This day was one of the most desperate times in Liu Liangzuo's life. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info not long ago, when the Qing army went south and Sizhou fell, when he retreated to the Yangtze River with his army and did not dare to resist, he did not feel much despair. Because he knew that as long as he held this army of more than 50,000 in his hands, whether he continued to stay in the Ming Dynasty or surrendered to the Manchus, he could live well.

However, when the 50,000-strong army was attacked by a Ming army of only 3,000 people, and then was defeated, this made Liu Liangzuo feel a little frightened, because such a poor combat strength of his subordinates would inevitably affect his status in the Manchu Dynasty. But this is nothing, there are many defeats in this life, as long as the elite in his hands is still there, it is easy to regroup, as long as this bold Ming army is annihilated, presumably the Manchu master will not blame himself. But when he found that the Ming army in front of him was not so easy to gnaw, maybe he and the two thousand Eight Banners could wipe out this Ming army, but his subordinates would also suffer heavy losses.

At this moment, Liu Liangzuo was even more desperate to find that some of the Green Battalion soldiers were rebelling and fighting with Bellenikan's army.

As the commander of Guangchangbo's 50,000-strong army, Liu Liangzuo was shocked to find that all he could control now was the 1,500 personal soldiers under his command.

What am I going to do? Do you continue to strangle the Ming army in front of you, or do you lead the troops to retreat?

After a short period of thought, Liu Liangzuo immediately made a decision to let go of the Ming army in front of him and return to the army to help suppress the rebellious subordinates. First, you can avoid the powerful Ming army in front of you, and second, you can take the opportunity to gather your subordinates. As long as there is an army in his hands, Liu Liangzuo is not afraid of what the Manchus will do to him. Of course, for the current Liu Liangzuo, he only has the only way to surrender to the Manchus. The demise of the Ming Dynasty is unstoppable, and the world must be the Qing Dynasty!

After making a decision, Liu Liangzuo immediately led the troops to retreat and sent his subordinates to gather the rout, and without the Daishan army chasing behind, many of the green battalion soldiers also stopped running in shock. Under the return of Liu Liangzuo's people, many green battalion soldiers habitually stood behind Liu Liangzuo's 1,500 personal soldiers.

More and more soldiers gathered behind him, and Liu Liangzuo instigated his war horse to lead the brigade to slowly press south, where the rebellious green battalion soldiers were fighting with the Mongol soldiers.

After Liu Liangzuo led the people to retreat, the soldiers of the 3,000 Daishan Army suddenly felt the pressure greatly reduced, and Ren Xingfan commanded the circular formation to slowly retreat towards the canal.

Borzigit led his cavalry around the circle, and shot arrows far away with his bow and arrows. The arrows fell into the Daishan army formation like flying locusts, most of them were blocked by shields, and the soldiers of the Daishan army could also drop some of the arrows by shaking the spears in their hands. A small number of arrows fell into the formation through the blockade, and many Daishan soldiers were hit by the arrows, but each soldier was wearing armor (more than 2,000 pieces of various armors were captured in the last war, making the Daishan army now have a large number of armor), unless they were hit by the vital point, these arrows fired from a distance could only cause them a few minor injuries.

As the Qing cavalry threw at a hundred paces away, the musketeers in the formation did not return fire. Seeing that the damage caused by the distant projectile to the Ming army was not great, Borzigit led the cavalry to approach the Ming army's circle formation, approaching a distance of fifty paces, and the power of the bow and arrow could break through the armor of the Ming army.

However, at a distance of fifty paces, bows and arrows could break through armor, and the muskets of the Daishan army could reach them even more, and the muskets did more damage than arrows. At a distance of fifty paces, arrows could penetrate the armor and cause minor injuries, while musket projectiles would penetrate the armor into the bodies of the Qing soldiers, stirring up their internal organs.

A thousand Daishan musketeers began to shoot at the Qing army, although the rate of fire was not as fast as the bow and arrow, although the rain of bullets was not as dense as the rain of arrows, but the casualties of the Qing soldiers were far more than that of the Daishan army!

Seeing his subordinates fall under the horses one by one, Borzigit could only reluctantly order to retreat. Directly attacking the spear formation that is afraid of the opponent, shooting at a distance and not being someone's opponent, what can you do in this situation except retreat? In fact, no matter how elite the light cavalry is facing the neatly arrayed infantry, there is only one way to retreat!

Under the distant harassment of the Qing cavalry, Ren Xingfan commanded the infantry array to retreat to the shore, while the Qing cavalry stopped a mile away and did not dare to approach again. If you get any closer, you will be fired at by the Ming guns on board.

Relying on the deterrence of artillery, 3,000 infantry quickly boarded the ship, and when they attacked, it was 3,000 people, and the number of people who were damaged after half a day was less than 100.

The fleet did not row directly to Yangzhou, because there were still many people along the canal who did not have time to escape.

It is not so easy for tens of thousands of people to swim across the canal, and the river is densely packed with people at this time, and there are many more people who pounce and jump in.

Not all of them know how to swim through the canal, some women and children with children in their arms, some old people, they simply can't swim across the canal on their own, but the Baidaishan River Boat is used to pick up their own soldiers, and they will not be allowed to go on at all.

There was no way, these desperate people looked at the river and cried loudly.

Seeing that he could not deal with the Daishan army on the ship, Borzigit led the cavalry far around the range of the ship's artillery, and opened his bow to shoot at the people by the river.

Feathered arrows flew over the sky like locusts, landing on the banks of the river and in the canals, and countless people screamed and fell under the arrows, how could they avoid the arrows with no protection on their bodies? There was a river of blood on the bank, and the blood flowed into the canal and stained the river red.

"General, let's go down and save them!" Looking at the miserable situation of the people, Chen Mingyang couldn't help but shout.

Ren Xingfan bit his lower lip and looked at the tragic situation, but shook his head firmly, the riot of the Qing army in the distance gradually stopped, and the Mongolian cavalry not far away was eyeing on the side, if he got off the boat again, he might never come back. The lives of the people are of course important, but bringing these 3,000 soldiers back to Yangzhou safely is what a general should do as a general.

The total strength of the Daishan Army is only more than 10,000 people, and it can't withstand too many losses at all!

Seeing that Ren Xingfan refused to agree, Chen Mingyang smashed his fist on the boat gang!

"Look, reinforcements from the city are coming!" A soldier pointed to the north and shouted in surprise, and everyone hurriedly looked over, and saw the north of the canal, a fleet of boats rowing over quickly, and the word "Ming" on the bow of the boat was waving in the wind!

When Ren Xingfan led 3,000 warriors to attack the Green Battalion, seeing countless people fleeing to the canal, Ren Siqi ordered the naval army to go to meet it, and 1,000 of the 5,000 naval troops followed Ren Xingfan to attack, and the remaining 4,000 people went down the canal with 200 river boats under the leadership of Xue Yulai. Their purpose was to help most of the people cross the river.

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