It was early in the summer, and the sky was green and bright at dawn, and the whitish half moon floated in the sky, silently watching the boundless killing between the sky and the earth.

The spirit of slaughter is full of the four fields.

The camps dug into moats and braided woods were burning with fire, reflecting the endless pools of blood, and as far as the eye could see, all bows and knives were added, and all the people were neighing, and there seemed to be no place where there was no killing, and there seemed to be no place where there were no corpses.

Chen Yan stood on the dirt slope with the command knife, the fine scale armor shone like a lake in the dim twilight, and the lining armor emitted the smell of sweat and blood-Chen Yan moved the battle flag to this side, the battlefield here has not been cleaned up, and there are still more than a dozen people who have lost their war horses.

Behind him, an old mulberry tree with a large piece of iron bullet cut out in the middle, the emerald green leaves shook off together, and more than a dozen dead bodies under the tree had been cleared away at this time, leaving a pool of coagulated blood.

The tiger's eyes were all murderous, staring at the battlefield in front of the hillside.

The Huaidong Army had the intention of encircling and annihilating the remnants of the enemy on the west bank of the Feng River, but the enemy commander Nahewu insisted on not retreating, but deliberately tried to take advantage of his cavalry superiority, and wanted to divide the Huaidong Army that was divided into several joint attacks and killed one road.

There were more than 15,000 foot cavalry led by Nahe Wugu in Zhangjiawan, and he was almost the same, and it was the first, fourth, and fifth brigades of the Denghai Town Division led by Dengcheng Hu Chen Yan, as well as a newly formed brigade and a reserve brigade.

The 15,000 elite infantry brigades, shrunk together, may not be able to resist the impact of a considerable number of enemy cavalry, while the Huaidong Army emphasizes the concept of depth and echelon in the tactics of the horse infantry army. Even though the Fifth Brigade and the newly formed Brigade and the Reserve Brigade were lagging behind and shrinking the formation, he personally led the 6,000 elite troops of the First and Fourth Brigades to advance in two conical arrays in the direction of the enemy's cavalry attack.

At the beginning of the battle, although the artillery incorporated into the array could not play a role in time, the generals of the Denghai Town Division did not all use traditions, combat weapons, and flesh and blood to resist the charge of the enemy's cavalry......

Due to the immature technology and the high probability of exploding the chamber, the Ordnance Supervisor's flowering bomb was not used in actual combat this time, but the ambush fire mine, which is similar to the flowering bomb, gave the enemy a lot of "surprises".

The shell is cast with thin iron, filled with lead pellets and gunpowder, closed with a, and led out by a medicine twist, that is, the ambush fire mine made by the Huaidong Ordnance Prison, which can be said to be the prototype of the grenade. It's just that the ordnance supervisor called it "fire and thunder", and Lin Jian can also let them go.

Although you can use a scorpion crossbow, when engaged, you can throw a fire mine ignited by a medicine twist into the enemy line with your hands in front of the formation, causing it to explode and shoot lead pellets and shell fragments to kill the enemy.

Although the power of the ambush fire mine is much worse than that of shooting scattered bombs at close range, it is easy to throw, especially when encountering the enemy in a hurry and fighting in complex terrain, it is far more convenient than artillery.

It's just that this kind of ambush fire, the Ordnance Supervisor is also new, and the number is extremely limited, and even the military department has no plan to use ambush fires in the Northern Expedition. Even the Denghai Town Division, which gave priority to the use of firearms, had only one sentry trained before the war, and it was not until after the capture of Jinhai City that 2,000 fire mines were transported to Jinhai with supply ships, and the first batch of equipment was sent to the Denghai Town Division.

In the face of the enemy's elite cavalry, the biggest problem for the infantry brigade when advancing is how to suppress its own position.

First, the array of cavalry charging is relatively scattered, second, the huge war horse has a much larger surface than the cavalry on horseback, and third, the ambush fire and thunder explode on the ground, and the lead pellet will hit the horse's belly seven or eight times out of ten, and rarely directly hit the enemy.

However, the fire and thunder exploded in the enemy's formation, the sound was earth-shattering, the projectiles were shot in all directions, and the smoke of gunpowder was filled, which only frightened the usually well-trained war horses and fled in all directions, and suddenly caused the front of the enemy's cavalry charge to be in chaos.

If the enemy is in chaos, they will be safe.

The 1st and 4th Brigades, which were mainly infantry soldiers, seized the opportunity to enter the enemy formation, rampaged, and killed the Yanhu people to suppress their horses, cry their fathers and call their mothers, and beat them straight to the garrison to retreat, and for a while they did not dare to rely on the advantage of high men and horses to invade the Huaidong Infantry Brigade that was advancing in the night......

At dawn, Chen Yan led the 1st and 4th Brigades to seize the nameless low mountain on the west flank of Zhangjiawan, and after destroying the enemy stationed in the camp here, he bullied the cavalry brigade with the momentum of the infantry brigade, and with the cooperation of the 5th Brigade coming from the flank, he attacked the garrison of the captured soldiers in Zhangjiawan.

The captive barracks can be said to be a model of cavalry camps in the era of cold weapons, mainly a big village on the side of Zhangjiawanju Avenue, the camps are connected to each other, digging soil for moats, and weaving wood for fences, but because it is a cavalry-based camp, there is no deep trench dug in the periphery of the entire camp; It was probably also transferred from the west of the Wei River in a hurry, and there was no time to dig a long trench.

Such a camp, in front of the elite infantry brigade of the Huaidong Army, can only be said to be shabby.

Dozens of light artillery pieces were dragged to the front of the formation from the north and northeast flanks, and they were carrying out a frantic bombardment on the enemy camp, ruthlessly tearing the fence wall and the enemy defense line that dismounted and fought to pieces......

Tong Huacheng, who was standing on the hill in front of Zhangjiawan and looking at the battlefield, could only watch weakly at this time as two cronies gave a solid bullet to shoot through his chest at the same time and died.

The blood splashed his face, Tong Huacheng stood on the highest hill in Zhangjiawan, and could see the three pier bridges, Luohedian and other camps ignited the starting fire, knowing that the general trend had been lost, and it was beyond manpower to recover, and the Huaidong cavalry that had been detected before night and entered the north bank of the Chaobai River had not yet entered the battlefield at this time, and they wanted to flee west at this time, but they would also be ruthlessly intercepted......

After the Huaidong Army occupied Jinhai, the front of the troops from the two flanks in the early stage seemed to be weak, but in fact it was to attract the main force of Dayan to the middle for a decisive battle; On the night of the 16th, the Huaidong Army crossed the river and fought was not particularly strong, and even Nahe Wugu saw the slightest possibility of defeating the Huaidong Army, in the final analysis, the Huaidong Army wanted to attract them firmly to the battlefield on the west bank of the Feng River like gamblers, so that the soldiers and horses on both wings had the opportunity to encircle and annihilate them.

Otherwise, in the battle of crossing the river, the Huaidong army would use the earth-shattering ambush thunder that was thrown, and perhaps after the night of the 16th, they would decisively retreat westward, and they would not delay for a day until the situation was completely eroded!

"General Tong, General Tong......"

Tong Huacheng wiped the blood from his face, and when he turned around, he saw that it was Ye Ji Zuolin, the son of Ye Ji Luorong, the king of Chengji County, and Ye Ji Zuolin, the left staff leader in front of the Nahewu lonely tent, who was covered in blood.

"Little Prince!"

Although Ye Ji Zuolin has practiced martial arts since he was a child and is skilled in bows and horses, it is the first time he has participated in such a cruel battle, but when he saw that the lips of the newborn hairy beard trembled slightly, he didn't know if it was fear or some other reason, and he came to Tong Huacheng and reprimanded with a crying voice: "General Tong, the old man hit the iron bullet and called you to lead the troops ......."

Even if he didn't die after being shelled by Huaidong, it was difficult to live long, and when he heard that the coach Nahe Wugu was unfortunately shot, Tong Huacheng was also shocked and trembled, and asked in surprise: "What about Utu Eqing?" ”

Tong Huacheng is a guest general, although the superintendent of the West Temple is also a high-ranking authority, if there is anything unexpected in Nahe Wugu, it should be his deputy general who will command the war instead-

"General Utu has been killed...... Ye Jizuolin wailed.

Tong Huacheng turned over and got on his horse, galloped with Ye Ji Zuolin to the foot of Tushan Mountain, and saw Nahe Wugu whose left shoulder was broken in the courtyard where the courtyard wall collapsed.

Nahe Wugu only had time to look at Tong Huacheng, and he died, not even a word was left, the generals just looked at Tong Huacheng in despair - Fan Wenlan in the courtyard broke in, seeing this situation, and his ears could already hear the sound of the Huaidong Army's soldiers charging and the roar of artillery two or three hundred steps away, and sat on the ground with his butt and wailed: "It's too late to retreat west, only to surrender to ......."

"!" Tong Huacheng pulled out his saber and slashed at Fan Wenlan viciously, seeing him crawling to the corner of the wall in fear, his heart was full of mixed feelings, and he lowered his knife: 20,000 Donghu teenagers died here, what face did he have to surrender and beg?

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Tong Huacheng was in danger, and the battle situation had been ruined to a place that could not be saved by manpower, so he could only order the remnants to break through to the west, hoping that the speed of the Huaidong Army to seal the gap in the west would not be so fast, hoping that more people could escape and retain some more vitality for Dayan, and hoped that the princes and ministers of Yanjing had come to their senses at this time and were ready to abandon the capital and flee to Datong or Taiyuan......

When the sun jumped over the horizon, Tong Huacheng led the remnants of the army to escape from the pursuit of the Huaidong army from the east, he kept the remnants forward, he reined in his horse and stopped under the big tree, hoping to gather more remnants of the horse.

Before nightfall, in Zhangjiawan, Luohedian, and Sandunqiao, Dayan still had more than 40,000 elite horse infantry, most of whom were children of the Donghu clan, loyal to Dayan and Donghu, but at this moment, Tong Huacheng really doubted that a third of the men and horses had escaped.

The spirit of blood and courage is sometimes unwanted, if Na Hewu Gu can let go of the mind of fighting to the death a moment earlier, not to mention all the 40,000 cavalry, there will be no problem for seven or eight adult horses to withdraw.

And it will take two days for the Huaidong army to advance to the city of Yanjing, and two days is enough time for them to escort the royal family to urgently withdraw from Yanjing and flee to Datong or Dalian—only to hate Nahewugu who hesitated for half the night, so that the lives of 20,000 or 30,000 Donghu men were buried in vain on the bloody battlefield.

It's just that I can't describe how much I think, at this time, the north wing sentry is loud, and then the faint sound of horses' hooves gallops like a shower...... Tong Huacheng closed his eyes in despair, at this moment he also expected that the Huaidong cavalry, who had taken advantage of the night to detour to the west and had never appeared on the battlefield, always had to play some role, maybe they had been here for some time, just waiting for them to make a sharp kill......

Tong Huacheng looked at the generals who were in despair around them, they had changed from ignorant and brave at the beginning, to frightened birds who fled west at this time, and had lost the courage to fight head-on with the Huaidong army.

Tong Huacheng pulled out his saber and swung it to the north, without saying a word, just slowly speeding up his horse, but only a dozen horsemen followed him to launch a desperate charge towards the Huaidong cavalry array, and the others fled to the southwest in fear......