Chapter 136: Humiliation of the position, but it is necessary

Li Dingguo put down the telescope in his hand and said to Zhang Guofeng: "We are going to face Shanhaiguan now."

Zhang Guofeng looked at the Shanhaiguan wall in the distance and said, "You are better prepared to use artillery, right? If you blow up the city wall, you have to work hard to repair it."

Li Dingguodao: "My military skills are expensive."

Zhang Guofeng said: "In fact, people should be sent to persuade the surrender, and maybe they can be soldier without bloodshed."

Li Dingguo pointed to Shanhaiguan and said, "No one here deserves our forgiveness. Just kill it. By the way, I heard that Your Majesty issued a secret decree to you. What did it say?"

"I said a lot of things, the most important one is that Li Dingguo is a bastard."

Li Dingguo said angrily: "My cannons are about to roar, and my iron armored warriors are about to rumble in!

My army is about to kill the enemy! Go to fight to the death! Go to bleed!

But just now, something strange happened in my army. I have fought for decades, so I can be said to have experienced many battles!

This is the first time I have encountered such a thing in a hundred battles!

So today, my old problem may be committed again, and I may be cursing again!... It's amazing to have such a noble person with great powers, it's amazing!

He actually rushed to my frontier command post from a thousand miles away.

Don’t say anything else, just say that I, Li Dingguo, is a bastard?"

The other generals in the army faced the general's anger and lowered their heads one by one, pretending to be deaf and mute.

Facing the furious Li Dingguo, Zhang Guofeng seemed very calm. He looked at Li Dingguo, who had lifted off his iron helmet and exposed a bald head, and said lightly: "Your Majesty is right, you are just a bastard!"

Yun Zhao called Li Dingguo a bastard, but Li Dingguo has always been dissatisfied. Zhang Guofeng called him a bastard. Perhaps, he might be really a bastard.

So, Li Ding Guodao, who was half angry, said: "What did I do wrong?"

Zhang Guofeng looked at the generals and schoolmen around him and curled his lips: "Get out!"

Then a group of generals turned into birds and beasts and left their positions.

After everyone was exposed, Zhang Guofeng took out a cigarette from his arms and lit it, and said lightly: "Huang Yu, Mr. Huang is entangled with the giant gang Li Dingguo and go to rob Mingyue Tower together. It was originally a romantic and elegant thing. You, Li Dingguo, just admit it. Why do you want to leak the fans? What a forced one?

Your Majesty said, when you and Yun Yang return to the court, this matter will never end."

Li Dingguo raised his telescope again and looked at the city wall of Shanhaiguan and said lightly: "He made the idea, he planned it. I just helped him kill a few swordsmen, and you are also here. Do you think I am wronged?"

Zhang Guofeng looked at Li Dingguo and shook the red fire flag. He took advantage of the time to say, "No, you made the idea, you made the plan, I am your accomplice, Huang Yu, Mr. Huang took action to save those poor swordsmen..."

As soon as he finished speaking, a stream of smoke rose from the artillery position on the left, and then the "boom boom" sound of artillery covered Zhang Guofeng's lingering voice.

Just as the shells exploded at the top of the city, countless soldiers carrying ladders advanced towards the top of the city under the cover of artillery fire.

Li Dingguo's mouth was opening violently, but Zhang Guofeng could not hear any word he said.

He seemed to have forgotten about this, and just held up a telescope and observed the infantry charging.

A raging fire had already ignited on the top of the city, and some white flames were even spreading outside the city. The sulphur bomb and the phosphorus fire bomb detonated the ammunition stored on the city wall of Shanhaiguan, which immediately caused a larger explosion.

The sulphur bomb and the phosphorus bomb burned violently when it exploded, but it could not last long. When the infantry put the ladder on the city wall, there was only thick smoke on the top of the city, and the infantry, who had long covered their mouths and noses, had already begun to climb bravely.

Under this intensity of attack, the artillery on the city wall had been completely destroyed in the previous artillery battle, which resulted in the lack of feather arrows or room for firearms to fight back at the city wall of Shanhaiguan.

The tall siege car slowly approached the city head under the drag of more than a dozen cows. The musketeers on the siege car were spared no effort to clean up the remaining resistance at the city head.

When a large number of Lantian iron-armored infantry stepped onto the hot city, the cannons stopped roaring, and the subsequent iron-armored infantry continued to climb up to the city like ants like dozens of cloud ladders.

Zhang Guofeng listened with his ears and found that the explosion of the grenade was getting farther and farther away from him. Then he put down his telescope with ease and said to Li Dingguo Road, who was also relaxed: "What did you say just now?"

Li Dingguo sighed and said, "I am born to be a culprit."

Zhang Guofeng said: "Yun Yang can make such a mistake, you can't!"

Li Dingguodao: "Yun Zhao is not an emperor with a broad mind."

Zhang Guofeng said: "When did I tell you that Yun Zhao is broad-minded? I remember that I only told you that Yun Zhao is wise and kind, treats her with sincerity, has a long-term vision, and has a broad mind. How could he tell you that he has the advantage of being generous?

Fortunately, he still has the advantage of Yicheng. After he robbed Mingyue Tower, he will tell you clearly that he is angry with you. It is your luck to not hide this in his heart."

Li Dingguodao: "The matter has been posted. Will it be useful for me to explain it?"

Zhang Guofeng looked at the gradually opened Shanhaiguan gate and urged the war horse to move forward, saying, "It's useless."

Li Dingguo and Zhang Guofeng were walking together. In front of them, more soldiers had already entered Shanhaiguan first.

"It's useless, let me explain?"

Zhang Guofeng said: "The emperor's participation in robbing brothels is something that the people are very happy about. Even if it was not done by His Majesty, the people will think it was done by His Majesty.

Let you show that your attitude has nothing to do with the people's perception, mainly to let Your Majesty know that you, Li Dingguo, are willing to take the blame for him.

Even if your explanation makes the people more determined that robbery is Your Majesty’s idea, this process still has to go. After all, it is not important for the people to see it at all, but it is important for the people to see it at all.

Your Majesty gave me a secret decree to scold you at this critical moment. It was not that you wanted you to explain anything, but that you were in the same group as him. I have already sent you a reply and sent someone to spread new rumors..."

As Zhang Guofeng spoke, he took out a wine pot from his arms and threw it to a soldier who was carrying the city gate, with a dark face and a wound on his shoulders to welcome them into the city. He entered Shanhaiguan with the smug eyes of the injured soldiers.

The civil servants who entered Shanhaiguan early were very disappointed.

The people in Shanhaiguan had already evacuated, and all the supplies in the city were taken away. During the three months when Li Dingguo stationed troops in the capital, Wu Sangui and Li Hongji built a new city gate in Motianling.

The terrain of that city pass is dangerous, and there is basically no possibility of attacking the city with cannons.

After arranging his subordinates to search the entire city and the Shanhaiguan Great Wall, Li Dingguo said to Zhang Guofeng: "It's still my brothers who are caring about me. When I go to war, you can help me with the way out. You know, I am used to it and can't get these things."

Zhang Guofeng smiled and said, "I will be optimistic about your back. If you are willing to propose marriage to Qian Duoduo and marry a daughter of Yun, I don't have to worry so much."

Li Dingguo shook his head flatly and said, "If you don't be Yun Zhao's brother-in-law, this is my last insistence."

Wu Sangui immediately stood up and saw the towering Shanhaiguan, but he hadn't spoken for a long time.

In the past three months, he fought with Li Dingguo's army six times. Whether it was a surprise attack, a sneak attack, or a field battle, he had never gained any advantage.

It is not that the combat power of the Guanning Iron Cavalry has decreased, but that the firepower of the Lantian army is too fierce.

After two sneak attacks, the cavalry had just triggered the mines arranged by the Lantian Army outside the camp. After a few breaths, incendiary bombs would be fired, exposing the sneak attacked cavalry to the fire. Then, dense shells flew over...

When hiding and ambushing, whenever you encounter a suspicious place, dense shells will fly over. If it is a forest, it will be a burning bomb. If it is a mountain bag, it will be a phosphorus bomb. If it is a Jedi, the Lantian Army will definitely not step in without artillery fire.

They seem to have so many shells that they can never use up...

After several battles, Wu Sangui understood one thing: Lantian is really rich, and he and Li Hongji are really poor.

It is certain to give up Shanhaiguan, otherwise, the more people stay in this city, the more people will die.

From now on, any place with a big road will become the territory of the Lantian people. If they still want to survive, they can only go to the most remote place in the world.

Roads will not be built in those places, otherwise the Lantian cannon trucks will come, and those places will not be too close to Lantian territory, otherwise they will build a road by themselves.

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui's heart hurts very much. He feels that it is too cheap to sell his life to Li Hongji.

The road from Shanhaiguan to Motianling has been completely destroyed. Not only have many large holes been dug, but a lot of water was also poured on. It is extremely difficult for war horses to walk. I believe that Li Dingguo's artillery should be unable to come.

As long as there are no annoying artillery, Wu Sangui feels that he is still confident of fighting Li Dingguo.

Seeing the Lantian army chasing out of the city slowly covering each other and retreating back to Shanhaiguan amid the sharp sound of bronze horns, Wu Sangui breathed an inexplicably relieved.

Until the gate of the Shanhaiguan Great Wall slowly closed, Wu Sangui pulled his hips and retreated to the Motianling with an indescribable heavy mood.

Two days later, the generals of Li Dingguo's army and the secret spy department discovered a total of seventeen secret passages in Shanhaiguan City.

Nine of them are under the Great Wall, and three of them are dry tunnels filled with gunpowder.

So Li Dingguo sent a letter to Xu Wu, the governor of Shuntian Prefecture, asking to send a large number of civilians. He planned to dig a cross-ditch that stretched for dozens of miles apart one meter away from the Shanhaiguan city wall.
Chapter completed!