On the battlefield near Dongxi, there were sounds of killing and guns and cannons.

Li Ruitai shouted loudly and gathered the Qing soldiers. After the initial panic, the Eight Banners soldiers gradually calmed down. The bird gunman took advantage of the protection of trees and began to shoot back. The archers squatted on the ground and shot arrows to both sides. The infantry held shields to block the arrows and bird guns on the hill.

Seeing this, Fang Guoan immediately pulled out his knife and roared, "Die if you can't win, kill me!"

The Ming soldiers hiding on both sides immediately roared, raised their swords, picked up their spears, jumped down the hills, and charged towards the Qing army.

The first thing that was affected was Zhang Bingzhen's five thousand stroking flags. After they were ambushed, they were incredibly in chaos and the Ming soldiers rushed down with a rainbow of momentum.

These green camp soldiers were unable to form formations to block them, and fought with Ming soldiers, soldiers and generals, and were constantly being chopped over by the powerful Ming army.

Unlike the chaos of the Green Camp soldiers, the quality of more than 4,000 Eight Banners soldiers was significantly higher. When the Ming soldiers rushed down, the bird gunman of the Eight Banners soldiers knelt on one knee and fired first. Amid the "bang bang bang" gunshots, the Ming army in front was beaten to the back and fell down.

Immediately afterwards, the archer pulled the bow away, pointed at the sky diagonally, and did not aim at it, just an arrow, followed by a javelin and a short axe.

The Ming soldiers kept falling to the ground, and their momentum suddenly became bleak. When they hit the knife player and the spearman, they had no momentum they had when they rushed down.

Faced with the impact of the Ming army, the Eight Banners soldiers showed their strength. Li led the Tai to connect the swords and cards to form a line outside, and the spearmen supported the situation, forming two lines of defense left and right that were blocked from the left and right. They guarded both sides of the road, with bows and arrows and muskets in the middle of the two lines of defense, relying entirely on long-range firepower to shoot the Ming army soldiers rushing down from both sides.

Fang Guoan is considered an elite force among the Zhejiang soldiers, but in the world, he can only be considered a third-rate.

At this time, the number of ambush troops was comparable to that of the Qing army. After the initial panic, the Qing army gradually stabilized its position.

When the Fang Shiyan saw that the Ming army was not in chaos, he was very anxious and waved his sword to fight. Instead, he was shot into the eyes by an arrow from the Eight Banners, and his face was suddenly filled with blood.

"Major General!" The personal soldiers were shocked when they saw this and hurriedly led the Fang Shiyan back.

Seeing this, some of the Ming soldiers around him retreated with them.

The Fang Shiyan was furious and pushed away his personal soldiers. He held the arrow shaft with one hand, roared and pulled it out, throwing the arrow on the ground, "Today there will be no life! Those who dare to retreat this arrow will be killed by themselves!"

"Kill!" Seeing this, many personal soldiers turned red with their eyes and rushed towards the Qing soldiers. The Ming soldiers fought to the death to attack the Eight Banners soldiers' front line.

Fang Guoan stood under the mountain banner, his face showing an anxious look. Among the Eight Banners soldiers trapped on the road, Li Lutai was also very anxious.

According to the Qing army's information, it is impossible for Shaoxing Prefecture to have so many Ming troops, and these Ming troops are obviously not newly recruited soldiers, but elite troops of the Ming army.

Judging from the banner, the person who ambushed him was Ming general Fang Guoan, which shows that his actions and intentions had been learned by the Ming army that the Ming army might have retreated from Hangzhou, so there must be Ming army coming here.

The Ming army had the initiative to fight, and it was meaningless to continue fighting. We had to quickly move closer to Duoduo's main force, occupy a south bank of the Fuchun River, and lead the army across the river to have the chance to completely defeat the Ming army.

Li Ruitai had a ferocious face and shouted angrily: "Wait and follow me!"

More than 300 real Manzhou vests, with ferocious faces, urged the war horses to attack the Ming soldiers blocked behind. The cavalry shot arrows in the cyclone, threw out javelins and short axes, and smashed them on the Ming army's shield. The javelin shot through the shield and nailed the Ming army's body to the ground.

The heavy cavalry, wearing heavy armor and horses, lowered their spear heads and pointed them at the Ming soldiers, and was about to hit them.

At this moment, a whimpering sound came from a distance. Li Ruitai raised his head and looked north. The reinforcements of the Ming army came.

He couldn't help but change his face. On the hills in the distance, there were dense figures of people coming into his eyes. Thousands of Ming soldiers raised their weapons and rushed over to the sky.

The Qing army, who had originally stabilized the front, suddenly fell into panic again.

Li Ruitai's muscles twitched on his face, and knew that he could not escape. He looked around and locked in a mountain on the side of the road. Suddenly, he pointed a sword and said, "Run left and kill the mountain to defend!"

After speaking, Li Ruitai waved his sword and rushed to the left. The Eight Banners soldiers followed closely behind and attacked to the left. The Ming army on the left was unable to make a mistake and was suddenly opened by the Qing army. However, the Eight Banners soldiers attacked the left, which was equivalent to giving up the right defense. The soldiers on the right side of the Ming army took advantage of the situation to cover up and kill the backward Qing army.

The Qing army's resistance was completely collapsed on the road, and the Ming army naturally would not let them go. The reinforcements that came did not bother to take a breath and then went to the pursuit.

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As the sky gets dark, the fierce battle on the battlefield comes to an end for the time being.

On the hills and roads, the Ming army with torches cleared the battlefield, picked up weapons, moved away the bodies, and led away the unowned war horses.

Three miles away from the road, under a mountain called Jinniuling, Ming soldiers built a simple temporary command post with four wooden sticks and a piece of rag.

The Ming soldiers holding spears in their hands, guarding outside, while the King of Lu Zhu Yihai was wearing armor and sat inside.

At this time, Fang Guoan, who was pressing his hand on the hilt, entered the tent surrounded by the generals, and smiled excitedly, "See Your Highness!"

Zhu Yihai stood up happily, helped Fang Guoan up, and then helped Fang Shiyan, who had wrapped half of his head, held the hands of the two, and said emotionally: "The General, father and son, are really the stone pillars of the country!"

Fang Guoan was quite content with his satisfaction, "Your Highness, I am fortunate to be disgraced and defeated Li Lutai!"

Zhu Yihai nodded excitedly, "General, what is the result of the battle?"

Fang Shiyan replied: "Report to your highness, he killed more than 5,000 enemies and captured more than 1,000 people. Li Rutai only had three thousand remaining soldiers and trapped the mountain!"

This result was beyond the expectations of the Ming army soldiers. In terms of the number of killing enemies and captives, it can be said that the Qing army suffered the greatest damage since the Jiashen period and the greatest victory achieved by the Ming army.

"Okay!" Zhu Yihai exclaimed loudly, "Dissolve Li Lutai as soon as possible. After this battle, the Lone King will personally celebrate the merits for you!"

Fang Guoan clasped his fists and said, "Your Highness, I will launch a general attack early tomorrow morning. The 40,000 troops will destroy three thousand remaining soldiers and end the battle within one day!"

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At Jinniu Ridge, there were several torches on the top of the mountain. Under the illumination of the flames, you can see the Eight Banners soldiers fleeing here all over the mountain.

On the narrow mountain, more than 3,000 Qing soldiers were squeezed. They stood, stood, or lie down, and no longer had the arrogance they were the elite of the Eight Banners.

The defeated soldiers of the Eight Banners held spears and bird guns, leaned on their backs, or sat against stones and trees, with their eyes dull and miserable expressions.

After the Eight Banners soldiers entered the pass, they had never been defeated. They were extremely arrogant and arrogant.

Today they finally suffered a heavy defeat and were surrounded by the Ming army on the mountain. They almost lost all their supplies, and they could not eat food for a few days. Moreover, there was no water on the mountain. They had to drink the kettle and had to urinate after drinking it, and in the end they could only die of thirst.

On the top of the mountain, the wounded soldiers lying on the ground kept moaning and wailing, and their despair began to spread, torturing the spirit of the Qing soldiers.

Li Shutai, the son of the number one traitor, sat on a big stone, and didn't know where the helmet was thrown, revealing his injured scalp and a rat-tailed braid.

Compared with the despair of other Qing troops, Li Lutai still maintained his fighting spirit.

At this time, he tore off a piece of close-fitting underwear, scratched his fingers, squeezed out blood, wrote a letter of help, handed it to the two Eight Banners soldiers kneeling on the ground, and said in a deep voice: "Please keep it close! You two should take advantage of the night to send this letter, and ask King Yu to send troops to rescue him."

"Zhe!" The two Eight Banners soldiers bowed and hurried down the mountain.

Li Rutai immediately comforted the generals around him and said, "Don't worry, no matter if you don't believe it, Prince Yu will send troops to rescue him. We may not be able to cooperate with Prince Yu inside and outside to defeat the Ming army, and be humiliated in one blood."

Several Qing generals did not agree, but nodded silently.

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Chapter completed!