Huang Taiji, Dolgon, Haoge and other Manchurian nobles stood in the north gate tower of Yingkou City, looking at the wharf in the south from afar. There, the remaining Ming troops were making the final evacuation.

Although it is a bit far from the dock, there are still many places that are obscured by buildings, and you need to use binoculars to see part of the movement of the Qingming army. But just by relying on the movements of the Ming army seen in the cracks of these buildings, these Manchu relatives and nobles who have been in the army since childhood have confirmed that this Ming army is indeed a well-trained army.

When is an army most likely to be defeated, anyone with a modicum of military experience knows that an army is most likely to suffer defeat when it retreats. An army is less sensitive to its own casualties when attacking, as the soldier will focus on the enemy on the other side rather than observing his surroundings.

But when an army begins to retreat, the soldier's attention is focused on his surroundings, and even the smallest casualties at this time are magnified by the soldier's senses, and eventually they are not defeated by the enemy's attack, but crushed by their own imagination.

The tactics of shaking the enemy's psychology with fear, and then crushing the enemy army with a small force, were all too familiar to these Manchurian nobles. Over the past few decades, they have used this tactic to defeat many superior enemies, especially the outnumbered Ming army.

Because of this, they basically have a good idea of what a unit should look like when it retreats. Although the Ming army had set up suspicious formations in order to retreat, they did not even move the expensive artillery, so that the Qing army, which had been monitoring the movements in the city, did not discover the problem until early this morning.

However, under the deployment of Dolgon and other Manchu generals, the Qing army reacted very quickly and launched an attack on Yingkou City, easily seizing the Yingkou city wall that was undefended. However, under the pressure of the Qing army, the last small group of Ming troops to withdraw to the dock in an orderly manner without any collapse, which is quite shocking.

It wasn't until they saw the performance of this Ming army when they retreated that these Manchu clan generals understood why Laosa and others couldn't take a Ming army with a small number of people under Yaozhou City, so that this Ming army broke through the encirclement and interception of the Qing army and returned to Yingkou safely.

Like them now, they can only watch the Ming army retreat to the dock, and then calmly board the ship and evacuate. The Ming army regarded the evacuation as an outing, and no one fled from their posts, as if they were sure that they would always be able to board the ship behind them.

Although the streets of Yingkou were not narrow, the canals that ran parallel to the streets divided the wharf and the city into two parts, and the Qing army could not give full play to its numerical advantage in such an environment. As long as the Ming army blocked the intersection with a small force, it could hinder the attack of the Qing army.

And the most feared thing for the Qing army was the Ming warships docked near the pier, which now became floating batteries in the sea, although the bottom heavy guns of these warships could not shoot at the targets on the shore, but the artillery of the layer alone was enough to block the neighborhood near the dock.

After the small force of the Ming army and the support of these warships and artillery almost wiped out several groups of Qing troops who were eager to seize the merits, the Qing soldiers began to tie their hands and feet, and no one dared to venture forward to understand the power of the Ming warship guns.

What can deal with the guns and barricades of the Ming army should naturally be the artillery of the Qing army. However, the artillery abandoned by the Ming army in the city has been destroyed, and the Qing army's own artillery is too heavy, and it is not possible to transport it into the city in a moment.

In order to keep this Ming army, Dolgon and his subordinates did not know how much brains they needed, but when they were close to success, the Ming people withdrew quietly. This frustration at the last moment made Dolgon's heart very uncomfortable, and he lost the interest in speaking for a while.

The other Manchu clan generals beside him were also in a very bad mood at the moment, and they were also in a dilemma. Urging his subordinates to attack is undoubtedly sending them to death. But standing aside like this and watching the Ming people go away, the myth of being full of people and being invincible is coming to an end.

The defeat of Yizhou can be said to be accidental, how to cover up the battle of Yingkou? Mixed emotions such as frustration, frustration, and worries about the future clouded the hearts of these Manchurian nobles. Even Huang Taiji could hardly say anything to motivate his subordinates at this moment.

With these Manchurian relatives and nobles around him, Huang Taiji still has an extra layer of worry, which is the recovery of the national strength of the Ming Dynasty seen from this battle. In the past, although everyone knew that the Ming Kingdom was rich and poor, the greed of officials, the incompetence of generals, and the timidity of soldiers were also the chronic diseases of Ming Kingdom.

Even if it is praised by the Ming people, the Wanli Dynasty of Guotai and Min's peace, the armor and weapons of ordinary soldiers of the Ming army are also many old and unusable. And in the Apocalypse Dynasty, the swords made by the weapon workshop managed by the military department in the capital could not even kill the sacrificial oxen, and the weapons and armor of the Ming army were not as sophisticated as the Jurchens who had just walked out of the deep mountains and old forests, which was also a ridiculous joke.

But today, the Ming people can destroy and discard the artillery that is extremely good in the eyes of the people without hesitation, and give priority to saving the lives of the soldiers, which was unimaginable in the Ming army in the past. Destroying ordnance and military supplies was a serious crime in the Ming army, so the Ming army would rather leave these things intact to the enemy than destroy them themselves.

In the eyes of the generals of the Ming army, these ordnance and materials were worth much more than the lives of soldiers. The more chaotic the era, the less valuable human life is. Therefore, they would rather die than keep the ordnance and supplies, and only at the last moment will they be forced to order the destruction of the goods.

But what the generals think is the last moment is obviously not the same thing as the last moment in the eyes of the soldiers. Therefore, it is not that the soldiers have already dispersed in a hurry before the last moment, and there is no one to destroy these supplies; It was really at the last minute, and the soldiers were expecting to exchange these intact supplies for their own safety.

The Ming court was heavy on things and light on people, but in the end, it was a loss of characters. But today, it is clear that these Ming people still have a chance to rescue a few cannons and leave, but in order to ensure that the retreat is not noticed by them, the Ming people actually destroy and abandon these valuable cannons quietly.

This abnormal behavior made Huang Taiji feel very bad. Because such a move only represents two possibilities, either the officials of the Ming Kingdom finally began to change their concepts, from heavy things and light people to heavy people and light things; Either in the Ming Kingdom, it costs low to make such artillery, so the Ming people can destroy and abandon it without any scruples.

Neither of these possibilities is good news for the Manchurians. In a country with a huge population like the Ming Dynasty, if the Ming State begins to value the lives of ordinary soldiers, then the Ming soldiers like the one they are facing now will become more and more numerous, and the advantage of the Manchus over the Ming Army's military force will become smaller and smaller.

If the Ming people cast such an excellent artillery is also very cheap, this cheapness is naturally relative, and the fine iron and bronze used by the Ming army to cast cannons are still quite expensive for the Manchus. Then it can only show one thing, the national strength of the Ming Kingdom is not only recovering, but even growing in the past.

The Ming of the past was already a behemoth for the Manchurians, and if such a Ming continued to grow, then sooner or later it would become a monster that the Manchus could not match. So both of these possibilities portend a terrible future, which is the defeat of Manman.

Huang Taiji always looked farther away from others, and naturally others felt the threat from the future Ming earlier. Under such a prospect, Huang Taiji found that he couldn't think of any way to deal with it, and this feeling of powerlessness from the bottom of his heart was something he had never felt in his life, so he couldn't make any sound.

Although there was nothing that could be done about the calm evacuation of the Ming army, Dolgon could not remain silent. This is not only because he cannot show the helplessness of his own full masters in front of his minions; Nor can these Manchu and Han officers and soldiers watch the retreat of the Ming army and do nothing, thus erecting in their hearts an image that the Ming army cannot be defeated, which is very fatal to the blow of the Manchu martial arts.

Therefore, he still stubbornly said to Huang Taiji: "King Khan, I am afraid that this kind of fighting will not work now, we should still transport the cannons into the city." Only by bringing the cannons into the city can we blast through the barricades at several entrances to the pier and drive these Ming troops into the sea. ”

Huang Taiji just glanced at him, and then replied expressionlessly: "What Prince Rui said is very true, the next attack is up to you." Whoever enters the dock first will be rewarded with three and a half miles. I was not feeling well, so I went back to the camp to rest. ”

For this farewell war, Huang Taiji has no intention of watching it anymore. And what he said about his physical discomfort was not a lie, the hard work and worry of these days also made his eyes darken, he didn't want to faint on the battlefield and hit the morale of his side again.

Dolgon breathed a sigh of relief and hurriedly sent Huang Taiji downstairs with the other Manchurian generals. When Dolgon was explaining the military orders to his generals, he suddenly heard a commotion from the city, and he hurried out of the city gate tower to watch, but found that Sonny, Aobai and other guards were in a circle, and Hauge was holding his father and shouting in the circle.

The frightened Dolgon and other Manchurian clan generals hurriedly went downstairs to inquire, but it turned out that Huang Taiji, who had just walked out of the city gate, heard the news brought by a herald, and immediately fainted.

When Dolgon heard this, he immediately stopped Hauge's shouting, and while he asked the soldiers to send a message to the soldiers, the Khan only sprained his foot and was fine, and ordered him to find a stretcher and a doctor to come and see the Khan.

After finally suppressing the matter, Dolgon stepped aside and asked his cronies, "What did the Khan hear about it before he fainted?" ”

"It is said that Yue Tuobeile is in the army...", the Manchurian general replied with an incredulous face, obviously he had not yet recovered from the news.

Dolgon's heart was shocked, and he didn't know how to deal with the news, but he suddenly felt a chill on his cheeks, so he looked up to the sky, and found that the sky was gloomy and snowflakes at some point. Dolgon subconsciously thought, "This winter must be very cold." ”

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