Shaanxi, Tongguan.

Tongguan is located in the north of Shaanxi, north of the Yellow River, south of the mountainside, the water is inscribed: the river flows in the south of the pass Tongjiguan Mountain, because of the Tongguan, Tongguan is steep and majestic, it is the east gate of the pass.

"Little ...... Small. "There was a man's shout from a side building in Tongguan.

"Big ...... Big, open, I won, all hand over the money! ”

"Brother Wang, your luck is too bad today, if you lose like this, you won't even have pants if you play two more games! Why don't you stop here and fight again tomorrow? ”

A thin monkey who had obviously won the money said with a shy smile to a stocky man across the table.

"You're so proud of your eggs, wait for Lao Tzu to go out to pee, and then come back, I don't believe in evil today!" After the sturdy man finished speaking, he opened the coarse cloth curtain and walked out of the side building.

It was late autumn, and the city wall was already cold, because there was the whole Shanxi as a barrier in the east, Li Zijing's army had been living very comfortably, and on this cold day, they simply nested in the side buildings to play sieve.

The man was too lazy to go down the tower, so he stood at the drain below the battlement, lifted his pants and released the water, and a torrent flowed down from the drain.

The man shivered while urinating, glanced at the city, and froze for a moment.

I saw an army appear hundreds of meters away from the city wall, and there were countless black pressures, and according to this marching speed, I am afraid that it will be able to reach the city in a moment.

"Enemy attack! Enemy attack! The man was so frightened that he forgot to mention his pants, and shouted as he retreated, and sat down in the city wall with his right leg weak.

"Brother Wang, what are you talking about? Even if you lose the money, there's no need to scare everyone to ......."

The thin man proudly opened the curtain and planned to expose the lie called Brother Wang, but as soon as he walked out of the side building, he saw the changes in the city.

"My God, hurry! Hurry up and inform Mr. He! Enemy attack! ”

"Xiang Xiong! Order the artillery to prepare, target Tong to close the city gate, and fire the cannon immediately! ”

Liu Hong gradually took out the wine bag from the horse's back and took a sip of wine, hissing - it was really spicy.

In order to prevent the leakage of news, Liu Hongjian ordered Wei Penghong to block the border pass, and at the same time hurriedly took the cavalry of the border army from the east and set off from Linxian.

This westward march, in addition to the 18,000 cavalry, there are also 2,000 men and horses from Shanhaiguan's infantry Xiangxiong, all of whom came on horseback, which is also all the horses in the entire Shanhaiguan.

Then there are the two thousand horsemen of the Thousand Households of Long Live Mountain, from Linxian to Tongguan if you can reach it in five days if you are fast and whip, but only the cavalry can break through the copper wall of Tongguan.

As a last resort, Liu Hongjian had to bring 20 Franc cannons dismantled from Taiyuan Mansion and Datong Mansion, which seriously slowed down the marching speed of the troops.

Even if it was disassembled and assembled on the modified carriage, dozens of war horses were still exhausted, and it took ten days to reach the border of Shaanxi.

"Order!" Xiang Xiong returned to the battlefield, even though he was very tired from the march for several days, Xiang Xiong's voice was still very excited, he had been waiting for this day for a long time.

What was fought was a blitzkrieg, and the border army was certainly a tired division, but Li Zijing's army led by He Jin had been comfortable for a long time and had lost its sharpness.

Seeing the strong army approaching the city, the city walls were in chaos, the soldiers were looking for the general, and the general was running around and shouting for his soldiers.

Boom-boom-the two Franc machines, which had already placed the gunpowder, were the first to spit out their anger.

But the angle was adjusted too high, and neither of the two shells hit the city gate, but instead blew a hole in the city gate tower.

Boom - boom - but it didn't matter, only two breaths later, three more Franc machines lit fires, one fired at the city wall, and the other two hit the city gate.

The gates of Tongguan are all made of solid wood and iron sheets, and after two cannons, only two holes were smashed.

"Quick, get on the mother's cannon! Fast! "The Franc cannon is a front-loading solid bullet, which must be compacted with gunpowder first, and then put in a solid iron bullet, which is a cumbersome process.

In contrast, the slightly less powerful sub-cannon can be reloaded much faster, and the pre-loaded sub-cannon can be fired immediately after a single shot.

Although due to accuracy problems, the gap between the sub cannon and the mother cannon is a little less powerful, but for the city gate, it is enough.

Boom Boom Boom - Twenty Franc planes bombarded the Tongguan city gate uninterruptedly, and in less than half an hour, the Tongguan city gate disappeared.

"Step forward and fill in the moat for Benbo! The cavalry battalion is ready! ”

Liu Hong gradually shouted, and had already prepared 2,000 infantry carrying sandbags to quickly rush to the moat under the city.

After panicking for half an hour, the peasant army on the city wall finally formed a weak defense, and hundreds of scruffily dressed archers with bows and arrows fired indiscriminately at the city, and from time to time three or two soldiers carrying sandbags were hit by arrows.

"Shoot 100 households ready, and shoot freely at the city wall ahead!" Liu Hong gradually gave an order to Zu Qiuqing, who was already eager to try.

A hundred AKM shooters turned over and dismounted, trotted forward more than a dozen paces, and loaded their guns with a clatter.

Dada-da

The distance was not very far, the AKM shot well, and in just a few moments dozens of people were shot on the city walls.

Even if the soldiers of the border army were hit by arrows, they still endured the pain and threw sandbags into the moat, but how could the pampered He Jinjun be so strong, and the people's army, which had not known what the word elite was for half a year, had already become a complete blind stream.

Dozens of civilian soldiers were shot, many of them had their skulls lifted, and some of them simply burst out of their brains, and the newly assembled peasant army blew up the camp in an instant.

Hundreds of archers rushed to the city, and He Jin, who had just been ready, was about to rush up to the city tower with more than a thousand soldiers, but was distorted by the rout on the city wall.

No matter how he shouted, not only the people on the city wall ran, but the more than 1,000 soldiers who had just gathered thought that the city wall had been lost, and they didn't care about 3721 and ran along.

More than 2,000 sandbags filled the moat into a flat land more than ten meters wide, and several wooden planks were laid to facilitate the walking of the war horses.

"Warriors, follow me into the city and take the thief's head! No mercy! Liu Hong gradually drew his sword.

"Rush!"

As soon as Liu Hong finished shouting, Tang Feng, who had long been unable to hold back the blood in his heart, took out his battle knife and rushed out first.

The so-called defeat is like a mountain, one side is a chaotic soldier who loses his armor and abandons his armor, and the other side is a hundred battles of iron cavalry, it only took an hour, and the 5,000 foot soldiers of Tongguan General He Jin were wiped out.

He Jin's liver and gall were broken, and he was slashed by Tang Feng from the neck, and his eyes were full of regret and fear.

Another hour passed, the entire Tongguan was cleaned up, except for more than 800 surrendered civilian troops, Tongguan has been completely captured, and the Ming border army only suffered more than 100 casualties.

According to the plan agreed before, more than 800 captives were tied up, and after leaving 100 sergeants to watch them, the army continued westward, pointing directly at Xi'an Mansion.