Hearing this, Todeltay was shocked, he was still hesitating to retreat and leave, and return to Linghai to join the Japanese army that was helping him. As a result, it didn't take long, and now what he had to think about was how to bring the tens of thousands of Jin Guo cavalry in his hands back to a safe place.

Immediately, he began to think about various questions, first of all, where the Ming soldiers who attacked his rear team came from. If it was the troops of the 29th Army of the Ming Empire that were retreating from the direction of Linghai, did that mean that the Japanese had already succeeded in Linghai?

But on second thought, the speculation didn't seem reasonable. He led the cavalry troops of the Jin State to bypass Linghai, the purpose was that neither the Japanese nor he was willing to expend troops on the Ming army fortifications near Linghai, and there was no reason for the Japanese to start attacking Linghai again after he left, regardless of losses.

Since it was not the Japanese who succeeded in attacking Ling Hai and the remnants of the Ming 29th Army were defeated, there were only two possibilities - the Ming cavalry troops from Mongolia, or the Japanese withdrew the siege on Ling Hai's side, so that Feng Pingzhang had the conditions to draw troops to intercept his rear road.

It's no wonder that he didn't take into account the possibility of reinforcements from other parts of the Ming Dynasty, because if you use time to calculate, the Ming army can rush to the battlefield as quickly as possible, and there are only a few troops, and it is not possible to conjure people for no reason.

So he had no choice but to turn his gaze to the person who came to report the news, and asked through gritted teeth: "The troops of the Ming Kingdom are cavalry?" Or infantry? ”

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Zhang Jianjun only found that his hands were trembling slightly at this time, even if an officer like him was already relatively outstanding in the Ming Dynasty, but it still couldn't change the fact that he had experienced the battle for the first time. Lacking combat experience, after commanding the 1st Division of the New Army to defeat the rebels' baggage troops, he suddenly found that the war had really changed.

As long as there is no time for fixed positions to be established, there will be more and more large-scale and long-distance assault operations like today, which will break the traditional data such as the strength of the situation, and replace it with the speed of an army's attack, and the level of maintaining combat effectiveness under the guaranteed speed of attack.

And Zhang Jianjun found that the troops in his hands now may be the best troops in the world that can complete such a task. Infantry in car after car, as well as cavalrymen with one man, two horses, or even one man and three horses, could have smashed the enemy's vulnerable parts with a faster attack speed than all previous troops.

Even now, his troops are like tigers entering a flock of sheep, tearing apart the rebels' baggage troops. The other side did not even put up a decent resistance, but was crushed by his sudden attack, and the rebel rout, which stretched for several kilometers, he had not yet been completely captured, and even had to order the chaotic surrender of the enemy troops to speed up the cleaning of the battlefield.

"After this battle, the colonel is enough to make a name for himself in Liaodong." An officer rode a war horse and stopped at Zhang Jianjun's temporary headquarters, jumped off his horse and said loudly: "This battle can capture at least 2,000 prisoners, let alone 500 people, if it weren't for these rebel cavalry running too fast, the results would have been even greater." ”

His words did not make Zhang Jianjun feel relaxed at all, but he felt that the pressure he was facing was even greater: "When I came, the commander said that if we encounter more than 3,000 rebel troops, it proves that the number of rebels who broke through later was more than 20,000...... The soldiers must be asked to immediately set up defensive positions, and it is not a joke to be directly attacked by the cavalry. ”

This time, Wang Jue relied on the strong firepower of the new army and played a trick of dividing the troops and dividing the troops. He led the troops directly under the command of the New Army to rush to the aid of Jinzhou, but the 1st Division, which had better mobility, stronger running ability, earlier formation of the army, and the most reliable combat effectiveness, was separated, allowing him to bypass the rushing rebel cavalry and raid the rebel baggage.

But after he succeeded, he also knew that it was impossible to block all the defeated rebels with more than 15,000 people relying on the 1st Division, so he could only order Zhang Jianjun to abandon the encirclement, arrange the defensive line along the main road, and slow down the speed of the rebels' rout slightly.

Wang Jue did not intend to lead the new army in his hand to pursue, because even if the 1st Division in Zhang Jianjun's hands was counted, what he Wang Jue could hold in his hands was only more than 30,000, and his 2nd Division troops were already on the dock in Yingkou at this moment, and began to unload their equipment.

The first time he commanded the troops to fight, and the first time he took the recruits he trained to face the elite of the rebels stationed on the front line all the year round, Zhang Jianjun found that his victory was without suspense, and even the losses were somewhat insignificant.

"Let the troops arrange barbed wire and foxholes as required in the combat manual! Put the artillery units into combat shape, and the troops form a ring of fortifications, and in at least an hour, complete two lines of defense! Looking at his palms, which were still trembling slightly, Zhang Jianjun knew that the most correct thing he could do now was to do every detail according to the plan in advance and according to the usual training.

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Zhang Jianjun, the general of the Ming State on this side, was doing every detail, while Todeltai, the general of the Jin State who was preparing for the rout on the other side, was no longer concerned about any details. He didn't care about the troops that had fallen into the Ming army's position, nor did he send people to collect the reconnaissance cavalry that were scattered and looted, so he took the main force around him and began to retreat.

This time he was defeated, and he was defeated terribly. There are about 40,000 so-called Jin cavalry he brought, and now it is estimated that 20,000 can escape back to Liaodong. Just such half of the troops were left behind by the insufficient strength of the Ming army and the limited ability to contain them.

He didn't dare to stay easily, and turned around and left with his troops, because people were sleepy and tired, and from time to time people were left behind, and when he returned to the place where the baggage troops were defeated by the 1st Division of the New Army, he only had more than 18,000 people in his hands.

Because there was not much heavy artillery at all, he tried to attack Zhang Jianjun's new 1st Division, but after leaving more than 300 corpses, he only got the information that the enemy's position could not be broken through. Todeltay did not dare to stay and continue to attack Zhang Jianjun's troops, so he could only lead people to bypass Zhang Jianjun's defense line and continue to retreat eastward. After this retreat, he took the remnants of his defeated army and retreated to the vicinity of Linghai before stopping his steps.