After Zhao Hu left, Dongfeng Po sent more servant troops in one breath, and then supported the front with artillery fire.

At this time, the Qing army felt the pressure, and they ran around, risking their lives to attack the breakthrough in front of them.

The Qing army is desperately fighting back, and the prisoners here are changing the quota of a servant army, and the servant army has made meritorious contributions, and after the service period is up, it can be converted into the quota of ordinary people, which has a great attraction to them, and in the case that the Huaxia Kingdom hates them so much, the quota of an ordinary person is so precious.

The two sides strangled together, and nearly 100,000 people were killed until dusk.

Then the battlefield cleared.

There are only a few hundred people who can survive, only a few thousand captive soldiers who can survive, and there are more servant troops, after all, they have combat experience, about 20,000 people survived, and the Qing army in the encirclement was almost completely wiped out, and the living ones were also scarred and taken prisoner, and about 5,000 people were taken prisoner.

Dongfeng Po left a squadron of the Punishment Battalion Brigade to clean up the battlefield, leaving the servant army to take care of the prisoners, he led the army to continue to march overnight, and Zhao Hu's first field division was already sixty kilometers away, approaching the county seat of Tianjin.

He had to catch up in the night.

Again, the cavalry opened the way, the musketeers sent their advance troops to explore the way, the baggage troops went first, the large forces followed behind, and then the punishment battalions that escorted the prisoners, and the servant army.

Along the road, the confrontation of fellow villagers continued, and it took half a month to reach Zhangjiakou along the road, and Zhangjiakou had been conquered by the Eighth Field Division of the Merlin Fish Corps.

At this time, Wang Dong, the third field division of the Hukui Corps in Tianjin, was attacking in full swing, with countless casualties, every hill had to be contested, every estuary had to be contested, and this northeast junction that could escape from the sea to the place where the Qing army started, gathered a lot of troops of the Qing army, more than 100,000 Xiangyong, more than 100,000 Green Battalion soldiers, and more than 100,000 Manchu Qing soldiers, nearly 400,000 people, and the strength of the Daqingshui Division.

Wang Dong's Third Field Division plus the troops of Hu Ze, the rested First Cavalry Brigade, began to clear from the countryside, a stockade, a landlord's manor, and a mansion.

It also took half a month to fight from the Cangzhou Mansion they occupied, and arrived at the outskirts of Tianjin County a day or two earlier than the 16th Field Division of Dongfeng Po, and now the First Field Division has just reached Zhuozhou County, which is still far from Yanjing.

Knowing the movements of the two of them, Dongfeng Po asked the soldiers and horses to rest in Zhangjiakou for a day, waiting for the supplies and supplies to be transported later, as well as the captured soldiers and servant troops to come to meet them.

However, before they could leave, it rained the next day, the third day, and the fourth day, so that they had to rest in Zhangjiakou, when 100,000 captives arrived, 50,000 servant soldiers, and the first brigade of the punishment battalion also arrived.

The soldiers and horses of the Eighth Field Division had a field brigade left here to defend the city, a cavalry regiment assisted, and the rest returned to Datong Mansion.

When the weather is clear, this field brigade and cavalry regiment will also withdraw to Shanxi Prefecture, and the 16th Field Division will leave a cavalry battalion and a field brigade to guard here, which is also to guard their back road.

Originally, the 16th Field Division should have set off for four or five days, and the captive soldiers and servant soldiers who came up from the rear had already gathered 100,000 soldiers and horses, and they should have started to act, but this time it was cold, it rained, and it snowed, and the weather in the north was really moody.

So the 16th Field Division had to stay in Zhangjiakou County, and helped the field brigade that was ready to stay behind to build fortifications, braving the rain and snow, it took four days, the fortifications were expanded on the basis of the 8th Field Division of the Merlinfish Corps, surrounded several surrounding hills, and captured many local people as prisoners, demolished their houses to build fortifications.

After a fine day, the soldiers and horses of the Eighth Field Division began to withdraw, and after a day of leaving, the Sixteenth Field Division was also ready to move, but unexpectedly, the cavalry battalion that was released in front of them to reconnoiter sent back the news that the enemy Suo Etu and Duolong came to attack them with a large army of 400,000 soldiers and horses.

And on this side of the steppe, there were also Horqin Mongol cavalry arrivals, about 10,000 soldiers and horses.

The 16th Field Division hurriedly retreated to Zhangjiakou County, and after Dongfeng Po had just sent a liaison cavalry to convey the news to the 1st Field Division, the 3rd Field Division, and the Corps Headquarters, the enemy's army had already pounced.

This time, the enemy's army came very quickly, and tens of thousands of cavalry rushed into the outer defensive positions.

At noon, the gunfire on the outer defensive position resounded, the enemy's cavalry was pervasive, directly divided into several attack arrows, penetrated through the sparse defensive position on the periphery and rushed to the second peripheral defensive position, one by one, the servant soldiers in the village hurriedly shot, while the other captive soldiers and ordinary people were agitated, and some began to resist the soldiers of the Chinese army.

Dongfeng Po had to send all the cavalry except for the cavalry company of the division headquarters directly under him to kill the enemy's cavalry who had entered the second outer line of defense.

Then set up a command headquarters in the inner ring defense line, so that each field brigade entered the front-line position and waited for it.

On the high lookout tower, he held up his binoculars and saw that on the hilly positions guarded by cavalry and musketeers on the periphery, the enemy's cavalry rushed in waves, attracting the fire of the soldiers on the position, and then the other cavalry bypassed the outer positions and broke into the second line of defense.

The prisoners ran towards the periphery, some of the servants ran towards the periphery, and some ran towards the Huaxia army's position, and there was chaos.

The earth shook, and the Mongol cavalry coming from the direction of the steppe came in large numbers, and a single charge wiped out the strength of a company in a hill position on the outskirts, and the local people who had at least 300 or so who helped to build the fortifications were also wiped out.

"Give up the outlying positions, let them withdraw to the second line, help the soldiers in the villages and towns to crush the prisoners and servant soldiers, send troops for them to take all the prisoners and servant soldiers to the rear of our positions and take them to watch, go quickly." Dongfeng Po knew that the enemy's cavalry was too brave, there were too many troops, and there were not so many cavalry on his side, and the 1st Cavalry Brigade that cooperated with them had already switched to cooperate with the 3rd Field Division.

He can only hold on now.

It was not possible to fire the cannon yet, because the enemy's cavalry was too fast, and they also used arquebuses to shoot on horses, not the previous bow and arrow to arquebus.

Now the cavalry he sent could only scatter them, drive them out but not destroy them, and it was a very tiring thing to fight against the mobile cavalry, and they could only wait for them to crash into their own position.

(End of chapter)