Doolittle's retreat horn sounded for a long time, but not a single troop retreated.

This made Dolittle very angry. He blew his beard and glared at the banner leaders for disobeying orders and acting recklessly. He clamored to return to the capital to take a copy of the flag.

But on the noisy battlefield at this time, no one could hear the Eight Banners masters who had fled, and no one would pay attention to him.

……

"Over there! There are bandits in the woods over there!"

An Eight Banners soldier cut off the head of a "Ming bandit" in front of him with a knife, then pointed to the woods ahead and shouted loudly.

Although it was completely dark now, his sharp eyes still noticed the figures moving in the forest. (This person does not have night blindness)

As he shouted, the surrounding Eight Banners masters all looked over.

The Koreans are too capable of running away, and the Qing troops are too numerous.The situation of more wolves and less meat meant that most of the Eight Banners masters could not grab heads and could only serve as the atmosphere team.

Under such circumstances, these Ming troops who suddenly appeared naturally became the favorites in the eyes of the Eight Banners masters.

"Warriors with yellow flags, charge with me!"

The leader of the Xianghuang Banner, who had already cut down several "Ming troops", shouted loudly and rushed forward again.

"Kill! Don't leave a head for the new army!"

"Kill!"

A group of Eight Banners men followed closely, shouting at the top of their lungs and rushing towards the woods.

"Tom!"

"Shh~"

At this moment, there was a sudden crisp sound not far away, and then a dot of scarlet rushed into the sky, and then turned into a ball of light hundreds of meters above the ground.

The whole front of the forest suddenly became as bright as day.

This sudden change shocked the charging Eight Banners soldiers of the Qing army.

The leader of the banner with the yellow flag, who was at the forefront, quickly tightened his reins and tried his best to control the horse.

He raised his head and looked at the slowly falling new sun in the sky, his face full of surprise.

Is this a new gadget from the Ming bandits, or is it a miracle?

Before he could figure out what the ball of light in the sky was, gunshots suddenly erupted in the woods ahead.

In an instant, gunfire flashed and a dense rain of bullets hit his face.

The owner of this yellow flag was worthy of being the leader of a flag. He was hit by several rounds of 14.7mm bullets without even making a sound.

Of course, if you ignore the lumps of limbs flying here and there, the image of the Eight Banners Warriors will be more three-dimensional.

The leader of the Manqing Yellow Flag banner walked away suddenly, followed closely by a group of Eight Banners soldiers who were eager to grab people's heads.

These Eight Banners soldiers who were rushing forward had just caught a glimpse of the flickering flames in the forest ahead, and countless blood mist exploded on their bodies.

Some of the unlucky ones who were targeted by machine guns were just like their flag-bearers, who burst into a pile of minced meat before even making a sound.

Within a few breaths, this group of Eight Banners soldiers were beaten to the ground by the intensive bullets.

The sudden sound of gunfire here seemed to light a fuse. On the front line that was several miles wide, one flare after another was launched into the sky.

At this moment, dawn seemed to arrive early.

Behind the Qing army, Doolittle, the pillar of the Qing Dynasty, looked at the balls of light that suddenly rose in the night sky in the distance, and his eyelids couldn't stop beating wildly.

And the dense sound of gunfire that followed made his heart, which was about to be scrapped, twist together.

He didn't recognize the flares in the night sky, and he didn't know how the Ming army produced those balls of light that looked like little suns, but the almost loud sound of gunfire and the one after another explosions couldn't be faked. !

"The bandit is obviously cunning. In order to trick my army into going deeper, he is even willing to use tens of thousands of troops as bait!"

Doolittle gritted his teeth and stared at the battlefield in the distance.

He did not expect that the Ming bandit generals opposite him would be so courageous. He would throw away tens of thousands of troops and horses at will. It would be difficult for him to make this decision, and the total number of Ming bandits was only 10!

Fortunately, he still has nearly 20 troops in his hands. Those reckless men in front who disobey orders should be able to retreat even if they are attacked.

Compared with the Ming bandits, he still has an absolute advantage in military strength. As long as he waits until dawn, all the Ming bandits' conspiracies and tricks will be wiped out under the iron hoof of the army.

But the question is, can we wait until dawn?

……

In order to capture the main force of the Qing army in the first battle, Li Zhenhua procrastinated for more than ten days on the more than 100 kilometers from Tianjin to Beijing.

This is not only to leave enough time for the Qing army to gather its forces, but also to allow the troops around the back to advance concealedly.

At this moment, after more than ten days of day and night, the [-]th Division of the Ming Royal Army and the [-]st to [-]rd Divisions of the Ming Royal Guards had successfully bypassed both wings of the Qing army.

These were the tens of thousands of missing Ming bandits that Doolittle had always been afraid of.

When the five divisions on the front began to attack the advancing Qing army, the four divisions on the flanks of the Qing army also began to act at the same time.

Under the cover of darkness, the Sixth Division of the Royal Army and the First Division of the Royal Guards launched a surprise attack on Tongzhou.

The [-]nd and [-]rd Divisions of the Royal Guards launched an attack on Zhangjiawan.

Because tens of thousands of Ming troops disappeared, Doolittle deliberately deployed some troops on both wings of the army.

But it was clear that Doolittle overestimated the combat effectiveness of these Eight Banners masters. Faced with the sudden attack of the four elite divisions of the Ming army, the flank defense lines of the Qing army had no effect at all.

In one round of attacks, the two flanks of the Qing army's defense lines were easily broken through, and many Eight Banners masters lost their lives before they even understood the situation.

Tongzhou is eight miles away from Bali Bridge, and Zhangjiawan is ten miles away from Bali Bridge. The sound of gunfire coming from two directions is not obvious under the noise of the frontal battlefield, but the explosion of fire is clearly visible in the night.

"what happened!"

Doolittle's old eyes were wide open, looking at the flashing fire on both wings of the army.

All the generals of the Qing army also looked at each other with big eyes and small eyes.

Is this the Ming bandit causing trouble again?

The Qing army was not equipped with a large number of radio stations like the Ming army. The only radio obtained by sacrificing a dog officer is still in the Forbidden City and insists on bringing a little bit of radio from the Ming Empire to the Tatars every day. Shocking.

To convey news on the battlefield, the Tatars still relied on drums and horns and howling at the top of their lungs.

At this moment, all the Qing generals looked at the situation on both wings of the army with a blank look.

"Find out the situation quickly!"

"Yes, my lord!"

After receiving the order, two waves of Qing army scouts quickly rushed towards the two wings.

This time, Dolittle did not wait too long. In less than half an hour, the scouts sent to both wings had returned one after another.

However, the news brought back by the scouts made all the Qing army rewards change their expressions.

"What! Tongzhou and Zhangjiawan were raided by Ming bandits, with as many as [-] Ming bandits!" Someone immediately exclaimed.

Dolittle's old face wrinkled together. He looked at the flickering firelight in the distance, and then at the several scouts kneeling on the ground. The expression on his face changed again and again.

"Damn slave dog, how dare you lie about the military situation! There are only so many bandits in total, how could there be another 10 troops!"

A sharp shout made several scouts tremble in fright, and a group of Qing army generals also realized that there was no way the Ming army could have so many people.

In fact, these scouts didn't know how many people there were in the Ming army. They ran into the fleeing flank defenders just halfway.

Some of the frightened defeated soldiers said that the Ming army had 10 troops, some said 20, and even more, a Ming army with a million troops came directly. In short, each one was more outrageous than the last.

When the scouts heard this, their calves trembled.

No matter how many people there are in the Ming army, they must not be able to go to the front. Haven't you seen so many people running for their lives?So the scouts picked a piece of news that didn't sound so outrageous and returned.

But who would have thought that as soon as they reported, Doolittle concluded that they had lied about the military situation.

"Sir, everything I say is true. Then there are bandit soldiers and horses everywhere in the mountains and fields!"

The scout kneeling on the ground immediately wailed.

"Pull it down! Cut it!"

Dolittle's tone was cold. The current war situation was turbulent. These dog slaves dared to lie about the military situation. It would be hard to explain his anger without killing them!

But then he thought again, and a sneer appeared at the corner of his mouth.

"How dare you divide your troops to surround my 30-strong army with only one hundred thousand troops! How arrogant!"

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