Shihe and Guanhe actually play a moat in the urban defense system of Shanhaiguan. Therefore, although Guanhe is not wide, its depth is enough. In the case of extreme crisis, the cavalry will not pass by.

What's more, even if He Yunlong can cross the Guanhe River, there are three thousand elite cavalry led by Zhu Ketu on the opposite side.

When Zhuketu saw an enemy cavalry coming to help, he immediately asked his tiger cavalry to come to the river and used the Franchis gun in his hand to shoot against the opposite cavalry. Soon, the Franchis gun's shooting distance had the upper hand. Seeing this, He Yunlong had to order the team to stay away from Guanhe.

After Dang Shousu fled back to the camp, Yang Tingdong and Zhao Liangdong immediately surrounded the camp. Dang Shousu couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this.

The camp was built with wooden stakes and sandbags, and it was definitely not possible to break through with horses. The cavalry could only dismount and attack. In that case, they could still use the bows and arrows in their hands until the moment the reinforcements arrived.

As mentioned earlier, the entire city defense system of Shanhaiguan is mainly guarded on the east side, and the entire city is surrounded by a naturally formed river, and only the Weiyuan City in the northeast is hanging alone outside.

The west is facing the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty. There must have been bridges in the past, and there were more than one bridge.

One place is close to Ninghai City. There is a sandbank in the center of the river. Former officials used the sandbank to build wooden bridges on both sides.

Here, the wooden bridge is on the Shihe River north of the Guanhe River, and the bridge deck is covered with wooden boards. After the Han Hai Army arrived, the defenders must have demolished the wooden boards of the wooden bridge near the west bank of the Shihe River, leaving only the wooden bridge near the east bank, that is, the place near the Guancheng.

Another place is near Changshou Mountain. The stone river has just emerged from the mountain. The river surface is not wide and a wooden bridge is also built. However, the wooden boards on the bridge deck have also been demolished. The support part of the wooden bridge is made of corrosion-resistant hardwood and arched and mortise structures, but the bridge deck is made of ordinary pine wood and needs to be replaced every once in a while.

Instead of using a stone bridge, you use a wooden bridge. Naturally, you consider that once the enemy outside the pass breaks through a piece of stone and comes from behind to surround the city of Guancheng, you can dismantle the wooden board at any time. The defense line can be arranged at the end of the bridge with muskets and bows to defend. Even if you bring a new wooden board, you cannot install it calmly.

However, what Li Zicheng never expected was that the enemy appeared from behind him. In this way, a piece of stone appeared in a complex situation.

Let’s not talk about the bridge for now.

After surrounding the camp of Dang Shousu, Zhu Ketu did not immediately order the use of cavalry to dismount and attack with force or use suicide squads to throw tiger claws and cables to hook the fence to pull down the camp. This is a big surprise for Dang Shousu. Now there are more than 40,000 elite cavalry of Li Zicheng, Li Guo and Yuan Zongdi in Shimen Village. Reinforcements will come at any time. Even if there are enemy cavalry in front of you, if Li Zicheng uses a few or half of them to confront them, the remaining people will take a detour, which will be enough for the enemy in front of you to drink a pot.

But the enemy just didn't move!

About half an hour later, there was a hustle and bustle near the east gate of Daying. Dang Shousu felt a little nervous and hurried to the watchtower in the middle of Daying to check.

I couldn't help but feel shocked when I saw this!

The enemy used horses to drag a large number of cannons! Not only that, many horses were pulling large carts, and were loaded with smaller cannons!

what to do?

Dang Shousu slapped himself in the face and wanted to wake up quickly, but unfortunately, after a while, it was still useless. At present, there were only two choices. One was to go out again to fight to the death, otherwise he would continue to rely on the camp to defend.

Just as he was wandering, the enemy cavalry near the East Gate dodged one after another, revealing at least five cannons!

Now Dang Shousu gave up completely. Even if he wanted to go out and fight desperately, he would have no chance!

Liu Liangchen was the one who arranged the artillery in front of the camp. Not long ago, after occupying the South Wing City, he moved about half of the Fran machine cannons under his command to the city wall, but the heavy Nebchu bronze cannon could not be moved up in a short time. Fortunately, there was still the opportunity for Dang Shousu's camp to test the cannon.

In addition to the five gates here, there are five gates facing the Guanhe side.

"boom……"

Three of the bronze cannons roared. At such a close distance, they were simply natural targets for the cannon with low trajectory and powerful power.

After the smoke of gunpowder dissipated, most of the village walls on the east side of the camp fell, but they were still connected to the ground.

"boom……"

The remaining two bronze cannons also blew. At this time, the mostly crumbling wall finally fell down with a "punch".

Before the gunner loaded the ammunition, the artillery was covered with cavalry holding franchis guns. At this time, Dang Shousu inside finally figured out something.

The village wall cannot be defended. Instead of being killed by artillery, it is better to rush out and die in battle!

But just as he ran down the stairs and gathered his troops at the top of his lungs, the three bronze cannons had been loaded. Dang Shousu gritted his teeth and forced the three thousand cavalry who had not gone out to fight just now to go out from the east gate, while he brought the remaining troops out from the north gate, south gate, and west gate without artillery.

After seeing that the artillery near Guanhe was also arranged, Zhuketu was ready to take action himself.

In the past, he was a standard dragon rider, with great strength and could dance tiger spears with one hand. With his skills, he could also charge with one hand and one hand with a riding knife. However, now with a short gun, there is no need to be so troublesome.

He used his legs to control the war horse, pulled down the mask above his head, raised the tiger gun high, and shouted in his rough voice: "Tiger..."

The sound of "Tiger and Tiger" filled the banks of the Guanhe River. At this time, the bronze cannons by the Guanhe River also fired a round. He Yunlong on the opposite side suffered heavy casualties and finally had to withdraw to Guancheng.

Zhu Ketu was dispatched. At this time, Yang Tingdong and Zhao Liangdong divided up some cavalry to fight the Dashun army that rushed out of other camp gates, and he faced the three thousand cavalry that came out of the east gate.

...

Guancheng, Gu Kecheng fell on the chair, with a sad face - due to the barrier of Guanhe, he could not save Dang Shousu, and wanted to use the infantry army to attack south along the city wall, but he was afraid that once Niu Chenghu, the leader of the infantry, would have bad intentions, the entire Guancheng would be in danger.

Just as he was thinking, the personal guard came over to report.

"General, General Niu is here"

Gu Kecheng felt nervous.

"What's the idea of ​​this guy coming to see me in this matter?"

So he asked, "How many people are coming?"

"Only one person"

"Oh?", it's interesting now.

Niu Chenghu is the commander of the city defense in the north of Shanhaiguan. In addition to the largest city, the remaining northern wing city, Weiyuan City, and Dongluo City are all his soldiers. Of course, not all the Qin army that came here with him. In addition to the Qin army, there are Henan soldiers, Shanxi soldiers, and Jingzu soldiers.

Before Niu Chenghu surrendered to Dashun, he was the general of Lintao. Lintao was one of the few places in the pass where war horses were produced. Niu Chenghu was also famous for leading cavalry, but now almost all the cavalry have been placed under the command of Li Zicheng's confidant generals, and several of them were all led by the infantry.

"General"

Niu Chenghu, like Zuo Guangxian, was from northern Shaanxi. Speaking of which, he was still a "members" of Li Zicheng and others. This is also an important reason why Li Zicheng trusted them very much. After Niu Chenghu surrendered, he was named Earl. Starting from Shaanxi, he worked hard to Dashun Kingdom along the way.

When he heard Niu Chenghu's familiar local accent, Gu Kecheng's heart slowed down slightly.

"The generals of the South Wing City have already known that they want to go south to regain this city. If they want to go south to seize this city, if they are blocked from the ground, they will be blocked by the river. The barbarian thieves and artillery. From the perspective of the last days, it is better to organize troops on the city wall and use a large shield to approach the enemy tower in the South Wing City. If they take down the South Wing City wall, they can also use the artillery on the city wall to kill and injure the enemy troops in the west..."

Gu Kecheng looked at Niu Chenghu, but saw that there was no false appearance on his face, and he thought to himself: "Is it because he was wrong to blame him?"

"Okay!" Thinking of the "undoubted employed people" that Li Zicheng has been teaching them earnestly, he also took the initiative. "Well, then General Niu will be in trouble, and immediately attack the enemy building in the South Wing City!"

Niu Chenghu was about to leave, but Gu Kecheng stopped him, "All soldiers who participated in the attack on the enemy building will be rewarded with fifty taels of silver. If they successfully seize the enemy building, they will be rewarded with fifty taels. If they take down the entire Nanyi City and successfully lock the enemy on the west side of the city, each person will reward another one hundred taels. General Niu, you and I will report to the emperor to ask for the general to be enfeoffed for you!"

"Thank you, General", Niu Chenghu was stunned when he heard this, but he immediately returned to his usual expression and left without looking back.

In the narrow area between Nanyi City and Ninghai City, Zhuketu's cavalry was fighting with Dang Shousu's cavalry. Niu Chenghu let his son, the former Ming guerrilla general Niu Yiqi took five hundred "warriors" from the enemy building in Dongluo City.

Their goals are also clear.

Cross the wall about two miles long and seize the enemy building on the north side of the southern wing city!

Niu Yiqi set out with five hundred elite troops unhappily. This powerful general who inherited the position of Niu Chenghu Labulehafan in later generations is now also a powerful general in the Dashun Army who is also a right-magnificent general.

"Now the news that Liu Zongmin's defeat in Ningyuan has spread throughout Shanhaiguan. Seeing that Dashun Country is not far from being destroyed, why are you still fighting for it so hard?"

However, he had to obey his father's arrangements and had to bring his own personal military camp composed of all Shaanxi soldiers. In fact, Niu Chenghu's servant team set off before.

This section of the city wall is north-south, about three zhang high and two zhang wide, and can six or seven people side by side. Niu Yiqi asked eighteen strong men to carry large shields wrapped in iron sheets to walk in front in three rows. One hundred sword shield soldiers followed, then one hundred elite archers, and finally more than one hundred sword shield soldiers. Such a formation is just suitable for fighting on the inner city wall.

In that section of the city wall, the Hanhai Army infantry holding a telescope also saw the movements on the enemy's building.

"alert!"

Four 200-pound Franchise cannons at the north gate of the enemy building were ready to go, and behind them were twenty infantrymen holding flintlock rifles, and two people were lying on the top of the slope roof of the enemy building. Each of them had a monocular telescope in their hands and a rifled flintlock rifle.
Chapter completed!