A quarter of an hour of artillery fire covered most of the Qing army's forward battalions, and even many camp tents in the rear were also lit because of the gunpowder explosion, and the fires burning everywhere lit up the entire camp as if it were day. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Two flares then rose again in the sky........

", don't bother, hurry up and pack your things, let's retreat!" The order to charge the infantry had already been given, and although it was not yet enjoyable, the commander of the artillery regiment complied with the order and began to give the order to retreat.

The artillery regiment was busy packing up its things and retreating, while the remaining four infantry regiments of the 2nd Division also launched an attack on the Qing army at this moment.

More than 6,000 people from four regiments, in companies and platoons, quickly poured into the Qing army camp from their respective hiding places.

Because of the large-scale artillery bombardment, the Qing army has long been frightened, and the vast majority of the Qing army are scattered to avoid the shells, at least the front battalion and the Chinese army, and basically no formed troops appeared.

After the Ming army rushed into the camp of the Qing army, in the face of a small group of enemy troops, they went directly to the guns in a row, and then the bayonets were red.

The Qing army wanted to escape, but where could they run past these, and the Suzhou New Army, which often practiced long-distance running with weights?

Under the temptation of "surrender and avoid death", many frightened Qing soldiers threw down their weapons one after another and surrendered to the Ming army.

At the most exaggerated time, only one Ming soldier with a grenade captured forty Qing soldiers, and these Qing prisoners did not dare to move, and the Ming soldier also raised a grenade and did not dare to move, until his companions came, which relieved him.

However, this soldier, who captured the Qing army for forty, was also teased by his comrades for a long time for peeing his pants.

The new army in Suzhou was overwhelmed all the way, and soon cleared the enemy's front camp and the Chinese army, until it launched an attack on the rear army, which met stubborn resistance.

Originally, there were only about 5,000 people in the rear camp of the Qing army, but after the shelling began, a large number of Qing troops retreated from the middle army and the front camp, fled to the rear, and were collected by the generals of the rear army.

After a simple training, the rear battalion of the Qing army gathered nearly 20,000 Qing soldiers at this moment, and several Ming companies that rushed to the front did not even stop their footsteps, and suffered heavy losses, so they had to cover the retreat with grenades while establishing a defensive line and waiting for reinforcements.

If there are Qing army generals at this moment, they can seize the fighter plane, fight back in time, regardless of their own casualties, and fight to the end with Zhang Chao's second division, although the chance of victory is slim, but with more than 20,000 people, the vitality of the second division can still be greatly damaged.

It's a pity that the Qing army lost one-third of its soldiers in less than half an hour after the start of the war, and such a large battle loss has made them lose their will to fight.

Therefore, retreat is the only way for the major generals of the Qing army, at least not far from their rear, there are still more than 200,000 troops stationed, even if they want to counterattack, they have to converge with the main force before counterattacking.........

At the same time, the main force of the Qing army, which was only twenty miles away from the vanguard army, also encountered all kinds of troubles at this time.

The Shenji Battalion team, which had not moved for most of the day, launched an attack on the main force of the Qing army from all directions as soon as midnight arrived.

Grenades, self-generated firearms, and even the "Divine Fire Crow" were dispatched, which caused the soldiers on duty in the Qing army camp to have a headache in the initial period of time, and how could they still care about the battle situation on the vanguard side.

Due to the distance, and the masking of the surrounding explosions, the main forces of the Qing army made a wrong judgment, and in their opinion, the vanguard army may have only been harassed by a small group of Ming troops.

It wasn't until the fire that lit up the sky appeared that the Qing army realized that something was wrong.

"Lord Qiqi, the vanguard army may have been attacked by the main force of the Ming army!" There are reports of generals coming to Azig's tent.

However, this person's tone of voice was also a little slurred, obviously not sure, after all, in the past two days, he was attacked almost every day, and even mistook it for the "main force of the enemy" several times.

The wolf came all day long, the wolf came, and if you shouted too much, you naturally didn't believe it.

"Will it ........ Another exhausting tactic of the enemy? A staff member reminded in a whisper.

Azig did not answer, but walked out of the tent and looked in the direction of the vanguard garrison..........

It didn't take long for Azig to be very sure: "There is no doubt that it is definitely the main force of the Ming army, and the order will go down, and the whole army will pull out the camp and destroy the main force of the Ming army." In addition, he ordered the Han army to lead 20,000 iron cavalry to support the vanguard army and help it stabilize the front. ”

In the direction of the vanguard army, the sky-high firelight made Azig realize that this was not the harassment of the Ming army at all.

Just in case, Azig even ordered Kong Youde to send out cavalry troops to support first.

Kong Youde, the word Ruitu, a descendant of Confucius, was a native of Gaizhouwei (now Gaixian County, Liaoning Province) in eastern Liaodong.

Originally a general of Mao Wenlong, after the death of Mao Wenlong, he launched a mutiny in the fourth year of Chongzhen (1631), and soon surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and was subordinate to the Han Army Zhenghongqi.

In the ninth year of Chongzhen (1636), he was named the king and went to Korea, Jinzhou, Songshan and other places.

Kong Youde received the order and began to assemble troops, but there was an embarrassing scene............

Due to the harassment of the Qing army by the Shenji Battalion in the past few days, Azig allowed the soldiers who had been allowed to sleep in order to allow the Qing soldiers to have a good rest at night, and they could plug their ears with cotton wool.

Don't look at the hot fighting outside now, it is all the troops on duty on the periphery fighting, and the soldiers sleeping in the camp are sleeping soundly one by one, and they are protected by earplugs, and they can't even wake up the gong.

Kong Youde had no choice but to let his generals call one camp after another, so it took nearly an hour to assemble the team, which was two or three times slower than before.

Moreover, his cavalry did not go a few steps out of the camp before they encountered various trap attacks, which seriously restricted the speed of the cavalry.

After all, the commanders of the Shenji Battalion were also transferred from the Suzhou New Army, and when they learned that Zhang Chao asked them to contain the main force of the Qing army, the generals easily knew Zhang Chao's intentions, so they laid traps on the way through which the Qing army must pass.

The guerrillas did not dare to confront the Qing army, but harassment was the best at it.

"Don't care about the traps on the side of the road, send five hundred coats and rush over quickly!" Kong Youde found that the speed of the march was seriously delayed, so he could only force the order.

In order to rescue the vanguard army, Kong Youde decided to sacrifice some people and wade through the mines in front.

With the charge of the dead soldiers, the cavalry finally increased their speed, and the number of mines carried by the Shenji battalion was limited, and the Qing army finally waded through the minefield after breaking out of two or three miles.

After walking a few miles forward again, he could vaguely hear the shouting and killing in the distance, Kong Youde was secretly surprised in his heart: "More than 30,000 vanguard troops, only one hour, were chased and killed here by the Ming army, how powerful is this Ming army!" ”

You must know that at this time, Kong Youde's reinforcements had just walked halfway, that is to say, the vanguard army was killed at least in an hour and retreated five or six miles.

Just when Kong Youde was secretly surprised, the clothed cavalry who were exploring the road at the forefront suddenly fell down collectively, and some soldiers raised torches to check closely, only to find that it was a stumbling horse rope that was causing trouble, and the Qing army had entered the range of Liu Shengli's blocking............

At the same time, Liu Shengli, who was directing the battle, also received a report from the signal corps: "Regiment commander, the reinforcements of the Qing army have arrived, what should I do?" ”

"What else can I do? Transfer the first battalion and the second battalion to me to resist, there is no retreat order, even if the whole army is annihilated, the Qing army will not be allowed to take a step forward! Liu Shengli said loudly as he raised his gun and fired.

Not only Kong Youde's reinforcements, but also the besieged vanguard army also organized a team as early as half an hour ago in an attempt to break through.

In order to break through, the Qing army also attacked the position of the three regiments without dying.

The three regiments relied on various traps, coupled with geographical advantages, which were able to block the breakthrough troops of the Qing army, and even Liu Shengli personally went to the battlefield at this time.

Now seeing that the Qing army is going to be unable to withstand it, but the reinforcements are coming, once the two armies converge, the friendly forces in the rear that are dividing and encircling and annihilating are very likely to encounter cavalry impact, Liu Shengli naturally can't allow this kind of thing to happen.

The two battalions were transferred, and the firepower density of the three regiments was instantly reduced by a large margin, coupled with the neighing of war horses not far away, which was equivalent to injecting a strong agent into the Qing army who were in despair.

The Qing army's breakthrough offensive became more and more ferocious.

The Qing army's toughness again, in Liu Shengli's view, is just a return to the light, the last fight before death, as long as it can withstand this wave, then the Qing army will completely collapse.

Obviously, whether to defeat the Qing army or completely annihilate the Qing army, it will be up to the last game.

"His grandmother, is he playing with me? All of them, get on the bayonet, rush with me! Liu Shengli shouted, picked up a flintlock pistol, and took the lead to rush down the mountain.

As the order to charge was issued, the entire guard company was the first to follow, they were Liu Shengli's personal guards, so they naturally had to accompany them to protect.

Then came a group of soldiers with flintlock muskets, who drew their bayonets from their waists, quickly assembled, followed the guard company, and also rushed down the hill.

And the soldiers who worked in pairs and operated the Fran machine, because they did not have the right weapons, could only kick a grenade in one hand and rushed down.

In order to completely extinguish the last arrogance of the Qing army, Liu Shengli led the guard company and the remaining officers and soldiers of the third battalion, totaling less than 600 people, to take the initiative to launch a counter-charge against the more than 5,000 Qing troops who were attacking at the foot of the mountain.......

The "rocking gun" of the guard company was in the front, in a conical tactic, and opened fire continuously and rapidly, and soon tore through the defense line of the Qing army.

The flintlock team followed, and there were still bullets in the chamber, first shooting at close range, and then the bayonets were red, each group of three people, the attack and defense were orderly, and the Qing army suffered heavy losses for a time.

Even in the rear, the Fran machine gun operators who held grenades used the grenades as hammers and smashed the enemy's heads, and even after being cut by the enemy, they pulled away the grenades in their hands knowing that they would die, and died with a group of Qing troops.

Soon, this way of fighting to the end of the same life spread, and many wounded Ming soldiers followed suit.

The Qing army couldn't stand this crazy tactic and finally collapsed..........