Back to the end of Ming Dynasty to be a warlord

Chapter 387
It's a pity that Yang Chao was disappointed. He was ready to attack Duduo head-on, and he was sure that Duduo hadn't assembled enough troops in time, so he felt that he was sure, and the result was exactly the same as what he had heard. How many soldiers, a total of less than 500 Eight Banners elites have been assembled.

These people did not come back through the east and west gates, but the defenders of the three gates on the north side of the east city. They were very fortunate to go directly to the Zhenhuai gate from the city wall. The door was closer, and they managed to join Dodo successfully.

As for the other gates, most of them chose to leave the city. As a result, there was no doubt that teams disappeared in the east and west gates.

The two city gates are like huge deep mouths, and those who walk in will never be able to get out again.

Yang Chao has more than 1000 people, and he is also an elite soldier who has fought against the Tartars in Haizhou and Zuo Liangyu. He has rich combat experience and a strong will to fight. Yang Chao is confident in defeating the Tartars.

But what he didn't expect was that when he appeared at Zhenhuai Gate and saw him coming, Duoduo opened the city gate and ran away without saying a word.

Most of the soldiers that Duoduo took out were infantry. Since it was a robbery and it was still at night, it was more convenient to walk. Therefore, most of the soldiers of the Eight Banners did not ride horses. The horses were tied to Guandi Temple, Yuewang Temple and other places to feed them carefully. , the Manchu Qing still attached great importance to war horses, more than coat slaves. If the horses were hungry and thin, they would kill the slaves who raised the horses, but if the horses kicked the slaves, they would never kill the horses.

It's just that although the opponent is an infantry, Yang Chao has no chance to chase after him. It's the darkest time before dawn. Chase him out of the wilderness. Who knows what will happen. It's clear now that Yang Chao has won. Duoduo's escape means that he has given up on rectifying the troops in the city and has admitted failure, so there is no need to chase after him.

Although it was a pity for Yang Chao to let Duoduo go, his subordinates strongly demanded to pursue him. Killing a Tartar prince was too risky for everyone.

But Yang Chao is not willing to take risks, for the way of generals, he has a certain degree of relaxation, and he can't blindly advance, he must know when to accept.

What's more, the combat goal has been overfulfilled. Originally, I just wanted to attack the Qing army. After the defeat, I would restore my army's morale. I didn't expect to defeat Yangzhou and completely defeat the Qing army. This is completely beyond imagination.

Now that the combat objectives have been accomplished, there is no need to take too many risks just to add to the cake.

Yang Chao didn't chase Duoduo, but Duoduo sent someone to find Yang Chao.

This person speaks with a Shanxi accent, probably a Han Banner of Shanxi origin.

He came to ask Yang Chao for Duoduo.

"My master wants to know, who is the hero who defeated him?"

Doduo didn't know who his opponent was at this time, and it was really unclear who lost.

Instead of accepting his subordinate's suggestion to kill this tartar, Yang Chao answered him honestly: "You tell Duoduo that the one who defeated him was Yang Chao, the Loyal Lord of the Ming Dynasty!"

The Eight Banners soldier clasped his fists, turned around and ran away, this task was a narrow escape, ghosts don't pay attention to not beheading their envoys, but it is possible to behead them to gain power.

Then Yang Chao asked people to close the Zhenhuai Gate, and at the same time asked the soldiers who came to follow up along the city wall to divide their troops to occupy each gate, making sure that none of the Qing troops in the city could escape.

After all this was done, the sky was slightly brighter.

Yang Chao's main force began to assemble.

Because the entire night, the enemy hardly knew what happened. Some thought they were being attacked by the enemy, some thought they were being attacked by the enemy, and most of them chose to fight back. They did not dare to fight back when facing the enemy. But in the face of those who rob them of their fortune, they are not polite.

But most of them choose to make a fortune silently, seize the time to rob a few big families and rob a few women.

"The whole army listened to the order to attack the corps and surrender along the street. Ordered all Tartars, regardless of Manchu, Han and Mongolian, to lay down their weapons and capture them without a fight. If there is any resistance, they will be killed without mercy! Tell them, we are the masters of the Ming Dynasty!"

Soon groups of soldiers set off, and when they met the enemy, they shouted first: "The master of the Ming Dynasty is here, the one who is captured will live, and the one who resists in the corner will die!"

At this time, the soldiers who had robbed all night were already tired. They robbed for three days in a row. People took the lead because of the stimulation brought by the killing and looting, so they couldn't sleep at all, and they were so excited.

But at dawn, suddenly an army rushed in front of them, shouting that the Daming King Master would kill them, and let them capture them without a fight. Almost all the Qing troops, whether they followed Duoduo from Henan or those who surrendered later, The first reaction was "Is this a group of opera singers?"

They didn't believe in the Great Master of Ming Dynasty at all. At the beginning, there was a young lady who cheerfully came up to say hello: "Brother, are you drunk? Where did you sing?"

They thought they were drinking too much, and after the robbery, they had a lot of fun with their extremely excited comrades.

The answer to them was the long gun, letting them know very quickly that this was not a big show or a joke.

The small group of Qing troops I met, after killing a few people, they all became honest, obediently threw away their weapons, and then untied their trouser pockets and tied each other up as required.

There are also restless and unruly people, so they can only be killed.

Although Yang Chao's soldiers fought all night, the most tired ones were only the two thousand soldiers guarding the east and west gates. The rest were fighting against the Eight Banners in Xicheng. Not intense.

Therefore, compared with these Qing troops who robbed all night, Yang Chao's soldiers are even physically stronger.

In addition, it was an organized battle, and there was basically no effective counterattack. They were quickly tied up one by one, and moved towards the designated location under the supervision of one or two soldiers.

However, there are too many prisoners of war, and not every team goes so smoothly, so fighting is inevitable.

Ten people, 20 people, 100 people, 200 people.

Squads of Qing troops were continuously sent to the Temple of the City God, and soon the number exceeded 1, 2, and then 5.

Two hours later, there were more than 10 people.

It's really not easy. It's not so fast to catch [-] pigs, but humans have an advantage over pigs. Humans are intelligent animals. They don't need to catch one by one, they will go away by themselves.

By noon, the number of surrendered soldiers exceeded 15, but the number was still increasing.

Yang Chao was not only stunned, but there were too many soldiers who surrendered, and the traitors outnumbered the Qing army by ten times.

Of course, most of them were surrendered troops, and the Eight Banners soldiers were rare. Whether it was the Manchu Eight Banners or the Mongolian Eight Banners, they had already been wiped out in the first half of the night. Those who survived by luck were all stranded in various remote places, some because they were drunk , and some were scattered and hid.

Anyway, they are all remnants and defeated generals, and they can't make a big wave at all, but then again, if the 1 elites of the Eight Banners are here, with them as the core, if they can't manage to organize order, they don't know who will die. The [-] core combat power had been wiped out before Yang Chao dared to use [-] of his own to surrender to the over [-] Ming troops in the city.

Facing calls to surrender, the iron-armored elite soldiers who killed without hesitation, and those soldiers who had not surrendered for a long time, basically dropped their weapons and surrendered immediately with a word.

Very few of them would shout "The Tartars have surrendered", and then lead their men to fight to the death, and finally died in battle.

The most complicated ones are those northern soldiers who followed Duoduo in Henan and even in Shanxi, and followed him all the way to pursue Li Zicheng. .

"Listen up to me. I am the commander-in-chief under Uncle Yang, Master of the Ming Dynasty! Listen up, you bastards. Uncle Yang said it. Sit here obediently and don't make trouble."

"Uncle Yang is the loyal uncle Yang Chao who fought against Haizhou?"

Some surrendered soldiers exclaimed and asked loudly, Yang Chao's Great Ming was also known in the north.

"Damn, uncle Yang's name is what you can call him?"

The officer immediately scolded.

The surrendering soldier immediately smiled coquettishly: "Little slip of the tongue, slip of the tongue."

Someone asked again: "How did Uncle Yang enter the city, my lord?"

This is what many people want to ask. They no longer doubt the fact that they were captured by Yang Chao, but they really don’t understand why Yang Chao’s army entered the city without anyone noticing that all the city gates are guarded. , Suddenly appeared in front of them in the early morning, shouting loudly, "Da Ming Wangshi is here", and killed them immediately if they did not surrender.

The officer snorted, "Uncle Yang uses his troops like a god, how could I tell you that!"

The mysterious appearance and the mysterious situation made these soldiers unable to resist.

But someone worried: "Will Uncle Yang kill us?"

The officer said: "I was about to talk about this, but I was interrupted by a group of you bastards. Uncle Yang said, stay here obediently, I won't miss you a bite, waiting to be sent to the south of the Yangtze River. Uncle also said that he will not kill prisoners!"

In fact, many people didn't know who was arrested until they were arrested in Chenghuang Temple. Most of them thought that Duoduo wanted to clean up military discipline, so they were arrested first, and then military discipline was announced to prohibit looting.

As more and more people appeared, the soldiers were not very worried, but sat on the ground honestly.

Since so many people are here, it is impossible to kill together, the sense of security brought by the collective is innate.

But the armored soldiers guarding them kept emphasizing that they were Yang Chao's subordinates, so the surrendering soldiers had to be suspicious, and finally they all tended to believe it, because there was no need for Duoduo to send someone to pretend to be Yang Chao.

"My lord, it should look like [-] to [-], how to deal with it?"

Xie Fei reported to Yang Chao with a ledger. Every time a batch of prisoners came back, he would write down the numbers, and it was too late to count them himself. Let alone counting up the numbers, it took him a long time. , I calculated it three times, but each time it didn't match up. I had no choice but to give a rough idea, because the calculated number was always between 16 and 17.

"How to deal with it? Hehe, send them back to Nanjing to do hard labor! I will give them the same treatment as Zuo Liangyu's rebels. I want them to do coolies until they die!"

Yang Chao felt ruthless in his heart, and said in a deep voice.

(End of this chapter)