PS: Thanks to book friend Yi Yihu Qilin and book friend Yidao Ge 110 for their tips.
Yang Fan, who was leading the Yongning City defenders to retreat into the city, suddenly found that fewer and fewer officers and soldiers were chasing him, and many of them were running back.
"Captain, why don't you leave?" Seeing Yang Fan stop, a guard on the side wanted to pull Yang Fan up and continue to retreat into the city.
Yang Fan shook off the opponent's outstretched hand, looked at the city wall behind and said, "Have you felt that there are fewer officers and soldiers chasing you?"
"Is there any?" The guard on the side was stunned for a moment, then looked back and said, "It's true, the officers and soldiers stopped chasing us and ran back."
"Do you think something happened to the officers and soldiers?" Yang Fan asked the guards beside him.
The unusual behavior of the officers and soldiers made him feel that something was happening.
"I don't know." The guard shook his head as he looked at the retreating pursuers, and then said, "Maybe our reinforcements arrived and scared away the officers and soldiers."
"Yes, reinforcements have arrived." Yang Fan raised his hand and patted his forehead.
Apart from the arrival of reinforcements from the First Battle Division, he could not think of any other situation that would cause the officers and soldiers who were about to capture Yongning City to retreat voluntarily.
He immediately shouted loudly, "Everyone listen to the order and follow me to fight back and take back the south city wall."
As he spoke, he held a blunderbuss in his hand and rushed towards the south city wall that he had just retreated from.
Several guards around him also rushed back with him.
There were still many guards who had just retreated who didn't know what was going on, but when they saw Yang Fan rushing back with his men, they subconsciously followed behind.
Although Yang Fan was eager to fight back to the south city wall to understand the situation outside the city, he still remained rational and did not break away from the team around him.
As long as he encounters danger, he can form a formation with other defenders around him at any time.
On the way back to the South City Wall, I encountered no obstacles and successfully returned to the South City Wall through the horse path.
As soon as he came up, Yang Fan noticed that except for the corpses of officers and soldiers, he didn't see any officers and soldiers on the city wall.
"Captain, there are cavalry chasing officers and soldiers outside the city." A guard who returned to the city wall shouted.
Yang Fan rushed to the crenellations on the city wall in a few steps, took out his telescope and looked outside the city.
He found that a cavalry force of several thousand people was driving the officers and soldiers outside the city like sheep. At the same time, an army of over ten thousand people was surrounding the officers and soldiers from several directions.
He was very familiar with the black armor on the cavalry. It was the breastplate of their Tiger Banner Cavalry Division.
And he also recognized the soldiers and horses surrounding the officers and soldiers. They were the soldiers and horses of their Tiger Flag Dragoon Division.
He and others were rescued, and Yongning City was also saved because reinforcements from their Tiger Flag arrived.
"Everyone listens to the order and follow me out of the city to assist the Dragoon Division in killing the enemy." Naturally, Yang Fan would not miss the opportunity to beat up the drowned dog and immediately ordered to go out of the city to kill the enemy.
The south gate of Yongning City was opened.
A team of several hundred people, led by Yang Fan, left Yongning City and killed the officers and soldiers in front.
In the direction he led his troops to fight, there were thousands of officers and soldiers in front of him.
However, at this time, the officers and soldiers were charged and killed by the cuirassiers of the Tiger Flag, and were surrounded by a large group of Tiger Flag dragoons. Their morale had long been low. Apart from running away in all directions, there was almost no resistance.
The officers and soldiers who had captured the southern wall of Yongning City shortly after their great victory suddenly became prisoners.
The situation in other directions in Yongning City is similar.
Nearly ten thousand officers and soldiers became prisoners. Only a small number of officers and soldiers and some officers and generals who were desperately protected by their own soldiers and servants escaped from the encirclement of the dragoons. valley
The captured officers and soldiers were driven to the open space outside Yongning City.
"It's great to see you're okay, Captain. When I heard the news about the fall of the South City Wall, I was frightened." He Qianyou came to Yang Fan with a group of guards.
When Yang Fan saw He Qianyou, he said with lingering fear: "If the reinforcements hadn't arrived in time, I would have been in danger this time."
The defenders in Yongning City only have one thousand soldiers, and the other defenders are all peasant soldiers. There is a big gap between them and the soldiers of several war divisions, not only in terms of their own strength, but also in terms of armor. Small.
Facing tens of thousands of officers and soldiers attacking the city, the defenders in the city will be unable to cope.
If the more than 3,000 defenders were all soldiers with military background, they would not have allowed the officers and soldiers to attack the city so easily.
"The East City I was guarding was about to fall. Fortunately, the reinforcements arrived in time, which demoralized the officers and soldiers who attacked the East City, and they were driven off the city wall." He Qianyou was also frightened.
If the reinforcements were just half a day late, Yongning City would most likely fall into the hands of the officers and soldiers.
Yang Fan pursed his lips and nodded.
Although he did not see the battle on the East City side, he could imagine that the momentum of the officers and soldiers attacking the East City would not be any weaker than the defense battle in the South City where he was.
"Do you know who the leader of the reinforcements is?" He Qianyou asked.
Yang Fan said: "The division of the Dragoon Division is none other than Wu Shizheng. Maybe Wu Shizheng personally led troops to help."
"Come here, let's go forward to greet them." He Qianyou noticed a group of cavalry coming in their direction in the distance and warned Yang Fan beside him.
The cavalry quickly approached the two of them.
The leader of the cavalry looked at the person in front of him and said, "I am the Dragoon Division Master. I want to find the person in charge in the city."
"Master Wu is just right."
When Yang Fan heard it, it turned out that the dragoon division was coming. He immediately raised his right hand across his chest and performed a military salute.
He Qianyou next to him made the same move.
After asking, Yang Fan continued: "My subordinate is Yang Fan, captain of the Thousand-Man Team of the First War Division, who is temporarily acting as the guard of Yongning City. Next to him is He Qianyou, deputy captain of the Thousand-Man Team."
After introducing himself, he introduced He Qianyou beside him.
Lao Wu nodded slightly and asked, "Where is the Yongning County Magistrate?"
Lao Wu is the fifth eldest son in the family. His surname is Wu. He is also one of the first people to follow Liu Heng.
He originally stayed in the martial arts hall to teach, but later the Tiger Flag established a dragoon division and needed a qualified general to lead the division, so he appointed Lao Wu as the first dragoon division commander.
"County Magistrate Qin is still in the city handling logistical matters." Yang Fan replied, and then added, "My subordinates will ask someone to find Magistrate Qin here."
Yongning City is a county seat, and there are officials such as the county magistrate and county magistrate appointed by the Tiger Banner to govern the place.
Lao Wu waved his hand and said: "I have disappeared. There is still fighting in the rear. The captured officers and soldiers will be handed over to you temporarily, and I will leave a team of dragoons to help you manage the prisoners. You two go over and make the handover." "
"Yes." Yang Fan and He Qianyou agreed.
Lao Wu turned his head and said to the person next to him: "Leave a dragoon of a thousand-man team, and the others will leave with me."
After saying that, he turned the horse's head and rode away.
Soon, more than 10,000 dragoons slowly left Yongning City.
