"Withdraw! Break through with me! ”

After breaking through the Shuncheng Gate, the Ming army first occupied the Cheng'en Gate and cut off the road for the Qing army to withdraw to the southern city, and then killed the Tianqu Gate where Nikan was located.

In order to prevent being besieged here by the Ming army, Nikan also didn't care about the soldiers and horses of Tianqumen, and ordered the commander of the escort army who had followed him for many years to continue to hold Tianqumen, and he led most of the Manchurian soldiers to run towards the Fucheng Gate.

Nikan knows very well that Cheng'en Gate has been captured by the Ming army, and most of the southern cities are also more auspicious, and retreating to the southern city will only be self-defeating, and continuing to hold on to Huai'an City is a bad move, and it must break through - even if he is imprisoned by the imperial court for abandoning the army, with the temper and character of the current Shunzhi Emperor, he will only be imprisoned at most, and he will not worry about his life.

Therefore, Nikan resolutely chose to break through alone.

However, his dream of breaking through was soon shattered, and there was a large lake in the east of the city that occupied almost one-third of the land, and the large lake made them have to take the street close to Nanxun Gate if they wanted to break through to Fucheng Gate, but the Qing army in Nanxun Gate had been crushed under the double blow of the Ming army, and when Nikan found out about this problem, the street in front of him had been occupied by the Ming army.

The leader was Ma Xin, the general of the Chinese army, who held a Qing bow captured in the battle, and looked at Nikan, who was slightly embarrassed in comparison, and behind him, heavily armed Ming soldiers lined up in a tight formation on the streets, almost like a wall, making the Qing army fearful.

"On the other side, is it Prince Nikan?"

Ma Xin squinted his eyes and looked at Nikan, and the other party was indeed as rumored, looking like a Han Chinese, which was particularly conspicuous in the Qing army full of Manchurians.

Nikan didn't answer immediately, he also looked at Ma Xin, recalling in his mind the portraits of the high-level generals of the Southeast Ming Army that he had seen, and after making sure that he hadn't seen this person, the corners of his mouth grinned slightly, and said disdainfully: "This king is exact, who is you?" ”

"I am Ma Xin, the former general of the Chinese army driven by the king of Nan'an County, and I don't want to get off my horse and surrender quickly, so as not to increase casualties!"

Ma Xin shouted loudly, and when the words fell, he took his bow and led the arrow, and shot an arrow, which accurately hit the tassel on Nikan's helmet, and the white fluff on the tassel gently floated down and landed on Nikan's hand, and he was slightly shocked in his heart, and his contempt for Ma Xin was also put away.

"You're good at archery." Ni can be praised, the most admired by the Manchu is the strong, although Ma Xin is a Han, his bow skills are worthy of Ni can praise him.

"However, it is impossible for us to dismount and surrender." He shifted his words and continued.

"Then let's fight!" Ma Xin shouted, turned his horse, raised the arrow in his right hand, and ordered: "Attack! ”

The words fell, he took the bow and led the arrow again, the arrow shot directly towards Nikan, Nikan as a Manchurian general, naturally he is also a skilled archer, he quickly dodged the arrow shot by Ma Xin, and then raised his hand with an arrow, and counterattacked Ma Xin, although Ma Xin had already been prepared, but the arrow shot by Nikan was fast and sharp, or made him break out in a cold sweat behind his back.

Seeing the Ming army attacking, the Qing army immediately shouted and attacked, but before Nikan could shoot arrows again, he heard dense footsteps in the street behind him.

"Whose army?"

Nikan had doubts in his heart, and he quickly turned his head to look, and saw an army holding high the battle flag of the Ming army appeared in the street behind them, and was rushing towards them.

"Oops!" Nikan couldn't help but be shocked, this is really a wolf in front of a tiger and a tiger in the back, both ends of the street are occupied by the Ming army, they have no way to retreat, they are completely caught by the Ming army's urn!

The Qing army that engaged the Ming army under Ma Xin also noticed the movement behind them at this time, although they were all Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers in a hundred battles, but after seeing that they were surrounded by the Ming army in front and back, their hearts were still inevitably panicked.

Especially after seeing that the Ming troops who appeared behind them were all strong men in heavy armor and holding two-handed battle axes, the Manchurian soldiers who had seen their fierce force couldn't help but shudder.

Who is not afraid of an enemy who can disembowel a person with an axe and split it in two?

Ignoring the horror of his subordinates, Nikan hurriedly divided his troops to guard against the enemy behind him, the Manchurian soldiers were worthy of the foundation of the Qing Dynasty, even if they were cowardly in their hearts, they still lined up to meet the enemy.

However, Nikan still chose to take the lead, fighting side by side with his soldiers at this last moment, and he knew that he had no hope of life.

Therefore, at the last moment of his life, he still decided to die a dignified death on the battlefield as a Manchurian warrior.

"Kill!"

Nikan roared as he and the white-flaged warriors who had fought with him for years collided head-on with the Russian garrison.

At the moment of engagement, the Russian garrison swung a terrifying tomahawk and slashed at the enemy, the two-handed tomahawk powerful enough to make the bravest warrior regret before dying.

Nikan looked at the tomahawk raised high, and before the tomahawk split his head, many episodes of his life seemed to begin to appear before his eyes.

From the childhood life of the memory, to the first year of Chongde to seal the shell, from the dragon into the customs with military exploits into the Baylor, swept the Han people, pacified the south of the Yangtze River, Shunzhi five years into the title of the king of the county.

All kinds of fragments passed quickly before his eyes, and they were soon frozen in the battle of Huai'an, on the cold light that flickered on the blade of the battle axe in front of him.

Ka –

In the last moments before his life, Nikan only had time to hear a piercing sound of cracking bones, and then his consciousness fell into eternal darkness with the sharp pain above his head!

Nikan is dead!

In front of everyone's eyes, Nikan was split in half by a nobody of the Ming army in the first shot!

Anger, humiliation, fear, and all kinds of complex emotions filled the hearts of every Manchurian soldier, and finally melted into anger at the death of the general, who roared and shouted slogans of revenge for the prince, and launched a very tragic battle with the Ming army.

But their complete vigor was quickly exhausted by factors such as the delay in breaking through the Ming army's defense line and the linear increase in their own casualties, and when the breath they were holding was exhausted, some people surrendered to the Ming army one after another.

Surrender is like a plague, even the strongest Manchurian Eight Banners in East Asia in this era will be infected, with the first person to surrender, soon more and more people choose to surrender.

On the other hand, because Wang Wenkui, the governor of Caoyun, lost contact, the Qing army in Nancheng suddenly fell into a leaderless state, and in the face of the Ming army that had entered the city, the Qing army led by Dong Lingyun, the prefect of Huai'an, took the initiative to surrender.

The battle lasted until near dusk in the afternoon, when peace was finally restored to the city, and the Qing troops in the city either resisted stubbornly and were completely annihilated, or chose to surrender voluntarily.

The defeated Qing army also took advantage of the fact that the Ming army had not yet taken over Huai'an City to enter the residential area to burn and loot, and in order to bring disaster to the township, the Ming army immediately suppressed these people who were fishing in troubled waters after entering the city, and only then did they suppress the rest of the people with ulterior motives.

However, coincidentally, when the disguised defeated soldiers were arrested, Wang Wenkui and others who were hiding were also arrested and imprisoned in the prison of the Huai'an Mansion.