Chapter 310: The Battle of Shanhaiguan (3) 5000 words chapter

Liu Zongmin was caught off guard, just like he caught Wu Sangui off guard just now, and it was night, and more importantly, the combat effectiveness of the Tartars was extremely strong, especially since they were good at field combat.

And Liu Zongmin's men and horses have been killed here for a long time, and in terms of troops, Dolgon led seventy or eighty thousand elite soldiers, and Liu Zongmin only had a total of 50,000 horses.

Therefore, there is no suspense at all in this battle between the two sides, and the difference in strength is too great.

Countless arrows under the night sky, like raindrops, hit Liu Zongmin's team, the arrows fell to the ground of the Dashun army killed and wounded countless people, and then these Tartars rushed into the Dashun army for a burst of killing and slashing, back and forth a few charges, Liu Zongmin's men and horses were rushed to pieces, collapsed, scattered and fled, dead and wounded everywhere.

Wu Sangui's men and horses inside eased up this time, and they also began to frantically kill the soldiers of the Dashun army.

This time, Liu Zongmin's men and horses were killed, and corpses were scattered all over the field, and blood flowed like rivers.

Wu Sangui hated Liu Zongmin, he took the guards, held a torch and aimed at Liu Zongmin, Liu Zongmin, who had fought until now, had been deeply surrounded by the heavy troops of the Tartars and Wu Sangui's men and horses, and he was desperately trying to break through and retreat, but he killed one layer after another, and finally he was physically exhausted and suffered several injuries all over his body.

Looking at the guards around him, there are only a handful.

Liu Zongmin had a premonition, it seemed that today was more than lucky, and it was at this time that he met Wu Sangui, who rushed over.

"Liu Zongmin, bastard, I'm going to kill you!" Wu Sangui scolded Liu Zongmin for urging the horse, and took Liu Zongmin with a knife.

"Wu Sangui, my ancestor is your ancestor!"

Liu Zongmin's eyes widened, and he danced his hands to urge the horse to hedge over like Wu Sangui.

In the night, in the flickering firelight, two people shouted and cursed, and two horses rushed together.

The other thousands of horses and thousands of troops no longer exist at this time, for their two generals, this is a heads-up between two people, and God is fair, give them such a chance.

But at this time, Liu Zongmin is obviously at a disadvantage, which is unfair.

Although Liu Zongmin is brave, he has seriously overspent his physical strength in this matter, and he will definitely not be able to last long with only one strength, just like a tree without roots and water without a source, which can support the first two strokes at most.

But Wu Sangui is different, he is not as tired as Liu Zongmin at this time, thinking of his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, the tips of his hair are full of strength, plus his martial arts are one piece higher than Liu Zongmin.

Wu Sangui was born in Jiangmen and practiced riding and archery since he was a child, coupled with the marriage between the Wu family and the ancestral family of Liaodong, the ancestral family of Liaodong, which is a martial arts family, the combination of the two families, making Wu Sangui's martial arts gambling two long, blue out of blue and better than blue.

When he was a teenager, Wu Sangui won the Wuju people, and began his career as a horse in 20, serving as a regimental training commander, deputy general of the right battalion guard, equivalent to the deputy general soldier, and later directly promoted to the general soldier, at this time he was not yet 30 years old.

And Liu Zongmin can't compare with him, his own bravery and acquired self-taught, it's okay to deal with ordinary characters, but to deal with Wu Sangui, even in a fair state, two people face each other, and he is not an opponent, not to mention that he is extremely tired now.

Therefore, he couldn't parry after a few rounds, so he had to use his best skills, beat the horse like flying, and fled in embarrassment, ready to win in defeat. Seeing that Wu Sangui was chasing after him, he threw his hands at Wu Sangui one after another.

"Die!"

The two handbands of both hands roared, and flew towards Wu Sangui one after another.

The hidden weapon is a surprise, and it pays attention to a fast, so that the opponent can win with one blow without any reaction.

Liu Zongmin's two hidden weapons were originally a hundred shots, but now, they lack strength support, so their power has shrunk.

Therefore, when these two things flew towards Wu Sangui one after another, they were easily knocked away by Wu Sangui with a big knife.

And because of his lack of strength, the two hand straps did not spin back as usual, but fell into the dust due to lack of strength.

Liu Zongmin couldn't see it well, so he had to turn his horse and run for his life, but this time he really ran.

"Bastard, where are you going?" Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and hung up the big knife, took off the bow and arrow, and shot an arrow with a whoosh, Liu Zongmin screamed and fell off the horse.

Wu Sangui inserted his bow and arrows, rushed forward with his horse, rushed to the front, raised his knife and fell, cut off Liu Zongmin's head with a click, and then hung his head on the neck of the war horse.

Now he breathed a sigh of relief, felt much smoother in his heart, and finally avenged the hatred of taking his wife.

Then Wu Sangui commanded his men to continue to pursue and annihilate the remnants of the Dashun army......

On the top of the Shanhaiguan Guancheng, Li Zicheng led an army of 40,000 or 50,000 from the Great Wall and suddenly swooped down on the Shanhaiguan Guancheng.

Ma Bao according to Wu Sangui's design is just to guard the city, the battlefield should be placed outside the Shanhai Pass, Wu Sangui's men and horses and the Tartars outside the pass teamed up to deal with Li Zicheng, but he didn't expect Li Zicheng to suddenly kill him, the young Ma Bao hurriedly commanded his 20,000 troops to rush to the battle.

It was a dark sky, a sudden attack, coupled with the disparity in troops, Ma Bao's men and horses suffered heavy casualties, and Li Zicheng killed corpses everywhere, staining the city wall with blood.

Ma Bao fought to the death to resist the enemy, and the combat power of the Guanning army was also fierce, but Li Zicheng's Chuang Wang Dao was invincible, and the army of 40,000 or 50,000 under his command was more than enough to deal with the 20,000 Ming army that was caught off guard.

In the end, Ma Bao couldn't resist it, and while sending people to rescue, he fought and retreated, and soon withdrew from Shanhaiguan, and Li Zicheng's men and horses took the gate in one fell swoop.

Li Zicheng hated Wu Sangui so much that he saw it, and this time he wanted to eradicate them. Therefore, after he took the city, he led his men and horses to kill again, and chased after Ma Bao's team.

At this time, Li Zicheng never dreamed that there was a team behind him, as if it had fallen from the sky, and it was like a poisonous snake from behind them, which was Haoge's men and horses.

Hauge and Dolgon each led tens of thousands of horses, and the soldiers were divided into two routes, Dolgon's goal was Shanhaiguan, and Hauge's goal was a Shiguan city thirty or forty miles west of Shanhaiguan.

When Haoge's tens of thousands of Qing troops arrived at the bottom of Guancheng, it was just when Guancheng was empty, because at this time, Li Zicheng led an army of 40,000 or 50,000 to attack Shanhaiguan all the way east along the Great Wall.

Now there are less than 3,000 defenders of the Dashun Army in Shiguan City, including Gao Guiying and Song Xiance's new 1,800 people, because they came from afar and fled from Beijing, Li Zicheng took care of them, and they were not allowed to participate in tonight's attack, Gao Guiying is the queen after all, Song Xiance is a civil official, and the remaining hundreds of people are tired soldiers, so Li Zicheng let them rest in the city, and assist the rest of the people to guard the pass.

The so-called remaining men and horses are mainly 2,000 artillerymen, because this time Li Zicheng left the Beijing Division, led an army of 100,000, and brought in 200 red-coated cannons, and 2,000 people were specially responsible for these 200 red-coated cannons, which was the so-called artillery battalion of the Dashun Army.

Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng did not bring red-coated artillery because the operation was a surprise attack. In addition, because two days ago, Li Zicheng's men and horses had a fierce battle with Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan, and both sides used red-coated cannons.

Later, Wu Sangui cheated and gave up a piece of Shiguan City, ostensibly to cooperate with Li Zicheng, which was a sign of sincerity to let Li Zicheng be fooled. Li Zicheng didn't know the truth, after entering the Guancheng, after resting the 200 red-clothed cannons, all of them were installed on the Guancheng, and now the north of Beijing is also lost, Li Zicheng plans to use a piece of Shiguancheng as a temporary base. Therefore limited artillery and ammunition, he did not use it easily. In addition, the night attack tonight will not use the redcoat cannon.

This is also the reason why he put all 200 heavy artillery on the city.

When Li Zicheng's men and horses were fighting fiercely with Ma Bao's men and horses in Shanhaiguan, Haoge's men and horses arrived and swooped down on a Shiguan City.

Since it was night, the Dashun army on Shiguan City did not expect the Tartars to come, and the Dashun army on Shiguan City was killed by surprise.

Thanks to the danger of the Guancheng Mountain, Gao Guiying and Song Xiance defended tightly, and after discovering the sudden attack of the Tartars, they immediately commanded 3,000 men and horses to resist and defend the pass in a bloody battle.

The cannon roared, and more than 200 red-coated cannons on the head of the city, condescendingly, fired cannonballs, roaring and exploding in the ranks of the Tartars.

The Tartars were blown upside down, corpses flew everywhere, and the night sky was filled with bloody rain, so that they repelled three attacks by the Tartars in a row.

However, due to the limited power of the red-coated cannons, and due to the consumption of ammunition in the battle a few days ago, they could not be replenished in time, and soon the ammunition was exhausted, and the 200 red-coated cannons became dumb, and the Dashun army had no choice but to rely on the dangerous city to defend with bows and arrows, but because the enemy was outnumbered, there were too many Tartars, there were fifty or sixty thousand, and the Dashun army defending the city was less than 3,000 people. Therefore, the power of the bow and arrow is insignificant.

Therefore, the Dashun army supported for less than an hour, and was attacked by the Tartars, the red-clothed cannon lost its effect, the bow and arrow also lost its effect, the two sides launched a hand-to-hand white-knuckle battle, the combat effectiveness of the Dashun army was not as good as the Qing army, without the support of the danger of the city and firepower, the disparity between the forces of the two sides was so great, so the Dashun army was not an opponent at all.

Two or three thousand people were quickly lost, Gao Guiying, Song Xiance, Huiying, Huimei, Zhang Nai, and so on, there were only one or two hundred of them left, protecting Gao Guiying and Song Xiance to withdraw from a Shiguan City, retreating along the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan, they planned to go to Li Zicheng's brigade to join forces, otherwise they would have to be wiped out.

Who knew that after Haoge's men and horses took the Guancheng, they did not stop, because they snatched the Guancheng not for the purpose, but for the purpose of attacking from both sides, and joining forces with Wu Sangui's men and horses to wipe out all Li Zicheng's men and horses.

Therefore, Hauge with tens of thousands of horses did not stop at Guancheng, but followed the long horse road and chased after him all the way.

Gao Guiying and the others only retreated while killing, and from time to time some people were put to the ground by bows and arrows, and some fell outside the Great Wall.

Gao Guiying and their people are getting fewer and fewer, and now it is difficult for Gao Guiying and them to go down the Great Wall, such a high city wall, looking down at the black, jumping down in the middle of the night, it is strange not to break bones.

There was no way, they had to fight and retreat, the people around them continued to decrease, and finally when they arrived at Shanhaiguan Pass, there were only Song Xiance, Gao Guiying, Huiying, Huimei, Zhang Nai, and more than a dozen people, Zhang Nai, and Huiying Huimei were all injured.

They thought that it was safe to find Li Zicheng, who knew that Li Zicheng was overwhelmed at this time, because Wu Sangui and Dolgon's men and horses had killed Liu Zongmin's men and horses, and now they began to besiege Li Zicheng's men and horses.

Li Zicheng's men and horses are similar to Liu Zongmin's men, and they are also killed by Wu Sangui's men and horses for a long time, and their physical strength is seriously consumed, and they can't resist it at all with the addition of the elite of the Manchu Eight Banners.

Li Zicheng's men and horses had just rushed down the city and were forced to retreat into the city again. But the Qing army and Wu Sangui's men and horses were in hot pursuit.

Another charge, Dolgon and Wu Sangui led the combined team of the Qing army and the Wu army to attack the city, and the two sides launched a desperate struggle in the Shanhaiguan City.

At this time, Gao Guiying and Song Xiance ran over with more than a dozen defeated soldiers, Li Zicheng was stunned when he saw that they were so embarrassed, and before Li Zicheng could ask what was going on, Haoge took tens of thousands of Qing troops to kill from behind.

This moment was completely reversed from the situation just now, because an hour ago, Wu Sangui's men and horses were in a desperate situation.

In the blink of an eye, the situation completely changed, and suddenly it became Li Zicheng's men inside and outside the pass, and the enemy was attacked on the upper and lower sides.

Gao Guiying said a few simple words about the loss of a piece of Shiguan City.

For Li Zicheng, this is tantamount to adding insult to injury.

Li Zicheng miscalculated the situation in front of him, and also underestimated the strength of the Manchu Tartars, and suffered a big loss at this time.

Now it's too late for him to regret it, it's too late to say anything now, only to fight to the death. He knew that Liu Zongmin's side must be enough, otherwise he would have supported him a long time ago, and he didn't know what the specific battle situation was over there.

He still didn't know that Liu Zongmin had been killed, and the 55,000 troops outside the city had been besieged by the Tartars and Wu Sangui's men and horses, and they had been scattered.

Li Zicheng's forty or fifty thousand horses passed through this round trip, and I don't know how many casualties there were, anyway, they are now compressed in the customs city of Shanhaiguan by countless Tartars and Wu Sangui's men and horses.

The heavy siege outside was full of Manchu Tartars and Wu Sangui's traitor team.

This defeat has been decided, in order not to lose all his money, Li Zicheng now has to lead his men and horses to break through desperately.

He didn't know how many people he had killed, and there was blood all over the knife, and there were several gaps on the head of the knife, but he was still fighting hard.

After fighting for more than half an hour, Li Zicheng still did not break through, he really couldn't kill, he was sweating all over his body, the war horse he sat on was also sweating, his four legs were trembling, he could feel that the war horse had not supported much for a long time.

Look at the people around me are getting fewer and fewer, it is estimated that there are only a few thousand people left, many people are so tired that they can't get up, and there are many injured, and the city wall is like a bloody wash.

The corpses under the feet are flat, and in some places the corpses are piled up, overlapping several layers, there are Qing troops, there are Dashun troops, and Wu Sangui's puppet Ming army, but at this time there is no doubt that the corpses of the Dashun army are the most.

Under the light of the torches outside, the inner three layers and the outer three layers are full of people and horses of the Qing army and Wu Sangui like a mountain of soldiers and a sea of generals.

Li Zicheng's heart flipped over: It seems that I can't kill it today, is the sky going to kill me Li Zicheng? God is really eyeless!

At this time, Wu Sangui, who was not far from him, laughed: "The thief Li Zicheng, I can't imagine that there is today, right?" Look who this is! ”

Wu Sangui said as he took off a bloody head from under the horse's neck and threw it at Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng turned his head away, and the head hit the city wall and slammed in front of his horse.

By the light of the torch, Li Zicheng could see clearly that it was his right-hand man Liu Zongmin who was grinning his teeth.

The moment he saw Liu Zongmin's head, Li Zicheng's heart ached, as if he had been stabbed, Liu Zongmin followed him from birth to death over the years, how many times he brushed shoulders with death, how many Ming Guan Jun he had killed, and made great contributions to the Dashun Army, but he didn't expect that this time his head was different.

Li Zicheng's eyes were slightly closed, a little painful, and he was overworked, and he felt that his eyes were dark, and he couldn't bear to fall off the horse.

At this time, Dolgon, who was beside Wu Sangui, laughed and shouted: "Li Zicheng hurry up and surrender, this king can give you a whole corpse, maybe he will spare your life, if you don't know the times and resist stubbornly, today next year will be your anniversary!"

"Wu Sangui, Dolgon, what the are you, I Li Zicheng will not surrender even if I die...... Kill! Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, said, raised the big sword in his hand, and took the lead in killing Wu Sangui and Dolgon.

Gao Guiying also rushed over and combined his swords, and the couple slashed and killed dozens of Tartars and traitors in a row, but Li Zicheng's knife danced slower and slower, and his physical strength was exhausted.

At this moment, an arrow flew and hit Li Zicheng's eyebrows with a pop, Li Zicheng shouted and threw the knife and fell off the horse, which frightened Gao Guiying.

"Your Majesty......" Gao Guiying's face was pale, she flew up from her horse, rescued Li Zicheng, and carried Li Zicheng, who was covered in blood, and continued to fight, but there was no war horse anymore.

Fortunately, Gao Guiying's martial arts are full of martial arts, the jade girl sword flies up and down, and a few Tartars are cut down in a row, but there are fewer and fewer people around her, Gao Guiying is still carrying a person, and finally she can't rush to kill, she is covered in blood and she doesn't know how many injuries she has suffered, but she is still reluctant to put down Li Zicheng on her shoulder, at this time there are only a dozen guards left around her, and they are blocked by a group of Tartars at the corner of the city wall.

"Gui, Gui Ying...... Let it go, let me down......" Li Zicheng lay on Gao Guiying's ear, his eyes closed, his face was covered with blood, his voice was weak, and the arm that grabbed Gao Guiying also drooped.

Gao Guiying's face was full of tears, she could think of what it meant to happen, she couldn't cry anymore, in the dark, she shook her head, "Your Majesty, can you still hear it?" …… If we die together, the concubine will never leave your ......"

At this time, there was a lot of gunfire outside Shanhaiguan......