Chapter 455: An Inflection Point
Sakha realized that this was because the Ming army had prepared in advance, and the state of mind that was still proud of the Amaki had just fallen to the bottom. However, Sakha is the son of Daishan after all, but he will not give up lightly after only a few people have died, and personally rushed forward with people, risking the risk of stepping on the blossoming thunder, and killed at the forefront of the Qing army.
Although the Qing army was not good at attacking the city, but when they saw Dorobelle taking the lead, their morale immediately flourished, and they surrounded it again, and the probability of stepping on the blossom thunder was much lower, and it turned out that the blooming thunder of the Ming army was also limited, and the one buried in advance was almost trampled on, and the morale continued to rise, and for a time the whole valley echoed with bursts of shouting and killing.
The Ming army guard was a local, and he admired this kind of flowering thunder, and he had had tentative attacks before, and he was frightened back by this flowering thunder. Just last night he received an order from Sun Chengzong that the Qing army might attack Yiyuankou today, order it to be strictly prepared for battle, and in the middle of the night he transferred 2,000 infantry to assist in the defense.
However, in the border armies of various departments, this kind of main army is responsible for the food supply of the guest army, and the Ming Dynasty defenders think that they have more than 5,000 guards to help the war, and they have more than 5,000 guards, and the terrain is extremely dangerous.
So he took the locals to bomb the guest army away, and even Guancheng did not let people in, and now seeing the Qing soldiers actually attacking the city as if they were dying, the blossom thunder was trampled and exploded, and hundreds of thousands of people died in a row, and they did not deter it away.
At this time, the bowels of the guard general who had already regretted it were almost cleared, and he hated that he did not leave the 2,000 reinforcements sent by Sun Gelao. But today, since there is only oneself, he has no choice but to go out and fight to the death with the Qing soldiers. This is a steep and majestic pass, and even if the Qing soldiers want to gnaw him down, they will have to break off two big teeth.
"Cheer up, this battle is ...... today" He said in his heart that he was afraid that he would not see the sun tomorrow, but his tone was suddenly raised. The Ming army will win, kill the Tartars! ”
The Qing soldiers carried the thick logs that neither of them could hold, and slammed the door shut, trembling with each hit of the two copper-clad wooden gates, and even the bricks and stones were falling down the slag.
The guards are red-eyed, and if they continue to crash like this, sooner or later they will be damaged by the Qing army's gate, if they are allowed to rush into the city, the face-to-face field battle of the Ming army may not be their opponent. In a hurry, the guard had no choice but to go out, personally led people down to the city, collected sacks full of sand and used them as sandbags, and built them in the hole of the city gate layer by layer, until they were level with the inner wall of the city wall, which was a sigh of relief.
Behind the gate of the city is a sturdy sandbag, and it is difficult to break it. And the gates of the gates of the gates of the Yiyuan are all built by the mountain, it is more than two zhang high, and then borrow the mountain to be more first, the Qing soldiers are lightly armed and Jane never has artillery or large equipment, and it is a fool's dream to climb the city with bare hands.
Seeing that the log hitting the city gate was not working, Sakha ordered the soldiers to build a simple ladder at the logging site. There was no shortage of carpenters in the army, and the arm-thick pine trees were cut down and fell, the branches were removed, and soon a simple ladder gradually took shape.
It would only take an hour or two to build dozens of ladders at this rate, and I would be able to continue the attack before dark. Anyway, he is bound to win this small gate at the entrance of the righteous courtyard, no matter how the city guards hold on to resist, he has to beat it all over the ground to find teeth, in order to be worthy of Amma's trust.
Although Saha's talent is not as good as that of his two elder brothers, he can clearly feel Daishan's dissatisfaction and disappointment with him, so he has been trying to make some achievements to let Amma see that he has also lost his eyes. Perhaps Amma had long expected that the Ming army would prepare an ambush here, and sending him here was just to be a cannon fodder. What he did might be to attract the army in Shanhaiguan to come to the rescue, and then the army took the opportunity to storm Shanhaiguan.
Sakha doesn't want to be a foil for the rest of his life, even if the task this time is to be cannon fodder, why don't he fake it, really take down this righteous courtyard, and then lead the army to attack the rear of Shanhaiguan according to the so-called original plan, cut off its back road, and really make Shanhaiguan a lonely city.
The general of Yiyuankou was shocked to find that the Qing army actually cut down a long ladder with the thickness of an arm in a short time, and even planned to storm Shangcheng in a short time. Dozens of ladders on the city wall are no joke. The Qing soldiers, especially the Eight Banners armor soldiers, are all masters of one as ten, and if they are allowed to climb the city wall, this shape will be dangerous.
Before Sun Chengzong suffered a stroke, he had equipped a lot of firearms for various passes along the Great Wall, and the guards thought that muskets were useless, but they had a strong interest in flowering mines, so they took muskets and exchanged them for a batch of flowering mines.
At the beginning, the scale of the Qing army was not large, and they were blown up after just a test and fled, throwing off their armor and fleeing, so the confidence generated by this blossoming thunder swelled infinitely. But after a lot of calculations, he didn't expect that as soon as this Sakha Lan came, the Qing soldiers were like they didn't want to die, and they followed one after another, and they actually used all his flowering thunders to drain up.
However, this is not difficult for the Ming army to defend the generals, to deal with this simple ladder, the Ming army has its own set of ways to deal with it, as long as it is dealt with properly, it may be able to withstand the upcoming Qing army attack. At the same time, the guard sent someone to Shanhaiguan to ask Sun Chengzong for help, and Sun Chengzong will immediately send troops to rescue after receiving the request for help, here is not far from Shanhaiguan, there is half a day's kung fu can go back and forth, even if the army from preparation to departure, there is a day of kung fu is enough, that is to say, hold on to tomorrow at this time, reinforcements will definitely arrive, then he is done.
As for whether Sun Chengzong will pursue the previous crimes, it is not within the scope of his consideration at this time, if the resistance is victorious, it will be difficult for Sun Ge to behead him?
"The Tartars are attacking, the Tartars are attacking!"
The guards who were hiding behind the female wall to rest jumped up, and sure enough, they saw the Qing soldiers roaring all over the mountains, and dozens of long ladders were like life-urging charms, which were particularly dazzling.
Sakha ran to a high ground, stopped, and looked at the city of Yiyuankou that was close at hand. Suddenly, when he saw a bright light armor, his eyes lit up, and he ordered someone to take his six-stone longbow. Sakha Lan bent his bow and arrows, and the long arrows aimed directly at the bright light armor in the city, and his right arm tightened the bowstring, and then let go in an instant.
I heard a whoosh, and the long arrow broke through the air.
The Ming army guard suddenly felt a strong blow to his chest, and then the whole person flew backwards, hit the city wall behind him, and fell to the ground. Immediately afterwards, there was a heart-rending pain, and the cloth under the iron armor that was quickly stained red with blood came out of his waist layer by layer.
"Counselor, Counselor......"
The guards' family members surrounded him, but he saw a long arrow pass through his left chest. Someone hurriedly helped him up, but saw that the long arrow even pierced the armor on his back, and the hideous and sharp arrow hung with blood stains and exuded a faint cold light, as if he was laughing at them again.
The guard leaned weakly on the body of the family and instructed intermittently: "I won't do it, you, you must resist, resist the siege of the Tartars, wait, wait for the reinforcements of the elder of the pavilion ......"
"The Tartars are ...... in town"
As the guard spit out the last word, the armor soldiers under the command of Sakha climbed the city wall, and it was really as the legend said that one was ten, one person actually killed three Ming soldiers in a row, and the Ming army was frightened, and the Qing soldiers behind him climbed the ladder under his cover and jumped on the city wall one after another, forming a battle formation and stabilizing the formation.
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Lu Jiu didn't expect Li Xin to really let Dolgon go, including his more than 10,000 cavalry. "Just let the Tartar go? The thirteenth brother Lu Jiu was not convinced, the brothers worked so hard to block them here, didn't they hurt those brothers who sacrificed for this in vain? ”
Li Xin sighed, this is already the limit of what he can do, the Three Guards fought hard with Dolgon at this time, and the result could only be a defeat for both sides, and the brothers who died in vain could only be more. After all, the supplies of the Three Guards in Liaoxi were already stretched, and if they were opened, they would run out of ammunition and food in less than three days, and Li Xin's appetite was not big enough to take the opportunity to kill Dolgon in one fell swoop, and then wave his sword at Shengjing.
As long as Jinzhou is held, Ning Jin, which Yang Sichang lost in the previous battle, will be firmly in his hands, and he and Lu Jiu will not be able to explain this kind of thing for a while, so they simply do not excuse themselves, but wave their hands.
"Go back to Jinzhou!"
Suddenly, a group of men and horses rushed out of the front, ragged, and Zhang Shi, who was on guard on the periphery, suddenly became alert, and immediately put on a posture, who knew that when the other party approached, he found that it was a remnant of the Ming army.
After Li Xinde reported it, he suddenly had an excellent idea, and said to Hong Chengchou beside him: "Hong Butang, there is a building below." ”
Hong Chengchou hurriedly arched his hand and said, "General Li, but please speak freely!" "How can a person not bow his head under the low eaves, and he does not hold his civil servant's shelf, and he looks respectful on the surface.
Li Xin pointed to the remnants of more than 1,000 people and said: "There are not a few remnants of the Ming army like this in the Ningjin area, if the ministry gathers them in the name of the governor, and then harasses the back road of the Ming army outside Shanhaiguan, this battle will not be won!" ”
Hong Chengchou was keenly aware of the slightest opportunity to turn over, although a grand funeral was held for him in the court, it was a bereavement and a nickname. Dolgon's intentions were sinister, once the news of his immortal capture was announced, the Ming Dynasty would be disgraced and thrown to the west, and the emperor would definitely be half angry. And at the turning point of his fate towards the endless abyss, a turning point appeared, but he never expected that the savior who saved him was actually Li Xin.
Hong Chengchou agreed to Li Xin's construction and quickly entered the role, and after getting Li Xin's permission, he made an exciting speech to these remnants. When the remnants heard that the person in front of them was the Governor of the Four Sides, who had been rumored to be dead, their morale suddenly soared!