After the midnight battle, the morning sun appeared on the sea to the east, and the earth gradually brightened.

Liang Jing, who was resting against a wall, opened his eyes and looked at the dilapidated village in front of him with a smile on his face.

After a battle in the middle of the night, the Tartar cavalry was finally annihilated. In the second half of the night, Liang Jing personally led people to search every house with torches. The village of about a dozen households is so small that there is no place to hide people.

The heads of the Tartars were all cut off and piled up in the open space of the village, which had been counted overnight last night, and there were two hundred and eighty-one in all. There must have been a handful of Tartar cavalry who had escaped, and there was really no way to stop them in the dark.

The explosion of hundreds of grenades killed many horses, but there were still seventy or eighty horses that survived, and although they were slightly injured, they did not delay their ride.

The sudden attack made the Tartars have no time to get on their horses, and they don't even have the skills to put on armor, so they carry knives to fight the Ming troops who rushed into the village, and under the attack of grenades, most of the Tartars were easily killed by grenades. But the living Tartars also caused great casualties to the Ming army.

There was no way to count it at night, and it was only after dawn that Liang Jing learned that his men had been killed or wounded as many as 200 people......

The fact that they had such heavy casualties in a surprise attack with absolute superiority fully illustrated the combat effectiveness of these three hundred Tartars. The combat effectiveness of the real soldiers of the Eight Banners is definitely not comparable to these Jiaodong recruits under Liang Jing who have just joined the army for more than half a year.

Fortunately, it was nighttime, and he could not see the number of casualties on his side, and he knew that he had an absolute advantage, so in order to kill the Tartars and capture the first class of silver, all the soldiers fought to the death.

If it were daylight, such a large casualty would have demoralized the other soldiers, and they would no longer have the courage to fight head-on. Thinking of this, Liang Jing couldn't help but secretly rejoice.

There are still more than 300 soldiers alive, and basically each of them can be assigned a first rank. This is the real head of the Eight Banners cavalry, but in this battle, all of these soldiers who followed Liang Jing to attack made a fortune, and the suppression of the army will record their exploits, and everyone will be promoted to the next rank, and Liang Jing himself will at least be promoted to the rank of deputy general.

So, despite the heavy casualties, everyone who was alive was smiling.

The gate of Heiwozhuang Fort was opened, and the soldiers in the fort went to the riverside village under the leadership of Ying Zhenfu.

Looking at the tragic battlefield in the village, all the officers and soldiers who had just arrived were secretly frightened.

After cleaning up the battlefield and having breakfast, at three o'clock in the morning, Liang Jing led all his troops to leave here and marched along the official road to Ningyuan City.

After crossing the river, Liang Jing ordered the bridge on the river to be completely demolished.

Seventy or eighty horses were captured, which allowed Liang Jing to send sentry cavalry to spy on enemy movements. And the Qing army has already passed a whole day, and it should not be too far from Ningyuan City at this time. However, Liang Jing still marched cautiously, carefully probing the movements around him. After last night's battle, he had lingering fears about the combat strength of the Eight Banners Army.

Along the way, the army passed through three rivers, and Liang Jing ordered that all the bridges on all rivers be burned. In this way, even if the Qing army came to reinforce Shanhaiguan, it would be able to slightly block the pace of their march.

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Cao Zhuangyi, only thirty miles away from Ningyuan City, Murcha had to order to stop the pace of the marching army.

Because a dozen or so cavalry came after them from behind, and reported the news of the destruction of three hundred cavalry.

Murcha was shocked when he heard the report, it was three hundred cavalry, all of them were real warriors of the Eight Banners, and they were all wiped out like this! How strong the fighting power of the Ming army should be!

As he continued to understand, Murcha learned that it was a sneak attack by the Ming army at night.

"Even if the Ming army sneaks up, it shouldn't just escape from you, you must know that it is three hundred cavalry, how many Ming troops are there in Heiwozhuang Fort? Are there five thousand? Murcha said angrily.

"General Zhenguo, it's not that we can't fight, but the firearms of the Ming army are too powerful, and there was a loud bang when I shook my hand, and everyone within a few steps was down. Too many soldiers have died under this kind of firearms, and they can't exert the power of our cavalry and archery. The fleeing cavalry wept and prayed.

Murcha's face was gloomy like water, and before he reached Ningyuan, he had already lost three hundred cavalry, and they were all real warriors of the Eight Banners, how could he explain to the imperial court?

"General Zhenguo, should we continue to Ningyuan, or should we go back to exterminate the hateful Ming army?" One of his subordinates asked. In fact, this kind of situation where there is a strong enemy in front and pursuers behind is too unfavorable for one's own side.

Go back and destroy that Ming army? Murcha shook his head.

Now that Ning Yuan has been besieged by the Ming army for many days, if he delays it any longer, I am afraid that Ning Yuan will fall soon. And since he lost three hundred cavalry, he couldn't save Ning Yuan, and what awaited him would be the wrath of the imperial court.

"Ignore the Ming army, the whole army will speed up and attack Ningyuan City!" Murcha gritted his teeth and commanded in a deep voice.

So, four thousand, no, three thousand seven hundred Qing soldiers advanced again, speeding up the march towards Ningyuan City.

The next morning, I finally saw the city wall of Ningyuan, as well as the ditches and the camps of the Ming army all over the city outside Ningyuan.

Standing on a high post, looking at the situation in the distance, Ningyuan City still planted the banner of the Qing Dynasty, indicating that it had not yet fallen.

But when he saw the zigzag ditch surrounding Ning Yuan, Murcha frowned.

Although this ditch is not too deep, it is not easy for the war horse to cross it easily. And on the main road facing the gate of Ningyuan City, the camp of the Ming army was built, which means that if the camp of the Ming army is not laid, your army will not be able to enter Ningyuan City.

But looking at the Ming army's camp and the ditch surrounding it, Murcha knew that it would not be easy to take it down.

What to do? Murcha was caught in a contradiction.

The Ming army camp, looking at the Qing army that appeared in the distance through the camp, Wu Ping showed a smile on his face.

After several days of busy work, more than 10,000 captured strong men finally dug the ditch around Ningyuan. Now Ningyuan City has been completely surrounded by ditches and has become a lonely city.

Unless the Qing army from Shanhaiguan captured the Ming army camp facing the city gate, they could only choose to cross the ditch and enter Ningyuan City.

If you storm the camp, of course, you are not afraid, relying on the ditch barracks, with a large number of firearms and several times the Qing army's army, you are not afraid of the Qing army's strong attack at all. If the Qing army chooses to cross the ditch, they will also have a surprise waiting for them.

Field warfare, hehe, Lao Tzu is not interested! Liang Jing was in the rear of the Qing army with more than 2,000 troops, and the Qing army's back road had been cut off, and there was no food and grass supply from Shanhaiguan. Therefore, now that the initiative is in the hands of the Ming army, Wu Ping wants to know what choice this Qing army will make!