It was the fourth watch of the night, the gate of Tongguan was quietly opened, Tang Tong personally led three thousand elite soldiers, raided the artillery of the Ming army, but the Jin army did not approach, it was discovered by the Ming army, the sneak attack turned into a strong attack, the fire outside Tongguan flickered, and the sound of killing shook the sky.

The battle lasted from the fourth watch to dawn, and a group of Ming troops rushed to the gate, forcing the Jin army to quickly retreat to the pass, and the Jin army's sneak attack failed.

The artillery bombardment of the Ming army during the day caused a great shock to the Jin army and hit the morale of the Jin army, Wang Yan thought that the Jin army would go out of the pass to seize the artillery, the Ming army had already prepared, and the sneak attack of the Jin army naturally failed.

When Haoge gave Tang Tong this task, Tang Tong didn't have much hope, he had the urge to close the door before, because the Ming army's inspection and defense were very cautious, he had no chance to take advantage of it, so he wanted to simply close the door.

The Ming army advanced the front to one mile away from the city, and the Jin army had no depth out of the city, as long as the Ming army pressed the city gate, the Jin army had to protect the gate first.

After dawn, Ming began to continue shelling Tongguan, and the Jin army could only hide by the city wall and be beaten passively.

Obviously, the Ming army was attacking the city, and it should be said that they should be covered with corpses, but now the situation is completely reversed, and the Jin army guarding the pass has greater casualties.

If it continues like this, Tongguan will definitely be difficult to hold, and sooner or later it will be broken by the Ming army.

Tang Tong, whose eyes were red in the early morning, came to Haoge's tent with a helmet in one hand and blood in his armor, and after the guards reported, he immediately opened the curtain and entered, only to see Haoge also sitting in the tent with red eyes, and when he came in, he immediately stood up and asked, "How is it?" How many guns were destroyed? ”

Tang Tong saluted Haoge and said sadly: "When I returned to Your Majesty, I seized a box of flowering shells, and one cannon was not destroyed, but seven or eight hundred soldiers were killed and wounded." ”

"In this way, it is impossible to stop the Ming army from shelling." Hauge's face sank and he sighed, "Seal the door." ”

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Outside the city, after the Ming army repelled the surprise attack of the Jin army, the Ming army, which had risen to the top, began to launch an artillery bombardment early in the morning.

Several gunners squatted in the tunnel, eating bread and drinking broth, and watched several other comrades play cannons to help them, all talking and laughing.

On the city, there is another scene, the Jin soldiers are hiding on the edge of the city wall, all silent, the fire head army carries a bamboo basket, which contains boiled sweet potatoes and potatoes, and distributes them to the Jin soldiers, one by one, squatting under the corner of the wall and eating silently.

"Lie down!" The firehead army was carrying food, shuttling through the city, a frightened voice just roared, a cannonball fell on the city, exploded instantly, the firehead army and the surrounding soldiers, was suddenly blown away, the sweet potatoes and potatoes in the bamboo basket were also blown away, and then fell like hail.

The mortars of the Ming army, as well as the Hongyi cannons and siege cannons in the distance, all worked together and bombarded for five days, the Guanlou was completely destroyed, and the stone throwers used to suppress the Ming army's siege also lost most of them, and the Jin soldiers suffered more than 2,000 casualties.

On March 6, at dusk, the artillery bombardment of the Ming army finally stopped, and the city wall of Tongguan had been damaged in many places, and the old wall was full of holes, but the new wall was generally intact.

All units of the Ming army have prepared the siege operation in front of the city, and the shield carts, trench bridges, boarding ladders and other equipment are all in place.

In the early morning of the next day, the Ming army had breakfast early, and according to the number, they lined up four miles away from the wall. The soldiers of the Ming Army, who had been recuperating for many days, watched Tongguan being bombed for a few days, and their morale was flourishing, ready to gnaw this hard bone.

At this time, the commanders of each army will come out of Wang Yan's tent, and soon return to their own positions, and then gather the commanders of each battalion to command the task of attacking the city, and the generals of each battalion will also recruit their subordinates to their side, stimulate morale from time to time, and give instructions to the essentials of the siege, and pass the orders out layer by layer.

Many low-ranking officers gathered the soldiers around them, explained the fortifications of the Jin army, and told the soldiers how to cross the trench and where to put up the ladder.

Suddenly, someone found that Wang Yan was wearing a golden helmet and golden armor, wearing a red cloak, riding a charcoal horse and several generals to the front of the military formation.

The troops hurriedly got up and saluted one after another, and Wang Yan wandered around the formations, beating his horse and moving slowly, constantly raising his horsewhip to greet the soldiers, so as to boost morale. For a while, everywhere Wang Yan passed, cheering and morale were boiling.

Wang Yan turned around and returned to the Chinese army, Li Guo and other generals hurriedly greeted him, "Prison country, it's not too early!" ”

Wang Yan looked up at the sky and nodded, "Then let's start!" ”

After speaking, Wang Yan turned over and dismounted, led everyone to get on the lookout car, the war drums of the Chinese army beat up, began to mobilize the atmosphere, the five loyalties, Wuwei, and Zhenwu armies began to shout with the sound of drums, and the blood of the soldiers was boiling, and the sound shook all directions.

Zhang Mingzhen, who was in charge of the attack, left the Chinese army on horseback, reined in the war horse in front of the formation, and watched the soldiers of the Zhenwu Left Army, carrying a long ladder, pushing the shield cart into the trench, braving the artillery fire of the defenders, and advancing along the tunnel to the next mile of the pass.

Zhang Mingzhen also turned over and dismounted, and as the army arrived at Guanxia, three battalions of nearly 10,000 soldiers had already crowded the trench.

At this time, he stood behind the low wall, waited for the artillery to bombard a few rounds, and gradually stopped, then suddenly drew his sword, swung forward with all his might, and shouted: "Attack! ”

Under an order, the Ming army rushed out of the gap in the low wall and rushed to Tongguan as if it were opening the floodgates.

The Jin army on the city saw the Ming army coming from the wilderness, and a look of hatred erupted in his eyes. After hiding in the distance and firing the cannon for so many days, the grandchildren were finally willing to step forward and die.

"Put!" On the city wall, the generals of the Jin Army roared angrily, and the blue tendons on their foreheads jumped straight away.

The artillery of the Jin Army, which had not achieved much, began to fire continuously, and the shells whistled from the city to the Ming army under the wall, and the shield cars were beaten to pieces and paralyzed on the road.

Soon the Ming army rushed to the trench outside the wall, and the Ming soldiers laid the trench bridge, collapsed over the trench, braved the artillery and projectiles at the head of the city, cleaned up the antlers and horses arranged by the Jin army, and marched forward with a shield.

"Gunstone! Be careful! The Ming officer reminded his subordinates loudly.

At this time, the stone throwing machines lined up by the Jin army behind the city wall, the throwing rod suddenly bounced, and the sparkling artillery shells were thrown out and landed on the land in front of the pass, and they exploded again and again.

The Ming army on the offensive was blown away. At this time, the Jin army behind the wall continued to shoot earth-shaking thunder, but the flowering bomb fired by a mortar cannon fell behind the city wall, instantly blowing up the Jin army behind.

Braving the artillery fire at the head of the city, the Ming army charged forward under a dense net of artillery stones and projectiles.

"Get out of the way!" The siege troops in front of the city put the shield cart away, the Ming army guns hid behind and shot at the city, and the sword and shield soldiers carried the long ladder and continued to charge.

The artillery on the city kept firing, in this state, the large siege towers and goose carts could only be used as targets, so the Ming army abandoned these large equipment, and the Ming army carried long ladders in the wilderness, attacking the city wall.

"Up!" The Ming army passed through the moat bridge and entered the city, and the soldiers raised the ladder high, and then lowered it, so that the huge iron hook at the top of the ladder hooked the head of the city, so that the defenders could not knock it down.

As soon as the ladder to the city was fixed, the soldiers who followed quickly climbed up, and the Ming soldiers were all over like ants.

On the enemy platform protruding from the city wall, the Jin sergeant used guns and cannons to bombard the climbing Ming army from the shooting hole, the Ming army fell again and again, several Ming soldiers carried the tiger squat cannon, rushed to the enemy platform and lit the artillery, the shell drew an arc and fell on the enemy platform, and immediately knocked over the Jin army above, screaming and falling down the city wall.

Zhang Mingzhen was behind, closely watching the battle situation, and where the offensive was not smooth, or the losses were too great, he had to order supplements.

Groups of Ming troops, under his orders, rushed out of the trenches, and another groups of Ming troops refilled the trenches and were ready to attack.

At this time, the whole battlefield was fierce, and the shouts of the soldiers of the two armies shook all directions, and Zhang Mingzhen could see that almost every quarter of an hour, there were soldiers of the Ming army and the Jin army falling from the city.

The most fierce battlefield is the gate, the Jin army on the city from time to time dropped the fire bottle, the ground was on fire, hundreds of Ming soldiers, under the attack of the Jin army on the wall, is pushing a long battering ram to the gate under the gate.

The battering ram was pushed to the front of the gate, and entered the dead end of the Jin army's shooting on the city, only the rolling stones and the wood, kept smashing down, and on the raised enemy platforms on both sides of the city gate, there were also Jin troops who kept letting go of their guns, knocking down the Ming army on both sides of the battering ram.

"The brethren have arrived! Pull me up! The officer in front stood inside the doorway, commanding loudly.

The soldiers on either side of the battering ram immediately leaned back, pulled the giant log, and then let go of their hands. The battering ram suddenly slammed into the gate, but the gate of Tongguan was thick, and when it hit, it only trembled slightly.

The soldier door hit a few times in a row, and the door was always slightly vibrated when it was closed, and the thousand households under the command found the abnormality, and after a careful inspection, they couldn't help but scold loudly, "Mother, it's blocked!" ”

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The siege battle on March 6 lasted for a whole day, and the Ming army occupied the old wall for a time, but because it failed to open the gate, the army could not pour in, and finally stopped on the new wall and failed to capture Tongguan in one go.

The Ming army was scolding herself, but she didn't expect that the Jin army, who had gone out of the customs to attack and disturb a few days ago, actually blocked the gate. The Jin army was also uncomfortable, and as soon as the Ming army retreated, Tang Tong asked the soldiers to clean up the city wall, repair the damage, and count the casualties, he couldn't help but take a breath of cool air, and hurriedly came to Haoge's camp.

On the evening of the 6th, after thwarting the attack of the Ming army, Hauge summoned the generals to discuss.

The artillery bombardment a few days ago made the morale of the Jin army low, and today it blocked the attack of the Ming army, which undoubtedly gave the Jin army a shot in the arm and stabilized the morale of the army.

This should have been a good thing, but Hauge couldn't be optimistic when he saw the losses reported by Tang.

"Your Majesty, today our army suffered more than 3,000 casualties, and the Ming army probably suffered more than 5,000 casualties, which seems to have less damage to us, but our people are also few, but the Ming army has 300,000, and if we continue to fight like this, Tongguan is indeed difficult to defend."

In the previous artillery bombardment, the Ming army destroyed a large number of Jin army's equipment, and the artillery carts, which should have played an important role in the defense of the city, and the Jin army archers who hid behind the wall and threw bows and arrows, did not play a role, but suffered heavy casualties under the Ming army's mortar bombardment.

Tang Tong, who originally thought that he could keep it for two months, is now a little afraid to pack tickets.

Hauge was silent for a moment, which was what he expected, "There is indeed a gap between my Dajin and Mingguo in terms of strength. Before, I was reluctant to give up the foundation of the Dajin Kingdom, and wanted to keep the enemy out of the country, and divided troops everywhere, which actually dispersed the strength of my Dajin. ”

The barefoot are not afraid to wear shoes, which means that the barefoot have nothing, so dare to fight. Haoge became the emperor of Dajin, and many generals of the Jin country, now they all have families and businesses, and what they have already obtained, they are naturally reluctant to lose.

The Jin country was deployed everywhere, and it didn't want to lose everywhere, and it did disperse the Jin country's troops.

Tang Tong nodded, "In terms of national strength, there is indeed a gap between our dynasty and the Ming country, and the troops, money, food, and weapons are much worse. ”

"The big countries are not yet powerful, and the Ming State dares to attack Tongguan in such a way regardless of casualties, that is, they have enough strength, and they can afford to spend and fight, but I can't afford it anymore." Hauge stood up suddenly, "A big country uses a dignified teacher, crushes with strength, and wins head-on, and small countries also have the way of winning small countries, and they must win by surprise!" ”

The previous defensive strategy of the Jin State was to keep the enemy outside the country, which was equivalent to fighting hard everywhere, and the strength of the Jin State was not as good as that of the Ming Dynasty.

The many Jin generals on the side understood what Haoge meant, Bai Guangen was silent for a while, and said: "Your Majesty, the minister also said before that if Your Majesty decides to abandon Tongguan, lure the enemy deeper, and win with strange schemes, there are two issues that must be considered, one is that the king thief has always been cautious, and the other is that if 300,000 Ming troops pour into Guanzhong, we do not have enough troops to deal with it. If these two problems are not solved, the minister thinks that it is better to defend Tongguan. ”

"I've thought about what the Qing family meant." Hauge had obviously thought it through, he walked to the map hanging in the big tent, and said in a deep voice, "At present, in northern Shaanxi, Hanzhong, and Guanzhong, my Dajin does not have an advantage, and if one collapses, it collapses everywhere, and the situation is extremely passive. What is the situation between the King of Yongping and the King of Shu, I can't say, just talking about Guanzhong, as far as Tongguan is concerned, my dynasty can't afford it. Wang Yan is not a saint, I see that he is very inflated, there will always be shortcomings, he will not come in if he is alone, so whether he is cautious or not, he will enter the pass, big deal, ambush into the main decisive battle. ”

Hauge paused and looked back at the group, "The key issue is the strength of the troops. ”

Tang Tong and the others nodded slightly, the key is indeed the troops, if the troops are sufficient, then a frontal battle, defeat the main force of the Ming army, and the crisis of the Jin country will also be solved.

"Your Majesty, there are 300,000 Ming troops in Henan, and we only have 90,000 men and horses guarding the various passes in Guanzhong, even if the Ming army is calculated, it will be difficult for us to eat 300,000 Ming troops, I don't know where the troops Your Majesty is talking about, it won't be the Tun army near Chang'an, right?" Bai Guangen wondered.

The generals below also talked a lot, even if the Tun army had one million, it was not the opponent of the Ming army in a head-on decisive battle.

Haoge waved his hand to silence them, "I am ready to abandon Hanzhong and northern Shaanxi, and send the Tun army to northern Shaanxi and Hanzhong, which will be used to delay the attack of the Ming army and transfer the main forces of the King of Yongping and the King of Shu back to Guanzhong. In this way, I have a large army of 200,000 in Guanzhong, as long as the Ming army in northern Shaanxi and Hanzhong enters Guanzhong, ambush Wang Yan, cut off his food route, and beat Wang Yan's main force to pain, so that the situation of my Dajin can be reversed. ”

Now anyway, Tongguan can't be held for long, and the Jin Kingdom is not as strong as the Ming Dynasty in terms of strength, so it can only win by surprise.

Haoge's plan is very bold, it is a big gamble, if he wins, then Wang Yan is defeated, and the Ming army on the other two sides is no longer a problem, there is no problem in keeping Guanzhong, but if he loses, then he will lose cleanly, but he will defend Tongguan, and Tongguan will be broken, and he will still lose cleanly. When the golden general in the tent heard this, he couldn't help but perk up·······

(Today, the baby is a year older, and this big chapter is not changed at night.) ）

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