Daming: I help my wife be the empress

Chapter 312
As the commander-in-chief of this army, Li Chengdong is naturally very prestigious.

Coupled with the fact that the personal supervising team at the back killed all the deserters, it had a great shock to other soldiers, and the remaining soldiers ordered the whole team to prepare for the battle under the order of the general.

At this time, Li Chengdong retreated behind the supervising team.

He was also scared just now, after all those few flowering bombs almost killed him.

And he knew very well that since Huang Degong had dozens of Hongyi cannons, even if they relied on the small town as their position, it would be extremely difficult to defend.

So he was already thinking about withdrawing his troops and fleeing.

Whether it was his background as a bandit or his experience as an officer in the Ming Dynasty, he was very good at escaping.

However, he had just surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and there were tens of thousands of Eight Banners troops in the rear. If he escaped like this, not to mention that he would not be able to survive in the Qing Dynasty, he might be beheaded by Duduo for his crimes.

'No, no matter what, you have to stay here for an hour! '

With that in mind, Li Chengdong immediately said: "Send an order, let the front team retreat [-] steps, and prepare to fight street battles relying on the buildings in the town!
Then send a fast horse to find the Eight Banners Army, and say that Huang Degong's artillery is fierce, and we are hard to resist. Please support King Yu quickly! "

"As ordered!"

Several orderlies had to be ordered to run.

Li Chengdong was relieved to see that the soldiers and horses in front were retreating slowly, and there was no chaos.

Unexpectedly, before he finished his breath, he heard a series of bangs again.

As soon as I looked up, I saw sparking bullets falling straight down here!
"Damn it! Does Huang Chuangzi's cannonball have eyes?!"

Li Chengdong ran back in a hurry, cursing at the same time.

This second round of shells seemed to him too unreasonable.

One was fired too fast, only a few dozen breaths away from the first round of shells.

Second, the impact point of the shells extended backwards, and it happened to land on the place where they had the most people.

Simply evil.

Just as Li Chengdong was scolding his mother in his heart, a shell fell behind him, causing him to fall down again, and made him experience the feeling of brushing shoulders with death for the second time.

After he got up, he ran and shouted: "Get out! Get back to the town!"

When the second round of artillery shells fell, because the soldiers and horses at Nanjiekou were already retreating, the people were relatively concentrated, and there were many houses around, thirty or forty shells unexpectedly caused nearly a thousand casualties .

Hearing Li Chengdong's order to retreat again, he couldn't hold his ground any longer, and directly retreated to the town.

There are even quite a few people who fled to the buildings on the east and west sides.

The Flying Eagles Xu Lun and others who were in charge of observing from the rear were stunned for a moment when they saw this scene on the tablet.

None of them expected that Li Chengdong's men would retreat so easily after only two rounds of explosive bullets.

Didn't it mean that Li Chengdong was originally Gao Jie's subordinate, and his troops were the second elite in the four Jiangbei towns?

The result is this?

"It's broken!" When he came back to his senses, Xu Lun frowned first, "Uncle Jingnan and the others are still a mile away from the town, and Li Chengdong's men have already retreated into the town, how can they catch up?
There are also soldiers from Huang Ming and Chen Xiance, and I am afraid they have already begun to attack the east and west sides of the town.

After they broke in, would they suffer huge casualties because of Li Chengdong's soldiers retreating into the town? "

Since the three of them joined the Flying Eagles, although they have learned some battlefield military situation analysis, they have not studied battlefield command and have no relevant experience. Therefore, at this time, they cannot judge how the battlefield situation will develop next.

Meng Gan said, "Let's report to the supervisor."

"It can only be this way."

Immediately, Xu Lun took out the walkie-talkie and reported the matter to Aimee Zhu.

After Aimee Zhu learned about it, she first contacted Huang Degong, but found that she couldn't get in touch at all, so she contacted Huang Ming and Chen Xiance.

Finally got in touch this time.

"See Jian Guo!" Even though they were separated by the walkie-talkie, the two still greeted each other as if they were face to face.

Zhu Yu said directly: "The more than 1 main force deployed by Li Chengdong at Nanjiekou retreated to the town after two rounds of shelling, but Huang Degong and Zhang Jie's troops were still one mile away from entering the town.

If you attack the town, you must be careful to encounter Li Chengdong's main force. "

Auntie Zhu did not conduct remote command, but just told the two of the situation on the battlefield.

Huang Ming and Chen Xiance were taken aback when they heard this.

Immediately Chen Xiance asked: "Jianguo, is it true that Li Chengdong's main force is retreating instead of retreating voluntarily?"

According to the detailed situation reported by Xu Lun, Aunt Zhu said: "It is indeed a rout. It is estimated that there are less than 5000 people following Li Chengdong and obeying the command."

Hearing this, Huang Ming and Chen Xiance's hearts moved.

Immediately, Chen Xiance said a little excitedly: "Report to the supervisor, since Li Chengdong's soldiers and horses have collapsed, we should attack the town as soon as possible, so as to wipe out as many of his soldiers and horses as possible, and even keep them all in Yangzijin." !"

Previously, after Chen Xiance and Zhang Jie were punished for making trouble together, he felt a little resentful towards Aimee Zhu and Huang Degong in his heart.

But after learning about Aimee Zhu's various magic weapons, and knowing that Aimee Zhu is "destiny's heart", he completely changed his mind.

At this time, he realized the opportunity to make meritorious service, and he was unwilling to let it go.

Auntie Zhu said: "I only inform you of the situation on the battlefield, how to deal with it is up to you."

Huang Ming and Chen Xiance immediately said one after another: "The last general ordered a fierce attack."

Auntie Zhu said, "Go."

In fact, the soldiers and horses under the two men's command were already attacking the west of the town and the east pier, but they didn't try their best.

But after finishing the conversation with Aimee Zhu, the two immediately ordered an all-out attack.

In addition, Li Chengdong's soldiers who were in charge of defending the east and west sides of the town heard the movement at Nanjiekou at this time, and they were all panicked, and they were defeated after a while.

On the other side, Huang Degong saw that the enemy army at Nanjiekou retreated directly, so he immediately responded.

He stopped the pawns from charging and entered the town at normal speed.

He also asked people to wave the command flag to gather more than 500 cavalry in the army, and rushed into the town with him, chasing and killing Li Chengdong's rout.

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"How could it be like this?"

Li Chengdong, who had retreated into the town, rode on a horse, looking at the soldiers and horses retreating from the south and east and west sides, he couldn't help showing a dazed look.

He never expected that under the threat of two rounds of explosive bombs, his tactical retreat would directly turn into a rout.

At the same time, the east and west sides failed to resist, allowing the Ming army to attack.

Looking around, there are only five or six thousand soldiers who can gather around him to obey the command.

And it is still being attacked by rout troops.

He knew that if he ordered to kill a group of rout soldiers now, he could control the situation.

But after doing so?
Relying on the remaining soldiers and horses to fight Huang Degong to death in this town?

How is that different from courting death?

Thinking of when he was waiting and watching before, he didn't seem to see how many cavalrymen there were in the "Huangming" department, and then thinking about the situation that Li Yuanyin had not returned so far, he guessed that most of the cavalrymen of the Ming army were lured away by Li Yuanyin.

Thinking of this, he finally made a decision.

"Order to order the troops and horses of all ministries to immediately withdraw from Yangzijin and retreat to Sanwan!"

"Yes!"

After the messenger left, Li Chengdong led more than a thousand Qingqi and more than 4000 elite infantry from the headquarters, and continued to retreat north.

When he encountered rout soldiers and disorderly soldiers blocking the way, he ordered them to be beheaded.

In this way, he quit the small town of Yangzijin very quickly.

As a general with rich experience in escaping, Li Chengdong knew that it would be impossible to run with his head down. After all, there were four or five thousand armored infantry around him, and his speed could not be fast.

So he ordered the infantry to continue to retreat northward, and he led more than a thousand cavalry to retreat to the sides of the official road to hide, preparing to attack a wave of chasing troops behind.

As long as the chasing army is defeated once, the remaining Ming army will inevitably become cautious and dare not pursue and fight again.

Just as Li Chengdong's cavalry retreated from the official road within a hundred breaths, a large group of cavalry came after them.

Li Chengdong took a quick look, and then rushed to the group of cavalry behind him and said: "The enemy cavalry is no more than four or five hundred, follow me to defeat them!"

After speaking, he waved the long knife and took the lead to rush out.

These cavalry were all Li Chengdong's personal soldiers, elite, loyal, and capable in battle. At this time, they rushed towards the official road shouting and killing together.

"Kill—"

Li Chengdong was shouting to kill, but when he saw the leader of these hundreds of cavalry, he was so startled that he almost fell off his horse.

"Huang Degong?!"

(End of this chapter)