"Please give me two thousand elite soldiers, General. I will definitely rescue Zeng Ying!" Yang Zhan pleaded.
"Two thousand?" Huang Fei, the commander of the Guan Liao Dengjin Navy, snorted angrily, "The Jian Nu have already dispatched 15,000 troops, and are still sending more troops. You actually want to use 2,000 troops to rescue Zeng Ying. You simply don't treat the Jian Nu as human beings!"
Yang Zhan explained: "My plan is to use artillery to clear the way, and then push the chariot into the battlefield. I will attack from the outside in, and Zeng Ying will attack from the inside out. The combination of internal and external attacks will surely open a gap. Zeng Ying will meet me through the gap, and the two of us will fight and retreat at the same time."
"And then?" Huang Fei asked, "The terrain around Abudaligang is open, and the cavalry can come and go like the wind. Your two legs can't outrun the four legs of the Jiannu cavalry!"
When Yang Zhan was about to explain, a horn sounded in the distance.
Everyone knew that the Jiannu were about to launch an attack.
Huang Fei immediately led the main force forward and handed over the baggage and logistics to Yang Zhan.
When Huang Fei's large army arrived at the battlefield, Zeng Ying was being besieged.
"Kill!" The Ming army immediately launched a charge towards the Jiannu who were besieging Zeng Ying.
With just one charge, the Jiannu soldiers surrounding Zeng Ying were repelled.
Zeng Ying hurried down the hill to meet Huang Fei.
At this time, the Ming army was in the south and the Jiannu were in the north.
Both sides began to line up.
Dorgon first ordered the cavalry to charge, but was forced back by the Ming army's firearms.
He then ordered his infantry to charge, but they were again repelled by the Ming army.
Just when Huang Fei thought that the Jiannu would charge again, the Jiannu stopped fighting and started a confrontation.
An hour and a half later, the Jiannu suddenly launched a charge.
"The enemy is within a hundred steps, fire quickly!" Huang Fei ordered.
Amid the rumbling sound of artillery, the Jiannu fell down in large numbers.
But they did not stop charging. They simply reorganized their formation and rushed forward at an accelerated speed.
"If the enemy advances a hundred steps, the soldiers with muskets will fire!" Generals at all levels issued orders at the same time.
However, the expected rain of bullets did not fire.
Only a few people fired bullets from their muskets, while most soldiers' muskets remained silent.
Huang Fei was shocked and asked immediately, "What happened?"
Without waiting for the person next to him to answer, the surrounding soldiers started shouting.
"The matchlock is out, someone light a fire for me!"
"The gunpowder is high, change the gunpowder quickly!"
"The trigger is frozen and I can't pull it!"
"My hands are frozen..."
At this time, the Jiannu cavalry was already fifty steps away.
The archers in the Ming army hastily shot their arrows.
Arrows flew into the air and fell sparsely on the ground and on the Eight Banners soldiers.
Although some casualties were caused, it failed to stop the Jiannu from continuing their charge.
Amid the terrified expressions of the Ming soldiers, the Jiannu cavalry arrived with a roar.
Swish!
The first wave of arrows came shooting over.
The Ming army in the front row hid behind the chariots and trembled.
The Ming soldiers in the back row raised their hands as much as possible and used the armor on their arms to cover their faces.
The Jiannu cavalry used a swivel shooting tactic, which made the Ming army unable to raise their heads.
After firing two rounds of arrows, some Jiannu soldiers threw out the ropes in their hands, hooked the Ming army's chariots and dragged them backwards.
As long as a gap was opened, their cavalry would be able to rush in and defeat the Ming army.
Some Ming soldiers dragged the chariot under the hail of arrows, while others risked their lives to cut the ropes.
Screams continued to be heard and life was quickly fading away.
Seeing that the chariot camp in the front row of the Ming army was about to be breached, the artillery deployed on both wings spewed out flames again.
The large solid bullet drew a dangerous arc in the air and hit a Jiannu cavalryman who was shooting an arrow.
The projectile's remaining momentum continued, and after hitting the ground, it bounced backwards.
The hundred-bullet burst directly shot bloody holes all over the bodies of the Jiannu cavalry in the front row.
Faced with casualties visible to the naked eye.
Instead of ordering a retreat, Dorgon gritted his teeth and ordered: "Send more troops, keep sending more troops!"
Haoge next to him yelled, "We can't send more troops. The Ming army's artillery is too fierce. Continuing to fight will only increase casualties. It's better to retreat temporarily and make plans after resting."
The reason why Hauge said this was mainly because all the Zhenglan Banner under his command were sent to the battlefield.
Just now he had looked at the battlefield through his clairvoyance and discovered that the losses were heavy.
If the fighting continues, the Zhenglan Banner will probably be completely wiped out.
"What do you know!" Dorgon's expression was firm and his eyes were deep: "Victory or defeat depends on this one move!"
Amid the sound of artillery fire, countless Eight Banners soldiers fell.
The Eight Banners soldiers behind them did not stop charging, but continued forward without hesitation.
At this time, the Ming army's bird-gun soldiers had already solved the problem.
They pulled the trigger and shot at the enemy.
Watching the Eight Banners soldiers rushing over, listening to the bang bang sounds made by the birds,
Huang Fei was very calm.
As long as the Ming army's firearms can exert their normal strength, the Jiannu will never be their opponent.
Before he could be happy for long, the herald officer came running over and said, "Report, Your Excellency the General, there is thick smoke rising from behind our army."
"The rear? Thick smoke?" Huang Fei suddenly felt something was wrong. "Don't worry, Yang Zhan is behind us. Order all troops to maintain their formation. Anyone who retreats without permission will be killed."
But the smoke in the rear was too thick, and the Ming army facing the enemy in the front could not help but look back during the battle.
Seeing that the soldiers had no fighting spirit, Huang Fei had to give an order: "Zeng Ying, take your men to the rear to see what's going on."
At this time, the rear of the Ming army was in chaos.
Before Huang Fei arrived at Jiaha Village, Dorgon had already deployed an ambush force of more than a thousand people in Jiaha Village.
They hid in the dense forests in the mountains.
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