At 12 o'clock in the morning of the same day, the hot-air balloon air force unit of the Jingbianbao Army attacked again in accordance with the usual practice, and flew over the Houjin and Yellow Banner camps, burning firecrackers and throwing incendiary bombs.

As soon as the firecrackers were gone, the hot air balloon returned to its home and was loaded with firecrackers and incendiary bombs.

Hou Jin Bing continued to fight fires everywhere, and the scene was very lively.

It seems that when the decisive battle is fought during the daytime tomorrow, at least this part of the firefighting will be affected.

At half past five o'clock in the morning of the next day, the trumpeters of the Jingbian Fort Army played a wake-up call.

The Jingbian Fort army was the first to get up, and the rest of the men and horses also got up one after another, wearing armor, holding swords, and busily working together.

The firefighters in Dalinghe City all got up early, made beef soup, cakes, and horse meat, and distributed them to all the soldiers and horses.

At seven o'clock, in the open space in Dalinghe City, there were 20,000 horse troops, 20,000 infantry troops, a total of 40,000 troops standing neatly, and on the platform, Zu Dashou stood in the center, Zu Dabi, He Kegang, Zhang Chun, Wu Xiang, Song Wei, and Liu Renyu stood on both sides.

The west wind was fierce, blowing the sun, moon and wave flags on the flagpole fluttering in the wind, and the war drums were bursting.

"Soldiers, yesterday, just yesterday, invincible, known as the invincible, invincible Jurchens in the field, were defeated by us in the field, and were defeated by our great soldiers, we killed 4,000 Jiannu soldiers in a battle, and captured 1,000 prisoners, this is an unprecedented achievement, it is the first time since the Jiannu uprising that we were repelled by our great soldiers in the field state, and we let them suffer heavy losses.

Jiannu was defeated by us, but they haven't left yet, they are entrenched in the north of Dalinghe City, our battle is not over yet, we will continue to fight them. For many years, Zu saw with his own eyes that the Ming Dynasty retreated from Fushun to Liaoyang, from Liaoyang to Jinzhou, and from Jinzhou to Ningyuan.

A large area of the country fell into the hands of Jiannu, the people were displaced, and they were killed by Jiannu. With such a national hatred and family hatred, how can we not repay our dignified seven-foot men.

Go, pick up your swords and guns, take your firearms, bows and arrows, follow Zu to attack, kill Jiannu Xue shame, capture the slave chief Huang Taiji, and set up immortal deeds for all generations. ”

Zu Dashou roared loudly.

"Kill Jiannu, capture Huang Taiji alive, kill Jiannu, capture Huang Taiji alive."

All the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty were inspired by Zu Dashou's words, and all of them were burning with blood and fighting spirit.

"Kill the cow and sacrifice the flag, and go on the expedition. Zu Dashou shouted.

His own soldiers took out the captured oxen, killed them with a sword, and sacrificed the flag.

"Let's go."

Zu Dashou shouted again, and then took the first step and walked towards the north gate.

The soldiers guarding the gate immediately opened the gates, lowered the drawbridge, and watched their army leave the city one by one.

There were many Ming soldiers, and they walked for half an hour before they walked out of Dalinghe City.

When the Ming army came out of the city, the chariots of the Jingbianbao army were divided into two routes, and moved to both sides of their own army to protect the flanks, and their own horse army and infantry army were wrapped in the chariot formation.

The Ming army marched slowly and headed straight towards the camp of the two yellow flags.

The two yellow flag camps are thirteen miles away from Dalinghe City, and the Ming army marched all the way, walked for about an hour and a half, and then gradually approached the two yellow flag camps.

"Array." Zu Dashou shouted.

The Ming army moved quickly, the infantry set up a horse rejection, sprinkled iron thistles, the artillery firecrackers rushed forward, ready to use firearms to hit the impact of the Houjin infantry army, and the rest of the infantry armed with cold weapons stood behind the artillery firecrackers, ready for hand-to-hand combat.

The horses were lined up on either side of the infantry formation, protecting the flanks and ready to attack.

The chariots of the Jingbianbao army were lined up, and the gunners removed the covers, revealing the muzzles of the cannons with black holes, pointing directly at the barracks of the Houjin and Yellow Banners.

Three hot air balloons were tethered to a combat vehicle and placed in the Chinese army.

Zu Dashou, He Kegang, Zhang Chun, Song Wei, Wu Xiang and Liu Renyu and other generals all rode their horses and stood next to the chariot carrying the hot air balloon, observing the enemy situation.

"Strange, didn't you say that Jiannu was a strong soldier and wanted to fight a decisive battle with our army? Why did our army already fight outside their camp, but they didn't react at all? Zu Dashou looked at the Houjin camp opposite, puzzled.

"Dashuai, if they don't come out, it won't matter, and the general will bombard them for a while."

Liu Renyu said the last sentence, and then said to the herald soldiers beside him, gave Ke Zhihong a flag, asked him to give a flag to Li Qianzong, and let the artillery open fire, first firing 10 rounds of artillery.

"Yes, General." When the herald received the order, he waved the flag at Ke Zhihong on the hot air balloon, and Ke Zhihong immediately relayed Liu Renyu's order to Li Jiye.

Li Jiye asked Ke Zhihong to reply and help observe and correct the impact point.

Ke Zhihong replied that there was no problem.

Li Jiye immediately ordered his subordinates to shoot first and try it out according to experience.

When the gunners got the order, they ordered their gunners to fill and fire. Medicine, loading, aiming, firing.

"Bang, bang, bang, bang......."

A puff of white smoke erupted from the muzzle of the medium-sized Furlong machine, which shot out the iron projectile in the barrel and headed straight for the direction of Houjin Daying.

The shells fell a hundred meters from Houjin Daying.

Ke Zhihong and his artillerymen observed that there was a problem with the impact point of the artillery, so they reminded Li Jiye with a flag, and Li Jiye ordered the artillerymen to raise the muzzle of the gun and continue firing.

At this moment, hundreds of projectiles fired by more than 60 cannons rushed straight to Houjin's camp.

Everywhere the artillery shells fired by the Ming army went, everything was shattered, wooden fences, camp tents, horse rejection, everything was beaten to pieces.

Ke Zhihong took the clairvoyant mirror and was ready to observe the tragic situation of the Houjin soldiers when they were bombarded by artillery, but they found something unusual, the entire Houjin camp, no one fled in all directions, it seemed extremely quiet, and the silence was extremely abnormal.

He hurriedly reported to Liu Renyu in the flag language: "The Jiannu camp ahead is empty, and there seems to be no one. ”

"No one!" Liu Renyu was very surprised.

"Dashuai, Ke Zhihong came to report and said that there was no one in the Jiannu camp opposite." Liu Renyu reported the news to Zu Dashou.

"Nobody!?" Zu Dashou looked surprised.

"Han Dong, I order you to quickly take someone to check, is there really no one in the Jiannu camp?" Zu Dashou ordered at Han Dong.

"Yes, Marshal." Han Dong took the order and left, and took his men to investigate the military situation.

"Dashuai, Jiannu is not in the camp, it is possible to set up an ambush in other places, and you need to send more scouts and horses to explore everywhere." He Kegang suggested.

"But it makes sense. Kefa, take the cavalry out to scout, explore for ten miles, and see if there is any abnormality around? Zu Dashou ordered to Zu Kefa.

"Yes, Marshal." Zukoffa took the order and left.

"Dashuai, the last general will raise the hot air balloon a little higher, and scout on all sides to see if Jiannu is ambushed elsewhere." Liu Renyu said to Zu Dashou.

"Okay." Zu Dashou nodded.

"Order, let the hot air balloon rise to 100 meters, and look around. See if there are any signs of enemy troops. Liu Renyu gave an order to the herald.

"Yes, General." When the herald received the order, he waved the flag and gave the order to Ke Zhihong.

Ke Zhihong got the order, so he raised the hot air balloon high and looked around.

After a short time, Han Dong took the lead in leading the troops back and said to Zu Dashou: "Marshal, the Jiannu military camp is empty, and there is not a single soldier. ”

"Really?" Zu Dashou said in surprise.

"How dare the last general talk nonsense." Han Dong said in a downward voice.

"Got it." Zu Dashou nodded.

Then, Zu Kefa also returned with his troops and told Zu Dashou: "Marshal, the last general led his troops to investigate everywhere, but no trace of the enemy was found. ”

Zu Dashou had listened to Han Dong's report on the military situation before, and he had already made some preparations in his heart, so he was not very surprised to hear this news.

"Got it," Zu Dashou nodded at first, then looked around and said easily: "This town knows, most of the Jiannu were scared by us, and they fled back to their hometown with a cover. ”

"Yes, it must be the case, we will defeat 6,000 of them in one battle, how many of them are there in total, and if we fight a few more battles, won't all their soldiers in Jiannu die." Zu Dabi is arrogant and dry.

Zhang Chun, Song Wei, and Wu Xiang were all greatly relieved when they heard this, and then they were in ecstasy.

Judging from the current situation, most of the Jiannu have retreated, and this battle has been completely won, and they have fought such a great victory, there is no doubt that their status will definitely rise.

"General Liu, can you see it clearly, are there Jiannu around?" Zu Dashou asked Liu Renyu.

Liu Renyu asked the herald to ask Ke Zhihong.

Ke Zhihong replied with a flag: "Within the line of sight, there are no traces of Jiannu. ”

"Dashuai, it seems that most of the Jiannu have retreated." Liu Renyu said with a smile.

"Han Dong, Kefa, I order you two to quickly bring your soldiers and horses to the east to investigate whether Jiannu has really withdrawn."

Zu Dashou was a little cautious and decided to send someone to investigate the situation again.

"Yes, Marshal." Han Dong and Zu Kefa took the order and left.