Emperor Zhu Yujian of Longwu slept very soundly this night, and had approached Zhang Qiang's army station, and his heart that had been frightened could finally be put down, although it was a righteous army, but he felt that it was much safer than being alone and walking through the land of Daming occupied by the enemy with a dozen guards.

After the two guards around him served him to get up, he put on his clothes without hurry, and then smiled at Su Guansheng and He Kai who came to ask for peace next to him, and at the same time looked at the prince who was snuggling in the queen's arms and looking at him with black eyes, showing the kind side of a father.

After drinking a bowl of oatmeal porridge, eating two pieces of wowotou, and drinking two sips of rice wine, Long Wu felt a little full, and then said to Su Guansheng and He Kai: "Two Aiqing, you haven't eaten yet, eat the rest, in the countryside, even if it's royal, there is no delicious food, just order it." ”

"Emperor Xie," the two of them came to greet him early in the morning, and they were also cooing with hunger, so they immediately stepped forward and politely ate a few bites, and slightly replenished their stomachs.

As soon as he was about to speak, he felt the earth shaking, and Su Guansheng exclaimed, "There is an earthquake." ”

He Kai was more realistic, his face was pale, and he said tremblingly: "This is the effect that can only be possessed when the enemy's cavalry attacks,"

Longwu was stunned, the queen cried, and the prince cried.

Su Guansheng shouted, "Protection." ”

The guards outside the tent pulled out their weapons together, swarmed in, and protected Longwu in the middle, He Kai said to one of the guards: "Go out and see, what's going on?" ”

Zhang Qiang also heard the sound of the earth shaking, and the dust was filled in the distance, and the grass clippings were flying.

He immediately rushed to Emperor Longwu's tent with twenty cavalry, and the war horse crashed into the guards who flew out, knocking down the tent, and it was too late to talk nonsense, "Get all the people on the war horses and retreat to the hillside." ”

Longwu was caught on a war horse by a cavalryman, then the queen and the prince, and then He Kai, when Su Guansheng was arrested, a Longwu guard ran over and slashed with a knife, and the cavalry dodged sideways, Zhang Qiang did not force it, and took the rest of the people, turned around and fled against the assembled infantry and firecrackers.

The housekeeper led a few family members to run towards the Qing cavalry rushing over the group, shouting and shouting, hoping that the other party would recognize them, including the one who connected with the Qing soldiers.

However, the Qing soldiers in front did not regard them as their own people at all, and shouted: "Release the arrows." ”

More than thirty arrows flew out of the charging ranks, and the butler and several housekeepers were shot like hedgehogs before they could understand it.

A large detachment of cavalry trampled over them and rushed straight to the camp.

The shining waist knife slashed at the head, and no one in the whole camp could stop it, and the spears charged, and many people and women turned and fled at the price of being pierced by the spears, being picked on the spears, struggling, shouting.

Several of Xiao Yuanwai's family members greeted the enemy with spears and bows and arrows, but the enemy had too many cavalry and too strong mobility, and in less than a few minutes, Xiao Yuanwai was cut off his head, and he didn't think until he died, why these Qing soldiers would kill him.

A part of the cavalry bypassed the camp and pursued the fleeing Zhang Qiang's troops, and the cavalry that rushed more than a mile away from the hillside soon caught up with Zhang Qiang's troops.

Twenty chasseurs turned back to the enemy, a platoon of short guns struck over, seven or eight horsemen fell from their horses, threw away their short guns, drew their sabers, and twenty chasers took away about thirty enemy cavalrymen.

The enemy cavalry, wielding swords, broadswords, and spears, pursued them fiercely, and the two sides jumped and fought on the terraced mountain roads.

The remaining cavalry still pursued Zhang Qiang and them, leaving dozens of infantry to block, Zhang Qiang continued to flee with Emperor Longwu and twenty firecrackers, and there were not many enemy cavalry that could catch up at this time.

One hundred and fifty meters, one hundred meters, shouted from the front, "lie down"

Dozens of people hurriedly lay on the ground, and more than a dozen Qing cavalry had hideous faces, thinking of trampling them to death and hacking them to death, but they found that two or three hundred people stood on the opposite hillside, holding fire guns together, and the fire flashed, and more than a dozen cavalry fell off their horses together.

They didn't have time to close their eyes until they died, and their surprise, panic, was their expression before they died.

"Quick, quick, run." Zhang Qiang got up and beckoned everyone to continue running towards the hillside where the firecrackers were.

The fierce salvo of gunfire attracted more cavalry, and the cavalry rushed towards them in a frenzied manner, and another volley of seven or eight cavalrymen flew down from their horses and were trampled to death by the horses of their comrades.

Zhang Qiang and the others had fled to a distance of eighty meters, and they continued to flee, but the enemy's cavalry was still in hot pursuit.

"Lie down" shouted again.

Another volley flew over their heads, and one of the firecrackers didn't have time to lie down, and was shot through the head by his own bullets, and his brain burst out, so frightened that He Kai next to him was careless and fell on his back.

More than a dozen of the enemy cavalry flying behind him were killed and knocked away.

The horses slowed down.

More than a dozen musketeers took the opportunity to fire the first shot they fired in this battle.

They were only thirty meters away from the enemy's cavalry, and the power of the firearms was exerted to the best of their ability, so that the enemy's cavalry lost another ten men at once, and the heads of the horses were all broken.

The enemy cavalry hesitated.

"Run," Zhang Qiang shouted, leading the way to escape.

Fifty meters, they were only fifty meters away from their own people.

The enemy cavalry was not reconciled, and scattered in formation to chase again.

Forty-five meters, the enemy cavalry was only forty-five meters away from them, as close as they were to their own people.

Forty meters, they were only forty meters from their own people, and the enemy cavalry was only thirty meters from them.

Several chasseurs fought to escape the pursuit of the enemy cavalry from the flank, rushed in front of the enemy's cavalry, stopped the enemy cavalry, and disrupted the pursuit of a large part of the enemy cavalry.

Thirty meters, Zhang Qiang shouted and fell down, and at the same time threw Longwu to the ground.

Two rows of salvos.

The enemy was fired in a volley by two platoons of a total of one hundred and sixty musketeers at a distance of less than seventy meters.

Fifty or sixty enemy cavalry had their charging arrows cut off, and at the same time the chassars who had rushed up had fallen to the ground, having been hit by bullets from their own men.

"Run,"

As soon as Zhang Qiang shouted, the remaining dozen or so firecrackers grabbed the injured teammates and Emperor Longwu and others around him, ran hard, and ran into the first trench.

At a distance of thirty meters, they ran in one go, and by this time, the firecrackers in the first trench had already crouched down and continued to load.

More than a dozen musketeers also joined their own firecrackers in the first trench and buried themselves in reloading.

The enemy's cavalry, after rushing forward for more than ten meters, began to hesitate, and the third platoon of musketeers gave them a decision, and more than a hundred musketeers fired a volley, taking away their lives.

The remaining cavalry turned around and ran, giving up entanglement with the chasers and attacking Zhang Qiang.

But the first platoon of musketeers was reloaded, and fired a volley at their backs, and this time, they left behind more than thirty corpses and more than twenty horses.

Now, the situation is clear, the enemy has left the corpses of at least 1780 cavalrymen in front of Zhang Qiang's firearms, dozens of people have been wounded, and more than 200 horses have either been killed in battle or have lost their masters, running all over the mountains.

There were still a dozen or so infantry fighting with the enemy, and they also fled back to Zhang Qiang's position.

On the other side, it was not very good, and almost all of Emperor Longwu's guards were lost.

The Xiao family's family, the clansmen, the people they carried, as well as the prisoners, war horses, and supplies that were originally captured by Zhang Qiang, were all lost to the enemy.

Where they camped, Ruan Jie had a cold face, looking at the messy camp, and the cavalry troops who had retreated from defeat and morale were not very high.

The cavalryman knelt in front of his war horse, "My lord, I am incompetent, I deserve to die if I am lowly, and I will lose my soldiers." ”

Ruan Jie's face darkened, "How many troops does the enemy have?" ”

Cavalry Qianhu said: "My lord, according to Weichen's estimate, there are about four or five hundred troops, including more than three hundred firecrackers and more than one hundred other troops. ”

Ruan Jie looked at his team, there were still 2,000 cavalry fully loaded here, and more than 700 cavalry who had just returned from defeat, and it was effortless to eat more than 300 firecrackers.