At the forefront were the archers of the Shun army, and now the firearms of the Ming army could not be used, and it was the time for the archers to show their prestige. As long as the archers were used to shoot covering and suppress the Ming army in the camp, the soldiers of the Shun army could pull down the wooden wall of the Ming army and attack the camp.

However, on rainy days, the bowstring was also damp and weak, and the range was shorter than usual, and in order to get into range, it had to be closer than usual.

However, just as the archers of the Shun army approached the camp of the Ming army, the sound of "bang bang bang" like popping beans became a piece, and the Shun army who were trying to trek was like wheat cut off by a sickle, and a piece of Qi Brush was shot down.

"What's going on?" Li Laiheng, who was in the back formation, was shocked. Didn't you say that you can't use the fire gun in rainy weather? Why can the Ming army's guns still fire?

"Bang bang bang" wave after wave of firecrackers sounded, and the soldiers of the Shun army who were approaching the Ming army camp were shot to the ground one after another, and in a short time, thousands of people fell under the Ming army's firearms. Most of the soldiers of the Shun army suddenly stopped, and one by one they panicked. Before approaching the camp of the Ming army, so many people died, which frightened many soldiers of the Shun army.

"General, the firearms of the Ming army can still be used, the casualties of the brothers are too great, let's retreat!" The lieutenant general beside Li Laiheng suggested softly.

"Retirement?" Li Laiheng stared at him with red eyes: "We traveled for an hour to come to the Ming army camp, and we can't retreat like this?" The order went down, and the archers continued to advance, suppressing the fire of the Ming army with bows and arrows! ”

"General, don't!" The deputy general was shocked: "The ground is muddy and difficult to walk, and I don't know how many dead and injured I will have when the brothers approach the Ming army camp." With the Ming army and soldiers, it is really difficult for us to bring down the Ming army camp. General, it's still too late to withdraw the troops, if it's too late to wait for the morale of the brothers to be lost, and the Ming army takes the opportunity to rush out of the camp again, I'm afraid that what awaits us is only destruction! ”

However, at this time, the young Li Laiheng had been carried away and couldn't listen to it at all, and if he came up with a plan for himself, if he fled back like this, he felt shameless to see his father.

So, under the order of Li Laiheng, the soldiers of the Shun army braved the Ming army to rush over.

On a high platform in the middle of the Ming army's camp, Chen Yue and Zhang Huangyan stood side by side under the canopy, observing the battle at the wall.

"The generals of the Shun army are smart, but they don't know that most of our muskets are flintlock muskets, each gun has a special rain cover, and it is a fixed paper shell ammunition, which may not be used in heavy rain, but in this kind of light rainy weather, the success rate of shooting is still more than seventy!" Listening to the continuous sound of fire, Chen Yue smiled.

Zhang Huangyan nodded, he has been in the Northern Expeditionary Army for nearly a year, and he has a deep understanding of the excellent equipment of the Northern Expeditionary Army. In addition to the Northern Expeditionary Army, I am afraid that there will be no second one in other Ming armies.

The generals of the Shun army misjudged the sharpness of the Ming army's firearms, and decided the failure of their attack from the beginning, and there was not much suspense in this battle at all.

Sure enough, although Li Laiheng insisted on attacking, the bowstrings of the Shun army were damp and soft in the rain, and even if they were barely shot, the range and power were greatly reduced, and they were powerless to fight against the Ming army's guns.

The muddy and difficult roads and the simple walls of the Ming army made it difficult for them to fight with the Ming army in a short period of time, and they could only let the Ming army shoot with guns. When the casualties reached more than 3,000 people, although Li Laiheng had not yet ordered a retreat, the Shun army in front could no longer hold on, and the shooting down of his companions around them made them full of fear. I don't know who turned around first, and suddenly, the Shun soldiers in front of him turned around and fled.

In this case, except for Li Laiheng, most of the other officers of the Shun army were unwilling to attack in the rain, and they were not willing to restrain the rout of their subordinate soldiers at all.

Seeing the soldiers in front fleeing back like a tide, Li Laiheng was furious but helpless, so he could only retreat downward.

"Lord Wang, are you sending troops to chase and kill?" Zhang Huangyan was eager to try. The Shun army has been defeated, and it took too much physical strength on the way here, the Ming army camp is seven or eight miles away from Tongguan, if an army is sent out of the camp to chase and kill, I am afraid that the 50,000 Shun army can escape back to Tongguan very few.

Chen Yue thought about it carefully, forcibly suppressed the temptation, shook his head and said: "Forget it, if the Shun army is defeated too badly, it will not be conducive to our plan, and the Shun army, which has lost too many troops, will not be able to attack the Western Regions." ”

Zhang Huangyan could only shake his head regretfully.

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In the rain, an army trudged through the rain and approached the Yulin Acropolis.

On this rainy day, the Shun defenders of Yulin did not expect the enemy to attack in the rain, almost all the soldiers took shelter from the rain in the city, and the entire city wall was almost empty.

Dozens of flying claws were shot onto the city by strong crossbows, and dozens of Ming soldiers grabbed ropes and crawled towards the city wall, and soon disappeared on the city wall.

After a short time, the gate of the Yulin Acropolis was opened, and with a wave of the Ming army officers led by them, more than a thousand soldiers rushed into the city.

The sound of fighting sounded in the city, and the whole Yulin was in chaos, and the Shun army in Yulin was about 3,000 people, but they were scattered in various houses in the city, and they did not expect that there would be an enemy attack in this weather, and they would easily attack the city.

One side was a surprise attack, the other side was caught off guard, although the soldiers of the Shun army hurriedly met the battle, although the number was three times that of the attacking Ming army, but in the face of an organized attack, there was no resistance on a large scale.

An hour later, as the Ming army entered the Yulin Weifu and killed the captain of the Shun army, the sound of fighting stopped, and more than 1,000 Shun troops in Yulin were killed, and the rest were disarmed and surrendered.

On the second day, an even larger Ming army marched into Yulin, and it was the Datong defenders led by Wu Ping.

In order to cooperate with Chen Yue's strategy, Wu Ping led 20,000 troops from Yulin to cross the border wall and attack all the way to the south.

The Shun army also had thousands of garrisons in Yan'an Prefecture, but it was unable to resist at all under Wu Ping's military might, and the city of Yan'an Mansion was quickly captured. Wu Ping did not stop at all, and immediately led his troops to the south to kill, and the soldiers pointed directly at Chaoyi.

At Daqing Pass, Yuan Zongdi, the Marquis of Dashun Mian, led 40,000 Shun troops to resist the Ming army crossing the river and attacked, relying on the sudden heavy rain and the rising water level of the Yellow River, which was able to block Yu Feng's Ming army east of the Yellow River.

When he heard that a Ming army was actually coming from the north, Yuan Zongdi was shocked and hurriedly sent 20,000 troops to the north to meet him.

In Baishui County, Wu Ping's army and the army sent by Yuan Zongdi met to meet them, and after a short but fierce battle, the Shun army was killed and defeated.

When the rout fled back to Daqing Pass, Yuan Zongdi knew that he could no longer stop it.

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