Outside Shanhaiguan, the Qing army set up camp, eating on time every day, sleeping, eating, sleeping, and occasionally shouting into the city, reminding them not to overtime.

Since the governor of Liaodong, Qiu Minyang, pinched his nose and replied to a letter, Hong Chengchou and others were excited all night long, and the situation entered a state of relaxation.

After waiting for two days in a row, and there was no news from Guancheng, Hong Chengchou figured it out, he was fooled, this is a tactic!

He immediately proposed the second plan to Dolgon: "Concentrate all the Hongyi cannons, the thunder cannons that pierce the mountains and the ground, and bombard the Shanhaiguan City Gate!" ”

The thickness of the Shanhaiguan city wall is nearly seven meters, and it is purely idle to bombard the city wall with artillery, so you can only win by quantity, and rely on the fire to destroy the city gate, this tactic is still learned by Hong Chengchou from the Tianwu Army.

The so-called mountain-piercing and ground-breaking mine artillery, that is, mortar artillery, small-caliber, easy-to-carry mortar artillery later developed into mortars.

The thunderbolt was founded in the early Ming Dynasty, is one of the practical firearms of the Ming army, is a short, large angle of fire, low muzzle velocity, high arc ballistics smoothbore artillery, although its range is short, but the projectile is extremely powerful, mainly used to destroy strong fortifications.

For Shanhaiguan, the Qing army has been painstaking for decades, and the commonly used siege methods, whether it is a ladder or a wall, are extremely difficult to work, and even the tunnel has been dug three layers inside and three layers outside, and a dense piece of it just can't be beaten.

Hong Chengchou seemed to want to prove his ability to the Ming Dynasty, and then offered advice: "The third strategy of the minister is to unite the Mongol tribes in Southern Mo and give them heavy benefits, so that they can enter the customs from Lengkou, Xifengkou and other places, sneak attack Beijing City, Tianjin and other places, cut off the logistics of the Ming army, and force the Tianwu army to retreat!" ”

Dolgon frowned and said, "MonanMongolia..... They had already given up my Qing Dynasty to be Zhu Ming's sheep, and they still dared to rebel? ”

Hong Chengchou said: "The emperor doesn't know, the ministers have been in Liaodong for many years, often exchange markets with them, and they know a little bit about them, and it can be seen from the things they buy on weekdays that several powerful Mongolian tribes such as the Ao Han Department have been secretly building weapons and waiting for the opportunity." ”

"Oh?" Dolgon was surprised, thoughtful, and felt that this was an opportunity.

The Eight Banners Army raided from the route west of Shanhaiguan four times and plundered into the interior on a large scale. (respectively the second, seventh, ninth and eleventh years of Chongzhen)

Many Qing generals believed that the Eight Banners Army did not necessarily have to break through the Shanhai Pass, and that it would be enough to bypass the Shanhai Pass and enter the pass from the weak pass of the Great Wall defense line, and directly attack the city of Beijing.

Most of the generals have limited vision, do not consider the problem comprehensively, let alone from the perspective of the whole country, Dolgon is very clear that if the Qing Dynasty wants to enter the Central Plains, it must go through the Shanhaiguan Pass, and plunder is returned to plunder, which is two completely different concepts from entering the Central Plains.

At this time, a letter was shot down on the wall of Shanhaiguan, and a flag man hurriedly picked it up and sent it to the Chinese army.

"Hong Gong personally enlightened." Dolgon took the letter and said with a smile: "Hong Qing, it seems that your first plan has worked!" ”

Hong Chengchou stroked his beard and smiled, quite proud, he took the letter and slowly opened it, but saw that there was only a pair written on it: "Loyalty, righteousness, filial piety, etiquette and honesty, one, two, three, four, five, six, seven!" ”

After reading it, Hong Chengchou's old face immediately swelled like a purple eggplant, and he snorted coldly and threw down the letter and left.

After reading the content in his heart, Dolgon was a little puzzled, and asked a few Wenchen around him, "What does this mean?" ”

Ning Wan I picked up the letter and read it silently three times in a row, only then did he realize the meaning, he stroked his beard and smiled: "Your Majesty, this is a letter sent by Mao Yuanyi, it is a pair, this pair lacks a "shame" word in the upper link, and forgot the word "eight" in the lower link, this Mao Yuanyi is scolding Hong Gong for being a shameless Wang Ba, can he not be angry?" ”

Dolgon was speechless for a while, and secretly said that these scholars are really poisonous, if they don't have any knowledge, they won't know if they are scolded.

Without further ado, Dorgon ordered a battle, mobilized all artillery bombardment, closed the door, and bombarded to death!

In order to prevent the artillery at the head of the city from attacking his own artillery, Dolgon made detailed military arrangements and fully mobilized the generals to attack Weihai and the southern wing of the city next to the city to divide the firepower on the city.

The Qing army was divided into seven or eight armies, attacking from different angles, infantry and artillery fought together, attacking the city day and night, the infantry built a ladder from under the city to attack the city, and the artillery opened the city gate, as long as it squeezed in, not to mention people, the gods could not stand it.

Dolgon felt that it was not enough, and made a three-story wooden tower out of the mound of earth outside the city, and condescended to check the deployment in the city.

The movement of more than 100,000 Qing troops is very large, and it stands to reason that this position alone can also scare a wave of guards in the pass, and those who know the current affairs should have surrendered to the pass a long time ago.

However, Mao Yuanyi just admits death, and he and Huang Degong eat, drink, and Lazar are on the city wall, and take turns to supervise the city gate.

The defenders of Shanhaiguan did not go down the wall for several days, spitting and urinating all to greet the Qing soldiers under the city, so that they could enjoy the real humiliation of their crotch.

The sound of artillery is endless, the Qing army has been attacking for several days, the suspension bridge gate of Shanhaiguan has already been smashed, the Ming army sealed the city gate hole with stones earlier, and the Qing army can only send people to slowly open it.

On March 12, with a burst of cheers, the warriors of the Eight Banners of the Sun successfully opened the city gate and swarmed into the city.

However, there seemed to be a monster awakening behind the city gate, and a group of Japanese soldiers who had just rushed in screamed and ran back, as if they had seen something terrified.

This move greatly surprised the Eight Banners Army behind, and Dolgon, who was surprised, also looked at the situation in Guan Chengna curiously.

Suddenly, the iron hooves rumbled, and the gate of Shanhaiguan seemed to have a flood, and a black iron stream rushed out, and the Eight Banners besieging the city were caught off guard, and they were constantly trampled over and cut to the ground.

Waves of heavy cavalry came out from the city gate, and immediately the Qing army's shield chariots and soldiers were defeated, and they rushed to flee backwards.

Looking at the scarlet dragon banner in the iron stream, Dolgon's face gradually became gloomy, and a few words slowly burst out from between his teeth: "Tianwu Army!" ”

Countless heavy cavalry of the Longwu Army entered the outside of the city, and they continued to outflank, divide, tear, and drive away, and wherever the men and horses went, the Qing army was defeated layer by layer.

Some of the firecrackers tried to resist, but a group of dragons and warriors outflanked them and fired the same firecrackers, and in panic, they had to run away with their comrades.

The Long Wu army continued to charge and kill in the back, and the North Korean and Japanese cannon fodder bannermen, when they encountered this murderous cavalry for the first time, collapsed like a tide with a bang, and ran desperately to the back, wailing for a while, and the screams broke the eardrums.

Hong Chengchou was dumbfounded and muttered, "They're here......"

When Prince Azig, who was in charge of the Eight Banners of the Day, saw the dragon flag, a fierce light flashed in his eyes, and shouted: "Pass on the king's military order, the rout must not impact the large array of the Chinese army, and all the violators will be shot!" ”

The generals beside him don't dare to slack off, if the rout is allowed to attack the Chinese army, it will be the result of the rout of the whole army, and then the whole Qing Dynasty will be over!

Some Japanese people are just going to Japan to grab some when they die, and they must not let them affect the military formation of the Eight Banners!

Dolgon watched Wu Sangui's Han army flag quickly form a circle conducive to defense, and nodded with satisfaction.

Years of combat experience tell him that the moment of decisive battle is coming, but not now!

The most important thing now is to withdraw the troops first, adjust the deployment, and fight again at another date!

"Collect the troops!"

Dolgon immediately mounted his horse and led the Manchurian soldiers of the Eight Banners to the front of Quang Ninh.