Chapter 438 Reinforcement
Hou Xuanyan, with a skeptical attitude, asked the Denglai Navy to land and shell the Shanhaiguan.
The city walls of Shanhaiguan are extremely high. Fortunately, Yao Yiyao's improved artillery range has been improved, so he can only launch the arson ejection into the city.
It looks similar to an ordinary shell, Yao Yiyao said proudly: "After refining the turbulent oil and turbulent oil from the stone fat water, the dark things left can be poured into control of the combustion speed."
Hou Xuanyan thought about it carefully and he should be talking about asphalt. We were a thousand years ahead of the discovery of this technology.
In fact, we are leading the West for too long, and because of this, we are a little self-consistent.
The highest pursuit of the Han people is always to be a high-ranking official, buy large swaths of land, and invent the invention and creation later, which is a manifestation of not doing the right job. In addition, the vigorous era of navigation was delayed by the Qing Dynasty's policy of closing the country and cultural ignorance of the people. Otherwise, even if they cannot lead for a thousand years, they will easily become the leader.
The newly developed arson bomb immediately had the best test site. Yao Yiyao was used to experimenting with his new technology on the battlefield. At that time, Nikan from Tianjin Wei led 60,000 Mongolian cavalry who were good at fighting and were surrounded in the city to be Yao Yiyao's jealous rats and experimented with various new weapons.
This time it was still very happy. Shortly after the arson bomb was fired, the inner city of Shanhaiguan soon caught fire everywhere. The wailing screams were endless. This thing was very strange. Where the arson bomb exploded, a raging fire would ignite. Ordinary buckets could not be drained, but they would burn more and more vigorously.
Hou Xuanyan and the generals looked at each other and said, "This thing can shorten the siege time to within half a month. Shang Kexi can hold on for at most half a month, which is his limit."
"The prince respects this old turtle so much. In the eyes of the Mo General, they will be at the end of their lives within seven days." Du Yinxi was full of confidence. He had been guarding Xiangyang for so long that he understood the difficulties of the city guards.
Hou Xuanyan looked at the towering city wall with lingering fear. This thing had left him with a psychological shadow. This majestic pass is really a one-man who can't open it. It's too difficult to break through Shanhaiguan head-on!
A battle of tens of thousands of people and a commander's various subtle operations can determine the victory or defeat on the field. A battle of hundreds of thousands of people is difficult to do. Wherever the army goes, it is like sweeping a cave. Under the pressure of absolute strength, it is difficult to turn the tables.
Hou Xuanyan was determined to use the most stable style of play to slowly advance step by step, so Shanhaiguan had to take it.
At this time, an elite Guanning Iron Cavalry was starting from Guangning to support Shang Kexi, who was in Shanhaiguan.
Wu Sangui was very relieved of Shang Kexi, so he gave him a place like Shanhaiguan to defend. Unfortunately, the clever wife couldn't cook without rice. Although Shang Kexi was powerful, their navy was far worse.
Hou Xuanyan has a long and narrow coastline that can be used as an attack point. The sea surface that was used as a natural barrier in the past has become a nightmare for the Qing soldiers.
Shang Kexi stood on the city wall, and said untiringly that reinforcements would come immediately. He said so much that he even believed him.
If you never forget, there will be a resounding response. Finally, the reinforcements he was waiting for were almost here. Gaodejie, who was riding on the horse, was a powerful general under Wu Sangui. He could already see the city walls of Shanhaiguan and the rolling smoke.
"Are we going one step late? Shanhaiguan has been taken down by the Ming army?" Gao Dejie was shocked and suspicious. Shanhaiguan was their biggest barrier, with all the troops in it. If all were damaged, the Northern Expedition Army pouring in from the pass directly faced the enemy.
During the Northern Expedition, the Eight Banners of Han had hardly fought with Hou Xuanyan. The Manchus were defeated too thoroughly. Wu Sangui and Kong Youdecai decided to withdraw their Liaodong.
Before the Qing Dynasty retreated into the pass, the four vassal kings even suppressed Du Yinxi and even broke through Xiangyang City for a time.
Therefore, the Liao army, all over the country, believed that there was no problem with Shang Kexi defending Shanhai Pass. It is no exaggeration to say that this powerful pass can reach an army of 200,000.
The young general Guan Ning next to him asked, "General, do we still have to go?"
Gaodeji hesitated. If he didn't go, he would be afraid that Shanhaiguan had not been lost. If he went, he would be afraid that he would directly face the main force of the Northern Expedition Army that poured into the pass outside the pass.
Just when Gaodejie was unsure of his mind, an army suddenly appeared in front of them. The clothes of these people were very easy to recognize, and they were the uniforms of all the Qing soldiers' old enemy Northern Expedition Army.
Li Haoxian rode a tall horse and looked at the Qing soldiers in front of him and smiled, "This is the so-called reinforcements. I want to see if Shang Kexi dares to come out and attack us with him."
Gao Jie's body is very stout and looks extremely burly, but it is three points inferior to Lee Haoxian.
The Qing soldiers in front of them didn't know that this general who was deeply involved in the enemy's rear was Li Haoxian, the commander of the Huoziying, the biggest hero of the Northern Expedition.
"The prince said that we should not have hostile Qing soldiers, nor surrendered Qing soldiers. We only have the land and ports under their feet. Since these people are reinforcements of the Qing army, they are our life-and-death enemy. Brothers draw their swords to kill the enemy without leaving any prisoners!" Li Haoxian shouted loudly.
As soon as the flag was waved, the sound of desolate trumpet sounded, and the Northern Expedition Army, which had penetrated deep behind the enemy, took the lead in launching a charge.
Gaodejie was not mediocre, so he quickly commanded his subordinate Guanning army to fight back.
Li Haoxian rode his horse through the formation, and there was almost no enemy under a long spear. Gao Dejie in the distance saw his guns flying, and his subordinates fell down one by one, and immediately shouted angrily and came over.
This move is just in line with Li Haoxian's wish. He clasped the spear in his hand, silently watching the Gaodejie war horse, calculating the speed of his arrival in his mind.
Seeing that the war horse was about to run to him, Li Haoxian counted silently: "Three, two... are here!"
The bright silver spear head was raised, and the tall slug was penetrated to a cold heart. Li Haoxian held the spear high above his head, and the war horse neighed.
The arm strength required to pick up corpses with a gun was amazing. Li Haoxian's martial arts was the best in the Ming army. He fought and killed the same powerful general before the war with just one move.
Lee Haoxian raised Gao Dejie's body, and blood flowed down the gun rod, and he pushed the cherry gun to his armpit. Lee Haoxian shouted loudly: "The enemy general is dead, everyone will kill you!"
When the Qing soldiers saw that their commander was indeed stunned and were still holding it in front of the formation, they were so scared that they were all in a state of terror.
The snake cannot do without a head, and the soldiers cannot move without a general. Gao Dejie's sudden death made this Guanning army lose its eyes.
Chapter completed!