Qinghua City, the second largest city in Annan Kingdom, is second only to Dongguan (Hanoi), but it is still far from comparable to the important towns in the Ming Dynasty.
This is an ancient city with moss-covered bricks on the walls, as if telling its background.
In early October, Liu Sheng led more than 20,000 troops from the official army, and had been stationed on the banks of the Majiang River and stationed troops in the east of Qinghua City.
Liu Sheng rode his horse, watching the city head in front of him more than a hundred steps away from the city wall.
A few arrows were shot from time to time in the air, making the personal guards very nervous, for fear of the coach's mistake.
Liu Sheng looked calm and listened to the scouts and general who had just arrived to report military information.
The day we arrived at Majiangkou, Chen Jikuo's men walked south.The latest investigation was at noon today, and the detailed work found that Chen Jikuo's rebel brigade was not far from Yanzhou (Huangmei).The general turned nervously to look at the rebel archers on the wall while talking.
Liu Sheng said: Let’s not care about Chen Jikuo for the time being.Only by conquering Qinghua City first can the army ensure the food route and transporting supplies.
The generals clasped their fists and said: The handsome man is wise!
After Liu Sheng said that, he finally left the place.He still ran along the road not far from the city wall, but it was much better than standing there just now, and his moving target was less likely to be shot by crossbows, arrows and arrows.
A general advised Liu Sheng: The official army did not siege the city, and the camps were all in the east, so the general was careful of the rebels leaving the city to fight back.
Liu Sheng disagreed. He felt that Chen Jikuo ran so fast and the rebels were scared out of fear, and the rest of the people did not dare to leave the city at all.
The group of people walked around the city for a short half circle and came to the southwest of Qinghua, where there was a Ming army camp. The soldiers of the baggage battalion were quarrying and making stone bullets on a stone field.
The sound of metal knocking and people's shouting are noisy.
The terrain around Qinghua City was flat. After the Ming army's rangers patrolled, they found that there was only this place and a quarry on the side of the mountain.
The Ming army landed from the sea and its fleet was very large; but except for Hou Xian's seaship fleet, the ships mobilized by the coastal navy were limited in capacity.
There were nearly 200 warships, and the number of Ming Army's land division actually transported was only more than 20,000, and a large amount of baggage.
More than 20,000 people siege the city, of course they cannot siege the city.
Therefore, the main force of the Ming army is now in the east of the city, and everyone is building fortifications, assembling Hui artillery, and setting up Hongwu artillery (mortar cannons) in order to use the ammunition unloaded from the ship.
Just wait for the stone bombs transported by the ship to be finished, the stone bombs made in the stone yard in the southwest must be transported to the position in the east as soon as possible.
On the other three sides of the city, there was no main deployment of the Ming army, and only some cavalry were monitoring it.
Liu Sheng took a team of cavalry and ran around the city himself, but he did not encounter an enemy attacking him.
Only the defenders on the city walls fired and dropped arrows from a distance with their bows and crossbows from time to time, which was not a big threat.
When Liu Sheng led the horse team back to the camp by the river, he saw the fire on the position from afar, and then several huge roars came.
The stone bombs fired by the Hongwu cannon flew towards the city wall.
The stone bullets weighing dozens or even hundreds of kilograms were adjusted from the air to the land outside the city, with a loud bang and a loud sound.
A stone bullet fell on the city wall, and the stones splashed on it. I don’t know if it was the stone bullet breaking or the bricks and stones flying.
The cannon fired a few times and then stopped for the time being. The soldiers should be adjusting the angle and recalibrating the distance.
The Ming army's artillery aimed at the target mainly relying on experience and observation, and the elevation angle was readjusted without hitting it.
Therefore, it is difficult to hit smaller targets, and can only be used to deal with dense infantry and cavalry formations or bombard such city walls.
The sound of cannons was just around the corner, and the pig iron thunder fired by the cannon flew up and down the city wall in a moment, and exploded one after another.
The lead of a pig iron thunder seemed to be a little shorter and exploded in the air. A huge explosion sounded at a high place and spread throughout the fields.
Boom boom boom... The Hongwu cannons on the Ming army's position were quickly lit again, and huge roars came one after another. The entire position seemed like a volcano erupted, with dazzling flames constantly flashing, and the rolling smoke quickly spread to the entire earth.
The Qinghua City, two or three hundred steps away, was ravaged by countless large stone bombs, and pig iron thunder exploded everywhere, gradually shrouded in dust and smoke.
The bricks and walls on the city wall collapsed everywhere, making a mess.
The battlefield where the Ming army gathered heavy troops was very violent, and the war was covered with thunderous firepower.
At the beginning, the Annan defenders had heavy crossbows, firearms and other counterattacks, and soon there was no movement. Under the continuous shelling, they were probably completely destroyed.
There are also some dilapidated houses outside the city. Those who live in the city should be mostly peddlers and pawns.
The Ming army's artillery was not very accurate. Some shells did not hit the city wall and fell outside the city, causing the houses to suffer; after a burst of shells, the outside of the city almost turned into ruins.
Liu Sheng rode back to the camp and saw many soldiers digging trenches and digging forward on the battlefield with smoke and dust.
The soldiers of the Beijing camp accumulated a lot of experience in the civil war. The method of attacking important towns in Guizhou was also very practical at this time on the battlefield of Annan, and everyone was very skillful.
The soldiers behind were already filling sandbags, and the sacks were filled with mud and sand, and placed in front of the formation. They just waited for the trench to be dug in front and transported the sandbags over and quickly built fortifications.
With the sound of cannons, the shovels outside the city were flying, and the soil was thrown everywhere, and the east of the city was busy.
The soldiers digged forward diagonally and gathered seventy or eighty steps away from the city wall. The trenches and fortifications looked like many of them side by side.
The Ming army's artillery bombardment began early in the morning until sunset, and the entire Qinghua East City wall was destroyed.The city tower had long been smashed by stone bullets and cast iron thunder, which was terrible.
However, the soldiers who dug trenches continued to fight day and night.A few days later, many fortifications were built with trenches and sandbags.
But at this time, the Ming army's ladder had not been built yet.
Some key components of the ladder were transported on the warship, but the huge ladder still needs to be perfected by carpenters, which will take some time.
However, many huge outlines of cloud ladders on the position have been established.
The soldiers could only continue to confront the defenders and attack.
On the city wall in the distance, the battlements had almost been destroyed by countless shells, and only the messy walls of rammed earth were left on them.
From time to time, some bows and arrows stood up, trying to shoot the Ming army under the city.
As soon as they appeared, the fortifications under the city were crackling... A flash of fire, and countless muskets opened fire together.
The enemy troops seemed to be dancing on the wall, shaking all over, and were hit by many lead bullets, and then they fell down one after another.
The Ming army's artillery and Hui artillery were not launched so frequently.
Only when the enemy's bows and arrows were hiding on the wall and shooting them, or when a stone-throwing cart attacked, the heavy army behind them would fire in a volley, smashing the entire city wall into smoke and dust.
Before the two armies began to fight, the various long-range strikes of the Ming army alone had caused huge damage.
When the soldiers in the ditches retreated, they all said that the smell was very bad, and the entire battlefield was covered with the bad smell of gunpowder, shit, urine, and corpses.
This confrontation continues. Only when the Ming army's ladder is completed will the army climb the city and give a fatal blow to the city defense.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, several white flags suddenly appeared on the city wall.Liu Sheng saw it soon. After looking at it for a while, he turned around and shouted: The enemy is going to surrender!The ministries were ordered to temporarily truce.
Get order!The flag bearer of the central army responded and rushed to the flag musicians' team.
Soon, the sound of pounding and hitting bronze instruments sounded over there, and the cannons everywhere gradually became peaceful.
At the same time, some horse soldiers rushed forward, shouting and conveying military orders, and the shooting of the soldiers in front also subsided.
Two Annan people appeared on the city wall.They sat down from the city with a basket and were immediately taken to the central army by the soldiers.
Those were two civil officials wearing black veil and wearing official uniforms.
When they saw Liu Sheng, they finished their rituals. One of them spoke in Chinese: General Ruan Jingyi, Taibao of Dayue, please do not hurt the people in the city and surrendered soldiers.As long as General Liu agreed, the Great Vietnamese Army opened the East City Gate to welcome General Liu's men.
Liu Sheng snorted coldly.
Seeing this, the Ming Dynasty officials next to him spoke: "Da Yue" has not been recognized by the court. You should surrender to the official army as a rebel, and you cannot make any requests; if you dare to resist stubbornly, Qinghua City will be razed to the ground and will no longer exist!
At this time, Liu Sheng finally spoke: He is right.However, our Ming Dynasty official army is a benevolent and righteous army. Without any more words, we will not deliberately hurt innocent people.
After the two rebel officials bowed, they said they wanted to return to the city and report the intention of the Ming army commander.Liu Sheng didn't bother them, so he asked someone to send it back.The two of them walked under the city wall and sat on the hanging basket again.
For a moment, the Ming army did not continue to attack, and the huge noise on the battlefield calmed down and enveloped a brief tranquility.
Over time, the East City Gate suddenly opened slowly, and a cloud of smoke rose from the ashes of the soil falling on the city gate.
From the Ming army crowds everywhere, bursts of cheers soon came from the crowd of high and high-end cheers, and many military flags were waving in the air to celebrate.
A team of cavalry rushed towards the city gate first, and the subsequent infantry climbed out of the trench and rushed towards the city gate.
Liu Shengdao: Order the generals in front to occupy the city gate of Dongcheng first, and ask Ruan Jingyi to lead his troops out of the city to surrender.
Get order!Someone responded immediately around him.
Liu Sheng rolled over the horse and squinted his eyes to see the dilapidated city tower.The war horse vaguely kicked its hooves with a little impatiently. Liu Sheng had no smile on his face, but he looked like he was holding his head up and his chest was raised.
The clear smoke has not yet dissipated, and the choking smell of smoke makes people feel unique at this time.
With just over 20,000 people, he captured the rebel capital that claimed to be Da Yue in a few days.
The Ming army's combat power was beyond expectations, and of course the contribution of the head coach Liu Sheng in this game was also obvious.
As a conqueror full of power, Liu Sheng's feeling at this time is of course quite good.
This is an ancient city with moss-covered bricks on the walls, as if telling its background.
In early October, Liu Sheng led more than 20,000 troops from the official army, and had been stationed on the banks of the Majiang River and stationed troops in the east of Qinghua City.
Liu Sheng rode his horse, watching the city head in front of him more than a hundred steps away from the city wall.
A few arrows were shot from time to time in the air, making the personal guards very nervous, for fear of the coach's mistake.
Liu Sheng looked calm and listened to the scouts and general who had just arrived to report military information.
The day we arrived at Majiangkou, Chen Jikuo's men walked south.The latest investigation was at noon today, and the detailed work found that Chen Jikuo's rebel brigade was not far from Yanzhou (Huangmei).The general turned nervously to look at the rebel archers on the wall while talking.
Liu Sheng said: Let’s not care about Chen Jikuo for the time being.Only by conquering Qinghua City first can the army ensure the food route and transporting supplies.
The generals clasped their fists and said: The handsome man is wise!
After Liu Sheng said that, he finally left the place.He still ran along the road not far from the city wall, but it was much better than standing there just now, and his moving target was less likely to be shot by crossbows, arrows and arrows.
A general advised Liu Sheng: The official army did not siege the city, and the camps were all in the east, so the general was careful of the rebels leaving the city to fight back.
Liu Sheng disagreed. He felt that Chen Jikuo ran so fast and the rebels were scared out of fear, and the rest of the people did not dare to leave the city at all.
The group of people walked around the city for a short half circle and came to the southwest of Qinghua, where there was a Ming army camp. The soldiers of the baggage battalion were quarrying and making stone bullets on a stone field.
The sound of metal knocking and people's shouting are noisy.
The terrain around Qinghua City was flat. After the Ming army's rangers patrolled, they found that there was only this place and a quarry on the side of the mountain.
The Ming army landed from the sea and its fleet was very large; but except for Hou Xian's seaship fleet, the ships mobilized by the coastal navy were limited in capacity.
There were nearly 200 warships, and the number of Ming Army's land division actually transported was only more than 20,000, and a large amount of baggage.
More than 20,000 people siege the city, of course they cannot siege the city.
Therefore, the main force of the Ming army is now in the east of the city, and everyone is building fortifications, assembling Hui artillery, and setting up Hongwu artillery (mortar cannons) in order to use the ammunition unloaded from the ship.
Just wait for the stone bombs transported by the ship to be finished, the stone bombs made in the stone yard in the southwest must be transported to the position in the east as soon as possible.
On the other three sides of the city, there was no main deployment of the Ming army, and only some cavalry were monitoring it.
Liu Sheng took a team of cavalry and ran around the city himself, but he did not encounter an enemy attacking him.
Only the defenders on the city walls fired and dropped arrows from a distance with their bows and crossbows from time to time, which was not a big threat.
When Liu Sheng led the horse team back to the camp by the river, he saw the fire on the position from afar, and then several huge roars came.
The stone bombs fired by the Hongwu cannon flew towards the city wall.
The stone bullets weighing dozens or even hundreds of kilograms were adjusted from the air to the land outside the city, with a loud bang and a loud sound.
A stone bullet fell on the city wall, and the stones splashed on it. I don’t know if it was the stone bullet breaking or the bricks and stones flying.
The cannon fired a few times and then stopped for the time being. The soldiers should be adjusting the angle and recalibrating the distance.
The Ming army's artillery aimed at the target mainly relying on experience and observation, and the elevation angle was readjusted without hitting it.
Therefore, it is difficult to hit smaller targets, and can only be used to deal with dense infantry and cavalry formations or bombard such city walls.
The sound of cannons was just around the corner, and the pig iron thunder fired by the cannon flew up and down the city wall in a moment, and exploded one after another.
The lead of a pig iron thunder seemed to be a little shorter and exploded in the air. A huge explosion sounded at a high place and spread throughout the fields.
Boom boom boom... The Hongwu cannons on the Ming army's position were quickly lit again, and huge roars came one after another. The entire position seemed like a volcano erupted, with dazzling flames constantly flashing, and the rolling smoke quickly spread to the entire earth.
The Qinghua City, two or three hundred steps away, was ravaged by countless large stone bombs, and pig iron thunder exploded everywhere, gradually shrouded in dust and smoke.
The bricks and walls on the city wall collapsed everywhere, making a mess.
The battlefield where the Ming army gathered heavy troops was very violent, and the war was covered with thunderous firepower.
At the beginning, the Annan defenders had heavy crossbows, firearms and other counterattacks, and soon there was no movement. Under the continuous shelling, they were probably completely destroyed.
There are also some dilapidated houses outside the city. Those who live in the city should be mostly peddlers and pawns.
The Ming army's artillery was not very accurate. Some shells did not hit the city wall and fell outside the city, causing the houses to suffer; after a burst of shells, the outside of the city almost turned into ruins.
Liu Sheng rode back to the camp and saw many soldiers digging trenches and digging forward on the battlefield with smoke and dust.
The soldiers of the Beijing camp accumulated a lot of experience in the civil war. The method of attacking important towns in Guizhou was also very practical at this time on the battlefield of Annan, and everyone was very skillful.
The soldiers behind were already filling sandbags, and the sacks were filled with mud and sand, and placed in front of the formation. They just waited for the trench to be dug in front and transported the sandbags over and quickly built fortifications.
With the sound of cannons, the shovels outside the city were flying, and the soil was thrown everywhere, and the east of the city was busy.
The soldiers digged forward diagonally and gathered seventy or eighty steps away from the city wall. The trenches and fortifications looked like many of them side by side.
The Ming army's artillery bombardment began early in the morning until sunset, and the entire Qinghua East City wall was destroyed.The city tower had long been smashed by stone bullets and cast iron thunder, which was terrible.
However, the soldiers who dug trenches continued to fight day and night.A few days later, many fortifications were built with trenches and sandbags.
But at this time, the Ming army's ladder had not been built yet.
Some key components of the ladder were transported on the warship, but the huge ladder still needs to be perfected by carpenters, which will take some time.
However, many huge outlines of cloud ladders on the position have been established.
The soldiers could only continue to confront the defenders and attack.
On the city wall in the distance, the battlements had almost been destroyed by countless shells, and only the messy walls of rammed earth were left on them.
From time to time, some bows and arrows stood up, trying to shoot the Ming army under the city.
As soon as they appeared, the fortifications under the city were crackling... A flash of fire, and countless muskets opened fire together.
The enemy troops seemed to be dancing on the wall, shaking all over, and were hit by many lead bullets, and then they fell down one after another.
The Ming army's artillery and Hui artillery were not launched so frequently.
Only when the enemy's bows and arrows were hiding on the wall and shooting them, or when a stone-throwing cart attacked, the heavy army behind them would fire in a volley, smashing the entire city wall into smoke and dust.
Before the two armies began to fight, the various long-range strikes of the Ming army alone had caused huge damage.
When the soldiers in the ditches retreated, they all said that the smell was very bad, and the entire battlefield was covered with the bad smell of gunpowder, shit, urine, and corpses.
This confrontation continues. Only when the Ming army's ladder is completed will the army climb the city and give a fatal blow to the city defense.
Unexpectedly, at this moment, several white flags suddenly appeared on the city wall.Liu Sheng saw it soon. After looking at it for a while, he turned around and shouted: The enemy is going to surrender!The ministries were ordered to temporarily truce.
Get order!The flag bearer of the central army responded and rushed to the flag musicians' team.
Soon, the sound of pounding and hitting bronze instruments sounded over there, and the cannons everywhere gradually became peaceful.
At the same time, some horse soldiers rushed forward, shouting and conveying military orders, and the shooting of the soldiers in front also subsided.
Two Annan people appeared on the city wall.They sat down from the city with a basket and were immediately taken to the central army by the soldiers.
Those were two civil officials wearing black veil and wearing official uniforms.
When they saw Liu Sheng, they finished their rituals. One of them spoke in Chinese: General Ruan Jingyi, Taibao of Dayue, please do not hurt the people in the city and surrendered soldiers.As long as General Liu agreed, the Great Vietnamese Army opened the East City Gate to welcome General Liu's men.
Liu Sheng snorted coldly.
Seeing this, the Ming Dynasty officials next to him spoke: "Da Yue" has not been recognized by the court. You should surrender to the official army as a rebel, and you cannot make any requests; if you dare to resist stubbornly, Qinghua City will be razed to the ground and will no longer exist!
At this time, Liu Sheng finally spoke: He is right.However, our Ming Dynasty official army is a benevolent and righteous army. Without any more words, we will not deliberately hurt innocent people.
After the two rebel officials bowed, they said they wanted to return to the city and report the intention of the Ming army commander.Liu Sheng didn't bother them, so he asked someone to send it back.The two of them walked under the city wall and sat on the hanging basket again.
For a moment, the Ming army did not continue to attack, and the huge noise on the battlefield calmed down and enveloped a brief tranquility.
Over time, the East City Gate suddenly opened slowly, and a cloud of smoke rose from the ashes of the soil falling on the city gate.
From the Ming army crowds everywhere, bursts of cheers soon came from the crowd of high and high-end cheers, and many military flags were waving in the air to celebrate.
A team of cavalry rushed towards the city gate first, and the subsequent infantry climbed out of the trench and rushed towards the city gate.
Liu Shengdao: Order the generals in front to occupy the city gate of Dongcheng first, and ask Ruan Jingyi to lead his troops out of the city to surrender.
Get order!Someone responded immediately around him.
Liu Sheng rolled over the horse and squinted his eyes to see the dilapidated city tower.The war horse vaguely kicked its hooves with a little impatiently. Liu Sheng had no smile on his face, but he looked like he was holding his head up and his chest was raised.
The clear smoke has not yet dissipated, and the choking smell of smoke makes people feel unique at this time.
With just over 20,000 people, he captured the rebel capital that claimed to be Da Yue in a few days.
The Ming army's combat power was beyond expectations, and of course the contribution of the head coach Liu Sheng in this game was also obvious.
As a conqueror full of power, Liu Sheng's feeling at this time is of course quite good.
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