At a time when Xu Bing was carrying out an emergency mobilization, when Nurhachi decided to put a bigger bet, when Mang Gurtai was keeping a close eye on the battle situation, and when the entire Central Plains would be closely watching the northern war situation, the 1st Brigade of the National Defense Force began to launch a night attack on the 'Tianyou' army camp entrenched outside the Shanhai Pass.

Before dark, Gao Hongzhong was already angry. During the daytime fighting, a fire was fired from rockets from the sea to the east of the camp. The fire sources were so dense and poisonous that the eastern camp was on the verge of collapse. A large number of barracks and supplies were burned, and although there were not many dead and wounded, morale was greatly affected.

Once the morale gained by brainwashing collapsed, it was difficult to recover, and the catastrophic attack caused a strong ideological impact, and a large number of Han people who had been forcibly conscripted into the army woke up and fled one after another. At night, less than 200 people were burned to death, but more than 800 were hacked to death by the Overseers because of the chaos. More than 2,000 escaped, which is a huge loss.

"At present, the war situation is becoming tighter, and we and other soldiers need to work sincerely with their lives and fight to the death." Gao Hongzhong summoned hundreds of generals and officers of all sizes under his command in the military tent, and shouted murderously: "You all have a blood feud with the 'revolutionary army', if you don't give up your life to fight today, the thief will not let go tomorrow." Go down and fight with all your heart, or you will never be spared. ”

With more than 40,000 of the 50,000 men left, the ships could not launch rockets at night, and the artillery could hardly observe long-range targets. This is extremely beneficial to the 'Heavenly Blessing' army that is stationed in the camp. It's just that the first brigade fought too hard during the day, killing Tan Feng's one or two thousand men in one go, breaking up a whole five thousand people, and forcing Gao Hongzhong to send people to Ningyuan overnight to move rescue troops.

It's just that even if this rescuer sets off immediately, it will take a day or two to come-Mang Gurtai's men all ride horses, but the horses' long-distance running ability is very poor, and humans themselves are the king of endurance in the biological world. It is a fool's dream to want Mang Gurtai to take 30,000 people to run 200 miles in one breath and immediately go into battle.

"The number of Zhou thieves is not large, but the firearms are stronger. But the cannon can't be used at night, and it's more convenient to use knives and guns. Is there any fierce general who is willing to lead a night attack and kill it to let the Zhou thief know something? As long as the night attack was successful, Ben would definitely guarantee his two futures and reward him with another 100,000 taels of silver. ”

In order to restore some morale, Gao Hongzhong also made a lot of money, at least to open the reward first. He knew very well that this camp must not be defended, and that there must be a back and forth in battle. If the 'revolutionary army' outside wants to break through, the 'Tianyou' army in the camp must be killed. Even if it is unsuccessful, even if there are heavy casualties, it must not stay still in the camp.

Under the heavy reward, there were really some die-hard gentry and generals who were willing to fight to the death, and immediately several guerrilla generals said that they wanted to lead the troops into battle. Gao Hongzhong was overjoyed, and immediately dispatched troops and horses, leaving 20,000 people in the camp to resist, and then sent 20,000 people out of the camp from the north and south to flank the 1st Brigade of the Wehrmacht that occupied part of the 'Tianyou' military camp in the west.

When Gao Hongzhong wanted to resist to the end, the 1st Brigade had already entered the southwest corner of the 'Tianyou' military camp. Twelve brigade heavy guns were brought in, six of which were used to break through the breastwork fortifications that the 'Heavenly Blessing' army had built in large numbers in the camp, and the other six turned around and turned outwards to prevent the enemy's counterattack. As for the mounted artillery platoon, let them go out to hunt freely in the night.

In order to defeat the 'Tianyou' army as soon as possible, Zhou Qingfeng personally sat in the first brigade. He did not directly command, but after he opened his eyes to the sky, it was like day in the night, and he quickly informed Gao Da Niu of the enemy's disposition, so that the staff officers could draw up an attack plan. "Let's do it, defeat this gang of traitors!"

Heavy artillery and explosives packs were the best weapons for the enemy's fortified camps, and sappers and cavalrymen with large-caliber shotguns were only responsible for guarding and clearing the battlefield. Before dark, the 1st Brigade replenished a large number of weapons and ammunition from the Shanhaiguan Pass, including hundreds of five-kilogram explosive packs and a large number of artillery shells.

After training a small number of officers with a junior high school education, the military strength of the 'revolutionary army' finally took a small step in the direction of regularization. At least there are more and more technical officers who can play with shelling and explosives. As soon as the order to advance was given, more than a dozen artillery and engineering squads attacked the enemy's lines in the dark.

Nurhachi can brainwash the 'Heavenly Blessing' army, but he can't conjure up qualified officers. This traitor army is still full of a large number of former Ming army officers who don't know how to fight at all, and the only thing these people are good at is to defend to the death, because other tactics can't be organized at all. The brainwashed cannon fodder will not immediately master any super combat skills, they are still the original Ming army.

Simonai's eyes widened in the night, and he poked his head out from behind a breastwork.

A bonfire is lit outside the breastwork, illuminating a range of tens of meters around the perimeter. In the distance of the firelight was a mess, the traces of shelling were everywhere, the fragments of corpses blackened in the cold wind, and the scattered wreckage made the battlefield feel like a hell in a nightmare.

The wind was cold at night, and Simon felt that his hands and feet were about to be frozen. The rockets of the 'Revolutionary Army' caused chaos in the camp, and although there were few casualties, the chaos caused by the camp did not function properly. Some of the soldiers in the battalion were hungry from noon to night, and they did not eat a single bite of food. In this cold winter weather, the stomach is growling with hunger, and it is useless to wash your brain.

Simon Ai held a hard multigrain cake in his hand, and this was his special treatment as a bookseller. But even such a cake is unpalatable and unpalatable, and it is useless to even have hot water, which really chokes to death.

After taking a small bite of the cake, Simon Ai slowly melted it with saliva before swallowing. As he chewed, he heard some movement in the night wind, and suddenly screamed, "Left, left, hit left." ”

With the order, a group of musketeers emerged from behind the breastwork, firing at random at the left clearing with heavy arquebuses. The thumping gunshots were chaotic, but there was no accuracy to speak of. Many of them didn't have the strength to hold their guns, and they opened fire indiscriminately.

Shanhaiguan is close to the sea, and the wind is strong at night, and this environment is very bad for arquebuses. Many of the musketeers' weapons were not fired at all. Some of them burned the rope for a long time. There are also people whose ignition powder in the medicine pool is blown away by the wind and cannot be hit. Some people even squatted on the chest wall for a long time because it was too cold and couldn't stand up again.

Ximen Ai also came to the front line hard, but when it comes to commanding battles, he is a complete layman. Dozens of firecrackers were in chaos after a single shot. Some retracted when they fired casually, some stood behind the breastwork and reloaded, and some stood stupid and wanted to see what they had hit.

However, after a dense and chaotic exchange of gunfire, the 'revolutionary army' on the opposite side only reported a few crisp and short gunshots. Almost every time a gunshot is fired, the gunners who don't dodge will be unlucky.

Simon Ai only dared to show half of his head to look out, but there was a stunned firecracker beside him who stood up straight and was drawing through the strip. But when a gunshot rang out from the other side, this guy's head was shattered. The splattering blood made Simon Wai hold his head and shrink his head to dodge, and looked at the fallen corpse in disbelief.

After a few rounds of fighting, Ximen Ai already understood that some gunmen in the 'revolutionary army' were particularly accurate, and they could easily hit people in the head within 100 meters. This is an accuracy that arquebuses do not possess, and it is achieved by selecting the most well-made parts from mass-produced flintlock pistols and mini-rounds and dispensing them to good marksmen.

The bullets fired in the darkness made Simon not dare to look up, and when he retracted from the breastwork, he heard the heavy crackling of wheels crushing the ground in the wind. He immediately had a stirring in his heart, and quickly turned around and ran towards the depths of the camp - it was the sound of the two large wheels of the 'revolutionary army' artillery rolling, which meant that a heavy cannon had been turned over.

Who says you can't fire at night? Didn't the revolutionary army carry the cannons!

"It was the bonfire that attracted the Zhou thief's cannon." Simon soon came to his senses. But when he woke up, he had to light a bonfire, otherwise not to mention that the soldiers would be blind, and even he would be afraid. He didn't understand why the soldiers and horses of the Zhou thieves were able to take the initiative to attack at night, anyway, the soldiers and horses of the 'Tianyou' army could not learn to fight at night even if they washed their brains ten times.

Simon had barely escaped far when the breastwork he had just been stationed suddenly burst open. The frozen earth was as hard as steel, but it still couldn't withstand the direct fire of the heavy artillery. As soon as the cannon came, nearly half of the breastwork and the soldiers of the 'Heavenly Blessing' Army guarding it were killed or wounded.

The flying stones even caught up with the fleeing Simon Ai, and the pain in his back was unbearable, and he had to fall to the ground to escape. The bonfire behind him was also extinguished in the shelling, and the surviving cannon fodder was running around in the dark, and an elite 'Heavenly Blessed' army armed with arquebuses was finished.

"How can this be fought?" Simon turned back in horror and watched the scene of destruction.

There are not many qualified officers in the 'Tianyou' army, and finally there is a spontaneous Tan Feng who has already hung up. There are only a handful of people who can play arquebuses and command large arrays. The cannon fodder that could be equipped with arquebuses were all strong soldiers trained by the Tessy Dutch, but after a few rounds of battle, this strong soldier was quickly wiped out by enemy fire......

Simon fled to the next breastwork, and he thought he was going to be scolded. However, a guerrilla casually assigned more than 100 people to him to command, telling him to defend to the death and not to retreat.

The more than 100 people, all armed with spears, stared at Simon in a daze. Simon immediately cried out in distress. Dark night is difficult for both the attacker and the defender, but it is even more difficult for the side that lacks food and clothing and does not have enough training. A team of musketeers didn't hold it, let alone a captain spearman.

On the battlefield, the horses roared and neighed, and Simon stumbled and his heart tightened. He didn't dare to light a bonfire in front of his breastwork this time, but he didn't know what he was going to do. He ran to another nearby position to ask for help, knelt down in front of a general and said with tears in his eyes: "How should this battle be fought?" For the sake of the parishioners, please give the brothers a hand. ”

"Get out of here!" The person who was asked for help was always short-tempered, and he was a mud bodhisattva crossing the river, and it was difficult to protect himself. He had no patience for Ximen Ai, who came to ask for help, and kicked him away directly, "The men and horses of the Zhou thieves are too fierce, and the wheels on the heavy artillery mount can run all over the ground." No one in this camp can bear it, so they can only fill it with human lives. Ask for your own blessings. ”

Simon was kicked upside down and bleeding from his forehead. When the blood and tears came out, they were frozen into ice particles, slippery to the touch, and painful when uncovered. His anxious heart was numb, his chest was tight and short of breath, and he looked up in the dark, thinking about where to go for help.

As soon as Simon Wai left, the guerrilla who had just kicked him was blown up into the sky. Under the threat of artillery, the entire camp of the 'Tianyou' army did not dare to light fire and illuminate at will. And without the lighting, the sappers of the 'revolutionary army' dared to sneak in and plant explosive packs on the defensive line - the explosion was so loud that it was so loud that it was deafening.

Ximen Ai sat down on the cold ground after the explosion, and he couldn't shed tears anymore, so he could only be stunned. At this time, I heard Gao Hongzhong running up from behind the formation and shouting: "Quickly move out all the gunpowder from Taixi, and send someone to guard it and be ready to light it at any time." The men and horses of the Zhou thieves are fierce. But if he blows it, we blow it up. This is the only way for now, so let me fill it with my life. ”