Text: Volume 12, Chapter 2, Section 9, Crowd Offensive (3)

Li Mingzhi, a staff officer of the C Battalion of the Yulin Battalion, saw that the soldiers under his command had suffered many casualties, and he couldn't help but be furious, only to see more than 100 soldiers who had been shot in the arms, upper body, and arrows falling to the ground and groaning incessantly.

"Bastard!"

Li Mingzhi, a staff officer of the 3rd Battalion of the Yulin Battalion, ordered the officers and men of the 3rd Battalion to hurry up and load their ammunition to prepare for another fatal blow to the defeated Korean army.

At this moment, Liu Jinhui, the general of the first battalion of the Yulin Battalion, who was already impatient, shouted: "Soldiers, rush me!" ”

The more than 7,000 soldiers of the Yulin Battalion and the First Battalion stationed in the first line of defense rushed out one after another with a roar, only to see 30 or 50 soldiers of the A Battalion as a team, each of them forming a formation and charging forward, chasing after the Korean soldiers and horses that had been defeated all the way.

On the battlefield on the southern front, the attack launched by the 170,000 Korean army still did not break through the first line of defense of the Ming army, but lost more than 20,000 people, and the advance of the army was directly defeated by the soldiers of the A and C battalions of the Yulin Battalion.

The rout of the retreat of the Korean army directly collided with the advancing army, and the army of more than 100,000 troops was suddenly crowded into a mass on the battlefield, unable to advance or retreat.

Li Zhe, the commander-in-chief of the Korean Chinese army, looked at the battle situation in front of him, and was so angry that he immediately drew his sword and killed himself, and shouted at the heralds around him again and again, trying to make the hundreds of thousands of troops in front withdraw and reorganize as soon as possible.

However, the great rout of more than 100,000 people can be completely reversed overnight!

The commander of the North Korean army, Yi Chol, has been busy for a long time, and the situation on the battlefield ahead has not been reversed. In this way, under Li Zhe's almost desperate gaze, Liu Jinhui, a general of the A Battalion of the Yulin Battalion, led more than 7,000 soldiers to rush out of the Ming army's defense line, and the soldiers charged in formation, killing the defeated Korean soldiers who were being defeated to death.

On the battlefield, the hundreds of thousands of Korean troops were like a large flock of sheep driven by tigers and wolves, and they were bloodily slaughtered by the soldiers of the Yulin Battalion A Battalion, and almost no one in the Korean army, which was far more numerous than the soldiers of the Ming army, turned over to meet the battle, and would rather put their backs under the swords of the soldiers of the Ming army than fight hard to resist it.

As a result, on the battlefield of the southern front, which was originally fiercely fighting, an incredible scene was formed, with thousands of soldiers of the Yulin battalion roaring and chasing and killing hundreds of thousands of Korean troops, rampage on the battlefield, as if entering a no-man's land, as if they were unstoppable as if they were heavenly soldiers descending to earth.

In view of this, Li Zhe, the commander of the Korean army, finally understood that the great battle he led his army had completely failed, and in front of the Ming army, which had absolute combat power and terrain advantages, the Korean army's superiority in strength could not be brought into play! The war of people led by the commander of the Korean army, Li Chol, is destined to be impossible to win!

"Herald!"

Li Zhe, the commander of the North Korean army, looked at the herald soldiers who were already in a panic around him, and shouted in a low voice: "The Chinese army immediately retreats three miles to form a formation, so that the army on the battlefield will immediately withdraw and regroup on both flanks of the Chinese army!" ”

"Order!"

The dozen or so heralds around them suddenly dispersed in a hurry, and rushed towards the chaotic battlefield in front of them.

Immediately afterwards, the 20,000 troops guarding the Chinese army in Korea also slowly retreated, retreating to the south of the Ming army's defensive line.

At this time, Huang Fuming also found that the banner of the main general of North Korea was slowly retreating, and he was overjoyed, and said loudly to the herald soldiers around him: "Immediately inform Yang Zongzhen: the main army of North Korea has been defeated, let Yang Zongzhen immediately lead the soldiers of Xuanfu Town to launch a counterattack!" ”

Several heralds immediately rushed towards the north of the Ming line.

Immediately afterwards, Huang Fuming shouted to several other heralds: "Light the beacon smoke immediately!" Let the Iron Cavalry come to war! ”

"Order! ”

After a while, billowing wolf smoke rose from the beacon tower of the nameless fortress, and the straight wolf smoke soared upward, and it was clearly visible more than ten miles away on the hot spring plain.

"Pass the order! The officers and men of the A, B, and C battalions of the Yulin Battalion made an all-out attack to chase down the defeated North Korean army! ”

A moment later, in addition to Liu Jinhui, a staff general who had already led the army into the battlefield, Lan Yuan, a staff officer of the second battalion, and Li Mingzhi, a staff general of the C battalion, all led the officers and men of their headquarters to rush out of the southern defense line of the Ming army and rushed to kill on the battlefield.

Originally, after receiving the order to retreat, the Korean defeated troops on the southern battlefield were able to flee towards the large array of Chinese troops three miles away to the south according to the order of the Korean commander Li Zhe.

However, with the exception of Liu Jinhui, a general of the A Battalion, who was leading the army to kill the enemy, Lan Yuan, a general of the B Battalion, and Li Mingzhi, a general of the C Battalion, all discovered the attempt of the Korean army to break out, and the three of them had a very accurate grasp of the situation on the battlefield.

At this time, there were only more than 60,000 defeated soldiers who fled south to the large array of the Korean army, and the rest of the nearly 100,000 defeated troops were all blocked on the battlefield and could not advance or retreat!

Li Zhe looked at the smoke and dust raised by the battle of more than 100,000 people in the distance, his face was already like ashes, and he felt deep despair in his heart when he thought of the grim situation facing the Korean Kingdom after the defeat of the army.

"If the war is defeated, the Great Korean will be destroyed! I'm a sinner through the ages! ”

Thinking of this, Li Zhe couldn't help but burst into tears.

In this battle, only more than 80,000 defeated soldiers remained of the 220,000 troops deployed in the south of the Korean army, and nearly 100,000 troops on the battlefield were already like dead men. And the 150,000 troops sent by Li Zhe to the north to attack the Ming army's northern defense line are estimated to be more auspicious, and it is unknown how many soldiers and horses can be withdrawn!

"I'm not used to it! There are still 100,000 troops in Pyongyang, and as long as I can safely return to Pyongyang and defend the city, then there is still room for maneuver in this battle! As long as I lead the army to hold out until the 300,000 Japanese army cuts off the retreat of the Ming army, then this battle can be turned into victory! ”

After stabilizing his mind, Li Zhe made up his mind and decided to immediately withdraw his troops to the south and return to Pyongyang as soon as possible to defend it.

Suddenly, Li Zhe found that the war horse under his seat seemed very uneasy, and he had been spinning in place, and his heart suddenly became alert.

At this moment, a general beside Li Zhe exclaimed loudly: "What is that!" ”

Li Zhe looked in the direction of the general's finger, and saw bursts of smoke and dust rising from the west of the Korean Chinese army, and the army that had been killed from nowhere was rushing towards the Korean Chinese army!

"It's the Ming Army's Iron Cavalry!"

Li Zhe only glanced at it, and then he was frightened, and immediately screamed: "Withdraw the army!" Withdrawal! ”

A North Korean general next to him was so angry that he grabbed the reins of Li Zhe's war horse and said loudly: "General! It's time to take on the battle! In our army, they are all infantry troops, how can they escape the pursuit of the enemy's iron cavalry when they run on their own on the plains! ”

At this time, Li Zhe was already frightened to the point of breaking up, where could he still listen to these admonitions, pushed the general away, and then led the five hundred iron horsemen around him to flee south, and even directly left tens of thousands of troops here and ignored them!

Seeing this, the North Korean general was furious and scolded loudly: "The one who killed my great Korea, Li Zhe is also!" ”

Immediately afterwards, the North Korean general, together with the remaining three generals, organized a large army to meet the enemy. However, in the face of the sudden killing of the Ming army's iron cavalry army, where did the tens of thousands of defeated Korean soldiers who had just fled from the Ghost Gate Pass still have the courage to fight?

What's more, the commander of the army, Li Zhe, fled from the battle, which left tens of thousands of Korean troops leaderless, and suddenly became a mess, and it was impossible to form a tight formation in a short time.

At this time, You Dagui, the general of the Yulin Battalion, roared loudly, and together with the more than 7,000 iron cavalry soldiers behind him, he looked like crazy, as if he had picked up a big golden bump out of thin air, and the whole army was excited.

You know, encountering an army of infantry soldiers without any formation and already panicking in the plains is the kind of battle situation that every Iron Cavalry army dreams of!

In such a situation, the only outcome is the complete defeat of the infantry army!

"Kill! Annihilate the enemy! ”

The general You Dagui roared, and led two hundred iron cavalry soldiers to kill the tens of thousands of Korean troops, and more than 7,000 iron cavalry soldiers followed, like a huge iron nail wedged into the Korean army, and thousands of galloping horses instantly stepped out of a bloody passage in the crowd.

"Haha! Joyfully! Rejoice! This is war, this is joy! ”

The general You Dagui roared loudly, such a lively battle is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. You Dagui continued to lead the iron cavalry soldiers to rush and kill in the wilderness, and most of the tens of thousands of Korean troops who were suddenly killed and killed were killed and wounded in a short period of time, and the remaining 30,000 or 20,000 troops had no way to escape and fight, so they could only kneel on the ground and cry and beg to surrender to the Ming army's iron cavalry.

However, the iron cavalry soldiers of the Yulin Battalion were killing happily, how could they agree to take the prisoners?

Staff General You Dagui looked at the enemy troops everywhere and didn't care at all, and continued to order the whole army to continue to rush and kill until the enemy army was killed!

Those North Korean soldiers saw that the Ming army's iron cavalry was about to be wiped out, and they all collapsed on the spot, and the weapons brandished by the Ming soldiers were not even low-grade, and they had obviously completely given up resistance and were ready to die.

Half an hour later, tens of thousands of Korean troops on the battlefield were all wiped out, and all of them were annihilated by the iron cavalry soldiers of the Yulin Battalion.

At this time, tens of thousands of Korean troops on the battlefield south of the Ming army's defense line were also annihilated, and Huang Fuming led more than 30,000 soldiers of the main army of the Yulin battalion to hurry over, and saw that You Dagui had completely annihilated the Chinese soldiers and horses of the Korean army, and was overjoyed, and hurriedly asked: "Can you see the corpse of the main general of the Korean army?" ”

You Dagui was very annoyed and said: "Qiqi Headquarters, I haven't seen it!" I guess I let this bastard run away! ”

"Humph!"

Huangfu Ming snorted coldly and said, "It's okay! Then Li Zhe can run the monk can't run the temple, he will definitely flee back to Pyongyang City after the defeat, our army just took advantage of the victory to pursue, and the soldiers came to Pyongyang City! ”

At this moment, a team of Xuanfu Town did not accept soldiers at night and rushed to the horse, and a small flag officer flew off his horse and saluted and said: "Qiqi General Town, the 150,000 Korean army in the north has never been overseered and attacked, and after learning that the Korean army on the southern front has been defeated, they retreated in formation!" ”