Wearing armor, Lan Yu rode forward on horseback, looked at Hong Chengchou, and said confidently:
"The Marquis of Yongchang...Lanyu!"
"You were defeated by this lord, and you did not lose unjustly!"
On the side, Zu Dale cursed angrily:
"You are such a hideous villain, you don't even have a name..."
Suddenly, Hong Chengchou stopped Zu Dalue, stroking his hands and laughing softly, which gradually turned into a hearty laugh.
In front of the two armies, Hong Chengchou burst into tears as he laughed, and seemed to be going crazy.
Lan Yu felt a chill at the sight, waved to Wu Sangui, the commander-in-chief of Liaodong, and asked:
"General Wu, is this man crazy?"
The moment Zu Dale saw Wu Sangui, he clenched his fists and said coldly:
"Wu Sangui!"
"Give my cousin his life!"
At this moment, Hong Chengchou stopped laughing and said with emotion:
"The Marquis of Yongchang... Lan Yu? I will assume that you have the same name as that Lan Yu."
"The Ming Dynasty really shouldn't die! A famous general like you has emerged! Unfortunately, it's too late."
"That's all, let me see, general, why you left these 70,000 cavalry here."
At the end, Hong Chengchou turned back to the military formation with some disinterest.
If it had been earlier, maybe those soldiers wouldn't have died, and he... wouldn't have surrendered to the Manchus.
Zu Dalue glared at Wu Sangui fiercely and followed Hong Chengchou back to the military formation.
…
Lan Yu looked at the backs of the two people, narrowed her eyes, and asked:
"General Wu, was this man a military general of the Ming Dynasty before?"
Wu Sangui nodded and said with a wry smile:
"General Hong was previously the Minister of the Ministry of War and the Governor of Ji Liao. He crusaded against the rogues and brought success to the Qing Dynasty. He won every battle."
"The year before last, in order to save the crisis in Liaodong, General Hong led more than 100,000 people to support him. If it hadn't been for His Majesty's urging...ahem."
Lan Yu understood instantly. After Hong Chengchou and the others returned to the military formation, he raised his right hand and shouted:
"put"
The next second, the sound of red cannons echoed through the night sky.
In the Manchu and Qing army formations.
Caught off guard, Hong Chengchou almost fell off his horse. He quickly clamped the horse's belly and looked around.
When he saw the soldiers being bombed to pieces one after another, he shouted:
"beating the drum"
"The whole army charges"
This time he was negligent again. He didn't expect that the general on the opposite side would dare to use artillery at such a close distance?
A few seconds later, amidst the continuous sound of artillery, the heavy sound of war drums sounded.
"Dong dong dong"
The Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of Han, who were originally in chaos, heard the sound of drums, gathered one after another and charged towards the Ming army.
Zu Dale covered his bleeding left arm and shouted:
"Whoever kills Wu Sangui will be rewarded with ten thousand taels of silver!"
…
Chang Mao saw the Manchu and Qing troops rushing towards him and decisively ordered:
"put"
Tens of thousands of soldiers aimed their muskets forward.
"Bang bang bang"
As the sound of firecrackers sounded, the thousands of Han Eight Banners who rushed at the front fell on their backs, and were immediately trampled to pieces by the cavalry in the rear.
…
Chang Sen took this opportunity and led 50,000 Guan Ning cavalry directly behind the Manchu and Qing army to block their return.
…
Inside Shanhaiguan.
Huang Taiji was riding on a tall horse, raised his head, looked into the distance, and murmured:
"Mr. Fan, it seems that General Hong and the others are at war with the Ming army."
"This time, can I, the Qing Dynasty, really take over the Central Plains?"
Fan Wencheng showed disdain, bowed and said:
"Your Majesty, as long as Zhu Youjian is here, the Ming Dynasty will definitely fall. He doesn't know how to fight, and he has repeatedly changed generals on the battlefield."
"This is the Qing Dynasty..."
Suddenly, Fan Wencheng felt that his surroundings were much brighter. He looked up at the sky with a look of fear on his face, and threw himself at Huang Taiji, shouting:
"There's an ambush!"
Tens of thousands of rockets were seen falling from the sky, and in just a few seconds, a fire broke out in Shanhaiguan.
Just as the Eight Banners Army of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties dispersed and put out fires everywhere, several gunshots were heard from the direction of the four city gates.
"Boom boom boom"
Huang Taiji ran up the city wall with an ugly face. When he saw the dense Ming army surrounding Shanhaiguan, he said in annoyance:
"Fell into a trap!"
Dorgon hurried over and said anxiously:
"Your Majesty, the four city gates have collapsed. The Ming army is trying to trap us here!"
Fan Wencheng wiped the cold sweat from his forehead and persuaded:
"Your Majesty, why don't we go down and hide first? This city wall is not strong."
Previously, their Manchu artillery bombarded them for half an hour, and several sections of the city wall collapsed. If those Ming troops hadn't run fast, they might have been buried in Shanhaiguan.
Now the situation has turned, and it is their turn that the Manchus and Qing Dynasties are trapped in Shanhaiguan.
Huang Taiji closed his eyes and thought for a moment, then said:
"Gather the army and rush out of Shanhaiguan!"
…
at the same time.
Outside Shanhaiguan.
Wei Guogong Xu Da commanded an army of 100,000 men. After surrounding Shanhaiguan, he ordered artillery to attack the city.
Today, Shanhaiguan is the burial place of the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty!
…
A moment later, sections of the Shanhaiguan city wall collapsed under successive artillery bombardments.
In an instant, smoke and dust were everywhere.
Huang Taiji took advantage of this opportunity and led the Manchu Eight Banners Army to rush out of Shanhaiguan.
Oncoming were the dense clouds of projectiles and hundreds of squatting tiger cannons.
With just one encounter, nearly ten thousand Manchu and Qing Eight Banners troops were blown into bloody foam.
In desperation, Huang Taiji had no choice but to withdraw his troops and led the army back to Shanhaiguan.
…
Wei Guogong Xu Da waited until the Eight Banners Army of the Qing Dynasty returned to Shanhaiguan, and ordered his soldiers to suspend the offensive and set up camp.
Only hundreds of Hongyi cannons were left to bombard Shanhaiguan in turn.
…
early morning.
When it's just dawn.
Hong Chengchou coughed heavily and looked around. He saw only the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han people, with nearly 70,000 cavalry, and only a few hundred people were left at this moment.
Looking around, there were corpses and pieces of flesh all around. It was difficult to find even a complete corpse, which was enough to show how brutal the fighting last night was.
Suddenly, there was a sound of horse hooves.
Yongchang Hou Lanyu rode his horse to Hong Chengchou and others, lay on the horse's head, and said with interest:
"Secretary of the Ministry of War? Governor of Ji Liao?"
"I would like to ask you, are you willing to surrender?"
In the battle last night, if he hadn't laid a heavy siege and the 50,000 Guan Ning cavalry led by Chang Sen were attacking, Hong Chengchou might have been able to escape.
Because of this, Lan Yu wanted to persuade this person to surrender and give it to the emperor of Chongzhen dynasty.
Hong Chengchou smiled miserably, glanced at the armor on the Ming soldiers, and murmured to himself:
"It's too late. Your Majesty...can't tolerate me waiting."
"I...have no face to see His Majesty."
Afterwards, Hong Chengchou took off his Manchu armor, turned towards the direction of Shuntian Mansion, saluted and knelt down.
After getting up, he picked up the sharp sword on the ground, drew it and killed himself.
After the hundreds of people saw Hong Chengchou committing suicide, they all knelt down and asked to surrender, as if they had lost their backbone.
Seeing that Hong Chengchou would rather commit suicide than return to the Ming Dynasty, Lan Yu frowned and ordered:
"Sen'er, you lead the army to stay here and clear the battlefield."
"Mao'er, take hundreds of personal guards and go to Shanhaiguan with your uncle!"
When Chang Mao heard that he was going to Shanhaiguan, he smiled brightly and hurriedly mobilized his personal guards.
Chang Sen led Wu Sangui to the front, pointed at the hundreds of surrendered soldiers, and asked:
"Uncle, what should we do with those people?"
