For a moment, Liu Chengzong really thought that the city was about to be destroyed.
Although the reward for being the first to ascend is only given to the three centurions, this reward is enough to mobilize the enthusiasm of the entire Suzhou Army. If everyone works bravely, why not worry about destroying a city?
Liu Chengzong was very thoughtful about rewards. If a person is rich, the temptation of money will not be great for him. Even if a person has no money, but the people around him also have no money, then the meaning of money to him may be far worse than the meaning of righteousness.
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Only when this person has no money and everyone around him has money, does money mean the most to him.
The same is true for horses. The Suzhou Army is a newly surrendered army and lacks horses and donkeys. However, the surrounding marshal's army battalions do not say that everyone has a big horse, at least one mule is guaranteed.
In such an army, if all members of a hundred regiments are rewarded with a good horse from Hequ, it can bring a huge boost to the individual's confidence.
During the siege, as long as three centurions climbed to the top of the city to gain a foothold, the following armies swarmed up and the city fell.
It can be said that the moment Liu Chengzong offered the reward to Suzhou Camp, he firmly believed that Suzhou Camp soldiers could easily capture Gaotai City.
However, there were several fierce oil tanks and dozens of fire tubes at the top of the city. The flames spurted out from the cupboards extinguished Liu Chengzong's beautiful fantasy. The kerosene sprayed from the top of the city on the middle and lower parts of the tall car body, and the flames rose up in the wind.
, turning the frontier of the battlefield into a hell on earth in an instant.
The soldiers who were climbing up the carriage didn't know what was happening. The tension of approaching the city made everyone unable to hear the noisy shouts and screams outside. They just scrambled to climb up on the ladder. Halfway up, they found that the carriage was getting bigger and bigger.
It's getting hotter and hotter. Some people want to go back, and some want to go up.
Then the fire started, and people had no choice but to race up the flames and climb up like crazy. As soon as someone emerged from the top of the carriage, his head was blown to pieces by a gushing cannon hidden in the gate tower twenty steps away. The commanders of the four approaching cars pushed to the edge of the city rushed to the top floor, and their reactions were almost the same. They all shouted in the thick smoke and asked people to cut off the ropes.
Some of the ropes suspended by the four approaching cars were cut off, and some were contaminated with kerosene and burned. The three approaching cars released the pedals one after another, but only one of the pedals was accurately placed at the top of the city. The pedals of the other two approaching cars were still released.
There are still one or two steps away from the city wall.
The pedals of the last approaching vehicle were burned when it was on the verge of being destroyed. The vehicle was too close to the city, and the top floor itself was within the range of the heavy-fire oil tank. Even a single soldier on the top floor was killed immediately.
Fire oil sprayed out, and Lin Che was killed in the sea of fire.
The soldiers on the other three vehicles were not much better. There were cannons above and flames below. They took great risks and pedaled to hit the city wall. It was just a suicide attack. Their vision was obscured by the thick smoke from the vehicle.
Falling from the car in flames.
Liu Chengzong held the binoculars and squinted his eyes in pain. He saw with his own eyes a soldier leaping out of the carriage in flames, holding a Ming soldier in his arms, rushing towards the fierce oil tank, and perished together in a ball of exploding flames.
Under the city, the poisonous smoke bombs thrown by Yang Jiamo's defenders also played a huge role. When they threw the smoke bombs, they shouted poisonous smoke. The Suzhou Guard sergeants under the city also thought it was poisonous smoke, but in fact it was not poisonous.<
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Acute poisonous smoke requires a large amount of realgar. The defense of Gaotai City was in a hurry and did not have enough supplies. They could only rush to make smoke bombs with gunpowder, dried artemisia, straw, asphalt, tung oil, hemp rope and other materials. The smoke itself is not very toxic, let alone the outdoor environment.
The smoke density is not particularly high.
But the smoke everywhere still made people choke and cry. The most important thing was that the smoke obscured the sight of the siege troops below the city, making it impossible for them to protect the siege soldiers in the tube ladder. Several three-eyed muskets were fired in turn at the other end of the tube ladder.
, the soldiers in the ladder rolled down one after another.
The soldiers below also evacuated backwards in groups, trying to break out of the smoke. This gave the defenders on the city an opportunity to shoot at the outside of the smoke with bows, arrows, muskets, and small cannons.
The Bee-tailed Needle leading the Lion Artillery Team on the other side of the moat saw it with concern, but the Suzhou Army's tube ladders, side cars, and wooden curtain cars were all pushed to the base of the city wall. The artillerymen were afraid of accidental damage and did not dare to provide fire support.<
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"Damn it, climb up and shoot them to death with a gun, and shoot them at the kerosene tank. We can't let all the troops be buried here!"
Bee Tail Needle couldn't use the artillery, so he immediately ordered his two commanders to lead the team to climb onto the remaining four vehicles. Those four vehicles were all in the middle of the filled-in moat, still forty or fifty steps away from the city wall.
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Earlier he complained that these four vehicles were moving slowly, but he would not complain now. They could be used as firing platforms to suppress the defenders. If they were all pushed to the base of the city wall, depending on the density of the kerosene used by the defenders, these four vehicles would
You can’t even keep a car.
The original intention of Bee Tail Needle was to ask Lin Che to provide support, so that as many Suzhou soldiers as possible could retreat from the base of the city wall, and then they would be safe on the other side of the moat.
But the Suzhou soldiers did not retreat.
Not only did they not retreat, but General Hu Zhishen, who wanted to retreat, was almost chopped down by his subordinate Ding Guodong, who was trained to shrink his neck like a grandson.
There was nothing that could be done about it. Although Hu Zhishen was a general appointed by the Generalissimo, the Suzhou Battalion had not been reorganized by the Marshal's Office. Except for a handful of elite soldiers personally led by Bee Tail Needle, the remaining soldiers in the army were the surrendered troops of the Ming Dynasty.
Divide the score into three parts.
Hu Zhishen's Suzhou Banner Guard was the weakest, but it had quite a lot of people, and the families were all divided into fields. They were very energetic, but their foundation was not good, their training was not good, and their equipment was still poor.
As the saying goes, a general is the courage of a soldier, but soldiers are also the source of a general's prestige. If a useless snack leads a bunch of weaklings and is afraid of wolves in front and tigers in the back, how can he have any prestige?
General Qian Mi Layin was a veteran. He used to be the number one general in Zhao Zhirui's Suzhou camp. But now that he was newly surrendered, his soldiers were surrounded at the post station and became emaciated. When he arrived at the Marshal's Mansion, he rushed to help Liu Chengzong.
, makes people look down upon, so he becomes a good old man who doesn’t speak.
Only Ding Guodong, the former guerrilla general of the Ming Army, had the highest official position and an upright temperament. His subordinates were all veteran soldiers from the Suzhou area of Jiayuguan and were well-trained.
The shortcoming is that in recent years, life has been difficult and food and grass have been scarce. However, they were besieged in Jiayuguan for three months and ate food for half a year. They were all well fed and fat, and they were very confident.
It's just that Ding Guodong originally had the intention to do anything, and he was rewarded by Liu Chengzong when he led his troops. Attacking the high platform became the general trend. One by one, the generals under his command clamored to win the first place, and Ding Guodong couldn't stop him.
He could only make an agreement with the generals under his command who wanted to achieve the feat first, to capture Yang Jiamo and other generals alive as much as possible, and to capture as many soldiers as possible who had laid down their weapons... Ding Guodong was also from Ganzhou, and the city was filled with Ganzhou troops, generals
He knows them all.
Those who took four approaching vehicles to suppress and tried to attack the city were except for the firearms instructors sent by the four Huben battalions, and the rest were all soldiers under Ding Guodong who lived with him day and night.
The kerosene burned fiercely under Gaotai City, and the anger burned fiercely in Ding Guodong's heart.
He didn't even bother to set fire oil to burn the rebels at Jiayuguan. Yang Jiamo directly used kerosene on the city. Needless to say, in this siege, one of him and Yang Jiamo must die.
Just when he was furious, Ding Guodong heard that Hu Zhishen wanted to retreat. His emotions were not contained. He directly came to supervise the battle team. He drew a line on the ground with his sword and said to Hu Zhishen: "Anyone who crosses this line will be killed!"<
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In fact, although their location was on the south bank of the moat, it was only 200 steps away from the city head, so it was still very dangerous. However, Ding Guodong could not care so much. He drew his sword and pointed at the surrounding Suzhou soldiers who were protecting Hu Zhishen with bows and arrows: "
If we can go to the city in one go, all the brothers in front will die in vain if we retreat!"
Then he pointed to the cavalry of the Marshal's Huben Battalion running towards the front, and said to Hu Zhishen: "There are jackals in front and tigers in the back. How can you choose one to death?"
He thought that the horse team running behind him was the supervising team that Liu Chengzong urged them to march on, but in fact... it was the military medical officer of Huben Camp.
Although it was useless for the military medical officers to come in this situation, they were all burned to death, but after all, they were his own soldiers, and for Liu Chengzong, every one he could save was counted.
The general was in disgrace, and the soldiers were dishonored. For a time, tensions were rising before the battle, and an internal strife was about to take place. However, Hu Zhishen smiled and didn't care, and even bowed to Ding Guodong.
Who is he? He doesn't know what a general should know. He has cultivated a lot of hobbies and interests that love life since he was a child. He specializes in lying on the merits of his ancestors and waiting to die.
What does it mean to eat and wait to die? Eating and waiting to die requires an excellent mentality. When an ordinary person encounters something, he or she will become more and more angry as he thinks about it. The more he takes a step back, the more he thinks about it, and the more he loses. He simply cannot stand the anger of eating and waiting to die.
But Hu Zhishen is a real bastard. The so-called turmoil is to achieve the goal of purity or turbidity. In short, he must pass the test.
Facing Ding Guodong's cold eyebrows, he bowed with his backhand: "What my brother said is true. I almost missed something important. Tell me, what should I do?"
To be honest, Ding Guodong looked down on Hu Zhishen from the very beginning and did not say whether to surrender or not. A commander of the Suzhou Guard who liked to admire flowers and plant trees climbed on top of me, a guerrilla general. Isn’t this Liu Chengzong just disgusting?
But after Hu Zhishen bowed like this, Ding Guodong felt that it might not be a bad thing to be around such a coward. If his immediate boss had been Liu Chengzong, and he dared to draw his sword, he would have been pulled out and collapsed by now, and his brains would be hanging on the ground for ten feet.<
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Hu Zhishen did not have such worries. He thought to himself, the front line is all your soldiers. I want to withdraw them. I am not afraid that there will be too many dead and you will kill me later. If you are willing to attack the city, it would be better. Your soldiers are not considered.
After everyone is dead, as long as we take down Gaotaicheng, won't I get all the credit?
Compared with the credit for winning the city, being scolded is nothing.
Hu Zhishen immediately handed over the frontline command to Ding Guodong on the spot. Ding Guodong was not polite and immediately organized a second siege with the Qian Zongmi attack department.
His reorganizing the siege was not a foolhardy act, but the only way to capture the city was to give the defenders a time lag.
As a Gansu general stationed in Jiayuguan, Ding Guodong knew about oil. In fact, the kerosene in Gaotai was most likely sent by Ding Guodong in the past.
Menghuo oil is very precious in some places, such as Yanchang and Yanchuan, which are rich in oil. Many villages have oil wells. Since the Yuan Dynasty, the annual tax paid ranges from a hundred catties to hundreds of catties of oil.
In Jiayuguan, a place close to Yumen, the oil is not fresh. It is not called an oil field because Yumen does not have oil wells like Sichuan and Shaanxi. It is called Shizhishui and flows directly from the river.
After the soldiers collected it, they separated the oil and water, put it in barrels and put it on trucks for transportation to the city in the pass. The oil is light and can be used directly as a kerosene tank.
It’s funny to say that there are about two generations of people in Gansu who have never experienced war. The purpose of storing kerosene in various cities is not for fighting, but to bring a few barrels with them when they go out to practice marching, so that they can make fires for cooking on rainy days.
For daily storage, several large ponds measuring one foot square are dug in the city, and the kerosene is poured into them. After a month of storage, the land around the ponds turns reddish-yellow, and another pit must be dug to move them, otherwise it is easy to cause a fire.
However, during the years of peace in Gansu, no one dug large ponds in Gaotai City. They were all stored in wooden barrels, and the stock was not too large.
Ding Guodong knew very well that there was not much kerosene in Gaotai City. One batch was a small amount, and Yang Jiamo would not move them all to the top of the city. At this time, their first batch of kerosene was almost used up. Seeing the Suzhou Army coming from the top of the city, they were approaching the car.
, the tube ladder was removed, and the Ming army knew that a new round of artillery bombardment was coming.
The Ming army should have withdrawn to the horse paths and trails inside the city wall. At this time, they would be most likely to win if they climbed to the top of the city.
Ding Guodong took over the command and immediately conveyed the military information to the Marshal's Fuzhong Army and the Fengweizhen Department. First, he told Liu Chengzong that they would launch a new round of siege soon, and asked the thousand-jin artillery in the rear to raise the firing angle and fire several rounds into the city.<
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He also told the Bee Tail Needle, who commanded forty lion cannons, not to fire towards the south wall, but to turn and bombard the turrets on both sides of the southeast to suppress the gunners hidden in the turrets.
Then, the former Suzhou Guard Qianhu, now Suzhou Battalion General Hei Chengyin personally led the troops, gathered several hundred headquarters that had just withdrawn, preloaded the three-eyed blunderbuss with ammunition, pulled out the pole and inserted it into his waist.
The smoke under the city has not cleared yet, so people carrying ladders gathered under the city.
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On the other side, Qian Zongmi Layin also led the troops to prepare. He soaked the soldiers' cloth armor and cotton armor in the small puddles that had been filled in the moat. They wore wet armor and gathered in the canister that had not been burned.
Under the ladder, prepare to join a new round of siege.
At this moment, Liu Chengzong, who was one mile away from the city, received the news that Ding Guodong was preparing to attack the city for the second time. He raised his eyebrows, remembered the name Ding Guodong in his heart, and immediately ordered the eighteen thousand-jin cannons to adjust their firing angles and cross the city.
Head fired into the city.
Huang Shengxiao also complained to him, saying that Ding Guodong's 800 men were not capable of defending the city in Jiayuguan, but they had a large appetite and had eaten enough food in the pass for half a year.
Liu Chengzong believed that being able to eat was not a problem. Not to mention half a year's worth of food for three months, he had a year's worth of food for three months. Just the courage to attack the city first after suffering a fire attack, Liu Shishi could afford it.
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"Bang the drum for me to cheer for the warriors!"
The roar of eighteen thousand-pound cannons sounded again one mile south of Gaotai City, and the sound of gold ringing also sounded on the city at the same time. The defenders scrambled to be the first, carrying oil tanks like a tide, and retreated to the rear city by the horse road and the footpath.
At the same time, the suspension bridge outside the west gate of Gaotai City suddenly fell. Luo Junjie, the commander of the Ganzhou Guards, stepped on his horse and raised his sword. He led 600 soldiers to file out from the west gate of Wengcheng and attacked Mo Yu who had just filled in the trench outside the city.
Mongolian soldiers in Beijing.
Yang Jiamo in the city had not yet reacted to the first salvo of artillery fire. The sound of soldiers filing into the city was chaotic. It was not until a moment later that the Marshal's Army fired the second salvo of eighteen thousand-pound cannons that he frowned and looked up to the sky.
, I wonder why I didn’t hear the sound of the bombardment on the city wall?
He heard the roaring of war drums in the distance and watched the cannonballs pass over the city wall at a very high arc. Yang Jiamo suddenly stood up and shouted: "No! I have been fooled. The enemy is still attacking the city!"
Outside the city separated by a wall, more than a dozen soldiers stood up on long ladders, as if they were holding up a sharp spear, towards the city wall.
It's just that the front of this spear is not the spearhead, but the commander of the Suzhou camp wearing a helmet and armor. He holds the short ax at his waist, holds the waist knife in his mouth, holds the top of the ladder with both hands and runs quickly towards the city wall. When the ladder reached the base of the city wall, he jumped up suddenly. The soldiers carrying the long ladder behind him roared in unison and pushed up the long ladder and the black seal diagonally, causing him to step on the city wall at an angle perpendicular to the city wall.
Brick ran up with the long ladder. When his feet were empty, he propped up his body with both hands. When he landed on the ground, he was half-kneeling on the top of the high platform.
Immediately afterwards, there were several long ladders on the left and right, pushing a soldier up to the top of the city.
Hei Chengyin took out the waist knife from his mouth, and took out the short ax from his waist. He glanced around the city where the burning kerosene smoked out black smoke and stood up quickly. Seeing that there were no defenders on the city, he waved the short ax to summon several soldiers to form a formation.
Queue.
Hearing the roaring war drums for them from the rear of the battlefield, Hei Chengyin's bearded face showed a smile. Damn it, watching the Romance of the Three Kingdoms in Jiayuguan is not bullshit. This is a soldier!
Then he raised his sword and pointed it directly at the Ming army running up on the horse path and footpath, hitting them like a cannonball.
"I, Hei Chengyin, won the first victory in ascending the city first!"