Cheng Xiaolian heard the roar below, and saw black shadows rushing towards this side, and couldn't help but sigh: "The Ningxia army still has a foundation, if there is no previous rebellion, we may not be their opponents." ”

Meng Ke smiled bitterly: "Your Highness, there is no time to praise the opponent, let's quickly think about what to do." ”

Chen Chengan stood up: "I think you can use the palm thunder now, these people are all supported by one breath, as long as we don't beat them, we can win in one fell swoop." ”

Cheng Xiaolian waved his hand: "It's not time yet, archers and crossbow archers are ready to block for a while." "The archers and crossbowmen hurriedly lined up, the crossbowmen in front and the archers behind, and there was no way to aim at this time, so they could only shoot randomly by feeling.

Seeing that Chen Chengan was a little puzzled, Cheng Xiaolian hurriedly explained to him: "Now they have just gathered momentum, just like the strings that have just started to draw the bow, we can certainly repel them with palm thunder now, but it may also fuel their ferocity, once they fight with us, our brothers will suffer heavy losses, so let's block them with archers and crossbow archers first, just when they rushed in front of us and thought that they would be able to kill us immediately, the palm thunder was suddenly released, which would make them completely desperate." Being knocked down on the eve of success is the easiest way to lose morale. ”

Chen Chengan nodded: "I was taught." ”

Archers and crossbowmen fired their bows and crossbows incessantly, and muffled grunts and screams of pain could be heard in the darkness, after all, not everyone could resist the pain of arrows passing through their bodies.

The leading general was hit by an arrow in the arm, and he fought fiercely: "Kill them in front of them, kill them all!" Brothers, rush! ”

Counting those who ran away and those who were killed and retreated in the middle, when the two armies came into contact, there were less than 800 of the vanguard of more than 2,000 people left, and some of the escapees got into the forest to the west, and some fled along the path to the east.

Zhao Liangdong in the distance suddenly heard a deafening sound, and then saw a scream in front of him, Meng Ke had already prepared, and took advantage of this time to take advantage of the Mo knife team to start wielding a knife to kill, because it was very close to the place of the explosion, he shouted What others could no longer hear, just looked at his big knife point, and then the people behind him rushed to kill.

Only one or two hundred people were killed by the palm thunder, but the lethality of the entire vanguard army is huge, it can be said that the most ferocious and capable soldiers among the eight hundred people are in front, the moment they are killed, the soldiers behind them are also blinded, the most powerful firearm is the unknown firearm, because you don't know what it is, so you don't know when this thing will explode next to you.

Just when they were panicking, the fierce Modao team of the Northern Sweeping Army arrived, Meng Ke reached out and rushed to the front with two sledgehammers, swept over and smashed it directly, and smashed it directly when he encountered a better player, like an unreasonable dealer, taking all the size on the gambling table.

Soon the vanguard of the Ningxia army began to rout, the reason why these people rushed to kill, one is not for the country, the other is not for the family, just by virtue of a pride in their hearts, but the pride in front of the fierce Modao team instantly came to naught.

The vanguard army immediately began to rout, at this time Zhao Liangdong's army was still five hundred steps away from the vanguard army, only to hear a burst of explosions began to perceive the rout of the vanguard army, and hurriedly rushed forward: "What's the matter?" ”

In the darkness, I don't know who said a word: "The enemy's firearms are fierce, we can't wait for the enemy, retreat." ”

"Nonsense, if I lose today, I won't be able to live, do you think you can live?"

It's a pity that there are not many henchmen around him now, and there are very few people who respond to him, not to mention, and many of the soldiers behind him even ran away, and he shouted angrily: "Who dares to retreat from military law!" ”

It's a pity that no one cares about this military law now, and there are no people in the army who enforce military law. Meng Ke had already rushed to the front at this time: "Where is Zhao Liangdong?" ”

Meng Ke is not stupid, if the enemy army is facing him with a row of archers, he will definitely not shout this kind of death, but now the enemy army is even in chaos, and there is no ability to organize an attack at all.

Zhao Liangdong sighed, and suddenly picked up a spear beside him: "Zhao Liangdong is here!" ”

Generally, battle-hardened veterans will not fight alone, and there is no benefit in winning, and if they lose, it is easy to put the army in a dangerous situation. But Zhao Liangdong now has the will to live and die, even if he can flee to Ningxia alone, it will only harm his family, if he dies on the battlefield, his family will always have no worries, so he roared and rushed out.

Meng Ke was overjoyed, and rushed forward with a hammer, there is no suspense in this battle, although Zhao Liangdong has good martial arts, but he is not a general who relies on martial arts to eat, and he is already in his fifties, Meng Ke smashed it down, he reached out and raised his gun to block, the gun broke his brain, and he died here.

Meng Ke shouted: "Zhao Liangdong is dead, you don't want to surrender quickly!" ”

At this time, Huangfu Tong's cavalry also rushed over: "Surrender and avoid death!" ”

In this battle, Zhao Liangdong died on the battlefield, commanded 17,000 people, 7,000 were captured, 5,000 fled, and 5,000 were killed.

Cheng Xiaolian only had 5,000 people under his command, so naturally there was no way to take 7,000 prisoners, so 2,000 young men were selected, and the rest were all released back to Ningxia.

There is another advantage to these people being released back to Ningxia, they are destined to break with the Manchu court, and before Cheng Xiaolian has no way to get his hands on Ningxia, they will definitely be able to cause a lot of trouble to the Manchu court.

Half a month later, the Ningxia army was defeated, and the news of Zhao Liangdong's killing reached the Beijing Division, Kangxi cried bitterly in the court, and threatened to destroy the former Ming court, and the culprit who killed Zhao Liangdong was crushed to ashes. It was decreed that Zhao Liangdong was crowned as a first-class viscount, and his nickname was Xiangzhong.

Besides, Cheng Xiaolian received 2,000 prisoners but didn't look too happy, these people were all people who were brought by those veteran soldiers, and if they were not careful, they would bring this style of soldiers to the Northern Army, and then the Northern Army would be destroyed.

So on the way back to Pingliang Mansion, Cheng Xiaolian gave an order to Meng Ke to train them like they were dead, so that they could forget everything else except for remembering that it was convenient to eat and sleep.

Meng Ke naturally used a lot of strength when he received this order, not counting long-distance marches every day, but also running back and forth around the hillside from time to time, fortunately, the food in the Ming army was quite good, and these people basically all survived.

Five days later, they rushed back to Pingliang Mansion, and at this time the battle between Wang Jiyong and Daniel Zhang was also at a fever pitch.

(End of chapter)