The battle continued, and even Wu Chao, the commander of Hongtang's army, led hundreds of soldiers of the guard team to shuttle through the battlefield, looking for traces of the opponent's main general.

The opposing army seemed unwilling to fight with them anymore, and they also found that their numerical superiority in the melee could not be brought into play.

There are fewer and fewer enemies scattered in the surrounding battlefields, this is the conclusion that Wu Chao and his people have come to after careful observation along the way, that is, the enemy is likely to secretly assemble in a certain place in the surrounding area, and what Wu Chao has to do is to find the location of the other party's assembly as soon as possible.

The battle situation has reached the current situation, and even the soldiers left behind by Wu Chao, the division commander, are less than 1,000 people, which shows the intensity of the battle between them.

However, this is what Wu Chao and the others are willing to see, maybe the Qing people are skilled in bows and horses, and they also live on this land, and they may not be unfamiliar with the local terrain, but in terms of foot strength alone, they are probably not the opponents of the Hongtang warriors.

Although the land of the Qing people was barren, and the Qing soldiers who rose from the bottom were also hard and hardworking, in actual combat, they did not pay much attention to the foot strength needed to walk and hurry; However, on the other hand, the Hongtang soldiers, under the influence of Li Tianyang, who came from later generations, have always attached great importance to the concept of marching operations: weight-bearing marches, night marches, wading and other drill plans have always been compulsory courses for Hongtang soldiers to practice every month.

The bigger the battlefield in the melee, the more it can give full play to the role of the marching skills of the Hongtang army, and the long march and battle, just rushing is a very physically demanding job, not to mention that the enemy will attack and fight at any time during the march.

In a short period of time, the marching ability and sustained combat ability of the two sides could not be reflected, but in a long-term movement battle of more than 24 hours like the present, the Hongtang army gradually showed their strong athletic ability.

In this contest with the Ming army, the Qing people suffered enough of this disadvantage, and not long after each battlefield opened, the number of their own soldiers originally had an advantage, but as time went by, their numerical advantage gradually became insignificant, and more and more Hongtang soldiers flocked to the battlefield like ants that found food.

On the other hand, although there are also a lot of soldiers joining in the soldiers of the Great Qing Dynasty, both the reaction speed and the convergence speed are far inferior to the Hongtang soldiers, and then gradually change from an advantage to a disadvantage, and are eaten up by the other party.

"Found it!!"

The scattered scouts finally gave Wu Chaoqi a report, it turned out that after sending the last living force last night but failed to achieve results, Prince Daishan immediately decided to let the Chinese army retreat eastward to a range of several miles on the edge of Qingxi City, and then sent messengers to let the Jurchen army in the melee slowly converge with it, and now its army has gathered more than 10,000 remnants.

"Flare off!!"

Wu Chao showed a sharp expression, and then said resolutely.

"Divisional commander! There are less than 1,000 people in our department now, and if your position is exposed, it will bring you great risks! ”

Wu Chao's personal guards and members of the plane stopped one after another.

"On the battlefield, there is not much difference between us up and down, for the sake of the overall situation so far yesterday, I have endured for a long time, and now it may be the last battle, so what if I take some risks?"

Wu Chao categorically rejected the kindness of a group of guards and insisted on letting people release signal flares.

"Bang! Bang! Bang! ”

The three signal flares shot up into the sky, and even in the stormy rainy season, the red filler scattered by their explosion could still continue to make tea in the sky, although it was not as long as usual, but it was enough to remind the surrounding Hongtang soldiers.

After sending out the convergence signal, all Wu Chao could do was to continue to send scouts to monitor the main force of the Qing army outside Qingxi City, and the rest of the soldiers faced the surrounding movements with serious expressions.

Sure enough, as everyone expected, not long after the signal was released, there were Hongtang soldiers converging towards it, but there were also many Qing soldiers who had not been notified by the headquarters and were still fighting in this land.

The Qing warriors were not afraid of fighting, and although they were now tired, their self-esteem and self-confidence as the Jurchen Mongols still made them think that they were victorious, but it was a pity that the enemy they faced was too slippery.

After the battle between the two sides yesterday, the Qing Dynasty soldiers who were broken up by the Hongtang army and fought separately were heavy, and there were many generals who were quick-witted, and they had been in full swing to gather the scattered army soldiers, and the speed of collecting the soldiers was much faster after the sky was bright.

Now that he suddenly found that there were three signal-like smoke clouds in the sky, even if he was unaware of the Qing generals and their subordinates, their first thought must be that there was a change in the direction of the signal; However, the Qing Dynasty's own army did not have this kind of signal, and the source of the change could be known regardless of whether it was its main general or center.

The generals of the Great Qing Dynasty were not fools, and their decisions in the face of such changes were equally swift, almost at the same time that the Hongtang army came to converge, several groups of people with hundreds of people followed and killed the Qing army.

The final result, the three signal flares triggered the second day after dawn, and another battle of more than thousands of people, and as the main general of Hongtang's partial division, Wu Chao, the commander of the Hongtang Whale Division, happened to be in the center of the battle, if it was strangled here by the Qing army after hearing the news, for this Hongtang army, although it may not collapse, but the subsequent battle will inevitably be a heavy blow, and even it is not impossible to cause a rout.

The Qing army surrounded this Hongtang army, which had just gathered together and reached a size of more than 1,000, which was the largest Ming army that these Qing soldiers had found since the melee with each other.

Since there are so many Ming troops here, the signal flares and other abnormal sounds before Jiashan Hao make the Qing people intuitively think that they have caught a big fish, and after converging several Qing army colleagues who arrived at the same time, they judged that their own military strength was more than the Ming Dynasty army on the hill, and several middle-level military generals of the Qing Dynasty rushed up with a group of soldiers and fought with Wu Chao's troops on the hill.

Subsequently, the Hongtang soldiers who came from all directions, and the Qing soldiers who followed the Hongtang soldiers, finally evolved this place into a decisive battle field on the second day of the battle, and more and more soldiers on both sides centered on it, and engaged in another wave of duels with each other.

It's just that compared with yesterday's battle scene, the strength of the two armies after a night has changed differently, and the Hongtang army, which is faintly inferior in numbers, has shown a bit of the upper hand, and the Qing army has gradually felt a little overwhelmed.

(End of chapter)