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The two soldiers beside him quickly dragged Kong Youde down.

Chen Zhong couldn't bear it anymore, "Yuan Qing, you...hey, your merits outweigh your faults."

Li Yuanqing nodded and waved his hands to the two soldiers, "This is war time. Let's take note of this guy's 50 military sticks. When the battle is over, this guy will be punished."

"Yes." The two soldiers also felt relieved and quickly let go of Kong Youde.

In the past half year, Kong Youde had been getting along with them day and night, and they had already developed a brotherly relationship. At this time, he did not need to be punished, which meant that he still had a chance to make meritorious deeds in this battle.

Kong Youde was also overjoyed and hurriedly kowtowed to Li Yuanqing, "Thank you, General, for your grace. Thank you, General for your grace."

50 military sticks, for a strong young man like him, would not be a problem at all, but if he was beaten at this time and could not continue to perform meritorious service, that would be his regret.

How could he not be excited when he saw Li Yuanqing delaying the punishment?

Li Yuanqing smiled and helped him up, "You kid, if you don't fight for three days, go to the house and uncover the tiles. If everyone is like you? How will our Changsheng Camp become an army?"

Kong Youde lowered his head and did not dare to refute, "General, I know I am wrong because of my humble position."

Li Yuanqing smiled and said, "Okay. Stop pretending. I still don't know your temper? Now get over here and lead the way. Brother, let's go to the artillery camp and have a look."

Kong Youde couldn't help but be overjoyed and hurried to the front, "General, that red cannon is such a good thing. It's such a waste of natural resources to fall into the hands of the Tatars..."

Seeing him dancing excitedly, Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong both smiled.

Li Yuanqing said: "You kid, don't think that I have forgotten your punishment. When we return to Changsheng Island, you won't be able to escape."

Kong Youde chuckled, "General, don't worry. Once you return to the island, you will definitely be punished for your humble position."

Saying that, he hurriedly led the way.

Looking at the virtuous and vigorous figure in front of him, Chen Zhong slowly exhaled a breath and looked at Li Yuanqing beside him.

This brother of his, this method is really...

As the saying goes, ‘Turn your hand over and it will become clouds, and overturn your hand and it will become rain’.

After this experience, the small hole had already become the dough in his hand, so how could it escape his grasp?

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The Houjin artillery array was not far from the entrance of the camp. Not long after, Li Yuanqing and his party had arrived on the slope here.

Looking at the red-clothed cannon in front of him, which was emitting a dark and dazzling light in the firelight, Li Yuanqing felt indescribable emotions in his heart.

He originally thought that he would have to wait until Yang Xiaochuan's fleet came back from Macau to get such a sharp weapon. Unexpectedly, he would seize it from Hou Jin at this time.

This corresponds to the song of later generations, "No guns, no cannons, the enemy made them for us."

With these red-coated cannons in hand, the entire battlefield situation was completely controlled by the Ming army. The Ming army was already determined to defeat the Houjin camp.

Without enough time to express too many emotions, Li Yuanqing quickly issued an order and quickly mobilized two private soldiers to firmly guard the artillery camp position. However, they no longer opened fire immediately, but opened fire intermittently as a support.

After all, the main force of the Ming army had already rushed into the Houjin camp at this time. If they fired blindly, they would probably also cause damage to their own side, which Li Yuanqing was unwilling to accept.

The power of the red cannon is not really about how much damage it causes to the army. It is like the nuclear weapons of later generations. The key is its psychological deterrent effect.

At this time, the Hou Jin army must have known that the red cannon had fallen into the hands of the Ming army. As a result, their cavalry did not dare to be so aggressive anymore.

As the war continued to progress, messengers from the front kept coming back with news.

The Ming army was overwhelmingly strong everywhere, and the Jin army could not resist much at all, so they all seized the road and fled to the north.

Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong sat at the artillery camp, paying attention to the battlefield situation at all times, making arrangements and controlling the overall situation.

Seeing that the overall situation had been decided, Li Yuanqing ordered Kong Youde to lead his soldiers to the battlefield to observe the situation and gain some casualties by the way.

The boy was naturally overjoyed and hurriedly left happily, having already forgotten the matter of being punished.

The fighting continued until early in the morning, and then gradually stopped.

Houjin Camp was full of fire, supplies were piled up, and everything was in a mess.

Soon, news came from the front that the Houjin Army had gathered about six or seven Niulu troops, as well as many auxiliary soldiers, about three thousand to less than four thousand, and all the cavalry were lined up three miles north of the camp.

Formation, seems to want to make a counterattack.

Li Yuanqing hurriedly ordered the main force of the Changsheng Battalion, 000 people, to pile up to the north of Houjin's camp to prepare for the Houjin Army's counterattack. At the same time, he ordered the main force of Chen Zhong's army, 000 people, to support the attack.

The remaining time is to clean up the battlefield.

According to the news from the front, there are at least 20,000 sheep, nearly 1,000 cattle, and nearly 1,000 injured horses in the Houjin camp, and there is no time to evacuate.

There are also many weapons and armors, and a large amount of strategic materials.

In Houjin's military formation, a true slave Tatar would have at least a full complement of slaves to assist him.

They are responsible for carrying weapons, armor, dry food, and various trivial matters.

This is a bit similar to being a follower of a later star.

However, most of these slaves are Han Chinese.

Even the Mongol Tatars were assisted by dozens of Han slaves.

Last night, the Ming army made a surprise attack at night. Many of the real slave Tatars had already taken off their armor to eat. They had no time to put it on, and they were unable to form effective resistance, so they had no choice but to run away on horseback.

At this time, even though there were four thousand Houjin cavalry outside the camp, they had no armor, and Li Yuanqing was not in vain.

Facing the Changsheng Camp's spear formation, they would never dare to rush forward easily.

Soon, as the sky became brighter, the auxiliary soldiers began to carry various supplies in the Houjin camp and drive the sheep and cattle. At the same time, the auxiliary soldiers in the city also received orders and drove out the mules and carriages.

, quickly gathered here, preparing to transport a large amount of materials to the city.

At the artillery camp position, Chen Zhong felt refreshed and not at all tired from a long night. The smile on his face could not be hidden at all, and his mouth almost reached his ears, "Hahaha, hahahaha. Yuan Qing, these supplies

, enough for us to eat for the New Year. This is all meat. Hahaha..."

Li Yuanqing was also in an extremely happy mood.

Huang Taiji probably didn't expect that his tactic of avoiding the important and taking the easy way out would lift a rock and severely hurt his foot.

Without supplies, his Liaonan strategy could no longer continue.

However, Li Yuanqing was not at ease about Zhang Pan's side, "Brother, although our side is victorious, I'm worried that Jinzhou's side..."

Chen Zhong was stunned and understood what Li Yuanqing meant, "This is a big trouble. But Yuan Qing, we have just won and there are still so many supplies that need to be dealt with. There is no way to save it."

Li Yuanqing nodded.

The situation in Fuzhou is unstoppable, but the situation in Jinzhou will definitely be difficult.

Li Yuanqing knew clearly that at this time, the Houjin camp would never have more than 10 Niulu troops. Moreover, most of the Niulu troops were old and weak, and the best ones were probably transferred to the Jinzhou front line.

Huang Taiji probably had the idea of ​​"encircling the point to mobilize reinforcements" and wanted to lure Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong out and use the advantages of the field cavalry to annihilate them in one fell swoop.

At this time, although Li Yuanqing wanted to save Jinzhou, this was not a rational approach. After thinking carefully for a moment, Li Yuanqing said: "Jinzhou can be given up, but there must be no loss in Lushun. Brother, let's send people to Jinzhou to investigate now.

Let’s explore the situation and report the information here so that Zhang Pan can be prepared. If Huang Taiji dares to attack Lushun, you come to defend Fuzhou and I will rescue him by sea."

Chen Zhong also understood what Li Yuanqing meant, "That's fine. Yuan Qing, let's take care of this first. We can discuss this matter later when we get detailed information."

Soon, 0 elite scouts were divided into three groups and rushed towards Jinzhou.

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I have been busy from early morning to evening, and only half of the supplies in Houjin camp have been counted.

In this battle, the Ming army achieved a complete victory.

Not to mention all kinds of food, weapons, and armor, there were nearly 30,000 cattle and sheep alone.

Among them, there are nearly 2,000 cattle and more than 28,000 sheep.

This is only the living ones. If we include the cattle and sheep that were accidentally injured and died in the melee last night, there are probably 35,000 of them.

Unfortunately, all the horses that could run were taken away by the Tatars. The Ming army did not gain much, but they still had the corpses of more than 2,000 horses.

War horses are full of good meat, which can be made into bacon, enough for the Ming army to enjoy for a long time.

In addition, the results of the battle are also calculated.

In this battle, the Ming army wiped out at least 4,000 enemies.

Among them, there are nearly 800 true slaves, more than a thousand Mongolians, and more than 00 armored men. The rest are mostly soldiers under the Han banner.

In addition, nearly three thousand Houjin servants were captured, most of them Han Chinese, but also a small number of old and weak men wearing armor.

There are also more than 20,000 taels of gold and silver, which can be converted into silver, which is over 40,000 taels.

These things naturally fell into the pockets of Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong.

At this time, a strong bonfire was lit beside the earthen wall 400 steps away from Fuzhou City.

Li Yuanqing and Chen Zhong only rested for an hour or two in the morning and afternoon respectively, but they were both in excellent spirits.

All the Tatar corpses were decapitated, embalmed and sterilized with quicklime, and brought directly to the city.

Their corpses were thrown directly into the fire at the Houjin camp, integrating with the heaven and earth, which was environmentally friendly and trouble-free.

The most critical red cannons have been transported to the city. Li Yuanqing did not execute these gunners immediately. Instead, he imprisoned them and kept them on standby. By the way, he also helped Li Yuanqing train some new gunners.
To be continued...