Abatai's attainments in military command were not inferior to those of Zilharang, and his subordinates were all cavalry, so he naturally valued his own judgment more, and as the white-armored soldiers beside him blew the sound of conchs, the cavalry of his subordinates roared and assembled, like a black tide, wave after wave, over the green field.

After the damage and transfer in the early stage, Abatai's department was slightly less than 3,000, but there were a lot of horses, six or seven thousand war horses trampled on the wilderness with a dull sound, and the Qing soldiers also made all kinds of shouts and shouts, these are all means to deal with the Ming army, often the Qing army will collapse some Ming troops when they charge in formation, but they are not dealing with the Ming army now.

It is a fact that the soldiers of the Eastern Brigade are higher than the Ming army in terms of military morale, but this is not a reason for them not to be afraid, in fact, they are also afraid, and it is only by virtue of the strict training and fierce military discipline in the past that they persevered in the early battles.

The reason why they are not afraid is because the distance between the two sides is too far.

Although the two sides have been fighting several times, from morning to afternoon, there are some things that Abatai has not yet figured out, such as how much firepower coverage the Eastern Brigade has. But Abatai didn't dare to gamble, because he had to make a successful detour and a successful charge, otherwise Zilharang's troops would be doomed.

Therefore, Abatai chose the safest distance, seven hundred paces, that is, one thousand and fifty meters, which seemed to him to be the closest distance, after all, Bolo was under fire at this distance when he was guarding the left flank.

And he launched an attack from the northeast of the formation, even if he attacked the battalion company horizontal column located on the west side of the formation, its trajectory was equivalent to walking through three-fifths of a circle with a radius of 1,050 meters, which was equivalent to a distance of 2,000 meters, and this was only an ideal state, in fact, because the cavalry of the Qing army spread out a considerable width, the outermost cavalry ran more than 2,500 meters.

In view of the fact that the war horses of the Qing army had been fighting for most of the day, Balai and the others calculated according to the slowest speed of the cavalry fast march, that is, twelve kilometers per hour, so they came to the conclusion that even if the innermost Qing cavalry of the Qing army took the nearest road, it would take at least ten minutes to hit the target.

At this time, it is enough for the company to become a battalion phalanx, and more importantly, it is precisely the standing battalion led by Yang Yandi that can be transformed into a battalion phalanx at any time, that is to say, the Qing army will arrive as quickly as possible, and the attack is also a phalanx, and it is a phalanx composed of the most elite standing battalion and the most elite field artillery company of the Eastern Brigade.

But even so, Li Zhaoji still adopted the safest method, he called Wang Xing, who had been gearing up for a long time, to give him the jumping battalion of the Eastern Brigade and four four-pounder field guns, and asked him to lead the team south, harass and drive away the Qing cavalry with artillery fire, and protect the artillery with the jumping battalion in armor.

Wang Xing resolutely carried out the order, so that the Qing army's travel distance became longer, and its trajectory changed from a nearly circular to a gourd-shaped, and under this adjustment, all the battalions had enough time to complete the reorganization of the battalion phalanx.

When the earth-shattering sound of horses' hooves resounded through the field, the battalions began to change formations, reorganizing the battalion phalanx, and it was a standard battalion phalanx.

Each battalion has six companies, and the standard battalion phalanx of the Eastern Brigade is two companies on the front and one company on both flanks, which is still two platoons thick.

Under the witness of thousands of Qing troops and Zheng Sen and other observers, the soldiers of the Eastern Brigade changed from a horizontal formation to a phalanx, and began to resist the attack of the Qing cavalry from both sides.

There was also a larger gap between the phalanx, but this gap generally did not exceed two hundred meters, and it was still not a space that the cavalry could pass through harmlessly, so the front was still intact.

Abatai's encirclement had little effect, but he was bombarded by the four-pounder cannon and the six-pounder cannon of the Zhou rate of the king and Xingsuo, and seeing that he had not yet arrived, and the opposite side had become a phalanx, Abatai had to reduce his speed and keep a distance from the phalanx.

The only result he achieved was to force Tang Mu's cavalry to retreat, retreat into the mountains and forests in the direction of Yulinpu again, and disappear.

A sharp whistle came, this is the sound of the whistle on the herald's body in the wind, the battalion phalanx led by Yang Yandi opened, several cavalry entered, Balai jumped off a horse, and conveyed Li Zhaoji's order to Yang Yandi, he opened a hand-drawn map, although the soul painting style, but the boxes and lines on it still clearly marked the situation of the two sides.

At this time, the Eastern Brigade formed an angle with the Qing River in a phalanx posture, and the Qing army of about 4,000 was trapped in the area between this corner, and was constantly assembling towards the Horseshoe Bay in the middle, where the land extended to the north and could accommodate more people, and there was also a bridge.

"Commander Yang, the commander ordered, starting from the left flank, the whole army pressed down, drove the Qing army into Horseshoe Bay, and each battalion maintained a phalanx posture and continued to press forward until it was 200 meters.

The speed of the battalions should be fast, and the faster the speed, the fewer Qing troops who will flee across the river. Bale conveyed Lee Zhaoji's order.

Yang Yandi immediately nodded, explained to his subordinates separately, and rushed to each phalanx, while he personally led his entourage to the westernmost regimental phalanx, and immediately dismantled this phalanx after arriving, so that the Xuanfeng battalion continued to form a spear phalanx and extended to the northwest, while the reserve infantry battalion was split into a company and horizontal formation, and continued to move forward, pressing more space.

Although hundreds of cavalry bypassed the spearmen, and because of the detachment of Tang Mu's troops, they escaped from the encirclement, but the Xuanfeng battalion and the reserve battalion soon arrived at the riverbank, and the Xuanfeng put on armor and entered the reeds and bushes by the river with spears, driving the Qing army all the way to the east.

The closer you get to the river, the more complicated the terrain becomes, with a mess of trees, dense ravines and stones, as well as tidal flats and rocky beaches, where the Qing army cannot launch a group charge at all, and it is even difficult to turn horses, in the forest, not the opponent of armored spearmen, on the open river beach, will be attacked by musketeers, there is no other way but to retreat.

Yang Yandi acted fast enough, forced more than a thousand cavalry to Horseshoe Bend, and with two or three hundred horsemen, found a shoal, lost his horses and armor, and crossed the river on foot, but it was no harm.

In the face of the increasingly dangerous situation, the Abatai behind and the Zilharang on the front launched an attack one after another, but in the face of the infantry that had formed a phalanx, the effect was few, only a few people took advantage of the chaos to rush out, and most of the Qing cavalry was completely unable to approach the phalanx in the face of gunfire like bursting beans and shotguns from artillery, so it was impossible to disperse.

As the infantry approached Horseshoe Bend, the width of the front became narrower and narrower, and there was no longer any need to maintain the horizontal formation of the phalanx, so Yang Yandi pulled out two reserve battalions and a standing battalion and a selection battalion to form a thicker phalanx and placed them directly in the rear, wholeheartedly dealing with the cavalry of Abatai's department, and the rest of the soldiers were dealing with the Qing army that fled into Horseshoe Bend and used the firearms full of sea to defend.

There were at least 3,000 trapped Qing troops, in addition to the main force of Zilharang's department, and the Manhai department that had just come in to participate in the defense, but only one bridge left.

This Horseshoe Bay was originally the burial place selected by Li Zhaoji for the Qing army, although the process twists and turns, but the ending is good, the Horseshoe Bay ferry has already been calculated, its depth is only more than 700 meters, the widest point is the entrance, only 400 meters, the Qing army of more than 3,000 people, five or six thousand war horses hiding in it, people by people, people crowded, the only threat to the Eastern Brigade is the firearms troops led by Man Dahai.

They built two artillery forts at the entrance, arranged and brought a few small Francos, and blocked the entrance with shield carts, and the forts were made up of bags filled with earth, and many soldiers removed their armor, dug the earth with knives and bows, and constantly reinforced, which was no longer something that could be destroyed by six-pounder guns, and the Francos found shotguns, blocked all roads, and attacked rashly, and there would definitely be great losses.

However, Li Zhaoji had no intention of attacking at all, and he concentrated all three artillery batteries and 18 artillery pieces, 10 of which were arranged in the front, and the remaining 8 were arranged in a shallow depth of horseshoe bend on the side for side firing.

From 4 p.m. to 7 p.m., the artillery fired for three hours, each time until the barrel was hot, then stopped to dissipate heat, and then continued firing.

When the ammunition trucks that followed the artillery crews ran out, they used up all the ammunition carried by the brigade headquarters, solid bullets, large shotguns, and small shotguns, and stuffed the lead bullet bags in the infantry supplies into them as shotguns, and some artillery crews even got pebbles from the river in the distance and shot them out.

Fight until the gunpowder of the artillery is depleted and the infantry is left with only one base ammunition.

Obviously, the Qing army could not withstand this kind of shelling, in a small area, there was almost no room to dodge, and the shells that fell would almost always cause casualties, and those wounded war horses ran around like crazy, causing more chaos.

After the shelling began, most of the Qing army lost order, everyone pushed and shoved, threw horses, snatched the bridge and fled, the narrow bridge could not escape many people, in order to avoid the shells, many people threw everything they could, jumped into the water to swim across the river, although Manchuria is a fishing and hunting nation, but out of the Changbai Mountain for a long time, long-term battle with the Ming Dynasty, practice is cavalry and foot combat, the residence is located in the agricultural area of the Liaohe Loop, many people can not swim, can only find a wooden board to drift, many people drift directly into the sea, Drowned in brackish waters.

Zilharang entered the Horseshoe Bay to guard the artillery fort and maintain the last piece of order, but what he did was useless, Li Zhaoji did not want his soldiers who had already made meritorious deeds to rush into this land of death, and after the shelling was over, he just continued to persuade him to surrender.

However, Zilharang pretended to negotiate, and by the darkness of the night, he fled across the river by feeling the wooden stakes under the broken bridge that had been hit by cannonballs.

Before dark, Abatai also retreated, leaving to the east, he knew that he could not save the main force of Zilharang, so he could only retreat, but he also came to retreat once, ambushed a cavalry, when the baggage battalion came to replenish ammunition under the cover of Tang Mu, Abatai stormed the baggage battalion under the sunset, burned and blew up most of the baggage vehicles, but that's all.

By the next day, when the sky was completely bright, Abatai's headquarters was gone.

The resistance in Horseshoe Bend also stopped, and Zhao Dahe led people into it to search and clean up.

Li Zhaoji walked on the flat riverbed, watching the floating corpses sink and float, and the corpses were constantly oozing with blood, and together with Chaoyang, the Qinghe River became a river of blood.

Li Zhaoji took out the wine jug from his body, poured the wine inside, took out a little water from the river, tasted it, and it seemed that there was really a faint smell of blood.

"The strong man was hungry for Hulu meat, and laughed and talked about drinking the blood of the Huns when he was thirsty. I may have really touched on Yue Fei's pride. Li Zhaoji looked around, the battlefield was miserable, and there were corpses all over the ground, and he said lightly.

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