Ningyuan Acropolis.

When Dolgon saw Daishan, the dignified Prince Qingli was already tired and dusty, and he stood kneeling in front of Dolgon, as if he was an old peasant from somewhere, which made Dolgon's heart very uncomfortable.

It's not that Dolgon is considerate of Dai Shan, but seeing Dai Shan's appearance, Dolgon thinks of the crisis-ridden Qing Dynasty and the gloomy future of himself and the Manchurians.

"Your Majesty, the slave fortunately did not live up to his mission, and brought back the Manchurian Manchurian Red Banner Soldiers and Horses, the Mongolian Red Banner, the Han Army and the Han Army's Two White Flag Soldiers and Horses, and the North Korean Red Banner Soldiers and Horses, but the Han Army's two blue flag soldiers and horses led by Zu Dashou have just been rectified, and the army is disheartened and the team is not in order, and they have not kept up with the progress of the army, and now they have lost contact with the slaves."

Dolgon was taken aback, and did not ask about Zu Dashou's troops, but asked, "Before Zu Dashou lost contact with you, how many days was the difference?" ”

"The minions estimated, the minions led most of the main force for the cavalry, the Han army's red flag and two white flags, as well as the Korean Zhenghong flag, all gave up the baggage, and the speed was also very fast, almost one to two days away from the ancestral Dashou department."

Dolgon stood up abruptly and said loudly: "Message: The whole army immediately withdraws from the Ningyuan Acropolis and rushes to Jinzhou City!" ”

"Your Majesty!"

Dai Shan exclaimed: "Prince Yi Babutai has not arrived yet, is it a wait?" ”

Dolgon gritted his teeth and said: "Leave a team of soldiers and horses to wait here, and if Babutai has the order to withdraw, let him go directly to the direction of Jinzhou to chase the main force." ”

Dai Shan knocked on the leader's order, but his heart was sad: "In this way, what chance does the Qing Dynasty have to turn the tables?" ”

Soon, Dolgon, Dai Shan, Lai Mubu, Fei Yangguo and others led the main forces of each banner to withdraw from the Ningyuan Acropolis, and before leaving, they also looted the grain and grass in the city.

At the same time, in Caozhuang Station, more than thirty miles south of the Ningyuan Acropolis, Zu Dashou stood on the wall of the post station with a pale face, and as far as the eye could see, the boundless Ming army array had surrounded this post station that had been abandoned for a long time.

The remnants of the two blue banners of the Han army led by Zu Dashou were too slow, and they were finally caught up by Liu Yan and surrounded at Caozhuangyi.

At this time, in the middle of the Ming army, Liu Yan held a clairvoyant mirror and observed for a while, and then said to the prince Zhu Cihong beside him: "Your Highness, please look, the main general of this Qing army is the rebel general Zu Dashou!" ”

Zhu Cihong followed Liu Yan out of the customs for a while, although the time was not long, but he also saw the cruel and bloody battlefield, saw the miserable people of Liaodong, and saw the brutality of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, in a short period of time, he has grown a lot, and he is no longer an ignorant prince who was "imprisoned" in the palace before, and has never seen the suffering of the people and the situation in the world.

At the same time, Zhu Cihong's body also began to bring a trace of the bearing of the national defense army, and at this time he said coldly: "This person has also heard of this king, he is very famous, but he lacks backbone!" Compared with Cao Bianjiao, Yang Guozhu and other loyal generals and good generals, they are just traitors seeking glory, and they should be captured and killed in this battle! ”

Liu Yan glanced at Zhu Cihong in surprise, his eyes flashed with a little appreciation, this is the emperor that the Ming Empire needs, even if the authority of the Ming Emperor will be limited by himself in the future, and it may even become a kind of reputation in the future and become the "symbol" of the Ming Empire, but there is an iron-blooded, at least bloody emperor, after all, it is the luck of Huaxia.

"Your Royal Highness, the Qing army besieged in Caozhuang Station, look at the banner is the two blue flag soldiers and horses of the Han army, this Qing army has been defeated by our army in the city of Zhongqian in Guangning, it is a remnant army, just leave a field army here to encircle and annihilate it, this duke and His Royal Highness will lead the main force to continue to the north and pursue the main force of the Qing army."

Zhu Cihong nodded yes, and then under the leadership of Liu Yan, the various departments of the Wehrmacht began to continue to advance northward, leaving only the officers and men of the Fifth Army of the Wehrmacht preparing to conquer the battle of Cao Zhuangyi.

"Boss!!"

Laidong, who has been promoted to the direct subordinate of the military department, was sorting out his equipment in the rear of the military formation, and suddenly heard his subordinates calling him, so he looked over, and saw a subordinate rushing to the east on a horse and handing over an order to Laidong: "Boss, the order of the general town." ”

Laidong took the order, and after reading it, he said to the surrounding subordinates: "Gather the brothers immediately, and the general town will let us go to the north of Caozhuang Station, and work with the cavalry brothers to block the retreat of the Qing troops to break through to the north." ”

So everyone hurriedly reorganized their equipment, and soon 1,300 or 400 elite soldiers set out from the vicinity of the Chinese army, bypassed the huge army formation, and under the leadership of Laidong, they galloped towards the north.

In front of the Fifth Army of the National Defense Army, the artillery of various units had been deployed in place, and at this time, under the arrangement of Shen Tuo, the chief officer of the army, the Tengjiang River Department of the Left Battalion was the main attack, and assembled in the south of Caozhuangyi. The general of the right battalion and Guo Rong, the deputy commander-in-chief, each led a part of the right battalion to block the west and east of Cao Zhuangyi.

At the same time, Shen Tuo collected the cavalry of each department and Ye Bu, except for the deployment of some night guards within a range of dozens of miles around, the remaining soldiers and horses were all deployed to the north of Cao Zhuang Yi to block the retreat of Zu Dashou's department.

Soon, the various departments sent the news that the preparations were completed to the Chinese army, and Shen Tuo immediately ordered the attack.

"Put!"

"Kill the dog Tartar!"

Rumble!

In an instant, the small Cao Zhuangyi was covered by fierce artillery fire, although the shells used by the Ming National Defense Forces are still solid shells, but they have been made into a fixed ammunition system, and the speed of loading and firing has been accelerated a lot.

Even if it was just a solid bullet, under the continuous bombardment of hundreds of artillery, the wall of Cao Zhuangyi, which had been abandoned for a long time, was also dusty and collapsed, and was soon beaten to pieces by fierce artillery fire.

Shen Tuo even saw in the clairvoyant mirror that a wall was directly hit by a heavy cannonball from a Hongyi cannon, and the entire section of the wall collapsed directly, trapping more than 20 Qing soldiers guarding it, all buried in the rubble, obviously unable to survive.

"Continue to bombard for half an hour, and at the same time order the cavalry and soldiers in the north to strengthen the vigilance, and let the right battalion send some soldiers and horses to strengthen the blockade in the north!"

"Yes."

Shen Tuo understood that there would be no suspense in this battle, with the combat strength of more than 48,000 soldiers of the Fifth Army of the National Defense Army, not to mention the rout of Zu Dashou's two blue banners of the Han army, even if Dolgon came to support with the main force of the Qing army, Shen Tuo was confident that he would stop it until Liu Yan led the army to help, and he could even fight well.

Rumble!!

Suddenly, there was a loud noise in front of him, and a Chinese guerrilla general next to him said loudly: "Look, the city gate of Caozhuangyi has collapsed!" ”

Shen Tuo held the clairvoyant mirror and looked, sure enough, at this time, there was little left of the entire Caozhuang post wall, which could be said to be almost undefended, and the artillery fire of the Fifth Army of the National Defense Army had begun to directly bombard the houses and facilities inside the post station, and the Qing soldiers stationed inside became a live target, and a large number of rockets were fired into it, causing a large number of casualties to the Qing soldiers.

This shelling is not combat at all, it is more like the training of the gunners on weekdays, and it is even easier than training, because there will be no assessment target, just turn the houses and buildings in front of you, aim at the large number of Qing soldiers who are fleeing in terror inside, and then adjust the muzzle of the gun and light the fuse.

Shen Tuo put down the clairvoyant mirror, and then said: "Order the Hongyi cannon to stop firing, cover with the Franc machine gun, and order all the Huzun cannons to advance and prepare to fire, and concentrate firepower to clean up the Qing army!" ”

"Yes!"

Because they were bombarding the walls of Cao Zhuangyi before, the Huzun cannon in the army did not fire, but at this time it came in handy and began to bombard the forces of the Qing army.

Soon, a large number of Huzun cannons began to roar, countless cannons and dense scattered bullets began to wreak havoc in the dilapidated interior of Caozhuang Station, sweeping a large number of fleeing Qing soldiers to the ground, those who had no fighting spirit of the Han Army two blue flag remnants cried dad and shouted mother, many people screamed, kneeling directly on the ground in the hope of surrendering, but in exchange for the still unabated Ming army artillery fire.

In this battle, Shen Tuo didn't plan to contain the prisoners at all!

At this time, in the north of Caozhuang Station, Zu Dashou came out of the north gate with a section of wall in shock, and there were more than 100 Ding around him, which was Zu Dashou's last bit of capital.

"General, there are also Ming troops in the north, and they are all cavalry!"

Everyone can see that there are many Ming cavalry figures in the north, some stay and garrison in the distance in the north, and some are patrolling on horseback in a team, and at the same time, you can also see that some Ming infantry is also coming, and is deploying defense in some key places in the north.

Seeing this, Zu Dashou's face was bloodless, and he secretly said in his heart: "This Liu Yan is so ruthless, he really wants to kill them all, doesn't Liu Yan remember the friendship of fighting side by side with him in the Battle of Jinzhou?" ”

Just when Zu Dashou lamented in his heart, more than 100 people around him all looked at it together, the Ming army artillery fire behind everyone was still fierce, and the soldiers and horses under his subordinates were killed and wounded.

After all, Zu Dashou is a general in Liaodong, and at this time, he is also a horizontal heart, and the more than 100 Ding under his command are all trained with heavy money, and more than 100 people are enough to be used as one or two thousand elite horses.

So Zu Dashou said: "You follow this general to the north to break through, as long as you catch up with the main army, we will have a comeback one day, and then as long as there is one day of my ancestor Dashou, your glory and wealth will have one day." Even if any of you die in battle today, as long as my ancestor is still alive, the family of my brother who died in the war will surely be prosperous and rich for a lifetime! ”

Everyone swore that they would definitely protect Zu Dashou and break out of the encirclement.

With Zu Dashou shouting, everyone got on their horses and ran, and soon began to charge north with all their might.

The movement here was not small, which naturally alarmed the attention of the soldiers of the Ming army in the north.

Lai Dongzheng and his subordinates patrolled separately, and suddenly found Zu Dashou and his party rushing from the direction of Cao Zhuangyi.

Although Zu Dashou did not raise the banner, but there can be so many elite cavalry guards, in this rout, who else can there be besides Zu Dashou? ?

So Laidong shouted excitedly: "It may be Zu Dashou, rush up and kill him!" ”

"Kill!"

Laidong led more than 1,000 elite soldiers under his command to rush up, and the iron cavalry army faced Zu Dashou in a half-moon cavalry formation, and the fierce momentum was indomitable, and suddenly let the Zu Dashou Department who was full of fighting spirit just now deflated, and those family members looked at the more than 1,000 Ming army iron cavalry that were coming to the scene, and only felt that their legs and stomachs were cramping, and they couldn't help but tighten the reins and slow down, and some even rushed to the side on horsebacks, wanting to avoid the Ming army's rush.

"Put!"

Zu Dashou was also startled when he saw this, and then he heard the shouts of the Ming army generals who rushed to dozens of steps away, and then saw the last scene he had seen in his life: a circle of half-moon-shaped gunpowder smoke instantly dispersed, and countless lead bullets whistled and fired, like a huge half-moon scimitar, directly swept Zu Dashou himself off the horse, and then fell into darkness, and there was no sound.

Together with Zu Dashou, who fell from the horse, as well as the vast majority of the family members, in the face of a close-range salvo of 1,000 and hundreds of elites who did not collect at night, these Qing soldiers could not avoid it at all, and they were all explained here with only one salvo.