In order to take advantage of his own strength, Dorgon divided his troops into more than a dozen groups, broke through at multiple points, attached them with simple ladders, and climbed up Shanhaiguan and the city walls on both sides.
Since the Qing army was compressed in a small area far away from the mountains and could not cut down large trees to build flying ladders, they could only use some shrubs and thin wood to make some simple ladders.
The Guards, who had a large number of telescopes, quickly discovered the dozens of Qing troops who wanted to attack the city and issued a warning signal.
The Ming army quickly gathered around a dozen points.
Three-eyed matchlocks, Lumi guns, ordinary crossbows, spears, and Dresser rifles were used to climb up the city wall at positions and angles that allowed them to use their strengths.
The soldiers were attacking.
Except for the very beginning, when an Eight Banners armored soldier climbed onto the top of the city before the Ming army arrived, no Qing soldier could even get half a step onto the top of the city.
The Eight Banners armored soldier was hit in the head with two muskets fired by several three-eyed arquebusiers who rushed at the front, and was killed on the spot.
In a short time, there were mountains of corpses under nearly a thousand ladders.
The Tatars, who were severely dehydrated and hungry, moved more and more slowly, and the crossbowmen responsible for covering the city were unable to draw their bowstrings.
The arrows shot up are weak and slow, so they will have no effect.
Moreover, they will also be sniped with priority by Lumi guns and rifles.
Seeing this, the Ming army at the top of the city simply stabbed down with swords and spears.
Only a few blunderbuss and two guns were used when necessary, and nearly a thousand ladders became nearly a thousand guillotines for killing people.
Dorgon had no choice but to order a halt to the attack.
The Qing army who tried to break out of the encirclement by taking mountain roads from Jiaoshan also suffered a devastating blow.
No one in the vanguard of the three thousand people who explored the road survived.
They did not see any enemy figures before they died.
They only heard the whistling of projectiles, the banging of rifles, and the intermittent chug of Montini's gun.
And the terrifying whistling of shrapnel.
After receiving the battle report, Dorgon was already in despair and sat down on the ground.
The Ezhens and princes at all levels around him also looked at loss.
Suddenly there was loud gunfire again from the west, and the cannons fired in unison.
It turned out that tens of thousands of Tatar soldiers could no longer endure their thirst.
I don't know who was leading the charge, and rushed to the river.
They plunged into the water and started drinking.
All the artillery and rifles were firing, and even the ten captured Hongyi cannons were blasting with cannonballs at the other side of the river.
In a short time, layers of corpses were piled up by the river.
Only a small number of people won the bet with their lives and drank a lot of blood.
In the end, Ning Wan and I came up with an idea for Dorgon, asking the flag soldiers to dig a canal about two miles long to divert the river water to a safe area.
The flag soldiers dug for more than a mile with planing and arching, and the last few hundred meters were built entirely with human lives.
At the cost of nearly 10,000 casualties, life-saving water was finally introduced.
After the Tatars had a full meal, they found that they were unbearably hungry.
However, a lot of the army's food supplies had disappeared on the west bank.
Now each person can only be rationed a bowl of gruel every day.
However, the Ming armies on three sides had food and meat, and logistical supplies were continuously shipped from both sea and land.
When the wind blows, the aroma of rice and meat wafts in, making it unbearable for the Tatars.
One month later, there were people dying of hunger everywhere between Shanhaiguan and Shihe, and thick horse bones could be seen everywhere.
All the war horses have been killed and eaten.
Dorgon, who had not eaten for two days, took a piece of meat roasted by the guards and swallowed it in two bites.
He regained his composure a little and said to the guard: "Go and call Ning Wan me here."
He wanted to discuss surrender with Ning Wan me.
At first he and Ning Wan me wanted to feign surrender, but later they found that they were thinking too much.
So naive.
Let alone pretending to surrender, Xia Hua would not accept it even if he actually surrendered.
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No matter what conditions Xia Hua puts forward now, as long as he can accept the surrender of the Eight Banners, he will agree.
Even if Xia Hua demands that all the Eight Banners die, it is okay as long as the Aixinjueluo clan is left.
The 90 people in the Eight Banners are actually slaves obtained by the Aixinjueluo clan through decades of conquest and plunder.
In other words, the Eight Banners are only the property of the clan, and there is a saying among the Han people that money is external possessions.
As long as the Aisin Gioro clan can continue to exist in the world, it does not matter if they abandon these properties.
"Ning Wan, I'm here."
Dorgon's guard didn't move for a long time, and he got a little angry.
The guard then squeaked: "Master, Ning Wan, I was eaten by you just now."
Dorgon was furious, not because the guards had eaten human flesh for him, but because he was angry that the guards had killed Ning Wanwo.
The guard hurriedly explained: "Master, you gave the order a few days ago, saying that when the war horses have eaten, they will kill the slaves who follow the banner and eat them.
After the slaves eat, they will eat the bannermen, and then the bannermen.
So. " Dorgon once again sent people with white flags to ask for surrender, but still no one paid attention.
This was because the Grand Governor had ordered that no one in the armies participating in Shanhaiguan, including the highest commander on the battlefield, could communicate with the enemy.
Seeing that no one was paying attention to him, the white-armored soldier holding a white flag staggered forward two more steps.
There was the sound of a Rumi gun being fired, and he fell down.
Another half month later, the sentry guards of the Ming Army looked at the entire wilderness with telescopes, and almost no living people could be seen.
The entire Shanhaiguan Pass had an unpleasant stench, and the Ming Army soldiers had to swallow ginger in their mouths and wrap their faces with cloth towels to cope with it.
Thousands of Ming troops entered the encirclement and began to search.
Only seventeen living people were found within dozens of square kilometers, and each of them was sent to the west with a sword.
Dorgon's body was found in a valley in Jiaoshan.
He tried to sneak out of Jiaoshan with Azige, several clan members, and more than a dozen personal guards, but he was sniped and killed in the valley.
In the past two months, Xia Yue led 25,000 Guan Ning troops to pursue Li Zicheng fiercely.
As expected by Xia Hua, when Tongguan was bombarded by Hongyi artillery, Li Zicheng withdrew from Xi'an.
He took Wuguan Road and returned to Xiangyang, his only relatively stable territory.
Now, without fighting a single battle, Li Zicheng foolishly abandoned Xiangyang, the base he had held for two years, crossed the Yangtze River with an army of 200,000, and moved into Huguang.
This Xiangyang was the only place that he had been operating for more than a year in the tens of thousands of miles from north to south and east to west after he started the army for more than ten years.
Now he doesn't want it anymore.
At this point, he lost all his territory and his army, which once numbered one million, and once again returned to a pure rogue state.
He is simple-minded and thinks that he can still travel around the south of the Yangtze River as he did in the past, and he will be able to snowball like he did in the past two years.
But he forgot that snowballs can only roll out on snow.
On mud, snowballs can only roll smaller and smaller.
Continuously organized troops broke away from his control, some disbanded and went home to farm, some surrendered to the Ming army, and some took up their own flags and went it alone.
After entering Jiangnan, there were countless scattered deserters.
At this time, Xia Hua announced to the world in the name of the Grand Governor that he ordered all the rebels to surrender before the beginning of autumn in the Jiashen year.
After the beginning of autumn, he would not accept the surrender of any rebels.
At the same time, he secretly ordered all the Ming army's ministries, and the rebels who had a history of surrendering and rebelling before, to secretly kill all the leaders above the Zhang Brigade when they surrendered
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