In late April, the spring scenery gradually returned to Shanhaiguan area.

The so-called Shanhaiguan naturally has mountains and seas.

Starting from Ninghai City that is inserted into the sea, the north is Nanyi City, Guancheng, and North wing City. This is the facility on the west side. From south to north, there are Weihai City, Dongluo City, and Weiyuan City. The east is connected by a city wall, with a distance of about twenty miles from north to south.

The North Wing City is close to the Wanshou Mountain in the north.

After crossing Wanshou Mountain directly, it is about twenty miles away. There is a river valley. There is a Guanmen in the middle, Jiumen Pass, also known as Yibi Shiguan.

About thirty miles east of Guancheng is the Jiujiang River, almost the distance west is the Tang River, and close to Guancheng is the Shihe River, backed by the Yanshan Mountains and the sea in the south. Three rivers in the middle pass through it, which is a perfect place for mountains and seas.

Considering that the territory of the Daxia Kingdom is east of Shanhaiguan, Li Zicheng wanted to complete the annihilation of Wu Sangui as soon as possible. The best way was to cross a stone gate and go around the back of Shanhaiguan to surround it.

When the Ming Dynasty set up a stone pass, it naturally took this into consideration. The area around the west of the stone pass was Shimen Village, which was four miles in circumference, and it was a thousand-household village. If you want to go down a stone pass, you must go down a Shimen Village.

You have to say here that there is still a large area of ​​land west of Shanhaiguan.

Here we are going to talk.

As mentioned earlier, there are many rivers flowing south from Yanshan Mountain to the north. Near Shanhaiguan, the larger ones include the Shihe, Tanghe and Jiujianghe as mentioned earlier. There are countless streams and streams. At the turn of winter and spring, the rivers are thawed and flooded on the narrow plain on the southern foot of Yanshan Mountain, causing swamps and water puddles everywhere.

According to the ancient water conservancy level, they would not have spent any effort to repair it without particularly important agricultural areas. What's more, what is Shanhaiguan? It's a heavy throat area that protects the capital. A nearby puddle is not just right to stop the enemy troops that might come from Kanto?

However, Shimen Village, on the south bank of Shihe River more than 30 miles northwest of Guancheng, is a highland, and the surrounding terrain is much higher than that near Shanhaiguan, so it has become an important place to station troops.

Shimen City Village, a stone gate and Shanhaiguan are the three of them. If you want to break through the city, you must station troops in Shimen City Village. If you want to surround the city, you must break through the barrier of a stone gate.

If you want to attack Shanhaiguan head-on, you must face the rivers, swamps and the Shihe River on the west bank of Guancheng from time to time. Even if you try your best to reach the bottom of Guancheng, you can not deploy many troops due to the existence of Shihe. What's more, as a major area on the border, the city walls of Shanhaiguan are covered with artillery, and artillery can cover both sides of the Shihe River. It is not necessary to attack from the front easily.

So, when Li Zicheng and his army arrived near Shanhaiguan, as expected, he arranged his base camp and the 20,000 elite cavalry of his personal military camp led by Li Shuangxi in the Shimen City occupied by Tang Tong, and asked Liu Zongmin to take Li to the Qian Camp, Yuan Zongdi's left camp, and Liu Tichun, under the right camp of Xin Sizhong, and Xin Sixiao, two elite cavalry of his base camp to attack Yibishiguan.

And Rang Gu Kecheng led the middle camp, and the back camp set up a large camp not far from the west of the North Wing City - the terrain there was also relatively high, not affected by the various rivers that were gradually flooding at this time.

At this time, Li Zicheng had already learned more about the situation of the Daxia Kingdom from the Ming army surrendering to the capital. When he thought that the Daxia Kingdom would have often ravaged the Jurchens in the Liaodong area of ​​the Ming Dynasty for more than a month, the Mongols cleaned up, and Li Zicheng could no longer sit still.

To the east of Shanhaiguan is the land of the Daxia Kingdom, and Wu Sangui may escape there at any time.

Therefore, it was more urgent than in history. Seeing that the Wu Xiang, Yong, and Ding brought him were not effective, he immediately asked Liu Zongmin and Gu Kecheng to attack Yibi Shiguan and the North Wing City!

The Dashun Army's attack was still an old routine. First, let the surrendered Ming army's infantry be consumed. After tense the opponent for a while, then go to its own cavalry. This way, it will be loose and tighter, making the enemy unable to defend.

The morning after the Dashun Army arrived, the attack started. On that day, both a piece of stone and the North Wing City were shaking!

On the second day, Gu Kecheng's general Hao Yaoqi succeeded to climb the wall of the North Wing City, and then wiped out the defenders of the city.

The Dashun Army occupied the North Wing City!

However, there is a city wall not far from the east of them - Weiyuan City. If they want to come to the east of Shanhaiguan, they have to take down Weiyuan City.

To the north, there is a stone pass.

Wu Sangui came to Yibishi with ten thousand elite cavalry.

To the north of a stone, the valley of the Jiujiang River is a flat place about five miles long from north to south and one mile wide from east to west. There, Li Guo's front camp was waiting for it, and to the west of a stone gate, it was also a valley, but it was much narrower than the north. There, Yuan Zongdi's left camp was also eyeing it.

As Pingxibo of the Ming Dynasty and the general of Shanhaiguan, Wu Sangui had one difference from others, mainly in combat.

Until this time, he still liked to lead by example.

His combat method is quite similar to that of the Hanhai Army. When the war broke out, he liked to first throw his most elite servants into the battle, just like Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty's Xuan Armored Heavy Cavalry, and then, the second-class power quickly followed, and finally let the light cavalry chase the enemy.

Of course, due to the sudden rise of Dashun Kingdom, Wu Sangui did not get the opportunity to command so many soldiers and horses to try his tactics at this time.

Now, his chance has come.

Compared with Wu Sangui, the Dashun Army, which was born in the peasant army, was probably used to being poor and was much more conservative about its own military strength. They still let the worst power "expend" in front, and then the next level of power confrontation and consumption, and finally the most elite force appeared to give the enemy a fatal blow.

However, now they meet Wu Sangui, who has not tried his best since he formed the three thousand cavalrymen. Can their current tactics succeed?

But what reassured them was that in the middle of Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi, there were Liu Zongmin’s three thousand black armored cavalry stationed on a small hill. No matter where Li Guo or Yuan Zongdi was attacked, his three thousand heavily armored cavalry could suddenly appear and attack the enemy sideways.

It is said to be a heavy armored cavalry, which means to wear another piece of iron armor in addition to cotton armor. If it is placed in the previous Qing Dynasty, it would be the configuration of the Bayala Guardians. Like the Qing Dynasty, the martial arts of these three thousand black armored cavalry were all outstanding. Liu Zongmin was a blacksmith. It is said that the weapons of these three thousand people were still built under his guidance and supervision, and the quality was definitely superior.

Wu Sangui came out of seclusion, but if he didn't move, all 10,000 cavalry were dispatched. He personally brought three thousand soldiers to Tuqian, Gao Dejie and Wang Pingfan and the remaining men were slightly dragged back, and rushed towards Li Guo's brigade in the shape of a pin!

Yes, the battlefield in the north is wider, and there is only a showdown of tens of thousands of cavalry!

When Li Guo on the opposite side saw that the enemy was rushing towards him directly, the infantry that was sieging the city would definitely not be able to resist it. The enemy had invested so many cavalry at once, and he couldn't do it if he wanted to use the previous tactics, so he also took his own brigade to meet him.

In Li Guo's front camp, in addition to the 5,000 elite troops he commanded, there were also General Zhang Neng, the left Guoyi and General Ma Chongxi who followed him. Both of them were brave generals in the camp. Ma Chongxi was also one of the eighteen cavalry. Just like Wu Sangui, Li Guo was in the middle, Zhang Neng, and Ma Chongxi were all pressing on the left and right.

Li Guo is known as a tiger, so he is naturally a brave general.

However, their tactics are still the old tactics of the past. Although all the three battalions were produced, each battalion was divided into three groups. The first two groups were 1,500 cavalry, and the last group was 2,000 cavalry.

Three walls!

There is no cannon fodder for them to drive at present, but among the five thousand people of each, they are still divided into three groups according to their combat power!

Of course, even the three walls were not stupid enough to rush up and consume in vain. Li Zicheng and the people from northern Shaanxi were in the border areas for a long time and often dealt with the Mongolians. They also learned the tactics of first using bows, arrows, bones and other weapons to disrupt the enemy formation, and then use swords and guns to rush forward.

When approaching Wu Sangui's three thousand servants, Li Guo's first round of the wall took out short axes, bones, javelins and other objects from his body!

However, the Guanning Army was opposite. What was the most powerful thing about the Guanning Army? If they were like the Qing army, they also relied on bravery, bones, bows, arrows, and armor to defend the enemy, they would not have made Yuan Chonghuan famous.

Guanning Army naturally has its own uniqueness.

Three-eyed gun!

Three thousand servants, including Wu Sangui, all have three-eyed guns with one hand and long swords. When approaching Li Guo's first wall, three-eyed guns, no, no, no, at this time, the three-eyed guns in Wu Sangui's army should be called three-eyed guns. There is also a protruding gun head between the three gun barrels, which is five feet and four inches long and weighs seven kilograms. After the casting, it can be used as a long gun or as a clamping stick.

The effective range of this three-eyed gun is as high as fifty meters, but half will be launched at a distance of twenty or thirty meters. The Ming army did not have the flintlock machine, so the fuse could only be ignited in advance and sprinted with the burning fuse. Most people really don’t have the courage, but Wu Sangui’s cavalry has it!

At thirty meters, both sides' long-range weapons began to be cast!

The problem at this time came. Whether it was a short axe, a javelin or a bone flower, it was thrown out immediately. After flying for thirty meters, it was basically the end of a powerful crossbow. It was just a result of harassing the enemy formation. If you encountered an ordinary Ming army, Li Guo and the others would definitely be able to shoot it until it was close to 10 or 20 meters. However, when they saw the large number of three-eyed guns from the other party, they had to shoot it in advance.

When they fought repeatedly with the government troops in the Central Plains, they naturally experienced the power of the three-eyed gun.

"Bang……"

“Puff…”

Two different sounds bring different effects.
Chapter completed!