After praising everyone a few words, the cavalry battalion commander said to Zachdan with some eagerness, "Brigade commander, look at this posture, I'm afraid the Houjin Tartar is about to retreat." ”

Zachdan also nodded in agreement with this inference, and he pointed to the Houjin Tartar cavalry in the northwest direction and said, "In today's battle, the Tartars have been beaten by our army. Next, in the short term, there will be no more large army battles.

Therefore, the most important thing we need to do at the moment is to expand the results of this battle as much as possible and kill and injure more of Houjin's living forces.

However, the number of our cavalry troops is insufficient, and there is a large force of cavalry on the Houjin side to cover the flanks, whether it is infantry or cavalry, in this case, they can't chase Taiji.

The two infantry battalions of the left flank quickly spread out their arrays and marched in unison to the north, advancing together the cavalry units of the expelled Golden Tartars. ”

The cavalry battalion commander immediately replied, "Brigade commander, it's not just the Houjin cavalry in the northwest direction, there are still many Tartar routs in the hilly area on our west side, and the number of this group should be more than 300."

The subordinates thought that after the Houjin Tatar cavalry had retreated to the north for some distance, the subordinates would lead the cavalry and a part of the cavalry infantry to the west and block the mountain pass on the west side. ”

Another officer hesitated and said, "Isn't that a bit unsafe?" The subordinates believe that the cavalry should stay to cover the infantry team, let's rush together a few more times, the infantry and cavalry cooperate, it should be able to leave more red flag-studded tartars.

In this way, it is in line with the general staff's operational principle of killing and injuring as much as possible the living forces of the Houjin army, especially the real Tartars, and at the same time, it can also cut off the heads of more traitor infantry. Deter traitors who want to join the enemy.

This kind of attack on the well-organized enemy army should be more effective than the attack on a group of enemies who have already scattered and fled. ”

"Let the people with red flags go, and fight the rout with white flags with all your might."

Through the Military Intelligence Directorate and several other intelligence units under the direct leadership of Chen Xin, Zachdan had some knowledge of Houjin's power structure and internal situation.

Although there are still many extremely secret things that outsiders do not know, the confrontation between Yue Tuo and Dolgon is not a secret in Houjin.

Of course, Duoduo is also competing with Dorgon for political status, which is considered an enemy, but after all, the two of them are still brothers of the same mother, and they have a trace of blood bonding, no matter how hard they fight, they will always subconsciously cooperate with each other from time to time to suppress the other two political Baylors.

Therefore, focusing on suppressing Duoduo and letting Yue Tuo go, it will definitely add a lot of trouble to Dolgon.

In this, there is also a certain amount of mentality that he is more wary of Dolgon himself than Yue Tuo, so Zachdan immediately gave the order.

"The soldiers of the Eight Banners with red flags are all cavalry, and it is impossible for us to block all of them.

Two infantry battalions lined up in array, squeezing the red-flaged cavalry along the official road, forcing them away from the place with muskets.

The cavalry battalion went to block the mountain passes to the west, to prevent the rout from escaping from the west back to the state, and added to our troubles.

The mounted infantry battalion is now starting to regroup, and after completing the adjustment of the team, they will be sent to the hilly area to clear it.

In the follow-up, I will send reinforcements to carry out the mission together, and now, all of them have it, and immediately carry out the order. ”

Several battalion commanders took the order together and hurried away.

Zachdan looked around, and the battlefield was a scene of dead and wounded, scattered all kinds of cold weapons, firearms, armor, and helmets all over the place.

In the western direction, there are still many ownerless war horses that have run away and are tired, most of them are the war horses of the infantry with white flags that have been washed away.

Of course, the cavalry of the Huaxia Army and the cavalry of the Houjin Tartars also had a lot of battle losses, so there should be a lot of war horses left over after the hedging battle by the cavalry of both sides.

An officer looked at the scene in front of him and said with some excitement, "Brigade commander, there are at least nearly 1,000 war horses left in this area, and our cavalry can be expanded again." ”

"The cavalry's losses this time are very large, and after this battle, I am afraid that only half of the entire battalion will be left." Zachdan said with some sadness, "It is inevitable to expand the cavalry, but our cavalry does not use Mongolian horses, and these war horses may not be able to use all of them." We should be able to expand the formation of the mounted infantry battalion with these horses. ”

After that, Zachdan sighed again, "Alas, if we have two cavalry battalions this time, no one can run away from this part of the team that is attacking with a white flag, and even the two traitor armies that came later can at least stay more than half." ”

The officer also said with some pity, "That's right, traitors are really hateful, the last time the navy attacked and wiped out most of their men, but in the end they let Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde run away."

This time, I met these two bastards again, but I was still run away by Li Jiucheng and Kong Youde, which is really a scourge for thousands of years. ”

Zachdan smiled disdainfully, "What does it matter if an army that has been beaten and lost its courage stays."

If they can be defeated by us once or twice, then they can be defeated three or four times, just like the current Ming army saw the Houjin army, and in the future, their traitor army will have no fighting spirit in front of our Huaxia army.

Therefore, there is nothing wrong with keeping them and helping us engage in exaggerated propaganda in Houjin. ”

While they were talking, the left flank of the 1st Mixed Brigade to the south, two infantry battalions, had already formed a formation from front to back, left and right, and then advanced along the main road to the north.

The Tartar cavalry of the Houjin Army, with the red flag, and their own infantry queues, have been maintaining a fixed distance beyond the range of muskets, covering the scattered infantry with red flags, all the way to Fuzhou City.

The soldiers of the mounted infantry battalion, after tidying up their ranks a little, quickly followed the remaining soldiers of the cavalry battalion to the hilly area to the west, preparing to block the mountain passes over there.

During this time, Zachdan was not idle, he constantly issued orders, adjusted the tasks of each team, and after freeing up a part of the troops, he sent reinforcements to the western hills to participate in the encirclement and suppression.

In accordance with their own organizational patterns, with squads and platoons as the basic combat units, they pulled out a long front and slowly cleared the way along the hillside.

On one side there was also a company of troops in reserve, moving along the official road in a north-western direction to prevent the Tartar cavalry from supporting the western direction.