Yang Hongzhang's plan was that his ships would go all the way north, and he would take people to land in Cangzhou and go straight to Zhuozhou, if the Qing army had not yet come over and picked up the Xia family father and son, he would go to the sea to Tianjin Wei to meet the sea ships. When the Qing army retreated, they could land again in Tianjinwei and sell the treasures they had looted from Europa and the African continent in the capital. When all the goods they brought back were sold, the Yang family would be able to buy a few more merchant ships and really organize a fleet for overseas trade, and Southeast Asia would not dare to go, and no one could afford to provoke a caravan with five large Spanish warships except Zheng Zhilong.

Ten days after starting from the mouth of the Yangtze River, thirty miles west of Qingxian County, Hejian Fuqing, Yang Hongzhang and others were lying on the grass of the woods to take a rest, and suddenly there was a noise outside the forest, followed by the sound of horses' hooves! Yang Hongzhang hurriedly took a few people out of the woods to the official road, and through the clairvoyance, he saw the most tragic scene of his arrival in this era, thousands of men, women and children were running desperately in his direction, and behind these people were hundreds of cavalry, they were galloping wildly, while bending bows and shooting arrows. A salvo would send dozens of people to the ground, never to get up again.

It's the Qing Army! It was instantly recognizable from the whip that flicked at the back of his head. That's about 300 people! A whole Qing cavalry of Niu Lu is chasing the unarmed people!

Between the Qing cavalry and the fleeing refugees, there was also a group of people, about two or three hundred people, all dressed in different costumes but holding weapons in their hands, constantly waving their weapons to block the bows and arrows fired by the Qing army, trying to stop the cavalry's frantic slaughter. However, the short weapons in their hands couldn't stop the Qing army's cavalry shooting at all, and they were barely one-on-one when the Qing army arrived. Often, the price of a dozen men was paid at the first contact, and it was only a moment's delay, which was a drop in the bucket compared to the huge advantage between cavalry and foot.

Yang Hongzhang shouted in his heart, shouldn't it be that Jiannu will enter the customs in September, why is it only the beginning of September, and the Qing army appeared in Hejian Mansion, so isn't it Baoding and Zhuozhou? What went wrong, could it be that I remembered it wrong? Well, the historical records I read are all Westerners' Gregorian calendars, but the Ming people in this era used the Great Ming calendar, and those historians definitely didn't convert it.

Puzzled, Yang Hongzhang can't watch these Tartars wantonly slaughter the people. He turned back into the woods, recounted what he had seen, and then ordered his men to quickly take out the wagons and put on their leather armor, and then distribute flintlock muskets and set up an ambush on both sides of the road.

Seeing that people were constantly falling down with arrows, Yang Hongzhang didn't dare to rush directly with the team, but shouted in his heart, hurry up, run quickly. Although the men he led fought from Madeira to Manila, and crisscrossed the sea for tens of thousands of miles, they relied on the strength of the ship's guns, plus his personal bravery to crisscross the limited cabins and decks. Now that the other party is cavalry, the opponent's cavalry and archery level is excellent, and he has a numerical advantage, so he naturally can't lead people to charge like the Qing army.

Five hundred steps, four hundred steps, three hundred steps, two hundred steps, one hundred and fifty steps, the Qing army and Qing soldiers entered the ambush circle of Yang Hongzhang and others without alertness. Bang! Yang Hongzhang took the lead in pulling the flintlock pistol in his hand, and then he heard the sound of thumping guns, in panic and consternation, the fleeing people soon found Yang Hongzhang and others, and looked back to see that the Qing cavalry chasing them had fallen from their horses. Maybe it was the instinct to survive, or maybe it was the sound of the flintlock pistol that made him think that the army of the imperial court had come from Shandong, and the people who understood it were running wildly. Seeing this, the others no longer hesitated, and rushed towards the road ahead.

And those who had tried to intercept the Qing cavalry also rushed into the woods after a brief moment of stunnedness. They have been desperately blocking the Qing army for two days and nights, and now they finally met the regular army of the imperial court, and naturally they relaxed all of a sudden, and many people lay down on their backs as soon as they ran into the trees, panting for breath, obviously they were chased by the Qing cavalry before and ran to the limit.

Niu Lu Ezhen Geert was originally at the back of the line, leisurely watching his men chasing after the group of Ming people. Since he followed Yue Tuo into the customs, he burned and looted all the way, except for a few prefectures and cities, basically the county seat is looking at the wind, or even fleeing from the wind, their only duty is to enter the villages, towns, and county towns to collect grain and grass from house to house. In order to plunder as much as possible in a short period of time, Yue Tuo even divided his subordinates into more than a dozen routes to the south at the same time, and the Jiala where Geert was located saw that the Ming people basically did not resist along the way, so they were even more bold, and divided their Jiala into five roads, which is also the reason why Geert was able to come to Qingxian so quickly. And his goal is not just to catch up with these Ming people in front of him, but Cangzhou.

When Geert came to Bazhou, he found that it was already an empty city, and he ordered to loot in the surrounding villages and towns, basically burning a village after looting a village, and then going all the way south to go straight to Cangzhou, but he didn't expect to meet a large group of fleeing Ming people on the way, and the more and more they gathered, so Geert was murderous, and chased this group of people all the way south.

If it weren't for the obstruction of more than two hundred martial arts people claiming to be from the local martial arts in Bazhou, these three or four thousand Ming people in front of him would have become the souls of his sword. It was only when he arrived at Geert in Qingxian County that he found that the terrain was getting flatter and flatter, which was more conducive to the cavalry to charge, and he and his subordinates also killed a lot of Bazhou martial arts people along the way, and they were about to successfully slaughter this group of refugees, and then rushed into Cangzhou City in one breath, but suddenly gunshots rang out. Geert immediately thought of Akito's musket team, thinking of those things that would become burning sticks once fired, and the corners of Geert's mouth were very disdainful! But soon he realized that he was wrong, and in the blink of an eye, he lost more than a dozen of his men.

You must know that this time Yue Tuo led the army to break through the pass, which can be described as a smooth sail, and Geert's Niu Lu did not lose anything. Seeing so many of his subordinates fall this time, Geert was a little distressed, but soon he found out that the Ming people were only two hundred, and Geert often dealt with the Ming army in Liaodong, and he quickly made a judgment that this would definitely not be the regular army of the Ming court.

If the same number of Ming infantry were in formation, Geert might have used his brains to break the formation, and now seeing that they were hiding in the woods, and although they wore leather armor but did not have swords and shields, he knew that the Ming people's muskets were not as good as burning sticks after they were fired. That layer of leather armor will definitely not be able to stop the broadsword of the cavalry.

Geert laughed wildly, then pulled out the big knife on his waist and pointed in the direction of Yang Hongzhang and the others: "Kill the past, kill all these Ming dogs who dare to resist!" ”

The three hundred cavalry of the Qing army did not take Yang Hongzhang and others in their eyes, they thought that only a sneak attack would knock down a few of their own people, and at such a distance, a charge could basically be solved.

Then the fleeing Ming people and Bazhou martial arts people saw a massacre! That's right, it's a massacre! The arrogance of the Qing army cost them their lives.

Those who they originally thought were only burning sticks in their hands, it was estimated that some big landlord had temporarily organized strong men, but they fired at least three shots in a row at a distance of three hundred paces!

And these three rounds of shooting are not as inaccurate as they imagined, but a dense row of shots. With just three rounds of fire, at least half of the Qing cavalry fell off their horses, and then the entire charging team was completely disorganized. Only a dozen horsemen rushed to the edge of the woods, but when they were not attacked by Bazhou heroes, but with a loud bang, and then more than a dozen Qing soldiers flew into the air with horses, and when they fell, they were blurred with flesh and blood, and basically they couldn't survive.

Palm Thunder! Geert had already come to the front of the team, and he saw what Yang Hongzhang and the others threw out, and when he saw this situation, he hurriedly rushed to Yang Hongzhang, wanting to kill this guy who caused a lot of casualties and should be the leader of the Ming people. It's just that soon he found himself reckless, only to see Yang Hongzhang not retreat but advance, a jump actually came to his horse, and then his right arm was spread out, and when Geert had not reacted, he had already strangled his neck and threw him off the horse. Then sat on the horse at a jumping end, grabbed the reins and turned around, the horse's hooves stepped heavily on the master's chest, Geert was originally strangled by Yang Hongzhang's neck and fell off the horse, he didn't catch his breath, and then was trampled on the horse's hooves and spewed out a mouthful of blood, his neck was crooked, and he was out of breath on the spot. The surrounding martial arts people were stunned by Yang Hongzhang's series of actions, and the sailors who followed Yang Hongzhang cheered loudly on the side.

If Geert was still alive and his bowels were about to turn green by now, if he knew that these people were so powerful, he would definitely choose to attack the woods on one side first, and he would have resorted to mounted archery rather than cavalry charge.

It's just that it's too late to regret it, after the whole team is chaotic, the charge is impossible, and half of the manpower is lost before it touches the enemy, Niu Lu really hung up without even carrying a move under the enemy, fear, this inexplicable but sudden fear made the team even more chaotic. When he reacted, he turned around and walked back, but was chased and beaten by Yang Hongzhang and others. These people around Yang Hongzhang are not rookies, they are also tens of thousands of miles across the sea, killed from the sea of corpses and blood. Especially when they witnessed the slaughter of the people by the Jiannu cavalry, they naturally would never show mercy when they fired.

Those Bazhou and Bazhou heroes who were already exhausted were also stunned when they saw this situation, and then they saw where the Qing army was about to flee and definitely stopped, and they rushed out of the woods one after another, snatched those ownerless war horses and followed.

The people brought by Yang Hongzhang all came out of the woods and chased after them in a horizontal line with flintlock pistols.

"Spread out, spread out in both directions!" Yang Hongzhang shouted at those green forest heroes while organizing people to pursue.

If someone looks down from above at this moment, they will see more than a hundred people galloping in front, dozens of people riding horses to outflank from both wings, and then a group of people are chasing behind on foot!

Infantry pursues cavalry! In the panic, Qing Bing didn't expect the Ming people he had made an appointment with to be so crazy. But what surprised him even more was that riding a horse could not save them from the fate of death.

The cavalry of the Qing army charged to the edge of the woods before remembering that the situation was not right, and they turned their horses around, and they were delayed for a lot of time in the chaos, while the flintlock pistol in the hands of Yang Hongzhang and others had a range of 300 steps. This distance of 200 men led by Yang Hongzhang is enough to shoot two more rounds. And the point is that the back of defeat is much larger than the target of leaning over. When the cavalry ran out of the range of Yang Hongzhang and the others, they found that there were only a dozen people left around them, and those Bazhou martial arts people had already surrounded them! More and more people surrounded them.