Chapter Twenty-Five: True Enemy of Ten Thousand Enemies
Old dragon head.
"Protect the country and rebel, and those who surrender will not die!"
Yang Qing was dressed in triple armor and covered with an oversized foam stud cotton armor robe, roaring like a bloated brown bear and rushing straight up the road.
Opposite him was a flame-spewing bird.
But the bullets that hit him intensively were like stones sinking into the sea, and there was no gain, and in the blink of an eye, he crashed into the hands of the bird guns who blocked him with that violent painting style, and the next moment he had a half-zhang long jujube mace in his hand, thick in front and thin in the back, and the mace suddenly swept across, and the four bird guns who had no time to escape flew out of the horse road with a scream, and then fell under the city, and at the same time the sword players behind him surged forward, and the defenders who blocked them collapsed instantly.
"Quick, kill him!"
On the right side of the Nanhaikou Pass, an officer who participated in the kidnapping of Chongzhen last time screamed.
Immediately after that, a furlong machine turned around, and the muzzle of the cannon slowly moved with Yang Qing's wild run, and the next moment the officer viciously put the arquebus into the ignition hole, and suddenly blazing flames erupted from the muzzle.
Yang Qing's heart fell like a rhino.
The cannonball swept close to the top of his head, and suddenly hit the female wall next to him, and several charging soldiers fell in the splash of broken bricks, Yang Qing immediately jumped up, picked up a spear, and threw it out like a javelin thrower without the slightest hesitation, and the spear instantly flew over a distance of more than thirty meters, and accurately crashed into the officer's chest. The latter screamed and fell backwards, and at the same time a cannonball hit him, and this guy instantly turned into flesh that sprayed diagonally upwards, and the same cannonballs continued to hit the fortress one after another, and the soldiers guarding the fortress fled in a panic in the splash of broken bricks.
On the sea to the east of them, more than 30 large gunboats of the Denglai Navy Division were constantly spewing flames outward, while the small and medium-sized warships full of soldiers either docked at the dock to the west or simply rushed to the shallows, and the soldiers of the Navy Division continued to rush onto the beach and follow the forward Command Yang along the horse road.
The frenzied Yang Qing kept waving his exaggerated mace, driving the defeated defenders against sporadic artillery fire until they rushed to the bottom of Chenghai.
"Bring it!"
He yelled without looking back.
One of the soldiers immediately handed him the banner of rebellion against the country that he was carrying on his shoulders.
Yang Qing had a big flag in one hand and a mace in the other, and in the hasty worship of the soldiers who didn't have time to escape on the Chenghai Tower, he rushed straight to the city tower of the commanding heights of the old dragon's head, and then stood under the plaque inscribed by Sun Chengzong, waving it very arrogantly.
Tens of thousands of soldiers on the beach burst into tsunami-like cheers.
"It's really ten thousand enemies!"
On the flagship deck at sea, Huang Fei, who has also been on the battlefield for a long time, wiped the sweat on his head and exclaimed.
As Yang Qing waved the banner of protecting the country and rebelling in Chenghai Tower, the defeated soldiers who had just fled into Ninghai City also completely lost their fighting spirit to resist, and then gave up resistance one after another, and then surrendered to the Denglai Naval Division who attacked the city. In fact, they and the Denglai Naval Division are familiar with each other, Huang Fei's main task of this naval division is to patrol the Bohai Sea and deliver supplies to Ningyuan, and occasionally have to make a landing on the flank to respond to Ningyuan and the Shanhaiguan garrison, the old dragon head doesn't know how many times he has been here, and even some officers of the Longwu Battalion have been mixed under him before.
In short, in this way, the old dragon head officially fell into the hands of the rebel army to protect the country.
Empress Yi'an and Princess Kunxing then moved to Ninghai City and issued an ultimatum to Shanhaiguan with her queen seal, demanding that Wu Sangui be sent back to Chongzhen.
Wu Sangui, of course, refused.
The next day, the rebel army formed a formation and marched into Shanhaiguan.
But Wu Sangui did not come out.
He just sent an envoy with a holy decree to Yang Qing and others, asking the Denglai sailor to withdraw to the town, otherwise he would be punished as a rebellion, but Empress Yi'an unceremoniously ordered the envoy to be beheaded, and then ordered Wu Sangui to open the city gate as the queen, she and the Duke of Kunxing wanted to meet Chongzhen, of course, not only the two of them, the whole army of Denglai Sailor together, the answer to this request was Chongzhen's holy decree, and then this messenger was ordered to be beheaded by her.
I have to say that this woman is still very horizontal.
Anyway, he dared to wrestle with Wei Zhongxian.
Negotiations between the two sides were fruitless.
However, Yang Qing and the others did not attack the city, and it was impossible for the 20,000 sailors who could be said to be at the bottom of the combat power to attack Shanhaiguan, if it weren't for Wu Sangui not daring to make a move on Queen Yi'an and the princess, it is estimated that he would rush out with the thousands of slaves, and Huang Fei's army would have to be defeated.
Of course, Yang Qing was not ready to attack.
This is to demonstrate, to clarify the relationship between the two sides, especially to clarify who is the righteous party, so that the common people and even the soldiers on both sides know their respective images, on the one hand, they never dare to let the emperor show up, but they continue to issue holy decrees, on the other hand, the emperor's eldest sister-in-law and daughter who are like old mothers are here, and it is right for people to ask to go into the city to see the emperor. The people in the city and Wu Sangui's guards of the Guanning Army are not all stupid, there is a problem with this situation, this is not good, it is not good that most of them coerce the Son of Heaven to order the princes to do Cao Cao, originally Chongzhen entered the city and was confined alone in the general army palace called the emperor frightened and needed to recuperate, but in fact, Chongzhen often scolded the street there these days.
As for the holy decrees......
Yuxi had already asked Wu Sangui to search for it.
This can be regarded as a kind of psychological offensive, in short, Empress Yi'an, Yang Qing and others led an army of 20,000 people, and lined up outside Shanhaiguan until the evening before retreating to Ninghai City, where they drank, and the next day they were full of food and drink for daily demonstrations.
The demonstration lasted until the afternoon, when the cavalry of the 3,000 Shun army led by Li Laiheng arrived.
Wu Sangui continued to stay closed.
On the morning of the third day, the 10,000 Shun army led by Tian Jianxiu arrived, Li Laiheng withdrew from Ninghai City, which was originally temporarily borrowed, to join it, and then camped on the west bank of the Shihe River, and began to cut down nearby trees to make siege equipment such as ladders, and Yang Qing and Huang Fei lined up at Shanhaiguan, Li Laiheng led the cavalry to line up on the bank of the Shihe River, and in the afternoon, Tang Tong led 8,000 men and horses to arrive, but then went out of the nine gates to build a camp in the northeast of Shanhaiguan to threaten Weiyuan City.
Wu Sangui still closed the door.
Although Tian Jianxiu, Li Laiheng and Tang Tong are not strong enough, and there is no problem for him to at least eat Tang Tong if the whole army is dispatched, but Yang Qing and Huang Fei's 20,000 troops are arrayed every day, so he can only sit back and watch these people build camps.
It was indeed no problem for him to eat Tang Tong.
But Yang Qing and Huang Fei are afraid that they should forcibly enter the city to pick up the holy driver!
In other words, Lao Wu is also very depressed.
This strange state of the two sides lasted until Li Zicheng's army arrived, and the 100,000 army made Wu Sangui completely lose the courage to fight a decisive battle outside the city, in fact, he should have known that he would definitely not be able to hold the Shanhai Pass at this time, but whether he could hold until Dolgon's reinforcements arrived, not only him, but also the only hope for those officials in the city, saying that the image of our Daqing in their minds finally began to become a savior. At the same time, Li Zicheng and Zhu Cihong met with Empress Yi'an within sight of Shanhaiguan, and Empress Yi'an personally helped Li Zicheng to encourage her, and praised the original thief army's spirit of loyalty, so Li Zicheng took over the responsibility of rebellion, but Huang Fei and Yang Qing escorted Empress Yi'an to return to Ninghai City.
They will not participate in the siege.
This cannonball is not long-sighted, in case the cannonball hits high and falls on the Shanhaiguan General Military Mansion, unfortunately it hits Chongzhen's head, then no one can afford this charge of killing the king, even Zhang Yan can't afford it, since this is the case, let Li Zicheng be responsible, if there is really such an accident, it can only be said that it is very regrettable. Anyway, the prince's personal conquest is nothing more than the succession to the throne in the line of fire, the queen is martyred, Empress Yi'an is like the prince's own mother, there is no problem with her presiding over the prince's succession, but if that is the case, the prince will have to go to Nanjing, Li Zicheng must release people, he must dare not release people......
There are several kings in Nanjing!
Don't think that the Jiangnan gentry have no spare.
In short, the heavy task of attacking the city was entrusted to Li Zicheng, and the task of protecting the country and fighting against the rebel army was also very simple, using Ninghai City as a base, and landing north with a naval division to block Dolgon's army.
Blocked to Li Zicheng to break through Shanhaiguan.
Well, it's a tall order.
"W, how do you fight this?"
Huang Fei looked at the map with a sad face.
Not only him, but all the generals under him had solemn faces, of course, this word should be regarded as beautification, in fact, it is more accurate to say fear, all of them have fought with the Qing army many times, or it can also be said that they have been directly defeated in front of the Qing army many times. Among the armies on the battlefield outside the Guanwai, if they want to rank in terms of combat effectiveness, the naval division is undoubtedly the bottom of the goods, otherwise they would not have dared to really land and attack on the flank of the Qing army under the condition of controlling the sea with absolute sea dominance. It is really very simple for the Ming army to deal with the Qing army, that is, to train a strong enough naval division and marines, as long as the front line is fought, immediately cross the sea expedition to land in Gaizhou, and then keep fighting north.
The Qing army here attacked the fortress of the Ming army, and the Ming army directly copied the hometown of the Qing army.
As long as Liaoyang is threatened, the latter can only withdraw its troops.
Or simply learn from Mao Wenlong.
A powerful Ming army that suddenly appeared in Anton would make the Qing army be honest.
But it's a pity that the Ming Army's naval divisions basically played the role of sending people to the Qing army in several major wars, in fact, last year Huang Fei was just beaten up by Azig who went south to the outside of Shanhaiguan, and at this time, after so many years of defeat, this army from top to bottom from commanders to ordinary soldiers, all of them have a fear that can be said to be in the bones of the Qing army.
Want them to stop the 80,000 Qing army?
It can't be done!
"Is it hard to fight?"
Yang Qing held the teacup, just like Gonggong Cao in the New Dragon Gate Inn, sitting on the Taishi chair in a black cloak, and said while blowing the tea in the cup.
Behind him stood a row of brocade guards.
In other words, he is now a prisoner, basically playing the role of those great eunuchs.
"What is Brother Yang's plan?"
Huang Fei humbly asks for advice.
"Brother Huang, have you ever heard of the Sabotage War?"
Yang Qingzhizhu said as if he was holding it.