The fire burned all the way to the Xiaoling River, and when the smoke drifted away, Shi Dayong knew that the time for the decisive battle of the Dao had arrived, looking at the Xiaoling River that had been stained red with blood, he calmly put on a bronze mask.

"Wolf Cavalry Armor!"

Suddenly, six hundred Changping disciples carrying iron armor rushed out together, hurriedly putting on armor for the war horses and wolf cavalry.

The wolf cavalry, who could not ride a horse, did not frown, climbed onto their horses with the help of their companions, and then allowed the soldiers under the horses to tie them firmly to their horses with belts, and they could not move at all except to sit up straight.

After raising his arm and confirming that the armor had been fully tied, Shi Dayong gave three orders in a row:

"Huang An, after the general crosses the river, you lead the front army to follow up behind the general!"

"Jiang Wanli led the Chinese army to cross the river and set fire!"

"Shao Wu led the rear army to retreat five miles."

Hearing that Shi Dayong wanted to lead people to retreat by himself, Shao Wu was stunned and asked in a lost voice: "General, although my rear army is not fully armoured, but the whole army is united, everyone dares to fight, why does the general want me to retreat, is the general unable to trust a thousand brothers in my rear army!" ”

"It's not that I can't trust you, but..."

After a pause for a few seconds, Shi Dayong said slowly as if he was confessing his last words: "If the general is not supported, you will quickly set fire to cut off the battlefield, collect as many defeated soldiers as possible, and then quickly bring it back to Jinzhou and hand it over to Lord Futai." As soon as the army is defeated, Jiannu will definitely wave his army to Jinzhou, at that time, these defeated soldiers are the biggest reliance of the Futai Lord, if Jinzhou can be kept, the situation is not too bad. If Jinzhou is also lost, we are only afraid of the truth..."

At this point, he did not say any more, but closed his eyes and looked up at the sky.

What Shi Dayong was thinking behind the bronze mask, no one knew.

"General! …”

Everyone heard that Shi Dayong's words were an explanation of what happened after his death, and they couldn't help but have a sour nose and tears coming out of their eyes. They could clearly see in the rear that although the fire had forced the Jin army back, the Jin army on the north bank had recovered and still had more troops than their own, and there was still no hope of winning the battle.

The general knew that there was no hope of victory, but still led the wolf to charge into battle, which was a heart of death, and it was also to strive for more troops to defend the city for Jinzhou.

The atmosphere was a bit heavy.

After a while, Shi Dayong suddenly grabbed the horse's belly, didn't say anything, and galloped forward.

Seeing this, Cao Bianjiao raised his arms and roared: "Attack, wolf ride!" ”

In an instant, the three hundred Iron Floating Slaughter dead soldiers rushed out together, and the black ash on the ground was raised by the horses' hooves.

Huang An and Jiang Wanli each led a thousand soldiers to follow, and when the routs gathered behind saw this, some chose to follow the Songshan army, some chose to stay put, and some ran back silently.

…………

After the smoke cleared, the field of vision was broad, and the real situation of the Ming army that took advantage of the chaos to counterattack was suddenly seen by the Jin army on the north bank.

It was found that it was not Jinzhou that the main force of the Ming army had killed, and it was still the remnants of the Ming army led by Zhang Chun who were chasing and killing all the way across the river, and the Jin army immediately began to counterattack.

The Jin army assaulted with archers and cavalry, and the Ming army relied on the remaining hundreds of chariots to meet the attack with firearms.

The Jin army had an unstable foothold, and it fled all the way across the river, so although it knew the details of the Ming army, it was impossible to drive the Ming army back in the river for a while.

Although the fire was extinguished, but just now the joy of chasing and killing the Jin army all the way made the morale of the Ming army high, and the Jin army in the river because it was cut off by the Ming army, did not know that the north bank of the road had counterattacked, so it was still a mess, with the help of the tens of thousands of chaotic troops, although the Ming army only had more than 10,000 people, but for a time was not at a disadvantage, so the resistance was very tenacious.

The most tenacious attack was the left wing Zuo Liangyu Division, this person was a marksman, no arrows were missing, and there were fifty archers trained by his own hands, under the arrows of these archers, the Jin army continued to fall from the arrows. After that, 600 Changping soldiers on the left took the lead in the onslaught, and more than 1,000 chaotic soldiers followed, constantly breaking through the Jin army, killing the Jin army in the left flank river and fleeing.

Dolgon saw that the Ming army on the left wing was powerful, and he was busy leading the Ming army to attack the Ming army several times, but they were all driven back by the tenacious Ming army.

The left side is more and more courageous, and the rest of the Ming army sees that the left flank is progressing smoothly, the Jin army can't stop it, and hundreds of Ming soldiers are rushing to meet, compared with the Chinese army, the left is obviously a greater threat to the Jin army, if they can't stop this Ming army, they will rush ashore to join the Ming army that crossed the river before, and turn the world upside down behind their own formation.

Huang Taiji, who could see clearly, immediately ordered Darhan to lead 500 personal soldiers to join the battle on the left flank, intending to annihilate all the Ming troops on the left flank. and urgently ordered Yue Tuo to deal with the Ming army chariot battalion that had crossed the river as soon as possible.

On the right flank, in the river by the stone bridge, the cavalry of the Ming and Jin sides were fighting. Song Wei's remaining cavalry was less than 1,000, but under Song Wei's command, he continued to launch a decisive charge against the counterattacking Jin army, hoping to buy time for the Chinese army, contain more Jin troops on the north bank, and reduce the pressure on the Chinese army.

Song Wei's troops were not many, and although they kept charging, they were not taken seriously by Huang Taiji, and only ordered the Mongolian prince Engedel to lead 3,000 troops to block the enemy. The combat effectiveness of the Mongolian soldiers was much worse than that of the Manchurian Eight Banners, and under the blows of Song Wei's three-eyed guns, Engdel repeatedly failed to attack smoothly and had no choice but to retreat, causing Song Wei's troops to break through to the north shore. Huang Taiji was shocked and hurriedly ordered the fierce general Ah Shan to lead another 500 personal soldiers to block it.

After repeatedly rushing into battle, Song Wei's troops suffered heavy casualties, with less than 400 cavalry left, unable to break through again, and after breaking more than 100 cavalry, Song Wei ordered to retreat. Ahsan led his troops in pursuit.

Song Wei fled, the Ming army suddenly lost the support of the right flank, the Mongolian soldiers took advantage of the situation to join the battle, the Ming army suddenly could not resist, although the resistance was stubborn, but it was already unsupported, began to retreat backwards.

The more than 2,000 carts of battalion soldiers trapped in the middle of the river had to withstand the attacks of the Jin troops on both sides, and they had already lost more than half of the battle.

The situation on Zhang Chun's side was also not optimistic, the general Yang Zhenghua was wounded, the guerrilla Ge Tai and Hu De were killed in battle, and the Ming army gathered under the banner of the Chinese army was less than 4,000.

The thousands of gold troops between Manku and the Chinese army were like an insurmountable mountain, although they were only two hundred paces apart, they could never meet again.

Zhang Chun fought on the front line as a civil official, his body was full of blood, but it was the brocade guards who protected him dyed on him, the Jin army continued to approach, Dong Kaiguo led more than a dozen of his subordinates to protect Zhang Chun's side, from time to time there were brocade guards arrows, but every time they fell, someone came up to fill the gap.

Dong Kaiguo personally held a shield to protect Zhang Chun's head, and the shield was full of arrows, but Zhang Chun was unscathed.

Ahead, the Jin army surged more and more, and the Jin army, which had been pinned down by the Che Ying soldiers, also began to turn, obviously, the Che Ying soldiers had been wiped out. In the chaos of the army, Zhang Chun seemed to hear Manku's roar before he died, but he couldn't hear it clearly.

Finally, the horn of the Jin army sounded again, and all the Jin troops in the middle of the river no longer panicked and huddled together, but turned around and killed Zhang Chun's Chinese army banner together.

The wind is getting stronger and stronger, but the river under his feet can't light a fire, Zhang Chunzhi said that there will be no miracle this time, gritted his teeth and refused to retreat, and even pulled out the sword given by the Son of Heaven, preparing to commit suicide and become a benevolent, and would rather die than be a prisoner of the Eastern Prisoner.

The right wing collapsed, the left flank was surrounded by the heavy Jin army, and the Chinese army was less than 4,000 people, and there was no suspense about the outcome of the outcome.

After all, he was a sixty-five-year-old old man, Zhang Chun was physically exhausted, and suddenly sat down in the river, not saying anything, only panting heavily.

After sitting like this for a while, Zhang Chun suddenly raised his head and shouted at Dong Kaiguo: "Lieutenant envoy, go quickly!" ”

When Dong Kaiguo heard this, he simply sat down in the river and smiled bitterly: "Where the responsibility is, adults don't need to say it anymore." ”

Zhang Chun sighed, nodded slightly, and slowly put the sword on his neck. When Dong Kaiguo saw this, he didn't stop him, but only looked at him fixedly. The only seven remaining brocade guards around them held embroidered spring knives in a circle, and they didn't move even if they shouted to kill Zhentian in front of them.

Zhang Chun suddenly felt something: "Being able to be a companion on Huangquan Road, the old man's life is worth it." ”

Hearing this, Dong Kaiguo chuckled: "It is an honor to be able to drink Meng Po soup with the commander of the army." ”

Zhang Chun sighed slightly, no longer hesitated, and said, "The envoy will be later, and Old Man Rong will take a step first." After speaking, the hand holding the sword shook slightly, and was about to wipe it off his neck, but at this time, he heard a strange sound.

"Dada"

The sound was very dull, like the sound of horses' hooves on a stone slab.

Zhang Chun subconsciously looked to the right, but saw that there was an extra team of soldiers and horses on the empty stone bridge at some point, and immediately all the knights were heavily armoured, and the knight in front held a banner with the word "Shi" in his hand.