"Brigade seat, Jiannu is cleaning up the wounded soldiers." Although the light from the artillery was very dazzling, and it was very faint at a distance of five hundred paces, the observers still detected the movement of Jiannu from a distance.

"Pick up the wounded?" Li Xing was furious, "Don't stop the artillery. Dare to come and clean up the wounded soldiers, I will let them collect more and more wounded soldiers. ”

On the fourth watch, the artillery at the head of the city gradually stopped, and by the moonlight, there were no standing Jiannu on the battlefield.

The wailing of the city grew weaker and less frequent.

Cold, hungry, bleeding.

More and more abandoned Jiannu wounded soldiers slowly died in despair.

Sukhbaru returned to his tent in the Chinese army, and the cooked beef and mare's milk wine handed over by his own soldiers could no longer whet his appetite.

Including the Han army Niu Lu, he took a total of seven Niu Lu and more than 700 soldiers to the city of Ningyuan, but only 220 soldiers came back, plus the wounded soldiers who were snatched back, less than 300.

He didn't know how big the losses of the Ming army were, but he couldn't afford such a big loss, and the banner owner didn't know how he was going to be punished.

"Ezhen, let's eat some beef! If you have enough spirits, you will attack the city tomorrow! "He didn't hand a large amount of cold, cooked beef to Sukhbaru's hand.

Going to attack tomorrow? Sukhbaru had forgotten, or rather, he was reluctant to mention it again. Like a mistreated little daughter-in-law, he took the cooked beef from his hand, slowly stuffed it into the big mouth hidden by his thick beard, and squinted his eyes and chewed blankly.

After daybreak, the soldiers did not wake up from a sound sleep, they needed to rest, and Sukhbaru did not attack again.

For three days in a row, Sukhbaru was nestled in his big tent, and every day he was only accompanied by mare's milk wine, and he neither came out nor mentioned the attack on Ningyuan.

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Yuan Chonghuan's army, with grain and grass, and the latest flowering artillery of the Ming army, finally came to Ningyuan.

The Sun and Moon military flag on the south gate was fluttering in the wind, as if to welcome him, the belated commander.

"This Li Xing is really good, in just a few days, he has gained a firm foothold in Ningyuan." Yuan Chonghuan laughed with the soldiers around him.

The defenders of the South City Gate had already discovered Yuan Chonghuan, and a soldier hurried to find Li Xing: "Brigade seat, the commander is here." ”

"Commander?" Li Xing got up from the recliner with a bone: "Where is the military commander?" Are the armies coming? ”

"It's all here, outside the South City Gate."

"Let's go, go meet the commander." Li Xing took the lead in running towards the south city gate.

The soldiers opened the city gate, and Li Xing ran down the city to meet Yuan Chonghuan.

"Throne, you're here." Li Xing is like a wronged child.

"Brigadier Li, that's right, Ningyuan City has been firmly occupied by you, how many Jiannu have you cleaned up in the past few days?" Yuan Chonghuan jumped off his horse and handed the reins to his soldiers.

"Military seat, Jiannu hasn't retreated yet!" Li Xing turned around and looked to the north, and it seemed that the big tent of Jiannu was in front of his eyes.

"Jiannu? Where's Jiannu? How can I not see it? Yuan Chonghuan looked around, thinking that Li Xing was joking, in broad daylight, where can Jiannu be hidden?

"Junzuo, Jiannu has set up camp fifteen miles outside the north gate." Li Xing pointed to the north with his hand.

Only then did Yuan Chonghuan believe that what Li Xing said was true, "Outside the North Gate? How many slaves are there? What the hell is going on? ”

"Throne." Li Xing briefly recounted the incident of Sukhbaru's attack on Ningyuan.

"How's the brother casualty?" Yuan Chonghuan had long known the combat effectiveness of Jiannu, but he didn't expect that with only 800 Jiannu, he would dare to attack Ningyuan, a fortified city defended by more than 3,000 people of the First Brigade.

"The brothers' casualties were not too great, eleven people died, and twenty-three wounded."

"More than thirty casualties?" Yuan Chonghuan frowned, "What about Jiannu?" How many Jiannu casualties? ”

"More than 400 Jiannu died under the city alone, and some of the wounded were rescued."

"Four hundred?" Yuan Chonghuan's brows gradually relaxed, "They are only eight Niu Lu, and more than four hundred people died, then, together with the wounded soldiers, their remaining soldiers are less than four hundred." ”

Li Xing nodded subconsciously, "But the military seat, our flintlock pistol can't penetrate Jiannu's shield." ”

"Can't a flintlock pistol pierce? It's okay, we still have artillery, and flowering shells. I don't believe it, Jiannu's shield is stronger than the city wall, and it can block the flowering bullet of the Ming Dynasty. ”

Li Xing also felt that the flowering bomb could be tried, and he had been waiting for Yuan Chonghuan to come over with the flowering bomb.

Yuan Chonghuan held the horsewhip in his hand, carried it behind his back, and spun around twice in place.

"The Red Army, the first brigade and Jiannu fought a big battle, and they faced off for several days, they are tired enough, and your second and third brigades must also be pulled out for training. Jiannu dared to fight Ning Yuan's idea, and the remaining four hundred Jiannu should not let go of any of them. ”

"Yes, Throne."

"Ao, we must cut off their way back first, otherwise, once Jiannu escapes, their horses are fast, and we can't catch up at all." Yuan Chonghuan waved his hand and went into the city by himself.

Li Hongjun pulled a soldier over and whispered a few words.

The soldier summoned several more soldiers and left the brigade together.

The soldiers of Ning Xianlong's 2nd Division and Liu Yuluan's 3rd Division moved the grain and grass brought by Yuan Chonghuan into Ningyuan City, while the 2nd and 3rd Brigades of the 1st Division did not enter the city, they camped and cooked outside the city.

At dusk, several soldiers who had been scattered came back to meet Li Hongjun: "Shizuo, with the help of the local Han people, we have found a path. ”

Li Hongjun was overjoyed: "Okay, you go down to eat and sleep first, and nourish your spirits." ”

At the second watch, the soldiers of the Second Brigade, stationed outside the South City Gate, gave up all their horses, and each of them had only a saber at his waist except for a flintlock musket, twenty rounds of ammunition, and five grenades.

Guided by guides and sappers, they left the barracks and quickly passed from the west side of Ningyuan City to Guò, and then to the west, turning into a remote valley.

There is a sheep farm path in the valley, and from time to time thorns and weeds cover the exit of the path, and the guides and sappers constantly chop with firewood knives to clear the way for the soldiers behind.

At the time of the third watch, the soldiers of the Second Brigade had already rushed to the deep mountains more than ten miles north of the North City Gate.

"Slowly groping forward, you can't cut down thorns and weeds anymore, so as not to alarm Jiannu." Brigade commander Wu Bing estimated that it was not far from Jiannu's big tent now, and if Jiannu was discovered at this time and attacked by Jiannu, the second brigade would not be able to fight effectively in this narrow valley at all, and if Jiannu escaped, they would only have dry eyes.

I don't know when, the moon has hung high overhead, and the lower quarter moon is quietly pouring down to the bottom of the valley through the sparse branches.

The sapper carefully identified the direction: "Brigade seat, turn over the mountain in front of you, and then pass through a canyon, which is the rear of the Jiannu tent." ”

"Everyone be careful, when going up and down the mountain, don't step on loose stones, and don't alarm Jiannu." Wu Bing advised, he was about to reach his destination, and Wu Bing didn't want to fall short.

Towards the fourth watch, the 2nd Brigade finally came to the rear of Jiannu after most of the march.

More than 3,000 soldiers, on the north side of a slightly raised earthen slope, lined up in three fan-shaped long columns, lying across the retreat of Jiannu.

Three red fireworks rose from the ground one after another, exploded into a brilliant rainbow in the night sky, and disappeared silently.

South of Ningyuan City, the third campsite.

The observer finally waited for the message, and without the slightest delay, he immediately woke up Li Hongjun: "Division, the second brigade has been deployed in place. ”

"Don't alarm the soldiers first, let them sleep well, tell the fire head army, breakfast at the end of the hour, and set off at the end of the hour." Li Hongjun turned over and fell into a deep sleep again.

At midnight, the soldiers of the 3rd Brigade left the barracks south of the city.

The soldiers all had war horses, and they were only a dozen miles away, and in less than half an hour, they came to the big tent of Jiannu.

At a distance of 1,500 paces from the Great Tent of Jiannu, all 2,000 infantry dismounted, and only the cavalry on the left and right sides remained on their horses.

1,200 infantrymen, divided into three rows of 400 flintlock musketeers each, formed a long array of guns in the middle of the road, blocking the road south of Jiannu.

Behind the gunners were 800 Chinese troops, who were responsible for protecting the artillery and the Sun and Moon flags.

"Ezhen, no, the Ming army is here." He didn't panic and squeezed into the tent of the Chinese army in Sukhbaru.

"Ming Army? Didn't the Ming army be a turtle in Ningyuan City? How dare they leave the protection of the city walls? Sukhbaru was holding the mare's milk jug, his face was a little haggard, and his eyes were half-open.

He snatched Sukhbaru's mare's milk wine: "Ezhen, wake up!" The Ming army came over. ”

"What? The Ming army called? Sukhbaru seemed to wake up from his sleep, "Where is the Ming army?" ”

"The Ming army is less than two thousand steps away from our big tent." The mare's milk wine was still on the ground, and the mare's milk wine was gurgling to the ground.

"Order, the whole army is on horseback, ready to attack." Sukhbaru's mare's milk wine sobered up for the most part, "Without the protection of the city wall, the Ming army is tofu, how can it be the opponent of the Jurchen cavalry?" They are simply here to die. ”

"Uh......h Woo......" The deep voice of the bull's horn quickly spread through all the Jurchen tents.

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

"Boom...... Long ......"

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Fifteen pieces of artillery of the Ming army were fired.

The flowering bomb exploded wantonly in Jiannu's tent, and Jiannu's tent was so vast that it was impossible for the flowering bomb to fall into the clearing.

Tents soaked in butter or mutton fat were set ablaze by artillery fire.

The soldiers had just heard the horn and had not had time to leave the tent.

Shrapnel was flying, tents were burning.

The wounded soldiers screamed, and the frightened horses let out a cry of despair in fear.

Except for these two hysterical sounds, the rest of the qiē was muffled by the huge roar of artillery.

The soldiers didn't know what was happening, and the uninjured soldiers flew out of the burning tents like flies, only to see more tents burning.

"Could it be that the Ming army used fire?" Lino, who was more familiar with the Han people, was also stunned by the fire in front of him.

"What the hell is going on? Who can sue me? "Sukhbaru's Chinese tent was also set on fire, and he was dragged out of the tent by force, only to see that the whole camp had become a sea of fire, and his mare's milk wine, his beef and mutton, emitted a pungent smell of burnt fire in the fire.