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Chapter 58 Surrender

.The overall situation has been decided (provided with the latest chapter reading>After everyone's persuasion, Wang Fu returned to the headquarters. Although he put on a straw raincoat, Wang Fu's body was still a lot wet. From this we can see how the Ming army who participated in the battle would be wet. In fact, later on, those flintshuists were also unable to continue shooting because the barrel of the gun was infiltrated. However, at that time, there was no big problem with whether there were muskets to help.

As soon as Wang Fu returned to the headquarters, he immediately ordered: "Tell me my order. Let the soldiers of each team take turns to remove them and change their clothes. He immediately cooked ginger soup for the soldiers participating in the war to drink."

It is not a trivial matter to rain on your body in winter. If the soldiers did not change into dry clothes in time and drove the cold air, they would likely get seriously ill. At present, the Qing army is already in a cage. Naturally, there is no need to make the officers and soldiers get sick on a large scale in order to eliminate them as soon as possible.

A guard quickly replied: "Don't worry, the ginger soup has been prepared in the camp. As long as the officers and soldiers rotate, they can drink it immediately."

As soon as the guard finished speaking, Tian Cheng had already come up with a big bowl: "Emperor, this is exactly the ginger soup prepared in the camp. Please drink it."

As soon as the ginger soup was brought up, a spicy air roared straight into his nose. Wang Fu was about to refuse, and he yawned out. Wang Fu couldn't help but smile bitterly. He pinched his nose and poured all the ginger soup. A warm feeling was stretched out from his abdomen. A little cold air that had just emanated disappeared.

A sound of footsteps came from outside. A guard hurriedly walked in: "Report to the Emperor. Duke of Jingguo Huang Degong, Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, and others asked for a visit."

"Please!"

"yes."

The guards went down and disappeared. Huang Degong, Li Chengdong, Li Benshen, He Gang and others entered. They were all wearing armor. The blood and cement on them were just a little wiped. The sleeves of the heads and sleeves were exposed.

"See the Emperor. Long live my emperor! Long live my emperor! Long live my life! Long live my life! I can't give up my full courtesy when I am in my arms. I'm late to rescue. Please forgive me!"

"Fortunately, my dear friends arrived in time today. This victory was achieved. Otherwise, even if the troops I led could defeat them, most of the Tartars would escape in the chaos. All my dear friends are meritorious ministers. What crimes are there? No rituals and no rituals." Wang Fu said with a loud laugh.

Huang Degong still held his fist: "Actually, I have arrived yesterday. But I heard the sound of guns from the Yulin Guard yesterday. The emperor was not in danger. I did not immediately attack the Tartars' retreat. I rescued it too late. It was actually intentional."

Wang Fu was stunned when he heard this. It turned out that Huang Degong and others had arrived yesterday. No wonder today came so timely. From a reasonable point of view, Huang Degong handled this way indeed the best result. If Huang Degong had attacked the Qing army yesterday, even if he could win, the Ming army would suffer heavy casualties. But Huang Degong did this way, and he would have some intention to let the emperor fall into danger. If he had changed to a mediocre emperor, he would definitely have a gap against Huang Degong.

Huang Degong was open-minded. However, Li Chengdong, Li Benshen and others secretly regretted Huang Degong. It was no loss for Huang Chuangzi. He was simply stubborn. He was a big victory now. As long as you don’t tell me, the emperor will not be able to investigate. Naturally, there is no way to know. Why take such a risk?

"Come!" Wang Fu's words were shocked and the people present were shocked. They thought they would punish Huang Degong. They were relieved when they heard the latter sentence: "Come on ginger soup."

As soon as the emperor finished speaking, the guard who had prepared a long time ago served a bowl of ginger soup to one person.

"Dear friends have just been wet with rain. The health is important. Drink a bowl of ginger soup first. If you have any questions, please change your clothes and dry them."

"Yes. Thank you, the emperor."

Everyone took the ginger soup and drank it in one sip. Just as they were about to leave, Wang Fu suddenly said, "Please bring two more bowls."

Guan Wei was puzzled, so he quickly served two bowls of ginger soup.

"Huang Aiqing has worked hard and is the Duke of the State. He should also drink these two bowls together."

Huang Degong's face suddenly became bitter. He drank one bowl of ginger soup to drive away the cold. Drinking two or three bowls of it was just to suffer. But the emperor had to listen to the emperor's words. He had to squeeze his mouth and pour two bowls of ginger soup. Just after drinking the last bowl, Huang Degong only felt his stomach growling. The stomach was covered in water.

Wang Fu smiled again: "Okay. No need to mention the rescue later. Dear friends, please go down and change your clothes first."

"Yes, I will sue my leave." Huang Degong realized the emperor's intention. He actually punished him with three bowls of ginger soup. Although he believed that he did not do anything wrong, he was just disrespectful to the emperor. This matter could be big or small. Since the emperor punished this, this matter would naturally be revealed.

Teams of Ming troops began to change defenses. Now the rain has stopped. The mesh guns can be fired again. The mesh gunmen who used to stay in the camp replaced the officers and soldiers who were soaked. Some officers and soldiers who had just drunk ginger soup and changed their clothes came back, surrounding the remaining Qing army.

Five thousand Qing troops were crowded together. The high ground was originally where Duoduo's tent was located. Because it was the highest there. However, this place was not big. It accommodated five thousand people and the horses. There was almost no place to turn around. There was no dry clothes, no food, no fire, and no water.

Dodo did not commit suicide. The long sword in his hand was taken off. Goshha barely found clean clothes from several few camps to change it. However, the others were not so lucky. Many people could only sit in the mud. From time to time, fierce coughing sounds came.

"Your Majesty, you can't wait any longer. You must rush out. Otherwise, tomorrow, there will be no one who can ride a horse." Ye Chen knelt in front of Duoduo, and said with tears on his face.

"Why rush? There is a lot of mud outside now. The war horses can't run at all. If you rush out, you will only become the target of the Ming army." Duoduo asked back.

"Your Majesty, it will take at least two days to wait until the road is dry. In two days, no one can take the knife and arrow again." Ye Chen said heartbrokenly.

But no matter how Ye Chen persuaded him, Duoduo was unmoved. Ye Chen had to stand up from the ground and stomped his feet hard: "Prince, this great defeat, the slave's crime is unforgivable. Since the prince has not made up his mind yet, the slave will take the lead."

After saying that, Ye Chen walked out with great strides. Ta Zhan stretched out his hand and wanted to hold Ye Chen back. In the end, he was powerless to withdraw his hand. Unless there was a miracle, everyone would not be able to escape the fate of destruction. What is the difference between dying early and dying late?

Ye Chen's voice came from outside: "The Batulus in Manzhou are men following me and rushing out."

The sound of people standing up one after another, followed by the sound of horse hooves and shouts of killing sounds at the same time. The gunshots of the Ming army also rang out. After a while, as the gunshots of the Ming army stopped, the sound of horse hooves and shouts of killing disappeared. A Geshiha lifted the tent and his tone came in. His tone was extremely heavy: "Report to the prince. Just now, Lord Ye Chen led more than 80 people to attack the Ming army in a formation. All of them were killed."

"I understand. You go down." Duoduo's voice was extremely empty.

"yes!"

For a whole day, Duoduo did not send an order. The sky gradually darkened. Torches had been lit in the Ming army camp, illuminating the front as bright as day. Fragments of rice were floating from the Ming army camp, causing the Qing army to swallow saliva. But they could only watch it.

After the dark night, the Qing army tried to find the gap and escape from time to time. However, with the sound of gunshots, all of the Qing army who tried to escape were killed by the Ming army's muskets.

The next day, the sequelae of the Qing army was in the rain and did not drink ginger soup to change to dry clothes immediately appeared. One-third of the people in the land began to heat up, and the rest were also weak due to hunger and cold. If the Ming army attacked at this time, it would be possible that all the Qing army would be able to be defeated in one fell swoop without much effort.

However, the Ming army still had no intention of attacking. Instead, they began to dig ditches around, which was clearly intended to trap the five thousand Qing troops to death.

The casualties of the Yulin Guard have been counted. Although it has occupied various favorable terrain, the total casualties of the Yulin Guards are still as high as more than 6,000. Among them, more than 3,000 were killed. The casualties of the Yulin Guards reached 15%. For an army that has only been formed for about half a year, it is already a bit of a trauma.

The troops who came from Xuzhou only experienced one battle, had fewer casualties, and only about one thousand people. Although these people were eager to fight, Wang Fu also refused to allow them. These two troops were now the support of the entire Ming Dynasty. Wang Fu would feel distressed when there were casualties on either side. Anyway, the Qing army was already a cooked duck. He was not afraid of it flying away. Wang Fu was reluctant to let the officers and soldiers accept the casualties.

Of course, even the combined casualties between the two armies are small compared to the Qing army. The Qing army, including the casualties a few days ago, had more than 40,000 corpses. In addition to 5,000 people surrounding the ground, thousands of people became prisoners of the Ming army. The 60,000 army only escaped at most two or three thousand people. These two or three thousand people were at least walking within the Ming army for more than ten days. In the end, how many people could actually escape. It is hard to say.

On the third day, the Qing army had already died one after another. Many soldiers woke up in the morning and suddenly found that their companions had become a cold corpse. After two days, the road surface had dried up. In addition to some low-lying areas, there were water traces. The road surface could already withstand the horse's hooves of war horses.

But now the Qing army was exhausted, both the troops and the Ming army had already dug a deep trench. It was more difficult to rush out than climbing to the sky.

"Cannon. Cannon." A Qing army shouted.

The other Qing soldiers who were originally lying on the ground stood up one by one. They looked at the dozens of cannons suddenly pushed out from the Ming army camp, all of them were ashamed. Now they were so dense that a shell came down. At least a dozen people were about to die.

Duoduo also walked out of the tent under the report of Goshha. He looked at the Ming army's dozens of black muzzles facing his camp. His face changed. Finally, he said with difficulty: "Send the order. The entire army surrenders to the Ming army!"
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