The Youyang army, which retreated to the south bank of the Hunhe River, could no longer fight, with 3,000 soldiers and 1,070 killed, and most of the rest were wounded.

Including the main general of Youyang, all of them were seriously injured.

So Bai Zaixiang led the Youyang Army to resolutely withdraw from the battlefield according to Qin Bangping's instructions.

In order to buy time for the Youyang army to completely withdraw from the battlefield, the Shizhu Army continued to fight to the death on the north bank of the Hunhe River.

However, at this time, there was another joke, the chief general of the Southern Army, Tong Zhonghua, the chief soldier of the reinforcement army, saw that the Youyang army was withdrawing from the battlefield, but he was not ready to care about the life and death of the Shizhu army, he... Well, I really want to run.

So the chief soldier rode a horse and wanted to sneak into the Youyang army, but at this moment, a strong and powerful hand grabbed the reins of his horse, and Tong Zhong, who was dragging him, staggered.

"Where are you going?"

It means to ask him, Tong Zhonghua, where are you going?

"I ......" Tong Zhong scratched his shy face and said embarrassedly: "I, I actually just want to see if the Youyang Army needs help." ”

Speechless, what to help, wait for you to lend people two legs to help them retreat?

The retreat of the Youyang Army was due to the fact that the whole army was wounded and could not fight at all, and the most aggrieved thing was that at least half of these wounded soldiers were given by the Toucheng artillery in Shenyang City.

However, this is not the time to reason, seeing that Tong Zhonghua was about to quietly touch Qi Jin's hand again, Qi Jin pulled back his horse reins and shouted:

"Give me back!"

Tong Zhonghua is very well-behaved, he can't be well-behaved, because he clearly saw that Qi Jin's other hand had already touched the saber on his waist, if Tong Zhonghua really escaped, Qi Jin really dared to kill him.

It doesn't matter if you are a general soldier or not, grandpa knows you, but grandpa's knife doesn't know you.

This Tong Zhonghua, who is this recruiting to provoke whom?

Originally, he didn't want to fight the Battle of the Hunhe River, but Zhou Dunji wanted to fight.

This time, I wanted to run, but I met Qi Jin who didn't know how to open his mind again.

He is the chief general of the Southern Army, why is he so aggrieved, and as the chief soldier, he is still very unsuccessful, and he is actually called by his subordinates again and again.

This is a general commanding a soldier, but a soldier commanding a wasted general to fight.

However, in the face of Qi Jin's obstruction, not only Tong Zhonghua, but also a few soldiers under Tong Zhonghua and Chen Ce were also emotional.

However, Chen Ce is very open, it is rational to return to Liaoyang halfway, and escaping from the battle is a matter of crossing the bottom line of soldiers, and Chen Ce does not want to.

Seeing that Chen Ce, another commander in charge of the reinforcements, did not contradict Qi Jin's approach, Qi Jin glanced at everyone around him and said in a deep voice again:

"Where do you want to retreat, and where can we retreat? The Shizhu Army is trading their own lives for time for the Youyang Army to retreat.

However, after the Stone Pillar Army retreated to the south bank, what if there was no one to answer them, are we here just to see all the Stone Pillar Army die in battle?

The south bank is more dangerous than the north bank, the south bank is vast, more suitable for the Jin cavalry group charge, if we give up our robes and only care about our own escape, we are not worthy of being soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, and ourselves, and even our descendants, will forever plant a seed of shame.

Listen, this is the place where we will die in battle......"

Qi Jin's voice was sonorous, Tong Zhonghua and the others wanted to open their mouths to refute, but Qi Jin didn't give them a chance at all, and the sentence had been foreshadowed earlier, expressing an attitude, that is:

I, Qi Jin, are not ready to live, who cares if you are an official or not? Whoever escapes kills whom!

He solemnly shouted again: "All the Qi family's troops listen to the order!" ”

"Here, I'm waiting for the commander-in-chief's military order!"

The Qi family army seemed to know what Qi Jin was about to say, that is, Qi Qi stood on the platform for his own main general, and looked at the rest of the armies with a sharp gaze.

"The sons and daughters of the Qi family obey the order, if anyone dares to retreat from the battle, regardless of the official rank, starting with me, starting with General Tong and General Chen, they will all be killed immediately."

Tong Zhonghua was so frightened that his bones were soft, and Chen Ce lowered his head to cover up his embarrassment and coughed lightly.

He didn't say that he was saving face for Tong Zhong, okay, General Chen is seventy years old, and he has never been a deserter, Qi Jin is looking down on him.

The officers and soldiers who put away the idea of escaping were secretly scolding in their hearts: Scolding, Qi Jin is really crazy.

Qi Jin was crazy, and he and Qin Bangping, Zhou Dunji, and Bai Zaixiang didn't expect that the comrades they wanted to rescue would turn their guns to help the enemy turn the tide of the battle when they were about to win a big victory.

This was a great psychological blow to him, so Qi Jin would never allow the people around him to escape.

Seeing that the situation had calmed down, Qi Jin narrowed his eyes slightly, looked at the north bank of the Hunhe River, and muttered in a low voice:

"Brother Qin, I, Qi Jin, am optimistic about you, speaking of which, if it weren't for the betrayal of the group of traitors in the Shenyang defenders, even if we couldn't recapture the city, we would definitely bite off a mouthful of flesh and blood of the Jin army.

I camped in Wuli, Henan, just to show the enemy to be weak, but I didn't expect it, but now I can't help you, Brother Qin, take care, I will wait for you on the south bank, waiting for you to die with me. ”

This also talks about why the Qi army gave up camping near the river bridge, gave up the artillery support for the Hebei Sichuan army on the other bank, and the strategy of blocking the Jin army's pursuit for the Shizhu army at the bridgehead, and camped on the south bank for five miles.

In fact, this tactic is that Qi Jin and Qin Bangping plan to slaughter the Jin army on the north bank, and then lead the Jin army, which was beaten and irrational, to the south bank of the Hunhe River to strangle them in one fell swoop.

Why? Could it be that these best generals in the world have a hole in their heads?

Of course not.

They all knew that even if they came to Shenyang City, they would not be able to recapture Shenyang City by force.

The defenders have 100,000 strong soldiers, while the Sichuan army and the Qi army are less than 20,000, how to attack?

Therefore, if you want to win, you must deceive the enemy from behind the fortified city.

Later generations commented on this bloody battle, and many people thought that the Ming army's layout was stupid, and said that it had committed a variety of military taboos.

For example, the division of troops, one behind the river, the other against the river, and then under the nose of the enemy do not advance or retreat to sit and wait to be killed, saying that the Sichuan army is doing this willfully.

In fact, these historical commentators, including the Qing Dynasty, didn't know how strong the Sichuan army and the Qi army were.

They also did not stand on the side of the four strong armies themselves to have that self-confidence.

In terms of combat effectiveness alone, in terms of attack, Qin Liangyu can lead thousands of white-pole soldiers to face Luanzhou, Qian'an, Zunhua, and Yongping, which are defended by Amin with tens of thousands of troops, and break four cities in five days.

In the field battle, the battle formation composed of the four most elite men and horses of the Ming army, if it weren't for Li Yongfang's super high price of 1,000 taels per person and a beautiful field, he bought the artillery of the Ming army in Shenyang City, Rao is Nurhachi has 100,000 iron cavalry, within a day, can he break the formation?