The tragic battlefield and the sound of fighting that kept pouring into the ears made the faces of Chongzhen and all the civil and military officials begin to turn white, and the stumps and broken arms flying everywhere and the battlefield full of corpses also made many people's stomachs churn, and they no longer cared about the disgrace and peaceful demeanor of the monarch and vomited on the side.

Chongzhen, who was pale, looked at the two teams of cavalry who were fighting desperately in front of him and muttered to himself: "Is this the battle between the two armies, how can it be so tragic!" ”

In the past, Chongzhen just sat in the palace and listened to the reports of the officials below, there was a battle here, how many casualties our army had killed and annihilated the enemy, and what results were achieved, those results were just a number for him, the supreme ruler of the Ming Dynasty, and those officials who were full of poetry and books and polite never described what the battlefield was like when they reported to him, because they had never seen such a scene. And today, Chongzhen finally witnessed the real battlefield battle, although this scene was unexpectedly displayed in front of him, he never thought that the real battlefield would be so tragic. Now, when the living lives disappeared in front of him, the supreme ruler of the Ming Dynasty had a new understanding of what he had known in the past.

Chongzhen, who was a little nauseous in his heart, in order to hide the discomfort in his stomach, slowly looked back at the civil and military officials around him, but found that most of the officials who were originally surrounding him actually vomited all over the ground, so that the ground was covered with colorful vomit, and the air was filled with a sour smell. At this moment, those officials were either bending down, or holding on to the city wall, or under the support of people, no one looked at the battlefield in front of them with fearful eyes, and the personable images in Pingyu were gone.

Seeing the ugliness of the Taoist officials, Chongzhen's face showed a trace of disgust, and the performance of these officials who were usually said to be either words or words of saints was so unbearable, which also made Chongzhen extremely disappointed in them.

At this time, Yang Sichang, who had been paying attention to Chongzhen on the side, hurriedly came to his side and asked in a low voice: "Your Majesty, your dragon is unwell, do you need to go back to the palace to rest first?" ”

Chongzhen looked at Yang Sichang and found that although this military secretary was also a little pale, he didn't vomit on the spot even if he had excellent quality in his heart, and he didn't lose face, otherwise a military department secretary who nominally commanded millions of soldiers and horses in the entire Ming Dynasty was so frightened that he vomited when he watched the battle between the two armies.

Chongzhen waved his hand weakly but resolutely and said: "No, it is my loyal and brave soldiers who are fighting to the death with the Tartars in front, I promised to cheer for them on the city wall, then I must do it, otherwise it will chill the hearts of the soldiers?" You told those who were vomiting all over the place, one by one, they raised their heads to me, and the soldiers were using their lives to protect the Ming Dynasty and protect their safety, is this how they treated the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty? Also, you will pass on my will later, all the officials present today are not allowed to leave until the battle is over, no matter how the victory or defeat is today, and everyone will give me a copy of the battle today, remember everyone! ”

Yang Sichang's body was shocked, and he said in a low voice: "Yes, the minister obeys the order!" ”

With the collision and continuous fighting of the two torrents of red and white, about two moments later, the red torrent gradually did not stand up, Lu Xiangsheng in the camp of the Ming army looked at the situation in front of him and frowned and said to Liu Zeqing, the general soldier of Shandong: "General Dong will not be able to support it, the governor estimates that he will soon be defeated and retreated, Liu Zongbing, you immediately lead the people of the headquarters to immediately come forward to meet Dong Zongbing and his party." ”

"Yes!"

Liu Zeqing hugged his fists, immediately returned to the formation, and led more than 7,000 foot soldiers to a place two hundred steps away from the formation and put on a defensive posture, nearly 2,000 archers lined up in two rows under the cover of the soldiers holding shields, and drew out arrows and waited quietly to meet the friendly troops, behind these archers were nearly 4,000 Ming troops as a response. In terms of establishment, Liu Zeqing's soldiers and Lingshanwei's troops are very different, although Liu Zeqing and Pang Gang's team are mostly foot soldiers, but Liu Zeqing is a regular soldier after all, they have a battalion and a Chinese army, two thousand generals, and a few generals under their command, and then manage the team, a chief, each has a flag, it looks clear at a glance. Among the 12 men in the basic first armor of each team, the first captain is wearing a flag and holding a scimitar, and behind him are four archers, another four are hook spearmen, then two are sickle men, and finally a firecracker, armed with a large club, used to strike the enemy's horse's head. From this point alone, Pang Gang's cantonment army is simply divided by small flags, general flags, and hundred generals, and the establishment is quite complicated.

Lu Xiangsheng's vision was really poisonous, and when Liu Zeqing's troops set up their positions, Dong Wenyong's troops were really defeated and retreated, and the number of people was reduced from 7,000 to more than 5,000. When Dong Wenyong's troops retreated, they had long since lost the formation of the original attack, thousands of people rushed back in a honeycomb, fortunately, Dong Wenyong's cavalry was not completely defeated, they did not come straight to attack the defensive formation of their own friendly troops after seeing the formation of Liu Zeqing's troops behind, but automatically divided into two streams and retreated from both sides of the infantry led by Liu Zeqing. At this time, the Qing soldiers behind them also caught up, in the rumbling of horses' hooves, the experienced Qing army with the longbow in his hand kept shooting the Ming army that fell behind, and some used the lasso to throw it to the front, as long as there was a Ming cavalry in the trap, they would be pulled off the horse immediately, and the Ming army that fell off the horse was either trampled to death by the Qing army horse behind or became a prisoner of the Qing soldiers.

This scene saw the Chongzhen Emperor on the city wall was ashamed and angry, he didn't expect that the cavalry of the Ming Dynasty was killed by the Qing soldiers as soon as the battle started, and he saw the battle situation on the city wall very clearly, the loss of the Ming army reached nearly 2,000 people after this battle, and the loss of the Qing soldiers was much less, Chongzhen estimated that there were less than 500 people, such a result made his face feel hot in the face of the great tomorrow.

The Qing soldiers who had risen up to the occasion still refused to give up after Dong Wenyong's troops retreated into the main formation, and they still did not stop until they were away from the formation set by Liu Zeqing's troops, and rushed to Liu Zeqing's defense line in a daze.

Liu Zeqing, who was standing in the center of the formation on a war horse, saw that the Qing soldiers still refused to give up, and his face showed anger, these Tartars are really rampant, do they want to rely on these thousands of cavalry to break their own defense line?

Liu Zeqing ordered with a calm face: "The archers are ready to shoot!"

After listening to Liu Zeqing's order, the flag bearer who had been standing beside him kept waving the small flag in his hand and issued an order.

Soon, the roars of the various commanders and management teams came from the front, "Arrow wind, ready to shoot!" ”

"Squeak Squeak"

There was a tooth-souring sound of the bowstring being pulled apart.

Seeing the formation in front of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers rushed forward without fear, but when they were about seventy steps away from the front of the Ming army, the Qing soldiers immediately bent their bows and arrows and quickly shot at the Ming army.

"Shoot the arrows!"

"Shoot the arrows!"

Since the range of bows and arrows of the Ming army and the Qing army was about the same, the commanders of both sides also issued orders to release the arrows at about the same time.

"Whoosh"

Countless arrows from both sides swept across the sky, shooting at opposite targets at high speed.

Although the range of bows and arrows on both sides is about the same, but because the Qing soldiers used horsepower, their arrows were farther than the foot soldiers of the Ming army, although the range of the Ming army's bows and arrows was also about seventy steps, but when the arrows shot to this distance, the Qing army began to turn and beat the horse and run back, so at this distance the arrows have basically lost their power, "as the saying goes, the end of the strong crossbow, the potential can not wear Lu Minye", the arrows fell on the cotton armor of the Qing soldiers and were bounced off, and did not bring much damage to the Qing soldiers. On the contrary, the arrows used by the Qing soldiers were heavy and long, and the momentum of the horses was remembered, and the arrows were still powerful when they fell from mid-air and hit the bodies of the Ming archers.

Although the archers in front of the row have the protection of the sword and shield soldiers, but the archers always have to lean out when shooting arrows, and the upper body must be exposed, as the arrows shot by the Qing soldiers fall, the archers of the Ming army have fallen to the ground with arrows, and the ranks of the archers in the front row have made a scream from time to time.

"It's not good, I didn't expect the Tartars to have such a vicious move, and our archers have no power to fight back!" Seeing the casualties of the archers gradually increasing, Liu Zeqing's face suddenly changed, the training of an archer is not easy, without two or three years of hard work, he can not imagine cultivating a qualified archer, these two thousand archers are all treasures he has worked hard to train, but he did not expect to lose nearly 100 under a round of arrow rain, which can make Liu Zeqing tremble in distress, "No, these archers can't let the Tartar be used as a target for so nothing, if you come like this, the archers who have been trained with great difficulty in a few rounds will be disabled.!" Liu Zeqing, who made a quick decision, immediately ordered the archers to retreat immediately, and the pikemen, hook spearmen, scimitars, and foot soldiers with big sticks immediately moved forward to meet the enemy.

The Qing soldiers did not give Liu Zeqing face at all, when they saw that the Ming archers retreated and there was no threat of bows and arrows, they rushed to a distance of forty or fifty steps from the front of the Ming army to release arrows, and one by one arrows shot out of their hands, and the strong bowstrings flew towards the Ming army position with heavy arrows. Although the foot soldiers were protected by shields, they still heard the screams of the soldiers from time to time, and the arrows of the Qing soldiers pierced through the gaps in the shields and hit the foot soldiers inside.

For a time, the Ming army fell into a situation of being passively beaten.

(To be continued)