used to be the first level in the world, but now it looks tattered and uneven.

Constrained by the lack of enough manpower, the generals guarding the city are not very concerned about the relationship, although Shanhaiguan has been repaired in the hands of the Qing Dynasty for more than half a year, but there is no cement and other repair artifacts, generally speaking, its overhaul and repair action is very few, only on some details to do some work.

Of course, the Qing generals guarding Shanhaiguan are not unaware of the importance of city defense, they are in the front line of the defense line with Hongmen Ningjin, and naturally there is a great possibility of war, but it is difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, the Qing Dynasty went south to the border of the Ming Dynasty, and most of the materials were hoarded in the capital, and there were no resources and no manpower in Shanhaiguan, so they could maintain their current appearance, and thanks to the garrison generals who launched the Guanzhong soldiers to repair by themselves, there was such a scene.

The Hongtang army did not choose to kill at night, this is what the Hongtang army is good at, in fact, it is extremely demanding for an army, and the risk is not small: the landing of ships and the march at night are actually a matter that requires careful and careful work.

Of course, it is also indispensable to transport Hongtang's killer weapon - artillery has a pivotal position in the siege, and the time required to transport it during the day is much faster than at night.

Now that the battle in the capital is fierce, there must be no help to support Shanhaiguan, and the problems such as lax defense of Shanhaiguan and insufficient soldiers have also made Hongtang's army almost say that they have eaten the other side.

All kinds of tricks and tricks are always the icing on the cake on the battlefield, and if you really want to make a decisive battle on the frontal battlefield, what you need is an upright plan and strength.

"Enemy attack!! Enemy Attack!! ”

Although the defenders on Shanhaiguan were slack, with the size of Hongmen's 20,000 troops, three or five miles away, they had already been discovered by the Qing soldiers in the city.

When the terrible and anxious warning sounded on the city wall, and the Qing generals began to lead the soldiers to arrange their troops and consolidate the defense line, the Hongtang army in the southeast outside the city was covered in this way.

By the time Hongtang's army stopped three miles away and began to reorganize the military formation, the Qing soldiers on the Shanhaiguan had not even had time to establish a defensive front, and from time to time there were soldiers or small leaders scurrying around the city wall, looking for their own troops.

Since then, it has been seen that the quality of the soldiers of the Qing Army in Shanhaiguan is worrying, but for Hong Tang Shang Kexi and others, who are silently observing all this with binoculars, it is a good news.

"The order goes down, the artillery will start to build the battery on the spot, and the forward infantry will build siege equipment, and prepare to attack the city early tomorrow morning!"

Today's daylight is halfway over, and unless the Hongtang army relies on the rudimentary siege equipment they carry with them and uses the flesh as a test, it is difficult to pose too much threat to the Qing soldiers who are surrounded by high walls with their current preparations.

Anyway, this is also the first level in the world, even if it is now a phoenix in distress, but its original city defense is not just the simple siege equipment of Hongtang soldiers can open the gate.

And the last time the Hongtang army relied on Neiying to capture the city gate, so that the Shanhaiguan from the inside of the flaw, now the Qing army generals have learned a lesson, but the most trusted army is placed on these city gates, so that the Hongtang army will no longer have the opportunity to buy people to open the city gate.

However, Shang Kexi and they also have strong confidence, even if according to actual combat, 20,000 troops attacking a fortified city guarded by more than 10,000 soldiers, the strength seems to be weaker, but it may not let Hongtang's army have much impact on the capture of the city.

The siege of the city on the second day was held as scheduled, and dozens of artillery pieces set up by the Hongtang army overnight launched a roar at the first time, and then the smell of gunpowder stained the south gate of the entire Shanhaiguan and the surrounding city walls.

The whole bombardment lasted for two hours, until the guns brought by Hong Tang overheated and could not be used for the time being, until the smoke above the southern city cleared, revealing its true face, but it was more than just a mess.

The technology possessed by Hongtang artillery is not comparable to the half-baked gunners of the Qing Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and every qualified gunner can only serve after graduating from the six-year school of Bengang School, and the need to learn includes geometric knowledge, physics and so on.

Although Hongtang's artillery did not dare to say where to hit, it was always possible to ensure that seven or eight of the ten shells hit near the South City Gate, so that the probability of the South City Gate being hit could be imagined in the more than two hours of shelling.

After the smoke cleared, the wide door panel of the south gate was already as dilapidated and crumbling as the sieve. If it weren't for the soldiers of the Qing army stationed at the city gate risking being hit by shells, they put sandbags and supporting wood behind the city gate to stabilize the city gate, it is impossible to say that the south gate would have been opened at this time.

This is an important reason why with the advent of the era of hot weapons, the city gradually gave up the siege and other fortifications, because after the artillery is sharper in the future, and then the strong city defense, in the face of accurate artillery fire, that is, like mud, can not withstand much destruction.

And today's Hongtang army has first operated the tactics of field artillery, and it is like a heavenly thing to deal with this first pass in the world, which makes the city defense of Shanhaiguan already fragile.

"Battering ram!!"

"Vanguard team to keep up!!"

The artillery fire stopped, and the vanguard army and all kinds of siege equipment teams in the Hongtang army, which had long been ready to go, rushed out of the battle line of the Hongtang army without looking back under the order of the herald.

More tragic hand-to-hand combat began, and the landing position of the Hongtang army was chosen to take care of Xiao Xiurong on the Ningjin front line who arrived later, and then the Qing army only needed to garrison the troops on both sides of the city wall and the east wall, and the other two sides did not have to care too much because of the geographical relationship.

The Hongtang soldiers of the first army were not afraid of death, and at the beginning they were like ants climbing, using ladders, hooks and other equipment to climb up sensitively, but they quickly climbed the city, crossed the female wall and stood at the head of the city at Shanhaiguan.

The huge siege machine that followed, but also experienced some trouble and resistance, came to the city gate, and dozens of people presided over the heavy battering ram to hit the crumbling gate again and again.

(End of chapter)