An inexplicable sense of uneasiness lingered in Huang Taiji's heart, and he also gave the order to stop the army.

"Stop the army, why stop the army?"

The only person who can say this kind of thing and dare to speak to Huang Taiji like this is Amin, who has a violent personality.

He pointed to the Shanhaiguan close at hand and said: "The Guanning army is gone, and now the people stationed in Shanhaiguan are just the recruits who have just been recruited by the Ming people in the past half a year. ”

"The siege equipment hasn't caught up yet, did you let the sons and daughters jump up the mountain customs on horseback?"

Huang Taiji shouted: "Set up camp!" ”

Amin retreated angrily.

In this way, ten miles away from Shanhaiguan, Huang Taiji set up camp.

"This Emperor Taiji is stable enough."

On the Shanhai Pass, Cao Wenzhao stepped on the city to look out, and he was also moved by the stability of Huang Taiji.

"Hide the cannon first."

Ding Mingluan suggested: "It's almost enough to leave a few doors, and you can't withdraw them all, otherwise it is estimated that Huang Taiji's suspicious nature will not dare to attack." ”

Cao Wenzhao nodded and asked, "Do you want to withdraw the defenders?" ”

"Leave a few thousand people, there is no need to sing empty city plans with Huang Taiji, he is not Sima Yi, but he is more suspicious than Sima Yi."

"Okay, just do as you say."

Huang Taiji was indeed suspicious, and the first thing he did after setting up camp was to send scouts to explore the truth of Shanhaiguan.

Ding Mingluan left eight cannons on the head of the city, which was the number placed on the head of Ningyuan City before, and now that Ningyuan has been blown into ruins, it is reasonable for these eight cannons to be pulled back to Shanhaiguan.

In addition to the artillery, the artillery of the first town stood on the head of the city, and several thousand soldiers stood on the top of the city.

The number of artillery pieces was the same, and the number of defenders was about the same, but it was still not enough to dispel Huang Taiji's concerns.

"According to what Li Shaowu and a few people said, the Guanning army has a total of 70,000, this time Yuan Chonghuan took the risk to send troops and only brought out 60,000, Jinzhou and Ningyuan left 10,000 people, and now there are only a few thousand people in this Shanhaiguan, not to mention that last year, the Ming court also trained a new army, what about the soldiers?"

Huang Taiji tightened his eyebrows, and muttered in his heart.

He now feels more and more that there is fraud in Shanhaiguan, but what kind of fraud is it, Huang Taiji always feels that he can't say it.

It's hard to do it.

Most of the Ming army is hiding outside the Shanhai Pass, waiting to attack an ambush while they are attacking the city?

As soon as this idea was raised, it was vetoed by Huang Taiji himself.

If the Ming court really did this, it would be the fulfillment of his imperial taiji.

Fighting in the field, he Huang Taiji and his Manchu Eight Banners, now there is really a feeling of being invincible all over the world.

In the Battle of the Hunhe River that year, 50,000 people in the Eight Banners shook the 130,000 elites of Liaodong, including the Qi family's army, and the result was still a complete victory, and even the Qi family's army was wiped out.

From then on, the army of the Ming Dynasty never dared to leave the fortified fortress, and could only defend it to the death.

This is the real combat effectiveness, and it is the confidence of Huang Taiji.

It can no longer be delayed to fight a war of attrition, the military rations are seriously insufficient, if the Shanhai Pass cannot be broken, the only way left in front of Huang Taiji can only be to invade Korea.

"Order the three armies, rest for a meal, and launch an attack in the afternoon."

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"Huang Taiji has finally moved."

Ding Mingluan, who had been guarding the city, noticed the movement of the Houjin army, and immediately became excited, ran quickly above the city, and shouted loudly.

"Push all the artillery up, and all artillery associations will be in position according to the pre-war arrangement."

With Ding Mingluan's order, the quiet Shanhaiguan City suddenly became busy, and the cannons were pushed up the city tower, the camouflaged rain cloth was removed, and the dark secluded cave mouth was exposed in the direction outside the Shanhaiguan.

"One association and one battalion are in place!"

"The second association and the third battalion are in place!"

"One association and two battalions are in place!"

Ding Mingluan shouted: "Prepare the school cannon." ”

Just when Ding Mingluan was busy, Cao Wenzhao took Sun Yuanhua to the city tower, and Sun Yuanhua was also followed by seven or eight blonde foreigners.

This is a 'military expedition' from the United Kingdom.

Unlike Cao Wenzhao, who was full of anticipation, Sun Yuanhua's expression was very serious, he was holding a blank notebook for recording in his hand, and he was still holding a pen in his hand, staring at it with blazing eyes.

Ding Mingluan naturally also saw Sun Yuanhua, and ran over quickly: "Dean, the city tower is dangerous, you better avoid it first, and send it to you after writing down the detailed data." ”

"Nonsense."

Sun Yuanhua reprimanded: "You are the commander, you don't feel at ease to fight and record anything for the old man, command your artillery, and the old man will do the rest by himself." ”

"Don't talk nonsense, go quickly!"

"Yes!"

Ding Mingluan puffed up his chest, and when he turned around, he glanced at the group of Britons who were talking to each other, and left quickly.

This battle is also fresh enough.

Da Ming and Hou Jin fought, and a group of foreigners watched the battle on the front line.

This can be regarded as a precedent for thousands of years of war history in China, right?

"Command, the enemy cavalry still has five miles!"

Ding Mingluan didn't move.

The Houjin offensive was layered, first the cavalry stepped forward, showing off the so-called cavalry and archery skills, but the Houjin were not traditional nomads, let alone Genghis Khan's Mongol regime.

Mounted archery is just to show off skills, followed by the main dish, which is the siege echelon under the pressure of the hoplites.

The Eight Banners relied on heavy infantry, not rangers.

If they relied on cavalry, they would take the lead to break through the thousand-mile fortress defense line built by Sun Chengzong relying on the Great and Small Ling Rivers.

"There are still two miles of enemy cavalry!"

"Raise your shield!" Ding Mingluan shouted.

Each cannon had several gunners on its left and right, and the auxiliaries were the heavy shieldmen, whose weapons were only short-bladed, and their only duty was to guard.

One giant shield was raised, and Cao Wenzhao and Sun Yuanhua naturally had dozens of giant shield hands to protect them, and dozens of shield cards were tightly sealed.

The Eight Banners cavalry who swept the formation played the old routine, made a maneuver in front of Shanhaiguan, pulled their bows and arrows in the process of turning, and tilted two waves of arrows towards the head of Shanhaiguan.

Clusters of sharp arrows clanged against the shield wall that was waiting for them, and they were all bounced off.

"The equipment of the artillery is very good, even this shield is covered with a layer of forged steel."

The shield wall was torn apart, and Cao Wenzhao sighed with heartfelt emotion, quite envious.

Sun Yuanhua glanced at him with an expressionless face.

"No matter how solid an iron shield is, it can't withstand a cannonball."

"Yes, yes, what Dean Sun said makes sense."

Cao Wenzhao sneered, and then his expression became serious: "Jiannu's attack has begun." ”

The role of cavalry archery is to suppress, in order to allow the follow-up heavy infantry clusters to quickly press, so when the cavalry archery is over, the main force of the Houjin army is less than three miles away from Shanhaiguan.

Carrying dozens of siege ladder trucks.

"School cannon!"

Several gunners lit a cannon and fired a cannon at the Houjin army formation three miles away.

Well, it didn't blow up unsurprisingly.

This is to confirm the point of the shot.

The sudden cannon sound also made Huang Taiji's heart tremble.

After fighting with Yuan Chonghuan for so many years, of course he understood the reason for this lonely cannon sound.

The Ming army began to test the artillery.

"Just eight cannons, don't be afraid, don't be afraid."

Huang Taiji cheered himself up in his heart, in order to dispel the shadow buried in the depths of his heart.

Ding Mingluan calculated the point of the cannon, and then silently watched the tens of thousands of Houjin troops swarming over, and raised his hand.

"The whole army has it, high and low plus four, ten rounds of speed artillery, ready!"

The moment the order was issued, all the 55 cannons on the head of Shanhaiguan City were adjusted according to the military order, the shells were loaded, and the fire fold used to ignite the fuse was also taken out.

Ding Mingluan counted in his heart.

"Ten, Nine, Eight......"

Huang Taiji, who was watching the battle far behind the military formation, suddenly expanded a hundred times in his heart!

"Something is wrong!"

Sonny turned his head to look at Huang Taiji, his face full of confusion.

On the Shanhaiguan, Ding Mingluan suddenly burst into drinks.

"Fire!"