Zhou Yuji's three generals had just left, and the next day they got good news that reinforcements had arrived.

It was Jiang Xuan, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, who came, and brought 5,000 soldiers, and the civilian official of the overseer was none other than the governor of Datong, Yushi Wei Jingyu. Cai Maode still has some strategic vision, and the task he assigned to Wei Jingyu and Jiang Hao is to help defend the Shaanzhou area.

Zhou Huchen knew that Jiang Hao's arrival would not have the slightest impact on the battle situation, and it was not a matter of strength. Jiang Jiu is a soldier, and like many generals of the Ming army, he is a standard admirer who sees things badly and turns around and runs. To put it bluntly, it is as difficult as killing his parents to let Jiang Jiu lose his own people to help others. The most important thing is that Jiang Hao is a typical person who can't fight at all, his record is similar to Zhou Yuji, but it's just the opposite, no matter who he faces, he rarely wins.

On the ninth day of December in the sixteenth year of Chongzhen, the vanguard sent by Li Zicheng finally appeared by the Yellow River in Shaanzhou.

Chen Shangzhi, the deputy commander-in-chief of Pingyang, hurriedly sent someone to inform Jiang Jiu, who was behind the defensive line, and asked him to assist in the defense. At the same time, several fast horses hurried to Taiyuan to report the news.

Jizhou.

This is a place called Wayaogou Village, and Li Guo, the general of the Great Shun System, looked at the Yellow River shining with a cold glow in front of him.

There is a bend in the Yellow River through Wayaogou, and the river channel here is the narrowest. Faintly, Li Guo could see the flag of the Ming army fluttering on the embankment on the other side of the river.

The informant newspaper once brought news to Li Guo that this was the defense area of Zhou Yuji, the general soldier of Shaanxi. Unfortunately, Li Guo once fought with Zhou Yuji, back then, Zhou Yuji once chased Li Guo's farts and urine, and a collision caused him to lose 20,000 people.

This is an extremely difficult opponent to deal with, fierce, fearless, his soldiers explain the courage to fight, in a word, Zhou Yuji is definitely a rare tiger general in the Ming army. Li Guo also knew from the mouth of the online newspaper that Zhou Yuji's troops this time were no less than 30,000. Back then, he could chase him for thousands of miles with 5,000 people, and now, Zhou Yuji has 30,000 troops. Li Guo thinks that he can't defeat Zhou Yuji at all.

Of course, there are other reasons for Li Guo's lack of confidence. His army claimed to be 100,000, but in fact, Li Guo only had more than 20,000 soldiers in his hands, and there were only 60,000 women, children, old and weak. Such 60,000 people are for Yuji last week, Li Guo estimates that once he is hard, he will die a miserable death, and he can't imagine how many people are left.

Without confidence, there will always be a show. Li Guo must attack according to the scheduled date, this is Li Guo's task. If you don't want to win a complete victory, you must contain Zhou Yuji in this area, because this is not the main direction of the Dashun army, and the main direction of the Dashun army is on the front line of Shaanzhou. Naturally, if Zhou Yuji retreated without a fight, Li Guo wouldn't mind turning this place into the main direction of attack. However, this hope seems to be very slim.

The weather is a little cold, and instead of freezing like this, it is better to take action to warm up the soldiers. Under the command of Li Guo, the first batch of 5,000 soldiers began to step on the ice.

Li Guo was not willing to let the cavalry follow, the war horse was too precious, the ice was too slippery, and Li Guo was afraid that his war horse would not be able to run back. As for the foot soldiers, you can run back, and if you can't run back, it depends on whether your own life is big enough.

The two sides have not yet faced each other, and Li Guo is actually ready to retreat. Zhou Yuji's army chased him and ran, if you go back, I will continue to come back, this is Li Guo's tactic, he is ready. I'm just not done with you, come on Zhou Yuji, come on, you come to abuse me!

As Li Guo's thousands of soldiers descended the opposite embankment and stepped onto the ice, Xiong Tong's soldiers began to panic a little when they looked at the crowd pressed by Hei.

Xiong Tong also felt furious in his heart, he knew that Zhou Yuji had sent him reinforcements, but those cavalry were far away from him. Now it is not a combat method that cavalry is good at, offensive and defensive warfare still depends on infantry, and if you want cavalry to play a role, you can only wait for the enemy to step on the yellow earth under your feet. Now, Xiong Tong must resist for a while.

"Listen to me, shield bearers and archers get ready!" Xiong Tong mustered up the courage to draw his sword and began to command.

The embankment of the Yellow River is a good natural barrier, and archers can use this bunker to defend themselves.

The soldier received the order and began to prepare. What made Xiong Tong feel a little unconfident was that the soldiers' preparations were too long, and the preparations were chaotic. Many of the soldiers simply couldn't find their place, and some were running back and forth blindly, almost in a mess.

Xiong Tong's soldiers were also equipped with some three-eyed guns, and the enemy had just reached the middle of the ice, so far away, those gunners had already begun to aim at those who could only see shadows.

Seeing that the situation was not good, several officers under Xiong Tong began to kick and curse the suppressed soldiers.

In the rear of Xiong Tong's army, Sun Dayong had already received the news of the enemy's attack.

"Armor!"

With Sun Dayong's order, the cavalrymen who had been waiting quietly immediately opened the bulging blankets on their horses.

It was a new type of armor, and on the surface it appeared to be a series of thick pieces of brown cotton cloth of various sizes, held in place by bubble nails, but inlaid with steel sheets. And each piece of cotton armor is tailor-made for each soldier by the craftsman of the workshop, and these pieces of cotton cloth can wrap the soldier tightly from head to toe. In addition to being more complicated when wearing armor, this armor made of cotton has undoubted protective power and is much lighter, which is very popular with the cavalry.

Now that the armor is finished, it's time for the next procedure: "Start loading the firebolt!" ”

At present, each cavalry is equipped with only one short firebolt, as the workshop has not yet kept up with its productivity, so it can only be equipped with one. In addition to this short gun, which can be fired at any time when picked up, each soldier is equipped with a new saber with a gauntlet, and the sharpness of the saber is also satisfactory. In addition, each cavalryman was armed with several grenades, plus an iron helmet with face armor.

When these horsemen were dressed and their horses were armoured, they were armed to the teeth.

The ice was wide, and the soldiers of the Dashun Army were slowly advancing

As the embankment of the Yellow River in front of him got closer and closer, an officer of the Dashun Army shouted: "Raise your shield!" ”

In an instant, the team advancing on the ice turned into a sea of shields.

This was entirely a advance tactic, and in order to reduce casualties, Li Guo's tactical intention was to use a shield array to push up the Yellow River embankment.

His eyes were full of shields, Xiong Tong's teeth began to sour, and his soldiers visibly showed even more panicked expressions.

"Arrow on the wind!" One of Xiong Tong's subordinate officers gave the order.

The shooting distance of the three-eyed gun is too close, there is no artillery, and now the only weapons to stop the enemy's attack are bows and arrows, and most of these bows and arrows are provided by Zhou Yuji.

Xiong Tong's army is still well-trained, and there are many veterans who have been on the battlefield. The enemy was getting closer and closer, and although the soldiers were a little panicked, they were still doing well, and no one turned back and fled directly.

"Shoot the arrows!"

As Xiong Tong's officers gave the order, countless white feathers rose into the sky with arcs, and then fell violently.

The distance was still too far, and the arrows fell on the ice in front of the enemy, and many of the arrows broke directly and slid forward, while a few were stuck straight into the ice.

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