A group of Mongolian wounded were rescued by their companions, and some Ming army auxiliaries stepped forward, brought the wounded to the rear of the battle, untied their armor and bandaged their wounds. After seeing that Deng Ming really kept his promise and did not give these wounded a knife, the worried Mongols breathed a sigh of relief and couldn't help but cheer softly. They also knew that even if they were treated, the chances of death of the seriously injured were still very high, but they finally confirmed that Deng Ming would not go back on his word.

Dozens of Mongolian daredevils stepped forward to attack the city, Deng Ming looked at the wall of the imperial camp that had been partially on fire, and estimated that the Praetorian Guards would definitely not be able to hold out until sunset, and it was difficult to say whether they could resist until the afternoon. In addition to the cannon and catapult, Deng Ming also prepared the blasting tools, because the Ming army estimated that the Praetorian Guards would resist desperately on the camp wall, and the will to fight must be much stronger than the green battalion they had encountered before, so they did not plan to let the demolition team take risks before the Janissaries caused great attrition - Deng Ming was also unwilling to hand over this powerful weapon to the Mongols to operate, and the charging cart could only be used to attack the city in the hands of the Mongols, and could not threaten the Ming army. If they had been given a demolition car, it would have been a problem if a Mongol had sacrificed his life to protect his master—but now it seemed that there might not be a need for a demolition team.

"Admiral," a herald reported, "Gaoyou's reinforcements are about to arrive. ”

The county seat of Gaoyou was alarmed last night, but because the situation was unknown, the defenders of Gaoyou did not take any action. After dawn, seeing the fireworks in the direction of the imperial camp rushing into the sky, and the rumbling of cannons, Gaoyou Zhixian finally couldn't bear it, and personally led more than 200 county soldiers out of the city and came in the direction of the imperial camp.

Although the cover of the Liangjiang Governor Yamen and the Yangzhou Governor allowed the Ming army to lurk near Gaoyou, the plan to raid the imperial camp was obviously not known to Liangjiang officials of the rank of the county magistrate. The governor of Jiangning and the prefect of Yangzhou used the pretext of reinforcing Zhou Peigong and Liang Huafeng to fight with Deng Ming, so they transferred part of Yangzhou's troops, but it was impossible for the county town to leave no soldiers. Now seeing that the imperial camp is in distress, the magistrate is worried about the head on his neck, so he urgently comes out with the remaining troops to King Qin.

"Send a squad to defeat them?" Ren Tang asked. For 200 counties, a few hundred Ming troops can be wiped out. Now not counting Deng Ming's soldiers, many of the auxiliary soldiers in the army were recruited when the Ming army planned to leave Jiangnan and return to Sichuan two months ago, and they were willing to follow the Ming army to Sichuan, and there was no big problem with the loyalty of the Ming army. The good food and drink since enlisting in the army have made the morale of the auxiliary soldiers even higher, and now they have participated in the siege of the imperial camp, and there is no turning back. Ren Tang felt that to deal with Gaoyou's county ding, as long as a small number of soldiers led the auxiliary soldiers with weapons to attack.

"I'm afraid that the county magistrate who took the lead will run away." The county ding has no knowledge, but now that the county magistrate has personally led the team, if he finds something strange, it may be a trouble to spread.

Just as Deng Ming was pondering how many people should be sent and whether a small ambush should be set up, the knight of the three walls next to him asked for orders: "Admiral, let's go." ”

"Why do you need a knife to kill a chicken?" Ren Tang didn't feel the need to dispatch the three walls.

"We won't need to attack the Tartars' royal camp, and if we don't attack, this big battle really won't have anything to do with us." The knights of the three walls said one after another. After the last battle with Li Guoying, whether it was in Sichuan or in Jiangnan, the three walls continued to practice wall charge, but they had few opportunities to go to the battlefield, that is, they fought two battles in Jiujiang and Anqing, and they didn't play for a long time, and the other party had been defeated before they finished warming up, and the knights felt that they were useless heroes.

"Alright, let's go back quickly." Deng Ming agreed to their request, and now the imperial camp is surrounded like an iron barrel, and there is really no need to send cavalry to attack the city: "Don't let the Gaoyou County Order escape." ”

"Rest assured, the Dog Officer is dead." The knights of the three walls walked away in a hurry.

As the Ming army continued to attack the city, Suo Etu and several other imperial officers ran in front of Shunzhi again, and now they unanimously demanded that the emperor break through immediately.

"The thieves have brought in a large number of bows and arrows, and new catapults." The situation is urgent, and the officers on the front line no longer shy away from the dangerous situation: "If we continue to fight like this, maybe at noon, at most, until the end of the day, the imperial guards will be exhausted, and at that time, the emperor wants to break through, and there are not many slaves to follow the emperor." ”

After the arrival of a large number of Ming troops, the morale of the Praetorian Guards was dealt a heavy blow, and now almost everyone knew that they were desperate for survival, and the chances of holding the imperial camp were slim. The officers and men of the Praetorian Guard were still fighting on the camp wall, but there was no hope to support them in the battle, they were just trapped beasts, and only a few people still believed that they could hold out until the reinforcements arrived.

"Your Majesty, you must break through!" Soon several more officers left the command post on the camp wall and anxiously rushed to persuade Shunzhi to break through. They reported that the outer walls of the camp had been set on fire in several places, and that the Janissaries were unmanned and could not go out of the camp to extinguish the flames. Although the thick camp walls will not be burned down anytime soon, it is only a matter of time.

Although the Janissaries did not have much combat experience, their morale was still high, and they were commanded by a group of experienced veteran officers, and everyone had horses and armor. In today's siege warfare, the Praetorian Guards consume a lot of body for fighting fires and repairing the camp walls, and in this kind of work, there is not much difference between a well-equipped Praetorian Guard and an ordinary auxiliary. Originally, the Praetorian Guards also thought that the rebels who attacked in a hurry did not have the ability to quickly conquer the imperial camp and could protect the emperor in a safe camp, but now it is obvious that if they are trapped for a few more hours, when the Ming army breaks through the camp wall, the Praetorian Guards will probably be too tired to raise their swords.

The Praetorian Guard's mention made the emperor's face turn pale when he heard it. No matter how fierce the fighting, he still felt a certain sense of security in a heavily defended camp, where there were no rockets falling, no blood everywhere, and shield-covered barracks not only blocked stone bullets, but also blocked the groans of the wounded and sick. It was only when the officers and heralds opened the door and entered that the emperor heard fierce shouts outside.

If he left this camp, then the emperor would be exposed to the fire of the Ming army, and he would have to get out of the camp wall and rush through the sea of enemy swords and guns......

"Your Majesty, you must go!" A room full of Praetorian Guard officers fell to their knees and anxiously shouted to the Emperor: "Depart immediately!" ”

"Okay, I'm done." Shunzhi struggled to suppress the panic in his heart, and at this time he was infinitely nostalgic for the strong walls of the Forbidden City, as well as the towering towers of Beijing.

The next step is to discuss how to break through. Now that the Ming army is attacking outside, it will definitely not give the Praetorian Guards the opportunity to rush out of the camp gate to line up, but the formation is a necessary action, if you want to protect the emperor to break through, then the Praetorian Guard needs time to adjust the team outside the camp, tightly surround the emperor in the center, and then the whole army will attack the Ming army's defense line.

"Surrender!" After a moment of nervous deliberation, one of the Praetorian Guard officers shouted, "We will tell the thief that we must surrender, that we must surrender out of the camp, so that we can get more time to leave the camp and line up." ”

The fraudulent surrender could not only buy time for the Praetorian Guards, but also possibly suspend the Ming army's arrow rain and paralyze the Ming army's carelessness, so this proposal was immediately unanimously approved by all the officers.

When breaking through the camp, the camp gate still needs defenders, who can cover the Praetorian Guards lined up outside the camp - if the Ming army sees a flaw, the defenders on the camp gate can cover the shooting, preventing the Ming infantry from quickly approaching the emperor, and can also use the height of the camp wall to observe the reality of the Ming army's position, and use the banner to guide the direction of the breakthrough troops.

"The minions are willing to stay and hold on." Suo Etu knelt down to Shunzhi and said sincerely: "The slave is willing to break off the queen for the emperor." ”

Suo Etu also knew that staying in the camp wall was certain to die, and after the Praetorian Guards covered the emperor's breakthrough, they found that the deceived Ming army would definitely jump into a rage and execute all the remaining Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers, but Suo Etu's loyalty to the emperor overwhelmed his fear of death.

At this time, someone had already taken the armor and the uniforms of ordinary Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers, and waited for Shunzhi to put them on. Originally, the dragon robe worn by the emperor was replaced by the other four Praetorian Guard officers, along with several other sets of spare dragon robes.

"Good minion." Shunzhi gently patted Suo Etu's shoulder, who was kneeling on the ground, and this action and the emperor's soft approval made Suo Etu's grateful tears spurt out of his eyes at once.

The plan for the breakout spread by word of mouth among the Praetorian Guard, and soon everyone knew the specific steps and details. When the Janissaries began to shout for surrender outside the camp, the Janissaries inside the camp also stopped the work of fighting fires and repairs, and they pulled their horses out of the stables and silently began to line up in the open space in the camp.

There will be 300 Praetorian Guard officers and soldiers left with Suo Etu, and his colleagues originally wanted to leave them a few war horses, but Suo Etu refused with a wry smile: "Take them all, and kill those who can't be taken away." ”

After the Praetorian Guards began to break through, the Ming army would wake up, and the remaining Suo Etu and others had black cones and red rabbits in their hands, and they didn't want to escape: "Leaving us horses will only make people feel lucky and shaken, maybe someone will refuse to hold on to the camp gate to the end." ”

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Outside the camp, the knights of the three walls had returned from their mission, and they reported to Deng Ming: "Gaoyou Zhixian has been awarded the head. "The knights of the three walls looked unsatisfied, just now they scattered more than 200 Gaoyou County Ding with a charge, and forty Qing soldiers were killed on the spot, they did not pursue the rest of the people, and returned at full speed as soon as they got the head of the county magistrate, in case anything happened to the war here.

By this time, the Ming army's attack had gradually stopped, and the Praetorian Guards threw a large number of bows and arrows from the camp wall, shouting for surrender. The Mongol death squads were ordered to retreat temporarily. When the Ming army's shelling completely stopped, the gate of the imperial camp opened a crack, and a Praetorian Guard flashed out of the crack in the door, and while walking towards the Ming army, he took off his helmet, untied his armor and threw it on the ground, while shouting with all his might: "Surrender!" Surrender! The Qing Emperor was willing to surrender to the Admiral of the Yangtze River of the Ming Dynasty, and only asked for mercy from the Admiral. ”

"Hooray!"

After hearing this mournful cry for mercy, the surrounding 30,000 Ming troops let out an earth-shaking cheer.