At this time during the Chongzhen Dynasty, the Qi family army had already lost all the losses in the battle with the Later Jin Dynasty.

Little did they know that there was a Zhejiang army with less than 300 people in Liaodong. It was the last blood of the Qi family army, and their general was named Qi Yuanzheng.

At this time, Qi Yuanzheng was taking his less than 300 people to a place called Haitangshan.

The Zhejiang army led by Qi Yuanzheng was composed of the remnants left by Qi Jiguang's nephew Qi Jin.

In March of the first year of Tianqi, Qi Jun led the Zhejiang soldiers to fight Nurhaci's Later Jin army in the battle of Hunhe. The Zhejiang soldiers led by Qi Jin fought bloody battles in the Daling River, and the main force of the Zhejiang soldiers formed a formation on the south bank to station.

Nurhaci did not underestimate the enemy and immediately sent fierce Later Jin soldiers to fight.

On the south bank of Hun River, Zhejiang soldiers completed the formation and launched a decisive battle with the Later Jin Dynasty. The chariot formation was a set of effective tactics to use infantry, especially firearms, to deal with cavalry during the period when Qi Jiguang and Yu Dayou defended against Mongolian Tatars in the north.

When marching, chariots can carry food, weapons, and arms. When stationed, they can be surrounded as camps. When defending, the chariots form a circular defensive position and put artillery on the chariots. At the same time, soldiers use the chariots as cover to release muskets and cannons. When fighting against Mongolia and Japan, the chariot array played a major role. At this time, the Ming army set up the chariot array and responded calmly.

First, the Later Jin army crossed the Hun River and surrounded it from all sides. Soon, with the forces of the four flags, they launched an attack from the left wing.

Just as the Zhejiang soldiers were dealing with the enemy in an orderly manner, the Ming army, who was backing, led by Zhu Wanliang, Li Bingcheng and other generals, entered the Baitapu area more than ten miles away from Shenyang. The vanguard successfully repelled 200 scout cavalry from the Later Jin Dynasty, and the Zhejiang soldiers' army suddenly had a glimmer of vitality.

However, the Ming army stopped to watch the situation. Nurhaci seized the Ming army's cowardly fighter and sent Huang Taiji to launch an active attack on Ming's subsequent reinforcements. Huang Taiji had only a few thousand troops, but he defeated 30,000 Ming troops dozens of miles. In this way, the Later Jin army was wholeheartedly prepared to annihilate the Ming army's Zhejiang soldiers who had lost their support and retreat.

Nurhaci issued a death order to let the Eight Banners take turns to saturate the attacks. This death attack by the Later Jin army was effective after abandoning corpses. The Ming army had exhausted its ammunition and arrows, and the chariot formation was finally broken.

After the Later Jin army broke into the chariot formation, the Zhejiang soldiers immediately formed the mandarin duck formation with whistles and launched a fierce hand-to-hand battle with the enemy. In each formation, the wolf wield, rattan player, and knife player covered each other to fight with the enemy. In particular, the Zhejiang soldiers used the Qi family sword improved from the ferocious Japanese sword. When they were wielded, the Jin soldiers were all flesh and blood flying, but in the end, due to outnumbered people, two consecutive days of rapid marches and fierce battles, the Zhejiang soldiers continued to fall. After the general Chen Ce killed more than a dozen enemies, he fell into a pool of blood.

At this time, General Tong Zhongkui wanted to take advantage of the chaos to evacuate the battlefield. Qi Jin grabbed his horse and said, "It's today that a real man will serve the country." Tong Zhongkui immediately turned over and entered the battlefield with Qi Jin. In the evening, the remaining dozens of Zhejiang soldiers, Qi Jin and Tong Zhongkui, surrounded them, and their mandarin duck formation was still not chaotic.

In the bloody setting sun, the last afterglow reflected the heaven and earth and the Hunhe River. The Later Jin soldiers surrounded each other, but they were good at close combat and had lost the courage to fight the last time with the remaining Ming army. Ten thousand arrows were fired... Qi Jin and others died heroically.

Whether it is the record of the Ming Dynasty or the history of the Ming Dynasty compiled by the Qing Dynasty, everyone praised the bravery of the Hunhe bloody battle between the Zhongchuan and Zhejiang Legion, calling this battle "a fierce and energetic" and "they were strong at the time", "the first bloody battle since the Liao Zuo used troops."

Only a few Zhejiang soldiers who broke through early and left behind in Liaoyang survived. The Ming court sent personnel to comfort the soldiers and asked them what they needed and rewarded. The Zhejiang soldiers actually said in tears: We don’t want rewards, we just want to incorporate us into other armies. They want to avenge the generals such as Qi Jin.

The Qi family army is so powerful that even these Beijing officials have to admire that the Zhejiang soldiers have the style of national soldiers.

Zhang Keda, the general of Denglai who was good at studying Qi Jiguang's tactics, later wanted to rebuild the Zhejiang army, but he and his newly established hundreds of Zhejiang army troops were eventually destroyed by Kong Youde's rebellion.

Later, the Zhejiang soldiers' main recruitment place, Yiwu, the county magistrate of Ningbo wrote a letter saying that the country has been fighting for years, and because the Zhejiang soldiers are good at fighting, they are constantly recruited and injured. The male soldiers here have been gone for seven or eight. Emperor Chongzhen finally gave his compassion and no longer recruited soldiers from these areas. Since then, the Zhejiang soldiers, Qi family army, and the mandarin duck formations, wolves and other things related to them have been buried in the long river of history.

At this time, the last drop of blood from the Zhejiang soldiers in Liaodong was led by Qi Yuanzheng to station in Haitang Mountain.

Haitang Mountain is located in the northeast of Jinzhou defense line. There is a mountain village called Lihua Village.

This place is easy to defend but difficult to attack, and is a strategic location for the Ming army to attack the Qing Dynasty.

Hong Chengchou was in charge of the Liaodong military defense, and he was beaten to Huangtaiji in Yizhou City and has not recovered yet.

For the Ming army, this was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. From the time when Yuan Chonghuan could pacify Liao in the five years to the current border in danger, the situation in Liaodong has always been the biggest threat to the Ming Dynasty.

To be honest, putting aside historical merits and demerits, Hong Chengchou was a rare general before surrendering to the Qing Dynasty. Moreover, Hong Chengchou's surrender to the Qing Dynasty was actually more helpless.

At this time, Hong Chengchou clearly realized that Jiannu Huangtai was depressed by the battle of the crown prince. In a short period of time, Jiannu could not recover his vitality.

Taking advantage of this great opportunity, the Ming army, which has been passively defending, why not take the initiative to attack and destroy Jiannu's arrogance?

Hong Chengchou was testing that Haitangshan Lihua Village in northeast Jinzhou is a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack. If the Ming army occupied this important place, it would pose a great threat to the invading Jiannu army.

So he sent Qi Yuanzheng, a surprise soldier with less than 300 people, to occupy Haitang Mountain. It was like a sharp sword that penetrated into the heart of the invading enemy.

If Huangtai makes a comeback one day and wants to attack Jinzhou again, the Ming army in Haitangshan will cause great trouble to them.

If you go deep into the enemy's hinterland, the number of people cannot be too large, otherwise the logistics supply will not be able to keep up. The north of Lihua Village is backed by the endless Haitang Mountain. Even if the supply is cut off by the Qing soldiers, you can still be self-sufficient in a short period of time.

Such a good place, you are a fool.

So, Qi Yuanzheng led the remaining remaining troops of the Qi family army to camp all the way to Lihua Village.

This caused a huge shock at Huangtaiji.

The Ming army has always been weak. In addition to relying on the strong city walls, they have been passively defended. The Ming army has always been gradually eroded by the Qing Dynasty, and in the plains, the Ming army is generally beaten.

And this time, the Ming army actually took Xiong Xin and made a counter-invasion. They actually extended their tentacles to Haitang Mountain, which was unbearable.

In the Huangtaiji Palace Hall, the Qing ministers were immediately in an uproar.
Chapter completed!