On the battlefield at this moment, the Ming army could only barely maintain a whole formation on the right wing. The right wing gathered most of the cavalry and sixty pistol cavalry, and the spiral-type rotating shooting continued, barely protecting the right wing.

The left wing has been broken through by the Qing cavalry, and the cavalry of both sides fought together and fought on their own.

The Qing cavalry rushed into the Guanning cavalry formation like a torrent, and the left wing formation was instantly destroyed. The Shengfan cavalry who were temporarily recruited in the Qing army were like savages, and they took the lead with both quick and ruthless attacks. Whenever they were incorrect with the Ming cavalry, the cavalry on the side of the Ming army were injured. The Guanning cavalry also encountered white-armored soldiers, but there were not many terrifying white-armored soldiers in the Qing army. Therefore, although they were unable to compete with the Qing cavalry in the past, the Guanning cavalry could still compete with many rounds. Think about it, both sides were wearing heavy armor. You cut me and I cut you. It is common to be injured and injured, but it is difficult to kill one blow. It takes many rounds to kill the opponent.

However, all of these Tartars were not inferior to those of the white-armored soldiers. The most intimidating thing is that these guys seemed to know what death was. They even tried to fight against you without easily taking a knife. They still continued their killing moves, which was actually a way of fighting that was both defeated. This way of fighting made many Guanning cavalry scared, but they had no choice but to escape, and they could only bite the bullet and fight desperately. Facing the Qing cavalry with superior combat power and number, Guanning cavalry struggled to fight, and casualties rose sharply.

Those born Tartars are not afraid of pistols. If you shoot bullets, even if you hit him, as long as it is not a must, he will urge the horse to swing his sword and rush straight towards you. Then he will slash the sword. The pistol cavalry raised the sabre in his hand to resist it, and it will be difficult for them to resist the injured Shengfan Tatars. Faced with such fierce Tartars, the proud pistol cavalry was also confused at the beginning, and the rotation formation could no longer be turned. They could kill the six bullets in the pistol, and perhaps killed one of the fierce Tartars in front of them. However, with the second and third Tartars pistol cavalry, they had no time to change the magazines, so they had to fight with the Tartars with their own shortcomings. How could they not be passive if they attacked the enemy's commanders? In this way, forty or fifty pistol cavalry died under the swords of the Tartars in the melee, and even the battalion commander of the pistol cavalry died under the swords of another Tartar after killing one Tartar.

Thanks to the gyration formation of the second company of the pistol cavalry had not completely stopped, the second company commander Lu Xiandeng rushed forward with the second company, filling the gap, and shouting:

"Cover each other and turn around. No matter how many people there are, turn around first."

The second company's rotation formation was quite complete, with eleven people, fourteen or fifteen people losing a team. The ten spiral formations of the second company hit the front, and there were less than two hundred people left behind. In a hurry, amid the roar of the company commander and squad leader, the thirteen spiral formations were set up, with one team ranging from fifteen and at least twelve and three. This spiral formation was a formation repeatedly practiced by the pistol cavalry, which was to ensure that the pistol cavalry could shoot, reload, and shoot in a rotation manner, and ensure that the continuous firepower could be output.

In fact, Chongzhen didn't know exactly what the semi-rotary shooting tactics of the Dutch pistol cavalry were, but what was not important was that it could achieve tactical purposes. Therefore, the gyro shooting tactic designed by Chongzhen has both rotation and revolution. The rotation is the rotation of the team. The team ranges from ten to thirty people. After one circle, it completes the cycle of loading and shooting - when it turns forward, it shoots, and when it turns backward, it loads. The function of the revolution is also obvious, from the small circle.

The large circles that are stringed are constantly rotating, and each team runs a spiral instead of turning in the spot. As the flag points, the large circle can advance, retreat, left or right, and both offense and defense. If friendly forces protect the rear, each team will have more time to load when turning to the rear of the large circle. After all, there are only four magazines prepared by the pistol cavalry. After firing four magazines, twenty-four bullets have to load them into the magazines. This is not something that can be done while breathing by changing the magazines.

The pistol cavalry's spiral formation was only able to protect itself at this time, and could barely protect the front of the seven or eight hundred cavalry in the rear. In addition, the cavalry on the right wing made the Qing cavalry return several times with an impact on the right wing. However, the entire Guanning cavalry was in chaos, and most of the Guanning cavalry were involved in a cruel melee, and more and more Guanning cavalry fell under the swords of the Tartars.

The Tatar cavalry cut through the Guanning cavalry array at high speed, and then the Guanning cavalry fell one after another. The two sides fought each other in close combat, and the Guanning cavalry was definitely not an opponent. Leng Xuhai understood that the Qing army had an advantage in numbers and was also fierce cavalry. Of course, the infantry under his command could not be mixed with the Tatar cavalry to fight bayonets. If that were the case, it would be purely a death sentence.

In addition to knowing that he could not fill his infantry in hand-to-hand combat, Leng Xuhai did not know what a reasonable tactic should be in the face of a decayed battle situation. But no matter what, Leng Xuhai made a decision. Leng Xuhai decided to concentrate his main force to reinforce the right wing, and only divided a thousand people to conduct a feint attack on the left wing. The left wing was just to restrain the Qing army, and the left wing was already in a melee situation. Even if all his five thousand subordinates were thrown in, the situation could not be reversed. The right wing was also very critical at this time. If the right wing collapsed again, it would be really defeated. At that time, the entire line would be defeated, and with the 5,000 infantry under his command, it would not be enough for the Tartar cavalry to cut it.

So Leng Xuhai concentrated his firepower and fought a bloody path among the surrounding Qing cavalry, and finally came to the front of the right-wing Guanning cavalry. The crumbling right wing of the Ming army suddenly had a shot of a heart-strengthening injection. The combined firepower of the infantry and cavalry made the Qing army feel a headache for a while.

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Chongzhen was sitting in the war room, feeling extremely nervous at this moment. An hour ago, he received a letter from Feige, reporting that 12,000 cavalry were surrounded by more than 30,000 Qing cavalry. He just received another message saying that Leng Xuhai had led his troops to reinforce and temporarily withstand the Qing army's siege.

Chongzhen asked anxiously:

"When will the ten thousand cavalry cross the river?"

Qin Zhiyong next to him immediately replied:

"It was just a small river. Our engineer battalion carried sufficient bridge-building equipment and could cross the river in about half an hour."

This engineer battalion was the Ming army who participated in the pit digging battle in Peacock Mountain. It was originally under Yuan Jixian. Because of his special ability to dig pits, he was transferred to Nanjing by a transfer order, and then became a professional engineer unit of the Ming Dynasty. The facilities equipped by the engineers have reached an extraordinary level by Wang Chengen's design. The modular and assembled pontoon bridges are carried on six-wheeled vehicles and pulled by horses. For such a small river, it should not be a problem to build a pontoon bridge in half an hour. However, even if two pontoon bridges are built, it will take at least half an hour for ten thousand cavalry to pass through.

Chongzhen nodded and suddenly asked:

"Guo Yunlong received the order to reinforce, and I wonder where he was at this moment?"

Liu Jiyun replied:

"Guo Yunlong's five thousand lancers and five thousand Guanning cavalrymen were from south to north. He was only sixty miles away from the battlefield. He should have reached another river at this moment. He just had to bypass the river and could reach the battlefield."

Qin Zhiyong frowned and said:

"According to information, Dorgon still has at least two groups of people outside the battlefield, I'm afraid Guo Yunlong's troops will be blocked."

Chongzhen was really anxious. Now there are only 17,000 troops on the battlefield. No, I’m afraid it’s good to have 12,300 left. The Qing army has 30,000 people! Due to the river blockage, the 10,000 cavalrymen connected to the eastern line cannot be reinforced. Guo Yunlong, who has reinforced from south to north, is likely to be blocked by the Qing army. The current battlefield situation is very dangerous!

Chongzhen was a little unwilling to give up, stood up, paced back and forth a few times, and asked:

"Where is Wu Sangui? Where is Wu Sangui?"

Du Jun pointed to the sand table and said:

"Before Wu Sangui received the battle report in front, he was ninety miles away from the battlefield. He immediately reinforced the war report. The cavalry would take at least one and a half hours. He also had a lot of infantry under his command, and the Korean New Army, but the infantry was too slow. Even if he marched in a hurry, he would probably reach the battlefield five hours later."

Bai Hengdu also pointed at the sand table and said worriedly:

"This time, the Qing army chose to besiege our vanguard cavalry in this place facing the river three times. Now it has surrounded our army with 17,000 people. Assuming that our army has 12,000 people left in the encirclement, 30,000 to 12,000, and field battles are again, it is difficult to withstand it. In addition, Dorgon mobilized about 20,000 Qing troops to aid the Qing army, and our army has now reached 20,000 reinforcements near the battlefield. Wu Sangui led other reinforcements to speed up, but he only had 8,000 cavalry, including 4,000 Korean cavalry. Even if Wu Sangui led 8,000 cavalry, our army would have only 40,000 troops on the battlefield, and the Qing army had at least 50,000. This battle is not optimistic. It depends on whether the mixed cavalry of the lances commanded by Guo Yunlong and the Guanning cavalry can break through the blockade of the Qing army and rush into the encirclement to rescue the encirclement."

After all, Liu Jiyun was young, and was very young. He had personally experienced the battle against Dashun pursuers with few enemies, so he said with gale:

"Your Majesty, please don't worry too much! Lancers should have the upper hand against Qing cavalry. It is not difficult to break through the Qing army's blockade and intercept information. Once the floating bridge is well built, in addition to 10,000 cavalry, there are four "Chang'an" armored vehicles. After the armored vehicles cross the river, the role of stabilizing the battle situation should not be underestimated. Besides, the 300 Lancers and four armored vehicles in the chariot camp can also reach the river quickly. Once they cross the river, it is afraid that the Qing army will not be so easy for them to defeat our army in one go. When our reinforcements arrive continuously, the Qing army's military strength will no longer have an advantage, and it is hard to say who wins and who will lose!"

Chongzhen smiled slightly and said:

"Jiyun said this correctly. When a brave man wins when he meets on a narrow road, the Qing army may not be able to get a chance. Since Dorgon mobilized heavy troops to besiege our eastern front, the troops on the Liaodong Peninsula will inevitably be empty. Our army might as well take advantage of the situation to launch a large-scale attack to alleviate the pressure there."

On the Liaodong Peninsula, since the majority of Ajige's remaining troops were eliminated, 6,000 new troops and 5,000 cavalry were transferred to the eastern line. In addition, Guo Yunlong's 10,000 cavalrymen who supported the attack on the eastern line, there were still 70,000 troops on the Liaodong Peninsula, of which 55,000 were infantry and 15,000 were cavalrymen, and 10,000 were under Huang Degong's men, who were originally used as reserves.

If Dorgon transferred 40,000 troops to the eastern front, the original 75,000 troops of the Qing army on the Liaodong Peninsula had lost no less than 16,000 people in the past days. In this case, less than 20,000 Qing troops remained behind, plus the remaining enemies of Ajige in Jinzhou, there would be less than 25,000 troops. With 70,000 to 25,000 troops, and with less than 25,000 chariots, there would be no suspense to win.

However, Dorgon left behind not 19,000 defenders, but nearly 30,000 troops. Dorgon transferred 30,000 troops to the eastern front, plus the 8,000 cavalry recruited from the northeast mountainous areas, as well as the remaining 15,000 Qing troops on the eastern front, the Qing army besieged the Ming army on the eastern front, reached 53,000.

Dorgon also took the initiative to fight a mobile war on the eastern front according to Dorgon's combat plan, give full play to the cavalry advantages of the Qing army, surround and attack aid, and clean up more than 20,000 Ming army. The Qing army can reverse the passive situation and turn defense into offense.
Chapter completed!