Li Jiyu's Dengfeng Camp was on the left, He Zhenxiong's right wing camp was on the right, and he was heading north all the way. More than 400 cavalry from the right wing camp were in front of him, while the 250 knights of Dengfeng Camp were under the leadership of Qian Zong Zhou Ruli, guarding the left wing for the army to prevent possible sneak attacks by slave thieves.

Their minds still echoed in their minds, and they warned their master Zhang Cheng before leaving: "...The key to this battle is not whether they can kill the Tartars in front of them, nor how many Tartars are killed.

The key to this battle is only whether you can advance smoothly, defeating the soldiers and horses of the siege outside the Nanguan Pass, and joining the troops of Zu Dashou, who are defending the support in Jinzhou City, is the key to this battle."

"... In this way, the siege of Jinzhou can be resolved. If the slaves and thieves are not allowed to siege Jinzhou again, they will inevitably withdraw their troops. The two generals of Wu and Cao in the west, and I, Xuan Da's troops, can be worry-free.

The success or failure of the Liao War, Quan Laier and others today's performance. I hope you and the two of you can advance north with all your might, take advantage of the unprepared slave thieves, capture their camps, fill the trenches, and join forces with Zu Dashou outside the South Pass!"

Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong both remembered Zhang Cheng's words. Although they had different backgrounds and origins, one thing was very similar.

…………

They were all military generals who later surrendered to Zhang Cheng's command. Although Li Jiyu came nearly a year earlier than He Zhenxiong, he was born among the wild people. This time, the aid to Liao was his first battle after surrendering to Zhang Cheng, so he naturally had to perform well.

Although He Zhenxiong was born in the army and his ancestors were also old military households in Xuanfu Town. Although he had never had any big names, his grandfather had also worked as a thousand households, and he still had some more benefits.

He was only 35 or 36 years old. He was also a servant under General Yang Guozhu. Because of his bravery in combat and his rough writing, he was appreciated by Yang Guozhu and promoted him to serve as the Qianzheng in Zhenbiao Camp.

Later in the winter of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Yan, the general of Xuanfu, died in the Battle of Julu, and the remaining soldiers who broke through the right wing battalion were taken away by Zhang Cheng.

When the court issued an order to train the new army, under the operation of Yang Guozhu, the general of Xuanfu, He Zhenxiong was able to temporarily serve as the head of the right wing battalion of Xuanfu Town.

Now that the veteran general Yang Guozhu died in Liaodong, He Zhenxiong suddenly lost his strong support. Moreover, his foundation in Xuanfu is still shallow and he cannot make an independent career.

In fact, he was not unwilling to join Zhang Cheng at that time, but he could not express it due to the face of the old general Guo Yingxian.

As one of the confidant generals of the veteran general Yang Guozhu, He Zhenxiong is not unfamiliar with Zhang Chengke. He had a deep impression of Zhang Cheng during the Battle of Julu.

At that time, Zhang Cheng had been promoted from a Qianzong to a guerrilla general for his merits, and was deeply appreciated and trusted by Lu Xiangsheng, who was then the Governor of Xuanda. This made He Zhenxiong, who was also Qianzong, really envious.

Although after the work of serving the king, He Zhenxiong, after returning to Xuanfu, was promoted to the position of guerrilla general for his merits and became the chief general of the right wing battalion of Zhenbiao.

But Zhang Cheng's achievements were even more brilliant. He used his merits to kill Ma Zhan and Yuetuo to leave Xuanfu North Road. After that, he eliminated bandits and Anmin, helped Henan and Liaodong, and even became a general and deputy general, and was promoted to the high position of General Xuanfu.

Zhang Cheng’s all these things really make He Zhenxiong admire him!

What's more, there is the veteran leader Yang Guozhu who always praises Zhang Cheng for his excellence, and his future achievements must be limitless.

Let’s not talk about anything else, let’s talk about the old subordinates who followed Zhang Cheng to Beijing to serve the king, such as Zhang Guangda, Chen Zheng, Lin Fangping and others. They turned out to be just a hundred households and the general flag. Now they are all promoted to guerrillas like him.

From this we can see that the speed of promotion under Zhang Cheng's command is indeed beyond the reach of other places. He has known the treatment of Zhang Chengxuan's soldiers for a long time, and he is silently looking forward to his right-wing camp in his heart, which will be the same one day.

However, he was originally trained by Yang Guozhu and promoted to his current position. In any case, he would not betray his general, but no one had expected that Yang Guozhu would die on the battlefield in this battle to aid Liao.

But it is precisely because of Yang Guozhu's sacrifice for the country that He Zhenxiong has the opportunity to surrender to Zhang Cheng's command. In the dark, perhaps everything is God's will!

At first, He Zhenxiong was still immersed in the grief of losing his general. It was not until later that news about Li Fuming's taking over the Xuanfu Army spread that he found Tang Xiancheng, the Dusi, urgently contacted veteran Guo Yingxian to discuss countermeasures.

Finally, under Guo Yingxian's strong advocacy, the decision to surrender to Zhang Cheng was made. Then the imperial edict came from the court, and Zhang Cheng succeeded as the general of Xuanfu Town, and the matter came to an end naturally.

But since then, although He Zhenxiong has been under the jurisdiction of the new General of Xuanfu Zhang Cheng, he has never had the opportunity to show his performance, but he is also secretly anxious in his heart.

Now, he was suddenly entrusted with important tasks by Zhang Cheng. He was both excited and worried. The reason why he was excited was that he finally had the opportunity to make contributions on the battlefield and expressed his loyalty to Zhang Cheng.

What he was worried about was that he was afraid that he would be entrusted with important tasks by Zhang Cheng for the first time. If he failed to do it well, how could he be worthy of Zhang Cheng's trust and reuse?

I am even more worried about whether the performance this time will affect my future prospects!

It is precisely for the above reasons and reasons that Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong both had a strong spirit and urged the soldiers under their respective troops to accelerate their urgent advance northward.

…………

Just as Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong led his army to advance to the Qing army's defense line in the north, Zu Dashou, who was trapped in Jinzhou City, had already taken the lead and led more than 7,000 brave Liao soldiers to rush out.

These Liao soldiers who fought bravely like wolves and tigers were trapped in Jinzhou City for a long time. They were worried that they could not eat well and sleep well all day long, and were wary of the possibility of slave thieves siege attacking the city.

In this way, they had already lived enough. If they hadn't been looking forward to being saved one day, they would have had the opportunity to reunite with their relatives far away in Songshan, Xingshan, Gaoqiao and Ningyuan, they would have been out of the city to find the Tartars long ago.

Now that Jinzhou is expected to rescue the siege, how could they not be excited?

There were like beasts that escaped from the trap. The Liao soldiers in Jinzhou City did not need to urge their own generals to rush, and then rushed over like crazy to the Qing army garrisoned outside the city.

The Mongolian Zhengbai Banner in Ibai is responsible for garrisoning the south of Jinzhou City. In addition to the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner, there are more than a thousand Mongolians and nearly a thousand Han troops, as well as each flag, and there are more than 4,000 followers, with a total force of 12,300 troops.

Because there were tens of thousands of cavalry guarding the Qing Dynasty Prince Daishan in the south, Ibai’s focus on defending Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City to prevent them from suddenly breaking out.

Moreover, Zu Dashou, who was trapped in Jinzhou City, sent troops to break through the siege several times, but was stopped by slave thieves in front of these three besieged moats. Ibai thought that even if Zu Dashou left the city again to fight, he would still fail in front of the solid defense line of his side.

As expected, after Zu Dashou's troops left the city, they rushed to the death like wolves and tigers, and they soon broke through the first trench and low wall defense line.

Even the wider and higher second trench low wall defense line was quickly lost under Zu Dashou's fierce offensive, but the widest and deepest third trench defense line became an insurmountable natural barrier for Zu Dashou.

Of course, even a natural barrier is not insurmountable. The cunning Yibai believed that Zu Dashou could not break through this third line of defense several times, so he concentrated all his main forces here.

However, the first two lines of defense only arranged a few troops to defend. The purpose is very obvious, which is to use the two lines of defense in front to consume the sharpness and physical strength of the Liao soldiers under Zu Dashou's troops, so that he could not cross the third trench that he had defended heavily.

Sure enough, the Liao soldiers, as fierce as tigers and wolfs, had no choice but to stop in this third trench. The Han army's second tatars were fired on the south side of the trench, and the bows and arrows of the Northern Mongolian Tartars were constantly being fired.

Although Zu Dashou has many Liao soldiers who are good at shooting and some other firearms such as bird guns, they are also comparable to the Qing army south of the trench and have no obvious advantage.

Unable to suppress the fire of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side, he could not fill the trench or build a bridge. Looking at the natural chasm that was so close, Zu Dashou's eyes were about to split, but he could not do anything about it.

Just when he had no choice, a slight swell of smoke rose to the sky from the south of the Ibai Mongolia Zhengbai Banner Camp opposite the trench defense line.

"The Xuanfu Army is here!"

Zu Dashou was immediately overjoyed. He seemed to have seen the two armies working together to defeat the Mongolian Tartars who were blocking him in front. After the successful confrontation, he continued to attack and kill the slave thieves who retreated to other besieged cities.

Seeing that Jinzhou was about to be lifted, Zu Dashou roared: "My sons, rush for me! Kill the Tartars, avenge blood revenge, kill and kill..."

At this moment, he was not the only one who saw the smoke and dust rolling from the south. This scene was like a person tortured by illness and saw the figure of a doctor, just like a farmer who had been drought for a year saw the dark clouds floating in the distance.

"A long drought will lead to a rain", how can you not make people crazy?

The previous breakthroughs were blocked by this wide trench. The feeling of powerlessness could suffocate people. Now I have been fighting to win the final hope of breaking through, but I have to stop here again. How can I be content?

Now, I found that there were reinforcements from my own side on the other side that were coming to the other side. It was like when I was about to be beheaded, a roar came from a distance, "Leave people under the knife", so why doesn't it make people happy?

"Reinforcements... are reinforcements..."

“…It’s really…reinforcements are coming…”

“…Thank God…Thank God…Thank God…”

"...The soldiers of Xuanfu... are the Xuanfu army who killed Duoduo... Zhang Cheng..."

"...It's been saved...it's finally saved...it's been more than a year...it's finally coming to reinforcements..."

For a moment, the seven thousand Liao soldiers who followed Zu Dashou out of the city to kill slaves soon mixed into a voice, "Kill... Kill... Kill..."

…………

The sudden arrival of the Ming army caused the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner to lose control in an instant.

In fact, this cannot be completely blamed on Ibai. After all, there are more than 40,000 Qing warriors from Prince Li Daishan to the south. Even if the Xuan Daming army fighting against them is brave, their troops are not as powerful as Daishan, so how can they be able to divide the troops and invade the north?

Therefore, Ibai deployed all the main forces in front of the trenches to block Zu Dashou who wanted to break out, so as not to break through the siege and go out to cause trouble for Prince Li.

But no matter how he thought it, the Ming army seemed to descend from the sky and suddenly appeared behind Ibai. He had no defense behind him, and he had no time to transfer troops back to defense in a hurry.

But even so, Ibai had to struggle hard. He could only hope that the Ming army that suddenly came to his death was not the Xuanfu soldiers.

Nearly half of the Mongolian Tartars returned to the backyard, Zu Dashou's pressure suddenly decreased, and the soldiers all saw hope for life and the dawn of victory, so they naturally became even more desperate.

For a moment, guns, artillery and arrows flew towards the Tartars south of the trench, and even the soldiers who filled the trench no longer cared about their lives. The scene of each fighting for the first place was extremely spectacular.

At the same time, Ibai, who led his army back to the rescue, had a big head. Before he could run back to the camp to defend, the Ming army's vanguard cavalry had already rushed in.

From a distance, he saw the fires rising from the camp, and smoke pillars soaring into the sky. He was so anxious, but he couldn't relieve his thirst from the distance. A sense of powerless frustration filled his heart and mind. He felt a sensation of nausea and dizziness, and vomiting immediately came.

It was like just hearing that the emperor wanted to marry his daughter to him, but suddenly a wife from his hometown came to him. His son-in-law was not done and was about to be beheaded for the crime of deceiving the emperor.

The whole feeling of "from the sky to the ground" is like a person who is blindfolded and has made a roller coaster ride, wandering around up and down, and shifting his five abdomen and six internal organs.

But Ibai was unwilling to give up. No matter what the result was, he had to fight again, because if he retreated like this, Dorgon would not forgive him.

He was dizzy just now, but after two mouthfuls of blood burst out, Iberd felt much lighter and stronger. He waved the long machete in his hand, shouted wildly and rushed to his camp first.

…………

Dai Shan, the Prince of Qing Dynasty's Literature, also discovered that the Xuan army of Ming Kingdom opposite seemed to be crazy, and even suppressed the entire army without caring about it. It seemed that it was going to fight against its own Qing warriors?

He waved his hand to Ajige, the Prince of Wuying who was ready to beat him, and said to him: "Minggou is trying his best. It seems that he wants to take a gamble. It is the best time for our army to defeat him in one go."

Dai Shan suddenly raised his hand and pointed to the battlefield south and said hatefully: "Ajige, lead your warrior inlaid with white flag to kill him and bring me the head of Zhang Cheng back!"

“Wait.”

Azig almost shouted to answer the order.

Since the war started this morning, Ajige has been clamoring to ask for war again and again, but Daishan has been suppressing him for some reason and sent other Manchu and Mongolian flags to the top, but Ajige's white flag was left in the central army by him.

Now, Ajige finally waited for the military order to fight. How could he not be excited? He clasped his fists and shouted: "Don't worry, Ajige and Zhang Cheng are irreconcilable. If they are killed in front of the formation, they will be a good deal.

Please wait for good news again. Aziger will capture the southern barbarian and deal with it with Dabail!"
Chapter completed!