Zhang Xianzhong watched in surprise as the Qianjin Gate was lowered, and then the hell-like screams rang out in Guancheng.

It’s over! These three thousand people are all over!

But Zhang Xianzhong didn't care. It didn't matter that he had hundreds of thousands of people but only 3,500 less. There were just a few people to eat, which saved a lot of food.

Dorgon looked helplessly at the thousand-jin gate. A stone thousand-jin gate with hundreds of kilograms of gunpowder would definitely not work. Mortars are direct-firing artillery, and the firing angle of a stone thousand-jin gate would not work.

The best thing is to use a siege cannon. The flat trajectory of that thing is very damaging to the city wall. However, that thing is too bulky and not suitable for traveling in the grassland with almost no roads. When Huang Taiji came out, he didn't bring it with him at all.

In this raid on Guanzhong, what was needed was speed and surprise. For these two reasons, Huang Taiji gave up the siege cannon. Anyway, relying on people to pile gunpowder under the city wall was also a good way. It just meant that some people would be killed or injured, but they would die anyway.

They are all Han people, even Zhang Xianzhong doesn't care much, and Huang Taiji doesn't even care.

"There is no other way but to attack by force." Dorgon saw the top of Tongguan City, where corpses were being thrown down.

Most of the corpses had arrows stuck on them, and some of them looked like they had been killed by firecrackers, with half of their heads missing. The dead were thrown down one by one, and soon there was a pile in front of the city gate.

This time it’s even more troublesome. If you want to blow up the Thousand Jin Gate, you have to remove the corpses first. The Ming army on top of the city will not let them easily remove the corpses. It is estimated that the people sent there did not touch the corpses, so they themselves

Became a new corpse.

"Master Beile! Look at this...!" Zhang Xianzhong had no choice. Although there were many people, Tongguan was not something that could be squeezed through by too many people.

"Hey...!" Dorgon sighed. He couldn't waste too much time under Tongguan. Seeing that now he could only use precious artillery shells.

"Mortars!" Dorgon shouted, and the two mortars were loaded immediately. They were gunners who had been training for several months, and their accuracy was pretty good at this distance. The first round hit the pass.

It exploded on the ground. Another shot hit the inside of Tongguan, sending up a plume of thick smoke. It was unclear whether anyone was hit by the explosion.

There was a panic at the top of the city, but seeing that the cannonballs did not land on their heads, the Ming army soon recovered and continued to pile corpses at the city gate.

The gunners quickly adjusted their angles, and all the second shells hit the city gate. The Ming army soldiers who were carrying the corpses were thrown up by the blast of air. The corpses in their hands remained at the gate, but they fell to the bottom of the city.

The main road in Tongguan is only large enough for two carriages to pass side by side. Although the pass is tall, there are not many soldiers standing on it. The mortars only fired two rounds, and no one was seen on the top of the city. Everyone who was not killed was killed.

After running away, the Ming army never dreamed that these mud-legged people under the city would actually have artillery...

The two groups of Han flag soldiers quickly moved forward and ran a hundred paces away. The flintlock guns in their hands were pointed at the crenels of the city gate in the distance. Now their guns were also loaded with mini bullets, and their range and accuracy were the same as before when they fired spherical bullets.

The firing of a blunderbuss is different.

"Kill! Each person who breaks Tongguan will be rewarded with ten big white steamed buns!" Zhang Xianzhong very efficiently organized thousands of cannon fodder again, all holding big wooden sticks in their hands.

The hungry people were killed again. As soon as the Ming army showed its head on the city, there would be bullets like wasps hitting them. There would always be bullets that accurately penetrated the heads of the Ming soldiers, even the officers wearing iron helmets were no exception.

The hungry people began to carry the corpses, and the guys who were stonemasons began to dig the thousand-jin gate. They were all experienced old stonemasons. They first carved a triangular groove in the stone, and then asked the strong guys to swing the sledgehammers.

Smash.

In less than half an hour, a hole was made in the Thousand Jin Gate. After two more hits along the hole, the Thousand Jin Gate suddenly broke apart. Half of the Thousand Jin Gate, which weighed hundreds of kilograms, was photographed straight away.

In the crowd, several guys who were wielding sledgehammers were smashed into meat pies!

The hungry people didn't care about this, but the ten large white-faced steamed buns were still very tempting. Everyone rushed inside like crazy, and this time no more thousand-jin gates fell down.

"Go up!" Dorgon gave the order, and the soldiers of the Han Army rushed to the bottom of the city wall carrying ladders. They climbed up the ladder to the city wall, but did not see a shadow of the Ming army. They quickly loaded their bullets and closed the door on the opposite city.

Ming army shooting.

Their flintlocks could hit the Ming army, but the Ming army's crossbows and muskets could not hit them. As long as the Ming army exposed its head at the city gate, no one could escape the fate of being shot. The hungry people had the Han army flag.

He took cover and ran arrogantly over a hundred steps directly to the bottom of Guancheng.

I don’t know which unscrupulous guy brought gunpowder and piled it half a man high under the city gate. The most unscrupulous thing is that this guy lit it and ran away.

No one ran away, and several half-year-old children were still watching curiously. The poor child had never seen gunpowder in his life.

"Boom!" The city gate was blown open, and a half-year-old child was also blown away. There were broken limbs and broken arms everywhere, and people lying in pools of blood everywhere. People's screams floated to the top of the city gate along with the gunpowder smoke!

The mortar was dragged to the city pass, but it was found that the hungry people had already rushed into the pass. There was no need to fire anymore, the shells were very expensive!

Three thousand Ming troops were stationed in Tongguan. According to past experience, the rebels who lacked siege equipment and siege experience could not defeat them in a year. But now, the three thousand defenders of Tongguan only held on for one day.

When the cavalry of Zhenghuang Banner rushed over with countless corpses to chase down the fleeing officers and soldiers, the Ming army suddenly realized that their real opponents had become Tatar soldiers. Aren't those guys in Liaodong? How could they escape?

Coming to Guanzhong?

No one answered their questions. Huang Taiji did not want to take prisoners. The cavalrymen of Zhenghuang Banner had no such intention. After chasing you, whether you kneel down and beg for mercy or fight for your life, you will just swing your hand and stab him.

In the end, it became like a game. Big guy, you chop me and I chop you, and it’s important to be sure that you can’t kill the person with the sword. Whoever kills him in the end will have to pay for it!

Tongguan was defeated in one day, and the entire Ming Dynasty was shocked. Tatar soldiers appeared in the west of the empire. What was going on? Could it be that they could fly?

Qian Qianyi was very happy. Anyway, Guanzhong was occupied by the rebels. He didn't care whether it was occupied by the rebels or the Tatars. What he cared about was that the Tatar soldiers appeared in Guanzhong, and he could now impeach the Liao soldiers for conscription.

The suppression was ineffective. Although Li Xiao is now the governor of Shandong, he is still involved in the impeachment of the Liao army.

The most ideal result is to uproot Li Xiao and his gang. For Qian Qianyi, that would be too wonderful. Anyway, what they Jiangnan scholars care about is the safety and peace of Jiangnan. Even if the north is reduced to a hot pot of porridge, it will not matter.

What can I do? Apart from a mansion in the capital, I don’t have an inch of land in the north.

Besides, the Tatars only captured Tongguan, Xuanfu, and Datong. Then they also had Zijingguan and the Inner Great Wall. After conquering this circle, there should not be many Tatars left.

"Impeach! Immediately mobilize the officials to impeach the Liao Army, the Ministry of Punishment, and Dali Temple, and send personnel to look for evidence of Mao Wenlong, Yuan Chonghuan, and Zu Dashou. Once verified, immediately lock up the letter and take it back to Beijing," Qian Qianyi ordered.

When I did it, my little tongue was trembling with excitement.

Below stood a group of sixth- and seventh-rank officials. Even though they were not big officials, they were a very important force in the court. Moreover, these people were all Jiangnan scholars, even if some were not Jiangnan scholars. They also followed the East

The Lin Party has a relationship between teachers and students. Now that the boss of Donglin has spoken, all the officials agreed in unison and left one after another.

I plan to go home all night to write a memorial. I will tell you whether it is the crime of the Liao army. What if it is true? In their eyes, the emperor is not important, the Ming Dynasty is not important, the most important thing is the leader Qian Qian

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