Originally, this decision was relatively easy to make, in comparison, he Wu Xiang was also a Han Chinese, and he also didn't want to see Jiannu control the land of Yanyun in their hands, and after so many years, he Wu Xiang also fought with Jiannu for so many years, and there were really a lot of people in their Wu family who died in the hands of Jiannu, so he also hated Jiannu, and surrendered Xiao Tianjian's Dazhong Army, which should be a wiser choice for him, think about it, even Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, Ding Qirui, these important ministers of the Ming Dynasty have now taken refuge in them, What's more, he, a martial artist from a martial arts background, was not a difficult decision to make to join Xiao Tianjian.

But by mistake, last year, the imperial court transferred his son Wu Sangui into the customs to fight against Xiao Tianjian, but he died in the hands of Xiao Tianjian, this incident made Wu Xiang can be said to hate Xiao Tianjian, he Wu Xiang for so many years, it can be said that all the Wu family's expectations for the future are all put on Wu Sangui and his son, for Wu Sangui He can be said to have poured all his efforts into Wu Sangui, and now his precious son died in the hands of Xiao Tianjian, this is the hatred of killing the son!

He Wu Xiang asked himself if it was impossible to take revenge, but to make him surrender to Xiao Tianjian, this matter became his biggest knot, no matter what, Wu Xiang could not cross this heart barrier and surrender to the Great Chinese Army.

So under the urging of the two parties, Wu Xiang has been swaying from side to side for a few days, not knowing what to do for a while, and his heart is a mess.

A large army of Jiannu, or riding healthy horses, or walking on foot, and a large number of Jiannu clothed slaves drove carts for them, full of grain and soldiers' tents, slowly appeared outside the Shanhaiguan, and the Han army with various flags and banners, with sturdy mules and horses, dragged a heavy red-clothed cannon weighing more than two or three thousand catties, slowly approached the Shanhaiguan line, like a sea of people gathered outside the Shanhaiguan, and set up a large camp that stretched out for dozens of miles.

A team of Tartar soldiers' sentry flags appeared on the periphery of the Great Wall on the first line of Shanhaiguan, arrogant to the extreme galloping back and forth outside the city, showing off their strength to the Ming army stationed on the wall, and some Jiannu, arrogantly dragged some captured Ming women to the outside of the wall, pressed on the ground and humiliated, they also pulled some captured Ming soldiers and Han people to the wall with various cruel ways, batch by batch of slaughter, and the corpses of these people were discarded under the pass to deter the Ming army guarding the pass.

Most of the Ming troops in Guancheng and the Guanqiang were like ashes, and they dared to be angry one by one, so they could only endure strong fear and anger and watch the tragedies that happened outside the Guanqiang.

This kind of thing is the usual trick of the Jiannu army, every time they want to attack the city, they will use this despicable means to put pressure on the defenders of the Ming army, mentally destroy the Ming army, and in this way, force the Ming army to give up resistance and surrender to them, and this method can be said to have been tried and tested over the years, many Ming troops guarding the castle outside the Guan, it is precisely because they can't bear this pressure, they are afraid that after Jiannu breaks through their castle, they will slaughter them in the same way, so they finally have a mental breakdown, so they surrendered to Jiannu, This time, the Jiannu army invaded the territory, and it was indispensable to use this method to put pressure on the Ming soldiers guarding the Great Wall.

Moreover, this method can be said to have a very good effect, and the success of the defenders and generals has a sense of fear, and the morale has fallen even more.

After Wu Xiang heard the news, he also took his family to climb the city tower, looking away from the Shanhaiguan, after seeing it, his heart can be said to be a piece of wow cool and wow cool, the Jiannu army entered the Kou this time, it can be said that the elite is exhausted, just these Dolgon led the vanguard soldiers and horses, the strength of the army has reached seventy or eighty thousand people, almost blocking the outside of the Shanhaiguan, and the prosperity of the army can be described as unheard of.

Not to mention that the Ming generals who guarded the city were afraid, even if Wu Xiang, the main general, was now after seeing the military appearance of the Jiannu army, he was also frightened and cold, it can be said that he was a little timid before the battle, but Wu Xiang still pretended to be calm, and ordered the troops to prepare for defense.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Shanhaiguan is called the first Xiongguan in the world at this time, this pass was first in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, the general Xu Da led tens of thousands of Ming troops to build a pass here, and later after more than 200 years of continuous expansion and repair, so that a shocking defense system was formed here.

Shanhaiguan is not just the Great Wall and a gate, but the overall layout is composed of seven castles, ten passes, thirty enemy towers on the Great Wall, sixty-two city platforms, eighteen beacon towers, sixteen piers, etc. The structure is rigorous, the function is complete, constituting the main body of the two wings, the left auxiliary and the right, the two cities are the whistles, the first line is long, and each other is the pattern of the horns, so it is said to be the first male pass in the world, by no means it is simply touted, but deserved.

Don't look at Jiannu over the years repeatedly into the Kou Pass, but every time the Jiannu army enters the Kou, it is through other passes along the Great Wall sneak attack into the pass, so many years, Jiannu is not without the attention of Shanhaiguan, but Jiannu has broken through the Shanhaiguan, so this time Jiannu wants to enter the customs, mobilize so many people to come to Shanhaiguan, but also want to use real strength, to take the Xiongguan for the Ming Town to guard the border, from then on to master the most important passage to the south, open the door to the south, In order to make full preparations for the next step of the army going south, the province also has to detour to other dangerous places, and it is extremely inconvenient to sneak into the customs.

After leading his troops to arrive outside the Shanhai Pass, Dolgon ordered a large camp to be set up a few miles away from the pass, and ordered his subordinates to kill the prisoners to first deter the defenders of the Shanhai Pass, while he sat in the tent and asked a Han man who went to deliver a letter to Wu Xiang: "What is the reaction of Wu Xiang, the guard of Shanhaiguan, after receiving the letter?" Why hasn't we made the move to surrender our Qing Dynasty until now? Instead, it looks like you're going to stick to it? ”

Sent to contact Wu Xiang is a Ming Dynasty in the Ming Dynasty outside the pass, this person a few years ago to take refuge in Jiannu, as Jiannu's doglegs, at this time a face of flattery, and very frightened kneeling in front of Dolgon, cautiously replied: "A few days ago, the slave has sent the letter of the saint into the pass, and personally handed it to the Ming general Wu Xiang, at that time Wu Xiang did not say too much to the small one, just after receiving the letter, said that he would consider it, and sent someone to send the small one out of the pass!"

This shows that Wu Xiang is not really determined to defend the idea of Shanhaiguan for the Ming Dynasty, at the moment he is just still considering, in addition, it is said that there is a thief of the soldiers, and recently from Juyong Pass into the customs, they did not go straight to the Ming Dynasty under the city, but rushed all the way to the area of Jizhou Town, the main force Chen stationed in Yongping Mansion, the same eyeing the Shanhaiguan.

The little one thinks that this force of thieves must also want to seize the Shanhaiguan area before our army captures the Shanhaiguan, control the Shanhaiguan, and prevent our army from entering the customs!

They must have already persuaded Wu Xiang to surrender, and now Wu Xiang must still be swaying on both sides, and he can't decide whether to take refuge in us or the idea of the Xingtian thief, so please wait a while, you might as well put pressure on Wu Xiang again, and force Wu Xiang to surrender to the prince as soon as possible! The switch allows Prince Rui to lead the army into the customs as soon as possible! ”

After Dolgon listened, as soon as he heard the three words of Xingtian thief, his head felt a little painful, this time they planned to enter the customs to seize the land of Yanyun first, originally they had the opportunity to take the lead in time, and they also mobilized a large number of men and horses, forming a huge advantage over the Ming army in the Guanning area, but in Ningyuan City, it was delayed by Hong Chengchou and a group of Ming troops for more than a month, so that it could not wave the army to attack Shanhaiguan, and now the Xingtian thief is good, he must have also learned the news, and he also began to march into the land of Jinggi in the Ming Dynasty. Rushed to the front and entered the Daming Jinggi first, and now not only broke through the Juyong Pass, but also entered the Shanhai Pass almost at the same time as them.

And the Xingtian thieves let the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty not fight, but left the Jingshi of the Ming Dynasty and ran to the other side of the Shanhaiguan first, staring at the Shanhaiguan with fierce eyes, without thinking too much, they also knew that these Xingtian thieves must regard their Qing army as the biggest enemy, and would rather put the ripe Jingshi fruit first and not pick it, but also put them outside the Shanhaiguan first.

If he can't effectively persuade Wu Xiang, the guard of Shanhaiguan in the Ming army, to surrender to their Qing Dynasty, once Wu Xiang chooses to surrender to the Xingtian thief, then Shanhaiguan may not be easy to defeat.

Recall that at the end of the third year of Chongde, that is, at the end of the eleventh year of Chongzhen, when he led the army into the Jingfu land in the Kou Pass, he encountered the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian thieves, after a few battles, their pride, almost were almost defeated by this Xingtian thief, only one or two thousand criminal thieves, looking for their trouble everywhere in the Jingfu land, every time they fight, they are powerless to parry, Du Du is even more almost killed by them, so that the flags they entered the customs have suffered heavy losses, and almost caused the dissent of the Mongolian Eight Banners, so that after they got out of the customs, they were busy for a while, it can be regarded as suppressing the Mongol tribes again and restoring the strength of the damaged banners.

Therefore, for the Xingtian Army, now he and the generals under his command are a little cold, they can't bargain in the hands of the Xingtian thieves in the wilderness, once they let the Xingtian thieves take the lead in controlling Shanhaiguan, then this time they go south, and if they can't get the Qing Dynasty to come here, it will be the end.

But fortunately, this time there were only more than 10,000 Xingtian thieves who rushed to the other side of Shanhaiguan, and their Qing army gathered nearly 200,000 troops, and they had a huge advantage in numbers, even if they only counted the forward army under his command, the strength was far more than the Xingtian thief army on the other side of the opposite side by several times, so as long as Wu Xiang was not a fool, he could also see which was stronger and which was weaker, and he should be able to make a wise choice.