Cao Bianjiao, the chief officer of the wolf battalion, received the report from the scout battalion, and couldn't help but say a foul word, the whole army was rushing day and night, still one step slower, if Hongshankou could support it for a long time, everything would be OK, but he lost it without firing a shot, he was so angry that he could only greet Zhang Wanchun's whole family N generation.

He also wanted to adopt Yuan Chonghu's suggestion, sneak attack from the path, and recapture Hongshan Pass, but looking at the exhausted soldiers, he could only helplessly dispel this idea, and ordered the whole army to rest on the spot and prepare for battle.

He sent someone to inform the scouts who were scouting in front to closely monitor the movements of the Jin army at Hongshankou, and also sent people to notify the Shenji Battalion and the Phoenix Legion that were still behind, and then observed the terrain.

Huang Taiji's soldiers attacked and captured the three major fortresses of Da'ankou, Longjing Pass and Hongshankou in three ways, and the Hongshankou soldiers took it without blood, so smoothly that Huang Taiji couldn't believe it, and when raiding Longjing Pass, it was met with stubborn resistance from the Ming army.

There were a lot of Jin soldiers in the city, taking advantage of the chaos to raid, intending to open the city gate, the general Zhang Ande was wounded in the melee, the entire right arm was cut off, fortunately his own soldiers desperately covered to save his life, but the Ming army was greatly defeated, and the Jin soldiers who mixed into the city became more and more courageous, plus the Jin army outside the city was fierce, under the internal and external attacks, Zhang Ande wanted to abandon the city and escape.

In the original history, Zhang Ande was defeated and abandoned the city to flee for his life, and Longjing Pass fell, but perhaps because of Zhu Jian's butterfly wing effect, the trajectory of history has changed a little here.

At the critical moment, a young lieutenant named Zhou Yuji stepped forward, took the lead, led the army to kill all the Jin army spies in the city, and then climbed to the top of the city to kill the enemy, not only replacing Zhang Ande to command the battle, but also greatly boosting the morale of the soldiers. However, Huang Taiji was bound to win Longjing Pass, leading the army to attack desperately, and the city was in danger.

On the other hand, the Jin army hit the iron plate when the sneak attack on Da'ankou, and the general Zhou Zhen was very serious about carrying out the warning order from above, not only urgently recruited the young and strong in the city to prepare for war, desperately strengthened the fortifications of the city, but also carried out a surprise search of the tribesmen in the city, and killed a lot of Jin soldiers who mixed in, when the Jin army attacked the city outside the city, although the Jin army agents who mixed into the city launched a surprise attack, but because the number was too small, it only caused a small chaos to the Ming army for a time, and was quickly destroyed by Zhou Zhen with troops.

Because Zhou Zhen was prepared, strengthen the vigilance, the Jin army failed to attack the city, can only launch a strong attack, the Ming army in the city under the command of Zhou Zhen stubbornly resisted, many times repelled the Jin army's crazy attack, but also suffered heavy casualties, Zhou Zhen can only force the young and strong to help defend the city, while sending people for help.

Due to the desperate resistance of Zhou Zhen and Zhou Yuji, although Daankou and Longjing Pass were critical, they were not lost, and they bought precious time for the Li Xin and Lu Hongniang departments who rushed to reinforce them.

Li Xin's Shenji Battalion was responsible for reinforcing Daankou, and when they arrived, the soldiers were exhausted, but the rumbling guns and the earth-shattering roar made the soldiers dare not relax at all, gritted their teeth, and went to the city to defend.

The Ming army guarding the nine sides is the most elite unit in the Ming army, but there are few guns and artillery ammunition, and they basically use swords and other weapons to tear apart the Jin soldiers.

After the soldiers of the Shenji Battalion landed in the city, they quickly threw grenades under the city, and a series of violent explosions sounded, and the shrapnel fired everywhere was intertwined into a web of death, blowing down a large number of golden soldiers, and then picked up a well-made Lumi gun and bombarded it, and shot down a large number of golden soldiers, and the sudden fierce fire stunned the golden soldiers who were besieging the city, why was the Ming army's firepower in the city so fierce?

"Quick, give me the Franc cannon and put it on the head of the city."

Li Xin ordered the young men in the city to help carry the Franc machine guns, a full twenty Franc machine guns to the city, and bombarded the Jin army outside the city, firing all the flowering shells, the lethality was much more powerful than the solid iron bullets, under the intensive artillery fire, the Jin soldiers were blown down a large area, and had to be called gold to withdraw the troops.

If it weren't for Zhu Jiantai's overly cautious and too many worries about the three new armies, worried that he had not been trained enough, and had not yet passed the test of actual combat, he hurriedly sent them to the battlefield, and forced them to give each of them 20 small-caliber Franco machine guns and a large number of guns and ammunition, the roads in those years were basically mud roads, and the means of transport were all horse-drawn carts and mules, so that the speed of the march was slowed down.

Longjing Pass received timely reinforcements from the Phoenix Legion at the critical moment, and the soldiers of the Phoenix Legion also landed in the city, first greeted the besieging Jin soldiers with several waves of grenades, and then strafed with sophisticated Lu Mi guns, and then transported twenty Franc machine guns to the city to bombard, killing and wounding a large number of Jin soldiers.

Huang Taiji drove the expedition in person, personally commanded the battle to capture Longjing Pass, seeing that the warriors were going to kill the city, they were about to take Longjing Pass, the firepower of the Ming army suddenly became fierce and abnormal, no matter how brave the warriors were, after all, they were only flesh and blood, and they couldn't stand such fierce firepower at all, seeing that the casualties were large, they could only reluctantly order Mingjin to withdraw the troops.

This time, no matter how brave the warriors of the Jin soldiers were, they were not afraid of life and death, all of them fell under the death blockade line constructed by intensive artillery fire and bullet rain, and rushed to the city and were also blown up by grenades, and the dead and wounded were in disarray, and even the ladders for the siege could not be erected, and the heavy siege equipment that rushed to the car was also blown to pieces, and even the city walls could not be touched.

Huang Taiji and the generals around him were puzzled, why did the Ming army suddenly become so powerful?

"Your Majesty, what is that?" When the sharp-eyed generals saw the red battle flag raised at the head of the city, they couldn't help but exclaim, could it be that the reinforcements of the Ming army are coming?

The distance was too far, only a red battle flag could be seen clearly, but what was embroidered on it could not be seen clearly, Huang Taiji galloped forward, startled the guards around him, and hurriedly rushed forward to surround him in the middle.

Huang Taiji didn't dare to get too close, there was still some distance from the Ming army's artillery shell, the emperor was hit by a shell, seriously injured and hung up, he didn't want to meet the emperor at such a young age.

Behind the battlements, several snipers from the hunter battalion held a monocular and looked into the distance, staring at Huang Taiji under the golden Luo umbrella and swallowing saliva, muttering to themselves, "Dear, closer, closer, please, dear, closer......"

The snipers didn't know that Huang Taiji was on the front line in person, but they only guessed that it was a big official, if he shot his head, the credit would definitely be great, but unfortunately that guy was a ghost, and he didn't enter the range of Lu Mi Gong, which made people swallow saliva and be angry.

At the head of the city, Lu Hongniang also held a monocular to observe the enemy's situation, and naturally saw Huang Taiji who was on the front line, Huang Taiji couldn't do it without attracting the attention of the Ming army, and the guards around him were holding Huang Cancan's golden Luo umbrella, which was so eye-catching that it seemed to tell the soldiers of the Ming army to fight here, fight here.

"Can you hit it?" Lu Hongniang asked while observing the enemy's situation, she didn't know that it was Huang Taiji, the emperor of the Dajin Empire, but she only guessed that it was a very big official, if it was within the range of the Franc cannon, it would be a blast.

The artillery commander on the side hurriedly replied that the target was outside the range of the Franco's cannon, unless it was a red-coat cannon, but that thing was too heavy and heavy to carry, and it was only suitable for defending the city.

"Phoenix Legion, what the hell is that? Check it out for me. ”

Huang Taiji, who was sitting on a tall horse, saw clearly that the red battle flag was embroidered with a phoenix in flames, and there were four big characters on the other side, which should be the reinforcements that the Ming army had just arrived, but what the hell is the Phoenix Legion? He had to find out the situation of the Phoenix Legion, the troop allocation, who the commander was, etc., so that he could make targeted deployments.

At this time, the subordinates reported that the attack on Daankou was blocked, and the firepower of the Ming army suddenly became very fierce, and the casualties of the soldiers were too great, so they asked to suspend the siege.

Huang Taiji thought for a while before giving an order, leaving two partial divisions to feint to attack Da'ankou and Longjing Pass, and he led the main force to rush to Hongshankou, which he had already obtained, and he would use Hongshankou as a breakthrough to invade the hinterland of Daming from there.