Jiannu left a total of 30,000 infantry and 3,000 cavalry in Shanhaiguan, and asked Obai, the first warrior of the Eight Banners, to guard it. This shows how much Dorgon attached great importance to Shanhaiguan.
Thirty thousand infantry, including 10,000 Korean servants, 10,000 Han Eight Banners, and 10,000 Ming troops who surrendered from Shanhaiguan.
Thirty thousand people were disrupted, of which 20,000 were stationed in the main city and the two east and west barbicans, and the remaining 10,000 were stationed in four small castles.
As for the three thousand cavalry, one thousand of the real Eight Banners were stationed in the city, and the other two thousand Mongolian Eight Banners were stationed in the camp outside the city to the west.
As soon as the gong sounded in the south, Obai and Qianzhen Baqi were awakened in the General Military Mansion.
By the time Huang Degong led his men into the city, Obai and a thousand of his men had already assembled in armor.
"Report, General, there is an enemy attack on the south gate and they have entered the city."
"Don't panic. The number of enemy troops should be small. Immediately notify the camp outside the city to attack from a flank. Notify the defenders in Laolongtou to cut off the opponent's retreat. I want to catch the turtle in the jar!"
Obai got on his horse, raised the sword in his hand and roared, then summoned a thousand true Tatars to prepare to kill at the south city gate.
But as soon as everyone got on their horses, the shouts of killing and the sound of gongs came from the east, and the shouting of killing was particularly fierce.
"not good!"
"Quickly, go to the east gate..."
Ao Bai was worthy of being the person who almost made Nuan Mazi kneel down and call him daddy. He reacted instantly.
The opponent wanted to join forces with others and attack the main city in one fell swoop.
It is impossible to touch too many people from the south side, otherwise they will definitely be noticed, and the main force must be in the east.
At this time, Wu Sangui had completely controlled the three walls of Wengcheng. However, the walls of Wengcheng were shorter than the main city wall. There was only a staircase at the two ends, and there was a door at the top of the staircase, which could only be opened from the inside.
The second gate to the main city can only be opened from the inside, so at this moment thousands of people are blocked in the urn city and the city wall.
All of them were so anxious that they howled and screamed.
But the inside of Wengcheng was so bare that even if you tried to find a piece of wood to knock the door open, you couldn't do it.
Wu Sangui still saved a hand. Half of the eight thousand people stayed outside and did not cross the suspension bridge.
So although he was anxious at the moment, he was not too worried about his own life. If Huang Degong was really unable to open the door, with the eight thousand elites in his hand, he could retreat to the seaside at any time and let the navy pick him up.
He believed that there would never be many elite troops stationed in the small castle to the east to stop him.
He just felt a little sorry for his two thousand servants.
As for Huang Degong's life and death, it was none of his business, and he wished he would die in battle.
"Quickly, take down the door and break it."
At this time, Wu Sangui had already arrived on the tower of Wengcheng. Hearing the fierce shouts of killing in the city, he looked at the two doors next to him and shouted.
The servants next to him immediately pounced on them, tore down the two doors in three strokes, then picked them up and headed for the junction between the two ends.
There are already many people standing on the wall stacks at the border, jumping towards the main city wall, trying to grab the edge of the wall and climb up.
However, the people on the main city wall were not vegetarians. Almost all of them were stabbed with spears after jumping halfway.
So more people were still banging against the two small doors, and some were bending their bows and shooting arrows at the enemy on the main city wall.
"The door is coming, brothers, hit me hard!"
"One or two, touch!"
The few people at the front immediately took over the door panel and started shouting slogans and knocking on the door.
But after only a few hits, the door panel was smashed to pieces, and several people were so angry that they jumped and yelled.
"You bitch, open the door for me, or when I come in, I'll have to eat you bastards alive!"
"Open the door quickly and surrender without killing!"
"I'll be rewarded with silver when I come up. I promise not to use the knife..."
The heroes who were blocked at the border were suddenly ill and rushed to seek medical treatment. In desperation, they began to threaten and intimidate, and made promises of surrender.
But how could the traitor soldiers and servants on the main wall dare to open the door?
Each one of them has a ferocious look, and they are not easy to deal with at first glance. Is there any way to survive if they are let in?
At this time, the two thousand people led by Huang Deqiang were actually fighting hard on the wall behind the door.
Although two thousand people fought here without encountering much resistance, the two thousand enemy soldiers defending the east gate were already prepared. Coupled with the enemy troops retreating from Wengcheng, the crowd was almost crowded for a while.
The space on the city wall was too narrow to maneuver, and there were too many enemy troops below the city tower, especially those Korean servants, who knew how to hide in the city gate holes. As a result, the city gate was blocked to death.
And as Obai led his men to kill, the servants below the tower were inevitably surrounded and attacked.
"Kill me!"
Huang Degong stood at the top of the city and saw it. He was anxious in his heart, but he had no choice but to keep urging the brothers in front.
The servants in front did kill the traitor soldiers on the city wall and retreated step by step, but there were more people behind them.
The people behind will not retreat, but push them forward with all their strength. The knife cannot hit them anyway.
This made many people in front of me jump out of their skins.
After some hacking, they finally reached the border with Wengcheng, and several servants immediately opened the small door.
"ah…"
The servants behind the door were like wild beasts being unleashed. They rushed out, shaking the steel knives in their hands, screaming, eyes wide open, and scanning left and right, looking for prey.
"Quickly, turn around and kill towards the bottom of the city."
When Huang Degong saw this, he pointed his sword at the stairs behind him, and the servants who had been squeezing forward immediately turned around and started to kill towards the stairs.
As another small door at the border was also opened, more and more people rushed up the main city wall from behind the door, and then followed the two stairs toward the city gate.
As for the servants and traitor soldiers on the city wall, seeing that the situation was not going well, they had already fled north and south along the city wall.
"General, there are too many enemy troops. Almost all of them are elites who dare to die. The situation is over, so we should retreat quickly!"
Several confidants around Obai were anxious.
Although the city gate has not yet been opened, the enemy's troops are already coming down the stairs in a steady stream, and those Han soldiers and Korean soldiers cannot stop them at all.
"No retreat!"
"Those who retreat will die!"
But Obai's eyes turned red and he roared angrily.
But the only people around him who can really fight are a thousand Tatars and a few thousand Han and Eight Banners. But the original Ming army and Korean servant army in Shanhaiguan are too unbearable.
No matter how hard Obai and a thousand real Tatars fight, they can't defeat thousands of Ming troops who are also fighting hard.
The servants who were blocked at the city gate at first were greatly relieved, and finally killed all the Korean servants in the city gate, and then opened the gate.
"Kill!"
Suddenly, the Ming army behind the door rushed in with shouts.
Wu Sangui also came to the main tower and shouted loudly at the melee crowd below.
"Wu Sangui, the loyal and brave Marquis of the Ming Dynasty, is here. Anyone who surrenders will avoid death!"
"The commander-in-chief is back..."
Sure enough, when the Ming troops in front of Shanhaiguan heard that their own generals were leading their troops, they immediately lost their intention to resist and threw away their weapons and squatted on the ground.
The Han Eight Banners and the Servant Army were also infected. The Servant Army followed suit and threw away their knives, knelt down and surrendered, while the Han Eight Banners began to run away.
"Wu...san...gui!"
Obai's eyes were blood red, he looked up at Wu Sangui on the tower and roared.
"Haha! Oboi, today is the day you die!"
Wu Sangui also followed the sound and looked over. When he saw it was Obai, he laughed suddenly, pointed his sword at him and shouted.
"Kill me!"
"General, leave quickly or it will be too late."
Several confidants around Obai forcibly turned his horse around, and then surrounded him and fled towards the west of the city.
The Ming army, on the other hand, chased after them with shouts of death.
Along the way, anyone who refused to kneel down and throw a knife was hacked to death.
Finally, Obai escaped from the city with two hundred remaining cavalry.
Wu Sangui did not chase him out of the city.
Instead, they deployed troops and generals to control the four gates and two urn cities, and then eliminated any fish that slipped through the city.
As for the four small castles and the Tatar camp outside the city, he did not take care of them for the time being, because he knew that as long as he controlled the main city, he would control the entire Shanhaiguan, and the enemy forces in those small castles would have to surrender sooner or later.