Chapter 18: The Flames Soar

Duoduo was very excited when he saw Wu Sangui's letter asking for help, and immediately asked for his life to fight.

"Don't worry, all the people who died in the battle today are homeless, and the main forces on both sides are basically unharmed. Let's wait for tomorrow, when the two sides are about to decide the winner, and then take action. Dorgon said.

"Brother." Now that there is no one around, and Dorgon no longer calls Dorgon regent, "You mean, when the time comes, we will reap the benefits of the fisherman?" ”

"The Han people are cunning, in case my Qing warriors suffer too many casualties, he Wu Sangui really may not surrender." Dolgon still doesn't fully trust Wu Sangui, "So, we have to wait!" ”

"That's right, tonight and tomorrow, if Wu Sangui's 50,000 soldiers and horses and Li Zicheng's 100,000 soldiers and horses can fight to the death, we can take them down in one fell swoop." Duoduo said excitedly.

The two brothers communicated in Manchu, not at all worried that Wu Sangui's cronies would hear it.

Dolgon said to the messenger in Chinese: "Go back and tell the king of Pingxi that it is late at night, and it is not convenient to go to war, so wait for tomorrow." ”

The messenger did not dare to say more, and hurried back to Shanhaiguan. As soon as I arrived at the gate, I heard the battle shaking the sky.

Li Zicheng's main force has begun to attack the city with all its might.

Guan Ning's army drew the bow for a whole day, and his hands were worn out, which would greatly reduce his combat strength, and he was soon assaulted to the city by the main force of the breaking army.

Although some men and horses were lost in the course of the charge, these few hundred were insignificant compared to the large army.

Seeing that the thieves gradually climbed to the top of the city, Zhu Youjian ordered people to blow the bamboo whistle.

With the sound of the bamboo whistle, the horses of the brigade pulled the horse oil into a jar, and the horse oil was boiled, and it was mixed with tung oil, and it fell into the city without money.

Hundreds of degrees of hot oil were poured down, and a large number of thieves fell to the ground with scalding.

Even if he was rescued, in this era, a large-scale burn would kill him sooner or later.

Immediately, countless pieces of wood, straw, and even tables, chairs, and bed boards were thrown from the city.

Then the rocket flew out, and the first line of Shanhaiguan was suddenly scorching, looking from afar, it was like a fire dragon, blazing the land of Yanyun.

The soldiers closest to the city wall were all buried in the fire, and the people in the distance stopped and slowly retreated.

The Ming army at the head of the city finally had time to breathe.

The fire burned a stick of incense for a long time before it could be extinguished.

When the fire gradually went out, the invading army continued to storm on, and after several rounds of rapid fire, they rushed to the city again.

At this time, the walls and the ground were still hot, and the thieves had no other way but to use the ladder. This seriously delayed the offensive.

As the number of thieves increased, the defensive pressure increased again.

The bamboo whistle sounded again, the rolling horse oil went down again, the sassal wood was thrown again, the fire dragon reappeared, and the thieves were burned to death again, and they retreated in a hurry.

Suddenly, there was a thunderclap in the sky, and in an instant, dark clouds were over.

Zhu Youjian looked at the dark clouds in the sky and was slightly worried.

There were more and more thunders, and lightning bolts one after another, illuminating this battlefield transparently.

Soon, the rain poured like a scoop, quickly extinguishing the burning fire dragon!

In the distance, Li Zicheng was ecstatic, he was sure once again that he had obtained the Heavenly Dao, such a miraculous thing had happened, and who else could stop him from dominating the world!

Gao Di and Li Yutian were shocked in their hearts, the good situation just now disappeared in a flash, God didn't help the Ming army, if it goes on like this, it will be defeated tonight.

Zhu Youjian's face was also gloomy, the last years of the Ming Dynasty were years of drought, and the land of China was thousands of miles away.

Why did it suddenly rain so hard today, could it be that the Ming Dynasty was really exhausted? So, why did I come back in time!

The rain comes and goes as fast as it comes. The fire dragon was extinguished, and the rain stopped.

Gao Di looked up to the sky and hugged his fists, it is better to ask for the sky than for himself, the Flying Dragon Army that I think about day and night, when will you appear.

Not only him, but the entire Guanning Army that was shocked by the heavy rain was expecting the Flying Dragon Army to fall from the sky and kill all the intruders.

They simply don't have faith.

Sneezing ......

Xiong Wei sneezed and muttered, who is thinking about me.

"Mr. Qian, it's time!" A soldier reminded.

Xiong Wei perked up, looked at the army camp in front of him, and looked at the 200 Chongzhen repeaters behind him.

He waved his hand slightly.

When the Wyverns received the order, they immediately wrapped the crossbow arrows in strips of cloth soaked in barrels of oil.

Lit from the bottom up.

For a time, the mountain they were hiding was full of sparks.

The light quickly caught the attention of the guards of the large camp, who were too far away to see really, but smelled danger.

The guard rang the bell and shouted, "Beware of enemy attacks. ”

The warning sound spread out wave by wave, and soon spread throughout the camp.

"Hey, this thief is quite alert!" Xiong Wei knew that there was only a short chance, and immediately ordered the arrows to be fired.

Whew......

200 Chongzhen repeaters fired arrows almost simultaneously, and 20,000 rockets flew across the night sky, heading towards the enemy camp in the distance.

"It's a rocket!" The guard was startled and shouted as best he could.

In fact, he didn't need to shout, everyone saw it.

The barracks were in chaos, no one went to attack the enemy position, everyone picked up nearby fire extinguishing tools and put them to work.

However, there are too many rockets, there are 20,000 of them, and the barracks are on fire everywhere, which is really impossible to extinguish.

Whew......

The first round of rockets is still burning, and the second round of rockets is flying again!

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Zhu Youjian stood at the head of Shanhaiguan City, asked the time, and said in his heart: "Xiong Wei should have already started to act." I thought that the fire dragon here would be able to survive until that side and the operation was successful. Who would have thought that God would not agree. ”

At present, several city heads in Shanhaiguan have completely broken the defenses, and the enemy troops who rushed to the city head are fighting desperately at any cost, and the officers and men will not be able to withstand it.

"Hey, such a long line of defense is really difficult to defend!" Zhu Youjian sighed.

Although he was distressed, but there was no way, Zhu Youjian passed the order.

Gao Di and Li Yutian breathed a long sigh of relief, and the emperor finally gave the order.

The bronze bell rang regularly, and the soldiers took out one clay pot after another, and the top of each clay pot was sealed, revealing only one lead.

This is Zhu Youjian's special "grenade", due to the urgency of time and limited materials, the number of production is really not much.

In the past few days, he has even collected all the wine jars, vinegar jars, jugs, and even suitable vases in the pass.

The soldiers poured the reconstituted gunpowder into it, and installed iron nails and iron sheets on the outside of the canister.

At first, the soldiers didn't know what they were doing, but it wasn't until after the test explosion that they realized it was a big killing weapon.

For a few days, I was like a baby. Everybody knows that this is the last thing that saves life.

Now that they had received the order, they all happily lit up and threw them towards the dense area of thieves.

Coaxing......

With the sound of explosions everywhere, there were no more thieves standing on the walls of the city that had broken the defense.

The officers and soldiers did not wait for the smoke to dissipate, they all rushed over quickly, mending the swords and plugging the leaks, and quickly re-stabilized the city wall.

But the enemy army was still attacking, and the officers and soldiers threw down the "grenades" without money.

With dozens of "grenades" exploding under the city wall one after another, the offensive of the thieves was obviously much weaker.

Bursts of cheers rang from the city.

Li Zicheng, who was 3 miles away, heard the cheers and gritted his silver teeth, and was about to give the order to continue the onslaught, when he saw a scout running in a panic.

"Your Majesty, our grain and grass have been burned!"

Li Zicheng was shocked, in order to attack Shanhaiguan, he took almost all the grain and grass of the Beijing Division, and now they are stationed in the military camp 50 miles away from here.

The number of guards over there is absolutely as large as it can be counted in the Gyeonggi area, and there are no 20,000 or 30,000 people, so it can't be broken at all.

Even if you are attacked by night, you should have enough time to hold on and call for help.

How could it be burned for no reason?

Is there a spy?

This was the only thought that popped into Li Zicheng's mind.

Li Zicheng hurriedly climbed the watchtower and looked behind.

Sure enough, the sky in the west was red, which was the direction of the grain and grass camp.

With such a strong red light, the grain and grass should have been destroyed. Li Zicheng was heartbroken.

When Zhu Youjian saw the red light of the West, he was completely relieved.

He nodded to the back, and Fan Jingwen immediately went to give the order.

After a while, the head of Shanhaiguan City raised its voice.

"We have 100,000 reinforcements to pull, brothers, kill kill!"

"The thieves' grain and grass have been burned, brothers, kill and kill!"