Chapter 886 Cover up the defeated army
Under the earthen village, Liu Shun saw the Ming soldiers rushing up to the stone fort in the clairvoyant mirror, and a member of the Ming army cut off the handsome flag of Huisai with a knife, and then took a large banner embroidered with turtles and snakes from the hands of the soldiers, waved it twice and inserted it into the city, he immediately put down the clairvoyant mirror, clenched his fist with one hand, and waved it upward.
When the Ming army of the main formation saw it, his heart was as excited as the main general, and he immediately let out bursts of cheers, and the gun behind Liu Shun was raised, and then put down, like waves on the sea, up and down.
The cheers of the Ming army did not start from the fort, but when the Ming army on the fort did not fully control the stone fort, the Ming army below howled, which set up the Xuanwu camp that rushed into the fort.
Cheers and shouts spread from the western slope to the stone village, and soon reached the ears of Duoduo in the western city.
This made Duoduo's heart suddenly lift, and he couldn't help but step forward, put one hand on the battlement, and look at the dirt slope with both eyes, trying to see the situation inside the stone village.
It's a pity that the Ming army attacked from the west, and the view of the city was just blocked by the dirt slope, and Duoduo and others couldn't see the situation of the Ming army's attack on the wall.
It was precisely because they couldn't see it, and the cheers of the Ming army came again, so the Qing army was worried, and many Qing army generals, like Duoduo, couldn't help but walk to the city wall, holding the battlements and looking, their eyes were full of melancholy.
There is a stone village, the Ming army can not threaten Yangzhou, the Qing army in Yangzhou City does not have much sense of urgency, on the contrary, the stone fort is lost, Yangzhou City will fall under the Ming army, especially if the Ming army will be red cannons on the high slope, you can look down on the west city, Yangzhou's defense will fall into a very passive situation, the impact of these consequences, will inevitably make the morale of the Qing army low.
"Lord Wang, last night we sent out more than 50 Franc machines, 1,200 elite soldiers, the Shizhai army is sufficient, and there are Hui Sai guards, there should be no problem with the Ming army for half a month, the prince doesn't have to worry too much."
Although the white flag of Baya Lama Zhangjing Suke Saha heard the cheers and shouts of the Ming army, he still offered a word of comfort when he saw Duoduo's expression.
Duoduo also felt that after he was blocked at the four gates of Yangzhou, he transported men and horses overnight to replenish the strength of Shizhai to the initial water product, if the Ming army followed the previous attack method, it would naturally take a while, and wait for the loss of Shisai troops before he could take the opportunity to break the village, but he was afraid that the Ming army would play some new tricks, and this mountain was all over the field, and the cheers came into his ears, how could he not worry?
"Not good!" When Duoduo was anxious, Guan Xiaozhong next to him suddenly pointed to Shizhai and exclaimed, "Lord Wang, Shizhai has been defeated!" ”
In fact, many Qing army generals have also been looking at Shizhai, and they can see it themselves without him saying it.
Duoduo just walked down, heard the sound and looked at the high slope in a hurry, only to see the east gate of the stone village on the high slope opened, more than a thousand Qing troops wearing hats and horse coats, mixed with more than 100 bannermen wearing white armor, rushed out of the stone village in a hurry, rushed down the high slope all over the mountains, and fled to Yangzhou.
In the stone village, the Ming army was still in the remnants of the Qing army, two hundred households, abandoning the remnants of the enemy in the stone village, did not go down the fort wall, according to Zhang Youde's order, one left and one right along the fort wall.
Forehead Hui Sai escaped from the east gate, heard the cheers all over the mountain, looked back at the stone village, saw that the east gate of the fort wall has appeared with a saucer helmet, wearing red armor of the Ming army, the Qing army fled from the east gate, no one organized the Ming army on the fort wall to drive away, one by one just rushed to escape, several Qing soldiers ran out of the fort gate, was shot by the Ming army on the wall, the remnants of the Qing army behind did not care, supporting the Ming army loading the opportunity, fled out of the fort gate in a hurry.
At this time, several more Baijia escaped in a hurry, and the Ming army on the fort was still changing the dressing, and it was too late to shoot, but the main force fighting in the fort finally chased over.
When the first few gunners chased out of the door, they immediately knelt on one knee, raised their guns and shot, several white armor instantly knocked down two people, and one person was punched a blood hole in his leg, and immediately fell to the ground, the two white armor soldiers who had already run away saw this, paused, gritted their teeth, or turned around to set up the injured white armor, and then dragged the emperor away.
After shooting, the gunners immediately stood up and loaded their ammunition, and at this time, a huge shout sounded, and Zhang Youde led his men and horses to chase out of the fort gate and began to cover the defeated army.
All the generals of the past dynasties like to do nothing more on the battlefield than to cover up the defeated army, which is a kind of thing that makes the opponent cry and cry for his mother.
For a time, the Ming army followed the defeat of the Qing army, and chased and killed all over the mountains, some of the Ming army chased and released their guns, hit the back of the Qing army, and killed them, and some of the Ming army caught up with them on a fast pace, and cut them with a knife, and cut the Qing army to the ground from behind, and the corpse of the Qing army rolled a few times on the not steep slope, and then there was no movement.
Seeing this scene, Duoduo in the city saw that Shizhai had missed, and his angry fist hung on the battlement, and he shouted angrily with red eyes, "Why don't you go and prepare the hanging basket quickly, and then order the sentinel to fetch the people." ”
The four gates of Yangzhou were blocked, and the only way for the Qing army to survive was to run down the dirt slope, swim across the moat, and then let the Qing soldiers in the city hang them into the city, or enter the city by the water gate.
The moat of Yangzhou is relatively wide, and the Qing army still has a lot of small boats in it, mainly to patrol at night to prevent the Ming army from filling the river, or to make detailed use of entering Yangzhou.
After hearing the shouts of Duoduo, the castle commander hurriedly lowered the rope on the wall, and then let the sentinel ship sail to the moat to meet the defeated army.
At this time, Hui Sai was escorted by more than a dozen personal soldiers to escape, his bowl hat was gone, and his bare head was exposed, revealing rat-tail pigtails, which looked a little embarrassed.
On the battlefield, in order to facilitate command, the generals are dressed very conspicuously, so that the subordinates can see him and make it easier to command, but the subordinates can see it, and the enemy is naturally easy to target him.
Later, with the development of the command system, this method gradually changed, and the officers' uniforms, armbands and other items indicating their identity became smaller and smaller, and became more and more inconspicuous, just for fear of being targeted by the enemy and killing their own officers.
At this time, although Hui Sai lost his official hat, the whole person was still very conspicuous, in addition to being surrounded by more than ten people, the main thing was that he put a yellow horse coat on the black official robe, like a traffic light, the color was particularly eye-catching, and it was difficult for people not to see it.
The Qing army's sentry boats were scarce, and there were not many people crossing at once, and the rout troops who ran to the river were very chaotic and scrambling for ferries.
The last Ming army crashed into the rout, and then slashed and slashed, forcing the Qing army to jump into the moat again and again.
Zhang Youde saw Hui Sai's figure, who was being escorted by his personal guards and wanted to board the ship, and immediately scolded: "Tartar, where to escape!" ”
After speaking, he led dozens of Ming troops, swarmed up, slashed left and right with swords, cut down the Qing army rout that was blocking the way, and soon caught up with him, several of Huizhai's personal soldiers turned around to resist, and several guns behind Zhang Youde immediately raised their guns to shoot, and instantly put the Qing army who wanted to stop them to the ground.
At this time, one of Hui Sai's own soldiers jumped on a sentry boat, waved his knife to drive all the routs above into the river, and then turned around and stretched out his hand to pull Hui Sai into the boat, Hui Sai also arrived at the river, stretched out a hand, and leaned towards the moat, but just as the hands of the two were about to clasp up, Hui Sai only felt a big hand suddenly grab his braids, and then dragged him back with a desperate drag.
He was suddenly frightened, and was about to struggle, Zhang Youde directly slashed horizontally, white light flashed, blood spurted, Hui Sai's body was immediately separated, and his head was lifted up by Zhang Youde's pigtail.
Other generals of the Ming army, if they catch the full soldiers, they may leave a living mouth and hand it over to the above, but the generals who fought out from Yangzhou, when they encounter this situation, they can generally kill if they can, and they will kill if they can't make excuses, unless Wang Yan repeatedly confesses, otherwise there will be no live mouth in their hands.
In a moment, as the Ming army pursued and killed, the Qing army by the moat broke out, either got on the sentry boat, or jumped into the river by itself, the Ming army hit a row of guns to the Qing army swimming across the river, and the Qing army on the city also began to shoot at the Ming army by the river, and immediately killed several Ming soldiers.
Zhang Youde held the head in one hand, and immediately brandished the war knife in the other, shouting: "Withdraw!" ”
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