Since the beginning of the Wanli period, the Ming and Qing dynasties have been fighting for decades, and the Qing army has long been familiar with the firearms equipped in the Ming army. There are more than 100 kinds of firearms in the Ming army, from bird guns, three-eyed fire guns to fierce fire oil tanks, five thunder god machines, thunderbolt guns, until the fire flying crows, Shenwei general cannons, most of which are used for defense, often can not last in the field, so it also caused the Ming army to seem to be huge, but in fact it is vulnerable. In fact, this is also a kind of disconnect between equipment and tactical thinking.

This made the generals of the Qing army gradually develop an understanding that firearms are flashy and unrealistic, and compared with traditional swords, guns, swords, halberds, they are far less practical and effective.

However, after the Battle of Julu, the Qing army saw the great lethality of firearms, and thus developed a strong interest in heavy red-coated artillery. However, the Qing army still did not pay enough attention to the rest of the firearms.

Just like these clay pots and clay pots launched by the Ming army using trebuchets, which contain fire oil, they splash immediately after landing, and the fire is large, causing casualties and chaos on the defending side. In fact, in the early years, the Ming army was equipped with this kind of firearms, but it was just a copy of the "10,000 enemies", the outer skin was made of mud, weighing 80 catties, and it was filled with fire oil or gunpowder, packed in wooden boxes, and the soldiers who defended the city pushed it to the bottom of the city, causing an explosion and burning. As early as when Li Zicheng attacked Kaifeng for the first time that year, Chen Yongfu used this equipment to eliminate more than 10,000 Shun troops who attacked Wengcheng.

As in today's situation, there were in the past, but it was far from the current power, and the trebuchets of the Ming army kept throwing the fire pot into Lianshan Pass, and the entire Lianshan Pass was shrouded in a sea of fire. It won't take long for this to continue. The entire Lianshan Pass will be reduced to ashes, and the tens of thousands of horses of the Qing army will also become charcoal in the flames.

In this regard, He Luohui was well prepared, dug a lot of wells in the city, and prepared a lot of sand, and gave an order. The soldiers of the Qing army hurriedly began to extinguish the fire everywhere.

It's just that Wu Bahai's death made He Luohui's heart ache. At present, only Ningguta's soldiers and horses are the only elite troops left, but the commander of the army was burned alive at the beginning of the siege, which is undoubtedly a heavy blow to the morale of the army. The question of who would lead Ningguta's people was also a thorny one.

Suddenly, the desolate sound of horns and dense drums had sounded outside the city, which made the faces of the Qing generals present change slightly, and they knew that this time it was not the Korean army that came to attack the city, but the real main force of the Ming army.

Since the various departments had been assigned to guard the area before, the generals had already left to arrange the defense of the city without He Luohui giving orders. The only thing missing. It is the town general of the main city. Wu Bahai was dead, his lieutenant and several henchmen were also burned to death at the same time, and now the 20,000 Ningguta armor-clad soldiers guarding the main city are leaderless.

"My lord, the main city will be handed over to the last general!" Just when He Luohui hesitated, Shuo Zhan stood up.

Shuo Zhan, Manchuria is a red flag person, this banner Meile Zhangjing. At present, he is temporarily serving in the household department and holding the position of participating in politics. Because he participated in the first, three, and five years of Chongdeok's war against Korea, he has made many military exploits. He was quite familiar with Korean affairs, so he was arranged to be stationed in Yiju under the command of Ying Erdai and served as the chief general of the right-wing army.

When Li Dingguo attacked the four guards, Zierharang and Yingordai were defeated, and the main force of Shuo Zhan's right-wing army was also greatly damaged. After He Luohui took charge of Guanwai, Shuo Zhan was under his command, but because his soldiers were damaged by Yan Zòng, and it was difficult for his people to command the other departments of Mongolia and Haixi Jurchen, he stayed by He Luohui's side to counsel military affairs.

Shuo Zhan Qi people. Starting with military merits, he can be regarded as a member of the Red Banner and a fierce general, and he is deeply appreciated by Prince Yu Duoduo, and he has been assigned to the two white flags several times and entrusted with reuse. If it weren't for the tight war outside the border this time, I am afraid that he would have already served in the Huguang army. At present, it is quite appropriate for him to be in command of Ningguta's soldiers.

Although Shuo Zhan is nearly fifty years old, his courage is still extraordinary, and he also has a certain prestige in the army.

"So, please!" He Luo will solemnly shake it.

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The main city of Lianshanguan firmly guards the road to the north, relying on the mountain of the skyscraper ridge to build, condescending, like a monster curled up in the sky and earth in the night, but now it is contaminated with pieces of firelight, but it also illuminates the holes and sores on the city pass.

After Shuo Zhan arrived at the head of the city, without saying a word, he immediately beheaded two Niu Lu Ezhen, who were ineffective in fighting the fire, and these armored men in Ningguta saw the blood, and only then did they wake up from the state of being frightened by the spreading fire. The fire on the top of the city gradually extinguished, but then came the Ming siege troops slowly coming from the mountain road.

The black and dark iron armor of the Ming army looked particularly dignified and solemn in the night, and the scattered formation of the Korean army during the day was different, but the Ming army was divided into dozens of phalanxes, each phalanx was about 500 people, along the mountain road that was not wide, step by step towards the main city of Lianshanguan. From a distance, the Ming army invested about 20,000 people in this attack.

Shuo Zhan was a little confused. Zhu Ping'an and Li Dingguo used troops to deceive, but this time the siege was a little too stupid. Although Lianshanguan is located in the plain, but behind it is relying on the mountains, easy to defend and difficult to attack, especially the main city is to resist danger by relying on high. Just now the Ming army attacked with trebuchets, and it was not easy for so many days to cause some trouble to the main city of Chengguan, and now, so many Ming troops crowded together to attack Chengguan, needless to say anything else, just more than ten thousand catties of Hongyi cannons at the head of the city can give them huge casualties.

The commander of the Ming army is either a madman or a fool! Or, there is some unknown conspiracy behind this! Shuo Zhan thought for sure.

But with Shuo Zhan's mind, he really can't figure out what tricks the opaque army is playing. Therefore, he could only order the Hongyi cannons at the head of the city to be ready to fire at any time.

Li Dingguo sat in the Chinese army, followed the main force of the Ming army and the Chinese army to the front of the pass, and saw that Lianshan Pass had appeared in sight, and immediately raised his hand.

The guards around him immediately shook the lanterns in their hands, and then the drumming of the advance gradually slowed down, until the Ming troops in dozens of phalanxes all stopped.

As a result, such a peculiar scene first appeared in the heavens and the earth. Under the bright moonlight, the earth was white and milky, and the fire on the mountain pass, coupled with the lantern torches of the Ming army camp under the city pass, seemed to be a quiet confrontation between two different worlds.

The 20,000-strong Ming army array, except for the soldiers who came and went to deliver orders shouted loudly, the rest of the phalanx turned out to be silent, which made Shuo Zhan at the head of the city can't help but be a little frightened.

The Ming army stopped at a distance of more than 1,200 steps away from the Guancheng, the Qing gunners on the Chengguan had already been eager to ignite the lead, and several Hongyi cannons on the mountain pass fired continuously, but the shells could only fall within a distance of less than a thousand steps, and occasionally there would be shells jumping and rushing to the camp of the Ming army, but they soon went to extinction, and it had no impact on the Ming army.

Shuo Zhan slapped the city bricks in annoyance, the Ming army was really insidious, and stopped outside the range of the Hongyi cannon, refusing to advance half a step, in this way, what is the use of the Hongyi cannon on the head of the city,

But in this way, the Ming army is also unable to advance half a step, could it be that in the middle of the night, the Ming army is just to come to the city to take a turn and show off their might? Rao is Shuozhan thought about breaking his head, and he couldn't guess what medicine was sold in the gourd of the Ming army.

Suddenly, there was a scream of arrows in the Ming army, and in an instant, the Ming army in the phalanx was divided left and right, and immediately vacated a passage about ten steps wide, and among the layers of people, seven or eight carriages driven by two horses flew out like arrows, and the carriage of Wupeng was tightly blocked. Vaguely, two knights in strong gear could be seen galloping forward in front of them, regardless of a qiē urging.

At the same time, in the camp of the Ming army, there were hundreds of horsemen galloping wildly and coming out of the formation.

Shuo Zhan was taken aback and immediately ordered the Hongyi cannon to fire, but these carriages and rangers under the city were too small compared to the thousands of troops and horses. The Hongyi cannon weighed a thousand pounds, and it was not easy to aim at it, and before the two wheels could be released, the carriage and rangers had already arrived at a position of four hundred paces below the city pass.

Now the wagons and rangers had stopped, but the Hongyi cannon could no longer fire anyway. Due to the weight of its own cannon body, the Hongyi cannon is fixed on the city wall by the gun mount, and it may be possible to adjust the range at a short distance, but if you want to bombard such a close target, you can't do it anyway.

Shuo Zhan scratched his ears and cheeks in a hurry, at a distance of four hundred steps, the Hongyi cannon could not be used, and even if the bow and crossbow were replaced with heavy arrows made of iron, they would never be able to reach those Ming soldiers. The rolling wood and stone have long been consumed by the North Korean army.

And the eight carriages, after docking, the rangers behind them also arrived immediately, the Ming soldiers dismounted, unloaded a large pile of equipment from the Wupeng carriage, the riders of the carriage began to assemble, one of the recognizable at a glance is the black barrel, but it is obviously much smaller than the caliber of the Hongyi cannon, and the weight is much lighter, and a Ming sergeant can move it down.

Then came a peculiar gun carriage, the barrel of which was quickly fixed by the riders who were busy hammering and beating, and the cavalrymen continued to carry a few small shells from the wagon.

"Tiger Squat Cannon!" Some of the old soldiers in the Qing army finally had some insight and recognized such things at a glance. But the "Tiger Squat Cannon" in front of him seems to be different from what I remember. The barrel is thinner, the overall volume is smaller, and the shells are incomparable.

Just when the Qing soldiers and soldiers were speculating with each other, the two so-called "tiger squat cannons" opened fire immediately.

The muzzle of the cannon was raised high, and when the cannonball fell, it fell far beyond the gate of Lianshan Pass.

"Bastard!" With a strange accent of scolding, one of the coachmen raised his hand to take off his helmet and still to the side, but his head was full of blond hair, and even the beard and eyebrows on his face were golden.

"One hundred more steps forward! Set the angle, try to fire two shots! (To be continued......)