After seeing that the trench had been filled, Nurhachi and the others, who were in the rear, finally showed a smile that they had not seen for a long time.

The losses in the peripheral battles of Nanguan were really not small, and 9,000 coats were lost; The blow of the Ming army's Franc machine artillery, coupled with the loss of the white flag under the Guanxia, the cumulative loss of the Eight Banners was as high as 500 people.

He never expected that in the mere place of a hundred steps outside Guangshun Pass, several traps and trenches would actually make him pay such a big price.

And relative to the loss of personnel, the consumption of time is huge, it was delayed for more than 2 hours, and it will be dark in another hour, so he now has to dispatch the main force of the Eight Banners to attack the city.

In order to appease the dissatisfaction of the banner owners, he had to order the flags to be drawn from the relatively intact two yellow flags and the positive white flags, so that the flags could be restored to the pre-war cattle number.

Therefore, he intends to let Niu Lu have the second most blue flags in the battle.

But at this time, Sanbeile Mang Gurtai took the initiative to ask for battle, and said: "Great Khan, let me lead the Zhenglan Banner, and I will definitely win Guangshun Pass in less than half an hour." ”

Considering that Zilharang had little experience in leading troops to attack the city, it was indeed inappropriate for him to take the lead, so he agreed to Mang Gultai's request.

Soon, the 4,500 men and horses of the Zhenglan Banner slaughtered Guangshun Pass.

The situation on the side of the Ming army was very bad, although the loss of personnel was not very large, only less than 200 people were reduced.

But the consumption of all kinds of firearms is huge, especially the ammunition of the Tiger Squat Cannon, and now every firing of the Ming army is facing the risk of exploding.

With the tired division of the Ming army, it is really a little difficult to meet the new force of the Eight Banners to wait for work.

Fortunately, at this time, Xiong Tingbi had already sent someone to send the news, and the guerrilla Yu Hualong had already led the 1500 sergeants of Tielingwei to come for reinforcements, and they would arrive at Nanguan in an hour at most, and Tielingwei and the Ming army in other places also sent reinforcements.

Now that Xiong Tingbi is sitting in Liaodong, it is naturally impossible for the Ming army to be as grinding as it was during the Yang Hao period.

Yan Mingtai shouted: "Brothers, it will be dark in one hour, and the reinforcements from Kaiyuan will arrive soon, and now it is the real Jianyu who has been sent to the door, everyone will cut off their heads with me and receive a reward!" ”

All understood that the real test had begun.

The Eight Banners in blue armor were still advancing quickly towards Nanguan under the cover of the chariot, but there were many corpses on the ground near Chengguan that had been coated before, which affected the speed of the chariot.

At this time, the Ming army on the gate was already full of firepower.

The solid bullets from the Franc cannon fell in the middle of the formation, smashing many people into a blur of flesh and blood; There was even a cannonball that hit the cart right on, and the flying wood chips directly knocked down several people in the surrounding area, causing a slight commotion.

However, Mang Gurtai knew that these artillery pieces were just a wave, and as long as they moved quickly, the Ming army would not have a chance to play a second round.

At this time, they quickened their pace, wanting to rush directly to the city in one go.

After approaching the city pass, the Ming army's tiger squat cannon and Lu Mi Gong began to exert their might again.

Despite the cover of the chariots, many Eight Banner soldiers were hit by the lead from the Tiger Squat Cannon, and fell to the ground and wailed in pain.

The Ming army's Lu Mi Gong gave full play to the advantages of long range and high shooting accuracy, and began to shoot the enemy at a distance of 100 steps.

The firecrackers of this era are not the rifles of later generations, the shooting accuracy is very poor, the bird's guns are slightly better, and the three-eyed guns are basically hitting in one direction.

That is, in the face of the enemy's dense formation charge, you can achieve good results.

Zhenglanqi still has a lot of combat experience, although they are pushing carts, but their formation is not so dense. It was completely different from the coatings just now, which also caused the killing efficiency of the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Fire Gun to drop a lot all of a sudden.

Especially since they were all wearing this heavy cloth armor and iron armor, in fact, in the face of firearms, the defense effect of cloth armor was better than that of pure iron armor such as zha armor.

This also greatly reduced the lethality of the Ming army's firearms.

Rao is like this, it still makes Mang Gurtai's heart ache, just advancing to the distance of Chengguan, Zhenglan Banner has been shot by the firearms of the Ming army More than 300 people.

Fortunately, they had advanced to the city, and the Eight Banners soldiers set up ladders to prepare to attack the city.

And at a distance of seventy paces from the city, a large number of Eight Banner archers began to fire arrows towards the city.

Waves of arrows rained down on the city, causing a lot of casualties to the Ming army, and some of the Ming troops who were throwing stones and rolling logs were killed by their feather arrows.

At this time, the artillery crews of the Ming army were anxiously adjusting their positions.

General Gao Zhen shouted: "Why haven't the tiger squat cannons been fired yet, Jianyu's bows and arrows have begun to suppress the city, and they are about to attack!" ”

The Ming gunners were a little nervous, but soon they finished adjusting the muzzle of the gun, and the fuse was ignited.

The thirty tiger squatting cannons in the city fired a roar at the same time, and soon the two blue flag archers not far away were blown up on their backs.

The nervous Ming artillerymen finally breathed a sigh of relief.

He shouted, "Continue to reload, and be sure to disrupt the formation of the Jianyu archers under the city." ”

Taking advantage of this gap, the bird guns and Lu Mi guns on the city hurriedly gave the city a wave of firepower output.

And the Ming army's stone rolling wood also continued to smash towards the pass, and many of the prisoners who were about to enter the city were smashed and fell heavily to the ground.

Mang Gurtai shouted: "Add another five hundred archers, we must suppress the Ming army in the city, and let the archers spread out as much as possible, so that the artillery of the Ming army will not be served in a pot." ”

At this time, Yan Mingtai shouted: "The Three-Eyed Gun is ready, be sure to kill the elite of the first wave of Tartars!" ”

Soon those white tooth horns in heavy armor skillfully climbed to the top of the city. But before they could climb the wall, they saw a three-eyed gun with a lit arquebus facing them.

At such a close distance, no matter how many layers of armor you wear, you can't resist the fire.

However, after all, these white swing tooth lamas have very rich combat experience, and many people on the line of life and death still threw their weapons and died with the Ming army.

The sound of firecrackers and screams in the city mingled.

Of course, at this time, there were not too many Ming troops who were holding three-eyed guns to exchange with Jianyu. There were more than 3,000 Ming troops in total, and even if this exchange was not a loss, he did not dare to exchange more.

Soon, the Ming army with spears and broadswords around them was replenished, and they engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Jianjiao who followed the city.

The Ming army's close-range firecracker operation for elite soldiers made Mang Gurtai's heart ache.

The white swing tooth in his blue flag had all been killed as early as the last time he besieged Cha Huizu, and now these are mostly elites who have just been replenished and promoted.

Now it's all lost again.

Although there are still 21 Niu Lu in today's Zhenglan Banner, the newly added soldiers are either old and weak or the bannermen transferred from other banners, and their combat power has shrunk significantly.

At this time, the city has entered the most brutal stage of white-knuckle warfare.

Gao Zhen hadn't been so excited for a long time, and I saw that the wind under his feet kept wandering between the city walls, and the big knife of dozens of catties was even more handy in his hands, dancing like a tiger.

Every time it fell, one of the Tartars was slain, and in a short time seven or eight of them lay down.

Originally, Yan Mingtai was worried that the Ming army would suffer losses in close combat, but he didn't expect Gao Zhen, the general of Nanguan, to be so brave.

The Ming army in the city was more and more courageous under the encouragement of the main general, relying on the superiority of numbers, and there was a situation of driving the Zhenglan flag down the city.

The two sides were in close combat, and the Ming army's musketeers on the city wall were no longer able to shoot, only the musketeers on the city gate tower and several enemy towers were still shooting, harvesting the enemy's heads.

The archers under the blue flag under the city are also constantly looking for prey in the city.

Gao Zhen's performance was so eye-catching that it caught the attention of many archers, and he was soon hit by two arrows.

However, the piercing power of the arrows was greatly weakened by the fish scale armor, and it did not affect him too much.

Gao Zhen is killing at the moment, and he doesn't take the Tartar archers who put cold arrows under the city to sneak attack too seriously.

Experienced in combat, he paid great attention to the protection of his face, and generally only exposed the armored parts under the castle.

But by this time, a blue flag archer named Nava had already touched a distance of 50 steps from the city, and he picked up his three-stone bow, calmly chose an armor-piercing arrow, drew the bowstring, and locked his eyes on Gao Zhen's body.

Nava steadied his breath before releasing the bowstring.

The armor-piercing arrow shot from the bowstring, slicing through the air, directly penetrating Gao Zhen's armor and hitting him in the back of the heart.

Gao Zhen was suddenly shot, which made the situation on the battlefield change suddenly, and the Tartars, who were already about to be driven down the city, saw that this killing god of the Ming army was shot, and his morale was greatly boosted in an instant, and he actually stabilized the situation again.

At this time, Yan Mingtai said sharply: "Mao guerrilla, this general ordered you to temporarily take the post of the general of the Nanguan and command all the departments in the city, and be sure to drive the Tartars down for me." ”

Mao Wenlong said excitedly: "The last general obeys the order, and he will definitely avenge General Gao!" ”

Mao Wenlong, who has been working hard for ten years, finally waited for a chance to get ahead, he, a guerrilla general, was obtained by saving the driver, and there is nothing to show off, and at this moment he wants to use real military merits to justify himself.

Soon Mao Wenlong led hundreds of fresh troops to join the battle.

The Tartar found that this Ming general was actually more fierce than the original one, and the original blue flag on the city did not take much advantage, and he was driven off the city after a while.

And Nava, who succeeded in the sneak attack, was shot and killed by the Ming army's Lu Mi Gong before he could take a few steps.

He looked at the bloody hole in his chest in disbelief, and fell down unwillingly.

At this time, the blue flag receded like a tide, and the Ming troops in the city began to cheer, and the firecrackers of the Pingyuwei seized the opportunity to shoot the Tartars.

Although he was very unwilling, Mang Gurtai had already realized that at this moment his positive blue flag was no longer capable of fighting.

This siege lost 2,000 people, and lost all the white swing teeth, which can be described as a great loss of vitality, and now he can only wait for the Great Khan to send reinforcements!

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