Chapter 20 The Pressure of the Army
Originally, this decision was relatively easy to make. In contrast, Wu Xiang was also a Han man. He also didn't want to see Jiannu control Yan Yun's land in their hands. Moreover, over the years, he Wu Xiang also fought with Jiannu for so many years, and many of the Wu family died at the hands of Jiannu. He also hates Jiannu and surrenders to Xiao Tianjian's Dazhong Army, which should be a wise choice for him. Considering that even Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting and Ding Qirui, the Ming heavy ministers have now turned to them, not to mention that he, a martial artist from a martial artist, is not a difficult decision to turn to Xiao Tianjian.
However, by mistake, last year, the court transferred his son Wu Sangui to Guannei to go against Xiao Tianjian, but died at the hands of Xiao Tianjian. This matter made Wu Xiang hate Xiao Tianjian. For so many years, it can be said that he put all the Wu family's expectations for the future of Wu Sangui. As his son, he can be said to have devoted all his efforts to Wu Sangui, but now his precious son has died in the hands of Xiao Tianjian. This is the hatred of killing his son!
Wu Xiang asked himself that revenge was impossible, but to let him surrender to Xiao Tianjian, this matter became his biggest knot. In any case, Wu Xiang could not cross this heart and surrender to the Dazhong Army.
So at the urging of the two sides, Wu Xiang has been swaying left and right these days. For a while, she didn't know what to do, and what was entangled in her heart was a mess. After a few days, he didn't think about it, and there was a layer of blisters on his lips, and he looked much older in an instant.
An army of Jiannu, either riding a strong horse or walking on foot, is also a large number of Jiannu's clothing slaves driving carts for them, full of grain and soldiers' tents, slowly appearing outside Shanhaiguan, and there are also Han troops with various flags and flags of the Han Eight Banners, dragging a door with strong mules and horses. Two or three thousand catties of heavy cannons in red slowly came towards the front line of Shanhaiguan, gathered outside Shanhaiguan like a sea of people, and set off a large camp stretching for dozens of miles.
A team of sentry flags of Tatara soldiers appeared on the periphery of the Great Wall on the front line of Shanhaiguan. They galloped back and forth outside Guancheng, showing off their military power to the Ming army stationed on the wall. Some Jiannu, arrogantly dragged some captured Daming women outside the Guan wall and pressed them on the ground for wantonly humiliation. They also pulled some captured Ming soldiers and Han people under the wall and slaughtered them in batches in various cruel ways, and discarded the bodies of these people under the gate to deter the Ming army guarding the customs.
Most of the Ming army in Guancheng and Guanqiang are like ashes. They dare to be angry and dare not say anything. They can only endure strong fear and anger and watch the tragedies that happened outside the wall.
This kind of thing is a common trick of the Jiannu army. Whenever they want to attack the city, they will use this despicable means to put pressure on the Ming army defenders, destroy the Ming army spiritually, and in this way, they force the Ming army to give up resistance and surrender to them. Moreover, this method can be said to have been tried many times in recent years. Many of the Ming army guarding the castle outside the customs, because they could not stand this pressure, were afraid that the Jiannu would slaughter them in the same way after breaking through their castle, so they finally broke down and surrendered to Jiannu. This time, the Jiannu army invaded the territory, and it was inevitable to use this way to put pressure on the Ming soldiers guarding the Great Wall. .
And this method can be said to have a very good effect. The success makes the defenders feel a sense of fear, and their morale has fallen sharply.
After hearing the news, Wu Xiang also took his family to the castle tower and looked far away from Shanhaiguan. After looking at it, it could be said that it was a cool place in his heart. The Jiannu army entered the bandits this time, which can be said to be the elite. The number of soldiers and horses led by Dorgom alone reached 70,000 to 70,000, almost The outside of Shanhaiguan was blocked, and the strength was unprecedented.
Not to mention those Ming soldiers who guarding Guancheng were afraid. Even Wu Xiang, the main general, is now looking at the military appearance of the Jiannu army. He is also frightened and cold. It can be said that he was a little timid before the battle, but Wu Xiang still pretended to be calm and ordered the troops to do a good job in defense. Once the Jiannu army attacks, it will defend the castles and walls everywhere, and it is not allowed to let the Jiannu army attack at the critical point.
It is no exaggeration that Shanhaiguan was called the first imperial pass in the world at this time. This pass was first during the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty. General Xu Da led tens of thousands of Ming troops to build the customs here. Later, after more than 200 years of continuous expansion and repair, a shocking defensive gate system was formed here.
Shanhaiguan is not only the Great Wall plus a Guancheng, but the overall layout is an urban defense complex composed of seven castles, ten passes and 30 enemy buildings on the Great Wall, 62 city platforms, 18 beacon towers, 16 piers, etc. With rigorous structure and complete functions, it constitutes the two wings of the main body, the left and the right, the two cities are the sentinel, the first line, and the mutual horns. Therefore, it is the first male pass in the world. It is by no means a simple praise for it, but a reputation.
Although Jiannu has repeatedly entered the customs over the years, every time the Jiannu army enters the customs, it sneaks into the customs through other passes along the Great Wall. For so many years, Jiannu has not gone through the mountain customs, but Jiannu has broken through the mountain customs, so this time Jiannu has to enter the customs and mobilize. So many people came to the Shanhaiguan Office, and they also wanted to take the Xiong Pass guarding the border gate for Daming with real strength. From then on, they have mastered the most important channel to go south, opened the convenient door to go south, and made full preparations for the next step of the army going south. They also had to take a detour to other dangerous places, which was extremely inconvenient to go secretly. Touch and enter the customs.
After Dorcupong led his troops to reach the outside of Shanhaiguan, he ordered a large camp a few miles away from the customs. He ordered his subordinates to deter the garrison of Shanhaiguan by killing prisoners. He sat in the tent and asked a Han man who went to send a letter to Wu Xiang: "What is the reaction after Wu Xiang, the keeper of Shanhaiguan, received the letter? Why haven't you made a move to surrender to our Qing Dynasty so far? On the contrary, it looks like you are going to stick to this level?"
The person who was sent to contact Wu Xiang was a small official outside the customs of the Ming Dynasty. This man defected to Jiannu a few years ago and acted as the dog's leg of Jiannu. At this time, he had a flattering face, and he knelt in front of Dorcon with great fear and replied cautiously, "I have sent the holy handwritten letter to the gate a few days ago. , and personally handed over to the Ming general Wu Xiang. At that time, Wu Xiang did not say too much to Xiao. He just received the letter and said that he would consider it, so he sent someone to send Xiao out of the customs!
This shows that Wu Xiang is not really determined to guard the mountain customs for the Ming Dynasty. At present, he is just still considering it. In addition, it is said that there is a soldier and horse of a criminal thief who has also entered the customs from Juyong recently. They did not go straight to the capital of Daming, but rushed all the way. When he arrived at the area of Jizhou Town, the main force was stationed in Yongping Mansion, and he also coveted the mountain customs.
The small thought that this criminal thief must also want to control the mountain customs area before our army seizes the mountain customs, control the mountain customs, and defend our army from entering the customs!
They must have persuaded Wu Xiang to surrender. Now Wu Xiang must still be swinging on both sides. I don't know whether he should turn to us or the idea of the criminal thief, so please ask Prince Rui to wait a moment. You might as well put pressure on Wu Xiang again to force Wu Xiang to surrender to the prince as soon as possible! The switch let Prince Rui lead the army to enter the customs as soon as possible!"
After listening to Dorcon, as soon as he heard the three words Xing Tian Thief, his head felt a little painful. This time, they went south to enter the customs and occupy the land of Yanyun first. Originally, they took the opportunity in time, and they also mobilized a large number of people, forming a great advantage over the Ming army in Guanning, but In Ningyuan City, it was delayed for more than a month by Hong Chengchou and a group of Ming army, making it impossible to attack Shanhaiguan. Now the Xingtian thief is good. He must have learned the news, so he also began to enter the land of the Ming Dynasty and entered the Ming Dynasty first. Now he not only broke the Juyong Pass, but also almost the same as them. Shi was forced to go to Shanhaiguan.
And the Xingtian thief let the Ming capital master not fight, but left the Daming capital master and ran to the other side of the mountain customs first. He stared at the mountain customs. There is no need to think too much about it. He also knew that these Xingtian thieves must regard their Qing army as the biggest enemy. They would rather let go of the ripe Jingshi, which is not pick it first. They arrived outside the Shanhaiguan.
If he can't effectively persuade Wu Xiang, the guard of the Ming Army, to surrender to their Qing Dynasty, once Wu Xiang chooses to surrender to the Xing Tianhe, then Shanhaiguan may not be easy to fight down.
Reminisce about the end of Chongde's three years, that is, the end of Chongzhen's eleventh year. When he led his army into the Jingfu land in the Kouguan, he met the soldiers and horses of the Xingtian thief. After a few battles, their pride was almost killed by this Xingtian thief. Ten or 20,000 criminal thieves looked for troubles everywhere in the Jingfu, every When they fought, they were unable to fight. Du Du Du was almost killed by them, which caused heavy losses to all the flags they entered. It almost caused the different hearts of the Eight Banners of Mongolia. After letting them leave the customs, they were busy for a long time before they suppressed the Mongolian troops and restored the troops of the damaged flags.
Therefore, for Xing Tianjun, he and all the generals under his command have a little coldness at present. In the wild wave battle, they can't take advantage of the Xing Tianhe. Once the Xing Tianheft is allowed to control Shanhaiguan first, then this time, it may be the end for them to walk here in the Qing Dynasty.
Fortunately, there are only more than 10,000 Xingtian thieves who rushed to the other side of Shanhaiguan this time, and their Qing army has gathered nearly 200,000 troops. They have a huge advantage in number. Even the forward army under his command alone is far more than several times that of the Xingtian thief army on the other side of the opposite side. Therefore, as long as Wu Xiang is not a fool, he can also see who is strong and who is weak, and should be able to make a wise choice.