Sun Chuanting's attack on the city of Beijing did not make the Hongtang soldiers wait too long, on the day of July 11 of the 19th year of Chongzhen, with the roar of artillery like thunder, the horn of the Ming Dynasty's counterattack on the Beijing division sounded.

It may be the first time that the thousand-year-old capital has been bombarded with high-powered artillery so sparingly, and the inside and outside of the city walls are full of scattered rubble flying up.

Sun Chuanting had already given an order to aim the muzzle of the artillery at the gates of several cities as much as possible, but with the crosshairs of the artillery of this era and the ability of the current artillery gunners, it was natural that the crosshairs would be deviated.

Moreover, several times before, I saw that the fort was about to be built, but the Qing cavalry and infantry raided several times in succession, destroying the fort that had just been built, which made the attack time go back for a long time. And as the gunner and the soldiers of the Gongwei Fort, they were all scolded by Sun Chuanting for being a bloody dog, and everyone was holding back a sulk in their hearts and had nowhere to vent.

The Qing soldiers in the city had already prepared, but they did not let the formation be chaotic because of the opponent's artillery fire, etc., hiding behind the female wall and waiting for the Ming army under the city to take advantage of the artillery fire to suppress the counterattack of the Jurchen army in the city, and led the army and all kinds of siege equipment to press forward.

When the city of Beijing was captured, the Qing army also captured a lot of artillery of the Ming army, but I didn't expect that the Ming army was also harming others and not benefiting itself, when I knew that I was about to be defeated, I was stunned to destroy most of the artillery, leaving only a few small-caliber artillery, or tiger squat artillery and other things that were useless, and even the Qing people were too lazy to use it.

At this time, the Qing people could only watch the Ming army under the city, one cannon after another, bombarding dozens of catties of cannonballs near the city gate in the middle of the city wall, occasionally hitting the city gate known with heavy wood and Mao Qi, making it tremble, bringing up pieces of gray smoke and broken wood chips.

The Ming army under the city launched a large-scale siege when the artillery bombarded dozens of rounds in succession and began to cool down.

"Get up! Rise!! Lao Tzu told you to get up!! Still lying on the ground and birds!! ”

The Qing soldiers in the city finally had something to do, and under the scolding of the leaders and generals of their respective battalions, they got up one after another to pick up their swords, burn the boilers on the city wall, and waited for the soldiers of the Ming army to climb.

A few miles outside the city, in the relatively quiet wilderness, a group of Han Chinese people numbering no more than three people, dressed as men, hid on a hill, quietly observing the smoke that gradually blew outside the capital.

", hard!"

A young Han man with a telescope observing, his eyes shining and his mouth purring.

"Silence!!"

The middle-aged man on the side, who was more stable, scolded the other party, turned his head and retracted his gaze to the direction where the city was located.

I have been observing in a remote secluded place for more than two hours, watching the Ming Dynasty army rush to the city again and again, and be killed and retreated by the Qing army soldiers again and again.

Even every time he saw the Ming soldiers climbing onto the walls of the capital, the young Han would cheer for him in his heart, and shout some inexplicable slogans angrily.

"Alright, let's withdraw!"

The older middle-aged Han man suddenly put away the binoculars in his hand, said a word to the two companions beside him, and then quietly observed the surrounding movements, and stood up from the place where he had been lurking for an unknown amount of time.

"Don't you observe again?"

The young Han people were a little unsatisfied, looking at the continuous sound of fighting and artillery fire in the distance, and they were quite reluctant.

"Our task is to determine exactly whether the Ming army has officially attacked the capital, and now the situation is conclusive, and the second sister's task is completed, and it is time to go back to report the news."

The middle-aged man answered the young man's question, and then ran towards the vast wilderness of the northeast without looking back.

"Let's go!"

Another taciturn man finally choked, followed the figure of his companion in front of him, and followed.

"Alas!"

The young Han man looked back at the place of the great battle behind him, and then followed in the footsteps of his companions in the direction they had come.

It didn't take long for Wu Jie, who was far away in Gongchangling and supervised the construction of the fortress, to receive news of a major battle from the Western Nanjing Division.

"War is finally on!!"

Wu Jie's face was happy, and then he retracted his smile, and shouted to a few guards around him: "Pass the order, the attack battle begins!" ”

"Yes!"

After a sentence, the huge Hongtang army once again launched their vigorous offensive, and Xiao Xiurong's department, which had been transferred back to the front line of Ningjin, was already ready to go; The tens of thousands of Hongtang troops on the front line of Gongchangling and Maohel Mountain began to move quietly, avoiding the scouts scattered around by the Qing Dynasty day and night, and heading towards the coastline of Phoenix City in the south.

The cargo ships of the Hongtang Fleet, the Qixintang Caravan, and the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce gathered hundreds of sea ships on the coastline south of Phoenix City at this time, waiting for the arrival of the 20,000 Hongtang soldiers led by Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming.

For the sake of secrecy, the actions of Hongtang's army are still mainly based on shipping, which is easier to control the surrounding whereabouts. As early as when the Hongtang army began to wage war with the Qing Dynasty, Hongmen had already blocked the sea routes around Bohai Bay and Korea, except for the Hongtang fleet and the sea ships of the Nanyang Chamber of Commerce, any other ships that appeared would become the target of the Hongtang fleet cruising around the coastline of Liaodong and sink them directly.

Anyway, at this time, because of the war, the commerce and trade in Liaodong had been at a standstill, and at this time, they couldn't afford to get along with Hongmen, so they risked the destruction of the ship and the death of people to go to Liaodong to trade.

Therefore, at this moment, in Liaodong Bay, there is not even a fishing boat that normally conducts fishing and hunting, which has a natural advantage for hiding the whereabouts of the Hongtang fleet.

By the time the main force of the Hongtang army was about to arrive, three or four days had passed in the fierce battles in the capital at this time, and the Qing garrisons who stayed on the front line of Shanhaiguan thought that they were in the rear of the battlefield and were relatively safer, and gradually focused more on the front line of the Beijing division not far away, but did not pay too much attention to the Ningjin garrison, which had always been extremely quiet.

It wasn't until Shang Kexi's Ming army landed on the coastline just over more than ten miles south of Shanhaiguan and killed it with lightning speed, that the Qing army guarding Shanhaiguan reacted and hurriedly closed the city defense and built a defensive line, but it was a little late.

(End of chapter)