First, in order to somewhat improve his hope of survival, Li Chengliang finally brought more than 100 family members who could come in handy in the family, and 10,000 cavalry and 50,000 foot soldiers were organized and handed over to Li Chengliang on the Beijing side, and Li Chengliang led him to Bauhinia Pass.

At this time, three days had passed since Chai Guozhu led the vanguard to set off, and there was still one day before Chai Guozhu arrived at Bauhinia Pass.

At this moment, Pingxingguan is engaged in an unprecedentedly tragic bloody battle.

This checkpoint, which later became famous for the bloody battle with the Japanese invaders, was actually quite famous and important in the Ming Dynasty, and was also broken by the Mongols, causing an extremely serious crisis.

Although Yanmen Pass has a longer history of fighting against the enemy, Pingxing Pass is also a very important checkpoint, one east and one west to guard the gateway to the hinterland of the Central Plains.

Breaking either of these two levels will be very troublesome.

The Yanmen Pass guard has been killed, it can only be said that fortunately Wei Yunzhen is still there, Wei Yunzhen used the name of the governor to fight with the Ming army, boost morale, and stabilize the situation in Yanmen Pass, and even launch a counterattack to suppress the momentum of the Mongols and improve the momentum of the Ming army, and the battle situation is still stalemate.

And Pingxingguan is not so good treatment, Pingxingguan's Guancheng is not as majestic as Yanmen Pass, although the number of garrisons is quite large, but the congenital conditions are not as good as Yanmen Pass, which has begun to assume the function of fighting foreigners since the Warring States Period.

Pingxing Pass is small and does not have such a towering wall, but it is still an impassable fortress compared to the Mongols, who were mainly cavalry.

It should have been.

The Mongols broke Datong, seized the siege equipment, captured the Ming soldiers who could operate, and began to have the ability to siege the city, and the Mongolian cavalry, which could only ride a horse against the wall, could not only fight in the field, but also attack the city, which was a nightmare for the Ming army.

But like Yanmen Pass, Pingxingguan was also favored by the goddess of luck, when the Mongols first went south to attack Pingxingguan, Dong Yikui led his troops to arrive, joined the defense of the city, greatly enhanced the garrison of Pingxingguan, so that Pingxingguan was unhindered for a while.

However, the Mongols are strong and strong, surpassing the Pingxingguan garrison in terms of strength, plus the 5,000 people brought by Dong Yikui, the Pingxingguan garrison is only 20,000, and the Mongols' black and oppressive garrison is at least 30,000 people going up, if this is a face-to-face field battle, Dong Yikui estimates that these soldiers under his command will not be able to hold up for even half an hour.

With the city and firearms, although the Pingxing Pass is dangerous, but it can also hold on, although the Mongols have used cloud ladders to attack the city wall several times, but under the leadership of Dong Yikui and the Ping-type Guan guard, the Ming army killed these Mongols.

Cutting off his head and throwing his body down, he shocked a group of Mongols and let him know that the Ming army was not completely ineffective.

The defeat of Datong was unprepared, and once he came to his senses, the war machine of the Ming Empire was rumbling and running, and several Mongol tribes were not serious enemies.

It's just that this war machine is in disrepair, it hasn't been running for a long time, it's a little rusty, and now it's being urgently repaired, and the soldiers who are fighting bloody battles are just buying time for the machine to run again.

The Mongol offensive was very fierce, not only artillery, but also trebuchets and bed crossbows, these powerful siege weapons constantly threatened the garrison of the Ming army, and from time to time there were Ming soldiers who died in the hands of these Ming weapons, which was quite ironic.

Another Mongol climbed the city wall with a ladder, and with a wave of the knife in his hand, he hacked three Ming soldiers to death, and then one after another Mongols rushed up the city wall, and the situation became dangerous again.

"You guys come with me!!"

Dong Yikui gritted his teeth and was about to lead his troops to block it in person, but was stopped by Zhang Da, the flat-type guard.

"Commander-in-chief! Leave it to the last general! You're also going to be in the middle! ”

Dong Yikui nodded and said, "Quickly kill all those northern captives and stabilize the situation!" ”

"No!"

Zhang Da quickly led his troops to rush over, and the Mongols fought together, the Mongols who had gradually expanded their advantages were gradually compressed after Zhang Da led the troops to kill the past, and the Ming soldiers shot the Mongols who were climbing with bird guns, shooting several, they fell down in a series of waves, and fell into a puddle of flesh.

"Beiyu! Die with me!! ”

Zhang Da rushed forward with red eyes, cut off the right arm of the last Mongolian soldier with a knife, cut his chest horizontally, and killed the last Mongolian soldier who climbed the city wall.

The crisis here was finally resolved, and the soldiers cheered a few times, and cut off the heads of the dozen or so Mongols for military exploits, and just as they were about to leave, a shell bombarded there.

With a "boom", most of the Ming soldiers were killed and wounded, some were blown into minced meat on the spot, some were beaten into a sieve by the gravel, and some were howling in pain.

The flat-type guard Zhang Da died, and was smashed in the chest by a dozen fist-sized stones, and died on the spot.

Dong Yikui was commanding the battle, and suddenly a soldier stepped forward to cry the news of the death of the guard, Dong Yikui's heart was shocked, and he endured the grief in his heart, saying that he knew, and then quickly promoted the deputy general to the Pingxing guard, took over Zhang Da's position, and continued to command the operation.

In the afternoon, the Mongols' offensive became more and more fierce, the Ming army was slightly tired, and under the premise of heavy casualties, the Ming army had little power to fight back, so it could only be beaten passively and stick to the city wall.

Seeing that the battle situation was not good, Dong Yikui was in a hurry, ran to the side of the war drum, waved the drum stick, and beat the war drum with a bang, trying to boost morale and tell them that the will to fight of the general army was still there, and everyone should not give up the battle.

The sound of war drums could indeed boost the morale of the Ming army, and the Ming army fought back against the Mongols, although they suffered heavy casualties, but did not let the Mongols take advantage.

The rumbling drums also seemed to attract the attention of the Mongols, and a continuous long-range attack began to envelop Dong Yikui and his guards who were beating the war drums, and soldiers continued to fall to the ground with arrows and even die from guns.

Under the first shot, Dong Yikui was also knocked to the ground by the violent air wave, and it took a while to get up panting, gritting his teeth and continuing to beat the drum.

"Knock Knock Knock"

The drums of war have not stopped, and they have always inspired the will of the Ming army to fight, and the casualties of the Mongols have become more and more heavy, their people are not as many as the Han Chinese, they cannot afford to consume, although the Ming army has indeed been killed and wounded a lot, but the losses are as great, according to the proportion, they have not taken any advantage.

Why haven't these damn Han people collapsed yet?

They gritted their teeth in their hearts and cursed these damn Han people who didn't surrender.