Although these people can not exert much combat effectiveness, but do some things to carry materials and repair the wall, it is not a problem, among the people who came, although the peasants accounted for the majority, but there are also some blacksmiths, stonemasons, carpenters or masons craftsmen, these people were soon asked by Lu Xiangsheng to report to the designated place, and quickly put into the battlefield.

Let them go to the city, in fact, not to let them go to war, but to be responsible for repairing the wall destroyed by artillery, the heavy artillery of the Jiannu army to the wall damage is very serious, more than a dozen pounds of projectiles hit the wall, each cannon is a big pit, falling on the city wall, immediately can destroy the battlement, a long time will definitely greatly weaken the defense ability of the city wall, so after these people to help the people, Lu Xiangsheng will be in the middle of the dispatch, during the day Jiannu destroyed some places, at night the people were sent to repair, when it is dawn again, it can be repaired, Outside the Qi Pass, Dolgon and the slaves were all furious.

In addition, Yan Chongxi also discussed with Lu Xiangsheng, taking advantage of the night when Jiannu stopped attacking, he sent troops to cover a large number of people out of the pass, digging various trenches outside the pass, spreading layer by layer, so that Jiannu could not easily push the heavy siege equipment under the wall, so a large number of people began to sneak out of the wall at night, either sneaking out from the gate, or using a large number of hanging baskets to hang them off the wall, and using shovels and pickaxes overnight to dig a trench around the wall, and the trench did not need to be too deep. But the width should be enough for a person not to jump over, and after a few days, there were layers of ravines outside the wall, so that when Jiannu attacked again, it was impossible to easily push things like ladders and cave houses and carts under the wall, and these newly dug trenches along the way gave them a headache to death, and often when they filled in the trenches, the equipment they got had been broken up by the defenders' artillery fire.

During the day they filled in the ditches, and at night the defenders escorted the people down and dug them up, and this battle became a little funny at this time, and the two sides became two armies digging and filling in the ditches.

Huang Taiji was in the front guard, and he had to send someone to inquire about the siege of the city every day, at first, he didn't say much, but after a few days, Huang Taiji began to become unhappy, at first he was cold, and then he simply began to send Prince Zheng Jierharang to reprimand Dolgon and Duoduo and a few Mongolian Eight Banners and Han Eight Banners.

At this time, Dolgon had no good way, so he turned his heart sideways, and on the sixth day of the fifth month, he once again mobilized the army to fight, but this time he did not let the soldiers of the Han army flag go up, but drove nearly 10,000 Han men, women, and children from outside the pass, and let them walk in the front of the team, each carrying a bag of soil, forcing them to open the way for the Jiannu army.

Dolgon's move is the most commonly used trick by Jiannu to deal with the Ming army, which can not only seriously damage the morale of the defenders, but also use these Han civilians to block the defenders' cannons, forcing the defenders not to bombard their soldiers and horses, which can be described as very vicious and insidious, and at the same time very, very shameless to the extreme.

The defenders were ready for a day of defending the city early in the morning, and all kinds of artillery and firearms were also loaded with ammunition, just waiting for the Jiannu army to attack, and they showed them the color, but they didn't expect that what appeared in front of them was a ragged Han civilian, crying and staggering with dirt bags, walking in front of a large number of Jiannu, and behind them, there were Jiannu generals with guns and knives who forced them to move forward, and what was even more hateful was that among these Jiannu generals, many of them were also Han people with Han military banners, In addition, there are some Mongol soldiers, and the last ones are the generals who supervise their Jiannu Tartars, supervising the battle layer by layer, obviously determined to fight a big battle.

The people who walked in front of them, while walking, cried loudly, they did not want to be the target of Jiannu's arrows, to break through the Shanhaiguan for Jiannu, but they had to do according to Jiannu's requirements, if they did not obey the slightest disobedience, the Jiannu soldiers would immediately poison them, stab them with spears, slash them with knives and axes, even if they walked a little slower, they would wave their whips and whip them, whether they were men or women, even old people or children, treat them like pigs and dogs, There was no mercy in the slaughter.

Some women from obviously rich and noble families, wrapped in small feet, it was inconvenient to walk, and they were in rags, obviously these days have been ruined by Jiannu, but they were still driven out by Jiannu, or carried a bag of soil on their backs, staggered forward in the crowd, from time to time someone fell to the ground, some children who were only a few years old cried, followed their parents, staggered helplessly, fear grabbed everyone's hearts, but no one sympathized with them, The soldiers and generals behind them just scolded blindly, kept whipping the people walking behind with leather whips, and slashed some old people, women and children who couldn't walk with knives from time to time.

When all the defenders saw this scene, they were stunned, this was the first time they saw Jiannu driving so many Han people to attack the city, they had not seen or heard of it before, but when the matter was in front of them, everyone was shocked, some soft-hearted soldiers, immediately cried, and more defenders immediately scolded angrily, scolding Jiannu for his despicability.

"Grandma's! Lao Tzu * Your ancestors have the ability to come to Lao Tzu! Rushing the common people to come and send them to death, are you fucking Jiannu Tartars also considered human? Have the ability to let go of these ordinary people and fight with Lao Tzu! ......" some of the soldiers jumped to their feet and scolded loudly.

The entire Shanhaiguan first-line city gate resounded with the sound of angry scolding, such a scene even for coaches like Yan Chongxi and Wu Xiang became a little overwhelmed at this time.

After all, there were still some people who were ruthless, and immediately shouted to their commander: "Fight! If they don't fight, they're going to be close! The common people are pitiful, but who made them born in this world? This is fate, I can't complain that we don't pity them! Military Gate! Let's shoot! ”

Wu Xiang didn't know what to do for a while, just shook his head and didn't let the cannon fire, but when these large numbers of people were driven by Jiannu to approach the city wall, Jiannu's cannon fired first, with bursts of fire and gunsmoke, and after a while, the rumbling cannon sound sounded in the distance outside the pass, and the heavy cannonballs whistled through the sky, smashing heavily on the walls of the gates everywhere, and then set off a piece of broken bricks and stones, and individual cannonballs were not accurate, and did not hit the city wall. But it fell in front of the crowd of people, when even if a blood mist was lifted, the place where the projectile passed was a mess, there were broken corpses and corpses scattered everywhere, these people who were forced before were even more panicked, and began to become more chaotic, some people could not bear the pressure, tried to flee back, but waiting for them were rows of spears and snow knives, and after a while, the people who tried to escape back were slaughtered, and a large number of corpses fell in front of the Jiannu army.

Yan Chongxi was also thinking nervously, and ordered his generals not to fire back fire, Lu Xiangsheng was even more angry, but he was also persuading Yan Chongxi not to give the order to fire back.

"Lord Overseer, if you don't fight, you can't do it! Once these people rush over, our trenches will soon be filled, and Jiannu can rush to the gate effortlessly! Then it will be dangerous! Although these people are miserable, this is their fate! We really can't save them right now! It's better to give them a good idea! Wang Chengping is a very hard-hearted person, although he is also angry, but he still maintains a trace of wisdom, seeing Lu Xiangsheng repeatedly persuading Yan Chongxi not to fire, for the sake of the war, he still spoke out to persuade.

"No! The Holy One has always loved the people like a son, how can he sit idly by and ignore the life and death of these people? Can't be killed! Think of a way to see if you can save them! Lu Xiangsheng tried to stop him like crazy at this moment, pulling the sleeves of Yan Chongxi's battle robe and yelling loudly.

Yan Chongxi closed his eyes in pain, he knew very well in his heart that he couldn't save so many people today, if they fired cannons, then for those Han people outside the gate, it would chill their hearts, but if they didn't fire cannons, they would have to welcome Jiannu to approach under the city wall, and order the soldiers to engage in hand-to-hand combat with Jiannu who was several times their size, and the Great Wall Pass might be broken by Jiannu if they were not careful.

Yan Chongxi is very embarrassed, as the commander of the current army, he knows better than anyone else, Ci is not in charge of the army, Lu Xiangsheng pity these people, it is understandable, after all, he is a civilian official, and now he is a supervising army, not a commander, you can think so, but he can't, because he is responsible for the outcome of this war, if it is Lu Xiangsheng who comes to sit as the marshal of the Left Route Army, it is estimated that Lu Xiangsheng will not say it so lightly, because Lu Xiangsheng has done such a thing before, when he was working hard for Daming to suppress bandits, Most of the so-called thieves faced by the army are such refugees, but the difference in location leads to a different starting point for looking at the problem.

Yan Chongxi opened his eyes, and then glanced at the Jiannu army and the groups of refugees who were getting closer and closer, as well as the heavy siege equipment that was slowly advancing in the Jiannu army, gritted his teeth, and slowly raised his hand, although Lu Xiangsheng didn't want to see this moment coming, but after all, he was also a battle-hardened person, he knew very well the difficulties of Yan Chongxi, the main general, opened his mouth, but closed his mouth again, in fact, he knew very well that it was impossible not to fire cannons, otherwise the city would be broken, I don't know how many times more people have died than we are now!

Just when Yan Chongxi was about to grit his teeth and give the order to fire the cannon, suddenly a battalion general pounced, knelt down on one knee and bowed his head and shouted: "Qi Qi is the commander!" The little ones have a way to save some refugees! ”

After Yan Chongxi heard this, he immediately shouted: "Say it quickly! ”