In Datong City, the defenders have already been in battle.

Wang Pu let Zhao Liujin's 3,000 Datong border army be divided into three teams, guarding the north, west and south gates respectively, and asked Zhao Xin to take fifteen hundred-man teams, also divided into three teams to assist Zhao Liujin to defend the city, in order to boost morale and boost the morale of the army, Wang Pu promised, regardless of whether Jiannu would attack from the north, west and south gates, after repelling Jiannu, he would reward each person with one hundred taels of silver!

Wang Pu's firearms battalion had a total of fifty hundred-man teams, except for the fifteen that Zhao Xin took away, the remaining thirty-five hundred-man teams and Xiao Qi's five hundred Jiading teams all gathered in the direction of the east gate, and the bearded man and Scarface each led five hundred people to guard the city walls on both sides of the gap, and the remaining three thousand people were all assembled in the gap.

The open space in the gap has changed greatly at this time, and Wang Pu has built a slaughterhouse for slaughtering Jiannu.

Last night, Wang Pu asked Wei Daben to take more than 10,000 people to spend a whole night to modify and strengthen the fortifications in the gap, and the shoulder-high low wall was moved back thirty steps, and no longer parallel to the city wall, but built a ring fortification with the gap as the center of the circle.

Wei Daben also took Minzhuang to dig a big pit in the semi-circular area of the ring fortification, the center of the pit is shallow and the edge is deep, close to the edge of the ring fortification is as deep as two meters, so that the height of the low wall forms a broken wall of more than three meters, and it is not easy for Jiannu to climb the broken wall of more than three meters with his bare hands without tools.

Of course, it is even more difficult for Jiannu to rush through the gap to the broken wall more than three meters high.

This radius is up to fifty steps (about 75 meters), and the semicircular pit with a concave edge of the central bulge is the slaughterhouse carefully prepared by Wang Pu for Jiannu, the capacity of this slaughterhouse is huge enough, Wang Pu asked Zhen Youcai to roughly estimate it, there are no 30,000 or 50,000 corpses, and Jiannu does not want to fill this big pit!

The bloody military flag has been inserted into the semicircular fortifications, because this military flag has a special meaning, Wang Pu did not let people modify it, it still retains the original rough appearance, no borders, no stripes, the only difference is that the cross pattern dyed with blood has faded the original bright red, turned into dark red.

However, compared with the original bright red, the dark red color has more solemnity and solemnity.

Lu Liu and ten musketeers stood tall next to the military flag.

Wang Pu said that this military flag is the soul of this army, where the flag is, where Wang Pu is, where their army is, people are in the flag, people are dead and the flag is dead.

Unless the whole army is destroyed, this bloody banner will never fall into the hands of the enemy.

In front of Wang Pu, three thousand musketeers had already formed a neat formation, and three thousand murderous eyes had focused on Wang Pu.

Outside Datong City, the rumbling cannon has not yet dissipated, the smoke and dust on the broken walls are still churning, and the noise of thousands of Jiannu has resounded throughout the sky, but all this can no longer make the soldiers of the firearms battalion feel nervous, even those recruits have grown up in the fierce battle with thieves and Jiannu, and have grown into a qualified veteran.

The wind is fierce, and the smoke of gunpowder is gone.

The chill of early spring still enveloped Datong, but the soldiers of the firearms battalion felt the scorching killing machine from Wang Pu's eyes, the kind of scorching heat that can roast people!

Wang Pu took a deep breath of cold air, his eyes swept over the faces of the soldiers, and he roared loudly: "Last August, when I was in Songshan, many people once told General Ben that Jiannu was very powerful, their Eight Banners army was invincible, and our army of the Ming Dynasty would never be able to defeat them!" ”

The eyes of the three thousand soldiers suddenly showed disbelief, and they would never admit that Jiannu was invincible!

"They said that in the battle of Salhu, our Ming Dynasty was defeated; In the battle of Fushun, our Ming Dynasty was also defeated; In the Battle of Kaitie, our Ming Dynasty was defeated again; In less than 20 years, our Ming Dynasty lost a large area of land in Liaodong, and hundreds of thousands of Ming soldiers died outside the cold pass, so the invincible army of the Eight Banners of Jiannu! ”

Wang Pu said and asked loudly, "Is that so?" ”

"It's not!"

"It's not!"

"It's not!"

The soldiers responded violently, and a huge wave of sound soared into the sky.

"Well said, no, by no means!" Wang Pu raised his arms and shouted, "General Ben only brought a thousand lonely troops to defeat Shengjing, the old nest of Jiannu, and the three thousand iron guards of the slave chief Emperor Taiji are powerful enough, right?" was still killed by the general's musket team of less than 1,000, and even Huang Taiji became a prisoner of the general! ”

The soldiers' eyes showed a look of excitement.

"This time, Jiannu gathered 150,000 troops to attack Datong, and someone told General Ben that Jiannu is invincible, we can't beat it, and stubborn resistance can only be a dead end, so it is better to open the city and surrender as soon as possible." Wang Pu said this, and his tone suddenly became extremely sad, "However, General Ben wants to say, no!" We will never surrender, and we will not be afraid of Jiannu! ”

"Don't be afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!"

"Don't be afraid!"

The officers and men of the three armies responded violently, and the officers and soldiers standing solemnly at the head of the city, as well as the Datong people, the people, the old, the young, and the women and children who were crowding the streets in the distance also shouted hysterically.

Wang Puhuoran raised his hand, and the shouts of the soldiers of the three armies stopped abruptly as if they had been cut by a knife, and on the long street in the distance, the shouts of the people of Datong gradually subsided.

Wang Pu turned to face the gap, suddenly pulled out his waist knife and raised it high above the top, and roared loudly: "Let them come, we will kill as many as they come!" Kill slaves! ”

"Kill slaves!"

"Kill slaves!"

"Kill slaves!"

The officers and men of the three armies roared hoarsely, and then the officers and soldiers at the head of the city and the people crowded on the streets in the distance also roared hoarsely, and the roars of tens of thousands of people suddenly converged into a huge wave like a mountain and a tsunami, piercing through the clouds and splitting the sky, and penetrating the night.

"First Team ......" In the tsunami-like cry of the landslide, the roar of Monk Zhang's thunder sounded, "Ready!" ”

The first team of two hundred musketeers quickly stepped forward and spread along the semi-circular fortifications, two hundred muskets had been set up on the fortifications, and the muzzles of the black holes had been aimed at the gap fifty paces away, and the two hundred musketeers were distributed in a ring to form a crossfire covering the gap.

Of course, in order not to injure his own people, the two sections of fortifications closest to the city wall were not fortified by musketeers, but those two sections of fortifications were also built very high, and it was obviously wishful thinking for Jiannu to bypass them from both sides, and they would also be bombarded by the dragon king cannons of the defenders at the head of the city.

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Amid the roar of the tide, Jiannu finally rushed to the vicinity of the gap, and the real fierce battle began.

The musketeers guarding the city looked under the city wall, and saw that the city wall was densely packed with Jiannu, just like ants, just throwing a stone down, and it would be possible to hit several Jiannu at once.

However, this time Jiannu obviously came prepared, and the Jiannu at the front and near the city wall were holding shields, these shields were thick and large, and hundreds of shields were put together to form a solid shield wall, and the lighter rolling wood stones smashed on it, which could not pose any threat at all.

The dragon king cannon smashed on the shield wall, and only one or two shields could be blown up, and then soon there would be a shield to be charged up, rebuilt into a shield wall, it was by relying on the cover of the shield wall that the follow-up Jiannu was able to continuously rush to the foot of the city wall, some began to destroy the wall, and some began to attack the gap.

The bearded man found that the killing effect of the dragon king cannon was not good, and suddenly remembered a tactic that Wang Pu had taught, so he yelled at the musketeers behind him: "Whoever is it, bring a few more dragon king cannons to Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu will not believe in this evil, and today I have to blow up these slaves raised by bitches." ”

"Yes."

Several musketeers suddenly agreed, and handed over the dragon king cannon in their hands one after another.

The bearded man took at least seven or eight dragon king cannons, picked up a hemp rope and tied them up in a random ball, first twisted the lead of the dragon king cannon into a piece, and then ignited it with a fire twist, and then threw the whole bundle of dragon king cannons emitting black smoke out of the city.

The weight of the dragon king cannon is actually not light, seven or eight bundles are even heavier, this lump smashed down, the smashed shield was suddenly smashed to the side, a gap was revealed between the shields, and the bundle of dragon king cannons emitting black smoke rolled down the crack into the shield wall.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

Seven or eight dragon king cannons exploded at the same time, and dozens of Jiannu rose into the air with the dazzling black smoke, and dozens of heavy oars and shields also flew into the air, and the bodies of dozens of Jiannu were torn to pieces together in the air, and a large piece of Jiannu's shield wall was torn off in an instant, and it became incomplete.

"Haha." The bearded man laughed and said, "Did you see it all?" Just throw it like that! Blow up these bitches' slaves. ”

"Yes."

The musketeers on the city agreed with a bang, picked up several dragon king cannons from the bamboo baskets, and then randomly found a few ropes and tied them together, learned to twist the lead together with a beard, and then ignited the lead with a fire twist and then threw it outside the city, and soon, several huge clouds of black smoke exploded outside the city.

In less than a moment, the shield wall near the left side of the gap had been blown to pieces, and it was no longer possible to protect Jiannu.

However, Jiannu was not powerless to fight back, especially Jiannu's archers, as well as the five Hongyi cannons surnamed Tong Yang in the distance, still caused a lot of casualties to the Ming army at the head of the city.

A musketeer ignited a bundle of dragon cannons, and just as he straightened up and tried to throw the bundle of dragon cannons off the wall, a sharp arrow swept through the air and shot mercilessly through his throat, and the musketeer suddenly bulged out his eyes, hissing in his throat, and no longer had the strength to throw the bundle of dragon cannons down.

"Poof!"

The black smoke of the dragon king cannon fell at the musketeer's feet.

The next moment, the eight dragon king cannons tied together exploded violently, in addition to the musketeer who had been shot dead, there were six musketeers who were directly torn apart by the huge wave of air, and more than a dozen musketeers were swept off the city by the wave of air, fell in the chaos of the Jiannu army, and were quickly hacked to death by random knives.

Also, the bearded man was also killed.

At that time, the bearded man had just thrown down a bundle of dragon king cannons, and killed dozens of Jiannu, and was looking up to the sky and laughing proudly, when he suddenly heard an extremely terrible scream almost touching his head, the bearded man was suddenly taken aback, and when he turned his head to look at the city, he happened to see a huge cloud of black smoke blooming in the city, and a house collapsed in an instant, turning into a ruin.

"The dog said, it seems to be the flowering shell of the Hongyi cannon!"

The bearded man scratched his head, and when he was at a loss, another terrible scream came straight to the city, this time, the flowering shell of the Hongyi cannon hit the city directly, and exploded at the beard's feet, the war is ruthless, and the flowering shell of the Hongyi cannon did not fly around because the bearded man was Wang Pu's henchman.

"Boom!"

After a deafening loud bang, the city was filled with smoke and dust, rubble was flying, and the bearded strong body was directly torn into countless pieces, only one head was intact, and it flew out of the air with a poof, and fell outside the city with a poof, and his eyes were still wide open in anger until he died.

The musketeers of the Ming army guarding the city were exposed to the direct blows of the Jiannu archers and Hongyi cannons, so they suffered a lot of casualties, but the casualties of Jiannu were even more severe, especially the two thousand Han army and eight banners led by Shi Tingzhu and Li Yongfang, because they were closest to the city wall, they became the target of the key bombardment of the cluster dragon king artillery, and more than half of them had been killed or wounded!

"General, the Dragon King Cannon of the Ming Army's Firearms Battalion is too powerful to withstand it."

"Yes, get out quickly, or the brothers will all be here."

"His grandmother's, we are almost dead, but the dog Jiannu and the Mongolian Tartar are hiding behind the cool and happy, and they don't do it, and the brothers don't do it."

Seeing the heavy casualties of the Eight Banners of the Han Army, several leaders began to shout one after another, urging Li Yongfang and Shi Tingzhu to retreat.

"Nonsense!" Li Yongfang, who was hiding under the shield wall, said angrily, "Shut up, even if you all die here today, you must not take half a step back!" ”

Li Yongfang was originally a guerrilla general in Fushun of the Ming Dynasty, and surrendered to Jiannu after Nurhachi broke through Fushun, and was quite valued by Jiannu at the beginning, Nurhachi even married his daughter to Li Yongfang, but later with the strength of Jiannu, Li Yongfang's status gradually declined, and now he has completely become a dog of Jiannu.

Before starting the attack, Dolgon had already given Li Yongfang a death order, if he couldn't beat Datong this time, he and Shi Tingzhu and the Eight Banners of the Han Army led by the two of them would not want to return to the camp alive, the matter was already clear, and if he retreated, he would definitely die, and there might be a glimmer of life in the future!

"Boom!"

Before Li Yongfang could react, the cluster dragon king cannon with black smoke had already exploded, and Li Yongfang and more than a dozen Han army slaves around him were blown up into the sky in an instant.

Li Yongfang's body was blown into two pieces at the waist, the lower half of the body was directly torn into pieces along with his two legs, and the upper half of his body flew ten steps away and landed on the shield wall.

The Eight Banners of the Han Army, which was responsible for demolishing the city walls, suffered heavy casualties, and the Eight Banners of the Mongols, who were responsible for attacking the gaps, also suffered heavy casualties.

Under the cross-coverage of the Ming army's firepower, it was difficult for the Mongolian Eight Banners who rushed through the gap to have a chance to rush to the front of the ring fortifications, almost all of the Mongolian Eight Banners were shot by the Ming army's musketeers after just crossing the gap, and the fierce battle lasted less than half an hour, and the annular pit was already full of Jiannu's corpses.

"Kill ......"

In the roar of the tide, one after another pulled out the Mongolian flag soldiers with their lap legs, brandished their scimitars and jumped up the gap, stepping on the corpses of their clansmen to rush towards the ring fortifications garrisoned by the Ming musketeers, the Mongols were eagles on horseback, but once they left the war horses they would become eclipsed.

"Boom ......"

"Boom ......"

"Boom ......"

Rows of dense bullets whistled, and the Mongolian flag soldiers who had finally broken through the gap fell down one by one, many Mongolian flag soldiers were directly killed, but more Mongolian flag soldiers were only seriously injured, lying in a pool of blood struggling and wailing, but at most, they would die of blood loss.

Some Mongolian flag soldiers were lucky enough to avoid the salvo of the Ming musketeers and rushed to the front of the ring fortifications, but the three-meter-high broken wall became an insurmountable gap for the Mongols.

Only one Mongol stepped on the shoulders of the tribesmen and climbed the ring fortifications, a Ming soldier jumped on the fortifications, pulled out his waist knife and slashed at the Mongol, but he was pulled by the Mongols by his feet and necks, and the two rolled and fell to the broken wall.

The Mongols struggled vigorously to overturn the Ming army that was pressed on their bodies, but the Ming army was always very strong, and the Mongols used all their strength to fail to do so, and the cold light flashed, and the Ming army pulled out a sharp dagger from the leg binding, and stabbed down the heart of the Mongols.

The Mongolian howled and hurriedly raised his hands to hold the wrist of the Ming army, and the two began to wrestle without any tricks, the Ming army was trying hard to press down the dagger, but the Mongolians were trying hard to hold up the wrist of the Ming army, and the two looked at each other, and they could feel the cold killing intent from each other's eyes.

The total strength of the Ming army was obviously superior, although the Mongols tried their best to block, but the sharp dagger was still slowly pressed down, according to the heart of the Mongols, and soon, the sharp tip of the knife was only a millimeter away from the chest of the Mongols, and the eyes of the Mongols began to become desperate.

The Ming army's eyes were still hideous, and there was no mercy because of the desperate eyes of the Mongols, as a veteran, he had long been accustomed to life and death, this kind of face-to-face cold-blooded killing was not the first time, and it would not be the last, the two armies fought either you die or I die, and the mercy to the enemy is cruelty to yourself!

The Ming army stared at the eyes of the Mongols, and the hands holding the dagger pressed down hard, and the sharp tip of the knife slowly cut through the leather armor on the Mongols, and pierced into the chest of the Mongols one by one.

The eyes of the Mongols turned from despair to fear, there was nothing more cruel and bloody in this world, he could only watch the sharp dagger pierce into his chest minute by minute, he could only watch the eyes of the Ming army on his body become sharper and sharper, and his expression became more and more hideous.

The Mongol didn't want to die, but he couldn't resist.

When the dagger pierced two inches into the chest, the Mongol's eyes began to become dull, and his arms lost their strength in an instant, and the Ming army stabbed most of the remaining daggers into the Mongol's chest effortlessly, and he could clearly feel that the pulsating heart in the Mongol's chest had been pierced.

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Outside the city of Datong, the camp of slaves was built.

All the princes of Jiannu and the kings of the county, including Dolgon and Yuetuo, have gathered in Dolgon's tent, and are anxiously waiting for news from the front, six echelons of 70,000 troops have all been put into the battlefield, and now the only thing they can do is to wait quietly, waiting for the good news from the front.

The fast horse was transmitting the battle situation in front of him back to the camp like a stream, and the atmosphere in the big tent was becoming more and more solemn.

"Report ...... Li Yongfang was killed in battle, the Eight Banners of the Han Army suffered heavy casualties, and Shi Tingzhu asked to retreat. ”

"Not allowed!" Without waiting for Dolgon to speak, Yue Tuo refused, "Tell Shi Tingzhu that even if he dies alone, he is not allowed to retreat." ”

"Wow."

"Report ...... The Khalkha tribes suffered heavy casualties, and the kings of the tribes requested to retreat. ”

"Not allowed!" Yue Tuo refused again, and roared loudly, "Tell those guys who are greedy for life and afraid of death, if anyone dares to withdraw without permission, the Eight Banners Iron Cavalry of the Great Qing Kingdom will set foot on their tribe." ”

"Wow!"

"Report ...... The Korqin tribe suffered heavy casualties, and Prince Darhan Baturu asked to withdraw his troops. ”

"This ......"

Yue Tuo didn't dare to roar loudly anymore, and looked sideways at Dolgon, who was sitting side by side with him, and the rest of the Jiannu nobles also looked at each other, all of them with shocked expressions on their faces, Prince Darhan Baturu's army was the last echelon to launch an attack today.

Now even Prince Darhan Batulu has asked to withdraw his troops, which can only mean one thing, today's offensive has completely failed.

Dolgon looked up at the tent, outside the tent, the sun had slowly sunk to the horizon, in the color is dimming little by little, from early morning to evening, this fierce battle has lasted a whole day, 70,000 Eight Banners army repeated onslaught, actually failed to defeat the Ming army in Datong City, this result is really a bit beyond Dolgon's expectations.

Dolgon let out a long sigh of relief, looked at Yue Tuo and said, "Let's withdraw all the men and horses, and then count the casualties and see how many people have been lost?" ”

Yue Tuo's head drooped, and he said gloomily: "It's just like this." ”

"Ugh."

Behind Dolgon, Fan Wencheng and Ning Wan also sighed at the same time, such a result was completely beyond their expectations, they thought that they would fight to pay some casualties and fight Datong should be no problem, but in the end, it was not the case at all, the Eight Banners army was actually defeated!

When did the firearms battalion of the Ming Dynasty become so powerful? The strong city wall has been blown open a gap, 70,000 troops from the gap for a whole day, stunned but failed to enter, such a result is enough to make people surprised, if every city in the Ming Dynasty has such a firearms battalion, then what else can the Manchu Eight Banners army do?

The two looked back and thought about it, when Wang Pu broke through Shengjing with only more than a thousand lone troops, and captured Huang Taiji in the first battle, it seems that it was not just luck, if Wang Pu was born twenty years earlier, let him take this firearms battalion to participate in the Battle of Sarhu, the result of the Battle of Sarhu may be completely different, and today's Qing Dynasty will not appear again.

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When the sky was dark, the Jiannu camp outside the city finally sounded the sound of the horn, crowded outside the gap Jiannu like the tide of the ebb and flow back, less than a moment away, from the gap in the city wall to withdraw cleanly, the gunfire and the explosion of the dragon king cannon suddenly stopped, the fierce battle that lasted for a whole day finally ended.

Wang Pu climbed to the top of the city on the escort of Lu Liu, Nen Niang and more than a dozen personal soldiers, standing in the position where the bearded man died in battle, Wang Pu was not worried that he would become the second bearded, Jiannu's Hongyi cannon could directly hit the city head is already a small probability event, if it can hit the same crater again, it will be even more unusual.

Wang Pu stood on the head of the city and looked down, only to see that inside and outside the gap were all the mutilated and blurred corpses of Jiannu, and the circular pit dug by Wei Daben and Minzhuang was almost half filled with the corpses of Jiannu, and there were many corpses of Jiannu who died outside the gap, which were buried to a small half of the height of the Datong city wall!

The air was still filled with the smell of gunsmoke, and there was a strong smell of blood.

On the battlement not far away, there were two musketeers, one of whom had two feathered arrows stuck in his back, and the tail tail was fluttering in the bleak evening breeze, while the other musketeer was killed by Jiannu's Hongyi cannon, his whole body was torn in half, and his suffocating young face and empty eyes would never have another look.

Soon, musketeers came up and carried the bodies of the two fallen brothers.

With a heavy heart, Wang Pu walked down the city wall step by step and came to the open space inside the city wall.

In the clearing, Scarface stood there straight, letting tears slide down his cheeks, and the man like a mountain was crying like a child at this time.

In front of Scarface, more than 300 musketeers also looked gloomy, and stood in a neat row, among which a musketeer, although he had lost half of his right leg, refused to be supported by others, and stubbornly stood in the queue with a musket pillar, he was a musketeer, he had the dignity of a musketeer.

There were only so many of the thousand musketeers who stood on the walls on either side of the breach.

In front of the more than three hundred musketeers, there was a white cloth with a small torso, two fingers, and a large foot, all of which were bearded and collected by the musketeers, and they searched all over the city walls, but only found these.

Behind the white cloth, the corpses of the fallen soldiers were neatly arranged, many of which were blurred in flesh and blood, and some of them were like beards, with only some parts of their bodies remaining.

Looking at the corpses of these fallen soldiers, Wang Pu suddenly felt a panic in his chest, and an inexplicable liquid was swirling in his eyes. Even if he is an iron-clad man, there are times when tenderness is revealed.

"Salute!"

Scarface tore open his throat and howled hoarsely, more than 300 musketeers raised their muskets in their hands in unison, the muzzles of the guns were pointed to the sky, and at the same time the guns were fired, the deafening sound of gunfire shattered the silent sky above Datong, those brothers who died on the battlefield, you go all the way!

(To be continued)