The traitor army was afraid, the Manchurian soldiers were afraid, they were afraid in front of the united Gaoyang soldiers and civilians, and at the moment of life and death, the performance of the Tartars was undoubted.

The Han army banner and Manchurian soldiers who attacked the head of the city frantically rushed to the cloud ladder behind them, people crowded people, people pressed people, no one cared about you at this moment you were Zhang Jing or Dutong, they just wanted to quickly escape from this damn city wall.

"This?"

Abatai, who commanded on the stage, was completely shocked, he didn't expect that the soldiers and civilians in the city would be so united.

This reminded him of the time when the Qing army attacked Tongzhou, and the people of Tongzhou at that time, like the people of Gaoyang now, resisted the crazy offensive of the Qing army with their lives, causing the Qing Dynasty to lose nearly 1,000 soldiers and horses.

"Retire!"

Abatai gave an order, and at this moment he knew that he would never be able to capture Gaoyang City in front of him with the military horses at hand.

"Bell, bell, bell、......!" The Qing army camp sounded a rapid sound of gold, which was Abatai's military order to withdraw his troops.

Li Shutai and others, who were protected by Goshha, were obviously easier to escape to the city than ordinary soldiers, and after brutally forcing back the pigtailed soldiers who were frantically squeezed over, several Han generals who went to the city took the lead in going down the city, as for the pigtailed soldiers who were constantly being squeezed on the city wall, they didn't want to care at all at this moment, and they didn't want to care.

The retreat turned into a rout, the murderous Qing army was constantly squeezed off the city wall, hundreds of pigtail soldiers who broke into the city wall, in the end only more than 100 people were able to escape, and the rest were either killed by the angry people, or stabbed through by the red-eyed Jingbei army.

The defenders and civilians on the city wall, seeing the Qing army retreating, let out a heaven-shattering cheer, full of joy for the rest of their lives after the catastrophe, but the joy was only for a moment.

More people climbed the city to look for their relatives, and those who found their relatives hugged each other and wept, while those who did not find them cried and kept rummaging through the corpses on the ground. After finding it, he lay on the corpse and hugged his head and cried.

Lu Zhong and Qian Anning, who organized the people in the city, heard the news of the defeat of the Qing army, and hurriedly ran to the city wall, arranging for the people to collect the corpses, rescue the wounded, repair the equipment, and deal with post-war matters.

The corpses were selected and arranged together in an orderly manner, and the people who had died in front of their relatives wept and died.

Hundreds of people were crying and grabbing the ground where the corpses were gathered, and the people in the city were still pouring into the city, trying to find their relatives.

Looking at the countless Gaoyang people crying and grabbing the ground in the city, Li Xingzhi raised his head suddenly, he clenched his fists tightly and said to the people: "We used to live here in peace and stability, and the days are peaceful and beautiful, but the evil Jiannu is coming, how many of our Gaoyang people have died at the hands of the Tartars?" Since the imperial court can't protect us, then we Gaoyang people can only save ourselves, and now the Tartars have been beaten away by us, and every soldier and civilian who died is our Gaoyang hero! ”

"Let's listen to General Li, for the sake of our compatriots who died, protect Gaoyang, protect the family, let's fight with the Tartars!"

All the people raised their arms and shouted, at this moment they had faith, today's war clearly told them that the Tartars are not terrible, as long as they can work together, those murderous Tartars will also be afraid, they will be afraid, and they will be afraid of death.

Turning grief into strength, the corpses of the war dead were piled up, and the ancients paid attention to entering the earth for peace, but there were still thousands of Tartars outside Gaoyang City, and Li Xingzhi had to order all the corpses to be burned on the spot.

As for the pigtailed soldiers who died in battle at the head of the city, they stripped off their armor, then beheaded them and threw their corpses under the city.

According to statistics, in today's battle to defend the city, there were 300 Jingbei troops killed in the battle, about 1,000 young people and ordinary people, nearly 300 braided soldiers were cut off on the head of the city, and no less than 500 or 600 were pushed off the city and killed or wounded in the defense of the city.

Transporting corpses, rectifying equipment, repairing city defenses, many things, there are thousands of things, Li Xingzhi can't do everything himself, because he can't be sure whether Abatai will continue to attack the city, and his most important thing at the moment is to organize his troops and horses to deal with the next possible siege of the city.

The Qing army camp in the east of Gaoyang City.

Daqing's Rao Yu Baylor looked indifferently at the generals who knelt down in front of him.

In his heart, he kept thinking about it, he brought 6,000 military horses, and in less than two days, he had folded so many people and horses, how could he explain to Dolgon, even if Dolgon was willing to help him, how could Yue Tuo and Haoge explain it? Huang Taiji doesn't deal with himself, can he still have his own good after he goes back?

Li Shutai, Shi Tingzhu and other Han army generals trembled one by one, lowered their heads, and did not dare to make a sound.

Long!

Abatai said coldly: "After two days of hard fighting, the army lost nearly two thousand people, but it was helpless to take this small Gaoyang City, what is going on?" ”

Shi Tingzhu and the others didn't dare to answer, and they kept slandering in their hearts, there were so many cities in the Ming Dynasty, it was you Qibeile who insisted on smashing Gaoyang City for a little false fame.

Of course, they never dared to say this, although Li Shutai and the others married the daughter of the Manchu clan, after all, they were still Han slaves, and the Rao Yu Belle in front of him, although Huang Taiji did not wait to see him, but after all, he was the son of Nurhachi, so he would also bow his head and be silent.

Yang Guli is an old man who has followed Abatai for a long time, he knows about today's siege battle, Li Shutai and others are not unsatisfied, but the soldiers and civilians in the city are simply fighting with their lives for their lives, and they have forced back the troops who have climbed the city.

Now that so many military horses have been folded, if Li Shutai and others are dealt with again, if after returning, these people go to Hong Tai to sue their master's Diao, it will not be good.

So he immediately said: "Master, the city of Gaoyang is strong, there are no less than thousands of defenders in the city, and there are so many artillery, and we don't have heavy weapons to attack the city, and it is normal that we can't beat the city. ”

"Lord Zhang Jing is right, the Ming thief is relying on the city wall and artillery, if it is a wave battle in the wilderness, the minions only need five hundred vests, and they can kill those brave thieves."

"That's it, that's it, these lowly Southern Barbarians, dare to fight with us in the field?" Several bull records with blue flags shouted one after another.

Abatai's face softened slightly, and he said in a talkative manner: "Now that we have lost our troops, you have a plan to take Gaoyang, otherwise if we return in vain, I'm afraid Shengjing's side will be furious!" ”

Li Shutai is also calculating, he and Abatai are now grasshoppers on the same rope, and if Abatai is disposed of, he and others will definitely not be able to escape.

So he immediately got up and said: "General, this Huang Wenchang first annihilated Sun Degong, and then resisted the fierce attack of our 6,000 military horses in Gaoyang, so the slave thought that we had to eat him, but our army attacked for two days in a row, and it was not close to an inch, and the morale was low, so we might as well guard in Gaoyang first, monitor this Ming army, and then ask Prince Rui to send troops to completely eliminate this Huang Wenchang is the best policy." ”