Chapter 130: The Ceremony of Sacrifice to Heaven
A musket sounded, killing dozens of Qing soldiers and archers, and the Blue Armored Tartars were also shot dead.
The Qing army saw the power of muskets, and the entire army retreated a hundred steps away. Soon, the sound of gold sounded, and the Qing army's troops retreated without any movement.
Nikan's 30,000 troops rushed for a day. Seeing that the Chinese army relied on the city wall to defend tightly, they simply retreated the army, rested for a night, and launched another offensive the next day.
Early the next morning, the Qing soldiers became restless again, and a large group of soldiers surrounded the Qin King's Mansion and launched a fierce attack on the gaps exploded by the Luxing Gate and the Chinese Army in the west.
The Luxingmen city wall was as high as four feet high. The Qing soldiers returned in a hurry, without much siege equipment. The siege was just relying on street houses and shooting against the Chinese army on the city wall, restraining the Chinese army's forces.
Nikan personally led the troops and focused the attack on the gap in the city wall on the west side. The slope after the city wall collapsed was very suitable for the impact of the Qing soldiers.
Prince Heshuosu Haoge is the eldest son of Huang Taiji. He is now dead all over the city, and his head is hanging on the top of the city. How can Nikan afford this great crime of losing the prince?
Fortunately, Haoge and the Regent competed for the throne, and the conflicts and resentment with Dorgon were very deep. If the murderer could be captured, there would be a glimmer of hope for survival.
Nikan was worried and frightened, and his face was gloomy and directed the Qing soldiers to attack the city.
Cui Ziyi guarded the Luxing Gate, and Wanjun led his troops to the west wall to resist the Qing army's attack like a tide.
Due to the narrow space in the city, the firearms of the Chinese Army did not have the advantage of range. The Qing soldiers pulled out many mesh guns and general guns to shoot against the Chinese Army. The guns and cannons flew across the two sides.
Wan Jun hid behind the female wall. Seeing that the Qing army used firepower to charge up the slope several times, he cursed in his heart, why did Cui Ziyi blow up so many walls?
The two sides fought until noon, and the Luxing Gate shot at each other tepidly. The Western Wall was completely a meat grinder, and the Qing soldiers were desperate to attack.
The Qing army's general's artillery bombarded two doors, and the rest of the Qing soldiers had to stop and cool down the cannon tube with clean water.
The Chinese army on the top of the city was not much better. In just one morning, a regiment was already disabled, and the prepared regiment had to be replaced.
In the afternoon, due to the overheating of artillery, the Qing soldiers' offensive stopped a little, and the bodies of the Qing soldiers at the bottom of the slope had completely covered the inclined surface of the earth and rocks.
The Qing soldiers crowded under the city wall suddenly retreated and gave up the alley under the western wall.
Immediately afterwards, a horse neighed, and it turned out that an Eight Banners cavalry appeared on the street.
Wan Jun secretly shouted "No," he wanted to use cavalry to rush to the city wall, and quickly shouted, "Get cavalry for me, and beat the fuck horse!"
Sure enough, the Eight Banners soldiers began to accelerate on the streets, charged along the bluestone street under the west city wall, and rushed towards the slope.
How can you block such a fast speed and such a short distance?
Under the city wall, there were corpses piled up and there were earth and rock slopes. The Eight Banners soldiers miraculously rushed the cavalry to the top of the city with the speed of charge.
The Chinese army could not resist the city wall, and the formation was immediately dispersed.
Except for a few of the cavalry that rushed up, they could not control the wall and rushed into the depths.
Seeing that the cavalry succeeded in charging, the Qing soldiers under the city immediately stepped forward together and pressed towards the city wall.
Wan Jun said helplessly, "It's too late, the outer city is broken!"
The Chinese army at the gap tried desperately to block it, but the front had been dispersed by the cavalry, and some of the troops had to be divided to deal with the cavalry on the top of the city. Facing the Qing soldiers like a tide, the front could not be restored at all.
Wan Jun pulled the guards over
, "Go to Luxingmen to send a message. The western wall is broken, everyone retreats to the inner city!"
The personal guard ran away wildly, and Wanjun pulled out his long sword and said to the commander beside him, "Let the reserve regiment guard the intersection, everyone gets out of contact and retreat to the inner city, hurry!"
"Grenadier, hold the enemy with grenades!"
Everyone hurriedly removed the city wall, crossed the dry ring river, and ran towards the inner city.
Wan Jun remembered Guangzhi Gate. When he attacked yesterday, the gate there was also blown up by grenadiers. He said anxiously in his heart, "The Preparatory Regiment and I retreat north with me."
Fortunately, it was almost evening. The Qing soldiers did not know that Guangzhimen had been destroyed and occupied the exterior wall, and did not immediately attack the inner city.
After Wan Jun and others retreated to the inner city, Cui Ziyi hurried to meet Wan Jun. When they met, they regretted, "Head of the People's Republic of China, the world is still counting on the People's Republic of China. How could this happen? The outer city will be broken in one day, and we can't wait for reinforcements to come."
Wan Jun said, "I didn't expect that the Hu people could use cavalry to rush to the city wall."
Cui Ziyi said, "In today's battle, we have lost two regiments. What should we do tomorrow?"
Wan Jun secretly regretted that he was just a time traveler who had passed through the "arctic point" of time, and he was not an invulnerable god. I am afraid he would not die here now.
Thinking about the fact that our ambition has not been realized, Wan Jun said, "We still have five regiments. At worst, we can fight for two more days!"
Cui Ziyi said, "We don't have much food or ammunition. If there is no reinforcements before we have run out of ammunition, we will be done!"
The Ziwu Valley Mountain Road is difficult to walk. In order to take a surprise soldier, the materials and capitals of these seven regiments were very limited. Wan Jun suddenly realized the logistics problems and was shocked and asked, "How long is it enough to last?"
Cui Ziyi said, "At most one day!"
One day, then fight another day, east and west, no matter which army can reach, the crisis will be resolved. Wan Jun strongly said, "Since ancient times, no one has died, what are you afraid of?"
Wan Jun and Cui Ziyi encouraged each other for a while. Thinking that the city gate of Guangzhi Gate had been blown up and had to be fully protected, Wan Jun called soldiers to dig a trench along the city gate, cut the bamboo from the back garden, sharpened it and buried it underground, and made a bamboo gun array.
At dawn, the Qing army brigade entered the inner city and began to attack the city gate.
The inner city wall is only more than 300 meters away from the outer wall, and there is a moat between the two walls. The space for the Qing soldiers to gather is limited and can only be arranged along the outside of the moat.
The Green Camp soldiers tried to cross the dry river, but they had no numerical advantage. In front of the volley of muskets, they could only increase casualties.
The Qing soldiers mobilized general artillery and blew up at the city wall on the south side. Although they made the blue bricks splash on the top of the city, they expected that such light artillery would collapse the city wall. At that time, it would be enough for Chen Xinmin's reinforcements to break Tongguan and go to Hanzhong to take a hot spring.
Sure enough, after a while, the Qing soldiers stopped shelling and the troops began to gather north.
The city gate of Guangzhimen was damaged, how could the Qing soldiers give up this great opportunity? A large group of soldiers crossed the moat and rushed towards Guangzhimen.
Wan Jun was waiting at Guangzhimen for a long time, and the Qing soldiers were moving at a slower speed than he thought. Seeing the Qing soldiers coming, Wan Jun took a deep breath, "Aim and fight, don't waste ammunition!"
Due to the terrain of the inner city, it was more difficult for the Qing soldiers to attack. From the moat, the Qing soldiers had to face the firepower attack of the Chinese army and rushed into the narrow door opening. There was another deep trench in front of them. The sharp bamboo gun was buried on the ground and stretched out several meters. The Qing soldiers could not charge at all.
But in the door opening, without impact speed, then there is only the amount of being massacred.
The Chinese Army calmly pretended based on the bamboo gun array
Bullet, aim at the Qing soldiers and shoot.
The Qing soldiers fought until the afternoon, not only did they make no progress, but instead lost thousands of people. A general's cannon exploded and fell into the mud of the moat.
In the evening, the Qing soldiers stopped their attacks, and Wan Jun and Cui Ziyi patrolled the inner city to cheer the soldiers.
Cui Ziyi said, "Head of the People's Republic of China, we have lost another group today."
Wanjun seemed to hear the sound of gunfire coming and asked, "Ziyi, what have you heard?"
Cui Ziyi said happily, "It's reinforcements. The reinforcements have arrived. I think it's Li Wenlong's troops fighting against the Qing soldiers."
The Chinese army in the city cheered, but after waiting for a long time, it was dark, and there was no scene of red flags waving and the army rushing to the death.
Cui Ziyi said disappointedly, "It seems to be very far away."
Wan Jun said, "Stick to another day, reinforcements are coming!"
Cui Ziyi said, "But we have no food anymore, and the ammunition is almost exhausted today."
"tomorrow!"
Cui Ziyi said with difficulty, "At most tomorrow, all muskets will turn into useless scrap iron."
The temples of the troops thundered, and their minds changed. In the past few days, they first attacked the Eight Banners soldiers of the Qin Palace, and then were surrounded by the Qing soldiers in the Qin Palace, and the seven regiments were killed halfway.
After so many days, when will Chen Xinmin’s Tongguan be broken? Where did Li Wenlong’s 30,000 soldiers go?
And Yang Zhan, Yang Zhan with more than 100,000 soldiers, where have he gone?
Wan Jun's mind flew around, although he was unwilling to accept it, but now that things have come to this point, Wan Jun looked at the stars in the sky and sighed, "I think there is probably an unknown power in this universe. No matter how it changes, it will eventually restore the original historical direction!"
Cui Ziyi said, "What are you talking about, Head of State? The power in the universe is Tao. The only thing that covers the sky and carries the earth is Tao!"
Wan Jun simply put aside life and death and told Cui Ziyi, "Ziyi, when technology was very developed in the future, people went to heaven and studied the origin of the universe in deep space. They only had two directions. One was to explore whether the universe had an end, and the other was whether particles had limits. It took a hundred years. Finally, they only studied one sentence, guess what?"
Cui Ziyi said, "What?"
Wan Jun smiled and said, "You must have heard of it, 'The big one has no outside, the small one has no inside', hahaha."
Cui Ziyi didn't know what Wan Jun was laughing at, so he thought for a while and said, "All Taoists have heard of this. How can the head of state know what happened in the future? How can a person go to heaven?"
Wan Jun said, "It's easy to say about God, it's the same principle as the ten thousand households flying in the early Ming Dynasty. However, the equipment was more sophisticated at that time, and people flew to the sky with the help of rockets."
"As for how I know what happened in the future, it's a long story. Anyway, people find that in space, the time elapses are uneven, and try to find the passing points between different times, called the 'arctic point'. It is impossible for people to be in two times at the same time, so there are only two results in the experiment, or they are still in the original time, which is referred to as the experiment failure!"
"There is another result, that is, the experimenter fell to another time, commonly known as 'time travel'!"
After saying that, Wan Jun looked at Cui Ziyi and said, "You understand!"
Cui Ziyi looked confused and shook her head, "I don't understand what you said!"
Wan Jun said, "Simply put, it is a time traveler, do you understand?"
Cui Ziyi said, "What are you traveling through?"
Wan Jun said speechlessly, "Traveling through time!"
"oh!"
"You understand?"
"don't know."
Chapter completed!