Xihan, who was stationed on the road, encountered big trouble.
Under the fierce attack of the Ming army, his two wings were breached and chaos broke out.
The front position was shrouded in thick smoke again, and the specific situation could not be seen clearly.
In order to prevent the entire army from being annihilated, Xihan made a prompt decision: "Abandon the position and retreat."
Before the military order was given, his troops were defeated.
The soldiers in the army scrambled to flee backwards.
He was afraid that he would fall behind and be killed by the Ming army.
As they retreated, they encountered the Ming army that attacked from their flank.
The Ming army formed a horizontal array, blocking Xihan's retreat.
In order to survive, Xihan led his troops to fight.
Under his command were the elite cavalry of the Eight Banners.
With one charge, they dispersed the Ming army infantry that were blocking their way.
Xihan originally wanted to gather troops to drive the remaining Ming troops out of the camp and restore order.
But the Eight Banners soldiers had no fighting spirit and only wanted to escape.
While he was hesitating, countless fleeing infantrymen had already rushed over.
In order to avoid being caught up in the fleeing soldiers and trampled to death, Xihan could only speed up his retreat.
After putting some distance between himself and the fleeing soldiers, Xihan climbed up and looked back.
He discovered some Ming army infantrymen chasing after the fleeing Eight Banners soldiers.
In order to reduce the losses, Xihan looked around: "Bolo!"
Boro immediately urged his horse forward and said, "I am here."
Xihan pointed at the Ming army infantry in the distance and said, "You lead our troops to the rear and repel those Ming troops. Don't make any mistakes."
Bolo looked embarrassed.
The defeated soldiers on the battlefield retreated like a tide.
Xihan, however, ordered him to go upstream and repel the Ming army.
Is that human language?
Considering that the other party's official position was higher than his, Boro could only say: "Sir, the battlefield is too crowded, and I can't squeeze through at all."
"Then squeeze hard!"
"It's a crushing defeat! It's useless even if we squeeze through!" Bolo was already showing signs of imminent collapse as he spoke.
He is from the Zhenglan Banner.
A lot of things have happened in the Zhenglan Banner from the time the Ming army entered Liao to the present.
Not only did the flag owner change hands many times, but the senior generals within the flag also changed frequently.
The people at the top are scheming against each other, and the ones who suffer are the lower-level bannermen.
Every time the flag owner changes, they are exploited.
Looking at the entire Eight Banners now, the status of the Zhenglan Banner has reached the bottom.
Otherwise, Xihan would not have asked him to lead his troops to cover the rear at this time.
Xihan didn't take Bolo seriously at all. He shouted angrily, "How dare you disobey military orders?"
"I..." Bolo wanted to speak his mind, but for the sake of the overall situation, he did not say it.
Xihan glared and threatened: "Then go quickly, otherwise you will be subject to military law!"
"I obey your command!" Bolo went upstream with a helpless look on his face and attacked the Ming army.
Not long after he left, he came back.
"Why are you back again?" Xihan asked angrily.
"Look, sir," Bolo pointed at the battlefield, "the battlefield is less than two miles wide, and there are fleeing soldiers everywhere. I have forced the fleeing soldiers back!"
Xihan became even more angry. He pointed to the edge of the battlefield and said, "There is a gap there that we can get through. Are you blind?"
"I will..."
"Go quickly, or your whole family will be executed!"
Bolo had no choice but to rush out again with his troops.
The further we went, the more defeated soldiers we saw.
When Bolo saw with his own eyes that several of his confidants were swept up in the fleeing soldiers, fell off their horses and were trampled to death.
He completely broke down.
"Die, all of you die!" Bolo waved his sword and looked at the fleeing soldiers.
It would have been better if they hadn't chopped him off, because after chopping him off the defeated soldiers would have accelerated their escape.
In the blink of an eye, one third of his troops were swept away.
"Report!" A confidant suddenly came to Boro and said loudly, "Sir, there is a situation."
Bolo asked as he brandished his knife: "What's going on?"
"The Emperor (Hauge) seems to be imprisoned."
"What?" Bolo was shocked. "This is impossible! He is the emperor of the Qing Dynasty. Who dares to imprison the emperor?"
"It seems to be Prince Rui."
Bolo still didn't believe it and continued to ask: "Where is the evidence?"
"I was ordered to go into the city to report the situation in the banner to the emperor, but was stopped outside the city by the Hetuala garrison. It means that the army is already at the gates of the city. In order to prevent spies from sneaking into the city, one must hold Prince Rui's warrant to enter or leave the city."
Hearing his confidant say this, Bolo's ominous premonition became stronger.
At first he was very puzzled. Since Hauge, the leader of the Zhenglan Banner, became the emperor, why didn't he promote the generals of the Zhenglan Banner?
Now it seems that it is not that Hauge does not want to promote, but that he has no way to promote.
After realizing the seriousness of the matter, Bolo's first thought was to lead his troops back to Hetuala to rescue Hauge.
But he had less than a thousand soldiers under his command.
Not to mention rescuing Haoge, if things go wrong you might even get yourself killed.
What to do?
Bolo's brain started working rapidly.
After a moment, he suddenly had an idea.
"Get off the horse and go up the mountain!" Bolo said to everyone.
The soldiers of the Zhenglan Banner quickly dismounted and climbed up the mountain.
The Ming army on the mountain immediately changed direction and planned to shoot at Bolo.
"Don't shoot, we're one family!" Bolo stopped talking and asked the soldiers to tear off the white cloth from their clothes and tie it around their left arms.
This is the sign of surrender.
"Sir..." The people around Bolo were very surprised: "Are you going to surrender to the Ming army?"
"What else?" Bolo sneered, "Dorgon deceived his superiors and imprisoned the emperor. This is an unforgivable crime! I want to borrow troops from the Ming army to kill Dorgon and rescue the emperor!"
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