Shanguan.

"Ma, the dog Tartars are quite tenacious."

Yan Wu, the commander of the 11th Infantry Brigade to the Third Army of the Ming Army, looked ahead and said.

Beside him, the 18 nine-jin field artillery of the brigade artillery battalion, the 16 nine-jin mountain howitzers of the four battalions, and the 18 twenty-jin mortar artillery brigade of the brigade of the brigade, all of which were constantly spraying flames towards Shanguan ahead. The targets of the mortar and howitzers were soldiers inside the city and on the city walls, and the field artillery used solid bombs to continuously bombard a point of the city wall. The city wall made of rocks was constantly shattered under the impact of the nine-jin conical shells at the speed of sound. This new rifled gun was much stronger than the previous steel pipe smoothbore gun.

The flowering shells of mortars and howitzers have blown Guancheng into a sea of ​​fire, and the rolling smoke has almost swallowed this small town.

This small town is very important.

Although it rarely appears in various historical books, its status is equivalent to that of Fujian, Shanhaiguan and Beijing. It is the gateway to Fujian from Jiangxi, the main throat of the throat. In western Fujian, which is completely covered by mountains and ridges, it is rare to be a small mountainous area that is not so noble and steep from the gloss to Lichuan.

Speaking of Fujian's transportation, the generals of the Third Army were also in tears.

Although they also have the support of Minjiang River.

But they are countercurrent, and the Minjiang River has a turbulent flow and the waterway is complicated. It was not until two months ago that there was a captain with the most experienced traffic flow to Nanping with fear. However, the Futun River section from Nanping to Yangkou can only be used with wooden sailboats, and they have to find a rush, and they can only go to Shaowu. From Shaowu to Guangze, they have to change to smaller ones.

The waterway eventually ends at the water outlet near the west side of the glossy.

The remaining road was the land route from Shuikou to Lichuan, which was all the way to Canglangshui in Nanfeng. The strategic goal of the Third Army was to go to Nanfeng and join the Sixth Army from Ningdu to Guangchang. However, the 11th Brigade was left after the Third Army fought here. It was not that the troops were insufficient. After receiving reinforcements from two brigades, the Third Army had seven brigades under it. Instead, this difficult and long transportation line could only maintain the combat of one infantry brigade. The water route was not a big river, but all the small bamboo scattered rivers in the middle of the river. In addition, because the people in this area were so poor that they almost burst into tears, the Ming army had to use a large part of the transportation capacity to save the people.

Fortunately, one brigade is enough, and one brigade is still unstoppable. Although the Qing army is still defending in Shanguan, Yan Wu needs to do just to use artillery shells to open a gap.

Three thousand two hundred infantry soldiers behind him were ready for battle.

As long as the field guns opened the gap, these war-torn soldiers would crash into it like a torrent. He had been fighting the Qing army for three years, and there was no Qing army that could stop the Ming army's charge, even if it was relying on the city wall.

"It's almost done, get ready!"

He looked at the collapsed city wall and shouted to the soldiers on standby not far away.

The soldiers immediately checked their weapons.

Almost at the same time, with another round of volleys of eighteen cannons, a section of the city wall less than twenty meters wide, less than 20 meters wide, had been hit by hundreds of shells, and gravel and rammed earth formed a fatal slope in front of the city wall.

"attack!"

Yan Wu roared.

The soldiers who had been waiting for a long time rushed forward.

At the same time, the sixteen howitzers immediately turned the gun mouths and fired at both sides of the gap. The whistling flowering bullets exploded on both sides. The eighteen field guns also adjusted the target to both sides and replaced grenades to slam the city wall. However, what surprised Yan Wu was that the Qing army on the city wall did not escape or block the slope gap, but cheered on the city wall like a rush.

"They're crazy?"

He and the political commissar looked at each other in surprise.

"Reinforcements, their reinforcements have arrived!"

The political commissar said with an inspiration.

"Reinforcements? No reinforcements are of no use!"

Yan Wu sneered.

But then he couldn't laugh. The city gate opposite Shanguan suddenly opened, and countless cavalry torrents surged out...

"Stop the attack and line up!"

Yan Wu shouted without hesitation.

At the same time, all the cannons were aimed at the city gate, and dense shells flew out, blocking the city gate like focusing. The flowering bullets exploded densely among the cavalry. The originally powerful cavalry was instantly blown up and blood was splattered. Under the cover of artillery fire, the Ming army infantry, who were originally charged, stopped the array at the fastest speed. Three thousand two hundred rifled rifled rifles also pointed at the city gate and pulled the trigger. The cavalry who were still trying to rush out were suddenly retaliated, but at this moment, more cavalry rushed out of the city and rushed in turmoil. Some of the Ming army's cannons immediately divided the bombardment gap.

"Infantry retreats and replaces with hollow square formation!"

Yan Wu hurriedly issued an order.

"This is not the Eight Banners, nor is it the Green Camp!"

The political commissar beside him said, holding a telescope.

These cavalry are indeed not the latter two, and the latter two have long stopped wearing armor, and the color of the armor of the Eight Banners is easy to recognize. Not only are the clothes on their bodies chaotic, but they are also wearing chain mail and cloth armor. The temperament is different when charging. When the Green Camp and the Eight Banners charge, the soldiers were ready to escape at any time, and these were indomitable and fierce.

"Mongolian cavalry!"

Yan Wu immediately understood his opponent.

"Suspend the shelling and let them out!"

Then he said.

The artillery stopped quickly. Taking advantage of this unexpected opportunity, the cavalry continued to rush out, and soon reached thousands of people. At this time, all the Ming army's cannons roared again, and the narrow gap and the city gate were once again engulfed by the explosion flames. This move made the Mongolian cavalry rushing out in chaos. It was obvious that they did not expect the Ming army's artillery fire to be so cruel that they used cannons to block their follow-up.

With the help of cannons, the Ming army infantry contracted as quickly as possible, and the artillery positions that were actually a small highland were arranged in hollow square formations. It was not that in order to resist the cavalry, there was no need to worry about the cavalry attacking the flanks. However, the Qing army infantry in the city also began to fall directly from the city walls. These infantry would not attack from the front, but could raid artillery from both wings or even the rear through the mountains and forests. The two infantry battalions of the Ming army relied on the stairs on the front to form a terrifying ten horizontal formations against the cavalry. The other two infantry battalions dispersed to protect the two wings and the rear, while all the cannons continued to bombard the city gates and gaps to block them.

However, the cavalry outside the city did not retreat.

Amid the explosion of flowering bombs every second behind him, a thousand Mongolian cavalry, who could be said to be isolated and helpless, roaring and constantly urging their war horses, waving the spears in their hands, running forward like their ancestors.

But unfortunately their era is over.

What awaited them were 1,600 rifled guns that could spray nearly 10,000 bullets per minute. They were bound to a mountain road that was only a few dozen feet wide and was a tea garden on both sides. Their advantage could not be expanded at all. On the contrary, the Ming army could use the advantages of the terrain to the greatest extent. The red-shirted soldiers standing in the same step-shaped tea garden with the dense firepower of ten rows of horizontal lines to continuously pour storm-like bullets towards the cavalry. The charging cavalry soon fell under the bullets, and they did not even reach the third line of defense.

"That's all!"

Yan Wu looked at the back of the infantry line, and the logistics personnel who were on standby with grenades, and then looked at the dead bodies in front of him.

At this time, at the head of Shanguan City, behind the rocky bush, a middle-aged man in a yellow jacket was also looking at Ming Jun with a telescope. Above him was a ruby ​​top and a shocking three-eyed peach feather. These two represent his first-rank official and the king...

Well, this is Senggelinqin.

"Then order the cavalry to stop attacking temporarily and continue to attack the General, your green camp!"

He put down his telescope expressionlessly and said.

"Prince, the infantry attacks the bandit formation and kills you!"

Xiang Rong next to him said sadly.

He just stood by Shanguan and finally waited for the cavalry led by Senggelinqin himself. He said that he had fought with the Ming army many times and knew very well that as long as these bandits lined up, even the brave soldiers would attack would also commit suicide. Muskets that were farther from the mountain-slashing cannons would fall down from half a mile away. The other party did not need to bombard them, and the muskets could shoot them to despair.

"Idiot, who asked you to attack their formation? The Green Camp crossed the ten-mile forest and attacked the horse and cut off their supplies? Can't they do it again and attacked them at the dock at the water outlet? As long as they cut off their supplies, can their bullets and shells still hold on to such a way of fighting?"

Senggelinqin scolded angrily.

"Well?!"

Xiang Rong issued an order to his subordinates to be cannon fodder for our Qing Dynasty with a resentful look on his face.

His soldiers could do it by crossing mountains and stopping horses.

But if you cross the mountain, you can't bring cannons. Without the cannons, his subordinates will raise guns and bird guns. They will also die against the Ming army's logistics team at the stop of horses! What's more, it takes a few hours for him to cross the mountain to stop horses. However, it takes less than half an hour for the Ming army to go from Shanguan to reinforce the stop of horses. There is also a cavalry reconnaissance post at the water entrance!

Of course, he didn't dare to say much.

He was a little general, so how could he dare to reason with the imperial envoy and hereditary princes of foreign vassals?

Senggelinqin actually understands these things.

But even if he understood this, he could not let his Mongolian cavalry be cannon fodder. He brought five thousand cavalry to reinforce Shanguan, mainly to annihilate this rash and reckless division, eliminating the flanking threat, then concentrating his troops on the counterattack against Ningdu, and then attacking the Ming army heading south along Ganzhou from the rear to force him to retreat. However, his heart is bleeding now.

One encounter with one thousand cavalry is gone.

These are not those green camps that die casually, they are all his Korqin people!

This attacker gave him a blow.

But he could not give up Shanguan. Just give up Shanguan's strategic plan. The Ming army could even confront Nanfeng, and he would not be able to counterattack Ningdu. This was the best way for him to reverse the situation in Jiangxi. Otherwise, he would have to lead the Qing army to fight against the main force of the Ming army on the Ganjiang River, so he would have to let the green camp sacrifice for our Qing Dynasty.

"Go to Nanfeng to send an order, and let Saigong add another 10,000 green camps and group training."
Chapter completed!