Under the city of Beijing, the artillery battle between the two armies lasted for nearly three days.

Under the fierce bombardment of the Ming army's artillery fire, the city tower of Chaoyangmen was completely destroyed by artillery, and the bricks of the city walls were peeled off in many places.

However, Beijing is Beijing, and hundreds of heavy artillery cannons are still standing.

During the three-day artillery battle, the Qing army gunners at the top of the city suffered heavy losses, and the Ming army artillery outside the city was also smashed by the Qing army.

During the artillery battle between the two sides, the civilians outside the city had already dug trenches outside Chaoyang Gate, Dongzhi Gate, Xizhi Gate, and Gaocheng Gate, and made preparations for the siege.

At the same time, a large number of shield vehicles, flying bridges, long ladders and trench bridges were also built in the Ming army camp.

On April 17th, the third year of Yongli, early in the morning.

After a meal, the Ming army troops began to emerge from the camp and arrange their formations.

Thousands of vanguard troops, carrying muskets and guns, entered the trench early.

Thousands of musketeers came to the trench only a hundred steps away from the moat, extended the muskets and pointed them at the city head and gate to prevent the Qing army from leaving the city and protecting the mortars that were about to arrive at the city.

At this time, the soldiers involved in the siege formed a formation three miles away from the city wall and outside the range of heavy artillery on the city, preparing to chew off the city of Beijing.

The troops involved in the attack this time were mainly vassal soldiers. Gao Yigong attacked Xizhimen, Yuan Zongdi attacked Gaochengmen, Jin Shenghuan attacked Dongzhimen, Li Dingguo attacked Chaoyangmen, and Ming army only provided artillery and musketeers to support him, responsible for firepower suppressing the city.

Of course, if the war progresses smoothly and there is a possibility of breaking the city, Zhao Ming will join the entire army without hesitation.

Although this time it was a tentative attack, the Ming army had the determination to go down and directly break the city.

Attacking Beijing and regaining the capital of the Ming Dynasty was a battle of glory. The vassal lords ignored the above and considered whether Zhao Ming would use them as cannon fodder or whether he would take the opportunity to consume his dissidents, and all happily accepted the task of siege.

Zhao Ming did have this idea, but the vassal lords had no evidence. As they asked too much, they became warlords like them and wanted to preserve their strength.

In each formation, the officers cheered their subordinates from time to time and promoted the honor of restoring Beijing. The soldiers also blushed and were aroused from endless fighting spirit.

At this time, Zhao Ming was wearing golden armor and led many generals to attack various formations. Wherever he passed, the generals saluted the soldiers, "The Regent's Thousand Years!"

Zhao Ming raised his whip from time to time, signaled to the soldiers, and shouted loudly: "Restore Shenjing!"

"Regent Thousand Years!" countless voices responded.

Wherever Zhao Ming went, he would cheer that was terrifying. The soldiers raised their weapons high and then put them down. The entire battlefield was filled with excitement.

Zhao Ming enjoyed everything in front of him, and at this moment, he was supported by all the soldiers.

Whether it is the imperial guards or the local vassal soldiers, they all know clearly that it was the mighty man in front of them who led them to the city of Beijing and would complete a major event that will be recorded in history forever.

At this time, Wang Shuang came on horseback and caught up with Zhao Ming who was still wandering in the formation and waved his hand. He clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, the mortar cannon has already been in place!"

While the army was lined up, the heavy mortar cannon was already pulled by mules and horses, and they entered the city along the trench and set up a flag.

When Zhao Ming heard the words, he turned his head and glanced at the cannon formation flags, then he immediately grabbed the horse's belly, mobilized the war horses, accelerated the patrol of each formation, and returned to the Central Army's flag.

"Ask each department if it is ready?" Zhao Ming rode proudly on the horse and made a loud call.

The central army's war drums sounded a few times, and then they saw flags waving in each formation, indicating that they were ready.

"Your Highness, all departments responded!" Wang Shuang said with his fists.

Zhao Ming then waved his hand, "Then let's start!"

The war drums were beating urgently, the flags of the Central Cannon Battalion of the Central Cannons were first waved, and the red-clothed Ming army cannons fired first, and hundreds of giant cannons roared, firing shells, smashing the city walls.

As the heavy artillery began to bombard, Li Dingguo immediately pulled out his sword in front of the formation, waved forward suddenly, and shouted loudly: "Attack!"

After the military order, nearly 10,000 soldiers carried long ladders, flew bridges, entered the trench one after another, and advanced along the trench towards the city wall.

On the top of the city, Ajige took advantage of the bombardment of the red cannon and poked out half of his body and looked outside the city wall. He saw that the Ming army was completely hidden in the trench. The Qing army could only see the iron helmets in the trench, and the Ming army could not see the bodies of the Ming army soldiers at all.

This means that the artillery on the city could hardly be used to attack the Ming army. Unless it was lucky, it would fall into the trench. However, the word "Zhi" was not a straight line. Even if the shells fell into the trench, they could not be able to smash the soldiers through a line with one shot.

Azig punched the wall in anger.

At this moment, a loud noise suddenly came from the trench below the city.

The defenders saw a thick ball of white smoke rising from the trench, a huge shell was thrown into the sky, and then quickly fell down.

"Morch cannon!" The Qing army on the city immediately exclaimed in surprise, revealing an extremely frightened expression.

Compared with the Red Cannons, the mortar cannons were even more terrified by the Qing army. Although the Red Cannons were powerful, the shells were mostly shot directly, and most of the shells that were shot directly were blocked by the city walls.

Therefore, the Red Cannon mainly destroys the city wall and has limited killing to soldiers, while the mortar cannon is different. It is a projectile, and the shell can draw an arc and sit directly on the top of the city, or behind the city wall, which cannot be defended at all.

In addition, the Ming army's mortars were mostly fired with flowering bullets.

These shells fell on the top of the city and exploded without shelter. They could immediately sweep a section of the city wall and kill all the soldiers around the explosion.

Therefore, the Qing army was particularly afraid of the Ming army's mortars.

At this time, with the loud noises under the city, the Qing army looked up and saw that the falling shells were getting bigger and bigger!

"Let's go down!" The old bannerman who had suffered losses after taking mortar cannons immediately roared wildly and hugged his head and lay down!

The guards immediately pressed Ajige under him, but he was fat and another layer of guards lay on it, like a hill piled up on the city wall.

Just as the guards threw him down, shells roared past the city. Before they could come back to their senses, they could hear a loud noise!

The shells fell into the city and exploded on the streets. Immediately, white light burst out, thick smoke rolled, and air waves overturned the blue tiles.

Before everyone could be glad, a few more air waves fell on the top of the city. The explosion immediately squatted down the soldiers who had not had time to lift the city wall and smashed heavily on the ground.

Ajige pushed away, and the guard pressed on him, and found that his back was already covered in blood.

At this time, a sudden shout of killing sound that rose to the sky suddenly broke out outside the city. As soon as the mortar cannon was fired, the Ming army in the trench jumped up and rushed out of the trench with a flying bridge.

In a moment, the flying bridge was placed on the moat, and the Ming soldiers carried long ladders and raised ladders under the city. The soldiers were scattered like ants, scattered under the city.

Seeing this, Azig immediately roared repeatedly, "Archer, shoot the arrow!"
Chapter completed!