Seeing that the opponent divided more than 20,000 men and horses into three formations, the soldiers of the Eight Banners also divided their men and horses into two teams, one south and one north, respectively to Zu Dashou and He Kegang.

The Manchurian cavalry ran closer and closer, and Ji Qingwen finally saw their banner clearly.

I saw that there were about 14,000 Manchurian cavalry attacking Guangqumen under the banner of yellow, white, white, and blue, plus a group of cavalry dressed in Mongolian, there were more than 20,000 people in total, forming two arrows in the north and south, shooting at one side and rushing towards the Ming army on the other.

The Manchurian cavalry was aggressive, but the Liaodong iron cavalry was not panicked.

The Liaodong Iron Cavalry does not know how many times they have fought with the elite of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, and they have already accumulated rich experience in dealing with cavalry archers. I saw that they were wearing heavy armor and holding shields, blocking the countless arrows that were fired, although there were also sergeants who were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, they could also be quickly carried out of the battle formation, and Lu Xiangsheng's department, who was in the rear, was responsible for healing and guarding.

In this way, the Eight Banners cavalry is getting closer and closer, and when they rush to a hundred or ten steps away from the Ming army's formation, the ancestral Dashou division in the most prominent formation suddenly sounded the fire gun, and the cavalry of the whole army under the leadership of this Liaodong general, urged the horses under the crotch to kill into the Eight Banners cavalry battle formation in front of them, and killed them together.

The ancestral family guarded Liaodong, and the ancestors and ancestors in the family were all senior generals such as the Liaodong General Army, and since Li Chengliang was in charge of Liaodong military affairs, he fought bloody battles with the Mongols and Jurchens in Liaodong.

Until Zu Dashou's generation, it is the third generation.

And Zu Dashou is more brave than his father, and with the assistance of his brother-in-law Wu Xiang and nephew Wu Sangui, he is the only fierce general in the entire Ming Army who is not afraid of short-range contact with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners of Manchuria.

I saw Zu Dashou taking the lead, leading the elite soldiers under his command, the first to rush into the enemy formation, wielding a war knife in one hand and a fire gun in the other, and killing with the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners beside him.

Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui's father and son also brought their own troops into the enemy formation.

When the rest of the soldiers saw the leading generals working so hard, their morale was naturally high, and they fought with the Manchurian elite cavalry.

After Ji Qingwen traveled to the end of the Ming Dynasty, especially after recruiting five hundred township brave regiments, he also participated in several battles, and Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, Dai Shan and other figures in the late Ming Dynasty had fierce conflicts, but he was the first day to see such a thrilling battle, even if he was standing far away on the tall gatehouse of Guangqu Gate, he was also shocked by this violent impact, cold sweat broke out involuntarily in his palms, and his legs couldn't help shaking.

The battle under the castle tower continues to heat up.

Immediately following the engagement between Zu Dashou's troops and the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, He Kegang's troops in the northeast also began to fight with their opponents.

Although He Kegang was also a fierce general in Liaodong, he did not have capable generals like Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui around him to help him fight, and with his 8,000 troops, under the impact of more than 10,000 Manchurian elite cavalry, he was gradually outnumbered and unable to support him.

Seeing this, Yuan Chonghuan, who was in command outside the Guangqu Gate, did not want He Kegang's Liaodong Iron Cavalry and Manchurian cavalry to waste his troops, so he hurriedly waved the command flag and ordered He Kegang to retreat in the south.

Seeing this, He Kegang hurriedly ordered the soldiers of his headquarters to retreat while fighting, and retreated to the south in an orderly manner.

Ji Qingwen stood on top of the city tower, saw the battle situation under the city clearly, and hurriedly asked Chen Wenzhao beside him: "General Chen, how can this be that the Gang Department has not done its best to confront the Eight Banners, why did it retreat so easily?" ”

Chen Wenzhao stared at the battle situation under the Guangqu Gate with his two eyes, and replied: "Although the soldiers and horses of Liaodong are extremely brave, their combat methods are different from those of the southern Zhejiang soldiers, and they are not willing to fight to the death with the enemy army, but pay attention to the use of troops flexibly and quickly. Therefore, if the war is unfavorable, the position will be shifted like this. ”

Sure enough, as Chen Wenzhao expected, He Kegang led the army to sweep in front of Yuan Chonghuan's headquarters on the east side, and moved until it was due south of Zu Dashou's headquarters before reorganizing the ranks and arranging the formation.

He Kegang's department is also dominated by cavalry, and it moves extremely quickly, if it weren't for the pursuit of the Manchurian Eight Banners, which is also known for its rapid cavalry maneuvers, otherwise it would have been thrown off by He Kegang.

The Eight Banners cavalry barely kept up with He Kegang's actions, but in a blink of an eye, they saw that the opponent had swept past the front of Yuan Chonghuan's position, and wanted to continue the pursuit, but they were afraid that their flanks would be attacked by Yuan Chonghuan, so they quickly gave up continuing to pursue He Kegang, but instead attacked Zu Dashou's flank, intending to attack on both sides, first gnawing off Zu Dashou's most difficult bone, and then going all out to deal with Yuan Chonghuan and He Kegang.

Although Ji Qingwen on the top of the city tower was not proficient in the art of war, he had also played some war games, and knew that even if he had an absolute advantage in troops, he could not withstand the simultaneous attack from both sides, so he asked Chen Wenzhao how to deal with it.

Chen Wenzhao thought for a while and said: "Inspector Yuan is like a god with soldiers, and General Soldier Zu is Inspector Yuan's favorite general, so he shouldn't sit back and watch this elite soldier being calmly eaten by the Jurchens." If the last general's expectation is good, Inspector Yuan should be able to use the soldiers and horses of General Zu to attract the main force of the Eight Banners, and then order the elite soldiers led by He Kegang and Inspector Yuan to come to a counter-encirclement, and attack the back of the Eight Banners soldiers respectively, so as to annihilate the enemy army in one fell swoop. ”

Chen Wenzhao said in the end, he couldn't help but admire: "It is said that 'the Jurchen is not satisfied with 10,000 and is invincible', in the face of more than 20,000 elite soldiers of the Eight Banners, Yuan Inspector has no advantage in strength, but he not only has the confidence to defeat the enemy, but also has the intention of annihilating the enemy army and fighting him for a big victory...... Alas! With such a courageous and knowledgeable general and handsome talent as Inspector Yuan, I am afraid that there will be no second person in the whole world! ”

Yuan Chonghuan is a person who is rigid and self-serving, extremely arrogant and stingy, and is not pleasing to people, even Ji Qingwen, the senior brother who worships with him under Sun Chengzong, often feels that he is not a good person.

However, seeing Yuan Chonghuan commanding the battle so calmly and calmly today, Ji Qingwen finally understood why the mean and impatient Emperor Chongzhen would entrust the military affairs of Liaodong to Yuan Chonghuan.

Sure enough, the Manchurian right-wing cavalry really did what Chen Wenzhao said, and began to launch a fierce attack on the left side of Zu Dashou's department. The soldiers on the left and right wings of Manchuria were like the two jaws of an iron tong, pinching Zu Dashou's troops to death.

In addition to stubborn resistance, the soldiers under the command of Zu Dashou showed the rare tenacious temperament of the soldiers and horses of Liaodong, and the casualties of the department were close to 1,000 people, and they still fought bravely to kill the enemy, without the slightest sign of defeat and retreat.

Yuan Chonghuan saw that Zu Dashou's troops were approaching the limit of their combat effectiveness, and that the Manchurian soldiers and horses were already at the end of their crossbows, and that it was an excellent opportunity to carry out encirclement operations, so he immediately waved the battle flag and beat the war drums, and ordered He Kegang's troops, which had moved to the south, to immediately plunge into the soldiers and horses on the left flank of the Eight Banners, and he himself personally led the sergeants of his department to launch an attack on the soldiers and horses on the right flank of the Eight Banners.

A total of 20,000 soldiers and horses were inlaid with yellow, white, white and blue flags, although they were not personally commanded by Huang Taiji, but the generals who commanded the battles of each banner were by no means general.

Although the offensive did not go unwell for a while, they had found themselves too concentrated, exposing large gaps in the left and right flanks and the rear.

If there is a unified mention of the Great Khan Emperor Taiji or the Great Belle Daishan at this moment, they may be able to quickly draw out some troops to make up for the gaps in the formation, but now they are fighting on their own, and no one is willing to take the initiative to withdraw from the ongoing fighting, which invisibly gives Yuan Chonghuan the opportunity to launch an encirclement and annihilation operation.

I saw that Yuan Chonghuan and He Kegang made a big detour to the north and south respectively, and quickly adjusted the formation, like two sharp swords, stabbed behind the Eight Banners cavalry, and in a blink of an eye, the formation of the Eight Banners Army rushed to pieces - if it weren't for the Manchurian Eight Banners elite soldiers who were known for their courage and tenacity, the other troops would have been defeated by this extremely sharp charge.

However, the Eight Banners of Manchuria still fought endlessly, but the disadvantage on the battlefield could no longer be reversed, and in an instant, it turned from offensive to defensive, and gradually fell into passivity.

And Zu Dashoubu, who had been struggling to support for a long time, felt that the pressure of the enemy's attack had suddenly decreased, and it was expected that Yuan Chongfa must have come to the aid of his troops, so he immediately mustered up his courage and launched several counter-charges against the opponent within a very short distance, and finally divided the elites of the Eight Banners on the left and right wings like a wedge, and could no longer cooperate with each other.

From the beginning of the battle to the reversal of the situation, it only took less than an hour for the Guangqu Gate to be, and Yuan Chonghuan's strength in using soldiers and the strength of Liaodong's iron cavalry can also be seen!

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