"Captain, Governor, Governor..."

Zhang Guogan, Li Lu, Ma Keqing and others surrounded Yang Zhen and kept shouting.

But Yang Zhen could only see their anxious or joyful expressions. He could only see them shouting at him, but he could not hear what they were shouting.

After a while, Yang Zhen finally heard the sounds of the outside world again through the buzzing in his ears.

"...The governor, Qiu Zhentai, and Yuan Jin are all here, and they have blocked the other end of Xiguan Valley!"

"Okay, okay, okay, Li Lu, go to the front in person and block the ditch in front, so that the Tatars can't escape!"

The twenty thousand enemy bombs that had been buried on the road exploded almost at the same time, shaking the earth for a moment.

The shock wave generated by the violent explosion not only overturned Yang Zhen who was on the periphery, but also caused Yang Zhen's ears to ring and he lost his hearing for a time.

After recovering his hearing from the buzzing tinnitus, Yang Zhen had already realized what had happened. Looking at the hellish scene at the bottom of Dongguangou ditch in front of him, his first reaction was to strike while the iron was hot and remove the people at the bottom of the ditch.

Block both ends and completely eliminate this group of Tatars here.

Li Lu received Yang Zhen's order. Without saying a word, he shouted to the grenadiers and ran forward along the trench. Behind him were a group of grenadiers holding torches in one hand and grenades in the other.

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"Ma Keqing, hurry up and send an order to Ma Zhuang, telling him to continue firing without stopping and hit wherever there are more Tatars! Zhang Guogan, gather the musketeers quickly and break away from the Tatars first. Call

Everyone retreat to the slope and fire together!"

After Yang Zhen recovered, he quickly saw the situation at the bottom of Dongguangou ditch and quickly issued several orders.

The previous big explosion not only completely disrupted the Tatar cavalry troops with white flags gathered on the road [81 Chinese website www.81zw.xyz], but also destroyed the musketeers deployed in the ditch on one side of the road.

The grenadiers made quite an impact.

Not only was Yang Zhen knocked to the ground by the shock wave of the big explosion, many other musketeers and grenadiers nearby were also knocked aside.

During this brief lull in the firepower, many desperate Manchu Tatars either galloped on their horses or dismounted and walked towards the hillside where the trench was located. There were even some Manchu Tatars waving their sabers and swords.

Rushed to the trench.

The musketeers led by Zhang Guogan installed bayonets on the muzzles of their muskets one after another, and fought with the Manchu Tatars who rushed forward to fight with their bayonets.

This is not what Yang Zhen wants to see.

Once the Mantatars and their musketeers and grenadiers get into a melee, not only will their musketeers and grenadiers be unable to give full play to the power of their firearms, but even the sky-high artillery team behind them will be lost.

their role.

After Yang Zhen gave the order, he picked up the smoking pine torch from the trench, blew it on fire, took off the four grenades he had carried on his chest, lit them one after another and threw them out.

In one fell swoop, he swept away a group of more than a dozen Manchu Tatars who were shouting and rushing towards him, and blew them up into pieces.

However, just when Yang Zheng wanted to take a breath and rest, he saw another group of Tatars shouting something like "Erkhuru" and rushing toward him one after another.

When Yang Zhenzheng didn't know what was going on, he found that a smoking grenade was suddenly thrown from behind him, which slightly curbed the momentum of the group of Tatars charging towards him.

He hurriedly looked back and saw that the person was Ma Keqing.

Ma Keqing threw two more grenades one after another, then jumped into the trench and said to Yang Zhen: "Captain, I heard what they kept shouting was Errik Chuhuli, Errik Chuhuli, according to

As I know, Erik Chuhuli is the title of the Tenth Prince of the Manchu Tatars!"

"You mean they call them Dodo, the Tenth Prince of the Manchu Tatars?"

When Yang Zhen heard Ma Keqing's words, he seemed to realize something, but he was a little unsure.

"Exactly!"

Ma Keqing nodded firmly towards Yang Zhen: "What they called was the title of Duduo, the ten princes of the Manchu Tatars. When I was there, I heard someone talking about the ten princes of the Manchu Tatars.

We all call him Eric Chuhuli!"

Hearing this, Yang Zhen thought of the young enemy general who was surrounded by people and rushed towards him, so he hurriedly turned around to see the young man who had been blown away by the big explosion of ten thousand enemies into his trench.

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"Do you recognize Dodo?"

"I don't know this one, but from hearing their shouts, I'm afraid Dodo, the tenth prince of the Manchu Tatars, is nearby!"

Hearing what Ma Keqing said, Yang Zhen rushed over without hesitation, grabbed the young enemy general who was lying on the ground and didn't know whether he was alive or dead, and then dragged him out of the trench, towards the fragment not far ahead.

Go to the place where the ruins are.

Errik is the transliteration of the Mongolian Erke, which means heroic and heroic in Mongolian, but this young enemy general does not look heroic at all.

Yang Zhen held a musket in one hand and dragged him forward with the other. His movements were still agile and fast. In a few ups and downs, he rushed behind the broken wall of a ruin on the slope.

Ma Keqing, Zhang Guogan and others followed closely behind, as did many musketeers and grenadiers who also evacuated the trench.

They followed Yang Zhen, broke away from contact with the Manchu Tatars, and retreated to the ruins of the former Dongguangou official settlement. They turned around and stood condescendingly, forming a line of defense again.

Ma Zhuang, who had set up ten artillery positions behind the large ruins, quickly adjusted the shooting angle and fired several shots down the slope, blowing up a group of Manchu Tatars following him and knocking them off their feet.

However, Yang Zhen's behavior of dragging the half-dead young enemy general out of the trench soon triggered a reaction that was beyond his expectation.

The Manchu Tatars, who had been fighting chaotically at the bottom of the ditch, seemed to have found the direction of the main attack, and began to rush towards Yang Zhen's hiding place in a swarm.

While they were charging towards Yang Zhen's hidden ruins on the hillside, they were howling like crazy: "Eric comes out of Huri! Erric comes out of Huri..."

These words seemed to be like a spell, quickly gathering together the panicked Manchu Tatars who were scattered on the road, forming a team of several hundred people, and rushed over.

The sky-high artillery team commanded by Ma Zhuang adjusted the shooting angle, and fired one shot after another into the crowd of Tatars, and then exploded, knocking over the surrounding knights and dismounted infantry.

On the ground.

After the musketeers commanded by Zhang Guogan had established a certain distance from the Manchu Tatars, they could shoot calmly again, killing the Manchu Tatars one by one who were lucky enough to get within the best shooting range.

The grenadiers who retreated also began to play their role again after having a certain barrier to their own safety, blowing up those fish that slipped through the net and killing them on their way forward.

However, all of this seemed to have little effect on deterring the Mantatars rushing down the slope. The living Mantatars still shouted and rushed upward.

Yang Zhen hid behind a broken wall, watching the Mantatars rushing in and out, and listening to their hoarse shouts, he became more and more certain that the young enemy general lying unconscious at his feet must be the Tenth Prince of the Mantatars.

There is no doubt Duduo.

Perhaps only a figure like Duduo would make them rush towards me like moths to a flame at all costs.

Yang Zhen asked Ma Keqing to shout a few words in Jurchen dialect to surrender without killing. Not only did it have no effect, it actually aroused the bloody courage of the surviving Tatars, and they all screamed and charged harder.

However, at this point in the ambush battle, it was no longer useful for them to do so. They were no longer fighting, but committing suicide or seeking death.

The Manchu Tatar military law is strict. If the master is killed in battle, even if the servant escapes, he will die when he returns, and he will be executed for the crime of escaping from the battle.

Rather than being executed for escaping in battle, they would rather die on the battlefield, at least this way their families could be spared the blame.

At dusk on the fourth day of October in the twelfth year of Chongzhen, the ambush battle in Dongguangou finally came to an end with the joining forces of Qiu Zhenhai, Yuan Jin, Yu Liangtai, and Li Lu.

For Yang Zhen, this is an unprecedented victory.

Before the war, this group of Manchu Tatars with more than 2,000 horsemen came with great momentum. After the war, in addition to the cavalry who rushed to the front to explore the road at the beginning, there were also cavalry who stayed at the rear and finally broke through Qiu Zhenhai and Yuan.

Jin led his troops to encircle and escape the hundreds of troops, but the rest were either dead or injured, and were all left in Dongguangou.

Correspondingly, Yang Zhen's own losses also made him feel heartbroken. The more than 800 people he brought to Dongguangou to set up an ambush before the war suffered nearly 300 casualties in the first battle.

And this is a loss caused when the enemy is overt and we are covert, and when our side has completely taken advantage of the situation and fully grasped the initiative.

As for those who arrived later, Qiu Zhenhai surrounded the tail of the Tatar team from the southwest entrance of Dongguangou Gou. Yuan Jin's troops suffered heavy casualties, and the total number of casualties exceeded the main battlefield of the Dongguan Gou ambush battle.

If the Manchu Tatars who turned around and broke out had not been unwilling to fight, their casualties would have been even greater.

At the same time, Yang Zhen was extremely disappointed that guns and cannons were firing in Dongguangou, and the sound of killing was loud, but there was no movement in Lianshan City, which was only a dozen miles away.

One of Zu Dashou's younger brothers, Zu Daming, led an army of three thousand and was stationed in Lianshan City, but not a single soldier or horse was sent to support him.

If Zu Daming sent people out of the city to join the battle, the Tatars with white flags who came to Dongguangou this time would definitely be wiped out, and the situation Yang Zhen faced after the ambush in Dongguangou would be much better.

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However, it was a pity that Zu Daiming was afraid of being burned. When the battle in Dongguangou was at its fiercest, he closed the city gate tightly and did not even have the courage to send people out of the city to investigate.

But when the overall situation in Dongguangou was decided, and only three to four hundred Manchu Tatars with white flags passed through the western suburbs of Lianshan City and hurriedly retreated towards Ningyuan, Zu Daiming still could not hold on and could not muster the courage to go out of the city to stop them.
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