Time back to the evening three days ago, in the Qing army camp of Liuhe Palace.

Chen Tai did not leave the main tent with the other generals, and after the others had withdrawn, he looked at Li Shutai and said, "Your Excellency, although the chief general of the Ming army in Fenshui Pass is an unknown person, we should not take it lightly, if he is cautious and does not fall into an ambush, we should also prepare other strategies to make plans." ”

"What do you think?" Li Shutai already regarded Chen Tai as a military advisor, and he asked leaningly.

"If the Ming army discovers the ambush in advance and causes the ambush to fail, the general will have a plan and think that it can be tried."

After Chen Tai finished speaking, he paused, and said: "The last general suggested that you order Mel Zhangjing Zhu Mala to lead his headquarters with 2,000 blue flag troops, and 3,000 green battalion soldiers to set up an ambush in Dongjiang Mountain.

Qiancang Mountain is the only way for the Ming army to go to Pingyang County to support, the Zhu Mala Department is stationed there, the Ming army must first pull out this nail, when the Ming army attacks the Zhu Mala Department, you personally lead the army to support, and prepare in advance a head similar to Su Yan and some Ming army battle flags, the battle flags can be stained with blood and old, so that the Ming army mistakenly thinks that Pingyang City has been taken, Su Yan is defeated and died, disturbing the Ming army's heart.

With Su Yan's influence in the Ming army in Fujian, the news of his death came to the army, and the Ming army must have been disheartened, and fought with the Zhu Mala for a long time, everyone was tired, you personally led the army to attack it, and the Ming army will be defeated. ”

Li Shutai listened to his proposal, and couldn't help nodding his head again and again, showing his agreement, but he quickly thought of another possibility, and said: "But if the Ming army is gathered together because of this, and is bent on avenging that Su Yan, the mourning army will win, what should our army do?" ”

"Even so, there's no need to worry." Chen Tai said confidently: "Our army fought in the south and the north, and the soldiers were all veterans of a hundred battles, and although Su Yan had sharp firearms in his hands, according to the attack on Fenshui Pass for several days, the Ming army still used bows and arrows and bird guns, so it can be seen that the sharp firearms are very likely to be only equipped in Su Yan's descendants, and the number is small, without the threat of sharp firearms, the Ming army is not worried." ”

"Makes sense."

Li Shutai nodded again and again and adopted Chen Tai's suggestion.

This is also the reason why Li led the Thai army to hang a human head high.

Time back to the Qiancang Mountain battlefield, after learning the news of the arrival of the Qing army's reinforcements, although Su Dingyuan was a little concerned about the head, he still methodically dispatched troops, separated a part of the men and horses from the battlefield to guard against the Qing army's partial division from the north of Qiancang Mountain, and transferred the reserves that did not participate in the battle to guard against the main force of the Qing army in the south.

This action of the Ming army also fell into the eyes of the Qing army, and Zhu Mala immediately guessed that it was reinforcements coming, so he asked his own soldiers to shout the good news and spread it to the whole army.

After learning the good news that reinforcements were approaching, the morale of the Qing army was boosted, and they stabilized their positions, and for a time they fought back and forth with the Ming army.

It was not until a quarter of an hour later that the banner of the Qing army's "Governor Li of Fujian and Zhejiang" appeared on the south side of the battlefield, and with the appearance of this banner, a huge army also slowly appeared.

At the same time, a hideous head that was raised high and hung in front of the army and a bloody battle flag of the Ming army that was raised also fell in the eyes of the Ming army.

Seeing the familiar looking head and a bloody banner, the Ming army boiled.

"Is that the head of the Overseer?"

"Nope! This can't be true, it must be the trick of the clear dog! ”

"Impossible! When pigs fly! The Inspector is invincible in the world, how could he die so easily in the hands of Qinggou? ”

Listening to the discussion of the soldiers, Su Dingyuan's eyes widened, and he looked at the hideous head in disbelief, but he quickly calmed down, and secretly told himself that it must not be Su Yan's head, with the combat effectiveness of the Shenji Battalion, how could the Qing army complete the process of conquering Pingyang County and killing Su Yan in just two days?

After quickly calming down, he looked at the head again, although the head had a hideous expression and was stained with blood, at first glance it looked very similar to Su Yan, but if he looked closely, he could see some of the differences, so he became more and more convinced that this was a trick of the Qing army.

So, he drew his saber and shouted, "Don't fall for the tricks of the dogs!" That head is not the Inspector's, the Inspector is still sticking to Pingyang County and waiting for our rescue, don't mess with yourself! ”

After speaking, he immediately ordered the herald to spread what he had just said to each battalion and each general to stabilize the morale of the army, although the Ming army did not know whether the human head was true or not, but seeing that Su Dingyuan said so, they chose to believe it without hesitation.

Moreover, they were also angry that the Qing army dared to deceive them.

As a qualified infantry commander, Su Dingyuan naturally knew when to launch an attack to maximize his advantage, and he saw that his soldiers were all angry with the enemy for the Qing army to deceive him, so he immediately ordered to blow the horn of attack and took the initiative to attack.

On the other side, Li Shutai watched the Ming army take the initiative to attack, but when they were too sad and angry to avenge Su Yan, he was also mentally prepared for this result, so he ordered to line up the army and took the initiative to meet the Ming army.

Accompanied by the passionate drumbeat, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties collided head-on, and the sound of the collision of shields and shields, the sound of sword rubbing, the shaking of armor, and the shouting of people when they fought converged on the battle line, constituting a magnificent symphony of war.

While the infantry of the two sides were fighting each other, Li Shuitai sent his relied on the ace troops, the Manchurian Heavy Cavalry.

Don't look at this heavy cavalry, there are only 800 people, but their combat strength is enough to crush the Ming army, which is ten times their size.

Under the order of Li Shutai, eight hundred XHQ heavy cavalry roared out from behind the Qing army, they intended to bypass the flank of the battlefield and charge from the rear of the Ming army, so as to defeat the Ming army in one fell swoop.

Therefore, Li Shutai was full of confidence, he thought that the Ming army in front of him was just a team with relatively high morale, even so, in the face of the charge of the heavy cavalry of the Eight Banners of Manchuria, they were still difficult to resist, and they would only flee in a hurry.

On the other side, Su Dingyuan, who had been observing the situation on the battlefield, also discovered the cavalry of the Qing army, because Su Yan concentrated all the cavalry into the cavalry battalion, so there was no cavalry under his command to fight against it.

But this did not mean that he was powerless against the Qing cavalry, and Su Dingyuan immediately sent the line infantry prepared by his side and ordered him to fight against the Qing cavalry.

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