Daming pirates

In addition to having the strongest city wall of this era, the capital also has a moat outside the city wall that is as deep as ten feet and several feet wide.

Not to mention, there is a sheep and horse wall on the inside of the moat, five feet high and six feet thick. There is also a female wall on top, and officers and soldiers are stationed there.

In addition to the moat, there are three layers of defense facilities, namely Juma, Zhenmakeng, and Luzhai. There are even a lot of caltrops scattered in the grass on the ground outside the Luzhai.

It is indeed a very difficult task to open this passage, and this task falls on the engineering troops of the Yu Jiajun.

The engineers, armed with various strange tools that were not considered weapons, rushed into the battlefield under the cover of the infantry, gathered into several points, and began to charge towards the city wall.

When they entered the battlefield, the garrison watching on the city discovered the movement of Yu's army. Although Gao Qiqian did not dare to climb the city, he urgently ordered the defenders to fire artillery again to block the Yu's army's attack on the city.

So the artillery on the city wall that had been idle for a while was revived. Some of the artillery whose steel had not been destroyed now fired again under the supervision of Gao Qiqian and the general. Got up.

Although the artillery skills of the army gunners were poor, they could still bombard such a dense attacking force. After several cannons were fired, the attacking troops immediately suffered casualties. Some shells fell into the array of attacking troops. In an instant, It caused more than a dozen infantry or engineer casualties.

The artillerymen became anxious when they saw it. They immediately concentrated their firepower and began to bombard those places where the artillery fire was fired. Within a short time, the newly resurrected cannons were silenced by the Yu Jiajun's cannons.

At this time, snipers also began to enter the battlefield. They quickly found support on the battlefield, loaded the high-precision Wolf Fang rifles on hand, placed it on the support, and began to stare at the eyes like a falcon, dead They were firmly locked on the city wall. As soon as they found officers and soldiers on the wall or officers and soldiers trying to push the artillery against the crenellations and fire bombardment, they would immediately start sniping operations.

Many officers and soldiers were forced to show their heads on the city wall, trying to fire arrows or blunderbuss to block the Yu family's attack. However, many of them were shot head-on as soon as they showed their heads, and their faces were either smashed on the spot, or their chests and abdomen were smashed. He was shot, lying on his back, spurting out blood, and fell to the city wall.

At this time, officers and soldiers were also stationed on the sheep and horse wall within the moat. They also tried to shoot arrows or blunderbuss to kill the attacking Yu family generals. However, as soon as their blocking action started, they were blocked by the Yu family. The army fought back fiercely. Groups of Yu Jiajun musketeers advanced in formation like a wall while staring at the sheep and horse wall across the moat. When they saw the officers and soldiers on the sheep and horse wall starting to move, they immediately stopped advancing. .

Amid the roars of the officers, the musketeers lined up their guns in droves and began firing at the defenders on the sheep and horse wall. Although the officers and soldiers had bows, arrows and blunderbuss, their range was limited to dozens of steps, and they could only fire. It was not far from the other side of the moat, but the Yu Jiajun were mostly equipped with rifled Minie rifles. The firing range of Minie bullets was a full 300 steps, and they could generally aim and shoot accurately within 200 steps.

So under the volley fire of the Yu Jiajun, the officers and soldiers who had just emerged were knocked down a lot, and they were suppressed in an instant. The officers and soldiers screamed in fright, and some even became incontinent and peed on the spot. Crotch.

Therefore, it seems that the defenders of the capital have a lot of troops and a lot of firearms and equipment. However, in fact, on the battlefield, they were completely suppressed by the firepower of the Yu family army. In addition, these defenders in the Chaoyangmen area were themselves the ones led by Gao Qiqian before.

A group of defeated troops were defeated by the slave-building army in the Battle of Julu. These soldiers and horses had lax military discipline. After the defeat, many officers and soldiers simply started robbing business. They were no better than the slave-building army.

Where to go, it can even be said to be more cruel.

In order to cover up their incompetence and get some military exploits to cover up their failures, they often killed good people and took credit for their crimes, beheaded common people, shaved their hair, and tried to claim credit by pretending to be the heads of slaves.

Although they were later recruited by Gao Qiqian, Gao Qiqian did not restrict them too much. Therefore, after these defeated soldiers were brought back to the capital, they entered the capital and stationed in the area, and did a lot of things that harmed the people. Gao Qiqian

He didn't even care about it.

Now it is a joke to expect these defeated soldiers to work for the imperial court, so even though there are many of them, there are very few people who really dare to fight, even if there are some guys who want to lick the stinky feet of the squatters

, trying to show their bravery at this time, but in the shelling just now, many people had been killed. Some people just jumped out and tried to resist, but they were immediately hunted by snipers again.

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The fighting spirit of the officers and defenders was extremely low at this time, and few of them dared to show their heads. Therefore, they could not be expected to stop the Yu family's army from approaching the moat.

In fact, the Yu Jiajun's siege equipment was not complete at this time. It was impossible for them to build heavy siege equipment in advance. They were pulled from Tongzhou to the capital. In many cases, the siege troops arrived outside the destination city.

, and then started building siege equipment on the spot.

However, after the Yu Jiajun arrived here, they did not make too many preparations, mainly because of time constraints, so they did not have many siege equipment on hand, only some improvised simple siege equipment, and they could only use some native methods.

Solve the problem.

Under the cover of artillery and infantry, the engineering troops, armed with various strange weapons, quickly approached the moat. Soon they encountered a field of caltrops, so they immediately used rakes or magnets prepared in advance to quickly

Clean up the thorns on the ground and sweep them away to clear the way forward.

Moreover, the engineers prepared a lot of small red flags and inserted them on both sides of the cleared passage so that the following infantry could accurately see the location of the passage to avoid injuring the soles of their feet by stepping into the uncleared area.

In addition, in order to facilitate the deployment and storage of caltrops, they are often strung together with wire or rope, thrown in bunches on the ground, and can often be pulled out with a rake, which is more convenient.

As for the magnets, Yu Jiajun purchased them in advance. The quantity is not large, but if they are strung together and dragged over, they can pick up the iron caltrops hidden on the ground. However, due to the limited magnetism of the magnets, this method is not easy to use.

The most difficult thing to deal with is some non-iron wood caltrops or bamboo sticks on the ground. Fortunately, there are relatively few bamboos in the north, and the capital did not prepare too many wood caltrops or bamboo sticks, so although it caused some damage to Yu Jiajun

It was troublesome, but the engineers quickly cleared a fairly wide passage.

Then there are the trapping horse pit and the deer stronghold, which were originally used to block the advance of the siege army. These deer strongholds can effectively prevent the enemy infantry from attacking, but the prerequisite is that there must be enough defenders to shoot arrows or fire muskets to kill the incoming troops. Only go to the blocked enemy troops in front of Luzhai.

However, at this time, the official and defensive forces were completely suppressed by the Yu family army and could not raise their heads at all, so the engineers and soldiers basically did not spend much effort in clearing these deer villages.

They prepared a lot of sharp axes, rushed to the front of the deer village, swung them round and slashed hard, then cut the deer village in pieces, toppled them piece by piece and dragged them aside to open the passage.

As for horse traps, they are mainly used to deal with cavalry and infantry. Engineers use their spears to poke at the ground in front of them as they walk. When they encounter a disguised horse trap, they will immediately find out the location of the trap, and Destroy it immediately.

Near the moat, there was another barrier of horse resistance, but unfortunately they did not play their role. Under the destruction of the engineers, they were quickly torn apart.

The officers and soldiers could only watch helplessly as these short and stocky Yu family soldiers destroyed the defense facilities outside the city one by one, but they could do nothing.

Occasionally, a gunner was forced to fire a cannon, but it was immediately knocked out by the Yu Jiajun's artillery, and it was never possible to form a dense firepower to block the Yu Jiajun's attack.

In less than an hour, the engineering troops successfully broke through the obstacles outside the moat and finally reached the moat.

Due to the lack of rain in the north, the water in the moat is seriously insufficient. In the moat which is more than one foot deep, there is only more than two feet of water left, and the deepest point is only about one meter.

Of course, this still hindered the progress of the Yu Jiajun. After the engineers arrived at the river, they could only use the old method. At this time, in the absence of modern construction machinery, there was no other method that was more economical than filling sandbags.

So at this time, several new military camps that had been prepared in the back, that is, the new military camps formed by the captured soldiers in Tongzhou, were finally put to use.

In order to show his justice, Yu Xiaotian did not coerce people along the way to use them as cannon fodder for the Yu family's army, but he did bring several new military camps with him.

These recruits are all prisoners, and there are a small number of civilians who have just been recruited. They are definitely not suitable for fighting. After all, they have not received preliminary training, but doing physical work is not a problem.

So these new recruits of the Yu Jiajun came into play at this time. Everyone prepared a big cloth bag in advance. After the attack started, they began to fill the bags with soil. At this time, with an order, this The new recruits picked up the bags of earth and began to rush toward the moat as fast as they could.

The infantry of the Yu family army provided cover for them on both sides, and they continuously shot and killed the officers and soldiers who appeared on the opposite sheep and horse walls and city walls to shoot arrows and muskets, so that they, the new recruits, did not encounter strong resistance.

The new recruits were panting like cattle, panting heavily, carrying heavy earth bags, and rushed to the moat. Following the instructions of the engineers blocked here, they dumped the earth bags on their shoulders into the moat.

(Thanks to book friend 3135473 and Brother Xiaochunfeng in the Desert for the reward!)