Jimu and Gao Yi joined forces to defeat the Qing army, leaving countless remaining soldiers along the way. Many Qing army was so desperate that they were beaten away. Seeing the Ming army's large troops coming from the south, they no longer cared about shame. They put their weapons aside, knelt on both sides of the road, bowed their heads and begged for mercy, with a humble attitude.

Zhou Xian ordered the soldiers not to kill the Qing army who gave up their weapons at will, but they did not capture them. He only urged his soldiers to speed up to move north and asked them to shout "Those who automatically surrender outside Jinzhou City should not die." And many of the Qing army, who were panicked and completely lost the courage to resist, stood up and walked slowly to the south.

The army rushed all the way and finally met with the former soldiers near Baiqiankou.

Zhou Xian stood on a high slope and looked into the distance. The wall he had originally built to resist the Qing army's advance north was close to him. But the difference was that the Qing army was defending it now. The number of people was not small, with nearly 5,000 people.

Jimu stood beside Zhou Xian, with a little guilty expression on his face: "Military Gate, when we arrived, the Qing army had already arranged a defense line. Because our army was short of troops and the soldiers were tired, I issued an order to stop the attack. It was precisely because of this that the Qing army consolidated the defense line."

Zhou Xian smiled lightly and waved his hand and said, "You are right. It shouldn't be easy to suppress Gao Yi and Zhou Tai, two bulls!"

Gao Yi was the commander of the infantry in the front team, and Zhou Tai led less than a hundred people to chase Gao Yi after the battle outside Jinzhou City. Both of them were impatient people, but in the end they did not lead their troops to attack the Qing army, which was waiting for him. Jimu should have done a lot of consolation work.

Jimu smiled without words.

Zhou Xian took off his helmet, pulled his completely wet hair back, and said in a deep voice: "Go and call Gao Yi, Zhou Tai, and Xiao Tan and others here! Let's discuss how to drive all the Qing army in front of him into the river in one go."

After chasing all the way, the Ming army was exhausted and did not carry any siege equipment. Because of the heavy rain, they did not even carry the attack weapon, the tiger squat cannon.

Although the heavy rain has stopped now, the road surface is slippery, and attacking upward along the hilly path will obviously increase a lot of difficulties. The number of Ming soldiers is not very superior, only about 7,000. Although there are two thousand more than the Qing army on the south bank of the river, on the north bank of the river, more than 6,000 Qing troops led by Haoge are waiting there, ready to rush to the south bank through the floating bridge on the river surface at any time.

The only advantage of the Ming army was that the morale of the self-armed army was high and the fighting spirit was high; the Qing army lost consecutively and the morale was low. This was also one of the reasons why Mandahai and Abatai knew that the self-armed army was waiting for work, but they still did not dare to take the initiative to attack from afar. Because once the attack failed, what awaited them was the collapse of the entire army. And defense was obviously better organized than attack.

The reason why Zhou Xian had to take the initiative to launch an attack was to try to wipe out the Qing army in front of him in one fell swoop while the morale of the entire army was strong. After all, at most three hours, the day would be completely dark. After fighting for a day, the soldiers of the self-army who were soaked all over could not spend the night in the mountains and forests without any cover. Even if they were destined to be in the wild tonight, they must be in the camp where the Qing army is currently located.

Zhou Xian heard Gao Yi say that Haoge had retreated all the cavalry to the north shore and smiled faintly: "The Qing army is no longer sure of victory, and before the war begins, they are ready to escape. Our army will win in this battle."

The generals looked excited and nodded one after another. Zhou Tai said directly: "Uncle, let's start fighting!"

Zhou Xian nodded, pondered for a moment, and said, "Gao Yi, can you still fight?"

Gao Yi smiled and said, "Don't worry, the military gate. Although there are less than 2,000 people who can fight at present, as long as the military gate orders, the subordinates will definitely be the first to attack the wall."

The Qing army in front was set up based on the wall, which was ten feet high, so it was not difficult to climb up. Although Mandahai had occupied the wall in advance, it was just to cover the army's retreat. He did not expect Abatai to suffer such a crushing defeat, nor did he want to stick here. Later, when he saw the Ming army's front team coming, he began to repair the camp. However, due to limited time, it was only a simple line of defense now.

Zhou Xian smiled and said, "I don't want you to take the first place in this battle. Five thousand soldiers of the Qing army lined up along the walls, and the focus of defense was in the middle. If you lead the remaining troops of the Zhizi Camp, I will give you another five hundred teams, and you will first launch the attack. The more you fight, the better. Be sure to keep the main force of the Qing army here."

Gao Yi understood. Zhou Xian wanted him to attract the main force of the Qing army, so as to create opportunities for other battalions to break through the Qing army's defense line in other places. He shook his head, his tone was a little disappointed, and he said with a slouching voice: "Subsidiary receives the order."

Zhou Xian smiled and patted his shoulder, turned his head to the side and said, "Li Kai, there are more than a thousand soldiers in your Yong character camp. I will also give you the soldiers in the Ren character camp in Xiaotan. Although the number of people is only over two thousand, they are all elites of our army. When Gao Yi attracted the main force of the Qing army in the middle, you will launch a fierce attack from the left and must attack the wall in the shortest time."

Li Kai bowed his hand and said with a solemn expression: "Don't worry about the military gate."

Zhou Xian nodded and continued, "Lewu, you gave you 1,500 people, all new soldiers. Your role is not to attack the Qing army, but to the station soldiers in front of the formation. When the Qing army on the right goes to support the middle road, or even on the left, you launch an attack. Be sure to nail the Qing army on the right to me to the original position."

Yu Qi nodded and asked, "Military Gate, can you send me more bows and arrows?"

"This is easy to say. Although most of the baggage was left behind, it should not be a problem for the entire army to collect 10,000 or 20,000 feather arrows. I will give you eight thousand feather arrows, you can use them at will."

Gao Xin couldn't help but ask, "Military Gate, what are our cavalry doing? Should we abandon our horses and participate in the attack with the infantry?"

Zhou Xian laughed and scolded: "Gao Xin, you were kicked in the head by a donkey. The cost of raising a cavalry is basically ten times that of an infantryman. Do you want me to use them as infantry now?"

Gao Yi looked embarrassed and felt that his proposal was a bit stupid.

Zhou Xian asked: "Jimu, how many cavalry do you have under your command?"

Jimu replied: "Nearly eight hundred people can get on the horse."

Zhou Xian nodded and thought for a while. Eight hundred cavalry should be almost enough. "Let all the cavalry dismount and rest and eat, and save their physical strength as much as possible. After solving these Qing troops in front of you, you will follow me to cross the river to pursue Haoge. You can chase as far as you can. It may not be possible that we can take advantage of the opportunity to recover Fuzhou in this battle!"
Chapter completed!