For Yuan Zongdi, who wanted to ambush the Qing army, what worried him the most was that the enemy's spies would run away, or that the battle would last too long, and the enemy would have the opportunity to send a signal to report jǐng, and his ambush opportunity would fail completely. But even so, Yuan Zongdi would not be afraid, because he brought thousands of soldiers, and he was not afraid of confronting the Qing army head-on, not to mention that he still had a batch of reinforcements coming.

As he directed his soldiers to chase forward, he saw countless birds rising into the sky, followed by a large number of shouts, and the jungle on the opposite side was full of people, as if hundreds of enemies were rushing towards him.

Eight hundred armor soldiers were in the south, and the remaining troops were rotating and sweeping across the north, and Yuan Zongdi knew very well that it could not be his own people who rushed over from the opposite side: "Good come!" Yuan Zongdi shouted, it seems that the enemy's reconnaissance detachment is not scattered and fleeing, but is trying to force its way through the Ming army's battle line and return to the river from the shortest way, so that Yuan Zongdi can eliminate the enemy soldiers behind him as quickly as possible, and at the same time minimize the leakage of information, even if the enemy is alarmed by this sound, he still lacks understanding of the strength of the Ming army.

Hu Wenke's thousands of soldiers attacked, and although they had formed a tight formation, their formation still covered a considerable area. When Deng Ming ambushed Tan Hong by the river three years ago, the terrain was similar to today's, but at that time, the Ming army was very scattered due to the lack of command and tacit understanding, and as a result, the panicked Qing army on the riverside exaggerated the strength of the Ming army.

"The thieves' formation is scattered." casually glanced up at the startled birds, and then referred to the range of the shouts, Yuan Zongdi came to a conclusion: "A hundred or so people charged in such an evacuated formation? This is a bluff at all, and it won't have any impact, probably trying to take advantage of the chaos to rush past a few. ”

"The thieves have no idea about my strength and deployment, and they can be crushed with one breath." Yuan Zongdi still firmly controlled 1,200 soldiers, and thousands of auxiliaries to help fill the battle line, and the entire front had formed a dense formation; Hundreds of people wanted to rush over it was pure idiot's dream, although he was still looking ahead, but Yuan Zongdi's mind had already begun to turn to the south, and he needed to turn back to deal with the Qing army on the riverside who had already received the jǐng report. For the bold advance of the Qing army, Yuan Zongdi felt that this was almost a personal insult to him - Yuan Zongdi was one of the eighteen horsemen of Shangluo, who was once responsible for Dashun's invasion of Huguang, and his luck was bad over the years, and the strength of his subordinates continued to shrink, and now a few deputy generals and guerrillas with hundreds or thousands of people dared to break ground on Tai Sui's head: "Even if I have bad luck, I am also the second largest prince in Sichuan, and the last time I went to Chóngqìng, your master Li Guoying did not dare to come out to fight me, Today, you minions who don't even have a name actually dare to spread wild around my Wanxian County! ”

Not afraid that these guys who don't know the height of the sky will be beaten up, and it will be difficult for Yuan Zongdi to get out of this evil breath in his chest.

...... "The thieves are scattered and loose and chaotic. The Qing army formed a tight attack formation, Hu Wenke of zhōngyāng personally commanded his beloved personal troops, the vision in front was blocked by hills and woods, but when he looked up, he could see the flying frightened birds, and he could hear the human voice coming from his ears: "The other party didn't know the general's strength at all, probably thinking that the general only had a few people around him, and he actually pulled hundreds of soldiers so scattered!" Okay, let me show you the strength of a certain family! ”

"Yuan Zongdi was originally a grass coward, if it weren't for the lack of food and grass over the years, the governor would have come to the door a long time ago." Feeling that the victory was in hand, Hu Wenke's mood suddenly improved a lot, and he actually bumped into Yuan Zongdi, the other party and the main force were separated, and there was a miscalculation to further disperse his escort forces: "In the past, it was because of the presence of Admiral Deng covering you, we didn't look at the face of the monk and looked at the face of the Buddha, and we didn't have the general knowledge of you, an old immortal, and today you dare to put it right with me with a few hundred people?" Do you know how to fight? Hmph, Shangluo Eighteen Rides, it sounds a little scary, today is the time for me Hu Wenke to make a name for himself! ”

The fronts of the two armies suddenly collided together, and both the Ming army and the Qing army entered the battlefield with the confidence of ten to one. Bypassing the two trees, Huvenko, guarded by the guards, jumped to the front.

"Yuan thief, where to run!" Through the gap in the forest, it seemed that a red flag was waving in the distance, Hu Wenke shouted murderously, repeatedly brandished his sword vigorously, urged his soldiers to kill, and broke through the "sparse" defense line of the Ming army in one fell swoop, and took Yuan Zongdi.

"Capture the Yuan thief alive!"

"Don't let go of the Yuan thief!"

The soldiers shouted loudly and rushed in the direction of merit, but after a while, Hu Wenke felt that something was wrong, there were more and more Ming troops in the direction of the red flag, and there were constantly enemy soldiers in armor pouring out of the forest, completely withstanding the surprise of the Qing army. Moreover, Hu Wenke saw that the Ming army was still pouring out of the forest, and the figures in the forest behind them looked longing, and it seemed that there were still hundreds.

"Outflanked, outflanked!" While urging his own soldiers to fight, Hu Wenke nervously issued a new order, and it seemed that Yuan Zongdi reacted in time and concentrated his forces on the front to withstand his assault. Up to the end of the battle, Hu Wenke's evaluation of Yuan Zongdi's strength has risen to a higher level, thinking that the other party's guards left by his side are probably equivalent to his own, but Hu Wenke still has thousands of unarmored soldiers to help in the battle, and Yuan Zongdi will have a large number of troops in any case to be held back by friendly forces in the south.

"Those who capture the Yuan thief alive will be rewarded with one hundred taels of silver!" In order to boost morale, Hu Wenke did not hesitate to give a heavy reward.

"Capture the Yuan thief alive!"

"Capture the Yuan thief alive!"

Stimulated by the heavy reward, the morale of the Qing army was boosted again, and for a time there were shouts everywhere to capture Yuan Zongdi alive.

Yuan Zongdi was also so angry by this shout that his nostrils smoked, now he has determined the identity of the opponent, Hu Wenke's name Yuan Zongdi has also heard of it, and knows that the other party is just a new guerrilla under Li Guoying, when Yuan Zongdi was dominating the world, this Hu Wenke didn't know where to hide and ask for food, and now he actually thinks that he can defeat himself.

However, the number of Qing troops greatly exceeded Yuan Zongdi's expectations, and now the two armies are engaged in fierce battles in the forest, although the Ming army is gradually gaining the upper hand, but the Qing army uses the terrain to resist step by step, the Ming army can not see the other side's deployment clearly, and their own communication is also interfered by the terrain. Although Yuan Zongdi knew that the other party could not control the army outside the field of vision well, and he also knew nothing about the deployment of the Ming army, but if he knew that the other party had such a strong strength, Yuan Zongdi would definitely not choose this terrain to fight, the interference of the terrain here is too powerful, the troops can easily lose contact, and it is very likely that a Qing army on the flank will not be discovered in time, and the battle will be lost in a daze.

The most dangerous thing is that the battle has dragged on for too long, and he originally thought that it would be an advantage over Xìng, so Yuan Zongdi pressed the whole army without thinking about it and wanted to fight quickly, but now there are battles everywhere, and thousands of Ming troops are all dragged. Resisting in the woods, the Qing army could hold out much longer than on the plains, after all, Yuan Zongdi still had a threat from behind, because Yuan Zongdi carelessly sent all the troops at hand, and now he has no ability to respond to attacks from behind.

"Guogong, do you want to slow down and remove the sons and daughters a little?" A personal guard ran back from the front line, the knife in his hand was still dripping blood, the Ming army relied on the numerical advantage, and pressed the Qing army to retreat slowly, but the battle has dragged on for too long, and now the Qing army by the river must have heard the shouts of killing here.

Yuan Zongdi was also very hesitant, he couldn't let the 800 armor soldiers in the south attack, because he couldn't judge how long it would take to solve Hu Wenke, and withdraw the troops to reinforce the front army, if the front army acted rashly now, it would face the siege of the main force of the Qing army alone. However, if the troops in the south were not moved, the Qing army might directly attack Yuan Zongdi's back and flank himself with Hu Wenke, in which case the losses of the Ming army would be even greater, and they might even suffer an immediate defeat.

"Hmm." Yuan Zongdi nodded with difficulty, although he was not able to achieve a decisive victory, but at least he had suppressed the momentum of the other party, and the Qing soldiers who were still clamoring to "capture Yuan Thief alive" just now have all fallen silent, concentrating on fighting to save their lives.

Although there were some regrets, in order to avoid greater losses, Yuan Zongdi planned to withdraw part of his troops and regroup by his own banner to prepare for emergencies.

It was very dangerous to retreat on the whole front, and Yuan Zongdi planned to come step by step, first controlling zhōngyāng, who had the strongest control force, and after removing some of his troops here, Yuan Zongdi would order his subordinates to rush to the various fronts separately and transfer part of his troops back to zhōngyāng.

When Yuan Zongdi began to shrink, Hu Wenke's situation was already precarious, and the Qing army had paid the price of hundreds of people until now, and after the battle line was forced to retreat by the Ming army, the wounded soldiers who fell behind were probably killed by the enemy. There were not many armored soldiers on the left and right wings, basically all of them were unarmored soldiers, and under the heavy pressure of the Ming army, they had been strictly bent back, and soon after Hu Wenke's order to outflank the two wings, he found that his two wings were outflanked.

"Bitter, bitter!" Hu Wenke didn't know in his heart that he had been suffering hundreds of times, fortunately this was a wooded and hilly area, if it was a plain, Hu Wenke would probably have collapsed, but even so, the Qing army could collapse at any time, and even the personal soldiers under the command of Hu Wenke himself began to decline in morale.

"The Yuan thief ran away!" I have to say that Hu Wenke's eyesight is very good, and when he found that the pace of the Ming army's attack was slowing down at the first time, he immediately shouted, trying his best to boost the morale of the swaying yù fall: "Admiral Zhang and General Wang are here, and the Yuan thief is going to run away!" ”