Go back to the end of the Ming Dynasty to be a soldier

Chapter 137 Bloody Battle at Qingziling ([-])

Qingziling is a mountain ridge of the Great Wall. In the north of Miyun, the Great Wall winds across the ridge.

Since the Ningjin defense line outside Daming Pass had heavy troops, dangerous cities and firearms, the Tatars detoured southward through Mongolia to destroy the Great Wall, repeatedly invaded the Central Plains, and harassed the capital of Daming, causing a large number of casualties and property losses.

Especially in the Chongzhen era, during the Chongde period, the Qing soldiers became more and more diligent in marching in the Central Plains. The most arrogant one was that Huang Taiji robbed 10,000+ Han people and livestock property. The soldiers of the Ming army and the civil and military officials who went to the battle shouted that they don't have to see them off, and their arrogance reached the sky.

Qingziling and Xifengkou were the two breakthroughs of the Tartars on the Great Wall. Therefore, after Lin Yi was ordered to station troops here, he focused on strengthening and building the two pass cities of Xifengkou and Qingziling.

The scale of Qingziling Pass City is not as big as that of Xifengkou, but the terrain of Qingziling Mountain is dangerous. Here are high mountains. As long as the pass city is guarded, it is impossible for the Tatars to fly over here. The reason why the Tartars chose this section is because of it. It was a dangerous place, unguarded, and they destroyed the city walls, mainly with explosives.

After Lin Yi strengthened the city wall and built the Guancheng, the guerrilla general Zu Keyong led a thousand Ming troops to garrison here. There were 20 red cannons on the Guancheng, as well as muskets, bows and arrows, and sufficient ammunition. The watchtower, soaring into the clouds, can be said to be guarded by one man, and no one can open it.

However, no matter how strong the Guancheng is, it may be breached, depending on who is defending and who is attacking.

The commander-in-chief of the Qing army attacking this pass city in front of him is the well-known Prince Zheng Jierhalang.

This person definitely belongs to the thriving Aixinjueluo family. He is the son of Shuerhaqi. Shuerhaqi and Nurhachi crawled out of the same mother's belly. Cousin of Tai Chi.

Not only that, he was adopted by Nurhachi in the palace since he was a child, and grew up with Huang Taiji with bare buttocks. The relationship between the two is evident, so that after Jierhalang's father and brother were executed, he was still able to be reused.

Jierhalang's military achievements are very prominent, and there are not many founding heroes in the Qing Dynasty who can stand shoulder to shoulder with him.In his early years, he followed Nurhachi and Huang Taiji in the southern and northern wars, conquered Mongolia, defeated Lin Danhan, defeated the famous Ming Dynasty general Man Gui, and captured Hong Chengchou in the Ningjin War.

He was cautious in using troops, capable of writing and martial arts, and Huang Taiji left the capital to him to guard every time Huang Taiji marched in person.Wu Sangui surrendered, and Dorgon led the Qing army into the pass, and he followed, defeating Li Zicheng's Dashun army repeatedly, and later became one of Xiao Shunzhi's auxiliary ministers.

It can be seen from this that Jierhalang was a pillar-level figure in the Qing Dynasty in the Huang Taiji era.

Huang Taiji sent him and Duoduo to deal with Lin Yi this time, and gave them 6 horses, which can be regarded as a big investment. It can be seen how determined Huang Taiji is to eradicate Ji Dong. It's enough to save Ji Dong's face.

After dividing the work with Duoduo, Duoduo attacked from Xifengkou, and Jierhalanger's 3 horses were responsible for attacking Qingziling, intending to make Lin Yi feel uncomfortable.

While Duoduo stormed Xifengkou, Jierhalang's troops also launched a fierce attack on Qingziling.

After attacking five times in a row, the small Qingziling was not captured, and the losses were heavy, with nearly half of the 3 troops lost.

But Jierhalang is different from Dodo, he doesn't have Dodo's arrogance, but he is wiser than Dodo.

He calmed down and took a look, and carefully observed the pass city in front of him. It was on a mountain peak, and the terrain was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack. People used cannons and muskets if they were far away, and bows and arrows, stones, and rolling logs if they were close. Not to mention that he brought 3 horses, even if he was given another 3 horses, he might not be able to attack.

This is not the same as siege. As long as the siege can break through the artillery defense line of the Ming army and pass the moat, you can climb up the ladder, or smash the city gate with a ramming cart, and people and horses can enter.

But this is the Great Wall. It is located on a mountain. With such a thick wall and such a high wall, ordinary siege ladders cannot reach it at all, and there is no way to attack it. They can only attack from the gate. It is locked tightly, and one man is in charge of the gate, and ten thousand men are not allowed to open it.

Jierhalang felt that it was impossible to attack from here, and he had to change to another place.

The cunning Jierhalang ordered his people to continue attacking the city. Of course, this was a feint attack, and he shouted loudly, but he didn't charge forward, or when the Ming army fought back when they charged forward, they retreated to confuse the people on the city. Ming army, killing time.

Then he sent a team to patrol along the Great Wall, and soon he found that the defense line of the Great Wall in the west was heavily defended and there was no breakthrough, but after more than 20 miles to the east from Qingziling, it was different, no one could be seen on the wall no matter how far The shadow of the Ming army.

"God help me too!"

After learning of this situation, Jierhalanger was overjoyed. He sent 1000 iron cavalry, all of whom were skilled white-armored soldiers, to take a rope and detour to the east of Qingziling for more than 30 miles.

This happened to be the Qingshan Pass, very close to a rock. They chose a location there and used the method of falling into the city with ropes. They climbed up. After climbing up one, they hung down multiple ropes. climbed up.

But they couldn't get the war horse in a short time, so they had to throw it in the forest outside the Great Wall, leaving a few Tartars here to watch the horses.

All the [-] Tartars are white-armored soldiers, and the arms of the Tartars are roughly divided into defenders, unarmored soldiers, and white-armored soldiers.There is no doubt that the white armor soldiers have the strongest combat effectiveness.

Running back along the Great Wall, these thousand Tartars carried bows and arrows behind their backs, and held knives and spears in their hands. Most of them were dual weapons, and some even had triple weapons, bows and arrows, long spears, and waist knives.

The Great Wall is also relatively wide, and five horses can walk abreast. Therefore, more than 1000 Tartars rushed forward in a long line five people wide.After they ran for more than ten miles, they were discovered by Zu Keyong's horses.

Because there is a platform every 100 meters on the Great Wall, which is used as a lookout.According to Ji Dong's regulations, every platform is guarded by soldiers.

The reason why these Tartars were able to take advantage of the loopholes here is that so many people climbed up the city wall without the generals above being aware of it. Find.

This is because Wu Sangui's defense line of the Great Wall, which is more than ten miles west of a stone, is loosely defended, which he did on purpose.

Because Liu Zhaoji wrote him a letter in advance, asking him to send troops to assist.

Wu Sangui had hated Lin Yi for a long time. This is a traitorous and loyal person who will take revenge.That was when Lin Yi outwitted the Shanxi merchants at the Longmen Inn in Yingzhou last year, and the two formed a bridge.

Lin Yi disguised himself as a businessman from Henan, tied up the nephew of the great Jin merchant Fan's family, Wu Sangui, and Oboi, the number one warrior in Manchuria, and played together for a while. She is a chivalrous girl, and she has deeply remembered the hateful name of Ji Dong.

Although the imperial court has pardoned Lin Yi's innocence, he has made him a guerrilla general, and now he has been promoted to a deputy general in Miyun. In terms of official position, he is no longer Wu Sangui. Forget about this hate.

So when he saw Liu Zhaoji's letter, he sneered and threw the letter into the stove.

Wu Sangui secretly thought, do you want me, Wu Sangui, to send troops to help you?Go ahead and dream of your Spring and Autumn Dreams, I have already given you enough face without sending troops to attack you!

Then Wu Sangui sent an order to shrink the defense line of the Great Wall 15 miles west of Pianshi. Pianshi is tens of miles west of Shanhaiguan.

It was precisely because of Wu Sangui's order that Jierhalang's troops could take advantage of it.

"The Tartars are coming up from the east!" The Ming army on a watchtower was the first to spot the rushing Tartars and was amazed.

"Quickly, report to Master Zu!" Someone galloped away, and the Tartars rushed over, and the Ming army rushed to shoot arrows.

But how could the strength of these few Ming troops withstand the tiger and wolf division of a thousand Tartars? After shooting down a few Tartars, these Ming soldiers were shot into hedgehogs by the rain of arrows.

"Come on! Kill them all—" a Jiala Ezhen, the commander-in-chief of the thousand Tartars, shouted, waving a sword.

The Ming troops guarding several nearby towers quickly gathered together, but the hundred and eighty Ming troops still couldn't stop the crazy attack of the Tartars.

The Tartars rushed forward and shot arrows, and the Ming army kept falling, retreating while fighting. A thousand Tartars wiped out the Ming army along the way, and soon reached the vicinity of Qingziling Pass.

At this time, the sound of horseshoes sounded, and a cavalry team of about 200 people rushed over. The one who rushed in the front was a general in armor, carrying a cart wheel and a big axe.

It was Zu Keyong, the chief general here. After he got the report, he was frightened out of his wits. How did these Tartars attack the Great Wall?Could it be that they have grown wings?

Before he had time to think about him, he quickly drew out 200 generals, because he only had 1000 soldiers in total, excluding artillerymen, musketeers, and archers, etc. He could only draw so many soldiers here to strictly guard against the soldiers.

Let a confidant general command here, Zu Keyong personally rushed over with 200 cavalry, intending to drive the group of Tartars who came up to the city, otherwise they would attack from both sides, and the city would not be able to defend .If Guancheng is lost, he can't explain it to Lin Yi and Liu Zhaoji.

When the thousand Tartars saw the general coming on flying horses, they immediately started shooting arrows like locusts.Zu Keyong waved the big ax in his hand, and the flying arrows were blocked one after another.

In the blink of an eye, the two men and horses rushed together.But the space on the Great Wall is limited after all, it's not like fighting outside.

Therefore, one of Zu Keyong's horses wielded a long axe in his hand, and slashed up and down, killing the Tartars like chopping vegetables. Although there were a thousand Tartars, they couldn't get through.

In addition, behind Zu Keyong, the 200 people of course could not watch. They charged together with the general. The 200 Tartars were blocked by Zu Keyong and the [-] people for a moment. On the wall of the Great Wall, the two sides fought desperately.

Because the Great Wall is relatively narrow, it is beneficial to Zu Keyong and the others in a short period of time, but as time goes by, after all, 200 vs. 200, the gap is too big. Although the [-] Zu Keyong are brave, the white armored soldiers of the Tartars are not as powerful. stronger.

At the beginning, the casualties of the Tartars skyrocketed, and Zu Keyong was able to knock over several of them with one axe.But about half an hour later, the increase in casualties of the Ming army caught up and soon surpassed that of the Tartars.

This is because human physical strength is limited, and it is most consumed in the state of fighting.Zu Keyong and his men only had 200 men, but the Tatars had a thousand men, and the energy was continuously replenished.

In other words, Zu Keyong and the others killed a group of Tartars and came up again. When it was dark, there were only a dozen people left around him.

Just at this time, the battle report came, Qingziling Pass City fell, and Jierhalang led his troops to attack from there...

Jierhalang had already received reports there that 1000 troops had successfully climbed the Great Wall and came from the east.Jierhalang was overjoyed, so he stopped feinting, and the feint was changed to a fierce attack.

Due to the absence of the main general in Guancheng, another 200 soldiers were removed. More importantly, the morale of the Ming army guarding Guancheng had been shaken at this time. They heard that the Tartars had already attacked the Great Wall. There are so many people, how long can we last?Guancheng will definitely not be able to hold on...

Fighting mainly relies on morale, that is, the morale of the army. If the morale of the army fluctuates, it will undoubtedly be defeated.

This is what Jierhalang wanted now, and he started attacking from both sides.

More than 1 Tartars began to storm the pass city again. After two charges this time, the cannons on the city became dumb, and the muskets could not fire. The shells were finished, and some even exploded. He simply dropped his weapon and ran away.

There were only three or four hundred Ming troops left above the city, and the flood-like Tartars rushed to the bottom of the Guancheng. The hundreds of troops on the city had to fight back with bows, arrows, stones, and rolling logs.

The Tartars rushed up while shooting arrows, and there were fewer and fewer Ming troops on the top of the city. Finally, someone climbed up to the Guancheng and opened the city gate. Jierhalang led his troops and rushed in like a tide.At this time, the auxiliary city urn is useless because of the lack of major generals.

Jierhalang commanded the Tartars, chasing and annihilating the remnants of the Ming army on the top of the city overnight...

Zu Keyong saw that today was over.

"Brothers, I would rather die in battle than surrender, and live and die with Guancheng! Kill—"

Shouting, Zu Keyong rushed towards the Tartars with a dozen generals around him.

"The prince has already succeeded, kill them all!" Hundreds of Tartars shouted and rushed towards Zu Keyong.

Whoosh, someone let go of the cold arrow.Several Ming soldiers fell to the ground with arrows, and Zu Keyong's horse was shot to the ground. When he got up again, he had two more arrows on his body, and his big ax was gone.There were only five people left around, and all of them were injured.Six people were trapped among hundreds of Tartars.

Zu Keyong picked up a spear, and the six men continued to fight with the Tartars, back to back.

At this time, someone shouted: "It's not good, reinforcements from the Ming army are coming up!"

Zu Keyong saw that under the Great Wall, countless torches lined up in a long queue, coming quickly.

(End of this chapter)