The supply of Dongjiang Town has never been easy, firearms such as eighteen-pounder artillery are still very useful in battles against the enemy, this time in order to fight the Jurchen army of the Qing Dynasty, Kong Youde brought out all the eighteen-pounder artillery they could bring on Phi Island.

Leaving the artillery in Panshan before was because Kong Youde thought that using the artillery on the mountain would give full play to the power of firearms, and the fact that his side was transferred away from the Panshan attack was more due to Wu Sangui's success, and they didn't expect the Jurchens' support to be so fast.

Therefore, when Kong Youde and the others found out about the arrival of the Jurchen support troops, the first thing they thought of was how to bring back the artillery units that remained in the rear.

Even if they break through, presumably for the more than 10,000 soldiers in Dongjiang Town, the losses will inevitably be heavy, and the defense of Dongjiang Town will become weak all of a sudden.

Therefore, the dozens of artillery pieces they brought out became one of the important means of defending the island, and Kong Youde and they were unwilling to give up no matter what.

Fortunately, although Wu Sangui left the artillery team of Dongjiang Town, but because there were basically no gunners in their Ningyuan army who were familiar with artillery operations, the gunners in control of the artillery at this time were still the gunners of Dongjiang Town.

The light weight of the eighteen-pounder artillery is also the reason why the soldiers of Dongjiang Town used it as the main artillery force of this field battle, and the artillery of Dongjiang Town was naturally extremely convenient to pack up, and it was not until the artillery team of Dongjiang Town began to set off that the other teams of the Ming army did not find out their movements.

The actions of the artillery team in Dongjiang Town have strengthened Wu Sangui's decision to retreat, and their orders have not yet been issued to Kong Youde and their side in Dongjiang Town, and they have already begun to find a way out for their artillery team, not to mention what Kong Youde's own thoughts are.

Suddenly the banner of Mingjin to withdraw troops sounded at the foot of the mountain, and the Jurchen Shuotuo, who had already tended to be inferior, saw that the Ming Dynasty soldiers who had taken root on the top of the mountain, in the sound of Mingjin, methodically withdrew from the defense area and withdrew towards the bottom of the mountain.

Although I don't know why the Ming Dynasty army would suddenly retreat at this time when it seemed that it could be won, even if they were entrusted with the intention to pursue one or two, it was impossible, their troop losses were really serious, but the other party's retreat to their own side was really God's grace, allowing themselves to escape!

Shuotuo watched from a distance from the mountain, and the Ming army under the mountain evacuated in a hurry after rectifying, and even discarded a lot of baggage and the corpses of the dead, but Shuotuo could not see the reason for the withdrawal of the Ming army.

The only thing that was a little suspicious was that behind the hills to the northeast, there was a faint and ethereal sound of gunfire, and it seemed that there was a big battle in that direction.

"Someone!"

"Go and investigate this direction for the officer, what is the situation, and report it as soon as possible after receiving the information."

In order to unravel the doubts, Shuoto led the soldiers to reorganize the team, and at the same time sent the scouts in his hands.

In most of the fierce battles for most of the day, the losses of Shuotuo were extremely heavy, and even Shuotuo was a little suspicious that if the Ming army insisted on the tea kung fu again, his team might directly collapse and flee and lose his fighting spirit.

Now it is only a preliminary estimate, the number of soldiers who can still stand in the field and have a certain combat ability is less than 15,000, most of them have one or several minor injuries on their bodies, and they have been seriously injured in several battles, and there are five or six thousand soldiers who are unable to fight.

After more than half an hour, the scouts who were sent out to inquire about intelligence finally returned, and the information brought by Shuotuo finally made Shuotuo finally understand the reason for the retreat of the Ming army, and at the same time began to speed up the reorganization of the team, and first sent an army that could still fight, and went to the northeast valley to meet with Yue Cha and provide support for the other party.

At a great cost, Kong Youde and Xiang Shenggao worked together, and finally let Xiang Shenggao's 3,000 soldiers get rid of the pursuit of most of Yue Cha's cavalry and retreat to the coastline dozens of miles away.

And Kong Youde's first cavalry team was originally known for its mobility, and it was impossible to achieve a battle formation surrounded by infantry, so the remaining nearly 10,000 soldiers of Kong Youde's first department firmly held the defensive formation, and on the other hand, they moved slowly, following the footsteps of retreating towards Shenggao, and slowly moved towards the coastline.

After more than half an hour of fighting, in the face of Yue Cha's Jurchen elite cavalry, Kong Youde's Dongjiang Town soldiers also suffered great losses, as military generals, Kong Youde and they had to admit that it was not unreasonable for the Jurchen cavalry to make a great reputation.

The Jurchen elite light cavalry that the Hongtang army fought before has not reached the scale of tens of thousands, and now the same number, and even the scale is still at a disadvantage, and the soldiers of Dongjiang Town, in the face of the impact of more than 20,000 Jurchen cavalry, have been able to hold out until now and have not dispersed, which has proved that the soldiers who came out of the Hongtang army are all elites, and other Ming Dynasty infantry teams have already been defeated under the impact of the other party.

However, even if it is as strong as the infantry of Dongjiang Town, while slowly moving the military formation, while also resisting the endless impact of the Jurchen cavalry, every mile moved, you need to pay the price of more than hundreds of Dongjiang Town soldiers, until you can see the sea level in the distance, when you smell the unique sea breeze of the sea, not only the sky is already dark, but at the same time, nearly 10,000 soldiers such as Kong Youde Hall in Dongjiang Town are now less than 5,000, more than half of them have been lost.

On the sea level, a fleet of more than 20 warships slowly cruised among them, and the oppressive force brought by its huge hull could be vaguely felt in the dim night.

Although most of Yue Cha's cavalry did not take a fancy to this small fish and shrimp, they still divided a cavalry of almost the same size to chase and kill Xiang Shenggao, until the other party converged with the Dongjiang Town fleet on the coastline, and used the artillery fire carried by the fleet to drive away, so that the cavalry that the other party followed was gone.

When Xiang Shenggao finally boarded the warship, their group of 3,000 elite soldiers still had only about 1,000 people left, and they were all wounded, embarrassed and exhausted.

(End of chapter)