The torrential rain washed the earth, converging into a river on the ground and flowing into the ocean.

In the camp of the Ming army, groups of soldiers stood solemnly in the rain, and the rain fell from the sky, hitting the soldiers' hats and flowing on the ground along the clothes.

Chen Yue was also dressed in a hat, standing on the command platform, looking at the Shanhaiguan in the rain.

In the sound of wind and rain, there was a faint sound of fighting.

"Report, Staff Officer Zhang led his troops to successfully kill the southern city wall and is attacking the southern wing city!"

"Report, our army successfully occupied the southern wing of the city, and Staff Officer Zhang led his troops to attack Shanhaiguan along the city wall, and was fighting fiercely with the Qing army!"

The news came one after another, Zhang Huangyan led the troops to successfully attack, and Chen Yue bowed slightly. It is worthy of Zhang Cangshui, who is the two pillars of the southeast in another time and space and Zheng Chenggong, who is extremely excellent in terms of strategy and ability to lead troops in the late Ming Dynasty. In Chen Yue's view, Zhang Huangyan's ability is still above Zheng Chenggong, which can be seen from the performance of Zhang Huangyan and Zheng Chenggong when they joined forces to attack Nanjing in another time and space.

"Lord Wang, isn't it time to attack?" Seeing that Chen Yue had been thinking, Li Yanzhi on the side reminded. Zhang Huangyan led his troops to attack the city wall, and this side should attack and support.

Chen Yue said: "Wait a little longer." ”

Although Zhang Huangyan successfully attacked the city wall, it would be difficult for him to take down the Shanhai Pass from the city unless the Qing army collapsed and gave up resistance. The walls are too narrow for the troops to be arranged, and no amount of troops will make much difference. The Qing soldiers only needed to send hundreds of soldiers to block the city wall, and they could easily block the Ming army's attack, unless they killed all the Qing troops in their way.

So now the Qing army is far from exhausted, and there are enough troops to block their siege. And this kind of siege on rainy days can only be attacked by cloud ladders, and the attack from the bottom up will inevitably lead to heavy casualties. So Chen Yue was waiting, waiting for Chen Yan, who was attacking from the north side, to lead his troops to attack.

A stone in the north of Shanhaiguan, five miles away from Shanhaiguan City, is in the gap of the side wall on the mountain, Jin Xin climbed over the side wall from here a few days ago to reach the outside of the pass.

Jin Xin led the 1,500 guard battalion to arrive here, and instead of choosing to cross the border wall to reach the gate, he chose to attack from the side wall.

The narrow side wall could not be deployed at all, and it was very difficult to attack from the wall, and it was simply not feasible under normal circumstances. In the northern wing of the city, the Qing army built several walls and completely cut off the side walls. In this case, as long as there are more than a dozen Qing soldiers to defend it, it is difficult to capture the northern wing of the city.

However, it was a heavy rainy day, and the Qing army never expected that the Ming army would attack in this weather, let alone that the Ming army would climb the side wall from the gap and attack from the wall.

The Qing troops stationed in the northern wing of the city also hid in the city tower to avoid the rain, and did not notice that a group of Ming troops had climbed up. When he climbed over the last wall, he was discovered by a Qing army who came out to pee.

"Chirp" a short arrow stuck in his chest, and the sound of the corpse falling woke up the Qing troops in the city tower, and they came out with weapons one after another, and at this time, more than a dozen Ming troops had already climbed over the last wall, and they were close to the north wing of the city.

The "chirp" arrows pierced through the rain curtain and shot at the Qing army that was hastily attacking. On rainy days, the bowstring was not as powerful as before but could barely be used, and more importantly, the Qing army did not expect the Ming army to attack suddenly, and most of them did not wear armor. In heavy rain, it was very wet, and the heavy armor was very uncomfortable to wear, and it was impossible to wear it all day.

More than a dozen Ming soldiers with crossbows blocked the exit of the tower, and more Ming soldiers jumped over the low wall, and then killed the tower.

One side had already prepared armor and weapons, and the other side did not have time to put on armor and hurriedly pick up weapons to fight, and the result of the battle could be imagined. Although the Qing soldiers guarding the mountain customs are all veterans of the Eight Banners and have rich combat experience, many of them have fought all their lives. But when people are old, their strength is insufficient, and they naturally can't be compared with the Ming army that is like a dragon and a tiger, Chen Yue sent out to attack the personal guard battalion around him, and the veterans of the Pingnan Army are the backbone, carefully selected from hundreds of thousands of troops, even compared with the most elite Eight Banners, they are not inferior, and they are not comparable to these veteran remnants.

It didn't take much effort to capture Beiluo City, and Chen Yan immediately led his troops to attack Shanhaiguan along the city wall.

Over the years, Chen Yan has been responsible for commanding Chen Yue's personal soldiers, and is Chen Yue's most trusted person. His ability to lead troops in battle cannot be compared with Wu Ping, Li Yi and others, but in terms of personal force, it can be said to be second to none among the generals, and he is a figure like Xu Chu, and he can only be used as a guard. But now that Shanhaiguan is being stormed, Chen Yan's force has finally come in handy. Wearing thick plate armor, his whole body was wrapped in steel, and the weapon in his hand was a mace, and his tall body was like a fierce god, and at least five or six Qing soldiers fell under the mace in the battle just now.

Behind Chen Yan, there were also tall ironclad soldiers wearing plate armor, with swords, shields, guns and spears, because of the rainy weather, there were no firecrackers, all holding cold weapons such as knives and guns, and followed behind Chen Yan like a whirlwind towards Shanhaiguan.

Because he went around a stone and climbed the side wall, Chen Yan walked farther than Zhang Huangyan who took the sea route by boat. However, in order to succeed in both ways, he had experienced a careful calculation of time before setting off, although Zhang Huangyan attacked the city wall a moment earlier than Chen Yan, and the time was about the same, and the battle in the south did not reach the northern wing city at all. When Chen Yan led his troops from the North Wing City to Shanhaiguan, he met the Qing soldiers who came to report the news on the way, and looked at the large number of Ming troops swarming on the city wall, the Qing soldiers turned around and ran away in fright.

"Didn't you send a letter to the North Wing City to let them attack the Ming army, why did they come back so quickly?" Watching the return of his subordinates, the Qing army leader said unhappily.

The Qing soldiers who reported the news ran out of breath, bent over and gasped violently, and pointed with their right hand into the distance, Zuo Ling looked along his hand, and saw that at the corner of the city wall, a large number of Ming troops suddenly appeared, and they were swarming along the city wall.

"Prince Li, the northern wing city has fallen, and the Ming army has killed it from the north!" A Qing soldier rushed into the enemy building at the main gate of Shanhaiguan and knelt on one knee to report.

Dai Shan's face was pale, listening to one bad news after another. Although the Ming army braved the rain to attack the city, Dai Shan never expected that the Ming army did not choose to storm Shanhaiguan from the front, but climbed the city wall from the north and south sides and attacked along the city wall.

"Lord Wang, I'm going to kill the Bright Army!" Dutong Weng Adai stood up and asked for an order.

"Panic!" Dai Shan reprimanded angrily, and the old Long Zhong's face shot a glittering light, "The Ming army is attacking along the city wall, and it only takes a few hundred soldiers to block them, what we have to do now is to guard against the Ming army attacking the city in front!" ”

In Dai Shan's view, what was attacked from the city wall was only the partial division of the Ming army, in order to involve the energy of the Qing army, and the real killing move was the front.

Because of the terrain on the city wall, no matter how many troops can't be deployed, it is impossible to conquer Shanhaiguan along the city wall, and Dai Shan's idea is normal.

But what Dai Shan didn't expect was that the two Ming armies attacked from the wall were the most elite troops of the hundreds of thousands of Northern Expeditionary Army, and their combat effectiveness was extremely strong.

The soldiers of the guard battalion cooperate with each other tacitly, and they are completely trained according to the mandarin duck formation, and there are ironclad soldiers in the middle, all of whom are strong and strong men, holding heavy weapons such as axes, hammers and iron rods in their hands, and their combat effectiveness is really amazing.

As mentioned earlier, Dai Shan's subordinates are all veterans of the Eight Banners, this old refers to the old age, all the soldiers are over forty years old, most of them are fifty or sixty years old, these people were all warriors in the Eight Banners when they were young, and now they have long passed the age of blood and bravery. Dai Shan took these old soldiers to guard Shanhaiguan, just to sacrifice these old soldiers in exchange for hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians of the Manchu Qing Dynasty to retreat safely.

Such an old soldier could not resist the strong soldiers of the Guards Battalion. Not long after, the veterans of the Qing army who were responsible for blocking the Ming army suffered heavy casualties and were killed by the Ming army.

If this continues, there is no need for the Ming army to attack from the front, just the Ming army killed from the north and south flanks of the city wall can attack the city.

Daishan had to send more troops to block the Ming army's attack. However, there were only more than 4,000 Qing soldiers in Shanhaiguan, and the hundreds of people guarding the north and south wings of the city were annihilated by the Ming army.

Although the Ming troops on both sides of the Guancheng had not yet launched an attack, Dai Shan knew that the time before the fall of Guancheng was running out......

At this time, outside Shanhaiguan, 10,000 Ming troops under the leadership of Yang Xiaolei braved the rain to force Dongluocheng outside Shanhaiguan. After receiving the military order sent by Chen Yue to the clipper, Yang Xiaolei immediately deployed an attack. Attacking and taking Shanhaiguan from all sides, this is the military order that Chen Yue passed to Yang Xiaolei, and he is responsible for attacking Dongluo City.

The heavy rain was still falling, and the marching Ming army was extremely silent. More than a dozen people and a ladder attacked Dongluo City, dozens of ladders were erected at the head of the city, and the soldiers of the Ming army climbed in the rain.

The arrows and bricks at the head of the city were constantly thrown, and from time to time there were Ming soldiers who were smashed down the ladder. The soldiers behind continued to climb up and continue to attack.

After more than half a year of training, the Northern Expeditionary Army already has the appearance of a strong army.

After Yang Xiaolei stood in formation, he commanded the siege, and a team of soldiers was sent out to take over the siege team that had to withdraw with heavy casualties.

Finally, some soldiers rushed to the city, fought with the Qing army, and then were killed in the city by a large number of Qing soldiers. Although it did not gain a foothold in the city, it also made more Ming troops see the hope of attacking the city, and the offensive became more violent.

In Shanhaiguan, listening to the faint battle on the city wall of Shanhaiguan, when he learned that Yang Xiaolei had also led troops to attack the city from the other side, Chen Yue knew that the time for a strong attack had come.

The military order was handed down, and groups of soldiers rushed out of the camp and attacked the Shanhaiguan.

Countless ladders were erected, and countless soldiers climbed, launching a general attack on Cilo City.

There is Luocheng in the east and west of Shanhaiguan, and only by breaking through the east and west Luocheng can Shanhaiguan be directly threatened. Shanhaiguan, Dongxiluo City, North and South Wing City, the five castles are connected to each other to form a complete defense system, which makes the Shanhaiguan defense line impregnable, and the Qing soldiers can not cross the Shanhaiguan for five times to enter the customs and have to detour through Mongolia and take the mountain road from Jizhou to break through.

In the past, there were more than 100,000 troops in Guanning, and there were tens of thousands of soldiers guarding Shanhaiguan alone, and now, there are only more than 4,000 Qing soldiers in the entire Shanhaiguan, and there are less than 1,000 people in each castle.

Moreover, Li Yanzhi and Chen Yan led elite soldiers to launch a strong attack from the two wings of the city wall, the offensive of the Ming army was unstoppable, in order to block the two Ming troops, Dai Shan had to draw a large number of troops, and the number of Qing soldiers defending the city of East and West Luo was very limited.

The heavy rain was not conducive to the battle, but the Ming army chose this time to launch a strong attack. Under the attack regardless of casualties, the city of Dongxi Luo was climbed and captured by the Ming army successively, and the last Qing soldiers retreated to Shanhaiguan City.

There is a city wall connecting the east and west Luo Castle and Shanhaiguan, and you can choose to attack Shanhaiguan from the city wall, or you can enter Luocheng and directly attack Shanhaiguan. There are four two-storey arrow towers built on the Shanhai Pass facing Luocheng, and whether they attack from the city wall or from the inside of Luocheng, they will be attacked by the condescending fierce attack from the arrow towers.

The two arrow towers are facing the city road leading to Shanhaiguan, and when the Ming army attacks along the city wall from Luocheng, the artillery in the arrow tower roars violently. The turret was enough to keep out the rain, and although the air was somewhat humid, the artillery was barely usable. At the same time, the Qing archers in the arrow tower launched fierce shots at the Ming troops on the city road.

For a time, the Ming army on the city wall was shot all over the field, and there were many dead and wounded.

"Shieldman!" The battalion in charge of the command was shouting, and a hundred and ten shield-bearers were moved to the front and launched a fierce attack with their shields raised.

Shields are enough to shield arrows, but not artillery. But it took time to reload the artillery, and this time was enough for the Ming army to run through this open space and kill the entrance of the arrow tower. At this time, the Qing soldiers also had to choose to go out of the arrow tower and fight with the Ming army on the city road.

Although hot weapons were widely used in this era, their power was far from being comparable with the firearms of later generations, and in many cases, the outcome of the war depended on hand-to-hand combat to distinguish the winner from the defeat.

In previous wars, the Ming army's hand-to-hand combat ability was far inferior to that of the Qing army, so the Ming army was the losing side in many battles.

Chen Yue from the beginning of the army, he attaches great importance to the soldiers' personal combat skills, in the past when the Xishan Army, they pay attention to the assessment of personal combat skills in the training of soldiers, and the soldiers who pass the assessment are treated higher than others, which has formed a tradition in Chen Yue's army. No matter how many firearms and artillery were equipped later, the assessment of individual combat skills in the army never stopped. Therefore, even if Chen Yue's army is not as good as the Eight Banners in hand-to-hand combat, it is still limited. And the successive victories made their morale high, and they were not afraid of fighting with the Eight Banners.

On the city walls everywhere, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties fought fiercely, one side was an elite division with high morale for consecutive victories, and the other side was desperate and desperate.

But the number and morale ultimately determined the outcome of the war, under the strong attack of the Ming army ten times the total strength of the Ming army on all sides, no matter how much life and death the veterans of the Qing army's Eight Banners were experienced, they could not withstand the attack of the Ming army.

Groups of soldiers around him were sent to block the Ming army, and later the soldiers around Dai Shan had been dispatched, but the sound of fighting was getting closer and closer, and it was close to the main city tower where Dai Shan was.

With the help of the last Goshha, Dai Shan put on two layers of armor, walked out of the city tower with a steel knife in his hand, and killed the rushing Ming army......

On that day, after several hours of fierce fighting, the Ming army conquered the entire Shanhaiguan. Nearly 5,000 soldiers under the Qing army, Prince Dai Shan, were all killed, and the gate to the Liaoxi Corridor was completely open to the Ming army!