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Zheng Jie saw that the shape was wrong, and quickly abandoned Shenglong City, which cannot be said to be an unwise move.

Jiaozhi can not be compared with China, in the Ming orthodox years, Yu Qian defended Beijing, and also fought a decisive battle under the city of Beijing, that is, the strength of the Ming Dynasty is not worse than the first, but it was a big defeat for a while, a little relieved, there is still an overwhelming advantage, so it can be done.

Now that Jiaozhi is facing Daqin, in the case of a huge disparity in strength, it is definitely a dead end to defend the capital.

But Zheng Jie, apparently underestimated the impact of the evacuation of Thang Long (Hanoi), and as soon as he left the city, the people of the city became in chaos and began to storm the city gates, just trying to escape from the city.

Zheng Jie, who stayed behind, sent troops to suppress it, but the soldiers sent fled themselves.

Many Zheng soldiers were dissatisfied with Zheng Jie's own escape, and left them to die, goodbye to the people in the city into chaos, where is there still the heart to defend the city, once the deserters appeared, they were out of control, Zheng Zhi desperately pressed the bomb, the more the more the deserters were suppressed, some people in the city took the opportunity to rob, kill, set fire, and all kinds of things emerged in endlessly.

When Gu Rong's warship arrived at Thang Long Mansion, they saw an incredible scene, and the soldiers and civilians in the city seized the southern gate and swarmed out.

Some Zheng troops, under the personal leadership of Zheng Qi, were struggling to retake the city gates, slashing and slashing deserters and civilians who rushed out of the city.

The south gate has been full of corpses like a wall, blood flowed like a river, seeing the arrival of the Qin army, the shape was even more chaotic, hundreds of people and the Zheng army who came to suppress were clustered together, crowds of people, pushing and trampling each other, screaming, crying, resounding and curbing the clouds.

Gu Rong quickly sent a marine team to land, rushed to the south gate, and crossed the battleship to bombard the east gate with gunwales, and the artillery roared for a while. The smoke of gunpowder was filled, the tongue of fire in the porthole of the battleship was uncertain, and one after another solid bullets pierced the sky, smashing fiercely on the east gate, the city tower collapsed, and the city gate was weakly bombarded by one after another, and the whole hole was opened.

Thousands of marines landed at the dock on the shore and galloped towards Simen with rifles, and the defenders of the city saw the heavy artillery fire of the Qin army. They had no intention of defending the city, and immediately collapsed.

Zheng Jie's saying that he is defending Shenglong City, people are in the city, and people are in the city, and the city is broken and people are dying, which is simply a joke.

The guns at the head of the city, which had been obtained from the Dutch, were still there, but the soldiers had already run out of steam, and they did not fire a single shot.

After Gu Rong divided his troops to block the four gates of Shenglong City, he learned that Zheng Jie, with the main army, had abandoned the city and fled to the direction of the Tuojiang River in the southwest, with about 30,000 accompanying troops.

Gu Rong immediately sent six hundred marines to the southwest to catch up. At the same time, someone was sent to contact Ma Liuliang.

In fact, Ma Liuliang, who didn't need them to contact him, had already learned from the spies who were not collected in Thang Long City that Zheng Ji had abandoned the city and fled.

Sure enough, the navy's grandsons picked up a bargain, and Ma Liuliang scolded a few times. He ordered the army to turn around and chase in the direction of the Tuojiang River.

On the flat alluvial plain of the Red River, more than 10,000 Qin troops ran wildly, startling chickens and dogs along the way.

The anxious Ma Liuliang is not fast enough. Urgently let the army collect war horses.

Although his army of 10,000 is all infantry, it includes the mounts of generals at all levels, and the war horses equipped with scouts and heralds. In total, there are more than 300 horses.

Ma Liuliang gave all the more than 300 war horses to the deputy general He Jinan, and gave him 30 rockets and 200 rockets, so that He Jinan could chase after him first.

According to the information that Ye Bu has mastered, the total strength of the Zheng clan is about 100,000, which is still very considerable, Langshan lost 20,000, Thang Long Fu lost another 20,000, and about 60,000, if Zheng Ji is really allowed to retreat into the mountains, and disperse these 60,000 troops into the deep mountains and old forests to fight guerrillas, it is really not easy to exterminate him.

He Jinan and Wu Xiaoliu took 300 cavalry, after breaking away from the brigade, they ran all the way with their hooves raised, the iron hooves on the plains were ringing, the dust was flying, 300 chasing 30,000, the cavalry was chasing the infantry, and the speed of the distance between the two sides could be imagined.

Zheng Jie, under the escort of 30,000 troops, with his wife, concubines and children, as well as the Li lord, Li Dynasty officials and their families, the momentum was huge, and people continued to follow along the way to escape the war, making his team even larger.

Seeing that there were still twenty miles to go, and he was about to go out of the plain and enter the mountains, Zheng Ji secretly breathed a sigh of relief, no matter how good the Qin army's naval division was, no matter how many artillery pieces there were, it was impossible to drive to the mountains;

Moreover, the fifth son, Zheng Qi, once led the army to attack the Ruan clan in the south, and he led an army of 20,000 to defend Thang Long City, even if he couldn't keep it in the end, it shouldn't be a problem to support it for a few days, at least that's what he thought.

However, he rejoiced too soon, unaware that death was approaching him.

"Report, Lord Wang, it's not good, the Qin army is chasing after you!"

Suddenly a messenger Pegasus came to report in the rear, even if Zheng Ji was over seventy years old, accustomed to seeing wind and waves, and his concentration was not comparable to ordinary people, he couldn't help but be shocked when he heard the news.

"What's going on, how did Qin Jun come so quickly? Let's talk quickly, how many men and horses are there in the Qin army? ”

"Back to the prince, it's a cavalry, I don't know how many."

Zheng Jie couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, and scolded the rice bucket, he ordered the general Li Zhi to lead an army of 10,000 to stay behind, and on the other hand, he asked the army to speed up and run towards the mountainous area.

He Jinan and Wu Xiaoliu more than 300 horsemen, iron hooves violently knocked on the earth, with rolling yellow dust swept in, Jiaozhi lacked horses, most of the Zheng army soldiers have not seen so many cavalry, in their eyes, the impact of 300 cavalry is terrifying, many people look at the cavalry that is quickly pressing, already trembling with their feet, their faces are pale.

"Pikemen, withstand, withstand, archers, prepare for a salvo!" Li Zhi carried a knife and stood in front of the 10,000-strong army and roared loudly.

However, he was busy in vain, He Jinan They had no intention of entanglement with them at all, and the three hundred cavalry were one mile away from Li Zhi's army, and they circled to the right, flying around his 10,000 blocking army, and took a small road to Zheng Jie's brigade to continue to chase and kill.

The billowing smoke and dust rolled up by the war horses swept through the wind, pounced on Li Zhi and them, and seeing the Qin army bypassing, they could only look at the ocean and sigh.

Seeing that the Qin army was coming around, the momentum of the booming iron cavalry was amazing, and it seemed that there was an indestructible momentum, how could Zheng Jie dare to be lazy, and hurriedly sent only two hundred elephant soldiers to meet the enemy.

The elephant did not run as fast as the horse, but the momentum was even more impressive.

"Rockets, ten rounds ready!" He Jinan roared, and the Qin army behind him received an order, and ten horsemen swept out, slowing down their horses in the face of the running war elephants, and as soon as they entered the firing range, ten rockets immediately roared away.

When the flames shot into the air, before they exploded, the war elephants that ran the guns were already frightened, and then, boom! There was a loud bang, and a ball of fireball exploded violently, killing and injuring more than 10 of the 200 war elephants, and they fell to the ground with a bang, like a mountain peak collapsing.

The rest of the war elephants were frightened, no longer listened to the control, lost their hair and ran madly, but rushed towards Zheng Jun, Wu Xiaoliu saw this scene, couldn't help but be overjoyed, and shouted wow: "Catch up, from time to time a rocket comes, drive the war elephants to Zheng Jun"

Rumble!

Rumble!

From time to time, there was a shocking noise behind him, and the one or two hundred war elephants were constantly frightened, just like a group of heavy tanks, rushing into the Zheng army's battle formation.

The pillar-like elephant legs rumbled over, and some of the Zheng troops, who had no time to escape, were knocked out and flew several feet away, and some were trampled to flesh and blood.

"Kill!"

He Jinan urged the war horses, and then killed them, and the rockets on their shoulders erupted from time to time, shooting at crowded places, and clusters of fire rose, and one by one Zheng Jun was blasted into the air, scattered and split.

The constant sound of explosions intensified the madness of the war elephants, and also exacerbated the collapse of the Zheng army, imagine the tragic scene of tens of thousands of infantry being run over by 200 tanks, that scene is simply indescribable.

He Jinan's target is of course not the Zheng army that fled all over the mountains, everyone's eyes have long been locked on Zheng Jie's handsome banner and chariot, three hundred horsemen rushed towards the place where Zheng Jie was like a storm, the sound of hooves was like thunder, and the murderous spirit destroyed the mountain.

Zheng Jie's side still has two thousand of the most elite troops, surrounded Zheng Jie's car, desperately fleeing in the direction of the mountain, as soon as the Qin army rushed closer, He Jinan shouted again: "Rockets, crush them!" ”

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PS: Today is Chinese New Year's Eve, the first is served as usual, I wish you all health, peace and happiness! (To be continued......)