"Fight," in the woods, the six thousand soldiers and horses led by Dongfeng Po suddenly rushed out and squatted down, shooting at the Qing soldiers and horses running over.

The soldiers and horses of the Qing army fell to the ground one after another, the formation was chaotic, and then the cannonballs fell, although it was a solid bullet, it also made the Qing army worse, the cavalry fell off their horses, the cannonballs smashed down on the turf, and then bounced up, the turf unloaded part of the impact force, and still smashed the Qing cavalry off the horseback, and then the cannonball did not stop, swept the head of a Qing soldier next to him, and hit the head of the cavalry behind, the war horse neighed, and the head was smashed to pieces.

Although only a few shells, but caused the Qing army brigade to be chaotic, have turned around and fled, the Qing soldiers behind the team killed more than a dozen deserters in a row and had no way to control the team, at this time the Chinese cavalry attacked, 1,200 cavalry, from both sides to hold the Qing army, a row of fire strikes, and then brandished the saber and rushed into the Qing army formation, the Qing army collapsed.

They all fled.

The Huaxia army chased the Qing army until it rushed to the front of the Qing army camp, only to stop, the Qing army fled into the camp, the Huaxia army gathered the soldiers and horses, the Huaxia army fought more and more, and the Dongfeng Po who followed behind found the remaining soldiers and horses of the first brigade, the remaining soldiers and horses of the second brigade, and also caught some servant troops who wanted to escape from the battlefield, and continued to drive them into the ranks, so the strength increased to more than 8,000 people.

When the three brigades were rebuilt, the Huaxia army surrounded the last camp of the Qing army, and more than a dozen cannons added up to bombard the camp of the Qing army.

Then the prisoners of war charged, the civilian soldiers charged, the servant army charged, and several charges, although they did not enter the enemy camp, also consumed the enemy's ammunition and some troops.

When the cavalry returned, it had expanded to 1,500 troops, and some of the Mongol cavalry had surrendered.

"In one charge, the whole army charged, and took the enemy camp in one fell swoop." Dongfeng Po rode on his horse, shouting loudly as he ran past the teams, and the guards around him repeated his words loudly.

Nearly 4,000 infantry troops stormed the enemy camp, and with the support of artillery fire, the Qing camp was breached.

Suo Etu fled from the rear of the camp with a few hundred of his relatives, leaving 50,000 or 60,000 troops on the battlefield.

"Cavalry pursuit," Dongfeng Po ordered the cavalry to pursue, and at the same time ordered the soldiers to clean up the battlefield, collect enemy troops, and take prisoners.

A day passed, and Dongfeng broke the tired team back to the city.

Hu Kui stood on the city gate tower and looked at him, and after the two met, Hu Kui smiled and said, "Congratulations, you have won a big battle." Lifted the siege of Huailai County and routed the enemy. ”

Dongfeng Po said a little tiredly: "This time Suo Etu is over, we have killed more than 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Qing army, defeated 100,000 troops, captured more than 3,000 Mongolian cavalry, more than 3,000 Manchu Qing soldiers, more than 8,000 Han army banners, and more than 10,000 green battalion soldiers. The enemy's cannon fodder is as many as 30,000 people, including young and strong, common people, village warriors, regimental members, family members, and so on. ”

"What should I do with so many prisoners, now there are not many soldiers in our pure Huaxia Army, they are all prisoners and servant troops."

"Yes, the combined soldiers of our two families are only more than 3,000 soldiers, the servant army soldiers have 8,000 soldiers, the captive soldiers have 5,000 soldiers, and the people have 3,000 troops, and the Qing soldiers captured this time have more than 30,000 prisoners, not counting their cannon fodder soldiers, people, village warriors, and regimental soldiers, this time there are 70,000 or 80,000 people."

While the two of them were worried, a messenger came in, "Report to the two generals, the 1st Field Division has sent a brigade, which is less than half a day's journey from us and is passing through the mountains.

Division Commander Zhao Hu sent me to tell the two generals that this time the Qing troops concentrated a total of 1.2 million troops to attack our corps, and all three field divisions were surrounded, and the corps headquarters was also besieged, so it was impossible to reinforce you at once.

The Bagyalu Corps, which had arrived in the rear, was advancing urgently, and now had made peace with our troops, and was speeding up, and we had routed the enemy in front of the enemy. ”

"Oh, what's wrong with General Wang Dong?" Hu Kui asked his 3rd Field Division.

The messenger said: "General Wang Dong first attacked the county seat of Tianjin, and then was driven away by the enemy, and had to retreat to the dock, and then the 17th Field Division of the Zhu Ge Corps reinforced them They have now recaptured the county seat of Tianjin, and formed an encirclement posture in the east in the face of the enemy's Beijing division Yanjing, and the 17th Field Brigade has sent a brigade to reinforce our first field division to relieve the siege for us, and we have captured the county seat of Zhuozhou." And held. ”

"In addition, the Eighth Field Division has set out from Datong Mansion and defeated the 200,000 Qing soldiers and horses brought by the enemy Duolong in Zhangjiakou, and is sending a field brigade to reinforce you."

"Oh, alright, the tide is turning, we can rest for a while." Dongfeng Po said tiredly leaning back in his chair.

The messenger glanced at Hu Kui, and then said: "General Hu, you were relieved of your position as commander of the First Corps because of the rash advance of the first corps, and the General Staff asked you to go back to report on your work and return to the position of commander of the Guards Regiment." ”

"Ah," Hu Kui was a little stunned, he felt that his eyes were a little moist, this was a failure in his military career for so many years, a stain, although the position of the pro-guard regiment was very high, he might not lead troops again after he could, where is now a civilian.

He has to go back and be Zhang Qiang's personal guard captain again.

"And who is the commander of the corps?" Dongfeng Po glanced at Hu Kui and asked softly.

The messenger said: "The General Staff is planned to be the acting commander of Zhao Hu's corps, he has already arrived with the reinforced field brigade, and you will serve as the commander of the first field division, and the sixteenth field division will be withdrawn because of heavy losses, and the remaining forces will be merged into the first field division." ”

Dongfeng Po couldn't accept this fact, "Removed his 16th Field Division." "When he broke through before, he sent troops to the First Field Division to ask for reinforcements, because the headquarters was surrounded, he could only ask the First Field Division for reinforcements, and at the same time brought his situation here.

Dongfeng Po and Hu Kui were smoking sullenly, both of them were very depressed, and they seemed to be promoted, but they were all stained on their backs, this time it seemed that the two of them played well, but both of them were punished for this.

"Report,"

"Come in,"

"What's the matter?"

"The cavalry returned, and they killed Soetu and brought back Soetu's body."

Dongfeng Po and Hu Kui looked at each other and smiled bitterly, this good news came a little late, if it could be a few days earlier, then they wouldn't be like this, kill the enemy's general, or Suo Etu, the Qing army's clan Manchu general who is on the list of their Chinese army, this is a huge victory, a great merit, maybe it can offset this mistake.

"It's a good thing, it's a good thing, the two of you played well." Zhao Hu clapped his hands and walked in, and the two of them hurriedly got up, they are now the acting corps commanders, and their positions are higher than them, but the two of them really don't want to see this guy, for these people from the intelligence department, people from other departments of the Huaxia Army actually respect them, not salty or light.

And those in the intelligence department are a little cold and arrogant, and they don't like them.

Zhao Hu was originally an intelligence cadre under Mi Lin, and later came to the army as a general, leading soldiers and horses, which made the soldiers who have always liked straightforwardness very unhappy.

Zhao Hu looked at Dongfeng Po, "Clean up, pack up and leave, take your remnants of the defeated army, go back to take over the First Field Division as soon as possible, don't make my First Field Division as weak and incompetent as your Sixteenth Field Division, I'm looking at you." ”

(End of chapter)