On the battlefield of Caohe Fort, shouting to kill the heavens, under the severe persecution of the warlords, the chaotic formation of the Houjin soldiers swarmed up with muskets, these Houjin jīng Rui still exerted a very strong combat power, the Dengzhou soldiers attacked on their own on the whole line, and the loading speed of the soldiers was not the same, in the roaring guns and shouts of killing, the officers could no longer command Qi shè, and they all relied on the instinct of the soldiers to fight, and fierce white-knuckle battles occurred in many places.

Zhao Xuan squatted on the ground at this time to reload his short gun, and suddenly a rain of blood flew in, sprinkled on Zhao Xuan's head with a full face, Zhao Xuan had not finished loading the ammunition, he had just poured the shè medicine in, and the lead bullet and paper skin of the paper-wrapped bullet were still in his hand, he quickly spit out the blood in his mouth, and when he stood up, a flintlock soldier in front of him just fell to the ground, and a Houjin soldier climbed the chest wall with one hand, and was about to climb over.

A small vacancy was formed here, only Zhao Xuan was the closest, Zhao Xuan's mind was blank, and there was a roar of muskets next to him, Zhao Xuan's mind was shocked, and he immediately stuffed the warhead and paper into the chamber of the gun, and his right hand trembled and pulled out the barrel.

The Houjin soldier was wearing heavy iron armor, and he rushed on the slope just now, at this time, his body was a little weak, and he didn't turn it over after turning it over, he then shouted and pushed hard, and the whole person rolled over the breastwork, only three steps away from Zhao Xuan.

There was a sound of killing all day long, fierce hand-to-hand combat took place in many parts of the battle line, and the guerrillas of Jiannu appeared on the flanks and flanks, all of them were engrossed in the enemy in front of them, and no one noticed this small gap.

Zhao Xuan's stab trembled, and he couldn't fit into the muzzle of the gun, and the Houjin soldier had already stood up from the ground, a long wound on his face was dripping with blood, his eyes were full of fierce light, and his big knife fell to the side of the chest wall, and he pulled out a ladder knife from his waist and was about to pounce.

The shaky stab was inserted into the chamber of the gun with a thud, and Zhao Xuan stabbed it violently, and the thumb of his right hand quickly pulled away the hammer.

After Jin Bing saw the target clearly, he swooped at Zhao Xuan with a wild shout, the ladder knife was raised high, "Ah" Zhao Xuan shouted loudly, and raised the short gun to pull violently at the short figure that was close at hand.

There was a loud bang, white smoke filled his eyes, and after Zhao Xuan finished hitting, he still made a babbling sound in his mouth in a panic.

The soft lead bullet was sharper than a sickle under the help of gunpowder, and the solid iron armor was broken open with a large gap, and the Houjin soldier's body tilted to the left, and he staggered and staggered two steps, and fell to the ground with a thud.

Zhao Xuan was still making an ah-ah sound in his mouth, panting violently. At this time, a musket squad of the Mandarin Duck Formation Bureau came from the back row, and a row of guns knocked over the next few Houjin soldiers who wanted to break through, filling the gap.

The four-pounder cannon in the middle thundered, screaming again and again in front, and then the tiger squat cannon on both wings also roared, and the panicked cry of ghosts and wolves in front of it headed east.

There were still shouts and kills in front of the battle, most of them were Denglai accents, and from Zhao Xuan's point of view, the crowd was surging on the front line, and several places were surrounded by groups, where there were not only the sound of fighting, but also sporadic shè attacks.

Zhao Xuan's steps were weak, and he slowly walked to the nearest place, and the flintlock pikemen around him were also reinforced, and the heads of the crowd over there could occasionally see the head of the big knife swinging, and some Mongolian and Yi shouts and curses could be heard.

The sound of the young soldiers was shocking, and a wave of shouts and killings was deafening, and when Zhao Xuan arrived, the crowd suddenly cheered.

"Killed!" "Killed!" "Win!"

There was thunder of joy on the battlefield, and the soldiers around them jumped and raised their guns and shouted.

Zhao Xuan squeezed in to take a look, the ground was full of corpses, the red sè's Dengzhou military uniform and the black sè's Jiannu armor were intertwined, and there were sometimes some silver-white faces inside.

"The Tartars were beaten back." Zhao Xuan's heart was relieved, he raised his eyes and looked ahead, the front of the position was full of dense corpses and Tartar wounded. Some of the young soldiers climbed out of the breastwork, picked up the big knives and spears on the ground, and slashed and stabbed the wounded and corpses of Houjin on the ground.

On the official road ahead, hundreds of backs were rushing wildly.

"Hahaha." Zhao Xuan laughed three times, then looked up at the sky and laughed heartily.

"Help rescue the wounded, outside, bring the corpses of the Tartars, put them on the breastwork, and continue to dig trenches outside! You strong melee soldiers, go and peel off the armor of Jiannu yourself. Zhu Feng's voice sounded, and some of the young soldiers began to dig trenches frantically again......

"Great Khan, minion...... The minions are not effective in supervising the war, the defeated soldiers have lost their minds, and the big sword can't stop them, and there are still people who are desperate for the white armor who supervises the battle, and the minions have to ......"

Huang Taiji waved his hand, interrupting Zilharang's voice, the defeat was like a mountain, and the overseer team was not omnipotent. This wave of nearly 1,000 Houjin soldiers, on the narrow road was killed and injured by the vitality of the Ming army, thanks to the strength of Zierharang to supervise the battle did not collapse, and finally rushed into the Ming army front, Huang Taiji thought that the musketeers of the Ming army were not opponents, who knew that those Ming troops actually fought to the death and did not retreat, musketeers and melee soldiers fought desperately with the armor soldiers who broke through, three artillery guns continued to scatter bombs against the crowded Houjin crowd in front of the formation, each artillery fire will take away the lives of more than ten Houjin soldiers, and the losses of the Houjin soldiers reached three hundred, and finally the psychological collapse and comprehensive rout.

Huang Taiji's face was very ugly, it was impossible for him to really behead all the six or seven hundred retreating armor soldiers, because the number was too large, and for Hou Jin's current strength, six or seven hundred armor soldiers were extremely precious troops.

Huang Taiji raised the telescope, and the military flag waved in the small position in the distance, and many red figures ran out, shaking in front of the line, needless to say, killing and wounding soldiers and cutting off people's heads.

"Prepare for the second round." Huang Taiji said lightly, he saw that the soldiers had broken through the Ming army's front, the Ming army's musketeers were not strong in close combat, and the casualties must be heavy, he had no way to retreat at this time, the army had already gathered here, if he couldn't break through here in a short time to shake the middle of the Ming army, then the direction of Gaizhou would be turned upside down by the main force of Dengzhou, and Chen Xin would not be able to turn Haizhou into a wasteland.

"Great Khan, the more than 2,000 Han troops have arrived, or let them go to the front, our armor soldiers are used to attacking between the mountains, let the armor soldiers cross the mountains and forests on both sides of the road, one to gather behind its formation, and the other to attack from the edge of the woods on both wings, the Han army will attack from the front, and it will definitely be able to go down with a drum."

Huang Taiji turned his head to look at Ji'er Harang, "It's a good strategy, but such a deployment, especially the gathering of troops after the battle, takes a long time, and if the soldiers of Qianpi Island have already passed from the mouth of the Caohe River, it will be useless to defeat the Dengzhou soldiers in front of them." ”

Zilharang said in a low voice: "Great Khan, this road is really narrow, if it is as hard as Fangcai, the first soldier is repeatedly killed and wounded by enemy artillery fire on the road, Fang Cai has already been defeated once, if it is defeated twice, the first soldier will lose all his momentum, even if this army formation is broken, it will not be able to drive Xiuyan and Huanggudao Fort for a long time, and it will not be able to achieve the intention of the Great Khan to flank the enemy in Gaizhou." ”

The strength of Dengzhou is unknown, Huang Taiji is also a little hesitant in his heart, Jierharang's words are a compromise strategy, use the Han soldiers to attack the front, Zhenyi attack the side, and surround the Dengzhou soldiers on all sides, so that the attack intensity is greater, and it can also preserve the precious Zhenyi armor soldiers, but the time to transfer troops will take a long time, which may make this siege fail.

But this narrow terrain is indeed conducive to defense, even if the Houjin soldiers are more than ten times the opponent, they can't put in heavy troops at one time, and a single wave of troops can't be too many, because if the front collapses, no matter how many people in the rear formation, it is useless, but crowd together to kill and injure the opponent's artillery.

Huang Taiji frowned and thought, this small team of Dengzhou soldiers occupied a favorable terrain and found him a big problem, if Dengzhou controlled the mouth of the Caohe River, then Huang Taiji would not be able to meet with Yue Tuo, and could not obtain reliable and convenient food supply channels. His total strength along the way is as many as 6,000, including 4,000 Zhenyi soldiers and Yu Ding, 2,000 Han troops, and 3,000 coats.

The road from Liaozhong to Samajibao is very difficult, it is not enough to support 9,000 people and horses, and the consumption on the road is also very high, so once Dengzhou Town occupies the mouth of the Caohe, it will be a great threat to Huang Taiji, and it is very likely that stealing chickens will not lead to rice.

At the same time, he also had to consider whether Yue Tuo would really work hard to open up the Caohe estuary at that time, which was why he arranged Haoge in Lianshan Pass.

At that time, if the tail is bitten by Dengzhou Town, the cavalry on this mountain road is very prone to congestion, and it is inconvenient to replenish food, and Huang Taiji will not be able to advance or retreat along the way. At this time, he couldn't help but regret a little, he shouldn't have come to this mountain to fight an ambush, but at that time his original intention was just to fight the Dongjiang soldiers, but he didn't expect that these hundreds of Dengzhou soldiers suddenly came, and how many Dengzhou soldiers were behind, now Huang Taiji is not clear, in case there are five or six thousand, in this terrain that is not conducive to the deployment of troops, Houjin's military advantage is useless.

Zilharang said in a calm voice: "Great Khan, the slave has a suspicion. The year before last, Dengzhou had more than 10,000 soldiers and horses in southern Liaoning, and it was reported that it was conscripted again and again, and now the water in southern Liaoning could not enter, all of which were rumored that there were 20,000, 30,000, and 50,000 soldiers in southern Liaoning, but no one could say how many soldiers and horses there were. The slave looked at the momentum of this Dengzhou soldier, and he didn't look confident at all, would he want to drag my Dajin soldiers and horses and wait for his army to come. ”

Huang Taiji squinted and stared at Ji'er Harang, "You mean that behind the Pidao soldiers on the other side of the Grass River, there may also be soldiers and horses from Dengzhou Town?" ”

"The slave is just a guess, look at the appearance of the Phi Island soldiers who are fearless, there must be something to rely on later, the Dengzhou soldiers in front of me are not afraid of our army, I am afraid it is not a good thing, it is not appropriate to lose too many Shenjia soldiers at this time."

"Somewhat." Huang Taiji immediately decided, "Let mele Zhangjing, who has a blue flag, take three hundred armor soldiers to Caohe, first defeat the Pidao soldiers, and then explore the Caohe valley." ”

"Huh." Zierharang breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, he knew that Huang Taiji was also a little uncertain, and he was obviously shaken by the Dengzhou soldiers in front of him. Fighting the position in front of him was not a good errand, and Zilharang did not want his armor to be thrown too much into it.

Huang Taiji glanced back, and on the road in the direction of Caohe Fort, a long queue of Han soldiers was coming. He thought for a moment with a change in his eyes, and finally nodded: "Let the armored soldiers in the array get out of the way, transfer the Han soldiers to attack the front, and drag their musketeers, Gu Santai led the armored soldiers around the mountains and forests, gathered on the west side of the road, and attacked the Dengzhou soldiers together with the three conch sounds." Bow down! ”

"The minions are here." Jīng's dry worship is answered behind his back.

"You go with Gu Santai." ……

"Lord Zhao, my subordinates still want to ask you to go to Tongyuan Fort for help."

Zhao Xuan looked at Zhu Feng, who was already injured in front of him, shook his head and continued to load, "Don't bother, I killed a Jiannu just now, I can help." ”

The chain mail on Zhu Feng's shoulder broke a hole, and some blood flowed out to wet the military uniform, and he leaned over a little anxiously and whispered: "My lord, although we killed more than 300 armor soldiers, we also killed and injured more than 70 people, and I don't know ...... How long can I keep it, my subordinates want to ask my lord to go to Tongyuan Fort to ask for help again. ”

An urge to get out of this dangerous place flashed in Zhao Xuan's mind, and then he looked at the front, many armored corpses were placed on the chest wall, and then the soldiers cultivated soil on it, looking stronger than the beginning, the array of musketeers began to be thinner, and some soldiers took two muskets each, and leaned against the chest wall beside them after loading the extra one. Some of the spears of the Houjin soldiers were also collected and propped up on the breastwork wall for use in melee combat.

The excitement on the battlefield began to subside a lot, and the morale of the young soldiers began to decline under the impact of the screams and bloody scenes of the wounded soldiers, and the battlefield was far from being as bloody and romantic as they imagined.

"I'm going to stay, they need me." Zhao Xuan loaded the short gun, went over to the ground and picked up a flintlock pistol with a broken bayonet, and then stood up and said to Zhu Feng, "You don't have to persuade me anymore, there is no battalion instructor who retreats first." ”

Zhu Feng saw Zhao Xuan's resolute attitude, nodded silently, at this time, the Houjin army on the opposite side was a group of trumpets and drums, and the armored soldiers who had already been deployed in front of them entered the forest area one after another, and a team of square formations in the rear entered the valley road.

Zhu Feng raised the telescope, and in the lens, he could see the dense spear array and the musket queues on both sides, almost the same as the phalanx in Dengzhou, and it seemed that there were even detachments, but the soldiers' clothes were colorful and looked a little messy. He looked at it and said softly: "This should be the new Wuzhen Chaoha practiced by Jiannu." ”