In the continuous heavy rain, as the vanguard, the Dashun army Liukou soldiers, with a strength of about 30,000 people, ran all the way and stopped collectively one mile away from the Shanhaiguan Waihaogou.

Adjutant General Liu Fangliang led the troops to the front, and here, he and the rogue soldiers in the front row all saw the abnormal situation in front.

Although the rain was misty, the soldiers in front could still see that the annular ditch seemed to have been covered with something, like a canopy.

That's right, it is the wooden canopy built by Tang Jun, which is very heavy and strong, and it is also covered with cowhide waterproof, which is excellent for preventing the penetration and influence of rain on firearms on such a rainy day.

Liu Fangliang, the general of the striker, after discovering this anomaly, suddenly looked disappointed, he groaned slightly, and immediately ordered the whole army to stop advancing, and then he hurriedly pulled out his horse and turned around, and rushed to report to Liu Zongmin at the place of the Chinese army.

After listening to Liu Fangliang's report, Liu Zongmin's face suddenly became gloomy.

Almost immediately, it occurred to him that the Tang Army must have temporarily installed a rain shelter to protect against the rain. In this way, the release of the Tang army's firearms will certainly not be hindered too much, and his idea of taking advantage of this heavy rain to make the Tang army's firearms advantage impossible to play was instantly frustrated.

It seems that this Shanhaiguan City, without paying major sacrifices, is difficult to take.

"Ruhou, now I'm waiting, but what should I do?" Liu Fangliang looked worried.

Liu Zongmin raised his head, his face was full of clouds, and he replied coldly: "There is no turning back arrow when the bow is opened, the army has been sent, how can there be a reason to retreat?" Even if the Tang Army is prepared, how can it be restored? ”

Liu Zongmin's face became more and more ruthless, and he said in a deep voice: "At this time, I can only order my soldiers to rush into the ditch as soon as possible, without fear of sacrifice and obstacles, and go to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Tang army, which is the way to win." ”

"If this is the case, I am afraid that the sacrifice of our army will be quite large." Liu Fangliang looked worried.

"So what? Now before the current soldiers are in battle, there is only a reason to fight to the death to win, and then withdraw to the battalion? Besides, if this Shanhaiguan can be taken, it will be worth the sacrifice of more soldiers. Moreover, if our army does not take the lead and does not send troops to attack the city, then the Qing army outside the north gate, although it is an ally, will always sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight, at most bluff, and will never resolutely send troops, which is inevitable. Liu Zongmin said coldly: "Cihou, as a general, Ci is not in charge of the army." You and I have been fighting in blood and fire for many years, why are we grinding and grinding here? “

"Liu Shuai, I ......"

Liu Zongmin waved his hand and interrupted him: "Cihou, you must know that the soldiers are fast, how can you hesitate so much." Immediately continue to lead your troops forward, and do not stay where you stand for a long time, so that your morale will be demoralized, and it will be in vain. You must know that now is the time when we need the lives of our whole army, and we must be fearless of sacrifice, move forward bravely, rush into the front of Haogou in one fell swoop, and fight to the death with the Tang army defenders. It is necessary to take advantage of the superiority of our army's strength to kill and destroy all the Tang troops guarding the pass. And after capturing Haogou, start to use siege equipment to attack Shanhaiguan City! ”

"Order!" Liu Fangliang did not hesitate any longer, and immediately took the order to leave.

Back in the front, Liu Fangliang looked around at his soldiers and immediately began to give orders.

"The whole army obeys the order! As the vanguard, our army should move forward indomitable, and there is no reason to retreat when there is a difference! Ladies and gentlemen held their shields tightly to defend against the Tang army's firearms. As long as they rushed into the ditch and fought the Tang army in close quarters, it was a major victory. Did you hear that?! ”

"I heard you!"

"Very good, everyone, as long as we can win the ditch and make the first contribution, then the general will personally ask for credit for you! Sons, the time has come to make meritorious contributions and gain fame, rush! Liu Fangliang pulled out his sword, pointed straight forward, and shouted.

"Rush!"

The rogue soldiers let out a loud roar in unison, like a swarm of wild bees, and even more like a group of bloodthirsty beasts, everyone fought bravely, and everyone competed to be the first.

The Liukou charged for the first time, numbering 30,000 people, and they fully dispersed, forming a moon formation, like a large open mouth, and swooped towards the arc-shaped outer trench opposite.

When the Liukou army rushed to about a thousand steps away from the South Gate Haogou, the position of the Tang army still did not move at all.

Eight hundred steps, the Tang army still did not move.

Six hundred paces, when the canopy on the ditch was already clearly visible, the Tang army's main formation still did not move.

It's just that no one noticed that the Tang warships that were floating silently on the sea had quietly dispersed and lined up in a line, and then immediately fired fiercely at the charging rogue soldiers.

Each Tang warship, with several rows of gunwales, fired fiercely at the same time, spitting out afterflames like countless golden flowers blooming in the heavy rain. Nearly a thousand black and fiery iron bullets, large and small, with a sharp death whistle, pierced through the smoke and rain curtains, and swooped down on the rogue soldiers on the shore.

The iron bullet roared through the crowd of people who were running hard, and with an absolutely strong and terrifying force, they ploughed out a straight path of flesh and blood. Everywhere the iron bullet reached, screams were repeated, and broken limbs and human internal organs were splashed everywhere, causing absolutely terrifying death and injury to the running rogue soldiers.

In fact, the iron bullets fired in this way were not accurate because they were already on the edge of the shooting range, but because the rogue was relatively densely packed, the damage caused to them by these nearly 1,000 iron bullets was still very considerable, causing the death of 500 rogues and the injury of nearly 1,000 rogues in an instant. Moreover, such a dense artillery salvo can almost be called devastating in terms of the blow to the morale of the rogues.

As confusion and panic began to emerge in the rogue on the side of the shore, the second round of naval artillery began.

This second round of firing also caused terrible damage and an increasing panic, and the rogue soldiers on the shore side, deeply frightened by such an almost absolute death and terror, began to retreat almost instinctively. The entire charging rogue army formation began to show a strange scene of charging on the left and fleeing on the right.

This kind of rout is contagious, on the other side, the rogue soldiers who were originally high morale and rushed all the way to the battle, seeing the soldiers on the right side were defeated by the gunwales, for a while, the people were also in turmoil, the speed of the impact instantly decreased a lot, and their passion for rushing and fighting was also greatly depressed, and everyone's faces were also full of surprise and panic.

After all, for these elite rogue soldiers who have been fighting for many years, the enemy in their impression will only appear on land, and for such a new attack from the sea, it can be said that it is the first time in their lives that there is a large-scale panic, which is human nature.

Seeing the soldiers on the right side near the coast, they were actually fired by two rounds of gunwales of the Tang army, and they were beaten and retreated, and Liu Fangliang, the general who was in the rear of the battle, was immediately furious.

"Don't retreat! Don't withdraw! You bastards, keep rushing to Lao Tzu! ”

Liu Fangliang drew his sword and shouted angrily, urged the formation again and again, and personally rushed forward with the escort cavalry, and slashed and killed more than ten soldiers who fled after the rout, so as to stop the trend of rout and escape on this side, and the entire formation could be stabilized.

"Rush! Give it all to Lao Tzu! Rush up, everyone will be rewarded, if you retreat, you will not be spared! After Liu Fangliang personally killed several deserters, he yelled at his uneasy subordinates. His face was splattered with blood, making his angry and distorted face even more terrifying.

His soldiers were afraid of its might and had to regain their arms and rush forward. It's just that these people all kept an eye on it and began to move away from the coast, but leaned to the left as far as they could, in this way, out of the range of the gunwales of the Tang Army's naval division.

In this way, the rogue soldiers who rushed into the formation were more dense to the left, and the people were crowded and stacked on top of each other, and they were no longer as strict as before, but began to show signs of confusion.

They didn't know that they were attacking the ditch on the right side of the Tang army in such a chaotic formation, which was actually in the hands of the Tang army.

It turned out that the Tang army had already calculated that the Liukou would use the advantage of the strength to attack in an all-out way, and in order to ensure maximum damage, it arranged in advance the strategy of lining up the ships of the Navy Division along the coast to bombard the forces on the right side of the Liukou.

In this way, the rogue troops on the right side, in the case of demoralization collapse, will either flee back to their own position, or will subconsciously fear the Tang army's naval division gunwales, so that the whole army will stay away from the coast, and concentrate their forces on attacking the Tang army's right side of the ditch, in this way, the enemy number will only be more dense, and the confusion in the formation is inevitable, thus creating favorable conditions for the Tang army to start shooting intensively.

When the rogue rushed to a distance of 200 paces, the Tang gunners, who had been silent under the canopy, finally fired a volley.

In order to deal with the attacks on the north and south sides, Zu Dale divided the firecrackers into two parts, one with 2,000 people, guarding the ditch outside the south gate to resist the Liukou, and the other with 1,000 people, guarding the ditch outside the north gate to resist the Qing captives.

And now, because the Liukou was afraid of the guns of the sailors on the left bank, they began to concentrate on attacking the Haogou on the right, so the musketeers of the Tang army were all concentrated here, and they all carried out a dense salvo attack together.

Speaking of which, the flintlock and dense guns used by the Tang army now have a maximum accurate range of 150 paces, compared with the current distance of 200 paces, of course, the accuracy is impossible to talk about, but in the case of such a dense charge of the Liukou, as long as it is within the maximum range, even if there is no accurate intensive shooting, it can still create a terrible killing effect.

Although there were factors such as rainwater infiltration, more than 400 firecrackers failed to fire the fire door, but more than 1,500 firecrackers were successfully fired.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

Rows of bright red embers flew together, like a long bright red ribbon, with a unique beauty like a death ritual, and a large cloud of choking white gunpowder smoke surged, and more than 1,500 small three-coin heavy lead bullets, like birds of death, let out a slight and cheerful chirp, and swooped down on the rogue on the opposite side.

The rogue in the front row, many people immediately bloomed like a trick, and the people who were hit fell upside down on their backs as if they had been slammed with a heavy hammer.

The impact of this lead bullet was so great that those rogues who happened to block the lead bullet with shields could not resist this huge impact, and they retreated and fell down one after another, but as soon as they fell, they were immediately trampled to death and injured by the rogue soldiers who were still rushing from behind, and the scene was a mess.

The first round of shooting, although it was completely impossible to aim, also caused at least 500 rogues to be killed and injured on the spot, causing chaos in the rogue formation.

When the formation of the rogue was scattered and the speed was slightly sluggish, the second round of fire salvo began again.

"Bang bang bang! ……”

The guns rang out, the embers flew away, and more than 1,500 fiery guns were fired, and more than 1,500 lead bullets roared out caused more than 600 casualties among the rogue soldiers.

The formation of the Qing army suddenly became more and more chaotic, and the speed of the impact became less and less, and the faces of those rogue soldiers who rushed to the front were extremely frightened, and he didn't know when such bad luck would befall him.

Liu Fangliang, who was monitoring behind the battle, saw that his own soldiers were in the dense shooting of the Tang army, and before they could reach the firing range, they began to be confused and shaken, and the speed and strength of the impact were greatly reduced, and he couldn't help but be angry again.

"Rush! Give it all to Lao Tzu! If anyone doesn't rush, they will be killed! Liu Fangliang shouted angrily: "The dog entered!" The Tang Army's two volleys disrupted you, what's the use of Lao Tzu raising you such a waste! All to Lao Tzu, as long as you enter the ditch, it is a victory! ”

Liu Fangliang shouted loudly, and ordered his subordinates to step up the drums and cheers, forcing these rogue soldiers who were driven away from pigs and sheep to continue to rush forward and attack the ditch to fight hand-to-hand combat with the Tang army.

These poor fellows, whose courage and will have been weakened, were still forced to rush forward, and the situation was extremely miserable. As a result, the firearms of the Tang army were fired one after another, and the rogue soldiers kept wailing and falling.

And when they were only more than a hundred steps away from Nahao Gully, another thing happened that all the charging rogue soldiers did not expect.

That is, on the south gate, nearly 100 large and small dragon cannons that also set up canopies were fired together, and nearly 100 iron bullets, large and small, roared from the city to the surging crowd of rogues.

It turned out that at this time, the distance of the Liukou was on the verge of the attack of the dragon artillery, in order to reduce the pressure of the Tang army in the ditch, and in order to better combat the fighting spirit and morale of the attacking Liukou, the artillery on the south gate naturally seized the opportunity and lost no time in firing all of them.

The cannon roared, and dozens of huge black fiery iron bullets swept through everything in its way with a strong and furious force. In the dense rogue array, from head to tail, a long bloody path was plowed, and where this bloody path passed, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the blood and internal organs of human broken limbs and wreckage were splashed everywhere, like a hellish slaughterhouse.

For a time, outside the south gate of Shanhaiguan, guns and cannons rang out in unison, and the rumbling sound of cannons and dense guns were superimposed, forming an extremely effective and highly lethal three-dimensional firepower network.

And when the Liukou desperately advanced, and when they reached about dozens of steps away from the Haogou, more than 1,000 Tang Army auxiliaries who had been holding down in the Haogou all exerted their strength to eat milk, and threw the burning individual soldier in their hands towards the rolling Liukou army formation.

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