Late Ming Dynasty: Oops, I am surrounded by the Donglin Party

During the hour of fighting outside, Sun Dasheng and his 5,000 cavalry stayed in the barracks and did not come out.

This was an idea he and Huang Degong came up with. As long as the battle situation was under control, Sun Dasheng's 5,000 cavalry would be used as a reserve.

According to the two's plan, in order to maximize the killing of the enemy, Sun Dasheng's cavalry will be used as a killer to prevent the enemy from returning to the city.

Both of them were so crazy that they actually thought of defeating the enemy with 17,000 troops first, and then using the 5,000 elite cavalry hidden in hiding to cut off the enemy's retreat.

Of course, once the critical moment comes, Zhou Yuji will naturally ask the messenger to come and call for help.

However, it was unexpected that Gao Jie would suddenly order a retreat before the battle situation showed any obvious signs of tilting.

This made Sun Dasheng very happy. Unless it was an elite army, the retreat would always become chaotic.

After all, there are pursuers behind them. Whoever runs slowly will be the one to die.

Seeing thousands of cavalry rushing over, many Confederate soldiers turned pale with fear, so that their originally orderly retreat turned into a rout about a hundred steps away from the city gate.

This was something that neither Gao Jie nor Liu Zeqing had expected.

The two sides were fighting with intent but without intention. On one side were the frightened fleeing soldiers who only wanted to escape back to the city, and on the other side were the elite cavalry who were well-rested and waiting for the opportunity to tire themselves out.

As soon as Sun Dasheng's cavalry rushed into the retreating enemy army, it was like a hungry wolf pouncing on a flock of sheep.

The Southern Army soldiers were only concerned with running, while Sun Dasheng's cavalry did not even dismount their horses, and they reaped the rewards of the battle one blow after another.

The musketeers at the back also held their swords tightly.

Sun Dasheng was very happy with the killing. Seeing Gao Jie, who was standing at the city gate with his heart broken, he could not help but shout to him:

"Three-surnamed slave! Do you dare to fight your grandfather?"

His voice was very rough, maybe it was because of the alcohol, but he was only nineteen years old, but he always pretended to be a veteran.

Gao Jie was so angry that his nose was about to be crooked, and he immediately shouted:

"You bastard, who is the slave of three surnames? Don't be so arrogant!"

"Hahahaha, I'm just crazy!

You first followed Li Zicheng, then followed the imperial court, and now you follow Xu Hongji.

If you say you are not a slave of three surnames, what are you?

When I conquer your bird city, will you surrender again?

If my elder brother agrees to your surrender, you will no longer be a slave of three surnames, but a slave of four surnames!"

Sun Dasheng laughed and mocked.

Gao Jie was so angry that he pointed at Sun Dasheng and opened his mouth, but he didn't know how to refute.

"But don't worry, if you want to surrender, I will definitely not let my eldest brother agree.

In this way, you can no longer be a slave of the Four Surnames. Why don't you come and thank your grandfather?"

Sun Dasheng pointed his sword at Gao Jie.

Gao Jie couldn't argue with Sun Dasheng any more, so he just ignored him and ordered his men to retreat as quickly as possible.

But an army of tens of thousands could not move faster just because they wanted to. The suspension bridge was only so wide, and many soldiers were so panicked that they crowded and even pushed people into the moat.

In the rear, Sun Dasheng, Huang Degong, Sun Yingyuan and Wang Jingduo all seized this rare opportunity to kill the defeated soldiers and quickly harvested heads.

At first, the rear of the Confederate Army could still barely cope, but it only lasted less than a quarter of an hour before it turned into a complete rout.

Even the soldiers in the rear stopped defending and just retreated fiercely. Anyway, as long as I squeezed in, the ones at the rear would be the ones to die.

The real killing also started from this time. The enemy had almost given up defense, and the soldiers in the rear only needed to keep chopping and chopping.

Huang Degong's whole body was covered in blood, even his teeth were full of blood, he looked like a bloody man.

But this bloody man was jumping around, slashing people everywhere with a knife.

He had never felt so happy before.

But this moment did not last long. In less than two quarters of an hour, most of the Confederate soldiers had retreated back to the city.

The general in charge of the suspension bridge on the city wall was worried that the enemy would take the opportunity to break in, so he ordered the suspension ropes to be pulled up before the last thousand or so Confederate soldiers stepped onto the suspension bridge.

The locking machinery creaked, and even though the suspension bridge was full of people, it still slowly rose under the huge pull of dozens of horses.

The last thousand or so Confederate soldiers' faces turned green.

There are tens of thousands of enemies behind him. There is no way to retreat and he is being pursued from behind.

Fearing death, they wailed and jumped into the moat one after another. Even though most of them could not swim, it was better than being hacked to death.

They struggled and either drowned or were shot to death by arrows.

Sun Dasheng and Huang Degong were about to jump into the moat to continue chopping people.

Suddenly, a loud noise was heard from the top of the city.

Boom-boom-boom-boom-

The city defense artillery of Nanjing City finally arrived.

Before, either the distance was too far or there was constant chaos, so Xu Hongji never had a chance. Now that the Southern Army has retreated back to the city, they finally got a chance.

This caught Huang Degong, Sun Dasheng and others off guard.

He was enjoying the killing so much that he ignored the artillery on the city wall.

More than twenty artillery pieces fired down, leaving more than twenty bloody grooves in the battle formation of Huang Degong and others.

At this time, the shells were all solid, and they only relied on the huge impact force to kill the enemy. The huge impact force could often penetrate dozens of steps.

The bloody man Huang Degong slapped his head and quickly ordered a retreat. Sun Dasheng also grinned and spurred his horse to run away.

Fortunately, the artillery loading speed was slow at this time and the Yongwei Battalion ran fast.

No, the fastest runners were still the musketeers, because their leader was called Wang Jingduo.

"Hahaha, what a joy!"

When they returned to the military camp, the bloody man Huang Degong poured a basin of water over his head and laughed.

This war ended just as quickly as it started.

It was not until dark that the damage was finally confirmed.

In the Yongwei Camp, 960 men were killed, more than 4,000 were injured, and more than 500 war horses were lost.

More than 400 musketeers from the Beijing camp were killed in the battle and more than 900 were injured.

In the battle of the Beijing Camp Cavalry Camp, 184 soldiers were killed, more than 600 were injured, and more than 40 war horses were lost.

However, due to time and terrain limitations, it is impossible to accurately estimate the enemy's casualties.

But judging from the gains reported by the soldiers, Gao Jie and Liu Zeqing lost at least 15,000 people this time.

The casualty ratio reached an astonishing one to ten.

In addition, taking advantage of the night, they also collected more than 800 war horses and countless weapons and armor from the Southern Army.

This can be called a great victory.

……

In the evening of August 17th, Suzhou City.

Zhang Shikang stood on the city wall of Suzhou, helplessly watching the arrest work still going on in the city.

He suddenly remembered a saying by someone in later generations: 'Even if there are 50,000 pigs, they will not be able to catch them all even if they spend three days'.

At that time, Zhang Shikang thought this person was talking nonsense, but until he experienced it himself, he realized...

This man is a kind person!

The 50,000 defenders in Suzhou City have not been captured yet since dawn.

The frightened garrison soldiers ran around and hid everywhere.

Zhang Shikang had no choice but to order his men to search house by house.

He said that he would kill all the members of Liu Liangzuo's army without leaving a single one alive.

Say it, do it.

He was standing alone on the top of the city wall in a daze when a soldier ran over and said:

"Report to the Marshal, a beautiful woman has been captured!"

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