After annihilating the Qing cavalry that charged into battle, Wu Ping immediately ordered an attack on the ditch to encircle and annihilate the Qing army.

At the beginning, the Ming army that crossed the ditch was defeated and retreated by 2,000 Han soldiers, and almost retreated into the ditch. The strength of the two sides was about the same, and the combat effectiveness of the Qing army was even higher than that of these ordinary Ming troops. It was all about throwing grenades and barely holding the line. But when the two sides fight together, even the grenades are useless, and you can't even blow up your own people.

At this moment, Hou Yi led the army to kill. Although Hou Yi's army was crushed by the cavalry of the Qing army, under the leadership of Hou Yi and driven by officers at all levels, he still killed him frantically.

Although the chaos of the army when it was impacted, there was no queue and no organization, but the Qing army commander Murcha had to divide his troops to block, because once this Ming army copied the back road, no matter how brave the soldiers of the Han army were, it would not be defeated.

Half of the Qing army was divided to block Hou Yi's battalion, which also relieved the Ming army who had attacked the ditch, and it was able to resist the attack of the Qing army.

As a result, there was a brief balance on the battlefield, with 2,000 Han army banners and two Ming army of more than 5,000 people killed, and it was difficult to distinguish between the evenly matched enemy.

What shocked Hou Yi and other officers was that even though his army was larger than the Qing army, he still couldn't break through the Qing army's defense line, but he was killed and retreated. It can be seen that the battle on the battlefield is not necessarily won if there are many people, and compared with the Qing army that has been on the battlefield for a long time, these two Ming armies have just formed an army, and their combat effectiveness is really average.

However, the current Ming army is not the Ming army of the past, although the combat effectiveness is average, the will to fight is very strong, and there is no phenomenon that the generals of the Ming army fled the battle when the war was slightly unfavorable. Therefore, although the casualties are large, they can still barely support it.

At this time, the victory or defeat of the war was no longer on the side of the ditch, but on the outcome of the battle between the army led by Wu Ping and the cavalry of the Eight Banners.

Whichever side can defeat the other side and join the battlefield will favor which side the victory will favor.

Murcha has been on the battlefield for a long time, so he naturally understands this, and he is full of confidence in the Eight Banners cavalry under his command.

That's the real warrior of the Eight Banners, a warrior who has repeatedly defeated strong enemies on the battlefield, although there are only seven hundred people, there is no problem in defeating a Ming army of two or three thousand!

But Murcha never expected that the opponent of the Eight Banners Cavalry was no longer the Ming army that was fighting with him, but the most elite army in the entire Ming Dynasty. Even if the number of people is equal, this Ming army can be evenly matched with the most elite Eight Banners Army.

Therefore, when Murcha saw the annihilation of the 700 cavalry, and when he saw the Ming army of his own cavalry that had been annihilated coming this way, Murcha's heart was full of despair, despair that went deep into the bone marrow!

That's seven hundred cavalry, the real warriors of the Eight Banners, who were annihilated in such a short time! How strong is the combat effectiveness of that Ming army, could it be that Chen Yue, the king of Southern Ming Qi, has arrived?

Murcha was desperate, and the Han soldiers under him were even more desperate, and the entire Qing infantry was panicked, and their morale had been reduced to the extreme.

The cavalry was defeated, and the Ming reinforcements soon arrived, and they became lone troops, and they were no longer sure of victory.

On the contrary, when he saw Wu Ping leading the main force to the battlefield, and the arrogant Qing cavalry was gone, the morale of the Ming army on the entire battlefield was greatly shocked, and the strength of the whole body increased a few points.

Under the elimination of the other's strengths, the situation is irresistibly tilted to one side. Before Wu Ping arrived at the battlefield with the main force, the Qing infantry led by Murcha had already been defeated and retreated.

And as Wu Ping threw his army into the battlefield, the Ming army, which was seven or eight times larger, surrounded the remaining more than 1,000 Qing troops, and the battle soon ended.

Murcha led some guards to rush frantically, trying to break out of the encirclement, but died under the indiscriminate guns of the Ming army. The remaining Han soldiers saw that the situation was not good, and some of them swore to resist to the death, while others chose to lay down their arms and surrender.

At this time, the Ming army was red-eyed, and had no intention of keeping prisoners at all, regardless of whether they put down their weapons or not, they rushed up and slashed indiscriminately......

4,000 Manchu reinforcements were annihilated, a part of the army cleaned up the battlefield and buried the corpses, and the subordinates of the pacification department nervously registered military merits. Most of the army returned to the camp for repairs, and Wu Ping did not choose to attack the city immediately. Ning Yuan, who was surrounded by the army, was already meat on the side of his mouth, and he could swallow it at any time, so there was no need to attack in a hurry.

At the head of Ningyuan City, looking at the battlefield that gradually stopped in the distance, and watching the last Qing army flag being cut down, Ma Dayuan of Ningyuan Zhixian County had fallen into deep despair.

It's over, it's all over! The reinforcements were completely annihilated by the Ming army, and Ning Yuan was no longer saved!

Not only the county commander Ma Dayuan, but also the guerrilla general Meng Yong, the guard general of Ning Yuan, and even the county officials and officers and soldiers in the city, all knew that Ning Yuan was too late and could no longer hold it.

Originally, with the luck of reinforcements, Ning Yuancheng insisted on not surrendering. But now, although the reinforcements came, they were completely wiped out by the Ming army, and the luck has been completely shattered.

Looking at the Ming army camp that surrounded Ning Yuan, Meng Yong, Ma Dayuan and others all understood that it was not that the Ming army could not capture Ningyuan, but that they simply kept Ning Yuan to attract reinforcements.

Ma Dayuan went down the city wall and returned to the county government in despair, and he no longer had any intention of arranging any defense. With the reinforcements wiped out, the morale in the city has dropped to a low point, and it is useless to arrange any more.

Meng Yong stood at the head of the city, staring blankly at the Ming army camp in the distance.

"General Meng." As night fell, a subordinate quietly entered Meng Yong's room.

"What's the matter?" Meng Yong held the hilt of the knife vigilantly and stared at the general Huang who came.

"General Meng, the Ming army is powerful, and even the Eight Banners of Shanhaiguan are not their opponents, can we hold on to these thousands of soldiers and thousands of people in Ningyuan?"

"The matter of the king of food and loyalty, do your best to see the destiny of heaven!" Meng Yong said coldly.

"General Meng is wrong, we were originally Ming, what do the Manchu emperors have to do with us? At the beginning, we had to think about the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but now that the imperial army has come back, it is just right to raise troops to abandon the darkness and turn to the light anyway.

Our brothers have discussed that we can no longer be traitors to the Manchu court. General Meng, you lead us to kill the Manchu county and order Kaecheng to surrender! ”

Meng Yong looked at Mr. Huang coldly: "You guys? Who else but you? ”

Mr. Huang met Meng Yong's gaze without fear: "Mr. Li and Mr. Zhao also have the same meaning as me." ”

Meng Yong couldn't help but lower his gaze, he didn't expect that three of his four men had already decided to surrender. However, have I failed the king of Pingxi by doing so? The families of the king of Pingxi and the generals on the front line are all in this Ningyuan City.

Meng Yong hesitated, he was also a member of the Guan Ning Army, and was ordered by Wu Sangui to guard Ning Yuan and take care of the families of the army. His father and brother are now in Wu Sangui's army on the front line, how can he be willing to let him surrender to the Ming army like this?

"General Meng, there is a sentence among my subordinates that I don't know if to say?" Seeing Meng Yong's hesitation, Mr. Huang persuaded him.

"You say!"

"Your subordinates know that the general is deeply favored by the King of Pingxi, and he is unwilling to betray the King of Pingxi. But who in this Ningyuan City is not inextricably linked with the Guan Ning Army? subordinates, Mr. Li and Mr. Zhao are all members of the Guan Ning Army.

But now the situation is very clear, the reinforcements are all gone, and Ning Yuan can't hold it.

Previously, the Ming army only shelled and did not send troops to attack the city, in order to encircle the point and send reinforcements. However, the reinforcements have been destroyed, and the Ming army will definitely make a move against Ning Yuan in the next step.

The city wall of the southern city has been riddled with holes, and if the Ming army bombards it with all its might, it will collapse the city wall in less than half a day. If you continue to defend and annoy the Ming army, I'm afraid that no one in the whole city will survive.

General, you are entrusted by the King of Pingxi to take care of the families of the soldiers of the army, are you willing to see the King of Pingxi and the families of the soldiers slaughtered by the Ming army?

Only by surrendering can we avoid the lives of the people in the city, and this is what we should do. ”

Listening to General Huang's words, Meng Yong's heart wavered, "But, if we surrender, after the Ming army gets the King of Pingxi and the families of the front-line soldiers, they will definitely use them to blackmail the front-line soldiers, so what should we do?" ”

Mr. Huang smiled slightly: "That's all in the future, it's much better than letting them die now." Moreover, General Meng, you should understand the current situation. The current Ming Dynasty is no longer the Ming Dynasty of the past, and the Ming army is not the Ming army of the past.

We have been soldiers for so many years, and our Guanning Iron Cavalry also boasts that we are one of the strongest troops in the world. But over the past few decades, have we faced any decent victories in the face of the Qing army? But if you look at the Ming army outside the city, it can cleanly annihilate thousands of Eight Banner reinforcements in the field, if this situation was placed in the past, do we dare to think about it?

And the army outside the city is only a partial division of the Ming army, in Liaocheng, Shandong, there are hundreds of thousands of main forces of the Ming army, and they are led by Chen Yue, the king of Qi in the Ming Dynasty, who killed Duoduo and Azig two Manchu princes one after another, and defeated the ruthless people of the 100,000 Eight Banner Army!

As for the Qing Dynasty, more than 100,000 green battalion soldiers were defeated and surrendered by the Ming army, and Hong Chengchou, a scholar of the Inspector University, was arrested, and the army that could be put together was less than 100,000. Shandong, Shanxi, and Shaanxi were all lost, and now only the vicinity of Beijing is left, and even Liaodong and Liaoxi were attacked by the Ming army. The balance of strength between the Ming and Qing dynasties has now been completely reversed, and who would dare to say that the army could not defeat the Manchus in this case?

General Meng, we were all once Ming people, and we were not taken seriously by the Manchurian aristocracy by nature, have you ever thought about it, if the Ming Dynasty defeated the Manchu Dynasty, where would the King of Pingxi and the soldiers on the front line go? ”

Huang Jiang's words made Meng Yong couldn't help but be impressed: "You bastard thinks quite far, so tell me, what should they do with King Pingxi?" ”

"Surrender to the Ming Dynasty!" Huang Jiang said without thinking, "Ningyuan was occupied by the Ming army, and the families of the front-line soldiers fell into the hands of the Ming army. ”

"Hehehe......" Meng Yong smiled, and before the laughter fell, he pulled out a knife and put it on Huang Jiang's neck, "You bastard, can you think so much with your pig brain?" said, is it already colluding with the Ming army? ”

"Ah......" said that the knife suddenly hit his neck, and Huang Jiang was so shocked that he almost didn't pee his pants, "General Meng, what are you doing?" ”

"To say or not to say?" Meng Yong impatiently pressed the knife, and the blade had already cut through the skin on the neck of the yellow general.

Cold sweat rolled down Huang Jiang's face, and he didn't dare to hold on anymore.

"General, yes, my subordinates listened to the persuasion of the Ming army to surrender. General, you also know that the parents of his subordinates live outside Ningyuan City, and now they are all in the hands of the Ming army. How can a son of man watch his parents suffer?

General Meng, kill if you want. But even if you kill me, you won't be able to stop the others from surrendering, and too many brothers' families have fallen into the hands of the Ming army. Mr. Huang closed his eyes and craned his neck to meet the impending fate.

Looking at his subordinates quietly, Meng Yong sighed and put away the knife in his hand.

The morale of the army is lost, and there is no point in struggling anymore!

"Call everyone else in, let's discuss the details of the surrender, always talk to the Ming army about the conditions, and give the brothers a good treatment." Meng Yong sighed.

Mr. Huang nodded: "But General Meng, do we still have the qualifications to put forward conditions now?" ”

Meng Yong was silent when he heard this, yes, now Ning Yuan is already the meat of the Ming army's mouth, when he wants to eat it all depends on the mood of the Ming army, and where are he and others qualified to put forward any conditions.

Several other generals were also called in, and when they heard that Meng Yong had decided to surrender, everyone cheered. They are all their own brothers, and no one wants to meet each other because of this kind of thing.

Just when Meng Yong and his officers were discussing how to contact the Ming army and the details of the surrender, suddenly a soldier under his command reported that Ma Dayuan of Ningyuan Zhi County had summoned Meng Guerrilla.

"That's a fool, what should he do!" An officer said disdainfully. Now that everyone has decided to surrender, Ma Dayuan, the Manchu county, has nothing to do with everyone.

"General Meng, Ma Zhixian must also see that the situation is not good, and wants to discuss with you about surrendering the Ming army. In that case, you might as well meet him. Huang said.

"What did you see him do? Whether you surrender or not, we have the final say. He Ma Zhixian didn't count a soldier in his hands as a fart. Meng Yong said puzzled.

"No, Mazhi County still has some use. We can borrow something from him so that the Ming army can convince us of our determination to surrender. Mr. Huang smiled.

"What's that?" Someone asked puzzled.

"The head of Mazhi County!" Cold words came out of Mr. Huang's mouth.

Ma Dayuan, the magistrate of the county, did not wait for the guerrilla general Meng Yong, but only a team of soldiers sent by Meng Yong. This group of soldiers rushed into the county office, and they couldn't help but cut people when they saw them, and robbed them when they saw things, Ma Dayuan angrily scolded that it was useless, and it was useless to beg, and then watched the whole family being cut and killed, and he himself was killed by the rioters, and his head was hung on the flagpole outside the gate of the county government.

On the day when Wu Ping defeated the reinforcements of the Eight Banners of Shanhaiguan, the defenders of Ningyuan City acted up anyway, killed Ma Dayuan, the magistrate appointed by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, opened the city gate and surrendered, and Ningyuan City finally fell into the hands of the Ming army without blood.

PS: Four thousand words big chapter, that's all for today.