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Chapter 112
On the wall of Gaoyang City, 76-year-old Sun Chengzong leaned on the wall with both hands. From the crenel, he looked at the wilderness in the north of the city. There were horse corpses everywhere, and the grass had been dyed bright red.

The gentry and wealthy merchants in the city, hearing that Lu Xiangsheng led an army to rescue Gaoyang and was fighting against the Qing army in the north of the city, rushed to the wall of the north gate of Gaoyang, guarding the crenels, wide-eyed, looking around desperately.

In the fierce cold wind, the north gate of Gaoyang City slowly opened, and three horses rode out of the city first. Immediately, all three of them were past their forties. They were only wearing light armor, but no helmet, and only had their hair tied.

Behind them, five or six knights rushed out on horseback, and behind them were some young and strong men, almost without armor, just wearing ordinary clothes, holding various weapons in their hands, and some even holding picks and rakes and other agricultural tools .

The leading knight in his fifties held a steel knife in his hand and shouted loudly, "Kill the Tartars!"

He rode his horse straight to the bloody battlefield in the wilderness north of Gaoyang City, and a group of knights whipped their horses and followed him to the purgatory on earth where nearly ten thousand people fought desperately.

About 2000 young and strong men ran out from the north gate of Gaoyang City one after another. They kept on chasing behind the knights and horses, facing the dust raised by the galloping horses, and rushed to the wilderness more than three miles north of the city. .

On the city wall, Sun Chengzong tearfully said to a gentry beside him: "Hurry up, arrange it, prepare more grain, and livestock. We have to work hard and celebrate Lu Xiangsheng..."

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The cavalry of the Qing army rushed out of the battlefield one after another, and gradually gathered from small groups into cavalry teams of more than a hundred people. They bypassed the cavalry of the Ming army from a distance and gathered around Haoge one after another.

Lu Xiangsheng led Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and other elite cavalry from the three towns of Xuanda. He wanted to pursue them and defeated the Qing army.

However, He Chenggong, under King Gongshun of the Qing army who was strictly guarding the formation, stopped him with firecrackers, and failed to break through the Hauge formation. Then, De Kelei led the Mongolian cavalry from the Outer Domain to fight with the Shanxi town general Jiang Mingwu. The Cavaliers disengaged and successfully returned to the main team.

Lu Xiangsheng knew very well that the officers and men of Xuanda's three towns had suddenly encountered the Eastern captives. They had been fighting since noon until now.

The Ming army slowly retreated to the place where Wang Pu, the commander-in-chief of Datong Town, was stationed. The horses of all the soldiers were there, guarded by the soldiers under Wang Pu's command.

Just as Zhang Cheng was about to lead his troops back, he saw dense crowds of human heads appearing in the direction of Gaoyang City to the south. He hurriedly called out to his generals, changed direction, and headed north.

When I ran more than 200 steps, I was galloping up a high hill, and I saw dozens of Qing cavalry riding out from the main formation, shouting and shouting towards the group of people coming towards Gaoyang City.

He hastily took out the binoculars and looked to the south. From the mirror, he saw that there were less than ten riders galloping at a distance of more than 800 steps. Weapons are coming in stride.

Almost none of these people were wearing armor, and as they ran, they didn't look like they were in any formation at all. At first glance, they must be the young and strong volunteers in Gaoyang City who had been organized temporarily.

Taking back the binoculars, Zhang Cheng shouted loudly: "Wu Zhizhong, you lead your troops to the south to meet the righteous people who have left the city in Gaoyang. You follow me up and drive those Tartars away."

With a promise, Wu Zhizhong urged his horse to head towards Gaoyang City.

Zhang Cheng didn't talk nonsense, he urged the horses under his crotch, and galloped away to the team of Qing cavalry. Chen Zheng, Zhang Guangda, Hu Dake and other guards hurriedly led the knights under his command to gallop, and followed Zhang Cheng closely. Ben that team of Qing cavalry rushed up.

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Seeing that the knights from various tribes came back one after another, Hauge hurriedly ordered them to change their horses quickly and form a team quickly, and sent Bajala warriors to urge those Ahas to speed up and pack up their tents.

In a short while, Hauge led all the officers and men under his command to head east slowly, and went to the official road more than ten miles away.

After He Chenggong's Han army and Deke's foreign Mongolian cavalry were ordered by Hauge to stay, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei and others harassed them three times, and then gave up continuing to attack.

But He Chenggong and Deke still dare not be careless. First, He Chenggong is in the front, and Deke is more than 300 steps behind him. Go, the physical strength of the war horse has always been in the best condition.

Although Haoge's retreat was not strongly blocked by Lu Xiangsheng, he did not dare to be careless. There were still more than 1 Xuan large infantry, who might come at any time. He has now seen the combat power of the cavalry on the opposite side.

If the pawns under Lu Xiangsheng on the opposite side had the same fighting power, then I'm afraid they would not be able to retreat as easily as they are now, so the Qing army only picked up the most important things to take away, and those things that could be looted anywhere were not valued by them.

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Zhang Cheng dispersed the team of Qing cavalry, rode his horse and rushed to join Sun Yao and others. After the two sides exchanged their identities, Zhang Cheng led them to the governor Lu Xiangsheng.

Sun Yao and the other three brothers hurriedly got off their horses, bowed down and bowed down, saying: "...Master Lu came to help from thousands of miles away, drove back the Tartars, and rescued the people of Gaoyang from the sword. Grain, livestock, wine and meat, to reward the warriors under Duke Lu..."

Lu Xiangsheng also got off his horse, stepped forward, helped up the three brothers of the Sun family who were kneeling on the ground, and said: "Old Sun Ge, Xiang Sheng has admired him for a long time, but he didn't have the chance to meet him. Today's late arrival made Old Sun Ge disturbed by Dongnu. It's really a crime, you three young masters don't need to be polite, get up quickly."

After seeing the ceremony, everyone began to chat. When they heard the three brothers of the Sun family talk about the danger of defending the city, they were all thrilled. A little later, Gaoyang City was broken.

"It's really a blessing, all the people in Gaoyang City are deeply grateful for Lu Gong's great kindness!"

Sun Chengzong's second son, Sun ラ, bowed his fists and said with tears in his eyes.

Lu Xiangsheng comforted the three brothers of the Sun family and the young and strong soldiers of Gaoyang City, while arranging people to clean up the battlefield. Although it has entered winter, if so many corpses are not buried on the spot, it will still affect and destroy the surrounding environment.

Zhang Cheng looked at the big pits filled with headless corpses of Qing soldiers, and he couldn't help but think that the weeds here would definitely be more luxuriant in the coming year.

If crops are planted, the harvest will definitely be better!
At this time, Zhang Yan led a group of infantry to form an array. It turned out that after they received Lu Xiangsheng's military order, Zhang Yan hurriedly assigned tasks to the officers. He left a third of the infantry to guard the frame. Military assets on carts.

Leading a large group of infantry, he first arranged into a battle formation one by one, keeping a distance of one hundred steps between each square battle team, and marched slowly all the way to the battlefield where Zhang Cheng and the others were.

(End of this chapter)