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Li Jiyu's Dengfeng Battalion is on the left, and He Zhenxiong's Right Wing Battalion is on the right. Next, guard the left wing of the army to prevent possible sneak attacks by slaves.

Before they left, their minds still echoed the earnest admonition of their master Zhang Cheng: "...the key to this battle is not whether we can kill the Tartars in front of us, nor how many Tartars we can kill.

The key to this battle is you, whether you can advance smoothly, break through the enslaved soldiers and horses outside Nanguan, and join up with Zu Dashou's soldiers and horses who are waiting for reinforcements in Jinzhou City, is the key to this battle. "

"...The siege of Jinzhou can be solved in this way, and the slaves and bandits will no longer be able to surround Jinzhou, and they will inevitably retreat. The Wu and Cao generals in the west, as well as my Xuanda army, will have no worries.

The success or failure of the Liao war depends on the performance of Quan Laier and others today.I hope you two can go northward with all your strength, take advantage of the unpreparedness of the slaves and bandits, attack their camps, fill up the trenches, and join the army outside the Nanguan with Zu Dashou! "

Both Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong kept Zhang Cheng's words in mind. Although the two of them had different backgrounds and origins, they were very similar in one thing.

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They were all military generals who later joined under Zhang Cheng's command. Although Li Jiyu came nearly a year earlier than He Zhenxiong, he was born in the wild, and this aid to Liao was his first battle after joining Zhang Cheng. Be good.

And although He Zhenxiong was born in the army, his ancestors were also old military households in Xuanfu Town. Although he didn't have any big names, his grandfather was also a thousand householder in his generation, so there is still some shadow.

And he is only 35 or [-] years old. He was also a servant under the command of General Yang Guozhu earlier. Because of his bravery in battle and his basic knowledge of writing, he was appreciated by Yang Guozhu, and he was promoted to the post of Chief Qian in the Zhenbiao Battalion.

"Reinforcements... are reinforcements..."

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Because there are tens of thousands of captive cavalry stationed in the south by Prince Daishan of the Qing Dynasty, the focus of defense on Yibai's side is Zu Dashou in Jinzhou City, to prevent them from suddenly rushing out to break through.

And I am even more worried about whether my future career will be affected if I perform poorly this time!

"...there is salvation...there is finally salvation...more than a year...the reinforcements are finally here..."

Daishan raised his hand abruptly, pointed to the battlefield to the south and said bitterly: "Azig, lead your warriors with white flags to go up there, and bring me back the head of that dog Zhang Cheng!"

However, he was originally trained by Yang Guozhu and promoted to his current position. No matter what, he would not betray his master, but no one thought that Yang Guozhu would die in this battle to aid Liao battlefield.

Seeing the flames in the camp from a distance, and the smoke pillars soaring to the sky, he was really anxious, but he couldn't quench his thirst. A sense of powerless frustration filled his heart and mind, and he felt nausea, dizziness, and vomiting. Then came the attack.

He waved his hand to call Azige, King of Wuying County who was gearing up, and said to him: "Minggou is desperate, and it seems that he wants to put all his eggs in one basket. This is the best time for our army to go all out and defeat it."

Now, he was suddenly entrusted with an important task by Zhang Cheng. He was both excited and worried. The reason why he was excited was because he finally had the opportunity to make a contribution on the battlefield and to show his loyalty to Zhang Cheng.

At the time when the imperial court issued a decree to train the new army, under the operation of Yang Guozhu, the chief soldier of the Xuanfu, He Zhenxiong was able to take the post of guerrilla general and temporarily serve as the head of the right-wing battalion of Xuanfu Zhenbiao.

Although Zu Dashou's side also has Liao soldiers who are good at shooting, and they also have some firearms such as bird guns, but they are still comparable to the Qing army in the south of the trench, and there is no obvious advantage.

It was as if he had just heard that the emperor wanted to marry his daughter to him, but all of a sudden, a wretched wife from his hometown came to him, and his son-in-law was not made, and he was about to be beheaded for the crime of deceiving the emperor.

At this moment, he is not the only one who sees the smoke and dust billowing from the south. This situation is like a person suffering from illness seeing the figure of a doctor, like a farmer who has been dry for a year seeing the dark clouds floating in the distance. generally.

However, only a small number of troops were deployed in the first two lines of defense. The purpose was obvious, that is, to use up the front two lines of defense to consume the vigor and physical strength of Zu Dashou's Liao soldiers so that he would not be able to pass through the area defended by his heavy troops. The third trench and natural moat.

All of a sudden, the seven thousand Liao soldiers who followed Zu Dashou out of the city to kill slaves quickly mixed into one voice, "Kill...kill...kill..."

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Therefore, Yibai deployed all the main force in front of the trench to block Zu Dashou who wanted to break out, lest they break through the encirclement and go out to cause trouble for Prince Li.

Although King Qin had finished his service back then, He Zhenxiong was promoted to the post of guerrilla general after returning to Xuanfu, and served as the chief general of the Zhenbiao Right Wing Battalion.

The whole feeling of "from the sky to the ground" is like a person who has been blindfolded and made a roller coaster, wandering up and down up and down, as if he has tossed and shifted his internal organs.

Just as Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong led their troops to advance towards the Qing army's Weijin defense line in the north, Zu Dashou, who was trapped in Jinzhou City, was already one step ahead, leading more than [-] brave Liao soldiers to rush out.

The sudden arrival of the Ming army made Zhenyibai of Gushan Erzhenyibai in the Zhengbai Banner of Mongolia lose his sense of proportion in an instant.

"...thank God...really thank God..."

In fact, this can't be completely blamed on Yibai, after all, there are more than [-] Qing warriors from Prince Li Daishan to the south of him. With so many forces, how can they have the ability to divide the troops into northern criminals?

Let's not talk about anything else, let's just say that the old subordinates who followed Zhang Cheng to King Jingqin back then, such as Zhang Guangda, Chen Zheng, Lin Fangping, etc., were originally just a hundred households and general banners, and now they are all promoted to guerrillas like him.

In fact, it wasn't that he didn't want to go to Zhang Cheng at that time, but he couldn't show it because of the face of the old general Guo Yingxian.

Unexpectedly, the Ming army seemed to descend from the sky, and suddenly appeared behind Yibai. He was defenseless behind him, and he had no time to deploy his troops back to defend in a hurry.

At the same time, Yibai, who led the army back to help, had a head as big as a mountain. Before he had time to rush back to the camp to defend, the forward cavalry of the Ming army had already rushed in.

"The Xuanfu army is coming!"

Like a ferocious beast out of trouble, the Liao soldiers in the city of Jinzhou didn't even need to be urged by their own generals, and they ran madly to the Qing army tartars stationed outside the city to kill them.

Now, the old soldier Yang Guozhu died in Liaodong, He Zhenxiong immediately lost a strong backing, and his foundation in the Xuanfu was still weak, so he couldn't make a living independently.

Zu Dashou was immediately overjoyed. He seemed to have seen that the two armies joined forces to defeat the Mongolian Tartars who blocked him in front, and after the victory joined forces, they continued to attack and kill the other slaves who were besieging the city.

Dai Shan, Prince of the Qing Dynasty, has also discovered that the Xuan army of the Ming Dynasty on the opposite side seems to have gone crazy, and the whole army is pressing on regardless. It seems that they are going to fight their own Qing warriors?

What worries him is that he is afraid that he will be entrusted with important tasks by Zhang Cheng for the first time. If he fails to do well, how will he be worthy of Zhang Cheng's trust and reuse.

It can be seen from this that the speed of promotion under Zhang Cheng's command is indeed unmatched by other places, and he has long known the treatment of Zhang Chengxuan's soldiers in the Northern Army, and he is silently looking forward to his own right-wing battalion, and one day it will be the same .

Even the wider and higher second trench defense line quickly fell under Zu Dashou's fierce offensive, but the third trench defense line, which was the widest and deepest, became an insurmountable moat for Zu Dashou.

Sure enough, the Liao soldiers, who were as fierce as tigers and wolves, had no choice but to stop in the third ditch. On the south side of the ditch, there were firecrackers from the Han army's Tartars, and even more bows and arrows from the northern Mongolian Tartars.

"A long drought meets rain", how can it not make people crazy?

Later, in the winter of the 11th year of Chongzhen, Zhang Yan, the general of the Xuanfu, died in the Battle of Julu, and the remnants of the right-wing battalion who broke out from the siege were all taken away by Zhang Cheng.

These Liao soldiers who fought bravely like wolves and tigers were trapped in Jinzhou City for a long time. They couldn't eat well or sleep well all day long, guarding against the possible attack of the slaves.

As expected, after Zu Dashou's Liao soldiers left the city, they rushed like wolves and tigers, and they quickly broke through the first ditch and low wall defense line.

But Yibai was unwilling to give up at this point, no matter what the result was, he had to fight hard again, because if he retreated like this, Dorgon would not forgive him.

Unable to suppress the blunderbuss and bows of the Qing soldiers on the opposite side, it was impossible to fill the trenches or build bridges. Looking at the natural moat that was close at hand, Zu Dashou's eyes were about to burst, but there was nothing he could do.

They would have had enough of living like this. If they hadn't hoped to be saved one day and have the opportunity to reunite with their relatives in Songshan, Xingshan, Gaoqiao, and Ningyuan, they would have gone out of the city to look for Tatars. The child is desperate.

"...really...really...reinforcements are coming..."

But even so, Yibai still had to struggle hard, he could only hope that the Ming army that came suddenly was not those brave Xuanfu soldiers who were not afraid of death.

However, Zhang Cheng's achievements are even more brilliant. He used the power of beheading Mazhan and Yuetuo to go out of the town on Xuanfu North Road. Lieutenant general, until now he has been promoted to the high position of Xuanfu's chief soldier.

At that time, Zhang Cheng had been promoted from a general manager of Qian to a guerrilla general because of his meritorious service, and he was even more appreciated and trusted by Lu Xiangsheng, the governor of Xuanda at the time. This made He Zhenxiong, who was also the general manager of Qian, really envious.

Seeing that Jinzhou was about to break out of the siege, Zu Dashou let out an angry roar: "Boys, charge me! Kill the Tartars, avenge blood, kill, kill, kill..."

It was precisely because of the above reasons and reasons that Li Jiyu and He Zhenxiong both cheered up 12 points, urging their respective soldiers to speed up and rush northward.

Ibai's Mongolian Zhengbai Banner is in charge of stationing in the south of Jinzhou City. In addition to the Mongolian Zhengbai Banner, there are more than 3000 troops from Outer Mongolia and nearly [-] Han soldiers. The army has [-] troops.

Nearly half of the Mongol Tartars here returned to the rear, and Zu Dashou's pressure suddenly eased. In addition, the soldiers all saw the hope of life and the dawn of victory, so they naturally became more desperate.

Just when he was at his wit's end, a cloud of smoke and dust rose into the sky from the south of the Zhengbai Banner camp in Ibai Mongolia, opposite the trench defense line.

Moreover, Zu Dashou, who was trapped in Jinzhou City, sent troops to break through the siege several times before, but was stopped by the slaves in front of the three siege trenches. Yibai expected that even if Zu Dashou went out to fight again, he would still be in front of the strong defense line of Jinzhou. Return with a broken halberd.

As one of the confidantes of veteran soldier Yang Guozhu, He Zhenxiong is no stranger to Zhang Cheng. He had a deep impression of Zhang Cheng during the Battle of Julu.

Several previous breakouts have been blocked by this wide trench, and the sense of powerlessness is suffocating. Now that I am desperately trying to win the final hope of breaking through, but I have to stop here again, how can I be satisfied.

But since then, although He Zhenxiong has been under the control of Zhang Cheng, the new general of Xuanfu, he has never had the opportunity to show it, but he is secretly worried.

Of course, even if it is a natural moat, it is not insurmountable. The main reason is that the cunning Yibai thinks that Zu Dashou will not be able to break through this third line of defense several times, so he concentrates his main force here.

Just then he was dizzy for a while, but after two mouthfuls of blood protruded out one after another, Ibaidun felt much lighter. He waved the long machete in his hand, roared wildly, and rushed to his camp to take the lead.

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And now that Jinzhou is expected to get out of the siege, how could they not be excited?

All of a sudden, arrows from the guns and arrows flew towards the Tartars in the south of the ditch. Even the soldiers who filled the ditch no longer cherished their lives.

In the end, under Guo Yingxian's strong support, the decision to join Zhang Cheng was made, and then the imperial decree came that Zhang Cheng succeeded the chief military officer of Xuanfu Town, and the matter came to an end naturally.

But it was also because of Yang Guozhu's sacrifice for the country that He Zhenxiong had the opportunity to take refuge in Zhang Cheng's command. In the dark, maybe everything was God's will!
At the beginning, He Zhenxiong was still immersed in the grief of losing his master. It wasn't until later that the news spread that Li Fuming was going to take over the Xuanfu Army, and he found Tang Xiancheng, the governor, and hurried to discuss countermeasures with veteran Guo Yingxian.

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

Zhang Cheng's all kinds of things really made He Zhenxiong admire him so much!
What's more, there is the veteran master Yang Guozhu in front of him, always praising Zhang Cheng for his excellence, and his future achievements must be limitless.

Now, he found that reinforcements from his own side had arrived on the opposite side. It was like when he was about to be beheaded, there was a roar from a distance, "Keep people under the knife", why not make people happy?

"Whoo."

Azig almost shouted to receive orders.

Since the beginning of the war this morning, Azig has been clamoring for war repeatedly, but Daishan has been suppressing him for some reason, and sent all the other Manchurian and Mongolian flags up, but Azig's white flag was captured by him. stay in the army.

Now, Azig finally got his military order to fight, how could he not be excited, he clasped his fists and shouted: "Don't worry, Big Baylor, Azig and Zhang Cheng are inseparable, if he is killed before the battle, it will be easier for him.

Big Baylor please wait for the good news again, Azige will capture the barbarian back and let Big Baylor deal with it! "