For the Northern Navy, it is really not difficult to fight Shengjing City from a military perspective. The trouble is to minimize civilian casualties.

The launch of the general attack was set at 4:15 am on the sixth day of August, which was the time when people were most struggling. At 2:30, the vanguard battalion, which served as the main attackers of each regiment, entered the predetermined attack position under the cover of night.

Over the past few days, the Eastern Front troops have fought against Qing army sentry attackers many times. In the eyes of ordinary people, the Eight Banners Armored Soldiers, with superb martial arts skills, were not enough to meet scouts composed of Ewenk and Daur people, and suffered heavy losses. So now the Qing army no longer dares to send people out of the city at night.

"Let's start." Deng Fei looked at his watch and it was time.

Zhao Xin nodded without comment. Under the eager eyes of everyone in the command center, he picked up the warm erect tea and took a big sip. Then he picked up the walkie-phone on the table and issued the order to start the attack.

"Bang!", "Bang!", "Bang!"

A few red flares rose from the dark night sky, illuminating the dark earth. Such a scene was no longer surprising to the Qing army stationed on the city walls of Shengjing and the strongholds outside the city gate. The Qing army on the city walls, who were on the night side, just looked up and muttered, and even knocked on the gong.

From the first night of the sorghum harvest, the Eastern Front Command requested a flare. Although the front-line troops did not understand the command's intention, they still did it. Sure enough, when the Qing army first thought that the North Navy was going to attack the city, they sounded loudly on the top of the city. Everyone dared not sleep all night. However, after only three days, the Qing army could not withstand it. During the day, they all looked like black-eyed chickens, with two dark circles on their eyes.

The first attack was the artillery. The Eastern Front Command split the two 75mm artillery battalions and the 122 howitzer battalions of the direct command, and deployed them in the east, north and west directions of Shengjing City, with positions only two kilometers away from the city wall. When the artillery company commanders from various places issued an order to fire, thirty-six 75mm field cannons and eighteen 122 cannons face the Fusheng Gate and the UeiRang Gate, and the urn of Fusheng Gate and the WaiRang Gate opened directly. Since the orientation rulers of each target had been measured in advance, no test firing was carried out as soon as they were up.

The entire Shengjing City suddenly became shaking, and the mountains were shaking. One after another, the shells roared, fierce and dense, like a thunder and rain rolling down with a blazing storm. The bricks and stones collapsed, the skeletons exploded, and the limbs were torn apart... The whole city was shaking. The red and green tracer bombs flew wildly on the city wall like meteors, and the smoke was connected to the smoke. The flames followed by the flames raged on the city wall, blinding people's eyes.

In the light and shadow of the flames, there were purple and black mixed with red and black, smells of gunpowder, burnt smell, bloody smell, dusty smell, and turbid and unpleasant smells, which rushed into the guards' mouths and nostrils. Everyone kept coughing, sneezing, and even being choked so hard that they could not breathe.

One hundred and sixty-three years ago, that is, the fifth year of Tiancong of the Later Jin Dynasty, Huang Taiji ordered the reconstruction of Shengjing City. The Shenyang Wei City Wall built during the Ming Dynasty was made of bricks and soil inside. After the reconstruction, it was based on stone. The inner and outer walls were both bricked and solid soil in the middle. The height of the city wall increased from the original two zhang 5 to three zhang 5, and the wall was 18 zhang 8, with eight gate towers, four corner towers and 651 vanes.

At the eight city gates, there are all built in a concave shape. The height is the same as the height of the base of the city gate tower. The front is closed, the two sides are connected to the city wall, and an arched door is opened. In order to prevent the attack of weapons such as attacking rams, the city gates on both sides of the city gate are not on the same line as the city gates protected.

Three years later, Huang Taiji personally ordered the eight city gates to be named, written by Manchu and Chinese. The so-called "the superiors are blessed by heaven, the subordinates are sentiments, the subordinates are inspired by the earth, the internal culture is cultivated, the external wars are refuted, the external people are comforted, and the external vassal tribes are created to create prosperity for blessings."

When the shelling took place for ten minutes, the attacking troops, which were ready to go, were dispatched. Under the cover of machine gun fire, they carried the assault boats that were invigorated in advance, and ran quickly along the roads on the guards everywhere, and in a blink of an eye, they arrived at the moat.

The moat in the outer city of Shengjing was also ordered to be re-excavated by Huang Taiji, and was re-cleared in the first few years. The river water was nearly fifty meters wide and three meters deep, and the Hun River was connected to both north and south.

The Third Company of the Third Battalion of the 17th Regiment where Su Wan was located was the assault company to attack Xiaoximen. More than 100 people, led by company commander Xu Jian, used engineer shovels as paddles and paddled desperately. Ten black rubber boats crossed the moat in just one minute. At this time, the artillery fire of the North Navy had extended to both sides of the city. Xu Jian ordered a platoon to stand under the city and shoot at the collapsed platoon city tower. The other platoon covered him. After finishing all this, a squad responsible for blasting the city gate came to the locking hole outside the arched gate on the east side with explosive bags.

Like other city gates, this voucher hole is made of stone blue bricks, and the interface is made of glutinous rice egg white dust, and the surface is covered with tight stitching. The city gate inside is nearly five meters wide, and inside and outside are covered with thick wooden boards and nails.

"adhesive tape!"

With the order of the squad leader, several soldiers took out tape and stuck two packs of ten kilograms of explosives in the middle of the two doors. The thrilling sound of tearing the tape was extremely harsh in the open voucher hole. When everything was ready, the two soldiers pulled the fire tube open, and then everyone retreated outside the door hole.

"hidden!"

30 seconds was short, but not long. Su Wan was half-squatting and standing on the slope of the moat, holding a machine gun and shooting towards the corner tower, and was addicted to it. He didn't pay attention to the reminder behind him. He heard a loud noise behind him, and a shock wave immediately overturned him to the ground, and he ate mud. Then, countless gravel, wood chips and iron pieces whizzed past his head.

The troops had previously used drone reconnaissance and knew that the Qing army blocked the gate of the urn city with sandbag logs, so the ammonium nitrate explosive used for blasting used 20 kilograms.

This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content later! When the smoke of gunpowder dissipates, the two soldiers of the blasting squad took out a large flashlight and shine it in the voucher hole. They saw that the two city gates wrapped in iron were broken, and only a few broken wooden boards were left hanging on the door shaft. The blockages behind the city gate disappeared.

"Crush!" With the order of the platoon leader, more than a dozen soldiers walked through the city gate and soon arrived in the urn. There was a small temple under the urn at the small west gate, which was close to the base of the urn wall. It was the Zhenwu Temple that worshipped God Xuantian.

Speaking of which, Beihai Town has a good fate with Emperor Zhenwu. When the first battle of Furdan City, the migrant workers discovered a Xuanwu stone statue in Suifenhe Valley. Although Liu Sheng prohibited burning incense and worshipping at that time, he even punished Jiang Tenglin for this. However, when the scale of Furdan City became larger, the Xuanwu statue also became a local scene. Since then, it has been circulated among the people of Beihai Town, saying that Zhao Xin was the reincarnation of Emperor Xuanwu.

However, for Xu Jian and his soldiers, no one has the intention to go to the temple to worship gods. There is a city gate not far away that is about to explode!

At this moment, on the small Ximen Tower and the walls on both sides of the city walls, dozens of pine oil torches were suddenly thrown down. Then dozens of Qing soldiers held muskets and bows and arrows, shooting at the city walls. Some even lit gourds containing gunpowder and iron sand and threw them down.

"Machine gun cover! Su Wan! Where did you die!"

"Here is here!"

While speaking, Su Wan, who was covered in dirt, ran over with a machine gun in his arms. He stood in the darkness at the corner of the door, holding the machine gun and hitting the outer gate tower. The red tracer ballistic was like a live whip, hitting the blue bricks at the marquee. Soon, two more machine gunners climbed onto the roof of Zhenwu Temple and lie on it and added shooting. The Qing army behind the marquee were killed and injured in a blink of an eye.

The Qing army behind the city walls no longer dared to emerge, and whoever showed up died. They could only ignite the few flying thunder in their hands and then throw them down aimlessly.

"Bang!" After the flying thunder exploded, a thick smoke first emanated.

"Swish!" It was the iron sand that exploded and it was flying around.

"Boom!" A grenade was thrown onto the city wall.

Seeing that the Qing army's counterattack was suppressed, the blasting squad rushed up again. With the same operation, for the same thirty seconds, Su Wan heard the prompt this time, but because he was standing at the entrance of the gate of the urn city, the echoes caused by the huge explosion almost broke his eardrum. This guy is not stupid, but he is stunned. He is a single-threaded thinking and only focuses on one thing in front of him.

The city gate was blown open, and Xu Jian reported to the battalion commander using a walkie-talkie, then rushed up with his men, and in a blink of an eye, he arrived on the small cross street.

The dark night sky began to turn white, and the figures on the streets became vaguely visible. The artillery bombardment of the North Navy stopped as several city gates were opened. However, as a large number of follow-up troops crossed the moat and entered the city, the sound of gunfire and shouts of killing became more and more intense.

Xu Jian brought his hands down to the city tower. The casualties and wounded Qing army and Min Yong were lying everywhere, with no place to lay their feet.

"Attention! There are people in the city gate tower!"

A soldier heard something in the gatehouse and immediately issued a warning. The people from the second platoon of the third company quickly surrounded him. The leader of the second platoon shouted: "Come out! Put down your weapons! Hold your head with both hands!"

As soon as he finished speaking, the remaining Qing army in the gatehouse answered with two strange cannons filled with shotguns. The flames gushed, and the two strange cannons, which looked like large bird guns, instantly ejected more than 30 iron bullets. Several soldiers from the third company closest to the door were immediately beaten into sieves, and black and red blood donations sprayed all over the floor.

Immediately afterwards, more than twenty Eight Banners Armored soldiers, holding bows, arrows, guns and bird guns, and under the leadership of the gatekeeper, all of them opened their red eyes and howled like wild animals, and killed them.

"Dadadada..."

The machine gun in Su Wan's hand rang. When all the drums were beaten, the smoke in the jar was already pungent and blood flowed into a river.

Then Xu Jian ordered the second platoon to enter the gatehouse to clean and see if there were any living enemies. He arranged for people to escort the wounded out of the city. Then he walked to the city wall and raised his telescope to observe the city.

At this time, the large troops of the Northern Navy had entered the city from the foreign gates one after another. The hundreds of people who came in quickly ran south along the base of the city wall. Their goal was to block the Tianyou Gate and Desheng Gate in the south, thereby completing the full encirclement of the inner city of Shengjing.

The telescope's vision ranged from near to far. More than 100 meters east of the small west gate, there was a large temple with constant panic running in. The temple was crowded with people. Xu Jian thought for a while, and then ordered the first row and the second row to stay at the city gate, and he took the third row to take a look. When he came to the gate of the temple, he saw a large archway standing outside. Because it was dim, he could see the plaque above with four big words "Long Lives" written on it.

He was really right. About 300 remaining soldiers and flag managers who escaped from the Qing army hid in. These people were scared and knelt in front of the gate of the Main Hall to kowtow to ask for blessings from the Buddha. On the ground outside the temple gate, there were all kinds of swords, guns and weapons thrown away, which was obviously lost by the Qing army who escaped from the escape.

When Xu Jian brought people to the mountain gate, several North Navy soldiers were arguing with several monks at the door. The monks stood in a row and stopped in front of the door, and the soldiers were helpless.

"What's going on?"

The soldier in the lead saw two vertical marks on Xu Jian's steel helmet and knew that the other party was a captain company commander, so he hurriedly saluted: "Sir, we have to go in and search. These bald donkeys will stop you! Damn it! If it weren't for the meeting before, I would have to make them look good!"

At the pre-war meeting held in the regiment, the main buildings in Shengjing City were marked and explained. In addition to the imperial palace in the inner city, the General's Office and the Five Departments Office, the Wanshou Temple in the Wailangmen and the Wailangmen are also one of the most important buildings.

This place is known as "the ever-living jungle of Buddhism in all directions". The temple contains a "Tripitaka" which was granted by Emperor Yingzong of the Ming Dynasty in the fifth year of Zhengtong. In addition, in the thirteenth year of Yongzheng, it was granted a new "Tripitaka". Now, in the entire Liaodong region, there is only one temple with such a rich Chinese scriptures, and there is no other semicolon.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Eastern Front Command has made a request to the siege troops, and try to avoid destroying Wanshou Temple during combat. Of course, if the Qing army resists stubbornly by relying on the temple, it must be eliminated resolutely; if it is just hiding in the temple to survive, then as long as it is checked and confirmed that it will no longer resist, let them go.

At this time, the oldest among the monks took two steps forward, bowed and clasped his hands and said, "Amitabha! All soldiers, this place is a holy place for Buddhism. Do not use weapons without any wits. I hope you will forgive me."

Xu Jian looked up and down a few times. The monk looked in his fifties, had a medium figure, was wearing a clean Haiqing, a national face, a straight nose, broad mouth, deep eyes, low eyebrows.

Xu Jian said coldly: "What are you doing?"

"Well, I am a monk from Wanshou Temple." The monk thought to myself, what else can I do with this outfit?

“What do you call it?”

"My monk's Dharma name Yuanbao."

Xu Jian was stunned for a moment, thinking why there were monks who called this name. The North Haijun around him also showed strange expressions, thinking that the monk's Dharma name was really interesting. Could it be that he was crazy about silver?

Xu Jian nodded and said, "Master Yuanbao, our people found that many Qing army defeated soldiers fled into the temple. It is now a war, so we have to go in and take them away."

Monk Yuanbao said: "The official is so bad..."

Xu Jian interrupted: "There are no masters and slaves in our North Navy, and officers and soldiers are equal. Just call me Company Commander Xu."

Monk Yuanbao's eyes showed a hint of surprise and said, "Captain Xu, you have also seen these weapons all over the ground. Those people are just poor people who want to survive. Besides, there are not only officers and soldiers who put down swords and guns in the temple, but also many elderly, weak, women, children and children, and they all come here to take refuge."

After saying that, he recited the Buddha's name and said, "I heard Master Chengche mention the matter of your subordinate in the early years. It is said that the Northern Navy is benevolent and righteous to the people, and King Zhao is the reincarnation of the holy king who saved the people from water and fire..."

Xu Jian ignored the other party's compliment, but he keenly noticed a person's name, so he interrupted: "Chengche? Do you know Master Chengche of Wuya Temple?"

Monk Yuanbao thought to himself, it seems that Master Chengche is very famous among the North Pirates! He was about to speak again, but Xu Jian raised his hand and interrupted: "I don't care what your reason is. Now we must go to the temple to search! Don't say that you are Wanshou Temple, even the palace, I will also shine in! Everyone listens! After entering, they only take away the people wearing Qing army clothes, and the elderly, weak, women and children don't have to worry about it!"

At this time, a soldier behind him said noddedly: "Company Commander, if we rush in like this, the Buddha will blame you."

Xu Jian said angrily: "Fuck! We are not going in to burn, kill, loot, but to catch the enemy! A group of people were guarding the door. Without my orders, no one was allowed to go out!"
Chapter completed!