The battle soon ended without suspense. A sudden ambush battle, from the first gunshot to the last Qing soldier being killed, before and after the total time is not more than a cup of tea.

An entire Qing cavalry of Niu Lu was killed in this way, and most of them died without knowing why? The heroes of Bazhou didn't believe this fact for a long time, you must know that when they set out from Bazhou, they gathered a team of at least 300 people, and the protectors of nearly five or six thousand people fled to the south, and the villages and towns along the way were all refugees fleeing from the wind, and they came to Qingxian County from Bazhou in just 100 miles, and there were more than 100 martial arts people who were shot and killed by the Qing cavalry, and more than 1,000 innocent and tragic people. When they saw that Yang Hongzhang arranged for people to collect the living war horses one by one, these people finally reacted and came to Yang Hongzhang's side under the leadership of the leader.

Plopping and plopping, a hundred and dozens of men knelt down in front of Yang Hongzhang. A man about thirty years old with a beard on his face choked up and said to Yang Hongzhang: "Thank you for the general's life-saving grace, I thank the general for these brothers and for the thousands of fathers and brothers in Bazhou!" Thank you General for saving your life! After speaking, he touched the ground with his head and kowtowed three times in a row, and the rest of the people did the same.

Yang Hongzhang hurriedly walked over and helped the person up: "This strong man, please get up, it can be seen that you have sacrificed a lot to cover those fellow villagers, it is not safe here, you better hurry up and take the fellow villagers to continue to move forward." By the way, Jiannu is a cavalry, Cangzhou is afraid that it is not safe, well, Shandong is not good, you should go to Henan. ”

"Thank you General for reminding us that we came from Bazhou and originally planned to go to Texas. General, you are the people of that town, and if there is a brave soldier like you, General, can't you stop the Tartars? I don't know how many soldiers and horses the general has, if he can stop the Jiannu family, he will save these fellow villagers from the hardships of traveling......"

Yang Hongzhang smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that these heroes have misunderstood themselves, and they still have hope for the Ming soldiers. Just when he didn't know how to answer these people, a sailor from the Yang family in the team stood up and said with a smile: "Strong man, you better hurry up and take your fellow countrymen away, our young master also took people to Zhuozhou to save people." ”

Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to say his purpose, and the big man was even more surprised when he heard that Yang Hongzhang was not a soldier, and then he returned to the team to discuss it with everyone, and then proposed to follow Yang Hongzhang and others to Zhuozhou. These martial arts people usually have no fixed residence, but now there are flames everywhere in the Gyeonggi area, and they also know that with them, they can't help the Qing cavalry at all, and if they follow Yang Hongzhang, maybe they can kill some Tartars to avenge their dead brothers.

Yang Hongzhang originally drove more than a dozen carriages with 200 sailors, but fortunately, now that the war has started, no one in the government cares about this. The ambush had yielded nearly four or five hundred horses, so it would be nice to have those who could ride horses follow them. As a result, everyone can ride a horse, Bazhou was originally a place for the imperial court to raise horses, almost every household will raise horses, these are mixed in the rivers and lakes, and the ugly thing to say is that some horse thieves, how can they not ride horses, but they can't afford it.

I had no choice but to promise them to follow temporarily, and said that I would rescue people in Zhuozhou, and if these people were unwilling to go to sea, they would go their separate ways.

The bearded man introduced himself as Zhang Hu, and a younger brother named Zhang Bao is the leader of a local green forest team in Bazhou, who went up the mountain because he was dissatisfied with the government's oppression of the people, and now Jiannu came, both the officials and the people became victims, because they couldn't bear to build slaves to slaughter innocent people and led the team to block the Qing army.

Although these people's personal martial arts are not bad, they are still vulnerable in front of the formed cavalry, and the villagers who basically have no protection and have suffered heavy losses are not yet able to protect them. If it hadn't been for Yang Hongzhang and them, I'm afraid that this group of people would have been killed and injured before they could reach Cangzhou.

When Zhang Hu was talking to Yang Hongzhang, the group of fleeing villagers in front of him also came with five or six hundred people, led by a white-haired old man who was nearly sixty years old.

Yang Hongzhang hurriedly helped the person up, and heard the white-haired old man tremble and say, "Thank you for the general's life-saving grace." I brought these people with me, all of whom were descendants of their relatives who were killed by the Tartars, and they were willing to follow the general to kill the Tartars until death! ”

"Kill the Tartars, unswerving to death!" Hundreds of young men behind the old man waved their fists and shouted slogans after the old man with red eyes.

"......" The people are like this, even the martial arts heroes, but Yang Hongzhang sighed in his heart, the court was so stupid that the Jurchens, who had a population of only one million, quickly became bigger, occupied North Korea, and subdued Mongolia, not to mention, they actually relied on hundreds of thousands of cavalry to gallop across the Daming Jinggi with a population of tens of thousands of miles and thousands of miles of beautiful rivers and mountains! The court is incompetent, and there is no one before or after.

Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to say what he had said to Zhang Hu and others before. The old man and the young man behind him were also stunned, but they didn't expect that it was a group of folk heroes like the martial arts people in Bazhou who saved them.

However, after hearing that Yang Hongzhang was taking someone to Zhuozhou to pick up people, the group of young people expressed their willingness to help Yang Hongzhang.

Yang Hongzhang naturally expressed his gratitude first, but seeing the thousands of old, weak, sick and disabled people in the distance, if he took away these young and middle-aged people, the fate of that group of people would be even more worrying. So Yang Hongzhang thought of a compromise solution, among which he selected some people who had no family and could ride horses, and guaranteed one horse per person. The rest of the people are prepared with both hands, if they can successfully reach Cangzhou and settle the villagers, they can go to their own boat to beg for a living. Hearing that Yang Hongzhang came from wealthy Zhejiang, his family's fleet needed nearly 1,000 sailors, and everyone said that after settling down in Cangzhou, they would go to the port to find the Yang family's fleet.

After a brief rest, the team hurriedly set off in the direction of Baoding. A Niu Lu 300 cavalry was all packed up by Yang Hongzhang, the corpse was too late to be buried, hurriedly thrown into the woods, the only thing that made Yang Hongzhang happy was that the Qing cavalry had one man and two horses, and the flintlock pistol killed these cavalry, and the horses were gathered nearly four hundred. Except for some people brought by Yang Hongzhang from Hangzhou, who could not ride horses and continue to ride in the carriage, the whole team suddenly became mighty. Zhang Hu and others are all good at riding, Bazhou originally undertook the task of raising horses in the imperial court, and most of the ordinary people can ride horses, which is also the reason why there are countless horse thieves in Bazhou. Of the more than 200 people brought by Yang Hongzhang, there were only a few dozen people who could ride horses. In desperation, Yang Hongzhang had no choice but to let Zhang Hu and others teach everyone to ride horses along the way.

In order to avoid encountering the large-scale Qing army again, Yang Hongzhang chose to bypass Hejian Mansion and follow the southern line of Baiyangdian from Gaoyang through Baoding and then to Zhuozhou.

The next two days were relatively safe, and there were basically no Qing troops, not even the fleeing civilians. The cavalry force of the Qing army has not yet arrived, and even so, Yang Hongzhang's mood has not eased, although there is no big city on the eastern front, and the Qing army has arrived in Cangzhou. Zhuozhou is near the capital, there should be a large number of regular imperial troops to resist, and the Qing army's advance speed should be slower. However, there are only about 200 people here who have experienced countless battlefield battles, and the remaining Bazhou green forests are okay, and those who are pure refugees are only selected to ride horses. In case of a large force of Qing cavalry, they can only hide or turn around and flee.

Yang Hongzhang was worried about the future father-in-law naturally not relaxed, and the group walked quietly in the south of Baiyangdian for two days, and finally came to Gaoyang, the jurisdiction of Baoding Mansion, Zhang Hu and others are quite familiar with the terrain of Gaoyang, and after entering the county, they have been moving along the Gao River, and they do not plan to enter Gaoyang County. After walking for another half day, just as everyone was about to stop and rest, a shout suddenly sounded from the south.

"It's the direction of Gaoyang City." Zhang Hu listened carefully for a while and said to Yang Hongzhang.

"Brother Zhang, please bring some people to take a look." Yang Hongzhang ordered a few people with better skills in his team and asked them to follow the Zhang Hu brothers to the south to check the situation.

After about a cup of tea, Zhang Hu and the others came back.

"Young Master Yang, it's Jiannu who is attacking Gaoyang County, and there are about six or seven hundred men and horses." Zhang Hu said worriedly.

"So much?" Yang Hongzhang was also taken aback, Gaoyang is just an ordinary county town, but he knows that since the Qing army entered the customs, even a city like Bazhou could not stop the attack of a Niulu's cavalry, and more county towns were looking at the wind and descending, or looking at the wind to fall, and they couldn't resist at all.

Well, it's Gao Yang, Gao Yang, there are really masters! Yang Hongzhang thought hard, and finally remembered that Sun Chengzong, the former emperor and former governor of Jiliao, was from Gaoyang. This old man should be retired at home at this time, the first-class members of the imperial court, there are naturally a lot of personal soldiers and family members, no wonder so many cavalry from Gaoyang did not open the door and surrender.

"The city wall of Gaoyang County is not strong, and relying on hundreds of county soldiers and improvised strong men will definitely not be able to resist the attack of so many Jiannu. Either we'll go a few more miles, and then we'll be sure to cross the High River before it gets dark and they're done fighting. Zhang Hu thought briefly and made suggestions to Yang Hongzhang.

It's just that he found that Yang Hongzhang didn't seem to listen to him. So he coughed a few times and reminded him, "Young Master Yang, this place is only two or three miles away from the battlefield, once it gets dark, Jiannu will definitely truce, and we will be easily discovered by Jiannu's scouts." ”

"Well, Brother Zhang, I want to trouble you to help watch these war horses here, I'll take someone to take a look." Yang Hongzhang didn't listen to Zhang Hu's proposal at all, if he was an ordinary person, he would definitely go around Gaoyang, and it would be at least two Niu Lu's Qing soldiers. But as a traveler, although he is not very familiar with the history of the late Ming Dynasty, he still knows the name of Sun Chengzong. It was in this catastrophe that Sun Chengzong was martyred. Then the famous general Lu Xiangsheng died in the battle of Julu. Then the Daming Building was in jeopardy.

Dolgon's 100,000 army entered the customs, and the small county town of Gaoyang would definitely not be able to stop the Qing army's troops, but Optimus Prime like Sun Chengzong still had to find a way to rescue him if it was possible. This is the decision made by Yang Hongzhang between lightning and flint.