Chapter 361 Breaking the Xi'an City Wall
Li Dingguo, who was waiting outside the city to reply in the city for a quarter of an hour, finally waited for the Qing army in the city to reply. Kong Youde's reply was only one short sentence: "Show the thief to come over!"
Li Dingguo ordered: "Attack Xi'an fiercely! Be sure to hold Kong Youde! No one is alive, no one is dead!"
While the Daxi Army violently bombarded the city wall, it sent auxiliary troops outside the moat to clear the Luzhai, wooden stakes and other obstacles in front of the city wall, and opened roads for siege weapons to approach the city wall.
The defenders on the top of the city were completely suppressed by the artillery of the Daxi Army. Kong Youde's general could only watch the Daxi Army's auxiliary soldiers chopped and chopped the axes in front of the city wall, and gradually cleared the obstacles in front of the moat.
After the obstacles were cleared, with the order of Li Dingguo, more auxiliary soldiers of the Daxi Army rushed out of the barracks. Some of the auxiliary soldiers pushed shield chariots filled with macao, some of the auxiliary soldiers pushed the watchtower chariots, and some of the auxiliary soldiers pushed the moving wells that were ten feet high above the city wall. On the watchtower chariots and the well railings were all standing with the scattered soldiers and archers of the Daxi Army.
The well railing is a much larger siege weapon than the watchtower car. It is actually a movable wooden arrow tower. There is a protective platform on the well railing that can accommodate dozens of soldiers and attack the city from a high place.
Compared with the Wanglou car, the attack power of the well railing is stronger. The well railing can accommodate up to more than 100 long-range soldiers, while the Wanglou car has only two people.
In the era before the emergence of firearms, the defenders had to deal with the well railing, namely the rockets and the catapult. The rocket range was not advantageous, and the archers who shot rockets at the city were easily suppressed by the archers on the well railing, so the most effective weapon to deal with the well railing was the catapult. The advantage of the catapult being farther than the bow and arrow was used to destroy the well railing.
After the artillery appears, it is more convenient to deal with the well railing. As long as the artillery fire is hit, the well railing will collapse with a few rounds of shells.
However, the Qing army's artillery in Xi'an City was completely suppressed by the Ming army's artillery with a longer range and greater power. The city was bombarded so that almost all the weapons of the city were lost, and the artillery in the city was almost completely lost. Therefore, the auxiliary soldiers of the Daxi Army could calmly push the well railing to attack the defenders.
Four well railings and forty tower-watching cars slowly pushed towards the city wall. The tower-watching cars were simple in structure and low in construction, so there were much more. Each tower-watching car had two archers on each tower-watching car. The auxiliary soldiers pushed the tower-watching car and approached fifty steps away from the city wall. The archers of the Daxi Army on the tower-watching car began to look for the defenders on the city.
The power of the well railing is much greater. Thirty-six scattered soldiers stood on each well railing. The range of the fuse-rope rifled rifles in the hands of these Western Army scattered soldiers is not inferior to that of the fuse-locked and firing rifled rifles in the hands of Zhao Peng's new army scattered soldiers, and the range is more than 300 steps.
The auxiliary soldiers pushed the good-looking soldiers and stopped at a distance of three hundred steps from the city wall. The scattered soldiers of the Daxi Army on the well railing looked for the defenders at the city. When they saw one, they aimed at the trigger.
The artillery of the Daxi Army did not stop the artillery, but continued to suppress the defenders at the city with firepower. In cooperation with the well railing and the tower guards, the defenders at the city were suppressed so that they could not fight back at all.
Taking advantage of the opportunity of his own cannons, Wanglou and Jinglan to suppress the Qing army, the auxiliary soldiers of the Daxi Army pushed the shield carts and walked step by step towards the moat. Only a few sparse arrows shot at the top of the city, but the Qing soldiers who were shooting the archers were soon killed by the Daxi Army scattered soldiers on the Jinglan.
The auxiliary soldiers pushed the shield cart to the moat, quickly moved bags of sandbags from the shield cart and threw them into the moat. After throwing all the sandbags on the shield cart into the moat, the auxiliary soldiers quickly pulled the shield cart back to their own barracks.
At the same time, a team of Daxi Army launched an attack on the gate at the junction of the Wei River and the moat.
The Qing army stationed at the gates had only one thousand generals, and one thousand generals in the Qing army had the jurisdiction of one thousand generals. At this time, the Eight Banners Han Army's Wuzhenchao Ha camp did not have the problem of empty salary. One thousand generals had a real thousand people.
However, only one thousand people were attacked by 3,000 Daxi Army, but they could not resist. The Daxi Army bombarded the Qing army fortifications guarding the gate with four pounds of cannons, and then a large number of bird gunners advanced forward under the protection of spearmen and sword players. Several rows of muskets bombarded the Qing army guarding the gate with heavy casualties.
Although the Qing army guarding the gate also had artillery and bird guns, their Franz aircraft were not as good as the four-pound cannons of the Daxi Army, and the bird guns were not as good as the bird guns of the Daxi Army, and they were suppressed throughout the whole process.
The Daxi Army soon rushed into the Qing army's position. The Qing army who were thrown outside the city to guard the gate were tough. No one surrendered and fought to the death. In the end, all of them were killed. The Daxi Army took down the river gate. However, in order to annihilate more than 1,000 Qing troops, the Daxi Army also paid the price of more than 400 casualties.
After controlling the gate, the Daxi Army immediately closed the gate and cut off the water flowing into the moat of the Wei River.
Under the moat, the Western Army quickly filled two sections of the moat.
After filling the two sections of the moat, a large number of auxiliary soldiers immediately rushed across the moat, picked up the iron chisel, and started to tear the wall against the city wall. These two sections of the city wall were previously bombarded by the twelve-pound field guns of the Ming army, cracks appeared in many places, and rammed earth even appeared in some places.
The auxiliary soldiers rushed up and dug out the broken bricks. They quickly dug out all the bricks, then waved their hoes and shovels to start digging rammed earth.
The Qing army risked his life to throw stones at the city, shoot arrows, projectiles, drop grey bottles, and turbulent oil tanks. Only a scream sounded from the city, and many auxiliary soldiers of the Western Army fell down.
But the Qing soldiers were soon shot by the archers on the tower car and the scattered soldiers on the well railing. The arrows shot from a high place were like projectiles that were raining on the city. The Qing soldiers who had just launched a counterattack fell in large numbers.
At the same time, a large number of archers and bird gunners from the Western Army also rushed forward and arrived at the city, aiming at the fierce shooting at the top of the city.
Behind the section of the city wall where the Ming army assisted the troops were working, Sun Long directed the Qing army to intercept the Ming army that was about to be dug in: "Minggou digs the city wall in front, let's pile up stones and block the Minggou who was dug in!"
The Green Camp auxiliary soldiers were busy behind the city wall, first piled up stones at the bottom, and then prepared to pile up bricks on the stones. Their operation location was on the same line as the Ming army's auxiliary soldiers' operation location. In this way, once the Ming army dug up the city wall, the newly built walls of the Qing army inside could just block the Ming army.
However, the Qing army did not expect that Li Dingguo was not simply digging the city wall, but was preparing to explode the city wall by blasting!
With the work of the auxiliary soldiers, the rammed earth in the city wall was gradually dug out. Then someone stuffed a gunpowder bag wrapped in thick paper into the dug hole, then lit the fuse and quickly evacuated the city wall.
A loud "boom" sounded earth-shaking, and a large section of the city wall collapsed.
When the city wall collapsed, the Qing army, who were piled up the walls inside, was shocked to death. Under the violent vibration, a large area of bricks and stones collapsed, and countless people around the Qing army were also shocked to the ground.
The city wall collapsed, and the soldiers of the Daxi Army who had already guarded outside the city shouted and rushed into the city wall from the gap.
"It's too late to build a wall. Everyone goes up and must block the thieves!" Sun Long shouted anxiously, urging the Qing army of the Green Camp and the Han army of the Eight Banners to come and block the gap.
The Western Army rushed into the explosion gap, and a row of bird gunners rushed in front. Seeing the black Qing army approaching, the bird gunners pulled the trigger, "bang bang bang" fire was spraying, and gunpowder filled the smoke. The Qing soldiers who were trying to come up to block the road screamed and fell down a large area.
Chapter completed!