Chapter 53: Fierce Battle at Yanmen Pass
Evening.
Craters were scattered in the wilderness outside the city, corpses and broken weapons, and every dead person was covered with dust, blackened faces, stiff postures, congealed blood, tattered clothes, and scattered flags.
Houjin retired.
The siege that lasted for a day was finally over.
After the massacre of civilians in Houjin, the fighting intensified.
The people are dead, the blood of the new army in the city is cold, there is no beast in this world that is more dehumanized than these Houjin in front of him, the beast is not a human, and the beast that eats people should be exterminated.
The rhythm of the battle began to move towards the most primitive fighting.
After forcing and killing the people, Han Baqi's retreat was completely blocked, so he began to have the idea of burying his head in a road.
Only by breaking through the Yanmen Pass can we completely wake up from this nightmare.
Being a Han has no ambition, but being a traitor has bravery.
Above and below the city, the first siege was a war between the Han and the Han people.
With hatred.
The new army in the city began to vent their grief and hatred with the spears and bullets in their hands.
The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty attacked the city wall several times, but they were all defeated.
The Houjin cavalry took advantage of the momentum of the Han Eight Banners to fight to the death, and also joined the siege team.
So the war began to move towards a stalemate between the capture and the retreat of the enemy.
After repelling the enemy several times, Houjin finally couldn't spend it, and Mingjin withdrew.
In a big battle, the new army suffered 3,000 casualties, 5,000 people in the Eight Banners of Houjin and Han were killed and wounded, and 3,000 cavalry were also lost.
More than 5,000 Han people were killed and wounded, and a massacre took place under the city.
The city wall was already dilapidated, and all 20 Houjin artillery pieces were destroyed, and more than 10 of the 50 artillery pieces on the city were damaged.
And the next day passed like this.
At night, the door closes and opens.
One by one, the soldiers carried torches and began to search for the corpses of the people under the city.
They are the people, the unarmed people, who died at the hands of Hou Jin, but they can't even leave the corpses uncollected.
Tang Sanxian personally went out of the city to work with his soldiers to clean up the battlefield and collect the remains of the people.
In the darkness, corpses were carried into the city gates, old men, women, children, and young people.
Some people had obvious knife wounds, while others had bullet holes in guns.
In the darkness, there was a sudden cry.
Tang Sanxian frowned and walked over.
Under the torches, a young soldier crouched beside the corpse of an old woman, who was lying on her back on the ground, but the blood pierced by the bullet on her back was clearly visible.
Tang Sanxian suddenly loosened his brows, his face showed gloom, this is the people who died under the shooting of the soldiers in the city, his own people.
Tang Sanxian stretched out his hand tremblingly, picked up the old woman's body, and then silently picked it up and walked towards the city gate.
"I am a sinner, and the order was given by me, and when I get to the underworld, I will report my name to the king of Hades, Luoliang Mountain Tang Sanxian." Tang Sanxian muttered in a low voice.
"There are too many people in the world who are suffering hard, and Mr. has always warned us that our responsibility is to let more people like you live a good life, but today, I killed you with my own hands."
"But, I don't know in my heart whether it's right or wrong today, I don't know whether it's right or wrong, I just know that if I were you, probably I don't have any resentment in my heart, and I will probably bless the soldiers to kill a few more Tartars after death, probably like this!"
Suddenly, Tang Sanxian turned to look at the soldiers around him, and shouted with red eyes: "If you don't want more people to be slaughtered like today, then kill a few more Tartars on the battlefield, kill one more today, kill one more tomorrow, one day will be killed, and there will be no today after the clan is wiped out." ”
"Remember, the Tartar will not be destroyed, and there will be more than one tragedy today!"
Then he turned and carried the old woman into the gate.
"In the past, Mr. always said that people did not come to the world to kill people, I think it makes sense, but today, I think his words are wrong, I know differently, some people are just to kill, Tartars are born to kill people, I Tang Sanxian was born to kill Tartars from today on, I was born to kill Tartars, there is nothing wrong."
The trenches were full of corpses.
Turning over an old man, revealing a woman, the woman was holding her child in her arms, trying to protect her child with her body, but step by step, step by step, extinguished her hope that the child wanted to live.
The child's purple face told the soldiers around him that he was covered to death, in his mother's arms, and in his mother's hope that he would live.
Covered to death under the trampling of a traitor who was a Han man, and died at the feet of a Tartar who was a human but was born to kill.
Died in Nurhachi, Huang Taiji, and Dolgon......
All the ambitions of the post-Kim nurture are true.
The sinners of history will not be tampered with because of history's affirmation of him, and the souls of the dead are their epitaphs.
The sins they commit will not be forgotten and erased by time.
A sinner is a sinner.
And the history books are nothing more than swaddling clothes for sinners to hide their shame.
History is not a history book! It's that you can see the past with your eyes closed.
Early morning.
Day 3.
Later, the Jin cavalry attacked the city again.
Artillery fire, bullets, horses, bows.
The war resumed.
Siege the city and retreat from the enemy.
The rhythm of the war is like yesterday.
After the Eight Banners of the Zaihan Dynasty were killed and wounded, the Jurchens and the Mongols began to rely on their own bravery to capture the Yanmen Pass in front of them.
But the ferocity of the Later Jin seemed small and powerless under the hatred of the Han people.
After leaving 5,000 men behind, Zilharang still endured his distress and began to withdraw his troops.
Day 4.
Houjin did not move.
But Tang Sanxian guessed that this was the other party waiting for reinforcements.
One more day.
Hold on for another day.
But since the evening of the fourth day, the war has once again increased in intensity.
In the evening, the mighty Houjin cavalry could be seen in the distance beginning to arrive from the north.
Houjin's reinforcements arrived.
Huang Taiji led 60,000 Houjin soldiers to Yanmen Pass.
Obviously, the other party is unwilling to delay time, nor is he willing to leave a trace of peace for Yanmen Pass.
Two more.
In the darkness, Houjin Hao began to attack Yanmen Pass.
The 15,000-strong Han Eight Banners plus 20,000 Mongols began to attack the city with Han tactics.
The artillery rang out again.
The Great War Again.
The coming fifth day seemed to be suddenly distant.
Han Baqi began to carry the ladder, braving the gunfire of the city to continuously build ladders to attack.
In the distance, fifty artillery pieces carried by Huang Taiji's army began to bombard.
The artillery in the city also returned fire, and the two sides began an artillery battle, and the artillery of the new army consciously suppressed the opponent's artillery.
The artillery scattered everywhere by Huang Taiji was advanced to within 400 meters of the city in the dark, and the cannonballs fired had already begun to directly hit the city wall.
The new army in the castle began to suffer casualties in Houjin's shells.
The constantly collapsing wall battlements left the new army without a cover to hide.
After the 15,000-strong Han Eight Banners roared up.
The defensive pressure on the city has increased like never before.
Hundreds of engineering ladders seem to have covered the entire city wall.
The situation is critical.
Half an hour later, after the Han Eight Banners attacked the city wall several times and were driven down with difficulty.
Tang Sanxian finally began to order the use of home-made grenades to attack the Houjin infantry under the city.