Due to the ban policy implemented by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, as soon as Fang Yuan left the territory of Dongningwei, there was already a barren and barren land in front of him.

When they arrived at the wicker side and closed the door, it was already four days later, and the few sergeants in the wicker side gate and side platform saw Fang Yuan's arrival and immediately fled.

The so-called wicker edge is the Manchu Qing Dynasty planted willow trees, and then used wattle strips as a fence side wall. In front of the wicker side wall, a deep trench was dug as a barrier to enter Liaodong. The entire Manchu Qing Dynasty built 2,600 miles of wicker edges, and built a total of 20 side gates and 168 side platforms.

The side platform is a small military fort, Fang Yuan ordered the Xuanjia army to rest in the side platform, and sent two teams of spies to explore the Dandong Kou, as well as the enemy situation from the direction of Dongningwei.

In less than a day, two teams of spies came to report one after another, and countless Manchu soldiers had been stationed at Dandongkou, strictly guarding against death, playing the banner of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty and the Eight Banners of Mongolia; In the direction of Dongningwei, Huang Taiji's army had accelerated its march and crossed Dongningwei, and it was only one day away from the wicker side gate.

Huang Taiji suddenly quickened the pace of his march, apparently because he learned that Dolgon had let Fang Yuan go. Because Fang Yuan's movement in Liaodong this time was too big, and he even captured the old capital Hetuala, if he just watched Fang Yuan escape safely, Huang Taiji's prestige would be ruined. Even if he can sit firmly on the throne of the emperor, it is completely useless for his son to take the throne.

Therefore, Huang Taiji finally had an iron heart to start chasing Fang Yuan with all his might, and he must annihilate Fang Yuan in Liaodong.

Fang Yuan and Chigutai stood on the side door, staring at the boundless Liaodong Plain in the distance.

Chigutai asked, "Fang Junmen, there are chasing soldiers behind this time, and there is an interception in front, how should I deal with it?" ”

Fang Yuan said lightly, "Chigutai, one in front of Dandongkou, 20,000 soldiers of the Han Eight Banners and the Eight Banners of Meng, I will give you five thousand Xuanjia Iron Cavalry, are you sure to conquer it?" ”

Chigutai said confidently, "Full of certainty! ”

Fang Yuan was obviously not as confident as him, and said slowly, "Huang Taiji's army will arrive tomorrow at the latest, and the defense of this side gate and side platform is very weak, and under the onslaught of the Manchu elite, it can hold on for a day at most." In other words, there are only two days left for you to conquer Dandongkou, is it enough? ”

When Chigutai heard that the time was so hurried, he was embarrassed and said, "Fang Junmen, that is, slaughtering one or 20,000 dogs, and two days are also in a hurry, let alone one or 20,000 troops." ”

Fang Yuan stared sideways at him and said, "Chigutai, this is not a discussion with you, but a military order. In two days, no matter what the cost, Dandongkou must be taken, otherwise our army will be attacked from both sides and the whole army will be annihilated. ”

Chigutai's heart suddenly burst into his heart, and he looked at Fang Yuan and asked, "Fang Junmen, what about you?" ”

Fang Yuan said in a deep voice, "I will lead two thousand soldiers to stick to the wicker side gate and side platform, and fight with Huang Taiji." ”

Fang Yuan stayed at the wicker side gate to resist the onslaught of the Emperor Taiji's elite Manchu Eight Banners, and the burden on his shoulders was much heavier than the Han Eight Banners and Meng Eight Banners faced by Zhi Chi Gutai.

Chigutai still has something to blame, patted his chest and said, "Fang Junmen, take Dandongkou in two days, and hand it over to me!" ”

The military situation was urgent, and Chigutai immediately took five thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry south to attack Dandongkou, while Fang Cheng stayed at the wicker side gate and began to arrange fortifications.

Because the wicker edge is different from the Great Wall, it is not a city wall in the strict sense, but a simple fence built of wattles, and once the war is together, it is impossible to block the penetration of the Manchu iron cavalry. If the Manchu iron cavalry broke through the wicker edge and copied the rear, it would be a dead end.

Fang Yuan immediately bought as many as ten tons of industrial alcohol and calcium carbide on Taobao, and dispatched two teams of five hundred sergeants to take the industrial alcohol to attack fifty miles in the east and west, throwing dead trees on the wicker side along the way. Then go back the same way, set fire to the wicker side wall for a hundred miles, and use the wall of fire to block the infiltration of the Manchu iron cavalry.

Fang Yuan also ordered 500 sergeants to directly demolish the wooden bridge at the side gate, and poured enough industrial alcohol and calcium carbide into the trench in front of the side gate. If the Manchu soldiers wanted to attack the border gate, they must first enter the trench and immediately set it on fire.

A whole day has passed since these pre-war preparations were made.

Fang Yuan raised his eyes and looked at it, and the left and right lines were already full of flames for fifty miles, like a huge fire dragon, and he couldn't see the end at a glance.

As the sun approached dusk, a faint shadow of cavalry appeared in the distance in the north, raising the red, yellow, blue, and white military flags in the sky, covering the sky and the sun, and it was the military flag of the Eight Banners of the Manchu Dynasty.

Huang Taiji has arrived!

The sound of horses' hooves was like the note of death urging Fang Yuan to approach Fang Yuan, who was guarding the side gate.

Fang Yuan drew his saber and shouted, "Brothers of the Xuanjia Army, fight with the Tartars!" ”

"Fight!"

The two thousand Xuanjia sergeants let out a deafening shout in unison.

At the beginning of night, the moonlit treetops, the torches under the side gate, the 30,000 cavalry of the Manchu Eight Banners have been assembled, forming an invisible pressure on the side gate, and some of the baggage soldiers began to camp.

Under the moonlight, several Manchu cavalry came to the side gate and began to shout for surrender.

Fang Yuan's purpose was to stall for time and not to answer. The Manchu sergeant shouted for half an hour, and finally retreated.

Soon after the surrendered sergeants retreated, the war drums in the Manchu army rang out, and the dotted torches began to move forward.

The battle for the side gate has begun!

A thousand Tartar archers advanced in a formation of a thousand elite infantry.

As soon as he had marched two hundred steps, Fang Yuan immediately ordered the most elite Xuanjia Divine Weapon to fight back.

Due to the limited number of bullets, only 6,000 rounds, since stepping into Liaodong, Fang Yuan has only used the Xuanjia Divine Gun in the battlefield where the Manda Haizheng Red Flag and Duoduo are inlaid with white flags, and there are 5,000 bullets left.

The effective firing range of the Xuanjia Divine Gun was two hundred paces, while the effective firing range of the Manchu archers was one hundred to one hundred and fifty paces.

Fang Yuan handed over a total of eight hundred Xuanjia Divine Hands to Chigutai, and there were 4,000 rounds of ammunition, and there were only two hundred Divine Armor Hands and 1,000 rounds of ammunition with him.

"Bang bang bang!"

A dense burst of gunfire rang out, and the elite Tartar infantry, who had rushed to two hundred paces, was knocked over fifty or sixty in an instant.

The power of the firecracker can reach 200 steps, which is far beyond the Manchu Qing's understanding of the Ming army's firecracker.

However, the Manchu Eight Banners were still one of the strongest in the world, with strict military discipline, 1,000 elite infantry, and 1,000 archers after the initial panic, and began to advance steadily against the fire of firearms.

One hundred and fifty steps

One hundred and twenty steps

After losing two hundred infantry and archers, the range of Manchu archers was finally reached.

Fang Yuan immediately ordered the Xuanjia sergeant to replace the Xuanjia Divine Gun and use the most ordinary, home-produced Thunderbolt Divine Gun to meet the enemy.

Due to the high cost of buying explosion-proof equipment on Taobao, 300 taels of silver per set, the equipment of the entire Xuanjia Army was only 5,000 sets, and Fang Yuan handed over 4,000 sets to Chigutai, who shouldered the heavy responsibility of attacking Dandongkou.

The sergeants defending the side gate had less than 1,000 sets of explosion-proof equipment, and at least half of the sergeants could only use ordinary armor.

"Whoosh!"

"Bang Bang!"

The two sides began to attack each other with long-range weapons, and casualties continued to rise. However, the Manchu infantry and archers were far greater than those of the Xuanjia Army because they did not have geographical advantages and inferior equipment, and the ratio was about 3:1.

After two quarters of an hour of mutual fire, the Manchu siege infantry had reached the side gate and were preparing to cross the trench and attack the side gate directly.

Fang Yuan ordered rockets to be fired into the trench, and the industrial alcohol in the trench burst into flames, engulfing the siege infantry who entered the trench in an instant.

The screams came and went, and they were even more heart-wrenching in the silence of the night.

The remaining siege infantry who did not enter the trench were killed and wounded by the muskets on the side gates, and they could only retreat one after another.

"Ding, ding, ding!"

The sound of the Manchu army camp sounding the sound of the withdrawal of troops, announcing the failure of the first offensive.

Seeing that the Manchu offensive had slowed down slightly, Fang Yuan immediately ordered the sergeants participating in the battle to change their clothes and take turns to rest. The rotation had just taken place, and the war drums of the offensive sounded again in the Manchu barracks.

The Manchu side immediately launched a second wave of attacks, Fang Yuan was slightly startled, it seemed that Huang Taiji was going to capture the side gate at all costs.

In the next ten hours, from late night to dawn, and then to the afternoon, Fang Yuan and Huang Taiji fought seven or eight tragic offensive and defensive battles around the side gate.

Huang Taiji first fought three attacks, lost the price of three Niu Lu, filled the trench under the side gate with sand, gravel and soil, and began to attack the side gate with his flesh and blood, but was sniped under the side gate by the fierce fire of the Xuanjia army.

Huang Taiji then used a simple battering ram built overnight and began to attack the door with a battering ram.

The side gates didn't have much defense, and they couldn't resist the power of the battering rams. While ordering the sergeants to repair the city gates, Fang Yuan poured industrial alcohol down, and then attacked them with fire, burning at least three battering rams, barely blocking the attack.

Huang Taiji saw that he still couldn't attack, so he asked the army to set fire to the cowhides, all of which were soaked with water, and attacked the city again.

Fang Yuan saw that the industrial alcohol could not burn the soaked cowhide, so he immediately changed the industrial alcohol to calcium carbide that burns when it meets water, and this time burned three or four battering rams, barely resisting this offensive.

But the wooden door of the side door has long been destroyed and crumbling.

The war had lasted for a whole day, and Huang Taiji tried his best, but he still didn't take the side gate, he was so angry that he immediately decided to suspend his troops for three hours, and then made a three-pronged move, ready to give Fang Yuan a fatal blow.

On the one hand, he ordered the sergeant to begin to clear the wicker side wall that had been blocked by the fire, as long as the wicker side wall could be broken, the side gate that Fang Yuan was guarding would be useless; On the one hand, he ordered three more battering rams to attack the side gate again; On the one hand, the artillery units that were urging the army to come with them, but were a day behind, accelerated to the battlefield and prepared to participate in the battle.

The Xuanjia army above the side gate was slightly tired after a day of fierce fighting.

Fang Yuan stared at the Manchu military camp that suddenly ceased in the distance, but he didn't have the slightest luck, Huang Taiji suddenly ceased to fight, not to give up the attack, but to prepare for a more fierce offensive.

According to Fang Yuan's estimate, the defense of the Xuanjia Army has reached the limit, and it will not be able to stop the next wave of Huang Taiji's offensive no matter what, so it must be prepared to retreat first.

He counted the number of men, and had lost four or five hundred sergeants, leaving only fifteen hundred.

Fang Yuan sent 1,000 sergeants to evacuate with their war horses first, and went straight to the Dandongkou to join Chigutai, leaving only 500 sergeants to guard the side gate.

Before evacuating, all the industrial alcohol was poured into the trench in front of the side gate, and the weeds that had been piled up in the corridor inside the side gate.

"Knock knock!"

Three hours later, Huang Taiji's most fierce attack finally began!

"Boom, boom!"

A deafening sound of artillery rang out in the distance, and rows of buckshot slammed directly into the walls of the side walls, sending rubble flying.

The Manchu artillery had entered the battlefield, and Fang Yuan knew that the general situation had gone, and it would be futile to hold on, so he only ordered the Manchu Tartars to return fire one last time, and immediately retreated.

The Manchu sergeants who rushed into the wicker side wall from both sides also began to clear the obstacle at full speed, holding spears to remove the burned thatch and stumps little by little, and seeing that it only took one or two more hours to break through the burned wicker side wall and outflank Fang Yuan's back road.

Fang Yuan could no longer send a sergeant to stop the infiltration of the Manchu Tartars from the wicker side wall, so he could only watch as the Tartars cleared the obstacles one by one and advanced forward.

In less than three hours, the Tartar soldiers had dredged most of the side walls, and at most there was one hour to break through the side walls and outflank Fang Yuan's back road.

The artillery fire rang out for half an hour, and finally stopped, and the besieging troops began to move again to deliver the final blow.

Fang Yuan ordered the Xuanjia sergeants who held on to retreat one by one, leaving only thirty people on the side gate, and when he saw the besieging troops entering the trench again, he immediately ordered a rocket attack, and the last time he ignited the alcohol in the trench, burning the siege Tartar soldiers to retreat step by step, and lost another thirty or forty people.

"That's it! Brothers, we retreat! ”

"Yes!"

Fang Yuan took the lead and stayed until the last moment, and the sergeants were convinced by him, and immediately responded loudly, went down the side gate city wall, lit the weeds in the side gate, and the flames burned the entire side gate.

After doing this, Fang Yuan led the remaining thirty or so horsemen to gallop away in the direction of Dandongkou.

In this battle, the Xuanjia army lost more than 500 people, while the Manchu Tartar soldiers who attacked the city lost at least 2,000 people. Without artillery support, it was a great victory.