Chapter 136: It is humiliating to stand in line, but it is necessary

Chapter 136: Humiliating stand, but necessary

Li Dingguo put down the telescope in his hand and said to Zhang Guofeng: "We are going to face Shanhaiguan directly now."

Zhang Guofeng He looked at the Shanhaiguan Pass wall in the distance and said, "You're still going to use artillery, right? If you blow up the city wall, you still have to work hard to repair it."

Li Dingguo said, "I have precious soldiers. "

Zhang Guofeng said: "In fact, we should send people to persuade them to surrender. Maybe they can fight without bloodshed."

Li Dingguo pointed at Shanhaiguan and said: "No one here deserves our forgiveness. Kill them." That's right, by the way, I heard that His Majesty gave you a secret edict. What did it say? "

"I said a lot of things, the most important of which is - Li Dingguo is a bastard. "

Li Dingguo heard this and said angrily: "My cannons are about to roar, and my armored warriors are about to rumble in!

My thousands of troops are about to go. Kill the enemy! Go for your life! Go and bleed!

But just now, a strange thing happened in my army. I have been fighting for decades, so I can say that I have experienced hundreds of battles!

This is the first time I have encountered this kind of thing in hundreds of battles!

He actually managed to kill eight people from thousands of miles away. Baili rushed to my forward command post.

Not to mention anything else, just to say one thing - I, Li Dingguo, am a bastard? "

Facing the general's anger, the other generals in the army lowered their heads one by one, pretending to be deaf and mute.

Facing the furious Li Dingguo, Zhang Guofeng looked very calm and looked at Li Dingguo, who took off his iron helmet and revealed a bald head, said calmly: "Your Majesty is right, you are just a bastard! "

Yun Zhao called Li Dingguo a bastard. Li Dingguo has always been unconvinced. Zhang Guofeng called him a bastard. Maybe, maybe he really is a bastard.

So, Li Dingguo, whose anger was half vented, said: "What did I do wrong? "

Zhang Guofeng looked at the generals around him and curled his lips and said: "Get out! "

Then a group of generals turned into birds and beasts and dispersed, going to their positions.

When everyone was gone, Zhang Guofeng took out a cigarette from his arms, lit it, and said calmly: "Huang Yu, Mr. Huang entangled the big bandit Li Dingguo to rob Mingyue Tower together. It was originally a romantic affair. You, Li Dingguo, just admit it. Why do you want to let the fans know? Why are you forced to do it?

Your Majesty said that this matter will not be over when you and Yun Yang return to the court.

Li Dingguo once again raised his telescope and looked at the top of Shanhaiguan City and said calmly: "He came up with the idea and the plan. I just helped him kill a few swordsmen. You were also there. You Do you think it’s unfair for me to take the blame? ”

Zhang Guofeng watched Li Dingguo wave the red fire flag, while there was still a little timeSaid: "No, it was you who came up with the idea and the plan. I am your accomplice, Huang Yu. Mr. Huang took action to save those poor swordsmen..."

Voice As soon as it landed, a puff of smoke rose from the artillery position on the left, and then the sound of "boom, boom, boom" of artillery covered Zhang Guofeng's lingering sound.

Just when the cannon shells exploded at the top of the city, countless soldiers carrying ladders moved towards the top of the city under the cover of artillery fire.

Li Dingguo’s mouth was opening violently, but Zhang Guofeng could not hear a word he said.

He seemed to have forgotten about it, and was just holding his binoculars to observe the charging infantry.

A raging fire has been ignited on the top of the city, and some white flames are even spreading outside the city. The kerosene bombs and phosphorus fire bombs detonated the ammunition stored on the top of Shanhaiguan City. Immediately, a larger explosion occurred.

The kerosene bombs and phosphorus fire bombs burned violently when they exploded, but they could not last long. When the infantry put up the ladders on the city wall, there was only thick smoke on the top of the city, which had long obscured the mouth and nose. The infantry had already begun to climb bravely.

Under such an intense attack, the artillery at the top of the city had been completely damaged in the previous artillery battle, which left no room for arrows or firecrackers to fight back at the top of Shanhaiguan City.

The tall siege vehicle, dragged by more than a dozen cows, slowly approached the city. The gunmen on the siege vehicle were sparing no effort to clear away the remaining resistance on the city.

When a large number of Lantian's armored infantry stepped onto the hot city head, the artillery stopped roaring, and the following armored infantry continued to climb toward the city head like ants along dozens of ladders.

Zhang Guofeng listened carefully and found that the explosion of the grenade was getting farther and farther away from him. Then he put down the telescope comfortably and said to Li Dingguo, who was also relaxed: "What did you just say?"

Li Dingguo sighed and said: "I am born to take the blame."

Zhang Guofeng said: "Yun Yang can make this kind of mistake, but you can't!"

Li Dingguo said: "Yun Zhao is not a broad-minded emperor."

Zhang Guofeng said: "When did I tell you that Yun Zhao is broad-minded? I remember I only told you that Yun Zhao is wise. , benevolent, be sincere, have a long-term vision, and have the world in mind. How could he ever tell you that he still has the advantage of being generous?

Fortunately, he still has the advantage of being sincere. After the Mingyue Tower incident happened, he clearly told you that he was angry with you. It was your luck that you didn't hide it in your heart."

Li Dingguo said: " The matter has already happened, is it useful for me to explain?"

Zhang Guofeng looked at the Shanhaiguan city gate that was gradually opening, and while urging his horse forward, he said: "It's useless."

Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng were walking side by side. In front of them, more soldiers had entered Shanhaiguan.

“It’s useless, you still want me to explain?”

Zhang Guofeng said: "The emperor's participation in robbing brothels is something that the people like to see. Even if His Majesty did not do it, the people will think that it was His Majesty.

Let you Showing your attitude has nothing to do with the people's opinions. The main thing is to let His Majesty know that you, Li Dingguo, are willing to take the blame for him.

Even if your explanation makes the people more convinced that the robbery was His Majesty's idea, this is. The process still has to go on. After all, it doesn't matter what the people think. What matters is what Your Majesty thinks.

Your Majesty, at this juncture, I am giving you a secret order to scold you. I didn't ask you to explain anything in the first place. But I want to see if you are with him. I have already replied to your letter and sent someone to spread new rumors..."

As Zhang Guofeng spoke, he took it out of his arms. The wine flask was thrown to a soldier carrying the city gate, who welcomed them into the city with a dark face and a wound on his shoulder. They entered Shanhaiguan under the proud eyes of the injured soldier.

The civil officials who entered Shanhaiguan in advance were very disappointed.

The people in Shanhaiguan had already evacuated, and all the supplies in the city were taken away. During the three months when Li Dingguo stationed troops in the capital, Wu Sangui and Li Hongji built a new city gate in Motianling.

The terrain of the city gate is dangerous, and it is basically impossible to attack the city with cannons.

After arranging for his men to search the entire city and the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan, Li Dingguo said to Zhang Guofeng: "My brother is still considerate. I am fighting, and you help me take care of my retreat. You know, I am a wild man. If you get used to it, you won't be able to do these things."

Zhang Guofeng said with a smile: "I will keep an eye on your back. If you are willing to propose marriage to Qian Duoduo and marry a daughter of the Yun family, I won't have to worry so much. "

Li Dingguo shook his head decisively and said: "I don't want to be Yun Zhao's brother-in-law. This is my last insistence."

Wu Sangui immediately stood up and looked back at the majestic Shanhaiguan for a long time. No words were spoken.

In the past three months, he fought six times with Li Dingguo's army. Whether it was a surprise attack, a sneak attack, or a field battle, he never had the upper hand.

It's not that the combat effectiveness of Guan Ning's cavalry has declined, but that the firepower of Lantian's army is too fierce.

After two sneak attacks, the cavalry had just triggered the mines deployed by the Lantian Army outside the camp. After a few breaths, incendiary bombs would be launched, exposing the sneak attack cavalry to the light of fire. , that is, dense artillery shells flying over...

When you are hiding in an ambush, as long as you encounter a suspicious place, there will also be dense artillery shells flying over. If it is a forest, it will be an incendiary bomb. If it is a mountainous area, it will be incendiary bombs. It will be phosphorus fire bombs. If it is a deserted place, the Lantian Army will never enter it without clearing it with artillery fire.

They seemed to have so many shells that they would never run out...

After several battles, Wu Sangui understood a truth - Lantian was really rich, and he and Li Hongji were really Very poor.

Give up the mountains and the seaThe barrier is certain, otherwise, the more people stay in this city, the more people will die.

From now on, any place with a road will become the territory of the Lantian people. If they want to survive, they can only go to the most remote places in the world.

Roads will not be built in those places, otherwise, Lantian's artillery vehicles will be able to come. Those places cannot be too close to Lantian territory, otherwise, they will build a road by themselves.

Wu Sangui's heart ached when he thought of this. He felt that selling his life to Li Hongji was too cheap.

The road from Shanhaiguan to Motianling has been completely destroyed. Not only have many big holes been dug, but also a lot of water has been poured on it. It is extremely difficult for the war horses to walk. Presumably, Li Dingguo's artillery must have been destroyed. Method came here.

As long as there are no annoying artillery pieces, Wu Sangui feels that he is still confident in fighting Li Dingguo.

Watching the Lantian troops chasing out of the city slowly covering each other and retreating back to Shanhaiguan amidst the sharp sound of brass horns, Wu Sangui breathed an inexplicable sigh of relief.

Until the gate of the Shanhaiguan Great Wall slowly closed, Wu Sangui whipped his horse under his crotch and retreated towards Motian Ridge with an unspeakable heavy heart.

Two days later, Li Ding's generals and secret agents discovered a total of seventeen secret passages in Shanhaiguan City.

Nine of them are under the Great Wall, and three of them are dry tunnels filled with gunpowder.

So, Li Dingguo sent a letter to Xu Wuxiang, the prefect of Shuntian Prefecture, requesting to send a large number of civilians. He planned to dig a horizontal path stretching for dozens of miles ten feet in front of the Shanhaiguan city wall. ditch.

He did not believe that those people with ulterior motives who had escaped would only leave seventeen secret passages, and there should be more secret passages that have not been discovered.