The imperial army finally fought back, they no longer had to be oppressed and brutalized by Jiannu, the civilians of Liaodong cried with joy, they resisted countless times and ended in failure, this time they finally succeeded, because they are no longer alone, because here and now, the strength of the Ming army is stronger than that of Jiannu!

Their blood has not cooled down, they still remember their Ming people, they took out the unique bravery of the Liaodong people, fought with Jiannu, cooperated with the Guanning Iron Cavalry, and soon killed Zhushen, Niulu, and Jiala west of the Liao River, and all of them were recovered in less than three days west of the Liao River.

At this time, the civilians of Liaodong burst out with unprecedented enthusiasm, whether they planned to stay in Liaodong to continue farming, or those who planned to move to Dongfan, Fujian to avoid the scourge of war, they all automatically gathered to the Great Liaohe Fort and desperately helped the Ming soldiers build fortresses.

Boatloads of materials were transferred from Fuguang, and batches of men, women, and children were sent to Dongfan, and the Great Liaohe Fort slowly took shape at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the defense west of the Liaohe River became stronger and stronger.

Will Huang Taiji let them build the fortress so comfortably?

Naturally not, within a few days, he began to organize his team, preparing to cross the Liao River and clean up the Ming army.

This time, he chose to detour to the Liaohe Hetao area outside the Great Wall outside the Guanwai Gate, and rushed up from the northwest of Xining Fort by surprise to launch a surprise attack.

Liaohetao, ups and downs, hills and swamps everywhere, if you are not careful, your feet will sink into the mud and can't pull out, so the Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty is built along the periphery of the Liaohetao, because the Hetao is impassable at all, let alone build the Great Wall.

However, that was many years ago, at this time, after more than ten years of drought, the swamp of the Liaohetao has long dried up, and the silt has become a hard black soil, walking on it, you can't sink at all, the only thing that is a little troublesome is that the ground is a little uneven, and it is a little difficult to walk.

Yuan Chonghuan didn't expect Huang Taiji to come around from outside the Great Wall, and when he found out, it was too late, because the Houjin coalition army dug a hole in the Great Wall more than 30 miles west of Xining Fort and rushed in, and it only took about an hour for them to surround Xining Fort and make it impassable, and Yuan Chonghuan, who was far away in Da Liaohe Fort, had no time to react at all.

This time, Huang Taiji also changed the tactics of filling the trench last time, but chose to build a wooden bridge, that is, to remove the branches and leaves of the tree that is more than one zhang long, carry it over, throw it on the trench, and then let people jump into the trench and tie the trees together with ropes, the speed is simply amazing, He Kegang is useless to bombard and burn, because the speed of their cutting down trees is too fast.

There are 200,000 people in the Houjin Alliance, and as long as there are enough trees, it is easy to cut down 10,000 trees a day, and a trench can easily pass through as long as a dozen log foot soldiers are placed on it!

What's even more terrifying is that this time they are really jumping into the ditch, several people with shields and trees rushed to the ditch, threw the tree into the ditch, and jumped directly into the trench, and there was nothing they could do with the shells and arrows.

In just one day, the Houjin coalition army broke through five trenches, and one day, they will rush to Xining Fort!

When Yuan Chonghuan heard the news, he "had to" hurriedly lead the army to support, although there were forty artillery pieces in Xining Fort, but the city wall of Xining Fort was only more than a foot high, and the size of the city was not even half of Ningyuan City, and the defensive strength was not the same level as Ning Yuancheng at all, and He Kegang led 20,000 foot soldiers to resist the attack of the 200,000 Houjin army.

Huang Taiji learned that Yuan Chonghuan took the bait, and couldn't help but laugh proudly, on the field battle, the Houjin Iron Cavalry is a well-deserved first, at this time there is no army that can compete with it, unless the number of the other party is far more than the Houjin Iron Cavalry several times, the problem is that this time the Ming army only came to a total of 100,000, Xining Fort has 20,000, they still have to leave people to garrison the Daliaohe Fort that has not been built, and the maximum number that can rush over to rescue is only 60,000 or 70,000 horses, the number is about the same as the Houjin Iron Cavalry, not to mention, he also has Mengyuan cavalry to help.

So, not long after Yuan Chonghuan led his army from Da Liao River Fort, Huang Taiji surrounded him with more than 50,000 Houjin Iron Cavalry and nearly 50,000 Mengyuan cavalry.

Xining Fort is only more than 50 miles away from Da Liao River Fort, this distance is nothing for the cavalry at all, less than an hour, the two sides encountered more than 20 miles north of Da Liao River Fort.

On the Houjin side, there are more than 50,000 Houjin iron cavalry and nearly 50,000 Mengyuan cavalry, a full 100,000 horses, while the Ming army only has 20,000 Liaodong Army foot soldiers and 50,000 Guanning iron cavalry, which are at a disadvantage in terms of numbers, and their combat effectiveness is even less than that of the Houjin Iron Cavalry.

Yuan Chonghuan held up the binoculars and looked at the Houjin Iron Cavalry and Mengyuan Cavalry who were gathering two miles away, and a chuckle appeared on the corner of his mouth, 100,000 cavalry, I'm so afraid!

He ordered lightly: "The order is to order five thousand swords and shields to push the grain and grass carts forward, five thousand musketeers follow, and ten thousand archers are lined up behind the musketeers, and the artillerymen line up the artillery, followed by the two wings of the Guanning Iron Cavalry, behind the artillerymen." ”

The heralds scattered, and the Ming army quickly discharged a strange formation, and the front was actually more than 500 grain trucks, looking like that, there were still piles of grain and grass on them!

What the hell is this, using the grain and grass cart as a chariot?

Huang Taiji squinted his eyes for a while, and then ordered: "Order, order Qi'er Harang to lead 50,000 Mengyuan cavalry to charge from the front, the left wing of the four banner cavalry to follow me to the left, Dolgon to lead the right wing of the four banner cavalry to the right, and then follow." ”

The heralds scattered, and Huang Taiji also led his guards to the left.

Soon, Qierharang led the Mengyuan cavalry to slowly press forward, and Huang Taiji and Dolgon led the Jin Tie cavalry to follow closely behind.

Seeing this scene, Yuan Chonghuan ordered unhurriedly: "Order, the artillery crew is aimed at the front of the formation, reloads the gun, and prepares to fire." ”

With the advance of the Mengyuan cavalry, the distance between the two sides slowly shortened, and a big battle was about to break out.

On the side of the Houjin army, whether it is the Mengyuan cavalry or the Houjin iron cavalry, they are all full of confidence, and the 100,000 cavalry and the 70,000 Ming army are fighting in the field, which is not too easy.

On the side of the Liaodong Army, both the infantry and the cavalry are full of fearlessness, they are not in a hurry, they have prepared a lot of things, enough for Jiannu to drink a few pots!

Soon, the Mengyuan cavalry was less than two miles away from the grain and grass carts of the Liaodong army, and Qierharang immediately raised his hand and shouted: "Kill." ”

"Kill." The battlefield suddenly sounded like a tsunami, and the Mengyuan cavalry gradually accelerated, heading straight for the Liaodong Army, and the Houjin Iron Cavalry also slowly accelerated in the shouting, and followed without hesitation.

100,000 cavalrymen, beating horses and galloping wildly, the sound of hooves was like rolling thunder, and the whole earth trembled violently under the iron hooves.

Yuan Chonghuan pulled the reins, stabilized the war horse under his crotch, and then shouted: "Order, artilleryman, five rounds of non-stop firing in a row, archer rockets are ready." ”

"Boom, boom, boom", a burst of artillery roar suddenly sounded in the Liaodong Army's formation, the huge sound, even the sound of horses' hooves was suppressed, and the Mengyuan cavalry who rushed in front fell down in a large row, and the entire charging team was suddenly in chaos.

However, the casualties of more than 200 people were not very busy for an army of 100,000, and soon, the fallen Mengyuan cavalry was drowned in the rolling iron hooves.

Before the second round of artillery sounded, the advance of the Mengyuan cavalry was less than 200 steps away from the grain and grass carts of the Liaodong Army.

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan shouted directly: "The archers shoot rockets, and the musketeers are ready to take turns shooting." ”

"Whoosh", 10,000 rockets soared into the sky, covering the Mengyuan cavalry like a rain of fire, and the Mengyuan cavalry in the front row hurriedly raised the wooden shield and put it on their heads.

This time, the casualties of the Mengyuan cavalry were not large, but the entire front row was a smoke and fire, they were charging, how could they have time to extinguish the fire, they couldn't lose this shield for the time being, who knows when the arrow rain of the Ming army will stop, and the burning shield can also block the arrows.

"Boom, boom" Another burst of artillery roar sounded, and nearly two hundred of the Mengyuan cavalry fell, but they were all in the back row, and no one cared about those.

At this time, the forward of the Mengyuan cavalry was less than a hundred steps away from the grain and grass cart, and as long as it was a blink of an eye, it could rush up, and all the Mengyuan cavalry had a victorious smile on their faces, just like that, they wanted to block them, don't be kidding, rush over, and overturn it in a few clicks!

Yuan Chonghuan also smiled at this time, within a hundred steps, the lethality of the new flintlock pistol was quite amazing, which he had already tested.

Without hesitation, he ordered: "Order, the musketeers take turns to shoot, and the archers all throw fire, do not stop." ”

"Papapa", a burst of muskets rang out, the Mengyuan cavalry suddenly fell down like cutting wheat, a row of thousands, a row of thousands, just as fast as a harvester, after falling to the ground, they were greeted by either the iron hooves behind or the arrow rain in front, as long as they fell, none of them survived, and even the horses were nailed to the ground by the dense arrow rain, screaming, and soon, the corpses and horse corpses of several feet high were piled up a hundred steps away in front of the Liaodong army, and the Mengyuan cavalry behind was suddenly in chaos.

On the surface, they were blocked by human corpses and horse corpses, but in fact they were frightened, and in the blink of an eye, tens of thousands of horses were gone, who is not afraid!

They were obviously able to beat their horses over the corpse pile in front, but none of them did so, and everyone scattered to both sides in fright, even the rear gold iron cavalry on the two wings blocked it.

Huang Taiji is blinded at this moment, what's the matter, he was fine just now, why did he suddenly run to both sides in fright?

It was impossible to rush forward again at this time, because the black pressure in front of him was all the Mengyuan cavalry, unless he ordered to rush up and cut down all the Mengyuan cavalry first.

Of course he wouldn't give this kind of order, and Meng Yuan Tieqi can be regarded as a good combat power under his hands, so he cut it like this, something is wrong!

The first round of charges ended hastily, Huang Taiji had to order all the cavalry to turn around and assemble, if they rushed forward so chaotically, without the Ming army's hands, they were afraid that they would hit the people on their backs.

After withdrawing to the original assembly site, Huang Taiji called Qierharang, who was supervising the battle in the Mengyuan cavalry array, over and asked if he knew that the Ming army not only had hundreds of small artillery, but also thousands of powerful muskets, and rushing forward was simply sending him to death!

What to do, just retreat like this?

Just kidding, just go back like this, isn't the myth of their invincibility in the field shattered, the blow to morale is simply fatal, if the Ming army blows up and bites tightly, they are likely to suffer a big defeat!

Therefore, we must not retreat, and we must defeat the Ming army in front of us.

Hundreds of small artillery pieces and thousands of powerful flintlock pistols are indeed terrifying, but it is not as Qierharang said, rushing forward is sending death, and others can be sent to death, they rush forward!

Huang Taiji thought for a while, and then ordered: "Order, order Qierharang to lead the Mengyuan cavalry to the rear wing of the Ming army to charge, the left wing of the four banners of the cavalry with me to outflank the left, Dolgon led the right wing of the four banners of the cavalry to the right to outflank, once the Mengyuan cavalry rushed up, the two wings immediately launched." ”

Just now because they were following behind the Mengyuan cavalry, they were blocked, and they couldn't charge, this time he simply went around to the sides and let the Mengyuan cavalry charge first, and then rush up from the left and right sides, so that it is equivalent to charging on three sides at the same time, see what the Ming army will do!

"Boom", there was another thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and the Houjin cavalry moved again, Yuan Chonghuan closely watched their movements with a telescope, and after looking at it for a while, he understood Huang Taiji's thoughts, they wanted to charge on three sides at the same time, what should they do?

Yuan Chonghuan thought for a while, and then ordered: "The herald ordered the grain and grass carts to be arranged separately on the left and right sides of the corpse pile, with two hundred and fifty vehicles on each side, and the musketeers and archers were also divided into two, and they were lined up behind the grain and grass carts. Ancestor Dashou led Guan Ning's iron cavalry to line up backwards, hedged against the Mengyuan cavalry, and defeated them as soon as possible. ”

Soon, the double convenience was completed.

Huang Taiji looked at the turtle formation put forward by Yuan Chonghuan, and couldn't help but be annoyed: "This shrunken turtle, do you think it's okay if you shrink it, and ordered Qi'er Harang to lead the Mengyuan cavalry to charge immediately." ”

After a while, the rear wing of the Ming army sounded the sound of rolling horse hooves and the shouting of killing in the sky, and the Mengyuan cavalry was once again forced to take the lead in the charge, but this time, there was no artillery, no muskets, not even arrows, and the Ming cavalry rushed straight at them!

It is true that 50,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry can defeat less than 40,000 Mengyuan cavalry, the question is that it will take time, there are only 20,000 foot soldiers left in the Ming army's formation, can they withstand nearly 60,000 Houjin Iron Cavalry?

Huang Taiji misjudged the strength of the Ming army again, he believed that even if there were hundreds of artillery pieces and thousands of muskets and 20,000 foot soldiers, they would definitely not be able to withstand the charge of nearly 60,000 Houjin Iron Cavalry, and the Houjin Iron Cavalry was not Mengyuan cavalry, they were all wearing light armor, and ordinary musket bullets could not hurt them at all.

He forgot that in the bloody battle of the Hunhe River, the Qi family army was also a foot soldier, and the 3,000 Qi family soldiers were on top of the 30,000 Houjin Tiecai, and they fought fiercely for nearly six hours before they were annihilated, and if he wanted to kill the 20,000 Liaodong Army infantry in front of him, it would take at least a day.

And the Mengyuan cavalry, which had just suffered a big defeat, could the iron cavalry in Guanning withstand a day? Obviously impossible!

Over there, before the Mengyuan cavalry encountered the Guanning Iron Cavalry, Huang Taiji decisively raised his sword and shouted: "Kill." ”

"Kill." A thunderous roar suddenly sounded behind him, and nearly 30,000 Jin Tieqi launched a charge towards the left flank of the Ming army without hesitation.

Dolgon, who was on the right wing, heard the shouts of killing, hesitated for a moment, but still raised his hand and shouted, "Kill." ”

Nearly 60,000 on both sides rushed up on horseback, and 20,000 Ming soldiers were able to hold it?

At this time, Yuan Chonghuan did not have any panicked expression on his face, and there was even a faint smile on the corner of his mouth.

This time, not only did he bring muskets and cannons, but two good things he hadn't yet had time to take out.

Looking at the Houjin Tieqi who was rapidly approaching, he sneered in his heart: "Come on, Jiannu, Yin Death for you!" ”