When Yang Zhen saw the city gate suddenly opened, he immediately issued an order to retreat. In order to make the pirate team under Hu Dabao understand his order, Yang Zhen did not care whether it was right or not, and even used bandit slang like lahu.

After shouting and shouting, Yang Zhen had already seen the city gate opening and a group of dark horses rushing out. He immediately turned around and ran away.

Hu Dabao and Zhang Guogan imitated his example and immediately followed him. The other pirate teams were enjoying the excitement when they saw this kind of attack from afar, but suddenly saw their leader turning around and running away, and they were still a little unable to react.

But when they saw a group of Tatar cavalry in vests rushing out of the city gate, they immediately understood what was going on. They turned around and left with a scream, shouting as they ran:

"Tatar cavalry! The Tatar cavalry is coming! Run!"

The entire rout and escape scene did not have any trace of performance. It really looked like the cowardly appearance of the officers, soldiers and civilians abandoning their armor after encountering the Tatars!

Moreover, because the scene changed too suddenly, some of the Rabbit Island pirate brothers who fell behind were in bad luck. They were constantly overtaken by the Tatar cavalry who were chasing after them, or were shot by the Tatar cavalry's bows and arrows.

Shot to death, or trampled to death by Tatar horses.

Thanks to the fact that the Songshan Army's position on Yili Slope was close enough to those of them who came out to lure the enemy, otherwise, as Hu Dabao said before, they would be unable to escape and the trouble would be big.

Yang Zhen, Hu Dabao, and Zhang Guogan are all tall and long-legged. They are experienced in the battlefield and see opportunities early. They were among the first batch to run back, and of course they became part of the first batch to run back to the Yilipo position.

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Yang Zhen ran and rushed through the reserved passage above the Tiger Crouching Cannon position. While passing through the post road guarded by the eight-character ditch, he loudly conveyed the order to prepare to fire:

"Deng En, hold on! Prepare to fire and fire! Hold still! Prepare to fire and fire! Li Lu is ready to drop bombs to stop the enemy! Seize the opportunity and do the damn thing!"

Yang Zhen ran quickly, passing through the tiger crouching artillery position set up on the road in one breath, passed through the eight-shaped trench where Li Lu led a large group of troops to stand on standby, and ran to the first position of the I-shaped trench on the one-mile slope, and climbed over

The parapet, jumped into the trench, and finally stopped.

He lay on the ground and gasped for air, and said to Zhang Chen and Lu Pinqi who came to help him, "We've attracted them! We've attracted the Tatars! Get ready to fight!"

As soon as Yang Zhen finished speaking, he heard a roaring sound of artillery coming from the tiger crouching artillery position down the slope: "Boom! Boom! Boom!"

First there were three cannon shots in succession, followed by two more roars of "boom" and "boom".

Yang Zhen quickly got up from the trench, lay down on the parapet of the first trench of the I-shaped trench and looked down. He saw Dunn and his artillery soldiers running around, jumping with the Rabbit Island pirates who were running at the end.

Entering the eight-shaped ditch on both sides of the post road.

The Tatar cavalry formation not far behind them was suddenly hit by the scattered bullets of five tiger squatting cannons, causing everyone to fall on their backs and their horses to fall into chaos.

Originally, a group of 300 Tatar armored cavalrymen rushed over along the relatively spacious and open post road, forming a dense and dark formation. After the almost face-to-face shotgun attack of the Crouching Tiger Cannon, it suddenly became sparse.

Quite a few!

Some Tatar cavalrymen were shot and fell to the ground, and some Tatar cavalrymen reined in their horses urgently. Only a part of the Tatar cavalrymen behind them did not know what was going on and continued to rush into the position embraced by the eight-shaped ditch.

The five squatting tiger cannons fired, and the place where the gun position was located was already empty. The Tatar cavalry seemed to realize that the squatting tiger cannon in front of them could not be fired again, so after a brief stagnation, they immediately started howling and riding their horses again.

Rush forward.

More than two hundred cavalry roared forward, passing through the passage between the Tiger Crouching Cannon and the Tiger Crouching Cannon, and rushed towards the commanding heights on the hillside in an endless stream. The momentum was extremely frightening.

Yang Zhen was overjoyed when he saw that the Tatar cavalry were not afraid of death, but he was also worried that Li Lu would miss the best opportunity, so he jumped in the ditch on the Yilipo position and shouted:

"Li Lu! Drop the bomb! Drop the bomb! Drop the bomb quickly! Let them taste the power of the flying general!"

At this moment, Li Lu's troops in the eight-character trench no longer needed Yang Zhen's remote control. Amidst the roar of the horse hooves of the Tatar cavalry whizzing by, they could not hear Yang Zhen's shouts at all.

Just as Yang Zhen jumped to his feet and shouted, the Tatar cavalry, like a long dragon, instantly rushed through the position of the Tiger Crouching Cannon. At the same time, dozens of cannons were thrown from the eight-shaped trenches on both sides of the post road in an instant.

A grenade emitting white smoke.

"Bang" "Bang" "Bang" "Bang..."

Hand grenades with white smoke falling into the middle of the ranks of the Tatar cavalry, and then exploded one after another, making bursts of loud noises.

At this time, Yang Zhen and others who were in the trench on the top of Yili Slope could feel the huge vibrations on the ground caused by the exploding grenades.

Some grenades exploded after landing on the ground near the I-shaped trench. The sand and soil that exploded fell down in a swipe, covering everyone's heads and faces.

Yang Zhen squatted against the wall in the ditch, wiping off the dirt on his face, but could not wipe off the bright smile on his face, while the faces of Lu Pinqi and his subordinates were full of shock and confusion in addition to the dirt that they could not wipe off in time.

A mouth that can't close.

"Fusiliers! Fire! Fire!"

Zhang Chen, who had always been calm and composed, lost no time at this moment and loudly commanded the soldiers on the left and right wings of the musketeers under his command. He held his muskets and fired "bang bang bang" at the Tatar cavalry rushing at the front!

The entire Yilipo position was filled with people shouting and horses shouting.

Grenades were continuously thrown out from the trenches one after another, and were thrown into the middle of the Tatar team that was in a dilemma. The Tatar horses and knights who had no way to dodge for a while were blown to the ground.

After finally breaking through the artillery array and the eight-shaped trench, the Tatar knights were about to rush to the one-mile slope position. They were killed by the musketeers who suddenly stood up from the underground trench and fired at the first line of the I-shaped trench.

Before the parapet.

All these things actually happened during Yang Zhen's few gasps. When he completely calmed down his breathing and stood up from the ditch again with his musket in hand, the seemingly unstoppable impact of the Tatar cavalry hit him.

It has been completely contained.

Yang Zhen picked up the musket in his hand and aimed at one of the Tatars. With a "bang" sound, he fired his first shot in the battle, knocking down a Tatar who was waving a saber and shouting for command.

After Yang Zhen fired such a shot, Lu Pinqi had already recovered from the shock. He shouted loudly and shouted at his men to use the strong bows and crossbows in their hands to shoot the Tatar cavalry who were still charging forward.

A post road is a post road after all, not an open battlefield.

Although the Tatar cavalry was unable to deploy here and had no way to outflank, the special terrain also restricted the men and horses led by Yang Zhen, making it impossible for them to immediately expand the advantage they had in front of them.

However, the melee situation in front of them is absolutely beneficial to Yang Zhen's side. As long as the Tatars continue to charge forward regardless of life and death, then what awaits them will be the end of the entire army being annihilated.

Therefore, Yang Zhen was not in a hurry. After firing a shot, he turned around and squatted in the trench, continuing to load gunpowder and projectiles into his musket.

But at this moment, a burst of Tatar cries came from the position not far away. Ma Keqing, who had been responsible for keeping Yang Zhen's ammunition supplies in the trench, heard the sound and suddenly said to Yang Zhen:

"Lord Commander-in-Chief! The Tatar Zhang Jing is dead! The Tatars are about to withdraw!"

After hearing this, Yang Zhen slapped his forehead and said: "Ouch! I actually forgot that you, Ma Keqing, can speak the Tatar bird language! - You quickly shout to them in the Tatar bird language and say that we are

The advance battalion of the Ming Dynasty's military expedition to the East! If they run away, it will be too late!"

After hearing this, Ma Keqing stood up quickly and was about to shout out.

However, Lu Pinqi, Hu Dabao and others who were right next to Yang Zhen were all shocked and shouted in unison: "Sir, please wait!"

After Hu Dabao stopped Ma Keqing from shouting, he continued: "Sir, if you let him shout like this, wouldn't we all be exposed?!"

Lu Pinqi also said to Yang Zhen at this time: "Sir, you have exposed the identity of the advance battalion for the Eastern Expedition. I am afraid that soon, the Tatars will send an army to Songshan City to retaliate against us! Why bother with this trouble?!"

"Okay! That's it - Ma Keqing, you call over immediately! Just say that your grandpa is here at the Jingdong Camp of the Western Liaoning Army of the Ming Dynasty! Immediately dismount and surrender, surrender Xiongyue City, and let them leave with the Tatars full!

Otherwise, when our Jingdong camp breaks Xiongyue City, the city will be full of Tatar chickens and dogs without leaving any trace! Hahahaha!"

After Yang Zhen shouted these words to Ma Keqing, he felt extremely happy for no reason and immediately burst into laughter.

At the same time, Ma Keqing no longer hesitated, and shouted Yang Zhen's words in Tatar Jurchen language amidst Lu Pinqi's dumbfoundedness and Hu Dabao's confusion.

At this moment, the Tatar cavalry, which had failed to attack Yilippo, had discovered that the momentum was wrong. The main force of the opponent was not pirates, and it was possible that they had been ambushed.

Therefore, after listening to Ma Keqing's words of persuasion to surrender shouted in Jurchen dialect, the Tatar cavalry who were rushing back and forth in front of the position quickly turned their horses around with shouts, followed the way they came, and rushed out of Yang Zhenjing.
Chapter completed!