Under Shaoguan, the offensive and defensive battles between the Wei and Ming armies had lasted for nearly a month, and the Wei army gradually gained an advantage by relying on the superiority in strength and the ferocity of mortars.

Under the wall, the Wei army's mortar cannon roared, and behind the city and the pass, columns of black smoke rose up.

The Wei army's musketeers, hiding behind the low wall, fired a volley of firearms, suppressing the city's head, and the besieging infantry held their shields high to resist the dense projectiles and arrows fired by the city's head, carrying the ladder to the city wall.

Days of battle, so that the Ming army defending the city also accumulated a lot of experience, at first they were suppressed by the Wei army's firepower, and the Wei army fire, the result of extremely heavy casualties, now the Ming soldiers, will no longer shoot with the Wei army under the city, when the city artillery and go back to concentrate on the fire, they hide behind the battlements, squatting on the side of the city wall, shoot from the shooting hole, or use a parabola to throw thunder, try not to expose themselves, only the Wei army began to attack the city on a large scale, they will stand up and counterattack.

At this time, the firearms and artillery of the Wei army were afraid of accidentally injuring their own side and losing their suppressive effect, and the spears of the Ming army stabbed a famous Wei army from the city.

Under the two-mile-long wall, the Wei soldiers were all over like ants, the soldiers climbed up the city along the long ladder, the defenders poured poisonous oil from the city, poured gold juice, and the Wei soldiers on the ladder were burned unbearably by the poisonous juice with strong corrosiveness, and the soldiers in great pain jumped off the city ladder one after another.

The Ming army resisted stubbornly, but in several places where the Wei army focused on attacking, the fierce Wei soldiers still continued to rush to the wall, the flesh and blood of both sides flew, life and death struggle, a Ming army hundred households were pierced through the chest with a spear, he burst out of the last strength, holding the Wei soldiers and soldiers fell off the city wall together.

After several days of tackling key problems, the Wei army had already made the Wei army red-eyed, and it had become their only belief to break through Shaoguan and enter Guangzhou.

Under the banner of Daxu on the mountain outside the pass, Gao Yihuan's expression was cold, and with a wave of his hand again, thousands of Wei soldiers jumped out of the trench and attacked the city.

The mortar artillery of the Wei army adjusted the angle, and after the cannonball was thrown at the wall, the Ming soldiers were prevented from going to the pass to reinforce, and a bloody and cruel offensive and defensive battle was carried out in Shaoguan.

In less than half an hour, thousands of corpses had accumulated under Shaoguan, and there was an explosion at the city gate, and rubble was splashed.

A Wei army general waved his hand to disperse the smoke, and when he saw that the door hole was not blown open, he immediately waved his hand, "Coming!" ”

The Wei soldiers immediately picked up the medicine bag and stuffed it into the doorway, but the hole was too small to stuff much gunpowder into it, so the soldiers immediately took out their war knives and slashed indiscriminately.

"I'll take the lead." A Wei soldier with a big axe stepped forward, and everyone hurriedly dodged away, and the soldier spat and raised the big axe with both hands, and slashed with the momentum of opening the mountain, and cut a large piece in a few strokes.

"Loaded, sealed!" The commander of the brigade immediately shouted, and with this effort, the Wei army under the city gate had already been shot down.

The Wei soldiers immediately loaded the gunpowder, and then sealed it with earthen bags of masonry, and the commander shouted again, "Torch! ”

The soldier next to him handed the torch, he waved his hand, and the Wei soldier flashed to the side of the city gate, and then stretched out the torch to light the fuse, only to hear the sound of "bang", the smoke of gunpowder rose, and the sparks swished in.

With his head bowed and his waist bent, the brigade rushed out quickly, and hid beside the city gate, and immediately a soldier raised his shield to protect him, and everyone blocked their ears.

With a loud bang, countless gravel erupted from the door hole, the thick city wall trembled, and a huge gun smoke rose from the city gate hole.

Shaoguan was trembling, the city bricks and soil were falling, the city walls were shaking violently, the Ming soldiers in the city were standing unsteadily, and they fell one after another, the fall of the city was inevitable, and Huang Degong closed his eyes in despair.

"Kill!" Before the smoke in the door dissipated, the Wei soldiers called to rush in, and at the same time, a large number of Ming troops gathered behind the city gate.

"Bang bang bang" sounded, the Wei soldiers screamed, and the soldiers behind continued to rush forward, and they could already see the street behind the pass, but at this moment, Rulin's spear came head-on.

In a moment, the door hole was crowded with soldiers from the two armies, the Wei soldiers squeezed in, and the Ming soldiers pushed out, which made the soldiers of the most advanced cave suffer, they couldn't dodge, and they were desperately stabbed into by the opponent's spears, and were squeezed until they were out of breath.

"Push!" The Wei army saw the hope of breaking the city, and all of them struggled forward, and the Wei army, who climbed to the top of the city, killed the inner side of the city wall, and began to throw earth-shaking thunder into the street, exploding one by one.

It was about to be victorious, but at this moment, a low trumpet suddenly sounded in the wilderness behind the wall, like thunder in the mountains.

On the hill observation tower outside the wall, the Wei soldiers were surprised to find that after the wall, countless men and horses, mixed with war elephants, rolled over, and immediately exclaimed, "It's not good, the Western Army is coming!" ”

Under the banner of Daxu, Gao Yihuan heard the horn from behind the pass, heard the report of the soldiers, his face was gloomy, and he waved his hand after half a sound, "Withdraw the troops!" ”

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On November 3, the Wei army almost took Shaoguan, but the arrival of the Zhou army broke the Wei army's plan for a quick victory.

In the big tent of the Wei army, the retreating Wei generals were full of complaints, and many people scolded Sun Kewang as a shit-stirring stick, claiming that after beating Nanming, they would kill this turtle grandson who had repeatedly badly done good things to Great Wei.

At this time, Gao Yihuan had a calm face, standing in front of the sand table, Jin Shenghuan hugged his fists behind him, "Your Majesty, the Western Army is coming, I'm afraid it will not be easy to break through." ”

Gao Yihuan was silent for a while, turned around, and said with a slight smile: "Sun Kewang can't come, there is a way to play, Sun Kewang is here, there is a way to play." ”

When all the soldiers saw the emperor speak, they all quieted down, and Huang Bingzhong hugged his fists and said: "Before tackling the problem, the loss has been quite large. Now that the western army is coming, if the strong attack continues, I am afraid that the casualties of the army will be even heavier. ”

Gao Yihuan said with a smile: "I attacked before, I thought I could break the pass, and the fact is the same, if there is no Sun Kewang, this pass will be broken today." Now that Sun Kewang's Western Army is coming, it is not easy to break through, so why should I continue to attack, and directly follow the plan and implement the second set of strategies. ”

Saying that, Gao Yihuan straightened up, "Order Zhao Daxian to immediately go out of Fujian and flank Guangdong." ”

A chess and card officer immediately clenched his fists, "Oh! ”

Gao Yihuan continued: "Now the main forces of the Ming army and the Western army are actually in Shaoguan, and the flanks of the Ming army are empty. At this time, as long as Zhao Daxian threatens Guangzhou, Zhu Cihong will seek a quick solution. At that time, it will not be me tackling the problem, but Zhu Cihong will go out of the customs and fight with me! ”

Jin Shenghuan smiled and said: "Your Majesty is wise, but the minister thinks that Zhu Cihong is going to fight a decisive battle, but we can't easily follow his wishes, so we can let the army retreat and set up camp, first use the fortified village to wear down his spirit, and then defeat the main force in a battle." ”

Gao Yihuan smiled knowingly, and then waved his hand and said: "The army retreats fifty miles to the village!" ”

(End of chapter)