"Assemble! Assemble!"

In Jiangning City, as Boluo decided to go out of the city to support, the Qing troops defending the city began to mobilize and assembled in the direction of Taiping Gate and Chaoyang Gate.

Although Bolo was determined to go out of the city to support, he did not forget the Ming army that was still eyeing the other gates and waiting for an opportunity to attack the city, and the task of this expedition was mainly to receive the Qing army from the Purple Mountain to retreat into the city, so there was no need to mobilize too many soldiers and horses.

Under the mobilization of Boluo, Zhang Guojun, a staff general of the Jinshan battalion, led 2,000 people from the headquarters, Zuo Yunlong, a guerrilla guerrilla from Guazhou, led more than 1,000 people from the headquarters to Taipingmen, Liang Huafeng, a staff general of the Wuyong battalion, and 2,000 people from the Shandong Green Battalion led 2,000 people from the Qingzhou garrison to Chaoyangmen, and the troops went out of the city to meet them in two ways.

However, as soon as the Chaoyang Gate was opened, the Ming army rangers who were wandering around the periphery and monitoring returned to the camp as soon as possible to report the matter to Su Yan, who immediately ordered Ma Xin to lead the Chinese military camp to meet the Qing army in Chaoyangmen, and ordered Su Ci to send troops from the shore of Xuanwu Lake to cut off the back road of the Qing army in Taipingmen.

With the dispatch of the Qing army, the Ming army quickly mobilized the soldiers and horses on both roads, and the Xiaocai battalion was also assembled outside the Chaoyang Gate, monitoring the Qing army out of the city from afar, the general Liang Huafeng and the garrison Li Shiyuan saw this, knowing that the Ming army had already prepared, they looked at the Purple Mountain where the military flag was shaking, and looked at the busy defenders on the city wall, and saw that the armor of the Hongyi cannon erected on the city wall had been lifted, and they suddenly had confidence in their hearts, accelerated the speed of the march, and killed the Purple Mountain.

The Xiao cavalry battalion still wanted to insert itself in the middle of them and block the way of the Qing army, but looking at the black hole of the cannon on the city wall, he could only sigh and wait for the arrival of the Chinese military camp.

Taipingmen, stationed on the shore of Xuanwu Lake, Su Ci immediately mobilized 3,000 soldiers and 2,000 punishment battalions, and rushed straight to the Qing army that left Taipingmen, the distance between the two places was constantly shortened, just when the Qing army climbed the Purple Mountain and climbed up, the Ming army arrived between the Qing army and Taipingmen under the leadership of Su Yan, and no matter how the Taipingmen defenders shelled and repelled them, they were unmoved.

Zhang Guojun saw that the Ming army had cut off the way to retreat, and after consulting with Zuo Yunlong, he decided to turn around and fight with the Ming army first, and then continue to go up the mountain after repelling the Ming army, and the Qing army assistant leader who was guarding the Taiping Gate saw that the Qing army outside the city turned back to fight, and he didn't care whether there was a military order, so he personally transferred three hundred Manchurian armored soldiers to turn over and get on the horse, open the city gate and roar out, intending to attack the Ming army with Zhang Guojun's troops.

Seeing this, Zhang Guojun understood Zarbu's intentions, and he immediately led his soldiers and horses to form a camp and shelled the Qing army formation with tiger squatting artillery, intending to disturb the Ming army formation.

Su Ci saw that the Qing army intended to flank the front and rear, so he decided to personally lead the spearmen and bird gunners to line up towards the Taiping Gate, and set up a large Spanish phalanx common in Europe at the same time to resist the Qing cavalry, while the sword and shield men and archers faced Zhang Guojun's troops, and the lightly armed punishment battalion waited for the opportunity to bypass the flank of the battlefield and flank the Qing army on both sides.

Seeing the Ming army put out a spear phalanx, his eyes showed a bit of disdain, he galloped on his horse, took out a strong clear bow, and led his mounted infantry to shoot arrows at the Ming army's array.

All those who were shot by Zarb wailed and fell wounded, and when they rushed into the range of the birds, the birds in front of the phalanx fired with hatred, but they did not hit the target.

Zarbu did not bother to dodge, he increased the speed of his horse, and charged at the other side in the face of the fire of the Ming army's birdmen, and two iron arrows were fired in succession during the charge, and after rushing into a distance of twenty paces, he jumped up from his horse, fell to the ground and rolled around, then drew his long knife, and rushed towards the Ming army.

The mounted infantry behind him also followed suit, abandoning their horses and fighting on foot, they brandished sharp knives to cut off the spears of the Ming army, roaring angrily with the intention of being close to the Ming army***, but where would Su Ci be as they wanted, when they struggled to chop the spears that stabbed, the bird guns hiding in the phalanx shot one after another, and such a close shot Even if the Qing army was wearing three layers of heavy armor, it still could not resist the penetration of the projectile.

In the midst of the gunshots, an inconspicuous hole appeared in the bodies of dozens of Manchurian soldiers, and they roared angrily, unwillingly knelt on the ground, or were pierced through the body by spears, and hated the northwest.

Although the phalanx formed by Su Ci temporarily was not authentic, it was still able to play a role in dealing with the Manchurian soldiers

effect, the spearmen continued to stab the enemy in front of them, making them unable to engage in hand-to-hand combat, and the bird gunners took the opportunity to shoot at close range, and the Manchurian soldiers fell into a dilemma for a while.

Zalbu is indeed in a dilemma, although the Ming army in front of him is only equipped with a three-meter-long spear, but this short distance of three meters makes him feel like a moat now, if he wants to take a step forward, the spears and birds of the Ming army will beckon him at any time, and if he wants to retreat, the Ming army will also not give him a chance to leave smoothly.

In just a few minutes, the three hundred Manchurian soldiers lost nearly 100 men, and while cutting off the spear that was stabbing at him, Zarbu shouted in Manchu to his subordinates behind him: "Get out! Surrounded from the flanks, the Han Dog will not be able to defeat us in close combat—"

Before he could finish speaking, a small bloody hole suddenly appeared in his forehead, and Zarb's eyes were round, his eyes were full of disbelief, and a projectile from the front pierced his skull, stirring up the brain tissue in his skull, and then Zarb's huge body fell heavily on its back, splashing a cloud of dust.

"Phew, where did the dog come from, it's all out there barking wildly."

In the middle of the procession, one of the bird-gunners spat on the ground with disdain, cursed in a low voice, and then, instead of feeling complacent about the fact that he had shot one of the Manchurian leaders, he stood in front of him and continued to reload his ammunition.

As soon as Zarbu died, the remaining Manchurian soldiers fell into panic, Zarbu was one of them Baturu, and the people who could get this title were all brave and good at fighting, and his hands were stained with the blood of at least hundreds of Han people, but now he actually died under a small projectile.

Although they panicked, they did not lose their position because of this, but retreated backwards in an orderly and alternate manner, and after dozens of people were killed, they finally withdrew, looking at the Ming army bird gunners who were still loading ammunition in shock, and they didn't care about going back to snatch back the corpse of the robe, and turned around to retreat on horseback, where is the arrogance just now?

On the other side, Zhang Guojun and Zuo Yunlong never took advantage of the confrontation with the Ming army, and saw that the Ming army "cannon fodder" surrounded from the flank, for fear of falling into the encirclement of the Ming army, they hurriedly sounded the horn of retreat, and withdrew most of them before the punishment battalion succeeded.

But then, when they retreated, they were pursued by the "extremely lightly" punishment battalion, which had had enough of the inferior treatment in the past, and now they finally encountered an opportunity to beat the water dogs, and where would they let them go.

As a result, the punishment battalion was like a chicken blood, and like a hungry wolf that had been hungry for several days and saw a fat sheep, and chased and beat the retreating Qing army.

When they looked at the wolf-like enemy, they couldn't help but feel fear in their hearts, and they didn't care about forming a formation to meet the enemy, so they fled in a hurry.