Mei Yousong's army had a total of ten battalions of elite border troops with a total of more than 30,000 people, of which two battalions were transferred to Zhao Qing, and the remaining eight battalions of 24,000 border troops rushed to the front of the battlefield under Mei Yousong's order.

However, under the continuous grenade bombardment of the People's Army, a quarter of the border troops were killed and wounded in a short period of time, which made Mei Yousong feel distressed and wanted to withdraw the border army.

"Wait, wait." Mei Yousong muttered in his heart, expecting that the People's Army's grenades would run out soon.

At this time, the border army suffered thousands of casualties under the grenade bombardment, and the border army that was still able to fight was less than 15,000 people, and even Song Yingchang was persuaded by the side, Mei Yousong finally couldn't wait.

An order was immediately issued to let the border army retreat, and at the same time the Earthquake Battalion was ordered to use the Earthquake Thunder to cover the retreat of the border army.

Soon, Mei Yousong's order was sent to the front of the battlefield, and the border army, which was almost collapsing, began to retreat back, and the KPA advance troops followed closely, not wanting to let go of the enemy in front of them.

At this moment, the earth-shaking battalion behind the border army was powerful, and the earth-shaking thunder, which was almost almost as similar to a grenade, was thrown at the feet of the soldiers of the pioneer army by the Ming soldiers, and in a series of grenade explosions, hundreds of soldiers of the first army fell on the battlefield.

Seeing that the enemy also had grenades, Han Lin, the commander of the Xiandeng Division, immediately ordered the troops to stop the pursuit.

It was impossible to determine how many grenades the Ming army had, so it caught up, the People's Army could not kill many enemies, but its own casualties would greatly increase, and the gains outweighed the losses.

In fact, when Wang Shengrong knew that the Ming army was using grenades, he would also give the same order, but Wang Shengrong got the situation relatively late, and the order would be issued later, so he could not give the order in time, but the number of casualties of the People's Army increased significantly, which was not a good thing for the People's Army.

However, after the Ming army and the people's army opened a distance of more than 100 zhang, Wang Shengrong issued an order to "pursue", and in the rhythmic sound of war drums, Wang Shengrong's army strode forward, and the distance between the Ming army and the Ming army remained at more than 100 zhang, which would not be shortened or lengthened much.

Mei Yousong got the news of Zhao Qingjun's defeat, Wang Shengrong also got the news of Gao Wei's victory, and also learned that Gao Wei's army was chasing the defeated Zhao Qingjun while marching quickly to the rear of the battlefield.

Miserable, too miserable, Mei Yousong's army of 160,000 horses and Wang Shengrong's 130,000 horses fought, in less than half an hour, the number of casualties of Mei Yousong's army exceeded 30,000, of which the number of casualties of the elite border army exceeded 10,000, if it were not for the cover of the earth-shaking thunder of the earth-shaking battalion, the number of casualties of the border army would be even more.

There was a big defeat of Zhao Qingjun before, and the existing elite border army suffered heavy casualties, Mei Yousong knew that this battle could not be fought, and the army began to retreat, but the pursuit of Wang Shengrong's army made Mei Yousong understand that it was not so easy for his side to retreat.

"Order all departments, give up all baggage (including artillery), and accelerate the retreat of the whole army, Zhou Xinhong."

"The end will be."

"Give you three battalions of men and horses to block the thieves behind for two quarters of an hour."

"The last will obey."

Most of Mei Yousong's army continued to retreat, and all the baggage was abandoned, leaving only Zhou Xinhong and three battalions of Ming troops waiting for the enemy who was about to rush up.

Zhou Xinhong's face was full of bitterness, the three battalions of the Ming army, the full strength should be more than 9,000 people, but two of the three battalions of the Ming army that Mei Yousong gave to Zhou Xinhong were disabled, and the three battalions together were less than 7,000 people, at least 4,000 people were recruits.

Knowing that he was going to carry out the task of breaking off, most of the soldiers were about to collapse, and their morale was completely lost, how could he, Zhou Xinhong, rely on such an army to resist the People's Army for two quarters of an hour.

But Mei Yousong's order Zhou Xinhong did not dare not listen, let alone lead the army to surrender to the enemy, his family was still under the rule of the Ming court, once the news of his defection to the enemy spread, then his family would die.

All Zhou Xinhong can do now is to take these less than 7,000 men and horses to block the enemy as much as possible, even if he dies in the end, he can't let an enemy pass before he dies.

"Brothers, fight to the death!" Zhou Xinhong shouted, but there was only a few echoes.

Wang Shengrong's army rushed up, and Zhou Xinhong's army's smaller firecrackers and archers successively struck to bring small casualties to Wang Shengrong's army, and soon the two armies were close to each other.

The first troops brandished their broadswords and slashed at the Ming soldiers, and the grenadier units behind the first troops threw a wave of hundreds of grenades directly into the Ming army's array, killing and wounding hundreds of people.

Some KPA officers felt that the morale of the Ming army was very poor, and directly shouted: "Wait for you to quickly lay down your arms, and those who surrender will not be killed!" ”

"You've all been abandoned, keep fighting, all of you will die, if you want to live, hurry up and throw away your weapons."

"Lay down your arms, don't kill those who descend!"

Soon, all kinds of words of persuasion to surrender were shouted out by the soldiers of the People's Army, and in the words of the soldiers of the People's Army to persuade them to surrender, many Ming soldiers and soldiers had the idea of surrendering.

Zhou Xinhong felt bad, and immediately shouted: "Brothers, we can't surrender to the enemy, if we surrender to the enemy, our family will all die, follow along, even if we die, we must drag the enemy to die together!" ”

Hearing Zhou Xinhong's words, many Ming soldiers immediately gave up surrender and continued to wave swords and guns at the soldiers of the People's Army.

At this moment, a wave of dozens of grenades smashed towards Zhou Xinhong's location, and in a series of explosions, Zhou Xinhong fell in a pool of blood.

As the commander of the first army, Zhou Xinhong's position is too high, isn't this looking for death?

The commander died, and the Ming army, which did not have much morale, had no morale at all, and the Ming soldiers were still fighting, and more Ming soldiers put down their weapons and knelt on the ground, unwilling to fight again.

In order not to hurt the surrendered Ming soldiers, the grenades that kill the enemy quickly cannot be used, so they can only rush up and slash the soldiers of the first troops, but increase the number of casualties to the People's Army.

After Wang Shengrong's army eliminated the resistors in Zhou Xinhong's army and continued to advance, the distance between Wang Shengrong's army and Mei Yousong's army had been opened more than two miles, even if Wang Shengrong's army was good at marching, it was almost impossible to catch up with Mei Yousong's army after another round of fighting.

Even if they can't catch up with Mei Yousong's army, Wang Shengrong's army is still advancing, and Gao Wei's army is pursuing this side on the east side, so he may be able to intercept Mei Yousong's army.

Mei Yousong's army has been defeated, but the current results cannot satisfy Wang Shengrong, the teacher's order has not been completed well, and the Mei Yousong army must be severely damaged, so that the Ming army will not dare to take the initiative to attack the People's Army in the next few years!