Li Shutai didn't expect to be defeated so quickly, and the infantry was defeated quickly, but the most elite Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry was defeated so quickly, more than 5,000 Eight Banner cavalry, only one round of charge, and there was no room for maneuver, so the whole army was wiped out!

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Li Shutai looked at the defeated army in pain, and said gloomily: "Let's go, go back to the city!" ”

At this point, Li Shutai could only find a way to withdraw to the city with minimal losses, relying on the city fortifications of Zhangzhou City to defend it. The Ming army already has such powerful firearms, and can easily slaughter the 5,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners cavalry like a chicken and a dog, what else can stop the Ming army's attack in the future?

Originally, Li Shutai planned to use the field battle to eliminate the Ming army, if an army completely lost its field ability and could only retreat in the city to hold on, it would completely fall into passivity, and the final result would be to be eaten by someone.

"Is the sky going to kill me?" Li led Tai to collect the defeated troops and retreat to Zhangzhou.

Recalling that when he was outside the Guan, Emperor Taiji of Tiancong Khan once said that his idea of cutting down the Ming Dynasty, indicating that although the country is decaying, after all, it has been established for more than 200 years, and the land is vast and the people are wide, just like a big tree with deep roots and lush leaves.

Now the situation is about to be reversed, the Qing State, which has lost its ability to fight in the field, is like a big tree with deep roots and thick leaves, which was first removed by the Ming army, then cut down the trunk, and slowly felled down.

Could it be that Hulu's hundred-year-old fortune is about to become a reality again? But this Qing Dynasty time is too short! It's only been a few years, and we're about to face the fate of failure.

The loss of a country's army in the field means that the opponent can take the method of besieging the city to break through each one. If troops are sent to the rescue, they will be surrounded by people to send reinforcements, and the main force will be annihilated in the field.

On the position of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in Pingnan Wangfu, Shang Zhixin shouted loudly: "Hurry up!" Lee So-tai has been defeated! Let's go! ”

The Cantonese army dropped a large number of artillery and all kinds of baggage supplies, and retreated before Li led Tai's defeated troops to break their formation, and withdrew from the battlefield under the command of Shang Zhixin.

"Cannon! Bring the cannon back! Xu Erxian took a few of his own soldiers to suppress the retreating gunners and force them to evacuate with heavy cannons.

"Don't worry about it, let's go!" Shang Zhixin stopped Xu Erxian.

Xu Erxian asked, "Little Lord, don't we want these cannons?" ”

Shang Zhixin snorted coldly and said: "The most important thing is to save your life, these cannons are gone, we can still rebuild them, if your life is gone, can we still survive?" ”

"What a pity! What a pity! Xu Erxian withdrew with his men, and when he left the artillery position, he reluctantly looked back at the discarded artillery and baggage supplies.

When the Pingnan Wangfu army withdrew to the intersection of the official road leading to Zhangzhou City and Guangdong, Shang Zhixin did not run to Zhangzhou, but led people to retreat in the direction of Guangdong.

"Little Wangye, aren't we going to Zhangzhou?" The kingdom pillar behind him rode up and asked.

Shang Zhixin scolded: "You brainless wine bag rice bag!" You don't want to think about it, if we go to Zhangzhou and are besieged by Ming dogs, can we still run out? ”

"Little prince, if we are besieged in Zhangzhou, the prince will send troops to save us......" Wang Guozhu turned his head and glanced at Ma Xiong and them from Guangxi, "Their people from the Dingnan Mansion in Guangxi will also come to save us." ”

Shang Zhixin sneered: "Are you stupid or are you in the water?" The thieves' firearms are so powerful, do you think our army still has the possibility of winning in the field? Besides, Kong Sizhen's stinky biao can't wait to help the imperial court withdraw the feudal domain, she will be so kind and sacrifice her own soldiers to save us? ”

Seeing Shang Zhixin running in the direction of Guangdong, the Qing troops from Guangdong also followed suit. Shang Zhixin took Xu Erxian, Shang Zhixiao, Liu Jinzhong, Li Tianzhi, Liu Hanzuo, Wang Guozhu and others to Guangdong in embarrassment.

The Guangxi army sent by Kong Sizhen saw Shang Zhixin fleeing to Guangdong, and also fled to Guangdong with the Guangdong army, Ma Xiong took Liu Yanming, Xu Hongzhen, Xu Shangyuan and others, and ran in the direction of Guangdong after Shang Zhixin.

However, Yang Guotai, the Chaoshan general of the Guangdong army, did not flee to Guangdong, but followed Li Shutai into Zhangzhou City.

Outside the city, the Ming cavalry chased and killed the Qing infantry fleeing in the wilderness everywhere, and from time to time the Qing soldiers were caught up by the Ming cavalry, cutting off their heads from behind, or directly trampling into meat with horses' hooves. Some Qing soldiers saw that they were about to be overtaken, so in order to save their lives, they knelt on the ground and surrendered.

The Ming army ignored the Qing soldiers who surrendered on their knees, and rode straight to chase the Qing soldiers who were still fleeing.

At the head of the city of Zhangzhou, Li led Tai to fire arrows to prevent the Ming cavalry from approaching the city wall, and at the same time collected the defeated soldiers and introduced the Qing soldiers who escaped from the pursuit of the Ming cavalry into the city.

Seeing Geng Jimao enter the city with the remnants of the defeated army, Li Shutai stepped forward and asked, "The prince of Jingnan is also here?" I don't know what happened to the little prince of Pingnan Palace? Why didn't you see them enter the city? ”

Geng Jimao looked angry: "Don't mention them!" Those bastards left us behind, but they fled back to Guangdong! ”

Li Shutai couldn't help but scold: "Shang Zhixin is a child! It's not a thing! Ignoring us! It's a pity that the old prince is disabled, if the old prince is here, he won't leave us and run for his life! ”

While he was talking, Wu Liuqi, who was outside the city, also withdrew into the city with the Qing army of the Guangdong Naval Division.

Seeing that Wu Liuqi also entered the city, Li Shutai stepped forward: "Wu Junmen is loyal to the imperial court, and it is really admirable to lead troops into Zhangzhou to assist our army in defending the city!" ”

But Li Shutai didn't know that Wu Liuqi's intestines were repentant at this time, and he secretly scolded in his heart: Why is Lao Tzu's brain so unenlightened? Why don't you run back to Guangdong, you have to enter this dead place! If Minggou breaks the city, will Lao Tzu still live? But he said: "Today, the emperor and the queen mother are shining brightly, diligent and loving the people, the four ministers are loyal to the country, wise and wise, treat me Wu Liuqi with the same flesh and blood, how can I live alone?" When the liver and brain are smeared to repay the emperor's kindness! ”

"Good! Good! Li Shutai took Wu Liuqi's arm, "Wu Junmen is really a loyal and brave man!" ”

This Wu Liuqi is tall and big, good at using iron rods, infinite strength, known as a strong general, and has the courage of ten thousand people. Li Shutai knew that with Wu Liuqi assisting in defending the city, it would be more difficult for the Ming army to break the city.

In addition to the five thousand Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners of Zhumala that the whole army was destroyed, the casualties of the Qing Army's Han Eight Banners and the Green Battalion infantry were only more than 4,000 people, but the main force was brought back by Shang Zhixin and Ma Xiong, and only more than 3,000 people from the Fujian Han Eight Banners, more than 5,000 people from the Fujian Green Battalion, more than 3,000 people from the Chaoshan Green Battalion, and more than 4,000 people from Wu Liuqi's Guangdong Naval Division, totaling 15,000 soldiers. In addition, there were more than 12,000 auxiliary soldiers and more than 10,000 strong people who were gathered into the city one after another.

"Close the gates!" Seeing the main force of the Ming army coming, Li Shutai shouted.

The jack gate at the city gate fell with a "clang", and was crowded to prepare to enter the city, and dozens of Qing soldiers who were blocked in the city gate hole were crushed into meat paste by the suddenly falling jack gate. The Qing army at the head of the city was ready to pull up the suspension bridge, but the suspension bridge was densely packed with Qing soldiers, and the heavy suspension bridge could not be pulled up at all.

"Hurry up and release the arrows! Get them out! Li Shoutai shouted.

Arrows rained down at the head of the city, birds shot dense projectiles, and the Qing soldiers crowded on the drawbridge screamed and fell into the moat. The Qing soldiers who did not die either ran outside or jumped into the river.

There were fewer people on the suspension bridge, and the Qing soldiers at the head of the city took the opportunity to pull the winch, and the iron chain made a tooth-sour sound, and the suspension bridge was slowly pulled up.

"Open the door!"

"Let us in!"

The Qing soldiers who were locked outside the city let out a cry and begged the Qing soldiers at the head of the city to lower the drawbridge and open the door.

The Ming army behind had already chased over, and a row of feathered arrows flew into the sky, pulling an arc in the sky, and piercing into the crowd of Qing soldiers like rain, and the Qing soldiers outside the city screamed and fell down a large area.

Bird-stalkers and flintlockers came up, and with the roar of guns, the soldiers fell like wheat harvested.

"Don't kill, let's surrender!" The Qing soldiers who were locked up outside the city and did not die knelt on the ground and surrendered.

However, the Ming army did not dare to go to the city to receive prisoners, after all, the bows, arrows, birds, guns and cannons at the head of the city were placed there, and if they approached the city rashly, they would be shot by the fire of the city head.

Wang Xinyu made people shout: "If you want to live, run to us!" Come to our knees and surrender! ”

When the Qing soldiers heard the shouting, they got up one after another and ran towards the Ming army.

"Shoot the arrows!" Li Shutai shouted coldly.

The arrows at the head of the city rained down, and many Qing soldiers who ran towards the Ming army fell down one after another.

Zeng Yang couldn't bear it: "Lord Zhangtai, they are also my sons of the Qing Dynasty, why do you want to shoot them ruthlessly?" ”

Li Shutai said: "If these soldiers fall into the hands of Ming Gou, they will inevitably be driven to attack the city!" Instead of letting them attack the city, shoot a few more of them now! ”

The Qing soldiers who were shot by arrows fell one after another, and many of them were injured but not dead, and after falling to the ground, they turned their heads, opened their eyes angrily, and looked at their former companions behind them.

"Yang Laosan, you dare to shoot Lao Tzu!"

"Zhang Peng, Lao Tzu saved your life back then, you dare to release arrows!"

The scolding of the wounded soldiers under the city made the Qing soldiers at the head of the city depressed and their morale was depressed. After all, the people under the city are all their former companions and comrades-in-arms, but now they want to shoot them, and they really can't bear it.

"Shoot the arrows!" Li Shoutai shouted.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city gritted their teeth and shot random arrows at the city.

There were quite a few people who had several arrows pierced in their bodies, but they still ran forward desperately; Some wounded soldiers got up from the ground and ran forward crookedly. At this time, the Ming army in front of them was their hope for life, and the former comrades-in-arms behind them were the beasts and demons who took their lives.

The Qing soldiers who ran to the Ming army threw down their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground, and shouted: "We have surrendered!" ”

Wang Xinyu asked the soldiers to come out to accept the prisoners, and on the other hand, he ordered the auxiliary soldiers to build fortifications and build camps. (To be continued.) )