"The foot of the mountain is ahead!"
After a night of rapid marching, Shen Tuo led the soldiers of the New Army's middle camp on a thirty-mile mountain road and finally arrived at the south of Longmen Pass. The forwards had already seen the Longmen Pass city wall under the rising sun.
Shen Tuo rushed out of the woods happily, and saw that his eyes suddenly opened up. The originally rugged mountainous area turned into a smooth road. To the northwest was Longmen Pass, and to the north was the northern foot of Beishan Mountain.
"The whole battalion speeds up and enters the border!"
The main body of Longmen Pass is Dalongmen Castle. It is an important pass on the "inner side" of the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty and is known as the "throat of the territory."
According to "Shui Jing Zhu" records, this place was called "Sage City" before the Tang and Song Dynasties. It was once an important fortress town in the Central Plains and outside the Great Wall, and experienced many wars. The Ming Dynasty rebuilt it as a military important place. Starting from the Jiajing period, it was guarded by "Qinyi Dalongmen Shoukou Commander-in-Chief Envoy Bao General Officer Qin".
At this time, there was no one in Longmen Pass. The original defenders only had more than a hundred people. When the Qing army entered the pass, the defenders had already disappeared.
Shen Tuo led his troops towards Longmen Pass. Suddenly, figures moved on the Beilu Mountain to the north. Then countless Qing troops rushed down the mountain and killed the soldiers of the New Army's middle camp.
"Tatars!"
Shen Tuo's steel teeth were almost broken at this time, and his side hurriedly and slowly arrived at almost the same time as the Qing army.
"Formation! Formation!"
Shen Tuo roared loudly, and the soldiers of the New Army's middle camp quickly formed a square formation. All the soldiers raised their blunderbuss, which had been loaded in advance, and were ready to go.
"Fire the bayonet!"
At this time, Shen Tuo saw that the Qing soldiers who rushed down were all Mongolian soldiers and horses, mainly the Mongolian two blue banners and the Mongolian Aohan and Alu tribes of the outer vassals. Behind them were the Manchurian red banners.
Troops are gathering.
"Hold them off and fire!"
boom!
At this time, the position of the officers and soldiers of the New Army's middle camp was very bad. They did not occupy the position directly in front of Longmen Pass, but in the southeast of Longmen Pass.
In addition to the large number of Mongolian soldiers and horses rushing over, Shen Tuo also saw the two white flags and red flags of Manchuria, as well as a large number of Mongolian soldiers and horses rushing directly towards Longmen Pass. At this time, Shen Tuo wanted to rush over, but was held back by the enemy troops who had already rushed within a hundred steps.
Under round after round of volleys, the Mongolian troops and horses of the two blue banners rushing at the front suffered heavy casualties. At this time, Zhenglan Banner Gushan'e Zhenwu Lai and Xianglan Banner Gushan'e Zhenhu Shibu stood in the military formation. From the rear, watching the warriors charging in front, all the warriors in the banner fell to the ground forty to fifty steps in front of the new army formation, unable to charge in at all.
The Mongolian army now has no war horses and attacks the new army's cannon array with foot combat. The casualties can be imagined.
"Fire the arrow!"
Soon, tens of thousands of soldiers and horses from Aohan and Alu also rushed forward. The strength of the Mongolian army in front of the new army's central camp had reached 30,000 to 40,000. They crowded towards the bird cannon formation, and then Killed and wounded by intensive firepower.
At this time, the archers of the various Mongolian banners also pressed forward and began to shoot. The range of the Mongolian mounted bows was less than a hundred steps, but if they were thrown, the range could be increased to about seventy or eighty steps.
Hu Shibu personally led thousands of taels of blue-flag archers forward and started firing a volley at a distance of 60 steps from the new army's central camp.
I saw countless Mongolian soldiers roaring forward, and thousands of archers firing volleys from behind. In front of them, the officers and soldiers of the New Army Central Battalion were like a sophisticated machine, working in an orderly manner.
Killing the enemy together, both sides were trying their best, but the casualties of the two armies were still increasing rapidly.
The armor of the soldiers in the middle camp of the New Army was no longer complete. The arrows fired by the Mongols caused a lot of casualties to the soldiers of the New Army. Shen Tuo saw with his own eyes that a soldier in front suddenly raised his head and an arrow was inserted directly into his body. On the head of the soldier, a fresh life passed away in an instant.
Not far away, another soldier was hit by two arrows. Although his body armor blocked one, another arrow penetrated his neck. The soldier fell directly on his back to the ground.
The Mongolians in front are rushing forward one after another, and they are already going crazy. Behind them, there are Mongolian soldiers and horses with two white flags and two red flags who are gathering and reorganizing. It won't take long for them to rush forward in a steady stream.
Shen Tuo saw everything and understood that now was the most dangerous time. To the north, the battle flags of Manchuria's two white flags and two red flags have entered Longmen Pass, and the battle flags of Mongolia's two yellow flags are also moving in the direction of Longmen Pass. This time, the plan to block the Qing army has failed!
Shen Tuo was very angry and shouted angrily: "Zhentian Lei, prepare, release!"
A large number of sword and shield wielders from the New Army's central camp stepped forward and threw out the ignited thunderbolts. The Mongolian soldiers in front of the new army's formation began to flash with the flames of their explosions. The charging Mongolian soldiers were blown up by the thunder, and Shen Tuo even saw broken limbs flying in many places. The Mongolians The momentum of the charge was subsequently curbed.
"put!"
The cannon formation in the middle camp of the New Army was still in operation, but there were too many Mongolian soldiers rushing up, several times their own strength. Facing a desperate situation, they all
All the Mongols broke out with huge fighting power.
Those Mongolian soldiers finally rushed to the front of the new army's central camp, and the two sides began to fight hand-to-hand.
"Kill Hu!"
Shen Tuo roared and rushed forward with dozens of guards. All the musketeers arrayed in front had their bayonets fixed, and they thrust forward to engage in hand-to-hand combat with the Mongolian soldiers.
Laidong (Xiao Dongzi) led his subordinates under him, roaring and thrusting forward all night long. Everyone marched in neat steps, and the blunderbuss with bayonets in their hands kept thrusting, facing the Mongols' slashing swords and thrusting spears. , the soldiers did not block or block at all, it was completely a strategy of dying together with the enemy.
"kill!"
Laidong thrust out the gun, directly piercing the Mongolian blue-flag Zhuangda in front, and then suddenly retracted the bird. The strongman made a gurgling sound in his throat, then knelt on the ground and fell headfirst. breath.
Then Laidong once again, together with the soldiers around him, thrust hard, fighting the Mongolian soldiers in front of him over and over again, and soldiers on both sides continued to fall in a pool of blood.
Right next to Laidong, a New Army captain was pierced through the abdomen with a spear by the Mongolian soldiers in front of him. However, the New Army captain gritted his teeth, holding the spear pierced into the abdomen with one hand, and using the bayonet with the other. The blunderbuss slashed the Mongolian soldier's neck, and both men died together.
This kind of exchange of life for life made those Mongolians feel the fear they had never experienced before. Soon those Mongolian soldiers were defeated. A large number of Mongolian soldiers began to flee backwards, and even the ones behind were preparing to kill The soldiers and horses of the Mongolian Aohan and Alu tribes who came up from the outer vassal also began to retreat quickly at this time.
When Shen Tuo saw this, he said angrily: "Those
The Manchurian Tatars who were supervising the war with red flags have already fled. These Mongolian Tatars are only retreating now. They are really dog slaves, so cheap! "
Then Shen Tuo yelled: "Go forward! Go forward! Press the enemy down!"
"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger!"
The soldiers of the New Army's middle camp roared and stepped over the corpses on the ground. Under their feet was the land stained red with blood. The soldiers of the whole battalion roared forward and drove the defeated Mongolian flag soldiers and horses to the north.
At this moment, another large army appeared behind the New Army's middle camp. Shen Tuo was startled at first, and then laughed: "Haha! The governor has sent the former salesman here. Okay, kill me and chase him." kill!"
At this time, the former battalion staff general Chen Xun was standing on the hillside panting. After the forced march down, Chen Xun and the New Army front battalion officers were also exhausted. Fortunately, at this time, both the New Army battalions and the Qing army banners were all It was a forced march of hundreds of miles, and both sides were at the end of their strength, and there was no one who was waiting for work.
"The whole battalion is pursuing northward!"
Chen Xun held up a telescope and observed the battlefield situation for a while, then handed over the task of chasing the Mongolian banners to the New Army's middle camp, and led his troops directly towards Longmen Pass.
At this time, the banners of the Qing army were still passing through Guancheng in a steady stream. Now that Chen Xun was chasing after him, it would only matter how many Qing soldiers he could stop.
Shen Tuo was standing on a "slope" where corpses were piled up, holding a telescope and looking south. He saw Chen Xun leading his troops directly towards Longmen Pass, laughing and angry at the same time.
"This guy is really good at picking up bargains!"
Then Shen Tuo yelled: "Keep going!"
Ahead, the New Army's middle camp is chasing the defeated troops of the Mongolian banners. The troops of the Aohan and Alu tribes have been completely defeated.
, the two Mongolian Blue Banner armies also completely retreated. Zhenglan Banner Gushan'e Zhenwu Lai and Xianglan Banner Gushan'e Zhenhu Shibu rushed towards Longmen Pass in embarrassment, trying to escape, but failed. He was dizzy on the battlefield and ran south with a group of personal guards, but he collided head-on with Laidong's troops.
"Fire! Fire!"
Laidong roared loudly, and more than 200 gunners fired one after another. The power of the close-range volley was very powerful. The two dozen guards in front of Wu Lai and Hu Shibu were shot and killed almost instantly, and they fell down one after another. On the ground.
Then Wu Lai's left arm was also shot by a birdshot. The severe pain made Wu Lai scream loudly, and he was guarded by several personal guards. Hu Shibu was also startled, his steps slowed down, he ducked behind several personal guards, and shouted loudly, asking his men to rush forward and fight in close combat.
boom!
Laidong roared loudly and ordered a volley of fire. Wu Lai and the guards around him were shot dead immediately. Hu Shibu was shot in the left leg and fell to the ground in pain, while the guards around him were all killed and wounded. There were very few personal guards left around the two of them.
Laidong laughed. At this time, he also saw that the armors on Wu Lai and Hu Shibu in front were different. They must be senior generals in the Qing army, so he wanted to lead his troops to capture and behead them.
At this moment, an unknown fool threw a sky-shaking thunder over, and it exploded, knocking Wu Lai, Hu Shibu and others to the ground.
"Asshole! Who the hell threw the thunder!"
Laidong cursed and hurriedly brought people forward to check. They saw that the bodies of Wu Lai and Hu Shibu were mutilated. Fortunately, their heads could still be identified.
Laidong suddenly felt relieved
In one breath, he said: "Behead! Keep the two heads. The promotion of our sentry brothers depends on these two heads!"
