Chapter 41 Fierce Battle at Shanhaiguan
How is Dolgon stupid, after listening to Huang Taiji's orders, he immediately guessed the unsightly thoughts in Huang Taiji, but now he Huang Taiji is the Qing Emperor, for the sake of the overall situation, he Dolgon can't say no, not to mention that the current strength in the hands of Huang Taiji is more than the strength of the two white flags in the hands of him and Duoduo, after so many years, Huang Taiji has repeatedly divided, and the strength of the two flags in the hands of him and Duoduo has been greatly weakened, even if he wants to rebel, now he is not Huang Taiji's opponent, may also become the public enemy of the entire Qing Dynasty, so he knew that this was the poison given to him by Huang Taiji, and he couldn't help but pinch his nose and drink it.
So Dolgon only received the order, saying that he would definitely capture the Shanhaiguan, this is a difficult bone to gnaw, he asked himself if the mouth of the tooth is good, but he can't guess whether his big tooth will be broken after biting it this time.
But Dolgon thought about it, although he was used as cannon fodder by Huang Taiji, but after all, Huang Taiji also gave him three banners of the Han army flag and two banners of Mongolian flag soldiers, before his two white flags died, he could at least take the cannon fodder in these cannon fodder first, they died before it was his turn to be the general of the two white flags, this Mongolian and Han five banners also had tens of thousands of people, and it was not easy to die, so he didn't have to worry too much about anything at the moment, he wanted to consume his two white flags, hum! He also has to calculate the full consumption!
And when he saw Huang Taiji today, he had already found that Huang Taiji's spirit was a little worse than a few days ago, and this nosebleed was more, blood is the foundation of people, Huang Taiji had more than nosebleeds, even if he was fat, no matter how much blood, no matter how good he ate, there was a time when he couldn't stand it, and if Huang Taiji died, with his strength in the Qing Dynasty, coupled with his popularity, he could also compete with Haoge for the throne of the Qing Emperor. It can't all be cheapened by his Emperor Taiji, and it is also his turn to get his Dolgon to take care of things! Over the years, he and the three brothers Duoduo and Azig have been at the mercy of Huang Taiji, and they have long hated Huang Taiji so much that they have gritted their teeth, but they still have to show loyalty on the surface, and they don't even dare to say a few bad words about Huang Taiji in secret, which is already uncomfortable.
As for Abatai, he was quite happy after receiving the order, he was the seventh son of the wild boar skin, and Huang Taiji was the eighth son of the wild boar skin, but it was a pity not to look at the older Abatai, but his status among the Jiannu has always been very low, far less than the other sons of the wild boar skin, the reason is that he is a concubine, and his mother is not valued, so even his son is not valued.
So his status has not been high among the Jiannu, and now he is only a Baylor, and the younger generation is only a level, compared to the princes, a whole two levels lower, for which he also has a lot of complaints, but Huang Taiji is precisely because Abatai has never been qualified to compete with him for power, although he has repeatedly suppressed him, but he has not dealt with him like he did with Amin and Mang Gurtai, so although his status is relatively low, but there is no murder.
This time Huang Taiji can let him lead the army alone, it can be said that he has mastered such military power for the first time in his life, in his opinion, once he can lead the troops to break through the pass, then it is a great achievement, in the future his status in the Qing Dynasty will be improved a lot, if you don't get it right, you can also be a prince, the king of the county, so Abatai immediately happily received the edict of Huang Taiji, and Haoge ordered 40,000 soldiers and horses together, and left the Qiantun guard in a mighty way, and went to the west of Shanhaiguan along the Great Wall to find a place to break through!
In short, after Huang Taiji arrived, the strength of the entire Jiannu army outside Shanhaiguan increased a lot again, after Dolgon was ordered, he immediately began to use troops against Shanhaiguan again, mobilized tens of thousands of troops, outside Shanhaiguan, set up cannons to launch a fierce bombardment of Guancheng, and also ordered Li Shutai, Liu Zhiyuan, Wu Shoujin and other Han army banner generals, commanded their Han army and Mongolian flag soldiers to start a strong attack on Shanhaiguan.
Beginning on April 29, the cannon sound at Shanhaiguan had just stopped for three days, and then it rumbled again, and the defending coalition army and the Jiannu army immediately launched a large-scale offensive and defensive battle along the Shanhaiguan Pass.
At the beginning of this battle, the battle was very fierce, both sides used all kinds of artillery that could be used, bombarded each other, the projectiles were like burning hailstones, tearing through the sky, constantly staggered in the sky, and fell on the enemy's head.
It turned out that the number of Hongyi cannons of the defenders of the Ming army in Shanhaiguan was far less than that of the Jiannu army, and the artillery battle suffered a lot of losses, only after the Jiannu army attacked the close range of the pass, their old-fashioned copper and iron hair and Furlong machine guns, tiger squat cannons, bowl mouth guns and other artillery can exert their power, but they can not threaten the artillery array of the Hongyi cannons on the side of the Jiannu army, and they suffer a lot in the artillery battle.
But now after the Dazhong Army has taken over some places, the Jiannu Army has begun to find that the artillery fire of the Dazhong Army is not worse than theirs, although they seem to have an advantage in numbers, but in terms of range, they are not like the previous siege, they can press the defenders and beat them.
Not only were some of the heavy artillery of the Dazhong Army not weaker than them in terms of firing range, but they were even more surpassing them in terms of the accuracy of the artillery bombardment, and after the artillery battle began, the Dazhong Army concentrated all the heavy artillery, focusing on the real artillery arrays of the Hongyi cannons that the Jiannu Army was stationed outside the pass, and not only used solid shells to bombard the artillery arrays of the Jiannu Army, but also invited the rarely used flowering shells to launch artillery bombardments on the artillery arrays of the Jiannu Army.
On the first day of the artillery battle, the cannon of the Dazhong Army concentrated fire and knocked over four red-coated cannons, and killed and wounded dozens of gunners of the Han Army flag, which frightened the gunners of the Han Army Banner in all directions, and later it was the Han Army Flag inlaid with the Yellow Flag Gushan Ezhen Liu Zhiyuan ordered to kill a few panicked subordinates, only to calm the situation, and hurriedly sent people to build an artillery array with earthen bags, which reduced the losses, However, the Dazhong Army then used 12-pounder and 8-pounder shells to bombard the artillery position of the Jiannu Army, and in the evening, the artillery of the Jiannu Army was blown to pieces, and the gunners were killed and wounded.
In this way, Dolgon saw that their Hongyi cannons were too disadvantaged at this distance, and the enemy's cannons were all on the city wall, with strong fortifications, which could be well protected, and although their cannons were very powerful, they could not take advantage, so they had to order the Hongyi cannons to retreat a certain distance, relying on the advantage of the long range of the heavy Hongyi cannons to deal with the defenders' artillery fire and reduce the hit rate of the defenders' cannons.
But in this way, the hit rate of their Hongyi cannon was also reduced, three cannons were fired, and two cannons didn't know where to hit, either they hit too high, flew over the city wall and flew into the city, and landed in the open space, or they simply fell outside the city, and accidentally a few shells also deviated, and fell in the crowd of the Jiannu army who were attacking the city, and killed some Jiannu army.
Anyway, after the large Chinese army entered the Shanhaiguan defense line, the firepower was pulled back a lot, at least so that the Jiannu army did not dare to be as arrogant as the first day of attacking Shanhaiguan, and their gunners were systematically trained, and the gun carriage also had a relatively complete aiming mechanism, in terms of artillery accuracy, it was necessary to exceed the Jiannu side, and various types of artillery alternately constituted crossfire under the pass, and every step of the Jiannu army had to be taken care of by various types of artillery, so the attack launched by Dolgon was very difficult, and it was often organized offensive, Before he could reach the bottom of the wall, he was crushed by the artillery fire of the coalition forces.
In fact, the bullshit is full of more than 10,000 people, more than 10,000 invincible, this fucking is the next step that some Ming Dynasty officers and officials who are greedy for life and fear of death find for themselves, one-sided exaggeration of the combat effectiveness of the Jiannu army, to cover up their incompetence, although it must be admitted that the military discipline of the Jiannu army is much stricter than that of the Ming army, and the Jurchen Tartars are also good at fighting and dare to work hard, but after all, they are still an old-style army, relying on the relationship between the clansmen and the constraints of the slave chieftains above, to exert their combat effectiveness, if they really fight, When their losses exceeded 10 percent, the Jiannu army was still about to collapse, and it was absolutely impossible to be as powerful as the legendary one, plus the main attacking Jiannu army was the Han generals under the banner of the Han army, these people worked hard for Jiannu, just to survive, not to send them to death, it was impossible for them to die to the Jiannu Tartars from their hearts, so after the artillery battle began, several attacks launched by Dolgon were quickly repelled by the defenders and coalition forces, and the corpses with stumps and broken arms thrown to the ground were out. The fart didn't catch either.
Only Jiannu's artillery fire caused a certain amount of damage to the defenders, and caused a certain amount of damage to the wall and the city, which is where the advantage of geography lies in the war, under the same firepower intensity, the attacker often has to pay several times more casualties than the defender.
Dolgon saw that this fight was not a way, so he personally supervised the battle, forcing the generals of the Han army banner to continue to attack, this fight is a few days, Dolgon sent a ruthless forced Mongolian flag soldiers and the Han army of the Han army flag, constantly back and forth to launch a fierce attack on the Shanhaiguan line, the Jiannu artillery outside the pass also bombarded the city day and night, trying to use the advantage of troops, concentrate a few points, break through the wall, but Yan Chongxi and Lu Xiangsheng and Wu Xiang sat in the pass, mobilizing troops, Troops with heavy losses were constantly withdrawn and recuperated, and new troops were transferred to defend the places where the fighting was most intense.
And with the development of the war, the people who helped the war also continued to come from the rear, at first the people who came to help the war were only the people in the Funingwei area, but with the development of the war, and the good news that continued to come out, so that the people farther away also began to rush to Shanhaiguan to help the war under the organization of some local squires, these two days, not only came to help the people from Changli County, but also from the surrounding Yongping Mansion, and even hundreds of miles away from the people in the Kaiping Zhongtunwei area, also ran to Shanhaiguan to help the war.
(Today, thanks to the friends of the East Palace for their tips!) )