Li Chengdong's base camp was built along the river, built on a high ground, which was convenient for water withdrawal and also convenient for guarding. Behind the camp was a large area of ​​dense shrubs from the forest. To the west outside the camp, there was a low-lying valley with a radius of more than ten miles. There was a small river on the north and south of the valley, and there was also a dense bush forest on the other side of the river.

In this way, the valley is either a small river or a forest on three sides. Only by entering the east side of the valley can you directly lead to the Qing army's base camp. This is an excellent ambush area. If the Ming army's night attack troops want to sneak attack the Qing army's camp, they must pass through this valley.

When Li Chengdong learned that the Ming army would set off for a night attack that night, he began to make careful arrangements. He first evacuated the camp, and then gathered all the elite troops of the headquarters and the infantrymen of the Fujian-based Zheng Zhilong tribe. Wu Yi Bo Shifu and adopted son Li Yuanyin each led more than 1,000 infantrymen, and ambushed on the opposite bank of two small rivers on both sides of the valley. In the bushes behind the camp, Li Chengdong personally led his troops to ambush more than 2,000 infantry and nearly 2,000 cavalrymen.????

Just when he was secretly dispatching troops to deal with the Ming army's sneak attack, the former Ming surrendered general Ye Chengen, deputy general Zhang Daoying, Li Yangchen and others gathered at Li Chengdong's camp and asked to lead his troops to participate in the battle.

But Li Chengdong kept Ye and Zhang Zhu's other former Ming surrendered troops as reserves, stationed six or seven miles away from the camp, and was ordered to reinforce if necessary, which made the generals extremely disappointed, but they had to follow the orders.

The reason why Li Chengdong arranged this was that, considering that the surrendered army was low in combat, it was only suitable for cannon fodder and fighting battles with the wind, and it was not suitable for heavy responsibilities. Second, it was because it was an extraordinary period, and the army had cut off food and shortage of food in the army. The surrendered army was already a little unstable, and there were complaints in private that except for the Fujian faction, the surrendered army of the Guangdong-Guangdong faction was no longer reliable. If it weren't for his great power in the army and thousands of troops who had killed their troops, they thought that the military would have been in chaos and the army would have collapsed without fighting.

In view of these reasons, he had to consider the situation where the surrendered army turned against each other at the critical moment and collided with his own army, so he made such arrangements.????

When Jiao Lian realized that the Qing army camp was an empty camp and led the Ming army attacking at night to retreat to the valley, Li Chengdong gave an order and, under the escort of the old soldiers in the headquarters, rushed out of the forest from the bushes behind the camp, passed through the empty camp, and rushed straight towards the Ming army on the valley.

The first one was more than a thousand cavalry wearing helmets and armored. They rushed down from the camp located on the high ground to the Ming army on the valley, like an iron wall, covering the sky and the earth, giving great shock to the Ming army in the chaos. The Ming army failed to attack. In the panic, they saw the Qing army's cavalry so terrifyingly rushing, and they couldn't help but have a broken heart. In the hazy moonlight, it was difficult to organize an effective defensive formation. Some ran around the valley, while others rushed to the rivers on both sides, trying to break through the rivers.

At this time, the Qing army ambushed in the woods across the river, led by Shi Fu and Li Yuanyinzhen, rushed out and rushed towards the Ming army on the valley. The ones rushing to the front shot raindrops and leads shot at the Ming army's night attack troops. A large number of Ming army were shot and shot to the ground in chaos. Then, more than 7,000 Qing army roared and surrounded more than 3,000 Ming army troops who were attacking night attacks on the valley.

The Ming army surrounded by siege was subjected to a series of sudden attacks, and the morale of the army was in chaos and lost the idea of ​​turning defeat into victory. Under the command of commander Jiao Lian, the Ming army in the back team was forced to change to a front army and desperately broke through the siege and fled. Li Chengdong had already calculated this. While he arranged layers of cavalry on the periphery, he killed the defeated soldiers who broke out, and at the same time, he ordered his main force to rush into the chaotic Ming army and slashed and killed. The two sides were entangled and fought desperately in the dark.????

The Ming army that raided this time was the most elite and bravest group of soldiers in the guards' personal army. Most of them were Jiao Lian's old subordinates. They had been through the battlefield for a long time and had a lot of war experience. Although these old soldiers on the battlefield were suddenly ambushed by the Qing army, a considerable number of them still reacted in time, forming a small formation of five or three-person and a three-person formation, and launched a tragic battle with the Qing army.

After several waves of charge, the cavalry of the Qing army almost lost its function. The infantry on both sides fought together, so the cavalry dismounted and fought with the infantry.????

On the empty valley, the deafening shouts and killings and swords and guns were woven, and the screams of soldiers on both sides when they fell, presenting an extremely tragic picture. About five hundred infantry and cavalry gathered around Jiao Lian, who protected the commander and retreated while fighting, but in the dark, there were soldiers fighting together everywhere, and the horses could not run at all. Seeing that the situation was urgent, Jiao Lian immediately dismounted and retreated on foot while fighting.????

During the melee, the Qing soldiers saw the Ming army on Jiao Lian's side gathering together desperately, protecting him and retreating, and knew that Jiao Lian was not an ordinary Ming general. So the Qing soldiers rushed towards Jiao Lian one after another. For a moment, Jiao Lian became the most intense place for the two sides to fight.

Facing the Qing soldiers gradually surrounding him, Jiao Lian, with his unimaginable courage, raided among thousands of troops. He shot arrows and whipped the knife. Under the escort of the infantry and cavalry guards, he killed a group of Qing soldiers who rushed up, and broke through the encirclement layer by layer. The Qing soldiers who intercepted him were shocked by his eyes and ferocious desperate spirit. They were afraid of being attacked by his vicious hands, and they all retreated one after another. Seeing Jiao Lian and the hundreds of sprints and cavalry around were about to break through the encirclement.
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