Taken by Huang Taiji's strict order, and also knowing that the situation was critical, Azig stopped the Ming army from crossing the river at all costs, and more than 3,000 gold soldiers broke left and right in the Ming army's large array, stirring up the Ming army's formation, and the various departments were divided into several pieces, and Zhang Chun, the commander of the Chinese army, could not successfully dispatch the various departments to fight together.

Fortunately, the Jin army in the attack was only two or three thousand people, although the Ming army was chaotic, but the overall advantage was still in an advantage, but this advantage was relative to the red flag Jin army, in the whole general trend, the situation of the Ming army was not optimistic.

If the river cannot be crossed, the Ming army will not be able to continue to break through, and the Jin army can rely on the Xiaoling River to delay the pace of the Ming army and mobilize other cavalry of various banners to participate in the battle.

Once the Jin army had new soldiers and horses to join the battle, it would undoubtedly be a disaster for the Ming army, which could not maintain an offensive formation and fought separately.

Huang Taiji used soldiers, how could he not take advantage of the time that Azig did his best to win for him.

What Zhang Chun feared most finally happened, and the two banners of the Jin army, Zhengbai and Zhenglan, rushed towards the Xiaoling River from the northeast and northwest directions on the other side of the river. From a distance, there were nearly 10,000 cavalry of the two banners.

However, the thousands of golden soldiers who broke into the large array were extremely tenacious, and they could not encircle or drive them away in a short period of time.

As long as the two banners of the golden army follow the hole torn by the red flag golden army that broke into the formation, this battle will basically be lost, and if it continues to fight, it will be nothing more than early defeat and late defeat, and there is no suspense about the outcome at all

The earth-shattering sound of hooves on the other side made the deputy general Zhang Hongmo's face look like earth, and he looked at Zhang Chun beside him in horror, his teeth trembled a little, and he muttered: "My lord... What should I do, my lord? ”

Zhang Chun's face was pale, he gritted his teeth and was silent, and the wrinkles on his forehead were deep enough to be stuffed into a copper coin.

But he didn't panic or mess up, just gritted his teeth and looked at the Jin army that broke into the formation.

Zhang Jifu, Yang Zhenghua and other generals on the side were not as calm as the boss, they looked at the other side of the river in a daze, and the eyes of each other were all panicked.

At present, this game is a dead end, this Xiaoling River is the key to solving the game, if you can cross the river, you will be alive, and if you can't cross the river, it will be the end of the whole army.

Looking at the current situation, there is no hope of crossing the river, and if the battle continues, only the whole army will be annihilated.

The 40,000-strong army is the most important belongings of the Ming Dynasty, and in addition, the imperial court can no longer gather a support army to relieve the siege of the Daling River. If all of them are buried here, the sky outside the Ming Pass will be completely collapsed, and they will also spill their blood here, and it will be impossible to return to the Guannei.

All the generals are calculating in their hearts that if they leave their foot soldiers and flee back to Jinzhou before the Jiannu army gathers, they can at least save five or six thousand people.

Thinking of this, the idea of retreat began to brew in the hearts of the generals, but no one dared to say retreat first, because they knew that the soldier in front of them had risen to prominence by killing the generals who refused to lead the army forward.

They were afraid that as soon as they said they were going to withdraw, the soldiers would immediately change their faces and order someone to take them down, and then cut off their heads with a single sword.

Silence, after a short silence, Zhang Chun's most trusted lieutenant general, Zhang Hongmo, suddenly stepped forward, knelt down in front of him, bowed his head, and pleaded: "My lord, it's too late to withdraw now!" ”

"Still in time?"

Zhang Chun didn't expect that the first person to say that he would withdraw would be Zhang Hongmo, he was extremely disappointed, glanced at him coldly, and suddenly laughed, and his laughter was full of helplessness and vicissitudes.

Zhang Chun's laughter made Zhang Hongmo's back chill, cold and swishing, kneeling there and not daring to move.

The laughter stopped abruptly, and Zhang Chun's voice came from his ears, "Yes, withdraw now, it's too late, at least our lives can be saved, but I ask you, what about these tens of thousands of soldiers!" Do you want this official to abandon the soldiers of the Ming Dynasty and survive alone! ”

"My lord! I have to do it, stay in the green mountains, and I'm not afraid of running out of firewood!" Zhang Hongmo persuaded hard, "The Jiannu cavalry is powerful, we have done our best, why bother to bury them all here!" If you withdraw now, at least you can save some blood and bones, and then try to figure it out later. ”

"Zhang Hongmo, this official reads that you are also a dignified deputy general, and you have also made a lot of military exploits in the past, and you will not be cured of the crime of shaking the morale of the army, but if you dare to withdraw again, this official will definitely use this sword given by the Son of Heaven to cut off your head before he dies!"

After Zhang Chun finished speaking, he reached out and took the sword given by Emperor Chongzhen from the hand of the guard, drew the sword out of its sheath, and pointed at Zhang Hongmo angrily.

On the one hand, Dong Kaiguo, who was ordered to protect Zhang Chun's Jinyi Wei Qianhu, led dozens of Jinyi guards to surround Zhang Hongmo.

"My lord! …”

Looking at the cold blade, Zhang Hongmo felt a chill.

Zhang Jifu, Yang Zhenghua and others saw that the situation was not good, and they all subconsciously took a step back.

The shock power of the sword given by the emperor was much higher than Zhang Chun's personal prestige, and the Ming Dynasty had not completely sunset, and at the moment, the majesty of the Son of Heaven was still enough to suppress these officers.

Jian Feng pointed at Zhang Hongmo, but his eyes looked at the group of officers, Zhang Chun said coldly: "The whole army is up and down, fight to the death!" Those who say goodbye will not be forgiven! ”

"That's it!"

Seeing that Zhang Chun was determined not to retreat, Zhang Hongmo sighed secretly, stood up from the ground, silently put his helmet on his head, looked at Zhang Chun and said helplessly: "Since the Lord Bingbei is determined to live and die with the army, the last general is not good to say anything, but please know that the last general is not a bad breed who is greedy for life and afraid of death!" After speaking, he clenched his fists, turned around and got on his mount, pulled the saddle, led seven or eight guerrillas and dusi of his subordinates, and commanded the remnants of the cavalry to attack the Jin army in the array.

Seeing this, Zhang Jifu, Yang Zhenghua and others did not dare to stay any longer, and hurriedly went to the headquarters to supervise the battle.

In an instant, dozens of generals left cleanly, leaving only Dong Kaiguo and other brocade guards around Zhang Chun.

Dong Kaiguo was ordered to protect Zhang Chun, and he also had the intention of spying on Zhang Chun, but seeing that Zhang Chun was not as cowering as other civilian officials and leading the army, he couldn't help but admire. Seeing that the Jin army on the other side of the river had crossed the river, he was afraid that Zhang Chun would make a mistake, so Dong Kaiguo wanted to open his mouth to persuade Zhang Chun to move the banner of the Chinese army backwards for a mile, but he didn't want to open his mouth, Zhang Chun suddenly turned to stare at him, and said calmly: "The envoy has been ordered to protect me so far, and he has done his duty, and the official is determined to live and die with the army, but the envoy is the emperor's school, so there is no need to wait for death here." Please also ask the envoy to return to Jinzhou quickly, if the official dies here, please tell the emperor three things, so that the official is dead, and he can also smile Jiuquan. ”

Dong Kaiguo was stunned, and instinctively blurted out: "Lord Zhang, the victory is not divided, why are you so frustrated, our army is still numerous, and we have not seen defeat..."

Before he finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhang Chun, shook his head, and said in a deep voice: "The envoy has memorized it carefully." The first thing is to ask the emperor to start the negotiation as soon as possible. ”