Finally, the dense rain of arrows of the Tatar army stopped, and Yan Hu looked into the sky, as if there was no more crazy shooting. He slowly stood up, saw the Tatar soldiers rushing out of the woods, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, the Tartars are attacking, ready to fight." ”

The soldiers of the Ming army stationed on the left flank of Yanmen Pass waited for a short time and found that the Tatar army really did not continue to shoot arrows. Immediately, under the urging of Yan Hu and generals at all levels, they all stood up and looked out of the city.

"Shoot, the bird shooter will shoot at will......"

Yan Hu shouted loudly, and the generals of the various departments also roared angrily, and for a while, the left flank of Yanmen Pass roared and shook the sky, and the Tatar soldiers who were rushing up suddenly suffered heavy casualties.

The Tatar soldiers raised their shields and fought against the arrows and buckshot fired from the city.

These Tatar soldiers were all carefully selected dead soldiers by Uketu Khan, all wearing three layers of armor and holding heavy shields in their hands, and the firepower of the defenders on the left flank of Yanmen Pass could not stop the charge of more than 5,000 enemies, and long arrows and lead bullets were sprinkled into the enemy's shock formation, like a small splash on the surface of a pond.

Immediately, from the city tower, from the other defensive sides of the city wall, the Ming soldiers shot angry arrows and lead bullets at the Tatar soldiers and horses running below the city.

However, the dense woods helped the enemy, and most of the fire failed to hit the target, either blocked by branches or fired at tree trunks. But quite a few Tatar soldiers fell in pools of blood.

At this moment, the 3,000-strong archers sent by Uketu Khan to reinforce them rushed to the left flank of Yanmen Pass and began to shoot arrows intensively on the mountain.

Strongbow shooting units of the Tatar tribe suddenly appeared on the hillside, and their strongbow was the most famous of the Mongols, a specialty of the Tatar tribe.

This kind of bow is powerful and has a long range, which is far more solid and easy to use than ordinary bows. Although the soldiers of the strong bow unit were exposed to the range of the Ming army's bows and arrows, they were not afraid, they were all wearing armor, and under the roar of a captain, they began to suppress the Ming troops on the city tower, in order to cover their infantry brothers quickly approaching the city wall.

The soldiers of the Ming army were suddenly suppressed, and they were immediately pierced by powerful long arrows through dozens of people. But in the face of more besieging enemy soldiers pouring under the city walls, they could no longer care about dodging the enemy's fire, and could only do their best to block the more threatening enemy.

Half an hour later, more than 8,000 Tatar soldiers on the left flank of Yanmen Pass resolutely and tenaciously advanced under the city walls. The soldiers put their shields on their heads and quickly set up a ladder to climb the city. Due to the gap between the earthen bags, the feet of the ladder were deeply inserted into the earthen bags, which was obviously more secure than placing on the ground, and was less likely to be pushed down by the defenders.

Immediately afterward, the first 1,300 besieging soldiers poured out of the mountainside like a tidal wave under the command of the sound of the trumpet. They roared wildly, swords in one hand and shields in the other, and rushed at high speed towards the ten ladders.

Sun Deqi, the guerrilla general of the left battalion, had already led another group of soldiers to arrive, and seeing that the Tatar soldiers and horses had rushed to the city with huge casualties, he suddenly pulled out his war knife and shouted at the surrounding Ming soldiers: "Intensive shooting, intensive shooting......

The running Tatar soldiers were constantly being shot and falling, screaming, long arrows whistling, shouting and killing, filling the entire battlefield. The enemy began to climb the ladder.

At this time, Yan Hu turned a deaf ear to the fierce fighting on the left flank of Yanmen Pass. He believed that it was a harassing tactic of the enemy, and there was nothing to pay attention to. Moreover, the slope of the mountain is steep and high, and even if the enemy wants to attack the city, he cannot find a place to place the ladder, and it is difficult for the siege team to deploy. The soldiers were in unfavorable terrain, and the casualties must have been huge. No one will focus on it, unless it's a lunatic who doesn't know anything.

Seeing that the enemy in front of Yanmen Pass had entered the firing range of the army, Yan Hu turned around and shouted, "Beat the drums." The shield-bearer is in front, and the bird-bearer is in the back, ready to fire a volley. ”

Orders were conveyed to the ears of the soldiers by commanders at all levels, one after another. As the battle flag waved, the shield-bearers crouched down in unison.

At the same time, Uketu Khan also turned back and shouted to the herald behind him: "Order the shield bearers to raise their shields, and the archers to prepare." The army continues to advance, preparing to storm Yanmen Pass! ”

Yan Hu raised his spear, pointed forward vigorously, and roared loudly, "Fire!" ”

Almost at the same moment, a thick burst of gunpowder smoke and a huge roar suddenly rose from the city wall in front of Yanmen Pass.

And Uketu Khan also shouted: "Shoot ......"

Immediately behind the Ming army, tens of thousands of Tatar troops fired more than 20,000 long arrows.

This huge black cloud shot into the sky, broke through a small black cloud, and poured down towards the city wall in front of Yanmen Pass.

Both armies suffered a massive onslaught almost simultaneously, and soldiers on both sides fell. The brief contact caused a small confusion. But then the archers and bird-gunners on both sides, under the command of their respective commanders, fired another round.

The arrows in the air flew and shouted in the sky above the Yanmen Pass, the war drums on the city shook the ground, and the horns of the bulls under the city resounded throughout the battlefield. The fierce battle has finally begun.

The tens of thousands of troops from Uketu Khan quickly approached the city, echoed with thousands of soldiers and horses on the left flank, and launched a general attack on Yanmen Pass.

"Order the archers to stop advancing, the shieldmen to take cover, and continue shooting."

"Order the besieging army to immediately erect a ladder and ascend to the city to fight."

At the sound of an order, five thousand soldiers suddenly rushed out of the whole procession, and they were in groups of hundreds, carrying huge ladders, running with their shields held high, and roaring loudly from their mouths, shooting at the walls like wild horses on the loose.

Yan Hu's heart was full of fighting spirit, but his face was expressionless, and he shouted loudly: "Send the bird guns to step forward to block the infantry under the city; The birdie in the back row continued to shoot from distance. ”

The Tatar soldiers quickly advanced to the city and successfully erected the ladder under the heavy fire of the dense Ming army. The four soldiers then held the base of the ladder to make it secure, and the other soldiers held their shields high and guarded the sides of the ladder to protect the lives of the four soldiers.

The loud horn of the charge resounded through the battlefield in an instant. The 5,000 assault soldiers were divided into fifty squads, and like beasts that had broken out of the cage, they screamed and rushed to the ladder, ready to enter the city and fight.

Seeing this, Uketu Khan suddenly shouted excitedly: "Archers, continuous salvo, continuous salvo!" ”

As soon as the cry of Uketu Khan fell, the dense long arrows suddenly roared like madness, and shot one after another towards the city wall. The dense array of long arrows slammed down on the top of the city wall like a storm.

The dozen or so guards standing behind Yan Hu were shocked, and immediately rushed forward, raised their shields, and formed a small tortoiseshell formation, which protected Yan Hu tightly.

The fierce arrows slammed into the shield continuously, and the force was so great that the two guards had to hold the shield with both hands, take a step back, and in an instant they were shot to the ground, and they were not alive.

The assault horses of the Tatar army, under the cover of the archers, quickly approached the ladder, and then one by one, like agile apes, quickly climbed up the ladder.

At this time, the archers of the Tatar department suddenly stopped firing.

Yan Hu separated the guards in front of him and stretched out his head to look under the city wall. The enemy soldiers were dense and were rapidly approaching the top of the city wall along the ladder.

After paying huge casualties, the Tatars finally began to climb the walls of Yanmen Pass!

Yan Hu took a step back, raised his gun and shouted, "Brothers, kill me...... Ah......h

The drums of war in Yanmen Pass were like thunder, and the morale of the soldiers of the Ming army was like a rainbow.

"Get on the bayonet!"

The soldiers of the Eagle Yang Army on the front city wall drew their bayonets one after another, and killed the Tatar soldiers who had just emerged, and the city wall was suddenly slaughtered and shocked.

The sun in the sky is so hot that it scorches the winter battlefield to a fiery heat.

At this time, the Ming soldiers stationed in Yanmen Pass have suffered a lot of casualties, if it were not for more than 10,000 Yingyang soldiers who held on to it, these original Ming troops stationed in the city are estimated to have collapsed.

Under the supervision of Uketu Khan, tens of thousands of Tatar soldiers were not afraid of death, these soldiers and horses were originally the elite iron cavalry in the Tatar department, not only the will to fight is strong, but also the combat skills are excellent, well-equipped, under the supervision of the Great Khan, these Tatar soldiers and horses are all in a frenzy, all the Tatar soldiers who went to the battlefield, there is no reason to turn back, all and the Ming soldiers fought to the end.

At this time, Yan Hu was also fighting at the forefront, and there were only six guards left around him, and the rest of the soldiers had already fallen in a pool of blood.

In this battle, the tens of thousands of Tatar soldiers and horses were obviously well prepared, the whole army was equipped with a large number of armor and heavy shields, and withstood the firearms of the soldiers of the Yingyang Army with the sacrifice of thousands of soldiers and horses.

Yan Hu's heart was already filled with anxiety and anger, since the Eagle Yang Army became an army, it had not suffered such a large casualty today.

According to Yan Hu's estimates, the fierce battle has so far that the Yingyang Army has lost at least a thousand soldiers, and this is only the battle loss of today's day, not counting the casualties of the original defenders of Yanmen Pass!

Although the casualties of the Tatar army were far more than those of the Ming army, Yan Hu did not know whether these Tatar troops had any backups, and whether the Uketu Khan was so desperate was thinking about some other conspiracy!

Therefore, Yan Hu only hoped that Liu Juntao, the governor of Shanxi, would send reinforcements as soon as possible, so that he could lead the soldiers of the army in Yanmen Pass to join forces with the outside world, and together with the reinforcements, the tens of thousands of Tatar troops led by Xiao Lai would be annihilated under Yanmen Pass!

"Light the wolf smoke!"

Yan Hu slashed a Tartar soldier to death with a single sword, and then shouted at his subordinates behind him: "Kill! Slay these Tartars to the fullest! ”