"Put!"

"Boom, boom—"

At 13:30, the first day of October, with the sound of artillery, thousands of artillery pieces were firing in the mountainous areas of eastern Liaodong.

Their target is the Raven Pass at the gateway to the Great Wall in the eastern section.

The east and west sides of the Yahu Pass are continuous mountains, the peaks and peaks are stacked, only here there is a mountain pass with a dangerous situation, which can pass through the north and south, and this place is dangerous to look down like the old eagle of Mengyu Mountain, so it is called the Yahu Pass, also called the mountain old eagle.

There are three barriers in this pass, so it is also called "three passes".

Between the three passes, each distance is one mile, the first pass is repaired to the mountain crest on both sides, the existing wall base is about two zhang seven feet wide, two zhang high, it is the square material stone wrapping, and the rammed earth is built.

The second pass is located in the valley where the two cliffs face each other, and the stone is used as a barrier.

The third pass is located next to a huge stone that rises from the ground, and this stone pillar is about 30 meters high.

Go out of the customs to the northeast for 40 kilometers, you can go to the city of Hetuala, enter the customs to the south for 35 kilometers, that is, arrive at Qinghebao, an important town in eastern Liaodong, the geographical location is very important, and it has always been a soldier to guard the key points.

In the 46th year of Wanli, it was captured by Nurhachi during the Battle of Sarhu, and it was abandoned for the next three years, until Nurhachi hit a wall in Liaodong in the first year of the Apocalypse, and then began to rebuild this pass.

At present, this pass has been reinforced, the first pass is four zhang wide, three zhang high, very majestic, the second pass and the third pass have also been reinforced, for the Ming army, it is a difficult bone to gnaw.

But when it hits here, it also shows one thing, the Ming army is not far from the old nest of Jianyu.

As long as you cross this pass, another forty miles away, you will be Hetuala, a nest of captives.

The significance of laying down there is enough to make the morale of the Ming army boil.

After leaving the soldiers to defend the captured city, nearly 60,000 Ming troops on the third and fourth routes were in full array, and thousands of artillery pieces were ready.

Behind them, there were 150,000 people who were transporting supplies from Kuandian, and in front of them, there were only 1,500 Jianlu and 2,050 Han soldiers.

Under the artillery bombardment, the wall tiles cracked, the rubble splashed, the four thousand gold troops trembled, and they did not dare to raise their heads, while Hong Chengchou and Qin Bangping and others stared at the city.

"Siege!"

As Hong Chengchou spoke, the Xiandeng army composed of Ma Xianglin, You Shigong, and Qin Bangping left the camp and pushed the siege of Lu Gong and Yun Che towards Yahu Pass.

"Prepare to light the artillery and inform Derge that the Ming army has raised 100,000 troops and has arrived at the Yahu Pass!"

At the head of the city of Raven Pass, Jiala'er really ordered someone to spread the word to Hetuala, and he was ready to defend it.

Nurhachi underestimated the Ming army, or rather, the number and power of the artillery that Zhu Youzhen waved with a big hand.

So far, only Huang Taiji and Du Du have faced the power of thousands of artillery, and this power has led to the fall of Suchang Fort, a Wall Fort, and Qinghe Fort within two days.

Nurhachi was extremely confident in the stone forts he built, so he only left one Jurchen from Niulu and three Han Chinese auxiliaries from Niulu in each of these stone forts.

He thought that this mountain road could block the Ming army for ten days and give him a chance to disturb the Ming army, but he didn't want this mountain road to only give him four days from the beginning of the war to the present.

"Kill Jianyu! Divide the field! Receive the silver reward! ”

The three armies of nearly 20,000 Xiandeng pushed hundreds of siege equipment such as Lu Gong and Yuncha, and at the juncture of the Jin army, the wolf's tooth slap and other siege equipment were destroyed by the indiscriminate bombardment of artillery within an hour.

At present, the remaining garrison equipment is simply unable to defend the Raven Pass, and the only thing they can rely on is the Fran cannon captured in the previous breach of the alkali field fort, and the inferior iron cannon they forged themselves.

Seeing that the Ming army's first men and horses were dispatched, and the Ming army could not use artillery, Jiala's Zhen, who was immediately guarding the Raven Pass, greeted:

"Put!"

"Snort...... Boom, boom, boom—"

At the moment of the Crow's Eagle, sporadic artillery sounds sounded, and then dozens of stone shells flew out, but the range of some artillery shells was less than one mile, and only a few Fran cannons had a range of two miles.

It's just that almost none of these stone bullets could hit the existence of the Ming army's Lu bus and cloud car, and the only one, even the Lu bus was not broken, and it rolled to the ground.

"The army is advancing, but the artillery is not working."

Hong Chengchou put down his binoculars and gave a bold order, and the army of Xiandeng also slowly advanced the siege equipment.

Jianyu commanded the hurried Han soldiers to continue to use artillery shelling, but this weak artillery bombardment lasted only twice, and the Ming army reached the front of the Yahu Pass.

Due to the small number of people, the Jin army at Yahu Pass did not dare to build a camp in front of the stone arch bridge of the moat, which made it easier for the Ming army to attack them.

Lu Gong pushed towards the stone arch bridge, and almost encountered any big obstacles, crossed the stone arch bridge, and arrived in front of the city wall.

With a "bang", the Lü bus crashed into the city wall, and the Ming army also began to climb the Lü bus to attack the city.

Jianyu put the oil in the clay pot and smashed it on the body of the Lu bus, trying to throw a torch to ignite the Lu bus, but when the clay pot was just smashed down, the door panel of the Lu bus opened and smashed against the women's wall.

"Put!"

"Bang bang bang-"

The sound of the bird gun sounded, standing in two rows, three people in the front and three people in the front and back of the Lu bus, the top of the bird gun put the gun, the front row of the gun squatted down, and the back row continued.

When they finished firing their guns, the unsuspecting captives were shot and fell, and they also dropped their guns and raised their shields and hammers to defend them.

While they were defending, among the crowds of captives on the city wall, some people jumped on the door panel, stepped on the door panel and carefully swung their hammers tentatively, while the two rows of Ming troops were not moved at all, but continued to defend, waiting for their comrades to climb up the floor.

"Put!"

"Boom-"

Suddenly, the scattered stone bullets were fired by the tiger squat cannon, instantly knocking down the bird's gunner, and when the Jin army's Jianyu saw this, he rushed up to the stairs of the Lu bus and threw the oil down, and then took the torch and threw it down.

In an instant, the fire ignited the Lu bus and burned the climbing Ming army, and Qin Bangping, who was using his double-barreled clairvoyance, also frowned and put down his hand:

"The tiger squat cannon was captured from the alkali field fort, and it seems that there are quite a few of them."

"Jianyu is a quick learner."

These means of defending the city were often used by the Ming army, but Qin Bangping didn't expect that Jianyu could learn so quickly.

However, in this regard, Hong Chengchou next to him sneered:

"It's useless to learn the means quickly, look, there are already soldiers and horses who have already ascended first."

The Crow Pass is too long, and Jianyu can hold one Lu bus, but he can't hold the entire city wall, and he can't hold hundreds of Lu buses and cloud cars.

Gradually, the Ming army began to climb to the top of the city, and some Ming soldiers also carried dozens of pounds of tiger squat guns to the top of the Lu bus, and after loading, they pinched the time to ignite, and then let people put down the door panel.

With the sound of "pop", the roar of the tiger squat cannon sounded, and the dense stone bullets instantly beat the Jianyu who wanted to repeat the old trick into a sieve, and the Ming soldiers also directly threw away the clean tiger squat cannon, jumped off the Lu bus with a hammer, and guarded the Jianyu who were surging around with a defensive position.

On the long city wall, only one point needs to be breached, and the loss of the entire section of the city wall is doomed.

Four thousand troops defended the Raven Pass, and two thousand and a half of them were auxiliaries.

Not everyone is Zhang Xun and Hao Zhao, when there is a breakthrough on the city wall, the number of the Ming army is increasing, and the Jin army's Jia La's forehead really sees this, so he can only order people to sing Jin and signal the army to retreat to Erdaoguan.

It was only half an hour before the war began, and the first pass of the Raven Falcon Pass was overcome, and the second and third passes, in the eyes of Hong Chengchou and others, were just within reach.

"The army is resting, the artillery is advancing into the city, and we must take the Raven Pass early tomorrow morning! You can prepare good news for Your Highness in advance. ”

Hong Chengchou showed a smug smile on his face, but Qin Bangping looked at the corpse of the Ming army killed in the battle under the Raven Pass, frowned slightly, and glanced at Hong Chengchou vaguely.

Obviously, he has been using artillery, and he can break through the level in two days at most, but Hong Chengchou still chose the most casualties.

However, most of the soldiers who died in the battle were also the soldiers and horses of Hong Chengchou's headquarters and the Third Route Army, and Qin Bangping didn't have anything to say.

It was only when they entered the Raven Falcon Pass that the smell of gunpowder on the Liaoshen Plain finally exploded.

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"Sigh the law ......"

On the vast and sunken plain, in the muddy earth after heavy rain, the red tide and the white waves held each other, and in the white waves, which was only one-third of the number of red tides, Huang Taiji's face was ugly.

He stepped off the war horse and kicked the wet mud uneasily, while Gu Shan Ezhen and Du Du beside Huang Taiji also looked grim.

They intercepted them halfway through Mangui's attempt to go south to Wang Darentun to replenish their horsepower, but ......

Four Mounted Guards......

After two years of absence, the Jin army met them again in the northeast.

The difference is that last time it was Shuo Zhi and Ndeger who fought more and less, and this time it was Jin Jun who fought more with less.

Huang Taiji didn't expect that his own Khan Ama didn't cause any big casualties to the four cavalry guards, so he ordered himself to drag them down, which was no less than sending them to death.

It's just that he also knows that if Khan Ama sends him, then someone must drag the four horsemen and let him complete more important things.

However, after monitoring the artillery of the Ming army, Huang Taiji knew that the tactic of entering Liao was actually wrong, and the combat strength of the Ming army was no longer what it used to be.

In this regard, Huang Taiji immediately said to Du Du next to him:

"Let people first pass the news of the Ming army's artillery to the Great Khan, and ask the Great Khan to allow us to break through."

"And tell the Great Khan that there are tens of thousands of cavalry behind us in pursuit, and the situation on the battlefield is now unfavorable to us."

"Your white flag and my white flag have broken down too much......"

Huang Taiji was vaguely telling Du Du that if he continued to fight, their status within Dajin would decline due to the loss of soldiers and horses, and Du Du also understood.

It's just that Du Du is still a little afraid of his grandfather, the big golden khan Nurhachi.

"Eshui, I'll listen to you." In the end, Du Du still decided to put the blame on Huang Taiji, but Huang Taiji did not react excessively to this, but bowed slightly.

"Once, once to retreat to the northwest, after the sudden face, we must also be wary of the Ming army's short-range cavalry."

Huang Taiji opened his mouth to Du Du and Gushan Ezhen, and the three of them also bowed slightly, and then began to pass the military order to each Jiala Ezhen.

At this time, the strength of the two white flags has been reduced by one-fifth, and no one is willing to fight it anymore.

If Nurhachi won a success, then they naturally did not dare to give birth to new ideas.

But the problem at the moment is that the heavy rain has stopped, the advantage of the Jin army is gone, and after a day of shelling, the two white flags have a shadow on the firearms of the Ming army.

Coupled with the tragic situation of Shuo and Endeger, the two white flag generals all wanted to preserve their strength.

As for Huang Taiji, he is ready to be deprived of Niu Lu after the war, after all, it is better to be deprived of Niu Lu than to run out of Niu Lu.

was deprived, Dajin still had at least two white flag soldiers, and after two white flags, Dajin was really cut off an arm.

Thinking of this, after Huang Taiji confirmed that the army had understood the military order, he immediately pulled out the long knife on his waist, pointed obliquely at the gloomy sky, and ordered in a low voice: "Rush!" ”

"Woo~~~~"

The horn was blown, and the horse infantry with two white flags also began to drive their horses forward slowly, and they were three miles away from the Ming army, so the Ming army had sufficient conditions and time to adjust.

"The general army and the construction captives have moved, so will we move too?"

The lieutenant next to Man Gui spoke, and Man Gui also bowed slightly, but then said:

"Remember His Highness's military order, regardless of the cost, be sure to kill Huang Taiji, don't let them escape."

"Order!" The commander of the four guards and the nine thousand households of Daning responded, and then the Ming army also blew the horn.

The sound of the trumpets of the two armies was very different, one side was rough, the other was quaint.

But whether the trumpets are sounded or not, when they are sounded, the war begins.

The cavalry on both sides moved slowly, getting closer and closer, and the breathing of the soldiers, horses, and generals on both sides gradually increased in frequency and became heavier.

No one paid attention to the muddy water kicked by the horses' hooves, and the gloomy sky began to slowly become transparent with the passage of time.

A sense of depression rose in the hearts of everyone, and finally when the two sides reached a distance of one mile, the Ming army took the lead in speeding up.

"Drive!"

Seeing this, the two sides began to speed up, and the war horses began to gallop with a big breath.

The sound of the vast plain, the rumbling sound of horses' hooves filled this plain, the Ming army did not need to adjust, everyone subconsciously touched the leather bag containing the horseman, pulled out the horseman in the skin, and carefully did not let the bullets and gunpowder pour out.

Everyone in the Jin army held a bow in one hand and an armor-piercing arrow in the other, and everyone waited for the opportunity to face each other.

The first row on both sides was a face-to-face cavalry, and the second row began with a short-range cavalry holding on top of a short arm, and the Jin army was prepared for the possibility of short-range troops after the four-mounted guards were in front of the attack.

The rumbling sound of horses' hooves was like a countdown, and in the eyes of both sides, the size of the opponent's iron horsemen continued to expand, and finally when the two sides rushed through two hundred paces, they dispersed.

The tens of thousands of iron cavalry in the front row of the Ming army were divided into hundreds of squads, and the same was true of the Jin army.

When the distance reached a hundred paces, everyone held their breath and raised their bows and arrows.

The distance of fifty paces made everyone feel so far away, so long......

"Bang bang bang-"

"Hugh—"

The sound of the gun sounded first, followed by the scene of Jin Jun's witty lying down.

A hideous smile appeared on Huang Taiji's face, even though the war horses in front of the army kept falling because of the bullets, throwing out a warrior with two white flags.

Knowing the power of the Ming army's cavalry, how could he be defenseless?

As long as the two armies were lying down when they were fighting, it would be impossible for the Ming army's cavalry to hit the Jin soldiers after penetrating the war horses.

Being thrown off the war horse is at most nine deaths, but sitting is absolutely dead!

The first round of the Ming army was mostly dodged by the Jin army, but hundreds of prisoners were still thrown off their horses, and the horses also stumbled and fell on the way to charge.

The muddy water splashed, and the lucky ones who survived proudly lying on horseback raised the strong bows in their hands, and with the sound of "collapse", they aimed at the nearest Ming cavalry in an instant, and successfully faced it!

"Uhhh

"Hiss!

！ ”

The sound of pain, the neighing of war horses, and the collision of people and horses continued to sound, and more than 100 people fell off the horses of the Ming army, and in the face of the careful thinking of the Jin army, the short cavalry in the second row chose to use hand-to-hand combat to tell the Jin army who was the first short soldier in the land of northern Liaobei!

"Bang!"

"Rush over!"

The war horses collided, and the soldiers on horseback flew up, but Huang Taiji didn't care about everything, what he cared about was to rush through the encirclement of the Ming army and run northwest.

Du Du and the two Gushan Ezhen, as well as the Baijia Ba Laya, protected his Chinese army Daxu, and some of the Bai Jia Ba Laya skillfully shot some Ming troops who wanted to kill Huang Taiji when the two sides collided, but the Ming troops around them did not decrease......

"That's not right! Why are these Ming troops pouring into the Chinese army?! ”

At the same time as breaking through, Huang Taiji sensed that something was wrong the moment he fought.

Red tides were rushing towards him from all directions, which was not normal at all.

Even under normal circumstances, the soldiers hope to kill the generals and capture the flag to become famous, but have they never been so crazy?

"Kill the dog Tartar!"

"Where is Huang Taiji!?"

"Kill Huang Taiji first!"

For a while, Huang Taiji hated that he could understand Chinese, because on the battlefield, almost all the Ming troops were shouting his name.

His hands and feet were cold, but he still gritted his teeth and rushed left and right, trying to break out of the encirclement.

"Something is wrong! Why is the Ming army so obsessed with surrounding us this time?! ”

Du Du followed Huang Taiji and led the army to try to break out of the siege, but soon he also realized that something was wrong.

Normally, after the cavalry collided with the surface attack, they all retreated in a roundabout way, and a small number of short soldiers may be left behind in order to cover the withdrawal of the large army for the next face attack, but the current Ming army is basically waving short soldiers like a tide, and they don't think about the second face attack at all.

It is clear that the face is in their best interest, but they do not perform a second face.

In this way, Huang Taiji naturally has no way to break through with the opportunity of the second face break.

30,000 iron cavalry fought 9,000, but in an instant, the Ming army's iron cavalry outflanked the Jin army, and Man Gui did not think about the combat method of repeated confrontation.

If you want to completely kill Huang Taiji, you will besiege and annihilate this place at any cost!

On the periphery of the battlefield, Man Gui was cruising outside the battlefield with the cavalry in front of him, staring at the Jin army in the chaos, and even more so watching the number of the Jin army getting smaller and smaller.

At this time, he already thought that Huang Taiji could not escape, but the turning point of things often lies in this impossibility.

Suddenly, the sound of horses' hooves appeared in the distance, and the sound of horses' hooves was insignificant compared to the chaos of the battlefield.

However, the sound of the wooden whistle brought by the horse's hooves was enough to let Man Gui know that the tide of the battle had changed......

"Commander-in-chief! The old slave led his troops back the same way and was killing here, less than fifteen miles away from our army! ”

Tang rode wildly, and when he came to Man Gui, he made a bow on horseback, and Man Gui said with an ugly face:

"This old slave still wants to attack us!"

"Where are Mr. Cao's soldiers and horses?"

Man Gui turned his head and asked the commander of the four guards, and the commander of the Tian Cewei among the four guards also said:

"General Cao has arrived ten miles to the southeast!"

"Just in time!" Man Gui turned his head to look at Huang Taiji's Daxu, and then ordered:

"Order General Cao to go to stop the old slave, and after killing Huang Taiji, share the credit with him!"

"Order!" The commander of Tian Cewei immediately arranged for a new Tang cavalry to inform Cao Wenzhao, and Man Gui also led everyone to continue to watch the battlefield where the two white flags were hanged.

They can't look down on the battlefield, but they can tell from the two white flags that they are constantly falling, and their numbers are dwindling like crazy.

"Peng!"

The golden gourd hammer struck, and Huang Taiji, who was rushing left and right, was suddenly hit in the waist, and instantly fell from the war horse, feeling pain.

"Baylor!" Seeing this, Zhengbai Qigu Shan Ezhen immediately rushed with Baijia Balaya and killed the Ming army iron cavalry around Huangtaiji.

"Dismount! Formation! ”

Gushan Ezhen turned over and dismounted to help Huang Taiji up, and Huang Taiji, who realized that he could not break through, also held on to his waist that was hit, and decisively ordered to dismount and form a formation.

If you don't take advantage of the fact that the establishment has not been devastated, it will be difficult to form a formation when Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen are all dead.

There can still be a glimmer of life in the formation, and if you don't form the formation, you are waiting for death.

Huang Taiji did not believe that his Khan Ama was willing to exchange the lives of nearly 10,000 people under two white flags for a victory.

"Dismount! Change the bow! ”

The Jin army, which was not damaged in the formation, began to dismount and gather towards the Chinese army represented by Baijia Balaya under the command of Jiala Ezhen and Niu Lu Ezhen.

It turns out that Huang Taiji was right about this.

When Baijia Balaya turned over and dismounted, they began to counterattack the Ming iron cavalry with heavy infantry bows, and as the number of people gathered increased, the Jin army gradually stabilized the decline of the imminent defeat.

"Chief soldier, Jianyu has dismounted!"

The commander of Long Xiangwei, who was holding a binocular, reminded Man Gui, and when Man Gui heard this, he immediately raised his hand and ordered:

"Disperse the army and put the prepared rifles to use!"

"Bell, bell, bell—"

The sound of gold sounded, and for a while, the Ming army's iron horses flew away like birds and beasts, revealing the face of the battlefield.

At this moment, the battlefield was covered with countless war horses and prisoners, as well as the corpses of the Ming army, and in the center of the battlefield, compared with the number of two white flags before the battle, their number was reduced by a quarter, and it can be said that the losses were heavy.

The only thing that prevented them from surrendering was not the pride of being a Jurchen, but the fact that their families were still in Hetuala.

Everyone was in a mess, and some of the Jianjiao who were begging for help in the pile of corpses were rescued and dragged to the formation, while Huang Taiji's face was pale and his head was covered with beads of sweat.

The waist that was smashed by someone was extremely painful at the moment, and the pain was unbearable, so he could only hold his waist and sit on the corpse of a war horse, obviously not lightly injured.

"Baylor, the Ming army has retreated, and it seems that they are preparing to load their guns and continue to face each other."

Gushan Ezhen, who was stained with blood on his body, came to help Huang Taiji, and Huang Taiji's forehead was full of beads of sweat, and his face was pale with pain, but he still endured the pain and said:

"What about Du Du......"

"Du Du Taiji......" Gu Shan looked to the side with some unspeakability, and Huang Taiji also looked over when he saw this.

I saw that more than a dozen steps away, Du Du was lying on his lap with a bloodstained face, and his mouth was spitting blood foam from time to time.

"Help me through!" Seeing Du Du's appearance, Huang Taiji grabbed the hand of Zhengbai Qigu Shan and ordered the other party to help him over.

Gushan was really helpless, so he could only help Huang Taiji over, and when Huang Taiji staggered to Du Du, he knelt down in an instant because of the pain in his lower back.

"Dudu!"

Seeing the helmet disappear and his face covered in blood, no matter who saw him, he wouldn't live long, and Huang Taiji also grabbed his hand.

“……”

Du Du's eyes widened, and he wanted to say something, but he couldn't say a word except for a mouthful of blood foaming out.

He just grabbed Huang Taiji's hand and refused to let go.

In the end, Huang Taiji didn't even notice how he left, but when he saw that there was no god in Du Du's eyes, he clenched his hand tightly and made sure that he was dead.

"Master—"

Seeing Du Du die, Gushan Ezhen with a white flag immediately panicked, you must know that Du Du is the eldest grandson of Nurhachi, if Nurhachi knows that Du Du is dead, I am afraid he will have to be buried as the first person!

"He's dead! Think about how we're going to survive! ”

Huang Taiji pulled away Du Du's clenched hand, sat on the muddy ground with his waist on his back, and wanted to say something with a pale face, but heard the dense sound of horses' hooves again.

The offensive of the Ming army is coming again......