"Aim at the city wall in front and blast hard." Artillery team Lin Ping pointed at Qingcheng in front of the muzzle and shouted loudly.
There were rumbling cannons all around, and his voice could only be heard by a few people around him. Even so, he still kept shouting loudly.
Qingcheng, the pearl on the grassland, has special meaning to the Mongolians.
Since this pearl of the prairie was built here, no one has ever broken through it in the past few decades. It has only been besieged by a large army once, and that was just a dispute within Tumut.
This time, it was the first time that this pearl of the prairie was besieged by the Han army from the Ming Dynasty.
Lin Ping's eyes were slightly red because of his excitement.
Capturing Qingcheng is of great strategic significance to the Tiger Flag, and as the first artillery team to launch an attack on Qingcheng, it will also leave its name in Qing history.
"Captain, two nine-pound cannons have been brought up." The messenger ran to Lin Ping to report.
Lin Ping looked back at the two nine-pound cannons that appeared on the position and said loudly: "Tell them that I only have one request for them, which is to blast open the city wall of Qingcheng."
"Yes." The messenger agreed and ran to the position where the two nine-pound cannons were.
boom! boom!
The two nine-pounders were deployed and fired one after another.
The solid iron ball shot out hit the green bricks outside the wall hard, causing the green bricks around the wall to shatter and countless debris flying everywhere.
The nine-pounder only paused briefly, and then the second round started again.
The place where the cannon hit was still the same place as before, forcing the green bricks on the city wall to become more damaged.
The other four-pounders and six-pounders were all concentrated in one place, hoping to use cannon fire to create a gap in the city wall, just like they did against Bansheng City before.
Solid bullets flew from the muzzle of the cannon, and the sound of the cannon was even more deafening.
Chen Xunping, who was commanding the operations on the front line, had been paying attention to the situation on the Qingcheng city wall through the monocular telescope in his hand.
"Before I came here, I thought Qingcheng was better than Banshengcheng. Now it seems that it is not as good as Banshengcheng. Holding a wooden board is like blocking the cannons of our artillery team. Who are you looking down on!" Zhang Sancha took away the sheet in front of him. binoculars, and said to Chen Xunping beside him.
Through a monocular telescope, you can see the situation on the Qingcheng city wall.
When the artillery team bombarded Qingcheng, many wooden planks were erected on the walls of Qingcheng.
Chen Xunping said with a smile: "It would be better to take Qingcheng easily. Maybe you still want to take Qingcheng after a bloody battle."
As a frontline commander, his mission is to capture the target at the minimum cost.
Regarding the situation in Qingcheng, there has been a steady stream of news coming back. The emptiness inside Qingcheng is no longer a secret here in Tiger Flag.
For Chen Xunping, taking Qingcheng was just a matter of easy capture. Just like how he dealt with Bansheng City before, facing the powerful bombardment of the tiger-character flag, any city wall turned into paper.
"The artillery team will break through the city wall in a while. Commander, you must let my camp be the vanguard and take the lead in attacking Qingcheng." Zhang Sancha asked for a fight.
Chen Xunping smiled and said, "Don't worry, the city wall hasn't been breached yet."
Boom!
As soon as he finished speaking, a city wall in Qingcheng finally couldn't bear it under the continuous bombardment of the artillery team, and collapsed, throwing up a cloud of dust and smoke.
"Collapsed? It's our battalion's turn to attack." Zhang Sancha looked at Chen Xunping.
Chen Xunping picked up the monocular and took a look at the situation in Qingcheng, and said, "Go and prepare! In a quarter of an hour, your camp will be the first to attack Qingcheng."
"Yes." Zhang Sancha said solemnly, turned around and ran to his camp to prepare for entering Qingcheng.
The collapse of the Qingcheng city wall indicates that it has become a luxury for the people on the city wall to rely on the city wall to resist the attack of the Tiger Flag.
Defending the city is not the Mongolians' strong point? Faced with a situation where they can only avoid and cannot fight back, the fighting spirit in their hearts has long since disappeared.
Now that the city wall has collapsed, everyone knows that they can't stand it anymore. If they continue to stay on the city wall, they will just become a target for cannons.
Everyone on the city wall quickly ran away.
Temulun's soldiers who stayed under the city wall all retreated to the Khan's palace with Temulun because of the collapse of the city wall.
There was a chaos near the city wall, with people squeezing and stepping on their feet. They all wanted to escape from the city wall, and were unwilling to stay and become the target of the tiger-shaped flag army.
Temulun had already left his mount in the yard not far from the city wall.
As soon as he left the city wall, he led his bodyguard on horseback and rushed to the Khan's palace.
In the Khan's Palace, Omubuhong walked around inside, glancing in the direction outside the Khan's Palace from time to time.
"Taiji is in trouble." A Mongolian soldier wearing leather armor ran in from outside.
When Ombuhong saw the person coming, he hurried up to greet him. He asked eagerly: "What's wrong? Could it be that the Tiger-Character Banner's army has invaded?"
He had been in the Khan's Palace hearing the sound of cannons outside, his heart was always in his throat, and he was worried all the time that the Tiger-Character Banner army would break through the city and enter the Khan's Palace.
"The city wall, the city wall is broken." The Mongolian warrior said breathlessly.
Ombuhong's face suddenly turned aside, his lips wriggled a few times, and finally he looked at Kankantada and said: "Old Taiji, what should we do, what should we do, the tiger-shaped flag army has entered the city."
"No, we haven't entered the city yet, but the city wall was blown down by artillery." The Mongolian soldier explained.
Ombuhong had a sad face and said: "Old Taiji, the city wall is broken, and the tiger-character banner army can enter the city at any time. They have tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and we only have a few thousand people in the city, so we can't hold it at all. "
"How could this happen!" Kancantada's face turned pale.
Originally, he wanted to rely on Qingcheng to hold off the Tiger-Character Banner army for a few days. Once the reinforcements from various ministries arrived, they could attack the Tiger-Character Banner soldiers and horses with the reinforcements from various ministries and defeat the Tiger-Character Banner army in one fell swoop.
But the current situation was far different from what he expected.
Qingcheng, which he relied on most, didn't even hold on for a day. The city wall was blasted open by the Tiger Flag, which made all his next plans useless.
"Old Taiji, what should we do? Should we abandon the city?" Ombuhong pressed the question again without waiting for Kankantada's response.
I have already begun to think about how to escape Qingcheng.
Kankantada came back to his senses and said to the Mongolian soldier who came to the Khan Palace to deliver the message: "Where is Temuluntaiji, where is he? Find him immediately and ask him to come to the Khan Palace immediately."
The Mongolian warrior quickly left the Khan's palace.
Just as he left, Temulun had already brought people to the Khan Palace.
There were no more guards outside the Khan Palace, and Temulun strode in.
"Lao Taiji, Omu Buhong Taiji, the tiger-character flag has broken through the city wall. Qingcheng cannot be defended. We must evacuate as soon as possible." Temulun shouted loudly as soon as he came in.
