Yang Hongzhang turned around and greeted a soldier, and a sharp whistle sounded on the city wall, followed by two large red flags waving continuously. Looking at all this, Wang Lenian and Xiang Siwen looked dazed. And the Qing army outside the city thought that the Ming army had some tricks, and almost everyone looked up at the place where the flag of the city wall was waving. As a result, nothing happened, and the cautious people looked back at Hauge and Aobai and the others. The two of them were also at a loss. At this moment, the two of them were already riding on their horses, surrounded by their own soldiers, and were supervising the battle along the straight official road in front of the city gate.

Ao Bai is not at ease and wants to go to the front to check it out. And then at this moment, bang bang, bang bang! Suddenly there were many openings in the large cement pier that was close at hand, and then the musket was stretched out and the shooting began. This is the death squad arranged by Yang Hongzhang. The two bunkers were divided into two levels, each containing five musketeers. A full 20 people with 20 flintlock pistols aimed at Hauge and Ao Bai in a volley of less than a hundred paces!

The moment he heard the gunshots, Haug knew something was wrong, but it was too late, because at least 10 or more flintlock pistols were aimed at him. He felt like he had been shot multiple times in the chest, lower abdomen, and thighs. He wanted to persevere, but he still shook off his horse. Haoge's personal soldiers were so frightened that they hurriedly jumped off their horses and blocked the direction of Gaoyang City Gate with their bodies. Then someone picked up Hauge and ran outside.

Aobai, who was closer to the bunker, seemed to be luckier, although there were also a number of flintlock bullets beckoning him. But because it was a much smaller target, he didn't pounce directly on the ground. It's just that by the time the soldiers came around, he was already unconscious.

And that wasn't all, the 20 men in the bunker quickly reloaded after their first shot, this time aiming to face the clear soldiers at the city gates. The hit rate at close range is extremely high, and the most important thing is deterrence. The next step was to throw palm thunder into the panicked and dense crowd of Qing soldiers. These are the only remaining flowering thunders brought back by Yang Hongzhang from the West. Exploded and burned, and the radius of ten or twenty steps around the bunker was instantly emptied. Then the flintlock pistol continued to reload and fire.

From the shrill whistle to the waving of the flag, almost all the Qing soldiers were attracted to attention, and then most of them witnessed Hauge being shot with a musket and falling off his horse, followed by Ao Bai being carried away. Next up...... Thousands of people retreated like a tidal wave almost at the same time as they reacted.

Then the north gate of Gaoyang City opened, and hundreds of cavalry rushed out from inside, aiming at the Qing troops who had not yet had time to leave the battlefield. Just when the Qing soldiers, who were running fast and thought they were lucky, thought it was safe, a group of cavalry came from both east and west directions at the same time. Wang Lenian didn't need to look to know that those were the last trump cards that Yang Hongzhang had hidden for a day. At this point, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. But when he wanted to turn around to look for Yang Hongzhang, he found that Yang Hongzhang was no longer by his side. Looking outside the city again, Yang Hongzhang rode a horse and galloped to catch up with the cavalry who had left the city before.

When all the Qing troops withdrew from the Dunzi array, they showed the elite quality of the Jurchen cavalry, and began to look for war horses to retreat in an orderly manner. Then they were greeted by the cavalry of four hundred cavalry on the east and west sides, not bows and arrows, but flintlock muskets. Suddenly, the Qing army, which had begun to restore order, fell into chaos again, so that almost all the Qing soldiers understood that these two cavalry had been ambushed and waited for this time. And the cavalry who came out of the north gate of Gaoyang also unceremoniously bent their bows and arrows at them. Wait until once you get close, it's a palm thunder. When the cavalry from the three directions merged, thousands of Qing soldiers were forcibly divided into several pieces. Without the command of the commander, they scattered and fled.

Yang Hongzhang went out of the city at this moment in order to let his limited cavalry cause the most damage, of course, the most important thing was to chase the other party's main general, he could see clearly on the city wall, at least the two main generals were not spared under his calculations, but whether he was injured or killed he had to figure it out. In fact, Hauge's personal army is also very recognizable. And in order to ensure that Hauge could escape smoothly, they instinctively formed a formation to block, which was completely different from the other Qing soldiers who scattered and fled.

Yang Hongzhang was not stingy at the moment, and ordered his subordinates to throw out all the palm thunders they were carrying to open the way. Then, with flintlock pistols, Hauge's own soldiers fell one by one like wheat harvesters.

Of course, the ferocity of the Jurchen cavalry was also reflected at this time, and in the face of the double threat of palm thunder and flintlock pistols, more than 200 pro-soldiers swore not to retreat. However, they are not facing simple people, Zhang Hu and the others are all outlaws, and they have witnessed the slaughter of the people by Geert and others. The cavalry of the two hundred Tianxiong army held back, because they knew from the intermittent news that most of the Tianxiong army seemed to have suffered defeats one after another. The reason is not that there are not enough cavalry. In today's good situation, they will naturally not be relentless. And these people brought back by Yang Hongzhang from the sea, except for the lack of equestrian skills, marksmanship and ruthlessness will not lose to the Qing army. You chased after me until it was completely dark. After paying the price of forty or fifty casualties, Yang Hongzhang and others finally almost wiped out Hauge's pro-army, leaving behind more than a dozen living mouths and the two main generals who fell into a coma.

Yang Hongzhang only knew that it was not easy to lead the commander of the 3,000 Qing cavalry, but what he didn't expect was to ask the surviving Qing soldiers to get the answer, one was the Manchu warrior Ao Bai, and the other was Huang Taiji's eldest son Haoge. Seeing the unconscious two, Yang Hongzhang regretted that he had done too hard. It's worth it if it's alive. So he ordered the team to be on guard, and immediately treated Hauge and Aobai.

When Yang Hongzhang and the others walked back, they found that there was no one inside, and it was obvious that in that situation, the Qing army was scattered and fled in an unorganized manner, and most of the people should have gone to find their commander, Prince Rui Dorgon.

Haoge led 3,000 men to attack Gaoyang, and the Qing army lost seven or eight hundred in three days. However, Yang Hongzhang was not carried away by the victory, and the sixty or seventy thousand Jurchen cavalry under the command of Dolgon was besieging Baoding at the moment. Although he managed to get Haoge, the loss for the Qing army was only a drop in the middle. On the contrary, after the fleeing Qing soldiers went back and told the situation in Gaoyang, it was estimated that Dolgon would personally lead the army.

Although everyone was exhausted from chasing at night, everyone was full of joy with the two big fish of Aobai and Haoge, and there were war bows and feather arrows scattered everywhere on the battlefield, which were the most urgent needs of Gaoyang today!

Just when Yang Hongzhang was preparing to do Wang Lenian's ideological work, to see if he would give up Gaoyang and move to other places, or go directly to Baoding. They returned to Goyang. It's just that the north gate of Gaoyang did not welcome the slightest atmosphere of the hero's triumph. Even Yang Sheng called the door several times, and the defenders on the city wall flickered that they didn't open the door! Yang Sheng cursed at the city gate, but the defenders on the city wall refused to open the door on the grounds that it was dark and the Qing army was avoiding spies nearby.

Yang Hongzhang was about to step forward to scold his mother, but at a glance he caught a glimpse of a person on the city wall who was clearly the Sun family he had personally trained in the past few days, and he was also a leader. So he stepped forward and pointed at the man and shouted, "Sun Yuan, you bastard, hurry up and open the door for Lao Tzu." ”

Seeing that he couldn't dodge, the man shrank his neck and said with a look of embarrassment: "General Yang, it's not that you won't open the door if it's not small." Lord Wang has repeatedly instructed that no one will open the door tonight, General, or you will come again when it is dawn. ”

"Bastard, no one is allowed to open the door, have you forgotten that this general is the Gaoyang guard. Also, don't you open the door when Sun Ge is here? When did you become Wang Lenian's follower? Yang Hongzhang didn't expect that it was indeed Wang Lenian who ordered not to open the door.

Sun Yuan spread his hands and continued: "General Yang, we don't dare to get involved in the matter between you and Lord Wang. However, Lord Wang said, you will give up Gaoyang sooner or later, so it is better to take this opportunity for us Gaoyang people to defend the city by ourselves. ”

"Okay, good Sun Yuan, I will tell Elder Sun Ge about tonight's matter, and see if he doesn't pick your skin." Yang Hongzhang put a few cruel words, and asked Yang Sheng and others to try in other ways. As a result, without exception, all the people refused to open the door to them, on the grounds that it was dark and miscellaneous, and they strictly guarded against spies.

As a result, Yang Hongzhang realized that Wang Lenian might have to cross the river and demolish the bridge, because after today, Yang Hongzhang's palm thunder was basically used up, and the bullets of the flintlock pistol were also very limited. During the day, most of them were consuming the local people of Gaoyang to confront the Qing army. Or that he thought that Gao Yang's crisis had passed, and in order to monopolize the credit or preserve Gao Yang Minzhuang's strength, Wang Lenian used his natural advantage of being a parent official in Gao Yang for many years to successfully control Gao Yang Minzhuang and persuade them to cut off with him. Of course, if you are a little stingy, Wang Lenian may have taken a fancy to the considerable amount of silver taels that Yang Hongzhang left in Gaoyang City. In short, no matter what the reason, Wang Lenian and Yang Hongzhang have completely fallen out with the civil and military forces. In the era of the Ming Dynasty, which is dominated by literature and martial arts, the civil officials of the sixth grade will not take a military general from the fifth grade in their eyes at all, not to mention that Wang Lenian is the county governor of Gaoyang.

Yang Hongzhang is now very glad that he did not burn down Hauge's temporary camp in the first place when he was chasing Hauge. Because now this camp is a camp for him and his nearly 600 men. Xia Dongwei, Zhang Hu, Yang Sheng and others were all indignant. Especially Zhang Hu and others, because if Yang Hongzhang had followed his advice and ignored Gao Yang directly, then Gao Yang should have fallen at that time. Now that he has repelled the siege of nearly 3,000 Qing troops again, what a kindness to the people of Gaoyang, but as a parent official, he turned away his benefactor. Of course, it was Xia Dongwei who was more embarrassed, he was in favor of Lu Xiangsheng letting Yang Hongzhang stay in Gaoyang, and he also wanted to follow Yang Hongzhang to make contributions together. It is not yet known who the credit is. In the next two hundred days, it is also difficult for the cavalry of the Xiong Army to go where to go. Yang Sheng was even more straightforward, and directly proposed to go to Cangzhou overnight and return to the sea.