"Woo, woo, woo-" Just when the two armies were still fighting desperately, a sharp and piercing sound suddenly sounded in the night sky, and this sudden sound made the Ming army in the fierce battle stunned, and the Qing soldiers and soldiers suddenly became excited. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

It turned out that this was Li Chengdong's pre-agreed signal for reinforcements, and the horn sounded, indicating that the reinforcements would arrive soon, and the Qing soldiers who knew the inside story heard the horn, and they were all excited and inexplicable, and the more they fought, the more courageous they became, and the Ming army became more and more panicked.

In the sharp horn sound, the six or seven thousand Qing troops on the valley let out an earth-shattering shout of killing, and the situation on the battlefield suddenly underwent drastic changes. Jiao Lian and the hundreds of remnants beside him are difficult to shake the overall situation, they can only take care of each other and fight and retreat, seeing that the general trend has gone, the night attack force is a foregone conclusion, Jiao Lian was ashamed, several times wanted to pull out a knife to commit suicide, were desperately stopped by the guards beside him, they guarded the commander desperately broke through, along the way people kept falling, the Qing army shouted all the way to chase and kill, and soon drove all the Ming troops who stole the camp out of the valley.

At this moment, the forward troops of the Qing army who were chasing and killing the Ming army suddenly stopped, and it turned out that in front of them, a large number of reinforcements from the Ming army appeared, which was more than 2,000 reinforcements who were responsible for receiving the follow-up echelon. At the same time, after Zhu Youlang learned the news of Jiao Lian's failure in the sneak attack on the Qing camp, he did not stop, and personally led five or six thousand righteous troops to rush over to support.

Li Chengdong, who was on the way to pursue, saw that the new force of the Ming army had arrived, and most of the thousands of Ming troops that had been attacked at night had been annihilated, and the results of the battle had been very fruitful. At this time, Yuan Ming's generals Ye Chengen, Zhang Daoying and others had heard the news and led the army to support. I wanted to take the opportunity to pick up some cheap and get some credit, but I didn't want to just gather with the main force, and received the news that the commander ordered the withdrawal of the troops back to the camp.

Overnight, the situation changed greatly, Jiao Lian failed to rob the camp, more than 3,000 elite foot soldiers, or captured, or killed, most of the soldiers were annihilated, and finally only escaped more than 400 people, including the commander Jiao Lian, under the response of reinforcements, the news of defeat came, and Qingyuan City shook.

While Zhu Youlang was heartbroken and remorseful, he ordered to remove Jiao Lian from his position as the commander of the entire army, put him in prison, and hand it over to the ministry. According to the law of the Ming Dynasty, the commander lost the battle, resulting in the annihilation of the whole army, and he should be beheaded for the crime, but Zhu Youlang didn't really want to kill Jiao Lian, he is not Chongzhen, he is mean and unkind, not to mention the lack of talents in the current center, let alone cut off his arm.

During the pre-imperial meeting, seeing that everyone pleaded with Jiao Lian, hoping to exempt Jiao Lian from death, Zhu Youlang pushed the boat down the river, leaving Jiao Lian alive, but the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is inevitable, in order to polish Jiao Lian's temperament and stimulate his shame, Zhu Youlang picked up Jiao Lian's dragon and tiger general seal, and his official rank was demoted to three levels to be retained, and at the same time he was beaten with a hundred military sticks as punishment.

More than 2,000 of the 3,000 elites were annihilated, which was a nerve-wracking for the Ming army in the city, and the 4,000 guards brought by the emperor at the beginning were crippled at once, although there were still many volunteers in the city, but most of them were empty of blood, and they could not fight with the Qing army at all.

After this battle, Zhu Youlang deeply knew that it was difficult to annihilate the Qing army by land warfare in a short period of time, and with the current strength, there was no need to think about destroying the enemy in the field, so he could only defend passively and wait for the Sanshui City garrison to transfer north to support.

After destroying the main force of the Ming army in a battle, Li Chengdong knew that now was the best time for the whole army to retreat, and he knew that with more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, it would be impossible to capture Qingyuan this time in the case of lack of food and salary. The longer the lone army is stationed in the big city, the more reinforcements the Ming army will have. So taking advantage of the great victory and the perfect opportunity for morale to be available, he decided to retreat back to the base camp in Guangzhou.

In view of the fact that Beijiang has been controlled by the Ming army's naval division, in order to ensure the safety of the withdrawal and avoid being harassed and attacked by the Ming army's naval division along the way, he does not plan to take the waterway, nor does he plan to go south along the Beijiang River all the way to Sanshui, and then return to Guangzhou from Sanshui to the east, but first through the remaining troop transport ships in the army, cross the Beijiang River, and reach the area controlled by his own side on the east bank, and then the naval division breaks through by water, the land division rides through Shiling, and the land official road in Huaxian County returns to GuangzhouIt is not difficult to insist on withdrawing to Guangzhou.

When the whole army retreated, it was more dangerous only when crossing the river, and the sailor camp of the Beijiang army was firmly targeted by the main force of the Ming army's sailors, and it was difficult to cross the Beijiang River silently.

A few days after the end of the night battle, the camp of the Qing army on the Beijiang River suddenly opened, and then struggled to break through the encirclement of the Ming army's naval division, and fled all the way to the south.

Not long after the main force of the Ming army's naval division was led away, the Qing army's 20,000 soldiers and auxiliary troops quietly appeared at a secret ferry on the west bank of the Beijiang River, and there were many troop transport sand boats and barges moored next to the ferry.

After Zhu Youlang got the news, he knew that the time was pressing, and it was too late to convene the generals and ministers under his command to discuss the meeting, so he immediately made a decision, personally ordered 5,000 cavalry to lead the army to follow, and planned to take advantage of the Qing army to cross the Beijiang River halfway, to give the Qing soldiers who stayed on the west bank to be killed, if they can eliminate half of the Qing army on the west bank to be crossed, there will be great hope of turning defeat into victory, and completely annihilate the Qing army and kill Li Chengdong.