At this time, Duoduo had retreated to the depths of the camp under the escort of the elite Bayara, not because he was afraid of war, but because of the current situation, if there was any mistake in him, the commander of the army, it would be really irreparable.

Listening to the various voices coming from not far away, Duoduo's eyes were fierce and murderous, and there was no change in expression on his face, but the color of anger could not be more obvious.

He and those Ming court envoys dragged for more than half a month, just to confuse Zhou Shixian and set a trap for the other party, and he was about to succeed, but he was suddenly attacked by the Ming army at night.

At this time, how could Duoduo not understand that all this, what peace talks, what missions, were all traps and ecstasy arrays set by Zhou Shixian for him. The real hunter is actually the prey he thinks he is.

And as a few Tangma who hurriedly came from all over to report the military situation retreated, Duoduo had probably understood the Ming army's attack plan, but the fierceness of the Ming army's offensive was indeed beyond his imagination. In other words, the reaction of their own soldiers and horses is too slow.

"What kind of weapons are those heavenly flames?" Dordor's heart was furious, and he couldn't help but muttered to himself.

But he quickly calmed down, and after thinking for a moment, he immediately called two Bayala Tang horses and ordered: "You, take two men and tell Nikan that he can block the Ming army in the west, and if something goes wrong again this time, he will not be a Dorobelle.

And you, take two people to tell Tunqi and Ah Shan, let them block the Ming army coming from the east, even if the last Bayala is dead, there will be absolutely no accidents. ”

The two Bayalas received the order, without the slightest hesitation, and then retreated with a few men, then turned on their horses and whipped away.

Duoduo was not completely sure of the situation at this time, he roughly figured out the direction of the Ming army's attack through the sound of the pond horse and the battlefield, but he did not know how many soldiers and horses the enemy had. This point, in the night melee, he still can't judge.

In order to further understand the situation of the battle, Duoduo was distracted, and immediately led the escort Bayala and the Manchurian soldiers in the battalion to the front line, and a more violent battle and killing sound also sounded in his ears.

Duoduo did not go directly into battle, but where he led his troops to march, he could already faintly see the melee of the army in the direction of the camp gate, where there was already a commotion, with people and horses roaring and guns and cannons constantly sounding.

After all, the Qing army is the elite, and the level of night combat is also very high, Xue Lao Er personally led his troops to attack, and even expelled more than 100 routs of the Qing army, but they failed to completely break through the Qing army's defense line, and the two armies are now engaged in a tug-of-war behind the camp gate, and there is no progress for a while.

Seeing this, Duoduo immediately ordered a solid mountain armor that followed behind him to rush forward with the Eight Banners under his command to stabilize the line, while the rest of the soldiers and horses remained still. He was still waiting for the military situation on the left and right flanks, and if the two flanks were unstable, he would have to organize the retreat of his troops and horses in time.

At the same time, on the periphery of the large camps on the east and west sides of the Qing army, the sound of gunfire, bowstrings, the collision of Jinge iron horses, shouts of killing, the sound of horses' hooves, and footsteps sounded all over the place.

In the dim night outside the camp, orange-red flames exploded with a sound, suddenly lit up and then quickly extinguished, illuminating the fierce faces flickering and darkening.

On the periphery of the Qing army's camp, the makeshift wooden fence was pierced by lead bullets, the ping-pong vibrations of arrows and the screams of soldiers wounded.

Nikan personally led Bayala to supervise the battle in the rear of the defenders, and several retreating Manchurian soldiers and vassal soldiers had been ordered by him to be slashed on the spot, and the Ming army had charged several times before, although some progress had been made, but on the whole it had not been able to break through the obstacles on the periphery of the camp.

The strength of the Ming army was beyond his imagination, which made Nikan feel anxious, many places on the outskirts of the camp had been breached, but fortunately, a considerable part of them were quickly recovered.

The Ming and Qing dynasties have not been able to make further breakthroughs, and they can only continue to exchange deaths on the periphery of the camp, but the battle line remains basically unchanged.

Many of Wu Xingye's cavalry had already dismounted and fought on foot, and Nikan was hesitating to send the last 300 or so core Bayala under his command.

Although Nikan is eager to make meritorious contributions, he is more worried that his core Bayala will be consumed too much, so it is difficult to choose.

In the battle on the south bank of the Huai River, these core armor soldiers had almost no losses, but now that the Ming army is attacking so quickly, it may not be optimistic to send them directly.

You must know that this is the guarantee of his status in the Eight Banners, without these core armorers, he is a prince, and no one will listen to him.

So he has always been holding on to the luck mentality and did not send these elites to the battlefield, but the current situation is obviously not the time for him to preserve his strength.

And Wu Xingye was unable to capture the outlying camp of the Qing army for a long time, and the more than 1,000 soldiers and horses under his command could not break through the strong camp of the Qing army for a while, which was unexpected by Zhou Shixian and others.

There were still thousands of soldiers in the camp of the Manchu Chinese army, and if they were ready to fight on the ground, although Wu Xingye had cavalry, he might not have an advantage.

In the first battle of Huainan a month ago, Wu Xingye had already fought with the Manchurian Eight Banners Army, and at the beginning, relying on the cover of surprise attacks and muskets, he only felt that although the Manchurian Eight Banners were good, they were not at the level of rumors. With the same strength, if you want to win in a flat field battle, you just need more soldiers and horses.

But tonight's night attack, although there were some things that did not go well, but in fact, almost all of them were under control, but they were blocked by the Qing army on the periphery of the camp, which made Wu Xingye realize that the Manchurian soldiers were indeed not easy to deal with, and the successive victories under the command of Zhou Shixian made him a little careless.

It can only be said that this is war - accidents will always exist, and nothing is completely predictable.

And the Eight Banners soldiers of this period, because of many years of fighting, were quite good in terms of reaction and experience. Even in the face of a night attack, it can organize a counterattack so quickly.

The adaptability and organization of the Manchurian soldiers in the face of sudden crises are beyond the reach of ordinary soldiers of the new army of Zhou Shixian for a while.

Strict training and organization methods and sophisticated equipment cannot make up for the lack of actual combat experience for a while. Otherwise, wouldn't the battles of the Manchurian Eight Banners in the past few decades be in vain?

The opponent Zhou Shixian faced was not weak, but even very strong, which is an undoubted fact.

The defense of the Qing army was still very solid, Wu Xingye sent two teams of men and horses led by his fierce generals to attack in turn, but they were both repulsed, and they were about to break through the key place to resist the horses, but they were repelled by the Qing army's Eight Banners who rushed to support.

And the barracks on the east and west sides of the Qing army's central army camp, fierce battles have also broken out.

On the north bank of the Huai River, on the east and west sides of the Qing army's camp, there was already a scuffle.

The green battalion in the west of the Qing army was directly broken by the Ming army and suffered heavy losses, but the large battalion of the feudal soldiers in the east, under the personal command of Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming, the soldiers and horses in the battalion reacted quickly and successfully resisted the impact of the Ming army.

As battle-hardened veterans, Kong Youde and Geng Zhongming's command was not inferior, and they also seized the opportunity of the Ming army's main attack on the Chinese army camp and the slow attack of the eastern camp with great agility, and completed the defensive deployment, so that the situation did not deteriorate extremely.

Of course, in the dark night, these recruits of the Ming army were still a little slow to act, and they did not fully achieve Zhou Shixian's goal.

Although Zhou Shixian asked officers to organize night drills during his peacetime training, there was a world of difference between drills and actual combat, and the psychological states of soldiers and officers in different environments were completely different.

However, this is only compared with Zhou Shixian's goal, in fact, the Ming army's response to night combat is not only much faster than that of the Qing army, but the actions of various troops are also very orderly in this era when only elites can fight at night.

The situation in the green camp to the west of the Qing army was completely within Zhou Shixian's plan, and those green camp troops had just sent troops and horses to support the Chinese army, but they were repelled by Zhang Hong and retreated into the camp.

Subsequently, under the command of Zhang Hong and two other battalion officers, taking advantage of the defeat of the Green Battalion Army and returning to the camp, the three battalions of soldiers and horses quickly attacked the outside of the camp and prepared to encircle the Qing army that retreated into the camp.