On the peak on the left side of the Yaoshan Mountain Road, the integrity officer Li Jiwen looked nervously at the opposite side, and there were bursts of shouts from time to time on the right peak, which was the voice of more than 1,000 soldiers and horses in front of Xiahe Village.

"Your Excellency, the soldiers of all the departments have been assembled, please give the order."

Hu Zongming was a little impatient at this time, and came over again to urge.

Li Jiwen glanced at Hu Zongming, and finally sighed, this battle was still lost.

So Li Jiwen nodded, and under the escort of Hu Zongming, he rode on his war horse and led his troops to retreat to Qingzhou City to garrison.

"When I go back this time, I don't know what those Shangguan in Qingzhou City will do with me."

Thinking of his future official fortunes, Li Jiwen felt like ashes, and secretly thought in his heart that it was better to directly bump into the Qing army and die, and he could also have a good reputation of "fighting and martyrdom".

Suddenly, the soldiers and horses in front began to run backwards, and they were crowded together with the soldiers and horses of the middle thousand households led by Ji Xianhai in front, and they suddenly became a mess.

"There are no rules at all for the march of the army, what kind of system is this! Send someone to reprimand ...... immediately"

Li Jiwen reprimanded dissatisfiedly, and suddenly heard words such as "the Qing army has been killed" and "the army has been defeated" from the front, and his face suddenly became very ugly.

Hu Zongming saw the opportunity quickly, hurriedly grabbed the reins of Li Jiwen's mount, and said loudly: "My lord, there are Ji Qianhu and Tang Qianhu in front, and my subordinates should escort the adults to leave first." ”

"Well, that's right!"

At this time, Li Jiwen had already thrown aside the idea of "fighting and martyrdom" just now, and under the protection of Hu Zongming's troops, he directly bypassed the front army and ran down the mountain in embarrassment.

At this time, the soldiers and horses of Jiaozhou guarding the Thousand Households and the Middle Thousand Households were still in front of themselves, and the defensive officer Ji Xianhai and the guarding officer Tang Jingming were still maintaining the situation, and the two suddenly found that Li Jiwen, the integrity officer who was supposed to supervise the battle in the back, was gone, and the banner of the commander had long been gone.

The Qing army did not expect that there were so many Ming troops in the peaks on both sides, there were three or four thousand people, but they were easily scattered by their more than 30 cavalry, and the Ming army here was defeated without a fight, running all over the mountains, so that the Qing army and a group of vests and clothes howled loudly with excitement, leaving behind the previous things that were beaten by Liu Yan's department.

"Haha, this is what Akito should be!"

The Qing army led his troops to rush and kill for a while, the spear in his hand was already red with blood, and he was tired of slashing those ordinary Ming soldiers who fled for their lives, and instead led his troops to look for big targets in the crowd and mountains and forests. These more than 30 Qing cavalry cavalry were skillful in horsemanship, and they could gallop quickly in the mountains and forests, and soon caught up with Li Jiwen's department.

"That's a commander of the Ming army, hurry up and kill me over!"

For the official position of the Ming army, the Qing army is also very clear, after all, these Tartars were originally foreign Hu tribes who were sheltered by the Ming Dynasty, and they also guarded the border for the Ming Dynasty in Liaodong for a long time, and they were the rebels of the Ming Dynasty, so they naturally knew the hierarchy of the Ming army.

So the Qing army led the troops to chase up, at this time Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming found the Qing army iron cavalry catching up behind, and they were immediately frightened, and the accompanying dun army and family members also let out bursts of exclamations, and they ran away a lot in a blink of an eye.

Fortunately, the family members brought by Li Jiwen this time were all fed with silver, and in the face of the pursuit of the Qing army, most of the family members could still protect Li Jiwen and continue to run.

Soon everyone came to a mountain cliff, where the terrain was steep and easy to defend, so Li Jiwen hurriedly commanded everyone to rely on the terrain to block the Qing army.

Those family members were carrying bows and arrows, and they were condescending to open their bows and arrows, and they even made the Qing army behind them dare not rush up easily, Li Jiwen took advantage of this time and said loudly: "Put up the banner of this official!" ”

"Adults, don't!"

Hu Zongming hurriedly stopped: "Those Tartar soldiers may rush and leave, adults must not reveal their identities!" ”

"Confused!"

Li Jiwen reprimanded: "Look at it, those Tartar soldiers have already dismounted and are ready to fight on foot, they must have seen that there are big officials among us, and they are willing to give up?" Erect the banner of our own officials, maybe we can still attract soldiers and horses that have not been scattered, we still have a glimmer of life! ”

Hu Zongming hurriedly went to erect the banner, and when he looked back, he found that thirty or forty Qing troops had already dispersed and were rushing up with all their might.

"Arrows, arrows!"

Hu Zongming roared loudly in fright, at this time Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming still had hundreds of people around them, including more than 100 well-equipped family members, but they were surrounded by more than 30 Qing troops on the cliff, and this scene was really strange.

At this time, on the cliff, all the soldiers with bows and arrows were struggling to release their arrows, but those Qing troops were carrying round shields, especially the dozen or so vests that rushed to the front, each of them wore two layers of heavy armor, and the arrows shot by the Ming army basically had no results, just set off the atmosphere.

"Put!"

The two sides were thirty paces apart, and the Qing army gave an order, and more than 30 Qing soldiers began to shoot together, and more than 30 arrows fell into the crowd at various angles, which immediately aroused a scream.

The Qing army mostly used strong bows and heavy arrows, and specifically aimed at the enemy's face, neck, heart and mouth, once shot by a Tartar, it was basically nine deaths.

In this round of projectiles, more than 20 people in the Ming army were shot, and almost all of them were family members, which immediately made the morale of the Ming army fall to the bottom.

Seeing this, Li Jiwen also fell into deep despair, then pulled out his saber and shouted at Hu Zongming: "Today is in a desperate situation, we must fight to the death, otherwise you and I will die without a place to be buried!" ”

Hu Zongming's eyes were red, and he was also forced to show a trace of blood, and said loudly: "Okay! The subordinates fought to the death with the adults. ”

At this time, the Qing army had rushed to the front, Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming mustered up the last courage, supervised the battle in front, commanded hundreds of Ding and Dun armies to fight four battles without retreating, and even fought a draw with the Qing army, and the two sides were stalemate under the cliff for a while.

Almost at the same time, Liu Yan led the rear post, the middle post, the left post, the right post and the personal guard post to the peak on the right side of the mountain road. After weighing, Liu Yan still left the cavalry post led by Xu Ming in the mountain road to guard the wounded, and replaced the rear post led by Wang Yue.

At this time, looking at the corpses all over the ground, especially at Zhang Hailin's corpse in the grass, Liu Yan's face was extremely ugly.

Although Liu Yan knew that the Ming army was unbearable, he never imagined that more than 1,000 people were bullied like this by more than 30 Qing cavalry, not only the soldiers were killed heavily, but even the main general was killed.

"Don't you have a reply at night?"

Liu Yan asked in a calm tone, and Miao Shao said: "Not yet, but it should be soon, and this place is not too far from the mountain peak on the left." ”

As soon as the words fell, several people rode horses at night, bringing bad news to Liu Yan: the Qing army horse team had broken through the department of the integrity officer Li Jiwen, and now Li Jiwen's banner was on a cliff on the left peak, and was being besieged by the Qing army horse team of more than 30 people.

Liu Yan frowned and asked, "How many soldiers and horses might you see around Master Li?" ”

"Hundreds or so."

Miao Shao, Wang Yue, Wang Bo, Zhang Yi, and Shen Tuo showed a trace of disdain when they heard this, even if hundreds of pigs were forced to hurry, they could knock down and trample more than 30 Qing troops to death, but hundreds of heavily armed soldiers were surrounded and beaten by others, and they felt ridiculous when they said it.

Liu Yan also frowned, but he didn't have time to think about it at this time, Zhang Hailin, the defensive officer, was already dead, and he must not die another integrity officer, this battle was a real defeat, and it didn't matter how many gains he had!

"All outposts immediately put on the march on alert and march to the left flank!"

Liu Yan gave an order, and the posts began to march in formation, and soon came to the peak of the left wing, Li Jiwen's big flag was still planted on the cliff, at this time the weather was hot and windless, and the big flag was like a frosted eggplant, and it was hanging weakly.

Liu Yan heard the sound of fighting in front of him, and couldn't help but feel a little relieved, it seems that although Li Jiwen can't lead the troops, there are still some elite soldiers around him, after all, he can sit in the position of a conduct officer, and it is definitely not possible to rely on him without some support.

"Each outpost is immediately deployed, from left to right, in order for the rear outpost, the middle outpost, the left post, the right post, the personal guard post is the most reserved, the whole army presses, be sure to annihilate this Tartar army!"

Liu Yan gave an order, and more than 900 people from the five posts were soon fully deployed, and each post was lined up according to the infantry drills, with pikemen and sword and shield hands in front, and after the bird gunners were filled, they followed closely behind, with a flag is a small formation, and several small formations formed a large horizontal formation.

"Attack!"

Seeing that the horizontal formation was formed, Liu Yan ordered an attack, and more than 900 people advanced in unison, and the drummers of each department blew the horns, boosting morale with powerful beats, and at the same time controlling the speed of the army's march.

On the cliff, the Qing army Zhuan Da, Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming discovered Liu Yan's approaching department almost at the same time, and both sides were taken aback.

"It's Liu Yan and Liu Baihu!"

Li Jiwen laughed excitedly and said: "I'll just say, Liu Baihu has thousands of elite soldiers, how can he be defeated by more than a hundred Tartars, these Tartars must be the fish that slipped through the net, and our army will win this battle!" ”

Hu Zongming reacted instantly when he heard this, Li Jiwen said that the defeat of his own troops was a battle to hunt the enemy's fish that slipped through the net, so he echoed: "My lord uses his danger as bait, which attracts the Tartar soldiers to slip through the net, and his subordinates admire it!" ”

"Hmm!"

At this time, Li Jiwen was in a good mood, although one or two thousand soldiers and horses were scattered, but those were ordinary dun soldiers, and they didn't feel distressed when they died, as long as their family was there, everything was okay.

Just when Li Jiwen's mood changed sharply, the mood of the Qing army was planted to the bottom.

"It's the Ming army of the mountain road!" 33

"Hurry ......"

Before the Qing army finished speaking, Liu Yan gave the order to fire a salvo, more than 400 birds and gunners fired at the same time, and the unprecedented dense firepower instantly enveloped more than 30 Qing troops, and those brave and good Qing army vests had cut down many Ming soldiers, but they were still unharmed, but at this time they were beaten into a sieve by the Ming army in the distance.

The same is true of the Qing army, not only was his body wearing three layers of heavy armor pierced by lead bullets in more than a dozen places, but his bare head was also hit by two lead bullets, and the flesh and blood on the door were blurred, and he could no longer see his original ugly appearance.

After a burst of gunsmoke, more than 30 Qing troops all fell in a pool of blood, and the more than 300 surviving Ming troops on the cliff looked at Liu Yan's department in amazement, Li Jiwen and Hu Zongming subconsciously swallowed their saliva, and secretly said in their hearts: "Is this still the Ming army?" ”

And Liu Yan looked at the corpses of the Qing army happily, and said to himself with the corners of his mouth raised: "This is the pleasure, this is the battle I want!" ”

Some people died, but not completely......