Morale is the most important thing for an army. If the morale is there, even in the face of great difficulties, there is the courage to survive. Moreover, Bolo has another reason why he must fight, and that is the Daishan Department of Shanhaiguan.

There are also 5,000 Qing soldiers led by Dai Shan in Shanhaiguan, although they are all old and weak soldiers, but they are also an important force in the Qing Dynasty. After all, there are more than 40,000 men in the entire Qing Dynasty.

And if the 20,000 Ming army can't be defeated, there will be no possibility of retreat for the Daishan Division!

So when Bolo mentioned Dai Shan and the 5,000 Eight Banner soldiers, Zilharang could only agree to fight with the Ming army.

After deliberation, it was decided that Bolo would go with 20,000 troops to join up with Luckdhun and be responsible for defeating the Ming army. The remaining 10,000 people were led by Zilharang, who were still guarding outside Ningyuan City, maintaining a deterrent to Ningyuan. After all, there are still many people who have not crossed Ningyuan safely.

"Lord Wang. After I led the army away, the army camp was still retained, and you set up more flags and put on the appearance that the army was still there, so as to confuse the Ming army in Ningyuan. Bolo said to Zilharang.

After all, there are only 10,000 people left, and if they are detected by Ning Yuan's Ming army, they will inevitably come to attack.

"Don't worry. If the Ming army dares to attack, even if there are only 10,000 people, this king can defeat the Ming army! Zilharang said with indignation. He is also a veteran of a hundred battles, he led the army to fight Mongolia and the Ming Dynasty, how could he be afraid! Moreover, there are still five or six thousand Eight Banner soldiers gathered in the Haizhou area outside the Guan, and they have already received orders to come to support.

Taking advantage of the night, Bolo quietly left the camp with 20,000 Eight Banner soldiers and headed southwest.

The Qing army marched out of the camp in a big way, and it was impossible not to move. After receiving the report, the Ming army under Ningyuan City thought that the Qing army had plans to attack at night, and began to nervously defend the embankment. Who knew that until dawn, there was no Qing army coming.

"Strange, what happened to the Qing army last night?" Looking at the camp of the Qing army in the distance, Wu Ping was very puzzled.

"General, the Qing army camp is very calm today, and it seems that there is no plan to attack us." Yingzheng Hou Yi said.

Yes, it's a little calm, Wu Ping held up the clairglass and looked over, and saw the banner of the Qing army camp waving, and the camp was heavily guarded, and he couldn't see anything abnormal, but he just felt that something was wrong there. The Qing army moved a lot last night, why is it so calm now?

It wasn't until noon that a messenger came from Juehua Island to report the news from Wupingshan Customs. Only then did Wu Ping know that it turned out that Jin Xin was attacking with an army.

"Oops, most of the Qing army must have gone to attack Jin Xin!" Wu Ping suddenly understood, "I have to send a letter to Jin Xin to tell the news that the Qing army is going to attack him!" ”

"The Qing army left at night, it has been half a day, and now the road is blocked by the Qing army, even if we send someone to deliver the letter, how can we avoid the interception of the Qing army?" Hou Yi said.

"Take the sea route, you immediately return the same way, and let Juehua Island send a speedboat, go around to the front of the Qing army, and send a letter to Jin Xin!" Wu Ping instructed the messenger.

Seeing the messenger rushing away, Wu Ping turned his face and began to order, "Since most of the Qing army is going to attack Jinxin, there are not many troops in the Qing army camp outside the city, this is our opportunity!" ”

Hou Yi was overjoyed when he heard this: "General, give the order, I am willing to lead the team as the vanguard and launch a fierce attack on the Qing army camp!" ”

Wu Ping smiled: "Don't worry, doesn't the Qing army want to play yin for us, okay, Lao Tzu will play with them!" Hou Yi, I will give you 5,000 troops, and you will lead the troops out of Ningyuan to attack all the way to the east. ”

"General, the Qing army is in the northwest of us, why is it going east?" Hou Yi was puzzled.

"I didn't let you attack the Qing army, but asked you to lead your troops to intercept and kill the Manchu people. The Manchurians are now in a hurry to retreat outside the pass, originally the main force of the 30,000 Qing army was there, and we didn't dare to leave Ningyuan easily to deal with them. Now that the Qing army is looking for death by itself, they have to deal with Jin Xin, I see how they can protect their people! Wu Ping sneered.

"Yes, General!" Although he was reluctant to send himself to hunt down the civilians, Hou Yi agreed.

"Don't be reluctant, northeast of Ningyuan is Jinzhou, which is Liaodong, and there are still thousands of Qing troops there, and it is very likely that they will be transferred by the Manchu court to support." Wu Ping admonished.

"Yes, I'll be careful." Hearing that it was likely to encounter the Manchu army, Hou Yi left with a smile.

Hou Yi led the army away, and Wu Ping immediately began to deploy. The troops in Ningyuan City were all transferred out of the city, leaving only a thousand soldiers to defend the city. In this way, Wu Ping still had more than 15,000 people in his hands, all of whom were deployed outside the city. However, he did not attack immediately, but waited for his moment.

"What, a Ming army went out of Ningyuan and went east to kill?" The Qing army camp, after receiving the report, Zilharang was shocked.

Hundreds of thousands of Manchu people are on the way to retreat, and the farthest one has just arrived in Jinzhou, if these thousands of Ming troops chase and kill the past, I don't know how many people will die tragically in the hands of the Ming army. As the regent of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, how could he watch such a thing happen?

"Lord Wang, send a letter to Bolobel, and ask him to bring his troops back quickly." A subordinate nervously said.

"What's the panic?" Zilharang reprimanded, "It's been a day since Bolo sent his troops, maybe he is about to fight the Ming army, how can he easily return?" What is there to be afraid of in the Ming army, don't we still have 10,000 troops! ”

Zilharang immediately ordered to send out 3,000 banners to pursue and protect the retreating people. He himself took the remaining 7,000 troops out of the camp and lined up in front of the trench to deter the Ming army in Ningyuan.

Seeing the Qing army out of the camp, Wu Ping and 15,000 troops were also arrayed inside the trench and confronted the Qing army from afar.

Looking at the Ming army waiting in the distance, Jierharang sneered, the Ming army actually divided its troops to attack the people of the Qing Dynasty, didn't you know that the 5,008 banners outside the pass had arrived in Jinzhou, and they were rushing to come at the same time, and the 3,008 banners sent by themselves were attacked on both sides, and there was no problem in destroying this Ming army!

"Hehe, full of dogs, I want to play yin with Lao Tzu!" Seeing that the Qing army sent troops to pursue Hou Yi's troops, Wu Ping sneered. Immediately, another 5,000 troops were sent east to pursue the Qing army. The remaining 10,000 people pressed towards the Qing army camp.

The Ming artillery was the first to fire, and dozens of shells flew into the Qing array, opening the prelude to the war.

Under the command of Wu Ping, the 10,000 Ming army was divided into three divisions and slowly pressed towards the Qing army.

At this time, Zilharang had no way to divide his troops to reinforce the 3,000 men he had sent, because he only had 7,000 soldiers left in his hands, and if he divided his troops, he would not have enough troops to hold his position.

Kill, first repel the Ming army in front of you, and then divide the troops to protect the retreating people, Zilharang quickly made up his mind and began to command the army to engage the Ming army.

The two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties fought together again across the trench, arrows flew one after another, bullets rained down like a curtain, and they began to shoot at each other across a narrow trench.

Of course, this trench could not stop the army at all, and in fact during the previous day's fighting, the trench had long been filled in enough to pass normally.

Worried about the retreating people, Zilharang commanded his men to take the lead in the attack, crossing the trench and fighting with the Ming army.

The strength of the two sides is 7,000 on one side and 10,000 on the other, and the number of the Ming army is even more, but the combat effectiveness is not as good as the Eight Banners.

To the west of Ningyuan City, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties fought fiercely. To the east of Ningyuan City, the battle has also begun. Seeing a 5,000-strong Ming army chasing after them, the 3,000 Eight Banner soldiers who attacked to protect the people immediately turned their heads and launched an attack on the Ming army, and the two sides fought together.

The Ming army greeted each other in a phalanx and took a defensive position to resist the frantic attacks of the Eight Banners. Most of Wu Ping's subordinates are Jiaodong soldiers who have just joined the army, and they have only joined the army for less than a year.

After all, compared with the Eight Banners trained by professional soldiers since childhood, the Ming army, which had just turned from a peasant into a soldier, could not be compared at all.

However, relying on strict training and a tight array, the Ming army still attacked in front of the Eight Banners.

The bows and arrows of the Eight Banners are very powerful, and the arrows fly in from time to time through the gaps in the shields of the Ming army, shooting into the body of the Ming army, and from time to time the Ming soldiers scream and fall under the arrows, and then they are dragged to the formation, and the soldiers behind immediately make up for it, keeping the integrity of the phalanx.

In the phalanx, the Ming army's musketeers were also colored, but although the firecrackers had strong armor-piercing ability, the rate of fire was too slow to suppress the Qing army at all, but from time to time, there were firecrackers who fell under the arrows of the Qing army.

Obviously, the number of 5,000 people was nearly twice that of the Qing army, but they were pressed and beaten by the Qing army.

"Hahaha" Seeing that it would not take much time to break through the Ming army's defenses, Meler, who was led by the Qing army, laughed wildly.

At this moment, a Qing army sentry scout rode a fast horse and galloped over, "Lord Ezhen, the Ming army is coming from the east, and we will soon be attacked by the Ming army." ”

"What?" Mailer was shocked.

"Quick, quick, speed up!" Hou Yi anxiously urged, and five thousand soldiers marched quickly.

led his troops to attack and made a posture of chasing and killing the Manchu people, and in fact, he really killed many Manchu people who fled to the east of Ningyuan. But this was just to confuse the Qing army, and the real purpose of Wu Ping sending him to attack was to mobilize the Qing army outside the city and create an opportunity to defeat the Qing army.

And now, a Qing army is chasing and killing, and the time has finally come, first eat this pursuing Qing army, and then turn back and attack the main force of the Qing army outside Ningyuan City with General Wu Ping, such a big victory can be expected!

Hou Yi led his troops out of the city for more than ten miles, and it was only in the afternoon when he returned all the way to the battlefield, and at this moment, the three thousand eight banners were pressing the five thousand Ming army to attack, and the Ming army was crumbling.

"Kill!" Unable to rest and regain his strength, Hou Yi immediately commanded the army to attack.

"Bang bang bang" firecrackers in front, shooting a barrage like raindrops towards the Qing army, three stacks of formations unfolded, the front row of firecrackers shot through, the back row of firecrackers immediately continued to shoot forward, the barrage shot endlessly, and the Qing troops who were divided to meet the Qing army fell to the ground one after another.

Five thousand soldiers, with fifteen hundred musketeers, were divided into three rows and fired in rotation. The rain of bullets was so dense that the 1,000 and 8 banner soldiers assigned by Meler Ezhen could not stop the attack of the Ming army at all, and before they could meet the Ming army that was flanked, three or four hundred people had already been shot, and the rest of the soldiers were already cold!

The Musketers, in this special battlefield, have finally exerted their power! Although the Qing soldiers had archers, when they were attacked by the Ming army from both sides, the number of archers that could be mobilized was limited, and they could not suppress the Ming army's gunners at all.

Seeing Hou Yi returning with his troops, the morale of the Ming army, which was fighting fiercely with the Qing army and was about to collapse, suddenly soared, and now his own number is far greater than that of the Qing army, and it is a two-sided attack, it is the time to annihilate the Qing army and make great contributions!

"Lord Ezhen, I can't hold it!" A soldier ran over with a bloody face and said to Meler.

Needless to say, Meler had already seen that few of the 1,000 soldiers who were blocking had been shot, and the Ming infantry of the brigade was outflanking from both flanks.

"Go and send a letter to the Vice-Chancellor and tell him about the situation here!" Meler called out to one of his men and ordered him to deliver a message to Zilharang. You can't escape by yourself, but at least you need to tell Jierharang about the situation here, and after the Ming army destroys you, you will definitely return to the city of Ningyuan and attack Jierharang's headquarters.

In addition to the frontal attack of the firecrackers, Hou Yi also divided two armies to outflank from both wings, and nearly 10,000 Ming troops surrounded less than 2,000 Qing soldiers on all sides and attacked endlessly.

Soon, with the last Qing soldier killed, the battle finally stopped, and the two Ming armies joined together.

"General Hou!" The reinforcement battalion was saluting Hou Yi, "Shall we return to Ningyuan immediately to reinforce General Wu?" ”

Hou Yi looked at the sky: "It's about to get dark, and there are still six or seven miles away from Ningyuan." By the time we arrive at the battlefield, the battle will definitely be over a long time ago, and the Qing soldiers already know what is going on here, and they will not wait for us to attack any longer. ”

The Qing army is not stupid, after being eaten an army, where will it do it and wait to be killed, everyone understands this.

"But General Wu is still fighting fiercely with the Qing army." Ying Zheng hesitated, although he knew that he would not be able to catch up even if he rushed back now, but the Lord was fighting with the Qing army, and he had to at least show an attitude.

Hou Yi couldn't help laughing: "You can go back now." ”

"What about you?"

"I'll take a breath here, and then turn around and go after the Manchu people!"

It was already dusk, and the battalion was still walking with his men on the road back to Ningyuan, a distance of six or seven miles seemed not far, but for an army that had been fighting for half a day, it was very long.

However, the battalion was not in a hurry, because the sound of fighting could not be heard at all, indicating that the fighting outside Ningyuan City had also stopped.

Sure enough, when he rushed back to Ningyuan with his troops, the battle was over.

Hearing that the chasing army had fallen into the trap of the Ming army, Zilharang knew that he had been tricked, and decisively ordered the army to retreat and end the battle with the Ming army.

After fighting for most of the day, they couldn't defeat the Qing army, the Ming army was already exhausted, the sky was dark again, and Wu Ping did not order to chase after him. The battle ended like this, and Wu Ping led his troops back to the camp under the city of Ningyuan. As for Zilharang, after losing 3,000 soldiers, he was at an absolute disadvantage compared to the Ming army, and he didn't dare to stay in Ningyuan longer, so he led his troops west to chase Bolo at night.