It's a pity that Yang Chao was disappointed, he was ready to attack Duoduo head-on, and determined that Duoduo did not gather enough soldiers and horses in time, so he felt that he was nine out of ten, and the result was indeed the same as what he had heard, Duoduo did not have many soldiers, and a total of less than five hundred Eight Banners elite were gathered.

These were not through the large and small east gates, but the defenders of the three gates on the north side of the eastern city, and they were very glad to go directly to the Zhenhuai Gate from the city wall, because the city walls were connected, and these people were obviously closer to the city wall than through the large and small east gates in the city, and as a result, they succeeded in meeting with Duoduo.

Most of the other gates chose to go from the city, and there was no doubt that one by one disappeared at the big and small east gates.

The two gates are like deep mouths, and whoever walks in will never get out.

Yang Chao has more than 1,000 people, and he is also an elite soldier in a hundred battles, he has fought with the Tartars in Haizhou, and has fought with Zuo Liangyu, with rich combat experience, and his will to fight is particularly strong, and Yang Chao is confident to defeat the Tartars.

But what he didn't expect was that when he appeared at the Zhenhuai Gate and saw his arrival, Duoduo didn't say a word, opened the city gate and ran away.

Most of the soldiers brought out by Duoduo are infantry, since it is a robbery, and it is still at night, it is more convenient to walk, so most of the soldiers of the Eight Banners are not riding, and the horses are tied to the Guandi Temple, Yuewang Temple and other places to feed carefully, the Manchu Qing still attaches great importance to the war horse, and the degree of attention exceeds the clothed minions, the horses are hungry and thin, and they will kill the minions who raise horses, but the horses kick and injure the minions, and they will definitely not kill the horses.

It's just that although the other party is an infantry, Yang Chao has no chance to chase it, in the middle of the night, it is the darkest time before dawn, chase out of the wilderness, who knows what will happen. It is now clear that Yang Chao has been victorious, and Duoduo's flight means that he has given up on reorganizing the forces in the city. If you have already admitted defeat, there is no need to chase after it.

Although it was a pity for Yang Chao to let go of Duoduo. His subordinates even more strongly demanded that the pursuit and kill the prince of the Tartars was too risky for everyone.

But Yang Chao is unwilling to take risks, for the sake of the way, he is relaxed, and he can't blindly enter, and he must know how to collect it when he should receive it.

What's more, the combat goal has been exceeded, and I just wanted to hit the Qing army. After the defeat, he saved his military heart, but he didn't expect to defeat Yangzhou and completely defeat the Qing army, which was completely beyond imagination.

Now that the operational goal has been accomplished, there is no need to take too many risks for the sake of icing on the cake.

Yang Chao did not chase Duoduo, but Duoduo sent a person to find Yang Chao.

This person speaks with a Shanxi accent, and he is probably a Han Eight Banner from Shanxi.

He came to ask Yang Chao for Duoduo.

"My master wants to know, which hero is the one who won him?"

At this time, Dodor did not know who his opponent was. It's really unclear what you lost.

did not accept the suggestion of his subordinates to kill this Tartar, but Yang Chao answered him very honestly: "You tell Duoduo that it was Yang Chao, the loyal and righteous Bo of the Ming Dynasty, who defeated him!" ”

The Eight Banners clenched their fists. turned around and ran, this task is also a life of nine deaths, the ghost does not pay attention to not cutting it, it is possible to kill Liwei.

Then Yang Chao asked people to close the Zhenhuai Gate, and at the same time asked the soldiers who came to follow along the city wall and divide their troops to occupy each city gate, so that none of the Qing troops in the city could escape.

After all this, the sky was already slightly bright.

Yang Chao's main force began to gather.

Because for the whole night, the enemy army hardly knew what was happening. Some thought they were attacked by the enemy, and some thought they were in rebellion. Most of those who were attacked by the enemy chose to fight back. They did not dare to fight back in the face of the enemy, but they were unceremonious in the face of those who had robbed them of their wealth.

But most of them choose to make a fortune quietly, seize the time to rob a few big families, and rob a few women.

"The whole army listened to the order, so as to attack the general army and surrender along the streets. Order all the Tartars, regardless of the Manchu, Han and Mongolian tribes, to lay down their weapons and be captured, but if there is resistance, there will be no mercy! Tell them that we are the master of the Ming Dynasty! ”

Soon a group of soldiers set off, and when they encountered the enemy, they shouted first: "When the Ming King's division is killed, those who are tied up will live, and those who resist will die!" ”

At this time, the soldiers who robbed all night were already tired, they robbed for three days in a row, and every time they were tired, they would rest, and then continue to rob, no one wanted to sleep steadily, not only because they were afraid that their hands and feet would be slow, but also because they couldn't sleep at all because of the excitement brought by killing and looting, and they were extremely excited.

But as soon as the day dawned, suddenly an army rushed in front of them, shouting that the Ming Dynasty was killed, and they were captured, almost all the Qing troops, whether they followed Duoduo from Henan, or surrendered later, their first reaction was "Is this a group of singers?" ”

They didn't believe in any Ming Wang Shi at all, and at the beginning, there were soldiers who came up to greet him: "Brother, are you drunk?" Which one is singing? ”

They thought it was because they had drunk too much, and after the robbery, there were excited comrades-in-arms who had fun.

It was the spear that answered them, and let them know very quickly that this was not a big play, nor was it a joke.

The small group of Qing troops encountered, after killing a few people, all of them were honest, obediently threw their weapons, and then untied their trouser pockets and tied them up with each other as required.

There are also restless rebellious people, so they can only be killed.

Although Yang Chao's soldiers fought all night, the most tired were only the two thousand soldiers guarding the big and small east gates, and the others were some of the people who were in Xicheng to clear the Eight Banners, and most of the other soldiers were just guarding, and the battle was not fierce.

Therefore, compared with these Qing troops who robbed all night, Yang Chao's soldiers were even better in physical fitness.

In addition, it was another organized operation, and basically did not encounter any effective counterattack, and soon they were tied up one by one, and under the custody of one or two soldiers, they moved towards the designated place.

But there were so many prisoners of war, and not every team was so smooth, that the battle was inevitable.

Ten, twenty, hundred, two hundred.

Small groups of Qing troops continued to send to the City God Temple, and soon the number exceeded 10,000, 20,000, and then 50,000.

Two hours later, there were more than 100,000 people.

It's really not easy, it's to catch 100,000 pigs. It's not so fast, but man has an advantage over pigs, and man is an intelligent animal. Don't catch them one by one, they will go on their own.

It's noon. More than 150,000 soldiers were surrendered, but the number was still increasing.

Yang Chao was not only stunned, but there were too many soldiers who surrendered, and the traitors exceeded the Qing army by ten times.

Of course, most of them were surrendered troops, and there were few soldiers of the Eight Banners, whether it was the Eight Banners or the Eight Banners, they had already been wiped out in the first half of the night, and those who survived were without exception. They were all stranded in various remote places, some because they were drunk, and some were scattered and hidden.

Anyway, they are all defeated soldiers, and they can't make big waves at all, but then again, if the 30,000 neat elites of the Eight Banners are here, with them as the core, they can still organize order, and they don't know who will kill the deer, precisely because these 30,000 core combat power have been wiped out. Yang Chaocai dared to use his 10,000 men to surrender to the more than 100,000 Ming troops in the city.

In the face of shouting and surrendering, the ironclad elite soldiers who killed people directly without hesitation, those soldiers who surrendered not long ago. Basically, just drop your weapon and surrender with a word.

Rarely, they will shout 'Tartars have surrendered', and then lead their men to fight to the death, and finally die in battle.

The most complicated performance is those who followed Duoduo in Henan, even as early as Shanxi, and followed him all the way to pursue Li Zicheng's northern surrender troops, some of these people were as tenacious as the Eight Banners soldiers, and some had no will than the surrender troops.

"It's all for Lao Tzu, Lao Tzu is the chief official under Uncle Yang. Daming Wangshi! You bunched eggs, listen up, Uncle Yang said. Sit here obediently and don't make trouble. ”

"Uncle Yang is the loyal and righteous uncle Yang Chao who fought in Haizhou?"

Some soldiers exclaimed. Asked loudly, Yang Chao's Daming is also known in the north.

"Ma, Uncle Yang's name is what you can call?"

The officer immediately scolded.

The soldier immediately smiled: "Little gaffe, gaffe." ”

Someone else asked, "How did Uncle Yang enter the city?" ”

This is what many people want to ask, they no longer doubt the fact that they were really captured by Yang Chao, but they really can't understand that all the city gates are guarded, why Yang Chao's army entered the city unconsciously, and suddenly appeared in front of them in the early morning, shouting loudly 'The Ming Dynasty has been killed', and if you don't surrender, you will kill people immediately.

The officer snorted: "Uncle Yang is like a god with soldiers, how can Lao Tzu tell you!" ”

The mysterious appearance and mysterious situation made these soldiers unable to have the will to resist in their hearts.

But some people are worried: "Will Uncle Yang kill us?" ”

The officer said, "Lao Tzu was about to talk about this, but he was interrupted by a group of turtle grandchildren. Uncle Yang said, stay here obediently, there will be no shortage of you to eat, waiting to be sent to Jiangnan. Uncle Yang also said that he would not kill prisoners! ”

In fact, many people didn't know who they were arrested until they were caught in the City God Temple, and most of them thought that it was probably Duoduo who wanted to clean up military discipline, so they were arrested first, and then military discipline was announced, and looting was prohibited.

As more and more people appeared, the soldiers were not very worried, but sat honestly on the ground.

Since so many people are here, it is impossible to kill them together, and the sense of security brought by the collective is innate.

But the ironclad soldiers who were guarding them all around kept emphasizing that they were Yang Chao's subordinates, so they had to make the soldiers start to suspect it, and finally they were all inclined to believe it, because no matter what, Duoduo didn't need to send someone to pretend to be Yang Chao.

"My lord, there should be sixteen or seventy thousand, how to deal with it?"

Xie Fei took an account book and reported to Yang Chao, every time he came back a batch of captives, he would write down the numbers, and he didn't have time to count them himself, let alone count, just adding up the numbers took him a long time, and he counted them three times, but he couldn't get it right every time, and he could only say an approximate one in desperation, because the calculated numbers were always between 160,000 and 170,000.

"How? Hmph, send back to Nanjing to do hard labor! With Zuo Liangyu's rebels, I want them to be coolies until they die! ”

Yang Chao was ruthless in his heart and said in a deep voice. (To be continued)