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

Chapter 309 The Battle of Shanhaiguan

Liu Zongmin was caught off guard by being killed, just like he had killed Wu Sangui by surprise just now, and it was night, and more importantly, the fighting power of the Tartars was extremely strong, especially they were good at field battles.

And Liu Zongmin's troops have been killing here for a long time, and in terms of military strength, Dorgon led 5 to [-] elite soldiers, and Liu Zongmin only had [-] troops in total. After rushing for such a long time, minus the casualties, the comparison of the strength of the two sides is also very different of.

Therefore, there is no suspense at all in this fight between the two sides, and the strength difference is too great.

Countless arrows under the night sky attacked Liu Zongmin's team like raindrops, and the Dashun army fell to the ground with countless casualties, and then these Tartars rushed into the Dashun army, killing and slashing wildly, charging back and forth several times At that time, Liu Zongmin's men and horses were washed up in disarray, and they were scattered and fled in all directions, with casualties everywhere.

Inside, Wu Sangui's troops had slowed down this time, and they also started beheading the soldiers of the Dashun Army frantically.

At this moment, Liu Zongmin's men and horses were killed, corpses were scattered all over the field, and blood flowed like rivers.

Wu Sangui hated Liu Zongmin so much, he led his guards, held a torch and aimed at Liu Zongmin. After fighting until now, Liu Zongmin was deeply surrounded by the Tartars and Wu Sangui's troops. He tried his best to break through and retreat, but he killed a layer He went up another floor, and eventually he was exhausted and suffered several injuries all over his body.

Looking at the guards around him, there are only a handful of them.

Liu Zongmin had a premonition that it was not good. It seemed that today was more ominous than good. At this moment, he met Wu Sangui who rushed to kill him.

"Liu Zongmin, bastard, I'm going to kill you!" Wu Sangui yelled at Liu Zongmin for urging his horse, and took Liu Zongmin with a knife.

"Wu Sangui, I honor your ancestor!"

Liu Zongmin's eye sockets were cracked, he waved his hands and urged the horse to charge like Wu Sangui.

Under the night, amidst the flickering fire, two people shouted and cursed, and the two horses rushed together again.

The other thousands of horses and troops no longer exist at this time. For them, the two generals, this is a one-on-one duel between two people, and it is fair for God to give them such a chance.

But at this time Liu Zongmin was obviously at a disadvantage, which was unfair.

Although Liu Zongmin was brave, but his physical strength was seriously overrun in this matter, and it would definitely not last long with only a single effort, just like a tree without roots, water without a source, it can support the head twice at most.

But Wu Sangui is different, he is not as tired as Liu Zongmin at this time, thinking of his concubine Chen Yuanyuan, his hair is full of strength, plus his own martial arts is a bit higher than Liu Zongmin.

Wu Sangui was born in a general and practiced riding and archery since he was a child. In addition, the Wu family married with the Liaodong ancestral family. The Liaodong ancestral family was a family of martial arts. blue.

Wu Sangui won the martial arts examination when he was a teenager. He started his military career when he was 20 years old.

And Liu Zongmin can't compare with him. With his own bravery and acquired self-study, he can deal with ordinary characters. He is not an opponent when dealing with Wu Sangui, even in a fair state. Already extremely tired.

Therefore, within a few rounds, he couldn't hold back, so he had no choice but to use his special skills, beat the horse like flying, and fled in embarrassment, preparing to win in a defeat.Seeing that Wu Sangui was chasing him, he threw his hands towards Wu Sangui one after another.

"Go to hell!"

The two hands whistling, flew towards Wu Sangui one after another.

Hidden weapons are all about surprise, and it pays attention to quickness, so that the opponent can win with one blow when there is no reaction.

Liu Zongmin's two hidden weapons were originally capable of hitting every shot, but now, they lack the strength to support them, so their power has shrunk.

Therefore, when these two things roared and flew towards Wu Sangui one after another, they were easily knocked away by Wu Sangui with a big knife.

And because of his lack of strength, the two hands were not spinning back as usual, but because of his lack of strength, both of them fell into the dust.

Liu Zongmin couldn't see it well, so he had to run for his life, and this time he really ran.

"Bastard, where are you going?" Wu Sangui gritted his teeth and hung up his sword, took off his bow and arrow, and shot an arrow, Liu Zongmin yelled and fell off the horse.

Wu Sangui inserted the bow and arrow, raised his horse and charged forward, rushed forward, raised the knife in his hand, and cut off Liu Zongmin's head with a click, and then hung his head on the neck of the war horse.

Now he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling much smoother in his heart, and finally avenged the hatred of taking his wife.

Then Wu Sangui commanded his men to continue chasing and destroying the remnants of the Dashun Army...

On the pass city of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng led an army of [-] to [-] from the Great Wall, and suddenly rushed to the pass city of Shanhaiguan.

According to Wu Sangui's design, Ma Bao only guarded the pass city, and the battlefield should be placed outside Shanhaiguan. Wu Sangui's men and the Tatars outside the pass joined forces to deal with Li Zicheng. Unexpectedly, Li Zicheng suddenly killed him. The young Ma Bao hurriedly commanded his 2 troops Haste to fight.

It was Heitian, the sudden attack, coupled with the huge disparity in military strength, Ma Bao's troops suffered heavy casualties, and the bodies killed by Li Zicheng were everywhere, blood staining the city walls.

Ma Bao fought to the death to resist the enemy, and the Guan Ning army's combat power was also fierce, but Li Zicheng's Chuangwang Dao was unmatched, with an army of 2 to [-], it seemed that His Majesty personally charged and killed the enemy, all of them seemed to have been beaten with blood, and they were caught off guard. The [-] Ming army is more than enough for a long time.

In the end, Ma Bao couldn't resist anymore. While sending people to rescue, he retreated while fighting, and soon withdrew from Shanhaiguan. Li Zicheng's men took Guancheng in one fell swoop.

Li Zicheng hated Wu Sangui to the core, and as soon as he saw that he had succeeded, he wanted to eradicate them this time.Therefore, after he took down Guancheng, he led his men and horses to kill again, chasing Ma Bao's team closely.

At this moment, Li Zicheng never dreamed that there was a team behind him, which seemed to descend from the sky, and attacked from behind them like a poisonous snake. This was Hauge's team.

Hauge and Dorgon each led tens of thousands of horses and divided into two groups. Dorgon's goal was Shanhaiguan, while Hauge's goal was a piece of Shiguan City [-] to [-] miles west of Shanhaiguan.

When Hauge's tens of thousands of Qing troops arrived at the bottom of Guancheng, it happened to be the time when Guancheng was empty, because at this time Li Zicheng led an army of [-] to [-] troops, and went east along the Great Wall to attack Shanhaiguan.

Now there are less than 3000 defenders of the Dashun Army in a piece of Shiguan City, including 800, [-] new arrivals from Gao Guiying and Song Xiance, because they came from afar and fled from the capital. Li Zicheng took care of them, today They were not allowed to participate in the attack at night. After all, Gao Guiying was the queen, Song Xiance was a civil servant, and the remaining hundreds of people were exhausted soldiers. Therefore, Li Zicheng asked them to rest in the pass city and assist the remaining troops to guard the pass.

The so-called remaining troops are mainly 2000 artillerymen, because this time Li Zicheng left the capital, led an army of 10, and brought in 2000 red-clothed cannons, and 200 people were responsible for these [-] red-clothed cannons. The artillery battalion of the Shun Army.

Liu Zongmin and Li Zicheng, two groups of 10 troops, did not bring red cannons because of the sudden attack.In addition, due to the fierce battle between Li Zicheng's men and Wu Sangui of Shanhaiguan two days ago, both sides used red cannons.

Later, Wu Sangui cheated and gave up a piece of Shiguan City. On the surface, he wanted to cooperate with Li Zicheng. This was to show his sincerity and let Li Zicheng be fooled.Li Zicheng didn't know the reality. After entering Guancheng, he put all 200 red cannons on Guancheng. Now that Beijing city is also lost, Li Zicheng plans to use a piece of Shiguancheng as a temporary base.Therefore limited artillery and ammunition, he does not use lightly.In addition, the night attack tonight will not use the red cannon.

This is why he put all 200 heavy artillery on Guancheng.

When Li Zicheng's men were fighting fiercely with Ma Bao's men in Shanhaiguan, Hauge's men arrived and rushed to Shiguan City.

Because it was night, the Dashun army on a piece of Shiguan city did not expect the Tartars to come, and the Dashun army on a piece of Shiguan city was killed by surprise.

Thanks to the dangerous high ground of Guancheng Mountain, Gao Guiying and Song Xiance defended tightly. After discovering the sudden attack of the Tartars, they immediately commanded 3000 troops to resist and defend the pass in a bloody battle.

The sound of cannons roared, and more than 200 cannons in red clothes were on the top of the city, condescending, and the shells roared and exploded in the ranks of the Tartars.

The bombing turned the Tartars on their backs, the corpses flew across the sky, and the night sky was filled with blood and rain. In this way, they repelled three attacks of the Tartars in a row.

However, due to the limited power of the red cannons and the lack of timely replenishment due to the consumption of ammunition in the battle a few days ago, the ammunition was quickly exhausted, and the 200 red cannons became dumb. The Dashun Army had no choice but to Relying on the dangerous city to defend with bows and arrows, but because the enemy is outnumbered, there are too many Tartars, 3000 to [-], while the Dashun army defending the city is less than [-].Therefore, the power of this bow and arrow is insignificant.

Therefore, the Dashun army lasted for less than an hour before being attacked by the Tartars. The red-clothed cannons were useless, as were the bows and arrows. Without the danger of Guancheng and the support of firepower, and the disparity in the strength of the two sides, the Dashun army is not an opponent at all.

The two 3000 people were quickly lost. Gao Guiying, Song Xiance, Huiying, Huimei, Zhang Nai, etc. were left with 200 people, protecting Gao Guiying and Song Xiance from a piece of Shiguan City, retreating along the Great Wall to Shanhaiguan , they planned to join forces with Li Zicheng's brigade, otherwise the entire army would be wiped out.

Unexpectedly, Haoge's men did not stop after they captured Guancheng, because their purpose of snatching this Guancheng was not for their purpose, but to attack from both sides, and joined hands with Wu Sangui's men to wipe out all Li Zicheng's men.

Therefore, Hauge, with tens of thousands of horses, did not stagnate in Guancheng, but followed the long horse path, chasing him all the way.

Gao Guiying and the others had no choice but to retreat while killing. From time to time, some people were knocked down by bows and arrows, and some fell outside the Great Wall.

Gao Guiying and the others had fewer and fewer people, and now it was difficult for Gao Guiying and the others to get down the Great Wall. Such a high city wall was so dark when you looked down, and it would be no wonder if you jumped down in the middle of the night, you would be smashed to pieces.

They had no choice but to fight and retreat. The number of people around them continued to decrease. When they finally arrived at the Shanhaiguan Pass, only Song Xiance, Gao Guiying, Huiying, Huimei, Zhang Nai and a dozen people were left. Both Huiying and Huimei were injured.

They thought it was safe to find Li Zicheng, who knew that Li Zicheng was overwhelmed at this time, because Wu Sangui and Dorgon's men had killed Liu Zongmin's men, and now they were besieging Li Zicheng's men.

Li Zicheng's men were similar to Liu Zongmin's men, and they also fought with Wu Sangui's men for a long time, and their physical strength was severely exhausted. The elites of the Manchu Eight Banners joined them, and they couldn't resist at all.

Li Zicheng's men and horses had just rushed down to Guancheng, and were forced to retreat into Guancheng again.But the Qing army and Wu Sangui's men pursued closely.

Another charge, Dorgon and Wu Sangui led the joint team of the Qing army and the Wu army to attack the pass city, and the two sides launched a desperate struggle in the pass city of Shanhaiguan.

At this moment, Gao Guiying and Song Xiance ran over with a dozen or so defeated soldiers. Li Zicheng was taken aback when he saw them in such a mess. Before Li Zicheng could ask what was going on, Hauge brought tens of thousands of Qing soldiers Killed from behind.

This moment was completely reversed from the situation just now, because an hour ago, Wu Sangui's men and horses were closing in and out, inside and outside the pass, facing enemies from both sides, and fell into a desperate situation.

The situation changed completely in the blink of an eye, and it became Li Zicheng's men and horses inside and outside the pass, and they were attacked by the enemy.

In a few simple words, Gao Guiying told the story of the loss of a piece of Shiguan City.

For Li Zicheng, this is tantamount to making matters worse.

Li Zicheng miscalculated the situation in front of him, and also underestimated the strength of the Manchu Tartars, so he suffered a big loss.

It's too late for him to regret it now, it's too late to say anything now, he can only fight with all his might.He knew that Liu Zongmin's side must be tough, otherwise he would have come to support him long ago. He doesn't know the specific situation of the battle there.

He still doesn't know that Liu Zongmin has died in battle, and the 5-[-] army has been besieged by the Tartars and Wu Sangui's troops outside the Guancheng, and has been scattered.

Li Zicheng's 5 to [-] horses passed through this round trip, and I don't know how many casualties were caused. Anyway, they are now compressed in the pass city of Shanhaiguan by countless Tartars and Wu Sangui's troops.

Surrounded by heavy siege outside, they are full of Manchu Tartars and Wu Sangui's traitor team.

The defeat of this battle has been decided. In order not to lose everything, Li Zicheng now has no choice but to lead his troops to break through desperately.

His King Chuang Knife killed an unknown number of people, the knife was covered in blood, and there were several gaps in the blade, but he was still fighting hard.

After fighting for more than half an hour, Li Zicheng still didn't break out. He couldn't kill him anymore. He was sweating all over his body, and the horse he was sitting on was also dripping with sweat, and his four legs were trembling. He could feel that the horse had already supported him. Not much longer.

Seeing that there are fewer and fewer people around, it is estimated that there are only a few thousand people left. Many people are too tired to get up, and there are many wounded. The city wall looks like it has been washed with blood.

The corpses under their feet were spread out evenly. In some places, the corpses were piled up like a mountain, overlapping several layers. There were the Qing army, the Dashun army, and Wu Sangui's puppet Ming army, but there was no doubt that the Dashun army had the most corpses at this time.

Looking outside under the light of the torches, the three floors inside and three floors outside are full of soldiers from the Qing army and Wu Sangui like soldiers.

Li Zicheng's heart turned: It seems that today I can't kill him, so is the sky going to kill me Li Zicheng?God is blind!
At this moment, Wu Sangui, who was not far away from him, laughed loudly: "Li Zicheng, the intruder, never imagined that today would happen, right? Look who this is!"

As Wu Sangui said, he took off a bloody head from under the horse's neck, and threw it at Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng turned his head to the side, and the head hit the city wall and then fell in front of his horse.

With the light of the torch, Li Zicheng could see clearly that it was his right-hand man Liu Zongmin who was grinning.

The moment he saw Liu Zongmin's head, Li Zicheng's heart ached, as if he had been stabbed. Liu Zongmin had followed him through life and death over the years, how many times he had brushed shoulders with the god of death, how many times he had killed Guan Jun of the Ming Dynasty, and served the Dashun Army He made a lot of contributions, but he didn't expect that his head was in a different place this time.

Li Zicheng's eyes were slightly closed, a little distressed, and overworked, he felt his eyes were dark, and he resisted not to fall off the horse.

At this time, Dorgon beside Wu Sangui laughed loudly and shouted: "Li Zicheng, surrender quickly. This king can give you a whole body, and maybe he will spare your life. If you don't know the current affairs and resist, next year will be today." Your anniversary!"

"Wu Sangui, Dorgon, what the hell are you? I, Li Zicheng, will not surrender...Kill!" Li Zicheng gritted his teeth, said, and took the Chuangwang sword in his hand to kill Wu Sangui and Dorgon first.

Gao Guiying also rushed over with the sword and sword, and the couple killed dozens of Tartars and traitors in a row, but Li Zicheng's sword dance became slower and slower, and his strength was exhausted.

At this moment, an arrow flew over, and hit Li Zicheng directly between the eyebrows. Li Zicheng yelled and threw the knife and fell off the horse, which frightened Gao Guiying.

"Your Majesty..." Gao Guiying's face turned pale, and she flew up from the horse, rescued Li Zicheng, carried Li Zicheng, who was covered in blood, and continued to fight, but there were no more horses.

Fortunately, Gao Guiying was full of martial arts skills, and the Jade Sword flew up and down, chopping down several Tartars in a row, but there were fewer and fewer people around her, and Gao Guiying was still carrying someone on her back. Finally, she couldn't charge and kill. She didn't know how many wounds she had suffered, but she still couldn't bear to let go of Li Zicheng on her shoulders. At this moment, there were only a dozen guards around her, and they were blocked by a group of Tartars at the corner of the city wall.

"Gui, Guiying... Let go, let me down..." Li Zicheng lay beside Gao Guiying's ear, eyes closed, his face was covered with blood, his voice was weak, and the arm grabbing Gao Guiying also drooped.

Gao Guiying's face was full of tears, she could think of what was going to happen, and she was sobbing. In the darkness, she shook her head, "Your Majesty, can you still hear me?...If we die together, my concubine will never will leave you..."

At this moment, gunshots broke out outside Shanhaiguan...

(End of this chapter)