Chapter 72: The Bloody Battle at Shanhaiguan (2)
Kong Youde is forty years old, and he has been in the army for 20 years, relying on betraying his colleagues and being ruthless to get into his current position, he is a typical soldier.
His troops are also the old team brought from Denglai before the Qing Dynasty, with more than 5,000 people, don't look at the few people, but all of them are outlaws.
In fact, there was a very strange phenomenon at the end of the Ming Dynasty, many soldiers who were like waste wood in the Ming Dynasty immediately fought like chicken blood after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, and their force soared, as if they had changed people.
The reason is simple, silver!
In the Ming Court, you have to pay your own dry food and travel expenses when you go out on the expedition, and you will be given a pension if you die in battle, and you will be an official if you win a war, and you will be a small soldier if you lose.
Why did Lao Tzu give you his life?
Although the guards were later eroded, and most of the expeditions became recruited battalions, the situation was not much better, the treasury ran out of rats, oh no, rats can starve to death, military salaries can't be paid, and pensions are paid?
But the Manchu Tartars are different, although the wild boar skin does not have much money, but in order to conquer the giant-like Ming, they are very good at making promises, and they are all cakes many times larger than the Ming army.
In order to win the victory, the gold and silver treasures, the addition of officials and knights are all pediatrics, often after the city is breached, the Tartar leaders will let their men plunder the whole city, and the rest of the looting proceeds are their own except for the necessary grain and materials.
With the addition of officials, wealth, and beauties, the Han army that had never enjoyed the fun of war soared in combat effectiveness, and Kong Youde was one of the most typical ones.
"Stop!" Fifty meters in front of the Shanhaiguan Gate, Kong Youde suddenly waved his hand to stop the troops from moving forward.
Years of battle intuition told him that this Shanhaiguan is a bit evil, although Wu Laogou and his pro-army are internal responses, but it is impossible for there to be no one on the city wall!
Lao Tzu is so much moved, are the people in the city deaf and stupid?
Made, I know that Zilharang's son of a bitch is not well-intentioned! Fortunately, Lao Tzu kept an eye.
"Wang Shixuan, take your cavalry battalion to Lao Tzu for a rush!" Kong Youde turned around and said to Wang Shixuan, a general riding a Mongolian horse behind him.
Wang Shixuan was a Manchu Qing who was voted for in the later period, because he had no soldiers and was not valued by the Manchu Tartars, so he was directly assigned to Kong Youde.
He was born in martial arts during the Apocalypse, and he was able to write and martial arts, and he despised Kong Youde, who was illiterate and full of foul language, and of course, Kong Youde did not look down on the self-righteous Wang Shixuan.
The communiqué is a personal vendetta that Kong Youde is a trick.
Wang Shixuan snorted coldly, there was nothing he could do, just looking forward to taking the city gate, and then begging the Manchu master to set up another door.
"The generals listen to the order, kill in, take the city gate, and the officials will be rewarded!" Wang Shixuan drew his sword and gave the order to charge.
The 1,000 cavalry of his command rushed out towards Shanhaiguan, and he was not stupid to follow behind the team.
It was pitch black in the Shanhai Pass, and the bleak moonlight could not reach the bottom of the pass, and the speed of a thousand cavalry was already very fast after the acceleration of fifty meters.
Seeing that there was still no movement inside, Kong Youde couldn't sit still, this gong was Lao Tzu!
"Rush up to Lao Tzu and rob him M!" Kong Youde shouted.
As soon as his soldiers had not taken a few steps, the wails of Wang Shixuan's troops could be heard from inside the Shanhaiguan.
"Dog R's, what's the situation!" Wang Shixuan saw that the troops in front of him were congested in the doorway, and he couldn't see what was happening in front of him.
"General Wang, there is fraud ahead! It seems that there is a ...... A big pit! Dozens of brothers have already fallen! Wang Shixuan's personal soldiers shouted after looking at the front.
"What? Pit? Wang Shixuan looked confused, digging a pit under the gate of this special N? Who is so talented!
The gate of Shanhaiguan was crowded with cavalry, and the soldiers in the rear didn't know what was going on in front of them, so they just waited to go in and kill, and squeezed forward on horseback, and the soldiers inside were squeezed into the pit one by one.
Of course, this big pit is Liu Hongji's idea, on the side of the Shanhaiguan Gate Cave, Liu Hongjian ordered someone to dig a huge pit with a width of five meters and a height, and the bottom is also full of sharpened bamboo rows and iron blades!
"Retreat!" Wang Shixuan is not sloppy, this big hole wants to be filled with human heads, and no one or two hundred people will succeed, and who knows if there are other traps ahead.
Boom - the torches were lit at a distance of 100 meters in front of the door hole in Shanhaiguan, and the three Franc machine guns were impressively reflected in Wang Shixuan's eyes, in order to find the right angle, these three cannons were also specially erected.
The shells were accurately shot into the holes, and the cavalrymen in the front row, who did not fall into the pit, were directly hit by the shells, and because the holes were just at the best firing distance of the Franc cannons, the shells directly pierced the stomachs of several rows of horses and soldiers.
Boom - boom is two more rounds, the moment the cannon sounds, torches are lit on the gate tower of Shanhaiguan, and a gate city defense cannon is also lit by the gunners of the Shanhaiguan Shenji Battalion, which has long been ambushed in the city wall.
This time the target was Kong Youdebu, who was not far behind the cavalry.
After a round of shelling, the soldiers on the city gate tower lifted the thunder stone and the giant wood and threw it down to the big pit inside the city gate tower, and the soldiers in the huge pit were still struggling to climb out, and they were smashed flat by the boulder in a moment.
The Franco's cannon had trouble reloading, and after a round of shelling, the two sides calmed down.
Wang Shixuan was blinded by this attack in one go, when did the Ming border army become so fierce? So I didn't have time to think about it too much, and I had to retreat.
Kong Youde was also beaten in a big mess, and was about to return, when Duoduo rushed up with his own soldiers behind him.
Kong Youde hurriedly explained the reason for the retreat to the big man, but where could Duoduo, who was burning with fire burning in his heart, listen to it, the city gate was wide open, wouldn't it be just a pit and a few cannons? It's okay to just stick to it, it's Hannu who died anyway.
"Dog slave who is greedy for life and afraid of death, rush in for this king! Otherwise, Lao Tzu will destroy you now! Dodor roared.
Before Kong Youde could justify, the sound of killing in Shanhaiguan shook the sky, and Wang Yuanba, the new deputy chief soldier of Shanhaiguan, rushed out of the city with his 5,000 cavalry and went straight to Wang Shixuan in front.
"Made! These slaves who are greedy for life and afraid of death in the Beiban dare to come out! Rush! Rush to the king! Duoduo didn't expect that the Ming border army, which had always been cowering behind the fortified city, dared to rush out.
Surprise is followed by snickering!
Kong Youde was also surprised, did this Ming Jun take the wrong medicine? How dare you fight a field battle with your master? Immediately, without much thought, he instructed Wang Shixuan's troops to press up, and he also rushed forward with his troops.
Dodor returned to his camp and, ignoring Zilharan's roar, gave the order to mobilize his deployment.
He has 8,000 horsemen under him, all of whom are brave and good warriors, and now he has Hannu as cannon fodder, and he believes that these northern barbarians in the turtle city in front of him will definitely not be able to withstand a charge from his iron cavalry.
"Dordor! If you dare to act without permission, don't blame this king for being unkind! This Shanhaiguan is obviously a trap set by Wu Sangui, you can't see it? Zilharang said angrily.
"Don't talk nonsense to this king! Regardless of whether he is a trap or not, when Lao Tzu takes this city gate, Shanhaiguan is ours, and after this Shanhaiguan is a horse Pingchuan, it is just around the corner to enter the capital of the barbarians, and this first gong is set by the king!
Zilharang, just wait and see! "Dorgon was eager to make a meritorious service, and when he came, Dorgon told him that he must win the first credit, which will be beneficial to his next plan.
Boom - the Franc cannon on the city gate finally began to roar again, and the front was already in a melee, and this time it was Kong Youde's rear that was directly bombarded.
Duoduo saw the opportunity and rushed forward with the Eight Banners to which he belonged......