Chapter 92: He was beaten and escaped with his life

"It's the killer Li Hao."

Daldai, the leader of the Niulu of the Bordered Blue Banner, recognized at a glance the majestic figure that had frightened and heartbroken countless members of the Eight Banners.

He was the sixth son of Juercha Anfeyanggu, the head of the five founding ministers of the Later Jin Dynasty. He held a high position in the South Camp and was solely responsible for the command of this group of dead soldiers.

"This Ming is coming with great force. We cannot charge straight ahead. The master has ordered us to change our route."

"There are a large number of Ming army servants ahead. It would be a great achievement if the master led the army to rush over and surround and kill them."

"Leave some dead soldiers and Tainikan to block him. Master, lead the troops to besiege the servants. I will stay here to supervise the battle."

His subordinates Dai Zi, Bashiku and other minor officials all suggested using some of the dead soldiers to hold back Li Hao first, and concentrate their forces to deal with Ming Guoding before making any plans.

The thirty-five-year-old Daldai was half as brave as his father. He said firmly, "If I had led the troops to help the bannermen, you would never have fought to the death here. I'm afraid that the Ming general killed half of the dead soldiers, and you were so scared that you rode away on your horses."

His idea was right. Li Hao's killing power was much stronger than the Ming army's servants who were in formation. As long as he sent his death squad to surround the Ming general, he would gain a perfect opportunity to fight for the South Camp.

All the troops in the South Camp were quickly putting on their armor and leaving the camp. Moreover, the news that a large number of Ming cavalry had crossed the river had already been passed on to the North Camp. After waiting for an hour or two, several thousand more bannermen arrived one after another.

In short, if you hold on firmly, there will be a way!

Daldai directly ordered to stop the march and set up the battle formation on the spot.

He just didn't believe it. Three hundred dead soldiers and one hundred mounted flagmen, could Li Hao kill them all in one hour?
The infantry and archers in his Niulu also dismounted and formed a battle formation, standing behind the dead soldiers holding melee weapons.

Of course, the main role of the regular flag soldiers in the early stage was to supervise the battle. When the dead soldiers really did not dare to rush forward to fight Li Hao in close combat, the full-volume Niulu bow and arrows would be shot indiscriminately.

"Xu~"

Li Hao pulled the reins tightly, dismounted, and handed the good horse sent by the Imperial Household Department to Wu Sangui.

The godson knew that he could not join the charge this time. Although he felt a little regretful, he had already gotten used to it.

After all, protecting his godfather's warhorse and spare weapons was also his contribution to killing the Tartars.

Li Hao held two maces in his hands and had a spare knife for cutting ropes hanging on his waist. He rushed forward without paying attention to the dead soldiers' spear points that stabbed him, and went straight in front of the group of dead soldiers to whip the barbarians in all directions.

He suddenly remembered that among the spear techniques summarized by Qi Jiguang, there was a move called "Four Barbarians Submitting".

However, that was the starting gesture of a gun thrust, which was completely different from his mace technique which had no rules and was just random attacks relying on strength and height advantage.

But the effects are quite similar, both of which make the barbarians from all directions scream and wail.

He was killing with great enthusiasm, but the dead soldiers on the opposite side had a completely different feeling.

Every time the mace was swung, it brought up a sharp gust of wind mixed with a frightening smell of blood.

Although the dead soldiers holding spears also stabbed quickly, the Ming general was not moved at all.

No, he still reacted after being stabbed, and his hard mace hit faster.

It's like a person who has been bitten by a mosquito and is trying to slap the mosquito by shaking his clothes.

"Fire, fire!"

Daldai shouted that if he had not seen it with his own eyes, he would not believe that there was such a fearless person in the world.

He deployed the musketeers high on the hill. Although firing at this time would certainly injure his own dead soldiers, the morale of the dead spear soldiers had already collapsed, and special means were needed to motivate them to go back and continue fighting with the Ming general.

Korea's gun-making technology was similar to that of the Ming Dynasty, but the quality of the muskets it made was much higher. A considerable portion of the Later Jin's muskets and muskets were purchased from Korea.

A light bird gun with a charge of three cents can roughly hit the target within a hundred steps and can penetrate armor at a distance of thirty steps.

There were about thirty musketeers in this group. Although the damage caused to Li Hao by a round of volleys was not as great as that caused by the same number of beryllium arrows, the musket bullets were much more effective in tearing cloth armor than beryllium arrows.

The Jinzhou general shouted loudly, and swung out a few whips with great force, killing the soldiers with guns and knives in front of him, and went straight towards the musket soldiers.

The flag soldiers who stayed behind to supervise the battle did not hold back any more. They took turns shooting arrows, forcing the dead soldiers to continue the siege and shooting at Li Hao, the Ming general who had fought his way out. But even with more than a dozen arrows piercing his body, Li Hao still killed the musketeers brazenly.

Before the enemy general even reached them, the leading Korean soldiers felt a chill on their heads, as if their scalps and even skulls were in danger.

Facts have proved that their feeling was right. The Blue Banner Cavalry who were supervising the battle were still there, and the few Korean soldiers in the front were still used to raising their guns to fight back, but then they were hit on the top of their heads by the hard maces.

When the remaining twenty or so saw this situation, they turned around and ran for their lives, regardless of the nearly a hundred bows aimed at them on the hill.

The soldiers of the Bordered Blue Banner also shot arrows to stop Li Hao who was about to rush to the top of the hill, allowing most of the Korean soldiers to escape successfully.

Following them and charging into the Tartar army formation, the Jinzhou general no longer held back and attacked as hard as he could.

Of course, he also followed his previous experience and first attacked Niulu'ezhen who was surrounded by Bayala's guards.

According to his experience, as long as Ezhen and major commanding officers such as Bashku were killed, the soldiers of the Eight Banners would quickly flee for their lives.

"Surround them and shoot arrows. Anyone who dares to escape will be shot on the spot."

Daldai on horseback remained unmoved. He rode his horse a little further away and tried to organize the flag soldiers to shoot arrows and counterattack.

Unfortunately, after Li Hao rushed into the flag-guarding army formation, the dead soldiers used their own abilities and threw away their weapons and armor to save their lives.

After more than a dozen flag soldiers were crushed to death and their master had not yet ordered a retreat, the surviving members of the Bordered Blue Banner began to think about saving their lives and stopped surrounding the Ming general and shooting arrows at him.

Unfortunately, Li Hao, who had borrowed enough arrows, did not want to stop the war at all. After killing a bannerman, he snatched the longbow he was using and shot arrows continuously to counterattack the Blue Banner Tatars who were roaming in all directions.

Of course, he shot two arrows at the hateful Niulu'ezhen, and then a dozen bannermen surrounded their half-dead master and walked away from the battlefield.

The remaining Tartars no longer had the courage to hold on and simply snatched the horses and left.

Li Hao also grabbed a war horse, and after chasing and killing for a while, he returned to the battlefield where the dead soldiers were before, picked up two long spears, and rode alone with two spears to the hillside where the Ming army servants were forming a battle formation in the field.

Wu Sangui and others were already prepared. They simply tied up the big horse that the general originally rode and then charged forward.

Ever since Zhao Ruejiao led his troops to encircle the mounted Tatars in the southern camp, this group of Ming army servants firmly controlled the initiative on the battlefield and split the Tatars, who were simply lined up in battle array, into two parts on the left and right.

Then the two sides charged and collided back and forth down the hillside again, until Li Hao, holding two guns, rode his horse into the left wing of the Tatars, picked up two Tatars on his left and right, shook them off on the spot, turned his horse's head, and charged again.

This scene gave the South Camp Tartars a great shock. The masters in charge of the battle knew that it was impossible to do anything and they would not gain any benefits before the arrival of reinforcements from the North Camp. So they ignored the part of the bannermen who were still fighting and led the rest of the troops to flee westwards.

Among the Ming army's servants, a small number of brave ones followed the charge, while most of them quickly cleaned up the battlefield under the command of lower-level officers such as flag commanders and captains.

There were at least a thousand heads lost in this battle, and the number of dead soldiers killed by General Li was also considerable. Zhao Lujiao and the other generals were in a very good mood.

The servants were all smiling. The high-ranking officials in the court had just sold a horse farm near Nanjing, and the government received a large sum of money, so they were given rewards and silver to become generous.

Taking into account that the Tartars from the Northern Camp had taken away all the heads, captured horses and weapons on their way south, this group of Ming army servants, led by two generals, headed straight for Haizhou City.

……

Liaoyang City.

The original palace of the Khan was used again because the old Khan personally rushed to the south to command and dispatch.

Daldai, who was hit by two arrows, was taken directly to Liaoyang City by his tribesmen to receive medical treatment, but he never expected that he would be summoned in person by the old Khan who had just arrived.

Nurhaci, lying on the couch, looked at the face that looked like Anfeyanggu and asked in a low voice: "Have you embarrassed your father?"

Daldai was hit by one arrow in the shoulder and another in the arm, but his chest or abdomen were not injured, so he was able to reply.

"Of course I didn't lose face, I even gained a lot of pride. My Niulu beat Li Hao so hard that he barely escaped with his life."

He was arrogant.

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