"Your Majesty, the bandits are attacking the city!"

Shortly after hearing the sound of cannon fire, a young eunuch came running in in a panic to deliver a message.

Attack the city at night?

Chongzhen was very puzzled by Li Zicheng's actions. Unless it was a rainy night, attacking the city at night would be beneficial to the defenders and would not cause any harm!

Because the defenders were standing high up, they could see everything below clearly by just throwing down a ball of fire.

The attackers couldn't do that, as they couldn't see the defenders on the city walls at all.

The soldiers below wanted to shoot the defenders but couldn't find anyone.

Although he had no idea what Li Zicheng was going to do, Chongzhen decided to go to the top of the city to take a look for the sake of caution.

He ordered Pang Zijin: "Find two hundred men to wear two layers of armor. It could be a tough battle tonight!"

"I obey your order!" Pang Zijin waved his hand, and the two hundred people he brought immediately put on armor on the spot.

Chongzhen didn't wait for them and went directly to Fuchengmen with a thousand brave guards.

Before I even left the imperial city, I heard shouts and cries of killing all over the mountains!

"If you surrender, you won't be killed! Otherwise, the whole city will be massacred! If you surrender, you won't be killed!" Wave after wave of voices rushed in, then carried the fear of the people in the city away into the dark distance.

Chongzhen quickened his pace.

He had a feeling that something was going to happen tonight.

Li Zicheng did not gain any benefit from attacking the city during the day and night, so he should have rested for a night before discussing the matter.

But Li Chuang is Li Chuang, and he doesn’t play by the rules at all!

Soon, Chongzhen climbed up the city wall under the protection of everyone.

Looking around, the lights outside the city are as bright as day!

Leaning on the battlement on the city wall and looking down, Chongzhen was shocked.

This thief Li Chuang must be crazy!

In this siege, except for the vanguard troops who were civilians, the rest were all elite Shun troops.

They were wearing the standard armor of the Ming army, holding weapons and protective gear, and rushed towards the city wall next to Fuchengmen in wave after wave.

"What's going on?" Chongzhen's eyes quickly swept across the top of the city wall and finally fell on Lieutenant General Li, the guard of Fucheng Gate.

Lieutenant General Li did not dare to hide the truth. "Your Majesty, the bandits dug a big hole in the city wall when they attacked the city this afternoon. It seems that they want to make the hole bigger at night and collapse the city wall!"

"I understand."

Chongzhen immediately ordered Wang Chengen: "Go, arrange for people to go to the imperial city and bring all the usable artillery here. Place half of them on top of the city walls, and point the muzzles of the other half at this position and place them inside the city!"

He pointed to the city wall with a hole dug in it and said.

"I obey the order."

While Chongzhen was giving the order, the bandits' offensive did not stop.

Under the artillery fire of the Ming army, they rushed to the city wall one after another, digging and digging the soil with hoes, shovels, weapons, helmets, and even their hands.

The city wall that the Ming army had not yet had time to repair was destroyed again.

People on the city walls were firing down with all kinds of weapons recklessly, including grenades, ten thousand enemies, and small ten thousand enemies.

Kerosene, molten iron, molten copper, and even boiling water began to pour down.

In the flames, countless Shun troops were reduced to ashes.

However, more Shun troops continued to rush towards the city wall one after another.

One has to admire Li Zicheng. The performance of these elite Shun troops is completely different from that of the civilians.

Some people would rather die than put down the bricks in their hands.

As long as they saw an opening ahead, they would go in and dig out bricks and soil.

Soon, the hole in the city wall became bigger and bigger.

The corpses by the moat had piled up like small hills, one after another.

Neither the Ming army nor the Shun army could smell the smell of blood or burning gunpowder at this time.

Because everyone has lost their sense of smell, leaving only vision and hearing; these people are like walking machines, constantly reaping the lives of their own kind with the weapons in their hands.

Even Li Zicheng, who killed people like grass, felt horrified when he saw such a scene.

"Report! General Guoyi Zhang Neng and his 2,000 soldiers were completely wiped out!"

Zhang Neng was a fierce general whom Li Zicheng highly recognized. Although he repeatedly violated military regulations, Li Zicheng did not punish him because of his fierceness.

"Report! General Guoyi Tian Hu was seriously injured and defeated, and has been carried back by his personal soldiers. It seems..." The messenger was afraid and did not dare to continue.

"Speak, it's okay."

"It seems there's no hope!" The messenger swallowed as he spoke.

There is no way. This is the military discipline of the Shun Army. Sometimes a word that annoys others may result in death.

"I understand!" Li Zicheng stood in the distance, staring at the city wall of Beijing with a firm look.

The offensive and defensive battle below the city wall has reached a stalemate.

The defenders used various weapons and methods to continuously harvest the lives of Shun’s soldiers; but the Shun army seemed not to be afraid at all, and rushed up and forward one after another.

This lasted for an hour. Just when the Ming army had become numb from killing people, the city wall beneath them suddenly shook.

Although the shaking was slight, everyone knew it was broken.

There is a high probability that the Shun army dug through the city wall!

As expected, as soon as the Shun army showed their heads in front of the digchuan city, they were stabbed in the neck by a Ming army soldier who had been waiting for a long time. The long knife pierced through them and blood splattered.

"It's connected! It's connected!" The Shun army who were still digging in front of the city couldn't help but shout!

But the next moment, he was blown to death by the grenade thrown in.

The Ming army poured soil into the city to prevent the enemy from digging the wall, while poking hard with their spears.

"Your Majesty, the city wall has been dug!"

"Put the gunpowder and explode!"

"Yes, sir!" With the order from the messenger, the civilians who had been preparing for a long time were sent into the field again.

They held earthenware jars filled with gunpowder, some with lids, and others without lids, wrapped with oil paper, and rushed into the darkness with them in their arms.

Tens of thousands of civilians, holding clay pots, rushed towards the city wall as fast as they could.

Although the Ming army defenders could not see clearly what these people were holding, they could guess it based on their postures.

"The bandits are trying to blow up the city wall. Brothers, hold on!"

The others knew to hold on, but they were on the wall, and they had no choice but to kill people. The civilians below the city, determined to die, put gunpowder from the jars into the holes in the wall one by one.

"Throw the mines that destroy the sky and the earth, and release the small ten thousand enemies!" someone in the defenders shouted.

After the devastating mines knocked down a group of enemy troops, the flames of the Little Ten Thousand Enemies mixed with thick smoke were thrown down from the city wall.

Dozens, no, dozens of Shun soldiers were touched by the flames when they were not careful.

The earthen jar in his hand was also ignited and exploded.

Boom boom boom!

In an instant, it seemed as if fireworks were set off under the city wall, and dozens of soldiers died with every fire.

But...more soldiers holding clay pots rushed up.

The hole in the city wall was blocked with a wet quilt, so the flames could not get in.

After waiting for an unknown amount of time, the wet quilt that was blocking the hole was opened from the inside.

Several Shun soldiers ran and shouted: "Run! It's going to explode!"

"Get down quickly, it's going to explode!"

Before he could finish shouting, the earth trembled and the sky changed color.