A glimmer of light has emerged in the East.

On the west bank of the Liao River, it has long been lit by the light of the fire like daylight. The Chu army's shrapnel with tail flames streaked across the night sky from time to time, exploding again and again above the panicked Qing army's heads.

The water of the Liao River has been stained red with blood, and the battlefield is mixed with yellow flags, inlaid yellow flags and blue flags, and corpses are everywhere, and the surviving soldiers of the Bayala battalion, Kabush Xian battalion, and Aliha Chaoha battalion roared and waved their war horses, desperately rushing towards the Ming army.

But even the strongest Bayala soldiers could not rush into the Ming army's formation.

The three layers of thick armor could not stop the shrapnel that kept exploding above their heads, nor could it stop the flintlock musket bullets in front of them.

The three battalions of Bayala Battalion, Kabush Xian Battalion, and Aliha Chaoha, that is, the three battalions of the Manchu Protector Battalion, the Forward Battalion and the Xiao Cavalry Battalion in later history, had already taken shape at this time and were the absolute elite of the Eight Banners of the Qing Army. Especially in the Bayala camp, there are only a few people in each cow.

At this time, the Manchurians under the rule of Huang Taiji divided the Eight Banners.

The smallest unit in the Eight Banners is Niu Lu, the original Niu Lu 300 households, each household out of a strong man, the father died and the son succeeded, the brother died and the younger brother died, similar to the Ming Army's guard military household system. In the later period of Nurhachi, the Houjin system was changed, and Niulu gradually ceased to be a military unit, but an administrative household registration unit.

Each time an army is dispatched, a number of people are taken from each ox to form an army.

And from these oxen, he chose the most capable warrior as the Bayala soldiers, and the vests as the Aliha Chaoha soldiers.

The regular military strength of Houjin is also the armored people, which are professional soldiers, who do not pay food or farm, and draw one out of three of the banners of the Eight Banners. One of the three people in Manchu is selected to wear armor for each cow, and sixty is a constant.

These armored men were the professional soldiers of Houjin, and they did not cultivate or pay food. But they have their own fields, which are usually cultivated by coatings, and there is money and grain to be distributed. There are three types of armor: horse armor, infantry armor and city defenders. The Manchurian people are regularly assessed, and those who pass for the first time are the defenders of the city, and then they are promoted to infantry armor and then to horse armor.

The bravest Baya soldiers selected from each banner and each bull are used in a concentrated manner. Incorporated into the Bayala Battalion, the Bayala Battalion is only available in the Manchurian Eight Banners, and the Kabush Xian Battalion is actually the forward battalion of the Bayala Battalion, and the Aliha Chaoha Battalion is the cavalry battalion directly under the command of the Banner Gushan Ezhen himself.

Under normal circumstances, the Qing army fought, and each banner took these three battalions as the main force, and then added the Baoyi Aha and the Han army.

Right now. Huang Taiji's side led the three battalions of 5,000 people composed of the soldiers of the Shangsanqi under his personal command.

The rumbling of artillery on the battlefield makes people shudder.

The Qing army is rushing in all directions, trying to make a gap and break out.

But under the glow of artillery fire, the nine-headed bird led by Liu Jun had already surrounded the Qing army from three sides. To the west was the first to launch the attack of the two associations of 10,000 soldiers and horses, led by Liu Yunsheng, the general soldier of Beiyang, in the west of the camp of the Qing army to build a mountain howitzer array, set up a gun array, the Qing army tried to break through to the west several times after being beaten and embarrassed to retreat. They gave up breaking through to the west and retreated to the east.

The nights in western Liaoning in November were already cold. A thin layer of ice has formed on the banks of the Liao River.

On the west bank of the Liao River, the Chu army is landing in a steady stream. The Chu armies of the two associations were divided into two divisions, and landed simultaneously on the north and south sides of the river bank east of the Qing army camp, and then attacked the Qing camp like a big pincer.

West, south, and north, all three directions were Ming troops, and in the dark the Qing army couldn't even figure out how many Ming troops had come.

There was only one direction in which there were no Ming troops. East.

But to the east was a wide river, which was deep, cold, and covered with ice floes, but it could not withstand the crossing of men and horses.

On the river. Only Liu Jun personally took the crew of the sailor division and his direct troops on the ship to wait for the arrival of the Qing army. The ship had anchored in the middle of the river, and the guns on the troop carriers had already been aimed at the shore.

More than 20,000 Ming troops attacked Huangtaiji 5,000 Qing troops at night, if under normal circumstances, this is no chance of victory, the fierceness of the Qing army is no problem with one enemy and two, or even five enemies and six enemies. Especially such a night attack, it is still a three-sided siege, and it is easy for the Qing army to break through to one side, or even break through each one, and turn defeat into victory.

However, Liu Jun was not worried, the Chu army had sufficient firepower, and the flint fire gun with the short gun made the infantry have strong firepower, and the formation of a gun formation could play continuous firepower. In particular, they also have a lot of mountain grenades, which are very useful to use with shrapnel to deal with cavalry in the dark.

At this time, Kong Youde, who was standing behind Liu Jun, heard a shout getting closer and closer, and the Qing army was approaching the river bank. He remembered the imperial palace in Shenyang half a year ago, when Huang Taiji was sitting on the golden palace dragon chair in the palace, and was rewarding the invasion that went deep into the hinterland of the Ming Dynasty from the beginning of last winter to the end of this spring.

It seems that the entire Tianshan Mountains will be conquered for him.

But in just half a year, Huang Taiji was ambushed by the Ming army tonight on the bank of the Liao River, which had become the heart of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for more than ten years, and was extremely embarrassed.

The fierce Baya soldiers could not break through the artillery array of the Ming army.

The Eight Banners are indeed fierce, but Huang Taiji only has 5,000 people around him at this time, and he made a big mistake, but this mistake was caught by Liu Jiye.

Kong Youde is now admiring the Ming Army Inspector in front of him a year ago, and he really admires it. Huang Taiji obviously despised Liu Jun, and now he has to taste the bitter fruits of this contempt.

After confronting Liu Jun for more than half a year, and then being besieged and bombarded in Gaizhou for half a month, Kong Youde has a very deep understanding of the Chu army led by Liu Jun.

Although this is a Ming army, it is not a traditional Ming army, and it is different from any Ming official army.

The Qing army was running towards the bank of the Liao River, and they were also running towards death.

Geng Zhongming listened to the shouts of the Qing army that were getting closer and closer in the night, and sighed, "The river has not yet formed thick ice, aren't they killing themselves by running this way?" ”

Kong Youde glanced back at him, "Do you think they want to run this way?" They were driven over by the Chu army on three sides, and we have all tasted the power of the Chu army's guns, and now Huang Taiji has also paid for it. ”

When he mentioned the name Huang Taiji, he even had a faint feeling of joy in his heart. When he was besieged in Gaizhou, did Huang Taiji think about their feelings, but did he send a soldier to help?

On the boat in the middle of the river, Liu Jun looked at the war horses on the west bank, and Fu Shan stood side by side with him.

"Can we win?" Fu Shan asked.

The current situation on the battlefield is completely tilted towards the Chu army, but Fu Shan can't believe it in the face of such good news. On the other side is not an ordinary thousands of Qing troops, but the most elite Eight Banners, especially Huang Taiji in this army.

"The dark night gave us the best cover, and Huang Taiji didn't know how many of us came."

When Liu Yunsheng quickly assembled hundreds of mountain grenades and bombarded the Qing army's camp, Huang Taiji made a mistake, he misjudged that there was a large number of Ming troops coming from the west, and judging by the number of artillery, there must be more than 10,000 people, thinking that it was the main force of the Ming army, so he ordered to run to the east.

Although the dark night also reduced the power of the Ming army's guns, in such a battle, the Ming army's guns did not rely on accurate shooting, but on salvo strikes, relying on wild bombardment.

"The Qing army missed the best chance to break out, and if they had rushed to the west at the beginning, there might have been some chance. Now, they are surrounded and have to withstand several attacks, and they can't run away at all. ”

"We're surrounded!"

Huang Taiji held his wounded arm and galloped on horseback, but there were dense guns on all sides. No matter how they ran, there were always many shells following them, and the cannonballs that exploded in the air never stopped, and no matter how brave the Bayala soldiers were, there was nothing they could do in the face of these shells.

Huang Taiji felt extremely aggrieved and panicked, he was fighting an extremely difficult battle.

"Your Majesty, there is the Liao River ahead!"

Abatai rode back from the front and reported another piece of bad news.

The Liao River is deep, it is difficult to swim across, although it is winter, but there is only ice floe on the river, and it is necessary to wait until the ice is thick to cross the river, at least ten days and a half months or so.

To the south and to the north, they have already tried, and there are also Ming troops on both sides, and there are still countless artillery pieces and continuous platoons, and every time they get close, they are immediately knocked down in large areas, and it is impossible to see how many Ming troops there are on the opposite side in the dark.

In the end, only the east did not intercept, so they ran all the way to the east, and now, the Liao River stopped them.

"This is a trap for the Ming army, deliberately driving us to this dead end." Immediately, Fan Wencheng, who had already lost his hat when he ran away, was embarrassed and shouted in panic.

The four associations and 20,000 Ming armies on the west, south, and north sides were approaching step by step, further compressing the space of the Qing army.

In the middle of the night, the sky was getting brighter.

Huang Taiji and the others were trapped on the riverside, and after a rough check, they found that more than 1,000 of the 5,000 soldiers and horses had died, and there were only more than 3,000 people left on the riverbank at this time.

Many others are wounded.

At this time, Huang Taiji was finally able to see clearly the Ming army besieging them, and the number was beyond his imagination, not too much, but unexpectedly small.

It seems that the Ming army that attacked them at night was only about 20,000.

Thinking that he was beaten so embarrassed by the 20,000 Ming army last night, Huang Taiji was ashamed and angry.

After the anger, the fear in his heart was much less, and he had a lot of faith.

There are only 20,000 Ming troops, and they want to trap him.

The horn sounded, woo woo, low and long, like the wind blowing from the north, Huang Taiji rode on a horse, holding a long sword high.

Fight to the death.

When the trumpet sounded, bursts of roars filled the battlefield.

The Qing army began to desperately break through, and they chose to break through to the north.

The war horse began to trot and accelerate, gradually increasing its speed, and galloped rapidly.

In front of them, Zhang Guodong rode his horse and stood in front of the formation, watching the Qing army roaring in, the fierce momentum, Zhang Guodong only felt bursts of blood surging.

He pulled out his matching sword, which was a sword given to him by Liu Jun. (To be continued.) )

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