The news of the Qing army's withdrawal also spread throughout the city as soon as possible, plunging the entire new city into a boil.

When the Qing army was attacking the city before, the people in the city heard the sound of artillery in the south of the city, and the sound of killing continued to spread to the city, and many people were very nervous, lest the Tartars break the city and be robbed themselves.

Many people have experienced the rogue in the Central Plains, and they are very afraid of war, especially hearing that the Tatars are more ruthless than the rogues, and the slaughter of the city is even more commonplace, even if they do not slaughter the city, they will take the whole city away and go to the customs to be slaves.

Thinking about that kind of life is worse than death, many people are even ready to commit suicide after the Tartars break the city, when they learn that the Tartars are defeated and retreat, everyone is ecstatic, and spontaneously come to the south city to welcome the heroes who repelled the Tartars.

Seeing the cheers of the people, the soldiers of the new battalion were very moved and proud, and a great sense of accomplishment arose.

Sun Yingyuan said to the soldiers of the new battalion: "Everyone has seen it! Our soldiers fought bloodily to defend their homes and relatives from being taken captive by the Tartars, do you think all the previous efforts are worth it? ”

The soldiers all said: "It's worth it!" ”

Sun Yingyuan raised his arms and said: "Kill the Tartars, protect my homeland, and bless my Ming!" ”

"Kill the Tartars, protect my homeland, bless my Ming!"

All the soldiers also shouted together, and then the people of Xincheng also shouted, tens of thousands of people shouted, and the sound shook the sky, making the retreating Qing troops feel panicked.

The Qing army lifted the siege of Xincheng and withdrew to a clearing five miles south of Xincheng, where they set up camp.

After the defeat back to the camp, Yanguli counted the losses of the Qing army, and the Qing army sent a total of 30,000 horses to participate in the battle, and the number of siegers was as high as nearly 10,000, and the number of dead was as high as more than 6,000.

Among them, there were more than 2,000 armored soldiers of the Eight Banners, the Han Army and the Mongolian soldiers of the Eight Banners, and some soldiers of the Northeast tribes, who were basically wiped out, and it can be said that they suffered heavy losses.

Facing the visionary eyes of the generals of the banners, Yanguli was ashamed and angry, and fell ill that night, and he didn't know whether he was angry or afraid that he would be severely punished by Huang Taiji after returning to Shengjing.

Abatai didn't care about this battle, it was not the men and horses of the banner who died, and it was Yanguli himself who strongly demanded the siege of the city, and the responsibility was his.

Yanguli sat in front of the sickbed and discussed with Abatai that Xincheng was afraid that it would not be able to be defeated, and that the army should be withdrawn as soon as possible, and it was best to join forces with the Azig troops to go out of Lengkou.

Abatai's brain is much better than Yanguli, and he naturally knows that the current momentum of the whole army is low, and he can no longer continue to attack the city.

Therefore, Abatai had long planned to withdraw the army, catch up with the front team of Azig, the king of Wuying County, and go out of the cold mouth with the population and materials after joining the army, and the task of cutting Ming is over, as for whether it is a reward or a punishment, it all depends on the eighth brother.

After the two discussed, they decided to pack up their things overnight and retreat early the next morning.

After the defense of Xincheng, Zhu Cihong first ordered people to clean up the wreckage of the people, find a place to bury them and set up a huge monument, and then ordered people to clean up the battlefield and count the results.

In this defensive battle, a total of 5,345 beheadings were repelled by the Qing army in two sieges, and 5,345 were beheaded, many corpses were blown up, and the heads and faces were completely unbelievable, which made the soldiers of the new battalion regret.

There were also many trophies seized, including more than 6,500 pieces of swords, guns, shields, and banners, 3,243 pieces of iron armor, more than 1,900 pieces of chain mail, more than 2,600 pieces of cotton armor, more than 3,100 pieces of leather armor, as well as hundreds of war horses and more than 80,000 taels of silver recovered from Tartars.

Although most of these armors are damaged, there are still a lot of intact ones, and in some places there is only a small bullet hole, which can be equipped for the soldiers without armor in the new battalion with a slight modification, and as for the silver money found, it will be divided on the spot!

Although it was a defensive battle, there were many soldiers killed in the new battalion, as many as more than 1,400 people, these recruits experienced the battlefield for the first time and were a little flustered, and they could not find the battlements in time to cover after attacking like veterans, and were shot dead by the Tartar archers.

After the tempering of this battle, Zhu Cihong believes that the recruits of the new battalion will accelerate their maturity and become excellent fighters.

After the Qing army set up camp five miles south of the new city, Zhu Cihong did not dare to be careless, and sent Long Xiang to investigate with all his might at night, and when he learned that the Qing army camp was packing up his things, Zhu Cihong snorted lightly.

"Want to go? It's not that easy! ”

The infantry of the new battalion has undergone actual combat training, but the cavalry is still half-hanging, so Zhu Cihong decided to pull the cavalry out for training.

At present, Zhu Cihong has a total of 1,000 cavalry in the Yongwei Battalion, 3,500 cavalry in the Shenshu Battalion, and 4,000 cavalry in the new battalion.

The current war horses are all supplemented later, and it is no problem to ride horses and cut dummies, but if you face living people, especially Tartars on horseback, it is estimated that you will panic when you see the cavalry, and you will not have the power to fight back at all.

Therefore, Zhu Cihong decided to practice courage first and give the cavalry of the new battalion a subject three road practice.

That night, Zhu Cihong ordered the Yongwei Battalion and the New Battalion, totaling 5,000 cavalry, to attack the Qing army camp five miles away at night.

The moon was dark and the wind was high, the iron hooves outside the new city were rumbling, and the sound of five thousand war horses going out together was shocking for several miles, and the cavalry in charge of guarding outside the Qing army camp was frightened and hurriedly issued an early warning.

The Qing army camp lit up one after another, the collision of various armor and weapons continued, and then a large number of war horses neighed, and the Qing cavalry completed the assembly at the fastest speed and began to launch a counterattack on the Ming cavalry.

As a result, before they left the Qing army camp, the cavalry of the Ming army divided into two wings and circled back to Xincheng, leaving only the Tatar cavalry with a confused face.

It was not easy to pursue in the middle of the night, and many people in the Qing army were blindfolded (night blindness) and rarely acted at night, so the Qing cavalry could only curse, and then dismounted and returned to the camp to continue sleeping.

In ancient times, people did not know the balance of nutrition, and many people lacked vitamin A, resulting in night blindness, difficulty in moving in dim light or at night.

Originally, there were many people in the Yongwei Battalion and the New Battalion who were blindfolded, but the two battalions had a night gathering every two days during weekday training, and whoever had a blindfold already knew.

Zhu Cihong specially carried out dietary therapy for these people, giving them vitamin A supplements every day, in addition, the whole camp has vitamin A supplemental foods in their daily meals to prevent night blindness, pig liver and other animal offal can not afford to eat, carrots and other vegetables are still available, and occasionally add some eggs.

In addition to congenital night blindness, the blindfolds of most of the soldiers in the Yongwei Battalion and the New Battalion have been adjusted, so they can wave casually at night, and there is basically no situation where they can't keep up with the brigade after going out.

After the Qing cavalry returned to the camp, less than half an hour, the 5,000 cavalry in the new city went out of the city to attack again, and the Qing cavalry also got on their horses again to meet the battle, and the Ming cavalry turned around and returned to the city.

Under such a routine, the Ming army attacked the Qing army's camp nine times in one night, during which the Qing cavalry did not come out directly, but only increased the detectives around the horses, but it didn't take long for Long Xiang to solve the problem.

Yang Qili even took a few dragons to carry the tiger squat cannon at night, and the cat body hid in a bush a mile away from the Qing army camp, secretly loaded the shotgun, and then shot at the Qing army camp......

Throughout the night, the Qing army camp was full of chickens and dogs, and the pain of being harassed was unspeakable, although the lethality of the shells fired by the tiger squat cannon from a mile away was not enough to kill, but ...... It's annoying! What it's like to sleep under a gun, only those who have experienced it will know!

It was not until about four o'clock in the morning that the cavalry of the two battalions stopped attacking and harassing, and as soon as they returned to the new city, they followed the orders from above, slipped back into the camp tent and fell asleep, not caring about anything, and waiting for the next big battle.