Qingziling is a mountain range of the Great Wall, north of Miyun, the Great Wall winds over the ridge.

Due to the heavy troops stationed on the Ningjin defense line outside the Ming Pass, as well as dangerous cities and firearms, the Tartars made a detour through Mongolia to the south to destroy the Great Wall, repeatedly invaded the Central Plains, and harassed the Jinggi land of the Ming Dynasty, causing a large number of casualties and a large amount of property losses.

Especially in the Chongzhen era, during the Chongde period, the Qing soldiers in the Central Plains became more and more diligent, the most arrogant one was that the emperor Taiji plundered hundreds of thousands of Han people and livestock property, and when he left, he shouted to the Ming army soldiers and civil and military officials who did not dare to fight in the Ming Dynasty, so that they did not have to send each other, and the arrogance was simply arrogant to the sky.

Qingziling and Xifengkou are the two breakthroughs of the Tartars on the Great Wall, so after Lin Yi was ordered to garrison here, he focused on strengthening and building the two gates of Xifengkou and Qingziling.

The scale of Qingziling Guancheng is not as large as Xifengkou, but the terrain of Qingziling is dangerous, this is a lofty mountain, as long as the Guancheng is held, it is impossible for the Tartars to fly over from here, the Tartars chose this section at the beginning, because this is a dangerous place, no one defends, they destroy the city wall, mainly with explosives.

After Lin Yi strengthened the city wall, built the Guancheng, the guerrilla commander Zu Keyong led a thousand Ming troops to garrison here, 20 red-clothed cannons were placed on the Guancheng, as well as muskets, bows and arrows, ammunition was sufficient, the lookout tower on the Guancheng was towering into the clouds, it can be said that it was a man's pass, and ten thousand people could not be opened.

However, no matter how strong the fortress is, there is a possibility that it will be breached, depending on who defends and who will attack it.

The commander-in-chief of the Qing army attacking this fortress in front of him was the famous Prince Zheng Jierharang.

This person definitely belongs to the unique branch of the Aixin Jueluo family, he is the son of Shuerhachi, Shuerhaqi and Nurhachi crawled out of the womb of a mother, that is to say, Zilhalang is Nurhachi's own nephew and a cousin of Huang Taiji.

Not only that, he was adopted by Nurhachi in the palace since he was a child, and grew up with Huang Taiji's bare buttocks, and the good relationship between the two can be seen, so that after Zilharang's father and brother were executed, he can still be reused.

Zilharang's military exploits are very prominent, and there are not many founding heroes in the Qing Dynasty who can compare with him. In his early years, he followed Nurhachi and Huang Taiji to conquer the north and south, conquer Mongolia, defeat Lin Dan Khan, defeat the famous general Man Gui of the Ming Dynasty, and capture Hong Chengchou in the battle of Ningjin, and he made great contributions.

He is cautious in his use of soldiers, capable of writing and martial arts, and every time Huang Taiji drives a personal expedition, he leaves the Jingshi to him to guard. Wu Sangui surrendered, and Dolgon led the Qing army into the pass, and he also followed, repeatedly defeated Li Zicheng's Dashun army, and later became one of the auxiliary ministers of Xiao Shunzhi.

It can be seen that Ji'er Harang, in the Great Qing Kingdom of the Huang Taiji era, was a pillar-level figure.

Huang Taiji sent him and Duoduo to deal with Lin Yi this time, and gave them 60,000 horses, which can be regarded as a big investment, which shows how determined Huang Taiji is to eradicate Lin Yi, on the other hand, this can be regarded as giving Lin Yi enough face.

After dividing labor with Duoduo, Duoduo attacked from Xifengkou, and Zierharanger's 30,000 horses were responsible for attacking Qingziling, intending to make Lin Yi uncomfortable.

At the same time that Duoduo stormed Xifengkou, Zilharang's men and horses also launched a fierce attack on Qingziling.

After attacking five times in a row, they did not take the small Qingziling, and suffered heavy losses, with nearly half of the 30,000 horses lost.

But Zilharang is different from Dordor in that he does not have the arrogance of Dordor but has some wisdom than Dordor in that he has some wisdom.

He calmed down and took a look, carefully observed the city in front of him, on the top of the mountain, the terrain is dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, far away people use cannons, muskets, near there are bows and arrows, stones, rolling wood, if the attack continues, not to mention that he brought 30,000 horses, even if he gives him another 30,000 horses, I am afraid he will not be able to attack.

This is not the same as a siege, as long as the siege can break through the artillery defense line of the Ming army, cross the moat, you can climb up with a ladder, or hit the city gate with a crash truck, and the men and horses can kill it.

But this is the Great Wall, located on the mountain, such a thick city wall, such a high city wall, the general siege ladder can not reach at all, and there is no way to start, can only attack from the city gate, but the people are condescending, the city gate is closed to death, a husband is closed, ten thousand people can not be opened.

Zilharang felt that it was impossible to attack from here, and that he had to change places.

The cunning Jilharang, while ordering people to continue to attack the city, of course, this is a feint, shouting loudly, that is, do not rush forward, or when rushing forward, as soon as the Ming army fights back, they retreat, in order to confuse the Ming army in the city and kill time.

Then he sent a group of men and horses to patrol around the Great Wall, and soon he found that the Great Wall defense line in the west was heavily defended and there was no breakthrough, but it was different after more than 20 miles east from Qingziling, and there was not a shadow of the Ming army on the far city wall.

"God help me!"

After learning of this situation, Zilharanger was overjoyed, and he sent 1,000 iron cavalry, all of them were good white-armored soldiers, took ropes, and made a detour more than 30 miles east of Qingziling.

This is exactly the Qingshan Pass, very close to a rock, and a place was chosen there, and they climbed up by means of falling into the city by ropes, and after climbing up one, they hung down a number of ropes, and soon 1,000 Tartars climbed up from here.

But they couldn't get the horses in a short time, so they had to throw them in the mountains and forests outside the Great Wall, leaving a few Tartars here to watch the horses.

The 1,000 Tartars are all white-armored soldiers, and the Tartar troops are roughly divided into defenders, unarmored soldiers, and white-armored soldiers. There is no doubt that the combat effectiveness of the white armor soldiers is the strongest.

Running back along the Great Wall, these thousand Tartars carried bows and arrows on their backs, holding swords and spears in their hands, most of them were double weapons, and some even had three weapons, bows and arrows, spears, waist knives, and a lot of them.

The Great Wall is also relatively wide, and five horses can walk side by side, so the more than 1,000 Tartars rushed forward in a long line of five people wide. After they ran for more than ten miles, they were discovered by Zukeyong's men.

Because there is a platform every 100 meters on the Great Wall, which is used as a lookout. According to Lin Yi's regulations, there are soldiers guarding every platform here.

The reason why these Tartars were able to exploit the loopholes here, when the generals above were unconscious, so many people climbed the city wall, the time was not short, it is said that as soon as they reached the city or approached the city wall, they should be discovered by the defenders above.

This is because Wu Sangui has a loose defense line on the Great Wall more than ten miles west of a stone, which he did on purpose.

Because Liu Zhaoji wrote him a letter in advance, asking him to send troops to assist.

Wu Sangui has long hated Lin Yi, this is a treacherous and loyal person, and he will be revenged. That was when Lin Yi outwitted Jin Shang at the Longmen Inn in Yingzhou last year, and the two of them formed a relationship.

Lin Yi disguised himself as a businessman from Henan, and tied up the uncle and nephew of the Fan family of the Great Jin Dynasty and Wu Sangui, as well as the first warrior of Manchuria, and played together, and afterwards Wu Sangui not only wrote down Xiaoying, a beautiful girl, but also deeply remembered Lin Yi's hateful name.

Now, although the imperial court pardoned Lin Yi for his innocence, he was crowned as the guerrilla commander with merit, and now he has been promoted to the deputy general of Miyun, and he will not be as good as Wu Sangui in terms of official position, and the two of them are officials in the same dynasty and defend the defense line of the Great Wall together, but Wu Sangui has never forgotten this hatred.

Therefore, when he saw Liu Zhaoji's letter, he smiled coldly and threw the letter into the furnace, at which time he was reluctant to put the tartar in.

Wu Sangui said secretly, do you want me Wu Sangui to send troops to help you? Go to your big dream of the Spring and Autumn Festival, this general army will not attack you without troops, and you will already have enough face!

Then Wu Sangui passed down an order to shrink the strength of the Great Wall defense line 15 miles west of a stone, and a stone was a few dozen miles west of Shanhaiguan, which was defensively subordinate to Shanhaiguan.

It was precisely because of Wu Sangui's order that Ji'er Harang's men had a chance to take advantage of it.

"The Tartars are coming up from the east!" The Ming army on a lookout was the first to spot the Tartars rushing over and was amazed.

"Quick, report to Master Zu!" Someone flew away, and the Tartars rushed over, and the Ming army hurried to shoot arrows.

But how could the strength of these Ming troops withstand the army of tigers and wolves of a thousand Tartars, and after shooting down a few Tartars, these Ming troops were shot into hedgehogs by the rain of arrows.

"Rush! Kill them all—" A Kela Ezhen, the commander-in-chief of the thousand Tartars, shouted with a sword.

The Ming troops guarding the platform in several nearby places quickly gathered together, but the 180 Ming troops still couldn't stop the crazy attack of the Tartars.

The Tartars shot arrows while rushing forward, the Ming army kept falling down, retreating while fighting, and a thousand Tartars swept away the Ming army along the way, and soon killed near the Qingziling Guancheng.

At this time, the sound of horses' hooves sounded, and a team of about 200 horses rushed over, and at the forefront was a general in armor, with a cart and a big axe.

It was the main general here, Zu Keyong, who was so frightened that he couldn't possess his body after getting the report, how did these Tartars attack the Great Wall? Could it be that they have wings?

I didn't have time to think about him too much, so I hurriedly pulled out 200 generals, because he only had a thousand people in total, excluding artillerymen and musketeers, archers, etc., he could only draw out so many soldiers who were guarding to the death here.

Let a confidant commander be here, Zu Keyong personally led a team of 200 horses, rushed over, intending to drive the Tartars who came up from the city, otherwise they would be attacked on both sides, and the city would not be able to be defended. If he loses Guancheng, he will not be able to explain to Lin Yi and Liu Zhaoji.

When the thousand Tartars saw the generals coming from Pegasus, they immediately began to shoot arrows, and the arrows were like flying locusts. Zu Keyong danced the big axe in his hand, and the arrows that flew towards him were blocked one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the two teams rushed together. But after all, there is a limited amount of space on the Great Wall, and it is not like a field battle outside.

Therefore, one of Zu Keyong's horses, dancing with a long big axe in his hand, flew up and down to slash and slash, slashing and killing Tartars like chopping vegetables, although there were many Tartars in a thousand, but they couldn't get by.

In addition, behind Zu Keyong, of course, these two hundred people couldn't watch, and they followed the main general to charge together, and a thousand Tartars were temporarily blocked by Zu Keyong's 200 people, and on the wall of the Great Wall, the two sides fought to the death.

Because the Great Wall is relatively narrow, this is beneficial to Zu Keyong and them in a short period of time, but as time goes by, after all, 200 to 1,000, the disparity is too great, although Zu Keyong's two hundred people are brave, but the white armor soldiers of the Tartars are stronger in combat.

At the beginning, the casualties of the Tartars skyrocketed, and Zu Keyong was able to chop several with an axe. But after about half an hour, the Ming casualties caught up and soon surpassed the Tartars' casualties.

This is because human physical strength is limited, and the consumption is greatest in the state of fighting. Zu Keyong and they were 200 people, but there were 1,000 Tartars, and the energy was constantly replenished.

That is to say, Zu Keyong and the others killed a batch of Tartars and then came up with a batch of Tartars, and finally when it was dark, there were only a dozen people left around him.

At this time, the battle report came, Qingziling Pass was lost, and Jierharang led his men and horses to attack from that side......

Zilharang had already received a report that a thousand men and horses had successfully climbed the Great Wall and killed them from the east. Zilharang was overjoyed, and he stopped feints, and ordered the feint to be changed to a fierce attack.

Due to the lack of the main general of Guancheng, 200 generals were withdrawn, and more importantly, at this time, the hearts of the Ming army guarding Guancheng have been shaken, they heard that the Tartars have attacked the Great Wall, there are so many Tartars, just how long can we hold on? Guancheng will definitely not be able to hold it......

Fighting a war mainly relies on morale, that is, the spirit of the army, and the spirit of the army is fluctuating, and it will be defeated.

That's what Zilharang wanted now, and he began to fight on both sides.

More than 10,000 Tartars began to storm the city again, and this time after two charges, the cannons in the city became mute, and the muskets could not be fired, and the shells were finished, and some of them were blown up, and these artillerymen and musketeers simply lost their weapons and ran away.

There were only three or four hundred troops left above the city, and the flood-like tartars rushed to the bottom of the city, and the hundreds of troops on the city could only return fire with bows and arrows, stones, and rolling logs.

The Tartars rushed upwards with arrows, and there were fewer and fewer Ming troops on the head of the city who could fight, and finally someone climbed up to the gate, opened the city gate, and Zilharang rushed in with men and horses. At this time, the auxiliary city urn was useless, because there was a lack of troops to command.

Zilharang commanded the Tartars and pursued the remnants of the Ming army on the city overnight......

Zu Keyong looked at it, and today was over.

"Brothers, I would rather die in battle than surrender and live with Guancheng! Kill—"

Zu Keyong shouted, and rushed towards the Tartars with a dozen generals around him.

"The prince's side has already succeeded, kill them all!" Hundreds of Tartars shouted and pounced on Zukyong.

Whoosh, someone also let go of the cold arrow. Several more Ming soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and Zu Keyong's war horse was shot to the ground, and when he got up again, he had two more arrows on his body and no big axe. There were only five people left around, and all of them were injured. Six people were trapped among hundreds of Tartars.

Zu Keyong picked up a spear, and the six men continued to fight with the Tartars back to back.

At this time, someone shouted: "Oh no, the reinforcements of the Ming army are coming!"

Zu Keyong saw that under the Great Wall, countless torches were lined up in a long line, coming quickly.