Chen Xin smoked his horse and crossed the fertile land between the Langu River and the Fuzhou River, and to the south were the mounts of thousands of dragoons left here, guarded by a hundred cavalry auxiliaries.

The Houjin soldiers on the other side of the Fuzhou River are retreating, there are only more than 300 cavalry left in the Ming army, more than 700 cavalry of the Zhenglan Banner, and more than 400 horse armor and Bayala regrouped by Dolgon.

Chen Xin didn't have time to wait for the first thousand headquarters behind, with the guards and Liu Pojun galloping on horseback, the two townsmen at the ferry held small flags, marking the location of the ferry for Chen Xin, Chen Xin rushed into the river first, the war horse rose up with four hooves and raised a splash of water, the two flag bearers behind him were very strong, firmly grasping the flagpole, on his head, Chen Xin's six-foot general army red flag and the flying tiger army flag fluttered high.

Chen Xin's horse supported him on the riverbank and jumped up into the battlefield full of corpses.

"Wan Sheng!" "Wan Sheng!"

The red flag of the general army fluttering in the wind caused the Dengzhou soldiers on the battlefield to send out a tidal wave of cheers, in their lives, the daily preaching kept shaping the glorious image of Chen Xin, and the flying tiger military flag that can be seen everywhere in the military camp inspired the soldiers' sense of honor, these displaced people gathered everywhere got the opportunity to settle down in Dengzhou, wearing military uniforms and walking on the streets, throwing approving eyes, these soldiers felt the real dignity and honor, and the chief military officer in front of him was the person who brought this qiē. At this time, on the battlefield after the bloody battle, seeing the familiar military flag and commander-in-chief made them both cordial and inspiring.

Chen Xin stopped behind the ferry phalanx, raised his right hand and greeted the dragoon phalanx next to him, causing a more enthusiastic response from the soldiers. Liu Pojun went ashore after Chen Xin, and his face was flushed with excitement.

In the midst of the cheers, the Blue Banner cavalry did not dare to stay longer. It was hurriedly retreating north over the right flank of the Tianyou Army. Zhong Laosi's fourth company had just arrived, and the musketeers on both flanks fired two volleys and were covering the enemy.

Qian Zong of the Thousand Headquarters of the Mounted Infantry hurriedly came over to salute, to report the situation on the battlefield Chen Xin had already received many reports on the way, and when he approached, he also saw the battlefield situation with his own eyes, and without waiting for the Thousand Commanders to speak, he directly pointed to the position of the Tianyou Army, "Defeat that group of men and horses, vacate the west side and let the South Route Army pass through Guò." ”

Mr. Qian immediately turned back. The other company of Zhong Laosi was also sent to the Tianyou Army, and they could still shoot at Zhong Laosi's Fourth Company, but as the other Jiannu retreated, the Tianyou Army was panicked, and the formation gradually dispersed. When the cavalry of the Ming army approached, the Tianyou army suddenly collapsed, and the bombing nest generally rushed to the north, Zhong Laosi's phalanx soldiers did not disband the formation to pursue under the threat of the opponent's flank cavalry, but just moved forward in formation, and the speed was naturally not as fast as the fleeing Tianyou army. There aren't many kills.

There were only more than 300 people left in Tan Shen's cavalry battalion, and they retreated after a short charge of the Tianyou Army, also because the cavalry of the Zhenglan Banner in the northwest waited until the Tianyou Army broke and fled. The cavalry remained in place, and did not move slowly northward until the phalanx approached.

At this time, there was no army in the south of the battlefield to build a slave system, and Zhu Guobin in the rear came with the rest of the cavalry first, and then Wang Changfu also led the guards to arrive.

"The 4th Battalion fought valiantly!" Chen Xin said to Zhu Guobin with a smile. Seeing Wang Changfu coming up, he also praised him a few words.

Zhu Guobin said eagerly: "My lord." Jiannu is afraid that he will be withdrawn. ”

Chen Xin nodded, pointed to a Jiannu cavalry in the northwest and said: "Today they have lost their courage, the army will not fight, for now we are trying our best to expand the results of the battle and kill more heads." However, our cavalry is insufficient, and most of their cavalry is covering on the flanks, and they can't chase after them in a hurry. Wang Changfu, you spread out your two thousand headquarters and advance north to expel the Jiannu cavalry. ”

Zhu Guobin immediately said: "There are still many Zhenyi defeated soldiers in the hills on the west side, when there are hundreds or so, when the Jiannu cavalry retreats north, his subordinates want to lead the cavalry and mounted infantry to block the west mountain pass." ”

Wang Changfu hesitated for a moment and said: "Is the cavalry left to cover the infantry, let's rush twice, and the infantry and cavalry cooperate to leave the Zhenglan Banner a little more, and we can also cut off the heads of those traitor infantry." ”

"Put the blue flag right, and go all out to fight the white flag rout." Chen Xintong Guò Intelligence Station has some understanding of the power structure of Houjin, although it is very secret, but the confrontation between Mang Gurtai and Huang Taiji is not a secret, leaving Mang Gurtai will definitely cause a lot of trouble to Huang Taiji, plus he is a little wary of Dolgon, so he immediately decided, "Zhenglan Qi are all cavalry, we can't stop them." Wang Changfu, your phalanx infantry squeezed the Zhenglan Banner along the avenue and forced them to stay away from here, Zhu Guobin, you go and block those mountain passes to prevent the rout from escaping from the west back to the state. When the 1,000th Guards Headquarters arrives, the official will send them to the hilly area to clear them and execute them immediately. ”

Zhu Guobin and Wang Changfu hurriedly took the order and left, Chen Xinyou looked around, the battlefield was dead and wounded, scattered weapons and armor were thrown all over the place, and there were many ownerless war horses scattered on the west side, most of which were the war horses of the Jiannu inlaid white flag infantry that were scattered, and some were left behind after the battle of the two sides.

"My lord, at least there are nearly a thousand war horses, and the cavalry can be expanded again."

"The cavalry has suffered a lot of losses this time, and I'm afraid that only half of it will be left after the battle." Chen Xin said lightly, "But the expansion of cavalry is inevitable, if there are 1,500 cavalry this time, Dolgon will not be able to escape, and at least half of the two traitor armies will remain." ”

Liu Pojun said regretfully: "It's just that Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde ran away again." ”

Chen Xinqing

chuckled: "Brave soldiers, what's the point of staying." In the future, they have no fighting spirit in front of my Dengzhou Town, and it is not bad to stay and help us engage in propaganda in Houjin. ”……

The two thousand headquarters of the Southern Route Army spread out front and back, advancing north along the main road, and the Houjin cavalry maintained a distance of several hundred paces to cover the retreat of the scattered infantry to Fuzhou, and the cavalry headquarters rushed to pull three hundred horses across the river before the arrival of the first general guard, and followed the cavalry to the hilly area to the west to close those mountain passes.

After the 1,000th Guards Headquarters arrived at the battlefield, Chen Xin sent a division to the hills on the west side to suppress, and the soldiers were divided into groups of 12 according to the unique battle group pattern of Dengzhou, including six cold weapons and six musketeers from the small Sancai formation, and dozens of battle groups pulled out a long line. Clearing the past along the hillside, the remaining division moved to the northwest of the official road to prevent the Jiannu cavalry from supporting the west side.

After the main force left, the remaining dragoons began to clean up the battlefield, Jiannu made up for the dead and wounded, and the medical soldiers of each department were busy on the battlefield, rescuing their own wounded in Dengzhou Town.

At this time, the sun was in the west, and Chen Xin led the guards to inspect the battlefield. The corpses in the place where the spears fought were stacked on top of each other, Chen Xin could imagine the fierceness of the time, and the combat power of the later golden armor soldiers in a critical situation was also very strong, just like the battle on Shimi Island, the musket non-commissioned officers of the spear formation also began to train for melee combat after that battle. The original intention was to deal with the approaching short soldiers, but the first battle was used against the Jiannu spear array.

Some auxiliaries carefully lifted the corpses of the Dengzhou soldiers and arranged them in a row along the river, Chen Xin roughly counted them, just on the side of the mounted infantry, there were already more than 200 corpses and hundreds of wounded soldiers, not including the losses of the cavalry. The corpses of the cavalry were widely dispersed, and they had not yet been concentrated here.

Jiannu left more corpses on the battlefield, and most of the wounded soldiers during the battle were also killed at this time, and the corpses continued all the way south along the spear battlefield. The west side is mainly the corpses of vests, which are relatively more scattered, Chen Xin estimates that there are about 900 corpses inlaid with white flags, of which about 300 are vests. There were also nearly a thousand horses around the battlefield. There are countless battles on the ground, if you can seal the hundreds of routs on the west side. Then the inlaid white flag is basically half of it.

The inlaid white flag is adapted from the old slave two yellow flags, the total number of cattle records is about thirty, five or six more than the positive blue flag, most of them are strong cattle records, basically can reach three hundred dings, the largest cattle records even have five hundred dings, and the intelligence bureau estimates that the number of inlaid white flags is more than nine thousand.

Nearly half of the corpses on the ground are quite well armored, they should be the elite armor soldiers in the white flag, and some of the others wearing cotton armor may be the Yu Ding in the flag, if most of these dead and wounded belong to Dolgon's fifteen ox records, then Chen Xin will be worried about Dolgon's future status.

As for Wuzhen Chaoha and Tianyou Army, Chen Xin saw their collapse from afar, the clothes in Wuzhen Chaoha are the most unrebellious people among the Han people in Liaodong, counting on these people to fight to the death on the battlefield, they belong to Yuanmu Qiuyu, even the Tianyou Army is far stronger than them, and they don't have to be regarded as a threatening force in the future.

Bursts of gunfire came from the mountains to the west, and the battle for clearing and suppressing had begun, while the cavalry of the blue banner in the north retreated farther and farther, and the Dengzhou phalanx advanced to a narrowest place from the hills and stopped to set up a formation, and the Guards Battalion Division that had been guarding the northwest also entered the clearing operation.

Chen Xin said to Liu Pojun who followed: "Let those staff officers go to mend the knife, don't be busy cutting off the head in advance, this time the cavalry and dragoons (horse infantry) fought very hard, but the recruits from the other thousand headquarters basically didn't do anything, and then the recruits who did not participate in the battle were picked out and beheaded." ”

"Understood." Liu Pojun knew Chen Xin's consistent style, he wanted to use everything to the end, even the matter of cutting off people's heads, he wanted to increase the battlefield experience for the recruits.

Chen Xin looked at the sun for a while, and said to Liu Pojun: "Jiannu retreats back to the state, it will definitely be closed, we always have to fight for a few days to see how Jiannu reacts." ”

Liu Pojun replied: "The progress of our campaign is smoother than expected, and our subordinates originally thought that Jiannu would not go south, but on the second day of today, we have already inflicted heavy losses on the white flag, defeated two traitors, and even the Zhenglan Banner is afraid of being frightened." Our army converged, with a strength of more than 5,000 people, and after the restoration of Zhouzhou, the Jin army would definitely not dare to go out of the city to fight in the field, and it was certain to ask Shenyang for help. Jiannu still has a red flag in Haizhou, but the number should not be much, the rest of the assembled forces are near Shenyang, if Dongjiang Town attacks on time as agreed, Shenyang's men and horses need to defend Shenyang, and wait until it is confirmed that Fuzhou is in an emergency, to gather the armor soldiers of other flags, at least three days later, it will take a few days to come to Fuzhou, and we can try to attack Fuzhou in at least five or six days. ”

Chen Xin looked down at the ground, calculated silently in his heart for a while, raised his head and said: "Let's fight for three days first, let the Jiannu banners mobilize, consume their manpower, and try to make their farming work as much as possible." The supply of troops during the three days should be guaranteed. ”

Liu Pojun was very clear about the plan, and immediately replied: "After the army arrives in Fuzhou, it will camp along the Fuzhou River, and the supply will be completed by waterway, and the sailors and auxiliaries will be dispatched to pull the fiber up to the camp, which can save a lot of manpower and animal power." When the ship returned, it brought back the captured soldiers and the heads of the Jiannu. Supplies are not a problem, just siege ......"

Chen Xin nodded and smiled: "Having a waterway is convenient." As for Fuzhou City, it doesn't matter, our purpose is always to attack the strength of Jiannu, especially the Jurchen Eight Banners. We really haven't attacked the city, but after the Battle of Jinzhou, we have rehearsed, everything is difficult at the beginning, and it will be easy to attack when we are familiar with it in the future, at least this time it will look like a little bit. ”

ps: Ask for a monthly pass (I have a heat stroke today, I am not in good spirits, and I am even late, sorry.) ）