The Shun army arrived on the outskirts of Beijing before Wu Sangui's Guan Ning army. According to the previous experience when Yu Qian was guarding Beijing, Li Guozhen, the commander of Xiangcheng, led 50,000 soldiers of the Beijing battalion (the number of the roster) to line up outside the Changyi Gate and engage the Shun army. Originally, this was also the usual practice of the defending side, and it was a more advanced tactic. When defending the city, a force was placed outside the city gates to cover each other with the troops on the city walls. This can effectively protect the relatively weak city gates, and it is difficult for many large siege engines to get close to the city gates until the defenders outside these gates are cleared, and if these defenders are to be cleared, they must also face the fire of cannons, bed crossbows and other firepower on the city walls; Second, it also makes it easier for the defender to launch a counterattack through the city gate, and if the besieging side has to defend against the opponent's counterattack at all times, then many of his activities will be contained. However, there is a prerequisite for this tactic, that is, the army defending the city must be well-trained, and the fighting power and will to fight must be the best troops. This is like the tactics of the later generations such as air-ground integrated warfare, infantry and tan coordination, and barrage Xu Jin, which are all very good in theory, but if you only have a group of non-chiefs who can't even write their own names and can't even distinguish between left and right, you will find that when you play air-ground integrated warfare, the planes shot down by the army, and the ground troops blown up by the air force are all your own people; Playing infantry coordination, the infantry was crushed to death by their own tanks; Playing barrage Xu Jin, the cannon will kill more of his own people than others. In short, under the premise of insufficient training, playing any advanced tactics is called a big death. If we understand this, we can actually understand why when a certain world's No. 1 drug trafficking group was engaged in armed drug trafficking in China, why our Qing army couldn't play any "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" tactics such as luring the enemy and ambushing these lobster soldiers.

Li Guozhen was born in a noble family, although his ancestors were very capable of fighting, but he himself did not know much about military affairs, and was only known for his good arguments. At this time, he was ordered to lead the Beijing camp to fight, and he would only copy Yu Qian's tactics of guarding Beijing back then. But I don't want to, Yu Qian back then, although he suffered an unexpected defeat in Tumubao, but my Ming Dynasty was on the rise at that time, and the army's combat ability and fighting will were not comparable to the Ming army at this time.

Seeing the Ming army camped outside the city gate to face the battle, Li Zicheng was a little uncertain at first.

"Li Guo, you bring a team of cavalry and go over to see what's going on." Li Zicheng called his nephew.

"The child obeys." Li Guo answered, then turned around and called his adopted son Li Laiheng and a team of cavalry and said: "The emperor asked us to explore the reality of these Ming troops, you follow me, be careful of the cannons in the city." ”

Everyone clasped their fists and said, "The little ones understand." ”

Everyone led the horses, Li Guo slowly walked in the front, Li Laiheng and some other cavalry followed, approaching the Ming army in a relatively loose formation. When it was about five miles away from the city gate, the Hongyi cannon on the city of Beijing opened fire.

The Hongyi cannon on the head of the city can shoot the cannonball six or seven miles away, but at such a distance, the smoothbore cannon using solid cannonballs has no accuracy at all, and the probability of hitting a small target like the cavalry with the solid cannonballs of the Hongyi cannon at such a distance is very low. If you take into account that the soldiers of the Beijing camp are a mess in peacetime, and the level of the gunners is also very poor, then the probability of them hitting Li Guo at this distance is almost negligible. So Li Guo could still turn around and smile at his adopted son: "If you fire cannons so far away, I'm afraid that the Ming army in the capital is all stupid people who have never fought before, right?" Do you think this will be the first time they have fired a gun? ”

Li Laiheng laughed along with the other cavalry.

In fact, it was the same as Li Guo's estimate, the closest places to these shells were almost 200 steps away, and Li Guo didn't see where some of the shells flew.

In fact, the Ming army that fired artillery on the city wall did not really expect these cannons to hit the target, and they fired their artillery to a large extent to give themselves courage, and by the way, they hoped to scare those thieves away by relying on this. However, after the cannon fired, the thief did not seem to be afraid at all, and still led the horse slowly and leisurely approached this side.

The artillery fire on the city became more and more intense, but of course, they still did not achieve any results.

"Isn't that a waste of gunpowder?" Li Guo pursed his lips, "The official army, oh, it's the puppet army that is really getting less and less useful." Let's go slower, so that by the time we pass, their cannons will be red and useless. ”

However, the actual situation was even worse than Li Guo had predicted, and after they had walked for a short while, they saw a large flame suddenly rise from the distant city wall, and after a while, they heard the dull sound of an explosion.

"The stupid hat of the dog day is scared silly, it is stuffed with too much gunpowder, and it explodes!" Li Guo laughed and said, "What a bunch of idiots! ”

A cannon at the head of the city exploded, and the explosion lifted the cannon off the walls, then tumbled under the walls, and finally rolled into the moat. The soldiers next to the original gun emplacements were torn to pieces by the explosion, and their corpses were scattered everywhere.

This accident stopped all the artillery in the city, and the soldiers in the city were so frightened that no one dared to reload and fire the cannons anymore.

"Bastard! Go and shoot! Let those bastards fire their guns! On the city tower, Li Guozhen couldn't help shouting after seeing this scene, several of his subordinates were sent out to supervise, but obviously, these subordinates themselves were also full of fear of those cannons that might explode, so after they passed, their attitude was not resolute, as long as those soldiers touched the gunpowder, they would be so frightened that they ran back, and as soon as they ran, those soldiers naturally would not fire again. Then they simply went back and reported: "My lord, the chamber of the cannon is red, and the gunpowder is poured into it and it ignites by itself, and it is indeed impossible to fight." ”

At this time, Li Guo and the others had already approached more than half a mile away from the Ming army.

"Get on your horse and draw your sword!" Li Guo said, "Let's go over and scare them." ”

The soldiers jumped on the war horses one after another, and Li Guo took the lead in pulling out the saber, raised it above his head, pulled a flower in the air, and drove the war horse with a whistle, trotting forward. The other soldiers also got on their horses, drew their swords, and followed him, waving their sabers and shouting.

Most of the soldiers in the military camp outside the Changyi Gate were ordinary citizens a few days ago, and they had never touched a knife more than a cubit long. Now that he has been temporarily arrested, and he has been forced to shove a spear or a knife in his hand, he has become an official soldier. Even those so-called veterans, in fact, have not experienced any military training, although they usually have the identity of soldiers, but most of them are transferred by the magnates in Beijing to serve as servants, to say sweeping and cooking or something, some of them are really good, but when it comes to fighting, they are actually no different from recruits. Of course, there are differences, for example, many of these "veterans" were stuffed with a three-eyed gun or a bird gun, and then after a little teaching of how to use it, they were stuffed into this barracks. Now looking at those fierce and vicious thieves, riding war horses and waving steel knives rushing over, many people instinctively fired a shot.

As the first man fired a shot, almost everyone with a firearm in their hands fired a shot, even some with three-eyed guns.

Of course, such a shot could not hit any target, because the target was simply out of range. However, the smoke generated during the shooting made it difficult for everyone to see the approaching cavalry for a while. But it was precisely because they couldn't see clearly, so the soldiers were even more panicked, in order to give themselves courage, they kept shooting indiscriminately in the direction where there might be enemies, and the crackling of birds, three-eyed guns, and tiger squatting cannons kept crackling.

Not only were the soldiers in the barracks on both sides of the city gate shooting wildly, but the Ming army on the city walls was the same. The smoke obscured their vision, and they kept shooting until the bird guns or three eyes in their hands were so red that they could no longer reload the gunpowder.

At this time, Li took his horse too early, and he took his cavalry to quietly enjoy the Ming army's fireworks display outside the range of the Ming army, until the Ming army's gunfire fell silent. He smiled and said, "Brothers, let's get closer and scare them to death!" ”

At this time, the breeze was gradually blowing away the fog on the battlefield, and a sound of horses' hooves entered the ears of the Ming soldiers with the breeze. And in the smoke, I can't see how many people there are, I just feel like thousands of troops.

"They can't be killed!" Someone broke down and shouted, "Invulnerable! "Others simply threw away the guy in their hands and ran back, one took the lead, countless responses, the soldiers pushed and shoved, cried and cried and became a mess, and almost in an instant, the whole camp collapsed.

"This ...... This also ...... I just want to scare you...... Is it necessary? Next...... What's next? Facing the frantically fleeing Ming army, Li Guo was a little confused for a while.

However, his adopted son Li Laiheng reacted faster, he clamped the horse's belly between his legs, urged the war horse, and rushed directly towards the camp gate. There was no one at the camp gate at all, Li Laiheng jumped off the war horse and pulled away the rejection horse across the camp gate, but no Ming army dared to rush over and shoot a shot or arrow at him. As soon as the horse pulled away, Li Guo rushed straight in with a hundred or so cavalry.

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