After Ji Feng, Yan Yingyuan and others led the remnants of the army to rush out of the south gate, relying on the city gate to block the attack, only in this small area, even if the Qing army was numerous, it was difficult to deploy, and it could only be blocked at this small city gate and could not get out.

"Which one is Commander Ji?" Zheng Sen came to Ji Feng and Yan Yingyuan with a war horse on his shoulder.

"I'm Ji Feng, you are," Ji Feng replied.

"In Xia Zhengsen, the name of Ji Jun has been admired for a long time!" Zheng Sen smiled and arched his hand at Ji Feng.

For Ji Feng, the commander of the first army of the Yinglong Army, Zheng Sen admired him very much, in the first battle of Tai'an, Ji Feng was famous all over the world, and later he had been confronting the Qing army on the Shandong front, and now he is fighting against hundreds of thousands of Qing troops all the way, killing and injuring countless Qing troops, and is a model for many generals.

Ji Feng returned the salute, looked at Zheng Sen and saw that there were only more than 10,000 people behind Zheng Sen, and immediately frowned and said strangely: "Why are there only more than 10,000 people coming, and there are other reinforcements behind." ”

"Yes, it is only the forward in the bottom, because most of the war horses of the reinforcements are concentrated, so they can arrive first, and there are another 120,000 reinforcements in the rear, and it is estimated that they will arrive in two hours." Zheng Sen replied.

"Two army commanders, this is not the place to speak, your army is tired and it is not suitable to fight again, you should immediately evacuate in the direction of Xuzhou, just leave it to me here." Zheng Sen said with a straight face.

Several horses of the Qing army were shot dead and blocked in the city gate, and the Qing army's iron cavalry could not rush out for the time being, and should soon abandon their horses and climb the city wall to attack them, and it was impossible to block the Qing army's iron cavalry in the city for a long time.

"Okay." Ji Feng and Yan Yingyuan glanced at each other without hesitation.

Zheng Sen's entire army has war horses, but they are different, the 40,000 remnants of the army are not only foot soldiers, but also after a long battle, they have long been exhausted, and it is difficult to fight fiercely with the Qing army, and staying here is a burden.

"Withdraw!" Ji Feng and Yan Yingyuan quickly evacuated in the direction of Xuzhou with 40,000 remnants of the army, and only by joining up with the main reinforcements that came from behind could they really not be afraid of the pursuit of the Qing army.

More than a dozen Qing soldiers planned to drag away the war horses and soldiers' corpses blocking the city gate, so that the iron cavalry behind them could rush out.

"The Qing soldiers are going to clean up the corpses of the war horses blocking the city gate, shoot me."

"Whew!" Zheng Sen was the first to bend his bow and arrow, and shot one of the Qing soldiers to death with a single arrow.

In just one breath apart, hundreds of arrows shot at the city gate, killing more than a dozen Qing soldiers.

At this time, at least seven war horses and the corpses of more than 20 Qing soldiers fell there at the city gate with a width of only three meters, blocking the city gate one meter high, and the soldiers of the Quanzhou army were ready to shoot the Qing army that appeared at the city gate, so that the Qing army's iron cavalry could not step over such a high corpse and rush out of the city for a while.

"Abandon Ma Deng City and shoot the Ming army outside the city!" Duoduo grimaced with a gloomy face.

Tens of thousands of Qing soldiers abandoned their horses and climbed the city wall with bows and arrows, intending to shoot arrows at the Quanzhou soldiers who were blocked outside the city.

"The Qing army has landed in the city, shoot arrows!" Under Zheng Sen's order, more than 10,000 soldiers of the Quanzhou Army took the lead in shooting arrows at the city wall.

The Quanzhou army was formed by the Zheng family, the wealthy overlord of the South Seas, and was well-armed, everyone was equipped with strong bows, and the archery skills were not much worse than those of the Manchus and Mongols who had lived on horseback since childhood.

After more than 12,000 arrows were thrown into the sky, a rain of arrows enveloped the entire city wall, and even many arrows directly crossed the city wall, covering a radius of more than ten meters near the city wall.

"Ahh

Because the countless Qing troops in the city were too close to the city wall, under the dense rain of arrows of the Quanzhou army, the Qing army suffered a total of more than 400 casualties.

Another round of arrow rain fell, and the Qing army suffered more than 100 casualties again.

"Stand back!" Dodor ordered the soldiers who were too close to the walls to stand back.

At this time, after tens of thousands of Qing troops rushed up the city wall, they were finally able to shoot arrows to fight back.

The same tens of thousands of arrows formed a rain of arrows to cover the Quanzhou army, the Qing army occupied the high place of the city wall, the power of the arrows was greater, although the Quanzhou army had armor, but in the Qing army's round of arrow rain, the same casualties of more than 300 people.

And, at the gate of the city, the Qing soldiers cleaned up the corpses blocked at the gate under the cover of wooden planks.

"The Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry charged, and wiped out the Ming army outside the city!" Tuo Yue was suddenly attacked by Zheng Sen in the city just now, and the 30,000 army was defeated, and his heart was full of shame, and the city gate had been cleared, so he took the lead in ordering the army to rush and kill.

"We must not let the Qing army rush out so quickly, on!" With a wave of Zheng Sen's hand, dozens of Quanzhou soldiers rushed forward.

Ji Feng and Yan Yingyuan had just evacuated with the remnants of the army, if the Qing army was released at this time, they would inevitably catch up quickly, and the consequences would be unimaginable, Zheng Sen planned to block the Qing army's iron cavalry in Xue Cheng for at least half an hour at all costs.

At the gate of the city, which was only three meters wide, the soldiers of the Qing army and the Quanzhou army fought fiercely here, but in a moment, a large pile of war horses and the corpses of soldiers on both sides were piled up here again, and the Qing army's iron cavalry was blocked again.

"Damn! Command, dismount and fight! Tuo Yue was furious, and without waiting for Duoduo's order, he directly ordered his soldiers to abandon their horses and fight.

There were corpses more than half a man high at the gates of the city, and although the horses were blocked, if the soldiers gave up their horses, they could still cross these corpses and kill them out of the city.

"Hmph, Qingyu is looking for death!" Zheng Sen sneered, and with a single draw of his bow and arrow, he shot a Qing soldier who was climbing over the corpses of the city gate, adding another body to the pile of corpses blocking the city gate.

More than a dozen archers in the Quanzhou army, together with Zheng Sen, shot at the Qing soldiers who were climbing over the corpses at the city gate, one by one, and soon increased the pile of corpses by half a meter.

Inside the city, Tuo Yue stared at the city gate hole that was almost half-blocked, his face was pale, but he could only helplessly order the soldiers to stop this fearless move.

"All shoot arrows outside the city, I don't believe that the Ming army can always block outside." Tuo Yue Tie blushed.

Inside the city, all the Qing soldiers near the city wall shot arrows outside the city.

Together with the tens of thousands of Qing troops on the city wall, this time, nearly 40,000 arrows crossed the city wall and shot outside the city, and the sky seemed to be covered by dark clouds, and the sky was black and oppressive.

"Mom, get out!" Zheng Sen's scalp was numb.

The Qing army was completely ruthless, and the terrifying rain of arrows covered the distance of a hundred meters from the city wall outside the city.

"Puff"

"Ahhh

Zheng Sen swung his sword to block, but the rain of arrows was too dense, and Zheng Sen was shot in the left shoulder by an arrow.

"Young master!" A Quanzhou army general shouted.

"Withdraw! Evacuate 100 meters away! Zheng Sen shouted and ordered, for fear that the Qing army's arrow rain would come down in a wave.

The rain of arrows shot by the Qing army in the city should cross the city wall more than ten meters high, and at most it can only cover the distance of up to 70 meters from the city wall.

At this time, the Quanzhou army had 3,000 dead and wounded, and only 10,000 horses remained, and they were shooting at tens of thousands of Qing troops on the city wall, and they were still being killed and wounded.

Qing soldiers again began to clean up the corpses piled up at the city gates.

Zheng Sen estimated the time, it was about the time of a stick of incense, as long as they were blocking a stick of incense, it would be enough for half an hour. In half an hour, Ji Feng and the others should be able to run a distance of more than ten miles, basically close to the main force of the reinforcements led by Huang Dequan, and even if the Qing army is in pursuit, there is nothing they can do in the face of hundreds of thousands of reinforcements.

"Archers, try to shoot the Qing army who cleaned up the corpses at the city gate!" Zheng Sen looked calm.

The soldiers of the Quanzhou army shot at the Qing army on the city wall 100 meters away from the city wall, and they were able to hook the range and cover the Qing army who were cleaning up the corpses at the city gate.

After the Qing soldiers removed nearly half of the bodies, someone finally showed their bodies.

"Whew!" A marksman shot an arrow.

"Whew!" The Qing soldier was shot in the right chest by an arrow and fell to the ground.

After three Qing soldiers in a company were shot to death, the remaining Qing soldiers were frightened, relying on the blocking of the pile of corpses, not daring to expose their bodies easily, and most of the corpses blocked at the city gate were quickly cleaned up.

More than a dozen Qing soldiers held wooden planks and stepped over the corpse, which was still half a meter high.

"Hmph, it's not that easy to figure it out." Zheng Sen ordered to a general of the Quanzhou army beside him: "Ah Ji, you will rush to the gate of the city to fight with the Qing army once, and be sure to block the Qing army in the city for a stick of incense." ”

"Yes, young master!"

It is estimated that the Qing army has been cleaned up, and the general of the Quanzhou army named Ah Ji immediately led hundreds of Quanzhou army soldiers to rush through the layers of arrows of the Qing army, and once again fought fiercely with the Qing army at the city gate.

"Minggou is still here!" A general of the Eight Banners on the city wall was furious and commanded all the Qing soldiers on the city wall to shoot arrows at the Quanzhou army blocking the city gate.

Hundreds of Quanzhou soldiers were almost completely wiped out at the city gates, including the general named Aji.

Zheng Sen's heart was dripping blood, these were all soldiers from Quanzhou, but he had to be ruthless and let them take their lives to block the Qing army.

"It's almost time, let's withdraw!" Zheng Sen did not entangle with the Qing army more, and retreated with the remaining 8,000 men and horses.

After the Quanzhou army withdrew, the Qing army quickly cleared the road, and more than 200,000 troops swarmed out.

Jining City, Dolgon's camp.

I haven't seen the news of the annihilation of the Ming army from Xue Cheng for a long time, and Dolgon frowned.

Duoduo's ability is clear to him, second only to him in the entire Qing Dynasty, more than 200,000 troops are in his hands, and with the cooperation of Tuoyue's 50,000 army, he should be able to annihilate the 80,000 Ming troops fleeing south of Jining City like a bamboo, and quickly sweep the entire territory of Shandong.

"Command the army, go south immediately!" Thinking that the army had rested enough, Dolgon prepared to lead the main force of the 400,000 Qing army to continue south.

"Wow!" The heralds of the Qing army immediately went to give orders.

When Zheng Sen led the 8,000 Quanzhou army to catch up with Ji Feng, Yan Yingyuan and others, they were already about 20 miles away from Xue Cheng, and the main force of 120,000 reinforcements led by Huang Dequan also saw the figures.

The army will meet! Of the 40,000 remnants of Ji Feng and others, many of them burst into tears, as if they had seen their relatives.

"Boom" At this time, 200,000 Qing army iron cavalry also arrived.

"Don't panic, Ying Longjun will come to the front!" Huang Degong responded calmly, and all 40,000 horses of the Second Army and the Third Army of the Dragon Army went to the front.

The two sides confronted each other less than five hundred meters apart.

Although the Qing army had 200,000 iron cavalry, the Ming army also had more than 100,000, so even if it was a hard battle, there was no need to be afraid of the Qing army at all.

"Why didn't the prince order the charge, even if the Ming army reinforcements arrived, my 200,000 Qing iron cavalry would definitely be able to annihilate them." A bearded and scumbag-faced general of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army looked at Duoduo puzzled.

"The tens of thousands of Ming troops are waiting for the Dragon Army, and there are more than 100,000 ordinary troops to assist, it is not suitable to fight hard, what if they are let go back to Xuzhou, there is always a chance to annihilate them." At the mention of Xuzhou, a trace of inexplicable meaning flashed in Duoduo's eyes.

Xuzhou is the next decisive battle, the Qing Dynasty not only wants to annihilate the main force of the Ming army in Xuzhou and capture the Ming Emperor alive, but also to take Xuzhou as a starting point to dominate the world!

"Return to Xue Cheng!" Duoduo did not choose to fight hard, and led an army of 200,000 to return to Xue City.

Seeing that the Qing army retreated without a fight, whether it was Ji Feng and others or Huang Degong, they were secretly relieved in their hearts, although they were not afraid of the Qing army, but the tens of thousands of troops who had just broken through had fought for a day and a night without rest, and it was an exhausted army, and it was difficult to continue the fierce battle.

"Go back to Xuzhou!"

With the withdrawal of hundreds of thousands of troops to Xuzhou, the entire territory of Shandong completely fell into the hands of the Manchus, and the city of Xuzhou became the forefront.

In the first battle of Shandong, the Ming Dynasty lost a total of more than 150,000 troops. The Qing army was no better, losing no less than 200,000 in total.

Now around Xuzhou City, a total of 360,000 Ming troops have gathered, which is all the horses that the Ming Dynasty can draw now.

Xuecheng, when Dolgon arrived at Xuecheng with the main force of 400,000 Qing troops, he joined with Duoduo's army, and 600,000 Qing troops gathered.

Dolgon's face was gloomy: "Fifteenth brother, you disappointed me too much, why didn't you annihilate that Ming army, but let the Qing Dynasty suffer so much loss." ”

Dolgon could never have imagined that Duoduo had more than 200,000 in hand, and almost all of them were iron cavalry, and the number of raiders was far less than his own Ming army, and he couldn't annihilate it after nearly a day of fighting, and let the Ming army break through smoothly, and his own losses were even more than the Ming army, which was unimaginable.

"Brother is guilty!" Duoduo looked ashamed, since he went south, he was caught off guard by the combat effectiveness shown by the various Ming armies.

In the battle of Linyi, the Ming army obviously had less than 30,000 people, but it was under the siege of his nearly 190,000 army for three days, and he lost more than 30,000 men and horses. In addition, in the battle of Xue Cheng this time, it was obviously a defeated army that escaped from Jining City, and after being attacked by him, it was surrounded by groups, and it also broke out with unexpected combat effectiveness.

Whether it was Linyi or on the hillside, tens of thousands of Ming soldiers shouted at the same time to kill the Qing prisoners, and would rather die than be a slave to the country, so far he can't control the corners of his eyes and frightened in his heart.

has always been only infighting, and the weak and incompetent Ming army has changed so much.

After Duoduo confessed to Dolgon, he was silent for a long time before telling Dolgon the specific details of the two battles of Linyi and Xuecheng, especially the strange combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

"Could it be that the Ming army has really changed so much?" Dolgon did not suspect that Dordor would exaggerate, in fact, since the current little emperor ascended the throne, the changes in the Ming Dynasty are indeed terrifying, but Dolgon has always been unwilling and does not want to say this.

"Daming may really be different, this time may be the last chance for our Daqing to dominate the world." Now, Duoduo has to admit that Da Ming is indeed different.

Dolgon's heart tightened, no matter how unwilling he was, he had to admit that Duoduo was right, the current Ming Dynasty is indeed different, otherwise he would not have been thinking about personally leading the army south to fight the current Ming Dynasty since the end of last year, because he always has a feeling that he can't let the Ming Dynasty develop, otherwise one day in the future, it is likely that they will be destroyed.

Dorgon's instincts had always worked, and he didn't dare to take risks, so he would do whatever it took to break the situation.

"In any case, this time the Ming Dynasty will definitely be destroyed, and we will be in the Qing Dynasty!" Dolgon's face was hideous, in order for the Qing Dynasty to enjoy these thousands of miles of splendid mountains and rivers, the Han people could only be slaves of the Qing Dynasty, and any obstruction must be destroyed.

In June of the first year of Zhongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the Manchu regent Dolgon led 600,000 Qing troops to gather under the city of Xuzhou, and the decisive battle of Xuzhou was about to break out.

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