Whistles sounded one after another, and the three militia regiments withdrew from the city wall and were regrouping.
The engineer battalion and baggage regiment took over from them and continued to guard the city wall and engage the Mongols.
At this time, the Mongols changed their fighting style. Because the casualties were too high, they changed from an all-out attack to a focused attack.
The main attack direction was in North City, with a total of 30,000 people invested, while the number of personnel in East City and Nancheng was reduced to less than 10,000.
Khan Ahai and Buyan Ahai planned to concentrate their efforts and make a breakthrough.
The fighting intensity in Dongcheng and Nancheng has been greatly weakened. It has turned into a sheep attack.
The Mongols used various objects, including corpses for cover and city walls to shoot at each other. Muskets and bows and arrows came and went, and they fired fiercely.
At this time, Beicheng is the real battlefield.
The Mongols concentrated their forces and attacked wave after wave. Some of the outer wall steel plates had been deformed and damaged. However, the steel pipe scaffolding was very strong. The Mongols could not push it down or destroy it at all.
The double-layer steel pipe support effectively resisted the Mongolian impact.
Every time they hit the city wall, the defenders used repeating guns and grenades to fight back and push them back. They fired Gatling guns intensively and fired at their troops in depth, disrupting their attack sequence and formation.
The casualties were too great, and the chariot city was like a rotating knife rack, bleeding the Mongols.
The three militia regiments that withdrew briefly ate something and rested for an hour before gathering in the open space on the inside of the north city wall.
They sat cross-legged on the ground, all wearing plate armor, holding Swiss halberds more than three meters long, and formed a battle formation based on battalions.
A battalion of 500 people forms five parallel small phalanxes. A small phalanx of 100 people is exactly a squadron. There are ten people in each horizontal and vertical phalanx.
More than a hundred square formations have been assembled.
Each corps of the gunpowder-assisted grenade battalion is equipped with a launcher and four ammunition soldiers. Each 100-man square is equipped with a grenade corps.
The launcher, in addition to the grenade on the launcher, carries four ammunition on the back. The ammunition hand carries ten grenades each. There is also a double-barreled short-fire gun as a self-defense weapon.
In this way, each corps has a base number of ammunition prepared, totaling forty-five rounds of grenades.
Yang Fan appointed Zhou Yuji Qianhu as the chief general and led three regiments of militiamen to attack.
The militiamen of the three regiments, totaling 500 people in total, plus the grenadier battalion of 500 people, are about to leave the city to fight the Mongols in a bloody battle.
Zhou Yuji was a rare good general in the late Ming Dynasty. Unlike Sun Chuanting and other civil servants who knew soldiers, he was a pure military general like Wu Sangui.
Zhou Yuji was born in Liaodong. His courtesy name was Cuipiao, and he was a native of Jinzhou Wei in the late Ming Dynasty.
According to Zhou's family tree, his original place is Fenghushan, Suining, Jiangsu today. However, in his distant ancestors, he moved to Penglai, Shandong, and then moved again to Jinzhou, Liaodong. He himself was a native of Northeast China.
Yang Fan respected loyal ministers and good generals from the bottom of his heart, and looked down on Wu Sangui and his like.
Zhou Yuji and his wife finally fought with 3,000 people against King Chuang's 300,000 troops at Ningwuguan in Shanxi Province, forcing King Chuang to give up and retreat several times. In the end, after a hard battle, they both fought and died for their country.
Every time he read this, he felt very sad.
The era of the late Ming Dynasty was an era where heroes emerged in large numbers.
Emperor Chongzhen had a lot of talents of all kinds in his pocket.
It's a pity that he didn't make good use of any of them.
The last great talent was Sun Chuanting.
The emperor took him out of Jinyiwei Prison and asked him to fight against King Chuang.
At this time, Sun Chuanting had been unjustly imprisoned for more than four years, and he was appointed as the superintendent while awaiting punishment.
The emperor never trusted him.
Even though he died in the battle, the emperor still suspected that he had faked his death and persecuted his family members.
History books say that Chuan Ting died and the Ming Dynasty fell.
The history of the late Ming Dynasty is a tragic song of heroes.
Chongzhen was diligent, frugal, powerful, knowledgeable about politics, knew how to advance and retreat, and was decisive in killing and attacking.
If he had been born in a peaceful and prosperous age, he might have been able to become Emperor Ming of the Tang Dynasty. Unfortunately, he was born and died in chaos, and he had too many problems with his character, and his ability was not enough to cope with such a complicated situation.
Not only did he harm himself, but he also harmed a large number of loyal ministers who worked for him.
Yuezhou Yuji accompanied the Minister of War and once fought with the Qing army for three days and three nights in Yangliuqing.
At that time, more than 70,000 Qing soldiers entered the pass and plundered a large amount of materials and young and middle-aged people from Shandong.
After passing through Yangliuqingbei and returning to the outside of the pass, the Ming troops from all over Shandong and Hebei provinces either fled at the sight of the wind or withdrew their troops to make way for them.
Zhou Yuji had received the imperial decree at that time and was transferred from Yang Liuqing to Shanxi as the commander-in-chief.
At that time, Zhou Yuji had already led his troops to leave. There was no need to go through this troubled water.
But when he heard that the Qing troops were passing through Yangliuqing, he led his cavalry back to Yangliuqing and used the terrain to defeat the Qing troops. The Qing troops suffered thousands of casualties.
In this battle, cavalry faced off against cavalry, creating a rare example in the history of war between the Ming and Qing dynasties in which the Ming army defeated a large number with a small number.
When Yang Fan established the Hexi Guards Qianhu Station, the emperor treated the officers wantonly, and Zhou Yuji was originally a sixth-rank chief in the Ministry of War.
He didn't want to waste his time in the government and gain seniority, so he took the initiative to request to be transferred to the combat unit to lead troops.
He was a personal soldier of Zhang Fengyi, Minister of the Ministry of War. Because of his bravery in battle, he was discovered by Zhang Fengyi, who was an official in Liaodong, and was accepted as a personal soldier, and he became prosperous from then on.
Because there were people above, his wish came true quickly.
After he was transferred, Yang Fan cultivated him a lot.
Zhou Yuji and fifty of his own soldiers, all riding Mongolian war horses assigned by Yang Fan, were on standby inside the city wall.
As the charge sounded, the grenade launchers of each hundred-man phalanx immediately fired grenades outside the city wall.
They stood at the back of the team because no one could stand behind the launch tube during launch, otherwise they risked becoming roasted sparrows.
There are five people in a corps. The corps leader is responsible for firing, and there are two ammunition handlers on each side responsible for loading. The other two people hold handguns to guard and protect the shooters.
At this time, it was the climax of the Mongolian attack. A large number of Mongolians once again attacked the city wall.
After the defense change, the defensive strength on the city wall was obviously weakened, and the Mongols immediately seized the opportunity to attack crazily.
There is a centurion in front of the door, and everyone is jealous today.
They impacted over and over again, rushing up and being beaten back again.
At this time, they reached the bottom of the wall again, and the simple ladder was finally set up on the city wall. He bit his scimitar and struggled to climb up.
Rassheb Khan said that the first one to climb will be rewarded heavily.
His master, Dorje Tabu Nang, was supervising the formation at the back.
A Han man on the city wall used his halberd to stab the Mongolians who were swarming up. However, after the defense was changed, the number of defenders on the city wall decreased, giving the Mongols a chance.
Duoji took the opportunity to climb up. When he emerged from the city wall, he was stunned with shock.
Inside the wall, densely packed military formations were as silent as water, bringing powerful pressure.
Then, he saw a person behind the square carrying something like a pipe.
