As night fell, the sky was dark, and a round of icy hooked moon slipped into the sky, emitting a cold glow, shrouding the sky over the Matsuyama position. A few cold stars flickered slightly, adding to the bleak and lonely situation after the war.

Sun Yueling took Zhao Shujiao and Zhang Zhiqi to inspect the entire position, and the night was already dark. Several people came to the high place of the broken wall of Songshan Fort and looked at the camp of Houjin, and their hearts were a little heavy.

In the previous battle, the Ming army almost tried its best to stop the charge of Houjin, which was still the effect of Sun Yueling laying a surprise army on the enemy's side, and it is conceivable that if the enemy organized a charge again, they would be difficult to resist. Moreover, Sun Yueling and Zheng Huhuan fought head-on, and he had already suffered a lot of injuries, if it wasn't for Zhang Zhiqi to help him, it was unknown whether he could withdraw back safely.

Houjin's combat power is really getting stronger and stronger, and it is not inferior to the Ming army in terms of equipment, morale, and strategy, so it is no wonder that it has become a chronic disease that cannot be uprooted. On the other hand, the Ming army in Liaodong is because of the waste of armaments, and the internal unity is not united, so that the battle is often unfavorable, even the Ming army dares to fight in the past few days, but also the result of his coaxing and deception, according to Sun Yueling's understanding, many low-level generals and soldiers began to complain because of excessive attrition.

"How many of us are left?" Sun Yueling retracted his gaze and turned his head to Zhao Shu.

"My lord, we still have 8,000 soldiers and 3,000 auxiliaries left." Zhao replied.

"There are 8,000 soldiers left!" Sun Yueling muttered and repeated, and his heart was even more depressed. This battle was fought too tragically, more than half of the 20,000 horses of the Guanning Army of the Seven Battalions were killed or wounded, and only 8,000 people were left to exchange for the Songshan position for three days, which was unexpected by everyone at the beginning.

"What about enemy casualties?" Sun Yueling asked again.

Zhao Shujiao said in a deep voice: "There is no accurate number, but after preliminary estimates, the casualties should not be under us." ”

"Not below us?" Sun Yueling took over the conversation and said, "That means that their casualties have also exceeded 10,000, so it seems that they have suffered heavy losses." ”

"My lord is right, this resistance battle can be said to be quite tragic, and both sides have paid a heavy price. However, the Houjin people are short of soldiers, relatively speaking, our side still takes advantage, and the Tartars have never fought a war of attrition with us. Zhao Shujiao paused for a moment, and then said, "If your lord goes to the imperial court, this battle can also be regarded as a great victory." ”

Sun Yueling nodded, what Zhao Shujiao said was right, Houjin was already sparse in personnel and lacked troops, and this battle caused the enemy to suffer more than 10,000 casualties, which had already made them very injured. If the results of this battle are reported to the imperial court, according to the previous practice of the Ming army, it can be called a great victory.

Sun Yueling sighed and said, "Next, what do you think should be done?" ”

Zhao Shujiao was silent when he heard this, and Zhang Zhiqi saw that he didn't answer, so he said: "In the past few days, it is completely dependent on the adult's proper planning and tricks in exchange for the soldiers to fight the enemy bravely, and now that the three-day period has arrived, do you still plan to defend it?" ”

Sun Yueling frowned, Zhang Zhiqi's words were euphemistically persuading him to withdraw his troops, how could he not hear it, it was he who promised that all the generals only needed to defend Songshan for three days to inspire their blood, and now the three-day period has passed, and the attrition of troops has caught all the generals by surprise, and most of them have already given birth to the idea of retreating. Maybe Zhang Zhiqi and Zhao Shujiao had already communicated with the generals below, so Zhang Zhiqi said this to himself.

Sun Yueling looked at Zhao Shujiao and asked, "What does General Zhao mean?" ”

Zhao Shujiao's thick eyebrows frowned, and he said in a deep voice: "My lord, it's not that my Guanning army is timid and cowardly, but that the damage to the army is too serious, and many low-level generals are also seriously injured, and they are already embarrassed to fight. The last general remembered that the lord had also said that he only needed to defend Matsuyama for three days, and now that the goal had been achieved, the last general thought that it was better to withdraw his troops. ”

Sun Yueling was silent, even Zhao Shujiao said the same, it seems that his guess was correct, they should have communicated with the generals below. In fact, when he inspected the position all the way, he also felt the army's sense of happiness for the rest of his life, and he thought that the soldiers who were going to die on the battlefield could not imagine that they could survive, and the thoughts in their hearts that were originally dedicated to dying generously at this time inevitably changed, which is also where human nature lies, and at this time, it is even more vividly reflected in the body of these people who do not die.

Sun Yueling hesitated in his heart, they are difficult, Houjin is actually difficult, now is the time to fight which side has more perseverance, whoever persists, who will succeed. At present, the predicament of Houjin can be said to be created by him, this kind of opportunity is simply a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity in the eyes of his later generations, and there has never been a more favorable opportunity in the history of the Ming Dynasty in the future than this one, so that Houjin can sink into the sand, once missed, it will inevitably be hated for life.

However, he is not unaware of the current situation of the soldiers, originally they just held the idea of holding on for three days to play an extraordinary level of field warfare, and now the soldiers have fulfilled their promise to him, and now the army has suffered serious losses, it is simply difficult to resist the enemy's charge again, if they are forced to defend to the death, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang may not repeat the situation in them.

Sun Yueling sighed and said to them, "Let me think about it again, and I will definitely give you an answer after tonight." ”

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Outside Xiaolinghe Station, a Houjin army is operating in the dark.

This is a few soldiers belonging to Haoge with a yellow flag, and their action tonight is to take advantage of the darkness to sneak attack the Ming army of Xiaolingheyi and kill them by surprise.

It was Hauge's last big gamble.

He had been fighting against Zuo Fu for three days, and he had never been able to cross Xiao Linghe for half a step, which made him very angry but helpless. In the past three days, they have also fought several times, but each time their charge was repulsed by the Ming army, and the Ming army led by Zuo Fu was like a nail firmly nailed to Xiaolingheyi, no matter how they attacked, it was difficult to pull it out.

Although Houjin is not good at night battles, at this moment Haoge can no longer bear it, and still urges his generals to brave the darkness to fight. His father, Emperor Khan Taiji, had been trapped in Songshan for three days, and he didn't know what the situation was, but he knew that as long as he could successfully break through the Xiaoling River, then the siege of Songshan would be solved.

Hauge believed that the Ming army should have been exhausted from fighting them for several days in a row, and would have relaxed their vigilance, and besides, the Ming army could not count the Dajin soldiers who dared to come to steal the camp at the risk of unfamiliar night fighting, so the possibility of the success of this night attack was very high, and he was very sure of this.

Didn't all the high-ranking people of Daikin think that he Hauge was just a cowardly person, and tonight he was going to let everyone know that he Hauge won by wit, and that he was a man with a strategy, unlike those reckless men who only knew how to use brute force.

The book he usually reads the most is the Ming Kingdom's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", which is also his favorite book, tonight, he will follow his idol Zhuge Liang and give the Ming army of the left auxiliary department a fire company camp.

Soon, their soldiers lurked on the periphery of Xiaolingheyi, and the Ming army's scouts on the periphery had already been killed by them.

Xiaolingheyi doesn't have any decent city walls at all, only some low walls piled up with rammed earth, which are still tattered and out of shape, most of them are military settings built of wood, as long as a few fires are thrown, they will definitely be able to burn him to the bottom.

Hauge secretly gave the order for the archers to launch the rockets first.

"Whoosh!" The sound of a long arrow sounded, and a flash of fire pierced the dark night sky and shot towards the Ming army on the arrow tower, and the Ming soldier fell in response.

"Whoosh!" The sound of arrows breaking through the air sounded intensively, followed by the sound of arrows in the air, and the firelight illuminated the dark night sky as bright as day.

These rockets landed on the arrow towers, fences, houses, and tents of Xiaolingheyi, and soon ignited a raging flame, and the tongue of fire burned with the help of the wind, and soon turned the vicinity of the main gate of Xiaolingheyi into a sea of fire, and there were terrible screams and panicked footsteps of the Ming army from inside, obviously they had been in a mess and panicked.

"Rush, kill Mingnu!" Seeing that the time had come, Hauge raised his arms and shouted, urging his subordinates to rush in quickly.

"Kill!" Countless Houjin soldiers, led by the generals, rushed towards the main gate of Xiaolinghe Station.

After they rushed into the camp, they found some Ming soldiers who looked very panicked, and when they saw them coming, they turned around and fled behind.

"Chase, no one left!" Later, Jin Zuo was overjoyed and hurriedly gave the order to pursue.

The Houjin soldiers chased after these fleeing Ming troops, and after chasing them for some distance, they found that something was wrong - although the fire was getting bigger and bigger, the Ming soldiers did not flee in all directions as they imagined, but seemed to retreat to both sides in an organized manner. Moreover, the noisy shouting of the entire Ming army camp became smaller and smaller, until they chased here, and those Ming soldiers stopped shouting, stopped in front of a camp gate, turned around and looked at them coldly, the cold and hateful gaze, as if looking at their own father-killing enemy.

The Houjin generals felt that something was wrong, and was about to tell Haoge, but they saw that the front and the left and right directions were blazing at the same time, and countless Ming troops poured out, all with knives in their hands, staring at them.

"I've been tricked ......" Before the leader could finish his words, a cold arrow shot over, directly into his throat, knocking him down and swallowing the rest of the words in his stomach.

"Kill the Tartars!" The Ming army shouted in unison and slaughtered the panicked Houjin soldiers.