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  Chapter 415 413【Repeated horizontal jump】

  But it said that the frontal battlefield, if the Qing army wanted to escape back, they had to cross several small rivers on the way.

   Those are the tributaries of the Junhe River, originating in the Yimeng Mountains, all of which flow into the Junhe River and then into the Yishui River. The widest part of the river is more than 20 meters, and the narrowest point is only a few meters. It is the main source of irrigation water between the Junhe River and Yimeng Mountain.

  The defeated Qing army ran back several miles, and saw a small river blocking the way ahead.

   Most of them, like Dodo, ran northward along the creek. They would definitely not be able to run to the source of the river, and they would have to go deep into Yimeng Mountain, but otherwise they had nowhere to escape, so they could only escape wherever they wanted.

  Chen Dafeng, who was chasing with a spear in one arm, had fainted at this time, but the soldiers under his command were still chasing and killing.

  Xue Jizong is the captain under Chen Dafeng's command. There are thirty people in a team, and only fourteen can move. Nine of them were shot to death by heavy arrows from the Qing Dynasty on the spot, and several others were injured and fell to the ground. I don't know how many can be saved in the end.

  His eyes are red now, and there are two Manchu Qing stabbing arrows stuck in his body, chasing and killing the Eight Banners' defeated soldiers desperately.

  An Eight Banners soldier lost his strength and fell, Xue Jizong rushed up and shot him.

  The broken soldier was lying on the ground, and wanted to cut off Xue Jizong's calf with a knife. There was a rattan player next to him, who had already thrown away his shield, swung his waist knife and slashed, cutting off the Eight Banners soldier's right hand at the wrist.

   Xue Jizong stabbed the enemy's throat with a gun, drew his gun and continued to chase and kill.

   There were four rout soldiers in front of them. They ran for a few miles in heavy armor. At this moment, they couldn't run anymore. They knelt down and gasped for surrender. In order to show sincerity, he even threw away the weapon.

  Xue Jizong had killed red eyes a long time ago, forgetting the rule of the Datong Army not to kill prisoners of war.

  He led the team forward with guns, stabbing two of them to death one after another, while his teammates killed the remaining two.

   "Come on, avenge Datong brothers!" Xue Jizong completely forgot about being tired, and forgot that he had chased and killed for several miles in armor. All he knew was that more than half of his team had been killed or wounded, and he wanted to kill all the tartars for revenge.

  The Datong Army has never suffered such a large number of casualties in its southern and northern wars. The whole army is full of grief and anger at this moment!

   "Da da da da!"

   But a hundred dragoons came after them, and they had already dealt with the soldiers who had been killed by Duoduo.

  The dragoons rushed to the north to intercept the river, and the infantry chased it from the south and east. The soldiers of the Eight Banners panicked, and thousands of people jumped into the river to escape for their lives.

  The Eight Banners of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties have a 100% armor-wearing rate. It doesn't matter whether they can swim or not. If they jump into the river wearing heavy armor, they will definitely be drowned.

  The dragoons continued to chase north, dragging their knives to cut the neck of the rout soldier, because other parts could not be cut in.

   Ma Wannian led two thousand dragon cavalry, and was chasing and killing more than a thousand Man Qing Xiao cavalry. These are all the Alihachaoha Battalion directly under Duoduo. They are the elite of the Eight Banners elite. They mount their horses as cavalry and dismount as infantry.

  Yilde ran away with his own cavalry, but the thousands of brave cavalry in front of him wanted to come back to rescue Doduo.

   When the rescue failed and there were enemies on all sides, they could only choose to run to the mountains in the north.

  The ravine was getting narrower and narrower, and it was completely dead. These Man Qingxiao rode and abandoned their horses to climb the mountain, wanting to climb to the hillside and shoot arrows to kill the pursuers.

   "Dismount!"

   Ma Wannian gave an order, and the messenger blew the horn, and the two thousand dragoons immediately turned into gunfire infantry.

   Both sides belong to the heterogeneous cavalry, and the Manqing Xiaoqi is also a master of infantry combat.

  The cavalry pursuit battle instantly turned into a mountain infantry battle.

   "Bang bang bang!"

   "Shhhhhh!"

  Both sides are completely scattered, there is no formation at all, and they shoot at each other with firecrackers and bows.

  The dragoons are at a disadvantage here, because the distance is too far, and the hit rate of the bird gun is greatly reduced. He didn't dare to get too close, because the enemy still had heavy arrows in his hand.

  Then... shake people!

  Ma Wannian sent two riders out of the mountain, blowing horns for reinforcements along the way.

   Before the reinforcements arrived, those Man Qing Xiaoqi chose to launch a countercharge, because if they dragged on, they would surely die.

   "Gather soldiers, get on horses!"

"woo woo woo woo!"

  The horn blew, and the dragoons who had completely dispersed retreated to the ravine to ride horses, riding horses to keep the distance from Manqing Xiaoqi. They didn't even wear leather armor, so it was naturally impossible for them to fight an enemy in full armor.

   Running back for a certain distance, the dragoons stepped up to reload the gunpowder.

   Some people's matchlocks are about to burn out, and they also take advantage of the gap to replace the matchlock.

  Man Qingxiao's cavalry remounted their horses, this time they didn't even throw arrows, and they rushed over desperately to fight on horseback.

  Because the valley here is too narrow, the cavalry of both sides could not line up, and the dragoons who were relatively far behind immediately rode away after firing their guns from a long distance. The Qingxiao cavalry chased after them, while the Datong dragoons fled and returned to the frontal battlefield.

  These Qing Xiao cavalrymen have gone crazy, and the life and death of the banner owner Duoduo is unknown, and they themselves are in a dead situation. Since there was no way to escape, he simply chose to give his life the last blow.

  In the direction of Taniguchi, Chen Fugui has already arrived with 1,500 gunfire soldiers.

  Seeing his own cavalry rushing back, Chen Fugui immediately let the gunfire soldiers climb to the slopes on both sides.

   Ma Wannian saw several command flags waving wildly on the hillside ahead, and immediately asked the messenger to blow the horn.

  Approaching the mouth of the valley, all the dragoons dismounted, lined up and raised their firecrackers, and the hillsides on both sides were lined up with firecrackers.

   More than a thousand Manchu Xiao cavalry, completely ignoring the firecrackers on both sides. They draw their bows and set arrows, and throw stabbing arrows at the dragoons (heavy arrows must be shot off the horse), and immediately draw their swords and charge into the battle after throwing.

   "Bang bang bang!"

  Nearly 3,500 guns fired in salvo from three sides.

  Ma Wannian was afraid of overflowing firepower, and even chose three-stage attack.

  In an instant, people in the valley were turned on their backs, but the dragoons were also shot by 31 arrows. None of them wore armor, and if they were shot in the vitals, they would die. At this time, they all depended on luck to survive.

  Under the salvo of gunfire from three sides, more than half of Qianman Qing Xiaoqi fell down immediately. Although some were not shot, they ran into friendly troops ahead, and even tripped over fallen human and horse corpses.

   There are only a few dozen Manqing Xiaoqi who can successfully rush out of the firepower net, and the charge speed is also affected.

   After the salvo, the dragoons turned on their horses reflexively.

   "Kill! Chop the horse!"

  Ma Wannian drew his saber and led the cavalry to fight. They couldn't walk, and the brother who was shot by the arrow was still lying on the ground. Although the correct way is to escape the whole army from the valley and slowly grind the remaining enemies to death.

   Dozens of full Qing cavalry crashed into nearly two thousand dragon cavalry.

  Dragon cavalry is too hip in close combat, just a waist knife, if you don't hit the vital point, you can't kill the enemy at all.

  But they have long been trained accordingly, that is, to hack and slash enemy horses.

   There were dozens of Qing cavalrymen, well-equipped for melee combat, and they were often undisguised by one enemy. However, there were too many dragoons, and they pointed at the horses and hacked, but the horses of the Manchu and Qing Dynasties were only armored on their vital parts.

  Under the pain, the Manchu horses went berserk, and the riders were completely out of control.

   Ma Wannian was knocked over by a crazy war horse, and fell down with the enemy cavalry at the same time. Before the horse could climb up ten thousand years, the enemy cavalry was trampled to death by the dragoons' hooves. He was also almost stepped on, his mind was dizzy, and he tried to avoid by rolling and crawling.

   After a short while, these Manchu and Qing elite cavalry were finally wiped out.

  Junhe direction.

  The transport fleet of the Datong Army rushed towards the transport fleet of the Qing Dynasty. Neither side is a regular navy, and they have been at the rear before, but now they have started a chase.

  About half of the transport fleet of the Qing Dynasty were ships collected locally in Shandong.

   These local boatmen and sailors chose to surrender after seeing the main force of the Manchu Qing Dynasty defeated and the Datong fleet chasing after them. Even many of the transport ships brought by Duoduo from Beizhili stopped and surrendered, and the only ones that did not surrender were those controlled by soldiers (coated with the army).

   There were still many soldiers from the Manchu Qing camp who abandoned the camp and fled the moment Duduo was defeated. They swam across the creek and fled with the previously routed Shantung soldiers.

  Geng Jimao, the son of Geng Zhongming and father of Geng Jingzhong, abandoned his horse and fled across the small river alone, recruiting rout soldiers and Baoyi along the way. When he fled to Sishui County, there were more than 6,000 people under his command, most of whom belonged to the defeated soldiers from Shandong and those who accompanied the army.

  The guard general of Sishui County is called Xu Ensheng, who is Zuo Liangyu's subordinate.

   Seeing thousands of people coming in chaos outside the city, Xu Ensheng thought it was some rebel army who had killed them, and ordered the soldiers to close the city gates to prevent them from defending.

   "Hurry up and open the city!" Geng Jimao shouted from under the city.

   Phew!

  An arrow came, and Geng Jimao was so frightened that he shrank his head quickly.

  He retreated more than ten steps, lifted the tail of the money mouse on the back of his head, and shouted: "My own person, my own person, I am Geng Jimao, the heir son of King Huaishun of the Qing Dynasty!"

  The small braids in the early Qing Dynasty are not the big braids in the late Qing Dynasty. This thing can’t be seen clearly at a distance.

  However, those bright foreheads are very easy to identify.

  Xu Ensheng ordered to stop shooting arrows, hung down a basket, and pulled Geng Jimao up.

   "What's going on?" Xu Ensheng asked in surprise.

Geng Jimao was afraid that the other party would turn against him, so he didn't dare to tell the truth. He just said: "The ten kings have an order, ordering me to come back and defend the city of Surabaya to prevent the puppet army from the south from being attacked. General Xu, quickly open the city gate and let my soldiers come in to defend the city. "

Xu Ensheng became more suspicious, frowned and said: "Since His Royal Highness brought troops back to defend, why didn't he ride a horse? He walked all the way back." He pointed to the outside of the city again, "And these soldiers don't even have weapons in their hands. Where did you go?"

  Geng Jimao said impatiently: "What nonsense, hurry up and open the city!"

Xu Ensheng was terrified in his heart. He had already guessed the truth, but he couldn't believe it. He confirmed, "Has the ten kings been defeated? Your Royal Highness, you have to tell the truth so that I can arrange the city defense. Otherwise, what should the enemy do if they kill you?" ?”

  How can this situation be hidden?

  Geng Jimao could only bite the bullet and say: "Our army has suffered a small defeat and is forming a camp to confront the enemy."

  Xu Ensheng said: "Since the two armies are confronting each other, more reinforcements should be sent. How can His Royal Highness divide the troops back to guard Sishui County?"

   "This..." Geng Jimao couldn't answer.

  Xu Ensheng asked: "Is it because our army has been defeated?"

  Geng Jimao is still stubborn: "It's just a small defeat."

   "Clang!"

  Xu Ensheng drew his knife and slashed, beheading Geng Jimao who was crossing the river without his armor.

  Geng Jimao fell down in pain, and angrily said: "I am the son of Prince Huaishun of the Qing Dynasty, how dare you kill me to rebel?"

  Xu Ensheng sneered and made up the knife, Geng Jimao was unwilling to die tragically.

   After killing Geng Jimao, Xu Ensheng cut off his own braid, raised his knife and shouted: "Duoduo has been defeated, open the city gate quickly, and follow me out to kill the Tartars!"

   There were only 3,000 defenders in Sishui County, but the 6,000 routs outside the city had no fighting power in themselves, not to mention that they were already tired and hungry when they fled from the defeat, and they threw away their weapons during the escape.

  Xu Ensheng led his troops to fight out, but the rout soldiers in Shandong didn't resist at all, and directly knelt down and begged for surrender.

  A large number of soldiers were wrapped in clothes, and they turned and ran away in fright.

  They did not dare to surrender. Every time the Tartars entered and plundered, they were accomplices, and they had committed countless crimes.

  How could you escape under exhaustion and hunger?

  In order to show his attitude of breaking with the Manchu Qing, Xu Ensheng ordered: "Screen out the captives, and kill all the coated slaves!"

  These Shandong generals, how fast they surrendered to the Manchus before, are now rebelling against the Manchus.

  Whoever is stronger, they will follow!

  (end of this chapter)