Chapter 36: Just die!
Songshan Fort exploded.
Songshan Fort, which is only five miles in radius, was almost overturned by the raging fire of 100,000 kilograms of gunpowder.
The smoke after the gunpowder explosion had not yet dissipated, and the raging fire began to burn on the remains of Songshan Fort. After the battered Feiyanggu escaped from Songshan Fort, facing Dorgon's scolding, He couldn't hear a word.
Seeing the scene of the horse falling on the pine tree and struggling, Dorgon stopped scolding Feiyanggu. He began to worry about Huang Taiji, who was thirty miles away. However, he still thought that the cannon should be sent from Songshan Fort first. Get it out, after all, it is impossible for such an explosion to completely destroy the cannon.
Hong Chengchou left all the gunpowder in Songshan Fort.
Thanks to the Lantian people who bought and sold gunpowder to the imperial court, Hong Chengchou's army was short of money, food, horses, and even clothes, but there was no shortage of gunpowder...
Stride backwards At that time, artillery was naturally not portable. Therefore, after he ordered molten iron to be poured into the barrel and the fire hole, the artillery here became scrap metal.
After discovering that all the cannons in Songshan Fort were turned into scrap metal, Dorgon led a small force to chase Hong Chengchou. At this time, an hour and a half had passed since Hong Chengchou left Songshan Fort. .
"Come on, capture Huang Taiji alive, and worship the general!"
Faced with the obstruction of Huang Taiji's yellow flag troops, Hong Chengchou gave up his command position and joined the army to attack. Huang Taiji's main formation charged.
Seeing his men dead and injured everywhere, Hong Chengchou shouted in the chaos.
He deeply understood that if Huang Taiji could not be killed in this battle, he would still be unable to escape death even if he returned to the pass.
After planning for such a long time and enduring for such a long time, God treated him well and finally gave him a good opportunity to kill Huang Taiji.
In the sky, arrows are like locusts, and in the middle, muskets and cannons are as dense as rain.
"Come on, kill Huang Taiji, the bounty will be ten thousand taels!"
Seeing Yang Guozhu being shot and knocked off his horse, Hong Chengchou gritted his teeth, pushed his horse away from his guards, and pulled out his sword. , this time, he was going to do it himself.
Wu Sangui, who was charging at the front line, suddenly found Hong Chengchou appearing at the front. He howled in pain and jumped out of the formation. Guan Ning's cavalry followed his back to avoid the Jiannu Chinese Army. The musketeers plunged into Jiannu's flank with a diagonal thrust.
Facing the crazy assault of the Ming army, Huang Taiji's 10,000-strong Zhenghuang Banner was waiting in full formation.
Faced with the sudden advance of Hong Chengchou and Wu Sangui, the Jianzhou people here did not have the scene of horses barking or the roar of war drums and thunder, but only the whirring of war flags fluttering in the wind and the solemn and murderous atmosphere.
Under the banner of the Black Dragon Zhuri of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, Huang Taiji sat on a high hill and looked at the battlefield with a telescope. He was surrounded by more than 20 generals and dozens of messengers. There were thousands of guards around the hill, with Zhu Ying's spears spread across them, in neat rows.The queue faces outwards.
When Huang Taiji saw a group of men and horses rushing into his flank, quickly disrupting the army formation, and advancing rapidly, he said to Yue Tuo beside him: "This must be the last bit of blood of Guan Ning's cavalry, right?" ?"
Yue Tuo said: "A very respectable opponent, but they are all destined to die here today."
Huang Taiji looked at Hong Chengchou who was also advancing. Shuai Qi said: "Hong Chengchou is not a staunch person. Since he has seen through Dorgon's plan, why should he put all his efforts into it?"
Yue Tuo shook his head and said: "I don't know about this. ."
Huang Taiji glanced at Yue Tuo, who was looking down at the ground: "You dare not say? Well, I think he is betting that Dorgon will not attack him from behind immediately."
Yue Tuo closed his eyes and said nothing.
Huang Taiji wiped a trace of blood from his nose and sighed: "He won the bet."
After speaking, he stood up, tidied his armor and He said to Yue Tuo: "Hong Chengchou thought that after being emperor for so long, I had forgotten how to fight. Today, let him see that I am still the same Huang Taiji who bravely championed the three armies!
Obai! Advance for me!"
A huge man with thick hair like a black bear came out of the crowd, jumped on his horse, waved the mace in his hand, and led a group of cavalry straight to the place where Commander Hong Chengchou's flag was. place.
Before Huang Taiji could take action, Yue Tuo and Du Du looked at each other and jumped on their horses and went down the hillside.
Seeing these three people leaving, Huang Taiji stopped busy. He sat down on the large chair again, holding a telescope with one hand to check the battlefield situation.
As these three people entered the battlefield with their personal guards, the shaky battle front that had been attacked by Hong Chengchou slowly stabilized.
When Hong Chengchou's general Liu Jie saw that his subordinates were repulsed by Jiannu, he gathered more than twenty musketeers. After concentrated fire, they beat the two white-armored soldiers who were blocking their advance into a honeycomb, and then raised their shields from a small jumped up on the hillside and opened a hole.
Soon, his subordinates followed suit.
As we approached the foot of the mountain, amidst the shrill sound of "Woo-Woo", arrows from the crossbow bed as thick as a baby's arm rained down. The soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who were hit by crossbow arrows, no matter what kind of shield they were holding, would pierce through their bodies and die without exception.
"Spread out, spread out..." Liu Jie yelled desperately, and he took the lead to buckle the shield on his body and fall to the ground.
The attacking soldiers dispersed amidst the shouts of the officers, and the lethality of Jiannu's bed crossbow was greatly reduced.
But just as they climbed onto the hillside, Jiannu's arrows fell from the sky again. The dense and precise arrow feathers caused hundreds of Ming soldiers to fall to the ground. The remaining people began to retreat, and the first attack was defeated.
As soon as Liu Jie took out the feather arrow stuck on his shoulder, he saw Hong Zhong, the captain of the marshal's personal soldiers, passing by him. As the two passed by, Hong Zhong took it off his chest. Two grenades were put into his hand, and thenContinue running towards the hill.
After the horn sounded, shouts of killing suddenly broke out, and Jiannu’s arrow stones sprayed down again.
Hong Chengchou's two hundred personal guards were approaching the foot of the mountain under the cover of shields, and the Ming army musketeers and Jiannu crossbowmen at the foot of the mountain began to shoot at each other.
Under their cover, the shooting accuracy of Jiannu's crossbowmen was greatly reduced. Just as he was about to climb halfway up the mountain, countless black figures stood up from behind the shields and threw grenades fiercely up the mountain.
Jiannu’s crossbowmen were frightened and retreated in a hurry. For a moment, fire broke out, black smoke billowed, and the military flags were reduced to ashes. All the Jiannu crossbowmen were blown up and down.
When Liu Jie saw this, he quickly led his men around the hill. In front of him was the outer wall fence of Huangtai Jiying Village.
Some soldiers armed with heavy weapons quickly hammered the fence.
After a short period of time, gaps were made in the long fence. Soldiers from both sides, holding swords, guns and shields, crowded into the gap.
You retreat and I advance, fighting over and over again, and fighting together. In this kind of fight to the death, if you are not careful, your life will be in danger. In a fight between a dragon and a tiger, one must die. The loser falls to the ground and is trampled repeatedly by those who come after him. The winner may also follow in his footsteps in the next moment.
"I am Ao Bai! If you are not afraid of death, just come up!"
O Bai actually jumped from the fence into the Ming army with a mace in his hand. Swinging the mace, he smashed the Ming soldiers surrounding the gap to death one by one.
Obai's reputation as the murderous king has long been known to the Ming army in the past two years. At this time, the Ming soldiers saw that he was indeed as brave and unusual as the legend, and everyone in front of him was killed. He beheaded him, so they all fled.
After a while, two or three of the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty broke away from the formation and fled back, and others followed them to escape...
A grenade exploded at the feet of Obai. , this giant bear-like strong man was covered in blood after the explosion, but he still beat his chest with both hands and shouted. Even Liu Jie did not dare to take a step forward when he saw this.
Just when Liu Jie was about to throw another grenade, a group of Jiannu soldiers suddenly pounced on him. Four or five of them dragged Oboi away, while another group of people attacked Liu Jie. Others rushed over.
"Those who dare to retreat will die!"
Liu Jie swung his sword and hacked to death a soldier who had thrown away his spear. He stepped forward to fight. Before setting off, Liu Jie ordered Shuai has already said that Xia Chengde's betrayal exposed all the weaknesses of Songshan Fort. Songshan Fort cannot be defended. If everyone wants to return to the pass alive, they can only fight hard.
Liu Jie began to fight tooth and nail. His subordinates, who had always trusted Liu Jie, followed suit one after another, and a more fierce battle began.
In the melee, some used guns, some used knives, and some used hammers to pick, stab, chop, and smash. They went into battle at the same time and engaged in a desperate struggle.
Some are so disparate in strength that one move can determine life or death; some are evenly matched and tightly stuck together; some are wrestling with each other.Even if they both fell and rolled on the snow, they would not let go. Some were both injured and fell in a pool of blood. Even though they were exhausted, they still looked at each other fiercely. Wanting to seize the opportunity to strike the last blow and kill the opponent...
In front of Songshan, fighting broke out. The Ming army, which had no artillery, was fighting with Jiannu in the field.
This was not the result that Hong Chengchou wanted. He hoped that Huang Taiji would retreat when his army pressed forward. However, until now, Huang Taiji's Black Dragon Sun Chaser flag was still flying not far away.
Hong Chengchou could even see Huang Taiji's appearance through the telescope.
I just received a report from the scouts that Dorgon's troops are already ten miles away.
Hong Chengchou cast his eyes on Chen Dong who was eating beans and said, "Have the people from Baiyintu, Yingerdai, and Horqin Tuxietu between Songshan and Xingshan come over?"
p>Chen Dongdao: "Horqin Tuxietu's men have not come, and the other two have already arrived on your left. To be honest, you are very lucky. Bai Yintu, Ying'erdai, These two people did not block your escape to Xingshan. They thought smartly that you would not go to Xingshan if Horqin Tuxietu blocked it.
So they ambush you on the only road to the left. "Come on."
Hong Chengchou laughed and said: "In that case, let's go to Xingshan. You go and clear the way for me!"
Chen Dong was stunned and said: " Is your battle none of your business?"
Hong Chengchou pointed at the Ming soldiers who were still fighting fiercely and said, "Do you think the county magistrate thinks so?"
Chen Dong roared. He said in one voice: "If we leave, you will die in Liaodong."
Hong Chengchou chuckled and said: "Just die!"