On the twelfth day of July in the eleventh year of Yongli, after nearly twenty days of sailing, the Zheng family navy finally sailed into the Bohai Sea and approached Yongping Mansion. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

At that time, the battleship approached the near sea.

Lin Xishan immediately ordered the landing.

With the order of the commander-in-chief of the navy, the signal men on each battleship carried lanterns and gestured according to a certain trajectory.

Soon a soldier blew the horns, and in the quiet of the night, the horns were unusually loud.

At the bow of each battleship stood a regimental commander holding an iron horn and shouting desperately, directing the soldiers to get on small boats and rafts in an orderly manner.

Some soldiers who were good at the water and anxious simply jumped into the sea and swam to the shore with all their might.

The soldiers of the Marine Corps simply jumped into the sea and swam to the shore with the buoyancy of the rattan armor.

It is now four o'clock in the morning according to modern time, which is the time when people are most asleep.

Although the Manchus were afraid that Zheng's army would directly attack the Beijing division across the sea, the only Manchu Qingshui division was guarding the Tianjin side.

They didn't expect that Zheng Jiajun would attack Shanhaiguan at all.

Yongping garrison Han Jinshan did not send soldiers to the shore to monitor, and in the Qing army camp, except for a few guards on duty patrol, everyone else was sleeping in the barracks.

Without Qing troops to harass, the soldiers of the Zheng family army easily landed ashore.

Under one banner after another, the soldiers of the Zheng family army soon found their regimental headquarters.

"Take a break, stand upright! Count each platoon! ”

"One, two, three......"

After counting the number of people in each regiment, Lin Xishan frowned when he heard the reports of the two army commanders.

Because of seasickness and other reasons, only 10,000 marines, 6,000 navy, and 58,000 troops have gone ashore.

Among them, 347 have suffered leg cramps due to the long immersion in the sea, and they are no longer able to move today.

Of the 140,000 troops, only 74,000 can now fight, much less than expected.

Shanhaiguan is the main road connecting the inside and outside of the pass, the city built by Shanhaiguan, the circumference is about 4 kilometers, it is a small city, the whole city is connected with the Great Wall, and the city is the pass.

The plane of Shanhaiguan City is square, the circumference is eight miles and one hundred and thirty-seven steps and four feet, the city is 14 meters high, 7 meters thick, and the moat of two zhang and five feet deep surrounds it.

The exterior of the city wall is covered with blue bricks and filled with rammed earth, with a height of about 14 meters and a width of 7 meters.

There are four main gates in the whole city, which are called "Town East Gate" in the east, "Ying'en Gate" in the west, "Wangyang Gate" in the south, and "Weiyuan Gate" in the north.

And there are a variety of ancient defense buildings, it is a city pass with a relatively complete defense system, and is known as "the first pass in the world".

The Qing army arranged more than 13,000 soldiers here, and more importantly, in order to defend against the Manchu Tartars, 28 3,000-pound Hongyi cannons were placed at the head of Shanhaiguan City.

At the temporary headquarters, Huang Wu looked at Lin Xishan and asked, "Commander-in-chief, what do you think we should do now?" This Shanhaiguan is not easy to fight! ”

"Shanhaiguan is of great strategic significance to our army, and if it is conquered, our army will completely lock the Qing army in the capital, and we can implement the closure of the door and fight the dog. It was not conquered in a short time, and the Manchu Qing sent reinforcements, and under the attack from both sides, our army was in danger. Lin Xishan looked at the map and said, slapped the table heavily and drank, "Even if it is difficult, you have to take down Shanhaiguan, if you can't take it within three days, everyone will be punished militarily, and no one can escape!" ”

"Yes! Mission completion guaranteed! ”

"Don't care about the navy and army now, except for leaving the necessary personnel, all the fucking ones who can afford to hold a gun will rush to Lao Tzu, and take down Shanhaiguan for Lao Tzu in one go!"

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At midnight on 13 July, the general offensive at Shanhaiguan began.

More than 50 38-pound and 42-pound guns on the navy warships shelled Shanhaiguan.

In order to successfully conquer Shanhaiguan, the artillery kept firing.

The cannonballs poured desperately into the pass as if they didn't want money, and the city of Shanhaiguan suddenly became a sea of fire.

Liu Guoxuan, the commander-in-chief of the battleship's artillery fire this time, blushed with excitement, after all, it was the first time he had joined the army to command so many heavy artillery, so he did not skimp on the bombardment of ammunition.

Still in Shanhaiguan, the general soldier Dorobelle Roshan was still resting in the arrow tower, when the sudden explosion woke him up.

He rushed out and shouted, "Where to shoot, where to shoot!" ”

The soldiers sleeping in the barracks were awakened by the artillery fire, rushed out one after another, and crowded around the barracks in a chaotic manner, dressed in clothes.

Suddenly, a volley of shells came down, blowing up stumps and flesh all over the ground, and blood flowed like a river.

With the rumbling explosions and cries of rows of artillery fire, this place has become a hell on earth.

Luo Shan's personal soldiers cried and shouted: "Master, the slave saw that it was the battleship of the Zheng family's army coming, let's run?" ”

When Luo Shan heard this, he immediately slapped him and drank, "Who the hell dares to mention running away again, Lao Tzu will kill him." Why don't you call someone to fight back! ”

Shanhaiguan was the most critical city connecting the Manchu Qing Dynasty with the Beijing Division and Shengjing, and it was also about whether the Manchu Qing Dynasty could retreat from the customs once it could not gain a foothold in the Central Plains, so most of the defenders here were soldiers of the Manchu Eight Banners.

As Luo Shan calmed down, he organized a counterattack. The ordinary soldiers slowly stabilized and began to fight back.

The Zhengjia battleship was large in size and had a deep draft, and it was simply impossible to get close to the sea, and the waves were undulating in the Canadian Sea, and the hit rate of the shells was very low.

Although the Hongyi cannon in Shanhaiguan is a heavy cannon of more than 3,000 catties, the gunpowder is not as sophisticated as the Zheng family's artillery, if it is not for the bonus of the height of the city wall, otherwise it will not be able to hurt the Zheng family's battleship at all.

Seeing that the artillery and ammunition reserves of Shanhaiguan were exhausted, the various units of the Zheng family army launched a fierce attack and launched a breakthrough battle for the city defense.

In order to show his determination to take Shanhaiguan to the death, Lin Xishan set up the cross-sea combat command in Changshou Mountain in Shanhaiguan.

At the breakthrough in the northwest of the city, the troops of the 1st and 2nd Infantry Divisions approached the city and attacked the urn wall outside the north gate.

Seeing Zheng Jiajun approaching, on the city wall, Luo Shan waved his hand, "Release the arrow." ”

Zhang Gong ...... Put! Several officers of the bow battalion shouted in a lengthened voice.

Under the shouting and reprimand of the officers, the Qing army bent their bows and arrows, and sharp arrows shot down from the wall.

The Qing military commander waved his arm, the drum sounded, the order was issued, the bow and arrow were shot, and in such a rhythm, in a short period of time, five or six rounds of arrow rain had been shot!

Sharp arrows suddenly rained down from the sky with a scream of death, and with the powerful inertia of falling from a high altitude, the sharp arrows easily shot through the human body.

Zheng Jiajun, who rushed ahead, suddenly fell to the ground like dumplings, and his forward speed was a little slower.

The bows and arrows of the Qing army at the head of the city blocked the breakthrough, and the terrain in front of Shanhaiguan was dangerous, and the road was narrow, so it was difficult to attack, and the Zheng army was in a very critical situation.

After nearly a hundred years of dead and wounded, the army commander saw it and scolded, "You stupid donkeys, Lao Tzu wants you to be brave, but he doesn't want you to die." Fuck, dig a ditch and push it through! ”

Wan Li ordered that the two divisions, with two-thirds of their strength, should be fully devoted to digging communication ditches.

The ditch was dug into the urn city with a big Z, and in front of the moat, the troops were threatened by the bows and arrows of the Qing army, and buried the moat with sandbags.

Although there were some casualties in the digging of the traffic ditch, the moat was successfully filled.

At this time, Wang Cheng, the leader of the fifth squad of the second company of the eighth company of the third regiment of the second division, went to carry out the blasting, he was full of explosives, with an iron shield on his head, crawling on his prostrate, approaching a small ridge about 10 meters in front of the urn city.

The Qing soldiers in the city found out and shot at him desperately.

Wang Cheng was forced by the rain of arrows to not be able to raise his head at all.

Wan Li saw it from a distance and shouted urgently, "Cover him with smoke!" ”

Seven or eight soldiers heard the dead grass from the branches and burned it, and after they burned it, they desperately waved it with their brocade clothes and blew the smoke through the Shanhaiguan.

The sky was filled with smoke in the Shanhaiguan urn city, and Wang Cheng took advantage of the smoke and jumped under the city wall.

Shoved all the explosives under the corner of the wall, turned around and was about to evacuate, but a sharp arrow immediately pierced his arm and pinned him firmly to the ground.

"I can't go, hahaha......" Wang Cheng spat blood and showed a cruel smile, "Dog's day Tartar, with you to be buried, Lao Tzu will not lose." ”

After saying that, he took out a simple match and lit the letter fire tremblingly.

His platoon commander saw it and shouted: "Don't, come back quickly, Wang Cheng!" ”

Wang Cheng shook his head with difficulty and shouted, "Help me tell my mother that my son has not lost the face of the Wang family!" ”

With a loud "boom", a gap was blown up in the corner of the urn city, and the royal city also died heroically. (To be continued.) )