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On the battlefield, thousands of troops and horses galloped back and forth, and almost no one noticed that there were actually two people fighting for their lives among the horses.

The two of them were covered in black and red mixed with blood and dust. Aobai held the middle part of his tiger spear under his right armpit, and his left hand firmly grasped the barrel of the tiger spear that pierced his shoulder.

On the other side was Lin Fangping, the head of the Tiger Guards of the Xuanfu Army. His face was pale, and his mouth was full of silver teeth. The tiger spear stabbed by Oboi.

The spear point had penetrated deeply into his abdomen. Fortunately, there was an antler fork to resist, otherwise Lin Fangping would have been pierced through the abdomen. The bright red blood continuously flowed down the tail of the spear point and dripped onto Lin Fangping's combat boots. .

He clenched his teeth and let out a deep roar, and he tried to twist the tiger gun with his left hand, in order to cause more damage to Oboi on the opposite side.

But what made him helpless was that Oboi was also tightly grasping the tiger spear that pierced his left shoulder at this moment, Lin Fangping tried his best, but he couldn't twist it a bit.

Aobai's situation is no better than Lin Fangping's. His left shoulder was pierced by a tiger spear. Although his left hand grabbed the tiger spear with all his strength and prevented Lin Fangping from twisting the barrel of the gun, the wound on his left shoulder was bleeding even more. As noted.

As the blood continued to flow, the physical strength of the two of them was rapidly disappearing, but neither of them wanted to let go. Although Oboi was tall and healthy, he was much stronger than Lin Fangping in strength.

But Lin Fangping was already looking like a madman. When his helmet fell off the horse, he lost it somewhere, and his head was covered with black hair, which had already mixed with the mud and blood into black and red.

His eyes were so wide that they were about to protrude, he spurted out a big mouthful of blood, endured the piercing pain, and pulled his tiger gun back with all his might.

Just as Manchuria's Xianghuang Banner on the east side was retreating, the infantry formation in the middle also fought with the Tartars. They originally formed a defensive formation, but the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner on the opposite side was bombarded by the powerful artillery fire of the Xuanfu army. In the next step, a desperate charge was launched.

I saw that the beard of Oboi's face was also stained dark red with blood. He kept yelling and screaming, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't break free. In his rage, he thrust forward violently, and the antlers of the tiger spear hit him. Holding Lin Fangping's abdomen, he pushed him back again and again.

"Dengdengdeng..."

They stared at me like this, and I stared at you, the two roared angrily, bright red blood continuously flowed out of their bodies, and a large area of ​​their feet was already stained red.

Although Hou Fangke has the support of Zhang Guodong, Wang Zheng of the standard battalion in Datong Town is already too busy to take care of himself. It is not easy to keep the standard battalion from retreating. How can he allocate troops to rescue the right-wing battalion that is on the verge of collapse?
It turned out that under the command of General Fu Dianzuo, the Right Wing Battalion fought very well at the beginning, but in the third round of firecracker salvo, several firecrackers exploded one after another.

Shi Meng also reacted very quickly. He repeatedly ordered people to wave Lin Fangping's general flag in order to gather all the soldiers from the Tiger Guard camp to gather here. Jiala was killed by the southern army, we are defeated, everyone retreat..."

This was after Zhang Cheng beheaded Ma Baozhong, the general of Datong, and those soldiers who took the lead in fleeing. Intimidated by Zhang Cheng's lustful power, all officials from Hou Fangke tried their best to suppress them, so they did not directly be defeated.

Seeing a large cloud of smoke rising from the back of the Mongolian soldiers on the opposite side, it seemed that a large number of Tartars and captives charged again, and I couldn't help being surprised.

Fortunately, the Youbing Battalion of Datong Town was located on the left side of Zhang Guodong's Chicheng Battalion. Zhang Guodong noticed this situation in time, and he temporarily handed over the command here to Xia Shuncheng, the governor of the town, and Liu Changliang, the general manager of the left department.

After he finished speaking, he got off his horse and without a word, he swung the big hammer in his hand and smashed it on Oboi's right shoulder. He only heard a "click", and his arm was almost completely rectified by the force of the blow. It was unloaded alive.

Amidst the roar of firecrackers, several Tartars who came rushing fell off their horses, and then a spear shot flew over, hitting the horse under the crotch of Qian Haichuan, a sergeant of the third team. Get up and get off your horse.

It can be said that Daishan was right, and his decision-making was wise and timely. It was the arrival of the Mongolian Yellow Banner that became the last straw that crushed the right-wing battalion in Datong Town.

"Mengzi...we can't die...cry for a ball...mourning..."

Driven by the thrust of the tiger spear, Oboi's huge body also swayed forward suddenly, but fortunately he stepped out his right foot in time to counteract the force of the thrust, and did not fall forward.

He rolled two times on the ground, just in time to come to Lin Fangping's side, and shouted: "General...General... Hold on!"

But in the face of the Ming army's bombardment with no money, they had only two choices. One was to retreat to avoid the Xuanda army's artillery fire, and the other was to charge forward and get out of the range of the cannon fodder bombardment.

Oboi, who was bleeding profusely from his right shoulder, didn't even yell out, maybe he was too brave, or maybe the injury to his right shoulder was so severe that his whole shoulder became numb, and he couldn't feel it for a while. to pain.

At this moment, Shi Meng, the head of the left post in the middle of the Tiger Guard Battalion, led the soldiers of the three teams under his command to gallop towards him on horseback. He raised his hand and shot a blunderbuss. The Baya soldiers with the inlaid yellow flag who helped Oboi fell down in an instant.

What's more, even if the cavalry on its two wings can win the victory smoothly, after breaking through the middle of their own side, they can directly threaten the position of the Ming army's central army, and they will inevitably return immediately.

And once they can break through in the center of the front, and the warriors of the Qing Dynasty rush up, the artillery of the Ming army on the opposite side will become dumb and useless.

However, the general Wang Zheng still commanded the soldiers of the Zhenbiao Battalion, holding on hard. Because of the retreat of the right-wing battalion, the Datong Zhenbiao Battalion is now facing enemies on both sides, and the pressure has increased sharply.

Even if some Mongolian soldiers rushed twenty or thirty paces away by chance, facing the cold horse-repelling array in front of the infantry here, they just threw spears and then led the horses to run to both sides.

However, Fu Dianzuo naturally has two talents in being able to become a general. He made preparations before the battle and organized the sword and shield soldiers and spearmen in the battalion into three waves to facilitate command and dispatch.

But they are retreating faster and faster, and there is a risk of the whole battalion collapsing at any time!

The Yunzhou blunderbuss of the Xuanfu army were not only excellent, but also did not need matchsticks to ignite the fire, but were ignited by flints. They fired continuously in volleys, and the Mongolian soldiers could not get close at all.

However, the Biao Battalion, the Right Wing Battalion, and the Ranger Battalion in Datong Township failed to withstand the charge of the Mongolian soldiers, especially the guerrilla Hou Fangke's Ranger Battalion, which had the fewest troops and horses, and fired the guns in advance when the captives were riding a hundred steps away. He was easily rushed to the front of the formation by the Mongolian soldiers.

Shi Meng nodded his head vigorously, but seeing Lin Fang's calm expression, his tears crackled uncontrollably, and even his lips trembled uncontrollably, and he couldn't speak anymore.

However, at the same time that Oboi's right arm was broken by Shi Meng, Lin Fangping was freed, and the tiger spear that pierced his abdomen was also released by Oboi.

"Zhang Shuai, I'm afraid the Right Wing Battalion is going to fail, so hurry up and reinforce them." Wang Pu begged Zhang Cheng eagerly.

Zhang Cheng looked indifferent, unmoved, he just said indifferently: "It's okay, I'll see the situation ahead, the right wing battalion can hold on."

Although, Prince Li Daishan has always warned the generals to focus on defense, as long as the Xuan army on the opposite side is not allowed to continue to rush north, it will be a success.

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He immediately shouted orders to Zhang Chengfang: "Pass the order to Wang Zheng and Fu Dianzuo. No matter what, I have to stand firm for another quarter of an hour. As long as I defend against the attack of the Tartars, this commander will give them great merit."

Fu Dianzuo sent two waves of shield soldiers and spearmen forward one after another, only then was he able to withstand the charge of the Zhenghuang Banner Mongolian soldiers, just when he thought he could rest assured.

But after the Right Wing Battalion retreated, although the pressure on his front was relieved a lot immediately, it was because some Tartar soldiers turned to attack the flanks of the Datong Town Biao Battalion, so the pressure here was naturally not as great as before. .

"Bang! Bang! Bang!"

And he himself led Chen Dakuan and Huang Daguang's cold soldiers to support Hou Fangke's ranger camp.

Therefore, Ah Dai finally chose to launch a desperate charge to the Ming army in front of him. Braving the bombardment of Xuan Dajun's artillery, they beat their horses with all their strength and rushed forward.

Dai Shan thought very clearly that if he could break through the Ming army's defense line in one fell swoop, even if the cavalry on both wings were defeated and returned to the main formation, it would not matter. After all, the main force of the Ming army was still the infantry in the middle and the artillery positions behind.

If they chose to retreat, the generals did not dare to make decisions privately. Once they led the army to retreat without authorization, if it caused the entire army to retreat, it would not be as simple as beheading.

"Then... the Tartar... is a Jiala...don't let the Tartar take it back... let the soldiers... call the Tartar defeated..."

Shi Meng didn't have time to hit Oboi again, he strode up to Lin Fangping, knelt down to support Lin Fangping and shouted: "Master Lin...Master Lin..."

However, with the lessons learned by the general Ma Baozhong, Fu Dianzuo did not dare to lead his right-wing battalion soldiers to flee like him.

It turned out that just before the fight with Lin Fangping, the two Huwei soldiers who were killed and wounded by the two spears that Oboi threw were the subordinates of Yu Shanhu of the third left whistle team.

It turned out that Daishan, the Prince of Li of the Qing Dynasty, saw that he had broken through the Ming army's formation one after another, but it was difficult for the two wings to break through. He immediately sent Prince Su Haoge to lead the Manchurian Zhenglan Banner and the Tulai Mongolian Yellow Banner Tartars to come to support.

After all, they have been fighting fiercely all morning, and the fighters on both sides are already very tired, not to mention many people are gradually losing their composure.

The facts were as expected by Zhang Guodong, the Tartars of the Mongolian Zhenghuang Banner suffered a lot from him.

Opposite them, in the middle are the soldiers of the Xuanfu Army's Chicheng Camp and Datong Town's Biao Battalion, and the two wings are the infantry of the Datong Town Right Wing Battalion and the Ranger Battalion.

Lin Fangping continued to speak intermittently, then passed out.

After seeing the situation at this moment, he first ordered his own generals of the Chinese army to lead the family members to step forward to suppress the artillery soldiers who had withdrawn without authorization, and then hurriedly ordered the first wave of cold soldiers to step forward to hold the line of defense against horses and resist the Mongolian cavalry's attack. shock.

At the same time, Lin Fangping on the other side also fell to the ground the moment Aobai fell, and he, like Aobai, let out a hoarse scream of grief.

It was too late and then it was too fast, the moment Qian Haichuan jumped up, before he could stand still, he flew towards Ao Bai and knocked him to the ground.

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For a moment, the gunners in the front rows were all exclaimed. They were not only scared when shooting and dared not aim, they were also scared when loading the gunpowder.

I don't know if that Oboi understood what he said, his big eyes were as red as blood, and it seemed that he was about to stare out of his sockets, and he also yelled in the same Tartar dialect: "Scatter...quickly... dead dog ..."

Lin Fangping yelled like crazy, kicked his feet tightly on the ground, stopped abruptly, and yelled, "Sao Tartar, let go!"

And Shi Meng, the chief of the left whistle, also happened to see this scene, he yelled at Yu Shanhu's three teams of soldiers, and charged towards Oboi on his horse, that's why he arrived in such a timely manner.

In the end, he became even more ruthless, and sent out nearly a thousand cavalrymen of his own to harass the flanks of the Mongolian soldiers, disperse their forces, and relieve the pressure on his front.

At this time Shi Meng also drove his horse towards him, and he roared: "Shan Hu, hold here, don't call the Tartars up."

Hearing the miserable howls of their companions, the gunmen no longer had the heart to fire the guns, and retreated one after another.

While commanding his servants to suppress the retreating defeated soldiers, he sent people to ask for help from the Chinese army. Although the right wing battalion retreated steadily, they did not retreat under Fu Dianzuo's suppression.

"what……"

But the more flustered the more accidents are likely to happen. It may be that a few gunmen loaded too much gunpowder with trembling hands. When the guns behind were fired, more than ten guns exploded.

Immediately afterwards, Yu Shanhu, the head of the third team, rushed over, shouting, "Save Lord Lin, kill the Tartars!"

After fighting for a while, they began to retreat backwards. Although the guerrilla Hou Fangke tried his best to suppress them, the northern captive cavalry had already rushed forward. The most important thing for infantry to fight cavalry was to rely on strict battle formation and strong will.

Seeing the thousands of Mongolian cavalry rushing towards him, Zhang Guodong didn't take it seriously at all. He knew clearly that even if these Mongolian Tartars were able to charge forward under the fire of their own muskets, they must be like the end of a crossbow. Under the attack of the soldier killer, he retreated miserably.

The more Lin Fangping wanted to withstand the impact of Aobai, the deeper the tiger spear pierced his abdomen, and as the wound was mobilized, the pain became stronger and stronger one after another.

Fortunately, they intercepted the Mongolian soldiers of the Zhenghuang Banner from the flanks in time, so Hou Fangke had a chance to stabilize his position. He killed more than a dozen sergeants who were timidly retreating on the spot, and regrouped and went into battle again.

"Here."

"Also, send an order to Yu Jin and Gou Changsheng, ordering them to immediately lead a surprise army to support Wang Zheng and Fu Dianzuo."

"Here."

Zhang Chengfang promised loudly, and rushed to deliver the order.

Here, Wang Pu looked at the situation going to the battlefield, his body was trembling slightly, secretly glad that he was not in it, he took advantage of Zhang Cheng's inattention, rubbed his palms on his armor, and wiped his sweat quietly.