When 10,000 Mongolian cavalry began to attack Jingbian County regardless of casualties.

More than 6,000 cavalry, commanded by Dolgon himself, were hiding in a huge ravine less than ten miles from the county seat of Yan'an.

Not only that, a large number of cavalry scouts are monitoring every move in Yan'an County from all directions.

Just when the battle that took place in Jingbian County lasted for almost three hours, a group of cavalry suddenly appeared in the field of vision of the Mongols. After rolling up a thick layer of dust on the official road, it was like a gust of wind, rushing towards the direction of Yan'an County.

In the blink of an eye, these cavalrymen disappeared at the gate of Yan'an County.

Half an hour, an hour......

Only an hour later, Yan'an County, which was still a quiet place just now, became lively.

As the closed city gate was opened, a group of well-equipped cavalry of the Tiger and Par Army, which made the Mongols feel red, hurriedly drove out of Yan'an County....After completing the assembly at the city gate, they went directly to Jingbian County with reinforcements at a rapid marching speed.

After listening to the scout's report, Dolgon's eyes quickly shot out two murderous rays of light outward. Staring at a pair of eyes, he asked loudly at the scout in front of him.

"Three thousand cavalry, you're sure you're not mistaken...."

"Lord Belle, the minions can see clearly, and there will be no mistake...", the Scout Commander, who knelt in front of Dolgon, replied with a firm face.

Dolgon nodded, and said to himself with an excited face: "As far as Ben Belle knows, the total strength of the Tiger and Leopard Army stationed in Yan'an County is only more than 4,000 people....The 3,000 cavalry who have left will have less than 1,500 musketeers left. ”

"Now. Ben Marshal had 6,000 cavalry in his hands. And two hundred artillery men. A thousand musketeers ... If you organize it, you definitely have the strength to capture Yan'an County in a short period of time..."

"As long as we can capture Yan'an, we can get all the grain in Yan'an County. Not only that, but our passage into southern Shaanxi has also been opened. At that time, the southern Shaanxi region of Nuoda will also let us gallop..."

Then. The more he talked, the more excited Dolgon became, and he had already come up with a plan in his mind to attack the county seat of Yan'an.

Under the gaze of a group of subordinates and tribal leaders, he quickly retracted the smile on his face and commanded with a majestic face;

"Generals, the life and death of more than 10,000 iron horsemen are in our hands. In order to capture Yan'an in the shortest possible time and obtain the food we urgently need, Benbeile decided to launch an attack on the county seat of Yan'an from four directions at the same time. ”

"However, before the attack. We have one thing that we have to do well...."

"Immediately send elite scouts to block all the gates of Yan'an County. From now on. It is forbidden for any Haw Par Army and Han Chinese to leave the county seat of Yan'an..."

Dolgon, who was full of hatred for the Haw Par Army, began to plan the county seat of Yan'an. Wei Zheng, who was far away in Yulin, did not know that he was once again transferred to Dolgon's field of vision, and once again underestimated the wisdom of a famous general like Dolgon.

Wei Zheng, who received news from Zhou Yuhong almost at the same time, did not hesitate to leave a musket regiment in Yulin. Then, with the rest of the soldiers, he hurriedly left Yulin, preparing to deal a fatal blow to the Mongolian army outside Jingbian City.

Wei Zheng's idea is very good, but Dolgon, as a famous general in the world, is not a vegetarian.

Under the siege of tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry, a cavalry team sent by Zhou Yuhong was monitored by the Mongolian cavalry as soon as it left Jingbian County.

Therefore, whether it was the thousands of musketeers commanded by Wei Zheng himself, or the 3,000 cavalry commanded by Zhao Yun, and the more than 3,000 cavalry commanded by Zhou Chenguang, they were under the surveillance of the Mongolian cavalry as soon as they left their station.

Not only that, because of the strong mobility of the Mongolian cavalry, every move of the reinforcements of the three Tiger and Leopard Army is being continuously sent outside the city of Jingbian, and the deputy general who is commanding tens of thousands of soldiers to attack Jingbian is in the hands.

It turned out that the cunning Dolgon did not intend to trap the 10,000 iron cavalry outside Jingbian City into the heavy siege of the Tiger and Par Army because of some food.

When dividing the troops, Wei Zheng repeatedly explained to his lieutenant that no matter whether he could capture Yan'an or not, he would withdraw from the battlefield before the encirclement of the Tiger and Leopard Army was completed...

Therefore, when the reinforcements of the Tiger and Leopard Army of the Three Routes marched to the battlefield, the Mongol cavalry, which had already lost 3,000 iron cavalry, was ready to retreat in the continuous siege...

"Newspaper... General, the scout sent back the latest news, the officers and troops in the direction of Yulin are still twenty miles away from the battlefield, and they can rush to the battlefield in two hours at the latest. ……”

"Newspaper... General, the scouts in the direction of Yan'an sent an urgent report....3,000 officers and cavalry are still five miles away from the battlefield..."

"General, the officers and troops in the direction of Dingbian are still twenty-five miles away from the battlefield..."

Faced with this result, the deputy general said with a contemplative expression: "If we retreat now, the time that Lord Belle can use to attack Yan'an will be shortened by one hour....So, in order to buy Lord Belle longer, we can't retreat yet...."

Hearing this, one of the tribal leaders, who had already lost thousands of people in the attack, stopped doing it in the first place.

He stood up directly from his seat and asked the adjutant general: "What about the 3,000 cavalry of the Tiger and Leopard Army in the direction of Yan'an... It only takes half an hour for them to reach the battlefield..."

"If you don't retreat, the warriors will be in a dangerous situation..."

"Yes....our tribe has already lost thousands of warriors, and we must not afford to lose too much. Otherwise, our tribe will be greatly damaged, and it will not be able to recover for a few years..."

"Retreat....Retreat must be carried out immediately...... There are not many people in my tribe anymore, and I must not suffer from the enemy on my back, and if I want to fight you and continue to fight, I will definitely not accompany you..."

In the face of his subordinates' stern refusal and not giving him the slightest face, although the deputy general's heart was full of anger, he still had to suppress his anger and said.

"Chiefs, please calm your anger... If Lord Belle can't capture Yan'an, even if we retreat, we will starve to death because of lack of food, and we will be trapped in northern Shaanxi..."

"Do you want to be trapped and starved to death in the next time..."

Seeing the subordinates in front of him who quickly fell into deep thought, the adjutant general's words changed sharply and continued: "Please rest assured, the leaders and patriarchs, Ben will guarantee that he will never lead everyone into a dangerous situation of being attacked on the back of the enemy..."

"In order to slow down the march speed of the Tiger and Leopard Army's iron cavalry in the direction of Yan'an, the general decided: 2,000 cavalry will be dispatched and take the initiative to attack."

"With two thousand cavalry, ensure the safety of our rear road...."

"Of the two thousand cavalry, five hundred were drawn by the general from the white banner commanded by the Belle Lord....as for the remaining fifteen hundred, they were pieced together by the chiefs and patriarchs..."

The white flags commanded by Dorgon himself have all been dispatched, not to mention himself who is one level lower.

Besides, these leaders were against it, and in their hearts they did not have the courage to confront Dolgon and disobey Dorgon's orders.

Under the fierce gaze of the adjutant general, in just the blink of an eye, the two thousand cavalry were put together.

Then, under the leadership of a garrison general with a white flag, the army was formed...

What the adjutant general didn't expect was that it was because of his persistence, because of the loss of 2,000 cavalry, that Dolgon had an extra hour of attack time, and in this last hour, he captured Yan'an, and harvested enough food and a large number of firearms and equipment for his soldiers to eat for half a month...

In the county town of Yan'an, where the guns were constantly ringing, in the face of the Mongols' attacks from all sides, there were only more than 1,000 musketeers in the city, and they had to divide their limited forces into four.

The musketeers of three or four hundred men defended the city wall with a frontal width of more than a mile, and even if they held flintlock muskets with a fast rate of fire in their hands, there was no way to maintain the density of fire on such a wide battlefield.

Therefore, the Mongols continued to attack the city walls, although they were all routed by the tiger and leopard army at the last moment. However, the Mongols, who had already rushed to the corner of the city wall, still used guò's superb cavalry and archery, which brought a lot of casualties to the tiger and leopard army on the city wall.

After an hour's continuous attack, the Mongols, who had abandoned their horses, had already paid 2,000 men. However, the Haw Par Army musketeers, who defended the city walls, also lost about five or six hundred men.

As the buckshot from the walls became more and more sparse, Dorgon knew that if he could deliver another fatal blow to the defenders of the city, victory would be his own.

Having seen the light of day, Dolgon decided to use the firearms he had formed with captured Haw Par firearms without even thinking about it.

"Wear Benbel order, firearms troops, strike at once... Deliver the final blow to the officers and troops on the city walls and destroy them. ”

A thousand Mongols armed with flintlock muskets quickly rushed to the battlefield and began to shoot lead bullets at the tiger and leopard army on the city wall with a very rusty three-stage shot more than a hundred paces outside the city wall.

1,000 Mongol musketeers versus less than 200 Haw Par musketeers on the city walls, no matter how well trained the Haw Par musketeers were, could not offset the huge disparity in the number of muskets.

Therefore, although the shooting of the Mongolians outside the city was very messy, the flying lead bullets that kept flying towards the city wall still continued to harvest the lives of the tiger and leopard army one after another.

Soon, there were less than a hundred tigers and leopards left on this section of the wall.

The Mongol cavalry, who had already attacked the corner of the city wall, did not miss this opportunity, quickly erected a ladder, and climbed up to the city wall under the cover of the firearms troops behind them.

The final result was no surprise....under the attack of the Mongol army, which had superior forces and a certain number of firearms troops, more than 1,000 musketeers defending the county town of Yan'an were all wiped out by the Mongols...

With the joy of victory, it only took half an hour for Dolgon to evacuate the county seat in a hurry with the grain and firearms collected by his subordinates from Yan'an, and disappeared again on the vast Loess Plateau. (To be continued......)