The general of the Ming army brought back by the envoy sent by Rausa to persuade him to surrender replied with only one sentence, "There are only guards who died in battle, and there are no guards who surrender." Although the answer of the Ming generals was expected by Laosa and Xingne, they were still a little surprised by the decisiveness of the Ming generals.

However, the young generals around the two were extremely disappointed, and it was because of the Ming army's answer that they aroused the anger of being rejected and kind, which was in line with the psychological expectations of the two people who sent envoys to persuade them to surrender.

It was impossible for the officers and men of the Ming army who had finished resting and eating to say that they were not affected by the newly arrived reinforcements of the Qing army, but under the instigation and organization of the Ming army officers, these uneasiness were well hidden.

The answer to how a soldier can get the fastest promotion is war, especially fierce battles. Chen Wuyi, who is a shedman, used to be skeptical of this sentence, but today he really believes it.

In the previous battle, because of the casualties of platoon-level officers, he was finally promoted to platoon commander on the spot because of his outstanding performance in the battle. Although it was only a temporary position, his supervisor had clearly told him that he would be able to fill it when he returned to the official appointment.

From the shed to the platoon commander, this is a great leap from the soldier class to the officer class, and the difficulty of this leap is no less than the leap from a colonel-level officer to a general-level officer.

For Chen Wuyi, this is undoubtedly a change in his life, immersed in this excitement, he can't care about the threat of the arrival of Qing army reinforcements. He just wanted to go back to the camp as soon as possible, as the commander of the front row, he pulled out his command knife for the first time, took a deep breath and shouted: "Guards, advance..."

Whether it is the Ming army or the Qing army, they all know that the next showdown will become very important. If the Ming army could not break through the obstacles of the Qing army, then they would never be able to return to Yingkou. And if the Qing army continues to be defeated, then the Ming army may no longer be able to be stopped.

The newly arrived Haizhou army obviously did not understand the tactics of the Ming army, so when they were arranged in front of the battle, they were still a little eager to try, thinking that they wanted to make a military merit from the head of the Ming army on the opposite side. Compared with the previous battles, the number of artillery firing by the Ming army this time was significantly reduced, and it was obvious that the Ming army's artillery reserves were also insufficient.

Although this level of artillery bombardment dispersed the archers in front of the Qing army's formation, it was insufficient to disrupt the Qing army's infantry array. And Xing Ne is still fighting in the second row of queues this time, and he already plans to take advantage of the Ming army's platoon guns to launch a counter-charge with these Haizhou troops whose courage has not yet fallen.

For this reason, he also deliberately gave a death order, after the Ming army opened fire, everyone must rush up and entangle with the Ming army, and no one is allowed to retreat, not even himself.

However, just as Xing Ne was waiting for the Qing army to approach the Ming army's formation, and Rausa and his cavalry squeezed the two wings of the Ming army's formation more violently than before, a terrible military horn suddenly sounded from a distance.

When the Qing army was still confused, the Ming army in the phalanx suddenly became excited, and soon Xing Ne and other Qing generals also noticed that something was wrong, because the sound of the military horn came from behind them, attracting many Qing soldiers to keep looking back.

The area of Yingzhou belongs to the edge of the Liaodong Plain, with mountains in the east, hills in the middle, and plains in the west. The battlefield they were in was in a patch of hills and plains, and from the Qing army's view, the road leading to Yingkou was just blocked by a hill, and the sound of military trumpets was coming from behind this hill.

The confusion of the Qing army did not last long, and soon a flag of the Ming army jumped out from behind the hills, followed by the Ming army in columns. This newly emerged Ming army was at least a few hundred people, and after watching them start to form a horizontal formation after bypassing the hills, they did not hesitate to march towards the Qing army that was blocking the main road.

It is not clear where these Qing army foot soldiers will be at this moment, they are being attacked by two Ming troops. It was the Ming army in front of them that had been fighting with them for more than a day, and they all felt that they might not be able to stop it, and the new Ming army coming from behind made these Qing soldiers feel desperate.

And just when the Qing army's infantry began to be chaotic, Chen Wuyi had already stopped, and shouted to the Ming soldiers in the first row: "Raise your gun, fire..."

Because of this sudden change, the Qing infantry did not follow Xingne's order to charge after the Ming army's platoon shots, but fled to both sides. Although Xing Ne slashed down several soldiers who did not obey orders in the array, it did not stop these Manchu soldiers from escaping, and everyone just deflected the direction of the flight and bypassed him far away.

Looking at these soldiers on the battlefield who fled with their heads like panicked birds, Rao is Xingne, who has always been tenacious, also feels that all thoughts are lost at this moment, and he feels that the prestige of the Mandate of Heaven Khan for the Jurchens to win a hundred battles is buried in his hands at this moment.

He dropped his saber a little sluggishly, and said to the guards who were guarding him: "That's it, you also go, go and tell Laussa that I have no command in Xingne, and I have fallen into the military might of the Eight Banners, and I should die here today to atone for his sins." ”

How dare several guards just leave Xing Ne here, they exchanged glances with each other, and then pounced together, put Xing Ne up and ran, and one of them kept persuading Xing Ne and said, "My lord, this war crime is not ours." Since yesterday, what tactics have we not used against this army?

They have been able to hold on until now without collapsing, which shows that they are a first-class strong army in the Ming army, and such an army may be difficult to shake even when Lao Khan is there. Why should adults be disheartened by this, as long as we live, we can always take revenge...

If we lose the battle, we will die, and we will have a few mouthfuls left. You see, even Lord Raussa's cavalry is starting to retreat, so don't think about it, my lord..."

Although this guard kept persuading him by his side, in Xingne's heart, who was looking up at the sky, there was only one question that appeared again and again at this time: "When such a Ming army appears, do you still have a chance to take revenge?" ”

When the two Ming armies converged, Li You and other officers hurriedly ran to thank Li Yan who led this reinforcement, and Cao Cien also asked Li Yan in surprise: "Staff Officer Li, how did you come so quickly?" Have you received the news that we are being entangled by the Qing army? ”

After Li Yan looked at the surrounding situation, he interrupted everyone's words and said, "It's still at war, you might as well go back and talk about some things slowly." You keep the current phalanx unchanged, let's form another phalanx, and then stagger the cover to retreat. The Qing army was only temporarily defeated, and if their cavalry continued to entangle, it would still be very troublesome..."

Under Li Yan's assignment, Li You and other officers naturally agreed in unison, swallowed back many questions, turned around and commanded the troops to continue to retreat.

Lausa noticed that the Ming army came to the rescue of less than a thousand troops, and although it was difficult to intercept the Ming army due to the dispersal of the infantry, he still tried to follow the cavalry to find an opportunity.

However, apparently Li Yan had expected that behind the hills that the Qing army could not see, he arranged an artillery position, and after the Qing cavalry entered the firing range, the Ming artillery fired a beautiful salvo, with the counterattack of the Ming infantry, and thwarted the Qing cavalry that was almost sticking to the side of the Ming army.

The ambush of the Ming army this time made the Qing cavalry have to open up the distance between them and the Ming army, and they can only take on the task of monitoring the Ming army from a distance.

Without the hindrance of the Qing army, although the Ming army was still on guard, the speed of the march increased sharply. After a long period of field marching training and an abundant supply of meat, the physical strength of the soldiers of the Guards was obviously much better than that of the emaciated children of the military families before.

Although they experienced nearly three days of continuous fighting, it only took them a day and a half to return to the outside of Yingkou after they broke away from the interception of the Qing army. Three miles away from Yingkou City, Lausa, who had never been able to find an opportunity, had to order to stop the troops and watch the Ming army advance towards Yingkou City.

However, he also saw that as the Ming army continued to advance, someone ran out of the ranks and erected a wooden sign on the side of the road. After the Ming army was far away, Rausa endured it again and again, and finally couldn't help but order his subordinates to take the sign erected by the Ming army.

Raussa, who knew a few Chinese characters, just took the wooden sign in his hand and glanced at it, then threw it on the ground in annoyance, and then urged the horse to step on the wooden card, and ordered very unceremoniously: "Turn around and go back to Yaozhou City." ”

After Laussa left, the sharp-eyed Manchurian officer, who knew Chinese characters, cautiously tilted his head and looked at it for a while, and found that the broken wooden sign was written in chalk with a few lines of words: "Thank you for your affection, and you will be rewarded in the future." Guards Li You. ”

The Manchurian officer was immediately furious, kicked the wooden sign apart, and then got on his horse and followed the team.

On the side of the Ming army, Li Yan also explained to everyone why he set off in advance to meet everyone. In fact, to put it bluntly, Yingkou itself does not produce any agricultural products, except for seafood.

Therefore, Yingkou's grain, vegetables, and meat all come from the purchase of surrounding villages, especially the tun reclamation areas in the western plains. Except for the Ming army's occupation of Yingkou and the interruption of trade activities with the surrounding villages in the past few days, since the Ming army reopened the city, the grain trade between Yingkou and these villages has resumed.

But on the day Li You and his departure began, the prices in Yingkou suddenly began to rise again, and Li Yan, the general who guarded Yingkou, naturally had to conduct inspections, but those traders who sold grain and vegetables said that because many villages in the west had received orders to collect grain, the grain and vegetables supplied to Yingkou City became less, and the prices in the market naturally increased.

Li Yan investigated and found that in the past few years, there had been no sudden grain requisition orders in the vicinity of Yingkou. However, in the vicinity of Beizhen and Shenyang, once troops were to be sent to fight, these villages would receive such an order.

Li Yan immediately guessed that Shenyang had already sent troops to Yingkou, so he handed over the defense of Yingkou to the navy, and he took a battalion stationed in Yingkou to pick up Li You and others who were besieging Yaozhou City, and it turned out that he was not wrong.

After taking back Li You's department, Li Yan did not relax, but fell into a more tense busyness. Because after confirming his guess, the next step was to quickly inform Sun Chuanting and Huang Degong, who were besieging Xiongyue Town, of the movements of the Qing army, and asked them to abandon their plan to prepare and the Jinzhou army to besiege the Qing army in Fuzhou.

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