The battle of Zuoshan continued, during which the Qing army continued to move north from the Tubao group positions in the southeast, intending to support the Ming army, which was divided and surrounded by the Ming army, but their every attempt was stubbornly blocked by the Ming army on the periphery. For most of the hour, but I could hear the cannon roaring through the sky for several miles in a radius of Yushan, and the gunpowder smoke rushed straight up to a height of more than ten zhang, and the people who heard it were shocked and those who saw it were shocked.

The closer you get to the center of the fire, the more the sky is overshadowed by the screech of projectiles. Under the blue sky, the position of the Qing army was as dark as when a storm was coming. Scattered bombs, iron bullets, and even specially made fiery oil bottles and earth mines that fell rapidly from the mountains drilled into the billowing smoke from all directions, shooting blue-gray light in all directions. The vast loess field trembled and shook, almost like the ups and downs of the vast Hanhai thawing. The clouds that spread across the blue sky seemed to be shocked by the firepower of the Ming army, shattering and falling apart. The mountains and rivers are discolored, and the heavens and the earth are killed.

The frequency of the Qing army's reinforcements slowly decreased, until they finally gave up completely and retreated to the earthen fort group in the southeast.

"Almost." Guo Ruke looked high and commanded lightly.

Tangma held the military flag in his hand, galloped down the gentle slope of Zuo Yu Mountain, and passed the military order. Soon, the cannons on the mountain stopped one after another, and then the bird-gunners who had slowly moved to the side to fire a salvo also began to retreat, and as far as the eye could see, through the thin smoke and green fog that gradually drifted away, only the various horse armies of the Ming army were still chasing and killing the Qing soldiers who were still breathing.

The direction facing Guo Ruke, from the rocky corners of the gentle slope of Zuoyao Mountain to the vast soil plain, the earth is sparse, the floating soil is like sand, and at a glance, the field is full of charred black and mutilated corpses. They were either buried in the sand or exposed, and became one with the wind and sand and the blood spilled, and slept forever on the land.

"The Tartars are all broken, and there are still more than 1,000 routs fleeing, and Gao and the party are leading troops to chase and kill." Peng Guang said to Guo Ruke, "The Tartars in the southeast have retreated to the Tubao group on all fronts, I think they are scared of the liver and gallbladder." ”

Guo Ruke shook his head and said: "Don't underestimate the Tartars, they gave up the north, it doesn't mean that they gave up the entire battlefield, now that the big banks are gathering in the southeast, they are bound to want to open up the situation in the southeast and win back a city." ”

"Open up the situation in the southeast...... Does the governor mean that the Tartars want to die and struggle? ”

"The Tartars steal chickens in the north and don't lose rice, and 3,000 people trap my main formation, basically burying my hands, and I can only make up for it in the southeast if I want to win." Guo Ruke said calmly, "Let Li Jiyu hold on for a while, the gap in the north will open, and I will just copy it." ”

Outside the earthen fort community in the southeast, the Yuzhai soldiers facing the main formation of the Qing army have suffered thousands of casualties, and the empty loess field is densely covered with tens of thousands of Yuzhai soldiers, divided into countless small formations and the Qing army are fighting in all corners.

The defeat in the north, the Qing army concentrated on storming the southeast, and dozens of Hongyi cannons were distributed in the Tubao group, each in place, and the muzzle of the cannon was outside. Cannonballs and lead flew out diagonally with a piercing whistling, sweeping the ground more and more tightly, and splashing more and more densely at the array of soldiers and horses of the attacking Ming army. The blood and rain were raging, the potholes and uneven sandy land were full of corpses, and the soldiers and horses of the imperial village who suffered from the intensive fire of the Qing army could not advance, but they did not retreat, and they used their own flesh and blood to support it, barely maintaining the stalemate in the southeast battlefield.

The Qing army suffered heavy losses in the north, and only in the southeast went all out, Shang Kexi knew that as long as it could break through the stubbornly attached soldiers and horses of the imperial wall, and break through the barrier at the southern end of Zuo Yu Mountain, the own army and the Ming army would be considered to be victorious, and it was difficult to say whether they won or lost. The source of his self-confidence lies not only in the indomitable fighting will and strong combat effectiveness of the Qing army, but also in the judgment of the overall battle situation. It is reported that in order to win the battle of annihilation in the north, the Ming army transferred all the heavy artillery there, and the distance between the north and south of Zuo Yu Mountain was three or four miles, and the gap between the Ming army and the transfer of artillery was enough to defeat the soldiers and horses of the imperial village that were already powerless in front of them.

Three days ago, Azig, who was advancing towards Datong Mansion City, received the news of the defeat of Ye Chen's army in Flint Ridge City. The 5,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Eight Banners who participated in the siege of the city, after fierce battles day and night, never failed to attack the mountain city half a step, but lost nearly 2,000 people in the counterattack of the Ming army, and the Zhenglan Banner Manchurian Gushan Ezhen Ashan, and the Red Banner Mongolian Gushan Ezhen Ma Laxi were all killed in the battle, and the Qing army was forced to withdraw from the original road of the northern passage of the Lushan Mountain.

Azig was furious, believing that such a result was a shame that the Eight Banners Army had not seen in recent years, and severely whipped Ye Chen, the general of the defeated army, in public, and re-took Zhenghuang Banner Gushan Ezhen Tan Tai as the commander, and then led 5,000 troops to attack Flint Ridge City. At the same time, the Ming army's endurance was beyond Azig's imagination, and the plan to go straight to Datong Mansion from Zhenwei did not seem to be easy to follow, so after urgent consultations, Azig decided to dispatch Shang Kexi to lead 10,000 people to take a detour from Guangling County to Datong Mansion City, which had the effect of a surprise attack on the city, and second, it could also threaten the belly and back of the Ming army in Flint Ridge City to deal with Tan Tai's army.

However, the Qing army did not expect that the Ming army that went north at full speed from Taiyuan Fucheng was also divided into two routes, and Guo Ruke, the commander of the right army and the Marquis of Pingshun of the Ming Dynasty, also led 25,000 Ming troops into Guangling County, so that there was today's war.

From the point to the surface, keen as Guo Ruke and Shang Kexi faintly felt that the other party might be a strange soldier. In other words, whoever wins in this battle will have a huge advantage over their overall strategic layout.

"Xue Tou, the brothers can't hold it anymore!"

The soldiers and horses of the imperial fortress fell in rows in the face of the fire of the heavy artillery, and the blood outside the earthen fort group seeped into the cracked yellow earth, dyeing several miles into the color of vermilion. Xue was hit by two arrows in his body, and his face was also scratched by a stray bullet that swept by. The blood-stained bandage had long since disappeared, and his countenance, which seemed to have been refined from the abyss of hell, looked extremely hideous at this moment.

"Shut up, Lao Tzu can still hold on, who dares to say that he can't hold on?" Xue Zhao waved his knife and shouted, looking at his own people with a more fierce gaze than at the enemy.

As soon as the words fell, a solid iron bullet smashed two steps away with a strong wind, and the blazing projectile brought up the sand and gravel to fly and burst out, Xue Zhao only felt a powerful thrust attack, and the whole person flew out a foot away in an instant.

The soldiers rushed to help, Xue Zhao shook off their hands, struggled to get up, licked the blood stains oozing from the corners of his mouth, swallowed all the saliva and sediment, and said miserably: "See, Lao Tzu is not dead!" The cannon of the Tartar can't kill me! Speaking of this, his throat was sweet, and blood rushed into his mouth, but it pressed him back into his stomach.

"Xue Tou ......" The soldiers looked at others who were not like people and ghosts, and they didn't feel hateful, but they were moved.

"Pass on my order......" Xue Zhao straightened his waist and faced the earth fort community shaking the mountain, "The army looks at our army flag, the flag does not fall, and those who dare to take half a step back will be killed!" ”

When the soldiers heard this, their eyes were full of tears, and the mountain called for obedience.

Even if the artillery of the whole army was mobilized, it was still difficult to repel the soldiers of the Imperial Village who were repeatedly fighting for a while, and Shang Kexi's mentality couldn't help but become anxious. At present, he has heard the news that the Yellow Flag Manchurian Mel Ezhen Ahanikan died in the north, and the whereabouts of the Blue Flag Manchurian Gushan Ezhen Bahana are unknown, and he knows that there is no way out. In order to seize the last chance of victory, he decided to take a desperate gamble and transfer all the artillery guns of his army to the west, and tried his best to attack the soldiers of the Imperial Wall, who seemed to never be able to kill and could not retreat, in order to quickly open the gap.

However, not long after this military order was issued, the sound of artillery from the north made his heart tremble.

The artillery of the Ming army, covered by the horse army, had been arranged in a ring on the northern periphery of the earthen fort group.

Most of the Hongyi cannons of the Qing army imitated the captured artillery of the Ming army, in order to improve the caliber and power, they could only start to restructure from the aspect of increasing and thickening the barrel, the heavy ones reached more than 10,000 catties, and the light ones were also five or six thousand catties, not only the heavy and abnormal guns, but also there was no corresponding gun truck to carry, and the engine power was very poor. The Qing army generally only used these heavy artillery pieces for siege, and Shang Kexi took them with him, originally intended to be used to attack the city during the surprise attack on Datong Fucheng, and now it is improvised to set up earthen forts to strengthen the defense. However, once transferred, it will take a lot of effort and cannot be done without a lot of manpower and time. At present, these Hongyi cannons of the Qing army deployed in the north of the Tubao community have just dismantled the gun carriage and loaded it on a baggage truck to be transported to the west.

The loud noise drowned out everything, and the sand that flew in the air fell with a clatter, and the smoke covered the sky.

Shang Kexi couldn't imagine how the hundreds of artillery pieces of the Ming army could turn from the north to the south in a short period of time, could it be that the artillery of the Ming army had grown scuds?

When used correctly, a small advantage can sometimes completely change the course of a battle.

The light but powerful No. 2 Hongyi cannon and the Da Forang machine gun of the Ming Army did not need to disassemble the gun carriage, and the agile artillery carriage drawn by people carried to the predetermined position, as long as it was slightly fixed, it could be immediately fought on the gun carriage. As it came and went, its efficiency far exceeded that of the cumbersome Qing artillery.

The Qing army could no longer temporarily use artillery in the north, and the defending infantry took refuge in the earthen forts, making it difficult to counterattack. There were several groups of Qing infantry that were slightly reorganized and charged at the risk of death, but they were also forced to retreat by the Ming troops of Gao Bizheng's command, which was closely deployed around the artillery array. After a short time, but in the earthen fort group, if there is an earthquake, the fort collapses continuously, or is burned, or is blown up, extending for several miles into ruins, and the radius is constantly bombarded by artillery, and the walls and tiles are gone.

The Ming army in the north was just right to flank the defense of the Qing army's own formation in the Tubao community, and several rounds of artillery bombardment, Gao Bizheng and the follow-up Dang Shousu led the horse army to charge from both flanks, outflanking the Qing army that was still in the devastation between the ruins of the wall, and the Ming army's bird gunners and stone stone white pole soldiers who arrived from Zuo Yu Mountain also continued to advance towards the Tubao community.

Shang Kexi was shocked by the attack, and the Qing army, which was fighting fiercely on the western side, heard the news and fell into chaos.

Youtang Ma rushed to the chaotic array of the soldiers of the Imperial Village, and shouted: "General Manager Guo has transferred troops to fight from the north into the Tubao group, and the brothers are specially ordered to make persistent efforts to kill from the west and attack the Tartars, and the reinforcements are already on the way!" ”

Xue was overjoyed when he heard this, and only then did he notice the scattered Qing troops in front of him and the overwhelming shouts in the earthen fort group farther away.

"Lao Tzu is developed!" Around him, most of the soldiers and horses of the desperate Yuzhai shook their flags and shouted to rush towards the earthen fort group. He had only taken two steps, but for some reason the wounds and joints that he had not felt before had a sharp pain at this moment, causing his body to tremble wildly, and he couldn't even hold the knife, and fell to the ground heavily.

"His grandmother's." Xue Zhao was very tired and painful, and he couldn't walk anymore, and he was full of envy when he looked at the robes around him who were actively advancing. After envy, tears rolled down his bloodstained cheeks involuntarily, and he sat on the ground, shaking his arms and roaring with almost all his strength, as if only in this way could he vent the joy and excitement in his heart.