At this time, the Qing army had not even reached Tongguan. After occupying Luoyang, the Qing army advanced westward, but along the Yellow River Valley, the land was covered with bastions, making it difficult for the Qing army to move forward.

In front of them are the Renmen, Shenmen and Guimen, and the Hangu Pass, which is a gate that cannot be opened by ten thousand men, is in it. If there is only a single Hangu Pass, the Qing army cannons cannons be bombarded with red cannons. But the problem is that there are castles everywhere in front of Hangu Pass, which makes it impossible for the Qing army's artillery team to reach the front of Hangu Pass and shell the city.

"Changbo, did you raise a green camp to make a group of wine jars? It's March, before Hangu Pass." Hong Chengchou rebuked Wu Sangui with anger. Seeing the Qing army's attack being blocked, Hong Chengchou felt even more uncomfortable than his own father who died.

Wu Sangui quickly knelt down: "Mr. Hong, the general has done his best. It is not the crime of the general. It is actually because the thief army has many bastions. Every step forward, the subordinates of the general have suffered heavy casualties."

"Master Wu," Hong Chengchou would not call Prince Wu Sangui. After all, he still looked down on Wu Sangui very much. In the past, when he was in the Ming Dynasty, he was the commander and Wu Sangui was just his subordinate. Now Wu Sangui has become the prince. Although he has been promoted to the throne, he has worked so hard for the Qing Dynasty that he only has a third-class Adahaha (light chariot commander), which is a little different from the prince. Hong Chengchou is unbalanced. Of course, he will not respectfully call Wu Sangui the prince. "This is yours. My Ming Dynasty has occupied Zhili, most of Shanxi and most of Shandong. The Green Camp soldiers have something to do. The Regent has given you a lot of money. The Green Camp soldiers are gone, and you will just recruit again. Even if there are many people who die, you will still take Shaanxi for the court!"

"Cover! The last general obeys the order!" Wu Sangui secretly complained in his heart: Hong Chengchou stood up and spoke without any pain. Although the Green Camp soldiers were cannon fodder, they recruited another refugee after losing one soldier. Almost no training refugees went to the battlefield, but they were given away for free. If there were too many dead people, it would be difficult to recruit again. The Qing Dynasty restricted the manpower to death. He could not recruit too many people at one time. He could only have 60,000 troops at a time, and he could only recruit again after he died. Such a tactic of adding fuel would not have any effect, and batches would be given away for free.

Wu Keshan, the prince of Zhuoliketu of the Eight Banners of Mongolian beside him, snorted coldly: "Prince Pingnan, one qian is more than one qian, just recruit more. If you die, then you will be recruited. Anyway, a humble barbarian is worth a penny! If a han dog dies, you can recruit another one for another."

Listening to Wu Keshan's barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarian barbarians, Wu Sangui dared not speak out, what a noble character Wu Keshan was. He was the brother of Empress Dowager Zhuang, the brother-in-law of the late emperor Huang Taiji, and a master who Wu Sangui could not afford to offend. Wu Sangui would rather provoke a few Beizi Beile of the Eight Banners than provoke the Prince of the Eight Banners of the Korqin Mongolian Princess.

Just as dawn the next day, the Qing army launched an attack on Hangu Pass again.

With a cannon and a drum horn, the Qing army came out of the camp and lined up a thousand steps in front of the city wall, blocking the road directly opposite the bastion in front. The sword and sign soldiers were in front of the city, the spear soldiers were in the middle, the archers and the bird gunmen were behind, and the wards and the archers were arranged in front of the formation to prevent the army from rushing to the formation. Their task was to cover the siege troops and prevent the defenders from leaving the city to harass. Today, the shield chariots were the real protagonists.

Behind the Qing army formation, a red cannon and general cannon raised its guns and aimed at the Shun army's bastion. Wu Sangui looked at the Shun army's bastion group in front of him with a gloomy face. The warriors of the Qing Dynasty hated such illegal buildings built outside the city wall. Whether it was the bastion group in Shanxi, the bastion group in Shaanxi, or the bastion group on the Jiaodong Peninsula, it made the invincible warriors of the Qing Dynasty unable to move forward.

"The despicable Han Dog, you only know how to hide behind the bastion and shoot guns and arrows, and throw thunderstorms at us. You don't dare to show up for a fair face-to-face showdown!" Ajig said, pointing at the bastion group with gritted teeth.

Fortunately, after occupying part of the territory of Northern Zhili, Shanxi and Shandong in the Ming Dynasty, the Qing Dynasty did not lack a single Qian Han. Anyway, no matter how many people died, they were all Han people who bleed. If there were not so many green camps, the Eight Banners Warriors of the Qing Dynasty would have to attack such a bastion group that cheated people, it would be impossible to fill all the Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners into it.

Shunjun bastion was filled with sandbags, tiger squatting cannons, general cannons, and Fran frames were waiting behind the sandbags. Shunjun soldiers holding bird guns and turtledove guns were hiding in the trench, aiming the muskets in their hands towards the front. In the rear trench, Shunjun archers were relaxing their arms and shooting arrows at the Qing army just after a command.

Gu Shi

On the high platform behind the basin, Shunjun, three-bow crossbow, and catapult were used.

These old antiques are actually not inferior to those of firearms at all, but there are too many people who need to operate them. So after the firearms appear, these old antiques are eliminated. A three-bow crossbow requires more than a dozen soldiers to operate, while a turtledove gun of the same power only needs two people to operate; a trencher even requires hundreds of people to pull at the same time, while a red cannon with the same power only needs seven or eight people. Because there are too many people, these weapons are eliminated by the firearms.

But what Shunjun lacks the most is manpower. As long as the refugees recruited by Li Zicheng can work hard for Dashun as long as they have a bite of food.

"Fire the cannon!" With Kong Youde's order, a red cannon on the Qing army's position, and the cannons of the big and small generals spewed out flames, and white smoke filled the air.

This was the roar of the red cannons, which was really like a shaking sound of the earth. However, the overwhelming shells hit the sky, but the Shunjun's bastion was intact, and at most there were a little pit outside.

The Red Barbarian cannons had almost no destructive power to the brink of the brink. Kong Youde saw this when he attacked Pingyang Mansion. The final conclusion was that the brink was low and the angle of the Red Barbarian cannon shells was wrong, so it was difficult to destroy the brink. However, Wu Sangui later found a countermeasure. Since the brink was low, he could use a shield to transport mud and hemp bags to advance it, and then he could fill the trench and pile it up into a fish beam road higher than the brink, which could break the brink.

But it is easy to say, but difficult to do.

First of all, when the shield cart was advancing, the Shun Army's artillery and turtledove guns were not vegetarians, not to mention that the Shun Army also had a large number of three-bow crossbows and catapults. When they were hit by these things, the shield cart was directly destroyed.

The shield chariot that avoided the Shun Army shells, bed crossbows and crossbows and big stones attacked by the catapult rushed to the front of the bastion, and then it would be attacked by fire from the three sides of the Shun Army. There was no protection on both sides of the shield chariot. The Shun Army's bastion was unique in shape. No matter which direction the Qing army attacked, it would be attacked by fire from three sides. The Shun Army, hiding behind the trenches and chest walls, could kill the Green Camp soldiers who pushed the cart from both wings with bird guns and bows.

Although Wu Sangui knew that the brink of the brinks ahead was a bunch of hard bones, he had to bite the bullet and chew it.

"Scatter a little, spread a little more! There are ten shield cars in a row, others follow behind, be careful of the cannon stones of the thief army..." Gao Dejie rode his horse and followed behind the shield car and shouted and commanded.

"Boom boom boom" A roaring cannon sounded from the Shun Army position ahead, white smoke rose up, and one after another, a series of cannonballs roared towards the Qing army's shield chariot formation five hundred steps away.

The general artillery of the Shun Army were captured by the original Ming army artillery, and the quality was not as good as that of the Qing army. You should know that the artillery casting technology of the Qing Dynasty was relatively excellent. Moreover, the name of the craftsman was engraved on the cannon for each cannon. Once quality problems arise, the craftsman who casts the cannon will lose his head; if the casting artillery is of high quality, the craftsman can also receive commendation.

The clear rewards and punishments made the Qing craftsmen not dare to cut corners, and the Qing Dynasty’s Ministry of Works did not dare to greed for money. Otherwise, not only would they lose their heads, but even their families would be implicated. Therefore, the quality of the Qing army’s cannons must be better than that of the Ming army.
Chapter completed!