Duoduo's eyes were dull and his expression was sad. The defeat was a real defeat. The 300,000 Green Camp soldiers who entered Yangzhou City were less than 100,000 defeated generals. Most of the Qing troops who entered the city were burned to death in the city. Those who escaped from the city by luck were killed by the Ming army and suffered countless losses. Liu Liangzuo, Zhang Yingxiang, Xu Ensheng and other generals had not returned yet, and it was estimated that there would be a lot of danger. In addition, the 100,000 Green Camp lost in the previous siege and field battles, the Green Camp army lost more than 300,000.

Although Duoduo still had more than 200,000 Green Camp troops in his hands at this time, his morale was already low and a pessimistic atmosphere was spreading in the army. These Green Camp soldiers could no longer fight. What's more than 200,000 Green Camp troops were mostly recruits selected from the plundered people not long ago and forced into the Green Camp troops. These people came out to fight in the field, which was similar to those who died. They could only be brought back to the capital, and after a period of training and rest, they could only be pulled out and fought again.

The Eight Banners soldiers suffered relatively little losses. There were only more than 3,000 Eight Banners soldiers entering the city, and more than half of them fled back. However, in the field battle, there were more than 5,000 Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners lost, and in the siege, the eight banners soldiers lost. The eight banners soldiers had already reached more than 20,000, including more than 10,000 real Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners.

I originally thought that Yangzhou City would be the only one who lost the previous losses, but when they entered the city, they suffered heavy losses and even fell into the trap.

"Everyone, clean up the remains tonight and withdraw the troops back to Beijing tomorrow morning!" Duoduo admitted his conscience. The war was like this, what could he do if he refused to admit defeat?

Duoduo's eastern army has been defeated. Not to mention crossing the Yangtze River south, it is good to ensure that the remaining Eight Banners soldiers escape unsuccessfully.

Just as the generals of the green camp under his command counted the remaining defeated soldiers and were preparing to withdraw tomorrow, someone in the camp suddenly shouted: "It's gone! It's gone!"

"What's going on? Where did the fire start?" Zhang Yingyuan, who had just been burned by the fire not long ago, rushed out of the tent in a panic, pulled a servant over and asked.

"Sir, something big is wrong, and fires are everywhere." The dean replied tremblingly.

"It's gone! It's gone!"

In the Qing army camp, terrified screams came one after another. Not only did the Green Camp army shout in panic, but even the Eight Banners soldiers were in chaos.

In the stable, the mangers and the forage farms were lit up in the sky. The shocked groups of war horses rushed out of the stables, rushed around in the camp, and ran around. The mane and horse tail of the fire ignited the camp. Some Qing soldiers who were trying to stop the shocked horses were knocked to the ground and stepped into meat paste.

The gunpowder depot of the Han Eight Banners Army caught fire, and a violent explosion occurred immediately. One by one, the gunpowder barrels flew into the air and exploded in the sky, as gorgeous as fireworks set off during the Chinese New Year. Some of the blown-off gunpowder barrels fell into the Qing army barracks. After a loud bang, the tent immediately ignited a fire.

In the camp where women, children, elderly and weak were imprisoned, women and children cried, and the elderly lamented that they did not know whether they could escape from the fire.

At this moment, the gate was opened and hundreds of people dressed in Qing soldiers from the green camp walked into the leader and said, "Famous people, don't be afraid. We are the Ming army. You stay here honestly and don't run around, and there will be no danger."

After the leader said that, he took the Ming soldiers who disguised themselves as Qing soldiers in the Green Camp and began to clean up the camps that detained women, children, elderly and weak, throw out the straw, rags and other things used to keep the cold, and cleared out a clearing space to prevent the fire from spreading and burning these people to death.

These people were the soldiers of the Huai Army who had just taken advantage of the defeat of the Green Camp Army to sneak into the Qing army, as well as some of the Qing soldiers dressed in the Eight Mongolian Banners soldiers. In fact, they were under Li Hong. Those people had been lurking in the Qing Dynasty for nearly ten years, and now they finally came in handy.

As for Li Hong's hidden chess piece, it was not used today and there is a more important purpose in the future. Moreover, this time Duoduo went south, Li Hong did not follow him. He continued to be his Tumot Khan in the Qing Dynasty, and he would come in handy again after the Ming army's northern expedition in the future.

The Qing army camp was already in chaos. The Qing soldiers of the Green Camp rushed to put out the fire, and the Eight Banners soldiers competed to escape. However, behind the shocking war horses, someone drove away the war horses. Those people looked full of Eight Banners attire, but in fact they were all Li Hong's people. They drove the war horses and rushed around the Qing army camp. The Green Camp soldiers who were trying to put out the fire were knocked down and trampled to death.

"Kill!" A trembling shout of killing came from outside the Qing army camp. The Ming army exploded the camp gate and rushed into the Qing army camp.

"Kill the Tartars!" Hao Yaoqi, wearing heavy armor, rushed to the first one with a big axe in his hand.

More than a thousand iron-armored soldiers in heavy armor followed closely behind, shouting and storming into the Qing army camp. More than 5,000 musketeers followed behind the iron-armored soldiers, and used their indestructible iron armor as a moving fortress, and continued to fire behind the iron-armored soldiers, causing the Qing soldiers to fall in rows of falls.

Occasionally, the Qing soldiers rushed to the front of the formation and were split into two pieces by the iron armored soldiers. The iron armored soldiers followed the musketeers, like a bulldozer, and advanced all the way. The Qing soldiers who tried to stop the Ming army were either beaten into hornet's nests or were chopped to pieces by sabers.

In another direction, the Qing army's camp gate was blown up, the suspension bridge fell, and the horses blocked at the entrance of the camp were moved away, and the Ming army's heavy armored cavalry rushed into the camp.

"Kill the slave!" Han Dashan, Cao Bianjiao and Wang Fuchen and other powerful generals led elite troops and rushed in front.

"Kill slaves! Kill slaves!" Three thousand iron-armored cavalry rushed into the Qing army camp and rushed forward, like a torrent of steel, crushing the Qing army camp. Wherever they passed, whether it was the most elite Manchu Eight Banners, the Mongolian Eight Banners, the Han Eight Banners, or the weak Green Camp soldiers, they were all trampled into meat paste.

"Fire Attack! It's Fire Attack again! What a poisonous series of tricks!" Duoduo roared angrily.

It is already obvious that Li Guodong's complete plan is linked together. Starting from the Tawau Castle, it is a complete set of chain plans, using water as a soldier, limiting the scope of activities of the Qing army, so that the canal always firmly controls the Huai army, and then uses the convenience of the navy to carry cavalry to attack everywhere; the battle to defend the city is not just a battle to defend the city, but leaves many backs.

All the people in the city moved away, leaving only soldiers and young men to defend the city. They could hardly defend themselves. They decisively gave up the city walls, but arranged street battles in the city. Then, before retreating, gunpowder and turbulent oil tanks were buried underground in the city, and when all the Qing troops in the Green Camp entered the city, a version of the Ming and Qing wars of the Ming and Qing dynasties came.

Li Guodong's "burning Xinye" is much more skillful than Li Yan's. Li Yan's "burning Xinye" did not succeed. Li Guodong not only burned 200,000 green camps in one go, but also allowed his own people to get involved in the remnants of the Qing army, and took advantage of the chaos to mingle into the Qing army's camp to continue to ignite the fire.

The generals of various departments of the Green Camp were counting the number of people. Because many generals and officers were killed, it was difficult to identify the authenticity of the soldiers under their command.

What's more, at that time, the Qing army identified the enemy and only looked at whether there were braids on their heads. The Ming army that had mixed into the Qing army camp shaved their hair and kept their braids, and took off their hats, which were the rat-tail braids of money.

It was the rat-tail of money on the head that made Qing army officers relax their vigilance.

The Han people had the saying that "the body and hair are not damaged by their parents, so they would not dare to hurt them", so as long as they shave their hair, the Qing army would not doubt it. After all, many Han people had a tradition of shave their hair than shave their hair. What's more, the Qing army required that they not only shave their hair, but also shaved their hair. No matter what the original beard was, they had to be repaired into rat beards with two lips and chin. And some older soldiers of the Ming army that mixed into the Qing army camp not only had rat tail braids, but also had rat beards, which would not make people doubt at all.
Chapter completed!