Chapter 398: The Son of Heaven! [2 more]
"not good!"
When he heard the thunder, the Tatar generals such as Balesborot felt a little bad in their hearts. The personal guards guarding around Balesborot raised their shields one by one by one by one, moved closer to Balesborot and others with instinct.
Dozens of people instantly protected Ballsborot in the middle.
As the earth shook, a roar came, and a total of flowering bullets exploded around Balsborot and others. One of the solid bullets even whizzed past these people. On the spot, a ten thousand household was bombarded with shells and the shells were bouncing continuously, crushing them all the way, directly causing casualties of dozens of Tatar soldiers.
After a wave of shelling, almost dozens of breaths followed by another wave of shelling.
The gunner on the city wall quickly filled the shells and fired.
Although the speed is not fast, it is very stable. Each wave can cause hundreds of Tatars to be killed or injured.
After the first wave of artillery, the dust-faced Balsborot, who was blown up, came out from the protection of his personal guards. Fortunately, dozens of personal guards protected him with their flesh and blood. Otherwise, one of the flowering bullets exploded a few feet away from it, and the iron flew around, causing more than a dozen personal guards to be killed and injured on the spot.
If Ballsborot was either blocked by the personal guard's shield, he might either be injured or killed by the bomb.
After awakening, Ballsborot only saw dozens of cannons roaring above the city. He couldn't help but burst into endless anger in his eyes and roared: "The heaven of immortality is above, all the soldiers will kill me!"
It was good that the Tatars who were stunned by the bombing did not have a large-scale riot. At this moment, after hearing the roar of Bals, as the commands were conveyed, the Tatar soldiers who were holding their breath frantically rushed off their horses and rushed towards the city wall.
On the city wall, seeing the cannons making contributions, the morale of the Ming soldiers naturally increased, and many people couldn't help but cheer.
British Duke Zhang Mao, Han Kun and others also showed some smiles on their faces. Cheng Xiangwu even stroked his beard and laughed: "The cannon left by the Grand Chief Executive is so powerful, but unfortunately he did not kill the Tatar Prince!"
As he spoke, he saw the Tatars below driving their horses towards the city wall like madmen. Judging from the situation, they actually wanted to attack the city.
Lu Dazhu smacked his lips and looked at the Tatars riding horses below with a dull face, and couldn't help but look shocked: "Are these people crazy? They are cavalrymen, how can they attack the city? Could it be that they still want to knock the city wall down with their horses?"
As they were speaking, they saw these Tatar soldiers charging forward pulling their bows and arrows one by one. They heard a sound of soaring sounds coming from their ears, and a rain of arrows shot towards the city wall.
"No, please avoid it!"
Without Han Kun and others reminding, the soldiers on the city wall were instinctively hiding behind the city wall while the Tatars below bent their bows and arrows.
A rain of arrows fell on the city wall, and a muffled groan came. It was obvious that some people were still injured by the arrow rain, but after all, the city wall was used as a cover, and not many people were actually injured by the arrow rain.
Cheng Xiangwu was wearing armor, and his sword danced in his hand blocked the rain of arrows that were shooting at him. Looking at the waves of Tatar troops charging below, he couldn't help but shout: "Everyone covered the rain of arrows!"
Although the Tatars attacked with arrow rain, they were covered by city walls after all, so as the guardians, the soldiers on the city wall should not be too worried about arrow rain.
But the Tatars below were different. With Cheng Xiangwu's order, the impatient archers who had been waiting were bent their bows and arrows to shoot arrows outside the city.
It is enough to shoot directly from the sky without aiming. There is a huge black area under the city wall. I dare not say that every arrow shot down can hit a Tatar soldiers, but the lethality cannot be underestimated at all.
As the wave of arrows fell, thousands of arrows covered an area, and almost instantly, at least hundreds of Tatars fell to the ground after stroke.
In the chaos, many Tatar soldiers who fell off the horse were not shot by arrows on the spot, but were struck by the war horses of their companions who followed him on the spot.
Even if one or two of them dodged, when the army charged, the war horses were galloping, even the grassland people could not control the horses as they pleased. Especially in the roar of cannons, many horses were already shocked. If they didn't run around, it was already amazing that the Tatar soldiers' horse control skills were amazing.
The Tatars under the city shot arrows crazy, and at the same time, the Ming soldiers also shot out arrows on the city wall, and many firearms began to show their power.
For example, a firearm, a swarm of bees and firearms exploded, and suddenly a pungent smoke filled the city walls. The smoke filled the smoke, and the choking breath of gunpowder was thrilling.
Ballsborot, who had already withdrawn for several miles, stood in the distance, watching the situation in front of the city wall from afar, a team of ten thousand people was sieging the city wildly.
Of course, the Tatars are not fools, and it is obviously unrealistic to rely on cavalry to attack the city. Balesborot never thought of relying on cavalry to capture the city.
But Balsborot still ordered a team of ten thousand people to attack the city. The purpose was very simple, and it was to test the Ming Dynasty's ability to defend the city.
Looking at the city wall filled with smoke with a serious expression, Balesborot's eyes were full of solemnity.
Whether a city is easy to attack is the most important thing about the spirit of the soldiers guarding the city. The city is tall and the morale of the soldiers guarding the city is high, especially the fierce firearms. It can be said that after a wave of testing, Balesborot did not find any flaws in Beijing.
The captain of the ten thousand men of the team watched his soldiers fall under the city wall, either being shot by arrows or being killed by firearms, or being bombarded by the continuous cannons.
In just half an hour, at least thousands of people were killed or injured on the Tatar side, and there were wailing sounds under the city wall.
The veins of the tenemented man Damon burst out and said to Balesborot: "Your Highness, let's withdraw your troops. If this continues, the tribesmen will probably not be able to bear it!"
Balesborot glanced at Damon, nodded slightly, and a desolate horn sounded, and the Tatar soldiers were quickly urging their horses to retreat as if they were amnesty.
It was just a blink of an eye that the Tatar soldiers who had originally gathered under the city walls retreated, leaving only the dead and wounded soldiers all over the ground.
Even when firearms completely replaced cold weapons, there were only a few soldiers who died directly on the battlefield, and most of them died of serious injuries.
Nowadays, there are almost three or four thousand Tatar soldiers above the city walls, and there are about two thousand soldiers who died directly, and the rest are wounded.
The wounded were either minor or serious, the severe ones were dying, and the mild ones were not fatal to be shot. Many slightly injured Tatar soldiers crawled out of the crowd of dead people, but they were shot by arrows on the spot.
On the city wall, watching the Tatar soldiers retreat, many people breathed a sigh of relief and showed joy on their faces.
It has to be said that the invasion of 100,000 Tatars is a great pressure for everyone. Even if these soldiers say nothing is not stressed, no one would believe it.
After all, the soldiers in the capital had never had any experience of fighting with the Tatars, and they naturally had no idea what to do and were up and down.
However, in this fight, the original worries disappeared all of a sudden.
The Tatars were just like this. Relying on the city of Beijing and various powerful weapons to defend the city, the Tatars killed and injured thousands of people in just one wave, which could almost be regarded as a great victory.
Especially after the death and injury of the soldiers guarding the city was counted, less than a hundred people were accidentally shot by Tatar arrows. This casualties were insignificant compared to the army of more than 100,000, and compared with the death and injuries of the Tatars, there were even less pitiful.
The British Duke stroked his beard with a smile in his eyes: "Send someone to report his victory to His Majesty quickly!"
In the palace, even if he was sitting there playing chess with Wang Hua, Zhu Houzhao was restless.
As Zhu Houzhao's Eastern Palace teacher, Wang Hua once had a master-disciple relationship. At this moment, Wang Hua looked at Zhu Houzhao's restless look and said, "Your Majesty, a monarch should be a mountain of Tai collapse without changing his face..."
Zhu Houzhao coughed lightly, and was about to speak when he saw a Jinyiwei strode with a happy look on his face and said from afar: "Good news, good news..."
Zhu Houzhao suddenly stood up when she heard this, and there was no need to care about the emperor's dignity. She stared at the Jinyiwei with a burning look and said, "Speak quickly!"
I could only hear the Jinyiwei say, "Report to Your Majesty, the Tatar army is at the city, and the Duke of England and other generals have wiped out the Tatar army, killing thousands of enemies, and only a hundred casualties..."
"Hahahaha! God bless me, Daming, God bless me, Daming!"
After hearing this good news suddenly, Zhu Houzhao couldn't help laughing.
Jiao Fang, Chen Ding, Wang Hua and others all breathed a sigh of relief when they heard this, and they also showed a relaxed look on their faces. They all said to Zhu Houzhao: "I am congratulating you for Your Majesty, and congratulating you for the Ming Dynasty!"
Zhu Houzhao couldn't help but say joy in his heart: "Transfer my order. The soldiers in front of him will kill one enemy and reward fifty taels of silver. The elders of the Tatars, the elders of the Bo, and the enemy chiefs will be awarded the title of Pinglu Marquis! The soldiers who died and injured will be rewarded fifty taels of silver, and the dead will be given a pension of hundreds of taels! I will definitely reward those who defend our Ming Dynasty."
"Your Majesty is wise, and my country of Ming Dynasty will last forever!"
There were only 100,000 Tatars, even if the 100,000 Tatar army led by Dayan Khan was included, the total was 200,000. According to Zhu Houzhao's reward, even if all the 200,000 Tatar army that invaded, the court would only need to take out tens of millions of tarnished silver.
Even if the pension for one's own casualties is at most 10 million taels of silver, if it is really possible to destroy the 200,000 elite Tatars army in one battle, not to mention more than 10 million taels, even if it doubles, the Ming Dynasty would not hesitate at all.
Chapter completed!