The news that the Haizhou Waterway pontoon bridge was broken by the Ming warships arrived at the first time, and it was finally in time before the Ming army pulled out the barrage on Chaolian Island. At this time, Shang Kexi heard the news that the Ming army brought back by the officer Pegasus had landed in the area of Zhoujun Village, and then heard such bad news, and his face turned pale for a while.

Here, more than 30,000 Qing soldiers backed the Jiangmen, the south was the Xinhui defense line heavily guarded by the Ming army, the west was a large area of mountains and forests, and the pontoon bridge on the Xijiang River in the east was broken.

The stakes were high, and Shang Kexi hurriedly lowered his voice to inform Jumala of the current situation, and when the latter heard this, his face showed more cruelty than fear.

The Pearl River Delta, where the water network is vertical and horizontal, does not go down to the south of the Yangtze River at all, which is an extremely harsh combat environment for the Qing army, which has almost no naval divisions. Chen Kai relied on the Ming army's understanding of the hydrological and geographical situation during this period, and with the powerful sailors of Chen Qice and the Zheng group, he realized the truncation of the Qing army's back road, and at this time obviously forced the Qing army into a dead end.

"The traitor Chen Kai wants to swallow us in one bite, and he is not afraid of breaking his belly!"

Zhu Mala popped out these words word by word, and Shang Kexi naturally understood the meaning. In the current war situation, not to mention the naval division, the Ming army has no less than 40,000 troops on the southern front, and the number on the northern front is unknown, but judging from the banner of Zhou Hezhi, which had never appeared earlier, and Chen Kai's daring to be so big, its strength will not be small. At this time, the Qing army that was sandwiched in the middle only had more than 30,000 soldiers, among which there were many casualties and non-combat attrition in the past three days, and the Ming army gathered more than twice as large an army to besiege them in this small area, making it clear that it was to completely annihilate this Qing army, so as to completely determine the war situation in Guangdong.

However, militarily there has never been a saying that a large number of troops will necessarily win, even if it is to have an all-round advantage in terms of time, place, and people. And for them, at this moment, they are the right soldiers to fight to the death!

"Our army has already gained an advantage on the southern front, and Chen Kai on the northern front has not yet arrived on the battlefield, but we must not let him be pressed like this."

is also a veteran general who has been in battle for a long time, Zhu Mala thinks clearly, Shang Kexi naturally understands it very well, and even Fang Cai's fear is more due to the fact that he is not as arrogant as Zhu Mala, because the vassal soldiers in Guangzhou have really confronted Li Dingguo and Chen Kai, the two Ming armies, and they know that the combat effectiveness of these two Ming armies is by no means that Zhu Mala can easily defeat the Ming armies that Zhu Mala has fought against in the past.

He knew very well that the current battle situation was far worse than Jumala had imagined, but after a moment of panic, with years of experience, he immediately figured out the key to breaking the game. As soon as the words came out at this moment, Jumala, who was a little slower to react, immediately understood his intentions.

"Let those green battalion soldiers drag Chen Kai, let's solve the old thief first!"

"The green battalion alone is not enough, Chen Rei's soldiers are all trained by Zheng Rei in Fujian except for his standard battalion, Zheng Rei is already the master of the rampant in the face of the green camp in Fujian, we need more time to hold on to the northern front."

The Ming army approached from the north to the south, and as the landing continued, there were more and more Ming army flags, and along with the flags of each town, there were more and more Ming army battle formations. Time does not allow them to think about it anymore, because every time Chen Kai takes the next step in the south, he is compressing the space of their step, from Zhoujun Village to Jiangmen, from Jiangmen to here, it seems that there is still a lot of distance, but the distance is not immutable, not an inch shortened, they are one inch closer to the Hades Palace!

Shang Kexi and Jumala are both veterans of battle, and they know very well what to do to turn the tide of the battle at this moment. Orders were issued one after another, and the green battalion of Su Yangzhi, the deputy general of Nanxiong, immediately turned around and turned to the north, accompanied by Xu Degong, the left wing general of the Jingnan Domain, and the 3,000 soldiers of the Jingnan Domain. For this person, Shang Kexi only sent someone to tell him one sentence, and the latter made a military order on the spot, vowing to hold the northern front to the death, and buy time for the main force of the Qing army to defeat the Xinhui Ming army.

The 15,000 Qing army turned around and headed north, which was a small half of the Qing army, which was already only 34,000 soldiers, and the entire battle array was inevitably greatly shaken. At this moment, only the left flank and the Ming army intersected, Shang Kexi sat in the middle army, Zhu Mala led the Goshha prancing horse in front of the formation, and shouted loudly to this army composed of 3,000 Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, 5,000 Han Army Banners and 11,000 vassal soldiers.

"The pontoon bridge has been broken by the barbarian sailors, and the barbarian army in the north is heading south, and the thieves are cunning to gather our Eight Banners Army here. But these barbarians forgot that the Eight Banners Army was invincible, and the minions followed the master to kill the Han dog! ”

Zhu Mala drew his sword in his hand, and the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners of the Chinese army immediately responded. The Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners are the servants of the Manchu Emperor, and their identity is naturally better than the Han Army Banner.

The Qing army pressed on all fronts and put on a posture of a decisive battle with the main force. This is their only way to survive, because compared to the northern front, the Ming army on the southern front has already lost one of the first, and the chances of victory are naturally much greater.

The reinforcements, even with the rout of the left flank, have retreated, the left flank of the Ming army has fallen, and the connected Chinese army has begun to unconsciously adjust the layout of the battle formation. This is almost inevitable, because the left flank has fallen, if the Ming army's central army battle formation is not adjusted, then the Qing army can cover from the mountains on the left flank and storm the flank of the Ming army, which will be a flanking attack for the Ming army.

This was something that the Ming army could not bear, and there was almost no need for Li Dingguo's order, and the generals who had followed him for many years had already begun to adjust their formation. However, this time, Li Dingguo not only did not make up for this order, but also improved the adjustment, but ordered the generals not to move lightly and continue to maintain the original formation.

"Pass the order down, let Gao Wengui and Zhang Shenger organize the troops and launch a sustained onslaught on the valley of our army's left flank. The king only had one thing to tell them, that is, regardless of casualties, they must contain the tartars on the mountain so that they could not move. Otherwise, no matter whether he wins or loses, this king will kill him! ”

Gao Wengui and Zhang Sheng are both Li Dingguo's cronies, and the two of them cooperated to attack western Jiangxi on the eve of the first battle of Hengyang, which was very devastating. The headquarters under the command of the two of them did not have many soldiers and horses, only two or three thousand people, but they were all elites under Li Dingguo. In addition, there were some subordinates who were subordinate to the two governors, and Li Dingguo organized the troops, apparently to transfer these two reserves to plug the holes in the left flank

This is very unwise, because the left flank is still lost, and if you want to regain it, you have to launch an upward attack, which is extremely difficult for the attacking side.

The Ming army guarding the left flank earlier underestimated the enemy, causing the left flank to change hands, and now if you want to recapture it, even if you really do it, you will have to pay a huge price. For this army, even if it really does, it will not outweigh the losses, just like tearing down the east wall to make up for the west wall, but it is easy to lead to the shortage of reserves of the Chinese army and the right flank, resulting in the loss of those two fronts. Not to mention, the mountains are all the core elites of the Pingnan Domain, and the possibility of regaining it is almost zero!

However, Li Dingguo is bent on going his own way, at this moment, the main force of the Qing army has moved, the herald led the order, Li Dingguo looked at the back in the distance, turned his head and looked at the main force of the Qing army that was already moving forward, a piece of paper in his hand had been crumpled into a bunch, but the limited words on it had already been imprinted in his mind.

"Old relatives Weng Junjian, the army of foolish brothers has arrived, and they will break the interception within an hour!"

The north-south attack was inevitably to make the Qing army into a group, and in an area so small that it could not move, it was like iron on an anvil, constantly twisting and deforming in the strike, until it became what the Ming army wanted to see - the whole army was annihilated. Chen Kai's army, whether it is the land division of Zhoujun Village or the water division on the Xijiang waterway, these are invisible to Li Dingguo with the naked eye at this moment. However, the movement of the Qing army in the distance, even if it is not clear to see, can also rely on experience, relying on the movement of those smoke and dust to deduce the movement of the Qing army and the reasons behind this movement.

Chen Kai really came, but it made him hold on for more than an hour while losing a game first and carrying a huge disadvantage, and when his flanking army arrived, it was extremely difficult. Moreover, if Chen Kai made a slight mistake, his army would be wiped out here, and even the possibility of returning to Xinhui to encourage another battle no longer existed.

At this time, it was not only his ability to defend against the Qing army, which had become bloodthirsty in fear of death, but also his trust in his allies.

At this moment, looking at the battle formation of the Qing army rolling forward from afar, I still couldn't see any movement of reinforcements. However, at this time, Li Dingguo categorically issued another order: "Order the whole army, Chen Fujun's reinforcements have landed in the north of Jiangmen, and they want to annihilate the division with our army." Today is the day when the battle will be decided. From now on, within two hours, the front team retreats, and the rear team kills the front team; The rear team retreated, and the king's personal soldiers cut the rear team; The king retreated, and the team beheaded the king. The handsome banner of this king is the death line of our army! ”

At this moment, Li Dingguo issued such an order, making it clear that he was going to fight to the death with the Qing army here and fight to the last soldier. The feudal army, this is almost unimaginable, even famous generals like Yue Fei and Qi Jiguang rarely have such madness. However, unlike the previous battle, this time, they have another support army, and this support army is led by Chen Fujun, who has the reputation of Zhuge in the world, and is trying his best to go south to join it at this moment!

When the military order was issued, the main forces of the Ming army, which had been fighting with the Qing army for three days, were all in high spirits and clenched the weapons in their hands. Li Dingguo's military orders are like mountains, and the two famous kings make him have a huge prestige that other generals do not have. This is not only manifested in the strict military discipline since the Yunnan resistance to the Qing Dynasty, not only in the Ming army and the righteous army in Guangdong in the past two years, but more importantly, the order and prohibition of the soldiers and horses of the headquarters.

The central army and the left flank of the Qing army rolled southward, like a dark cloud pressing down, and the tense air was suffocating. Li Dingguo's two iron cavalry battalions have been sent up, and the governor Wang Hui and the left governor Bu Ning led their troops and horses to do their best to stop the Qing army's superior cavalry from attacking the Ming army's battle array. A moment later, the artillery bombardment rang out, and the Qing army's large array was getting closer and closer.

On the battlefield on the road and the riverside, the two sides had not yet officially engaged, and the artillery bombardment of the Ming army was doing its best to weaken the Qing army's strength and ability to bear casualties before the engagement, but it was undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for those solid shells fired by the front-loading smoothbore guns.

The main drama has not yet begun, but the bloody battle on the left has already begun. The Qing army repelled the Ming army on the left flank, occupied the hill, and then wanted to attack the left flank of the Ming army from this condescending place with the advantage of direction and angle. This is tactically extremely advantageous, but without waiting for the Qing army to gather troops, waiting for the cavalry to raid and harass, the two reserves in the rear of the Ming army rushed up one after the other, approached the bottom of the mountain, and pressed up directly without saying a word.

The banner of Gao Wengui, the governor of the Tianwei battalion, stood at the foot of the mountain, the war drums sounded, with the headquarters of the Tianwei battalion as the core, and the generals under Gao Wengui were also attached to the left and right, climbing such an angle that was not conducive to the attack but pounced without hesitation.

The intention of the Ming army was obvious, that is, to regain the left flank. Of course, Shang Zhizhi on the top of the mountain understood this kind of thought, and hurriedly commanded the feudal soldiers of Niu Lu under his command to carry out defensive operations.

Stones were thrown from the mountain, and the Ming army struggled to block with shields, but often to no avail. In a moment, many Ming soldiers were hit by stones, some of them broke their bones and tendons, lost their balance, and there were many who rolled down the mountain. The Ming army's upward attack was blocked, but the sound of war drums under the mountain did not stop at all, and the Ming army attacking on the back had no choice but to continue to attack and kill.

In addition to the angle and susceptibility to condescending attacks, the more important thing is that the rocks in the mountains are easy to destroy the integrity of the formation. Soon, the Ming army, which had been unable to maintain the formation, became more and more messy under the round of falling rocks, and when these Ming troops climbed most of them, it was when they were already tired, Shang Zhizhi pressed the flag forward, the falling rocks stopped, and the soldiers of the brigade shouted and killed.

The results speak for themselves. This Ming army was indeed weaker than their opponents. In the pursuit of the Qing army, the Ming army of the brigade was trying their best to escape down the mountain. Behind is the butcher's knife of the Qing army, the Ming army even rolled and climbed down the mountain, and the Qing army was not really cut down by the Qing army, but fell to the ground in a panic, and it was the most common to roll down the mountain.

The Ming army was embarrassed, but fortunately, the Qing army chased halfway, and Shang Zhizhi withdrew his troops from Mingjin, because he knew very well that his strength was not enough to defeat the Ming army under the mountain, and it was more important to cooperate with the cavalry and the main force of the Qing army to flank the Chinese army of the Ming army, rather than continuing to fight with the Ming army who came to send them to death.

Shang Zhizhi observed the main battlefield in the distance, where it seemed that the battle was about to be engaged. At this time, the troops can be retracted, and then these elite feudal soldiers can be mobilized to go down the mountain to attack, so as to play the full success. However, the noble Tianwei camp was defeated and retreated down the mountain, but a new round of war drums sounded under the mountain. Looking into the distance, a big banner with the words of the governor of Xisheng Camp was waving in the wind, and the Ming army under his command had launched a new round of mountain attack operations from another angle.

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On the southern front, the belligerents were in full swing. North of Jiangmen, the cavalry of the Qing army in the north had successfully slowed down the southward movement of the Ming army. However, the large array of the Ming army rolled southward, and the infantry and cavalry cooperated, but it was by no means something that those cavalry could hold.

Hold Chen Kai's department and buy time for the main force of the Qing army, which is the purpose of the Qing army in the north. This goal was not initially achieved until the arrival of the main forces. The Ming army under Chen Kai's command in the south and the Qing army intercepted in the north confronted each other in a formation on the flat fields south of Zhoujun Village. Chen Kai held the binoculars and looked at the not-so-noble handsome banner of the Qing army, but sneered.

"It turned out to be Xu Degong, it seems that Shang Kexi that dog thief has really started to play with his life!"