To the east of Tongguan, the cannon roared and the dust was flying.

It was the division commander Huang Long who commanded the artillery to open fire on Liu Zongmin's troops who were arrayed in the mountains.

The artillery under the command of Huang Long was formerly an artillery battalion.

This was the first army to master the art of artillery shooting.

A Shenwei general cannon, Shenwei invincible general cannon, bombarded the mountain indiscriminately.

The artillery position built by Liu Zongmin fell into a sea of fire in an instant.

With the shells that continued to fall into Liu Zongmin's position, a large number of infantry on standby were assembled, and under the reminder of the drums, they formed a formation and attacked forward while firing guns.

Liu Zongmin couldn't bear to lead the invading army, and they kept rushing out from all over the mountain, they led machetes in their hands, held three-eyed guns or bird guns, and wielded spears and shield scimitars, and came to stop the Liaodong army.

The soldiers of the Liaodong Army shot at them, and the soldiers of the invading army kept falling, but they went forward one after another.

Liu Fangliang led his troops to pick up Liu Zongmin from the rear, he was blind, and roared angrily: "Crazy, crazy, what is Liu Zongmin doing?"

He saw the advancing soldiers of the Liaodong Army, and hurriedly found Liu Zongmin according to the general's banner: "General Liu, what are you doing? Why should your own brothers die in vain?"

"If I don't charge, the enemy will attack."

The cannon roared, and Liu Zongmin had to put his ear to Liu Fangliang, and then responded loudly.

"That can't be sent to death! Withdraw, it'll be too late if you don't." Liu Fangliang shouted.

"Withdraw? Without Tongguan, we have no way out."

"As long as we live, we have a chance!"

Liu Zongmin still hesitated.

There was a terrible scene on the battlefield.

There was another cannon shot, the fence was blown up and fired, black smoke rose from all sides of the position, and smoke spread out and enveloped the entire position.

"Withdraw!" Liu Zongmin no longer hesitated.

The Dashun army fought and retreated, withdrawing from the defensive hill one after another, and running towards the back.

They tried to repeat the old trick, spilling a large amount of gold and silver cloth on the position, luring the soldiers of the Liaodong Army to loot and achieve the purpose of delay.

However, the Liaodong Army remained unmoved, still maintaining a formation and advancing in unison.

In order to block the attack of the Liaodong Army, countless grassroots generals and veterans of the Dashun Army were killed, and blood flowed along the earth.

A soft chest full of gold and silver was dumped on the ground, and silver taels and cloth were scattered on the ground.

None of the soldiers of the Liaodong Army dared to bend down to pick it up, because there was an iron rule, and if they hid the spoils of war, they would be punished even if they had merit.

Kong Youde led the Chinese army, and with the advancing soldiers, entered the position defended by Liu Zongmin.

What he saw made him quite emotional.

The intruders, who couldn't even get together their armor, almost all died on the way to the charge. The army that stayed behind to serve as the task of breaking the back was also fighting to the death.

Knowing that he is a moth to a fire, he still has no hesitation.

"They are all heroes, no wonder Your Highness is so jealous." Kong Youde said, walking to the top of the position.

Come with him to the high staff, lay out the map as fast as he can, and sketch it on it.

They were designing artillery positions, using brass binoculars and their own knowledge to arrange suitable locations.

Kong Youde held the binoculars and looked into the distance, and saw smoke and dust everywhere.

"It should be the enemy's cavalry!" Kong Youde analyzed it for a while, and hurriedly ordered Sangar Village: "Be sure to block the enemy's cavalry!"

The 1st Cavalry Division moved upon hearing the order, and set up a formation on the spacious avenue, and when it saw the intruding cavalry, it immediately formed a cavalry wall, one part of which met the enemy in the middle, and the other part of the east and west bread sandwich.

The first person to find out that the situation was not good was Li Zicheng's striker Hao Shaoqi.

He had been captured by the Liaodong Army before, and he was well aware of the terrifying strength of the Liaodong cavalry. It was precisely because of his familiarity that he became the commander of the cavalry again, training and commanding the cavalry under the command of Emperor Yongchang.

The emperor hoped that he could train a force like the Liaodong cavalry.

A series of victories against the Ming army made Hao Shaoqi have the illusion that although he had not practiced Liaodong

A unit like cavalry can at least have the strength to fight.

In this attack, Hao Shaoqi's mission was to cover the retreating Shun soldiers and save them from the slaughter of the Liaodong cavalry.

Its forces were divided into three routes, and then divided into four layers in front and rear, to carry out a counter-charge against the enemy.

Trying to rely on his own heavy armor to block the Liaodong cavalry.

But as soon as the confrontation began, Hao Shaoqi found that the situation was wrong.

The cavalry of the 1st Cavalry Division was too fast and fierce, and without the slightest hesitation, they raised their sabers and rushed straight at the heavy cavalry at the forefront of the Shun army.

The phalanx was scattered, and the rampaging horse team easily cut through the armor of the heavy cavalry with the sabers in their hands and rushed in.

The cavalry on both flanks was faster, and they were cut off directly at the waist.

Hao Shaoqi only knew that he had dodged a saber, and the waist knife was picked off by someone, and the whole person fell off the horse, and finally dodged the trampled horse's hooves, but found that he was pierced by a saber with four holes, and the blood flowed like an infusion.

Regarding this war, Hao Shaoqi's last memory is that it was dark in front of him, and it seemed that someone was covering the sun.

As night fell, the two armies disengaged.

Kong Youde, who was staying on the mountain, was holding the telescope in one hand at the moment, biting the pancake handed by his own soldiers.

Because he was worried that the enemy would attack at night, he did not bury the pot and cook, but ate dry food.

Azig did the same, with wine, and gnawed on pancakes.

As soon as he took a bite, he heard Kong Youde shouting, "Azig, come here, look!"

With a cooking cake in his mouth and no need for a telescope, Azig could see a flickering fire dragon flickering in the northeast camp at night.

A thought flashed through his mind, Night Attack.

When night fell, I couldn't see my five fingers, but I chose to sneak attack at this time, and I had an adventurous spirit that was not afraid of death.

It is a pity that it has long been defended by the guarded Liaodong Army, and by lighting torches, it is clearly marked to the command which part is being attacked.

In order to facilitate the deployment of troops by the high command to rescue them.

Azig liked the strong, and he rejoiced, "The enemy is attacking the camp of Kakduli, so I will lead my army to drive out the intruding army."

Kakduli was originally a member of the White Banner and an old subordinate of Azig.

Kong Youde agreed.

Azig hurriedly descended the mountain and led his own troops to command the battalions to support Kakduli.

Seeing that Azig had arrived with the main force, the Dashun army had to lead the army to retreat.

However, because they retreated in the dark, they were fired from rifles in turn, and there was a certain degree of panic, and many people died at their own feet.

"It seems that the army is at the end of the crossbow, and it doesn't wear Lu Min."

Kong Youde listened to the military intelligence report and analyzed Li Weiluan beside him: "If participating in the night attack is a daytime invasion, there will never be such a disorderly retreat."

Li Weiluan was the supervisor of the Third Army.

"In other words, the invading army has lost a large number of combatable soldiers, causing problems in the night attack from the beginning." Li Weiluan followed Kong Youde's train of thought and continued to analyze.

"That's right. It's really powerful to break into the army, and after all this, they still haven't given up the attack. I estimate that tomorrow morning, the army will attack."

"He doesn't want us to set up an artillery position, because once we set it up, Tongguan will inevitably be lost."

"So, we have to fight the enemy while quickly building artillery positions."

"That's it. I'm going to tell the generals to have a night meeting to unify their thinking."

"Okay."