Both grenades fell in the middle of the Qing army, and in just these two blows, more than 40 Qing soldiers were killed in half, and the rest were also blown up.

Then Hu Xihai led the people to rush up and beat the water dogs, and the soldiers on the fort wall were flanked on both sides, and the remaining Qing soldiers were knocked down one after another before they woke up......

At great cost, the soldiers of the small group mountain fort suffered one-third casualties, and finally won the victory. cut down more than 40 heads, captured more than 30 war horses, and more than a dozen war horses were injured by grenades, but they happened to be slaughtered and eaten meat.

The small group of mountain forts still won here, after all, it was a small group of Qing cavalry. In other places, the Guanning military household was killed by the Qing cavalry.

The 3,000 Eight Banners cavalry was divided into more than ten groups, and swept through the Liaoxi Corridor like a gust of wind, and there was a bloody storm everywhere they passed. Anyone who was encountered by the Eight Banners cavalry in the field was defeated and killed. Only the military households guarding the fortress barely escaped the catastrophe.

Of course, although the cavalry of the Qing army was powerful, the reason for the number could not protect hundreds of thousands of Manchu people, under the leadership of the Ming army, the Guanning military households took the various fortresses captured as strongholds, or hid in the hills, and every time they attacked and killed the Manchus who passed by, they also caused heavy losses to the retreating Manchus.

Ningyuan City, after learning of Li Yan's direct strategy to transfer Guanning military households to attack, Wu Ping began to take the initiative to attack when he saw the Qing cavalry outside the city go away.

In the middle of the night, 10,000 Ming troops left Ningyuan City, occupied the trenches on the northwest sides, and set up artillery rockets. As mentioned above, when Wu Ping attacked Ningyuan City, in order to trap the Qing army in Ningyuan, he ordered the captured Guanning military households to dig a circle of trenches around Ningyuan, and now this trench comes in handy again.

After dawn, the Ming artillery aimed at the Qing camp and began to bombard, and the shells fell in an endless stream in the Qing camp.

When the Ming army left the city in the middle of the night, the Qing army camp naturally discovered movement. In the middle of the night, it was not easy to send troops out of the camp, and Zilharang and Bolo just ordered the whole battalion to be on guard against the night attack of the Ming army. However, it was not until the Ming army did not come that the Ming army's intentions were understood.

The camp of the Qing army was not far from the trench, and the original intention was to rely on the trench to surround the Ming army, so that the people could pass through Ningyuan safely.

And now the Ming and Qing dynasties, the Ming army is on the inside of the trench, and the Qing army is on the outside of the trench, and the distance between them is less than a mile. At such a close distance, in addition to the tiger squat artillery, other artillery of the Ming army could easily hit the camp of the Qing army.

The Ming army was so arrogant that Bolo was unwilling to endure it any longer, and personally led the army out of the camp and launched an attack on the Ming army.

The two sides first fired at each other on both sides of the trench, and although the Qing soldiers had few firearms, they were equipped with a large number of bows and arrows. The Ming army relied on firearms, rockets, and artillery to apply color to it.

After a burst of fire, Bolo gave the order to attack. Thousands of Qing troops began to dig and fill the trenches with shields, and rushed over after filling a section of the trenches.

The 10,000 Ming army under the command of Wu Ping had long been deployed into a defensive array and fought fiercely with the Qing army. Inside and outside the trenches, the two sides fought. The Eight Banners had strong infantry combat capabilities, but Wu Ping had 3,000 veterans as his foundation, and his army had experienced several months of conquest, and its combat effectiveness had improved greatly.

Although the Qing army outnumbered the Ming army, the Ming army had Ningyuan City as a backup, and the artillery on the city kept shooting into the Qing army's array.

The two sides fought fiercely for more than an hour, and seeing that his subordinates were not supported, Wu Ping led the army to slowly retreat to the city of Ningyuan.

When Bolo commanded the Qing army to continue the attack, he was attacked from both sides above and below the city wall. In particular, on the city wall, the Ming army had hundreds of tiger squatting cannons, and the projectiles shot down the Qing army array like a rain curtain, causing great damage to the Qing army, and Bolo had to lead his troops to retreat, giving up the plan of annihilating the Ming army outside the city.

In the next few days, Wu Ping led the army to guard outside the city, and from time to time attacked the Qing army to strike, strong attack, night attack, so that the Qing army could not be defended. But after all, the number and combat effectiveness of the army were weaker than that of the Qing army, and in the end, there was no way to take the Qing army, so they could only watch a large number of Manchurian people withdraw in the direction of Jinzhou through the outside of Ningyuan City.

"Lord Wang, Lord Wang, when will you be able to bring troops to the Shanhai Pass?" Wu Ping shouted in his heart, now he has no way to take the Qing army.

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Outside Shanhaiguan, Jin Xin led 20,000 troops to climb over the side wall from a piece of stone, and outside Shanhaiguan, Yang Xiaolei also led 10,000 troops along the sea route to Shanhaiguan, and the combined strength of the two armies reached 30,000.

After the two discussed, it was decided that Yang Xiaolei would lead the headquarters to garrison the Tiechang Fort outside Shanhaiguan to block the escape of the Qing army in Shanhaiguan. Jin Xin led 20,000 men to pursue Ningyuan, supporting Wu Ping to keep the Manchurians as much as possible.

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Heizhuang Wobao, Luck's eyes were red, and he was leading his army to storm the fortress.

In the wilderness five miles away from Heizhuang Wobao, there were headless corpses full of people, numbering as many as a thousand, which made the eyes of Luckde, who led the cavalry to withdraw here from Shanhaiguan, red.

The damned Ming army, the damned Guanning military household, dared to kill the people of the Qing Dynasty! Luckedhun swears to kill these damned Mingren!

With more than 4,000 cavalry under his command, he surrounded Heizhuang Wobao and began a fierce attack, and the arrows flew up to the city like raindrops, and the Ming army on the city did not dare to show his head.

There were about 800 Ming troops and Guanning troops in Heizhuang Wobao, but they were formed by the convergence of three attacking armies. The reason is that not long ago, these three armies were eyeing the one or two thousand Manchu people who retreated to the vicinity, and the Manchu people were too numerous to eat, so they had to unite together.

Who knew that after the successful attack, he happened to encounter the retreating Lekdehun cavalry, but fortunately there was a black village fort to refuse, so he escaped from Lekdehun's men.

Heiwozhuang Fort is not big, the fort wall is not high, and it is a fort wall made of rammed earth, and there is not even a trench to protect the fort outside. But even so, Luckdhun could not be easily defeated by the lack of siege equipment.

The Ming army and military households in the fortress knew that if the Qing army was allowed to enter the castle, everyone would inevitably die. Therefore, everyone fought bravely, using brick and lime bottles to block the Qing army's attack, and repeatedly thwarted the Qing army's cloud ladder offensive.

More than a dozen Qing soldiers carried huge trees, ignoring the falling bricks and stones at the head of the city, and slammed towards the fort gate.

"Boom" A grenade fell from the fort wall, and the Qing soldiers who hit the fort gate were blown up on their backs. More than a dozen Qing soldiers rushed from behind, carrying the giant trees on the ground and continuing to ramming.

Finally, the fortress gate could not withstand such a violent impact and was smashed to pieces. However, the Qing soldiers were shocked to see that the door hole was full of masonry and stone, and it was stuffed to death.

It takes too much time to get rid of the bricks and stones in the doorway, and under the attack of the Ming army from above on the fortress wall, I don't know how many lives will be lost.

Seeing that he had been attacking for several days, but there was no way to take the small fortress, Lucked was furious. At this moment, a cavalry under his command came to report that a Ming army was coming here from Shanhaiguan, with as many as 20,000 or 30,000 people!

Could it be that the Ming army broke through the Shanhai Pass? Lucketthun was shocked in his heart, and he couldn't care about dealing with the black village in front of him.

If Shanhaiguan Pass is breached, it means that there is not much time left for the Qing army and civilians to retreat. However, many people have not yet arrived in Ningyuan, and there is no way, the speed at which the people are dragging their families and walking is too slow.

In order for more people to escape Ningyuan and return to Guanwai, Lekdehun knew that he had to stop the speed of the Ming army's advance, even if it was a great sacrifice. However, the situation in Shanhaiguan must first be clarified.

Luckedhun ordered a small group of cavalry to bypass the Ming army to intercept and go to Shanhaiguan to find out whether Shanhaiguan was lost or not. At the same time, Luckedhun sent a message to the auxiliary kings outside Ningyuan, Zilharang and Belebolo, to inform them of the news of the Ming army's appearance outside the Shanhai Pass. Then he sent out cavalry in all directions, and ordered the people to speed up their march, and lost all the goods they carried.

Then, with his troops slightly north, he left the castle of Heiwozhuang and the official road, and took refuge in a depression behind a hill. He was determined to wait for the Ming army to pass through and launch a surprise attack to crush the Ming army in this advance. Although the Ming army was far outnumbered, Kolkedhun believed that it would not be too difficult to defeat the Ming army as long as he found the right time to launch a surprise attack.

If this Ming army of 20,000 or 30,000 people can be defeated, the Ming army will definitely not dare to act rashly, so that the people of the Qing Dynasty will have more time to retreat!

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More than 4,000 Qing cavalry were hiding in the shadows, but the marching Jin Xin was ignorant of all this.

However, Jin Xin is not what it used to be, he knows that the Liaoxi that is now out of the territory of the Qing army, although there is Wu Ping in Ningyuanwei, but the Qing army is still strong, Jinzhou and Guangning north of Ningyuan are under the rule of the Manchu Dynasty, so Jin Xin has been very careful when marching.

He divided the 20,000 men into five divisions, with vanguards, left and right wings, and rearguards, and sent sentinels to probe the movements of the army on the left and right.

Although Jin Xin's troops are all infantry, the sentry agents are all cavalry, and if they detect the movements of the Qing army, they will soon be able to transmit the news back to the Chinese army.

In this way, he marched forward step by step, marching forty miles a day, and Jin Xin did not dare to be greedy at all.

Along the way, the sentinels encountered a number of Ming troops, but they were guerrillas composed of Guanning military households sent from Juehua Island, and when the Lekdehun cavalry passed by, they wiped out many guerrillas, but some of them occupied some forts and survived.

Seeing that the main force of the Ming army had finally arrived, these guerrillas left the fortress one after another, escorting the captives and bringing a large amount of captured property to join Jin Xin.

From the mouth of the Ming army in Heiwozhuang Fort, it was learned that two days ago, thousands of Qing cavalry attacked Heiwozhuang Fort and retreated northward.

When he was in Tianjin, Jin Xin fought against Luck Dehun and can be regarded as old rivals. When leaving Tianjin to march, Jin Xin was raided by the cavalry led by Luck Dehun, and was almost routed by the whole army, which made Jin Xin still remember it vividly.

Therefore, although he heard that Luck Dehun had been away for two days, Jin Xin was still extremely vigilant. Send the sentinels farther away, march more slowly, and be more heavily guarded.

A day after leaving Heizhuang Wobao, the Ming army sentry found the Qing cavalry in hiding.

Seeing that the Ming army had discovered that it had lost the possibility of a surprise attack, Luckedhun led the cavalry back to the avenue to confront the Ming army.

The Ming army of the forward battalion formed a defensive array as early as when the Qing army was discovered, and at the same time, Jin Xin ordered the left and right flanks to go to support. In the face of the Ming army, which was waiting for the battle, Luckedhun did not dare to attack. Because he knew that the infantry defending with cavalry would not gain more than he gained. As for the dismount attack, Luck Dehun was confident that he would defeat the Ming army's forward, but he also knew that when attacking the Ming army's forward, the Ming army's left and right flanks would definitely outflank him, and he would have to retreat at that time.

Therefore, having lost the possibility of a surprise attack, Lucketthun was not at all sure about defeating the Ming army.

Jin Xin led the Chinese army to arrive and immediately ordered an attack on the Qing army. The Ming army rolled forward, forcing the Qing army to retreat, and always maintained a distance of two miles from the Ming army.

For Jin Xin, this situation is also quite difficult. The Ming army did not have the speed and mobility of the Qing cavalry, and it was impossible to catch up with the Qing army. And the Qing cavalry kept a distance from the Ming army in this way, which also forced the Ming army to be on full alert, and the spirit was very nervous, for fear that the Qing cavalry would find a loophole if they were not careful.

In the afternoon, Jin Xin had to order to camp on a hill by the river to occupy high ground to prevent the Qing cavalry from attacking.

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Before dark, Luckedhun led the cavalry back more than ten miles and disengaged from the Ming army, and he was also afraid of being attacked by the Ming army at night.

The cavalry that sent out the sentry finally returned, reporting that Shanhaiguan was still in the hands of the Qing army, and Luckedhun finally let out a sigh of relief. Shanhaiguan is still there, the main force of the Ming army is still blocked outside the pass, and this Ming army is just a lone army that has crossed the side wall.

A lone army of 20,000 people went so far into Liaoxi, and Luck Dehun decided to give Ming a little color to see. So he wrote a letter to Ningyuan's Bolo, asking him to lead the army to join him and destroy this lonely Ming army!

Outside Ningyuan City, after receiving a letter from Luckdhun, Zilharang and Bolo discussed.

For Wu Ping in Ningyuan, the Qing army had no way at all. Wu Ping had Ningyuan City to rely on, and the Qing army couldn't eat it at all, so they could only surround it like this.

"What do you think, Bolo?" After reading Luckedhun's letter, Zilharan asked.

Bolo thought for a while, and said slowly: "Lord Wang, I think you should promise Luckedhun." ”

Zierharang said: "But have you thought about it, even if we annihilate that Ming army, the loss to the Ming Kingdom will be very light." And there are so many of our Eight Banner Warriors left now, and every time one is lost, the national strength of the Qing Dynasty will be weakened by one point. ”

Bo Luo said: "What you said is the prince, but since the battle of Linqing, our Qing Dynasty has been defeated all the way, and the morale is extremely low, we must fight a victory, we must frustrate the spirit of the Ming army, in order to boost morale, and the Qing Dynasty can survive from a difficult situation."

Otherwise, if we never dare to fight the Ming army, even if we all retreat to the outside of the pass, what will happen to us when the Ming army continues to attack? Or do we have to fight a decisive battle with the Ming army, otherwise where can we retreat? Continue north to the Haixi Jurchens, or retreat to the bitter cold land of the north?

So this battle had to be fought! As long as we can win this battle, the Ming army will not dare to force each other hard, and we can get a chance to breathe. ”()

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