At this moment, Wu Qijue paid attention to the mountain not far from Changhua.

"Yes, it's a pity that we don't have many troops, if the left battalion is not destroyed, we can gather 2,000 troops and besiege them on both sides, so that Changhua City can't take care of each other, but now we don't have enough troops." Speaking of this, Wu Qijue glanced at Liu Bao.

Wang Rui was negligent, this strategy is indeed very good, but the problem is that the Qing army is not strong enough, and now there are only more than 1,000 left.

The soldiers guarding the hill are extremely fierce and require at least twice as many troops to defeat.

In this way, what should the thieves in Changhua City do? What if the thieves in the city took advantage of the situation to kill and surrounded the Qing army attacking the mountain.

"Alas!" Looking at the stalemate in front of him, Wu Qijue looked up to the sky and sighed.

"If you give me 3,000 green battalion soldiers, I will be able to break through this city."

It's too late to say anything, and at this moment, the soldiers under his command are only a thousand.

And most of them have become frightened birds.

In Changhua City, seven or eight hundred Ming officers and soldiers were preparing for battle.

"The whole army will rest overnight and withdraw to Danzhou tomorrow." Wu Qijue said.

As soon as these words came out, the whole army was in an uproar.

"General, we still have a thousand soldiers, and we can continue to attack the city, why do we have to retreat?" Several generals hurriedly dissuaded him.

"Even if we continue to attack, will we be able to capture Changhua? What's more, there are Thanksgiving County and Yazhou County behind Changhua, and the Wanzhou direction also lost contact half a month ago, and the war situation on the island is so bad that the green battalion on my island can no longer afford it." Wu Qijue shook his head, his face was dead.

"Tomorrow when we withdraw to Danzhou, I will immediately send someone to inform General Liangguang and let the Guangzhou Green Battalion go to suppress these thieves." Looking at the corpses of hundreds of Qing officers and soldiers under Changhua City, Wu Qijue gritted his teeth and said.

In order to avoid the suspicion of the thief army in Changhua, Wu Qijue still ordered Wang Rui to lead the army to continue to attack the mountain.

In order to create a posture that the Qing army is still fighting hard.

The main Qing army began to withdraw to the main camp of the army one after another.

On the city wall, the Ming officers and soldiers saw the Qing army retreating like a tide, and the generals defending the city couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.

Just a wave of 1,000-man offensive of the Qing army consumed a large amount of gunpowder and fire and thunder of the Ming army defending the city.

However, the results of the battle were also quite amazing, hundreds of corpses of Qing officers and soldiers were densely piled up under the city, and the number of Ming soldiers killed was only 17.

"It's no wonder that General Li Du let us hold out, I didn't expect the Qing army on Qiong Island to be of such a size." Wang An looked at the Qing officers and soldiers in front of him who were receding like a tide, and couldn't help but sigh.

The last time he sent troops to defeat the Qing army's left battalion, he thought that it was already the main force of the Qing army on Qiong Island.

Unexpectedly, it was just a vanguard battalion of the Qing army.

"Although the Qing army suffered heavy losses under the city, at present, the size of the Qing army is more than 1,000 people." An adjutant general said.

"Our army has consumed three or four out of ten, and nearly half of all kinds of gunpowder have been consumed, and if the Qing army attacks again, I am afraid that the casualties will be even greater."

Several lieutenant generals were talking about it, and it was obvious that the consumption of gunpowder in this battle was beyond the expectations of the Ming generals.

"I'm not worried about the Qing army continuing to attack." Wang An waved his hand.

"There are still elite soldiers in my city, and there are hundreds of brave soldiers outside the city, so I am not afraid of the Qing army under these cities attacking the city."

"What I'm worried about is that this time the Qing army's siege of the city will be blocked, and I am afraid that it will retreat to Danzhou, and at that time, I will attack the city." Wang An looked at the hundreds of Qing troops who were still watching under the city, and his expression was a little ugly.

The Ming army was best at defending the city.

If it is not a last resort, few Ming generals choose to take the initiative to attack the city.

It's not that the Ming army is not good at attacking cities, in the case of a large number of tiger cannons equipped with Ming troops, the Ming army's ability to attack fortifications can be regarded as first-class.

But the problem is that if the city is attacked, the Ming officers and soldiers will inevitably pay huge casualties, which the Ming generals try to avoid.

After all, it's not the same as the big

In the Qing Dynasty, the Ming officers and soldiers who attacked Qiongdao died one less than one, and the rear could not be replenished at all.

This is also the reason why Li Dusan did not let Wang An go out of the city to face the battle, that is, in order to reduce his own casualties by defending the city, and increase the casualties of the Qing army through artillery and other firearms, so as to achieve the purpose of consuming the Qing army to occupy Qiongdao.

But what Wang An is worried about now is whether the Qing army in front of him will be forced to withdraw to Danzhou because the offensive is blocked?

If they really withdrew to Danzhou, then the Ming army would have to turn defense into attack and attack Danzhou City, and then they would definitely pay huge casualties under Danzhou City.

This is something that Wang An and Li Du have been avoiding all avoid.

With the failure of the Qing offensive in the early morning, the main forces of the Qing army began to withdraw to the main camp.

Wang Rui under the city launched several more attacks.

But they were all repelled by the Ming artillery due to insufficient troops.

It was not until the sun was about to sink that the Qing army collected its troops and returned to the camp.

Inside the camp

Liu Bao, the general of the left battalion, was drinking sullen wine in the tent of the large army camp.

Since the left battalion was defeated by the Ming army a while ago, it was almost wiped out.

Liu Bao's status in the Zhenbiao camp is getting worse day by day.

Even General Wu didn't let him participate in the military defense meeting held tonight, but just asked him to patrol the camp.

In this regard, Liu Bao is also quite depressed.

It was not only himself who was defeated at the hands of the enemy, but even General Wu was defeated by the thief army under the city?

But the crowd will take all the blame on themselves.

This made Liu Bao depressed, so he had to borrow wine in the camp to kill his sorrows.

"General, an enemy soldier has been spotted outside the camp." Suddenly, a Qing soldier walked in from outside the camp.

"What a fine work, pull it out and cut it." Liu Bao was on the head of the wine and ordered casually.

"General, this person said that he is the commander of the left battalion, and he is a fellow villager with the general?" The Qing officer and soldier said truthfully.

"Oh, fellow countryman." Liu Bao stood up drunk.

"Let him in, and let me interrogate him." Liu Bao burped and pulled out the long knife at his waist.

Soon, a man dressed as a Qing army and unkempt was tied up by several Qing people.

"Li Shi, it's you, you're still alive." After Liu Bao saw this person, the wine immediately sobered up for the most part. br>

This person was none other than the deputy general of the left battalion.

"General Li, I haven't seen you for many days, I thought you had died at the hands of the enemy." Liu Bao hurriedly untied General Li.

"General Liu, the last general did not die at the hands of the Ming army, but was captured by the Ming army." The unkempt veteran smiled wryly.

Hearing this, Liu Bao's face sank, and he couldn't help but be alert.

"In that case, how did you escape?" Liu Bao asked.

General Li shook his head and said, "The last general did not escape, but the Ming army let the last general come back and let the general surrender."

Liu Bao couldn't help but be furious when he heard this, and immediately put the knife around the man's neck.

"You dare to betray me and serve the thief army." Liu Bao reprimanded angrily.

"Do you know that the thieves in that city are a group of pirates, and you actually betrayed the court to join the pirates?" Liu Bao scolded.

"General, they are not Haikou pirates, but the Xiao Wu Department of Luzon who fled south from Taiwan."

"What?" Hearing this, Liu Bao was shocked.

"Yes, they went to Qiongzhou this time precisely to counterattack the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty." General Lee said.

"You know, this is a great sin for the Nine Clans." Liu Bao was really panicked this time, not because of other places, he and the Li Shi clan were always a little related in the township.