Chen Zhong was very cunning. Although he had been prepared to go all out to attack Chaoyang Gate from the beginning, his real target was not here at all, not even the east of the city, but the north of the city, Andingmen, or Desheng.
Gate, as for which one, this depends on the reaction speed of the Qing army. It is close to fifteen miles from Chaoyang Gate to Desheng Gate. The main force of the Qing army that was basically lured to the east of the city by him should run well, as long as they can run.
A convoy traveling at a speed of 50 kilometers per hour is sufficient.
As for those trucks used to fill the rivers, the Liangma River, the Ba River, and the moat, it is now the dry season in winter, and the Liangma River is just a smelly ditch. After the Tonghui River was added to the Ba River, it gradually became a drainage ditch.
The ditches are gone. Just the ten-ton dump trucks in these two rivers can fill up the road with twenty loads of soil. The remaining thirty loads of soil can easily fill in the moat. Besides, there are bulldozers! Of course, they can just fill in the road.
Not yet, the real weapon is the crawler trailer, which contains ten tons of a mixture of antimony, antimony and aluminum powder, and is all stuffed into a large iron can with a wall thickness of one centimeter. Even though the power of this thing is
Not much more than the Grand Slams.
In addition, the cavalry regiment has also been waiting in hiding in the distance. Once the Anding Gate is blown open, they will immediately launch a surprise attack towards the gap. As long as they hold the gap for half an hour, those trucks will arrive with reinforcements, fifty trucks at a time.
There is no problem in transporting two battalions. As long as they continue to block the city wall with artillery fire and use a small amount of poison gas bombs to create chaos in the city, they can delay the reinforcements of the Qing army as much as possible. In the end, he is just creating a speed difference.
When the convoy filled up the Liangma River and continued to drive north, even Zai Yi, who was slow to react, understood what the other party was trying to do. There were no defenders in the north of the city. In other words, there were only a few on guard. The perimeter was forty-five miles.
Of course, 60,000 people in the city of Beijing cannot be evenly divided and defended. In fact, any city wall will not be that defensive. The main defense of the city is the city gate and the enemy's attack surface. How can it be said that all the people are lined up? Where will the enemy's troops go?
Just move where you want to attack the defenders. Anyway, the outer circle will never be able to outrun the inner circle. Unfortunately, it's different if the inner circle is people and the outer circle is trucks.
"Quickly, go to Andingmen to set up defenses!" Zaixun from Dongzhimen yelled like crazy. His soldiers left their posts in panic and ran towards Andingmen. It was impossible to bring the cannon.
Just let the machine gun pass. But at this moment, the artillery group of the Zhongyong Army in the distance opened fire again. The 105 cannon, which can shoot up to 12 kilometers, can hit Deshengmen directly from the current artillery position.
, not to mention that here, he would not save artillery shells this time. The fire from the explosion almost completely submerged the city wall east of Anding Gate, and the Qing troops who were reinforcing there were instantly blown to pieces.
If you can't walk on the city wall, you can only walk under the city. When the first batch of reinforcements of the Qing army ran down the city wall and ran westward along the base of the wall, the convoy of the Zhongyong Army had already crossed the dam river. The bulldozers cleared the way and pushed down all obstacles.
A steady stream of trucks filled with sand and soil followed from behind, and a few kilometers passed in the blink of an eye. By this time, heavy artillery fire had covered the Anding Gate. The few thousand old, weak, sick and disabled people here were all dying, and they were running away.
, it can be said that there was almost no defender. More than thirty dump trucks backed up and quickly filled a wide road on the moat. Then the tracked vehicle loaded with super bombs drove across the moat and directly pressed against the city wall.
Then the driver came down, the accompanying engineers installed the detonator, and the convoy began to evacuate.
Watching the convoy leaving the moat, Zai Xun, who was running towards Anding Gate, turned around without hesitation and ran towards Dongzhi Gate again. He knew exactly what would happen next. The big explosion at Chaoyang Gate last time scared him so much that he couldn't sleep for three days in a row.
I had a good sleep, and I still get chills all over when I think about that huge explosion, like the sky falling.
Especially after the explosion, many dead bodies were carried out from the nearby area. No wounds could be seen on their bodies. Only blood was bleeding from the ears and nose. The strange image seemed to be wandering in front of the eyes. An injured examiner cut open a corpse.
Then I realized that all the internal organs inside were shattered.
He doesn't want to be such a dead ghost.
Many of the Qing troops who came with him for reinforcements had not yet understood, especially those who were running under the city. They had already begun to run towards the Andingmen city wall. At this moment, they suddenly saw the entire Andingmen turn into
Countless fragments sprayed into the sky, as if a huge fiery red monster was arching out of the ground. Then a shock wave that was almost visible to the naked eye pushed the smoke and dust to spread around. Only then did a huge explosion sound come, even though it was a few meters away.
After a hundred meters, Zai Xun still felt as if he had been hit by a frightened horse, and he screamed and flew backwards.
When he got up from the ground, he saw the fragments of the city wall in the sky smashing down like hailstones. Behind the Anding Gate in the distance, all the buildings within a range of more than 200 meters were razed to the ground, and a strange huge
The fan shape is clearly printed on the ground.
"Hurry up and close the gap!" Zai Xun, whose ears were shaken and a bit uncomfortable, vaguely heard the panicked shouts of Kuroki Weizhen, who served as his adviser. Only then did he notice the cavalry of the Zhongyong Army not far away.
They are running towards the gap. You can imagine what it means for these two thousand cavalry to rush through the gap.
He didn't know where the courage came from at this time. He wiped the blood flowing from his ears to his face, took out his saber, and shouted loudly at the bewildered soldiers: "Block the gap, don't let it go."
The rebel army entered the city."
Those Qing soldiers who were almost frightened by the huge explosion dared to lean forward at this time. They all looked at each other. Some people wanted to run down the city. Zai Xun was so angry that he chopped down the man next to him who turned around.
Then he shouted: "Don't expect anything good if the rebel army enters the city. Didn't you see that they robbed the Summer Palace last night?"
These words inspired the courage of the Qing soldiers, and they rushed forward one by one, waving their rifles in their hands.
At this time, the cavalry were close to the city wall. The leading officer raised his hand and fired a signal flare into the sky. The airship monitoring the sky immediately reported the coordinates. The artillery group in the distance resumed bombardment, but this time they were all replaced by
Because of the angle, almost all of the artillery shells flying from the southeast hit the inside of the gap. The entire gap was completely submerged in yellow poisonous mist. The Qing army that was rushing to block the gap immediately screamed and collapsed.
The cavalrymen with gas masks on their faces dismounted one after another when they approached the poisonous fog, holding the submachine guns in their hands and began to rush into the gap. The gap opened by ten tons of antimony was as long as fifty meters, but it was not vertical.
Instead, it formed a steep slope on both sides. Although steep, it did not stop the commandos from climbing. Soon they rushed up the city wall with the cover of poison gas.
However, Zaixun and Heimu Weizhen were not stupid. Although they did not dare to rush into the poisonous fog, they could still shoot along the city wall from the outside. Therefore, the attack of these commandos was not smooth. Fortunately, the submachine guns in their hands helped them.
, a submachine gun loaded with seventy-one large drum magazines, spraying bullets frantically forward. While they were shooting at each other, the airship in the sky once again determined the position of the Qing army, and then used a flag to notify the artillery of the new coordinates.
Zai Xun was lying behind a fragment of the city wall, waving his pistol and directing the Qing soldiers lying on the city wall to shoot, when suddenly a huge explosion exploded next to him.
"Damn it, these cannonballs have eyes, why do they hit wherever I am?" Prince Zhuang shouted angrily, covering his head that was smashed by falling city bricks.
"It's not that the cannon has eyes, it's that we have eyes above our heads!" Kuroki Weizhen raised his head while shooting. At this moment, suddenly a series of submachine gun bullets came from the opposite side. The former Kumamoto division commander hit his head on the ground without saying a word.
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"Eh? Black wood?" Zai Xun, who had just spit at the airship in the sky, looked at his advisor in astonishment. After not getting any response, the guy's courage immediately gave out, and he moved little by little in the light of the exploding shells.
Go to the city wall, and then quietly sneak along the steps to the city.
As soon as he left, the soldiers under his command looked at each other and followed him away one by one. The commandos, who were suddenly under great pressure, quickly moved forward along the city wall after understanding what was going on.
At this time, the main force of the Qing army in Dongcheng was still coming in a steady stream. They quickly used the original bunkers to establish a line of defense on the city wall, and at the same time supported the commandos on the outside of the gap from a high position.
On the outside of the gap in the city, the commandos were also shooting at the reinforcing Qing troops. Although they had no artillery support, fortunately, the explosion formed a ruins here, which provided them with excellent cover, while the Qing troops
Because the surrounding area was in a mess and it was extremely inconvenient to move around, they charged twice and were pushed back. The Qing army, which had no fighting will to begin with, simply stopped charging and the two sides were locked in a stalemate in the ruins with exchanges of fire.
Just as the fierce fighting at the gap was in full swing, the fifty trucks already filled with reinforcements turned around and returned. In addition, more reinforcements were also running towards the gap. Seeing this scene, Zaiyi and Dashan from Chaoyang Gate
Yan also made their best choice at this time. The city gate of Chaoyang Gate was opened, the suspension bridge was lowered, and more than 3,000 cavalry who had gathered behind to break through the city and block the gap, under the cover of the cannons on the city wall, headed towards the opposite side.
The Zhongyong Army's position launched a suicidal charge.
Zai Yi was quite touched that they could accept this fatal task so happily.
"Damn it, I didn't realize that these bastards are really worthy of their ancestors!" He wiped a tear from the corner of his eye and said to himself. Unfortunately, it didn't take long before he turned into an angry roar.