On the southern front, the bloody battle has been going on for half an hour. Where the two armies clashed, the land was so full of blood that it could no longer be drunk. Blood, gushing out of the terrible wounds on the fallen soldiers of the Ming and Qing armies, gathered into a stream under the trampling of a pair of big feet, and slowly flowed towards the low-lying river beach.

Most of the Luo Luo who were sent out just now were no longer in the formation, and speaking of which, when it came to martial arts, those Eight Banner Army and Domain Soldiers were not inferior to them, it was nothing more than the desperate fighting style of waving the double swords that caught them off guard when they first engaged. Soon, with the cooperation of strong martial arts and a more rigorous battle formation than Luo Luo, who fought alone, the Qing army quickly cleared out these brave and ruthless people, and then resumed the ferocious offensive of Fang Cai.

Fortunately, the sacrifice was not in vain, and with the sudden onslaught launched by the Rolls, the Ming army, which had been suppressed and beaten since the engagement, finally breathed a sigh of relief. By the time the offensive organized by Luo Luo was over and the Qing army launched another onslaught, most of the Ming troops who had eased up were familiar with the attack habits of their current opponents, and when the two sides fought again, they were no longer as passive as before.

On the battlefield, the Qing army was still attacking, and the Ming army was guarding the battle line. In the face of the almost crazy Eight Banners Army and the feudal soldiers, the Ming army still fought very hard, but it was just trying its best to persist under the great prestige of Li Dingguo.

After the army, the handsome flag was unfurled in this bloody rain. Under the banner of Shuai, Li Dingguo constantly received the current battle situation from various departments, and then issued orders. Although it is true that the Ming army is at a disadvantage at this moment, Li Dingguo's rhythm is well controlled, at least not like the other Ming armies that have already collapsed when they encountered such a violent attack.

Li Dingguo was engrossed in commanding the operation, and the generals at the front line were also faithfully carrying out the combat mission while directing their subordinates to fight bloody battles in accordance with their own experience, ability, and habits.

Beside Li Dingguo, Zhou Jintang, the Ming army of western Guangdong, Deng Yao, the general of Jingyi, and Wang Xing, the general of Huben, who rushed to the aid, had already led their troops to arrive, and they ran to Li Dingguo's handsome banner to listen to the order. However, from this point of view, although the bloody battle ahead cannot be fully seen, they can also see the general situation, such a tragic scene, where have they seen it, they have already seen the face full of white, when they came to the road to think of the battle words have already turned into cold sweat out of the body, where do they dare to say more than half a word.

At this time, Li Dingguo was still directing the battle, and he couldn't take care of them for a while. When the position in front of him was a little stable, Li Dingguo immediately remembered them.

"Uncle Zhou, Deng Shuai, Wang Shuai, this king wants to use you now!"

"The last general will obey His Highness's orders!"

These three people have resisted the Qing Dynasty all their lives in history, and finally martyred the country, and the will to resist the Qing Dynasty has nothing to say, but their own abilities and combat strength are not worthy of their integrity. At this moment, Li Dingguo was blunt, and they seemed to have eased some of their strength from Fang Cai's sense of oppression, and after just a little pause, they responded angrily. The only thing that surprised them a little was that Li Dingguo did not let them supplement the fierce frontal battlefield, but let them replace the men and horses of Gao Wengui and Zhang Shenger on the left wing.

"The last general will take his sons and daughters to recapture the left wing for His Highness!"

"Your Highness, please rest assured, the last general will not let the captives on the left flank go down the mountain to threaten the flank of the army!"

The three marshals took the order and left, Li Dingguo watched the backs of them riding their horses away, and watched the three Ming armies move closer to the left flank according to the order, but there was still a certain degree of worry about whether they could contain the elite soldiers of the Pingnan Domain.

In fact, such a new force should be used to replace the various divisions of the frontal battlefield, so that they can breathe a sigh of relief, so as to better realize the alternating defense of the wheel warfare style. However, these three Ming armies had seen it as early as when Xinhui besieged the city, and they had a relatively reasonable record in the past, but later with the continuous offensive of the Qing army in the Liangguang region, they either lost their divisions or lost their troops, and their strength was far less than that year.

The Qing army in front of them is no longer something they can compete with, and even if they let their troops go up at this time, it will only speed up the collapse of the army, and there is no other possibility.

In fact, the Qing army rushed to Xinhui, even if Li Dingguo reacted in time and the army regrouped here to fortify, but it still left Jin Tongwu's troops behind, who were bait. Without the core elite, Li Dingguo's cards in his hand will be a lot worse, and the only thing that can be used is to prepare for the next step in advance, and the only way to barely make them useful is to replace Gao Wengui and Zhang Shenger to maintain pressure on the left wing.

Persist until Chen Kai's army arrives, which is Li Dingguo's only purpose at this stage. All adjustments are based on this purpose.

The three Ming armies quickly moved closer to the left flank, and Deng Yao's department, which arrived first, immediately replaced Gao Wengui's department, which had just retreated from the mountain. After several alternate attacks, the possibility of retaking the left flank was no longer visible, and seeing this, the two of them simply stopped pressing, but just managed to maintain the pressure and not let Shang Zhizhi have the strength to go down the mountain.

With the defeat of a new round of offensive by Zhang Sheng's troops, the three-way men and horses of the Ming army in western Guangdong have been replaced, and a new round of pressure on the mountain has been launched by Deng Yao's troops. Gao Wengui and Zhang Sheng also slowly retreated to the rear of the main position of the Ming army and regained their status as reserves.

These two divisions are no longer considered to be new forces, but the pressure on the left flank is far less than that of the main battlefield, at least compared to those comrades and their troops.

The reinforcements in the north have not moved at this time, Li Dingguo is very clear, Chen Kai's hour clearly refers to the breakthrough of the Qing army to intercept the troops, from here to the battlefield over there, it will always take some time, so Li Dingguo's order is to hold on for two hours, which is already very tight. In particular, the reinforcements still can't see any movement, and the anxiety in their hearts is gnawing at the will to fight of the Ming army on the southern front all the time.

The battle continued, and the Qing army's initial attacking force had been replaced, after all, the attack also had to bear casualties, and casualties were like grains in an hourglass for either side. Replace the attack, you can always make the hourglass change once, but the further you go, the worse the effect.

Feeling the rotation of the Qing army, Li Dingguo also exchanged the most advanced troops with those who were later, and then replaced those with large casualties to the end and rested again. Now, whether the Ming army can hold out until the arrival of reinforcements and whether the Qing army can defeat the Ming army before the arrival of Ming reinforcements, the two sides are bound to use their means to the extreme, without the slightest reservation.

The Qing army's offensive slowed down slightly, and Li Dingguo reassessed the time, his brows still deep. Time is of the essence. In addition to Rollo, who has already suffered heavy losses, he does have some other methods, but whether he can survive these two hours is also unknown. After all, the Qing army was facing the dilemma of being attacked from both sides, and it was more urgent than him, and there would always be more means to use to accelerate the collapse of the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Li Dingguo clutched the few chips in his hand to death, and even if it weren't for the chips in his heart instead of in his hand, I was afraid that he would have been soaked with sweat in his palm. Constantly pressing and weighing, a pair of tiger eyes have already climbed bloodshot. But at this time, on the left flank, the newly replaced Wang Xing's department was attacking fiercely, but it suddenly jumped out of some discordant tones, and it was three times in a row!

The artillery on the top of the hill is well prepared and condescending, and the cannonballs fired by gravity are far better than the distance on the horizontal ground.

In the first shot, the black cannonball crossed a long parabola in the sky, and directly blasted into the Chinese army battle formation where the Ming army was lined up, and the Ming army that supplemented the two columns was killed on the spot. Then the next two cannons, one cannon was empty, and the other cannon also replaced the head of a Fu Biao who dragged the corpse to the back of the battle.

The casualties were indeed not large, but the flank attack on the left flank made the Ming army, which was still fighting bloody on the main battlefield, even if he remembered the threat of the flank, and constantly magnified it in his heart. Psychological deterrence, this is what the Qing army really wants to achieve, and the effect will continue to amplify as the shelling continues, geometrically magnified!

After firing three guns in a row, the Qing artillery group on the mountain entered the stage of reloading, and it was dumb for a while. Li Dingguo soon saw one of the shells, and he didn't need to weigh it himself to know that the artillery on the mountain was actually not that big at all, otherwise there would be no way to move it up the mountain so quickly. However, the effect of the Qing army was achieved, and the morale of the central front, which had personally felt the shelling, had begun to fall.

"Between the Chinese army and the right wing, let Lu Yongming rush with the elephant camp!"

Luo Luo and the war elephant are the biggest difference between them and the Qing army, and they are also the most likely to subvert the situation of the war and the tactics of the army. Li Dingguo originally planned to keep the war elephant until the most critical time, but at this time, the shooting of the Qing army made him have to take it out early, so as to re-boost the morale of the Ming army. In doing so, the effect is not to be mentioned, but it also makes the situation of the war more and more out of control.

"It's up to you."

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Compared with the bloody battle on the southern front, the northern front was intercepted by the Qing army after taking the left flank of the Ming army, the distance was farther, and the interception and defense were added, and the time for the two sides to engage was a few minutes later.

On the southern front, the artillery bombardment sounded, and the hill-like war elephants came out of the crowd, and although it was late, there had been an exchange of nearly two quarters of an hour. Although the Qing army was under heavy pressure, the Ming army was still unable to achieve an effective breakthrough for a while, and it was nothing more than continuing to rely on continuous killing to speed up the collapse of the Qing army.

Like Li Dingguo, Xu Degong is also on the defensive side, facing the death that is not in the place of death, but he is still very fierce and offensive.

Just now, he had sent an order to inform the generals that Jumala had sent a messenger to make a detour back to Guangzhou, not to ask for help, but to kill the entire family of these green battalion generals once defeated. The Manchurian masters were unreasonable, and these green battalion generals did not dare to have the intention of confronting the Qing court, so they could only fight to the death, and it is a clear proof that they can hold on to this day. As for how long he could hold on, Xu Degong didn't even dare to think about it, and could only rely on the battle situation in front of him to suppress the desire to replenish the feudal soldiers again and again.

These Qing army green battalions in the face of the Ming army's new tactics are not much better than their colleagues in Fujian, the tactical innovation in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties is almost zero, such a pool of stagnant water, but any stone can stir up several layers of ripples - the war elephants of the Ming army in the southwest and Luo Luo, the new tactics of the Zheng group, are all like this.

The pressure continued, and two more towns chased after the Ming army, but the battle line at this moment had been replenished, and from such a large strength before the war to nowhere to go. Chen Kai quietly watched the battle situation, the Qing army fought very hard in the face of new tactics, but the zero boundary point of collapse was still not visible, and every time he estimated the time, he became more and more anxious.

At this moment, he and Shang Kexi are both racing against time, and it is even more unfriendly to him, a latecomer.

Time is still passing minute by minute, and the worries about the southern front are getting deeper and deeper. Chen Kai's breathing gradually became heavier, and the generals around him seemed to feel this urgency, but the terrain here was no longer able to show any more space, otherwise Chen Kai would have already put the two towns he had just arrived in into battle.

The current Qing army still has not collapsed, but the battle line has been pressed back a lot by the Ming army. During this period, the damage caused the Qing army's battle formations in some areas to become full of holes, and they were no longer as strict as they had at the beginning of the battle. But even so, with the efforts of those officers of the Green Battalion, especially the fierce battles of the commanders of the Green Battalion who seemed to be dying, they still maintained a fighting posture and blocked the way of the Ming army.

For a moment, Chen Kai always felt that a long time had passed, if it weren't for the guard officer beside him watching the hour, I was afraid that this misjudgment would be even more serious. At this time, signs of vacillation began to appear on the right flank of the Qing army, but they disappeared again with the appearance of an alternative Qing army with a different gray and blue uniform.

"Soldiers, come up."

Before the words fell, more feudal soldiers began to replenish their vision. The feudal soldiers were the backbone of this northbound interception force, and they were also Xu Degong's only reserve, and the green battalion had been struggling for a long time under such an exchange, and it was estimated that the Qing generals on the opposite side had already raised the reward to the point where they were enough to go bankrupt hundreds of times. But now, those green battalion soldiers can't hold out for long, Xu Degong can only transfer the feudal soldiers up, and use the feudal soldiers to boost and maintain the fighting spirit of the green battalion soldiers.

The appearance of the feudal soldiers really gave those green battalion soldiers a boost. Moreover, as soon as those feudal soldiers with a stronger combat level went into battle, they also performed well in front of the Ming army, which was gradually exhausted.

In this way, the Qing army is bound to hold out for more time. This kind of situation is what Chen Kai does not want to see, because he has never borrowed the hands of the Qing army to consume the minds of friendly troops like some Ming troops who are accustomed to infighting, and now he naturally has to seize all the time to break the current opponent.

"Tell Lin Dezhong and send someone to set off a firework for Xu Degong!"

There was no need for a banner for such an order, and Chen Kai's guards sent it to Lin Dezhong with a verbal order, and the latter understood it, and immediately transferred a Ming army under the general army of Fubiao and did not bring anything to make up for the battle.

You don't have weapons in battle, but you are more conspicuous in battle than holding a sharp blade, not to mention that you don't even have armor. At this moment, I saw those Ming soldiers wearing strips of red cloth on their heads, and a shoulder bag on their left shoulder, which extended to the root of their right leg. Inside the bag, there were three porcelain bottles inserted side by side, sealed with wooden stoppers, but there was still a small hole in the middle of the wooden stopper, and from it protruded a rope-like object.

This group of Ming troops rushed to the front of the battle, and the Ming troops in front were still fighting hard. These Ming soldiers didn't say a word, took out the fire fold with his left hand, and blew out the open flame with only one mouthful, and then picked up a porcelain bottle, lit the rope on the porcelain bottle, and the sparks jumped wildly to prove the identity of its lead, and then did not wait for the people around to be shocked, but when they saw those Ming soldiers one by one, they threw those porcelain bottles high and threw them to the top of the Qing army's head.

In winter, there are many cloudy days, and it is rare for the sunlight to shine through the gaps in the clouds and shine on the porcelain bottles. When the porcelain bottle was thrown from the Ming army, someone on the side of the Qing army had already noticed it, just because the people who saw it just began to wonder why the Ming army threw such things, and the reflective sparkle instantly turned into a burst of fireworks, and the fragments of the porcelain bottle and the iron sand contained in the porcelain bottle only hit the Qing army alone in an instant!