Woo——

The inspiring trumpet sounded on the west bank of the Xisha River.

After hearing the horn, the soldiers of the Guanning Army quickly rushed to the pontoon bridge and began to cross the river.

The rushing river water hit the floating bridge under their feet, stirring up countless waves.

"The Ming army is mighty!"

"Kill! Kill the Jiannu and reclaim Guangning!"

"The women in Guangning City are all beautiful. Let's take one of them after we conquer Guangning!"

The soldiers of Guanning Army immediately felt hot all over when they heard the word "woman".

With their eyes blazing, they clenched their weapons tightly and rushed to the other side of the river.

The Ming army had been dispatched to Liaodong for more than a year, and these low-level soldiers had hardly seen any women, let alone female animals.

It's really to the point that even an old sow looks pretty.

Now, hearing that there were women in the city, and one for each man, they immediately showed a fighting power that did not belong to them.

Looking at the Ming army on the pontoon bridge, Man Dahai was not at all panicked.

It is obvious at first glance that these soldiers are not Guanning's elite troops.

The real Guanning elite wore iron helmets and full body armor, and held various weapons in their hands.

Only a very few of these people wore armor, and the weapons they held were also worn out.

"Tong Tulai, lead your cavalry to repel them!" Man Dahai ordered to the person beside him.

"I obey your command. Go!" Tong Tulai rushed out with his troops.

Tong Tulai was the leader of the Han army of the Zhenglan Banner, and he had less than two thousand men under his command.

The number of people may seem small, but each one is an elite.

The iron hooves of the war horses stepped on the ground, the earth rumbled, and the river water in the distance seemed to surge up.

The Guanning Army that was crossing the river immediately looked at the general in confusion, waiting for the next order.

They were all teams put together in a hurry, with almost no discipline or tactics.

Wu Sangui originally wanted them to die, so he didn't even waste energy on training them.

"Form a formation to resist the enemy!" the general of the suicide squad raised his arms and shouted.

Not only did his shouting fail to have any effect, but it also intensified the soldiers' desire to escape.

Because they neither knew how to form a battle formation nor how to defend themselves against the enemy.

He would just stand there and look at the enemy in the distance driven by instinct.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers were less than fifty steps away from them.

Under the command of Tong Tulai, the Eight Banners soldiers fired the first wave of arrows.

Buzz——

Countless arrows turned into a swarm of bees and stabbed towards the Guanning Army that had just crossed the Xisha River and was crossing the river on the pontoon bridge.

With a hissing sound.

An arrow shot into the head of a Guanning Army soldier, killing him on the spot.

Immediately afterwards, a dense rain of arrows fell from the sky, some landing on the ground and some falling into the river.

More of the casualties fell on the Guanning Army that crossed the river.

Less than 30% of them were wearing armor, and the armor they wore was old cotton armor that could not withstand the damage caused by armor-piercing arrows.

The gathered Guanning Army was hit by arrows on the head, face, chest and arms.

The severe pain quickly made them lose the courage and confidence to fight.

Coupled with the galloping cavalry, the two combined instantly destroyed their will to resist.

Except for a few people who fired guns and arrows, most people chose to escape.

The Guanning Army in front turned around and ran backwards.

Those who were running fast at the back had already reached the pontoon bridge, while those who were running slowly were overwhelmed by the fleeing soldiers.

The Guanning Army on the pontoon bridge is crossing the river.

Faced with the sudden rout, they had no time to retreat and were pushed off the bridge into the river.

"Help, help quickly!" Wu Sangui pretended to be panicked.

The Guanning Army on the shore took out the bamboo poles and long wood that they had prepared in advance to rescue their companions who had fallen into the water.

At this time, the Eight Banners soldiers had reached the shore and began to massacre the remaining Ming troops on the shore.

Not many Guanning Army soldiers actually crossed the river and reached the east bank.

Some were shot to death by arrows, some were trampled to death, and the rest jumped into the river to escape.

The battle was over quickly.

After simply cleaning up the battlefield and cutting the ropes that secured the pontoon bridge, the Eight Banners soldiers retreated.

Wu Sangui ordered his men to rest on the spot while at the same time ordering people to rescue the soldiers who fell into the water.

The battle was thus ended.

Tong Tulai came to Man Dahai with a dozen arrows tied with paper strips: "Your Majesty, we found this when we were cleaning the battlefield."

Man Dahai took the arrow without even looking at it and handed it directly to Jirgalang.

Jirgalang's personal guard untied the paper from the arrow, unfolded it and said, "The paper contains code words, which describe the location of the Ming army at a certain place, its troop configuration, its deployment, and the weak points of its formation."

Jirgalang took the note himself and read it carefully.

As he watched, he imagined the scene in his mind.

Looking for an opportunity to defeat He Jin.

He already knew that the ally Wu Sangui betrayed was He Jin.

He Jin was on the edge of the Ming army's right wing.

There were only about 3,400 people in his army, of which only a few hundred were cavalry, and the rest were infantry.

If these were the only troops he had, Jirgalang could easily have wiped them out in one swoop.

But the reality is that He Jin has Liu Zhaoji's two thousand cavalrymen behind him.

If He Jin is in danger, they will provide support at any time.

Even if we can hold back these two thousand cavalrymen, we need to fight quickly and decisively.

Otherwise, Wang Yongji's central army would come to support.

"It's difficult to quickly kill He Jin's 3,000 men among thousands of soldiers!" Jirgalang frowned and shook his head, and asked the others: "We already know what we need to know. Do you have any way to break the formation and kill the enemy?"

"Prince Zheng," Man Dahai said from the side, "I think it won't be that difficult to defeat He Jin. All we need to do is quickly penetrate his army formation and cause a rout."

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