Just when Wu Shengzhao finally won the right to transfer troops on the battlefield in the court, but it was already the darkest time before dawn, fortunately, there was a waiting Fang Yu leading a group of staff to make plans in the camp. At this time, the situation gradually became clear on the banks of the river, where the night had been fighting.

Wu Shengtai's own soldiers repelled Qing soldiers in one place, but more sections were broken through by the Qing army. Soon the first line of defense was lost, and the fortress, which Wu Shengtai had given an order to be breached, began to retreat to the preset positions in the rear.

As soon as he gave his order, the first-line fortresses began to burst into flames one after another, and no one wanted to be left behind, so the partial retreat turned into a full-scale retreat, and the thick black smoke in the fortress kept rushing to the sky. This was to protect the enemy from using the front-line fortresses and to attack the second-line positions through underground passages. Looking at these Wu Shengtai only felt a bitterness, some fortresses on the front line did not fight at all, but they were also given up for no reason.

Before attacking the second line of defense, the Qing army temporarily halted the offensive, only held near the river bank, and began to clear the first line of fortresses in and near the ragtag Ming army. The captured Ming soldiers were forced to clear the river of unextinguished horses and dig gaps in the slopes to facilitate the disembarkation of the Qing chariots that were still crossing the river. The damaged and immobile chariots were brought up the slope from the gaps they had dug to shield them from the Ming fire.

Bolo took a break during the offensive timeout. and listen to the damage report given to him by his subordinates. For the fortress in front of him, Bolo felt a chill in his heart, and after a night of uninterrupted attacks, he had lost more than 300 chariots (damaged) and wounded even more, while the number of soldiers killed in the battle had reached nearly 3,000, and the number of wounded was even more.

Of course, this number is nothing for him who led an army of more than 100,000 troops, but for a battle, the losses are so great that people are a little unacceptable. Now he has not fought with the main forces of the Ming army in Jiangnan, and he has lost almost a seventh of his tanks.

"It's all those abominable bunkers!"

Although he was scolding the bunker, he knew that it was first hindered by many rejections of horses, and the chariots were not allowed to go ashore, and the steep slope that the chariots could not climb was one of the reasons for his heavy casualties.

"Well, it seems that the following style of play needs to be changed, and at night the enemy army can't see clearly, so he launched an attack of such a width, and now......" At night, Bolo's attack was a large-scale, wide-front attack, and he wanted to make a breakthrough somewhere, but who knew that he made the mistake of dispersing his troops, and it seems that his use of chariots is really not good.

For the command of the chariot, Bolo still uses it like cavalry, breaking through on both flanks and making a full-scale assault. Speaking of which, he is also a military talent, and after the overnight attack was blocked, he was already thinking of a way to change the deployment.

The sky is getting brighter and brighter, the Qing army is busy changing its deployment, and Hanoi not only has chariots at this time, but also has boats, which are transporting soldiers across the river one by one. And the Ming army was busy replenishing ammunition, and the all-night battle last night had already consumed almost a third of the ammunition of the Ming army.

Wu Shengtai stood in a pillbox on the second line of defense, observing the movements of the Qing army in the river with a telescope, and when he saw a small boat emerging from the river, carrying a full of Qing soldiers, he understood that the Qing army's attack was about to begin, so he issued an order to fire at the enemy army crossing the river.

"Boom ......" the artillery of the Ming army roared, and the rockets also dragged their long poles and tails to fly to the riverbank.

Under Wu Shengtai's surprised gaze, chariots emerged from the gaps that had been broken on the slope, slowly attacking the second line of defense of the "Suzhou Defense Line". These chariots did not attack the fortress in front of them, but concentrated them all in the center. And the Qing army's artillery, rockets and other long-range weapons also greeted that point. Wu Shengtai understood, that was the breakthrough chosen by the Qing army.

The artillery on the Ming fortress was shelling again, but this time on land, the tanks were much faster than in the river. Soon, I don't know whether the concentrated attack of the Qing army worked, or the motley Ming army on the defensive gradually lost the courage to fight under the attack of the Qing army, and the second line of defense only lasted for a short time before being broken through by the Qing army.

What Wu Shengtai feared was that the miscellaneous Ming army was retreating on all fronts. He looked in the direction of Suzhou City with his eyes a little hopelessly, and if reinforcements were sent from Suzhou City, they were about to come. It's just that the defenders of Suzhou City have always been at odds with the "Shengwu Army", and it is unlikely that they will send reinforcements. And the "Shengwu Army" under his brother's command is not fast, but he is afraid that those people in the military department will be embarrassed, if they are embarrassed, then it is a question when the reinforcements will arrive.

One thing that I can't figure out is that even if the reinforcements don't get enough ammunition, it should have arrived, and the ammunition was not enough. And the ammunition in those fortresses that were abandoned in vain, no one thought to send them where they were needed. Instead, it was all wasted in the fire. And according to this style of play, not to mention five lines of defense, even fifty lines of defense are not enough to lose.

While Wu Shengtai was still there to analyze the current situation, something even more terrible happened. More than 50 chariots that obviously did not belong to the "Shengwu Army" appeared in the rear of the "Suzhou Defense Line", and when the last line of fortresses was ignited, the morale of the entire ragtag Ming army completely collapsed, and they were not even resisting, and one by one the frightened soldiers just held their heads and drilled around in horror.

Tens of thousands of completely broken Ming troops abandoned their fortresses and fled outward, where they were greeted with crossbow arrows like flying locusts. Groups of Ming soldiers lay in pools of blood, the wounded twisted their bodies, and shouted hoarsely for help, but the people who were running around didn't care about saving them. Some hid in the fortress and waited for the Qing army to come and take prisoners, but what they waited for was often thrown into a large number of fire and oil bombs, while many more chose to surrender.