Dorgon hurriedly turned around to report to Dolgon, and there were a few two red flags beside him who added fuel and vinegar, making Dorgon frown. It's just that without waiting for Dolgon and Duoduo to discuss a result, Yang Hongzhang's greeting arrived, and the difference from yesterday is that the protagonist today is the largest artillery dismantled from the sea ship, three thousand pounds of artillery, which Yang Hongzhang heard that Dolgon besieged Beijing before he decided to dismantle it and send it to Tianjin by sea, and then transported it, although there were only 10 guns, but the range of three miles directly sent the cannonballs into the center of the Qing army's camp.

After two rounds of 10 giant cannons, some of the Qing troops could not bear it and rushed out to try to storm Yang Hongzhang's artillery position, and the remaining 40 guns began to fire, which was equivalent to sealing the exit of the Qing army camp near the direction of the Ming army! Those soldiers who didn't have time to rein in the horses paid the price with their lives again!

Despite Dolgon's ability to lead his troops and the courage of the Jurchen cavalry, the lethality of the flowering bullets still terrified the Qing army, and the sound of a huge explosion made the horses restless. Forty or fifty artillery pieces fired a salvo, and even the walls of Beijing were shaking. Coupled with the shock of yesterday evening's battle, many Qing army generals began to waver in their hearts.

Dorgon had to have people put out the fire while continuing to close the camp. But the problem was that someone had to stop the Ming army from continuing to advance the artillery. Naturally, this task fell to Dord.

However, when Duoduo led more than 10,000 cavalry again and was about to find an opportunity to launch a surprise attack on Yang Hongzhang's artillery, he found that at least 5,000 cavalry had gathered in front of the camp opposite. Suppressed by this artillery, and with musketeers hiding in the trenches, Dordor was not confident enough to easily outmaneuver the opposing cavalry and complete the assault.

When Duoduo led the team around Yang Hongzhang's camp again, he was disappointed to find that the entire camp was almost cut off by a ditch, except for a few narrow passages on both sides that allowed a small number of cavalry to slow down.

Then he saw the musketeers enter the trench with the men with the shovels, and then keep advancing. The guns adjusted their range to cover exactly two hundred paces in front of the trench, in order to seize every opportunity to extend the rhythm of the trench.

On several occasions, Dordor had a small number of cavalry charge the digging teams, only to be shot off his horse by musketeers lying in ambush in the rear instead of being hit by artillery fire. only shot a few people on the other side, but paid the lives of more than 30 cavalrymen! And those people don't seem to be afraid of death at all.

Of course, the people who dug trenches did not expose themselves directly to the attack of the cavalry, but first dug along the longitudinal direction, and then began to develop horizontally separately after reaching a certain interval. From the air, it looks like several torrents that move forward a dozen steps before parting, then quickly merging horizontally and continuing longitudinally. From beginning to end, the entire excavation team was half in the trench. The only exposed back is still protected by leather armor.

Duoduo's 10,000-man cavalry was completely scattered in one direction to prevent the Ming army from digging. However, the artillery adjusted its range at any time, and it took the lives of many Qing soldiers, which made Duoduo very angry. It's just that being angry is angry, and it's really not cost-effective to exchange the elite cavalry of the Great Invitation with the Ming people's people! What's more, Sun Chengzong in the distance and the Ming army on the city wall are eyeing each other.

Of course, if Dolgon only faced Yang Hongzhang's men and horses, and tens of thousands of cavalry rushed into Yang Hongzhang's camp together, even if Yang Hongzhang had the ability to reach the sky and be captured with a certain amount of restraint, Dolgon did not dare to take risks. Sun Chengzong's camp was at right angles to the city wall at the back of Beijing, and Yang Hongzhang set up camp due north, and surrounded Dolgon on three sides with Sun Chengzong and the defenders on the city wall. If there is any change in Dolgon, then Guan Ning Iron Cavalry will definitely not watch it.

Duoduo's temptation continued, and Yang Hongzhang's excavation did not stop. Yang Hongzhang is actually gambling, he is gambling that Dolgon will not dare to go out in an all-round way.

During the day, the two sides spent endless temptation, and at night, Yang Hongzhang continued to harass, basically every other hour, a shell would fall into the Qing camp, and then explode and burn.

At dawn on the third day, everyone was surprised to find that the Qing army had retreated! Zhu Youzhen on the city wall still didn't believe his eyes when he was woken up by Fang Zhenghua. The originally full Qing army outside Anding Gate disappeared overnight.

In fact, the Qing army began to retreat in the middle of the night, and Yang Hongzhang did not pursue after learning the news, and after repeatedly confirming that the Qing army did retreat, Yang Hongzhang decided to let the cavalry who came to help return to the camp to standby. This is also tantamount to informing the Ming army of the actions of the Qing army.

Then he called Xia Dongwei, Zhang Hu and Yang Sheng to his side, and divided the team into several parts, among which Yang Sheng led a group of people to quietly transport the heavy artillery and 20 artillery pieces and 400 flintlock pistols back to the sea ship, because the sea ship cannot do without these things, otherwise it will be very troublesome to encounter pirates at sea. Taking advantage of the cover of night, it was convenient for the Qing army to retreat, and it was also convenient for Yang Sheng to act.

"Congratulations to the emperor, Jiannu has retreated!" Seeing that the emperor Zhu Youzhen was looking at the open space outside the city in a daze, Fang Zhenghua reminded. Hearing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, they really couldn't stand the cold air of October in Beijing City and the artillery fire that rang out from time to time.

"Your Majesty, Jiannu retreated in a hurry, it is a good time for our army to pursue, and the reinforcements outside the city should be ordered to immediately pursue!" Xue Guoguan shouted loudly as if he had woken up from a dream.

"Someone came, ordered Sun Chengzong, Yang Hongzhang and others to immediately start a pursuit." Zhu Youzhen was surprised and immediately became excited.

"Your Majesty, although Jiannu has retreated, it is relatively orderly, and Jiannu are all cavalry, how can our army chase after many infantry?" Chen Xinjia reminded worriedly.

Hearing this, Zhu Youzhen was stunned, yes, this Qing army is all cavalry, and the Ming army is mostly infantry, how to chase it?

"Your Majesty, that Yang Hongzhang has always been good at surprise attacks, and he has cavalry and muskets under his command, so there is no problem for them to chase them, and there are also Guanning Iron Cavalry. You can't let Jiannu swagger out of the customs. Xue Guoguan looked distressed.

"Well, let Sun Ge chase after him, take the Guanning Iron Cavalry and the Tianxiong Army, and rest the rest of the team in place!"

Yang Hongzhang's camp, Yang Hongzhang was looking at the trenches in a daze, why did Dolgon run away? I have to say that this guy is a wolf, and his vigilance is too high. According to Yang Hongzhang's idea, if Dolgon continued to stay outside Beijing and did not actively break into his camp, then he was going to dig the trenches in all directions, put Dolgon's cavalry in the middle, and then wait for the soldiers and horses from other towns to come, and then everyone would make dumplings together.

But it's okay to go, if Dorgon and Dodor see their own reality clearly, and a fish dies in the net, it must be themselves who suffer in the end, and they can't say that the myth will be shattered and the whole army will be destroyed.

With the departure of the Qing army, soon the envoys of the imperial court came to the barracks, but to everyone's surprise, the person who came was not a civil official or a eunuch, but a Jinyi guard. A Jinyi Wei Qianhu came to Yang Hongzhang's military camp with more than a dozen Jinyi guards. Immediately, the atmosphere became tense.

"In accordance with the holy decree, Yang Hongzhang entered the Beijing Saint. The army was temporarily taken over by the Jingying camp and rested in place. The people who came didn't say much, and announced the holy decree of the imperial court in public with a serious face. Yang Hongzhang felt a little weird, but he didn't take it seriously.

was about to pack up and follow these people into the city, but found that there was a commotion outside the military tent, and then Zhang Bao walked in, as soon as he entered the tent, Zhang Bao shouted loudly: "General, we have made such a great contribution, the court not only does not reward us, but also locks up the general, what does this mean?" General, you can't just go into the city and stay with the army, some people will have some scruples, once they leave the army, those people will definitely not do good things......"

Bang dang, before Zhang Bao finished speaking, a brocade guard had already come to his side, and the Yan Ling knife quickly slashed through his neck. Then I heard the leading Jinyi Wei Qianhu scolding loudly: "General Yang, this person should be punished for his crimes of living and causing trouble to the army, I hope the general will not make me and others embarrassed." Let's go. As he spoke, he glanced at his subordinates, and then more than a dozen brocade guards quickly dispersed and surrounded Yang Hongzhang in the middle.

Yang Hongzhang's face was ugly, if it was elsewhere, he wouldn't take these people seriously. But this is outside the city of Beijing, and there are thousands of soldiers and thousands of refugees outside the tents. When I received the holy decree just now, I saw Gao Keng, Zhang Hu brothers and others muttering, thinking that this eunuch had seen some doorways from the identity of the person, but he didn't expect Zhang Bao to be too impulsive, so that he was killed on the spot by Jinyiwei.

Gao Keng, Xia Dongwei, Zhang Hu and others, who were originally outside the camp tent, immediately walked in, and were stunned when they saw Zhang Bao's body separated. In the end, Yang Hongzhang held back his anger and said: "Gao Gong, please leave it to you here, Xia Dongwei and Zhang Hu, you two control the army and don't make trouble, wait for me or the order of the imperial court!" ”

Xia Dongwei and Zhang Hu obviously struggled in their eyes, because they had heard the conversation between Gao Keng and Zhang Bao just now. In any case, they couldn't imagine that Yang Hongzhang took them from Gaoyang to Hejian all the way to the outside of Beijing, not to mention how many Qing troops were killed, just this last move to force the Qing army to retreat was a miracle, but now fools understand what it means for Jinyi Wei to come to preach the holy decree.

However, Zhang Bao's death and Yang Hongzhang's constant shaking of his head made some of the messy and immature thoughts in these people's hearts finally not continue to ferment, but watched Yang Hongzhang leave the barracks with Jinyiwei.

Yang Hongzhang was caught in the crowd of Jinyiwei and entered the city of Beijing, although he had been to this place countless times more than three hundred years later. But now the city of Beijing is clearly not what it was in the era of harmony. The official compartments on both sides of the city wall have been dilapidated, and it is clear that the former residents of this area have fled without the protection of the city wall because of the arrival of the Qing army.