Chapter 82 Qing army attacked the capital
At the Deshengmen City, the sound of cannons rumbled and shouted loudly. The large group of green camp Qing troops, still wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets and goose-colored red tassel felt hats, shouting, carrying simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges, rushed to the city.
At the top of the city, the soldiers of Shunjun, who were wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets and goose yellow and red tassel felt hats, kept firing guns and shooting arrows under the city. The soldiers on both sides of the offensive were wearing the same military uniforms of the former Ming army. The only difference was that the Qing army was tied with a green cloth on the arm of the attacking Qing army, which meant that they were the Qing army in the Green Camp, and Shunjun was completely wearing the military uniforms of the former Ming army, without any changes.
The soldiers are very fast. The Qing army of Hong Chengchou, whose main force is the light cavalry, did not carry heavy red cannons, nor did they have time to build heavy siege weapons. They just allowed the Green Camp soldiers to simply build a number of simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges, and launched the siege.
"Ah!" A Qing soldier from the city caught an arrow in the throat and fell backwards. The goose yellow red tassel felt hat on his head fell, revealing a big bare head and a rat-tail braid behind his head.
"These guys who humiliated their ancestors shaved their hair like a Tartar, and they were not afraid of not being able to enter the ancestral grave after death!" Wu Ruyi, who had just shot an arrow, cursed, and then another feather arrow was placed on the bowstring, aiming at a green camp Qing soldier under the city, pulled the bowstring, and shot it out, and the feather arrow accurately pierced the eyes of the green camp Qing soldier. The arrow pierced the skull, and the feather arrow pierced deeply into the eye socket. The green camp Qing soldier covered the arrow shaft, fell backwards, and the suggestion ladder carried on his shoulder also slid down.
Wu Ruyi shot his bow and arrows one after another, shooting twenty arrows in a row, and shot over twenty green camp soldiers under the city in one breath. However, after shooting twenty arrows in a row, he felt his arms sore and could no longer pull his Kaiyuan bow. He had to drop the bow, pick up a bird gun from the corpse of a Shun Army soldier on the ground, skillfully loaded gunpowder and projectiles, then hung a fuse, aimed at a Qing soldier under the city and pulled the trigger.
"Bang" the bird gun blew out a fire, and another Qing army in the Green Camp fell down.
The Shun army at the top of the city tried hard to shoot arrows, and the corpses of the Green Camp soldiers were lying everywhere under the city. However, there were too many Qing troops attacking, and the Shun army could not stop the Qing army from approaching the moat. Soon, the Qing soldiers put the simple moat bridge on the moat, and carried the green camp soldiers who suggested the cloud ladder to rush across the moat and put the simple cloud ladder on the city wall.
The tall capital city wall is four to five meters high, which is much higher than the wall of an ordinary city. The simple cloud ladder has a hook at the head and is hung on the wall, making it difficult for the defenders to push it away. However, the simple cloud ladder, which is more than five meters long, is shaking on the city wall. Some people began to climb the city wall, and the simple cloud ladder shook violently.
Just as a series of Qing soldiers in the green camp began to climb, a winch's arms poked out from the top of the city wall, and only a "release" sound came from the above. A yaksha squat fell from the winch's arms. The yaksha squat was a log with large iron nails growing on it. The yaksha squat rolled down along the simple cloud ladder, strung rows of Qing soldiers on the wolf's teeth nails, and blood splashed everywhere, and all the Qing soldiers lifted up the cloud fell from the city.
The defenders at the city wall quickly pulled the winch and took the Yasha back to the city wall.
At the other ladder, a winch's arms were also poked out from the top of the city. The defenders at the top of the city loosened the ropes, and a thick wooden board covered with long iron nails was smashed heavily to the ground. Only a scream was heard. The wooden board with long iron nails nailed a piece of Qing soldiers to death on the ground. This was a heavy city defense weapon, wolf teeth pat. After landing, the defenders at the top of the city pulled the winch and took the wolf teeth patted back.
More Qing soldiers rushed across the moat. At this time, rows of lime bottles were smashed down on the top of the city. The lime bottles exploded under the city. The quicklime sprayed on the Qing soldiers' heads and bodies. The quicklime sprayed on their faces made the Qing soldiers unable to open their eyes.
The Qing soldiers of the Green Camp who had already rushed to the opposite side of the moat opened their bows and arrows and shot light arrows at the top of the city. The Qing soldiers of the Green Camp also fired and fired at the top of the city.
Arrows flew up to the top of the city, and from time to time, Shun soldiers were shot and fell down. The living Shun soldiers continued to attack the city, with lime bottles and wolf teeth slapped, and the yarksha continued to fall, and the turbulent tank was dropped on the top of the city. Then the rockets shot to the city, and the raging fire immediately ignited under the city. The Qing soldiers crowded under the city cried and wailed in the sea of fire, struggling desperately. A large number of Qing soldiers who were on fire screamed and jumped into the moat. Although the flames were extinguished, they were hot and cold. Even if these seriously burned Qing soldiers were rescued, they would soon be seriously injured.
The flames ignited the simple cloud ladders, one after another, broke in the raging fire, fell down and turned into ashes; the fire spread to the simple trench bridge built on the moat, igniting the trench bridge. In the flames, the trench bridge was slowly burned off and fell into the moat.
Just as the Shun Army at the top of the city resisted fiercely, the nobles such as Wu Weihua, Tang Yu, and civil servants such as Chen Mingxia, Wang Aoyong, and Feng Quan in the city started to move.
Wu Weihua took his dozens of his servants straight to Deshengmen. On the way, they met Wang Aoyong, who also brought a team of servants. The two teams added up to more than 100 people. In the streets and alleys of the capital, civil servants and gentry took their servants out of the cave like poisonous snakes hibernating and awakening, came out of the alleys, gathered on the main road, gathered into a crowded river, and headed straight to Deshengmen.
At this time, the Shun Army was fighting fiercely from the Qing army on the top of the city, and no one noticed the sudden change in the city.
"Kill!" Wu Weihua, who was leading the way, drew out his knife, shouted loudly, and led dozens of his servants to head straight to the city head along the steps behind the city gate.
Finally someone discovered the servant who was sneaking up from behind. A Shun Army soldier shouted: "There is an enemy behind!"
The servants pressed down the hanging knife of the crossbow machine one after another. With the sound of the bowstrings tensing, the short crossbow arrows shot out, woven into a dense net in the air, covering the heads of the Shun Army soldiers.
The soldiers of Shun Army, who were completely unprepared, screamed and fell down a large area. The servants put the crossbow machine on the ground, held the bow with their feet, and rolled the crossbow arrows with both hands, loaded the crossbow arrows in the slot, then raised the crossbow and shot out a row of arrows again.
The Shun Army in Chengtou was suddenly attacked from behind and suffered heavy losses immediately.
At the same time, Wang Aoyong rushed into the city gate with his servants. Several Shun soldiers in the door were shot into hedgehogs by crossbow arrows. Then the servants opened the inner city gate, then rushed through the urn city, shot and killed the guards at the outer city gate, and then rushed into the door and opened the outside city gate.
Wu Weihua, with his servants who had shot crossbow arrows, swung his sword to kill the city gate above, and launched a fierce battle with the Shun army at the top of the city. More servants of the gentry and civil servants rushed to the city to join the bloody battle.
"Surrender to avoid death!" Wu Weihua shouted.
"We have surrendered!" The guards who had no fighting spirit threw away their weapons and knelt on the ground to surrender.
The defenders at the top of the city fell one after another. Wu Ruyi, the guard general of the Shun Army, led his dozens of his personal soldiers to fight to kill the servants, but there were fewer and fewer personal soldiers around him. In the end, only he and three personal soldiers were left, surrounded by a group of nobles, civil servants and gentry servants.
"Surrender to avoid death!" Wu Weihua stepped forward and shouted.
"Bah!" Wu Ruyi spitted on Wu Weihua's face with blood and phlegm, "Gongshu, the king is kind to save you a life, and allows you to keep most of your property, but you want to betray the king!"
"Good intention? The thief stole 80,000 taels of silver from me and distributed my land to mud legs! Now Lord Hong is here with the King of Kings. I want to bring back all the principal and interests that you snatched away!" Wu Weihua raised his hand and said, "Shot the arrow!"
The servants pressed down the hanging sword and shot the crossbow arrows in a volley. Wu Ruyi and his three personal soldiers were all shot into hedgehogs.
Chapter completed!