw the flags of the two princes and knew that something was seriously wrong.
The military discipline of the Qing Dynasty was very strict! Anyone who escapes from battle will be beheaded!
So some people started to cry loudly and report the serious enemy situation.
"Your Majesty, the Southern soldiers are too insidious! They have a castle hidden behind the mountain pass in front of us!"
"A big castle! Or quite a few guns..."
"The gun platform is full of cannons!"
"There are at least hundreds of doors..."
"We can't stop it no matter how hard we try!"
"My lord... Master Shang Qi was killed in the battle! He was blown to pieces by cannons!"
