People want to live, and traitors are even more desperate for their lives. If he had backbone, Li Yongfang would not have chosen to surrender to Jiannu when he was in Fushun.

However, now, Li Yongfang suddenly found that his life seemed to be coming to an end, and now he couldn't advance or retreat.

Because he was the first Ming Dynasty general to surrender to the Jianzhou Jurchens, in the Ming Dynasty, Li Yongfang was regarded as the first traitor, even if he chose to return to the Ming Dynasty now, I am afraid that there would be no good end.

On Jiannu's side, the eldest son Li Yangeng rebelled against Jiannu, formed the Guiyi Army, and slaughtered many banner people in Jianzhou, including many people who loved the Xinjueluo family. Implicated by Li Yangeng, Li Yongfang knew that in the eyes of the high-level of Jiannu, he was no longer trusted, and Huang Taiji did not do anything to himself now, but only to squeeze out his last value, in order to use the Han army in his hands.

Huang Taiji made a promise to be crowned king, and Li Yongfang knew that it was just fooling himself, fooling himself into attacking the small group mountain in front of him, and opening the way to Qian'an for the Eight Banners.

After a series of defeats, the Eight Banners suffered heavy losses, and Huang Taiji was unwilling to lose any more bannermen, so he put his mind on the hands of the nearly 5,000 Han army gunners, and wanted to sacrifice the lives of the Han army gunners to clear the way for the return of the Manchu Eight Banners.

Even if he listened to Huang Taiji's words and successfully cleared the way for the army, it is still unknown what Huang Taiji will do with him at that time.

After thinking about it again, taking advantage of the time to mobilize his subordinates to approach the Ming army, Li Yongfang quickly told his second son Li Shutai about Li Yangeng's rebellion, and now he must let Li Shutai know the situation that the father and son are facing now.

At this time, the only one who can be trusted is his son Li Shutai.

"Amma, how can you believe the words of the Ming people? How could my eldest brother rebel, and how could the Ming army enter Hetuala? Li Shutai shook his head and said suspiciously.

"Trillium, don't you even believe your father's words? If it's not true, then how can the Ming staff know your brother's name, you must know that your brother has been in seclusion all these years and has not been released, how can the Ming people know about him? Seeing that Li Shutai didn't believe his words, Li Yongfang suddenly became anxious. Well, Li Shutai's original name was Li Yanling, and the name Li Shutai was given to him by the old slave after the surrender of Jiannu.

Li Shutai still didn't believe it: "Amma, you should know that the Ming Kingdom sent a lot of Jinyi secret agents to Dajin, so what's so difficult to find out the name of the eldest brother." This is clearly a divisive plan of the Ming people, Amma, you know the combat power of the Eight Banners, and you also know that there are still 30,000 or 40,000 banners left in Liaodong, how can the Ming army want to attack Hetuala? ”

Because of the blockade of Huang Taiji, except for the high-level Jiannu, ordinary bannermen still do not know the news that Hetuala was broken by the Ming army. Li Shutai surrendered to Jiannu when he was ten years old, he grew up in Jiannu, and from childhood to now, he has seen Jiannu attacking all and conquering invincible battles, and he has heard the myth of the invincibility of the Eight Banners since he was a child.

"Amma, at this time, we should work hard, don't think about it, if it reaches the ears of the Great Khan, it will be troublesome." Looking around carefully, Li Shutai whispered to Li Yongfang,

"Amma, we are all from Dajin now, our father and son are married to the daughter of the clan, and we are deeply trusted by the two generations of Great Khans, we should be loyal to Dajin, but we can't think nonsense. Amma, repeated people don't end well! ”

originally wanted to tell his son the truth so that he could discuss a solution, but he didn't expect to be reprimanded by his son, Li Yongfang was a little angry, it turned out that in the eyes of his son, his father was a repeat person!

"Don't call me Amma, I'm your father!" Li Yongfang said angrily, then turned his head and ignored Li Shutai.

In fact, Li Yongfang also knows that his son's choice is not unreasonable, although the Dajin Kingdom is a little discouraged now, the Eight Banners are still very strong. And although he is nominally the commander of the Han army and the supreme commander of these 5,000 Han military gunners, not to mention that there is also a deputy commander Tong Yang to balance himself, he is his former confidant, how many people are credible?

If you oppose the Qing Dynasty and return to the Ming Dynasty now, there is no possibility of success at all, and that is the real place where death has no place to be buried.

For the sake of today's plan, I can only take one step at a time, fight the battle in front of me first, and make credit for Dajin Guoguo, hoping that Huang Taiji can look at his past merits, forgive his father and son, and not be implicated by Li Yangeng.

After making up his mind, Li Yongfang decided to attack the mountain with all his might, and under his command, nearly 5,000 Han troops slowly approached Xiaotuan Mountain.

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

When the 5,000 Han army gunners were still half a mile away from Xiaotuan Mountain, the Ming army on the mountain opened fire.

Dozens of artillery pieces opened fire in turn, and one after another shells smashed into the array of the Han army, and from time to time the Han gunners were hit by the shells and smashed their bones and tendons, and their flesh and blood were blurred.

Li Yongfang also has artillery in his hands, which is the artillery captured from the Ming army in the past, except that there is no Hongyi cannon, and there are Fulang Jihu squatting cannons or something, but the Ming army is on the mountain, and it is very inconvenient to attack with artillery at the bottom of the mountain.

Li Yongfang ordered Li Shutai to be the vanguard and command the musketeers to attack the mountain.

Under the leadership of Li Shutai, more than 1,000 Han gunners attacked the mountain under the cover of shield soldiers, with the goal of capturing the first wall of the Ming army.

"Commander, the slave soldiers are a hundred steps away from us!"

On the mountainside, Huang Degong stood on a stone, looking at the situation of building slaves under the mountain with a clairvoyant mirror, and the proclamation of his subordinates came in his ears.

"Command the first barrier, let the slaves go fifty paces and then shoot with their guns." Huang Degong commanded in a deep voice.

The effective range of the Lumi gun is 100 paces, but the closer the distance, the more accurate the shooting. Anyway, you have a wall to help you defend, so you naturally have to let the enemy get close before fighting.

In the clairvoyant mirror, Jiannu quickly approached, and when he was fifty paces away, Huang Degong saw countless fires flickering behind the first wall, accompanied by white gunsmoke, and then he heard a crackling sound, and then looked into the distance, and saw that Jiannu, who was charging, fell down a large piece.

"Well played!" Huang Degong laughed.

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"Damn it!" Seeing that in a short period of time, at least dozens of Han gunners were shot down, and seeing the other soldiers cowering and not daring to move forward, Li Shutai was furious.

"Attack, if you are afraid of the enemy, you will be killed!" Li Shutai roared angrily.

"Kill!" A Han army Niu Lu roared angrily and took the lead in running towards the wall, and countless Han soldiers with swords and guns followed.

Most of the Han military flags are equipped with three-eyed firearms, and a few are bird-guns, and the range cannot reach fifty paces at all, and they must be close to attack.

On the way to charge, the Ming gunners opened fire one after another, and the soldiers of the Han army were shot down from time to time, and the casualties were quite large, but no one dared to escape.

I have to say that the military discipline of the Eight Banners is very harsh, and the punishment for those who flee is very heavy, most of these Han army gunners were originally from the Ming army, and it was common for the Ming army to flee when they were in battle, but when they arrived at Jiannu, no one dared to flee again.

When they were thirty steps away from the wall, some of the Han gunners began to shoot back, shooting projectiles at the Ming army behind the wall, but most of the projectiles were blocked by the wall, and more Han troops continued to rush and soon attacked the outside of the wall, and attacked the Ming army across the wall.

Due to the rush of time and the limitation of materials, the wall built by the Ming army at the foot of the mountain was also high-chested, and the defense was limited.

When the Han army flag rushed to the outside of the wall in the rain of bullets, the Ming army gunners behind the wall could no longer let go of the guns, so they loaded their guns and stabbed them across the wall and Jiannu.

"Hey!" A majestic Han soldier was short and desperately slammed his shoulders against the wall, and finally, under his impact, the stone wall collapsed, revealing the Ming army behind.

Behind the first wall, Huang Degong arranged more than 1,000 soldiers, but he didn't expect to be broken through by Jiannu so quickly, Huang Degong did not hesitate, and immediately ordered someone to ring the gong for the withdrawal of troops.

Hearing the sound of the gong, the Ming soldiers retreated towards the second wall like a tide.

More sections of the barricade were knocked down, and the soldiers of the Han army crossed the barricade one after another.

"Chase!" Seeing that the Ming army was fleeing towards the second wall about fifty paces away, Li Shutai, who had just arrived at the wall, immediately gave the order to pursue and tried to lead his soldiers to follow the fleeing Ming army up the mountain.

The sound of "boom boom" artillery rang out one after another, and countless projectiles broke through the air, and the retreating Ming army was shot into the Han army column, and the pursuing Han army gunners were shot down.

Behind the second rampart, more than a dozen tiger squat guns were placed, and the firing angle had already been adjusted, and the firing range just covered the first rampart. The Tiger Squat Cannon is a curved artillery, and the projectiles fired will not affect the retreating Ming troops at all.

It can be said that the first barrier is the trap set by Huang Degong for Jiannu.

With the firing of more than a dozen tiger squatting cannons, dozens of 10,000 enemies were thrown down, and they were thrown into the column of the Han army that was chasing and killing.

Behind the first wall, Li Shutai was stunned to see everything that happened in front of him, right in front of his eyes, countless Han army gunners were shot and killed by the Ming army, just a moment of effort, hundreds of Han troops who followed the attack fell on the hillside, and the Han army that was lucky not to die was frightened and fled back.

"Storm and recapture the barricades!" Huang Degong commanded in a deep voice.

Only by recapturing the first rampart and placing firecrackers behind it can the mountain road be blocked by fire, so it must be recaptured.

Following his order, more than 1,000 Ming soldiers rushed down with Lumi guns loaded with spears and launched a pursuit of the fleeing Han army.

"Amma, the child is incompetent......"

Li Shutai returned to the formation, knelt in front of Li Yongfang's horse, and said dejectedly.

"Tsk, just one attack, we lost three or four hundred people, which is a bit of a big loss." Tong Yang is on the side, and the yin and yang strange qi is on the side.

"The Ming army occupies a favorable position, and a defeat is nothing, so I can find out the details of the Ming army." Li Yongfang said lightly, "General Tong, otherwise, you will lead the troops to attack next, what do you think?" ”

Tong Yangxing shook his head and said with a smile: "I'll forget it, just let the opportunity to make meritorious service to the company." ”

Glancing at the old fox, Li Yongfang said lightly: "This battle is about whether our army can quickly rush to Qian'an and rush back to Liaodong, regardless of any casualties, even if all the 5,000 Han troops are wiped out, the Ming army will be destroyed and take this mountain."

The layers of walls set up by the Ming army on the mountain tried to block the way of our army, and I have just carefully checked that the main defense of the Ming army was set up on the side facing the mountain road, and the defense on the other sides was relatively weak. So I decided, next the whole army will be dispatched, and I and Lingtai will lead the army to attack head-on, General Tong, you will lead two thousand soldiers and horses to go around the south side of this mountain, and climb the mountain from the south side to attack. If we attack from both sides, we will definitely be able to take this mountain in one fell swoop! ”

"The last general commands." Tong Yang lazily agreed, and took someone with him.

"This damn day, I clearly didn't take Amma in my eyes!" Looking at Tong Yangxing's back, Li Shutai said angrily.

"Okay, let's stop talking nonsense, get ready, and continue to attack the mountain." Li Yongfang said.

In order to offset the firepower of the Ming army, Li Yongfang sent people to Huang Taiji for help, asking for some shields. Huang Taiji was very happy, and ordered someone to send a full 500 high-quality shields.

The shield made of oak wood is covered with cowhide, and the cowhide is embedded with iron sheets, so that even the fire gun is difficult to penetrate.

Under the cover of shields, more than 2,000 Han troops attacked the wall again, and successfully reached the first wall, with these shields supported by Huang Taiji, the casualties were really much smaller. Because the firepower of the Ming army was too fierce, Li Yongfang did not plan to shoot at the Ming army, but decided to use the shield cover to approach and engage the Ming army in close combat.

The Ming army retreated from the first barrier again, retreating towards the second wall, this time Li Yongfang did not rush to pursue, but stabilized on the outside of the first barracks, and then sent five hundred men, with swords and guns in hand, to attack the second wall in a shield array.

"Boom Boom"

The sound of artillery rang out again, and countless projectiles fell, most of which were blocked by shields.

Seeing his Han army slowly pressing towards the second wall of the Ming army, the artillery of the Ming army did not bring many casualties to the shield array, Li Shutai waved his fist excitedly.

On the hillside, looking at the slowly approaching shield array, Huang Degong sneered: "Remove the tiger squat cannon, get on the Franc machine, and use solid bullets!" ”

With Huang Degong's order, several more than 100-pound Franc machine guns were pushed behind the second wall, and the muzzles were aimed at Jiannu's shield array.

"Boom Boom" Franc machine opened fire one after another, firing solid shells into the shield array. The shield can block the lead of the fire, but it can't block the attack of the solid cannonball, the screams sounded, and the shield array was suddenly shot out of several gaps, and at least a dozen Han soldiers were killed by the artillery.

However, such casualties were too small for the shield array of the Han army, which was still slowly approaching the second barrier.

"Chief soldier, Jiannu climbed up from the southern foothills." At this moment, someone suddenly shouted, Huang Degong hurriedly turned his head to look south, and saw that countless black spots appeared at the southern foot of the mountain, climbing up along the rugged mountain road.

Want to split up your forces to attack? Huang Degong sneered.

There are 9,000 Ming troops on the mountain, and the troops guarding this small group of mountains are very sufficient, Huang Degong has already assigned troops to defend in all directions, and he is not afraid of being outflanked by Jiannu!