After the reward, the two were taken to the intelligence officer, and the intelligence officer personally asked about the news about the Qing army camp.

Akdun has a low status in Korqin, but at least he was an officer. He recognized the symbol of the royal family of the Qing Dynasty and knew which tribes were in the camp, how many flags were there, and how many subordinates each had. A brief estimate was that the Qing Dynasty only assembled the Philosophical Wood Alliance, the Zhaowuda Alliance and one-third of the Chahar tribes, and crossed the river with the Qing army from the capital to the north of the Mobei.

This was much less than Pei Chengyi expected. He thought that the Qing army would gather at least near the Liao River, and Zhili and the Mongolian tribes outside the walls of Shanxi retreated north together. If that were the case, there would be more than 600,000 people. It would be nothing to draw 70,000 or 80,000 men who could hold swords and spears. But now, this Mongolian tribe who retreated north was only one-third of the expected one.

"If you think about it carefully, it is actually very simple. The Qing court may not have expected that the main battlefield in Shandong would fail so quickly, and even expected that it would fail. The escape to Mobei was only a temporary organization, and the two Qing sect kings refused to leave the capital and divided their strength. The late winter and early spring are not a good time for tribes to migrate." Bart analyzed with a smile.

Bayin also said: "Indeed, if people migrate forcibly, they can still reach Mobei, but most of the animals will be lost. Mobei is even more bitter and cold and cannot be settled at all. Akdun said that some of the Korqin Banners and Chahar people went west to Guihua City. It seems that not only tempted our troops to move westward, but also gathered the left-wing tribes along the way. When the grass was full of horses and horses were fat in summer and autumn, they went to Mobei along the Wengjin River."

"I just don't know now whether the Qing emperor is among this camp of troops." Wen Zaicheng, who went on the war with the army, sighed.

After all, Akdun was a small person and had no right to meet the emperor. He only knew that there was a person in the camp who could rule the various tribes. The prince who was in charge of their flag needed to kowtow to the man because he saw that the prince had mud on his knees, but he could not determine whether it was the emperor or something else. After all, it was clear that the Qing Dynasty did not put the eggs in the same basket.

"We can't catch up with the Mongolian tribes evacuated to Guihua City. Whether the Qing emperor is there or not, we will attack. The enemy has been crossing the river. The scouts came to report that because the weather has become warmer, the ice surface still melts, and there are too many vehicles and animals in the enemy. Now they can only cross the river through the Balin Bridge. However, the scouts also saw them driving the herdsmen to cover the ice surface with cowhide, felt cloth and branches. They thought they wanted to speed up the crossing of the river. Since the main force has arrived, don't wait anymore and attack immediately." Pei Chengyi had made up his mind.

The army killed the captured cattle and sheep in Rasutk, had a good meal, and immediately attacked Balin Bridge. The soldiers of each battalion were wearing armor and horses. All kinds of armies collided with each other. The column formed was like a long dragon and rushed straight to Balin Bridge. The army rode on war horses. The hills and trees in the area of ​​Balin Bridge were rolling and covered with woods, and they could not help but be ambushed. Pei Chengyi personally led the chest armored cavalry regiment, the dragon cavalry regiment and the Korean musketeers to march in the middle. Batt led the Light Cavalry regiment and the cavalry regiment to the left wing. The Hussars and the Jilin Pacification Zone formed after the restoration of Liaodong were all handed over to Bayin's command. The three columns advanced three or five miles apart, heading straight for Balin Bridge.

There was originally a Balin Bridge. Later, because Shunzhi married Princess Shuhui to the Mongolian chief, he built a stone bridge here. It was a two-hole stone bridge that was more than 30 meters long. It was very strong. The Balin Bridge selected a place with a gentle water flow, with roads connected north and south, and both sides of the banks were flat ground. However, millions of migrant Mongolian tribes and livestock were trampled on, and it was already muddy. The Qing army had discovered that the army had been chasing, but at this moment they could only rely on the Balin Bridge to cross the river, so they had to line up behind the river and use the chariot camp to protect the bridgehead. Archers and musketeers were behind the chariot camp, and the cavalry were arranged on both wings.

But the enemy Pei Chengyi had to face was not an army, but a huge migrant community. This means that after that simple and weak line of defense, not only were there hundreds of thousands of Mongolian herders, but also millions or even tens of millions of animals. The Qing army seemed to have lasted fortifications for more than twenty miles. In fact, most of them were sheep and cattle and horses walking by the river. These animals also became the fortifications of the Qing army at this moment. They were driven to the two wings of the cavalry one by one. With them, the cavalry under Pei Chengyi's command could not attack their wings at will. However, Pei Chengyi also believed that this was an opportunity. These herds of cattle, sheep and horses were also important survival materials for these Mongols. If the Qing court only took away people, without these cattle and sheep, it would eventually make the Mongols starve to death in the north of Mobei or on the way to the north of Mobei.

Therefore, when the attack was launched, Pei Chengyi asked the dragon cavalry and the Korean musketeers to dismount, forming several solid square formations in the Qing army. He used them as the central army to cover the three flying cavalry and artillery companies and a field artillery company that followed the upper brim, but did not launch an attack, and then the array was rigorous, and the majestic breastplate cavalry regiment appeared on the battlefield. Between the two armies, the breastplate cavalry drove back and forth, proving that the Qing army, as the intelligence said, only light firearms such as the combs and no artillery.

The two thousand five hundred breastplate cavalry had a well-equipped array and were well-equipped, and it was not easy to mess with. At least in the Qing army, no cavalry could fight against them, either Manchuria or Mongolia. I think they understood this. So Pei Chengyi asked Bat and Bayin to set off from the left and right wings and sent small-scale cavalry teams to both sides to pull and drive away the Mongols' cavalry. If the Mongols resisted with small-scale cavalry, they could deal with it themselves. If they used large groups of cavalry, they would encounter side attacks from breastplate cavalry. Of course, the Qing army might also passively respond, so the army would only take some effort to lead a large number of animals.

The Qing army tried to cross the river forcibly. When a large number of animals walked onto the ice surface, the unreinforced ice surface could not withstand the sudden pressure, causing the ice surface to rupture and a large number of animals to drown.

During the stalemate between the two sides, Pei Chengyi keenly discovered that the Qing court had a strong control over the Mongolian tribe. When the army drove away cattle and sheep on a large scale, the Mongolian tribal army, which regarded as life, did not experience large-scale riots, which shows this.

"General, look, the Qing royal family has begun to cross the river." A staff officer pointed to the bright yellow flag that appeared on the Balin Bridge and said.

Pei Chengyi opened the telescope and looked carefully. Those carriages used were the Manchu royal family. They were all Han, not the kind commonly used by the Mongols. He saw that the left wing Bat had driven away several groups of cattle and sheep close to the enemy cavalry. There were no obstacles in the battlefield, and it was closer to the Balin Bridge than the right wing. If it could be defeated, he could use artillery to bombard the Balin Bridge, cut off the enemy's retreat, and wipe out the enemy's enemy in Henan. So he ordered: "Leave the six-pound cannons, all the flying cavalry cannons and howitzers were dispatched to the left wing, let Bat attack, tell him that we don't have many shells, and we must defeat the enemy's right wing with one blow."

Flying cavalry cannons are all light artillery, and advanced artillery stands make them very convenient to mobilize. On the main battlefield, Flying cavalry cannon companies are not considered heavy firepower, but in this battlefield, no weapon can have stronger firepower and longer range than it. When Bart received the order, he was extremely excited. He had long seen that although he faced tens of thousands of cavalrymen, seven or eight tribes from Mongolia in the south of the desert, all of them were uninformed. After winter, the horses were weak and were drawn by Dingkou. The soldiers were not well-educated. They were often seen with old soldiers, and there was no question of armor.

The cavalry under his command were about 6,000, and half were recruited by the Jilin Appeasement Zone. The quality was not very high, but the other three thousand cavalry in the headquarters were elite, not to mention the support of artillery.

After receiving the attack order, Bart's entire army pressed over and first covered the flying cavalry artillery to arrive at the artillery position. Because there were no decent artillery on the opposite side, the artillery continued to advance until 250 meters away from the enemy's front line before stopping. After the row was set, they immediately opened fire. The Mongolian cavalry on the opposite side had obviously never seen such artillery. Some people even picked up grenades that had not exploded because of the rain. Two hundred and fifty meters, the absolute killing area of ​​shotgun. The artillery used shotguns to point out blood flowers after blood in the Mongolian cavalry group.

The right wing of the Qing army was hit by artillery, but Bart was carefully observing the battlefield. He was confident but not arrogant at all. He keenly observed a cavalry in the Qing army's central army. The flag seemed to be Manchu soldiers, and it should be the Gebush Xianhachao camp who guarded the monarch. This means that the Qing emperor was indeed in the enemy camp in front of him, and he also knew that even if there were only more than a thousand Manchu strong army that did not appear on the main battlefield, it was still a force that could change the pattern of the battlefield.

"Let the vassal soldiers attack." Bart waved his hand, which exceeded the generals' expectations. After all, they were ready, but Bart insisted that he would not send elite troops to the battlefield before the Manchu soldiers came on stage.

The so-called vassal soldiers are the troops in the Jilin Appeasement Zone, with about 3,000 cavalry, Manchuria, Mongolian, and Jurchens mixed together. They were organized by the Liaodong Military Control Commission and the Jilin Appeasement Zone by the alliance flag system after the revival of Liaodong. They only received military pay when they went to war, and they needed horses and weapons to bring their own. Of course, because they were really poor, most of these people's equipment was seized when they were revived of Liaodong. The commanders of each team were also Zhasak or Assistant Zhang Jing of each banner. In fact, they were foreign vassals, so they were called vassal soldiers.

Most of the vassal soldiers were light cavalry and had not been reorganized and trained, so the combat mode was mostly followed in the past. The first to dispatch were thousands of vassal soldiers who were good at cavalry and shooting, most of them were Mongols who had surrendered since last autumn. They cut diagonally across the enemy's formation and shot rows of arrows into the air. After these light arrows reached the highest level, they fell into the enemy's array, causing more chaos to the fragmented Mongolian soldiers who were originally bombarded.

In fact, when dealing with this type of cavalry and shooting formation, the dense volley of firearms is the most effective. Of course, the stair bow is also possible. After all, the horn bow used by cavalry is as little as six or seven buckets, and the most is only more than one stone. If it is hard, it will be difficult to use it on the war horse. The upper limit of the stair bow is the lower limit of the stair bow. When both sides shoot at each other, how can the cavalry fight? But the problem is that among the poor and used to small-scale stair bows, there are few stair bows, and they can only fight back with cavalry bows. Most of the vassal soldiers have armor, and at least one and a half pieces of old cotton armor can be mixed, while the Mongolian soldiers on the opposite side are not even complete in leather armor.

The light cavalry attacked back and forth twice, and the right wing of the Qing army was in chaos. Just when they were about to prepare the array, the other vassal soldiers had already followed. More than 2,000 cavalry rushed into the array regardless of concern and fought with the Qing army. The two sides fought together. The Mongol scimitars were very suitable for this kind of battle. The left and right hands could exchange smoothly, and blocking and chopping were convenient. On the contrary, the saber used by the army was not so easy, but the Qing army had no advantage at all. The reason was very simple. Although the vassal soldiers rode horses to fight with the army, many of them were not considered cavalry at all, especially those Jurchen troops who had just received the favor of the United States and walked out of the deep mountains and forests. As soon as they entered the formation, they jumped off their horses, untied their spears, and fought on their own.

These guys were all wearing armor and used two-handed weapons, spears from far away, chopping near, killing people when they met, and fighting a spur horse, and they were just joining the new force. Before attacking, they went up to the peak and promised to kill one person to reward twenty taels. They were all red-eyed and did not spare their lives. One person was hard to stop, and ten people were hard to stop, and thousands of people were even more unstoppable. The Mongolian soldiers were killed and retreated step by step, and those who fled into the car camp were all beheaded.

As Barth expected, after the attack of the vassal soldiers gained the upper hand, the commander of the Qing army immediately sent elite troops to counterattack. More than a thousand soldiers of Gebush Xianhachao rushed out and counterattacked the vassal soldiers. These were the elite soldiers who protected the Qing emperor. The veterans carefully selected from the Eight Banners of Manchuria were all brave and all wearing heavy armor. Once they entered the formation, they swept out a wave of blood, especially the cavalry on both wings of the front line, holding strong bows and shooting left and right, quickly stabilizing the situation.

"General, let the vassal soldiers retreat." Seeing that the vassal soldiers were unable to support them, the staff reminded Bart.

Bart said: "When retreating at this moment, the Manchu elite cavalry will definitely retract back to its own formation. Our army's previous attack is meaningless. No matter what, we have to lure out these Manchu elites and gather together to annihilate them. These are all the blood of Manchu. If we don't kill this time, let them retreat to the north of the Mo. It is a hidden danger to our army in our country. You and I will be more tolerant. Only by killing these Manchu soldiers can we relieve the worries of our younger generations!"

The vassal soldiers fought with the Qing army for an hour, but finally couldn't hold on. Many people began to escape, and the light cavalry wanted to cover them, but were killed by the Qing army's elite cavalry and the reorganized Mongolian cavalry. Bart saw the cavalry on the opposite side chasing out of the array, thinking that the opportunity had come. He put on an iron helmet, covered his face, pulled out his sabre and shouted loudly: "Brothers, the Qing army has been trapped. This is a good opportunity for us to make achievements. Let me kill with me."

The cavalry under Bat had been prepared for a long time, and immediately rushed to the elite Qing army after receiving the order. The cavalry under his command and the heavy armored cavalry rushed straight to the elite of the Qing army, while the light cavalry left behind and cut off their way back. The commander of Gebush Xianha Chao battalion was Ebilong, the most powerful general of the Qing Dynasty. Seeing thousands of cavalry coming like a wall and enemy cavalry surrounded him, he knew that it was too late to escape, so he simply ordered the soldiers to hedge against Bat. For a moment, the hooves on the grassland were like thunder, and armored soldiers fought each other. At the moment when the cavalry of both sides collided, at least hundreds of people died. No one on both sides could break through the other, and they could only fight together.
Chapter completed!