There is a natural mouth between the East Taiping Mountain and the West Taiping Mountain, in the early years of the Ming Dynasty, in order to prevent the harassment of the cavalry of the Northern Yuan Dynasty, the imperial court began to build the Great Wall on the mountain in this area, so the vicinity of this mountain pass began to be inhabited, and the people who lived here were mainly surnamed Zhang, and over time, this mountain pass was called Zhangjia Pass.

In the place of seven miles south of Zhangjia Pass, Xuande built a military castle in four years, in order to strengthen the defense of Zhangjia Pass, and later because of the number of Wara people to break through the Zhangjia Pass, this place has become a strategic place to defend the Wara cavalry, the place of extreme rush, Wuzong Dynasty military department allocated funds to rebuild the castle, the circumference of the city wall is four miles, three zhang and five feet high, more than 1,500 soldiers and officers are stationed in the city, and bear the heavy responsibility of defending the cavalry of the northern grassland.

Forty years have passed, the people who fought in the Battle of the Hetao have passed away, and the new soldiers have forgotten the ferocity of the Warats and have adapted to life here, and a war disaster that will change their lives is quietly coming.

It was another dark night, there was not a single cloud in the night sky, the moonlight shone quietly, and Zhangjiakou Fort was shrouded in tranquility.

For the sake of safety, Zhangjiakou Fort only opened two fort gates, a south gate, an east gate, and later opened a small north gate, in order to repel the main force of Duoyan Sanwei who entered the Kou, the Marquis of Changning personally led 30,000 Xuanfu elites to Dasong Mountain, in order to prevent the Wara people from raiding the pass, the task of the defenders is very heavy, the high-intensity defense makes the soldiers tired, go to bed early, the castle is silent, only two teams of soldiers patrol back and forth on the city wall, suddenly, a sentry rushed to the south gate, Looking nervously at the south, he saw that in the moonlight, a black line appeared on the plain outside the city, and it was actually a cavalry team of thousands of people, extremely fast, rushing towards this side.

"Where did the cavalry come from?"

At this time, the sky has faintly appeared fish belly white, the cavalry is rushing to this side, getting closer and closer, the cavalry's outfit can already be faintly seen, the sentry's heart sank, not the Ming army, "Enemy attack!" Enemy attack! "The sentry shouted as he ran to the bell tower and slammed the hammer into his hands. The ground sounded the alarm, the piercing bells rang throughout the castle, torches rose one after another on the winding walls, and the guards of the city to the west began to rush this way.

The soldiers of the Ming army in the castle woke up from their dreams, and there was a great chaos in the city, and the chief officer ran out of the barracks in disheveled clothes, and asked loudly, "What happened?" But the pass was attacked? ”

But no one knew that at this time, a soldier pointed to the pass of the Great Wall in the north and shouted: "My lord, look! ”

The thousand commanders turned their heads to look north, their hearts sank, and the most fearful thing happened, the Great Wall pass was lit with wolf smoke, and the Warat people came.

At this moment, a shout came from the city wall, "The enemy is attacking the city!" ”

As the shouts continued to spread, the thousand commanders led their own soldiers to the head of the city, took a breath of cool air, and saw a long line of cavalry hundreds of steps away, slowly surrounding the castle in a fan-shape, guessing in his heart that it should be the Duoyan Sanwei who bypassed the blockade of the Ming army, and thinking about the Great Wall Pass that was being attacked, a bloody battle was inevitable, and he could only hope that reinforcements could arrive before the city was broken.

As a strategic place to defend against the steppe people, Zhangjiakou Fort has complete fortifications, equipped with nearly 30 artillery pieces on the city wall, and a large number of Shenhuo Flying Crow rockets.

However, almost all of those heavy artillery are equipped at the East Gate, and the official road outside the East Gate is the only way to enter and exit the Great Wall Pass, which is within the coverage of the artillery.

"Cannon ready!"

On the southern city wall, the commander commanded the gunners to set up more than a dozen Franc machine guns and aimed at the enemy troops outside the city.

Time seems to have stood still, the two sides are facing each other like this, the cavalry of Duoyan Sanwei stands outside the range of artillery, everyone on the city wall knows that if the reinforcements cannot arrive within one or two hours, Zhangjiakou Fort will fall, relying on these Franc machines and Shenhuo Flying Crow rockets alone can not resist the siege of the Duoyan Sanwei cavalry, the thousand commanders put down their clairvoyance, sighed, the grassland people have begun to build siege ladders, looking at the scale, how to say that there are more than 10,000 people.

Suddenly, there was a horn sound from the rear of the cavalry phalanx, and the Ming army on the city wall saw a group of about two or three thousand cavalry breaking away from the phalanx, and they all let out a tiger-like howl and rushed towards the city wall.

"Fire!"

With a deafening cannon sound, a large cloud of smoke rose, and a whistling cannonball smashed into the galloping cavalry, I had to admire them, flesh and blood could not stop the raging cannonballs, a cavalry fell off the horse before he could react, a hole with black smoke appeared in his chest, not far away, a cavalryman was thrown off the war horse, only to see that the front legs of the war horse were cut off by Qi Gen, revealing the miserable white bones inside, and blood continued to gush out of the wound.

Although in the first wave of shelling, most of the shells were missed, but some results were achieved, and the thousand commanders put down their clairvoyance and shouted: "Turn the angle and shell from the side!" ”

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The cannon roared, and the fiery red solid iron ball drew a long arc in the air, smashing into the cavalry phalanx, a cannonball roared past, and with the neighing of the war horse, the cavalry was thrown to the ground fiercely.

Looking at the Duo ** soldiers who were getting closer and closer, the thousand chief officers showed a cruel smile on their faces, "Let go of the shotgun!" ”

With the military order, the gunner put the projectiles that had been prepared into the barrel, with a loud bang, a large puff of smoke rose up, more than ten Franc machines shot thousands of thumb-thick projectiles, the field under the city wall was covered with smoke and dust, grass clippings and mud flew, hundreds of ** soldiers and the war horses under them fell to the ground, those cavalry rolled back and forth on the ground, and their mouths let out a terrible wail, until they ran out of breath.

Huge blood holes appeared in these people's bodies, and some of them were even beaten to the point that they lost their heads, or they still had half of them left.

When firing shotguns, one shell carries three or four hundred rounds, which can block the front of a width of more than 100 paces, and the power is amazing.

"Fire!"

There was another loud bang, a large puff of smoke rose up, and the dense projectiles rushed to the cavalry rushing to the city gate, and in the smoke of gunpowder, a large number of ** soldiers fell....

"Boom!"

With a loud bang, the enemies rushing to the door were swept away again.

Seeing that the Franc cannon had achieved such an impressive result, the thousand commanders were relieved and secretly glad that the enemy had no firearms.

Suddenly, there was a terrible horn sound in the Duoyan army array, and those Duo ** soldiers roared over, behind them were foot soldiers carrying cloud ladders, and a flash of fire flashed in the eyes of the thousand commanders, eleven cloud ladders, it seems that the enemy wants to attack the city wall in a wave!

Thinking of this, he immediately ordered: "Except for the two hundred people left at the east gate, all the rest will come to the south wall." ”

With the military order passed down, almost all the Ming troops were concentrated in the south wall, and there were only some miscellaneous servants left in the city, in addition, there was also a caravan, it stands to reason that there should not be a caravan in the Xuanfu area at this time, and Zhangjiakou Fort, which was in a state of combat readiness, should not let these merchants enter the city, but these people had a warrant from Lu Nansheng, the left attendant of the military department, and the defenders had to let them enter the city for the night.

While the defenders were dealing with the Doyan siege, the men had already changed their armor and clenched their firearms in their hands, and were rushing towards the east gate under the leadership of a leader.

"Smack!" The sound of a fiery gun resounded through the east gate.

Before the Ming army left behind could react, the sound of bursting beans sounded, and there was a scream from inside the east gate, and the defenders on the city wall heard the sound coming to this side, but it was too late, these people had already killed the Ming army by the city gate, and they all released their guns to the defenders who came in.

In the firelight, the body of the Ming army who was running in the front flew backwards and fell heavily to the ground.

The sound of birds one after another rang out, some defenders fell, and some defenders rushed up, and the shouting and killing sound by the east gate gate shook the sky until it disappeared....

After the wolf-like shouts of slaughter, the east gate was opened from the inside.

The soldiers who had just arrived let out an earth-shattering cheer, "The city is broken!" The city is broken! ”

The horses' hooves rolled, and nearly a thousand ** soldiers poured into the city, starting with the fire at the east gate, and then there were fires everywhere in the city!

Zhangjiakou Fort, a military fortress that has undergone great changes in civil engineering and Hetao, was broken by the grassland people for the first time!

Zhangjiakou Fort has fallen!