Chapter 636: Encountering the Enemy

On the eighth day of the ninth month of the first year of Yongli, the Manchurian generals such as Azig, Belebolo, Shuosai, and Jialazhangjingbai Yiqi of the puppet Qing Dynasty Wuying County received the edict from Dolgon, and set up 48 cattle records with yellow flags in Manchuria, and nearly 15,000 Manchurian soldiers drove directly to Songshan.

At noon on the same day, the Qing army arrived near the south mountain of Songshan City, Liu Liangzuo ambushed all the troops, and the guns and artillery were fired in unison, and the Manchurian soldiers were caught off guard, and they were greatly defeated.

Sun Zhiqiao was overjoyed, and Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Xu Dingguo and others all believed that they should take advantage of the defeat and escape of the Manchurian army, pursue with all their might, and take Jinzhou in one fell swoop.

Huang Degong has doubts, he was originally a native of Liaodong Kaiyuan, and his family was all harmed by the Dongyu, and Chongzhen also fought several battles with the Donglu at the end of the eleventh year, so he thought that Azig was defeated without a fight, or it may be a plan to lure the enemy.

"In this way, the superintendent will leave 8,000 troops, and then hand over 4,000 troops to Xingshan and Tashan to Huang Shuai, and the rest of the generals will immediately count the troops and horses, and follow the governor to pursue Azig, Huang Shuai can immediately send scouts to report to His Royal Highness King Yan, and say that my Pingliao forward is pursuing the puppet king Azig with all his might, and he will not collect his troops if he does not complete his efforts."

Since the expedition to Liaodong, Wang Shi's forward has won successive battles, which has greatly increased Sun Zhijian's confidence, although he is over fifty years old this year, but still has a motivated heart, taking advantage of the opportunity to completely annihilate the pseudo-Qing Jinzhou garrison and capture Azig, enter the cabinet and assist the government, and it is the right time.

On the ninth day of the ninth month of September in the first year of Yongli, the vanguard of the Wang Division came to Jinzhou, Azig fled from the wind, and it was not until he crossed the Xiaoling River that he could stop, and hurriedly arranged the defense line at the Xiaoling River ferry in the area of Bijia Mountain, and confronted the Ming army across the river.

At the same time, Li Xingzhi, who had already arrived near Tashan, also received an urgent battle report from Huang Degong.

"Your Highness, Sun Zhijian is rash and rash, and he is afraid of the tricks of the Middle East."

Shi Xu Yixian, the governor of the Yanwang Mansion, Zhang Shaoqian, the governor of Beizhili, and others all believed that the Dongyu's combat strength would never be so weak, and the continuous defeat of Azig was intended to lure the enemy.

"It's okay, Sun Zhi's department is a lonely bait, and its intention is to attract the main force of the Eastern Captives, and then take the opportunity to gather and annihilate it."

This expedition to Liaodong, the imperial court only raised 200,000 stone of grain, if it was delayed for a long time, once the winter came, it would be quite unfavorable to the Jingbei army, so Li Xingzhi had to adopt the policy of luring the enemy out of the city and winning a decisive battle in the field.

"Qin Ying, Jiang Xiang, Wang Fuchen, Er and others immediately commanded the troops and horses of the headquarters to enter Duoyan, stabilize the flank of the army, if possible, they can take Horqin for Gu, and the rest of the troops immediately rushed to Jinzhou to rest and stand by."

Now there are only some old, weak, sick and disabled herdsmen left in Horqin, which is a good opportunity for the imperial court to restore the two places, plus the supply line from Beijing to Jinzhou stretches for more than 1,000 miles, isolating Duoyan Sanwei, it can stabilize the grain route of the official army, so Li Xingzhi immediately decided to divide the troops when he received Sun Zhijiao's pursuit to Xiaoling River.

"Oh, the last general and others will obey His Highness's orders."

Qin Ying, Jiang Xiang, and Wang Fuchen glanced at each other, and hurriedly went out to receive the order, they also understood Li Xingzhi's intentions, and now the imperial court has almost mobilized nearly 200,000 troops to besiege Liaodong on three sides, and North Korea's Jierharang is already a turtle in the urn, and the eight banners of the Han army on this side of Jinzhou were also annihilated by Wang Shi More than 10,000 people, only Songshan Wu Sangui is still trapped in the beast fighting, that is to say, there are more than 50,000 soldiers who can fight at most, and they are gathered in the area west of the Xiaoling River to Liaoyang, and the capture of Duoyan is the road to the northward retreat of the Dongyu.

Although Sun Zhiqiao's troops won many battles after entering Liao, he did not dare to guarantee whether Liu Zeqing and others could hold out until the main force of the Wang Division arrived on the battlefield after encountering the main force of the puppet Qing Dynasty.

On the Xiaolinghe defensive line, after the Jingbei Army launched an offensive, the Manchurian soldiers with yellow flags in the Azig headquarters collapsed again at the touch of a button, leaving hundreds of corpses to retreat in the direction of the Daling River.

Liu Liangzuo, Liu Zeqing, Xu Dingguo and others are all veteran generals who have fought old battles, and when they saw that the eastern captives were fighting and retreating, they all had hesitant thoughts, so they suggested that Sun Zhi slack off and wait for the main force to arrive at Xiaoling River and then forge ahead, which is a foolproof plan.

However, Sun Zhi was eager to make meritorious contributions, and bluntly said that King Yan was behind him, if the front army did not move forward, if he left Azig, it would be a pity, so he forced the army to cross the river.

The clinker front army had just passed Bijia Mountain, the puppet Qing Yu Prince Duoduo and the Mongolian prince Wu Keshan actually led more than 10,000 troops and horses to appear on the two flanks of the Jingbei Army, Azig also led the army to the east, and more than 30,000 Manchu and Mongolian cavalry fanned Sun Zhi's troops to form a siege.

Flag hunting, horses' hooves rolling.

Countless Manchu and Mongolian cavalry swords were unsheathed, arrows were stringed, and guns were raised, and they roared towards the front of the Jingbei Army.

Fighting on the plains, the Ming army did not have enough cavalry, plus the Manmeng Eight Banners had been stationed in the Daling River for a long time, neither horsepower nor manpower could be compared with the continuous Ming army, plus the Qing Dynasty still had ambushes in Beacon Mountain, so Duoduo and others were full of confidence in eating the Ming army's forwards.

"Quick, set up the formation, set up the formation, Vice General Liu will take your department as the left wing, and the right wing of the Marquis of Guangchang will be handed over to you, General Xu, you quickly order the army and horses of the headquarters to deploy in the Chinese army, the heralds, quickly report to His Royal Highness the King of Jinzhou, just say that the forward of the Wang Division encountered the main force of the Eastern Capture, and ask him to send troops as soon as possible, otherwise the consequences will be unimaginable......!"

Looking at the long black line that appeared on the horizon like a ghost, Sun Zhi was stunned, where did he think that Azig had lost consecutive battles, which meant to lure himself into the trap, and now it was too late to withdraw the army, although he did not know about military affairs, but he also knew that if the army was withdrawn, the Ming army, which was dominated by infantry, would definitely not be able to escape the pursuit of the Eastern Cavalry, so he had to organize a formation and stick to the reinforcements.

As the black line on the distant horizon got closer and closer, closer and closer, the trembling feeling on the ground became more and more intense, the noisy smoke and dust rolled up dozens of feet high, and the muffled thunderous sound shook the hearts of countless Jingbei soldiers.

The desolate sound of the horn came, and a desolate and solemn aura of slaughter permeated the plain, which made people full of an inexplicable sense of oppression, and the long roar of the war horse made the Jingbei soldiers in front of them change color.

The Qing army stopped three miles away, under the smoke and dust, flags were waving, and the whining horns sounded like a burst, and then thousands of Manchu soldiers began to drive their war horses, slowly pressing towards the hastily arranged military formation of the Jingbei Army.

"Fire!"

With the officer's order, the gunner in the rear of the Qing army waved the torch in his hand, and the fire rope suddenly made a "whoosh" burning sound, like an apricot in the mouth of a poisonous snake. burned to the end, with a "boom", the fire flashed, and the cannon roared out and smashed into the Ming army in front of him.

Dense artillery kept pouring into the military formation of the Jingbei Army's vanguard, and hundreds of artillery pieces that had already been prepared fired in a volley, the sound moved the heavens and the earth, and the power was also amazing.