Since ancient times, siege and grabbing the gate have been the most dangerous. Both of them are the key defense places for the defenders.

Although Tianyou, the cannons at the head of Tongguan were filled with gunpowder and bombed themselves away because they were filled with gunpowder. It was obvious that Ma Shiyao was not kind-hearted. There were still many ambushing soldiers in the city gate.

I don’t know how much blood will be shed at the gate of this city, and how many bloody battles will be fought before it can be captured.

Fortunately, due to the terrain, there is only one city gate in the east gate of Tongguan, and there is no wall city built inside, which is a blessing in disgrace.

Even though Geng Zhongming was reluctant, Duoduo's military order had been issued, there was no reason to change it. At this time, the opportunity was indeed impossible to miss. The city gate was wide open and the city was in chaos. It was a great time to seize the city gate.

If you return to the army, you will send troops and generals slowly. Maybe Ma Shiyao will also reseal the city gate.

Geng Zhongming looked around and found that there were only a few hundred Ding Qinwei around him. These servants were all their treasures. Almost every one recognized him as his adoptive father.

This time, the troops under his leadership were more than 10,000, but most of them were some surrendered Han troops after entering the pass. The truly elite ones were just the servants and guards with less than 1,000 people under his command.

In the late Ming Dynasty, it was popular to raise private soldiers, and the most outstanding soldiers in the team were taken to the military generals as servants. Some even worshipped the military generals as their adoptive fathers and changed their surname to the head of the family.

The treatment of ordinary military households and servants is naturally different. It is a problem for ordinary military households to eat enough. But these personal guards who were selected as servants belong to the private property of military generals. If you can have a military general who eats it in one bite, you won’t be hungry for these servants.

Of course, on the battlefield, these servants and adopted sons are also truly capable of exerting their lives.

At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan. He gathered the most capable generals of Japan and formed nine armies to attack North Korea. In the battle of Bitumen, an ambush was set up. Thirty thousand people went to fight against the Ming Dynasty general Li Rusong.

Li Rusong only has two thousand people, but these two thousand people are truly elite, most of whom are servants they have raised.

As a result, even though the troops were ten times different, they were still under the intentionality of Japan. Li Rusong's servants resisted the tens of thousands of Japanese elite attacks. After fighting for a whole day and a night, they withdrew each other.

This shows the combat power of this private soldier. However, although the combat power of the servants is strong, the cost of raising elite soldiers is also amazing.

In the 17th year of Chongzhen, when the Dashun Army had not yet broken through Beijing, Emperor Chongzhen recruited Wu Sangui's father Wu Xiang and asked if he could transfer the Guanning Iron Cavalry outside Shanhaiguan back to fight against the rebels.

Wu Xiang said that although I am known as 60,000 troops, only 3,000 soldiers can really fight. But your Majesty, don’t worry, my three thousand soldiers can be said to be one hundred. If I can be transferred back to the pass, I will be sure to wipe out the army of rebels for Your Majesty.

Chongzhen was overjoyed and asked the army how much it would cost to set off. Wu Xiang said that one million taels of silver could not be moved. Then he calculated a detailed account for Chongzhen and told Chongzhen why three thousand servants needed so much money.

At that time, only nine words were recorded in historical books, "I thought about it for a long time, and I felt deeply the words."

It can be seen that this private soldier of the family is the heart of every chief general. Geng Zhongming will never easily use his family's team unless necessary.

This capture of the city gate is actually a rough job. Generally, the miscellaneous soldiers go to the Ant Support to attack the city. If they really can't conquer, they have to wait until the defenders are almost wiped out. Then send their servants to complete the battle.

Now the opportunity is not to be missed. When his personal guards think that they are going to add a black hole in Tongguan City Gate. Geng Zhongming can be said to be bleeding in his heart.

However, the military orders are as high as a mountain, and Geng Zhongming has no choice but to do so. Now the opportunity is not missed. The army is under the back, so it is definitely too late to go back to dispatch. Only the number of people around him is counted as many people.

Geng Zhongming gritted his teeth and called the leaders of the personal guards around him together and said briefly. Then he activated the war horse and rushed to the Tongguan city gate.

...

At this time, Ma Shiyao, who was waiting at the gate of the city and was about to surrender, had already run into Tongguan City.

In fact, when he saw the Taoist priest dressed in Lu Zu jumping down from the top of the city, he knew that things were wrong. He hurriedly pulled Taoist priest Niu and ran to the city with a group of Dashun officials.

But after all, two legs are not as good as four legs. When I crossed the suspension bridge and wanted to close the city gate, Geng Zhongming's personal guard team had already rushed to the city gate.

Ma Shiyao was originally planning to surrender today, but he had neither armor nor weapons. Even if he wanted to block Geng Zhongming's personal guard, he had no weapons available. He had no choice but to greet him and ran away in all directions.

He kept scolding these weird people who came from somewhere to ruin their deception. These people were dressed gorgeously but their abilities were not good.

Ma Shiyao originally saw these people dressed exaggeratedly and guessed that they might have found a cast member from the opera. However, after seeing these people doing something on the city wall, he knew that he had guessed wrongly.

Although the result was a mess, at least the process was extremely strong and the integrity was extraordinary. It was definitely not done by the actors in the opera troupe.

But if he wasn't a actor, who would he be? Could it be the legendary hero? Another thought flashed through Ma Shiyao's mind.

It is said that some wealthy places facing south still have the tradition of raiders. They are usually done by young playboys and the heroes in the market. They most admire the heroes in the "Biography of the Heroes" of Taishi Gong. They wear gorgeous clothes, let the heroes, drink like water, and are in the market.

However, these legendary heroes Ma Shiyao have never seen them. The years in the north have not been good in recent years, either famine or war. In some places, they even changed their children to eat.

Ma Shiyao has been hiding in the north, and he saw either bandits or defeated soldiers. Even wealthy families set up camps to protect themselves and lived a life of fear.

He should be so low-key on weekdays. He dare not even wear silk clothes, for fear of being missed by bandits. How could anyone dare to be a hero on the market?

So Ma Shiyao has only heard of the legend of the knights, but has never seen any heroes. Now these people in the city are eccentric, dressed in a furious manner, and they are so annoying that they overlap with the heroes in their impressions.

Perhaps these people heard that Jianlu had invaded the Central Plains, and after a few taels of yellow soup, they were loyal and did not know the importance of it. They thought they were all figures like Jing Ke and Nie Zheng, so they gathered together to come together.

Unfortunately, he not only saved his life in Tongguan City, but also ruined his own good things.

Ma Shiyao believed in his heart that these people were all the ideas of the heroes in the market, and blamed them for not being able to succeed and fail. Now that they have become like this, there is nothing to say.

Even if I cut my arms backwards and go to Duoduo's tent to apologize, I'm afraid it will be difficult to win the trust. There is no way, so I have to abandon Tongguan and save my life.

I still have more than 7,000 people under my command, which is all my hard work over the years. Now in the chaos in Tongguan, I don’t know how many more I can bring out. I hope these heroes can at least stand in front of me for a while and win some time for their retreat.

...

Geng Zhongming was far away and saw Ma Shiyao who abandoned the city gate and ran to the city desperately. However, he had no intention of chasing. A mere bandit pseudo-Wushan Bo was not enough to worry about Geng Zhongming. The most important thing is to seize the city gate as soon as possible.

Originally, Geng Zhongming was thinking that since there was an ambush in Tongguan City, I was afraid there might not be any dangerous plan at the gate, and he was even prepared to lose half of his personal guards.

He thought that as long as his personal guards could delay the city gate for a while and prevent the city gate from being closed, he would naturally be effortless to capture Tongguan City when the Qing army brigade was in power behind.

But what Geng Zhongming expected was that the city gate was extremely easy to seize.

Until he rushed into Tongguan, he did not find any strong resistance. The one guarding the city gate was not the Dashun Army, but some people in the martial arts world in strange costumes.

The dress of these people in the martial arts world is much more exaggerated than the heroes described in "Biographies of the Rangers". Unfortunately, they are not capable enough. Although they are desperate to rush in. But they can't resist the impact of the cavalry. After one round, they are scattered by the cavalry.

When Geng Zhongming's cavalry scattered left and right, waiting for the roundabout encirclement, the infantry team rushed up in the middle. The people on the opposite side seemed to have reacted. They ignored their companions who were knocked down by the cavalry and bravely rushed up again with all kinds of bluffing weapons.

As a result, these weapons seemed extremely powerful, but in fact they were neither gold nor wood, and were light and had little power. Their martial arts were also extremely poor. They were all fighting styles of country people, and they didn't understand any method of fighting formations at all.

Although Geng Zhongming surrendered to the Qing Dynasty for many years, he still used Qi Jiguang's tactics back then. The infantry soldiers used the modified Mandarin Duck Formation.

The infantry army is a group of six people, two swords and shields, two spearmen and two palladium boring hands.

This palladium boring hand uses not a rural farming rake, but a weapon similar to a short fork. Including the boring tip, it is only as high as the eyebrows. There is a boring tip in the middle and a horizontal fork on both sides.

Each hand has thirty rockets. If the enemy is far away, the hand will insert the bore tip upwards and put the rocket on the horizontal fork. With the help of the power of the rocket, you can shoot the enemy within 300 steps.

When the enemy approaches, the sword and shield hand holds a rattan card to hold the enemy's weapons, and the spearman stabs the enemy in the gaps of the rattan card. As a backup, the horizontal fork on the drum can be used as a shield to set the opponent's weapons, and the boring tip can also stab and kill people. It can be said that it is both offensive and defensive.

The Mandarin Qi's Mandarin Duck Formation is extremely powerful, but it is not easy to form an army. Advance and retreat attack requires a lot of practice and running-in. The rockets of the palladium boring hand also require a lot of money to build and maintain.

Therefore, only Geng Zhongming's own guards can have such a configuration. These heroes don't understand the power of the Yuanyang Formation. Before they could get closer, they were shot by the rockets.

When the remaining people rushed to the front regardless of their injuries, their attacks were blocked by the shield. In a few strokes, they were assassinated to the ground by the spear protruding from the shield.

After the city gate was taken down, Geng Zhongming climbed the city heading along the horse road. When he reached the city wall, he found that the heroes at the city head were even more unbearable. Except for the people who were killed by cannons, the others were crowded together in disarray. Before they could fight with their soldiers, several people were squeezed down from the city head.

When the soldiers with shield swords rushed over after shooting a few rounds of arrows, there were no more heroes in the city who could stand.

Geng Zhongming was very happy to see the city gate being easily captured and asked his confidant soldiers to strictly guard the city gate to prevent the enemy from robbing the city gate again, and then he went to Duoduo to report his life.

Let’s talk about Duoduo returning to the central army formation and just planned to mobilize the army to pick up Geng Zhongming, but he saw that Geng Zhongming had followed him and reported that he had taken down the city gate of Tongguan. This surprised Duoduo.

To be honest, Duoduo ordered Geng Zhongming to attack the city, and he felt a little regretful as soon as he said that. In any case, Geng Zhongming was also an orthodox prince awarded by the court. Although it was incomparable to him as his prince, he was indeed a little impatient to let a prince take a stunning attack on the city gate.

The situation was so urgent that he could not think too much about it. Now that Geng Zhongming has returned from victory and successfully captured the Tongguan gate, everyone is naturally happy.

So Duoduo ordered Geng Zhongming to lead the remaining 10,000 troops from his headquarters to the city to clear the remaining bandits, and he led the army outside the city to respond. When all the troops in the city subsided, he led the army into the city.

If it was a fatal chore to let Geng Zhongming take the city gate by taking the arrows and stones a moment ago, then the second entry into the city and the clearance of the bandits would be a big fat man.

Now that the city gate has been captured, the sporadic battles in the city are just tinea scabies. The most important thing left is to go to the city to kill and rob.

Before Dorgon entered the pass last year, he asked Fan Wencheng, a great scholar who was recuperating in Tangquan, Gaizhou for advice. Fan Wencheng gave Dorgon the famous "Strategy for Entering the Central Plains of Meditation".

The most important passage in it is: "Since ancient times, no one who kills the world and wins the world, wants to seize the world, must be content with the people. Change the style of the Eight Banners soldiers and plundering."

The memorial was followed by a series of detailed rules for the reform of the military system. While this memorial was recognized by Dorgon, it also meant that the Qing Dynasty changed the military system from then on.

Before entering the pass in the year of Jiashen, the soldiers of the Eight Banners had no food and salary. It was all obligation to go out to fight. Even horses and weapons had to be prepared by themselves. All the gains were only robbery.

Fortunately, the Eight Banners' children have not been idle these years, and have frequently bypassed Shanhaiguan and invaded the Central Plains. They all made a fortune.

But this time, the entry into the pass again is different from the past. It was for robbery, but now the goal has been changed to fighting to dominate the world. This robbery naturally cannot become the norm.

Therefore, Dorgon changed the Eight Banners Army system based on Fan Wencheng's suggestion. The conscripts who originally did not pay food and pay, but now they pay money on time every month.

You should know that reform and reform are the most deadly things in all dynasties. If they are modified well, they will unify the world like Qin. If they are changed poorly, they will be like Wang Mang, who will die and die, leaving behind a lifetime of infamy.

Fan Wencheng's letter "The Strategies for Entering the Central Plains" can be said to have laid the foundation for the Qing Dynasty for the next three hundred years.

Of course, once some things that are used to, they will not be so easy to change. Although Dorgon paid a lot of money every month, the Eight Banners' children have been robbing for a hundred years. It can be said that the robbery has been carved into the bone marrow. It is not easy to change them all at once.

So although the government orders are strictly prohibited from looting, in fact, it only slightly controls the looting with great fanfare, and can always find some contingency techniques when conquering cities and territories.

For example, before the army arrived, the city led by the crowd to join us, we must ensure that it is comprehensive.

But if any city dares to offend the power of our Qing army, it will be a chariot. Then after breaking the city, there will be some minor punishments.

Now Duoduo is fighting hard under Tongguan City for more than ten days. After entering the city, he will not exceed Dorgon's military rules.

Moreover, Tongguan City has been a military city since ancient times, with countless food and supplies inside. I guess it is very rich in oil and water.

Duoduo specifically instructed Geng Zhongming: "The rebellion of Tongguan City and rebelled again means that the unfair people in the city are very dishonest. After entering the city this second time, you can appropriately promote the power of our Qing army and teach these unfair people in Tongguan some lessons."

Geng Zhongming naturally accepted the order happily. You must know that this kind of beauty was unique in the past. In history, when the Ant Attachment attacked the city, the Han army was always indispensable, but the first Daotang who entered the city was a matter of Manchu soldiers.

Sometimes when encountering some barren and difficult cities, when the Han army enters the city, there is no more than a single bite of soup residue left in the city. This time, Geng Zhongming was able to receive this job because Duoduo rewarded him for leading his troops to seize the sect just now.

However, when Geng Zhongming was leaving, Duoduo picked up a hundred Baijia Bayala from his personal guards and asked them to protect Geng Zhongming and follow Geng Zhongming into the city.

The Qing army's Eight Banners system, one Niulu is 300 people, five Niulu is Jiala, and five Jiala is one flag, and its military commander is called Gushan Ezhen. Bayala is a warrior carefully selected from each Niulu. Only ten Bayala can be selected from three hundred people, wearing red armor.

These Red Armored Bayala must first kill more than a hundred people on the battle formation, and also have to ride and shoot and evaluate the double-level performance in order to advance to the White Armored Bayala.

There are two things that the Qing Dynasty often boast about, one is that "the Jurchens are invincible", and the other is that "there have been fighting with the Ming Dynasty for fifty years, and no damage is made to the white armor."

These white armored Bayalas were wearing triple armor, with a layer of fine and soft chain mail at the bottom, and a relatively light cotton armor in the middle, and another layer of iron armor was placed on the outside. The battle formation was invincible.

There are no more than 200 white-armored soldiers in the entire Eastern Army camp. They are the elite among the elites under Duoduo. If Geng Zhongming's servants were Geng Zhongming's godsons, then these white-armored soldiers are definitely Duoduo's biological sons.

Now Duoduo handed over nearly half of the white-armored soldiers around him to Geng Zhongming to deploy, which can be said to have given Geng Zhongming enough face.

Of course, Geng Zhongming also knew in his heart that these white-armored soldiers were close to Duoduo and were all in his heart. He followed him into the city just to make some contributions and make some money.

As for protecting yourself and letting yourself dispatch, that's just a polite word. Just listen to it yourself. If you take it as the truth, you'll be stupid. These Manchu soldiers are very precious. Not to mention one and a half of them died, even if one of them was really injured, it's hard to explain to me.

If the second round enters the city this time, it will be nothing if the battle goes smoothly. There is no chance to get rich, just let these white-armored men get more involved.
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