Because both sides used solid bullets, the level of gunners in the rebels was very poor, and the artillery under Yang Yufan was not good, but there were too few guns, and the combat distance between the two sides was about two miles, so after fighting for a day, there were no major casualties. However, there were accidents on both sides of the gun barrel explosion and injury due to operational errors.

It was almost time when the sun set that the artillery of both sides stopped roaring, and both sides finally had a chance to rest.

According to statistics, there were 48 artillery casualties under Yang Yufan, and 56 casualties in cavalry and infantry. Since they were fighting from a long distance, they could not count the bodies of the rebels, but conservatively estimated that the total number of casualties in the rebels was still more than 200.

Although the artillery of Tianjin General Wang Hong was suppressed and attacked by Geng Zhongming's artillery, the casualties were not very large, and at most thirty or forty more casualties than the Ming army.

It can be said that this was another great victory, and the morale of the Ming army was improved again.

Yang Yufan predicted that in the two large-scale battles in the past two days, he had achieved great victories, and today's artillery battle had another advantage. The result of annihilation of 3,000 enemies was second to the point, and the blow to the morale of the rebels was the most important.

Although the main results were achieved by oneself, and the soldiers under Tianjin General Wang Hong performed extremely poorly, if they continued to fight like this, they would eventually win.

Yang Yufan did not expect Wang Hong's Tianjin soldiers to do anything. He saw the performance of the Tianjin soldiers these days. Their combat effectiveness was barely comparable to the newly recruited rebels by the rebel general Li Jiucheng. As long as the rebels put some veterans in the attacking team, the Tianjin soldiers would definitely be defeated. If they had not solved the rebels who attacked their own soldiers quickly in the first battle and then helped them, they might have been defeated in that battle.

Therefore, it is simply an unrealistic fantasy to rely on themselves to make it reliable.

However, they are not useless. As long as they are here, they are a threat to the rebels. Any moves made by the rebels must take into account these two thousand people, and their right-wing security is also guaranteed.

So, Yang Yufan sent someone to tell Wang Hong that as long as they could hold on and do nothing, he would be able to defeat the rebels' morale in two days. At that time, the reinforcements behind him should arrive, and he was just in a good moment to completely defeat the rebels. At that time, Wang Hong's contribution would be indispensable.

Moreover, Yang Yufan also hoped that Wang Hong could give him ten Folang machines, and he could rent them at the price of 1,000 taels per sect, and still return them to him after the war. When he was rewarded on merit, he could give him a few good words. Unexpectedly, Wang Hong, a coward, actually refused.

Yang Yufan had no choice but to do anything. Both of them were generals and he had no right to govern him. He just hoped that he could keep the camp with peace of mind.

However, what Yang Yufan never expected was that despite his repeated instructions, he only needed to stick to the camp and do nothing and make contributions in the future. The next day, he heard the sentry report before dawn, and Wang Hong actually led his army to escape overnight, leaving behind an empty camp.

In fact, this behavior of selling teammates has become a tradition in the Ming army. A typical example is Wu Sangui and Wu Xiang and his son. One of the main reasons for the failure of the Battle of Dalinghe that ended not long ago was that Wu Xiang led his army to flee to sell his teammates in the middle of the journey.

During the Battle of Songjin, his son Wu Sangui also inherited this fine tradition. At that time, Wang Pu, the general of Datong, was afraid of death because he was afraid of fighting, so he fled with his troops. Wu Sangui was unwilling to fall behind and led his army to escape. The other generals followed suit. As a result, "the generals competed and the horses and stairs were ravaged by each other." In the dark night, the Ming soldiers "fighted and broke, and the soldiers were scattered and chaotic, and it was difficult to recognize them in the dark night."

The last eight generals, totaling 130,000 troops, only Wu Sangui fled back to Shanhaiguan with 30,000 troops. The Ningjin defense line that the Ming army had run for many years was destroyed, and at the same time, Wu Sangui became the actual controller of Shanhaiguan. The governor and military supervisor on it became a decoration, because the troops in this place obeyed Wu Sangui, and the others could not command it at all, so that in the end, Wu Sangui was able to make the decision and let the Qing Dynasty enter the pass.

At this time, Yang Yufan had already greeted Wang Hong's ancestors for the eighteen generations, and then cursed for a while before he stopped.

Now that Wang Hong has escaped, no matter how much he curses, it will be useless. What we need to consider now is to continue fighting with the rebels or take the opportunity to retreat to Laizhou City.

After thinking about the pros and cons, he decided to continue to resist the rebels' attack and wait for the reinforcements from Laizhou City to arrive. As long as he resisted it today and tomorrow, when the reinforcements arrived, the rebels on the opposite side would still have to end up in defeat.

Before this, Li Jiucheng also showed that Wang Hong's camp was already empty. As a general who had been fighting for many years, he was good at seizing opportunities. After exploring the situation, he immediately sent people to attack Wang Hong's camp and occupied the entire camp in front of Yang Yufan, including those more than 20 people, Folang Ji.

Then he began to divide his troops and surrounded Yang Yufan's camp so that he would not take the opportunity to withdraw from Laizhou City, which would be difficult to deal with.

In the past few days, the combat effectiveness of his Ming army gave Li Jiucheng a deep impression, and he was almost able to catch up with the Liaodong veterans under his command. The Liaodong veterans under his command were all strong soldiers who survived the fittest after fighting desperately with the Tartars. I don’t know how Yang Yufan trained his soldiers so strongly.

If they are not eliminated at this time and let them retreat to Laizhou City safely, the difficulty of attacking Laizhou City will be greatly increased. It will be several times more difficult to eliminate enemies in field battles to destroy them. Li Jiucheng is still very clear about these principles.

He did what he said, Li Jiucheng and Geng Zhongming gathered the artillery in the camp and the twenty Folang aircraft left by Tianjin General Wang Hong. A total of more than 60 cannons bombed Yang Yufan's camp, and the flying projectiles kept hitting Yang Yufan's camp.

Yang Yufan could only continue to command the artillery to fight back. Thanks to the high-level swing of his artillery, artillery shells kept flying towards the artillery positions of the running army, causing a large amount of damage to the rebel artillery, thus reducing a considerable pressure.

Despite this, Yang Yufan also knew clearly that he was still at a huge disadvantage at this moment. The rebels had huge advantages in terms of numbers, artillery, ammunition and food, and his only advantage was just high morale.
Chapter completed!