Chapter 134: An Unexpected Surrender

Shi Kefa and the staff officers were puzzled, according to common sense, no matter how eager they were to attack the fortification, they would not make a comeback just after a big defeat, at least they had to cultivate for a day or two to reorganize the team and appease the morale of the army before they could fight! But the sight of the entire enemy army blowing up in front of him did not look like a sign of the entire army retreating. Shi Kefa suddenly slapped the city wall and shouted. "It's not good, Dolgon wants to imitate the fire ox formation of the ancients, they now have enough horses, they can completely replace the ploughing ox, if the army hides behind the horses and launches an offensive, more than 100,000 people rush up regardless of life and death, my front soldiers are in danger!"

After a moment of contemplation, the staff officers immediately understood the key to this, and one of them immediately asked, "Will the general immediately withdraw the forward defenders?" "Withdraw, the whole army shrinks the defense in the city, but we can't fail to accept so many good horses sent by the enemy, and when the army returns to the city, immediately use mountain artillery to suppress the speed of their rear army, and try to let the horses into the city!"

Only half an hour after Shi Kefa's order was delivered, countless war horses rushed towards the position like crazy, and the scattered thousands of dead soldiers on horseback were trying their best to control the direction of the horses' running, and the Qing army followed behind was fully armed, holding shields, pushing siege vehicles, and slowly moving forward. Looking at such a dense offensive, the guards at the head of Gaoyou City watched everyone's scalp tingle.

Seeing that hundreds of thousands of war horses crossed the trenches and rushed towards the city, the artillery on the head of the city finally fired, but even if the small Gaoyou city head was full, there were only about 20 cannons, and such an attack was harmless to the army of hundreds of thousands of scattered people. The only situation created, as Scofa said, briefly halted their rapid progress.

The city gate suddenly opened, so that the dead soldiers of the Qing army on horseback were caught off guard, and the completely unrestrained war horses rushed straight in. The horses crowded into small groups and scattered in the streets, and when their ambition slowly subsided, they stopped, and the KPA soldiers who had been waiting early immediately swarmed up and pulled all the horses to a suitable place.

An innocuous frontier position in exchange for more than 100,000 war horses, Shi Kefa felt beautiful in his heart when he thought about it, and shouted at the soldiers to the Qing army, thanking them for their love of increasing horses.

Perhaps based on the anger of being ridiculed, the Qing army, whether it was a dozen or so commanding princes or hundreds of thousands of besieging troops, instantly went crazy, and launched one round after another to attack Gaoyou City.

As the enemy army had approached the city, the role of the artillery was almost scrapped, and the replacement hand bullets played a great defensive function, but in the face of a steady stream of arrows and catapult attacks, coupled with sporadic red-coat artillery attacks, the pressure of the KPA increased dramatically, and although the loss of soldiers was close to 1 to 10, the number of the enemy was hundreds of times that of itself.

Dolgon's unreasonable and unafraid of sacrifice really made Shi Kefa break out in a cold sweat, and more than half of the 30,000 new troops were killed and wounded in the defense of Gaoyou City for five days, and the rest of the soldiers were also exhausted by the enemy's wheel warfare for days. Shi Kefa hesitated again and again, and finally made the decision to evacuate Gaoyou in advance.

After using ** bag, machine gun to repel a new round of offensive of the Qing army, the army withdrew from Gaoyou in an alternate and orderly manner, the Qing army was originally fighting with a breath, and they were exhausted and relaxed when they saw the defenders retreating, although Dolgon repeatedly emphasized that they should take advantage of the victory to pursue, but the banner owners of all parties faced the sacrifice of more than 300,000 people, they had long been timid, and they refused to go further anyway.

"General, the little Gaoyou has been killed and injured so tragically, how can the strong city of Yangzhou be attacked in front, and what can be done even if it is captured? Shen Xing, the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties of Nanjing, has been in business for many years, how can he give it up like a Beijing teacher, do you really want to bury our family in this Jiangnan? Yue Le's words shook the hearts of everyone present.

Dolgon bowed his head and was silent, he didn't understand the situation at this time, but he knew that he couldn't do it, Wu Sangui, Geng Jingzhong and others' more than 300,000 Han Banner troops had not arrived for a long time, and he thought that they were blocked by Shen Xing on the good side.

The big war in the past few days has made him figure out some things, that is, the appearance of Shen Xing has made everything changeable, and the degree of transformation of muskets and artillery far exceeds that of the Manchus who are good at bow and horse fighting, in an old saying of the Han people, that is, thirty years in Hedong, thirty years in Hexi, and the era of Manchus galloping the world has passed.

Doll took off his hat and put it flat on the desk, then looked around and sighed and said, "Then what do you think, do you want to surrender Shen Xing?" You have to think clearly about putting down the scimitar in your hand at this time, then we will never turn over, and in the future, people will be swordsmen and I will be fish and meat! ”

After Dolgon finished speaking, everyone walked out of the table and knelt down in front of him, Dol couldn't help but burst into tears when he saw such a scene, the courage to die had disappeared, let alone a battle. He never dreamed that he would have to leave his book and beg for surrender before he even saw Shen Xing's face.

What a joke this was for him to love Sinjue Rodolgon, and what could be more shameful than that? Are these people kneeling in front of him still the invincible Manchu generals of the past? Thinking of this, Dol rolled out his waist knife and made a gesture to carry himself.

"General, don't do it! It's not that we are afraid of death, but that millions of poor people of the Manchu people can't be buried in our hands, how simple is today's decisive battle, but how can the old and weak women and children in Shengjing withstand Shen Xing's anger in the future! ”

"Fourteenth brother, God bless him Daming, Shen Zhenming came out of the troubled times, it's not your fault, what's the trouble? The big husband can bend and stretch, for the continuation of the Manchus, what is it for us people to suffer some grievances? ”

"Report ...... The rear army found that a large number of Ming cavalry were harassing our grain and grass, led by a red-clothed female general, unstoppable! ”

Dolgon smiled wryly and lowered the knife around his neck. "Shen Xing didn't come, his wife came quickly! Let's go! The big guy went to meet this woman who scared Shen Xing! Fan Wencheng, who stood in the corner and never said a word, was heartbroken at this time, he knew Shen Xing's hatred for those who surrendered.

But now that the general trend has gone, even Dol Roll has to surrender, what can a powerless literati like himself do, the changes in a few days make him feel like a world away.

"Dashuai, the enemy's general flag has appeared, should we withdraw first!" Wu Xianlu has returned to the Red Lady since he betrayed Shen Xing last time, and has been scolded by Shen Xing several times.

In the end, it was Shen Xing, who was coaxed and frightened by the Red Lady, who forgave him, but even so, Shen Xing's Northern Expedition still didn't take him to play, and a good general became the captain of the Red Lady's guard, and the gap was not big.

After such an encounter, he also figured out that the two of them should not be involved in the fight in the future, the red lady is no longer the red lady of the past, the little arm can't twist Shen Xing's thigh, for his own future, and for the sake of the martial family, he quietly swore allegiance to Shen Xing this time, and also took a secret mission.

"What to withdraw, our 50,000 elites are still afraid of some of his remnants! Signal the formation! Let's break his big account of the Chinese army first! As soon as the red lady finished speaking, the trumpeter next to her blew up.

"Sister, it doesn't look like the other party is going to attack, you see that their front line is open!" Dong'er said and hurriedly handed the clairvoyant mirror to the red lady's hand. The red lady hurriedly looked at it, and sure enough, the door was wide open, and there were two cavalrymen running towards her with white flags, and they walked out behind them together, and they were dressed up as more than a dozen main generals.

More than 300,000 people, they are about to surrender before the decisive battle, what kind of conspiracy is this, the red lady who has not been on the battlefield for several years has really been in the clouds for a while.

The two Qing soldiers quickly rushed to the front of the red lady and respectfully handed over a letter, and the red lady threw it to Wu Xianlu and the staff officers in surprise without a few glances. "The whole country of the Qing Dynasty has surrendered!" The hundreds of words sprinkled in front of him are almost invisible to everyone, just staring at the six words at the end, stunned and then you look at me, I look at you!

"Marshal, could this be Dolgon's delaying tactic, we have to deal with it carefully?" A staff officer said cautiously. Wu Xianlu also nodded at the red lady. Unexpectedly, the red lady smiled, took the letter back, and said to the two Qing soldiers, "Okay, Ben Shuai accepts your surrender, you go back and tell Dolgon, everyone puts down their weapons, and the soldiers come over in an orderly manner!" I'll only give you half an hour, and when the time comes, you will attack immediately! ”

Seeing the two Qing soldiers go away, the staff officers all showed embarrassed expressions, this red marshal's requirements are too harsh, even if people want to surrender, it is impossible to wait for slaughter like this. But the ending was still beyond their expectations, and some generals led by Dorgon actually took the lead.

More than 300,000 people lined up in a long line empty-handed, moving slowly and silently. It wasn't until she witnessed Azig's dejected appearance that the red lady completely believed that the war was over, because he didn't know other generals, and Azig, the prince, couldn't fake it!

"Where's the Einsatzgruppen? Take them all away! As soon as the red lady gave the order, hundreds of women in black immediately surrounded her, and Dolgon seemed to have thought of all this, and closed his eyes calmly.

"Marshal, Master Hou has an order not to kill prisoners lightly!" The red lady looked at Wu Xianlu in surprise, and the long sword pointed directly to his neck. "How dare you disobey Ben Shuai's orders?" Wu Xianlu gritted his teeth and knelt down, and then whispered, "Dashuai, Hou Ye said that you have to kill, but he will not step into your door half a step in the future, Dashuai, you still listen to Hou Ye, don't embarrass us about your husband and wife!" ”