The coalition army finally took a breath, and when they saw the Guan Ning army fleeing, they all shouted and chased after the horses, Li Yan was afraid that the Qin army would chase too far and fall into an ambush, so he hurriedly ordered the troops to be collected. [Full text reading. 】

When the Qin army withdrew, the Dashun army and the other two groups stopped chasing after them, and gathered their own soldiers one after another.

After collecting the men and horses, after saving the dead and helping the wounded, just about to get up and advance, the Guanning Iron Cavalry killed back from all sides, and the coalition army immediately met the enemy, but after a few fights, the Guanning army turned over and left, and fled into the four fields again.

Once or twice, the Guanning Iron Cavalry was like an extremely sticky dog skin plaster, firmly sticking to the coalition brigade, and for nearly more than an hour, the coalition forces could not advance.

At this time, Bai Qi sneered: "I see, the Guan Ning army is here to hold back our brigade, and Dolgon must have concentrated the advantage of the Qing army and went to besiege Zuo Liangyu's men." They wanted to break up the coalition forces and swallow them in one bite like a wolf eating a cow. ”

Li Yan said: "Yes, it must be so." Bai Qi said: "The top priority is to rush to the front quickly and help Ma Jinzhong." ”

He ordered someone to go and deliver a letter to Liu Zongmin, asking him to lead his men and horses to fight with the Guan Ning army, and gather Zhang Huangyan and Gezuo's fifth battalion to rescue Ma Jinzhong.

However, after the order went down, the fifth battalion of the left did not obey the order, and Lao Hui sent someone to report, saying that his side had suffered heavy casualties and the team could not be assembled for a while, so he asked the Qin army to go first, and they waited for the gathering of men and horses and rushed there immediately.

Zhang Huangyan was very crisp there, packed up the cavalry that could fight, about 20,000 people, left some soldiers to treat the wounded, and the rest were all pulled up.

Li Yan sneered on the side: "This is just the beginning of the formation, and someone is playing tricks." The Fifth Battalion of the Revolution was frightened, they couldn't resist the impact of the Guanning army, and they didn't dare to touch the Qing army. ”

Bai Qi said: "It's expected, don't be surprised. ”

The red lady said: "General, our tens of thousands of people went to save Ma Jinzhong, and it was also unlucky, if the Qing army concentrated its troops, there would be seventy or eighty thousand people." ”

Bai Qi said: "Yes, Gongzi Li, you go and borrow 50,000 horses from Liu Zongmin and go with us." ”

Li Yan immediately rushed away, and when he saw Liu Zongmin, he said that Liu Zongmin still admired Li Yan very much, so he didn't say a word, and immediately sent Liu Fangliang and Li Guo to lead 50,000 horses and horses, and went to reinforce Ma Jinzhong with the Qin army.

With these 50,000 horses, Bai Qi's men and horses increased to 100,000, all of them cavalry, and with Bai Qi killing Ma Jinzhong's camp.

Wu Sangui could see clearly from a distance, and it was not surprising that Bai Qi had seen through their plan at this time, when they were planning first, they had already thought of this move, so Wu Sangui ordered a deputy general, with 10,000 cavalry, to disturb on the flank, while the 30,000 people around him still clinged to Liu Zongmin and did not let his brigade free up their hands.

Therefore, this side is still fighting, although Liu Zongmin and the fifth battalion of Gezuo combined, there are still more than 200,000 horses, but the fifth battalion of Gezuo has been stunned, only knows to assemble and defend itself, dare not fight, and rely on the Dashun army to resist.

Although Liu Zongmin has a large number of people and horses, their horses are not as good as the horses ridden by Guan Ningtie, and their speed and endurance are much worse, so Guan Ning Tie rode back and forth on the battlefield, and the Dashun army never could cover people. watched as the other party rushed in and went out again.

Wu Sangui calculated the time, from the time he began to command the battle, it had been nearly an hour and a half by this time, and during this time, Dolgon's side should have broken through Ma Jinzhong's camp and killed the opponent by a P. Even if Bai Qi led people over, it would be useless, at most he would clean up the mess and save some of Ma Jinzhong's remnants of the defeated army.

At this time, Liu Zongmin also changed his style of play, he ordered the whole army, with cavalry on both sides and behind the cover, and the large group of men and horses marched forward, not to stay in place.

It turned out that Liu Zongmin could also see that Wu Sangui was going to drag him here, unable to move, just like a pack of wolves attacking buffaloes, one bite in the east and one bite in the west, until he was bitten and mutilated, so staying here to be beaten was self-destruction.

Be sure to meet all the men and horses, everyone huddle together, and then fight a decisive battle with the Qing army.

As soon as Liu Zongmin gave this order, the Dashun army immediately changed its formation, no longer fighting with the Guanning iron cavalry, but began to gather in one place, so that the cavalry stayed outside and protected the infantry.

After Wu Sangui saw it, he sneered and ordered: "Mingjin withdraw the troops, if you continue to fight, it will be a war of attrition." The anti-thieves gathered in a group, and the cavalry was outside, and they could no longer break through. ”

So the sound of the golden gong sounded on the Guanning army, and after hearing it, the men and horses of Siye withdrew one after another and returned to Wu Sangui's side. Wu Sangui looked at the sky, he had been holding off the Dashun army for two hours, and it was not easy, so he ordered to withdraw to the camp.

The 10,000 Guan Ning army, who had disturbed the white rise, also withdrew when they heard the sound of the gong, followed Wu Sangui to seize the road, and returned to the camp.

Besides, he took Zhang Huangyan and Liu Fangliang, Li Guo three groups of men and horses, swept across the ground like a gust of wind, killed the galloping horses into the Zhong camp, just ran less than ten miles, then heard the sound of killing in the distance, countless people and horses mixed together, no longer heard what the sound was, tragic and abnormal.

After running for a while, he saw Ma Jinzhong's camp, and his heart sank, he saw that Ma Jinzhong's camp was full of fire, and it had become a mess, and it was obvious that the Qing army had broken into the camp.

He guessed correctly, just when Wu Sangui began to move, Dolgon also came to the vicinity of Ma Jinzhong's camp with 60,000 Qing army iron horsemen. When Wu Sangui's wolf smoke was a little bit, Dolgon gave an order, and tens of thousands of iron horsemen launched together, like dark clouds rolling the ground, killing all over the mountains, iron hooves stepped on the ground, and the earthquake trembled.

Soon after Ma Jinzhong set up the camp, he was already on guard, but when he saw the formation on the opposite side, he was also startled, and hurriedly ordered the whole army to be on alert, to withstand the impact of the other party.

In front of his camp, a lot of horses, boulders, antlers and other objects were set up to block the cavalry, but the Qing soldiers and horses were extremely fierce, and some of the cavalry in the vanguard ran outside the camp, and were blocked by the horses, antlers and other things.

Ma Jinzhong's subordinates in the camp kept firing arrows, and poured a lot of these people, but they were also returned by the Qing army outside the camp, and tens of thousands of Qing soldiers released arrows together, and the arrows were like dense rain, pouring into the camp, and the officers and soldiers immediately fell one by one.

By the time the Qing army outside the camp cleared the cover, the Qing army was almost dead, but the passage to the camp gate had been opened, and the iron cavalry behind surged up and began to hit the camp gate.

These Qing soldiers came prepared, in groups of four, pulling ropes on horses, tied to iron cones and iron pillars and other things, rushed to the front of the camp gate, and at the same time let go, hundreds of catties of iron cones and iron pillars crashed into it, and the camp gate and the fence were immediately knocked away. Together with the officers and soldiers behind, more than a dozen were knocked down.

As soon as the camp gate was broken, the Qing army wanted to rush in, Ma Jinzhong ordered his cavalry to step forward to meet the enemy, and the two sides were in front of the camp gate, killing together.

To say that the eight banners of the Qing army, it is indeed very brave, these people are very different from the soldiers of the Central Plains, they generally do not wear iron armor, but leather armor, which is decorated with silver nails, wearing a peculiar round hat, the hat has a top belt, everyone has a big braid on the back of their heads, the appearance is vicious and hideous, and they scream wildly when fighting, like a wild beast.

Most of the weapons they used were sabers, spears, and more often bows and arrows. Almost everyone has a good archery skill.

Ma Jinzhong led Zuo Liangyu's men and horses, and he was also an elite soldier, who had defeated Zhang Xianzhong and other peasant armies many times, and his combat effectiveness was not weak. But compared with the Qing army, it still can't be parried, especially the cold arrows of the Qing army, which are ruthless and accurate, and most of the arrows are officers.

In this way, the two sides fought at the camp gate for nearly an hour, Ma Jinzhong's men and horses suffered heavy casualties, about 1,000 people fell in the melee, and more battalion officers and soldiers were killed by the Qing army's arrow rain.

After fighting for a while, Ma Jinzhong's men finally couldn't stand it, their cavalry was getting fewer and fewer, and they couldn't stop the opponent's onslaught by relying on infantry alone.

Ma Jinzhong knew that if he didn't retreat, his men and horses would be in danger of being surrounded and annihilated by the Qing army, and what puzzled him was that it had been nearly an hour, why hadn't the men and horses behind come up yet?

It's only twenty miles in total, not to mention the cavalry, it's the infantry, and it's also over.

Ma Jinzhong is not stupid, he faintly thought that something must have happened later.

In order not to completely fall into passivity, Ma Jinzhong ordered the camp gate to be abandoned, and the whole army shrank together and formed a formation in the camp to defend itself. Be sure to hold on until the men and horses from behind arrive.

In this way, more than 20,000 men and horses retreated together, and in the middle of the camp, they formed a formation, and the only cavalry was outside to deal with the onslaught of the Qing army, and those infantry all raised their shields and spears to protect themselves.

Ma Jinzhong has been fighting with Zuo Liangyu for several years, and he is not a straw bag, the formation he laid out is divided into several layers, and the circles are very eye-catching. The outermost circle is the cavalry, then the shield soldiers cover the archers, and behind the shield soldiers are the pikemen, as long as the Qing knights rush in and jump over the shield soldiers into the circle, the pikemen will rush up and assassinate them with their guns.

These pikemen even raised their guns diagonally, forming a forest of spears, and as long as the war horse jumped over, it would inevitably be pierced through the belly of the horse.

In this way, Ma Jinzhong desperately held the camp, and the Qing army clashed back and forth in the camp, which was not very convenient, many camp tents and vehicles became obstacles, so the Qing army began to burn these things. The camp was full of fires.

At this moment, Bai Qi finally arrived with his men.

As soon as he saw that the Qing army was galloping in the camp, attacking Ma Jinzhong's men and horses, the situation was very urgent, so he sneered and gave an order, sending Liu Fangliang and Li Guo to outflank the people and horses of the headquarters from the left flank, Zhang Huangyan led the men and horses of the headquarters to attack from the right side, and he took the Qin army and the middle palace to go straight to save Ma Jinzhong.