Chapter 30 Daming's Last Elite

Shanhaiguan is not just an isolated gate, but an overall fortification formed by several cities with Shanhaiguan as the center, which are interdependent and constitute a perfect defense system.

Therefore, for the defenders, it is necessary to divide troops and station in various important places. It seems that there are 20,000 officers and soldiers in Shanhaiguan, but to defend such a large area, it has also thinned a lot of troops, so on the whole, the troops are a little weak, but for the attacking side, it is not easy to defeat Shanhaiguan, because he We are facing a perfect defense system. If we break through just one point, we can't break through the whole defense system of Shanhaiguan.

Shanhaiguan is adjacent to Jiaoshan Mountain in the north and the Bohai Sea in the south. The easternmost part is the old dragon head. The Great Wall extends into the sea, while Shanhaiguan has a high wall. In addition to Shanhaiguan, there are also Dongluo City, Xiluo City, North Wing City, South Wing City and other satellite cities around Shanhaiguan City. They are each other's horns and can support each other in wartime. It is said that it is easy to defend and difficult to attack, and this is also the place that the construction slave army must take this time. Therefore, the main forces of the three parties are concentrated inside and outside the Shanhaiguan, and more than 100,000 soldiers and horses have been gathered. It can be said that this is blocked.

After Wu Xiang and Feng Weihan reached an agreement, Wu Xiang ordered to "resist" the attack of the Dazhong army on the Shanhaiguan area, saying that it was resistance. In fact, it was a change of defense. Wu Xiang ordered several cronies to take over the defense of the east and west Luocheng and the north and south wing cities. On the one hand, he resisted the fierce attack of these important places by the Jiannu. But he was ready to evacuate.

It's only a hundred miles from Funingwei to Shanhaiguan. If you ride a fast horse, you can get to Shanhaiguan if you don't need it for half a day. Therefore, Yan Chongxi, in order to prepare for the long night dream, he first sent Wang Chengping to lead the 7,000 cavalry of the left army to Shanhaiguan. As for other troops and heavy artillery and other arms, they arrived.

When Wu Xiang swayed left and right before, in order to prevent the Dazhong army from attacking Shanhaiguan from behind, he also pulled out nearly 6,000 officers and soldiers from his limited troops and placed them on the Shihe line south of Shanhaiguan, trying to prevent the Dazhong army from invading Shanhaiguan, so he had more troops to use to resist the Jiannu army. It was overstretched, but now Wu Xiang has made up his mind to turn to the Dazhong Army. These officers and soldiers placed along the Shihe River were ordered to withdraw to the Great Wall before dawn, and were stationed in the enemy buildings along the Great Wall of Shanhaiguan, which immediately greatly enhanced the defense force on the front line of the Great Wall.

As soon as the sky lit up, Dorconon had also realized that it was unrealistic to persuade Wu Xiang to surrender to their Jiannu side again. Considering that there was also a large and medium army coveting Shanhaiguan on the other side, he was afraid that the Dazhong army would rush into Shanhaiguan in front of him and join Wu Xiang's Ming army to strengthen The defense strength of the front line of Shanhaiguan, so he ordered the troops under his command to get up early to bury the pot and make rice. The fourth update made rice, and the fifth update set off. At dawn, a large number of people and horses were dispatched. They began to launch an extremely fierce attack along the Shanhaiguan, trying to seize Shanhaiguan first. Even if it was the worst, he had to open a few gaps first to make his The superior troops can enter the customs first and launch an attack on the Dazhong Army and the Ming army under Wu Xiang from within the Great Wall.

In this regard, Dorcon is still certain. After all, after these years of operation, many Ming soldiers in the garrison area around Shanhaiguan have expressed their willingness to surrender to their slave side, so even if he can't go down the mountain customs, at least he can open the Great Wall. A few gaps in the upper part.

But Dorgeun did not know that just one night passed, the situation in Shanhaiguan changed dramatically. With the help of the intelligence system of the Dazhong Army, Wu Xiang made up his mind to join the Dazhong Army on the night, and carried out an unprecedented purge among the garrison of Shanhaiguan.

After all, Wu Xiang is an old general of Guan Ning. He still has some means to control the generals, and his character is also decisive. Previously, he was just unable to make up his mind, but once he made up his mind, he was mercilessly. That night, he arrested dozens of secretly contacted Jiannu to try to surrender. The officers at all levels of Jiannu executed them in the middle of the night and hung their heads on the gates to deter the troops. Although some troops would find that the momentum was not right and try to resist, there were already detailed works and insiders that the army had been bought in advance. These people would be painful without waiting for them to rebel. When Wu Xiang sent people to arrest people, he quickly cooperated with Wu Xiang to control the soldiers and horses of these anti- generals, and quickly replaced the main generals and re-stabilized some unstable troops.

When Dorgun's soldiers stormed along the Great Wall in the Shanhaiguan area, they suddenly found that the resistance of the Ming army along Shanhaiguan was very fierce, and all kinds of artillery fire came one after another. The attacking slave army suffered heavy casualties, and there was no obvious sign of water release in any resistance.

Although the Guanning armies have fallen in this era, after all, it has been a group of people who have gathered the strength of the world for decades in the Ming Dynasty. Now, although they have withered, the equipment quality of these soldiers who guard the Shanhaiguan area can still be counted in the world.

Shangshan Customs is the north gate of the Ming Dynasty, and it is also the last line of defense against Jiannu. No matter which governor of Ji Liao takes office, he dares not take the defense of Shanhaiguan.

Earlier, there were no enemy buildings on the Great Wall, but after Qi Jiguang went north to enter the defense of the main Guanning area, he began to build an enemy building every three miles on the Great Wall. In addition to shielding the defenders from the wind and rain, it can also strengthen the defense of the first line of the Great Wall. Therefore, the Great Wall around Shanhaiguan is not only strong. In addition, the function of guarding is very perfect. If you want to conquer the Great Wall here, you can't do it without blood.

Nowadays, most of the Guanning army no longer exists, or it is destroyed by Jiannu, or is transferred to Guan by the imperial court and destroyed in various battlefields. The more than 20,000 Guanning troops under Wu Xiang's command can be said to be the only fruit of the whole Guanliao army, but the quality of weapons in the hands of these Shanhaiguan guards. It can also be said to be the best among the armies.

Because of the importance of Shanhaiguan, the defense here in the Ming Dynasty has been very important. The best weapons are often distributed to the Shanhaiguan area first. Therefore, on the Great Wall on the front line of Shanhaiguan, the artillery density is probably the most dense area in the world in this era.

These artillery styles are complicated. There are not only old guys who are more than a hundred years old, but also the newly cast Hongyi cannons in recent years. Among these guns, there are not only old copper and iron guns weighing 500 catties, but also slightly newer types of various types of Fran machine guns, and many old guns. Bowl mouth guns, captive cannons, and many tiger squatting cannons created by Qi Jiguang. In short, Mr. Lin Lin has densely clothed a lot of such firearms in various places along the Great Wall, which is not too long.

As for these Shanhaiguan defenders, there are also a large number of gunners who operate guns. Although the training level of officers and soldiers is limited, in contrast, these Shanhaiguan defenders still have to practice every three or five times, so there is no big problem in using these messy artillery.

Moreover, these Shanhaiguan defenders also have a large number of other firearms on hand. The most popular is probably the three-eyed gun. The three-eyed gun was popularized in the Ming Dynasty from the Guanning Army. In order to strengthen the combat effectiveness of the Guanning Army, from the Wanli period to the Apocalypse period, and the Chongzhen year in the past ten years. In the meantime, the Ming Dynasty created a large number of three-eyed guns for the Ming army, which were equipped into the army, and the Guanning army was obviously much more equipped than the Ming army in other places, followed by birds. After the Korean War, the Ming army found that the iron cannons used by the little devils' hands were sharp, which caused the Ming army on the Korean battlefield. There was a lot of killing, and the strength of the Ming army was on the artillery, which finally won the victory of the Korean War. However, it was also found that the individual firearms of the Ming army were much weaker than the little devils. Therefore, after the Korean War, the Ming Dynasty began to imitate a large number of iron cannons of the little devils, and improved them to produce the Ming Dynasty's beak. It is the bird, and it began to be equipped with a large number of equipment in the army, and the most equipment is naturally the Guanning Army.

Therefore, the proportion of firefighters in Shanhaiguan is so high that it can even exceed the proportion of firefighters in the large and medium-sized army, and the firepower is quite strong.

Originally, this Ming soldier and horse guarding Shanhaiguan should have played an important role in the invasion of the Central Plains in history, but as we all know, due to a series of mistakes made by Li Zicheng in the original history, Wu Sangui finally surrendered to Jiannu. These Guanning troops under Wu Sangui turned around and became Jiannu. The vanguard of going south to seize the Central Plains, the Shanhaiguan defense line, which should have played an important role, did not play any role at all. On the contrary, Wu Sangui blocked Li Zicheng's Dashun army in Shanhaiguan and united with the Jiannu army. Li Zicheng's Dashun army fell into the water. From then on, he was depressed, defeated again and again. Even Li Zicheng finally He also died confusedly in the Huguang Mountain, and let Jiannu take a big gap before entering the Central Plains.

However, the current situation is different from the original history. In the end, Wu Xiang was forced to rely on the Dazhong Army and led these Guanning troops to defend Shanhaiguan. Although Dorcon brought 70,000 to 80,000 slaves and launched a fierce attack on the front line of Shanhaiguan, Dorcong started. I just learned the power of Shanhaiguan and the Great Wall in this area.

After Feng Weihan cooperated with Wu Xiang to clean up the group of military generals who tried to surrender to Jiannu, the Ming army was equivalent to unifying its thinking. Although the army also caused some trouble because of the change of generals, this impact was limited. Compared with the possible harm caused by letting those generals defect in the battle, It can be said to be insignificant.