The remnants of the Ming army were cut into four battle formations by the Jin army. The Ming army with the largest number of troops was the Ming army under the Chinese army. There were about five to six thousand Ming troops under the command of Zhang Hongmo, Zhang Jifu, Yang Zhenghua and other Ming generals. They fought stubbornly. The commander-in-chief of the army
Zhang Chun was also among this Ming army. Therefore, this Ming army withstood the fierce attack of the Jin army across the river. In order to capture Zhang Chun alive and completely undermine the courage of the Ming army to resist, Huang Taiji mobilized Zhenglan, Xianghong, and sent
A group of troops with yellow flags and ten thousand cavalry attacked Zhang Chun's Ming army.
Except for the Ming army under the banner of the Chinese Army, the largest force was the Ming army chariot soldiers who persisted in resisting near the Xiaoling River. They were led by deputy general Wang Zhiku, who was full. At this moment, there were more than 4,000 people surrounding them.
Those are the Zhengbai Banner of the Jin Army and the Han Army Flag crossing the river.
Song Wei's troops on the right wing are also resisting. There are not many cavalry in Song Wei's troops, and they can only bring more than 1,600 cavalry out of the city. But now they are besieged by the Jin army with white flags. Under the oppression of several times the enemy troops, Song Wei is already exhausted.
, suffering from the fact that their retreat was cut off and unable to retreat or rendezvous with the Chinese army, it is not an exaggeration to say that they were just hanging on for a while.
Wu Xiang's cavalry on the left wing had already ordered to retreat when the Jin army crossed the river, but the vacancy left by him was filled by a Ming army infantry. Looking from a distance, the Ming army also numbered more than a thousand people.
, mostly spearmen, with more than a hundred tanks integrated into a battle formation, fighting and retreating. I don’t know who the leading Ming general was, but he also participated in the raising of the above flags. It is probably a spontaneous organization by the middle and lower-level officers of the Ming army.
resistance.[
Huang Taiji directly ignored the Ming army that was spontaneously resisting and was not large in scale. Seeing that Azige, Mang Gurtai and the others were working hard to attack, but there was no improvement, he couldn't help but feel a little impatient. But he knew that he would not be in a hurry.
The Ming army in the encirclement is now like a trapped animal in a cage. The harder you push, the harder they bite. The best way to completely eliminate them is to consume their troops bit by bit, and then
If you send someone to persuade them to surrender, you will have half the effect.
Thinking of persuading him to surrender, Huang Taiji turned to Fan Wencheng and asked, "Wencheng, do we know Zhang Chun?"
Hearing this, Fan Wencheng knew that the Khan was sending someone to persuade him to surrender. He shook his head and said: "This old man Chun was a newly promoted official when the Khan entered the customs the year before last. Not many people in Dajin know him.
." After a pause, he asked Ying and said: "But if King Khan wants to persuade the old man to surrender, I think I still have some eloquence, and I am willing to go and persuade him to surrender on behalf of King Khan."
Huang Taiji nodded and said with a smile: "Well, if Wen Cheng steps in, the matter will be half done. When I ask the front to make more efforts, Wen Cheng will cross the river to persuade Zhang Chun to surrender on my behalf."
"Most officials in the Ming Dynasty are afraid of death, but Zhang Chun is not afraid of death. Some of his generals are afraid of death. Even if Zhang Chun cannot be surrendered, even if he can persuade his generals, Zhang Chun will not surrender.
Gotta surrender."
Fan Wencheng said with a smile, with a confident look on his face. Just as he was talking, the sound of fighting sounded from behind the Ming army's defense line. It seemed that there were countless Ming troops shouting something in unison.
"Why, the Ming army is coming to Jinzhou again?"
Huang Taiji frowned, thinking that the Ming army from Jinzhou was coming to aid Zhang Chun. He raised his telescope and took a look, but found that it was a small Ming army approaching the banner of the Chinese army. There were about thousands of defeated troops.
It was under the pressure of this Ming army that it turned around again.
In the telescope, it was clearly visible that the flag of the Ming army was "Shi", and there was also a flag of "Songshan".
A Ming general named Shi? A Ming army from Songshan?
Huang Taiji thought for a moment, and he had the impression that the Ming army did not have any general named Shi. He thought that Xu was the rear army of the Ming army. He had not moved before, but now that the commander is in danger, he should come to reinforce him.
However, although the Ming army was all infantry, there were thousands of defeated troops. Huang Taiji was worried that after they joined Zhang Chun of the Chinese army, they would delay the war and increase unnecessary casualties to the Eight Banners warriors, so he raised the flag.
Zhenghongqi, who was about to cross the river, was ordered to detach half of his troops to intercept the Ming army.
The leader of the Zhenghong Banner was Dai Shanzi Yue Tuo. After seeing the Khan King's flag order, he quickly divided four Niulu cavalry to intercept it.
He wanted to take advantage of the chaos to rush to the central army, but was discovered by the Jin army. Seeing the cavalry of Jiannu Zhenghong Banner running towards him, Shi Dayong was also a little anxious. The wolf cavalry had not yet put on armor. Although the three thousand Changping soldiers were not afraid of death,
, but they were fully trained, not even equipped with weapons, and they all charged into battle with their passion. There were thousands of Eight Banners cavalry coming towards him, and Shi Dayong thought that he could not withstand them all.
It can attack, but it can't turn around.
Behind them, the defeated soldiers following the Songshan Army began to stir, and some began to want to turn around and run away again.
Cao Bianjiao, Jiang Wanli and the others didn't know what to do. They all looked at Shi Dayong anxiously, waiting for his order.
In his anxiety, Shi Dayong felt a coolness on his neck. With a thought, he took off his mask and found that the wind was blowing, and the wind was heading northeast!
After sweeping the ground, we found that due to the small glacier, autumn has entered outside the pass more than a month earlier than in previous years. Most of the knee-high grass on the ground has turned yellow. It has been dry for days, and only a torch can start a prairie fire.
Without thinking, he blurted out: "Guo Yi, set fire, quick, set fire!" [
"set fire?"
After hearing the order, all the generals were stunned, but Guo Yi took out the flint without hesitation, ran forward for more than ten steps, squatted down and lit a fire.
The flint ignited at the touch, and a small flame shot up from the roots of the withered grass. In an instant, blown by the wind, it ignited the grass in front. Soon, a flame as high as a person appeared in front of everyone.
One place is not enough!
Shi Dayong shouted to Jiang Wanli, Ma Zhong and others who were still stunned: "Don't just stand there stupidly, go and set fire to it, hurry up!"
"Ah?...Hey!"
Ma Zhong and the others did not hesitate any longer. They all rushed forward and scattered in various places, either using the fire lit by Guo Yi on the spot or using flames to light it. Soon, the Songshan Army appeared in front of the formation.
Dozens of fires appeared, and then quickly connected into one.
The fire spread across the prairie fire. Driven by the northeast wind, the fire rushed forward like a fire dragon.
The burning becomes more intense, the burning lasts longer, and the burning becomes more intense.
The fire blew toward the northeast along with thick smoke, where there were not only Jin troops but also Ming troops.
My face felt hot, but my heart felt even warmer.
The fire formed an unbreakable line of defense in front of Songshan's military formation like a magic weapon. From a distance, the Eight Banners soldiers who were rushing toward them panicked when they saw the fire, turned around and ran back.
The fire is getting bigger and bigger, and the smoke is getting thicker and thicker.
However, the generals were not as happy as Shi Dayong. Instead, they were a little panicked because they saw the fire burning towards their own army.
"General, what should we do with Master Bingbei and our brothers?" Cao Bianjiao asked in a low voice.
"I can't care less."
Shi Dayong shook his head helplessly: "I'd rather have the jade broken than the whole thing. I believe Master Bingbei and the brothers won't blame me."