That night, Zhu Youjian summoned several technical soldiers and discussed with them for more than an hour.
In the early morning of the next day, Zhu Youjian came to the east gate of the inner city, and behind him were the technicians who had discussed with him for half a night last night. They also pushed two small wooden carts.
"Your Majesty is so early?" Wang Mujiu was still yawning, apparently not long after getting up.
"What happened to Huang Tai Chi last night?" Zhu Youjian is most concerned about Huang Tai Chi. The situation is very good now. If the protagonist Huang Tai Chi runs away, I don't know what will happen in the future.
"His Majesty, there is no movement, not only the east gate, but no gunshots were heard from the other gates. Obviously there was no movement."
"No?" Zhu Youjian frowned. If there was no movement in Huang Taiji the night before, he could fully understand that although the Ming army completed the encirclement of Shengjing overnight by surprise attack, whether it could break Shengjing in the end, No one can give an exact answer.
Huang Taiji naturally believed that with the thick walls of Shengjing's strong city and the Jurchen soldiers who had no retreat, he would fight desperately. Therefore, he could still calm down in the encirclement of the Ming army.
After yesterday's war, in front of the superior firearms of the Ming army, the heroism of the Jurchen soldiers only paid for tragedy, and the fierceness of the Jurchen soldiers only paid for a corpse.
The outer city was breached by the Ming army within a day.
If Huang Taiji hadn't drunk too much kumiss, he must have realized that the inner city could not be guarded for long. Since the inner city could not be guarded, the night was a good opportunity to break through. The moon was black and the wind was high.
Why did he give up such a good opportunity
Does he already have a countermeasure
Or are you ready to die in the city
Zhu Youjian had never heard that nomadic people were martyred to the city, and this Huang Taiji was still unpredictable at this time.
"Your Majesty, are you siege the city now?"
"Ao, Mu Jiu, don't worry," Zhu Youjian pointed to the technical soldiers behind him, "They are the secret weapon I said."
"They?" Wang Mujiu looked at an unnamed creature from the Mariana Trench, "Your Majesty, aren't they ordinary soldiers?"
"They were originally ordinary soldiers, but they have mastered the techniques that no one else has mastered. Now they are no longer ordinary soldiers. They are my treasures, and I usually don't want to take them out."
"Your Majesty..."
"Mujiu, you should prepare to enter the city first, and I will ask them to open the city gate first."
"Your Majesty, I saw it yesterday. This east gate is made of pig iron. It may not be easy to open it."
"Mu Jiu don't worry, just look at these soldiers before talking." Zhu Youjian gestured to them, indicating that they could start.
The soldiers didn't say much, they put down the packages behind them and started to act immediately.
After a while, two huge balloons appeared on the ground. The balloons were made of dense red cloth and were very strong.
They removed two uncovered wooden frames from the two carts. The inner layer of the wooden frame was covered with a layer of white iron. The white iron was filled with red charcoal, which was obviously on fire a long time ago.
"Your Majesty..."
Zhu Youjian waved his hand and signaled Wang Mujiu not to disturb the soldiers' work.
When Wang Mujiu turned his head to spit out, the two huge balloons were completely installed.
"Your Majesty..."
"Go, this is the first time you have participated in combat. You must be careful and stay away from the arrows of the Jurchen." Zhu Youjian was also a little nervous, as if it was not the soldiers who were about to climb into the sky, but he himself.
"Yes, Your Majesty, we will be careful."
"Be sure to pay attention to the wind direction. The wind direction in the sky is different from that on the ground. There may be a whirlwind."
"Your Majesty, we understand."
"Okay, set sail." Zhu You prosecuted and waved his hand, but his eyes kept staring at the two huge balloons.
The balloon began to rise slowly. On the huge balloon, two soldiers were carried. One man controlled the rope and controlled the direction of the balloon, while the other was constantly adjusting the charcoal brazier hanging below.
The two balloons rose to a height of a hundred steps, and then slowly drifted towards the city with the help of a slight east wind.
Wang Mujiu was as excited as a child. He kept spinning on the ground, following the trail of balloons, "Your Majesty, balloons can really go to the sky? Let me go to the sky to see that day, no, I'm going to the moon to see. See if there is Chang'e, is Wu Gang cutting down trees..."
"Haha," Zhu Youjian was amused, "Mujiu, this is a firearm... Okay, when I return to the capital, I will ask the firearms bureau to send you to the sky for a look."
"Your Majesty, Jun has no joking!"
"Haha, Mu Jiu still depends on me. In fact, I will be able to satisfy you with this wish when you return to the capital. As long as you go to heaven, you will not be afraid."
"What is God afraid of? Your Majesty remembered today's promise. When he will return to the capital, he must go to heaven to see it."
Two balloons flew towards the city. The Jurchen soldiers in the inner city had discovered these two monsters, and there was a commotion in the city.
The endless new firearms of the Ming army have already scared them.
Guard Alimu was also stunned. What happened to the Ming army? Are they humans or demons
"Uh really, do you want to try with arrows?"
"Yes, yes, let go and shoot them down. I want to see if the body of the Ming army is made of meat." Alimu himself also drew out his bow and arrow and aimed at the balloon in the air.
"Swish, swish, swish..."
A large number of Jurchen arrows shot straight into the sky, where the balloon appeared.
The arrow of the Jurchen shot forward on the flat ground with a range of only 60 steps. Now it is shooting upwards. The range must be less than 60 steps. However, the balloons of the Ming Army are at a height of 100 steps, so the arrows can't be shot naturally. .
"Ouch, oops..."
Instead, the Jurchen soldiers screamed.
It turned out that the arrow shot upwards, and when it reached the highest point, it would fall naturally. The Jurchen soldiers just noticed whether the arrow hit the balloon, but forgot that the arrow would fall.
The falling arrows pierced the soldier's body one after another, with the most arrows in the shoulders and arms.
"Oh, who the hell dare to shoot me?" Alimu was shot in his right ear by a falling arrow. The arrow fell too fast, and the right ear was shot through and pierced deeply into his skin. A.
The first balloon was spinning above the city gate, and its height dropped a bit. Finally, the two manipulators made a gesture.
A bomb "Enemies of Ten Thousands" hung on a balloon is slightly swaying in the wind at this moment. The upper manipulator gently unfastened the lanyard, the lower manipulator stretched the wire into the charcoal brazier to light it, and then made a successful gesture.
The upper manipulator loosened the lanyard, and the "Ten Thousand Enemies" weighing 80 jin sank abruptly and quickly fell towards the city gate...
"Boom..."
There was a loud noise, and the east city gate was covered with pure iron. The lower part was lifted high, and the pure iron was seriously deformed. Although there was no break, the wooden hinge connecting the pure iron and the city wall was broken, and the city gate was tilted on one side of the city wall.
The Jurchen soldiers who shot arrows just now lie to each other, some lie on the ground and cannot get up, some lie on the ground and don't want to get up, some lie on the ground and dare not get up.
Alimu lay on the ground. His left calf was gone. He fumbled on the ground for a while, but he couldn't find his calf, but grabbed someone else's calf and forced it into the fracture of his calf.
The Jurchen soldier was furious and kicked Alimu hard. Unfortunately, he just kicked Alimu's wound. Alimu screamed and passed out.
The balloon that had been dropped, lowered its angle to the left, and slowly flew out of the inner city from the south gate under the pressure of the east wind.
The balloon behind was made in the same way, and another "ten thousand enemy" was dropped near the Nancheng Gate.
The South City Gate is like a kite with a broken line. It finally broke free from the shackles of the city wall and regained its freedom.
"Your Majesty, is the South City Gate exploded?" Wang Mujiu opened his mouth wide, almost speechless, his eyes constantly drifting between the balloon and the South City Gate.
"It's exploded. Haven't you already seen that the South City Gate has collapsed?" Zhu Youjian breathed a sigh of relief. This is the first time a hot air balloon has participated in a battle. He is not very sure about it. Fortunately, the Jurchen His bow and arrows did not pose any threat to the hot air balloon, the two "ten thousand enemies" did not fail, and the Nancheng Gate was finally blown away.
"Your Majesty, how many secret weapons are there..."
"Mujiu, what did you say..."
"Your Majesty, the final word is... Is it going to attack the city now? Now that the southern city gate has been exploded, should we rush into the inner city? It would be good to catch Huang Taiji early!"
"Wait," Zhu Youjian stopped Wang Mujiu, "first collect the grenade and throw it in through the city gate."
"Your Majesty is going to sweep away the Jurchen soldiers near the city gate?"
"Of course, the ambush here is the most dangerous to our soldiers."
"Your Majesty, I understand, I will go now."
When Wang Mujiu left Zhu Youjian, he personally took the soldiers and threw grenades at the city gate. Several grenades were thrown at the far, near, left, right, and even behind the wall roots.
Before the smoke cleared, the soldiers of the Royal Second Division, braving a strong smell of sulfur, squeezed into the south gate of the inner city.
Zhu Youjian’s caution was right. As soon as the soldiers stepped into the inner city, they saw the ground full of Jurchen soldiers. They were either dead or not dead. They were also wounded soldiers who had lost combat capability. Physical disability can even more obliterate their will to fight.
Flintlock and bow and arrow, another fair duel in the inner city.
The Ming army was not in a hurry to occupy the palace buildings, but to kill the Jurchen soldiers as its main goal.
When all the inner city gates were opened, the sound of flintlock guns had become thinner, and the battle was one-sided, even in the inner city of the capital of the Great Kingdom, even in front of the great sweat of the Great Kingdom.
The Ming army searched house by house. From Ten King Pavilions to Dazheng Hall, from Phoenix Tower to Qingning Palace, a large number of Jurchen soldiers died, a large number of princes and ministers died, and a large number of concubines and concubines died.
They died before the Ming army came in, they were not killed by the Ming army.
If they did not commit suicide, they were killed by their master.
Zhu Youjian stared at the pile of corpses for a while. Suddenly, he exclaimed: "The inner city has been breached, but what about Huang Taiji?"