Li Zicheng arranged a combat plan, and ordered Li Guo, Yuan Zongdi, Gao Yigong, Li Shuangxi, Luo Hu and other generals to lead 20,000 cavalry of the old camp of Shun Army to set off from Hongwadian and head to Xishihe to block the Guanning Army's cavalry; ordered infantry led by Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Jiang Xiang and other generals to advance north along the Shihe River and head to a stone at Jiumenkou, preparing to attack the Guanning Army from the flanks, and ordered Zhao Peng to continue commanding the artillery battalion, changing from bombarding Shanhaiguan to bombarding the Shihe River Beach. When Wu Sangui's army entered the Shihe Beach between the East and West Shihe Rivers, he concentrated his firepower to bombard the Shihe River Beach.

When Zhao Peng heard the name Yipianshi, he felt that he had heard of this place name somewhere, but he couldn't remember it. He could only say that his historical knowledge was too poor. If his historical knowledge was better, he should have asked Li Zicheng to transfer the artillery battalion and the armored grenades to Yipianshi and blockade the Nine Gate with firepower, because the Qing army would come out from that place.

As long as you know how to block the Jiumen with firepower, wait for the Qing army cavalry to attack from the Jiumen, immediately bombard with shotguns, then shoot with muskets, and then throw grenades. The Qing army rushing out of the narrow Jiumen was hit by such a fierce firepower, and it will inevitably suffer heavy losses, and history can be rewritten immediately!

Dorgon spent a lot of money to be able to enter the Central Plains this time. The Manchus had a small population, only 200,000 people. In order to be able to enter the Central Plains, Dorgon had already ordered Dingkou, who was under 70 years old, to join the army. If Zhao Peng had better historical knowledge, he could severely damage the Qing army at the Jiumen. Once the manchus, which had a small population, would lose a large amount of Dingkou, he would not recover. If the real Manchus suffered great losses, the first one would probably rebel. Whether it was the Chahar Mongols or the Tumot Mongols, they all had a deep hatred with the Jurchens. Even the Yehe tribe within the Jurchens, or the hardcore ally of the Jianzhou Jurchens, Korqin Mongolia, in fact, the predecessors all had deep hatred, but they were defeated and had to surrender to the Jianzhou Jurchens.

If you don’t understand this history and do not know how to seal the Nine Gate in advance, it will cause the Qing army to rush into the open land. Once the Qing army passes the Nine Gate and enters a relatively open stone, then the Shun army will not be able to save its fate of failure.

It’s a pity that Zhao Peng didn’t know when and where the Qing army would appear, so he missed the great opportunity to severely damage the Qing army.

However, although Zhao Peng is a novice in history, the secret spies of the Jinyiwei discovered that the Qing army had arrived at Huanxi Ridge and could enter the pass to participate in the war at any time. So Zhao Peng told Li Zicheng: "King, Jiannu has arrived at Huanxi Ridge, less than five miles away from here! The king must be careful that the captive chief Dorgon sits on the mountain to watch the tiger fight. When our army and Guanning Army are both injured, they will reap the benefits of the fisherman!"

The news sent by the secret spy from the Jinyiwei naturally attracted Li Zicheng's full attention. He asked: "General Zhao Xiao, can you know when and where will Jiannu attack our army?"

The historical little white Zhao Peng could only shake his head helplessly: "The spy has not yet discovered the attack route of Jiannu and the time of invasion. After all, Jiannu's scouts are extremely fierce, and it is difficult for our army to approach if they are not taken away at night. In order to send this news, more than ten people under the last general have died."

The spies were able to find that the main force of the Qing army arrived at Huanxi Ridge five miles away from Shanhaiguan. This was already a very good result. It was impossible to find out the operation route and attack location of the Ming and Qing army. After all, the Qing army's scouts and whistle cavalry were not vegetarians. Whether it was a cavalry that did not close the sentry cavalry at night or a spy, it was difficult for the Ming army to get within five miles of the Qing army. Because the Qing army paid great attention to blocking battlefield intelligence, once they found unknown people near their army, they would kill them without hesitation. Because of this, on the battlefield that year, the Qing army was one-way transparent to the Ming army. The Ming army had been fighting for many years, and the Ming army suffered losses.

Li Zicheng also knew the helplessness of Ye Bushou and the spy, so he ordered: "I ordered the Iron Armored Battalion not to act rashly. The Iron Armored Army was led by Hao Yaoqi to advance and retreat with the main force of the King's army. Tang Tong, Bai Guangen, Jiang Xiang, and others led infantry to follow our main cavalry to guard the two wings of our cavalry. None of our troops should advance rashly. We should lure the Wu bandits into the Shihe Beach and be bombarded by General Zhao Xiao's artillery!"

"No!" Zhao Peng clenched his fist with his right hand and placed it on his chest to salute.

After Zhao Peng withdrew from Li Zicheng's central army tent, he immediately sent an order to order the Shun Army's artillery battalion to be arranged along the banks of the Xishi River, and the musketeers and spearmen formed formations on the two wings of the cannon camp position to prevent the Guanning Army cavalry from attacking the cannon camp. His two own sky-storming cannons continued to launch continuous artillery bombardment on the Guanning Army's artillery base at the top of Shanhaiguan City, destroying the Guanning Army's heavy red artillery as much as possible, so as not to threaten the Guanning Army's heavy artillery to our own artillery battalion.

Just as Zhao Peng was dispatching troops, Wang Xin, who was standing in the building, suddenly shouted: "Sir, the thief Wu has left the city!"

Zhao Peng quickly climbed up the tower, picked up the thousand-mile mirror to observe Xiluo City on the other side, and saw that the city gate was wide open. Guanning army cavalry rushed out of Xiluo City in batches, and lined up on the open ground on the opposite bank of Dongshi River. At the same time, the gate of Ninghai City near the seaside was also wide open, and teams of Guanning army infantry pushed various vehicles out of the city, and lined up on the left side of the Guanning army cavalry.

Look at this side of Xishihe, the Shun Army cavalry lined up on the river bank, and on both sides were Shun Army infantry. The Shun Army cavalry were all Li Zicheng's elite old battalion cavalry, but most of the infantry were the Ming army that originally surrendered. However, the quality of these Ming army surrendered soldiers was worrying. When encountering Shunfeng war, they could still fight. Once they encountered the elite Eight Banners Iron Cavalry, the Ming army surrendered soldiers would inevitably collapse at once, and the defeated surrendered infantry might also rush to the Shun Army's old battalion, causing the Shun Army to collapse.

However, now is not the time to consider these issues. The first thing to consider is how to give the Guanning Army the greatest possible killing and preserving the elite strength of the Shun Army as much as possible so that the Shun Army can give the Eight Banner Army the greatest killing and injury when facing the Eight Banner Army in the next time.

"The Jurchens are not satisfied with ten thousand, and they are invincible? Bah! It's a joke! The Jurchen soldiers in the Later Jin Dynasty did win many battles against the Ming army. That can only be said that the Ming army in the late Ming Dynasty was too bad and hopelessly rotten! If it were the military households in the early Ming Dynasty, they would definitely beat the Jurchens' village! After the founding of the Qing Dynasty, they suffered a lot of losses in the hands of the peasant army! Hao Yaoqi, Liu Tichun's Zhongzhen Camp, and Li Dingguo's Daxi Army, who did not insist on resisting the Qing Dynasty to the end? There were many Eight Banners athletes who died in their hands, especially Li Dingguo, who killed two kings. Even Zheng Chenggong, who was not good at land wars, killed many Eight Banners soldiers. In the battle of Nanjing and Xiamen, how many Eight Banners soldiers were wiped out? If it weren't for too many traitors, could the Manchus have picked up a country for nothing?" Zhao Peng said to himself softly.

Just when Zhao Peng was thinking about something, Wu Sangui's Guanning army had already begun to launch an attack.

Wu Sangui, who was riding on a group of tall horses, drew his sword and pointed forward. His three thousand servants rode their war horses and slowly drove forward. The Guanning Army infantry and chariot battalions on the left wing also followed the steps of the cavalry and pushed forward step by step.

Don't be misled by the cavalry charge in the film and television dramas. The cavalry's charge does not strike at high speed as soon as it comes up, but will slowly approach the enemy formation as the infantry slowly approaches the enemy formation and enters within 200 or even 100 steps before it starts to accelerate. Because the cavalry pays the most attention to preserving horsepower. If the charge is too early and the horsepower is exhausted when rushing to the opponent, the cavalry will become fat meat at the slaughter of others.

The Guanning Army started to move, and the Shun Army here also started to move, arranged neatly, slowly heading towards the Guanning Army.
Chapter completed!