On the evening of the same day, Lu Xiangsheng, the commander of the soldiers and horses of the Governor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered the whole army to hurry up and prepare to stop, and he ordered the soldiers to hurry up and rest after a full meal, and the whole army should set off at the third watch tonight to find the enemy's main force for a decisive battle; he arranged all the military affairs properly, and when he returned to his big tent, Lu Xiangsheng washed his face with warm water, and hurriedly lay down to rest, but after he lay down, his mind was still chaotic, and he could not sleep peacefully for a long time.

After the third watch, he left the camp with his men and horses and went in the direction of Julu County to meet the enemy.

The two chief military officers Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei were one after the other, Lu Xiangsheng's standard camp was in the center, and nearly 10,000 troops marched to noon, and the vanguard arrived at Jiazhuang in Julu County.

Lu Xiangsheng just wanted to let the horses rest on the spot, and by the way, he opened fire to eat, but saw a horse flying in front of him, and the person who reported the news dismounted and saluted, and reported that the former army had received a report and found that there were thousands of Qing soldiers with a blue flag who were almost nearby.

Seeing that the war meal could not be eaten, Lu Xiangsheng saw that the terrain here was wide, and the hills and hills were continuous, so he ordered the soldiers to wait in place with their backs against a series of mounds, and the three battalions of troops and horses were arranged into a zigzag formation, and his own standard battalion should be the first to face the direction of the enemy and wait for it.

Xiangsheng himself stood on the mound in the middle of the array, burned incense and cleaned his hands, bowed four times to all sides, and said in a loud voice: "Soldiers, today we are about to meet the enemy! I have received the great favor of the court with you, and today is the day when we serve the court, and what we are afraid of is that we will not be able to die in battle for the country, and we are not afraid that we will not be able to live. I, I, would rather be a decapitated general and die on the battlefield than live up to the emperor's grace and cower in the face of the enemy. Even if we die in battle for our country today, it will make the enemy dare not despise us anymore, and will cause thousands of people with lofty ideals to rise up when they hear the news, brothers, go with me!"

Before the words fell, he had already raised the machete in his hand, knocked the stirrup of the horse Wu Mingji, who was sitting down, and galloped in the direction of the enemy with his own standard battalion men and horses.

Hu Dawei and Yang Guozhu, the two chief military officers, followed closely behind the Inspector Battalion. After walking for about ten miles, Xiangsheng saw the smoke and dust in the north, and the sound of nonsense came from afar.

He motioned for the whole army to slow down, let his standard battalion dismount and check the personal horses and weapons, Lu Xiangsheng's chief priest tightened the belly belt of Wu Mingji, everyone quietly regrouped, standing behind the superintendent, Xiangsheng raised the broadsword high, quietly waiting for the arrival of the enemy chieftain.

Gradually, Lu Xiangsheng could already feel the ground trembling under his feet, the yellow smoke covering the sun was getting closer and closer, and suddenly five or six fast horses, carrying the knights on the horse, galloped over, and the people on the horse shouted at the same time, "Three miles ahead, the blue flag forward!"

Lu Xiangsheng's broadsword swung in the midday sun, and he rode his horse towards the dusty enemy formation. Shaanxi General Military Officer, Department Governor Hu Dawei served as the left wing of the whole army, Xuanfu Chief Military Officer Yang Guozhu served as the right wing of the whole army, the two armies did not wait for the circle, as soon as the battle was engaged, Hu Dawei's left wing soldiers and horses could not withstand the impact of the enemy's cavalry, Yang Guozhu saw that the left flank was shaken, and the banner of the tiger commander retreated slightly, so he immediately ordered his deputy general to command here, and he took five hundred cavalry to pounce on the right side.

Lu Xiangsheng also saw that Hu Dawei was facing the elite of the Blue Flag, he danced his big sword and shouted, rushed forward into the enemy formation, until he killed through the enemy formation, the whole team turned to the left, and killed behind the enemy. Hu Dawei has stabilized the situation on the battlefield with the support of Yang Shuai, and seeing that the commander personally came to help, the three armies were excited for a while, and the Qing soldiers were defeated, and they scattered and fled.

The villagers who did not flee near Julu County spontaneously got together, and they took hoes, door bolts, wooden sticks, and rakes to kill many of the fleeing Qing soldiers.

Lu Xiangsheng, Hu Dawei, and Yang Guozhu counted the men and horses, and found that although more than 700 enemies were annihilated, their own army also lost nearly 2,000 people, and it was a pity that the subordinates of the three were killed and wounded even more, and the whole army almost became infantry. After simply cleaning up the battlefield, Lu Xiangsheng's Chinese army divided the fallen horses with the local people.

Before dusk, Lu Xiangsheng and the three of them led their soldiers to retreat to Jiazhuang, preparing for a decisive battle with the main force of the Qing army here tomorrow.

He had just placed his camp in a compound, and was discussing the military situation with several praisers, and the colonel he sent to Jize to deliver the letter turned around at this time, Lu Xiangsheng asked about the situation, and learned that the director of the army was not only unwilling to send troops to help, but also learned that there was a war ahead, and immediately retreated fifty miles, at this time, Lu Xiangsheng was no longer able to get angry with this eunuch, just sighed hatefully, but did not say a word.

From the time of the fixed watch, the news that the superintendent army had risen and infiltrated the soldiers to regain their self-esteem and would not save them spread throughout the three armies, and Lu Xiangsheng and others had to be pressed everywhere to prevent most of the soldiers from fleeing. Lu Xiangsheng was busy until the third watch, and sent out to return to his Chinese army tent, at this moment, in the vast moonlit night, there was a sudden sound of Hu Hu, and then suddenly it sounded from all sides.

Lu Xiangsheng walked out of the military tent and listened to it in all directions, after years of fighting, he knew at this time that he had been surrounded by more than 20,000 enemies from all sides. Until this moment, he was still very calm, such an ending was already within his expectations, Lu Xiangsheng just couldn't help but regret in his heart: "Gao Qi and the Guanning Iron Cavalry that he assigned out, there are a total of 170,000 horses, which is already eight or nine times the number of Qing soldiers besieging him, and the place where they are stationed is only fifty miles away from here, if they can come in the starry night and give the enemy an internal and external attack, how good it would be!"

Knowing that he was in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, he had no food and grass inside and no rescuers outside, and there was only a dead end when he was trapped here. However, in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, he Lu Xiangsheng had no way to retreat, which also strengthened his determination to drag the main force of the Qing army to death here, and not let the enemy easily cross the river to the south.

Just after the fourth watch, Lu Xiangsheng suddenly woke up from the collapse, and his Chinese army took Yang Guozhu, the chief military officer responsible for defending the east, and the two of them hurriedly walked into the big tent.

Lu Xiangsheng listened to the movement in the enemy camp outside, and his heart moved, "It's not that the reinforcements have arrived, but I am the commander of the soldiers and horses of the Ming Dynasty, where did this support army come from?"

At the same time, he did not think that the local people had the strength to fight head-on with 20,000 Qing soldiers, Yao Dongzhao returned to Jinan yesterday, and it was too late to come to the rescue at this moment, and the only one who could rescue him at this time was the three major battalions of the Beijing Division......

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