Desert Eagle Suletan Khan

"Boom~Boom~Boom~" Intensive artillery fire poured down on the walls of the Zhendong Gate of Shanhaiguan. In order to make the fake look real, the Great Khan Lianhua assigned the 600-ton artillery under the command of Dushihuoer, the prince of Khorchin, to Suhe for command. As the first noble of the Nen Khorchin who surrendered to the Wei, the 600-ton artillery under Dushihuoer had 100 small-sized cannons mounted on camels and 15 heavy artillery carts pulled by camels. Each of these heavy artillery weighed 4,000 jin and was said to destroy thousands of miles with one shot. Although it was an exaggeration, it was indeed a siege weapon of this era. The David Kingdom, which always attached great importance to firearms, had even heavier artillery, but most of them were placed on the walls or forts and were rarely used in field battles. The god of war, with the whistle of death, smashed the walls of Shanhaiguan into pieces. The Qing army, which had been well prepared, crouched down and hid behind the women's walls or in the soldier caves, enduring the fear of death. Occasionally, some unlucky ones would be hit and turned into meat paste, but they could only accept their fate.

Su He held a telescope and quietly observed the battlefield. Finally, the cannon fire stopped and the Duke of Zhongguo A Lashan issued an order to attack.

"Warriors, if you want to be exempted from punishment and rewarded, follow me to attack. If you dare to fear the battle, even if you can escape the arrows on the city wall, you can't escape the swords of the supervisory team." Erdeni, deputy chief of the capital, pointed his hand at the supervisory team holding swords behind him, and yelled at the two thousand "death soldiers" under his command. He was originally the Duolo County King of the Left Wing Middle Banner of Khorchin, who was conferred by the Qing Dynasty. After surrendering to the guards, he only got a small deputy chief of the capital. It is said that the Great Khan hated the left-wing kings of Khorchin who married Manchuria. If it were not for the protection of Empress Zhuang, not to mention the position of deputy chief of the capital, even his life would be in danger. This time, the queen secretly sent someone to pass on the message, asking him to fight well with Biltahar and Lawson, and to establish military merits so that he could gain a foothold in David's court. Because of this relationship, when he was in Yiwulü Mountain, he paid special attention to training the two thousand prisoners under his command, and now it finally came in handy.

The prisoners were silent, lined up silently, and pushed shield carts, ladder carts, and battering rams towards the city wall of the town's east gate. The court had said that if they died, they would be compensated, and if they did not die, they would be pardoned and rewarded. But if they became deserters, they would not only be stabbed by the supervisory team, but also not receive any compensation. Therefore, there was no way to retreat, and they had to fight to the death. When beasts are forced into a desperate situation, they will be particularly ferocious, and so are humans.

"Fire~" Fei Yasha ordered calmly. The cannons of the guards were very fierce just now, and the cannons on the city wall were suppressed, but now they finally played a role.

"Boom~Boom~Boom~" Shield carts were hit and prisoners were killed continuously, but the death squad were not afraid. Instead, they sped up and rushed to the foot of the city quickly. They put ladders on the city wall and climbed up the ladders.

"Soldiers, follow me to kill the enemy," shouted Zu Zechun, the commander of Zhendong Gate and Melezhangjing, as he led 5,000 Green Camp defenders to fight to the death.

Although Erdeni's subordinates were few in number, they were all prisoners with no way to retreat. After being aroused, they were not afraid of casualties and actually rushed to the city wall and fought with the defenders. Alashan was overjoyed and ordered another 2,000 men from Biltahar to follow, and then sent another 2,000 men from Lawson. As the number of guards continued to increase, Zu Zechun gradually felt exhausted.

"Hmph!" Fei Yasha, who was watching the battle, sneered and ordered Fu Jinzhong to lead 3,000 Beijing troops to reinforce.

"Humph!" Su He also sneered and issued an order for the entire death-defying army to charge. After receiving the order, Duke Zhongguo A Lashan gritted his teeth and personally led 4,000 death-defying soldiers to charge forward.

Seeing that the situation at Zhendongmen was worrying, Feiyasha had to send Jialazhangjing Bulukan with one thousand Manchu Eight Banners and three thousand Shanhaiguan Green Camp to reinforce again.

At this time, Su He had no more soldiers to deploy except for 200 personal guards and 2,000 Sauron warriors who were supervising the battle. He snorted coldly, and took his personal guards and Sauron warriors to change longbows, and went to the city in groups of five to snipe the defenders. These people had been hunting since childhood, and their archery skills were very accurate. They shot and killed a large number of defenders. Fei Yasha had to send another 1,000 Manchu Eight Banners warriors to barely defend the city wall.

"Huh~" The young Lawson chopped down a Qing soldier with his sword. Judging from the decorations on his armor, he should be an enemy general. "Hahaha~" Thinking that he had finally made a contribution, he couldn't help but laugh happily.

"Seventh brother, be careful~" Suddenly there was a scream, and Biltahar rushed in front of him and fell down softly. A long feather arrow was clearly visible behind him.

"Third brother!" Lawson cried in grief and hurriedly helped his brother up.

"Seventh brother, I heard the call of Changshengtian, I am going to die~ Good death~ After my death, the Khan will no longer hate our Khorchin Left Wing for betraying Mongolia and marrying the Aisin Gioro clan. You~ You must live well and take good care of our family~" After saying this, Biltahar took his last breath and returned to the arms of Changshengtian. He was right. When he heard the news that Biltahar, the third brother of Concubine Zhuang's wife, died in battle for David, the Great Khan Lianhua really changed his attitude towards the Khorchin Left Wing nobles and ordered Lawson to be conferred the title of the third-class Khorchin Left Wing Earl and Erdeni to be the chief of a thousand households.

"Third brother~Third brother~" On the city wall, Lawson cried heartbreakingly, but to the entire battlefield, it was just a trivial matter.

The walls were filled with corpses, and the sky gradually darkened. Suhe finally issued an order to withdraw the troops back to the camp, and the guards retreated like a tide. In just one day, 4,000 prisoners were killed or wounded, and more than 2,000 defenders on the city were also killed or wounded. This brutal fighting method frightened the defenders. Fei Yasha was more and more convinced that the main force of the guards led by the pseudo-Khan was under the city, and urgent military reports were sent to Beijing one after another. On the second day, the guards changed their tactics and no longer attacked the city in a swarming manner. Instead, they concentrated their artillery fire on the east gate of the town, perhaps wanting to wait until the wall was blown down before attacking. Fei Yasha breathed a sigh of relief. God bless you, the wall of Shanhaiguan was strong. The guards would have to bombard it for at least more than a month to blow it down, so he could take a breath.
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When Wu Liangfu presented the intelligence sent by Zu Zepu and Nalan Mingzhu that the pseudo-Khan swore in Shenyang to attack Shanhaiguan, the mood of Emperor Shunzhi immediately changed from sunny to cloudy. Originally, he was in a good mood. Prince Xin Doni reported that Wang Yongnian, the general of the left wing of Guangxi, had 7,000 troops and Xu Erxian, the general of Zhaoqing, had already arrived in Datong. Unlike the 70,000 Green Camps that were sent to Datong shortly after they were formed, Wang Yongnian was a subordinate of Guangxi Admiral Lian Guoan, and Xu Erxian was a confidant of Shang Kexi, the King of Pingnan. There were quite a few veterans among these 20,000 troops. With the arrival of soldiers from Guangdong and Guangxi, the number of troops sent to Datong by the court had reached 245,000. Doni expressed his confidence in taking Datong in his memorial. But at this critical moment, the pseudo-Khan actually abandoned Datong and led a large army to attack Shanhaiguan. This was to capture Beijing in one fell swoop! The capital is now empty. If troops are withdrawn from Datong to reinforce Shanhaiguan, it will inevitably affect his strategy of capturing Datong. But if he does not rescue, once the pseudo-Khan breaks through Shanhaiguan, the capital will be in danger!
The worried Emperor Shunzhi summoned important ministers to the western warm room of the Qianqing Palace for discussion. Unexpectedly, the ministers had different opinions. Suo Ni, Fan Wencheng, Feng Quan, Ming Andali and others believed that the status of the capital was far more important than Datong and that they could not take risks. They suggested that the Datong troops be transferred to reinforce Shanhaiguan. Fu Shou, Bo Guoduo, Ebilun, Eshehei and others believed that Datong was about to be conquered and that they could not fail at the last moment. Emperor Shunzhi frowned. He had strongly advocated the attack on Datong, and the court had suffered huge casualties. If it was in vain, it would greatly damage his prestige. However, Shanhaiguan was the barrier of the capital and had to be saved. After thinking for a while, he asked Ming Andali, the Manchu minister of the Ministry of War: "I issued an edict a few days ago ordering all provinces to complete the task of expanding the Green Camp by 200,000 by the end of the year. In addition to the first batch of 70,000 people, how are the rest being completed? I also issued an edict to recruit all Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners children aged 13 to 70 to join the army. How is it going? Which troops can rush to Shanhaiguan immediately?"

Hearing his question, Xilut Mingandali, an old minister from the Nurhaci period, immediately understood that the emperor was unwilling to withdraw his troops from Datong, and he sighed secretly and said, "In reply to the emperor, I have been urging all provinces and local Manchu cities to expand their troops. Now all provinces have completed the court's task of expanding the Green Camp, and local Manchu cities have an additional 30,000 Manchu, Mongolian and Han Eight Banners. However, the newly-formed Green Camp is seriously inadequately trained, and the newly-expanded Eight Banners are mostly composed of old people and teenagers, and their combat effectiveness is not satisfactory. If we want to find an army that can barely fight and can be quickly dispatched to Shanhaiguan, I think we can draw 3,000 men from the Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, and then order Nanyang Town General Zhang Yingxiang's 10,000 troops to go by land, Gunzhou Deputy General Ke Yongzhen's 8,000 troops, and Jiangnan Shouchun Camp Deputy General Shang Jun's 9,000 troops to go by sea to Tianjin to assemble and rush to Shanhaiguan."

"Very good! Who do you think should be sent to lead the army?" Emperor Shunzhi asked another question.

"Your servant is willing to go," "Your servant is willing to go," suddenly two voices were heard, they were the twenty-year-old Prince Xian Fushou and the thirteen-year-old Prince Zhuang Bogoduo.

Emperor Shunzhi was overjoyed, as the Aisin-Gioro family had a successor! However, Bogoduo was too young, and Fu Shou had never led troops in battle before. He was a little worried about sending them as commanders. After thinking for a while, he said, "I like your desire to serve the country very much. But this time, the reinforcement of Shanhaiguan is mainly for defense. You are young and inevitably radical when encountering things. It is better to find an older and more stable commander."

"Your Majesty, the first-class duke Aixing'a is young, resourceful and well-versed in military books, and can be a commander," Sony proposed a candidate. Shumulu Aixing'a is the grandson of Yangguli, a founding hero of the Qing Dynasty, and the son of the first-class duke Tazhan. Tazhan once swore to support Emperor Shunzhi with Sony, Oboi and others, and they had a deep relationship.

When Sony mentioned Ai Xing'a's name, Emperor Shunzhi remembered Tazhan's loyalty in the past and nodded repeatedly, and "appointed Ai Xing'a as General Dingbei and ordered him to lead troops to rescue immediately."
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Although he urged all units to march day and night, two months had passed by the time Ai Xing'a gathered in Tianjin with 3,000 Eight Banners stationed in Beijing, 10,000 Green Camps from Henan, 9,000 Green Camps from Jiangnan, and 8,000 Green Camps from Shandong. The military situation was urgent, so he did not dare to delay, and hurriedly led his troops to board a ship from Tianjin, landed in Yongping Prefecture, and headed straight for Shanhaiguan.

"Marshal, we didn't find many guards in the southwest direction of Shanhaiguan. This is very unusual. I'm afraid there is an ambush," said Zhang Yingxiang, the experienced veteran general of Nanyang Town, to Ai Xing'a after he noticed something was wrong.

Ai Xing'a had only served in the capital before. Although he liked reading military books, he had no experience in commanding troops in battle. However, as he was familiar with military books, he did not think that commanding troops in battle was difficult. After thinking about it, he smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. Since the enemy has an ambush, we will take advantage of them. Shang Jun's troops will go first, and after luring the ambush troops of the Wei army out, Zhang Zongzhen, Ke Furong and I will follow up and kill them. We will surely defeat the enemy."

All the generals thought that General Dingbei's idea was good, so they followed his plan.

Shang Jun led 9,000 Shouchun Camp soldiers to 40 miles southwest of Shanhaiguan, when they were suddenly ambushed. Jin Wang Ergalang and Chu Wang Baoyin led 22,000 guards to charge out. The two kings were all elite guards, and they quickly killed Shang Jun's troops.

Just as the two kings were feeling proud, Ai Xing'a, Zhang Yingxiang and Ke Yongzhen led 21,000 Qing troops to attack from behind.

"This is the time for us to sacrifice our lives for our country!" At the critical moment, Baghabandi, a captain under Ergalang, led 800 Junggar cavalrymen to charge at the Qing army, and threw Ke Yongzhen's army, who was at the forefront, into chaos. Seeing that he was coming fiercely, Ke Yongzhen did not dare to fight and retreated to avoid him.

Ergalang took advantage of the situation and led his army to charge at the rear of the Qing army, while Chu Wang Baoyin continued to attack Shang Jun's army. Seeing the prince personally on the battlefield, the morale of the guards was greatly boosted, and they attacked fearlessly. The Qing army, which outnumbered the guards, could not stop them and gradually fled. No matter how Ai Xing'a tried to restrain them, it was useless.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Ai Xing'a had to lead his personal guards to fight and open an exit for the entire army to escape to Shanhaiguan. Fortunately, Su He did not deploy troops near the Ying'en Gate in the west, so the Qing army was able to enter the city smoothly. After counting the troops, it was found that only 15,000 of the 30,000 reinforcements escaped into the city, and he could not help but cry. (End of this chapter)