Chapter Thirty-Six: Death Is Death!

Matsuyama Fort was blown up.

Songshan Fort, which was only five miles in radius, was ravaged by 100,000 catties of gunpowder, and the land was almost overturned.

The smoke of the gunpowder explosion had not yet cleared, and the raging fire began to burn on the wreckage of Songshan Fort again, and after the devastated Feiyangu escaped from Matsuyama Fort, he could not hear a word in the face of Dorgon's reprimand.

Seeing the scene of the war horse struggling on the pine tree, Dolgon stopped scolding Feiyangu, and he began to worry about Huang Taiji, thirty miles away, but he still thought that he should get the cannon out of Songshan Fort first, after all, such an explosion would not destroy all the cannons.

Hong Chengchou left all the gunpowder in Songshan Fort.

The people of Tuolantian casually gave the court the blessing of buying and selling gunpowder, and Hong Chengchou's army lacked money, food, horses, and even clothes, but there was no shortage of gunpowder......

When he strode back, the artillery naturally could not be carried, so he ordered that after pouring molten iron on the barrel and the hole of fire, the artillery here became scrap metal.

After discovering that all the cannons in Songshan Fort had become scrap metal, Dolgon went to chase Hong Chengchou with a small number of troops, and at this time, an hour and a half had passed since Hong Chengchou left Songshan Fort.

"Chong, capture Huang Taiji alive and worship the general!"

In the face of the obstruction of Huang Taiji's soldiers and horses, Hong Chengchou gave up his command position and charged Huang Taiji's main formation in the middle of the army.

Seeing his subordinates killed and wounded, Hong Chengchou shouted in the chaos.

He deeply understood that if he couldn't kill Huang Taiji in this battle, even if he returned to Guannai, he would still be unable to escape death.

After arranging for such a long time and enduring it for so long, God treated him well, and finally gave him a good opportunity to kill Huang Taiji.

In the sky, arrows are like flying locusts, and in the middle, muskets and cannons are dense like rain.

"Chong, kill Huang Taiji, the bounty is 10,000 taels!"

Seeing that Yang Guozhu was shot and fell off his horse, Hong Chengchou gritted his teeth, squeezed away the guards, and pulled out his sword, this time, he was ready to go up in person.

Wu Sangui, who was already rushing to kill on the front line, suddenly found that Hong Chengchou appeared at the forefront, howled in pain, and crossed out of the formation, and Guan Ning Iron Cavalry followed his back to avoid the musketeers of the Jiannu Chinese army, and rushed into the flank of Jiannu in the oblique stab.

In the face of the frantic assault of the Ming army, 10,000 people of Huang Taiji's Zhenghuang Banner were waiting for it.

In the face of Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui, there was no scene of joy and roaring horses in Jianzhou, no noise of war drums and thunder, only the whirring of battle flags fluttering in the wind and the atmosphere of majestic killing.

Under the banner of the Manchu Dynasty's Black Dragon, Huang Taiji sat on a high hill and watched the battlefield with a telescope. There were more than 20 generals and dozens of heralds around him, and there were thousands of guards around the hill, with Zhu Ying's spear horizontally, lined up in a neat queue facing outward.

Huang Taiji saw a group of men and horses rushing into his flank, quickly disrupted the military formation, and quickly advanced, so he said to Yue Tuo beside him: "This should be the last bit of blood of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, right?" ”

Yue Tuo said: "A very respectable opponent, but today, they are all destined to die here." ”

Huang Taiji looked at Hong Chengchou, who was also advancing in front of him, and said: "Hong Chengchou is not a strong person, since he has already seen through Dolgon's scheme, why should he be desperate?" ”

Yue Tuo shook his head and said, "This, I don't know." ”

Huang Taiji glanced at Yue Tuo, who was looking down at the ground, and said, "You don't dare to say? Well, I'm betting that Dorgon won't immediately flank him from behind. ”

Yue Tuo closed his eyes and said nothing.

Huang Taiji wiped a trace of blood from his nose, sighed and said, "He won the bet." ”

After speaking, he stood up, tidied up his armor and said to Yue Tuo: "Hong Chengchou thinks that I have been the emperor for a long time and have forgotten how to fight, that is, today, let him see, I, I am still the Huang Taiji of the brave champion of the three armies!"

Bow down! Forerunner for me! ”

A giant man with hair like a black bear came out of the crowd, jumped on his horse, waved the mace in his hand, and led a group of cavalry straight to the place where Hong Chengchou was haunted.

Without waiting for Huang Taiji to get out of the horse, Yue Tuo and Du Du glanced at each other, and also jumped on the war horse and went down the hill.

Seeing that the three people were gone, Huang Taiji was not busy, he sat down on the wide chair again, and held the telescope with one hand to check the battlefield situation.

As the three of them entered the battlefield with their personal guards, the crumbling battle line that had been impacted by Hong Chengchou slowly stabilized.

Seeing that his subordinates were repelled by Jiannu, Liu Jie, a fierce general under Hong Chengchou, concentrated more than 20 musketeers, and after firing at them, they turned the two white-armored soldiers who were hindering their advance into a honeycomb, and then jumped up from the small hillside with a shield and smashed into a hole.

Immediately, his subordinates followed suit.

When they reached the bottom of the mountain, there was a terrible sound of "whining", and the arrows of the crossbow bed the thickness of the baby's arm poured down. The soldiers of the Great Ming who were hit by the bolts of the crossbow bed, no matter what kind of shield they were holding, all pierced their bodies and died.

"Spread out, spread out......" Liu Jie shouted desperately, and he took the lead in buckling the shield on his body and fell to the ground.

The attacking soldiers dispersed amid the shouts of the officers, and the lethality of Jiannu's bed crossbow was greatly reduced.

But as soon as they reached the hillside, Jiannu's feathered arrows fell from the sky. The dense and precise arrow feathers caused hundreds of Ming troops to fall to the ground, and the rest of the people began to retreat, and the first attack was defeated.

As soon as Liu Jie pulled out the feather arrow inserted in his shoulder, he saw Hong Zhong, the captain of the handsome's own army, pass by him, and when the two passed by, Hong Zhong took off two grenades from his chest and slapped him in his hand, and then continued to run towards the hill.

After a horn sounded, there were sudden shouts of killing, and Jiannu's arrows and stones were sprayed down again.

Hong Chengchou's two hundred guards approached the foot of the mountain under the cover of the shield at this time, and the Ming musketeers and Jiannu crossbowmen at the foot of the mountain began to shoot at each other.

Under their cover, the accuracy of the shooting of Jiannu's crossbowmen was greatly reduced. Seeing that he was about to climb halfway up the mountain, countless black shadows stood up from behind the shield and threw the grenade up the hill fiercely.

Jiannu's crossbowmen were shocked and hurriedly retreated, and for a while, the flames were everywhere, black smoke billowed out, and the military flags turned into ashes, and the Jiannu crossbowmen were all blown up.

Seeing this, Liu Jie quickly led his subordinates around the hill, and in front of him was the fence on the outer wall of Huangtaiji Camp Village.

Some of the soldiers armed with heavy weapons quickly hammered the fence.

After a short time, the long fence was smashed into a gap. Fighters on both sides, armed with knives, guns and shields, huddled in the gap.

You retreat and advance, fight over and over again, and fight together. In this kind of battle to the death, if you are not careful, your life will be in danger. If the dragon fights, there will be death. The loser falls to the ground and is repeatedly trampled by those who come after him, and the winner may follow in the footsteps of the next moment.

"I'm worshipping! If you are not afraid of death, come up! ”

Ao Bai actually jumped into the Ming army group from the fence with a mace in his hand, and he screamed while swinging the mace to smash the Ming soldiers who surrounded the gap to death.

The reputation of the Ao Bai Murder King has long been known to the Ming army in the past two years, and at this time, the Ming soldiers saw that he was indeed as brave and abnormal as the legend, and all the people in front of him were killed by him, so they avoided him.

After a while, two or three of the Ming soldiers broke away from the queue and fled backwards, and some people fled with them one after another......

A grenade exploded at Aobai's feet, and this strong man like a giant bear, covered in blood after the explosion, still beat his chest with both hands and shouted, even if Liu Jie saw this, he didn't dare to take a step forward.

Just as Liu Jie was about to throw another grenade over, a group of Jiannu soldiers pounced on him, and four or five people dragged Ao Bai away, while another group of people rushed towards Liu Jie and the others.

"Death to those who dare to retreat!"

Liu Jie wielded a knife and hacked to death a soldier who had lost the spear in his hand, and strode forward to meet the battle, long before leaving, the commander had already said that Xia Chengde's betrayal exposed all the weaknesses of Songshan Fort, Songshan Fort could not be defended, if everyone wanted to return to the pass alive, they could only fight hard.

Liu Jie began to fight hard, and his subordinates had always trusted Liu Jie and followed one after another, so an even more tragic battle began.

In the melee, some use guns, some use knives, and some use hammers, picking, stabbing, slashing, and smashing, and at the same time go into battle, fighting to the death.

Some have too great a disparity in strength, and one move can decide life and death; Some are evenly matched, tightly glued together; Some of them scuffled with each other, and they did not let go of their hands when their heads were broken and bleeding, and even if they fell and rolled on the snow together, they also bit their opponents to the death; Some of them were both defeated, and they fell in a pool of blood, exhausted, but still stared at each other viciously, trying to see the opportunity to slash the last knife and kill the other party......

Before Songshan, the war broke out, and the Ming army, which had no artillery, fought with Jiannu in the field at this time.

This is not the result that Hong Chengchou wants, he hopes that Huang Taiji will retreat when his army presses up, but until now, Huang Taiji's Black Dragon Sun Chasing Flag is still flying not far away.

Hong Chengchou can even see Huang Taiji's appearance through the binoculars.

Just after receiving the scout's report, Dolgon's soldiers and horses were already ten miles away.

Hong Chengchou set his eyes on Chen Dong, who was eating beans, and said, "Have the people and horses of Baiyintu, Yingerdai, and Horqin Tuxietu between Songshan and Xingshan come over?" ”

Chen Dongdao: "Horqin Tu Xie Tu's men and horses didn't come, and the other two have already arrived on your left side, to put it mildly, your luck is very good, Bai Yin Tu, Ying Erdai, these two people are not in the way of your escape to Xingshan, they think that with Horqin Tu Xie Tu blocking it, you won't go to Xingshan."

So lie in ambush on your only left road. ”

Hong Chengchou laughed and said, "In that case, let's go to Xingshan, and you go and open the way for me!" ”

Chen Dong was stunned for a moment and said, "Your battle is my business?" ”

Hong Chengchou pointed to the Ming soldiers who were still fighting fiercely and said, "Do you think the county lord will think so?" ”

Chen Dong roared and said, "If we leave, you will die in Liaodong." ”

Hong Chengchou said with a smile: "Die, die!" ”