The reserves of the Shun army had already been dispatched, they rolled past their commander, Yu Shenhe also saluted Xu Ping at the end, straightened his helmet again, jumped on his horse, drew his saber, pointed it straight ahead, and walked proudly at the front of the military formation. Pitch-black flags, pitch-black uniforms, flaming red flags, flaming military uniforms...... In an instant, the sound of gunfire that had been resounding on the battlefield for a whole day suddenly stopped, and only the rumbling drums and the footsteps of thousands of people made the earthquake tremble. Each soldier of the two armies, which was constantly approaching each other, redoubled his grip on the weapon in his hand and flashed his bayonet at the oncoming enemy.

"Brother Yu has been worried that there is nothing to do, but now it's okay, two things at once," After Yu Shenhe left, Xu Ping looked at the battlefield and said to Zhou Dongtian: "First repel the fire battalion, and then repel the Jin army." ”

The Jin army from the east was noticed by Xu Ping almost at the same time as he fell into He Baodao's sight, more than 10,000 Jin troops were not a big threat to him, as long as he repelled the attack of the fire battalion in time, Xu Ping felt that there was no way for other Ming troops to take the Shun army: "Not to mention whether they will participate in the attack or not, as long as the fire battalion can't defeat us, the Jin army will not participate in the war." Xu Ping felt that if the Jin army really had any fighting spirit, he would definitely not sit on the side and watch the sun set before coming out to deal with the errand.

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"The fire battalion must defeat the guards battalion," He Baodao clenched his fists slightly nervously, and softly repeated what he had just said: "General Wang will definitely be able to defeat the guards battalion." ”

Accompanying He Baodao is now Yang Huaizu and his direct guards, who originally had 2,000 soldiers and horses, but now there are only more than 500 people left standing intact.

……

In the vicinity of Niuweizhuang, the two battalion officers of the Xiliu Battalion and the Taishan Battalion did not stay at their command posts, but looked forward to the center side by side.

Taking advantage of Zhong Guinian's absence, Ji Xinghui hesitated and asked, "Is it possible to increase your strength, and Xu Ping will collapse?" ”

"That's also the credit for the achievement of the fire battalion, it's good that we can share a bowl of soup," Zhou Xuzu felt that he didn't do anything, he didn't stop doing it, anyway, he had sat quietly to this point, that is, if he won, he didn't want to get any credit from He Baodao, he would now wait for Li Dingguo to withdraw from the battlefield as soon as he appeared to show his position of not going against the Shun army: "Even if General Li can't arrive today, I won't listen to the announcement, and I will part ways with He Baodao as soon as General Li arrives, so as not to be killed by the pond fish." ”

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The guards battalion that walked out from behind Xu Ping quickly changed from a column to a horizontal formation, and on the opposite side of them, the thousands of white-feathered soldiers of the firefighting battalion did not quickly step forward, but did exactly the same queue change as the guards battalion. There was nothing between the two battalions that could interfere with their duel, and the Guards and Firefighters were out of range of each other, rapidly extending the length of their ranks at the same tight pace.

The horizontal line of each infantry of the Guards Battalion became longer and thinner, and soon the infantry units were connected first, and the battle line of the entire battalion was connected as one, like a thin black line, across the entire battlefield. Yu Shenhe chose a single-layer six-row formation, and the fire battalion opposite him also turned into a slender red rope at this time, waiting for the war drums to sound rapidly again. The two armies of Shunming will meet each other in such a thin array.

Yu Shenhe was reluctant to give the order to shoot, because he did not have the confidence to crush the enemy with a single volley, and if he could not do so, the fire battalion would come over and launch a more powerful salvo from a closer position. Unless you can get close to the distance where the opponent can rush over before you have time to return fire after firing a salvo, you can shoot in vain, but at that distance, it is likely that the opponent has already rushed over before the salvo order is completed.

In hand-to-hand combat in a thin formation of six rows and a single layer, the victory or defeat would be decided in the blink of an eye, and the soldiers would not have a chance to observe whether their comrades on either flank were repulsed. Before their morale is affected by the victory or defeat of their allies, they are divided between them and the opposing enemy.

Finally, there is a concern about Wang Qinian's letter, Xu Ping has a skeptical attitude towards whether the fire battalion has defected, and he also said to Yu Shenhe in the morning: If the fire battalion wants to fight us, we are not afraid of them; But if General Wang really intends to defect, it would be great.

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Wang Qinian was also anxiously waiting for the whole battalion to form a thin line formation, he had no interest in having a confrontation with the Shun army, the Shun army was still on the defensive, if he fell into a positional confrontation Wang Qinian did not think that it would be of much benefit to him, and this mode of engagement might make the other party immediately realize that he had no intention of defecting at all.

White-knuckle warfare, only white-knuckle warfare with the largest contact surface can decide the winner in an instant, achieve an undoubted victory over the Guards Battalion, and fully boost the morale and confidence of the friendly troops of the Jin army.

In the spare time of waiting, Wang Qinian couldn't help but look in the direction of his right, whether the Jin army with less than 20,000 troops there could launch an attack with confidence would be the decisive factor in whether or not he could inflict heavy losses on the Shun army before sunset.

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These Jin troops moved quickly, and after seeing them enter the battlefield and approach the core area, He Baodao made up his mind to let the fire battalion move, and now these troops had crossed the right flank of the Ming army and came straight to the central front. Seeing that the fire battalion and the guard battalion were in the final preparations for the battle, the drums in the Jin army sounded more violently.

The vanguard had reached the edge of the core battlefield, and the long marching column of the Jin army began to change into a horizontal formation, which was divided into three, the frontmost soldiers moved to the farthest left front position, the later ones ran to the closer right front, and the part of the tail of the column ran to the center, ready to form a horizontal formation with the friendly troops as fast as possible.

"One, two, one!"

"One, two, one!"

The Jin officers and soldiers who rushed to the central position were no longer rushing but running in small steps, and the Jin officers led by them shouted loudly, and they wrapped their bodies in thick red robes with the soldiers behind them. One of the officers who ran at the front pulled off a thick cloth towel to cover his face, and every time he opened his mouth to shout, a large cloud of white mist sprayed from his mouth into the cold air, and then it was quickly blown away by the bitter north wind like gunpowder smoke on the battlefield.

The soldiers behind the officer, listening to the trumpet, walked in neat, heavy steps, holding their rifles diagonally in front of their chests, and the whole army rolled forward in the cold wind with the rhythm of the soldiers' shaking.

"Line up! Lined up! Fast! Fast! Quick"

A warrior on a war horse, with a tall and tasseled helmet on his head, and the standard-bearer who followed him closely, hurriedly ran around the Jin army that had just run to the central position. This military general let out an anxious urging sound, and then opened his eyes to look at the position of the firefighting battalion and the guards battalion in the distance, these two battalions have completely pulled themselves into two parallel thin lines, the rightmost flank of this Jin army is facing the narrow side of the firefighting battalion only a few people wide, and the left side of the Jin army is the Ming infantry scattered all over the mountains. The envoys of the Evergreen Battalion and the Three Thousand Battalion, who were chasing from behind this army, stayed not far from this army at this time, and their faces showed a look of confusion.

"Alright, alright." Seeing that his subordinates hurriedly completed the transformation to the horizontal team, the anxious general hurriedly rushed to his command post with the standard-bearer, he took out the binoculars from his arms and looked at the leftmost flag-bearer, muttering: "Hurry up, hurry up for a day, finally arrived before sunset." ”

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"What a morale army," He Baodao looked at the Jin army that was rapidly spreading out on his side, and his face showed an expression of surprise but joy: "Is this Jiang Shuai's guard?" Why didn't I see Jiang Shuai's banner? ”

The other staff officers couldn't answer this question, they had been busy looking for Jiang Pin's banner, but they had never been able to find it, these staff officers only had a general understanding of the faction of the Jin army, and the Jin army in front of them was obviously not within the scope of their understanding.

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Seeing such a fast Jin army, Xu Ping was also surprised for a while, indeed, from the time they entered the battlefield to the dispatch of the fire battalion was not short, if it was his own subordinates, he could also trot all the way to arrive, but Xu Ping had never seen such a Ming army, even the new army did not have the fighting spirit shown by these Jin troops.

"Is this really the Jin Army?" Zhou Dongtian, like Xu Ping, no longer kept all his attention on the Guards Battalion, but turned around to observe this Jin army that made everyone feel incredible.

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"Who is this?"

As early as when the new Jin army appeared on his side, Jiang Bao's subordinates raised such a question, and the newly arrived Jin army ignored Jiang Ping's banner inquiry, and rushed towards the battlefield of the Ming and Shun armies regardless of it. It seemed that there were about 15,000 troops, as if they hadn't seen the dense Datong barracks around them, and they were stunned and rolled past Jiang Ping's army, his main force and his horses, guards and sentinels.

When this army that suddenly appeared passed by, they began to observe them as if they were nothing.

"General Wang," a general who was so surprised that he couldn't take the telescope off his eyes said loudly while looking at it: "He is playing the banner of General Wang, but the leader is obviously not General Wang's person, I don't know him at all, and besides, didn't General Wang surrender to General Li half a month ago?" ”

"It's General Zhao's banner to follow," when the vanguard passed, another general shouted after seeing the banner that followed: "Aren't General Zhao and General Wang enemies who don't share the same sky?" How could he come with Mr. Wang? ”

"They didn't even fight themselves? Isn't General Wang afraid that General Zhao will stab him in the back with a black knife? A slow-witted general hadn't reacted yet, and this guy was still chattering when everyone else had fallen silent: "But didn't General Zhao also lead the whole city to surrender to General Li?" ”

"I guess the rest are all people who surrendered to General Lee." A person behind him heard that this guy was still yelling, so he whispered.

The person who was reminded turned his head and looked at his colleagues around him in a daze, and no one spoke out again, including their handsome Jiang Jiao, who already had a solemn face. The guy finally had a terrifying look on his face, he turned his head and looked at the large group of soldiers and horses rumbling not far away, and pointed at them with trembling lips and shouted, "This ...... It's ......"

"This battle is over, there is no more business for us, and the general will not need us, so it's okay." Jiang Jian sighed softly, he watched the new army go away, this army that had nothing to do with it had been inserted between Jiang Jian and He Baodao, blocking the way for the new army to retreat east to Xinzhou. Although Jiang Pai had been thinking about the fact that if the new army was defeated, he would use the new army as a meeting gift to King Shun, but when this moment came, Jiang Pai found that he still couldn't make up his mind: "In the end, I am also a generation general, and it is one thing to lower King Shun, and it is another thing to help King Shun fight the Ming army before I surrender to King Shun - that is another matter." ”

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The military general standing at the far left end of the Jin army's horizontal line did not issue any flags, but reached out and pulled the golden helmet from his hair, threw it aside, and then raised a felt hat to his head with both hands.

The officers, who were looking sideways at him, threw their helmets to the cold, hard ground, changed their broad-brimmed felt hats for themselves, and tightened the ropes on their chins.

A soldier untied his hat from his back and held it to his lips, and the soldier kissed it vigorously, then solemnly held it above his head and carefully placed it so that it was facing straight ahead.

Starting from the far left, rows after rows of soldiers loosened the ropes from their winter robes, allowing the red robes to slide from their arrows to the ground, revealing the pitch-black uniforms underneath......

The soldiers of the fire battalion, who had just stepped forward to the sound of the drums again, noticed one by one that their companion on their right hand had stopped and looked back to the side, so they couldn't help but pause a little and look in the direction of their companion stopping and watching. Then, there was no more drumming to make the soldiers who had stopped turn back and move on—more soldiers stopped because of their actions.

It was as if a straight wave had been pushed from left to right on the red water, and with this wave the whole formation changed color at once; It was as if there was an invisible giant, and with its imperceptible arms gently peeled off the layer of red cloth that covered the army on its side, revealing its true colors at once.

"General Li is two hours late," Xu Ping's telescope saw three new military flags rising into the air, and Xu Ping could clearly see the tiger, the leopard and the big lynx on it, "but I decided not to bother with him." ”

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