【216】Fierce Battle Piece of Stone 2

Many depict a piece of stone as an open field where cavalry on both sides can gallop and slash at their horses. In particular, he wrote about the scene of a sudden reversal of the wind direction in the fierce battle, Li Zicheng's peasant army could not open their eyes in the face of the strong wind, but the Qing soldiers could raise their swords and leap horses and shout with the wind to cover the scene, in the imagination of many people, a stone battlefield, there is a fertile plain for thousands of miles!

But the actual situation is not so, this is a mountain pass, the two sides of the mountains stand, between the two mountains is the "Jiumen Cave", a shallow stream. Whether it is the south of the cave or the north of the cave, it is very narrow, and there are two or three hundred infantry who have fought hand-to-hand here with hand-to-hand combat, which can be believed and understood; To say that there were tens of thousands of cavalry whistling and whirling here is simply a fantasy!

Tang Tong led more than 3,000 soldiers and horses to ambush halfway up the mountainside, and when he heard the roar of cannons in the direction of Shanhaiguan from a distance, he couldn't help but feel a pang of anxiety in his heart. "Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui, back then in Songshan, we also fought side by side, now don't blame my brother, I will exchange your head for my wealth!"

Tang Tong was daydreaming, when suddenly there was a restless voice from the right wing of his camp, "What's the matter?" Tang Tong asked hurriedly

"Come to the order~~" Tang Tong didn't wait for Xiao Bing's answer, but saw a big man with a big knife in his hand, leading a group of soldiers dressed as Ming officers and soldiers to rush over

"You are~~" Tang Tong was startled, and quickly got up from the ground, waving his just arrived at the talisman while shouting: "Who is coming?" ”

"I am the Ming Counselor Zhou Guoqing~~ anti-country and traitor, take my life!" Zhou Guoqing had just arrived and waved the tiger in his hand, and the soldiers around Tang Tong were all one general, and they were slashed and killed by Zhou Guoqing like chopping melons and vegetables

"Withdraw~" Tang Tong hurriedly shouted, and hurriedly fled from the halfway up the mountain to the stream below

"Where to go against thieves~~" Tang Tong had just been driven down from the mountainside like a rabbit by Zhou Guoqing, only to see another team of cavalry at the northeast end of the creek. The leader of the general rode a tall brown horse, his feet were pedaling, his buttocks were off the saddle, and a huge steel knife in his hand slashed at his head

"Splitting the air ~~~" Zhang Nai shouted loudly

Half of Tang Tong's head flew into the air

"Surrender or kill!" Zhou Guoqing and Zhang Nai shouted in unison

"I'm willing to surrender~~I'm willing to surrender~" Tang Tong's subordinates hurriedly threw away the weapons in their hands and knelt on the ground

Zhang Nai stood on horseback, put his hands on the pergola, and looked westward, and suddenly, Zhang Nai shouted: "It's not good, it's a trick, withdraw quickly!" Before he could finish shouting, Zhang Nai quickly turned his horse's head and ran eastward. Zhou Guoqing didn't know what to do, and his subordinates were all infantry, and he hadn't come back to his senses yet

I only heard a few whinings in the air

Immediately, boom~~~ More than a dozen shells fell in the camp of Zhou Guoqing's department, more than a dozen soldiers were killed on the spot, and more than 20 people were injured

"Wu Sangui's house, it's really a fraudulent surrender~" Secretary Zhou hurriedly ordered to bring the wounded soldiers and quickly retreat

And Tang Tong's more than 2,000 troops scattered in a hurry

When Wu Sangui's defeated army came to a stone, he saw nothing but Tang Tong's corpse

"Dashuai~~" Wu Sangui's deputy general Yang Fu looked around and said hurriedly: "Dashuai, why don't you see the Liao army?" ”

Wu Sangui was also puzzled, at this time, he saw a group of knights suddenly appear in front of him, under the banner of the Liao army, and shouted loudly for a small leader: "It's General Wu Sangui from the other side?" ”

Wu Sangui replied: "It's Wu Sangui!" ”

"The generals of the world's soldiers and horses invite General Wu to enter the camp for a while!"

"Good!" Wu Sangui was about to step forward

Yang Fu stopped: "Dashuai, I'm afraid there is fraud!" ”

Wu Sangui smiled miserably and said: "Now that I, Wu Sangui, am at the end of the road, there is the Longtan Tiger's Den in front of me, and I can't help but go!" ”

Wu Sangui fought like a horse along the way, but he came to the Liao army camp in just an hour.

After the deputy general of the Chinese army informed Song Youliang, Song Youliang immediately summoned him, and after the two sides finished saluting, Song Youliang asked: "General Wu came to see me, is there anything important?" ”

Wu Sangui was very anxious, and secretly said in his heart, Didn't you ask knowingly? , he replied: "Please enter the customs and destroy the Li thief!" ”

"Is this true or false?" Li Xin, who was beside Song Youliang, said coldly

Hearing this question, Wu Sangui was stunned, "Why do you say this?" I, Wu Sangui, avenged my father's revenge, and I didn't share the sky with Li Zicheng, how could it not be true? ”

Zhou Guoqing shouted: "Since General Wu really asked my general to come, why did he shell our army when I came?" ”

Wu Sangui was stunned for a moment, and then smiled: "It turned out to be this matter." This is a misunderstanding. The army besieged our Shanhaiguan, not only was there a flood on three sides of the pass, but a piece of stone outside the pass had been sent to Tang Tong to occupy it, so as to curb my way to the north. If we want to meet with the general, we must use artillery to break through the siege before we can break through the road to the east. ”

Wu Sangui's explanation is also reasonable, originally they wanted to bombard Tang Tong, but they preemptively cleaned up Tang Tong, so the shells fell on their heads. Zhou Guoqing and Zhang Nai asked each other questions and answers with Wu Sangui again, and Song Youliang dispelled the doubts in his heart

At this time, the scout came to report that the pursuers of the Shun army had reached a stone

Liu Zongmin was not as rude as the outside world rumored, and when he saw the rocky terrain, he immediately ordered the infantry to be divided into three groups, advancing from both sides of the valley and in the stream, with the cavalry waiting behind.

"General, it's Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses!" The Shun army, which entered the area of a stone, soon found Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses lined up against the Great Wall at the Nine Gates

He Jinyi, the vanguard officer of the Shun army, waved his hand and shouted: "Kill!" The soldiers and horses of the Shun army ignored their fatigue and flocked to the Wu Sangui army standing against the back wall

"Follow me!" The sturdy Yang Fu carried five steel knives on his back, and led a group of soldiers from the lower city to rush over the Shun soldiers who had gathered at the nine city wall openings below. At this moment, the soldiers of the Shun army were also red-eyed, seeing a Ming army uniform-colored officer leading a team of soldiers to kill, they waited for the blood-red eyes, clenched the steel knife that had already collapsed and was stained with blood, and howled and rushed ~~

"The thief soldier is killed~~" Yang Fu shouted, and threw two steel knives in succession. The two soldiers who rushed to the front were stabbed in the chest and fell to the ground on their backs. The third person swept over with a knife, Yang Fu lowered his head to dodge, and took out the long knife on his waist with a wave, cutting him over with a knife. The fourth person came to stab with a spear, and Yang Fu raised his hand to clamp the spear that stabbed it, as if it had taken root under his armpit, and the soldier couldn't pull it out after a few draws. Yang Fu burst out and shouted, "Come to life~~" with a knife to cut off the spear, and stabbed him in the chest with the broken spear, stabbing him to death.

Seeing that Yang Fu was strong, the Shun soldiers suddenly felt a little cowardly in their hearts, and Wu Sangui's army was greatly boosted, and under the leadership of Yang Fu, they marched forward bravely and blocked the Shun soldiers at the city gate. In this square inch, the fighting was more tragic than anywhere else, and the number of Wu soldiers around Yang Fu was getting smaller and smaller, while the number of Shun soldiers was increasing.

The fierceness of the battle at the head of the city was no less than that at the gate of the city, although the guerrilla Guo Yunlong rushed back and forth surrounded by a group of family members, he could not kill one and two, and kill two and then four. Guerrilla Guo Yunlong only felt that his breathing was getting shorter and shorter, the Mo knife in his hand was getting heavier and heavier, and his legs were as if they were filled with lead, and it was so difficult to take every step forward. Just when Guo Yunlong was showing fatigue, a soldier took advantage of the weakness to enter, Guo Yunlong only felt a pain in his shoulder, and a steel knife stabbed into his body. Fortunately, the soldier himself was very tired, and Guo Yunlong's armor was very thick, so he only suffered flesh wounds.

"Damn~~" Guo Yunlong handed over both hands, and the steel knife stabbed into the lower abdomen of the Shun soldier with a pop, and the Shun soldier was also fierce, and he grabbed the steel knife and didn't let go when he was dying, Guo Yunlong waved violently, cut off the palm of the Shun soldier, and kicked the corpse down the city. Guo Yunlong knelt down on one knee on the head of the city in exhaustion, looking around, the Wu soldiers gradually began to be at a disadvantage, and more and more soldiers rushed to the head of the city. If this continues, the Nine Gates will fall before dawn.

Suddenly, Guo Yunlong saw a person riding on a tall horse under the city, surrounded by a group of knights in armor, and there were many idle war horses outside the city wall, obviously there were many cavalry dismounted to participate in the battle. However, there are a large number of cavalry around this person who did not participate in the battle, but they stood on the left and right, indicating that this person was definitely an important person.

"Shoot the man first and shoot the horse first, capture the thief and capture the king first~~" Guo Yunlong dropped the steel knife, picked up a bow from the ground, groped but couldn't find the feather arrow, in desperation, Guo Yunlong pulled out an arrow from a corpse that was shot in the eye by a feather arrow and died through the skull.

At this moment, Guo Yunlong's hands were already sore and painful, and it was already very difficult to pull out a bow. But the general of the Shun army was two hundred steps away, and in order to ensure that he could hit, Guo Yunlong picked up a bow from the ground and stacked the two bows together. "Life and death are on this one~~~" Guo Yunlong exerted all his strength, pulled the bow for a full moon, and then loosened his fingers~~~~Whoosh~~~ The feather arrow shot out with a scream that broke through the air

Let's say that He Jin saw more and more soldiers climbing up to the city, and it was at this time that the Nine Gates were captured. Suddenly, He Jin only felt a shock to his body, a sharp pain in his shoulder, and a huge force pushed it back, He Jin couldn't sit still in Mashan for a while, and fell off the horse.

The attendants on the side were shocked, and they didn't have time to think about it, so they shouted loudly: "The general is injured~ The general is injured~~~ Withdraw the troops~ Withdraw the troops~" Seeing that the nine gates were about to be captured, the Shun generals retreated from the city wall and the city gate with reluctance, and pushed towards the Shanhaiguan like a tide

Liu Zongmin commanded the army and was about to catch up, when he suddenly saw the soldiers and horses in front of him retreating, so he sent someone to ask.

Answer: He Jin was injured.

Liu Zongmin felt that the Shun army had been fighting for six consecutive days, and it was already very tired, and it was not suitable to fight again tonight, so he also ordered the withdrawal of troops, and the Shun army of 100,000 soldiers and horses were stationed in Shanhaiguan, and confronted the Wu soldiers who were at the gate of the nine gates of the tun soldiers.

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In the camp of Song Youliang in Huanxiling, Li Xin, who had collected all the information, made his own analysis of the current situation in Shanhaiguan.

Li Xin said: "I think this time Li Zicheng is determined to kill Wu Sangui. ”

"How so?" Gu Junen asked with a smile

"Li Zicheng has three killers against Wu Sangui!" Li Xin smiled: "The first killer is." Siege the city of Shanhaiguan. Anyone who has been to Shanhaiguan knows that in addition to the main city, Shanhaiguan also has four auxiliary cities: Dongluo City, Xiluo City, South Wing City and North Wing City, these four auxiliary cities are guarding Shanhaiguan City. The southern wing of the city was close to the sea and could not deploy troops, so Li Zicheng ordered the army to surround the three auxiliary cities of Dongluo City, Xiluo City and North Wing City. Both to the south and east were the sea, and it was impossible for Wu Sangui to escape from the sea, so the entire Shanhaiguan city was surrounded by peasant armies, and there was no way out; Second: Stone River Interception. Outside Shanhaiguan City, there is a river called Shihe between Beishan and the sea. Li Zicheng arranged a long snake formation along this river to cut off Wu Sangui's escape route into the Central Plains, so it was called Shihe Interception. Third: a stone block. With the above two arrangements, if Wu Sangui wants to break through, it is very likely that he will escape to the outside of the pass. Therefore, Li Zicheng became to prevent him from combining with us outside the Guan, so he sent Tang Tong with the army to guard a stone in advance and cut off Wu Sangui's escape route to the Guanwai.

Gu Junen nodded, "The arrangement of these three parties is indeed exquisite. First of all, the army is surrounding Shanhaiguan City and storming, I don't believe you, Wu Sangui is waiting inside to be captured? You have to break through, but even if you break out, you want to break through to the west to the Central Plains, and I have soldiers guarding Shihe waiting for you; And if you want to escape outside the pass, Tang Tong, who is guarding a stone, will not let you go, especially Tang Tong, who was attacked by you Wu Sangui at the beginning, he is really Wang Bajin into the stove pit - holding his breath and bringing the nest fire, he is also a chief military officer, and you Wu Sangui is at the same level, but you were caught off guard and embarrassed, this revenge must be avenged! ”

Zhang Nai interjected: "This is most likely Niu Jinxing's idea, but it's a pity that he missed us when he calculated!" ”