Chapter 100: The Great Fire

The remnants of the Ming army were cut into four battle formations by the Jin army, and the largest number of troops was the Ming army under the banner of the Chinese army, with about five or six thousand Ming troops resisting stubbornly under the command of Zhang Hongmo, Zhang Jifu, Yang Zhenghua and other Ming generals. Zhang Chun, the commander of the army, was also in this Ming army, so this Ming army withstood the fierce blows of the Jin army crossing the river. In order to capture Zhang Chun alive and completely break the courage of the Ming army's resistance, Huang Taiji mobilized a blue, red, and yellow flag, counting 10,000 cavalry to attack the Ming army where Zhang Chun was located.

In addition to the Ming army under the banner of the Chinese army, the largest number of troops belonged to the Ming army car battalion soldiers who insisted on resisting near the Xiaoling River, and they were led by the deputy general Wang Zhiku and Manku, and there were still more than 4,000 people at the moment, and they were surrounded by the white flag of the Jin army and the Han army flag that crossed the river.

The right wing of Song Weibu is also insisting on resistance, Song Wei's cavalry is not much, only more than 1,600 cavalry brought out of the city, but now it is besieged by the Jin army with white flags, under the pressure of several times the enemy soldiers, Song Wei has no support, suffering from the back road is cut off, unable to retreat, unable to join the Chinese army, it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a long time.

The cavalry of Wu Xiang on the left wing ordered a retreat as early as when the Jin army crossed the river, but the vacancy he left was filled by a Ming army foot soldier, and from a distance, the Ming army also had more than 1,000 people, mostly pikemen, with more than 100 chariots integrated into a battle formation, and fought and retreated. The Ming generals who led the army did not know who they were, and there were no generals above the banner, and it is estimated that the resistance of the middle and lower rank officers of the Ming army was spontaneously organized.

Huang Taiji directly ignored this kind of spontaneous resistance and the Ming army, which was not large, and saw the hard work of Azig and Mang Gurtai in attacking, but there was no improvement, and he couldn't help but be a little impatient. But he knew that he would not be in a hurry, the Ming army in the encirclement was now like a trapped beast in a cage, the more you pressed, the more fierce they bited, if you want to completely solve them, the best way is to consume their troops little by little, and then send people to persuade them to surrender, so that the effect can be half doubled.

Thinking of persuasion, Huang Taiji turned his head and asked Fan Wencheng: "Wen Cheng, do we know that Zhang Chun?" ”

Hearing this, Fan Wencheng knew that the King of Khan was going to send someone to persuade him to surrender, shook his head, and said: "This Zhang Chun Lao'er was a newly promoted official when the King Khan entered the customs the year before last, and no one on our Dajin side knows him. After a pause, he said: "But if the king of the Khan wants to persuade the old man to surrender, the servant thinks that he still has some eloquence, and he is willing to go to the king of the Khan to say surrender." ”

Huang Taiji nodded and said with a smile: "It's okay, if Wen Cheng comes out, this matter will be half done, and when Ben Khan calls the front to make another effort, Wen Cheng will cross the river to persuade Ben Khan to surrender that Zhang Chun." ”

"Most of the officials of the Ming State are afraid of death, then Zhang Chun is not afraid of death, and the generals under him are always afraid of death, that is, they can't lower Zhang Chun, but if they persuade the generals of his subordinates, he Zhang Chun will have to surrender if he doesn't surrender."

Fan Wencheng said with a smile, with a confident face. As he was talking, the sound of battle sounded behind the Ming army's defense line, and faintly audible, it seemed that countless Ming troops were shouting something in unison.

"What, the Ming army is coming to Jinzhou again?"

Huang Taiji frowned, thinking that the Ming army of Jinzhou had come to aid Zhang Chun, and raised the clairvoyant mirror to take a look, but found that it was a Ming army with not many troops that was approaching the banner of the Chinese army, and about thousands of defeated soldiers may have turned around again under the oppression of this Ming army.

In the clairvoyant mirror, it can be seen that the banner of the Ming army is "Shi", and there is also a banner of "Songshan".

A Ming general with the surname Shi? The Ming army from Matsuyama?

Huang Taiji thought about it slightly, and had the impression that the Ming army did not have a general officer surnamed Shi, and said in his heart that Xu was the rear army of the Ming army, and he had not moved before, but now he saw that the commander was in danger, so he rushed to reinforce.

However, although the Ming army was all foot soldiers, but there were also thousands of defeated soldiers, Huang Taiji was worried that after they joined Zhang Chun of the Chinese army, they would delay the battle and increase unnecessary casualties among the Eight Banner warriors. He raised the flag and ordered the Zhenghongqi who was going to cross the river to send half of his men and horses to intercept the Ming army.

The leader of the red flag was Daishanzi Yuetuo, and after seeing the Khan's banner order, he hurriedly divided four Niulu cavalry to intercept it.

I wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rush to the Chinese army, but was discovered by the Jin army, and saw the cavalry with the red flag of Jiannu rushing towards him, Shi Dayong was also a little anxious, the wolf cavalry was not yet armored, and although the three thousand Changping soldiers were not afraid of death, they were completely untrained, and they were not even fully armed, and they all rushed with their own blood. There were thousands of Eight Banner cavalry who rushed towards him, and Shi Dayong thought that it was impossible to withstand their blows, but he couldn't turn around.

Behind him, the routs who followed the Matsuyama Army began to stir, and some people began to want to turn around and run again.

Cao Bianjiao and Jiang Wanli didn't know what to do, and they looked at Shi Dayong eagerly one by one, waiting for his order.

In the anxiety, Shi Dayong's neck felt a coolness, his heart moved, he took off his mask, and found that it was windy, and the wind was in the northeast direction!

Sweeping the ground, because of the Xiaoice River, the outside of the pass entered autumn more than a month earlier than in previous years, and most of the knee-high grass on the ground has turned yellow, and the dry weather has been dry for several days, and only a torch is needed to set the stars on fire.

Without thinking, he blurted out: "Guo Yi, set fire, quick, set fire!" ”

"Set fire?"

When the generals heard the order, they were all stunned, but Guo Yi did not hesitate to take out the flint, ran forward more than a dozen steps, squatted down and lit the fire.

The flint ignited at the touch of a button, and a small flame burst up at the root of the dead grass, and in an instant, under the blowing of the wind, ignited the grass in front of it. Soon, a one-man tall flame appeared in front of everyone's eyes.

One place is not enough!

Shi Dayong shouted at Jiang Wanli and Ma Zhong, who were still stunned: "Don't stand stupidly, go and set fire, quickly!" ”

"Huh? … Ay! ”

Ma Zhong and the others did not hesitate any longer, and hurriedly rushed to the front, scattered everywhere, either taking the fire that Guo Yi had lit on the spot, or using the flames to light it, and soon, dozens of fires appeared in front of the Songshan army, and then quickly connected into one.

The fire was blazing, and under the blowing of the northeast wind, the fire rushed forward like a fire dragon.

The more it burns, the longer it burns, the more it burns, the more it burns, the more it burns.

The fire was accompanied by thick smoke and blew to the northeast, where there were not only Jin troops, but also Ming troops.

His face was hot, but his heart was warmer.

The fire formed an impenetrable defense line in front of the Songshan army like a divine weapon, and the Eight Banners soldiers who saw the rush from a distance saw the fire, panicked, turned around and ran back.

The fire grew bigger and the smoke thicker.

However, the generals did not have Shi Dayong's pleasure, but were a little panicked, because they saw that the fire was burning towards their own army.

"General, what about Lord Bingbei and our brothers?" Cao Bianjiao asked in a low voice.

"I can't take care of it."

Shi Dayong shook his head helplessly: "I'd rather be broken than broken." I'm sure the soldiers and brothers won't blame me. ”