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Melezhang Jing Luo De'an led a thousand Qing troops to cross the river near Tongbai Village in the east. However, Xia Chengde, who was responsible for the support, was exposed in advance and was blocked ten miles away from Luo De'an's crossing point, and was unable to provide support to Luo De'an.
Lordan led a thousand men to cross the river at the risk of their lives. Although hundreds of them crossed the freezing cold river, they were blocked by the Qin army that arrived quickly on the mud flats below the river bank and were never able to break through the Qin army's defense line on the river bank.
The soaked Qing army was trapped on the beach by the river. The cold night wind was even colder than being in the water. They could not hold out for long. They were either shot to death by the Qin army or captured by the Qin army.
Although Luo De'an and Xia Chengde failed to cooperate closely to successfully cross the river, they successfully attracted the attention of the Qin army to Tongbai Village.
After they disrupted the situation, Xia Chengde's deputy general Zhou Chongshan led several hundred people to successfully advance to five miles from the river bank near Xiatang Village, 20 miles west of Tongbai Village, before being discovered.
While the nearby Qin army was besieging Zhou Chongshan, Aobai on the north bank launched a larger-scale river crossing operation. There were a total of 4,000 Tatars. The first thousand soldiers, like Lordan in the east, hugged their horses' necks and rushed directly into the river. In the process of crossing the river, one-third of the soldiers were lost, but the rest successfully fought their way to the river bank.
At the same time, several pontoon bridges like the one used by Zu Dale a few days ago were quickly pushed to the other side. Some Qing troops abandoned their horses and rushed across the Chu River from the pontoon bridges.
Aobai had made sufficient preparations, and the whole process took only a cup of tea. Hundreds of people rushed to the other side of the underwater bridge and established a beachhead on the shore.
"Hurry up! Hurry up. Otherwise everyone will die!" Aobai raised his big knife and yelled anxiously.
The remaining several thousand Tatars first stripped naked, then rushed into the river with their horses in their arms. The river was boiling, and although they were protected by the beachhead on the south bank, many people were still frozen to the point of numbness in the freezing cold water and were swept away by it.
Their clothes and bows and arrows were carried over by those who abandoned their horses and crossed the river on the floating bridge. The Tatars who successfully crossed the Chu River put on their clothes again on the other side. After receiving the bows and arrows, they immediately became cavalrymen who could be put into battle.
More and more Qin troops arrived at the south bank, and more and more Qing troops successfully crossed the Chu River. The two sides engaged in a fierce battle on the south bank beach, with flames and arrows flying all over the sky.
Commander Liu Meng had realized that this must be the real crossing point of the Qing army, so he rushed there with his few cavalry and ordered the Qin army infantry to gather here.
It's just that infantry is not as good as cavalry. Cavalry can reach a distance of ten miles in a short time, but it takes infantry a long time to run ten miles on foot.
More and more Qing soldiers went ashore, and Zhou Chongshan's troops in the south became more and more courageous and continued to advance towards this side.
Liu Meng was extremely anxious. He ordered Hao Yaoqi to personally lead the cavalry to attack the Qing army's beachhead, while at the same time ordering the artillery to return to the camp urgently.
Hao Yaoqi was also as strong as an ox. He brandished a huge mace and led the only 3,000 cavalrymen on the south bank to rush towards the Qing army's beachhead. The large area of torches was like a sea of fire, illuminating the surrounding area as bright as day.
Aobai assembled thousands of Qing cavalry and charged towards him. Although the cavalry could not gallop as fast at night as they did during the day, when the two armies collided, there was still a shocking force. When the two armies met, there was a bloody storm and the sound of killing filled the night sky.
The fallen warhorses cried and rolled, the cold swords flew in the firelight, and everyone was chopping with their swords, as if they were using up every bit of strength in their bodies. Every minute and every second, people on both sides were chopped off their horses, and the roars, screams, and neighing of warhorses were like the raging waves of the sea.
Hao Yaoqi swung his heavy mace violently, and with a bang, he smashed the breastplate of a Tartar who was rushing towards him, causing him to spit blood from his mouth. He flew backwards and smashed hard into another Tartar who was rushing from behind, causing the Tartar to scream and fall off his horse, and then was trampled to death by the rain of horses' hooves.
Although Aobai's troops were only one-third of Hao Yaoqi's, they were trapped in a desperate situation and had a strong desire to survive. In addition, they were led by Aobai, the bravest warrior in Manchuria, and they were extremely brave in fighting for their lives. At least twice as many Qin soldiers fell off their horses, making this bloody battle seem extremely tragic.
Seeing that Hao Yaoqi was so ferocious that all the Qing soldiers he encountered were knocked off their horses, Aobai rushed over with a roar like thunder and fought with Hao Yaoqi.
Both were as strong as bulls. Aobai's thick-backed broadsword weighed about thirty or forty kilograms. It collided fiercely with Hao Yaoshi's giant mace. With a clang of metal and metal, sparks flew. Hao Yaoqi only felt his arm go numb and his knuckles ached. He dragged the mace and missed Aobai.
Aobai laughed and said, "I am Aobai, who are you? Why don't you tell me your name and wait for your death?"
Hao Yaoqi was furious and smashed the head of a Tartar who rushed over, causing blood and brain matter to fly everywhere. With a bloody face, he turned his horse's head and rushed towards Aobai again, "Your grandfather's name is Hao Yaoqi. When you go to the underworld and King Yama asks about me, you must not forget it."
Aobai brandished his sword and laughed wildly, like a killing god in the sky, and a string of Manchu words burst out of his mouth. The two riders rushed towards each other again. Under the light of the fire, their faces looked particularly ferocious, like two demon beasts pouncing on their enemies.
Ten steps, five steps, three steps, iron hooves flying, roaring like thunder, Hao Yaoqi first swung the mace, and smashed it down with a piercing gust of wind, "Come on!" Aobai's mad knife was as fast as lightning, slashing out with the force of splitting the sky and the earth, bang! There was another loud noise, and a ball of sparks was dazzling and painful.
Hao Yaoqi's palms burst, and he could hardly hold his weapon. He fell on the horse's back, holding the horse's neck to stabilize himself. Aobai roared, and when the two horses crossed each other, he still had enough strength to turn around and swing his sword. With a sound of "chi!", the sword that was as powerful as thunder and lightning did not cut Hao Yaoqi, but it split the hindquarters of his warhorse. The warhorse screamed and fell out... ...
"General!"
"General, General Hao!"
Hao Yaoqi's personal soldiers cried out in shock and rushed to rescue. One of them leaped forward without hesitation, trying to knock Aobai off his horse. Aobai roared and swung his sword wildly, splitting the personal soldier into two pieces. Blood spurted out and even his internal organs flew out. His death was extremely tragic.
The other personal soldiers of Hao Yaoqi were furious. One of them, Wan Liang, roared, lit a thunder bomb, and rushed towards Aobai, wanting to die with him. Aobai had no choice but to flee.
The nearby Qing soldiers shot arrows at Wan Liang, and his body was full of arrows. At the last moment of his death, Wan Liang used up his last bit of strength to throw the thunder bomb at Aobai.
But because he was seriously injured, the thunder bomb fell more than half a foot behind Aobai's horse and exploded. Aobai's horse was cut in the belly by shrapnel and fell to the ground wailing. He himself was thrown seven or eight feet away, but he quickly got up. It was obvious that he was not seriously injured.
Although Hao Yaoqi was rescued by his personal soldiers, he could hardly rotate his mace because his palm was broken. In addition, more and more Qing troops crossed the river and continued to fight on the battlefield. Eventually, the Qin cavalry was defeated and retreated, losing thousands of people. Fortunately, in order to maintain the beachhead, the Qing army did not pursue them relentlessly, and the remaining troops were able to escape.
The defeat of the cavalry caused tremendous psychological pressure on the infantry who came to join the battle, and their morale was greatly damaged. If Liu Meng had not personally joined the battle, fighting at the front, and promptly formed an infantry formation with long spears and huge shields to resist the cavalry's attack, the infantry would probably have collapsed.
Despite this, under the repeated attacks of Abai's infantry, the infantry formation was forced to retreat step by step and could no longer threaten the Qing army's beachhead position.
The entire south bank was ablaze with flames and fighting was endless. The shouts of horses, the sound of horse hooves, and the sound of crashing into each other were like waves, one higher than the other.
The disadvantage of the Qin army's dispersed camping was exposed. The 10,000 infantrymen nearby had all been deployed to the battlefield, fighting fiercely with the 2,000 or 3,000 troops who successfully crossed the river, while the other tens of thousands of troops were unable to arrive for a while.
The Qing army took this opportunity to connect several pontoon bridges, drove wooden stakes under the bridges to support and fix them, and then laid a thick layer of door panels to allow war horses to cross the river.
Tudor's follow-up troops rushed to the north bank when the bridge deck was almost completed, waiting to cross the river.
At this time, another 10,000 Qin troops from the south bank rushed to the battlefield, bringing two falconets and hundreds of Hundred Tigers with them. The other 20,000 to 30,000 troops were also rushing towards this side.
A life-and-death battle will be a battle of utter chaos and darkness...
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.(To be continued..)
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