Since the sentry found the traces of the Xishan Army in front, Zhang Nai's heart became hot, regardless of the fatigue of the rapid march in the past two days, he urged his subordinates to quickly catch up. Starting from Beijing at noon yesterday, the one-and-a-half-day effort marched more than 250 miles, which was close to the limit for the cavalry of the intruding army.

But seeing that the enemy was in front of him, Zhang Nai's fatigue suddenly disappeared without a trace, and the Dog Emperor Chongzhen was there, as long as he chased a few more miles, he could kill the Dog Emperor and make a great achievement. Since Hao Shaoqi's return, the good fighting of the Xishan Army has been widely spread among the Shun army, and Zhang Nai also wants to see the combat power of the Xishan Army. Most of the Ming army's combat effectiveness was too weak, and it had always been his long-cherished wish to compete with strong troops.

Finally caught up, looking at the Xishan rebels who hastily changed formations not far away, Zhang Nai sneered, waved his hand, and a partial general rushed over with five hundred cavalry, the car formation, if you are given enough time, it may be possible, but it is delusional to stop the cavalry in a hurry!

Five hundred cavalry rushed over with the momentum of thunder, only to see Chen Jianghe cold sweat, he has been in the army for more than 20 years, and he has also fought with his dead father on the battlefield in Liaodong and Manchu, after his father's death, he has been serving as the general banner in Beijing, and he has experienced several sieges of the Eight Banners, and the real battlefield fighting experience is not too much, and the command operation has never been.

And the battle in front of him is too important, related to the life and death of the emperor and the survival of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Jianghe suddenly felt that the pressure on his body was extremely huge.

"Jin Xin, you will command!" Chen Jianghe said with difficulty, he was not familiar with the tactics of the Xishan Army, he was unwilling to command blindly, so he handed over the command to the general Jin Xin, and he clenched his spear, willing to be an ordinary pawn, ready to fight the enemy at any time. The reason why he stayed was because he was Chen Yue's father, the emperor could retreat, but he couldn't, if even he retreated, the soldiers who stayed behind to block the attack would inevitably have no morale.

The adult's father was by his side, meeting the enemy with everyone, looking at Chen Jianghe's resolute face, the hearts of all the soldiers present suddenly calmed down. Although there are thousands of thieves and cavalry, so what, the Xishan Army has even defeated the extremely vicious Manchurian Eight Banners, so why be afraid of thousands of thieves!

The cavalry of the invading army came quickly, and the chariot formation was not completely bad, and the vanguard cavalry had already rushed up.

"Fire!" Looking at the intrusion cavalry that was close at hand, Jin Xin ordered sharply.

"Mr. Kim, the ammunition hasn't been loaded yet!" Chen Goudan, the leader of the gunners, shouted nervously, it takes at least a quarter of an hour from fixing to loading gunpowder projectiles, but from the discovery of the traces of the invading army to the present, there is no quarter of an hour at all, and many chariots have not had time to be placed, let alone unload the tiger squat cannon from the chariot.

More than 200 firebolts were also nervously loaded in the back of the car, and with Jin Xin's order, only more than 100 crossbows had time to fire, shooting a round of arrows.

A round of arrow rain fell on the cavalry queue of the invading army, this distance did not need to be aimed at all, dozens of war horses running in the front were shot on their backs, and the fallen war horses blocked the way of the war horses behind, and the five hundred cavalry who attacked were in chaos.

On the left side of the official road is the canal, relying on the official road, the Xishan army only arranged a car formation with a width of ten zhang, and the cavalry of the breaking army was eager to break through the array of the Xishan army, regardless of the rush to kill, the cavalry formation was too dense, and was shot by the rain of arrows, blocked by the fallen war horse, and the speed inevitably slowed down, but there were still dozens of horsemen who avoided the arrow rain and entered the array along the gap of the chariot.

"Kill!" Chen Jianghe shouted, urged the horse to meet him, the spear in his hand stabbed rapidly, pierced into the chest of a soldier in the front, the two horses were staggered, and the spear in his hand penetrated the body of the invading cavalry and could not be recovered.

A cavalryman who broke into the army saw the opportunity and slashed at Chen Jianghe, Chen Jianghe was lying on his back on horseback, the sharp steel knife was cut from the upper end of his nose, he sat up and pulled out the embroidered spring knife on his waist.

"The pikemen stick to them, and the gunners continue to reload!" Jin Xin ordered loudly, raising his gun and clamping a steel knife that had been chopped over. It seems that the chariot formation alone will not be able to stop the follow-up thief cavalry, and the only hope is to rely on artillery.

Listening to Jin Xin's order, the pikemen in the car formation sacrificed their lives to rush towards the rushing thief cavalry, completely disregarding their own safety, and the spears rushed towards the rushing cavalry and war horses. Under the random guns, the intruding cavalry fell off their horses one after another, but the cavalry behind had already stuck up, and they entered the array one after another along the gap that broke through.

"Good chance!" Seeing that the vanguard cavalry had already rushed into the Xishan military vehicle formation, Zhang Nai knew that a good opportunity to break the enemy had come. He ordered the adjutant general to take a thousand cavalry around the wilderness to block the retreat of the Xishan army, and he himself led the main cavalry to rush towards the Xishan army chariot array.

A part of the cavalry of the invading army, which occupied the gap in the chariot formation, got off their horses and desperately pulled the chariot to both sides, while the other cavalry fought with the soldiers of the Xishan Army.

Seeing that the gap in the car formation was getting bigger and bigger, Chen Jianghe brandished a long knife and slashed desperately, and all the soldiers of the Xishan Army also fought desperately, fighting with the enemy troops who rushed into the car formation. For a moment, the clashing of weapons, the clatter of knives and guns, and the cries of soldiers for injury converged, but so many sounds could not suppress the thunderous sound of horses' hooves.

The ground trembled violently, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves was just in front of him, Jin Xin raised his head and looked desperately at a cloud of black smoke and dust like a hurricane, sweeping in.

The dust is getting closer and closer, and the first thing that comes out is dozens of battle flags waving in the wind, and below the battle flags are thousands of fierce enemy horses, which are sweeping in!

The precarious car formation, the main force of the enemy army rushing from afar, at this moment, from Jin Xin, almost all the soldiers of the Xishan Army fell into deep despair.

"It's finally loaded!" The gunner leader Chen Goudan cheered, and poked the ignition hole of the tiger squat cannon with a lit incense, and the sound of "Zizi" sounded, and the gunpowder at the bottom of the gun chamber ignited, and the gunpowder burned rapidly in the narrow space, producing huge energy, which was released outward along the gun chamber, and hundreds of projectile iron filings were pushed by this huge energy and released along the barrel into the distance.

More than a hundred small projectiles erupted out, enveloping a space of several zhang in a radius, passing through the formation of vehicles and shooting towards the distance.

Zhang Nai took the lead, galloping towards the Xishan military vehicle array, after a loud noise, there was a sound of breaking the air in the air, as if countless wasps were flying in the air, the perennial battle made it have an extraordinary sense of smell on the battlefield, hurriedly pulled the reins, the war horse stood up, and heard the sound of "poof" into the flesh sounded one after another, the war horse made a sloppy neigh, after the neighing, the war horse could no longer stand, and fell to the ground with a poof.