Dorgon in the distance shouted sternly: "We must stabilize the Hexi position, otherwise the whole army will be in danger."
After hearing this, Duduo personally took his bodyguards to supervise the battle.
He killed the soldiers blocking the way and rushed into the pontoon bridge.
Together with the guards, they roared crazily and slashed with their swords, trying to suppress the rebels and restore order.
With the defeat of the Qing army in Hexi, the artillery positions of the Guards advanced another five to six hundred meters.
The two pontoon bridges were within range of the eighteen-pounder field guns.
With the roar of cannons, fifty rounds of projectiles were fired at the huddled Qing army.
Amid the smoke, the scene was tragic.
When the solid bullets jumped and the chain bullets whizzed and whirled through the crowd, a swipe of a swipe revealed a bloody alley filled with stumps, heads, and broken corpses.
Black powder thick-cased grenades are less lethal to personnel than shotguns.
But with one shot, three or four people were blown to pieces, and their flesh and blood flew everywhere, which was really shocking and courageous.
The most humane but most terrifying thing is the shrapnel, which explodes high in the air, causing people to fall down with a roar.
The flow of people, which had somewhat stabilized under Duduo's random killings, suddenly began to surge again under the bombardment of cannons.
Layers of people stepped over the broken corpses and rushed east of the river.
People were constantly being washed down or squeezed into the river.
Duduo's arms were already numb, and he raised his sword above his head with both hands.
Suddenly, a group of flag soldiers were pushed towards him by the people behind him.
"No one is allowed to retreat," he shouted, and at the same time, he cut off the head of a flag soldier with a sword.
Then he was rushed to the ground.
Countless feet stepped on him, and someone tripped over his body and pressed on him.
Duduo only felt that the weight on his body was getting heavier and heavier, and it became more and more difficult for him to breathe.
Panic suddenly rose in his heart, and he tried desperately to struggle, but the more he struggled, the more suffocated he became.
In despair, his consciousness became blurred.
Eighteen-pound shells continued to hit, and eventually the two pontoon bridges turned into a pile of broken wood in the flames and smoke, along with countless corpses, heads and remains floating downstream along the river, pouring into the sea. among.
There are still thousands of Eight Banners soldiers remaining on the west bank, and Geng Zhongming's troops surrendered with white flags. , a group of Zhenghuang Banners led by a certain Baylor and numbered about two thousand people launched an attack on them and suddenly launched an attack on them.
Caught off guard, within a moment, Shang Kexi, who was planning to surrender anyway, was killed, and all the rest of Geng Zhongming's troops were killed.
Bursts of gunfire from the Guards came, and the remaining Tatars in Hexi were killed or injured.
The large groups of people on the left and right wings of the Ming army took advantage of the situation to attack, and they were brave in numbers, not to mention Gui Yibo's "Shenji Battalion" holding down the formation.
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Tens of thousands of people gathered around the remaining thousands of Eight Banners to attack and kill them with all their strength, using old-fashioned three-eye fire gate blunderbuss and bows and crossbows.
A white-armored Bajara Tartar's body was covered with arrows, like a hedgehog, but he was not injured at all.
Still waving the steel sword, he rushed forward, and the Ming army dispersed with a bang.
A three-eyed blunderbuss had just been lit, and the gunman subconsciously turned the muzzle and pointed it at the white-armored Tatar.
With three loud bangs in succession, the three muskets hit the Tatar's breastplate almost at the same time, knocking him to the ground but still unscathed.
But seeing the Tatar fall to the ground, the scattered Ming army gathered towards him again.
As soon as the Tartars jumped up again, several spears came at them at the same time.
Most of them failed to penetrate his three layers of heavy armor, either because of lack of strength or because the spear blades were not sharp enough.
Only one pierced his unarmored calf.
He knelt down on one knee in pain, still swinging the knife wildly.
Finally he was pinned to the ground by several spears.
His head fell off, and two sets of three-eyed blunderbuss took turns hitting his bald head.
Afraid that he was not completely dead, the whole head was smashed into a bloody pulp.
Dorgon watched helplessly on the other side of the river as the remaining Eight Banners Qing soldiers on the west bank of the Shihe River were all destroyed.
However, he had no choice but to stamp his feet and sigh: "It's over, it's all over."
When he learned that Duoduo was trampled to death, he was exhausted mentally and physically.
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His eyes went dark and he fainted.
Xia Hua, who arrived at the west bank of Shihe River, immediately launched deployment.
Relying on Shihe, 20,000 Ming troops and 2,000 Guards troops were deployed in a tight defense.
It was impossible for the Qing army to escape from Shihe, one man and one horse.
In Xia Hua's plan, Shihe could be completely blocked without the 20,000 surrendered troops, let alone with the help of 20,000 more people.
Between Shanhaiguan and Shihe, on Jiaoshan Mountain in the north, Xia Hua had built positions at various strategic locations long ago.
This was the reason why he only brought 500 Guards troops to attack Beijing.
On the Jiaoshan defense line of just four to five miles, Xia Hua invested 2,000 Guards infantry, fifty 12- to 18-pound field guns, and ten Montinis with a fire rate of 200 per minute.
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Ten artillery and infantry positions were set up at key points based on the mountainous terrain.
It was impossible for the Qing troops to cross the fire line blockade of the Guards on the mountainous terrain.
Not to mention the Shanhaiguan Great Wall to the east.
The Qing soldiers lost the Hongyi cannon and gunpowder baggage.
Under the watchful eye of thousands of soldiers day and night, it was almost impossible to dig through the wall by hand.
It was not even possible to bribe the generals of the Ming army guarding the city gates by paying heavy bribes or promising rewards.
In addition to the guards and strict battlefield discipline.
More importantly, Xia Hua ordered that the first thing to do when conquering Shanhaiguan was to seal all the city gates with bricks and stones.
There are no city gates in Shanhaiguan now.
To Xia Hua, these 100,000 Eight Banners were already 100,000 tortoises packed into iron buckets.
They could all be wiped out by just simmering them over slow fire.
After everything was arranged, Xia Hua returned to Star City.
He came to take Zhu Youjian back to Beijing and back to the palace.
The group of people drove back to the capital at the Tianjin City Guards Camp, escorted by Guards riflemen and part of the Guanning Army.
When the guard of honor entered the capital, crowds of people knelt on both sides of the street.
As the guard of honor passed by, shouts of long live the mountains could be heard one after another.
Outside Chengtian Gate, the civil and military officials limped together again, hoping to get Emperor Chongzhen's permission to enter the palace to congratulate Emperor Chongzhen on his safe return.
But Chongzhen did not receive them.
Just like last time, the officials stood outside Chengtian Gate for a day, but this time there was no biting cold wind.
"I'm finally back, but I always feel that it's a bit unfamiliar here."
Zhu Youjian said to the queen sarcastically.
Since Wang Chengen's death, his mental state has changed from anxiety to depression.
Naturally, this was due to the fact that Wang Cheng'en was half of his family, and Wu Sangui's betrayal meant that he had no one he could trust and no one dared to trust him anymore.
Empress Zhou, who always comforted him at this moment in the past, did not speak.
In addition to the fact that hundreds of members of her natal family were killed by the thieves, more importantly, she was worried about the three princes, especially her two biological sons.
's whereabouts.
A young eunuch trotted all the way to report: "Your Majesty, Xia Hua, the general of Guiyi Bo Town and the governor of the six provinces, asks to see your majesty
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