Before the third row of soldiers could make a move, the sound of hurried horses' hooves disappeared, and only the ownerless war horses slowly walked in front.

"Could it be that Jiannu is such a little bit of people?" Du Tong is strange, this battle hasn't been fought yet, is it over?

He looked around, and the boundless night enveloped the entire Xiping Fort, and he could not see or hear anything except the wounded soldiers rolling and shouting on the ground.

"Light the torch and see if there are any Jiannu who are pretending to be dead, and all of them must make up for it."

The soldiers raised torches in one hand and sabers in the other, and surrounded the place where the Jurchens fell, and all the Jurchen soldiers on the ground, whether dead or alive, were stabbed by the Ming army, or in the throat, or in the chest, or in the lower abdomen, all of which were fatal places.

Seeing that the soldiers had quickly completed the mending of the knife, Du Tong couldn't help frowning: "How many Jiannu?" ”

"There are two hundred corpses."

"Only two hundred? Not even a cow record? No wonder the battle ended so quickly. In the dark, Du Tong shrugged his shoulders and made an exaggerated expression, regardless of whether others could see it or not, "Pay attention to vigilance, there are still Jiannu's cavalry in the city." ”

"Master, we looked for it on the periphery just now, and there is no hidden Jiannu at all."

"They may still be in the barracks, maybe on the way here," Du Tong didn't believe that with such a dense gunshot, the Jiannu in the city could still sleep soundly, "Take the regiment as a unit, cooperate with each other, search for the Jiannu, one regiment guards the city gate, two regiments advance along the north and south of the city wall, and receive the soldiers outside the city into the city, and the remaining six regiments search independently, paying attention to mutual protection." ”

"Yes, Master."

The soldiers went to take on their own tasks, and just now they completely annihilated Jiannu, their confidence was greatly increased, and they were no longer as scared as they were at the beginning, it turned out that in front of the flintlock gun, Jiannu had no chance to fight back at all.

The Ming New Army is all organized under the three-three system, each division has three brigades, each brigade has three regiments, and a division is nine regiments, each regiment has about 1,000 people.

Except for the regiment guarding the city gate, the remaining eight regiments, forming the firing group, all went down to the city.

In the dark, the Ming army could not see the enemy clearly, as long as the wind and grass were blowing, it was just a few bullets.

There were gunshots everywhere in the city, and Jiannu panicked, they knew that the Ming army had entered the city in large numbers, and Xipingbao could not be saved, but they hoped to save their lives.

Jiala's Ezhen, who was guarding Xiping Fort, pricked up his ears and listened carefully for a while, "Brothers, the voice of the east gate is the weakest, let's quickly retreat from the east gate." ”

Hundreds of Jurchen cavalry, with the help of the cover of night, rushed to the east gate, in order to avoid the Ming army along the way, they according to the Ming army's gunfire, from time to time through the streets and alleys, and led the horses on foot, in order to reduce the sound of horses' hooves on the ground.

finally came to the East City Gate, but found that the area around the East City Gate was quiet, and there was no Ming Army at all, "Huh? Could it be that the Ming army all entered the city and did not send people to guard the city gates? ”

"Bang."

"Bang."

"Bang."

……

Before the words fell, the dense sound of flintlock pistols came from the darkness.

"It's not good, there is an ambush of the Ming army, hurry up and drive the war horse to the front."

The Jurchen soldiers drove their horses to the front, using their huge bodies to block the bullets of the flintlock muskets, and they followed the horses with their waists bent.

The weight of the war horse was too large, one or two bullets, it was impossible to knock it down, and the Jurchen soldiers followed behind, desperately whipping the buttocks of the war horse, even if it hurt the horse, they could run forward for a while.

"Oh no, the horses are rushing over, dodge." The soldiers in the front row shouted loudly, regardless of whether the Jiannu soldiers understood it or not.

The gunners were forced to dodge to both sides, giving way in the middle.

The flintlock pistols in their hands continued to shoot, but they were already a little messy.

Fortunately, the Jurchen soldiers only cared about fleeing for their lives, and there was no time to fight back, and if the battle took place in the daytime, it would be strange that these Ming gunners were not slaughtered.

Although there is the protection of war horses, it is still too long to rush through a distance of a hundred paces on foot, the Ming army has already fired three rounds, and the Jurchen cavalry still suffered more than half of the casualties.

The Jurchen soldiers rushed through the gap in the middle of the Ming army, and rushed to the city gate together, and the gunners chased after them according to the footsteps of the Jurchens.

There were too many war horses, almost blocking the southern city gate, especially the wounded war horses, they couldn't drive them away, the Jurchen soldiers were horrified, they scattered the war horses, and crowded forward.

In the darkness, some cunning Jurchen soldiers struggled to squeeze to the front of the crowd, using the bodies of their companions to block the bullets of the flintlock pistols behind.

The city gate is too small, the Jurchen soldiers are relatively concentrated, and the flintlock pistols of the Ming army are also very concentrated, and most of the Jurchen soldiers who dodged the flintlock pistols just now fell at the city gate.

There was always a mistake in the hundred secrets, and although the Ming army chased and shot for a while, nearly 100 Jurchen soldiers still escaped the city gate.

The horses of the Seventh Division were all left outside the city, and once the Jurchen soldiers left the city, they were like fish entering the sea and wolves walking on the grassland, and under the cover of night, the Ming army could not catch up even if they wanted to.

The defenders of the southern city gate were dejected, although they shot most of the Jurchen soldiers, but not all, I don't know whether they made meritorious service or received it after the division commander and army commander knew.

In Xiping Fort, the sparse gunfire continued until the second half of the night, when it gradually stopped.

The small Xiping Fort has been searched three times by the Ming army from all walks of life, but no one can guarantee that no Jiannu is hiding, and the defenders of the four city gates have not been removed, and they have been waiting for the Jurchen soldiers who have slipped through the net.

The Ming army took a nap, and after dawn, the soldiers searched the fort twice, but still found nothing.

"Collect the corpses of Jiannu and see how many Jiannu have slipped through the net." Yu Chongxiao's face was gloomy, although he outwitted Xiping Fort, the soldiers did not suffer any casualties, and the Ming army was a complete victory, but Yuan Chonghuan had confessed that he must completely annihilate the Jiannu in Xiping Fort, and this goal has not been achieved now.

"Yes, military seat, leave the matter of cleaning up the battlefield to the Seventh Division!" Du Tong's Seventh Division was the first to enter the city, and it stands to reason that it should be the first work, but Jiannu escaped from his defense area, and in front of Yu Chongxiao, he was like a little daughter-in-law who had just passed the door, picking dirty work and rushing to do it.

"Hmm." Yu Chongxiao nodded, "Go ahead, pay attention to appease the soldiers, this is their first time on the battlefield, and no one wants to have an accident." ”

"Yes, Throne!" Du Tong's nose was sour, tears almost fell, he lowered his head and hid his eyes, "It's all to blame on his subordinates...... I didn't expect Jiannu to break through at night, and I didn't expect that Jiannu would use war horses to cover the breakthrough. ”

Yu Chongxiao waved his hand, "Don't talk about these useless things, go and collect Jiannu's body first, and wait until the summary meeting to talk about the rest!" ”

"Yes, Throne." Du Tong saluted Yu Chongxiao, then quickly turned around, "Brothers, quickly, gather Jiannu's corpse." ”

Du Tong soon came to report the results to Yu Chongxiao: "One collected 1,128 corpses of Jiannu. ”

Yu Chongxiao replied casually: "Ao, the escaped Jiannu should be less than a hundred." ”

The two looked at each other, each with their own thoughts.

What Du Tong thought of was that if Jiannu was not slaughtered, this first battle would not be perfect.

Yu Chongxiao thought that Jiannu had a fish that slipped through the net, and the information of the Ming Army's Northern Expedition would be exposed to Jiannu east of the Sancha River as soon as possible.

"Throne ......"

"What's wrong? If you have something to say, just say it! Yu Chongxiao thought that Du Tong was going to talk about Jiannu's escape again.

"When the soldiers were searching for the corpse of Jiannu, they found the bodies of more than 20 women in an earthen house near the large tent of Jiannu."

"What? A woman's corpse? ”

"Yes, Junzuo, they should have been killed last night, the blood on their bodies was just dried up, and their necks were cut by scimitars."

"These Jiannu are really unconscionable!" Yu Chongxiao shook my fist fiercely, "If the old man encounters these beasts, he will definitely break them into thousands of pieces." ”

"Commander, they're dead."

"Ao," Yu Chongxiao smiled self-deprecatingly, "Are these women all Han Chinese?" ”

Du Tong shook his head: "The person is dead, and I can't see it from the furnishings in the room, but according to the habits of Jiannu, these women must be Han." ”

"These Jiannu have done such a brute act, in the future, our Third Army will not accept their surrender, as long as they see them, they will all be killed." Yu Chongxiao was still angry.

"The military seat, but His Majesty said that it needs strong labor......"

Yu Chongxiao's sword eyebrows were bent into Jiannu's bow and arrows, and he thought for a long time, "Don't give them a chance to surrender, if you see Jiannu ready to abandon the knife and surrender, shoot immediately before he leaves the scimitar." ”

"The army is white, the military seat." Du Tong gave a military salute to Yu Chongxiao, "This will not violate His Majesty's order." ”

Xiping Fort was too small to bury the corpses of these Jurchens in the city, so Du Tong ordered the soldiers to bury the corpses outside the city.

The soldiers immediately moved their hands, and in groups of four, they grabbed the limbs of the corpses and slowly walked out of the city through the south gate.

"Stupid, aren't you tired?"

Du Tong grabbed a pair of thighs of a corpse, spun it in the air for a circle, adding enough kinetic energy, and then let go of his hands, and the corpse flew out of the city.

With a "poof", the corpse fell outside the city, and the remaining blood in the body was thrown out, as if the master of Chinese painting was splashing ink and painting.

"Teacher's ......"

"That's it, it's easier to throw it out!"

The soldiers did not necessarily have Du Tong's strength, they changed to work in pairs, carrying the corpse, and throwing it down from the city, and some soldiers with great strength also followed Du Tong's example and threw the corpse directly from the city, but after they threw out the two, they felt powerless.

Du Tong clapped his hands and found that his palms were stained with Jiannu's blood, so he wiped the leather armor of a corpse, and then looked at Yu Chongxiao: "Junzuo, do you want to cut off Jiannu's head?" ”

Yu Chongxiao looked at the soldiers who were busy carrying the corpses, "No, we are now on the Northern Expedition, we won't go back for the time being, with these heads, it's not convenient to march, just write down the numbers." ”

The Seventh Division dug a huge earth pit outside the city, buried more than 1,000 Jurchen corpses in one pit, and covered the pit with a layer of floating soil, and it was over.

The interior of Xiping Fort had also been cleaned up, and on the same day, the Third Army was stationed in Xiping Fort .

Yu Chongxiao sent a herald to deliver the battle situation of Xiping Fort to Yuan Chonghuan in its original form.