PS: The water-dividing guard Chen Hu has been changed by the swordsman to Li Chengdong's son Li Yuanyin.

With the passage of time and the increase in casualties, Liu Muzhi and the soldiers felt more and more tight. The situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, and if the Tartar commander is not killed in the shortest possible time and his command center is destroyed, the gains of the night raid may be in vain.

Jiao Lian also understood this, he used all his strength, quickly harvesting the lives of the Qing soldiers with a knife, wanting to break through Jin Li's personal defense as soon as possible and kill Jin Li.

At this time, Jin Li had recovered from the initial panic, and found that the number of Ming troops who attacked at night was obviously at a disadvantage, and he was in a good mood, knowing that as long as he could hold on for a little longer, his subordinates would all gather and rely on the advantage of troops to turn defeat into victory.

Therefore, Jin Li even used the strength to eat milk, brandished a long knife, and fought hard to resist the spears of the Ming army that gradually surrounded him.

The situation is becoming more and more tense, the balance of victory is no longer tilted towards Jiao Lian's side, and who will die has become a big question mark.

At this critical moment, puffs of smoke suddenly rose from the rear camp of the Qing army, and the sky-high fire suddenly rose, and the blazing fire illuminated the camp as bright as day.

At the moment when the fire ignited, Jin Li and his guards were obviously panicked, and their minds were slightly divided, Jiao Lian seized this golden opportunity, took a spear from the hands of the guards, stood up bravely, galloped a few steps, and even slapped and beaten, forcing back Jin Li's guards, and then with a broken drink, the tip of the spear as fast as lightning crossed the space of several meters, and stabbed straight at Jin Li's chest.

Jin Li screamed, threw away his long knife, instinctively covered his chest with his left hand, which had been stabbed by the spear, and fell from his horse to the ground.

Because of the iron armor protection, Jiao Lian's spear was sharp, but it still did not break through the defense of the iron armor, but was hit by the powerful impact and caused a pain in his chest.

After falling off the horse, he took advantage of the situation to roll a few times in the ground, stood up and went straight to another war horse, intending to jump on the war horse and slip away.

Seeing this, Jiao Lian snorted coldly, his legs clamped the horse's belly, and the empathetic mount suddenly exerted his strength, catching up with Jin Li like a whirlwind.

Jiao Lian drew his waist knife and slashed at his neck as his mount swept past the golden stone, along the gap between the armor. His personal soldiers tightly surrounded the mount, and used their waist knives and shields to help block Jin Li's personal guards and come to the rescue.

Seeing the flash of the knife, Jin Li instinctively raised his left hand to block it, but how could he block the steel knife that was as sharp as clay?

The knife light flashed, and a big head flew into the sky, and blood suddenly gushed out along the slit of the knife at the neck, splashing Jiao Lian's body all over his face.

A drop of blood was sprinkled on the blade, and before Jin Li's terrible howl before he died, his head had already fallen to the ground.

After beheading the Tartar commander, Jiao Lian strangled his mount, his chest swelled with pride, and he jumped Jin Li's head high with a spear, and hissed wildly: "Serve the country with loyalty, swear to kill the Tartars!" ”

The crotch mount is very humane, and with the shouts of the master, the man stands up, and raises his head and roars. In the firelight, Jiao Lian, who was riding on a war horse, was majestic, like a god who descended to earth.

The surrounding Ming soldiers were greatly encouraged to see this scene, and they all howled sharply, and the balance of victory was once again tilted in favor of the Ming army.

The bright and long whistling of the mount under the crotch is still echoing in the air, and the earth-shattering war drums suddenly sounded on the tower of the water gate, the city gate was opened, and the guard Li Yuanyin led three thousand horsemen to rush out of the city, and countless torches were linked back and forth, like an angry fire dragon, crossing the moat and rushing straight to the Qing camp.

The commander was dead, and the Qing army, which had lost its command and backbone, no longer had the courage to continue to resist stubbornly, the green battalion soldiers broke up first, and the Han Eight Banners also lost their fighting spirit, and fled to the Baisong Ridge a few miles away, trying to evade the pursuit of the Ming soldiers under the cover of deep mountains and dense forests and dark nights.

With the addition of thousands of fresh troops of Li Yuanyin's army, the Qing army was even more defeated, completely lost its fighting spirit, and the war soon evolved into a one-sided slaughter, Jiao Lian and Li Yuanyin's men and horses converged together, like a surging torrent, ruthlessly devouring the remnants of the Qing army's camp.

It was dawn, and the red sun smiled and jumped out of the horizon, driving away the cold of the night. Jiao Lian and Li Yuanyin were busy chasing and killing the Qing army under their command at night, and they did not meet until the time of the collection of troops.

Li Yuanyin and several generals under him, after seeing Jiao Lian, it was really as if he had seen a savior, he bowed his hand, and said in a choked voice: "The last general is looking forward to the arrival of the general army, it is really like the hope of a great drought!" ”

As Jin Li's 30,000-strong army pressed the border, the situation at the water division pass became increasingly tight, and the burden of thousands of catties pressed on the shoulders of the young Li Yuanyin, making him feel incompetent.

Although he had already sent people to ask the imperial court to quickly increase the number of troops and transport food and ammunition, it was difficult to solve the near fire in Yuanshui for a while, and the troops in Xingdu were thin, and it was already reluctant to guard Zhaoqing, so he could not send reinforcements for a while, so he could only mobilize some troops from Huguang to go to Fenshui Pass for reinforcements, and the soldiers of Jiao Lian's Huben Army were ordered to go to reinforcements under this circumstance.

The only thing that the first assistant Qu Shiyun of Xingdu can do is to supply the food and salary of the soldiers of the water distribution pass in a timely manner, and the rest can only rely on Li Yuanyin himself, in this case, the morale of the soldiers guarding the pass is generally not high, most of them are the original Ming army that Li Chengdong incorporated when he went south, not to mention the combat effectiveness, and the loyalty to the imperial court is not high.

If it weren't for the loyal and conscientious general Li Yuanyin, who used hundreds of personal soldiers to fight to the death, those guards might have surrendered the city.

Li Yuanyin wanted to defend without reinforcements, and he couldn't afford to abandon the pass and escape, and he was even more sorry for the Son of Heaven who attached great importance to him and his father-in-law Li Chengdong, who cultivated him single-handedly.

On the contrary, the Tibetan army Bai Songling, taking advantage of the carelessness of the Qing army commander Jin Li, fought a beautiful night raid battle, directly beheaded the Qing army commander Jin Li, and defeated the main force of the Qing army.

"Jiao Shuai dared to skip people, attacked the Tartar camp at night, beheaded the enemy chieftain, captured the enemy and killed more than 10,000 enemies, Yuan Yin is really admired!"

"Li Vice Rong has won the award, if Li Vice Rong did not lead the soldiers and civilians of the water distribution pass to defend the city, and go out of the city in time to respond, how could there be a big victory? Li Vicerong is a young hero, and it's not bad! ”

"Hehe, Jiao Shuai is really too modest. If Jiao Shuai hadn't defeated the main force of the Tartars in one fell swoop, the water dividing pass would have been broken only overnight. ”

After that, Li Yuanyin bowed to the ground: "Jiao Shuai is really the life-saving benefactor of the ten thousand soldiers and civilians who divide the water!" ”

"Don't dare to be, don't dare to be!" Jiao Lian helped Li Yuanyin up: "It all depends on the soldiers who participated in the war to fight with their lives and bloody battles to achieve a great victory, it is really not Jiao's own strength, Li Deputy Rong speaks like this again, doesn't Jiao want to find his own seams?" ”