If it were before coming to Yangzijin, Engetu would have been absolutely confident in leading more than 3,000 cavalry to break through this seemingly weak front.

But now he doesn't have any confidence at all.

Not to mention that he and the cavalry under his command had been beaten to a pulp, but the Ming army's armor, numerous squatting cannons, and muskets made him frightened.

But the Ming army from behind was already chasing him, and there was no room for him to hesitate.

Just when he was about to give it a try, a strange buzzing sound appeared in the sky, and then bursts of Mongolian shouts fell -

"Mongolian cavalry, if you want to survive, put down your swords and bows, dismount your horses and kneel down..."

Engetu was stunned when he saw the "strange bird" in the sky, and then he remembered the words of the two defeated Han generals. There was only one thought in his mind - was what they said true? The Ming army really had strange birds to help!

No, this bird can actually speak Mongolian. This is a magical bird!

In this era, not only the Han people were superstitious, but the Mongolians were even more ignorant and superstitious.

I saw many Mongolian cavalry looking up and seeing the drone repeatedly shouting surrender in Mongolian. They were stunned for a moment, and then they all rolled off their horses, threw away their swords and bows, knelt down on the ground, and shouted in Mongolian. There was a chaos.

"O God, please forgive my sins."

"Sacred bird, I surrender, please don't eat me."

"O divine bird, please accept my bows..."

Ngetu came back to his senses and when he saw this scene, he knew he had no choice.

So he got off his horse, knelt on the ground, and begged the strange bird for mercy.

In the south of the town, Zhu Yuyao was sitting under an umbrella, seeing the aerial images sent back by the Flying Eagles, and then hearing the translation by a member of the Imperial Guard who understood Mongolian beside her, she couldn't help but smile.

Then he said on the intercom: "Please surrender these Mongolian cavalry."

"As you command!"

Zeng Ying and Huang Degong responded at the same time.

Obviously, the two men did block the more than 3,000 Mongolian cavalry in tandem.

The generals had no doubts about Zhu Yurao's decision.

The Ming Dynasty's use of Mongolian cavalry and other ethnic minority soldiers can be said to be second only to the Tang Dynasty among the Han dynasties.

When Zhu Yuanzhang founded the country, he subdued a large number of Mongolian cavalry. Even after the Duoyan Three Guards rebelled, many Mongolians still served in the northern frontier army.

For example, Wu Sangui's Guan Ning Army had a thousand Yiding cavalry, the most elite of which were Mongolian cavalry.

The famous Guangxi Wolf Soldiers in the south mainly draw their soldiers from the Zhuang ethnic group.

In addition, there are Qin Liangyu's white-pole soldiers, local chieftain soldiers, etc.

Now that Zhu Aoi's men happened to be short of cavalry, they naturally had to try to conquer these Mongolian cavalry.

Even if they fail to conquer in the end, letting them surrender at this time can prevent them from desperately breaking out and causing casualties to the Ming army, and it can also avoid the death and injury of war horses...

Then the ministries began to clean the battlefield and count the casualties on both sides.

In less than half an hour, the statistical results were gathered one after another through the intercom to Zhu Yuluo.

In the second battle of Yangzijin, the Qing army dispatched more than 15,000 Mongolian cavalry.

As a result, more than 6,000 people were killed on the spot, including senior generals such as Manchurian Eight Banners Beilenikan and Mongolian Eight Banners Melezhang Jingchuobei.

More than 4,000 people were captured.

There were four to five thousand horsemen who escaped.

In the eyes of Zhu Yulao and other military commanders, this result was quite good. After all, they were dealing with Mongolian light cavalry this time, and they were known to come and go like the wind.

If the Qing army's march south had not gone so smoothly this time, leading to pride and complacency among the top and bottom, they might not have fallen into Huang Degong's trick of luring the enemy.

If it weren't for the 10,000 Mongolian cavalry who fell into the trap and fell into the town, the Ming army would not have been able to achieve such good results - who made the Ming army have much fewer cavalry than the Qing army.

In terms of material seizures, since the enemies were all Mongolian light cavalry and did not carry any food, grass or baggage, the most valuable items were war horses. According to statistics, there were more than 5,000 horses.

The rest are the horse corpses and the swords, bows and armor of the Mongolian cavalry.

In comparison, horse carcasses are more valuable and can feed the army a feast of horse meat for several days.

As for the Mongolian swords, bows, and armor, they were of average quality and were of no use to Zhu Yuluo's army.

···

Boom boom!

Iron bullets from the Hongyi cannon hit the north wall from time to time, and some even fell directly into the city, destroying houses.

Every cannonball that landed on the top of the city made the defenders feel that the city wall was shaking, making their hearts tremble.

The garrison in the city did not expect that although reinforcements came from the south and the Qing army also went to attack, they would suddenly attack Yangzhou City again.

It can only be said that the Qing Dynasty had many soldiers and Hongyi cannons, so they were so willful.

Shi Kefa initially went to the top of the city to boost morale, but was persuaded by Shi Dewei, Liu Zhaoji and others to go down.

This northern city wall is too dangerous.

The Qing army used twenty red cannons and divided them into two groups to bombard the city wall and the inside of the city. Yangzhou City would receive a round of artillery shells in almost half a quarter of an hour.

No one knew where the cannonballs would land. If Shi Kefa was unlucky and was killed by a cannonball, it would be even more difficult to defend Yangzhou City.

He Gang saw a shell falling into the city and destroying another house. He couldn't help but said sadly: "Superintendent, this can't go on. There are too many Hongyi cannons in the Qing army and they are too powerful. I'm afraid the Yangzhou city wall won't be able to withstand it."

Stay for a few days and bombard me.”

Shi Kefa sighed: "How can I not know? What can I do?"

"well!"

He Gang also sighed.

There is really no way to deal with the current situation.

They neither had the red barbarian artillery to fight back, nor could they go out of the city to destroy the Qing army's red barbarian artillery. There were tens of thousands of Qing troops outside the city, and they were all elite. They might not be able to defeat them even if they were defending the city, let alone fighting outside the city.

After thinking about it, He Gang said: "We can only count on the Marquis of Jingnan to defeat the Qing army and come to support us."

"It's impossible." Shi Kefa shook his head, "Huang Degong couldn't defeat the Qing army, and those in the court wouldn't let him defeat him."

Just after Shi Kefa finished speaking, a thousand generals hurried over and said loudly: "Report to the Commander-in-Chief, we just saw thousands of Mongolian cavalry passing by in confusion on the west city wall. It seems that they were defeated in the south. Liu

The special commander from the main town came to inform us of this matter to boost the morale of the army!"

What?

Shi Kefa and He Gang both looked in disbelief.

Then He Gang asked urgently: "Is what you said true? Are thousands of Mongolian cavalry really defeated and fleeing to the north?"

Mr. Qian said: "The general will see it with his own eyes!"

Shi Kefa came to his senses and wondered: "Could it be that the Qing army put on a show for us to lure us out of the city?"

He Gang sighed after hearing this and thought: It seems that Inspector Shi really doesn't know how to fight.

So he said: "The governor has filtered it out. Even if Jingnanhou defeats the Qing army in the south, we don't need to risk leaving the city. We can just wait for him to lead the army."

"Oh, that's good." Shi Kefa felt relieved.

Immediately, the Yangzhou defenders discovered that the Qing army's Hongyi artillery had stopped, which made Liu Zhaoji and other generals look happy.

Because this probably means that the Qing army really suffered a defeat in the south.

···

The Eight Banners Camp of the Qing Army in Manchuria.

In front of Dodo's big tent.

Bolo Qianqian's rat-tail whip was half scattered, and he fell to one knee on the ground with a disgraced face, sweating profusely.

Du Yonghe and Wu Wenwen were kneeling behind them. Not only were they sweating profusely, but they were also trembling.

They could have escaped, but they were caught up by Boluo and the Mongolian cavalry halfway and were brought here.

In front of several people, the muscles on Dodo's long face trembled with anger, and he shouted angrily: "Speak! Why was it such a defeat? Where are Nikan, Engetu, and Chuobe? Are they all dead?!"

Bolo's eyes flashed with strange color, and he said: "General, it's all our fault that these two Han Chinese misled us and made Nikan misjudge the situation, so that Engetu and Chuobe led their troops into the small town of Yangzijin."

Du and Wu became even more panicked after hearing this, and hurriedly shouted: "General, I have been wronged!"

"Unjustly accused?" Bolo turned to glare at the two of them, "If you hadn't repeatedly emphasized that the Ming army had flying swords and strange birds to help, how could Nikan have forgotten to beware of the Ming army's artillery?

Also, you only said that the army suspected of having dozens of Hongyi cannons, why didn’t you say that they had hundreds of squatting tiger cannons? Why didn’t you say that everyone in them wore heavy armor and iron helmets?!”

Wu Wenwen cried: "We don't know either. Moreover, the Ming army really had flying swords to help them. We saw it with our own eyes."

Next to Duduo were several other Qing generals.

One of them was Zhang Cunren, the governor of Shandong and the bannerman of the Han army, Meile Zhangjing.

Hearing this, he sneered and said: "You actually blame the ghosts and gods for the defeat and say you don't have bad intentions?

General, we have lost tens of thousands of Mongolian cavalry this time. We must kill these two people with ulterior motives in order to boost the morale of the army!"

Hearing this, Du Yonghe and Wu Wenwen both looked at Zhang Cunren in shock and anger.

Neither of them expected that Zhang Cunren, who was also a Han Chinese, would just ignore their plea and add insult to injury.

Duduo didn't say anything, but directly pulled out the waist knife of Geshiha who was next to him, and swung it left and right, killing Du and Wu.

Then he kicked Bolo over with another kick and shouted coldly: "Come here, pull Bolo to the front of the army and give him thirty whips!"

Then send the heads of these two dog slaves to the Han military camps and the Green Camp, and tell them that I will never spare anyone who is disadvantaged in battle!"

"嗻!"
Chapter completed!