Chapter 272 Attacking the Li Family Fortress
In this round of confrontation, the Donglin Party suffered a major loss. The Donglin Party leader Li Sancai was convicted by the court for committing rebellion. The Donglin Party students also suffered heavy losses. Wen Zhenmeng, the first-class candidate in the second year of the Tianqi in time and space, was deprived of fame, Chen Yan, Sun Zongze, Wei Zaode and others were also finished and deprived of fame.
All the Donglin scholars who participated in the Fuque failed this time! And this time, the Donglin Party scholars were almost wiped out!
Although Li Sancai has been convicted by the emperor, he has not yet been tried by the Third Division. Moreover, his two sons are currently at large and are still hiding in the canal transportation yamen in Huai'an. More than 100,000 canal transportation soldiers protect the two young masters Li.
The two thousand factory guards led by Wei Liangqing and two thousand veterans from Liaoyang New Town went south along the canal and arrived at the Huai'an Cao Transportation Yamen. The secret spies of the Jinyi Guard had already received news that at this time, the two brothers Li Jiaxing and Li Jiaguo were not in the Cao Transportation Yamen, but hid in a guard fort east of Huai'an. More than 100,000 mobs composed of Cao Transportation Yamen and salt dings were protecting them.
The army arrived in Huai'an and headed straight to the Li family's military fort in Huai'an. This was a large area of continuous military forts, consisting of four military forts arranged in four corners. The military fort and the military fort were connected by wooden fences and earthen cities. In the middle was a huge garden, with barracks and small forts on the outside. The Li brothers hid inside and dared not show their heads.
However, what was troubled was not the mobs guarding the city, but a large number of ship workers, cabin workers, merchants, salt households and other ordinary people who did not know the truth. They were instigated and provoked by the Li brothers to block the way of the Jinyiwei army.
However, it is still very simple to deal with these ordinary people. Wei Liangqing asked someone to take out the imperial edict and read it. The more than 100,000 people who surrounded the Jinyiwei retreated spontaneously. They also knew that they would intercept the Jinyiwei's accomplice and commit crimes. No one was willing to lose his head, and even more unwilling to suffer from their own nine tribes.
When he arrived at the gate of the military fort, Wei Liangqing ordered a formation. A military eunuch walked out of the military fort, opened the imperial edict and read out loudly: "In accordance with the heavens, the emperor's edict said! Li Sancai colluded with Jiannu and intended to rebel! He was imprisoned for the crime of treason! He should be punished by the nine clans!" After saying that, the eunuch put away the imperial edict, raised his head and shouted: "Our family is ordered to capture the rebel Li Jiaxing, brothers of Li Jiaguo! If the people in the fort dare to stop him, they will be punished the same as the rebel! Now you are limited to order you to open the door within half an hour to surrender!"
The salt in the military fort and the canal soldiers were thrilling in their hearts, and they were talking a lot.
"This is the emperor's imperial edict! Isn't it a serious crime to conspire against the emperor's personal army?"
"I heard that the crime of corruption will kill the nine clans."
"Oh, I just married my wife and the children are almost born. I don't want to kill my family, as well as our unborn children, by the court because of this."
These salt stewards and the grain stewards were not good at first. They often do evil and bully salt stewards and ship workers, but there were people above them to cover them. Now all the people above have committed crimes and committed crimes of rebellion. Now they do not have the courage to resist the court. This is the majesty of the emperor that cannot be offended.
Seeing the salt tutors in the Li family, the army of the grain tutors was disintegrated and their morale fell, he shouted anxiously: "Brothers, their imperial edicts are not enacted by cabinet tickets! It is useless! You all eat our Li family and use our Li family! We should be loyal to the Li family! We have more than 100,000 people, why not be afraid of these few thousand eagle claw grandsons!"
Under the pressure of the three thousand servants of Li Jiaxing and Li Jiaguo, Cao Ding and Yan Ding did not dare to open the door to surrender, and could only resist to the end.
"The time is coming soon. There is no sign of a traitor in the city that opens the city and surrenders. We are ready to attack the city!" Wei Liangqing took out a pocket watch, glanced at the time and said.
This pocket watch was awarded to Wei Zhongxian by His Majesty, whom Wei Zhongxian gave it to his nephew.
Wei Liangqing ordered an attack, and the soldiers of Liaoyang New Town set up a gate general artillery, destroying the enemy artillery, and aimed at the military fort. With the order of the artillery officer, the gunners holding torches extended the torches to the fire door and lit the drug-guiding tube inserted into the fire door.
"Boom boom boom" A goalkeeper's cannon and the destroying cannon spit out flames. Dozens of small black dots smashed towards Lijiabao at a speed visible to the naked eye. The black shells hit the earth city and hit the brick-and-wood military fort, and a stream of smoke and dust rose, bricks shattered, and blocks of earth flew everywhere.
The defenders hiding at the city did not even dare to show their heads because they saw with their own eyes that many people showed their heads because they showed their heads. When the shells flew over, the whole heads of those guys with their heads were gone. The living creatures just now turned into headless corpses. The heads that were hit by the shells or wiped by them immediately exploded. The mixed red and white objects mixed with bone fragments spread in the air and sprayed on the ground.
The wooden fences above the Tucheng that were used as women's walls were broken countless times, and some of the wooden fences fell down, and the above the Tucheng became empty without any protection.
At this time, the new weapon of the Sky Cannon invented by Zhang Yong was lifted out of the chariot by the soldiers and mounted on a wooden cannon stand. The Sky Cannon has begun small-scale production. Liaoyang Xinzhen has four 24-pound Sky Cannons and twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twelve twel
In fact, the mortar cannon is a mortar cannon. The technical content of this kind of artillery is not as good as that of field cannons. The mortar cannon chamber is lower, and the requirements for material and production technology are lower than those of field cannons, and heavier shells cannons cannons cannons. However, the requirements for mortar cannons are very high. They need to know how to calculate ballistics and learn how to calculate ballistics, so that the mortar cannon cannons cannons accurately; in addition, it also needs to calculate the length of the fuse cut of the flowering artillery shells. If it is too short, the shell will explode in a very far air; if it is too short, the shell will fall on the ground and roll for a long time before it will explode, which will also reduce the killing effect.
Four sky-facing cannons are in a group, each with a gunner who knows how to calculate. Under his command, the gunners adjusted the muzzle to a certain angle, then stuffed a long cylindrical medicine bag into the medicine room, and then stuffed the shell with a cut fuse into the muzzle. The gunner standing behind pierced the fire door with an iron vertebrae, pierced the medicine bag, and then stuffed the drug lead into the fire door.
"Fire the gun!" With the command of the gunman, some gunners lit the fuse of the shell in front and then stepped back; the gunner responsible for stoking randomly ignited the drug-guiding tube on the fire door.
"Bang bang bang" The sound of the expansion of gunpowder gas sounded, and the tongue of flames spit out from the muzzle, and the white smoke filled the air, and rows of shells rose into the air. The fuse of the shells was blazing with fire, forming fire meteors in the air, smashing them down over Lijiabao.
The shells fell accurately on Tucheng. On the military fort, the gunpowder loaded in the shells exploded violently. A series of fireballs exploded above Tucheng and above the military fort. White smoke rose up, sharp debris and thousands of iron beads flew across, sweeping over a large area of defenders at the top of the city.
"Infantry Attack!" Wei Liangqing gave the order.
The infantry in Liaoyang Xinzhen carried simple cloud ladders and simple trench bridges, and the self-produced musketeers of five hundred elite factory guards followed. The attacking soldiers of Liaoyang Xinzhen rushed to the trench, spread the trench bridges on the trench, and then rushed through the trench.
The defenders on the front of the city shot with bows and arrows, trying to stop the Ming army in the new town of Liaoyang, who were rushing over, but the arrows had almost no effect on the infantrymen of Liaoyang, wearing thick armor. What's more, the bows used by these Cao Ding and Yan Ding were all soft bows and were not strong. Nonsense, they couldn't pull the strong bows, and it was useless to equip these mobs with strong bows.
Chapter completed!