In fact, Shi Kefa didn't know that when he led his troops south, he also kept an eye on him in Abatai, who seemed to lead tens of thousands of troops across the river, but in fact he only led more than 10,000 men and horses, and the rest were just plundered people.

And this is also the reason why he generously agreed with the people of Nanjing, gave them five days, and let them delay the time.

Abatai has been eyeing Shi Kefa's Ming army for a long time, in fact, the reason why he dared to fight 100,000 with 20,000 is because in the past period of time, the two sides encountered, and the Ming army was often defeated in a battle, and the Ming army in Nanzhili was far from catching up with the border army. As long as this Ming army is defeated, it will also break the thoughts of the people in Nanjing.

After leaving Dingyuan, everything along the way was full of devastation, the villages and towns along the way were all reduced to a ghost domain, and the ground was full of corpses.

Under Shi Kefa's supervision, the brigade immediately accelerated its march, and the original march of sixty or seventy miles a day became a march of 100 miles a day, and for a time all the officers and men in the army were full of complaints.

"Junmen, this can't be done! If we continue to rush like this, if we encounter the eastern captives along the way, the brothers will not have the strength to kill the enemy! We can't go on like this! ”

Ma Degong, who was riding on a horse, saw that the brothers were tired and panting, and said to the general soldiers.

"Yes, yes, Junmen, go down like this, don't wait for the Dongyu to kill us, let's let Shi Butang be exhausted to death!"

Listening to the complaints of his subordinates, Huang Degong shouted loudly.

"The superintendent has an order, can we still disobey the order!"

After dropping these words, Huang Degong, who was holding back the fire in his heart, took out the wine bag from the saddle and took a deep sip. In the past, whenever he wanted to go to the battlefield, he drank a few buckets of wine, went deep into the enemy's military camp, regardless of life and death, regardless of interests, people called him "Huang Chuangzi".

But in the past two days, his heart was really suffocating, galloping to help Nanjing, he did not object, but from the ministry to choose Dingyuan, Quanjiao and then to Xijiangkou, he felt that the ministry would not use troops, so he immediately persuaded the ministry that he should go to Liuhe first, join forces with De Shizi, and then gallop to help Nanjing.

But Shi Kefa replied to him with a sentence of "saving soldiers is like fighting fire, not willing to seek near and far", and now he is speeding up the march, which is also "saving soldiers is like fighting fire", so if he saves it, he may die first if he doesn't wait to save people!

Although he knew it in his heart, he didn't dare to say it explicitly, after all, there was Shang Fang's sword in Shi Kefa, but he had one thought-to cushion the army-once there was an accident, it would be easier to withdraw it at that time.

"If the soldiers are used like this, this 100,000 army will have to let him Shi Kefa lead him to a dead end!"

Just when Huang Degong was cautiously cushioning the army, the army passed through the Qingliu Pass of Langya Mountain safely, and it seemed that it was really like what Shi Kefa said - the main forces of the Donglu were all in the south of the Yangtze River, and there were only small groups of rangers in the north of the Jiangbei, and it seemed that the fact was also the case, when they passed through Quanjiao County, they met with the Dongyu, fought a victory, and cut more than ten heads. Although this was not a great victory, it made him very happy, and the fear of the enemy and the fear of war that had existed among some of the officers and men for many days began to be reversed a little.

After another two days, the army that galloped all the way to the mouth of the Xijiang River finally arrived at the mouth of the Xijiang River, but when he arrived here, Shi Kefa was dumbfounded again - there was no boat by the river, so he could only order the army to camp at the mouth of the Xijiang River, while ordering people to look for ships on the other side.

Staring at the Yangtze River filled with a layer of river mist, Shi Kefa's mood was a little chaotic and very anxious.

"There must be a ship on the other side! The ships must have withdrawn to the other side! ”

Before the news came from the other side, the spies hurriedly reported it. There are thousands of Qing soldiers who are about to arrive nearby.

"Quick, immediately gather your troops and horses and set up a formation to meet the battle!"

The Ming army, which was originally preparing to set up camp, immediately began to prepare for battle, and it seemed that there was no problem with Shi Kefa's deployment, but when the Ming army's every move fell into the eyes of Abatai, it was exchanged for a burst of contempt.

"I am at a loss, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty uses it as a supervisor, and the Ming Dynasty is really unmann......ed."

Shaking his head and sighing, Abatai sneered.

"After the Ming army is deployed in a while, let Cao Eryu use the red-clothed cannon to erode!"

The formation of this Ming army was different from the three-fold formation of the Ming army with "normal field ability" encountered by Abatai in Liaodong and Beizhili, but an extremely dense formation. The Ming army in the south has always taken the rogue as the object of battle, and if the camp is too thin, the enemy will take advantage of the gap to enter the large number of rogues, so when they fight against the rogues, they all respond with a dense formation. The same was true now, and they apparently ignored the fact that the Liukou had neither many firearms, nor many bows and arrows, nor cavalry, and that the Qing army was more and more heavily equipped with cavalry and artillery.

One wrong step, one wrong step!

From camping on the back, to hastily assembling, to tactical ...... But Shi Kefa, as an overseer, didn't realize all this.

"The eastern captives are all cavalry, and we need to meet the enemy with a dense formation!"

Observing the Qing army in the distance, Shi Kefa ordered again.

"Then send a horse to contact the two general soldiers of Huang Yang, so that they can march quickly to this point, and join me in encircling this captive!"

Because the troops led by Huang Dequan were in the rear, and the 30,000 horses led by Yang Yupan were still delayed, there were only 50,000 horses led by Mu Wenshou and Wang Xian. At the same time as Shi Kefa sent a messenger, he said to the generals around him.

"Generals, now is the time for everyone to make meritorious contributions to my Ming Dynasty, as long as this shareholder is completely annihilated here, the imperial court will definitely not hesitate to reward the silver......

There are only a few thousand captives!

Shi Kefa thought to himself in his heart, but for no reason, he thought of the "Song of Righteousness" hanging in the hall, which seemed to be a bad omen, but he immediately took a deep breath, standing on the mound by the river, with the sword on his waist, staring at the field, although it was the first time to be on the battlefield, but he was very calm, but he thought with some pity in his heart:

"I don't know how far away the two general soldiers of Huang Yang are from here, if they can gallop here in the starry night, maybe they can give this shareholder a flank attack from inside and outside, how good it would be!"

When the river breeze blew, the heaven and the earth seemed to be very quiet, and suddenly, there was movement on the side of the Qing army! Clouds of white smoke rose from the rear flank of the Qing army, and the billowing white smoke had a momentum to cover the sky and the sun.

In the next moment, the sound of cannon fired!

Guns!

The rumbling sound of cannon broke the silence between heaven and earth!

When the cannon sounded, without even waiting for those Ming troops to react, dozens of black, fist-sized iron bullets roared in, and the place where the iron bullets were shocked was suddenly a bloody storm......