This year, Liaodong and Fengzhou are as cold as the spring cold, and it is rare for a few rains to fall, seeing that the crops in the field are growing gratifyingly, and the people of Jinguo are looking forward to a good harvest. It was the beginning of June when the news of the loss of the Xuanfu border reached Shengjing, but the Jin State could not send troops immediately - the common people were hungry and afraid, and the ordinary bannermen were also busy in the fields, and if they did not move the food that was about to arrive home, they would never go to war with peace of mind, this is the truth that everyone understands, and Tiancong Khan did not dare to violate the will of the people, and the matter of sending troops could only wait.

Taking advantage of this time, Duoduo was also ordered to sweep the Ningjin area and scavenge the crops planted by the Ming army outside the city - this is an old habit, the Ming army will definitely drive the people out of the city to farm at the beginning of spring every year, and the Jin army will definitely come to collect grain before the autumn harvest, and then the Ming army will continue to reach out to the imperial court to ask for money to buy grain, since Sun Chengzong has had this rule, no one has violated it.

It wasn't until the middle of July that the Jin Kingdom began to send troops to the west, but it could only send 10,000 elite horses first, and the troops had to wait for the autumn harvest to be busy.

The Jin army wanted to seize time, marched to Duolun Lake for a short rest, and continued to march westward, aiming directly at Dushikou, and ignoring the harassment of the Fengzhou army along the way. The two patrols of Dehun An and Martyr's Rite added up to only 1,000 people, and they did not have the courage to stop the Jin army, so they could only harass them with firearms from a distance, but the accuracy of the firearms in these years was extremely poor, and they could not pose a threat to the Jin army at all, so they consciously changed the obstruction to surveillance, and when they saw the Jin army approaching the target, they immediately fled, and Dushikou was alone under the iron hooves of the Jin army.

The monolith mouth is located in the north to the grassland, the south is the mountain pass of the mountains, the terrain is extremely dangerous, two north-south rivers flow through the mountains from here, form a passage through the mountains, communicate the north and south, the monolith mouth fort is located between the two rivers, the throat of this passage is stuck, its fort wall is three feet five feet high, there are two gate forts in the east and west, there are also urn cities in the gate fort, the four corners of the castle also built the corner tower, in order to enhance the defense ability, there is also a wooden fence at the north mountain pass, in its heyday there was a "Shuofang barrier" said, Unfortunately, it is now dilapidated, the wooden fence is incomplete, and the city walls and forts are also dilapidated.

Dushikou originally belonged to Kaipingwei, in the early Ming Dynasty Xuande period, because Kaipingwei could not stand outside the fortress, then moved its governance office from the south of the old capital city to here, and built a Great Wall outside the city with Dushikou as the core, and Changping Town in the southeast, Datong Town in the southwest of the border wall to form a defensive circle. With the decline of the Ming Dynasty's national strength, this defense line that penetrates into the north of the country is unsustainable, the ruins of the unguarded side wall can be seen everywhere, and the iron cavalry outside the border can almost come and go at will, so the Ming court had to revoke Kaipingwei, set up Xuanfu Town, and rebuilt the Xuanfu side wall in the south 100 miles away, and renamed this piece of land outside the plug as Xuanfu Town Shangbei Road, and Dushikou also became the seat of the general of Shangbei Road. But the monolith mouth outside the lonely suspension is far away from the side wall of Xuanfu, supply, and reinforcement are thorny problems, the defenders lack food and salary, the equipment is broken, and they can only hide in the fort and wait to be beaten in wartime, the Jin army invaded the west twice, the Ming army turned a blind eye, did not dare to send an arrow and a gun, and let it swagger past the fort wall, the Jin army was too lazy to bother to attack the fort, and the two sides were safe, but this time the Jin army did not intend to let it go.

The third class of the Jin army, Lazhang Jingduolong, led the scout cavalry to rush to the front, and bumped into a group of people sitting crookedly on the ground in front of the wooden fence of the mountain pass, he recognized at a glance that the Fengzhou soldiers with red tasseled helmets and iron armor were dressed in battle, this is an old opponent, and he was captured once, and immediately waved his hand, and the two hundred gold soldiers slowed down their horses, and raised their bows and arrows together to slowly approach each other.

"Toyosu people, are you here to challenge or surrender?" Speaking in a half-baked Liaodong Chinese dialect, Duolong raised his knife and pointed at an officer with two wolf heads on his chest and asked, he recognized it as the symbol of the Thousand Commanders of the Fengzhou Army.

"I've come to welcome you, and I've prepared some artillery battles." The young Qian Zong replied with a smile in Zhushen, and then whistled, and dozens of Fengzhou soldiers on the ground suddenly took out their steps and got up to aim at the Jin soldiers.

Not good, Duolong shouted and rolled over and rolled off the horse, covered his head and lay on the ground, a crackling sound of fire guns sounded immediately, the Jin army was caught off guard, and fell a dozen, and the others immediately fought back, but the arrows they shot couldn't reach each other, and when they remembered that they also had dozens of fire guns, the Fengzhou soldiers who took advantage of it had already laughed and ran into the wooden fence.

"Kill them!" Duolong was furious, and remounted his horse with the Jin soldiers to chase after him, but the wooden fence was obviously destroyed, the ground was dug with potholes, and the large and small stones, branches, and dry grass were thrown on the ground.

The Jin soldiers who suffered a loss were still shouting and scolding, there was a burst of roaring sound on the monolith mouth fort in front, and a row of cannons smashed into their faces, and then a large number of Fengzhou soldiers suddenly appeared around, Duolong's brain buzzed, he understood that he was fooled, and quickly ordered a retreat, but it was too late, except for the forty or fifty Jin soldiers who were left behind, and the others were surrounded by groups, and the dense rain of arrows and guns then shot over, and the Jin army had nowhere to hide and suffered heavy casualties, and the living could only dismount and form a foot formation, and desperately fought back with firearms, bows and arrows, Trying to hold on to help. However, the most fatal was still behind, dozens of smoking lines of fire quickly approached the Jin army on the ground, and before they could react, their feet exploded - the infantry collapsed without suspense, and when the Fengzhou army was murderously holding spears and infantry guns, except for a few Jin soldiers who were still resisting, most of them chose to surrender.

"Don't fight, I'm an old inlay white, I was a prisoner once, I know the rules, and Erlu Batulu knows me." Duolong covered his head and pouted his ass and begged for mercy loudly - I don't know when the Fengzhou soldiers and the Jin soldiers had a bad habit of beating each other first, and the beaten party must use this posture to beg for mercy, but it can only be fought this time, and the captives can have food and drink in the future and wait for the battle to go home.

"Okay, hurry up and retreat with the prisoners, the Jin army of the brigade is about to arrive," Ren Shouzhong, the battalion officer of the right battalion of the Left Association, stopped the subordinates who committed the murder, this battle was good, killing one hundred enemies and capturing fifty enemies, and his own side was almost unharmed, he was in a very good mood, patted the shoulder of Sun Tianqing, the captain of the right outpost, and said, "Xiao Sun, you did a good job of luring the enemy this time, give you a credit." ”

"Xiao Cai, you don't need to remember the merits, you just have to know it in your heart." Sun Tianqing happily replied, this guy is willing to fight with his life, he is very favored by Shangguan, he has always spoken very aggressively, and he raised his foot and kicked Duolong, who was pressed and beaten by him, to the side.

Sun Tianqing, a Weiren of Jinzhou, Liaodong, the former head soldier of the Guanning Army, after being captured by the Jin Army, became an officer's personal Ahha, the master sent his life in the Battle of Kuku Hetun, he was a prisoner of the Fengzhou Army, and was pulled into the Fengzhou battalion by Zhou Yuji, who was also from Liaodong, and showed courage in several battles, and was promoted to the captain of the thousand rank - the officers of the left association and the right battalion are mainly Liaodong people, such as the main and deputy battalion officers Ren Shouzhong and Ding Chenglu, and there are many Liaodong people who have been captured like Sun Tianqing, and the honest Zhou Yuji is also quietly pulling his lineage.

"After cleaning the battlefield, these broken wooden fences were burned, and not a single piece of wood was left for the Jin army." Ren Shouzhong shouted loudly and commanded his brothers to retreat.

When the Jin army arrived, there was no one in front of the Dushikou Fort, only the dead bodies waiting to be cleaned up. The movement of the Jin army was very fast, some of them walked around the fort city, blocking the opponent's retreat, the main force was swinging due north, pushing up more than 20 artillery pieces and aiming at the fort wall - the east and west sides of the Dushikou fort were narrow and rugged, and the brigade could not be deployed, and there was a river to protect the gate fort, which was not conducive to the attack, the south was relatively open, but it was too difficult to transport the horses and equipment from under the nose of the opponent, the north fort wall looked tall and strong, but it was obviously just repaired, and it may not be able to withstand the attack, the Jin army tentatively fired a round of artillery, The walls of the fort were smashed to the ground and stone, and two battlements were missing.

"Brothers in Fengzhou, surrender, we have meat to eat here every day, and we will let you go home after the war, and those who don't want to go home can go to Liaodong and give you land and livestock."

"Brother Fengzhou, where the castle is big, how many of you can stop us, it's better to die than to live, where are you not a soldier, follow us, the benefits are great."

After the Jin army finished the artillery, triumphantly began to persuade to surrender, the two sides fought more, each other is more familiar with each other, the courage of the Jin soldiers is also big, some people also ran to the fort wall to shout, the Fengzhou soldiers on the wall booed, and also poked their heads out and the Jin soldiers below laughed and laughed.

"Fight, fight, who's afraid of whom, if we didn't chase you to fight, you already have dozens of people here, just waiting for you, if you are willing to surrender, I will pull you up."

"See, I have Fengzhou silver money in my hand, if you want to come to our side, the ghost is willing to go to Liaodong with you to starve."

There are Zhushen, Mongols and Liaodong people on both sides, and it is not difficult to communicate in language, at first they still persuade each other to surrender, but later they digressed, and more and more Jin soldiers flocked to the city to start chatting with the Fengzhou soldiers in the city.

"Brother, is there any smoke? Throw it down, the old brother has already stopped, and his heart is itching. "It's reaching out for something.

"Brother, my old sow gave birth to ten cubs in a litter, and then it rained, do you think it's a good sign?" It's an exchange of experiences.

"If you want me to say that Azigebel is really fierce in battle, but if you want to say that the first general of Zhushen, it is more reliable to say that Erugbaturu is more reliable." This has entered a sensitive topic.

Dolgon, Yuetuo, Sakhalian, and Hauge watched the farce under the city not far away, and the faces of the four of them were not good--state affairs and family affairs were mixed together to make trouble, Dolgon has a high seniority, according to the convention, this time the army should be dominated by Dolgon, but the three nephews are older than Dolgon, and their debuts are earlier, especially Yuetuo is still Baylor who is in charge of the military department, and he is most unaccustomed to Dolgon's finger-pointing, and the two of them are awkward when they go out of Shengjing, Sakhalian and Haoge are Yuetuo's younger brother and Yuetuo's brother-in-law, of course, towards Yuetuo, Embarrassing Dorgon often.

"The minions are becoming more and more presumptuous, and at this time, they are still pulling and pulling with the Fengzhou thieves, and sending people to teach the minions of each banner a lesson, telling them to prepare to attack the city." Dolgon ordered with a grimace, but the other three Baylors remained motionless.

"I've run hundreds of miles today, and it's a little dark, call the minions back to rest early, and then attack the city when the two cannons arrive," Yue Tuo glanced at Dolgon, and said slowly, "The reinforcements from Fengzhou should be on the way, to prevent them from sneaking attack, Saharan, you go to the vicinity to be on guard, Morgan Daiqing, you have the most people, and the front is left to the white flag." ”

"No, the Fengzhou thief is strong, and he can't just let the white flag be inlaid." Dorgon immediately shook his head in refusal.

"Hauge and I will attack the east and west sides of the Dushikou Fort tomorrow to help you." After Yue Tuo finished speaking, he took Sakhalian and Hauge away.

Dolgon was so angry that he stomped his feet, so he had to send someone to pick up the cannon - Tiancong Khan specially allocated two Hongyi cannons of more than 3,000 catties to them in order to take the Dushikou, that guy can fight more than 10 catties of cannons, and the effect is not bad when he hits the Daling River, but it is too bulky, in order to transport these two cannons, 500 gold soldiers are still behind.

The next day near noon, the smoke of gunpowder under the Dushikou Fort was filled, and the sound of artillery continued - the Jin Army's large and small artillery repeatedly bombarded a section of the fort wall that had just been repaired, and the Fengzhou Army immediately returned fire with artillery, the two sides did not let each other go back and forth, but it was still an old problem, the accuracy of the firearms in this year was too poor, hitting a wall and hitting a point were two different things, the Jin Army easily beat the fort wall to the crumbling, especially the two Hongyi cannons that had just arrived, each shelling could dent the fort wall, and the Fengzhou army's counterattack could not touch the other party, The Jin soldiers hiding behind shouted triumphantly, and when a missed cannon ghostly pierced the corner tower on the fort, the cheers suddenly rang out.

Zhou Yuji looked at the cannon that fell at his feet, shook his head helplessly and said: "Forget it, stop firing, it's not accurate anyway, it's better to save some gunpowder and cannons." ”

"Lao Chen, this is what you have done, just listen to the voice, you will know that the small cannons of the Jin army are your leather cannons, and we were killed by you." Ren Shouzhong shouted angrily, and grabbed Chen Shishi's collar casually.

"'Twenty rings', we all call that kind of cannon 'twenty rings', I'm counting it, the Jin army continues to fight like this, and it will explode before dark." Chen Shishi struggled and shouted, he came to Dushikou again the day before yesterday, claiming that he wanted to see with his own eyes how effective the guns he supervised were in actual combat, and by the way, he would strive to get some military merits.

"Fortunately, the Jin Army only has two Hongyi cannons, but if you continue to fight like this, the fort wall will collapse sooner or later, Lao Chen, don't trouble us in the future," Zhou Yuji said leisurely, raised his clairvoyance and continued to observe - the right battalion is the same as the other battalions of the Fengzhou Army, one battalion has five outposts, one sentry has five teams, and each team has forty soldiers, the Dushikou Fort is not large, under normal circumstances, one battalion is enough to garrison, he put the two teams of the outpost and the rear post on the most dangerous north fort wall, the left and right outposts guard the east and west gate forts, and the remaining two teams of the rear outpost are stationed on the south fort wall, the outpost is ready to respond to all parties, this deployment is stable, but it seems a bit hanging at the moment.

Zhou Yuji thought for a while and whispered to Ren Shouzhong, "You bring the brothers in the outpost to prepare for battle, and bring out the gunpowder that the Xuanfu army threw in the warehouse, maybe it can come in handy." ”

"Don't blame us, those leather cannons weren't meant to be used for siege, who would have thought that they would bring that kind of stupid guy here, this fortress wall is too bad." Chen Shishi was still screaming very aggrievedly.

When the Jin army continued to bombard the sun to the west, the newly repaired section of the fort wall more than three zhang high collapsed violently, forming a large slope on the top, and only one zhang high remained in the intact part below, and a huge gap appeared. The trumpet of the Jin army sounded suddenly, and the attack began, the Jin soldiers at the front pushed several huge shields with great difficulty while fighting, and behind them were the black pressure of the crowd carrying the ladder and pushing the cart forward, and the archers rushed to the gap and threw the arrows as dense as raindrops against the fortress wall

"Lao Chen, take a look for yourself, the Jin Army's array wall and firecracker were also built by you, what else do you dare not sell?" Ren Shouzhong pressed Chen Shishi's head and screamed again.

"The array wall and the fire gun are also counterfeit goods...... Chen Shishi is still stiff-mouthed.

"Blow the trumpet, fight!" Zhou Yuji shouted, kicked Ren Shouzhong out, and Chen Shishi gritted his teeth and picked up a step gun and followed closely.

The gap has been a ball, the arrows of both sides in the sky shuttle back and forth, the sound of guns and cannons comes and goes, the golden soldiers swing a ladder under the city, and the sharp arrows and guns of the Fengzhou army go up one after another, fall down one after another, and those who climb the city wall do not stop, continue to climb up along the ruins, the Fengzhou soldiers condescendingly stabbed them to the ground with spears, and still can't stop the flow of people who are pouring up, the soldiers hit the red eyes, and the hand throws thunder and smashes down one by one, but the threat to the Jin soldiers wearing heavy armor is not great, the fire guns of the Jin army, The archers also arrived at the city and shot desperately upward, and the casualties of the Toyoshu army continued to increase, and the gaps in the kung fu were piled up with the corpses of soldiers on both sides.

The outpost couldn't stand it, and the mid-post hurriedly came to reinforce it, Ren Shouzhong ran to the two leather cannons with a shield on his head and shouted: "Are there any people alive?" Push the cannon over and kill them with a shotgun. ”

The leather cannon was pushed to the edge of the gap, and after two loud bangs, the golden soldiers fell a large piece, but then the rain of arrows under the black pressure flew over, and the gunners who were still cleaning the chamber fell down one after another, Ren Shouzhong was in a hurry, grabbed a triangular black eagle flag and waved it vigorously, he knew that there were still two fast-firing Franc machine camp guns hidden in the nearby corner tower, which were still brought from the Barbarian Mountain, and the co-commander Sun Shoufa decided to transfer the four cannons of the cannon post to the right battalion before leaving, and now it was time to come in handy.

"Why don't you fire yet?" Zhou Yuji angrily ran to the corner tower and asked, the deputy sentry chief of the Zuo Xie's artillery post pointed to the front, there were still some Fengzhou soldiers fighting with the Jin soldiers in the gap, Zhou Yuji slapped it over, "Bastard, what time is it, call me, shoot two guns in a row." ”

While the Jin soldiers were still in a panic, Ren Shouzhong raised a ghost-headed broadsword and led the brothers to rush up to the gap to regain control of the broken fort wall.