The 80,000 army was defeated in an instant, and the officers and soldiers of Gao Jie's army and Liu Liangzuo's army ran for life, only to regret that their parents did not give birth to four legs for themselves. Everyone had only one idea to surpass their companions quickly. As long as they threw their companions behind and slaughtered them for the enemy, they would be safe.

The new Nanjing infantrymen spread their legs and chased after a rebel. As long as they did not kneel down and surrender, they would stab at it with a spear or cut off their heads with a knife. Seeing that the situation was not good, the rebel officers and soldiers who fell behind knelt on the ground, threw away their weapons, hugged their heads with both hands, turned their heads and kowtowed to the pursuers who were chasing them for mercy.

The soldiers let go of the surrendered rebel soldiers and handed them over to the auxiliary soldiers coming up behind them, and just went to chase the rebels.

The auxiliary soldiers behind came up and saw the rebels kneeling all over the ground. The auxiliary soldiers happily tied the rebels with ropes. These auxiliary soldiers were brought by Shi Kefa and Han Zanzhou. Most of them were originally military households in Nanjing. They had not fought for many years and usually rely on farming to make a living. During the Jiajing period, dozens of Japanese pirates ran to Nanjing. After more than 300 military households in Nanjing died in battle, tens of thousands of people hurried in the city and didn't even dare to move. This shows how weak the combat effectiveness of these military households is.

Later, the Ming Dynasty changed to the recruiting system. Every time a large army set out to fight, the military households became auxiliary soldiers. If the soldiers in front of them won, the auxiliary soldiers could still catch prisoners and cut off their heads to earn some military merits. But how could the military households in Nanjing in the late Ming Dynasty have such an opportunity? This time they could go to fight with the new army in Nanjing. I thought that 12,000 to 100,000 could only stay in the riverside camp. It would be a blessing to be undefeated, so the auxiliary soldiers would not have a chance to make meritorious contributions. But who knew that 12,000 combatants actually took the initiative and killed 80,000 rebels to abandon their armor.

The auxiliary soldiers happily captured the prisoners and harvested their heads. When they met the wounded rebels lying on the ground, the slightly injured rebel soldiers tied up as prisoners. When they met the seriously injured, the auxiliary soldiers cut off their heads with a knife, solving their pain.

The new Nanjing army soldiers continued to chase the rebels, constantly catching up with them, and killing the rebels who refused to surrender.

The cavalry also joined the pursuit ranks, constantly catching up with the fleeing defeated troops, chasing them from behind, and with the help of the rush of the war horse, the head flew into the sky.

The defeated rebels fled to the city wall in vain, and the pursuers behind chased each other reluctantly. The rebels fled in front fled into the city, and the people behind were blocked at the city gate and could not move back. The suspension bridge was crowded with people, and from time to time, some people were squeezed into the moat. Just as the people behind were squeezing forward desperately, the overwhelmed suspension bridge finally broke with a "click" and the people squeezed on the suspension bridge fell into the water like dumplings.

The defeated soldiers who fell into the water struggled in the water, but those who knew the water still refused to give up and swam desperately towards the city gate. Many of the defeated soldiers who ran over behind could not hold back and fell into the river. Those who could not swim struggled in the river and finally sank to the bottom of the water. Those who knew the water swam desperately to the other side, trying to climb to the shore.

"Hurry, close the city gate!" Liu Liangzuo ignored the fact that there were still many people in the river and ordered the door to be closed forcibly.

There were not many defeated soldiers left outside at the city gate and were all taken into the city. The defeated soldiers who were desperately swimming to the shore were not so lucky. The rebel soldiers standing on the shore stabbed the river with their spears and stabbed the defeated soldiers who were trying to climb ashore back into the river. Rows of long spears stabbed the river water, and countless red blood stains appeared on the surface of the river, and a large area of ​​moat at the gate was dyed red.

After clearing the people at the city gate, Liu Liangzuo's army closed the city gate and blocked the vast majority of the defeated soldiers outside the city.

"Put down the suspension bridge quickly and open the door!"

"Let us in!"

"Damn it, I don't treat us as human beings!"

"Huama Liu! When did you think of us as a human being?"

Liu Liangzuojun and Gao Jiejun soldiers outside the city were shouting at the top of the city, and they went behind to yell.

Liu Liangzuo didn't feel sorry for these soldiers who were originally refugees. The nature of his army was actually similar to that of Li Zicheng, and only his servants and cavalry were the core forces. Liu Liangzuo had been fighting for many years, and his warriors had already been lost. Later, based on his servants and cavalry, he quickly expanded the source of new recruits. The source of his troops was homeless refugees and prisoners of bandits, or surrendered mountain bandits and bandits.

In his eyes, these people were cannon fodder. Yizhen City was not big and could not accommodate so many people. If these tens of thousands of people were put into the city, they would be sure that they would eat up all the food in the city like locusts. These days, food is more valuable than human life.

The Ming army behind caught up, and the desperate rebel soldiers fought to fight the beasts, intending to fight to the death, perhaps there might be a way out.

"Surrender and not kill!" Zhao Peng made a call to the rebels.

"Surrender and not kill! Surrender and not kill!" The Nanjing New Army shouted loudly to the rebel soldiers who could not advance or retreat under the city. At this time, the Nanjing New Army had already equipped a lot of iron horns, which could amplify the voice of people's speech. Dozens of iron horns shouted at the same time, and the sound came into the rebels' crowd, which immediately disintegrated the rebels' fighting spirit.

"We are willing to surrender! We are willing to surrender!" The desperate rebels knelt all over the ground.

Seeing the soldiers outside the city surrendering to the Nanjing New Army, Liu Liangzuo was furious: "Shoot the arrow! Shoot them to death!"

A sound of bowstrings twitching sounded at the top of the city, and a locust-like arrow flew out from the top of the city and plunged into the crowd under the city. The opposite bank of the moat under the city was immediately covered with white reeds, screams one after another, and a large number of rebel corpses fell down under the city.

"Escape!" someone in the crowd shouted.

"Nanjing didn't kill us, but Huama Liu wanted to kill us! Go quickly!"

The undead rebels shouted, hurriedly fled the city and ran towards the new Nanjing army. Of course, they did not forget to put their hands behind their heads while running, and shouted in their mouths: "We are here to surrender, don't kill us!"

Zhao Peng called out: "Disper to both sides and do not rush to the central army, otherwise you will be killed without any hesitation! Disperse to both sides and kneel down in the open space!"

While the Nanjing New Army was shouting, it listed neatly long spear formations, and spears two meters long pointed at the rebels.

The rebel soldiers who were already desperate to buy someone who dared to disobey them, and honestly followed the instructions of the Nanjing New Army and automatically dispersed to both sides, avoiding the dense forest of spears in front of them, consciously walked to the open ground, knelt on the ground, holding their heads in their hands, waiting for the opponent's soldiers to accept their surrender.

In this battle outside Yizhen City, Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie's 80,000 infantry were defeated, more than 10,000 were killed, more than 50,000 were captured, and less than 20,000 were left to flee back to the city.

"Loyal and brave, there are too many prisoners, several times more than our army. How should we deal with it?" Han Junzhou expressed concern about the prisoners who were far higher than those of his own soldiers, and was afraid that the prisoners would cause trouble or even rebel.

"Eunuch Han is afraid of prisoners rebelling?" Zhao Peng said with a smile. "Actually, there is no need to worry. They no longer have weapons. As long as they are tied up, they are not afraid of them causing trouble."

"It's just that there are too many prisoners, and we don't have that much food either." Han Zanzhou said.

"Eunuch Han, the prisoners were killed unknown, and left 10,000 prisoners to help our army attack the city. The rest were taken on the ship and sent to Nanjing. After we destroyed Liu Liangzuo and Gao Jie, we returned to Nanjing to disperse these prisoners and sent them to mining everywhere." Zhao Peng smiled. These prisoners were young and strong young and middle-aged people, and were very good laborers. How could they be cut in vain? In the future, they would need to start mining. They would be allowed to clean up their previous crimes with labor. After working as a miner for a few years, they could be incorporated into the army according to the situation or handed over to Zheng Sen to immigrate overseas.
Chapter completed!