It was also the first time for the generals to see such a big battle, and it seemed that Jianyu had almost poured out, so it was inevitable that he would be a little panicked.

Yan Mingtai hurriedly sent someone to inform Xiong Tingbi, who was in Kaiyuan, and asked him to transfer troops for reinforcements.

Of course, the more important thing is to send someone to find Li Xianzhong and let his main force hurry back to defense, so far it seems that Yuan Yingtai, the crow's mouth, is really right, and most of the attack on Yehe is just a cover for the Tartars to transfer the tiger away from the mountain.

In fact, he, like everyone else, has never encountered the scene of tens of thousands of people attacking the city, but at this moment he must remain calm, so as to stabilize the morale of the army.

Today's situation is even more critical than the previous time he was at Qinghe Fort.

Last time, he led 3,000 people who dared to die, and in the face of the red flag, more than 7,000 people held out for a day.

Now on Guangshun Pass, there are 2,600 people under General Gao Zhen, 660 people under Mao Wenlong, and 300 Pingyu guards brought by Yu Wanli.

If Jianyu really came out of the nest, then he would face at least 40,000 Eight Banner soldiers, as well as a large number of auxiliary soldiers, and this difficulty can be imagined.

And last time, Yue Tuo was delayed for a lot of time because he didn't bring siege equipment.

This time, Jianyu has a calculating mind, and I am afraid that he has prepared enough equipment for attacking the city.

But fortunately, it is past noon, so you have to hold on until dark anyway.

Of course, there was also a more favorable situation than at that time, after all, the conditions for holding Guangshun Pass were much better, and there were many artillery.

The most important thing is that Nanguan is not in a state of siege and will not be besieged from all sides, and reinforcements from Kaiyuan can come to support at any time.

Yan Mingtai quickly checked the armament situation.

Because Zheng Zhifan had previously transported armaments for Jianlu, mainly knives, guns, and armor, Jianlu was not interested in firearms, and the shells and gunpowder were quite sufficient.

But the firearm is not good, there are only 800 three-eyed guns on the south pass, and the range of this thing is too close, and it is basically a hand-to-hand firearm.

The only long-range guns that can really give effective damage are the 100 Lumi guns brought by the Ping Yuwei, and the same 200 bird guns.

There are still plenty of rocks and logs in the city, but there are definitely not enough enemies, and now they must be replenished in time.

There are a lot of fire oil, and you can still burn several handfuls if you save a little use.

After all, it is a regular city pass, and there are still a lot of material reserves, plus he has vigorously rectified it once before, and Gao Zhen has also supplemented a lot of materials to guard the pass.

The first thing about morale is to march and fight, and the soldiers must be fed.

Yan Mingtai said: "Senior General, how many mules and horses are there in Guangshun Pass? ”

Gao Zhen said: "There are more than 30 mules and horses in the customs that are usually used to pull goods! ”

Yan Mingtai said: "If there are not enough mules and horses, then the only way to make up is to use military horses, and the senior staff general will now order the gang leader to kill horses and cook meat, at least 50 horses, to ensure that each soldier can get a large piece of horse meat." ”

Gao Zhen said: "It's just past noon, and it's only 2 hours before the eclipse; Besides, the enemy army is coming, and I'm afraid it's too late to add food at this time? ”

Yan Mingtai shouted sharply: "Do as I say, the consequences of slaughtering the military horses will be borne by this supervising army." ”

Then he said to the soldiers on the city gate: "Everyone fight bravely to kill the enemy, and we will eat meat directly for the next snack to ensure that everyone has a share!" ”

In fact, the northern region of Daming is basically two meals a day, this meal from 7 to 9 o'clock in the morning is called "big food", and this meal is called "small food" from 4 to 6 o'clock in the afternoon.

Only the people in the wealthy areas of Jiangnan have the habit of eating three meals a day, and many poor people in the border areas of eastern Liaoning even have only one meal a day.

At present, only the "Liaodong Iron Cavalry" and the "Assault Battalion" in the Kaiyuan armies have the treatment of three meals a day, and they can eat a little meat every three or five days.

The garrison of Guangshun Pass still had two meals a day, which was basically wheat and corn, and most soldiers could only enjoy meat once during the New Year.

The temptation to eat meat was great, and soon some of the fears of the soldiers were replaced by the desire to eat meat!

The city erupted in cheers, after all, eating meat in a big way might be a pleasure that most people in this era would never experience in their lifetime!

The goal transfer method is the only law for Yan Jianjun to boost morale.

In fact, he only has two moves, one is to eat meat, and the other is silver, which is not fundamentally different from what he did in Qinghe Fort.

At this time, although the morale of the Ming army has improved, it is far from enough!

He asked, "How much silver have you seen at most once in your life?" ”

These big-headed soldiers only pay a lot of money a month, and it's amazing to see ten taels or eight taels, even Gao Zhen, a general, has only seen a few thousand taels.

Then Yan Mingtai pointed to the looming Jianyu in front of the pass and said, "Remember, from now on, you can tell others that you have seen millions of taels of silver at a time. ”

"20 taels of the first level, these tens of thousands of tartars are millions of taels of silver, how much you can take depends on the ability of the brothers!"

Mao Wenlong has been a garrison in Sanyang for ten years, and he has long been suffocated, he is really eager to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

Mao Wenlong shouted: "Brothers, follow the Yan Jian Army to kill the Tartars and receive the reward!" ”

Soon the Ming army in the city shouted together, and the sound of "killing" continued to echo in the city pass.

At this time, the main force of Jianzhou has also arrived outside Guangshun Pass, because there are too many people and horses, the front team has completed the formation, and the rear team is still several miles away.

Dai Shan said: "It's a pity that Zheng Zhifan didn't act secretly, which exposed our eyeliner in Nanguan, otherwise it would be much easier to enter Kaiyuan." ”

Looking at the trench in front of him and the artillery of the Ming army, Nurhachi knew that today's battle of Guangshun Pass would not be so easy.

Previously, the main force of the Eight Banners suffered a lot of losses, and the tentative attack was naturally handed over to those coats.

With a wave of the old slave's hand, thousands of coats cautiously marched towards Guangshun Pass against the chariot.

Almost at the same time, the Franc machine guns of the Ming army in the city were aiming at the position where the Eight Banners were assembled.

In fact, the long-range artillery of this era used solid bullets, and the actual damage was not much, but the roaring cannon sound was a huge deterrent to the enemy's heart, and it was still very effective in damaging morale.

As the torches of the Ming army fell, the twenty Franc machine guns on the city pass instantly roared, and one shell after another roared towards the Eight Banners soldiers in front of the pass.

The buildings outside the gate are densely packed, covering the sky and the sun.

Solid bullets fell in the middle of the formation, and soon the flesh and blood of several people were blurred, and the jumping shells brought down several nearby Tartars.

Coincidentally, a cannonball actually landed, only seven or eight meters away from Nurhachi, but fortunately, the accompanying guards blocked him with flesh and blood, otherwise there might not be a need to fight this battle.

Although a round of shelling actually caused dozens of casualties, it still caused quite a commotion.

Nurhachi, who was palpitating, hurriedly moved to the rear.

At this time, the auxiliary soldiers composed of 3,000 coats were rapidly advancing towards Chengguan under the cover of hundreds of chariots.

Before the Jianzhou War, they were only responsible for some transportation and supply tasks, and did not have the opportunity to go to the battlefield to make meritorious contributions.

In order to motivate them in this battle, Nurhachi even made a promise to "raise the flag" for the outstanding coats.

This makes them now have high morale, and they are eager to kill the enemy and make meritorious contributions.

Soon they came to a distance of about eighty steps from Nanguan, and with a loud noise, the ground covered with weeds in front of them suddenly collapsed, and some people who did not respond in time fell directly into the trap arranged by the Ming army.

The trap was full of spikes set up by the Ming army, and some coats were directly pierced through the body by these spikes, and the death was extremely miserable.

At this time, the tiger squat cannon on the city gate began to exert its might, and thirty tiger squat cannons fired directly at these coatings.

Countless lead bolts scattered among them, directly penetrating their thin cotton clothes, and some even penetrated the carts.

What is even more terrifying is that many people did not die on the spot, but rolled on the ground in pain, letting out a miserable roar, and the scene was particularly penetrating.

This shelling caused two or three hundred casualties to these coatings at once.

General Gao Zhen said excitedly: "The effect of the tiger squat cannon is very good, quickly reload, a few more times, this gang of smashing will be all explained here." ”

However, Yan Mingtai quickly stopped him and said, "This is just a tentative attack by the Tartars, and these are auxiliaries, this time the enemy army is pouring out, we still have to save ammunition." ”

The Franc cannon in the city continued to fire, after all, the Franc cannon could only hit long-range targets, and it was slow to fire. Now that the ranks of the captives are so dense, it happens to kill and wound some more enemies.

At this time, the trap of the Ming army was about 80 paces away from the city pass, which was just enough distance to prevent the archers of the Jianyu from firing arrows at the city, and the effective range of ordinary bows and arrows was about 70 paces or more.

It is often said that "a hundred steps through Yang", but the only one who can really shoot the enemy from a hundred steps away is probably a sharpshooter with strong arm strength.

Although there was a very narrow passage in the trap that led to the city pass, they did not choose to take this path.

Such a narrow road could easily become a target for the Ming army.

They took out shovels from under the cart and prepared to dig up the earth to fill the trap several meters wide in front of them.

With the previous situation of the defenders of Guangshun Pass, if you don't use tiger squatting cannons, you can only let these coats fill the pits, which is just out of reach of the Ming army's bows and arrows.

However, at this time, the effective armor-piercing distance of the Bird Gun using granulated black powder had reached 80 steps, and the Lumi Gun had exceeded 120 steps.

Considering that these coatings were covered by chariots, the Ming army still abandoned the use of bird guns, and instead used the most penetrating Lumi guns.

"Bang, bang, bang"

The Lu Mi gun in Ping's hand began to shoot.

Several major Baylors in Jianzhou, who were watching the battle in the rear formation, let out a sound of ridicule.

Mang Gurtai even said: "Isn't the Ming army in the city crazy, this distance is not lethal even to fight ordinary people, they actually want to penetrate the car." ”

But as the coats kept falling, his laughter came to an abrupt end.

Everyone didn't expect that Ping Yuwei's Lu Mi Gong could actually pass through the heavy wooden planks of the chariot and directly kill the coat behind.

Also stunned and still concerned with the Ming army, Mao Wenlong said in surprise: "This Lu Mi Gong is a longer barrel, and it can actually hit so far?" ”

Yu Wanli said proudly: "In fact, it is not only the power of the gun, but also the credit of the black powder, these are the granulated black powder specially made by General Li Bing, even the bird gun in the hands of the servants can shoot 20 steps more." ”

"This Lu Mi Gong was obtained by General Li through the way of the Military Bureau, but unfortunately only 100 strokes were sent, otherwise it would be nice to have these Tartars."

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