Arrows were shot down from the arrow tower of the city gate, and the Qing soldiers crowded on the suspension bridge screamed miserably and fell into the water in pieces. The chaotic arrows were also mixed with tens of thousands of enemies thrown down, falling in the crowd and exploding.

The number of people on the drawbridge suddenly decreased, the Qing soldiers at the head of the city pulled the winch, and the drawbridge was pulled up at once, and more than a dozen Qing soldiers who were not killed and were still standing on the drawbridge stumbled to the city gate. The drawbridge had been completely pulled up, and after several Qing soldiers entered the city gate, the city gate slowly closed.

"Let us in!" The Qing soldiers who were locked outside the city cried and shouted at the city.

"Shoot the arrows!" Zhuo Butai ordered coldly.

Arrows rained down at the head of the city, causing the Qing soldiers who were crying and shouting to open the door to jump and retreat in fright.

"Look at the back, the Ming Dog Cavalry is coming!" Someone pointed behind him with a crying voice.

The rain had stopped, and an elite iron cavalry appeared behind the Qing army, slowly moving towards the city step by step with the sound of heavy iron armor crashing.

As the distance closed, the speed of the heavy cavalry gradually increased, and soon increased to the maximum speed. Arranged neatly, in an almost airtight formation, they crushed the Qing infantry who were locked outside the city. Thousands of horses' hooves trampled across the earth, making a thunderous roar, and the iron armor collided and clanged.

The charge of the iron cavalry was shocking, the whole earth was shaking, and the cavalry with the highest speed was like an iron wall, pressing towards the crowd of Qing troops.

The heavy cavalry ran over them, leaving a mutilated corpse on the ground. The high-speed heavy cavalry basically does not even need to use weapons, and the dense heavy cavalry formation can trample all the enemies in front of them into a meat paste as long as they rely on the impact of the war horse and the trampling of the horse's hooves.

"Spread out in both directions!" was about to rush to the moat, Wang Zihao gave an order.

The heavy cavalry spread out on both sides, the speed of the horse decreased, and the heavy cavalry divided into two columns pulled out a circle, left the killing field under the city walls, and rushed towards another crowd of Qing troops. As for the remnants of the defeated soldiers under the city wall, they can be handed over to the other Ming troops who came later to solve it.

In Jinhua City, Zhuo Butai counted the remnants of the defeated soldiers who returned to the city.

Many of the more than ten "famous generals of the Qing Dynasty" did not come back, Liu Liangzuo, the chief general of the Huguang New Army, Wu Ruju, a veteran general who had been on the battlefield for a long time, Liu Zhiyuan, the commander of the capital, did not come back, and even the Wang [auxiliary] minister, who was known as Xiao Lu Bu, did not come back, and the Manchu Eight Banners and the Mengba Banners also lost one of the generals each.

Zhuo Butai did not know the whereabouts of those "famous generals", and he was very worried. In this battle, the Qing army was defeated, and so many generals did not come back, which made him very uneasy. He didn't know what kind of punishment awaited him. In fact, at this time, Liu Liangzuo had already died, and Wu Ruyu had also died in the chaos, Liu Zhiyuan panicked and fled in another direction, fleeing straight to Huizhou.

As for the [auxiliary] ministers of Xiao Lu Bu, just now because he was too late to enter the city, the Ming army had already caught up.

Seeing that the drawbridge was pulled up and the city gate was closed, Wang [Fu] Chen, who was known as the horse harrier, saw that the situation was not good, and immediately fled all the way west with soldiers and horses, trying to escape into Jiangxi.

Who knew that the light cavalry of the Ming army found this fleeing Qing soldier and immediately followed, chasing after him.

"General, Minggou is still chasing after you!" The soldiers reported to the king's [auxiliary] ministers.

Wang [Fu] Chen ordered: "Leave 3,000 people behind, let them stop Minggou, we continue to the west, as long as we enter the territory of Jiangxi, it will be safe!" ”

The so-called stay is to send to death, and the morale of the Qing soldiers who were left behind was low, but there were two cronies of the king's [auxiliary] ministers to suppress the formation, and the supervising officers formed a supervising team to monitor the soldiers. Before the arrival of the Ming light cavalry, the Qing army formed a formation.

The pikemen of the Qing army were in front, with repulsive rifles, behind them were sword and shield men, and then behind were archers.

The light cavalry of the Ming army reached 300 paces in front of the Qing army, and stopped advancing. A personal soldier pointed to the Qing army in formation, and reported to Wu Tiancheng, the commander of the light cavalry: "My lord, look at the formation of the Tartars!" ”

Wu Tiancheng is also a famous general, in the original history he was just a folk master, but in this era, he made many military exploits after joining the army, and as a result, he became Wang Xinyu's vanguard officer, promoted to a guerrilla general, and there were 1,500 dragoons under his command, that is, half of the dragoons of the Qiongzhou army were under his command. Another dragoon general named Fang Huicheng was also a skilled martial artist.

Because it was a rainy night attack, the dragoons were used as light cavalry, and they did not carry long-range weapons when they attacked. At this time, the Qing infantry formed a long spear formation, and if the light cavalry charged hard, the gains outweighed the losses.

But this did not bother Wu Tiancheng, and he ordered all the light cavalry to dismount and reload the double-barreled short guns. In the battle just now, the light cavalry's double-barreled short guns ran out of bullets, and they didn't have time to reload to chase and kill the Qing army. Now if you want to break the formation, you need to shoot with a double-barreled short gun to break the Qing army's spear formation.

The range of the double-barreled short gun is extremely close, and the effective range is only about twenty paces, but this is enough.

After loading the projectiles and gunpowder, Wu Tiancheng divided his 1,500 cavalry into two groups, and the 500 men in front of him all took off their wooden shields covered with cowhide from their horses, and before they rushed to the Qing formation, these 500 men would dismount and fight on foot. Another group of light cavalry waited on their horses, waiting for the dismounted light cavalry to break through the Qing formation, and then rushed in.

Seeing that the soldiers had completed their preparations, Wu Tiancheng gave an order: "Attack!" ”

Fifteen hundred light cavalry rode slowly on horseback, and the speed of the horses increased slightly, reaching the speed of a small trot, but they did not accelerate again, but maintained a steady speed to attack the formation of the Qing army.

When they rushed seventy paces away, the Qing archers shot rows after rows of feathered arrows.

The five hundred light horsemen who rushed ahead held shields covered with cowhide and blocked the rain of arrows that fell. The cavalry continued to charge, getting closer and closer to the Qing army's rejecting horse and gun array.

"Slow down!" Wu Tiancheng roared.

The cavalry had already rushed to about fifty paces in front of the Qing army, and the light cavalry suddenly slowed down. At this time, the speed of the horse was not fast, and he rushed a few steps, and when there were still thirty steps left from the Qing army, all the horses stopped, and the light cavalry on horseback turned over and dismounted, with a cowhide log shield on his left arm and a double-barreled short gun in his right hand, and rushed towards the Qing army's spear array on foot.

"Kill!" The Ming sergeant shouted, rushed to more than ten steps away from the Qing army's spear array, suddenly bent his left knee, half-squatted on the ground, the round wooden shield was supported on the ground, and the double-barreled short gun in his right hand used the round wooden shield as a support point, aiming at the Qing army's pikemen and pulling the trigger.

Gunfire roared, flames flickered ten paces away, and dense bullets poured into the crowd of Qing troops.

The double-barreled short guns have a short range, poor accuracy, and small penetration, but the distance is so close, and it is so dense, a row of gunfire, the Qing soldiers fell one piece, and a burst of blood mist filled the formation of the pikemen.

Each light cavalryman pulled the trigger twice, finished firing the two bullets of the double-barreled short gun, then thrust the double-barreled short gun into the right waist, and pulled out a second double-barreled short gun from the left waist, and continued to aim at the Qing army to pull the trigger.

Four rounds of gunfire passed, and a large number of Qing pikemen were killed and wounded.

"Kill!" After firing four rounds of bullets, the light cavalry thrust the double-barreled short gun into his waist, drew his saber, and killed the Qing army.

Many pikemen were killed by indiscriminate gunfire, but the rejecting rifles in the first row were still stuck in the ground. The light cavalry charged on foot, rushed to the repulsion pistol, swung his saber, and cut down the repelling pistol stuck in the ground. Immediately afterwards, the light cavalry fighting on foot rushed into the crowd of Qing troops, blocking with a shield in their left hand and slashing with a saber in their right hand.

The pikemen were broken and followed closely behind, and the light cavalry, who did not dismount, also rushed in. Before the people arrived, the cavalry on horseback shot with a double-barreled short gun, rushed into the crowd of Qing troops, the speed of the war horse had increased, the saber in the cavalry's hand was slightly downward, the blade crossed forward, and the Qing soldiers who were running around were caught up, and one after another the heads fell to the ground.

"Stop fighting, we're down!" The Qing soldiers who did not die cried and knelt down.

Wang [Fu] was fleeing in front with the remnants of the defeated army, when someone came to report: "Report to your lordship, something is wrong!" The Ming Dog Cavalry is catching up again! ”

"So fast? After leaving three thousand people to break, they were defeated so quickly? The king's ministers were astonished.

The matter has come to this point, and it will be in vain to divide the troops to resist, and the king [auxiliary] minister has no choice but to order the soldiers to disperse and escape. He himself took a group of people and ran wildly all the way to the west of the river.

Entering the territory of Quzhou, the king's [auxiliary] ministers, who had been running wild for half a night and another morning, were sleepy and tired. Seeing that the pursuers behind him did not catch up, he ordered the remnants of the defeated army to find a forest to rest on the spot.

"My lord, there's a forest in front of us, let's go in and rest." A soldier pointed to the grove road ahead.

"Good!" Wang [Fu] Chen nodded, "Let's go over there and rest." ”

Approaching the woods, Wang [Fu] Chen felt that something was wrong, the woods in front of him were so quiet that he could not even hear the sound of birds. When he looked up at the sky, he saw birds hovering nearby, but he did not dare to fly into the woods. Occasionally, a bird enters the woods and flutters and flies out.

"There's an ambush!" The battle-experienced Wang [Fu] Chen exclaimed.

Before he could finish speaking, a row of feathered arrows shot out of the woods in front of him.

"Let's go!" The king [auxiliary] retained his horse and continued to run with the remnants of the defeated army.

Ambushed in the woods is the Yongxin battalion from Jiangxi, they received a notice from the Ming army to explore the horses, set up an ambush here, originally wanted to wipe out the Qing army, who knew that Wang [Fu] Chen was very cunning, and before entering the woods, they felt that something was wrong.

"The thieves seem to be from Jiangxi, and I heard that there is a group of thieves operating in the mountainous areas of Jiangxi. It seems that we can't go to Jiangxi. If you go north, I'm afraid that Minggou still has an ambush there, and it is too close to Minggou's territory. We still go south, through the Xianxia Pass into Fujian safety. Wang [Fu] Chen said.

The remnants of the Qing army were defeated and passed through the territory of Quzhou, and they did not even dare to enter any county seat, because Wang [Fu] Chen was only worried that the speed of the Ming army was too fast, and if they entered the county seat to rest, they were likely to be caught up by the pursuing soldiers and blocked in the county seat.

Getting closer and closer to Xianxia Pass, Wang [Fu] Chen saw the green camp Qing army flag fluttering in the high place from a distance, and finally put his mind at ease. (To be continued.) )