Chapter 32: Reinforcements Have Arrived
Seeing that with a large number of Han troops and even some of the Jurchen soldiers have been put into the battlefield, under the disparity in strength between the two sides, the defenders began to be chaotic, although Wu Xiang also continued to send troops to reinforce the most fierce battle, but still could not change this situation, although the defenders had a geographical advantage, but they lost the initiative of the war, and had to arrange troops along the long city wall, but the attacking side could concentrate its forces and attack a few points on this defense line, so under the crazy onslaught of the Jiannu armyAlthough Shanhaiguan and Guanbei Wing City and Dongxi Luo City were not breached, the situation was precarious in several passes on the west side of Xiluo City.
Wu Xiang didn't expect that the Jiannu side would launch such a fierce attack on this day, they relied on the incomplete siege equipment, relying on the fierce artillery support, almost all the available forces were put into the siege battlefield at once, and it can be said that they wanted to break through his defense line and break into the Great Wall at any cost.
Wu Xiang knows very well what the result will be once the Jiannu army enters the customs, the Jiannu army can divide its troops to block the Dazhong army that is rushing here, and then eat him with superior forces first, and then go to deal with the Dazhong army, and now he has completely torn his face with the Jiannu side, this day, he ordered to kill a lot of Jiannu, once he let Jiannu catch him, he knew how miserable he would die, so he could only continue to deploy troops to strengthen the defense of several important places, in order to delay time, Wait until the Great Chinese Army arrives here for reinforcements.
At noon, Wang Chengping led seven thousand cavalry of the Great Chinese Army to the Shihe area, and the morning of the gallop made the horses and generals a little tired, and the two sides also had to agree on the location of the next change of defense, so Wang Chengping ordered his generals to temporarily cross the Shihe River and rest by the Shihe.
Originally, Wang Chengping thought that although Jiannu was threatening Shanhaiguan, from what Feng Weihan learned, Wu Xiang eliminated the generals in the army who tried to surrender Jiannu overnight, and there was no problem for them to hold Shanhaiguan for a few days, so although he led his troops to come first, in order not to misunderstand, he did not rush to some places to take over, but waited for the defenders to come to contact, and then to take over.
But he didn't think that after the time came to Shen Shi in the afternoon, Wang Chengping heard that the artillery fire around Shanhaiguan had become very dense, and the shouting of killing was even more deafening, and when he was surprised, Wu Xiang sent someone to inform Wang Chengping, asking him to quickly rush to Xiluo City and several passes west of Xiluo City to reinforce the area, and informed Wang Chengping that the slave chief Dolgon on the Jiannu side was crazy today, and he dispatched almost all the artillery and soldiers and horses to launch a fierce attack on the front line of Shanhaiguan at any cost. Now several places west of Shanhaiguan are already in danger, please Wang Chengping must quickly lead his troops to reinforcements.
Wang Chengping was taken aback at this time, and did not dare to slack off any longer, so he immediately led his troops to several places pointed out by Wu Xiang, and when he arrived at these places, Wang Chengping knew that the situation was more serious than he thought, and some of the officers and troops on the wall had begun to rout, and a small number of Jiannu troops had begun to appear on the city wall, and were trying to expand the results of the battle, break through the wall in some places, and seize the gate of the pass.
So Wang Chengping didn't dare to think about it, and immediately ordered some of the soldiers to dismount and climb the city wall, no matter how much they paid, they would also knock down these Jiannu troops who had already climbed the city wall.
With the arrival of their new force, they immediately controlled the situation to a worse degree, and a small number of Jiannu troops who had just boarded the city wall were faced with these reinforcements after facing the large Chinese army, and they were knocked down the city wall by these large army generals, seeing that more and more large Chinese soldiers would rush to board the city wall, the officers and troops who had already collapsed saw hope, and their morale was reinvigorated. began to follow the reinforcements of the Dazhong Army to turn around and join the battle group again.
Finally Jiannu only achieved a little result, with the arrival of Wang Chengping's troops, it immediately turned into nothing, some Jiannu soldiers, originally happy, but when they saw a group of wolf-like soldiers will be killed, some Jiannu soldiers will panic, turn around and run, run a little slower Bento was immediately cut down on the city wall, some Jiannu did not even have time to climb the ladder leaning on the city wall, they were chased behind the buttocks, in a hurry, regardless of the "......" exclaim, He jumped out of the city wall and jumped directly under the city wall.
Think about the city wall of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty in the Shanhaiguan area, the low one is seven meters high, the high one reaches about ten meters, jump down at such a high place, there is no one to place an inflatable cushion for them below, the fate of the good jump down and break the leg is light, the bad life of the jump at that time fell into the flesh and blood blurred, and the eyes are not alive, individual extremely lucky after jumping down, fell on the pile of corpses, luckily not injured, but the unlucky eyes fell on the corpses, but encountered the knives and guns among the corpses, when even if they were poked to death under the city.
Dolgon was watching the battle from afar, seeing that some places west of Shanhaiguan had achieved results, and some of the Jiannu army had begun to climb the city wall, gradually expanding the results on the city wall, chasing and killing those Ming army routs, seeing that the Ming army in some places was about to completely collapse.
But in the blink of an eye, he saw that the soldiers and generals who had already climbed the city wall jumped off the city wall in panic like dumplings, and there was a cheer from the city wall, and Dolgon realized that something was not right.
It's a pity that Dolgon stood a little far away, and although his eyes were good, he didn't have the clairvoyance in the hands of the Xingtian Army, so he couldn't see what was happening on the city wall at all, but it was certain that the Ming army was supported, and where did this support come from?
Dolgon also learned through careful work yesterday that the large Chinese army in the pass was still stationed in Funingwei, a hundred miles away, in order to avoid conflict with the defenders of Shanhaiguan, but could they rush here now?
In short, Dolgon looked at the black dots that kept falling like small ants on the city wall in the distance, and a sense of foreboding rose in his heart, and he was about to adjust his deployment, suspend the offensive, and send someone to find out what was happening on the wall, but on the side of Ciro City, there was suddenly a shocking shout of killing.
Immediately afterwards, he saw that in the vicinity of the city gate of Xiluo City, the army formation on their Jiannu side immediately began to be in chaos, and all kinds of military flags were rolled upside down and began to retreat like a tide, and the exclamations resounded throughout the battlefield, and even suppressed the sound of artillery fire on both sides.
Dolgon's heart sank to the bottom, and his first thought was, "The Heavenly Army is here!" ”