The course of the Maji River is not wide, the embankment is relatively low, there is no rain to replenish in the year of the great drought, the riverbed is bare in many places, and the river water that can be seen to the end is divided into several streams and flows slowly to the north. From a distance, a troop wading across the river with the tricolor black eagle banner seemed to have just fought, and the soldiers slowly walked westward with their wounded on their feet.

On the river embankment, Li Yu was holding his clairvoyance to look east, and Ge Kuli next to him chattered endlessly: "Thunderbolt, you are very capable, dare to have a hard encounter with tens of thousands of Qing troops, well, you fought well, and finally brought the team back, should you be credited with military merits?" ”

A group of officers of the Datong Army laughed, and Sun Fuhu was so embarrassed that his face was red, and he lowered his head and did not dare to say anything - he was in trouble today, most of the right battalion of the Tuntian Army were from Shandong, familiar with the local situation, and were sent to the east of the Mache River to guard, and happened to meet the advance of the Han army of the Qing army, and the battalion officer Li Qingshan made meritorious service and pounced on it, and as a result, more than 100 people died. Sun Fuhu was furious when he heard the news, he had worked in Shanhaiguan, knew what the Han Eight Banners were, and pulled up Sun Erkui's cavalry battalion to retaliate, the Han army outpost suffered a loss and also called for reinforcements from his accomplices, the battle became bigger and bigger, from the scale of several thousand people quickly became a battle of 10,000 people, Liu Tichun of the Tuntian Army Battalion, and Hao Shaoqi of the Left Battalion joined the war group successively, and the Eight Banners of the Han Army also went all out, and the two sides fought and it was difficult to distinguish the victory or defeat. When the sun was westward, the Manchurian Eight Banners arrived, and struck a hard blow to the flank of the Tuntian army, Sun Fuhu saw that the situation was not good and hurriedly retreated, and was chased and killed by the Qing army and lost hundreds of people.

"The Tuntian army faced a strong enemy for the first time, dared to take the initiative, and forced out the enemy's elite, it really fought well, and the soldiers should be credited." Li Yu put down his clairvoyance and said.

"I'll just say, our Tuntian army is fighting well today, and the Han Eight Banners are so arrogant and they are also beaten in a hurry, if it weren't for the timely reinforcements of the Manchurian soldiers, we would have won." Li Qingshan immediately applauded and said, he was originally a local tyrant in Shouzhang, Shandong, pulled the flag to rebel and blockade the canal for a few months, Zhou Yanru was hijacked by him on the way back, but this guy is an official fan, but he bribed Zhou Yanru, hoping that the court would recruit an official position, Zhou Yanru agreed, and immediately turned his face after entering Beijing and entered the cabinet, and ordered the Shandong officials and troops to make every effort to clean up.

Li Yu snorted, and asked sharply: "Thunderbolt, who led the Manchurian soldiers to chase you today?" ”

"I can see clearly, it's the blue flag of Sitku, the red flag of Hurib, both of them are Kabush Xianzhangjing, nothing remarkable, fortunately they retreated quickly, otherwise I would have killed them." Taqib, who was born in the Blue Banner Kabush Virtuous Army, raised his hand and shouted, this is Mang Gurtai's sworn friend, another bitter and vengeful guy, who spoke too much, causing Sun Fuhu to glare at him fiercely.

"I know, let the soldiers eat and sleep well tonight, and start the war early tomorrow morning." Li Yu waved his hand and ordered, but he couldn't remember the names of Sitku and Hurib in his mind, probably a new young man.

When night fell, piles of bonfires were lit in the camp of the Qing army, and the exhausted soldiers were staggered around the fire, some people ate glutinous grain with hot water, and some people had fallen asleep, and they were really tired from the rapid march from Yucheng to the Mache River. In the big tent of the Chinese army, Abatai was looking at the map and thinking - the troops are insufficient, more than 45,000 armored soldiers were dispatched, 10,000 were trapped on the west road, and 10,000 people were still on the road on the east road, he only had 25,000 people in his hands, of which only 10,000 were in the elite of the Eight Banners, and thirty percent of them were temporarily replenished from Xianding and Aha after the epidemic.

"Master, let's let the slave talk to my uncle, this battle shouldn't be fought!" Bayanha was talking about discouragement again.

This minion is too ignorant, people have 30,000 people in their hands, why should they talk to you? Abatai replied impatiently: "After the fight, we will talk, and no matter how arrogant Erlu is, he will not dare to drive us all away." ”

Bayanha nagged for a while, and when he saw that Abatai ignored him, he had to walk out in a gloomy manner: "The master can fight if he wants, and the slave will go to see how the horse is fed." ”

"Bayangha, you've finally figured out what to do!" Abatai nodded, he had 3,000 cavalry with eight banners, 2,000 cavalry from the Eight Banners and 3,000 Mongolian cavalry from other domains, these 8,000 cavalry were relied on to go home from the customs, and there was no room for mistakes.

The night was safe, both sides were veterans of soldiers, and they didn't think about the cheap things of stealing camps and robbing villages, but at dawn a large group of Datong iron cavalry suddenly crossed the river to attack, and the Qing army iron cavalry did not show weakness to meet the battle, after a short period of horse guns, bows and arrows, Datong iron cavalry quickly retreated, and the Qing army chased to the Maji River and shouted for a while - the two armies tested each other's cavalry strength in the simplest way, and also declared their own cavalry strength.

At dawn, the Qing army crossed the Mache River and advanced five miles to meet the Datong army that was waiting for the battle - Turg begged for help, Abatai couldn't go back without a hard battle, this time he didn't play false, and directly used the armor soldiers to go into battle, and the unlucky Han Eight Banners naturally took the lead, followed by the full eight banners of the armor soldiers, and the other idle Ding, Aha and Liaodong Han people were on guard behind. Li Yu also sent elite soldiers and strong generals to respond to the battle, the infantry rear association was in the center, the infantry front association and the infantry left association were divided into left and right, and the Shandong Tuntian army was delayed, and the four troops were in a diamond-shaped formation, and the auxiliary troops followed closely behind and were ready to respond at any time. The easiest thing is the cavalry, Abatai can't leave the cavalry if he wants to go home, and he will never dare to bet on his blood easily, Li Yu only has the Flying Tiger Battalion and the cavalry Zuo Xie available, Sun Erkui's 2,500 Shandong cavalry is too weak, and they are purely scared to put it out, and they dare not risk a battle, and the two sides are very tacitly aware to maintain a state of confrontation to contain each other, and at the same time protect the flanks of their own army.

The Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty are mainly composed of the Guanning Army of the Ming State and the Dongjiang Army, and they fought with the Shandong Tuntian Army yesterday, and even they themselves can't figure it out. These guys also want to be embarrassed, as soon as the war starts, they put on a posture of playing with their lives, and they don't care if they are killed by the rain of arrows and guns, and they rush forward with a roar, fighting with the two battalions of Ren Shouzhong and Ye Dewei. Zhou Yujibu is more than three percent of Liaodong people, seeing this group of guys who speak Liaodong accent but comb big pigtails, they are angry, Ren Shouzhong's subordinate sentry Sun Tianqing first led the whole outpost to launch a white-edged assault, Ren Shouzhong, Ye Dewei was worried about the loss, and immediately killed the wall, two battalions of the Datong Army 2,000 people launched a counterattack against the 10,000 Eight Banners Han Army, and in an instant, blood was everywhere, corpses were everywhere, and the original defensive battle became an offensive battle.

Zhou Yuji was indifferent to the changes in the front line, and patiently played the lifting gun, and several personal soldiers were still waiting in line with the loaded lifting gun. Lu Guangzu, who was temporarily sent to praise and paint military affairs, anxiously paced back and forth - the "four generals of the left battalion" did the division of labor, Li Guoying stayed by Li Yu's side, Jin Shengheng went to Hou Shijie's infantry front association, Xu Yong went to Jin Guoding's artillery right association, and Lu Guangzu followed his fellow villager Zhou Yuji. Finally hit the flag officer of the Qing army in the distance, watching that guy's brain burst and fall to the ground with the big flag, Zhou Yuji laughed proudly, and Lu Guangzu immediately came over.

"Lao Zhou, quickly withdraw the troops to the battle wall, the Eight Banners Han Army also dares to fight hand-to-hand, we fight more with less, how can we fight after the troops are exhausted?" Lu Guangzu is very puzzled today, he knows the details of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty, those guys were most afraid of hand-to-hand combat when they used to fight in the Ming army, how could they turn around when they defected to the Qing army?

"The Eight Banners haven't come up yet, it's okay, fight for a while and then retreat." Zhou Yuji waved his hand, to be honest, in addition to the elite banner soldiers of Manchuria, the Datong Army really didn't take the Eight Banners of Mongolia and the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty in their eyes.

"Why don't I take Taqib up and fight for a while, so that the left and right battalions will not suffer too many casualties." Deputy Co-Coordinator Haishan said with his hands in full swing.

Zhou Yuji thought for a while and nodded and replied: "It's okay, you go up and attract the Eight Banners Han Army, don't let these rabbit cubs run away, Sun Dasheng and Hou Madman will not let go of the opportunity to stab them." ”

Haishan and Taqibu ran excitedly, and there were only two direct posts left by Zhou Yuji's side, but he didn't care, he picked up a pole and continued to fight.

The Eight Banners Han Army was rushed by Ren Shouzhong and Ye Dewei's two battalions, and it was difficult to gain the upper hand with the strength of the crowd, but the other party immediately lined up intensively, the heavy armor soldiers stretched out their spears like a forest, and the light armor soldiers threw sharp arrows forward, and the Eight Banners Han Army was helpless around this iron hedgehog, but was pierced with blood. An even more terrible enemy appeared again, the gang of guys with big blades in their mouths and shooting arrows while rushing knew at a glance who they were, the Han army was full of fear of the Manchurians in their bones, and their legs were involuntarily weak, and the officers were even more frightened, and hurriedly hung out the flag for help, calling for reinforcements from the Han army everywhere.

The camp in the rear association was full of people, and the Ming army that had changed its face was not merciful, screaming and rushing up to fight hand-to-hand, a sentry or even a team dared to rush into the crowd and slash and kill, Haishan and Taqibu each led the selection of soldiers to rampant in the Han army as if entering no man's land, and captured three Niulu flags in a row, and the left and right battalions also took advantage of the situation to attack, and the Han army continued to retreat, stirring up the formation and chaos, and almost collapsed.

The infantry front association and the left association will not let go of the good opportunity to annihilate the enemy, take the opportunity to advance quickly, and gradually form an inverted zigzag with the rear association, and then Zhang Yichuan and Yuan Lie two battalions crossed out of the main formation, outflanking the side and rear of the Eight Banners Han Army, and the Eight Banners Han Army can no longer fight, throwing away the armor and pulling out the legs, and also inheriting the old tradition of the Ming army, disrupting the formation and scattering to escape, so as not to be wiped out by the other side.

The Eight Banners Han Army was attacked on three sides, and there was a possibility of being surrounded and annihilated, Abatai couldn't sit still, and hurriedly ordered the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers to enter the battle - putting the Han Army in front was nothing more than trying to consume the opponent's strength, but this gang of wastes collapsed at noon, and they couldn't spare this guy, Abatai then added an order, and the Manchurian banners immediately contained their Han troops to fight again, and those who dared to escape could be killed on the spot.

The Manchurian officer roared with a whip, and the dispersed Han army quickly gathered under the Manchurian Eight Banners - the Mongolian and Han Eight Banners were originally subordinate to the Manchurian Eight Banners, and the owners of the Manchurian Eight Banners were also their banner owners, and it was normal to run behind the Manchurian buttocks, and it was too much to raise them up if they were alone in the army.

The Manchu and Han Eight Banner armies converged, the attack force suddenly doubled, the full soldiers on horseback began to slowly accelerate towards the infantry of the Datong army, the Datong iron cavalry on both wings found the other party's attempt, and then fired guns to intercept, the Qing cavalry also shot arrows at the same time to remind the infantry of the army, the Manchurian soldiers were very conscious of dismounting the whole team to prepare for foot combat - the infantry on both sides were equipped with a large number of war horses, they dared to ride horses to rush into battle, the opposing infantry must have ridden to counterattack, the infantry battle into a cavalry battle which side has no good fruit to eat, in fact, they did see the opponent's infantry retreat, Some of the infantry also rode on their horses, so let's fight on foot according to the old rules. The Qing army quickly lined up the infantry formation, the Han army walked in front with the chariot as a cover, and the full army followed closely behind, all the way to move forward, of course, the Han army was made in the Ming Kingdom, and the full army was made in Fengzhou.

The three infantry associations of the Datong Army all retreated behind the formation wall, and returned fire with camp guns, mortar guns, and heavy guns, and beat the chariots to the ground, and the Qing army did not care about the casualties of the Han army, and continued to attack fiercely, and also pushed the camp guns up to shoot at close range. The formation wall made by Fengzhou could not stop the artillery made by Fengzhou, one after another was overturned, the two sides fought together for the gap, and the right battalion of the association was attacked by the Qing army's brave generals Xiteku and Hulibu, the battalion officer Ye Dewei was killed, and the deputy battalion officer was also seriously injured afterwards, and Lu Guangzu led a direct post to support the Qing army.

After an hour of scuffle, both sides suffered heavy casualties and had to make a truce to reorganize the army. Abatai was also uncomfortable, more than half of the casualties of the selected vanguard soldiers, and Hulib was also wounded, so he had to use the 2,000 elites of Baya Laxu Zhangjing Aobai, and also drove Xianding and Aha who could shoot arrows to the front.

The war soon restarted, the arrows were like shuttles, the sound of killing shook the sky, the sound of cannons, the sound of hand-thrown thunder explosions came and went, and the two strong armies were bloody - the full soldiers simply drove the Han army that was in the way to the side, and threw off their arms and did a great job, the heavy armored dead soldiers attacked in front, and the light armored soldiers desperately threw arrows forward in the back, and the three infantry associations of the Datong army were densely arrayed, such as the spears of the forest stabbed forward, and the heavy armored dead soldiers of the Qing army were constantly stabbed down, and the Qing army simply stabbed with spears, and the heavy armored infantry in the front of both sides continued to fall, and the people behind immediately made up for it, At such times, neither side dares to retreat.

The Qing army attacked more and more fiercely, and gradually gained the upper hand, the infantry rear association was a little difficult to parry, the Tuntian army Liu Tichun quickly rushed to support, with a chance to breathe, Taqib jumped out to kill the Qing army general on the opposite side - Xiteku, this guy is now mixed into Kabush Xianzhangjing, Kabush Xian soldiers are all the king of soldiers, killing him is the king of kings. Taqib slashed five Qing soldiers in a row with a sharp axe, roaring and rushing towards the banner of the Qing army, and Sitku quickly recognized this old colleague of the Kabush Xian camp, pushed away Goshha beside him, and rushed forward to meet him with a sword.

"Xiteku, Huang Taiji's dogleg, you have the blood of the Blue Banner brothers on your hands, and the master will kill you today." Tazib cursed and slashed at his enemies with his axe.

"Tazib, the rebellious and reckless Gurtai lackey, let you escape in the first place, don't think about going back alive today." Šitku gritted his teeth and swung his knife straight at his opponent's vital point.

Tazib's axe smashed into Sitku's knife, and Sitku howled and hugged Tazib, and the two scuffled together, and their own soldiers also joined together. Sitku even ate the old fist, was beaten and his face was covered with blood, endured the pain and pressed Taqib under him, smirked and pulled out the short knife, "Go to death" As soon as Sitku's words fell, a boot kicked in his face, and he flew out in front of him.

"I'm a Hada Haishan, and I followed Uncle Mandahai, a mountain-turner, to beat Nurhachi's old thief, and if you want to die, come here!" Haishan suddenly appeared with a sword, and the Qing army was stunned for a moment, then picked up the fainted Xiteku and ran, and Taqib also took the opportunity to get up and flee back to his own position.

The situation of the rear association was eased, but the front association was attacked by the new force of Aobai, the spearmen were almost killed and wounded, and Hou Xiaohao and a group of auxiliary soldiers also put on heavy armor to the front, but this group of raw melons and eggs really could not withstand the Qing army, Hou Shijie simply attacked instead of defending, and Tie Biao, the deputy commander of the association, led the officers and soldiers of the whole association to fight hand-to-hand with the Qing army. Zhang Yichuan led the left battalion to take the lead as usual, and happened to meet Aobai head-on, the two of them had a fight in the Butong River, and they also drank wine together, and acquaintances met to slaughter a knife, not to mention that there was a fellow villager Su Jin Shengheng next to him.

Zhang Yichuan and Jin Shengheng surrounded Ao Bai and slashed, Ao Bai was not afraid, kicked Jin Shengheng out with one kick, and then leaned over to avoid Zhang Yichuan's Pu knife, and the knife in his hand stabbed forward. Zhang Yichuan saw a knife cut into the air, and he didn't dodge or dodge turning the blade and slashing down diagonally, but the opponent's knife stabbed him in the stomach first, and with a shake of his hand, he only cut Fei Aobai's helmet.

Zhang Yichuan was angry, pounced on Ao Bai and yelled "Yi Dou Su, kill him", Jin Shengheng got up dizzy, pulled out a double-barreled short gun and fired two bullets in a row, it was too close, Ao Bai had nowhere to hide, and he was hit the shoulder. Ao Bai held back the pain and glanced at Zhang Yichuan, and then fell to the ground together, and the soldiers immediately rushed up to fight, each snatching back their main general.

Hou Shijie and Tie Biao heard the news of Zhang Yichuan's death, and rushed to the Qing army to retaliate desperately, Zhou Yuji and Sun Shoufa found that Hou Shijie was crazy, and hurriedly sent troops to respond, Sun Fuhu also led Hao Shaoqi and Li Qingshan to join the battle group. There was a scuffle in front, the Datong army could no longer defend, Li Yu went into battle, ordered the whole army to launch a counterattack, the Qing army did not show weakness to launch an attack, the two sides fought until dusk exhausted, each blew the trumpet to collect the troops.

In a day's bloody battle, the Datong army lost more than 3,800 people, and the whole association was reimbursed, and Abatai wanted to cry without tears, the Qing army lost more than 6,000, and the most uncomfortable thing was that the Manchurian Eight Banners lost 2,000 people, and the cost of such casualties was unbearable for both sides.

At dawn the next day, the Datong army suddenly heard a tsunami-like cheer, and then a group of cavalry dragged a large army to the front of the Qing army, loudly announcing that "our Datong army has won a great victory on the western front, and the Qing chief Turg has been killed in battle", and then threw Turg's big silk on the ground and trampled on his horse.

The Qing army was like ashes, but Abatai quietly breathed a sigh of relief and ordered the whole army to immediately retreat to the east of the Maji River.