Chapter 270: Bloody Battle, Bozhou Ping (2)

More than a dozen Datong Town sword and shield soldiers climbed from the cloud ladder to the Tongzhu Pass Pass. Most of the sword and shield soldiers were servants under Ma Jin. They were all brave men who passed the battlefield and were mostly covered with thick iron armor. The Bozhou chieftain soldiers who were wrapped in Baotou and covered with animal skins were their opponents? They couldn't help but retreat step by step.

Seeing that a gap had been opened at the entrance of the Tongzhu Pass, the Tongzhu Pass could be pulled down in one go. The Ming army at the Guan was greatly motivated, and the sound of war drums was even more intense. The rebels on Hailongtun were very surprised. Under Yang Yinglong's strict order, the chieftain soldiers who supported each pass rolled in and crowded in the Tongzhu Pass, and the battle became more and more fierce.

Unfortunately, the terrain under the Tongzhu Pass was indeed not a place where the attackers could deploy their troops. After all, there were not many Datong Town sword and shield soldiers who could climb up the cloud ladder and were unable to follow up. After hundreds of Bozhou local soldiers were reinforced on the Tongzhu Pass, dozens of Tongzhen sword and shield soldiers who attacked the pass were immediately submerged in the sea of ​​people. Some people died in hard battles. Some saw that the situation was not good, and they did not care about breaking their legs and jumped off the pass to escape.

Soon, several ladders leaning against the wall of the pass were lifted down one after another, followed by densely packed Bozhou local soldiers poking their heads out, and rolling wood and rocks like raindrops, smashing heavily into the dense Datong Town Army under the pass, arousing screams. In this situation, it was also a general trend to be supported by a large number of reserve troops at the foot of the mountain. The first wave of attack from Ma Chengxun's army had to retreat regretfully.

Seeing this situation, the local soldiers on the Tongzhu Pass cheered, but then they all collapsed on the ground in dismay. The sharp attack of the Ming army still made them feel scared. The Ming army watching the battle at the foot of the mountain all complained secretly, but the combat power of the Datong Town Army still made them admire him.

Among the more than 1,000 people in the first attack of the Ming army in Datong Town, nearly 200 casualties were lost, and the general and 100 generals were even more severe. At this time, the Ming army in the southwestern provinces had a large casualties. Even if they attacked thousands of people and dozens of casualties, they had already been defeated. In particular, most of the injured were bloody and flesh. The bozhou rioters' rolling wood and rocks were too powerful, and the casualties caused were too cruel, which made people feel extremely heartbroken. To be able to withstand this fearless attack, the elite name of the Datong Town Army was strong.

After the outpost army of Ma Chengxun's troops retreated for the first time, the attacking soldiers retreated aside to rest a little despair, but they all saw them with thumbs up to greet their friendly crowds. The auxiliary soldiers of the baggage camp also brought hot water, meat and wine to comfort them like flowing water, and everyone's eyes were full of admiration. So brave and fearless, they were indeed warriors who dared to fight. A large number of Chinese medicine practitioners also stepped forward to treat the wounded. Huang Laifu led the army to broadcast this time, so naturally a large number of medical soldiers came with him, effectively reducing the casualty rate in the army.

Although his subordinates did not go down to the Tongzhu Pass and made Ma Jin behind the formation feel a little regretful, his son's performance was enough to make him proud. He believed that after this battle, he could completely block the cold words and criticisms of the Ming army from all over the southwest towards them. Although the casualties of his subordinates made him feel distressed, he had no expression on his face. He waved his hand and immediately the sound of the flag drum sounded, and another round of attack began.

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More than a hundred Ming army artillery at the foot of the mountain bombarded the Tongzhu Pass again, making the entire pass seem to be shaking, and the blood and flesh on the pass flew everywhere. When the artillery fire was about to stop, amid the earth-shaking "Wan Shengsheng", the outpost army of Ma Chengxun's troops organized another intensive charge, rushing towards the Tongzhu Pass like a tide!

Ma Chengxun personally led the army to rush into the team, holding his sword high, and several personal soldiers beside him held up the banner of Ma word and shouting hard. In front of him, there were also dense flags, and everyone's faces were red. His leaders and generals were so brave, and the generals and officials also took the initiative and rushed in front of the team with swords and swords. The storm of shock was shocking.

The Ming army's power made the faces of the local soldiers on the Tongzhu Pass change color, and everyone involuntarily felt a sense of fear. Soon, the outpost army of Ma Chengxun's troops rushed to the front of the Tongzhu Pass again, and the two sides started bloody flesh and bloody competitions at the top and bottom of the Tongzhu Pass. The pungent smell of gunpowder smoke had not yet dissipated, and the pungent smell of blood spread again...

Time and again, the Ming army's attacks on Tongzhu Pass followed one after another. After the attack and retreated, they bombed with artillery, and after the bombardment, it was a tide-like charge. After the outpost of Ma Chengxun's army went down to repair due to excessive casualties, Ma Jin organized an offensive force of two, three, and four, one wave after another, and it seemed that he would never give up until the goal was achieved.

The Ming army, who rushed up desperately, were tied up with the defenders of Tongzhu Pass, and killed them desperately! The blood flowed into a river at the gate, and the broken bodies were everywhere. After several fierce bombardments, the arrow tower on the copper pillar had been burned by the Ming army's artillery and rockets, and the walls of the gate were also collapsed several places, and the casualties of the defenders of the gate reached hundreds of people.

Finally, when the battle for Tongzhu Pass continued until noon, a shocking sound of "million victories" sounds, a big flag with a singular character rose on Tongzhu Pass, and one after another Ming army soldier rushed to the pass. Tongzhu Pass was captured by the Ming army, and the rest of the passes on the passes were fled in a panic to the mountain.

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The capture of Tongzhu Pass made the Ming army boil and the morale of the army greatly boosted. Huang Laifu also ordered heavy commendations to the Datong Town Army. As the saying goes, one is happy and the other is worried. Tongzhu Pass was occupied, and the Bozhou chaos on Hailongtun was panicked. Yang Yinglong was furious and killed the generals of Tongzhu Pass, and strengthened the guards of Yuzhemen to prevent the Ming army from continuing to attack.

On the second day, Ma Jin continued to ask for battle and led his troops to capture Tiezhu Pass. Tiezhu Pass was located in the valley. The terrain in front of the pass was gentle. Here, the Datong Town Army did not have the terrible threat of rolling wood and rocks from the chaos army. However, due to Yang Yinglong's strict order and a large number of reinforcements were sent to the Tiezhu Pass, the battle to tackle the key points was still very fierce and bloody, and the two sides fought repeatedly at the Guan and the Pass.

The Ming army spent a huge amount of manpower and material resources to move more than 150 cannons to the front of the Tiezhu Pass. Under the repeated bombardment of the artillery and the fierce battle of the Datong Town Army, after two days of bloody battles, the Datong Town Army finally captured the Tiezhu Pass again, beheaded hundreds, and seized the way up the mountain after the pass.

However, due to the bloody battle of seizing the two levels, the Datong Town Army had nearly 1,000 casualties among the 5,000 people who followed Huang Laifu to broadcast, which could be said to be huge and he was unable to fight anymore. However, their combat power and achievements still won the sincere admiration of the 200,000 Ming troops around Hailongtun. While Huang Laifu asked them to repair them, he also issued a large amount of material to reward them, and he would also ask for credit for them after the war.

The results of the Datong Town Army made the Shanxi Army feel itchy. Huang Laifu's two brother-in-law asked Huang Laifu for battle.

The war in the following days was repeatedly carried out around the Xiematai area behind the Iron Pass Pass. When it came to the Xiematai area, Longtun Zhongxiang was near the sea, and the mountains became increasingly steep and steep. Many stone steps were built on the ridge, either gullies or cliffs beside them, especially the ladder in front of the Feihu Pass, which was even a nightmare for attacking one side.

The difficulty of attacking this area is several times that of the Tongzhu Pass and the Ironzhu Pass. Every time the Ming army attacks, the mountain rolls wood and rocks come like rain, making people unable to flash. If you are not careful, you are stamped by the rolling stones. You will either die in blood or fall into the gully cliff, and fall into a corpse without any loss.

Among the 10,000 Shanxi troops who were broadcasted with Huang Laifu this time, in addition to thousands of them were Huang Laifu's Laifu camp, Wuzhai camp, Zhenlu camp and direct soldiers, the remaining thousands were the A-level troops of each fort and battalion in Shanxi Town, and their combat power was even better than that of the Datong Army.

They took turns to attack, and the momentum of their charge made the Bozhou defenders frightened. The Ming army that had captured Tongzhu Pass and Tiezhu Pass had already surprised the Bozhou chaos army. There were such elite troops in the Ming army. They all breathed a sigh of relief when they retreated from Datong Town Army.

Unexpectedly, as soon as the Datong Army went, there were so many troops as strong as theirs. Although the banners were different, their combat power was even stronger. How could they not be afraid? The fear was crazy afterwards. Every time the Shanxi Army attacked, the commander-in-chief of the Taiwan and the Guardians shouted loudly, and more gray bottles were fired, taking away more lives. Every level of stone steps in this area was covered with the blood of Shanxi soldiers.

During the fierce battle, Huang Laifu's two brother-in-law were both injured. If they didn't recuperate for ten days and half a month, they would probably not be cured.

After such repeated bloody battles, a few days later, the Shanxi army finally captured the Xiematai area and approached Feihu Pass.

However, after such a cruel and bloody battle, the Shanxi army suffered serious casualties and was unable to fight again, so they could not do anything to the ladder in front of Feihu Pass. In this case, it was imperative that Huang Laifu's servants and direct soldiers go to the battle.

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September 2nd, 28th year of Wanli, in the afternoon.

In front of the Flying Tiger Pass, there was a sea of ​​corpses and blood. From the early morning, the Ming army's attack on Flying Tiger Pass was one after another, continuous. The leader was Huang Laifu's personal guard Laifu Camp. The brave assault, shining bayonet, and fearless momentum became the nightmare of the soldiers guarding the pass.

The ladder in front of Feihu Pass is like the eighteen plates of the Nantianmen of Mount Tai. The steps are steep and huge. Here, it is impossible to get the elite of the soldiers of Fuying to step by step, which greatly limits the charge effect. Moreover, in this terrain, it is impossible to support the previous attack and artillery. All soldiers fight hard. Every time the soldiers charge, the rolling stones thrown from the Flying Hu Pass Rolling Stone Library, and the various gray bottles of cannons are closed, and they hit them like raindrops, causing bloody rain.

However, the soldiers who charged still looked firm, and the wheat ear flag of Laifu Camp still shone in front of the Flying Huguan Guards. The firmer fighting will than the Datong Army and the Shanxi Army, the sharp flintlock muskets, the strange and shiny bayonets, and the bravery that still fought to the death every time the charge was scared and almost 40% of the warriors who still fought to the death. In the face of fear, the Flying Huguan Guards were already close to the brink of collapse.

After repeated cruel bloody battles, the general guarding the pass of Feihu Pass looked numb. What kind of army is this? The strange wheat ear flag, the strange muskets, and the strange spikes of the muskets all shine with the cold light of death. Hailongtun and the general manager of Feihu Pass thought that the Ming army's key breakthrough troops a few days ago were the most elite existence in the Ming army, but compared with the army in front of him, they were far behind. Are they the relatives of Huang Laifu, the governor of the Ming people, rumored?

The Ming army's charge began again. Gu Da led the army and rushed forward. Although he was injured many times, it aroused his courage. He waved his blade and drove the rolling stones at the pass, but rushed forward without hesitation. Behind him were the soldiers of Laifu Camp who were also ready to die, holding flintlock muskets in his hands, with sharp bayonets on them. Fire and smoke came out from the gun mouth of the charge, causing the earthen soldiers on Feihu Pass to fall from the pass.

After repeated charges and bloody battles by the Ming army, the local soldiers in Bozhou who were closed were frightened, and the counterattack of the wooden rocks was very weak. Gu Dadao quickly led the hundreds of people to the city gate and the walls of the walls. The dense muskets aimed at the city walls at the gates. Amid the bursts of fire and smoke from the muzzle, the local soldiers in the closed were beaten so hard that they could not even lift their heads.

Ladders were erected, and under the leadership of Gu Dadao, soldiers of Laifu Camp, covered in iron armor and large waists, climbed up the wall. They had been through war for a long time and held a flintlock musket with bayonets in their hands. Not only did the muskets fired extremely fast, but they also had sharp assassination. Each person had at least three or four copper-handled muskets inserted into their bodies, which could be fired at any time. The Bozhou local soldiers wearing only cloth shirts or animal skins were their opponents? As soon as the Ming army rushed up, they couldn't help but retreat.

The soldiers of Laifu Camp climbed up to the pass one by one, and the gap in Feihu Pass was opened became bigger and bigger. The repeated bloody battles left the defenders of Feihu Pass on the verge of collapse. In addition, more and more Ming troops rushed to the pass. The general leader of the pass was killed by Gu Dadao and suddenly shouted, and the soldiers collapsed and fled in all directions.

Although there was a huge urn behind the Feihu Pass city gate, which could be used to block the Ming army, the defenders at Feihu Pass did not have the fighting spirit at this time? Some people surrendered, and most of them fled to Feilong Pass on the mountain. Even the reinforcements coming to support the Feilong Pass could not stop this defeat. Finally, the wheat ear flag of Laifu Camp was inserted high on the Feihu Pass. After a day's bloody battle, Feihu Pass fell into the hands of the Ming army.

The victory of Feihu Pass naturally made the Ming army boil. With the stability of Feihu Pass, the Ming army was captured in just one day, and it was captured in a dignified bloody battle. It seemed that no barrier could stop them from advancing. The so-called "indestructible" natural dangerous place also became a joke at their feet. And being captured in such a dangerous place for one day made Hailongtun and others feel frustrated, and they are afraid of fighting with the Ming army.

After this bloody battle, although Huang Laifu's family camp and his direct baptistery suffered a lot of casualties, their fighting spirit also made a qualitative leap after the baptism of the war. Although Huang Laifu felt quite distressed by the casualties of his subordinates, he believed that this kind of fierce battle was still good for his army, and this kind of effort was worth it.

September 4th.

After a day of renovation, the soldiers of Laifu Camp fought with the local soldiers of Bozhou for the Longhu Avenue leading to Feilong Pass. The total length of this Longhu Avenue is about one mile. Although the road conditions are rugged and dangerous, it is not steep. The local soldiers of Bozhou are useless to rolling wooden stones with huge lethality in the Ming army.

Therefore, although Yang Yinglong sent his confidant general, a group of the most elite local soldiers from Hailongtun to defend the road, their defense quickly disappeared with the sharp flintlock guns and tiger squat cannons of the soldiers of Laifu Camp, and several bayonet assaults.

The soldiers of Laifu Camp suffered minor casualties, only a few injured people, and seized the Dragon and Tiger Avenue at a slight cost. This result also made Huang Laifu think. If the enemy did not allow his own military strength to be exerted according to the terrain, there were few troops in the Ming Dynasty on the plains that were opponents of his own flintlock musket troops.

September 5th.

In Laifu Camp and Wuzhai Camp, a group of soldiers of Zhenlu Camp attacked Feilong Pass. Feilong Pass is more steeper and more important than Feihu Pass. At the head of the city gate, there are also three big characters written by Feilong Pass by Yang Yinglong. Although the attack of the Ming army made Hailong Tun scared, under Yang Yinglong's strict order, Yang Yinglong also made a sound. If the Ming army attacked Hailong Tun, it would retaliate against 20,000 local soldiers guarding the pass, 100,000 followers and the people in the pass. This fear also left the rest of Hailong Tun and the rest of the pass without retreat.

The cruel fight surrounded the narrow passage ridge in front of Feilong Pass, and also spread out from the upper and lower passes. At the ridge in front of the pass, the Ming army spent more than a dozen artillery transported by the Ming army to bombard the city gate of Feilong Pass, and dozens of other tiger squatting cannons were also provided to the soldiers nearby. The fierce artillery fire of the iron ball smashed the stone wall on Feilong Pass through several gaps.

The two sides fought repeatedly at the upper and lower gates. Although the terrain of Feilong Pass is more steep than Feihu Pass, depending on the terrain of Feilong Pass, there is not much use for rolling wood and rocks here. The two sides rely more on the courage of close forces.

This kind of flesh-making abilities is actually what the soldiers of Laifu Camp are good at. Not to mention that their flintlock muskets have caused the local soldiers to be guarded with many casualties and are irresistible. In the meat-making battle between the two sides, whether it is the sword and shield soldiers or the musketsmen among the soldiers such as Laifu Camp, in terms of combat power and equipment, they are far inferior to those of the local soldiers in Bozhou. Their blood courage burst out due to fear is far from being able to slap the gap in strength between the two sides.

The terrain of Feilong Pass is not conducive to the deployment of troops on the attacking side. The soldiers of the Laifu Camp who climbed the city wall of Feilong Pass from the ladder faced the situation. The enemy was numerous and we were few. However, in front of these professional soldiers wearing iron armor and big and round waists, even four or five local soldiers in Bozhou could not get a good idea to face one Laifu Camp soldier. Although it was difficult and cruel, the gap in Feilong Pass was still opened step by step. More and more Laifu Camp soldiers climbed up the city wall, and the enemy and us fought together, and fought in various places within the pass, especially the city gate area, and the battle was even more tragic.

Finally, when the stone shaft connected to the stone gate of Feilong Link was slowly pushed open, the earth-shaking "Wan Sheng" sounded, and the Ming army soldiers holding shiny bayonets rushed into the pass from the city gate, and the capture of Feilong Pass became a fact!

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The occupation of Feilong Pass made Yang Yinglong and others feel the arrival of the doomsday. Such a dangerous pass could not stop the pace of the Ming army. Is there any way for the remaining two passes? The hearts of Hailongdun are even more dissipated, and panic spread everywhere. Some local soldiers quietly went down the mountain to surrender to the Ming army. The situation seemed very good for the Ming army. Hailongdun pacified it was right in front of us.

However, at this time, his situation was not as good as Huang Laifu's side. Even though Huang Laifu had been fighting for many years, his heart was as strong as iron. These days, he was still frightened by the heavy casualties of his subordinates. After his servants and his direct soldiers, they captured Feihu and Feilong Pass, the casualties were as high as 700. He led his troops to participate in the three major expeditions of Wanli, and this was the most casualties for many years. You must know that these are the most elite soldiers who have been fighting with him for many years.

In front of Huang Laifu, there are Chaotian Pass and Feifeng Pass, which belongs to the core inner city of Hailongtun. The stone walls of Chaotian Pass alone are as high as fifteen meters, and even the setting up of a cloud ladder is very difficult. There are also many moon walls, earth walls, enemy towers, etc. inside and outside the two passes, forming a series of very solid defense systems. Huang Laifu believes that his army can capture these two passes, but he can also imagine the casualties at that time. Do you want to wipe out all his subordinates who have followed him for many years here?

He turned his eyes to the back mountain of Hailongtun. There are three passes in the back mountain, namely Wan'an Pass, Xiguan, Houguan, and Sanguan Pass. The height and thickness of the city walls are no less than that of the Badaling Great Wall. However, the terrain of the back mountain is still slower than that of the front mountain. Huang Laifu decided to start with the front mountain and the back mountain at the same time.

On September 7, Huang Laifu sent general Ma Kongying and Wu Guang to capture the three passes of Houshan. A large number of Ming troops gathered in Dabanshui, Houshan, preparing to attack the key points from the place.

Ma Kongying was quite wise and knew that he would suffer heavy casualties if he insisted on attacking the pass, so he came up with a plan and ordered the soldiers to rush to the Sanguan area every night, thinking that he was numbing the Tumen on the mountain. The Tumen mistakenly thought that the Ming army had attacked the pass, so he rushed to fight. As a result, he got up the next day and found groups of dead sheep in front of the pass. Every night, after a few days, the defenders of the Sanguan were exhausted.

On the evening of the tenth day, after a few days of calm, Huang Laifu personally led two hundred death-death soldiers to climb up the city wall of Chaotian Pass at night. In ancient times, night battles were rare because most of the soldiers at that time were malnourished, and many of them suffered from night blindness and could not see things at night. However, for Huang Laifu's well-nutritional soldiers, these were not problems.

The Chaotian Pass defenders did not expect this. In addition, most of them snored during the fourth update. Yang Xiaolu led his troops to climb up the city wall easily and killed many native defenders on the city wall. He opened the city gate and fired cannons. A large number of soldiers from Laifu Camp rushed into the pass, and the defenders at the pass were shocked and dispersed. Yang Yinglong in Feifeng Pass woke up from his dream and did not care about the large number of defeated Chaotian Pass begging under Feifeng Pass, and ordered the door to be closed to prevent the Ming army from taking the opportunity to attack. He lit a large number of torches around, illuminating the area of ​​Feifeng Pass brightly.

However, at this time, Yang Yinglong also knew that his destruction was on the same day. In the early morning of the 12th, the Ming army in Hailongtun launched an attack on the entire line. Soon, Wan'an Pass and Xiguan in the back mountain were broken. At noon, Yang Xiaolu led the army and personally led the army to attack Feifeng Pass. At this time, the local soldiers in Bozhou had no aura of fighting on their backs, and the city of Guan seemed to be able to be broken at any time.

That night, Yang Yinglong distributed a lot of money to recruit thousands of warriors to go out to the pass and sneak attack the Ming army, but tens of thousands of local soldiers on the mountain were all pale and no one dared to respond. Yang Yinglong was discouraged and took the sword and patrol the tower. Looking at the fire on all sides, he couldn't help but sigh. After returning to the palace, he hugged his two concubines and just cried.

On the 13th, the Ming army launched a large-scale attack on the city. At noon, amid the sound of "million victories", Yang Xiaolu led his troops to break through Feifeng Pass. At this time, the generals of the back mountain Ma Kongying and Wu Guang also captured Houguan. Two large armies entered Hailongtun and occupied the Yangma City, the Old Palace, the New Palace, the General Administration Office, the Military Camp, the Schoolyard, the Gold and Silver Cushions, the Gunpowder Pool and other places in Feifeng Pass. They also captured more than a hundred rebel generals such as Yang Yinglong's son Yang Chaodong and Yang Zhaolong.

Yang Yinglong stumbled back to his palace, hanged himself with his two concubines in a hurry, and set himself on fire. General Wu Guang snatched his body out of the flames.

On the 14th, Huang Laifu issued a military order to prevent the soldiers from retaliating against Hailongtun. In addition to counting the materials obtained, he also took more than 100,000 captured Hailongtun local soldiers and prophetun residents to Chongqing Prefecture, waiting for further processing.
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