Chapter 438: Reinforcements
Hou Xuanyan held a suspicious attitude, let the Denglai Navy Division land and shelled the Shanhaiguan.
The walls of Shanhaiguan were extremely high, and thanks to Yao Yiyao's improved artillery, the range was increased to allow arson projectiles to be fired into the city.
Similar to the appearance of ordinary cannonballs, Yao Yiyao said proudly: "After refining the fierce fire oil and fire oil in the stone grease water, there is something black left, which can be poured to control the burning rate. β
Hou Xuanyan thought about it carefully, he should be talking about asphalt, and the discovery of this technology was thousands of years earlier than the West.
In fact, we have been ahead of the West for too long in many things, and because of this, we are a little complacent.
The highest pursuit of the Han people is always to be a big official, to buy a large piece of land, and to engage in inventions and creations in the later stage, it becomes a strange skill and a sign of not doing a proper job. In addition, the vigorous Age of Discovery, which was delayed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country and ignoring the people of culture, otherwise even if it could not be ahead of the millennium, it would be easy to become a leader.
The newly developed arson bomb immediately had the best test site, and Yao Yiyao was accustomed to testing his new technology on the battlefield. At the beginning, Nikan of Tianjin Wei, led 60,000 Mongolian iron horsemen who were good at fighting, and was besieged in the city to be Yao Yiyao's guinea pig, experimenting with various new weapons.
This time it was Shang Kexi's turn, and not long after the arson bomb was launched, soon the inner city of Shanhaiguan was on fire everywhere. The wailing and screaming were incessant, this thing was very strange, where the arson bomb exploded, it would ignite a raging fire, and ordinary buckets of water could not be extinguished, but would burn more and more.
Hou Xuanyan and the generals glanced at each other and said: "This thing can shorten the siege time to half a month, and Shang Kexi can hold on to half a month at most, which is already his limit." β
"The prince thinks too highly of this old turtle, according to the last general, they will be exhausted in seven days." Du Yinxi is full of confidence, he has been guarding Xiangyang for so long, and he understands the difficulties of the city defenders best.
Hou Xuanyan looked at the towering city wall with palpitations, this thing has left a psychological shadow on him, this Xiongguan is really a one-man pass, and it is too difficult to break through Shanhaiguan head-on!
In a battle of tens of thousands of people, the commander's various subtle operations can determine the victory or defeat on the field. The battle of hundreds of thousands of people is difficult to do again, and the army is like a plough and sweeping the holes, and under the pressure of absolute strength, it is difficult to turn the tables into the sky.
Hou Xuanyan is determined to use the most secure way of play, slowly advancing step by step, so Shanhaiguan must be taken.
At this time, an elite Guanning iron cavalry was setting off from Guangning to support Shang Kexi at Shanhaiguan.
Wu Sangui was very relieved of Shang Kexi, so he would hand over a place like Shanhaiguan to him to defend, but it was difficult for a good woman to cook without rice, although Shang Kexi was powerful, but their sailors were too bad.
Hou Xuanyan has a whole narrow coastline, which can be used as an attack point, and the sea surface that was used as a moat in the past has become a nightmare for the Qing soldiers.
Shang Kexi stood on the city wall, and tirelessly said that the reinforcements would come soon, which was so much that even he believed it.
There will be an echo in his thoughts, and finally the reinforcements he was waiting for were about to arrive, and Gao Dejie, who was riding on a horse, was a fierce general under Wu Sangui, and he could already see the walls of Shanhaiguan and the billowing smoke.
"Are we a step too late? Has Shanhaiguan been taken by the Ming army? Gao Dejie was shocked, Shanhaiguan was their biggest barrier, there were all Shang Kexi's soldiers and horses inside, if they were all damaged, the Northern Expeditionary Army pouring in from the pass would directly confront them.
In the Northern Expedition that year, the Han Eight Banners almost never fought against Hou Xuanyan, and it was the defeat of the Manchurians that was too complete, and Wu Sangui and Kong Youde decided to withdraw to their Liaodong.
Before the Manchu Qing Dynasty withdrew into the Guannei, the four feudal kings even pressed the plug Yinxi to fight, and even once broke through Xiangyang City.
Therefore, the Liao army up and down all thought that there was no problem with Shang Kexi holding the Shanhai Pass, and it was not an exaggeration to say that this Xiongguan could reach 200,000 troops.
The young general Guan Ning next to him asked, "General, do we still want to go?" β
Gao Dejie hesitated, if he didn't go, he was afraid that Shanhaiguan had not been lost, and if he went, he was afraid that he would directly face the main force of the Northern Expeditionary Army that poured into the pass.
Just when Gao Dejie couldn't make up his mind, an army suddenly appeared in front of them, and the clothes of these people were very recognizable, which was the uniform of the Northern Expeditionary Army, the old enemy of all Qing soldiers.
Li Haoxian rode on the high-headed horse he captured, looked at the Qing soldiers in front of him, and said with a smile: "This is the so-called reinforcements, I want to see if Shang Kexi dares to come out and attack us with him." β
Gao Dejie's body is very stout, and he looks unusually burly, but he is three points inferior to Li Haoxian.
The Qing soldiers in front of him didn't know that this general, who went deep behind enemy lines, was Li Haoxian, the commander of the Huozi Battalion, the biggest hero of the Northern Expedition.
"The prince said, we don't want hostile Qing soldiers, and we don't want Qing soldiers who surrender, we just want the land and ports under their feet. Since these people are the reinforcements of the Qing army, they are our mortal enemies, and the brothers draw their swords to kill the enemy, leaving no prisoners! Li Haoxian shouted.
As soon as the flag waved, a desolate horn sounded, and the Northern Expeditionary Army, which had penetrated deep behind enemy lines, took the lead in launching a charge.
Gao Dejie was not a mediocre talent, and soon commanded his Guanning army to counterattack.
Li Haoxian rode his horse through the formation, and there was almost no enemy under a spear, and Gao Dejie in the distance saw his spears flying, and his men fell one by one, and immediately shouted angrily and rushed over.
This move was exactly what Li Haoxian wanted, the spear in his hand was clenched, and he silently watched the war horse of Gao Dejie, calculating the speed of his arrival in his mind.
Seeing that the war horse was about to run in front of him, Li Haoxian silently counted: "Three, two... Here it comes! β
The bright silver spear head was raised, and Gao Dejie was pierced through the cold, Li Haoxian held the spear, held it high above his head, and the war horse neighed.
The arm strength required to pick up corpses with guns is amazing, Li Haoxian is the first in martial arts in the Ming army, and he only needs one move to kill Gao Dejie, who is also a fierce general, before the war.
Li Haoxian lifted Gao Dejie's corpse high, blood flowed down the barrel of the gun, and brought the cherry gun to his armpit, Li Haoxian shouted loudly: "The enemy general is dead, everyone kill!" β
Qing Bing saw that his boss was really stupid, and he was still holding it in front of the battle, and they were so frightened that they had no master.
The snake can't do it without a head, the soldiers don't move without a general, and the violent death of Gao Dejie made this Guanning army lose its eyes.
The Qing soldiers were like lost dogs, fleeing to various places, Li Haoxian's men had almost no war horses, it was difficult to surround and kill them all, and they could only watch many Qing soldiers leave on horseback, angrily shooting a few bullets, and the lethality was also very average.
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