Wu Zheng is here, it was originally a wonderful chess, half a day to fight quickly, as long as you don't love to fight, this sailor will have no danger, and you can retreat calmly.

But now it must be different, Zhenjiang City is occupied by the Qing army, and the Dantu will be attacked from both the east and the west.

The fall is only a matter of time (Wu Zheng did not know that Dantu had fallen so far), so the Qing army attacking the two places could completely draw troops back to help Yizhen, that is to say, the time originally left for the sailor would be greatly reduced, which would pose a great danger to the sailor.

But now, even if Wu Zheng is anxious, there is no way.

I'm afraid that I can only hope for heaven in my heart, so that the Dantu can support it longer, and the sailor's assault will be smoother...... That's all.

But God always likes to play tricks on people, it doesn't like to give charcoal in the snow, and prefers to make things worse.

Just as Wu Zheng was silently praying, a team appeared in the northeast direction from Wu Zheng and his party.

It was the remnants of Xia Wanchun's retreat from Dantu, and the number was less than a thousand.

When Xia Wanchun knelt in front of Wu Zheng, cried and pleaded guilty, and told Wu Zheng that the 20,000 troops of the Qing army were coming, and the Dantu had fallen after only half a day, Wu Zheng's brain slammed, and his body was no longer under his control, and he fell to the ground with his buttocks.

If Zhenjiang and Dantu are lost, it means that the Qing army can go straight to the hinterland of the Qingtai Dynasty, and if the 10,000 sailors of Xingguo Gong encounter another accident, the Ming army will also greatly reduce the deterrent power of the Qing army on the river.

If the Qing court really had plans to go south, then the court would be in danger.

At this time, Wu Zheng had hatred and remorse in his heart, and he just wanted to kill!

Presumably the heavens also knew Wu Zheng's thoughts, and on the way from Wu Zheng, the Qing cavalry that followed all the way revealed its figure.

Across a two-mile-long loose cavalry line, it slowly pressed towards Danyang City.

Looking at the remnants brought by Xia Wanchun and the few musketeers in Danyang City, Wu Zheng knew that this battle had to be fought and had to be fought.

Not only must we fight, but we must also win.

Not only do you have to win, but you have to win freely.

But this battle is really difficult to fight, there is no cavalry in the city, and the cavalry style is clearly seen, and there is no intention to attack the city.

They stopped three or four miles from the city, and basically did not move forward.

In other words, the commander of this cavalry thought that he had heard of the previous battle of Danyang City and knew that artillery and muskets were deployed in the city.

Although few of the Qing army knew the power of the musket, they were cautious and always knew.

The Qing horses were cruising around the city, and they were also unwilling.

Wu Zheng made a decision that made the foreign soldiers panic at this time - to go out of the city to face the battle.

Xia Wanchun understood Wu Zheng's thoughts, and he supported Wu Zheng's decision.

After leaving the foreign soldiers who refused to fight on the city wall, the remnants of Xia Wanchun carried spears, while Wu Zheng led more than 1,000 musket recruits in Danyang City.

When the north city gate slowly opened, and the Ming army rushed out, lining up in front of the city gate in a hundred steps, the Qing cavalry was surprised.

Is the Ming army looking for death?

Even if there was artillery at the head of the city, it was not a great threat to the cavalry three or four miles away.

At this time, the speed of the front-loading smoothbore artillery shell is not high, the city head is fired, and the cavalry that is moving three or four miles away can run a hundred steps, that is, it is to use the cannon to fight mosquitoes, and the probability of winning the lottery is too low.

But the cavalry of the Qing army was different, they had a speed advantage, even in the face of artillery suppression, they could take a curve to dodge at the same time, close to the Ming army, and then annihilate them, and then calmly retreat.

The artillery adjusted the angle of fire far as the cavalry could turn their horses' heads.

It can only work when a large number of cavalry are charging intensively, because then there is almost no need to aim, and firing is enough.

Therefore, the cavalry of the Qing army began to be agitated.

They first tried to run from both sides, trying to draw out the fire of the wall artillery to judge the range and density.

And when he got closer, he tried to harass the Ming army with cavalry shooting.

The distance was still five hundred steps away, and this arrow naturally could not be shot at the Ming army's array.

The Qing army was nothing more than a deterrent and temptation.

But the foreign soldiers who had been strictly ordered by Wu Zheng did not move, and they did not even shoot artillery.

In the silence.

After several temptations, the Qing army finally couldn't hold back and launched a surprise attack on the Ming army in front of the city gate.

In their opinion, the Ming army of more than 2,000 people in front of them was afraid that their brains would be burned out, and they would be afraid that their lives would be long.

Exposed in front were Xia Wanchun's nearly 1,000 spearmen, but this was not much of a threat to Qing Cai.

The Qing cavalry could not see the musketeers behind the spearmen, who were hidden by the spears of the forest.

The Qing army could not realize that something was wrong.

And so the battle began.

Wu Zheng naturally didn't go crazy, he just wanted to take the risk, Zhenjiang City and Dantu fell, and the loss of Danyang would be within a day or two, so that the Qing army could quickly occupy the entire Zhenjiang Mansion, so that the situation still returned to the original, and Yingtianfu was isolated from Changzhou and other prefectures.

But the situation will be worse, because Ying Tianfu does not have a second Qian Sudian and 20,000 Ming troops to sacrifice, and there is no other cavalry under Wu Zheng, and Xia Wanchun's Jianyang Guard is now less than a thousand people.

Such a situation will only cause the current situation to be eroded.

The Ming army needs to fight back, it must fight back.

But the Ming army needs time to dispatch, so it is crucial to keep Danyang and become a nail in Zhenjiang Mansion.

The Qing army outside the city must be annihilated, because they have already detected the reality of Danyang City, once they escape, it will attract Zhenjiang or Dantu Qing troops to rush in, and the Ming army will not be able to stop the Qing army from attacking with all its might.

Only by annihilating this cavalry, the Qing army of Zhenjiang and Dantu will be afraid of Danyang, will they deploy troops, and will formulate a siege plan, so as to win time for their own side.

When Wu Zheng led the army out of the city, he made a "small move".

It's very simple, collect small wooden stools from people's homes, and then cut the legs of the stools to the same length and distribute them.

In the face of the roar of the war horses that had accelerated by the Qing army, and the earth shook, there was a lot of commotion in the remnants of Xia Wanchun.

Fortunately, Xia Wanchun stood at the forefront and took the lead, so he did not cause the collapse of the front army.

But this kind of commotion, when seen by the Qing army, was extremely deceptive.

At a distance of five hundred paces, the cavalry had enough time to make a flank turn.

In other words, this was a feint attack by the Qing army.

But the riots of the Ming army greatly enhanced the confidence of the Qing army.

At this moment, the Qing cavalry master pointed his scimitar diagonally and issued a real command to charge.

Five hundred steps, just a snap of a finger.

The whistling cavalry, at the moment when they were about to make contact with Xia Wanjunbu, was the first to hit the scorching buckshot.

The hot and dense projectiles easily pierced the leather mattresses of the cavalrymen, penetrated their bodies, carried them backwards, and fell from their horses.

It was a sight of death's scythe swinging, and the crowd was neatly smoothed out with stubble.