The Qing army had just entered the trenches of the Ming army, and a fire suddenly broke out in the trenches, accompanied by a deafening loud explosion. This trench was more than 400 zhang long, and one or two thousand Han army banner soldiers had jumped into it at that time. The fire broke out, and more than 1,000 people suddenly became fired!

It turned out that the Ming army deliberately abandoned this trench, and before retreating, the bottom of the trench was covered with flammable objects such as dead branches. And that's not all, the ammunition boxes of some artillery guns were dismantled, and the firing gunpowder was poured underneath. When the explosives met an open flame, they immediately exploded so violently that the entire trench was quickly ignited, and the flames soared into the air, and it was impossible to clean it up!

More than a thousand fire men jumped and screamed in the trenches, and the air was filled with the smell of burnt flesh, and this hellish scene was vividly presented in front of tens of thousands of Qing troops. But it has been killed here, even if victory is in sight, no matter how heavy the casualties are, we have to continue to attack! At this time, a large number of Eight Banner cavalry had rushed up from behind, around the Ming army's position kept firing bows and arrows, arrows were like flying locusts in the night sky, and the Ming army's position was very cramped nearby, and I don't know how many Qing soldiers died tragically under their own sharp arrows.

And those Qing soldiers who were on fire, no one cared about their lives at the moment. In order to break through the Ming army's position as soon as possible, Huang Taiji ordered to fill the trenches and extinguish the fire, so as to continue the attack. Pity those traitors who worked hard for the Manchu masters, who had just been burned by the flames, and were buried alive by the soil at this time!

Finally crossed the trench, the inner defense of the Ming army: a circular car formation formed by a large number of vehicles, blocking the way of the Qing army. The carriages of these carts are about six feet high, and a four-foot-high iron plate is erected on the outer edge, which is a total of one zhang high, and it is of course very difficult to climb it. There is a bit of space under the carriage to climb over, but this posture used to be too dangerous, as long as the head appeared, the Ming army could cut off the head of the Qing army with a knife in his hand. The gap between the carriages is very narrow, and it is difficult for a person to squeeze sideways, and he also faces the problem of being killed and injured by the Ming army. Therefore, the Qing army did not dare to attack for a while, but kept firing bows and arrows around the car formation.

Suddenly, a lot of black iron guys were thrown out of the car formation, and the Qing army had seen this thing powerful, and immediately hugged his head and screamed: "Grenades!" ”

Before the words fell, hundreds of grenades exploded at the same time in an instant! The lethality of a grenade is different from that of artillery shells and lead bullets, and after detonation, it hurts the enemy by flying fragments, which is a frontal kill. The power of so many grenades exploded at the same time, and the Qing troops outside the car formation were blown up on their backs, and countless people were killed and wounded.

It turned out that the Ming army saved this most powerful weapon for the last use! Without waiting for the Qing army to breathe, pieces of grenades smashed like hail outside the car formation, from near to far, within fifty steps, there were explosions everywhere, broken arms and stumps everywhere, and the wails of the Qing army everywhere! This "grenade rain" lasted for five minutes, which was almost crazy, and forced all the Qing troops who were not dead to be fifty paces away.

Suddenly, the Ming army stopped dropping bombs, and stopped firing artillery and guns, and the car formation suddenly fell silent. At this time, it was nearly five watches, and it was the thickest time before dawn, and the entire position was shrouded in thick gunsmoke, and it was impossible to see the situation on the other side. With the painful lesson just now, the Qing army did not dare to act rashly, but kept firing arrows into the car formation. The arrows were nailed to the body, as dense as raindrops, but the Ming army did not fight back.

"The Ming army is probably running out of ammunition, right?" It was a moment before Sony exclaimed in surprise.

Huang Taiji has also been observing the movements of the Ming army, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, holding his sword high and shouting: "The ammunition of the Ming army has run out, Manchurian warriors, rush!" ”

Tens of thousands of Qing troops finally understood: the enemy had lost the ability to resist, and the time to kill them had finally arrived! These beasts immediately let out an earth-shattering cry, surging towards the car array like a tide, some climbed from the roof of the car, some drilled from the bottom of the car, and broke through the car array in an instant!

But when they attacked the car formation, they were immediately dumbfounded!

The car array is only a hundred feet in circumference, and you can see it at a glance. I saw that there were many simple wooden sheds on the open space, and the roof of the shed was full of arrows, which the Ming army used to defend against the bows and arrows of the Qing army; Several cannons were overturned in the array, and the barrels of the cannons had been twisted, and it seemed that they were either scrapped in the fierce battle, or blown up by the Ming army themselves. As for the empty ammunition crates, the broken birds, and even the armor worn by the soldiers, and the dry food that had not yet been eaten, they were thrown everywhere. Some of the mules and horses used by the Ming army to pull carts had already been shot to death by bows and arrows, and some were still tied to their stakes, staring at the Qing army with frightened eyes.

The only thing you can't see is people! There is no one, not even the corpse of a Ming army can be seen, thousands of Ming troops are like the world has evaporated!

Such a strange scene, not to mention the banner soldiers of the Han army who are greedy for life and afraid of death, or the Ao Bai who has experienced a hundred battles and killed countless people, all have a chill down their spines, and hurriedly withdraw from the car formation and fly to the emperor Taiji.

Huang Taiji was furious when he heard the report, and came to check it in person, how could he not believe that his tens of thousands of troops were fighting hard, with nearly 20,000 casualties, and they were fighting against the air! Could it be that the Ming army really has witchcraft?!

The Manchu nobles accompanied Huang Taiji into the car array to search, and soon discovered the problem. The Ming army originally built a high platform with wooden planks in the middle of the car formation, but now this high platform has been blown down. When the Qing army cleared the wooden planks scattered all over the ground, they found that there was a hole in the ground that was several feet wide!

Huang Taiji immediately ordered someone to light a torch and enter the cave to check what was going on. The Qing army was afraid that there was a Ming army hidden inside, so after shooting a bow and arrow indiscriminately, they went down cautiously. After a short time, he came up in a panic and reported: "There is a tunnel below, which extends to the south and is unfathomable. The Ming army was presumably... I ran away along the tunnel..."

"What!" Huang Taiji refused to believe it, and despite everyone's dissuasion, he personally went down to the tunnel to check. I saw that this tunnel was more than two feet deep underground, more than one person high, more than four feet wide, enough for two people to cross side by side or by mistake. There are grooves for torches on the side walls, some of which have not been extinguished. At intervals, there is a vent that leads to the ground, which is camouflaged and extremely difficult to spot. I walked forward for about half a mile, and the road in front was blocked by soil, but at a glance I could see that it was just artificially blocked, and there was a sign inserted on it, and there was a line of crooked big characters on the sign: "Tartar dog is exempt, grandpa went back to Shanhaiguan!" ”

"We've been fooled!" Dolgon's face behind Huang Taiji turned pale, "A tunnel of this scale can't be dug up in a day or two, at least a few months." In other words, this is a complete plan to get rid of the golden cicada, the Ming army has been luring us to surround them from the beginning, and after consuming a lot of our troops with firearms, they fled back to Shanhaiguan through this tunnel, and there is not even a single soldier left! Emperor... Yes! Emperor! ”

It turned out that Huang Taiji at this time was already so angry that his face turned purple, and he just took a sharp breath, and suddenly his nosebleed shot out like an arrow!