The news of the rapid approach of the Ming cavalry broke Chahara's last trace of luck. Since several defeats in Liaodong, the Ming army has rarely taken the initiative to attack the Houjin army.

The Ming army directly attacked the blocking force led by Du Du without a trial, which was already an extremely abnormal incident. After defeating Du Du's army, he didn't stop for a while, and followed the defeated soldiers of Houjin to chase and kill, which was even more unexpected to him.

This made Chahara realize that it was unrealistic for him to continue to stall here and wait for Wunag to return to take charge of the overall situation. Looking at the actions of those Mongolian vassal tribes in the rear gathering men and horses, he knew that if he didn't make a decision, when the cavalry pursuing by the Ming army appeared in their field of vision, it was estimated that many of the men and horses of the vassal tribes would flee first.

Chahara then whispered to the soldiers with yellow flags who insisted on evacuating: "I agree to your request to retreat, but you can't withdraw now, if you withdraw now, the army on both the west bank and the east bank will collapse immediately."

In any case, we also have to give Wunag Gushan a little time to react, and we also have to withdraw the three Jurchen soldiers of Niulu on the other side. Otherwise, even if you save Zhuo Butai, the Great Khan and the other banner lords will not let you go. ”

These soldiers with yellow flags hesitated for a moment and talked to each other for a moment before finally nodding and saying to Chahara: "Zhuo Butai Beiyu is seriously injured and needs to be quickly withdrawn to the Zunhua camp for treatment, and we can only wait for another half an hour at most."

Half an hour later, we had to evacuate first anyway. In addition, we had been battling Dudubele for a morning, and our horsepower was exhausted, hoping to trade it for a group of mounts. In the next battle, we can no longer participate in it. ”

Chahara felt his temples throb violently, but he suppressed his anger and agreed to the request of the Yellow Banner soldiers.

With these soldiers with yellow flags taking the lead, although the status of the blue flag in the eyes of Chahara and the yellow flag cannot be compared, and at this time there can be no public discrimination, he can only agree that the blue flag and the yellow flag enjoy the same treatment.

After settling the two Jurchen Niulu, Chahara finally had the energy to rearrange the defense of the army in the West Bank.

The men and horses of the vassal Mongol tribes such as Ao Han were arranged in the southwest direction, forming the first line of defense to resist the offensive force of the main force of the Ming army.

The men and horses of the Horqin tribe were arranged behind the men and horses of the vassal tribes as the second line of defense. And the guards around Chahara, the Jurchen soldiers who retreated from the defeat of Liangniulu, and the men and horses of the Ulut Banner who had never crossed the river were behind the men and horses of the Horqin tribe.

Relying on the Ming army's forwards, they stopped and did not follow the defeated Houjin men and horses to attack, which finally gave Chahara time to adjust the deployment of troops.

For Chahara's arrangement, the Jurchen soldiers and the Mongol soldiers of the Ulut Banner were very satisfied, but the Mongol vassal tribes who were forced to block the direction of the main attack of the Ming army, and the Horqin tribe were obviously not willing, not to mention the Jurchens who retreated from the defeat of the two teams, and forcibly exchanged nearly 200 good horses from them.

Before the Ming army attacked, in addition to arranging defensive deployments, Chahara again sent messengers to the east bank. One is to ask Wunag to leave his men on the east bank and flee back on his own; The other is the return of the three Jurchen Niulu who were transferred across the river, preparing to evacuate here.

Squeezing through the dense crowd of messengers on the bridge, it was not easy to find Wunag. The messenger, who crossed the river from under the bridge, quickly passed through the ice of nearly 100 meters on the river surface and appeared on the position of the Jurchen step archers.

But retreating from the eyes of the belligerent enemy is obviously not an easy task. Moreover, the retreat of the Jurchen infantry archers also surprised the Houjin reinforcements who had already crossed the river.

They were able to fight against the Ming who occupied the river embankment, mainly relying on the combat power of these Jurchen archers. At such a critical moment, the transfer of Jurchen foot archers back to the west bank was naturally opposed by the Mongols in the reinforcements.

However, in the past, the messenger who would listen to the opinions of the front-line soldiers and bring them back to the main general for reference is unusually resolute today. Instead of heeding the Mongols' requests, he imposed a rigid rule that the Jurchen warriors who received the order must immediately return to the west bank to stand by, and the task here was left to the other Mongols in the ranks.

Although these Jurchen soldiers felt that this order was a bit suspicious, they did not refuse to retreat, after all, the changes that had just taken place in the West Bank were too suspicious.

However, it is not up to a unilateral army to decide whether a team is fighting or wants to withdraw from the battle. In particular, the change on the west bank just now made these Jurchen soldiers suspicious, causing them to lose their dominant position over the Ming army in the battle.

When Li Chenfang watched the Jurchen infantry archers want to exchange positions with the Mongols on one side, he did not hesitate to launch a counterattack. Previously, because the range of the Jurchen's bow and arrow just covered the range of the Tiger Squat Cannon, he had to withdraw these small firearms after several gunners were shot.

But now that the Jurchen infantry archers below are gradually retreating, they have replaced with the riding bows used by the Mongols, and they suddenly have the opportunity for these tiger squats to exert their might.

The Jurchen soldiers had to slow down their move to exchange positions with the Mongols, and were forced to stay behind to suppress the Ming army's firing and stabilize their positions rather than continue to retreat.

Under the containment of the Ming army, when the cavalry brigade of the Ming army on the west bank of the Luan River, under the command of He Kegang, launched an attack on the Houjin army in front of them, the three Jurchen Niulu on the east bank, less than one Niu Lu set foot on the west bank, and one more Niu Lu on the east bank, and the other half Niu Lu walked cautiously on the river.

Zhang Xianzhong and Wu Sangui each led an army, covering the left and right flanks of the Chinese army led by He Kegang, and their positions were slightly higher than that of the Chinese army.

Although both Zhang Xianzhong and Wu Sangui accepted the order to charge into battle, the closer these two forces were to the Later Jin army, the more obvious the difference in their positions became.

When Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates were about to rush in front of the Houjin army, the right-wing troops led by Wu Sangui were about 100 meters away from the Houjin army in front of them.

Unlike the Houjin cavalry in previous battles, when the Ming cavalry began to charge, the Mongolian cavalry on the front line only aimed at the cavalry of the Ming army with their bows, as if they were planning to fight a real defensive battle.

In the face of these Mongolian cavalrymen opening their bows and arrows to aim at him, Zhang Xianzhong did not slow down the speed of his horse, he still maintained the movement of holding the spear horizontally with one hand, but lowered his head slightly to prevent the opposite bow and arrow from shooting into his face.

Although Zhang Xianzhong was promoted from the border soldiers, he had no heels. But this young man, who has sold red dates, worked as a fast catcher, and joined the army, has finally become more sleek under the education of life.

After Chongzhen ascended the throne, the internal rectification of the Jinyi Guard also made many Jinyi Guard soldiers who were originally at the bottom quickly take up the post of middle-level officers. These newly promoted Jinyi Wei officers, like Zhang Xianzhong, have no heels, but just get an opportunity from Chongzhen.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong has slowly integrated into this new group, instead of being the object of exclusion as before.

If he is just a brocade guard who investigates cases, Zhang Xianzhong is actually not outstanding in this group. Most of the subjects of Jinyiwei's investigation are not ordinary people, not the families of official eunuchs, or famous Confucian scribes.

With the little social experience that Zhang Xianzhong learned in the past life at the bottom of the society, it is basically difficult to use. Even after receiving Jinyiwei's internal training, his performance was barely qualified.

But when Jin detoured into the customs after this year, and the emperor chose to go on a personal expedition, Zhang Xianzhong, who accompanied the emperor on the expedition, began to slowly reveal his talent as a military general.

Compared with those well-born Jinyi guards, Zhang Xianzhong can get along better with those low-level soldiers, and he has boiled up a martial arts in the border army, and he can often take the lead in battles and inspire the soldiers around him to use in battle, so he soon showed his ability to lead troops.

Although he didn't know why, Zhang Xianzhong could feel that Chongzhen, who was busy with affairs, was always watching his performance. Under the emperor's attention, he also changed from an ordinary imperial guard to a general who fought with hundreds of cavalry today.

Zhang Xianzhong felt that he should be grateful to the young emperor, but deep down he was unconsciously vigilant, and he always felt that he had gone too smoothly in the past two years.

However, on today's battlefield, he didn't think about anything, he just wanted to break through the Houjin defense line in front of him and seize the first merit of today's battle.

Unlike Wu Sangui, who was still half-hearted, since he saw the Houjin cavalry that rushed towards the Ming army turn around and retreat, he realized that the Houjin army in front of him would be defeated today.

According to what he had learned in the frontier army, if an army was not deliberately defeated in order to lure the enemy, then the defeated army would not be able to fight for a short time without a day or two of repair, or if it was inspired by a commander who was very popular with the army.

Wu Sangui did not follow these defeated soldiers to directly attack this Houjin army, and in fact wasted an opportunity to defeat this army.

And now this Houjin army has put the worst troops on the front line, and obviously has no intention of winning. They just wanted to delay the Ming army's attack so that they could lead the main force to flee.

Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong did not hesitate to choose to charge head-on, trying to directly break through the first line of defense of the Houjin, forcing the Houjin army to completely shake and flee.

After the arrival of the Ming cavalry brigade, the attack began without repair, which made Chahara feel very annoyed, this was the most arrogant Ming cavalry he had encountered over the years, and he completely regarded them as weaklings who had been defeated and defeated.

However, Chahara's anger soon disappeared, and the Ming cavalry on the riverside was still normal, and they rushed to a halt in front of the Houjin defense line, and opened fire with the Mongol cavalry at the front.

The combat method of this group of Ming cavalry is Chahara's favorite now, although there is a young general in the Ming army who has good marksmanship and shoots down several Mongolian cavalry in a row. But this kind of counter-shooting can't destroy the defense line of the Houjin cavalry, but can allow them to slowly adapt to the attack of the Ming army, after all, there are still more Houjin people on the battlefield now.

But the Ming cavalry that charged on the side of the wilderness was too bold, even if this Ming cavalry was shot by the bow and arrow of the Mongolian cavalry on the first line of defense, it did not slow down at all, and directly crashed into the first line of defense of Houjin.