As Wu Nag set foot on the land on the east bank of the Luan River, the situation finally began to deflect a little towards the Jin army. The arrival of the main general in the army made these Mongolian cavalry, who were surrounded by the Ming army, finally recover some morale.

The appearance of the three Jurchen Niulu forces also threatened the flanks of the Ming army. The pebble river flats were not suitable for the full charge of the Ming cavalry, and the slowed cavalry could only be the target of the Jurchen infantry archers who had already lined up in array.

Wu Huai had to withdraw two rows of cavalry units that had suffered heavy losses, and ordered Li Chenfang's troops, who were shooting at the Naiman division in Balipu Village, to the flank, to prevent the Jurchens from continuing to expand their gains and open a gap for the encircled Mongols.

Although Wu Huai temporarily stabilized the battle situation on the flanks and prevented the Jurchens from completely rushing up the river embankment, Wu Nag had already rushed into the encirclement of the Ming army under the protection of more than a dozen personal guards.

After rushing into the surrounded subordinates, he immediately took over the unified command of the troops that had crossed the river, and with the unified dispatch of Wu Nag, the resistance of the encircled Houjin army finally became decent. And the Balipu village occupied by the Naiman Department also became the focus of the Later Jin army's counterattack.

The Naiman shooters, who relied on the houses in the village as obstacles, suddenly became active after losing the suppressed fire of the Ming army's firearms unit. Under the influence of Chongzhen, the cavalry division of the New Army has always paid insufficient attention to the lack of powerful cavalry archery, and the main training direction is hand-to-hand combat, trying to establish a shock-type cavalry.

Therefore, in such a small range of complex terrain shooting, the Ming cavalry is the one who is at a disadvantage. After several Ming army staff officers on the hill saw the changes in the battlefield, the staff officer who had negotiated with Zhuo Erbi before quickly walked up to the 36 men and horses of the Guanmen Division, who were watching the battle, and shouted to these idle Mongols: "Is there anyone willing to accept the hiring, for every ten arrows shot, give a piece of cloth; Shoot a man to death, and give a horse of cloth; After the victory of our army, there will be another reward. Is there anyone willing to stand up? ”

Most of the Mongols who stood here to watch the battle were hired by the Ming army to dig trenches and build fortifications for the Ming army. After these people did things for the Ming army, they accepted the position of standing with the Ming army in their hearts, and there was no psychological obstacle to continuing to accept the employment of the Ming army.

Soon the bolder Mongols shouted at him: "If you don't want cloth, can you exchange your gloves and boots?" "The gloves and boots on this Ming army staff officer are all made of fine lambskin, and they are also the standard equipment that Chongzhen gave to the officers, which looks very beautiful.

The staff officer just looked at the gloves and boots on his body, and said to the Mongols without hesitation: "Ten arrows for a pair of gloves, 30 arrows or a shot for a pair of boots." ”

Gloves and boots were obviously more attractive to the Mongols than the cloth he had promised them to go out with. After a while, several Mongols stood up and wanted to respond to the Mingren's hire.

However, digging trenches for the Ming army and directly going into battle to shoot arrows to help the Ming army attack their former allies is still somewhat different in nature. Before these Mongols could stand up with great enthusiasm, several leaders of the 36th Department of the Gate came over to the Ming man angrily.

Zhuo Erbi and the others, who heard the words of this Ming man to lure the clansmen, obviously did not come to accept his employment. Zhuo Erbi stopped in front of the young Mingren, and asked him in an unkind tone what this meant, and why he broke the emperor's agreement with them.

The young Ming army staff officer said to Zhuo Erbi and the others nonchalantly: "Violating the agreement between Your Majesty and you? Well, when this war is over, you can go to your majesty and sue me.

My surname is Guan, Guan Gong's Guan, and my name is mountains and rivers. Remember my name, but don't tell the wrong person in front of Your Majesty, then I'll be a little embarrassed.

At this point, you still want to stay out of it? It's a bit self-deceptive. Do you think that if the Houjin army fled here, they would not retaliate against your tribe when they returned?

Don't get in my way now, your people can't wait to sign up. ”

Guan Shanhe gently pushed aside Zhuo Erbi and the others who were blocking in front of him, and continued to recruit the soldiers of the 36th Division. Most of the Mongols who dared to follow their own leaders into the pass were outlaws who wanted to rely on their own bravery to enter the pass and rob them.

The reason why they lost their will to fight and didn't want to fight with the Ming army anymore was not because they were tired of the war, but because they followed the Houjin army and ran around, and they didn't even drink soup. And the performance of the Ming army was not as weak as the Jurchens said, at least the Ming army they encountered on the east road was very capable of fighting.

risked their lives to fight against the Ming army, but there was nothing to gain, and the soldiers of these 36 divisions naturally had no fighting spirit, and everyone wanted to return to the grassland.

And the Ming people were willing to provide materials to hire them, but these Mongols, who had closed the 36th department, once again raised their interest in war. Using one's prowess in exchange for a piece of property, whether it was plundered from the Akito or hired by the Akito, was what the warriors of the 36 Divisions expected.

Although Zhuo Erbi and the others who came to question Guan Shanhe were aggressive, they actually didn't have any confidence in their hearts, so when Guan Shanhe pushed them away and stepped forward again to recruit the Mongolian soldiers who fought for the Ming army, including Zhuo Erbi and the others, they didn't step forward to stop them again.

As the young Ming man said, they had already covered these Ming people to attack the Hou Jin army, and now even if they came to clear themselves again, it was estimated that the Hou Jin army under the mountain would not believe their so-called neutral words. And if the Ming army is angered again at this time, I am afraid that the Ming army may not fulfill the agreement reached before.

As for the so-called complaint in front of the emperor, as long as Zhuo Erbi and the others are not really bad in their brains, they will naturally not really do it. Since they did not prevent the Ming army from recruiting their own people to assist in the battle, if the Ming army won, they would only ask for merit and reward in front of Chongzhen, so how could they complain.

When the Mongols saw that their chief had gathered around the Ming officer and talked, they stepped aside, and immediately thought that their chief had already negotiated with the Ming man to hire them, so they went up to Guan Shanhe and discussed with him the price of hiring them.

About 300 or 400 Mongols accepted the terms of employment proposed by Guan Shanhe, and under the command of several Ming army staff officers, they took over the task of shooting at the Naiman division in the same village. With the addition of this group of Mongol warriors, a Ming army archer who was at a disadvantage finally turned the situation back and pressed the Naiman warriors who were about to protrude from the village back into the village.

On the other side, although the musketeers led by Li Chenfang were extremely brave, especially the more than 100 Japanese soldiers, who were reloading ammunition under the bows and arrows of the Jurchens with an attitude of disregard for life and death, the inferior rate of fire of the arquebuses caused the musketeers to suffer heavy losses and gradually fell behind.

Behind the archery positions established by the Jurchens, the Mongol warriors of the Ulut banner were constantly crossing the ice, forming a formation on the river beach on the east bank, and these Mongols who crossed the river to reinforce were about hundreds.

Although Wu Huai continued to dispatch troops, hoping to drive the Mongols in front of him down the river before Li Chenfang's blocking force collapsed, but with Wu Nag's command, the Mongol army, which had looked crumbling before, now seemed to be able to hold out for a long time.

After all, the place in front of Balipu is limited, and although the Ming army still has a third of its strength that has not yet been used, it is difficult for these men and horses to join in the attack on these encircled Mongol troops.

Therefore, in the eyes of Chahara and others on the west bank of the Luan River, the key to the battle situation on the other side of the river became the question of whether the Ming army would defeat the encircled Mongolian soldiers first, or whether the firearm troops that the Ming army blocked the reinforcements on this side would collapse first.

Although Chahara did not dare to rush across the river like Wunag, he never stopped urging the Mongol soldiers on the west bank to speed up the crossing of the river to support. The Mongol soldiers of the Ulut Banner, because Wunag and his family were on the other side, were the most active men and horses to cross the river.

However, Ao Han and other Mongol vassal tribes and the Horqin tribe always found excuses to prevaricate and delay the order to cross the river. In the end, Chahara had to forcibly invite Tushetu Khan Oba out of the camp, and let the leader of the Horqin tribe personally urge his subordinates to cross the river, so that the people of the Horqin tribe were a little more obedient.

But it was also at this time that many Mongol stragglers fled back from the southeast, and they brought back the bad news that the main force of the Ming army was attacking and that the whereabouts of Dudu Belle and others were unknown. Before Chahara could react, Oba had already signaled to his younger brother Budazi to suspend the Korqin tribe's movement to cross the river for reinforcements.

The action of the Horqin Department immediately aroused the vigilance of the other river crossers, and the river crossing operation, which was already on the right track, suddenly began to drag on again. The more clumsy soldiers still walked forward with their heads down, while the smarter soldiers began to look around and quietly slowed down.

At this time, Chahara had no time to pay attention to the small movements that took place on the river, because as the stragglers arrived, a group of three or five cavalry began to flee, and it was obvious that the stragglers who had returned before were not lying.

Chahara suddenly became a little troubled, and now in addition to one or twenty Jurchen guards around him, the Jurchen Niulu of the formation has been handed over to Wunag and taken to the other side.

Without the Jurchen force to suppress the Mongol tribes on the west bank, and he did not have the great prestige of Wunag in the Ulut banner, when he heard the news that the main force of the Ming army had defeated the intercepted Dudu men and horses, and was coming here, the leaders of the Mongol tribes who were still on the west bank suddenly lost their obedience to Chahara and discussed how to deal with it on their own.

Chahara was wondering if he should call Wu Nag back first, or withdraw the three Jurchen Niulu on the other side. The Yellow Banner and the Blue Banner returned with a large group of men and horses, bringing back not only an unconscious Chobutei, but also the news of the death of Dorobeledudu.

The men and horses who had fled back one after another, Chahara was able to intercept and control them, preventing them from coming into contact with the men and horses stationed here, and spreading the news of the failure to intercept the main force of the Ming army. By this time, he could no longer block the news of Dudu's defeat.

Whether it was the Horqin Department that had fled back, or those Jurchen soldiers, it was obviously not something that the Horqin cavalry sent by Chahara could intercept. After the defeat of Dudu and the news of the imminent arrival of the main force of the Ming army spread in the army, not only the Horqin Department stopped crossing the river, but other Mongols also stopped crossing the river reinforcements, and some soldiers who had just stepped on the ice quickly turned around and returned to the embankment on the west bank.

Although Wu Nag, who was under his command to resist the Ming army's attack, could not see the situation on the west bank, the Houjin reinforcements who launched an attack on the Ming army's flank south of Shiqiao quickly noticed the movement behind them. Neither the Mongols nor the Jurchens understood what was happening in the West Bank.

However, seeing that the troops on the west bank stopped crossing the river, these reinforcements on the east bank couldn't help but slow down their attacks, but gave the Ming army blocking troops who were about to collapse a chance to adjust and replenish their personnel.