The defeated Ming soldiers threw down their swords and sticks and fled to the avenue ahead. The Qing army covered up behind the scenes, and Mu Zhan took the lead, cutting down a number of Ming army foot soldiers who failed to run away.

However, the mountain road was narrow, and the horse traps and various obstacles on the road affected the performance of the Eight Banners cavalry, so that Mu Zhan and them could not chase and kill the Ming army happily. After chasing for a while, the cavalry of the Eight Banners encountered a trap in the horse, and the horse lost its front hooves and was thrown off the horse. After chasing for a while, the deer in front of him, with wooden stakes inserted on the ground to block the way of the Eight Banners, made the Qing army have to stop the pursuit and dismount to clear the obstacles.

Li Dingguo was defeated and withdrew from Liangli with the defeat of the Ming army. Seeing that the Qing army behind him was far away from him, Li Dingguo gathered the defeated troops and turned back to fight again, but was defeated again.

Mu Zhan led the Eight Banners cavalry in pursuit, and the Qing infantry was left far behind.

The Qing army chased the Ming army all the way, and just chased out about two miles of road, but heard a roar of war drums in the jungle on both sides, and dense pikemen came out, followed by firecrackers with firearms and archers with rifles.

"Ambush!" Mu Zhan was shocked, but he was not afraid, because there were not many ambushes in the Ming army, so Mu Zhan galloped on his horse and killed the Ming army, trying to break through the Ming army and prevent them from forming a formation by taking advantage of the opportunity when these ambushes had just rushed out and had not yet formed a formation.

At this moment, Mu Zhan only heard a thunderous roar: "Dog Tartar, Li Dingguo, King of Jin, is here!" Die quickly! ”

Mu Zhan turned his head to look, but saw a golden helmet and gold-armored general rushing out of the woods, the spear in his hand pierced out like lightning, and in the blink of an eye, two Eight Banner cavalrymen had died under Li Dingguo's spear.

"Li Dingguo in front is still running, why is there another Li Dingguo?" Mu Zhan was very surprised.

However, this Mu Zhan is a fierce general after all, and when he saw the real Li Dingguo, he did not panic, but yelled: "The thief leader Li Dingguo is in front." Kill the pseudo-Jin king, and reward 2,000 taels of silver! Capture the pseudo-Jin king alive, and reward 5,000 taels of silver! ”

Under the heavy reward, the morale of the Eight Banners cavalry was greatly boosted, and they all killed Li Dingguo. At this moment, a thunderous roar sounded in the mountain forest. Twelve huge war elephants came out from both sides, and the first one raised its nose and let out a long roar.

When the Qing army saw the war elephants, the war horses felt frightened, and several of the horses of the Eight Banners were frightened and raised their front hooves and lifted the owners on horseback off their horses. I saw white smoke spewing out of the back of the war elephant, the musket in the hand of the elephant soldier roared, and several Eight Banner cavalry fell off their horses in response to the sound of the gun.

"Bang bang bang" The muskets in the hands of the Ming army's infantry soldiers also erupted into a burst of gunfire like fried beans, and more than a dozen Eight Banner cavalry were immediately beaten into a sieve.

The war elephant approached step by step with heavy steps. The long snout was raised, and the elephant let out a long, earth-shattering roar. The Eight Banners cavalry was in a mess, and the knights on horseback could no longer control their horses, and the horses were scurrying around, colliding with each other, and many people fell off their horses and were trampled to death by the frightened horses.

In the panic, Mu Zhan was picked off the horse by Li Dingguo, who rushed to him unexpectedly. This later Manchu "famous general". In the end, he helped Kangxi to take charge of the Eight Banners and defeat Wang Fuchen's rebellion. Before he could play his due role in history, he was killed by Li Dingguo.

"Kill the Tartars!" Li Dingguo pointed his spear.

The remnants of the Eight Banners cavalry wanted to flee, but who knew that countless Ming spearmen appeared on both sides of the mountains and forests, blocking the retreat of the Qing army. Random arrows and guns rained down on the Eight Banners cavalry, knocking over many people and horses.

The horses had lost their speed, and the retreat was completely blocked. Look at the forest of spears that shimmer with cold light. The horses of the Eight Banners did not dare to rush forward. The war elephants behind were approaching step by step, causing the panic of the war horses. Seeing that they couldn't rush out, the remaining Eight Banners jumped off their horses one after another and shot the Ming army blocking the road in front with bows and arrows.

The armor of these Ming troops blocking the road was shining, and they were completely different from Li Dingguo's other soldiers. I saw that they were wearing a whole piece of armor that shone with white light. Even the face is protected by an iron mask, and the weapons in his hands are even more uniform, the spear in his hand is four feet long, and the spear forest is mixed with a strange weapon that looks like a long-handled two-edged axe, and some book spears. These elite Ming troops were all veterans of Li Dingguo's department, they put on the armor provided by Wang Xinyu to Li Dingguo, used sophisticated weapons, and added sufficient food, this Ming army suddenly became an invincible and strong army.

The bows and arrows of the Qing soldiers were shot at these Ming soldiers, but they were all bounced off by the sturdy armor and could not penetrate at all. Only a few Ming soldiers were shot in the forearms and calves without armor protection and fell to the ground with a scream, but the Ming troops behind immediately filled the vacant positions.

"Kill!" Seeing that the bow and arrow could not cause much damage to the opponent, the fierce Eight Banners soldiers drew their swords one after another, showed their axes, maces, hammers and other melee weapons, and rushed towards the Ming formation.

There is an elite ironclad Ming army in front, a war elephant in the back, and the main general has been killed, these Eight Banners soldiers can only make a desperate bet.

The Ming army set up a formation, the pikemen in front blocked the road of the Qing army, and the musketeers and archers in the back output firepower, overturning many Eight Banners soldiers who rushed in front.

"Kill!" A bearded and fierce-looking soldier of the Eight Banners rushed to the front of the Ming army, he already had seven or eight arrows hanging on his body, but the cotton armor absorbed most of the energy, and the feather arrows did not hurt the Qing soldier very much.

The spear pierced like a poisonous snake's letter, and the Eight Banners soldier was pierced by three spears, spitting out a mouthful of blood, the big knife in his hand fell to the ground weakly, and his body fell slowly and crookedly.

A soldier of the Eight Banners in the back was even more brave, and the mace in his hand smashed five or six spears in a row, and when he saw that the mace was about to hit a Ming army pikeman, two spears on the side stabbed out at the same time, nailing the Eight Banners soldier to the ground.

The Eight Banners were not afraid of life and death, and rushed forward one after another like the waves of the rising tide until they were killed in front of the pikemen. Some of the Eight Banners struggled to split their spears, rushed to the Ming army, and smashed over the pikemen with axes and maces, but the halberds mixed in the pikemen slashed, stabbed, and hooked back, killing these Eight Bannermen. In front of Rulin's spear, dense spears continued to stab out, and the Eight Banners fell one after another.

Occasionally, a few close Eight Banners soldiers caused some trouble for the Ming army's pikemen, and the spears could not attack targets too close, but the Ming army's mixed halberd soldiers and sword and shield hands were able to deal with these Qing soldiers.

The Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners, who had already fallen into a desperate situation, broke out into the last madness, they fought hard, and the final blow before the temporary brought certain losses to the Ming army. However, the disparity in numbers and weapons made the personal bravery of these Eight Banners ineffective. After about a quarter of an hour of fierce fighting, the last Eight Banners soldier was pierced by four spears and a halberd, and his eyes were unwillingly wide and he fell in a pool of blood.

Wang Jinbao arrived with the infantry of the Qing army, but saw a well-equipped Ming army blocking the way at the valley mouth ahead.

"It's broken!" Wang Jinbao broke out in a cold sweat, "Lord Counselor must have been ambushed!" I said that this pseudo-Jin king is very cunning, but it's a pity that the counselor just didn't listen to my advice! ”

Wang Jinbao didn't know that Mu Zhan was dead, he just wanted to rescue the Eight Banners as soon as possible. If the Manchurian lord dies here, not to mention being promoted and getting rich, it would be good not to be sent to Ningguta by the imperial court. If Mu Zhan died, his Wang Jinbao's brilliant future would be completely ruined.

"Kill the thief!" Wang Jinbao pulled out his sword and pointed forward.

The Ming army fought in formation, and the spears stabbed out like lightning again and again, and the Qing soldiers of the green battalion who rushed up were strung into human candy gourds.

Wang Jinbao rushed three times with the Qing soldiers, but they were all killed and retreated by the Ming army.

At this moment, only thunderous cheers were heard in the valley, and it seemed that the Ming army had won a complete victory. Subsequently, the formation of the Ming army spread out to both sides, and the war elephants slowly walked out of the formation. A white horse rushed out of the formation, and a Ming general with a golden helmet and golden armor on the horseback carried a human head with a pigtail of money in his hand, and shouted at the Qing army: "The main general of the Tartars has been killed!" All three hundred Mongol Tartars were killed! If you want to live, you can only surrender quickly. ”

"It's over! The Admiral is dead! Wang Jinbao recognized that the Ming general was Li Dingguo, and the head in his hand was Mu Zhan.

Seeing that the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners had been completely wiped out, the Qing soldiers of the Green Battalion had completely lost their morale like a deflated ball.

Wang Jinbao didn't want to die here, but if he ran now, the Ming army would follow behind to cover up, and the defeated Qing army would not be able to organize resistance at all, and would be cut down one by one from behind, especially the Ming army still had cavalry at hand, and the final result of the Qing army was the annihilation of the entire army. Therefore, Wang Jinbao must leave one person to break the queen.

"Liu Baocai, you bring the green battalion soldiers to block the Ming Dog for me! I'll give you three thousand men! Wang Jinbao called a general and asked him to break the back, and at the same time left all the more than 3,000 green battalion soldiers, but he took more than 2,000 of the most elite soldiers who were good at mountain warfare to retreat.

All the Green Battalion soldiers were left behind, and even the elite Green Battalion Horse Army was left behind as cannon fodder. However, Wang Jinbao himself gave up his war horse and ran into the mountains and forests with his soldiers.

"My lord, why do we give up our horses and run away with our cavalry? Aren't there cavalry who run faster? While drilling in the mountains and forests, a Qing army general asked in great confusion.

Wang Jinbao replied: "This pseudo-Jin king is very cunning, this place is dangerous, this pseudo-Jin king will inevitably send an army to cut off our back road!" If we ride a horse, we won't be able to escape! The cavalry can't run away either! If we want to escape, we can only rely on these mountain soldiers to take us out of this place. ”

The Qing army drilled ravines, crossed mountains and forests, and fled from small roads.

When the war elephants of the Ming army crushed them, these green battalion Qing troops completely collapsed, in addition to turning around and running, they knelt on the ground and surrendered. None of the Qing soldiers who ran the fastest ran away, and they were all stopped by Gao Wengui's department in the end.

Gao Wengui took two thousand Ming troops to guard the rabbit and guard the road where the Qing army retreated for a whole day, but Wang Jinbao did not pass from here, and in the end only some small fish and shrimp retreated and were stopped by Gao Wengui.

"Lord Wang! The last general was not effective in battle, and failed to stop the Tartar general Wang Jinbao, and ran away for that guy! Seeing Li Dingguo arriving with his men, Gao Wengui hurriedly knelt down on one knee and pleaded guilty. (To be continued.) )