The Mongols also charged with the Han Banner Army, taking charge of one of the directions.

Compared with the defeat and retreat of the Han Banner Army, although the Mongols did not make any progress, they really withstood the counteroffensive of the Ming army, stabilized their battle line in this direction, and continued to fight fiercely with the Ming army.

"The Manchu Jingnan King was killed, the traitor Geng Jingzhong?" Zhu Cihong had just received the battle report, and he was so excited that he almost thought he had heard it wrong.

"Yes, the emperor, this is Geng Jingzhong's head, please ask the emperor to inspect it!" A general of the Ying Long Army, who came to report the battle situation to Zhu Cihong, presented Geng Jingzhong's head.

"Okay, it's really the big traitor Geng Jingzhong, hahahaha!" Zhu Cihong only glanced at it and laughed.

Although he hadn't really seen Geng Jingzhong, he knew very well that it was impossible for Ying Longjun to deceive him, and this head must be the big traitor Geng Jingzhong.

"Spread my will, pass the head of the great traitor Geng Jingzhong to the front line, inspire the morale of the soldiers, and let the soldiers fight bravely to kill the enemy!" Zhu Cihong suddenly thought of a way to use Geng Jingzhong's head to motivate the morale of the soldiers, and immediately issued an order.

"Yes!" Immediately, Geng Jingzhong's head was passed to the front line, and the morale of hundreds of thousands of soldiers was inspired in this radius of more than 2,000 meters.

This trick really worked, and after learning the news that the great traitor Geng Jingzhong was killed, tens of thousands of soldiers were greatly boosted in morale one by one, and they fought back against the Qing army's attack with a roar.

Geng Jingzhong was the first Han general to take refuge in the Manchu Qing Dynasty, he participated in almost every Ming and Manchu war, his hands were stained with the blood of the Han people, every Ming people and soldiers have heard of this big traitor, especially after the image of the Manchu Propaganda City brutal and indiscriminate killing of the Ming Dynasty, the people of the Ming Dynasty all hated the traitor, Geng Jingzhong's death, undoubtedly made all the soldiers feel relieved, and the morale was naturally different.

The outbreak of morale doubled the combat power of the Ming army, and under the force, the Qing army was repelled hundreds of meters, and once again expanded the living space of the Ming army.

Dolgon and other Qing generals were so angry that their faces turned blue, and in a fit of anger, Dolgon sent out tens of thousands of soldiers of the Eight Banners to be distributed at the forefront of the fierce battle, not to shock the Ming army, but to supervise the Han Banner Army at the forefront of this front, as long as anyone dared to retreat, these soldiers of the Eight Banners immediately killed them, and even some Mongols were implicated.

Under this bloody persecution, the Han Banner Army and the Mongols dared to be angry and did not dare to speak, gritting their teeth and braving the heavy rain overnight to fight bloody and fierce battles with the Ming army, constantly consuming the vitality of the Ming army.

The offensive of the Qing army became fierce, and the casualties of the Ming army such as the Ying Long army became more and more heavy, and Zhu Cihong had to order to shrink the front.

After all, the wider the battle line, the wider the scope of the collision between the two armies, the original Ming army was only in a radius of two thousand meters in diameter, and at most only 40,000 troops came into contact with the Qing army, but as the Qing army, the Han Banner Army and the Mongols were repulsed several times, the scope of the Ming army's activities expanded to a radius of 3,000 meters in diameter, and suddenly there were 70,000 troops in contact with the Qing army, and the casualties increased exponentially.

The Ming army took the initiative to shrink the front, and the range of contact with the Qing army changed to the speed of casualties, and the speed was greatly reduced.

Soon, the Qing and Ming armies fought fiercely all night, and as the sky grew brighter, Dolgon's face became more and more gloomy.

It has been raining all night and there is still no sign of stopping, the raindrops are much smaller than last night, but it has been falling, and it is impossible to predict how long it will stop.

Xuzhou at dawn can clearly see the crimson water of the moat outside the city, the rain is still constantly washing the blood of the battlefield in the city into the moat, and with the moat river to the Huai River tributaries finally into the Huai River, the Huai River water is also dyed red, all of which are like the residents on both sides of the Huai River telling the tragedy of the Xuzhou War in disguise.

"Newspaper"

"The Han Banner Army suffered 60,000 casualties, the Mongolian Iron Cavalry suffered 30,000 casualties, and the battle line advanced 500 meters!" Dolgon's men who had been sent to count the casualties returned, and reported the exact number of casualties to Dolgon.

Together with the more than 20,000 casualties in the Manchu Eight Banners, the Qing army suffered more than 110,000 casualties in this night, and now there are about 350,000 left. The Ming army and other Ying Long troops also suffered more than 70,000 casualties, and the 500-meter front was actually contracted by the Ming army on its own initiative.

At this moment, there were only more than 53,000 people left in the six armies of Yinglong's army, with an average of less than 10,000 per army, and more than half of the casualties, Zheng Sen's 15,000 Quanzhou cavalry suffered 8,000 casualties, and the 100,000 ordinary Ming army also suffered nearly 40,000 casualties, and the Ming army was sharply reduced from 200,000 when it was originally surrounded to more than 120,000 now.

With nearly half of the 200,000 casualties, Zhu Cihong had to shrink his front and further reduce his contact with the Qing army.

"Get out of the way, our young master is injured, military doctor! Military! Come and help our young master stop the bleeding! More than a dozen Quanzhou soldiers rushed into the most central place with a stretcher, Zheng Sen was wounded, and his left shoulder and right leg were slashed by the Qing army.

"Put people down!" A military doctor commanded.

When the Quanzhou soldiers let Zheng Sen go, the military doctor immediately began to treat, stop the bleeding, use medicine, suture the wound, bandage and other things in an orderly manner.

In this central area, there were nearly 30,000 wounded, but fortunately, Zhu Cihong had already prepared when he personally went on the expedition, and let the household prepare a large number of medicinal materials, and these medicinal materials were all stored next to the camp where Zhu Cihong lived, and they were surrounded here by the Qing army, so although there were many wounded, the medicinal materials to stop bleeding and reduce inflammation were enough.

Dozens of military doctors had not closed their eyes all night, and everyone was exhausted, but they still stuck to their posts, constantly treating one wounded after another who were sent in.

"Where is Zheng Sen?" When Zhu Cihong heard that Zheng Sen was seriously injured, he was shocked and immediately came to visit.

As the war continued, Ji Feng, Huang Degong and several other commanders of the Yinglong Army had hanging colors.

"Eight Banners Charge! Killing" felt that the Han Banner Army and the Mongols had been consumed overnight, and the combat effectiveness of the Ming army should be greatly reduced, Dolgon ordered the 50,000 Manchu Eight Banners to launch a fierce charge to see if he could defeat the remaining 120,000 Ming troops in one fell swoop.

"Boom" war horses neighed, and the charge of 50,000 full eight banners was comparable to more than 100,000 Han banner troops and Mongols, and the momentum was terrifying.

"Quick, hold the line, hold on!" Ying Longjun and the rest of the Ming army did not give an inch, and once again fought with the Manchurian Eight Banners.

"Damn!" The Eight Banners rushed to kill for a whole hour, relying on the powerful white-bladed melee power of the Eight Banners, although they pushed the battle line forward a lot, but in the end they still failed to break through the defense line of the Ming Army and defeat the Ming Army, it was still a war of attrition!

After a night of fierce fighting, nearly half of the casualties were still able to block the attack of the Eight Banners, and there is no doubt that the willpower of the besieged Ming army was shown at this moment.

"Retreat!" Dolgon's face was so black that he couldn't get dark, his expression was extremely gloomy, when the casualties of the Eight Banners reached 7,000, it was only to advance the battle line by two hundred meters, Dolgon finally couldn't bear it, and had to withdraw the Eight Banners again, so that the Han Banner Army and the Mongols continued to consume the remaining Ming army's combat effectiveness.

Although the tenacity of the Ming army was beyond Dolgon's expectations, Dolgon could see the hope of victory, because although the casualties of the Qing Dynasty were much higher than those of the Ming army, almost two to one casualties, but the Qing Dynasty still had 350,000 troops at this time, while the besieged Ming army was only 120,000, and the Qing Dynasty was three times as large as the besieged Ming army, so there was no reason not to win!

Emperor Zhu Cihong of the Ming Dynasty surrounded here, Dolgon did not expect that the Ming Dynasty would have King Qin's soldiers and horses, but he did not think that the Ming Dynasty could send at least a hundred thousand reinforcements in just a few days, and if it was only less than 100,000 reinforcements, it was impossible to threaten the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty, and Dolgon did not take it seriously.

"In any case, the Qing Dynasty will win!" Dolgon gritted his teeth, his eyes were full of the belief that he would win, even if the Ming army was unexpectedly tenacious, he had at least a few days or more, enough time to consume the Ming army and capture the remnant Ming little emperor!

At this moment, Dolgon has given up the idea of quickly defeating the besieged Ming army and capturing Zhu Cihong, and changed to the strategy of fighting a war of attrition with the besieged Ming army, which is also a way out of the way, after all, there are less than 50,000 people left in the Eight Banners, which is the core of the Qing Dynasty's rule over the world, and there is no room for error, without the Eight Banners to participate in the charge, it is absolutely impossible for the Han Banner Army and the Mongols to quickly defeat the besieged Ming Army alone.

However, in any case, Dolgon did not expect that he ignored a place close at hand, where there was an army of more than 100,000 in the Ming Dynasty, which had just been incorporated into the Ming Dynasty, and was very close to Xuzhou, and in a hurry, it would not take a day to rush to Xuzhou to participate in the war.

Because of this neglect, Dorgon will pay a terrible price, and he will regret it almost for the rest of his life!

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