The well-prepared Tartars launched a fierce general assault, and the shield-wielding, heavily armed Bayala soldiers advanced ahead. Behind them, the Tartar elite was covered by a large number of armored vehicles. At the same time, the Tartars' remaining thirty archers rushed up again, raining arrows and fire oil at the walls.

Now there are only about 500 soldiers left on each city wall, and although they fight hard, the other guards are too weak, so they can only watch as one Tartar soldier after another climbs the city wall.

At this time, there were not many firearms left in the Ming army, and the local guard soldiers were extremely unskilled in the operation of firearms, such as throwing thunderbolts, which were picked up and thrown back by the enemy not too early, or they were not too slow to blow up their own people. And this is especially true of the more dangerous fire oil!

What's more serious is that under the impact of the Tartar soldiers' death, many people in the guards began to coward, not only showed signs of retreating in fear of battle, but even some directly knelt on the ground and surrendered!

In the Ming Dynasty, there was never a shortage of unyielding people who would rather die, but there was no shortage of people who surrendered to survive.

Everywhere the walls began to crumble.

Fortunately, it was getting darker and darker by this time!

The north gate was breached first, followed by the west gate. Zu Dashou had already prepared, and arranged three or four thousand people near the four gates to start street battles with the Tartars. Although these soldiers can't drag on for long, they can drag on for a second.

The minutes ticked by, and it was getting darker and darker.

Zu Dashou led the troops to the vicinity of the south gate, looked at the sky, and felt that it was almost there.

He drew his sword and howled, "Brothers, rush out of the city!"

The south gate was quickly opened, and the Tartar soldiers outside were stunned, but they all rushed in fearlessly!

The elite soldiers of the Guan Ning Army and the Datong Army, who had been waiting for a long time, suddenly roared in unison, and rushed towards the south gate with overwhelming momentum!

At the front of the team, the 4,000 cavalry composed of 2,000 Guanning iron cavalry and 2,000 Datong elite cavalry rushed in three columns, the sound of horse hooves was like thunder, and the sabre Huohuo was as cold as snow, sweeping everything with a devastating momentum.

No matter how strong the Tartar infantry is, it is absolutely impossible to stop the 4,000 cavalry in the front! The Tartar soldiers who had just rushed into the south gate were dumbfounded for a moment when they saw this rolling torrent, either they could not dodge and be killed by the horses, trampled to death, or their heads were cut off by the cavalry, or they quickly flashed to both sides and obediently watched the cavalry leave the city!

The Houjin army, which is now attacking the south gate, has a total of about 8,000 people, while the cavalry is only 1,000, which is used to protect Dolgon and prepare to enter the city to attack the Ming infantry. Seeing this scene, Dolgon immediately judged that Zu Dashou wanted to break through, so he immediately asked a thousand cavalry to go to block the attack, and at the same time ordered more than 3,000 infantry that had not yet been sent out to intercept the infantry brought out by Zu Dashou.

The Ming army had no intention of fighting, and Zu Dashou shouted, "All departments break through on their own!"

Then with 4,000 cavalry, he galloped south.

The 1,000 Tartar cavalry, who were eager to make meritorious contributions, were in hot pursuit.

After the six thousand infantry composed of the Guanning army and the Datong army left the city, they saw Zu Dashou and the cavalry running wildly, and knew that they had been abandoned by the main general.

The blow to morale is enormous.

The reactions of these soldiers varied. Some scolded Zu Dashou for being cowardly and cowardly, while others thought that this was human nature: If the general does not leave at this time, will he stay and die? As for everyone, hurry up and break through at night.

So these infantry were divided into three types, one was to break through rather than die, and they were dozens or hundreds of people in a group and killed in one direction. One is to lie down on the ground and pretend to be dead, and then see the chance of escape, anyway, no one will pursue the deserter at this time, right? The other is even simpler, and directly choose to surrender.

Because of the existence of the latter two kinds of people, it is even more difficult for soldiers who desperately want to fight their way out of the encirclement. In terms of field warfare, these 6,000 elite soldiers of the Ming army could have fought with the 3,000 elite Tartars when united. But because of Zu Dashou's "first breakthrough" (or directly to escape), at least half of the people chose to flee or surrender, and this battle was completely unfought.

The 3,000 Tartar soldiers quickly intercepted most of the Ming troops who were trying to break through, and the two sides fought fiercely for a while, and more and more Tartar soldiers came from the west gate and the east gate, and soon surrounded them tightly.

Of the six thousand infantry, only four or five hundred broke through in the end, and the rest were either killed or surrendered.

In the city of Santun camp, only the local guards are left. After the news of Zu Dashou's escape spread, there was no need for the Tartars to disarm, they themselves disarmed and waited for the enemy to receive them.

On the night of July 26 in the third year of Chongzhen, Santun Camp fell.

However, when the Houjin army entered the Santun camp, they immediately found that there were several fires in the city! It turned out that Zu Dashou, who was a cunning and veteran man, had already ordered people to set fire to the granary and burn the grain in the warehouse!

Hauge looked at the flames that rushed to the sky, and his teeth rattled with anger!

Let's say that in order to pursue Zu Dashou's 4,000 cavalry, Dolgon sent 4,000 cavalry in addition to the previous 1,000 cavalry. However, Zu Dashou's luck was excellent, the moonlight was very poor that night, the visibility was very poor, and the 4,000 cavalry sent by Dolgon went too late, and in the vast darkness of the night, he didn't know where Zu Dashou's cavalry went. At first, they stopped from time to time to look at the horseshoe prints to identify the direction he was taking, but soon they found that if they stopped and looked at the enemy again, they didn't know that they would have to wait for the Year of the Monkey and the Horse Moon to catch up with the enemy, so it was better not to chase them.

And the 1,000 Tartar cavalry who went to chase Zu Dashou before, when they saw that their own cavalry behind them did not catch up, they were worried that if they chased the other party further, they would jump over the wall and counterattack. There are only 1,000 on their own side, while the other side has 4,000, and they are all elite cavalry, so they can't get much better if they want to fight, so they give up the pursuit.

Zu Dashou continued to run forward with four thousand elite horsemen, and finally came to the foot of a mountain.

In the dark night, I don't know what kind of mountain it is, anyway, as long as the pursuers don't come up, they will touch it slowly.

A few teams were sent to survey the terrain, while the rest dismounted and repaired on the spot.

After a while, several soldiers came to report that they had found a valley ahead of them, and it was deserted.

Zu Dashou immediately ordered all the horses to enter the valley to rest.

Soon after entering the valley, it rained heavily in the sky, and the soldiers took shelter from the rain, but Zu Dashou was overjoyed.

The next heavy rain can wash away the horseshoe prints, so that Jiannu may not be able to find himself.

This means that he can hide in the valley for the time being, wait for two days, no, after three days, it is expected that Qin Shuhuai will definitely be able to defeat Qian'an within three days!

When the time comes, he will take these four thousand spirits out of the valley and go to Qin Shuhuai.

He thought it through. If he wants to go over the mountains and mountains to Qian'an, he will have to abandon his horses, and then he can only go to see Qin Shuhuai empty-handed and in rags. But if you go to see him with four thousand spirits, the situation will be very different!

He took off his helmet and shuffled his heavy steps to a clearing, letting the rain wash over his body.

I murmured in my heart: I did my best! The hatred of the brothers, he must be avenged on the birthday of my ancestors!