As soon as Yang Zhen finished shouting, the Tatar who was rushing in front had already entered within about a hundred steps. In the blink of an eye, Yang Zhen could clearly see the angry and ferocious face of the other party.

A group of people rushed over on war horses in front. Yang Zhen didn't need to aim at all. He directly placed the gun body on the front edge of the trench, and fired another shot with a bang. A bullet filled with Yang Zhen's anger rushed towards him.

He took out the barrel of the gun and faced the rain of arrows fired by the Tatars, hitting the leader of the Tatars in the face.

I saw the Tatar turned over and fell from his horse. At this moment, one of the gunpowder bombs thrown by Pan Xi and others landed not far in front of the ownerless war horse. There was a "bang" explosion, and the horse was thrown away.

The master's horse suddenly turned to the right.

Immediately afterwards, the crescent-shaped traffic trench where Yang Zhen was located was filled with gunfire, arrows flew like rain, and the gunpowder shells thrown fell like raindrops at the feet of the Tatar war horses.

The Tatars who rushed in front fell off their horses in an instant. Some of the horses with stronger impact were either shot or exploded, and fell to the ground neighing.

As the war horse at the front turned to the right, the other horses behind also turned to the right. The remaining Tatar cavalry did not know whether they could not control their frightened horses or saw that the firepower in front was too fierce. In short, they

Then rush towards the reed marsh again.

"Sir! The Tatars have turned back! They are going to the position of our musketeers! What should we do!? Should we go back immediately for rescue!?"

Yang Zhen saw the Tatars turning around, and just as his heart dropped, he heard Zhang Guogan's voice ringing like thunder in his ears.

"Rescue, rescue, save you big-headed devil! Didn't you see that I drove them there on purpose?!"

After Yang Zhen finished speaking, he saw the large flag with the words "Temporary Ningyuan Advance Battalion" on the edge of the reed marsh in the distance, suddenly shaking vigorously.

This is the semaphore signal that Yang Zhen gave to Zhang Degui before!

Seeing this signal, Yang Zhen immediately blew the iron whistle, and a sharp whistle passed over the battlefield, and then Yang Zhen shouted loudly: "Squat down! Squat down!"

Yang Zhen shouted and quickly squatted down, and the crowd in the traffic trench next to him also squatted down at once.

At this moment, a loud sound of artillery shelling sounded from the edge of the reed marsh!

One door after another, round after round...

By this time, Yang Zhen had completely relaxed inside and had a smile on his face, but this smile had disappeared from his face since the war started.

At this moment, he knew that this time the gamble was successful. Although not many Tatars came, all the Tatars who came did not run away.

This is enough.

When all the cannon fire stopped, there seemed to be an unprecedented quietness on this land.

I don’t know who stood up first, but someone cheered first, and then the entire traffic trench burst into cheers.

Yang Zhen stood up with a long musket in his hand and looked into the distance. He saw Zhang Degui holding the flag of the advance battalion high and leading the artillery team to rush out from the invisible reed swamp, right at the edge of the reed swamp.

Jumping for joy on the sand!

Some of Zu Keyong's subordinates, including those who had been guarding the trench in front of the reed swamp, also changed their aloof demeanor from looking down on the other teams in the advance battalion, and cheered and jumped along with the crowd...

Seeing this situation, Yang Zhen knew that the overall situation of this battle had been decided, and immediately shouted: "Kill all the Tatars! Go and scalp all the Tatars!"

After Yang Zhen shouted, he jumped out of the trench first, holding a musket, and pointed it at a Tatar knight who had just fallen to the ground. He slowly poured a little ignition powder into the fire door of the musket, and then put it on his forehead, "Bang!"

"The sound of a gunshot...

Different from Yang Zhen's somewhat pretentious approach, after hearing Yang Zhen's shouts, especially after seeing Yang Zhen's actions, those who were still cheering and celebrating their final victory suddenly changed.

, scrambling to draw out the waist knife and rushed to the "battlefield".

Some imitated Yang Zhen's practice. After inflicting wounds on the Tatar, they cut off the scalp with the tail of the money rat on the Tatar's head and kept it in their arms so that they could record their merits in the future.

Some people find it too troublesome to do this, so they simply do two steps at a time, cut off the head directly with a knife, and continue to cut off another head while holding the braid.

After only about a quarter of an hour, the Tatar knight who came to this battlefield was hit again and again.

Not to mention those who were dead, many more who were seriously injured after being shot also lost their lives.

Some even lost their scalps with money rat tails on their heads.

Some simply lost their heads.

The left wing of Yang Zhen's Musketeers, together with those taken by Yang Zhen himself, received thirty-three heads and scalps.

The right wing of the Musketeers obtained a total of twenty-six Tatar heads and scalps.

The left and right wings of the artillery team and the gun carrying team directly killed and wounded the most Tatar knights, and a total of 107 Tatar heads were obtained.

The right wing of the Grenadier Corps, where Pan Xi was commanding, captured the wounded Tatars in the Maken area. Many Tatars were injured, but in the end, only thirty-nine heads were obtained.

It was originally planned that Zuk Yong would pursue the Tatar cavalry, but before he could implement it, the battle ended.

Zu Keyong's troops wounded a lot of enemies, but killed not many.

This group of Tatars all wore cotton armor and iron armor. In addition to muskets, artillery and gunpowder shells for close range damage, Zu Keyong's heavy cavalry archers and Xu Changyong's light cavalry archers could rarely kill the enemy with one hit.

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However, in the final "battle" to grab the head, they were experts, especially everyone under Zu Keyong's command was equipped with a special owl-headed sword, which was much sharper than ordinary waist knives.

Therefore, in the end, the number of heads obtained by Zu Keyong's troops was second only to the left and right wings of the artillery team, with a total of ninety-one.

As for the remaining Mongolian soldiers under Xu Changyong, only 121 of them came back alive to participate in the battle.

However, among the various units in the advance battalion, Xu Changyong's men still had the largest number of people.

However, they did not obtain many heads, a total of fifty-seven.

Many Mongolian soldiers saw that it was a bit difficult to snatch the heads, so they simply targeted the Tatars' armor, waist knives, bows and arrows and even clothing. Many Tatars were even stripped naked.

Yang Zhen led the people and cleaned up the battlefield here, then sent someone to notify Li Lu to leave a few people on guard, while everyone else withdrew.

When Li Lu came back, after asking, Li Lu actually got seventy-three Tatar heads and scalps, as well as a war horse with a saddle and pedals that fell into Li Lu's hands.

Thirteen horses.

On this side, after counting the harvest on the battlefield, there were still 162 lively horses with sound limbs, which became the spoils of the advance battalion.

Yang Zhen thought that other dead horses and dying war horses could be taken away as meat, but there were too many, and everyone was overwhelmed and had no choice but to give up.

The battle on the salt flats in the grove outside the reed marsh actually took less than an hour from start to finish. Including the time wasted in collecting the spoils at the end, it only took about an hour and a half.

The sound of artillery shelling in the distant Songshan City area was still intermittent, which also provided a good cover for Yang Zhen's advance battalion. Otherwise, Yang Zhen's side would have heard loud gunfire, and the battlefield would have clashed with the Tatars outside Songshan City.

The Zi camp is only about ten miles away, and the Empress Palace camp is less than ten miles away, so it will definitely attract the attention of the Tatars.

But even so, Yang Zhen did not dare to stay here any longer. He thought that he had done his best to Jin Guofeng and others in Songshan City.

In this way, on March 10th, just after noon, Yang Zhen ordered all the remaining members of the temporary Ningyuan advance battalion to retreat, leaving only his captain Yang Zhan'ao, Guo Xiaowu, and six people on a boat.

The oarsman continued to stay in the nearby reed marsh, lurking to observe the enemy's situation.

The way back was much easier. Except for Xu Changyong who was a little unhappy, everyone else was in high spirits.

Since Xu Changyong came back, Yang Zhen has not found a chance to talk to him and ask him about his experiences along the way.

On the way back to Shazhou Island, Yang Zhen deliberately acted with Xu Changyong. On the way, he saw that he was always depressed, so he said to him: "Brother Xu! On the battlefield, life and death are in the blink of an eye! As long as there is a war, casualties are inevitable.

! Fortunately, we have avenged the sacrifices made by your Mongolian cavalry! Their spirits in heaven will not blame you or me!"

"Brother! It's not that I, Lao Xu, am reluctant to part with those Mongolian soldiers, nor am I worried that I won't be able to explain to Sanggarsai! It's just that the group of soldiers and servants I brought out with my own hands have almost all been lost here.

The Tatars are in charge!

"More than 30 old people who have been with me for more than ten years! This time, more than 20 people were killed, more than half of them! If they hadn't fought hard to break it off, brother, I wouldn't have been able to come back this time!"

At this point, Xu Changyong suddenly gritted his teeth and said: "This time the Mongolian cavalry suffered heavy casualties. It is not my responsibility! There is nothing I can't explain to the superiors! It's that Nomqi. The person I sent to monitor him came back to report the news.

He said that as soon as he encountered the Tatar patrol, he switched sides!

"Not only did he hand over the letter I asked him to send to Songshan to the Tatars, but he also informed the Tatars of my whereabouts! If I hadn't run fast, it would have been all over this time! Moreover, if he hadn't not
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