Zhangjiakou Fort.

"Quick, these Tartars are crazy!"

The garrison Luo rang watched the Mongol soldiers attacking frantically outside, constantly urging his men.

The Mongol attack was very sudden.

In fact, for more than a year, they and the Mongolian tribes outside the Guanxi basically did not have a conflict, the mutual market between the two sides is still ongoing, although the export of grain and iron tools is strictly prohibited, but the trade of tea, salt and the like has never been interrupted, the prosperity of Zhangjiakou Fort is still the same, and several Mongolian tribes in the north are only theoretically attached to the Tatar Qing, because the strength is weak and does not have the ability to attack the Great Wall.

And there's no need for that.

But today's raids of tens of thousands are completely incredible.

"Ma, this is not a tartar outside the mouth!"

One of the officers shouted as he opened fire.

"You go to the Xuanfu immediately to report, and by the way, urge the celestial stars!"

Luo Jean said.

The officer threw his gun to one of his subordinates, then ran down the city wall, and quickly mounted his horse and rode south, when a large number of young men with weapons came out of the shops on the side of the street, and the middle-aged man led by him greeted him with a smile, and the officer immediately gave up his hand and urged his horse to continue galloping towards the south gate.

"Want to take advantage of it?"

Luo Rang didn't care about this, and then turned back to look outside and sneered.

"We are not the officers and soldiers of the past!"

Then he said.

Although the defenders of this Zhangjiakou Fort are not all old battalions, but at least one-third, after all, this is the most important pass on the Great Wall line, and these Mongolian herdsmen who don't even have cannons want to take it just by relying on the strong attack of the ants, which is too naïve.

By this time, the young men had already reached the city wall.

"General Luo, have the Tartars retreated?"

The middle-aged man arched his hand and said.

"Shopkeeper Fan, I still have a lot for you!"

Luo Jean said with a smile.

This is the most important commercial port on the Great Wall line, although now grain and iron are strictly prohibited, but salt, tea and other trade is still booming, there are many businesses in the city, in fact, the vast majority of them are merchants, this place farming must not be able to support many people. And these merchants are armed in their hands, whether they transport goods from the customs or thousands of miles to the grassland, they are indispensable for the protection of force, in fact, the combat effectiveness of these business guys is not inferior to the regular army, that is, firearms and the like are limited, but the combat ability of cold weapons is not necessarily that soldiers can fight.

In this kind of frontier trading port, it is customary for the enemy to come to the young and strong people who come to attack the merchant to help in the war.

Kannai is actually the same.

When the Japanese invaded Yangzhou, it was the armed men of the Jin merchants who repelled them, and they were even mistaken for the arrival of the border army in the northwest.

Rojean didn't think much of it.

The middle-aged man then walked up to the wall.

Just as he stood beside Luo Rang, the young men who came with him quickly rushed up and stood beside those Shunjun soldiers with knives. Not only here, but also many other merchant groups in the city climbed the city wall and helped the soldiers of the Shun army who were defending the city to carry cannonballs and reload bullets.

Na Fan watched this scene silently.

Soon the number of young men who climbed the city wall had reached almost a quarter of the soldiers.

After all, this is just a border fortress, in fact, there are not many garrisons, there are many such castles along the Great Wall, and the real main force is in Xuanhua, Xuanda Governor Li Tianlin with 10,000 Shun troops stationed in Xuanhua, the Great Wall line including Zhangjiakou Fort, each fort is stationed another 10,000, a total of 20,000 horses are under the command of Li Tianlin to guard Xuanhua, Zhangjiakou, and Dushikou.

And there are 20,000 of Jiang Liang, the general soldier of Datong, on the Datong line, which is under the jurisdiction of Li Zicheng's Xuanda Governor.

The Governor of Xuanda and the Shanhaiguan, Ningyuan, Jizhen, and Miyun Commanders, who were directly under the Left-behind Division, together constituted Li Zicheng's northern defense line.

The former governor of Xuanda was Liu Zongmin.

And after Li Zicheng went south, Liu Zongmin took over the other four towns as the governor of Zhili and was stationed in Beijing, in fact, because of his high official position, Zhang Tianlin was also under his command here, he still had 30,000 people directly under him in Beijing, and six towns plus Beijing totaled 120,000, this is Li Zicheng left in the north after leaving, used to resist all the troops that Dolgon may go south, this strength is not weak, after all, Li Zicheng also knows that Dolgon will definitely not stay honest.

However......

He ignored others!

Li Zicheng forgot that there were countless guys in his land who hated him, but had to bury their hearts under the suppression of his army, and his big move south finally gave these guys a chance to turn over.

"This tartar looks like a full of pearls!"

Shopkeeper Fan said suddenly.

"The elder brother of the Empress Dowager Jiannu, the Manzhu Xili of the Horqin Department?"

Luo Rang was stunned and said with some surprise.

Then he raised the telescope and aimed at the umbrella cover in the distance, and the figure of a middle-aged Mongolian prince immediately appeared in his field of vision, but it was not clear enough, he hurriedly pulled out a section, but at this time, suddenly there was something strange behind him, it can be said that he reacted very quickly after a hundred battles, and suddenly took a step forward. But at the same time, a young man in front of him who was holding a knife and watching the soldiers shoot, suddenly turned around and stabbed him in the chest with a knife in his hand, Luo Rang roared and blocked with a telescope, but it was a telescope with a copper tube that did not block the steel knife at all, and was cut off in the impact in an instant, and at this time, a short sword pierced him in the back of the heart.

"You, what do you want to do?"

He turned back to Fan and roared.

"What are you doing, of course it's to welcome the prince!"

Shopkeeper Fan said with a cruel smile.

Immediately afterwards, his short sword stirred fiercely in Luo Rang's heart, and at the same time, almost all the young men swung their knives and slashed at their nearest Shun army, because of the suddenness of the incident, those Shun soldiers were suddenly cut down, especially near Luo Rang, who were not spared by the sneak attack of those carefully selected swordsmen, and in a miserable scream, the shopkeeper Fan pulled out his short sword.

"Do you know how much money you have made us less this year!"

He looked at Luo Rang's dead corpse and said.

"Open the door and welcome the prince!"

He said, wiping the blood from his dagger.

Those men immediately rushed down the city wall, and then opened the city gates, and the Mongol cavalry from outside immediately poured in, and then rushed to the city wall to engage in a bloody battle with the defenders who had hurriedly counterattacked.

"The prince is here, our good days are coming!"

Looking at the alien invaders surging under his feet, Shopkeeper Fan said with relief on his face.

A few minutes later, the surging Mongol cavalry completely overwhelmed the entire Zhangjiakou Fort, an hour later the defenders of Zhangjiakou Fort were almost all killed, and two hours later the torrent of Mongol cavalry rushed straight to Xuanhua. However, they were still a step late, because of the emergency of Zhangjiakou Fort before, Zhang Tianlin had already led 7,000 Shun troops to the north for reinforcements, and the two sides quickly collided head-on, and Zhang Tianlin immediately lined up to meet the battle. However, Manzhu Xili, who led this Mongolian cavalry, quickly withdrew to Zhangjiakou Fort after a slight engagement, and Zhang Tianlin immediately counterattacked Zhangjiakou Fort, arrived at dark and set up camp to defend it, and at the same time sent people back to Xuanhua to order Ke Tianlian, who was left behind, to transport artillery reinforcements overnight.

Xuanhua.

"What for?"

The officer at the gate asked a group of soldiers with torches below.

"It's me!"

One of them shouted.

"Lao Hu, didn't you go to Zhangjiakou?"

The officer looked at the familiar faces in the firelight, and then at the unfamiliar faces next to him, and said suspiciously.

"Open the door, the Governor will order!"

The old man held up the token and said.

The officer hurriedly beckoned the soldiers beside him to walk down the city wall, and slowly opened the city gate, and at the moment when he opened the door, the stranger beside Lao Hu who had not made a sound suddenly urged the war horse, and together with dozens of horsemen behind them, Lao Hu was squeezed directly off the drawbridge, and before the officer who opened the door could react, he surged in.

The man then raised his hand and slashed it down, and quickly rushed into the city with the dozens of horsemen.

Because Zhang Tianlin went north and took away most of the garrisons in the city, those who stayed behind never thought that they would be attacked, most of them were in the barracks at night, and those generals were in their own homes, except for those on duty, in a hurry, there were no defenders who came out to stop them, and the few Shun troops who blocked them were quickly killed by them.

"Signal!"

Originally, in history, our Qing Dynasty prince Taibao Wang Fuchen wiped the blood on the knife, looked at Xuanhua City in front of him and said.

The soldier beside him took the torch and threw it straight to the roof of a nearby house, and the hay on the roof was instantly ignited, and the flames soared into the sky and even crossed the height of the city wall, and the owner of the house screamed in horror and rushed out. At the same time, the light of countless torches flickered in the darkness outside the city, and the sound of the galloping hooves of thousands of horses came closer and closer like thunder, and soon the torrent of cavalry appeared in the dim starlight.

When Ke Tianxiang, who stayed behind in Xuanhua, rushed out of the official office with a panicked face, Jiang Liang, the general soldier of Datong, led 3,000 cavalry to rush into the Dongkai Xuanhua City, and rushed to him along an empty long street.

"Jiang Hao, King Chuang left you a dog's life, and gave Datong to the Jiang family, treat you like a mountain, do you want to betray King Chuang!"

Ke Tianxiang roared behind his subordinates.

Originally, in history, he betrayed Chongzhen, betrayed Li Zicheng and betrayed our Qing Dynasty, and it can be said that Jiang Jiu, a strange flower in the late Ming Dynasty who could betray the masters, pulled out the latest spring wheel gun that Li Zicheng rewarded him with without the slightest hesitation, and immediately pulled the trigger on Ke Tianxiang, and Ke Tianxiang, who was caught off guard by the gunshot, looked at the blood gushing out of his chest and fell.

Jiang Jiu's subordinates immediately rushed forward to the Shun army.

"King Chuang gave it to the Jiang family, but Prince Rui gave it to the whole of Shanxi! How do you say this makes me choose? ”

Jiang Hao said with a muzzle of gunsmoke.

"Of course, who gave more, let's talk to whom!"

Wang Fuchen said with a smile on his face.

"Haha!"

The two looked at each other and smiled, followed by a smug laugh at the same time.

The cavalry surging behind them quickly diverted through the most important fortress outside the Juyong Pass, and soon some civil officials and gentry could not even take care of putting on their clothes, so they rushed out with excitement and commanded their domestic slaves to kill the remnants of the Shun army, while those ordinary people could only hide behind their own doors in terror and watch the battle outside......