Chapter 23: The Siege of the Three Kings
Inside Shanhaiguan.
Zhu Youjian looked at the disgraced King Ding and King Yong, and was full of emotion in his heart.
The two highnesses wept bitterly, with the joy of the reunion of father and son, and the grievances of this tragic experience.
Zhu Youjian has already blended Chongzhen's memories, and he really loves these two princes, he gently hugged the prince into his arms and comforted him softly.
Li Yan looked at the middle-aged man with the child in his arms in disbelief, this turned out to be Emperor Chongzhen! The commander of this battle turned out to be Emperor Chongzhen!
Li Yan's brain was confused, he really couldn't equate the heroic general in front of him with the faint monarch who couldn't hold the Beijing Division.
Zhu Youjian comforted the two princes, turned his head, and asked, "I heard Gao Di say that you were locked up in an ox cart by the army, who are you and why are you imprisoned?" ”
Li Yan fixed his mind and said: "Caomin Henan people's clan, Li Sixteen, Xiucai was born, was coerced by the intruding army, and was imprisoned for opposing Li Zicheng's drive to attack the city by hungry people. ”
"Oh, you mean to say that you can see Li Zicheng at any time?" Zhu Youjian frowned and asked.
As soon as these words came out, the atmosphere was suddenly tense, and the eyes of Wang Chengen and the surrounding soldiers instantly became sharp.
"The grass people are just talking outside the tent, and they are listened to......" Li Yan didn't expect his words to have such loopholes, and he was speechless for a while.
"It's okay, since you're not a thief, you can stay. Now that the war is in danger, you can go to the eastern city wall to help defend the city. Zhu Youjian didn't look at him after speaking.
Then, someone left with Li Yan.
Li Zicheng had been defeated and retreated, and Li Yan couldn't think of where the war was critical, but he didn't dare to say more, for fear that he would lose too much, so he followed a Ming soldier out.
Wang Chengen saw Li Yan leaving, and whispered:
"Your Majesty, this person's identity is definitely not ordinary! Ordinary pawns dared to question the coach, and he would have been cut down a long time ago, and he was only locked up in an ox cart. He must have lied! ”
"I can see that this person has a calm gaze and an extraordinary temperament, and he is by no means an ordinary person. Most of them are Li Zicheng's military advisors. If he really opposed the charge of the hungry people, he would be a righteous man. Zhu Youjian said.
"Even so, it's not good to keep him in the pass, after all, it's ......" Wang Chengen was very uneasy.
"It's okay, when the Jianyu army comes to attack the city, this person will know that my Ming court has paid multiple prices for the Han people."
Zhu Youjian looked at the blood-colored sky, sighed lightly, and continued, "If he is really a righteous man, starting tomorrow, his heart will slowly tilt towards my Ming Imperial Court." Maybe it will be of great use in the future! ”
At the same time, outside the Shanhaiguan Pass.
More than 3,000 white-armored soldiers embraced Dolgon and Wu Sangui and rushed to the east gate.
Under Wu Sangui's strong order, the door slowly opened. As far as the eye can see, the gate is full of panicked guards.
The 30,000 troops in the Guannai were sent out to pursue Li Zicheng, and there are currently more than 15,000 wounded in the Guannai.
At this time, Wu Sangui opened the city gate and let the Jianjiao soldiers enter the pass, who else could stop him.
Dolgon looked at the first level of the world with excitement.
Over the years, the Jianyu has wreaked havoc nearly ten times, but not once has it broken through this pass.
Now that he walked into the city with an elite white-armored soldier's letter, a sense of pride arose. The military victory that was not achieved was achieved because of the stratagem of his love for Sinjuoro Dolgon!
The 3,000 white-armored soldiers had fierce eyes, constantly scanning the soldiers in the Shanhaiguan.
The soldier who was glancing at him bowed his head silently.
Even General Wu shaved his hair and put on the Jurchen official robes, what else could they do as ordinary soldiers. This is exactly what Dorgon observed.
A soldier did not know if he was too scared or intentional, and the spear in his hand fell to the ground.
This caused a chain reaction, and nearby soldiers threw their weapons on the ground. For a while, the sound of clanging bells came and went.
Dorgon couldn't help but laugh.
He walked to the council hall and saw the vivid sand table of Shanhaiguan, and immediately became interested.
Wu Sangui hurriedly introduced its production method and usage, which attracted Dolgon's praise again and again.
He also let all the generals come in, carefully observe, study conscientiously, and promote it throughout the army in the future.
He didn't know that at this time, the east gate of Shanhaiguan had been quietly closed.
After seeing the sand table, Dolgon, who was full of interest, was going to inspect the western city wall, where he wanted to look at the fertile land of the Central Plains.
The group walked unhurriedly, and Wu Sangui was eager to carefully introduce the purpose of each house along the way.
This is the arsenal of the army, and that is the musket warehouse, and the explanations are endless.
Suddenly, Wu Sangui was stunned, and only skipped one house and directly introduced the next house.
"Hey, King Pingxi, why don't you talk about this?" Dorgon was in high spirits.
"Back to the Regent, uh...... This is a thatched house! ”
"Hahaha......" This sentence caused a group of white-armored soldiers to laugh.
"Regent, the slave is a little anxious, can the minister go to make it convenient first, and then introduce it?" Wu Sangui said with embarrassment.
"Hahaha......" This remark caused the white-armored soldiers to laugh again.
Dorgon smiled and waved his hand.
Wu Sangui was on the verge of amnesty, and in the laughter of the white-armored soldiers, he trotted all the way into the so-called thatched house.
After a while, everyone didn't see Wu Sangui come out, and they gradually became suspicious.
Suddenly, a loud shout came: "Dolgon! ”
Dolgon looked for a sound, and on the western city wall in the distance, there were a group of Ming Dynasty officials, and there was a noble middle-aged man in the middle.
"Dolgon, I've been waiting here for a long time!" Zhu Youjian said loudly.
……
As Dorgon looked at the walls, Dorgon hid behind a wooden chest hiding from the barrage of bolts.
"Damn, the Han people are cunning, they play some tricks of pit people, and they never dare to confront my Jurchen warriors head-on!"
Duoduo scolded, but unfortunately only his own people could understand.
Rumble......
A thunderous sound sounded on the mountainside, and it was a grenade not far behind Duoduo that had been ignited.
Dord's scolding stopped abruptly and he fell to the ground.
"Prince Yu!"
"Prince Yu is injured!"
The white-armored soldiers of the guards rushed in front of Duoduo like crazy, ignoring the crossbow arrows in the sky, using their flesh as a shield, and surrounded Duoduo who were stunned by grenades.
Seeing that he was still breathing, but there was a small wound on his back, he relieved himself.
Then he braved the rain of arrows in the sky, carried him on his back, and ran down the mountain.
With the desperate support of a group of guards, Duoduo was safely transported down the mountain, and Hauge could not say whether he was gloating or worried when he saw the unconscious Duoduo.
At the same time, he didn't care about Duoduo anymore.
Today's year is not good, he was hit by a stray arrow, and Duoduo also happened to be bombed, otherwise he would have killed the Ming army on the mountain a long time ago.
Now that the cavalry of the Ming army is coming, they can't take care of the archers on the mountain.
Haoge secretly said that he was unlucky, rode his horse to the east, pulled out his saber suddenly, and shouted: "My warriors of the Qing Dynasty, the cavalry of the Han people have rushed over, it's time to show our supreme glory!" ”
"Warriors, follow me and kill all the despicable Han people!"
"Kill ......"
With Haoge's shouting, the surviving thousands of Jianyu cavalry rushed down the mountain and rushed towards the 30,000 Ming cavalry in the east.
None of them showed a timid expression, as if they were an army of 30,000 and the other side was only a few thousand.
Gao Di and Li Yutian saw the Jianyu cavalry on the hillside in the distance, and rushed over desperately, and they were still very nervous.
After all, over the years, the Ming Dynasty has almost lost all of its battles against Jianyu!
From Salhu to the Battle of Songjin the year before last, countless soldiers died under the sword of Jianlu, and even a marshal like Hong Chengchou and a fierce general like Zu Dashou surrendered one by one.
Gao Di rode in front of him, and he thought of the promise made to him by Emperor Chongzhen when he received King Ding and King Yong before he set out on the expedition, and his heart was excited.
Thinking of the secret weapon that Chongzhen rewarded him before leaving, he was instantly full of confidence!
Full of confidence, he rushed over with a large army.
When they approached, the Ming army quickly changed its formation, and 30,000 people dispersed, forming a semicircle, like a porcelain bowl, and knocked towards Jianyu.
Hauge also saw the Ming army's change of formation, but he was not worried at all, according to past experience, they only needed to concentrate on a breakthrough to quickly tear apart the Ming army's formation.
What's more, now that the Ming army itself has given up its numerical superiority and is scattered, what is there to fear!
"Tick ......"
A sharp bamboo whistle sounded, and the front row of cavalry of the Ming army took out their five-arrow crossbows one after another and quickly installed arrow clips.
This is a secret weapon obtained before the expedition, the range is extremely long, and the power is also great, and every Ming army armed with a five-arrow crossbow is full of spirit and confidence.
When Haoge saw the movements of the Ming army, he didn't care, the Han people's bows and horses were commonplace, and they couldn't aim at all in the galloping state, and their lethality was extremely limited.
The two armies approached quickly, and when the distance was only 200 paces, a sharp bamboo whistle sounded again.
"Tick ......"
The cavalry of the Ming army, armed with five-arrow crossbows, immediately pulled the trigger, and thousands of crossbow arrows flew away together.
Suddenly, a large number of Jianyu soldiers fell under their horses.
Hauge was shocked, he had never seen a bow and crossbow with such a long range, and although he had been shot from a distance when he had just charged up the mountain, the enemy clearly had the advantage of falling behind.
And now, the Ming army can even shoot arrows to kill the enemy at a distance of 200 steps!
"Rush! Kill all the Han people! Hauge had no way to deal with it for the time being, so he could only keep chanting to boost morale.
"Boom......"
Before they could go far, a large number of crossbow arrows from the Ming army came again.
This time it's closer, and the lethal effect is far greater than last time. Almost all of the cavalry that rushed to the front were shot and fell from their horses.
At this time, the distance between the two sides was about 70 paces, and the Jianyu cavalry began to shoot arrows with bows.
What Haoge didn't expect was that his own bow and arrow had just been fired, and the third wave of crossbow arrows of the Ming army came again.
At a distance of less than 70 paces, the crossbow arrows of the Ming army were even more powerful, reaping the lives of Jianyu like a devil.
Fortunately, Hauge had dozens of soldiers in front of him to block the dense crossbow arrows, otherwise he would have died.
At this point, the cavalry of the two armies finally collided together, and the Ming army at the front was knocked upside down. Hauge shouted excitedly, ready to tear apart the Ming army's formation in one go.
To Haoge's surprise, after breaking through the three or four layers of Ming cavalry, the whole army of Jianyu was surrounded by regiments.
Haug looked around in astonishment and saw that there were less than two thousand horsemen around.
Facing the encirclement of the 30,000 Ming Legion, he couldn't rush at all.
The encirclement quickly narrowed, and there was not even the distance to charge, and the two armies fell into a face-to-face fight.
At this time, the two thousand Wyvern troops in ambush on the mountain had also rushed down and surrounded the five or six hundred white-armored regiments guarding Duoduo.
Duoduo's guards shot arrows desperately, but the Ming army was a hundred paces away, far from their effective range.
And the Ming army used Chongzhen's five-arrow crossbow, and they were shooting fiercely at their phalanx with impunity.
The pro-guards of the Duoduo dwindled rapidly at a rate visible to the naked eye.