As the fighting continued until the end of October, the pattern of the battlefield quietly changed. Because of the shortage of logistical supplies, the gunpowder and other materials needed for the Ming army's equipment such as Franc cannons, bird guns, and rockets have been unable to be supplied. The Qing army gradually began to occupy the initiative on the battlefield.

Dolgon urged the army to use the shield car as a cover to launch a counterattack on the Ming army's position, without the support of artillery and firearms, in a short period of time, the two trenches previously captured by the Ming army were lost one after another.

There were many casualties among the Hebei Army, Jizhen Army, and Datong soldiers, but the Liaodong soldiers and horses of Wu Sangui and others rarely participated in the war under the deliberate arrangement of the supervising army.

Outside the trench, the firearms can not play a powerful role, the Ming army's car array is also in vain, and the artillery of the Qing army Wuzhen Chaoha is full of ammunition, although the number is not much, but the power is really amazing, the special "God bless the general" red-coated cannon has played a huge role in the battle, originally these artillery guns are difficult to move due to their own great weight, but now they are equipped with four-wheeled sports cars, as well as a large number of mules and horses, soldiers to carry, therefore, the movement is very rapid.

Under the bombardment of the solid shells of the red-coated cannons, the earthen forts, car formations, and horses carefully built by the Ming army were easily razed to the ground.

On October 29, Dolgon sent two strange troops, Azig led a surprise attack on the Ming army's grain storage place - Bijia Mountain, and burned the Ming army's only remaining grain, grass and baggage. Duoduo set up an ambush at the high bridge between Songshan and Xingshan, completely annihilated the Xingshan defenders who planned to retreat to Ningyuan, and then used the red-coated cannon as the front to defeat the outer defense line of Xingshan Fort in one fell swoop, and led the elite cavalry to break into the fort, and the defender Zheng Yilin died in the chaos, and Duoduo took advantage of the situation to take Xingshan Fort. Since then, Hong Chengchou's carefully constructed defense system of Songshan, Tashan, and Xingshan as a line has completely collapsed.

Xingshan Fort fell, and Shuotuo and other two Red Banner Left Wing Armies immediately followed, blocking the communication between Xingshan and Tashan and Songshan. As a result, the various units of the Ming army, which were already short of food and clothing, were suddenly in chaos.

The flag officer stumbled into Hong Chengchou's Chinese army camp, "Supervisor, Xingshan is lost, and Dongyu will cut our army into two sections." Wu Sangui, Tang Tong, and Ma Ke have already led their troops to retreat to Ningyuan without authorization, and Cao Bianjiao, Yang Guozhu, and Bai Guangen have retreated to Tashan Fort and have lost their news. ”

The cannon outside the camp rumbled, and the shouting of killing shook the sky, but Hong Chengchou fell on top of his handsome position as if all his spirit had been drained, and the staff of the army trembled like chaff, and the majestic Zhang Ruoqi, Ma Shaoyu and Du Xun also suddenly ran out of ideas, and Du Xun was even more noisy to ask Hong Chengchou to send someone to send them out of the encirclement immediately.

A person suddenly jumped out of the side, ran to Du Xun, and couldn't help but break up, it was two loud slaps in the face that hit him, "Eunuch, if you didn't wait for you to send troops to fight the enemy, how could you have lost today!" ”

Everyone looked at it, but it was Hong Chengchou's deputy, Qiu Minyang, who was the governor of Liaodong at the time, and he was already furious at this time. When Azig burned Beacon Mountain, Gao Qiqian sensed that the shape was not good, and he had already taken the first step to go to the army of his righteous son Wu Sangui, Beacon Mountain was declared to have fallen, and Xingshan was crumbling, the father and son had already withdrawn from the battlefield with Ma Ke and others from the Liaodong family and retreated towards Ningyuan. This also caused the door of the Ming army to be opened, and the left flank was immediately declared to have fallen, and Daishan's two red flags were already approaching the Chinese army.

Although Zhang Ruoqi and Ma Shaoyu heard that Qiu Minyang's words were there, it was clear that it was Du Xun, but in fact, they also took the two of them to scold together, but now they are speechless, and they can only keep their heads silent and pretend to be deaf and dumb.

But in fact, everyone present also knew in their hearts that since Hong Chengchou couldn't bear the pressure from Chongzhen and the imperial court, and decided to start a decisive battle with the Qing army, the balance of the Ningjin War began to tilt to the Manchu side. The eight general soldiers are all battle-hardened generals, what is the effect of the imperial court's marching strategy, there will be a chance of victory, everyone knows it, from the beginning of Hong Chengchou forced to send troops, the eight general soldiers each gave birth to a different kind of mind. , especially Wu Sangui and others, who were born in a wealthy family in Liaodong, have long had the idea of supporting the army to protect themselves. Including Tang Tong, the general soldier of Datong, and others also actively built yì to retreat to Ningyuan to defend it, in order to fight again. It can be said that since then, all units of the Ming army have lost their fighting spirit and fighting spirit.

Qiu Minyang scolded Du Xun for misleading the country, where could Du Xun stand this, after the two quarreled a few words, they immediately fought in one place, the former Tun Guard General Soldier, and now Wang Tingchen, who has taken over Liu Zhaoji's position as the Liaodong General Army, is a storm and broke in, as soon as he entered the big tent, he couldn't help but say, pulled Qiu Minyang away, kicked Du Xun aside, and shouted at Hong Chengchou: "Supervisor, without further ado, the Dongyu has cut off all the retreats and surrounded on all sides, and the only way to retreat in front of him is to retreat into Songshan City and hold on, waiting for the imperial court to send reinforcements to rescue him!" ”

"That's all there is to it!" Hong Chengchou nodded weakly, the total army of the eight towns and the 130,000 army disappeared in less than two months. The war outside the gate completely lost the last hope, the Ming army was defeated, and it was only a matter of time before Jinzhou fell, followed by Ningyuan, and at that time, there would be no place for the Ming army to stand in this Liaodong land. And he has only two paths to choose from, one is to kill himself, live and die with Songshan, and leave one behind him to clear his name; The second is to wait for the rescue of the imperial court, and when the siege of Songshan is resolved, it is also the day when he is in prison, and then he will just ask the emperor for guilt with the head of the emperor.

Wang Tingchen escorted Hong Chengchou and others out of the Chinese army, Hong Chengchou's Chinese army still has 10,000 troops, and immediately moved to Songshan City not far away, the Ming army lost its unified command, Wu Sangui and others retreated without authorization, and the Ming army left 780,000 men and horses, but due to the lack of contact and command between the departments, they could only blindly retreat in the direction of Songshan and Tashan.

In the darkness, the horse infantry trampled and trampled on each other, and bows and armor were all over the mountains. Even some of the Ming troops were breaking through the siege, seeing the fire in front of them, thinking that the Qing army was intercepting, they did not dare to advance, and retreated, but they were ambushed by the Qing army, and the Ming army was greatly defeated, so they could only try to fight and retreat in a seemingly safe direction......

Dolgon, on the other hand, was thoughtful enough to lay a net long before the attack began. Dolgon sat in the middle of the army, in the vicinity of Tashan, Xingshan, between Tashan and Jinzhou, between the Xiaoling River and the seashore, almost predicted that the Ming army would pass through or disperse, and deployed troops, so that the Ming army encountered large-scale ambushes one after another in the process of retreat, and the morale of the Ming army fell to the lowest point at the same time.

It was only a short distance of twenty miles from Hong Chengchou's Chinese army to Songshan City, but in this extremely chaotic night, it was more than two hours long, until the sky was slightly bright, and through the early morning mist, I saw the outline of Songshan City in a trance.

As far as the eye can see, there are the corpses of Ming soldiers in red battle uniforms everywhere, many of them trampling on each other, dying in the chaos of the army, billowing smoke straight into the sky, smoke and fire in the mouth and nose, and even the strange smell of human flesh being roasted. Hong Chengchou's side has gathered about 20,000 troops, in all directions, there are still countless Ming soldiers like headless flies rushing around, and many people go straight to the sea, Zhang Ruoqi and Ma Shaoyu even brought Du Xun, leading hundreds of Beijing camp soldiers with them, leading a large number of soldiers to run towards the sea.

At this time, everyone is taking care of themselves, and they are trying their best to escape from this Shura hell.

Hong Chengchou looked up to the sky and sighed, and couldn't help crying, at this time, Yao Xun, the chief soldier of Miyun, also came to meet with more than 2,000 remnants. He was originally stationed on the front line of Baitai Mountain, but after the chaos of the Ming army, in order to avoid being surrounded by the Qing army, he led his subordinates to retreat in the direction of Tashan, wanting to make peace with Cao Bianjiao, Yang Guozhu, Bai Guangen and others. But halfway through, he met Li Fuming, the deputy general of the Jin army, and learned that Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of Xuanfu, had been killed by an arrow, and Li Fuming had to gather the remnants of the army and move closer to Tashan, but he didn't want to meet Yao Xun's department.

The two led the army to fight a bloody battle, but in the panic, they went in the wrong direction, and they actually met Hong Chengchou near Songshan.

When the two saw Hong Chengchou, they immediately cried, and now there are less than forty percent of the soldiers under their command, most of them died under the butcher's knife of the Qing army in a panic, and Yao Xun even scolded Gao Qiqian, Du Xun, Wu Sangui and others. A month ago, the Denglai Sailor came to help in the war, and these three people had a strange introduction, but they poured Zhu Ping'an into a charge of not having an edict and transferring troops without authorization, and the Denglai Sailor could only retreat in a huff. If the naval division was still there, the artillery fire on the ships alone would be enough to cover the safe withdrawal of most of the Ming army into Songshan City.

As long as the battle situation is stabilized, it is not impossible for the soldiers and horses to retreat from the sea in batches. But now, Gao Qiqian, Wu Sangui and others ran away without a trace in the morning, but they threw Hong Chengchou and the general soldiers of the towns into a desperate situation.

But at this moment, an extremely sharp sound suddenly sounded in the distant sky, like the sound of a shovel rubbing against a stone slab, which was terrifying. What's even worse is that this kind of voice is actually sounding one after another, constantly ringing, and from far to near, it is becoming clearer and clearer.

The generals and soldiers of both sides of the battle on the battlefield also heard this sound, and some of the old soldiers of the Qing army suddenly changed their faces, and they looked at the sky busily, until through the smoke, they saw dozens of brightly colored fire dragons clearly visible in the sky.

However, most of the Qing troops didn't understand what the fire dragon in the sky was, and they looked at the strange trajectory blankly, and for a while they forgot to charge and attack. However, the Ming soldiers took advantage of this opportunity to get a lot closer to Songshan.

Perhaps it was because Hong Chengchou's Chinese army was too eye-catching, and several Qing troops were always in hot pursuit, biting Hong Chengchou's Chinese army to the death. Yao Xun, Wang Tingchen, and Li Fuming could only lead their troops to fight to the death to buy time for Hong Chengchou to retreat into Songshan.

But just a mile away from the south gate of Songshan, a Qing army in white clothes and white armor suddenly came out and immediately cut Hong Chengchou's Chinese army in half. In the chaos, the Qing army fired arrows in unison, and I don't know who hit the head of the horse on Hong Chengchou's mount, the war horse screamed, the front hooves were raised high, and Hong Chengchou suddenly fell off the horse.

At this moment, dozens of fire dragons in the sky accurately landed in the Qing army camp that surrounded the Ming army on all sides. Huge explosions rang out one after another, and the earth tossed back and forth, like a small boat floating in the stormy waves.

Thick and dark smoke filled the entire battlefield outside Matsuyama Castle in an instant. R1152