Chapter 36

Just now when the cavalry of the Dazhong Army went out of the pass, they quickly got entangled with the Jiannu Army, after the collapse of the Jiannu Army, these Dazhong Army cavalry have always pursued and killed behind the Jiannu Army, so although there are a lot of cannons in Jiannu, but they did not dare to bombard these Dazhong Army cavalry, some gunners who went out to the pass, seeing the cavalry of the Dazhong Army roaring, the killed had to lose their artillery, turned around and fled, and as a result, a batch of cannons were blown up by the cavalry of the Dazhong Army, and if the Dazhong Army did not collect the troops, The heavy artillery of Chen Bu in the back was about to be killed in front of the cavalry of the Great Chinese Army, and these gunners were all panicked, and they just wanted to quickly escape and pull them down.

Now as soon as the cavalry of the Dazhong Army stopped the pursuit and began to retreat, they immediately distanced themselves from their own rout, so these Jiannu gunners got a chance to fire, and then Dolgon ordered them to fire again, so they fired artillery to kill these Dazhong cavalry, so these Han gunners did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly adjusted the cannons, aimed at the retreating Dazhong cavalry, and began to bombard one after another.

One by one, the cannonballs soon whistled into the battlefield, and set off a mass of earth and stones on the battlefield outside the gate, and all kinds of cannonballs jumped and flew forward, as long as there were people and horses blocking the road along the way, even if they were torn apart by these shells, some large and medium-sized cavalry were immediately knocked over on the battlefield, and those who were caught by the cannonballs were not dead or disabled.

Fortunately, the cavalry is some distance from the Jiannu group artillery, and the Jiannu are all solid bullets, rarely use scattered bullets, and the cavalry charge the formation, the formation is far less dense than the infantry, the cavalry must leave a certain distance between each other, so as not to collide with each other, so although under the artillery bombardment of the Jiannu army, these retreating large Chinese cavalry paid some casualties, but the overall number of casualties is not too much, the officers immediately urged the horses after being shelled, and shouted to order the cavalry under them to disperse to avoid the artillery, While speeding up, he began to gallop in the direction of the closed door.

Although the cannon of the Jiannu side in this era also has an objective range and power, and it is also the casting method of the new Hongyi cannon, but in terms of operation, it is far less convenient than the relatively complete operating system of the Xingtian Army artillery. Clouds of dust and smoke rose everywhere on the battlefield, but the large-scale killing and wounding of the cavalry of the Great Chinese Army did not occur.

In this case, the cavalry of the Great and Medium Army have the consciousness of death, even if they see a few robes falling from their horses, they cannot help, and when they do not fully grasp the control of the battlefield, it is undoubtedly a stupid practice to rescue the casualties, which is very clear in everyone's heart.

Individual soldiers who were seriously injured and fell on the battlefield screamed and cursed, many of them immediately took matters into their own hands and ended their lives, while some of the soldiers whose horses were overturned immediately got up and ran forward, and the cavalry passing by often gave them a helping hand, pulled them on their horses, and retreated together, and the whole cavalry retreated very quickly, so as to reduce casualties.

And Azig and Duoduo each led a group of Jiannu cavalry, and were outflanking on both flanks, when they saw the large Chinese army suddenly retreating, so they all scolded, seeing that the fat in their mouths was about to slip away from under their eyelids, how willing they were, without waiting for Dolgon's order to come down, they began to urge their soldiers and horses, and accelerated towards the retreating cavalry of the Great Chinese Army.

The two Jiannu cavalry quickly appeared in the left and right rear positions of these large Chinese cavalry, and chased after them with a roar, which made those large Chinese cavalry soldiers suddenly understand why Wang Chengping suddenly ordered them to give up the pursuit and kill Jiannu and retreat to the pass, it turned out that Jiannu did not really collapse the whole army, but used a trick to eat them these soldiers and horses, so their full stomach was suddenly thrown out of the clouds, and the battalion soldiers immediately began to retreat.

It was also Wang Chengping's decision that made the situation turn into peace immediately, these cavalry out of the pass, one step ahead of the retreat, did not leave enough opportunity for the Jiannu army to intercept them, although Azig and Duoduo also sold all their strength, led the troops to desperately pursue, but only bit the tail of these large Chinese cavalry, killed a small number of war horses exhausted and failed to withdraw in time to the generals in the pass, failed to leave the three or four thousand cavalry outside the pass.

On the contrary, Azig and Duoduo led their troops to chase too closely, and drove all the way to the pass, and as a result, the two Jiannu cavalry entered the effective range of the defenders on the city wall.

At the request of Wang Chengping, the defenders of the city were happy to give Jiannu a powerful look at this time, so the gunners of the Ming army in the city carefully adjusted the muzzles of the guns one by one, and under Wang Chengping's order, they lit the cannon together.

Azig and Duoduo then stupidly ordered the troops to be collected, saying that they were collecting the troops and returning to the camp, but in fact, this is just a nice statement, for the Jiannu army, it was completely a feather return, and they had to evacuate the pass with their tails between their tails and return to the camp outside the Jiannu Pass.

After this day of fierce fighting, Dolgon can be said to be the standard of the feather return, sending all the troops to take turns to attack the city, but it can be said that it has not been built, but it is a loss of soldiers, a rough inventory, today at the end of the day, they Jiannu died nearly 2,000 people, the wounded are twice as much, these wounded are estimated to die more than half, this day, equal to the death of about 4,000 people under his command, the entire Shanhaiguan below, the corpses of their Jiannu army are everywhere, until it gets dark, You can also hear the miserable howl of the Jiannu army who are not dead on the battlefield, which is as creepy as a night owl.

What made him even more resentful was that because of his light enemy, he didn't expect the Dazhong Army to come so quickly, and put it into the battlefield, and gave him a counterattack, which caused the Han Army Banner and the Mongolian Eight Banners under his command to almost all collapse, but he watched the cavalry of the Dazhong Army slaughtered all the time, and then retreated safely, which undoubtedly dealt a very big blow to their Jiannu Army, which made the morale of the Jiannu Army under his command plummet for a while, and it was estimated that there was no two-day adjustment. It is no longer possible to launch an attack on Shanhaiguan.

Analyzing the current situation, Dolgon can be completely sure that Wu Xiang, the chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, and the defenders have all taken refuge in the Xingtian thief, and the Xingtian thief has also arrived at Shanhaiguan now, so the next step is that he will attack Shanhaiguan, and he will undoubtedly face the joint confrontation of the Dazhong Army and the Ming Army, and the addition of the Dazhong Army has also greatly supplemented the Ming army in Shanhaiguan, which was originally weak, and made the defense line more stable.

So Dolgon ordered the three armies to retreat and re-camp to rest, collect the corpses of the fallen soldiers after the fierce battle that day, and at the same time treat the wounded soldiers, restore morale, and prepare for another battle.

In addition, Dolgon sent people to send back the news to the army led by Huang Taiji himself, and while confessing his guilt, he informed Huang Taiji of the situation at Shanhaiguan and asked Huang Taiji to decide on the next step.

In short, after this battle, the Jiannu side in the Shanhaiguan area can be said to have hit their heads and bled out, and their arrogance was suddenly suppressed a lot.

Inside the Shanhaiguan wall, after nightfall, there was a jubilant voice, Wu Xiang personally took his family and generals, and brought some wine and meat to Xiluo City to congratulate Wang Chengping and the soldiers of the Dazhong Army who came to the aid in advance.

Wang Chengping thanked Wu Xiang for his kindness and accepted the meat given by Wu Xiang, but he politely refused the wine he gave and told Wu Xiang that the Dazhong Army has military law regulations, and it is not allowed to drink alcohol in the army before the battle, even if it is drinking, it can only be drunk after the war, which Wu Xiang admires, because alcohol is prohibited in the army, and there are regulations in the army of all dynasties, but there are very few real implementations, especially at the officer level, this rule is regarded as nothing, many generals like to drink in the army, but only the Dazhong Army, This military discipline has been thoroughly implemented, and even Wang Chengping, the deputy commander of the Left Route Army of the Dazhong Army, does not dare to violate discipline, which shows how strict the military discipline of the Dazhong Army is, and the generals can enforce military discipline, so are they still worried that the soldiers will not abide by the military discipline? Therefore, it is probably not a simple matter for the large Chinese army to be good at fighting.

So Wu Xiang did not care, ordered to remove the wine, to tea instead of wine to Wang Chengping Dazhong Army soldiers Zhu Jie, today's battle, they these Ming soldiers and generals have also seen the brave and good fighting of the Dazhong Army, all of these Dazhong soldiers and generals admired, these Ming generals who were originally opponents of each other, after this joint bloody battle, there is no hostility between each other at all, above the city, the two sides hooked shoulders and talked very happily.

Wang Chengping told Wu Xiang that the follow-up men and horses of the Left Route Army will definitely be able to arrive here at night, please Wu Xiang can rest assured, and they have already received the news, now the Middle Route Army and part of the Right Route Army, a total of more than 30,000 people, have also arrived in Wuqing, and the slowest will be able to arrive in Funing within seven days, and the Dazhong Emperor Xiao Tianjian personally led 30,000 elite soldiers on the right road, as well as countless heavy boats, are also heading north along the Grand Canal, if there are no special circumstances in the short term, they will also have to go to Shanhaiguan, please Wu Xiang can rest assured, there are them, Shanhaiguan can be guaranteed without worry.