The two sides fought extremely fiercely, Cao Bianjiao took the lead, rushing to the front, his guards and pro-army were all ruthless, and the combat ability of individual soldiers was not weaker than that of the Jurchens, and the two sides fought in the dark, with heavy casualties.

In a shout of "Ya ......", the war knife in Cao Bianjiao's hand cut off the head of a Qing soldier, blood splashed, the head of the Qing army flew out of the distance, the headless body still tightly grasped the reins of the horse, and continued to rush forward, after a while, the headless corpse fell down, and then was trampled into flesh by the horse's hooves.

Then Cao Bianjiao swung his knife again and cut down a Jiannu who rushed in front of him, and after the fallen Jiannu rolled a few times, he finally didn't have time to get up and died tragically under the horse's hooves.

Just when Cao Bianjiao was the first to take the lead and rushed to kill, hoping to kill the slave chief Taiji under the knife, a cold arrow flew from nowhere, hitting Cao Bianjiao's right shoulder, and the hand holding the knife suddenly couldn't hold it, and the war knife that killed countless Qing troops fell off the horse with a bang. Seeing that his master was injured, the guards around him were shocked and rushed to the rescue desperately.

Fortunately, the rescue of the escort pro-army was timely, and Cao Bianjiao escaped the slashing of the Qing army who rushed up to the Qing army at the opportunity.

Cao Bianjiao's wounds affected morale to a certain extent, and at this time, the sound of horses' hooves and shouts of killing came from all directions, and it was the Qing army's men and horses who came back to the camp.

Li Sheng, who had been killed for a while, rushed to Cao Bianjiao's side with a bloody sword, and shouted loudly: "Lord General Soldier, Jiannu has returned to help, let's withdraw, if we don't leave, the whole army will be destroyed." ”

Seeing the stars approaching in all directions, Cao Bianjiao reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

rushed into Huang Taiji's lair and came in, only a little bit could annihilate Huang Taiji's imperial army, capture or kill Huang Taiji, and finally fell short, Cao Bianjiao was of course depressed.

However, Cao Bianjiao is a fierce general who has experienced countless battles and battles, and knows that many times he can't be rash, so he also led his men and horses to fight a bloody way out of the camp of the two yellow flags when the Qing army that returned to help was not encircled.

Huang Taiji's imperial army did not dare to pursue, for fear that the Ming army would kill a horse gun and completely end the imperial tent, their task was to protect the safety of their masters, not to pursue the enemy, so Cao Bianjiao's men and horses were able to easily rush out of the camp of the two imperial flags.

Before the battle, he discussed with Cao Yue, Zhao Zhen, and Wu Ju to break through the siege and retreat back to the pass, so Cao Bianjiao did not kill back, and directly led his men and horses to rush outside the camp. But the front was blocked by the fire set by Cao Yue, so he had to turn back and change direction to break through.

At this time, there was a Qing army estimated at several thousand, which rushed over from the southeast, and Cao Bianjiao had to change the direction again and move closer to the direction of the infantry army led by Wu Ju. The Qing troops who returned to the reinforcements came from all directions, rushed and killed for a while, and Li Sheng, who had no way to break through and dispatch, rushed back to Cao Bianjiao's side in a hurry and reported the situation to Cao Bianjiao.

After rushing to a high ground and checking the situation around, Cao Bianjiao reluctantly gave the order to retreat.

"Order the whole army to retreat in the direction of Songshan City, and order the men and horses of Deputy General Zhao to retreat in the direction of Songshan City!"

At this time, Cao Bianjiao had already rushed out of the camp of the two yellow flags and returned to the camp of the Zhenglan Banner, which was full of wolves and raging fires. With the support of the infantry, Cao Bianjiao's men and horses finally rushed out of the Qing army camp and retreated to Songshan City under the guidance of Zhao Zhen's musket battalion.

At this time, Hong Chengchou in Songshan City, commanding the men and horses in the city, took advantage of the Qing army's return to help, and fought out of the city, preparing to break through.

The men and horses on both sides encountered under the city, Cao Bianjiao quickly ran to Hong Chengchou's side, and reported the general situation to Hong Chengchou: "Lord Governor, the last general led the army to raid the Qing army camp, and almost broke the camp of the slave chief Taiji, and the Qing army that attacked Ru * Feng Mountain was hit hard, but the Qing army has returned to help, and our army has no way to break through!"

"General Cao, except for you and General Wang, the other six general soldiers all led their troops to escape," Hong Chengchou couldn't suppress the anger in his heart, and said hatefully: "Fortunately, your troops have hit the Qing army hard, otherwise...... General Cao, our two armies are united, hoping to open a bloody road. ”

"Lord Inspector, the last general thinks that it is not a wise choice to break through now, we might as well retreat to the city to defend it, the last general already has a way to deal with the Qing army," Cao Bianjiao denied Hong Chengchou's idea of breaking through with the army now, and proposed to return to the city to hold on.

He knew that now that the Qing army was surrounded in all directions, it was unlikely that they would break out. He is now wounded, his mobility has been greatly reduced, Hong Chengchou led the army to break through, there is no one in Songshan City to attract the attention of the Qing army, the Qing army can concentrate on chasing and destroying the Ming army that broke through, if it is forced to break through, the final result is that the whole army is annihilated.

In Songshan City, there were plenty of muskets and ammunition, and the other six general soldiers fled, and the remaining food was enough for more than 30,000 men and horses to eat for a month. The method of splitting the musket shot made him think that it was possible to inflict heavy losses on the Qing army under Songshan Castle and relieve the siege of Songshan with his own ability, so he proposed that Hong Chengchou return to the city to hold on.

Cao Bianjiao's proposal made Hong Chengchou hesitate, but when he saw the stars surrounding him from all directions, he finally agreed to Cao Bianjiao's proposal and ordered the whole army to return to the city and wait for reinforcements.

When he led the army into Songshan City and saw the city gate slamming shut, Cao Bianjiao finally thought of Cao Yue, who didn't know where he was now: "Fifth brother, I don't know if you died in the chaos or if you have already broken through, I hope you are safe." Although he was full of hope that Cao Yue would be safe, Cao Bianjiao still believed that Cao Yue, who had not returned to the city with the army, was now more than lucky.

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Because of the heavy losses of the Zhenglan Banner led by Haoge, Cao Bianjiao's men and horses killed the camp of the two yellow flags, and almost wiped out the imperial tent of Huang Taiji, who was not lightly frightened, and urgently called all the men and horses back to help, and did not let all the men and horses chase them out, but ordered nearly half of the men and horses to guard their respective camps to prevent the Ming army from possible re-attack of the camp.

Huang Taiji could no longer figure out what the intentions of the Ming army were, and he did not dare to pursue the Ming army that had fled back to Songshan City with all his might, and the remnants of the Ming army that had fled in the direction of Shanhaiguan. This also brought some trouble to Hong Chengchou and Cao Bianjiao's men and horses to the city, and also allowed Cao Yue's men and horses to easily escape from Songshan. However, Dolgon, who wanted to suppress Hauge, still led his army to kill the Ming army.

The task of intercepting the fleeing Ming army was entrusted to Hauge and Dolgon and Duoduo, and poor Hauge encountered the hard bone of the Eastern Confederate Army, only to be beaten with muskets, and Dolgon encountered the men and horses of the other major soldiers. Dolgon and the Duoduo tribe met little respectable resistance, and the Qing army ran around like ducks.

Wu Sangui, Wang Pu, Tang Tong, Li Mingfu and other generals were already in chaos when they fled, and suffered heavy losses when they were chased and intercepted by the Qing army. In the end, tens of thousands of pursuers were killed by Dolgon and Duoduo, and more people drowned in the sea, Wang Pu, Wu Sangui, and Tang Tong were only spared, and the supervising army Zhang Ruoqi and Ma Shaoyu fled back to Ningyuan by fishing boats, and most of the 130,000 Ming troops were annihilated by the Qing army except for more than 30,000 people who returned to Songshan.

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At dawn, more than 1,000 horsemen and horses led by Cao Yue had escaped from the Songshan Qing army camp for about fifty miles.

At this time, Liaodong, almost no people, due to the bloody massacre of Nurhachi, Huang Taiji father and son, Guangning, Haizhou, Gaizhou, Fuzhou, Jinzhou and other guards have become white land, Cao Yue led the army to evacuate from Songshan, traveled dozens of miles, and did not encounter an inhabited village along the way, not even a living person.

However, Cao Yue was still worried that he would encounter people, or the patrols of the Qing army, and be found out, leading to a catastrophe, so after dawn, he led a thousand men and horses to hide in a nearby valley, and ordered the family members of the palace to eliminate all traces.

After a whole night of fighting, Cao Yue and his sergeants were exhausted and urgently needed to rest, replenish food and water, and discuss the next moves. Cao Yue in later generations is a native of Jilin in Northeast China, but the Northeast at the end of the Ming Dynasty is very different from the Northeast terrain in later generations, and Cao Yue is not completely clear about the current situation, and he wants to discuss with his subordinates where to go next.

Cao Jie, the leader of the Jiading troops, several generals, and Zhao Liang, a thousand generals who followed Cao Yue to kill, and other main backbones of this team were summoned by Cao Yue to his side.

"Ladies and gentlemen, now that our men and horses have broken out of the encirclement of the Qing army, but the general has expected that Songshan City will definitely be surrounded by the Qing army, and Tashan and Xingshan may also fall into the hands of Jiannu, and the road to Guannai has been completely blocked by the Qing army, where should we go next?" Cao Yue asked the people in front of him in a deep voice.

Everyone looked at each other, and they couldn't figure out how to answer Cao Yue's question at once.

"General, it's better for you to make up your mind," Cao Jie, the leader of the family, is Cao Yue's confidant, watching Cao Yue's Cao family grow up, he knows that at this time, it must be Cao Yue who has the idea, and they had better not say their opinions, otherwise they will die if something goes wrong.

The other people also had similar ideas, and they all asked Cao Yue to make up their minds, and said that as long as Cao Yue made up their minds, they would definitely follow. Things are already like this, at most they die, and it is their honor to be born and die with Cao Yue.

These sergeants who followed Cao Yue were all former subordinates of Cao Wenzhao, loyal to Cao Yue, they were used to seeing death, no matter what the circumstances, they would not retreat and escape, if Cao Yue was in danger, they would not hesitate to save their lives.

Seeing that everyone didn't say anything, Cao Yue frowned slightly, and he didn't ask the people around him again, but quietly pondered.

Suddenly, a bold decision popped into my mind......