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Chapter 186 Success or failure in this battle

Hauge has been standing on the earthen platform less than three miles north of Jiazhuang to watch the battle. Although there are big chairs prepared there, he rarely sits down.

Compared with the past, he attaches great importance to today's battle, as if possessed by a demon, and now he only has one thought, that is, he should be the first to attack the camp of the Ming army, and his banner warriors should kill Lu Xiangsheng , Zhang Cheng et al.

In order to achieve this goal, he can even pay all the price, regardless of the consequences, as long as Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Cheng are the heads!

Just when he was happy that the warriors under his command had broken through the camp of Shanxi Town, he saw the raging flames in Jia Zhuang Lu Xiangsheng's camp, igniting everywhere, and he was so excited that he couldn't stop walking on the earthen platform.

But just as he was concentrating on waiting for the warriors to bring him the heads of Lu Xiangsheng and Zhang Cheng, he heard the news that the Ming army had broken out of the encirclement.

Hauge didn't take it too seriously at the beginning, but now, there are Qing soldiers and horses everywhere in the area of ​​more than three miles to the north of Jiazhuang, and even if there are a few Ming soldiers protruding from the camp, where can they go?

But he was wrong.

A dying tiger is the most ferocious!

Driven by the will to survive, those Xuanda soldiers who protruded from the camp were even more ferocious than tigers.

They rushed out in groups, and were scattered by teams of Qing soldiers outside the camp, and scattered into one by one, or in groups, like headless flies, scurrying about in the formation of the Qing army.

Only Hu Dawei's guards, under the leadership of Hu Zichen, could form a team. They also rushed left and right. At the beginning, they went around to rescue the various Ming troops surrounded by Qing soldiers.

Later, when the team gathered more than 800 horses, they only picked out the weak spots where the Qing soldiers were scarce, and stumbling all the way, they rushed to the Haoshui Bridge smoothly.

Jiang Mingwu, the general of Shanxi Town, led his own family guards, and a few cavalry also followed Hu Dawei's soldiers and horses, rushing all the way to the Haoshui Bridge.

However, the Haoshui Bridge was limited in width after all, and Hu Dawei was afraid that the soldiers of various ministries would scramble to cross the bridge, and the Qing soldiers would instead take advantage of it.

Here he and Jiang Ming made a decisive decision, and after they were safe, they crossed the bridge in batches to drive off the chasing Qing soldiers a little. Hu Dawei urged Jiang Mingwu to lead the family cavalry to cross the bridge first.

Jiang Mingwu's less than [-] men and horses had just crossed the Haoshui Bridge when he saw a group of cavalry galloping towards them from the north. The momentum was quite loud. Hu Dawei ordered everyone to cross the bridge, and he personally led more than [-] elite cavalry to meet them .

But he saw Yang Guozhu's Chinese army general Guo Yingxian rushing over with more than [-] knights under his command. He went up to meet him and shouted, "General Guo, where is Yang Junmen?"

Guo Yingxian also saw a cavalry team running towards him in the snowstorm. He had just lowered his horse speed and the team dispersed when he heard Hu Dawei's voice from afar, and hurriedly shouted: "Ahead is Hu Shuai?"

Hu Dawei had already reined in his horse and stopped immediately, and hurriedly responded after hearing the words: "It's me, General Guo, did Yang Junmen come out?"

Guo Yingxian galloped forward on his horse and said loudly: "Yang Junmen is rushing out, I will kill first and take the Haoshui Bridge, and the two Junmen will cross the bridge quickly."

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Zhang Cheng commanded the knights to disperse to the left and right. They formed three horizontal rows with more than a hundred knights in each row, but they were not in a hurry to charge.

After fighting for a long time, everyone knew that this was almost the last battle. After killing them, Haoshui Bridge was not far to the north.

To the south of them, more than 400 Qing soldiers were chasing them on foot. Their speed was also very slow, and they were obviously exhausted and seriously exhausted. When they were [-] steps away from Zhang Cheng and the Ming army, they began to guard and set up their formations. Only then slowly came forward.

The more than one hundred Qing soldiers on the right also slowed down their horses, stopped their horses two hundred paces away, and started to form a team. They were originally the elite of the Qing Army's Eight Banners, and they were responsible for supervising the battle of those Qing infantrymen who bravely attacked the camp.

Originally there was a team of more than ten cavalry, but after Hu Dawei and the others rushed out just now, these Qing cavalry who supervised the battle gradually gathered into a team of more than a hundred cavalry, scattered across the entire northern battlefield, blocking the breakout of Xuan Da's army.

Just now, Hu Dawei, Yang Guozhu and nearly [-] cavalry broke out successively and crossed the Haoshui Bridge, which already made Hauge furious. Later, I heard that there was a Ming general dressed in sackcloth and surrounded by many guards.

Hauge even sent the last dozen or so Ba Yala warriors and more than a hundred heavy armored guards to capture Lu Xiangsheng who was wearing sackcloth alive.

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Zhang Cheng rode his horse and looked at the more than a hundred Qing cavalry in the north. There were nearly ten Ba Yala soldiers among them, and three Ba ​​Yala soldiers stood on the corners of both sides.

The rest of the Qing cavalry are also well-equipped with heavy armor. The horses under their crotch look energetic and powerful, but they are difficult to deal with. Zhang Cheng knows this line of defense. If he can break through, he will escape today.

After Zhang Cheng thought about it carefully in his heart, he ordered in a deep voice: "Chen Zheng, you lead the front post and charge eastward, and Wang Tieren, take the rear post and charge westward toward the Haoshui River.

I will protect the governor and charge back, first kill the infantry who are chasing behind, and lead the Qing cavalry in front to pursue, and you will lead the army back, and we will attack the Tartar fine cavalry on three sides,

Success or failure is a battle here, kill..."

The formation of the Ming army here became chaotic, and then they charged in three directions. In order to break through the encirclement successfully and survive, they exhausted their last bit of strength, screaming, and rushed to the formations of the Qing army.

Lu Xiangsheng's mind seemed to be a little fuzzy, but when the sound of fighting on the battlefield came, his spirit was lifted up again. He struggled to raise the fine iron sword, and together with Zhang Cheng, he returned to his horse and charged towards the Qing infantry in the south. past.

With a distance of two hundred steps, the galloping horses soon arrived, and the Qing soldiers chasing behind were marching in line, never expecting that the Ming soldiers in front would charge back.

They panicked all of a sudden, and the formation was also in chaos. Lu Xiangsheng's Wuming horsepower recovered the fastest, and he rushed to the front wielding a big knife. The big knife flew up and down like a dragon flying out of the sea, mercilessly harvesting the Qing soldiers. life.

The Baya soldiers in the north were also very surprised. Seeing the cavalry of the Ming army fleeing in three directions, they were taken aback at first, but they soon recognized that the important general in sackcloth was leading a group of counting soldiers. Ten knights rushed to the north.

After a roar, the more than a hundred elite Qing cavalry, led by the dozen or so Ba Ya La soldiers, chased straight away. They were ordered by Hauge to capture the famous general in rough linen. , if you can't catch it, you have to kill it.

On the battlefield, the sound of fighting was coming to an end, far less intense than before, but the sky was also darker. In the wilderness, horses galloped, mud turned up, and pieces of snowflakes melted on the ground.

The entire land is covered with a dark red color. From a distance, it looks like a terrifying hell!
(End of this chapter)