This is destined to be a battle that can be written into the history of the Ming Dynasty.
The fighting continued until daybreak, until the sun rose from the east. No one noticed that the morning glow seemed to be the color of blood. Even if they noticed, no one cared. In the eyes of all the people fighting at this moment,
Blood is a perfectly normal color.
It doesn't matter if it's the enemy's blood or your own blood.
The outcome of the battle was actually determined when the gate of the military fortress was forcibly opened and countless Ming troops rushed in despite the rain of arrows.
The rest is just stubborn resistance.
After daybreak, the originally melee battlefield suddenly became extremely clear. The projectiles of the Ming Army's Fire Gun Team and the Hou Jin Army's bows and arrows were flying everywhere on the battlefield.
Call it a disaster.
The Ming army desperately wanted to close the distance with each other and fought together, and then the Jin people had no way to retreat. When they retreated together and tried to use bows and arrows to stop the Ming army's advance, the Ming army's fire cannon team was very fast.
appeared, bringing the advantages and disadvantages of both sides to the same starting line again.
In the end, it was still fighting with swords, guns and close quarters, with both sides desperately fighting with their lives.
As for the Ming army, which far outnumbered Hou Jin's Tatars, their numerical advantage was finally reflected at this moment. No matter how many people fell in the fighting, there always seemed to be endless soldiers rushing in from outside the city, and Hou Jin's army
Every soldier who falls is one less.
After the walls of the military fortress were controlled by the Ming army, several three-pound cannons were pulled up to the city. When the few artillery shells opened one flesh-and-blood alley after another among the dense crowd of the Hou Jin army, the Hou Jin army
Finally started to fall apart a bit.
From the time when the Houjin people gave the signal to surrender, to when the Ming army generals restrained the already-killing Ming army soldiers to stop, hundreds more lives disappeared on the battlefield, and when both sides completely stopped,
In the entire military fort, the number of surviving Houjin soldiers was less than one-third of the original number.
No one was willing to drop their weapons and surrender. Even if they were ordered to suppress them step by step, dozens of people were still holding weapons to resist the Ming army.
However, this time, the Ming army did not let them take action. A flurry of arrows flew out from the Hou Jin army, turning the soldiers who refused to put down their weapons into hedgehogs.
At this point, the battle is over.
The Ming army won a complete victory, beheading nearly 2,000 people, and suffered about 2,000 casualties, almost a one-to-one replacement ratio.
However, this is still a great victory. The Yipi Island brigade is not at all a partial division of the main force of the Ming army. Facing the elite troops of the Hou Jin people with yellow flags, they achieved such a replacement ratio. If the enemy was not trapped in
After entering the city, if the enemy's cavalry had not been turned into infantry, even if the Ming army had an absolute advantage in numbers, they would never have been able to achieve this result.
More than an hour after the battle ended, Wei Qi, who was escorted to the Ming Army camp outside the city, saw the Ming Army's commander.
This was a young man he had never heard of or seen before. It seemed that he and he were all helpless. If Obai was here and learned that he had been defeated by such a person,
I was afraid that I would be so angry that I would vomit blood on the spot.
It's a pity that Obai has already died in the battle, and at the last moment, Wei Qi, who gave the order to surrender in order to preserve the last elite seeds of Xianghuang Banner, will only be afraid when he sees this man, but will not vomit blood.
"Weiqi?"
Jiang Wan looked at the surrendered general in front of him. Unlike the Tatar leaders in his impression who were shirtless and wearing fur and drank blood, this man did not look like a vicious person.
"Is it true that the armor is inlaid with a yellow flag?"
"Yes!" Wei Qi nodded: "I know you are Pi Dao's troops, and I also saw your flags. I just want to know who is the person who can force Wei Qi to such a situation?
"
"Ao Bai died in the city?" Jiang Wan shook his head: "I'm not particularly familiar with you, but I know a little about Obai. What a pity?"
He raised his head: "I, Commander Jiang Wan, will join the General Administration of Dongjiang Town!"
"General?" Wei Qi's face twitched slightly. He was not even a general, but he was defeated by such a nobody?
He suddenly felt hopeless and glanced at the long knife on the waist of the Ming army beside him. He regretted not fighting to the death in the city. Even if he killed himself in the end, he would not be so humiliated.
"Kill me!" Wei Qi gritted his teeth and said, "In your eyes, I am just a nobody you are not familiar with. Give me a good time and I will respect you as a hero!"
"If you want to die...why do you want to surrender?"
Jiang Wan looked at him: "To be honest, I didn't expect you to surrender. Moreover, I have never heard that during the war with the Ming Dynasty, you Houjin people surrendered with so many soldiers and horses!"
Wei Qi's eyes flickered. He didn't want to answer the other party's question. The other party probably wouldn't understand his thoughts.
The so-called people who understand understand it, but they can’t explain what they don’t understand.
"What are you going to do with us?" Wei Qi said through gritted teeth.
"You are the credit of our Dongjiang Town, and of course you are the prisoners given to our emperor. As for your outcome, it is up to our emperor to have the final say!"
Jiang Wan said: "Don't worry, I won't kill you!"
"What about my subordinates?" Wei Qi stared at the other party, secretly relieved in his heart, but still had an unruly look on his face.
"If we offer prisoners, we won't need so many people!" Jiang Wan tilted her head and thought for a while: "It's enough to just pick a few officers. A hundred or ten people is the best. If there are too many, it will be difficult to manage!"
"We have laid down our weapons and surrendered. If you dare to kill prisoners, you'd better not keep any of them!" Wei Qi sneered: "Otherwise, I will guarantee with my life that no one will reach the capital or your emperor.
In front of His Majesty!"
He said fiercely: "It's not easy to live, but isn't it easy to die?"
"Are you threatening me?" Jiang Wan smiled slightly, with a sinister look in his eyes: "Who gave you the courage to think that I must keep you alive?"
He bared his teeth and pointed at Wei Qi's head: "The person who is alive is a credit, and the beheaded head is also a credit!"
There was a look of despair in Wei Qi's eyes. This young Ming army general was simply an incompetent character. He regretted more and more that he did not fight to the death in the city.
Unfortunately, it's too late to say anything now!
"Take them and keep them under strict supervision!" Jiang Wan ordered, and then said to Mei Xiaofei beside him: "The officers selected the prisoners and sent them back to the capital to report their victory. As for the others, they were all taken to Tieshan City.
You should know how to use these people when digging holes!"