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Chapter 406 Attacking Qingdu (Part 2)

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    I don't know where the turning point mentioned by Fatty Lu is, let alone when. When the direct legion of the Fatty Army led by Fatty Lu fell into a stalemate on the Chaoyangmen battlefield, the Yangzhou Legion of the Fatty Army led by Gao Dejie also fell into a stalemate on the Dongzhimen battlefield.  In the quagmire, the world was turned upside down, but there was no hope of breaking the city.

    In all fairness, with Gao Dejie's ability to use troops, if it was a decisive battle in the wild, Gao Dejie's army could strangle the so-called hundreds of thousands of Qing troops in Beijing with one hand, without even frowning.  However, when encountering a strong and well-fortified city like Beijing, Gao Dejie, like Fatty Lu, inevitably felt that he had nowhere to use his strength.

    It's not that the new surrendered soldiers in the Fatty Army don't work hard. In order to make a good impression on the new master, the new surrendered soldiers who helped the Eight Banners to massacre their compatriots 30 years ago attacked the fellow bannermen.  It was the same black as before. The two teams of new flag soldiers who had been deployed in advance on the two battlefields of Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen both fought to the death with more than half of the casualties.  No less than ten times, they rushed up the four-foot-high Beijing city wall. Even if the backup was cut off on the city wall, not a single new soldier surrendered to the Qing army.  The army caused huge casualties.

    It's not that the weapons of the Fatty Army are not advanced. In terms of explosives alone, the Fatty Army is at least a hundred years ahead of the Qing Army, and it's not that the Fatty Army's siege force is insufficient. The Fatty Army's army of more than 140,000 forms a semicircle to engulf the east city of Beijing.  Surrounded by flags like a sea, swords and guns like a forest, the orderly and strict queues could not be seen at a glance even on the Beijing city wall.  There was heavy snow, and there was a vast expanse of whiteness everywhere.  Even Fatty Lu was the first to command so many troops on the battlefield at the same time.

    The key is that Beijing's city defenses are too strong. The moat is more than ten feet wide, and there are only two bridges less than two feet wide that allow the fat army's siege team to pass through. Although these two bridges are quite strong stone arch bridges,  But the soldiers of the Fat Man Army and the siege weapons of the Fat Man Army walked on this straight and narrow bridge, which was like a live target for the defenders' bows, guns and artillery, so that the defenders didn't even need to aim, they just had to shoot at the bridge  Shooting arrows can basically kill and injure the poor Fatty Army soldiers. The siege battle lasted less than two hours, and the two bridges on the moats of Chaoyangmen and Dongzhimen were already covered with the remains of Fatty Army soldiers.  The Fatty Army had no choice but to send their own hands to push the corpse into the river, opening the way for the follow-up siege ladder vehicles, and also exposed the dark red bridge deck covered with the blood of the Fatty Army soldiers.

    The city walls of Beijing were even more of a nightmare for the siege soldiers of the fat army. Although the height of the east wall of Beijing's inner city that the fat army attacked only ranked third among the heights of the four walls of the inner city of Beijing, it also had an average height of 11.4 meters.  The height of the building, with bows and arrows, bullets, stones, wood and various defensive weapons as dense as hail and raindrops, stepping on wooden ladders to climb up to four floors to kill the enemy and seize the city, the difficulty can be imagined  , if it weren't for the fierce artillery cover of superior artillery, the fat man's army might not even be able to climb the city wall.

    Even with superior artillery cover, it was not much better. Amidst the earth-shattering shouts of killing, the clashing of knives and guns, and the roar of artillery, countless fat soldiers fell from the city wall screaming and bloodied.  Fat soldiers, stumps, and blood continued to scatter all over the sky. The fat army soldiers who were scalded to death by the hot oil and golden juice were torn apart, and the fat army soldiers who were on fire rolled down from the ladder truck.  The smell of blood and burnt human body, the pink moat was filled with corpses, densely packed, more than half of the soldiers of the fat army who attacked the city in the first wave were killed or killed, but none of the soldiers of the fat army could stand firm on the city wall.

    With the determination not to withdraw troops until the Qing Dynasty is broken, the second wave of siege teams embarked on the journey again, stepping on the corpses of their companions and wounded soldiers, charging forward, and rushing through the puddles of blood with arrowheads and bullets as dense as migratory locusts.  Once again, countless ladders were put on the city wall, and two ladder cars also stepped forward one after another. The soldiers of the fat army inside and outside the ladder cars pushed and pulled them down, and quickly approached the city wall of Beijing, calling for their companions to remove the dead body obstacles  The voice is endless.

    The artillery of the Fat Man Army has not been idle either. More than 260 light and heavy artillery pieces have never stopped since the beginning of the battle. Thousands of Fat Man Artillery gunners take turns to load ammunition, clean the barrel, aim and fire, and are responsible for  The old traitor Jie Xuan, who commanded the artillery team to calculate the high shooting, changed his usual reticence, shuttled back and forth in the artillery team, shouting orders to shoot high, and his voice was hoarse.  With great efforts, the artillery of the Fat Man Army effectively suppressed the artillery fire of the Qing Army on the city wall, and also caused huge casualties to the soldiers of the Qing Army defending the city.  Geographical advantages - it can even be said that, if there is no Jiexuan old Qing rape and fat army gunnersIn addition to the accident, he also jumped up excitedly, shouted hello, and then quickly shouted: "Send the order to Jiexuan, send blessings, the artillery will concentrate on bombarding the city walls on both sides of the ladder car, and try our best to prevent the reinforcements from the dogs!"

    "Decree!" The messenger rushed away, and Fatty Lu turned to his nephew An Jiarong next to him, and shouted: "Nephew, it's up to you! Eight hundred soldiers put on their shields and go up!  Take the city wall position and give it to me to defend!"

    "Follow my uncle's order!" An Jiarong, who had been waiting for a long time, said nothing, clasped his fists and agreed, and immediately rushed down to organize the Fatty Army's infantry trump card to attack.

    "Li Xiongfei!" Fatty Lu turned to another favorite general, Li Xiongfei, and said loudly, "General Li, when I left you behind in Jiujiang, you suffered countless hardships because of this king. Today, this king will compensate you and bring your  Four thousand direct troops and two ladder vehicles attack the city! Tell your brother and the brothers in front, no matter who is the first to attack Beijing, you will be named Marquis!"

    "Thank you, my lord! The general will be bold, and the marquis will be snatched!"

    Li Xiongfei was so excited that he cupped his fists and agreed loudly under the envious eyes of the fat generals, and rushed down to organize the team to attack. Fatty Lu sat back on the throne, so excited that the fat on his face began to tremble, knowing that as long as the fat man  If the army can stand firm on the walls of Beijing, it will be easy to break through Beijing.

    "Quick! Quick! Block Lu Gou! Throw torches, pour kerosene, and burn Lu Gou's ladder car! Come on, kill Lu Gou, or the city of Beijing will be in danger!"

    Contrary to Fatty Lu, who was extremely excited, at the same time, Lord Kang was so nervous that his heart almost stopped beating, waving his thumbless hands, desperately urging the soldiers of the Qing army to come forward to kill the enemy and make up for it, at all costs  The price is to drive the soldiers of the Fat Man Army who have rushed up the city wall down the city wall.  However, what made King Kang angry was that although the soldiers of the Qing army who rushed to the front were fighting bloody battles, there were fewer and fewer Beijing soldiers and civilians who went up the city road from behind to help in the battle.  I was also surprised to find out that the soldiers and civilians in Beijing under the city wall had already started to flee. Not only ordinary people who came to help the battle voluntarily or not to carry weapons started to flee, but also some regular soldiers of the Qing army who wore Qing army uniforms also started to flee!

    "Ma Qi! Ma Qi!" Kang Wang yelled the name of his deputy, Ma Qi, with red eyes, and roared hysterically: "Ma Qi, where did you dog slave go?! Pull the people up again to defend the city  Quick! Quickly find Ma Qi, the dog slave!"

    "My lord, Ma Shilang is there." A soldier pointed to a corpse on the city wall, and said timidly: "Just now, a stray arrow thrown by a dog just hit the servant sir"

    Lord Kang was stunned for a moment, then turned to the soldiers around him and roared: "Go down, all of you, and order all the civil and military officials of the Qing Dynasty under the city wall to immediately pull the soldiers of the people to the city to help the battle, and dare not go to the city to help the battle  Yes, behead them all!"

    "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

    Before Lord Kang's soldiers could agree, the shells of the Fat Man's army, as if they had eyes, kept hitting the Beijing city walls on both sides of the ladder car, and exploded into the crowd of the Qing army rushing to reinforce them.  The disgusting mite voice of howling ghosts and wolves quickly echoed violently on the city walls of Beijing.  At the same time, the morale-boosting fat soldiers rushed up the Beijing city wall one after another, stepping on the ladder steps and the corpses of both the enemy and ourselves, and gradually stopped on the city wall.

    "Guiyi soldiers! We must win!"

    "Big Zhou! Must win!"

    The sound of new neat slogans sounded on the battlefield. The 800 soldiers wrapped in white cloth held their shields to protect their vital points, and brandished bright and sharp Miao knives.  Under the leadership of Li Xiongfei, the main fighters followed closely behind with their ladder carts. The two fat army elites, whose combat power was absolutely stronger than the previous siege team, were like the waves of the sea, roaring, roaring, and rushing towards the city gradually.  The shaken city walls of Beijing, the famous Chinese city that has been poisoned by mites to this day.  (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point (qidian.com) to vote for recommendations and monthly tickets. Your support is my biggest motivation.) (Remember the website URL: www.hlnovel.com
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