Just when Zhu Lunkui and Ma Shiying were shocking Ma Cheng's amazing record, Ma Cheng outside the city was leading the soldiers to fight to the death.

This final decisive battle was called the Battle of Yingtian by later generations, and Ma Cheng's descendants even listed this battle as one of the three examples of the three most ancient and modern Chinese battles in the Battle of Chibi and Feishui.

Although later descendants were exaggerated in order to boast about their ancestors, the Battle of Yingtian commanded by Ma Cheng did have the ability to compete with the Battle of Chibi and the Battle of Feishui. The Battle of Chibi defeated the arrogant Cao Cao, allowing Sun Quan's Jiangdong Group and Liu Bei's Dongzhou Group to exist. In the Battle of Feishui, the Eastern Jin defeated the Former Qin Dynasty and effectively curbed the invasion of the northern ethnic minorities in the south of the Yangtze River, and allowed the Eastern Jin to remain safe for hundreds of years.

Similarly, the Battle of Yingtian was similar. Ma Cheng defeated the Qing army that went south, defeated the invincible myth of the Qing Dynasty, and also blocked the attack of the Qing Dynasty for the first time on the south bank of the Yangtze River. In this way, the most prosperous Taihu Basin in China did not fall into the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and also prepared economic conditions for the future Northern Expedition.

No matter how he brags about it in later generations, Ma Cheng, as the person involved, was helpless. At this time of the battle, he had completely escaped from his control. He only brought out 15,000 people, but had to face the Qing Dynasty's army of 400,000. This difficulty can be imagined.

Therefore, the strategy Ma Cheng set when he left the city was chaos. Because the Ming army had complete grassroots officers and ordinary soldiers also received basic education, they knew exactly what they should do. Even if the formation was broken up in the battle, they could quickly form a small team of hundreds or thousands of people under the organization of grassroots officers to fight each other.

On the other hand, the Qing Dynasty was different. In this era, scholars were still a scarce resource. Except for a few scholars in the army, they were all illiterate, and they had no idea why they fought. It would be fine if the war went smoothly, but when encountering such an unknown melee, the Qing army would completely lose its organizational strength.

An unorganized army is a mess. Although the number of people is twenty times higher than that of the Ming army, it does not pose any threat. The Qing army is now at the end of its strength, but the problem Ma Cheng encountered did not come from the Qing army, but the lack of physical strength of his own army soldiers.

Ma Cheng's Ming army has been fighting at Taiping Gate last night. After a full day of high-intensity combat today, they have been fighting for twelve consecutive hours. They have no time to rest at all and are supported by their strong will. However, human energy is limited, and if they do not rest, they will cause irreparable losses to the human body.

Just when Ma Cheng felt that he could not support him, the life-saving straw came. Ma Bao and Zhang Guozhu came.

Ma Cheng was very happy to see the arrival of reinforcements in the city, and leaned forward and asked, "How many people do you bring?"

Ma Bao and Zhang Guozhu clasped their fists and replied: "Mr. Junmen, 15,000 people came to Jubaomen, 20,000 people came to Zhengyangmen! They are all new forces!"

Ma Cheng was very happy to hear this good news. Although the army in Nancheng had also experienced yesterday's hard battle, they had a day off today, and joining them can ensure their own side's victory.

"Okay! Ma Bao, you will follow me with your people. Now there is the last one left in the four camps of Beilu. Follow me to Dasheng Pass! Zhang Guozhu, you will turn around and eliminate the organized Beilu. Remember to make them messy and never let them get angry!"

Ma Cheng knew that his number was small, and Ma Bao brought less than 50,000 reinforcements. However, although the Qing army suffered heavy losses, there were still hundreds of thousands of people. It would be difficult to deal with the sober Qing generals. So Ma Cheng asked Zhang Guozhu to lead his troops to continue to disrupt the battlefield and defeat themselves with the Qing army.

After hearing this, Zhang Guozhu clasped his fists and left. Ma Cheng looked at the sky. The sun sets west and it is almost dark. Ma Cheng said to Xu Dahu and Gu Changwei beside him: "You two have made great contributions today. Now that reinforcements are coming, you can lead your subordinates into the city to rest!"

There are more than 8,000 people left by Ma Cheng. These people have been fighting for a whole day and are trapped and exhausted. If they continue to fight, they will cause damage to their bodies. These people can survive such a fierce battle. In the future, they will be a rare force in Ma Cheng's hands. Ma Cheng doesn't want his subordinates to suffer any further losses, so they have to let them return to the city to rest.

Gu Changwei asked worriedly: "Sir, what about you when we enter the city?"

Ma Cheng smiled and said, "Don't worry, I still insist on staying! I'm saying that there is still Ma Bao here, don't worry! Go into the city and have a good rest, there will be many battles waiting for you in the future!"

Seeing that Ma Cheng had made up his mind, Gu Changwei and others had no choice but to bring the remaining more than 8,000 people into the city to rest.

Ma Cheng's personal soldiers were originally 500, but after this whole day of bloody battle, there were only less than 300 people left. These people would never enter the city. Ma Cheng had no choice but to take them to continue fighting.

The Dasheng Pass is twenty miles away from Nanjing, and it was the last camp of the Qing army on the south bank of the Yangtze River. The Dasheng Pass was originally named Dachenggang. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the warlords fought in a melee. Zhu Yuanzhang set up an ambush here to defeat Chen Youliang's hundreds of thousands of troops, so he changed his name to Dasheng Port and set up a pass here, which was later Dasheng Pass. The terrain here is very dangerous. Since ancient times, it has been a Jiangfang fortress and transit port in Nanjing.

Nikan, the temporary commander of the Qing army, came here with the last few hundred taels of white flags to escort Duoduo's body. Seeing the flames from the General Mountain Camp in the distance, the Qing army did not dare to delay and quickly found more than a dozen ships to prepare to cross the river.

At Dasheng Pass, there was Zuo Liangyu's fleet brought by Ajige from Wuchang. Although the Qing army was defeated on the shore, the Qing army's Yangtze River Navy did not suffer any losses.

This fleet was managed by the general Tian Xiong. When he saw the Qing army retreating to Dasheng Pass in a mess, he knew that the front line must have failed. Tian Xiong was different from other surrendered generals. When Zhu Yousong fled to Wuhu, it was Tian Xiong and Ma Degong who captured Zhu Yousong and handed it over to the Qing army to receive a reward. This kind of 25-year-old Ming army would never be spared.

Tian Xiong also knew that he had no good result when he fell into the hands of the Ming army. Now he was very anxious to see the Qing army defeated, and asked Nikan: "Mr. Beile, what should I do now?"

Nikan and others are now anxious to escape, and they can take care of the new affiliated troops there. Nikan said impatiently: "You can do it yourself. If it really doesn't work, you can go back to Wuchang!" After Nikan said that, regardless of Tian Xiong and other Han generals, he boarded the ship to guard Duoduo's body and crossed the river and returned to Pukou to return north.

Tian Xiong looked at Nikan and others who were leaving and sighed. There was no way to see that he could only go back to Wuchang. At this time, Wuchang was still in the hands of the Qing Dynasty, and it was considered a few strongholds on the south bank of the Yangtze River.

As soon as Tian Xiong's Yangtze River Navy left, the Ming army led by Ma Cheng on the shore arrived. The Qing army was already infected by the atmosphere of failure, although the victory was great.

There were more than 30,000 troops in the camp, but they did not dare to resist in the face of more than 10,000 people from the Ming army and retreated to the border of the Yangtze River.

But at this time, the navy retreated. In this way, nearly 100,000 people were blocked to the Yangtze River by the defeated troops retreating from other camps, plus the 30,000 troops from the Dashengguan camp.

Originally, according to Ma Bao's intention, they drove all the guys into the Yangtze River and drowned them, but Ma Cheng disagreed with Ma Bao's point of view because Ma Cheng wanted to surrender them.

The Qing Dynasty's failure in Jiangnan is now a foregone conclusion, but now Jiujiang and Wuchang are still in the hands of the Qing army. If Ma Cheng wants to cross the river and fight in the north, he must eradicate these strongholds on the south bank of the Yangtze River one by one. Now Ma Cheng's army can use is less than 200,000, which is still counting those civilians as well. Of course, this is enough to defend Nanjing, but if he wants to deal with the Qing Dynasty, he will have some insufficient troops.

Now most of the 100,000 people on the shore are the new affiliated troops of the Qing Dynasty. Although their combat effectiveness is not very good, most of them are strong men after being selected by Ajige and Duoduo. After training, these guys are a good army, which saves the hard work of recruiting soldiers from Ma Cheng.

So Ma Cheng did not agree to Ma Bao's opinion to kill them all, but instead sent a hundred households to surrender these devastated Qing troops.

At this time, the 100,000 Qing army had been driven to a narrow area five miles long and two miles wide by the bank of the Yangtze River. The Ming army soldiers had already pushed out the artillery and set up positions five hundred meters in front of the Qing army, waiting for the orders from the superiors to start massacre these unlucky guys.

The hundred households who sent the trick to surrender to sort out their clothes, came to the Qing army with a swagger, and shouted in a Yungui accent: "You guys, if you want to survive, call out an official!"

This hundred households are Ma Cheng's personal soldiers, from Anshun, Guizhou. No one can understand Guizhou Mandarin. Most of the Qing army opposite are from Wuchang. If it is Nanzhili Mandarin, you can still hear it for 70% or 80% of them, but Guizhou is too far away from Wuchang, and no one can understand it.

Seeing that no one echoed his words, the hundred-household household was so angry that they asked the Ming army behind him to pull a cannon and cursed: "He fired the cannon without saying anything!"

The Qing army had seen the power of the Ming army's artillery. Although they couldn't understand what the opponent said, they could still understand the actual actions. A Qing army guerrilla stood up and asked tremblingly: "This official, we don't understand what you said!"

Only then did the Baihu realize that the problem was him, so he had no choice but to turn around and find a Ming army soldier from Nanzhili and let him be the translator.

After translating the guerrillas, I realized that the Ming army wanted to surrender them. When I learned that there was no need to die, the Qing army would breathe a sigh of relief and knelt on the ground begging for life.

Seeing that the Qing army kneeled down and surrendered to the hundred households, they were very satisfied and said to the Qing army's guerrillas: "Surrender is simple, but my military master has a condition, that is, hand over the Northern Territory and the Tartars in your army!"

This condition was very easy. Soon, the few Manchus and Mongols left in the Qing army were arrested, and even the Han military flags that spoke Liaodong Mandarin were arrested.
Chapter completed!