Zhang Yong constrained his troops from the Eastern Front, temporarily alleviating the predicament. The dozens of backbones and more than 100 new soldiers from the personal battalions filled the front line, so that Zhang Yong would not collapse immediately. However, after these troops were transferred from the Eastern Front, the remaining 200 new soldiers were floating in the morale and were no longer the opponent of nearly a thousand Ming soldiers who were greatly boosted on the opposite side. They only delayed for a moment and were defeated in a complete defeat. However, it would be good to be able to get Zhang Yong such a little time to draw troops, which shows that Zhang Yong's preferential treatment and equipment for them this year have not been in vain.

With these infantrymen, Zhang Yong continued to maintain the flag, which could allow reinforcements to find the target of rescue. Zhang Yong kept igniting the beacon and urged Wang Mingde to come and reinforcements as soon as possible; in order to help reinforcements relieve themselves faster, although the troops were insufficient, Zhang Yong still tried his best to cover his companions on the left to ensure that Wang Mingde's passage for assistance was unobstructed, and to inspire those frightened colleagues to continue to resist and not leave themselves to escape.

However, Wang Mingde's reinforcements were still missing. After defeating the personal military camp on the eastern front, the Ming army's armor began to press over from the flanks. Although Zhang Yong abandoned some soldiers and fought for some time, if Wang Mingde could not arrive, the debt would still have to be paid back, and interest would be added.

After the Qing army in the north fled, the Ming army behind the main battalion of Wanxian did not pursue, but turned to follow up. When this Ming army appeared faintly behind the main battalion, the Qing army forced to the south began to despair. A large number of armorless soldiers and armored soldiers who had lost their establishment began to surrender to the Ming army. Generally, armorless soldiers can always be forgiven. If the armored soldiers do not have blood debts, they will have a chance to be pardoned by the winners.

"Persevere, hold on!" Zhang Yong was anxious. Now the Qing army's retreat was cut off. If it collapsed, the personal soldiers would have almost no chance of escaping. Zhang Yong was reluctant to abandon these soldiers, so hesitated to break through again. Hesitated whether he would be in a group to break north to death - there would undoubtedly be a huge loss, but the battlefield was in chaos. The Ming army might be in a hurry to rescue Yuan Zongdi. Thousands of Qing army defeated soldiers were scattered on the battlefield. With so many factors combined, Zhang Yong could rescue half of his personal soldiers and most of his veterans.

But another ray of smoke lit up in the west, and Wang Mingde announced again that he would be there soon.

Now Zhang Yong no longer wants to capture prisoners or rob the spoils of war. As long as he can save his personal military camp. After seeing the new wolf smoke, Zhang Yong finally did not choose to break through, because he might ruin all his personal military soldiers by accident. Since Wang Mingde arrived in a blink of an eye, he should hold on for a while.

...

Two miles away, Wang Mingde stood by the wolf smoke calmly. The eight banners of Han were about to start shelling - Zhang Yong tried to tempt Wang Mingde to launch an attack to attract the Ming army, and then to pick up his wallet - this attempt was easily seen through by General Wang, who was wise and divine. Just now, Wang Mingde discovered that Yuan Zongdi's guards had not decreased, but instead continued to transfer more armored soldiers from the east. Now the Ming army soldiers confronting Wang Mingde have increased from the initial five hundred to eight hundred.

Before the initial attack, Wang Mingde had already learned from the retreating Green Camp that the general strength of Yuan Zongdi's former army. No matter how slight Hu Wenke resisted, Yuan Zongdi's guards reduced by at least two or three percent due to continuous running, hot weather and fatigue. Just now, the Qing army defeated about 300 Ming soldiers with tiger squats. Wang Mingde estimated that Yuan Zongdi could use only one thousand armored soldiers. As a general of Li Guoying, Wang Mingde was still very confident in his judgment.

Through a brief interrogation of the prisoners, Wang Mingde confirmed his judgment on the strength of Yuan Zongdi's former army, which was probably two thousand armored soldiers, which should be Yuan Zongdi's full strength. As for Yuan Zongdi's support, most of the prisoners said that there were no one, and there were still people who could not defeat them, and there were still one or two thousand armored soldiers. Wang Mingde did not believe it very much. He judged that the prisoners were talking nonsense as soon as he heard it. Since Yuan Zongdi's 800 soldiers were all opposite him, Zhang Yong was only facing hundreds of Ming army soldiers. Even if Yuan Zongdi's support had some armored soldiers, they were probably the newly-soldiers with simple equipment and low morale, and they were definitely not Zhang Yong's opponent.

It is precisely because Wang Mingde has such a clear and thorough understanding of the battlefield that Zhang Yong’s signal for help cannot confuse him at all.

"Hmph, Admiral Zhang wanted to pretend that people and animals are harmless, and even deliberately showed weakness, so that Yuan Zongdi could transfer all the main force to block me, right?" Wang Mingde immediately counted out all the plans in Zhang Yong's belly. He thought that Zhang Yong's signal was clearly a trick to Wang Mingde to attack, and the drum sounds from two miles away were probably the Ming army's rear army trying to rescue Yuan Zongdi. Wang Mingde knew that the Ming army was just mainly auxiliary soldiers, with hundreds of soldiers and thousands of war soldiers dying, and it would be impossible to break through Zhang Yong's defense line. If Zhang Yong was not to guard against Yuan Zongdi's breakthrough, it would be good not to chase the Ming army's rear army.

Since Zhang Yong was able to do the first day of the lunar calendar, Wang Mingde could do the fifteenth, he ordered the release of signals without hesitation, telling Zhang Yong that he was launching a fierce attack to lure Zhang Yong to take the initiative and lead Yuan Zongdi's attention back from his eyes. In addition to Wang Mingde, other Qing generals on the front also released the beacon fire and reported to Zhang Yong that they were advancing rapidly, but they remained silent like Wang Mingde.

At this time, the Qing army who arrived at the front of Yuan Zongdi had all the armored soldiers, totaling more than 1,800 people. Including Zhang Yong and Hu Wenke's headquarters, there were four thousand green camps with armor. If Yuan Jiawenbi's eight banners were added, it would be five thousand armored soldiers. He used five thousand to fight two thousand, and attacked on both sides, as well as cannons, muskets, and generals like Zhang Yong and Wang Mingde and their elite soldiers. In theory, this was not a even confrontation, but a unilateral massacre of the Ming army.

Even if one thousand Han and Eight Banners do not participate in the war, four thousand green camps will be armed and attacked two thousand Ming soldiers, and they will definitely win. The Qing generals were in a relaxed mood and were sure to win, feeling that this victory was not lacking in their strength. The soldiers were unwilling to die on the eve of the victory, and the generals were unwilling to suffer heavy losses in the battle of victory. Since Wang Mingde did not move, the other Qing generals did not move. Anyway, time was on their side, and Yuan Zongdi would have to escape sooner or later. Since he could take advantage of the victory, why should he fight the beasts forced into the corner of the wall?

When he first saw the signal of Zhang Yong asking for help, the Qing generals in the west were still surprised, but when he saw Wang Mingde sitting quietly and raising a fierce attack, the most sluggish generals also reacted - this was Admiral Zhang who was lying to us.

After figuring this out, the commanders of the rescue troops were also very dissatisfied with Zhang Yong: Admiral Zhang, your family has great achievements, and it is also the commander-in-chief of the front army. It is definitely your main achievement if you win a battle. But you always want to let us, the young generals who are suffering, take the lead. Just now, let Yuan Zongdi draw troops to block us. Now he still sends a false signal to ask us to kick the iron plate - you want the first achievements, you don’t give up the spoils, and you don’t want to lose your own troops. This commander-in-chief of the former army is too ungrateful. Is your subordinates Zhang’s subordinates a human life, and aren’t our subordinates a human life?

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The smoke of wolfshots that were fully rescued on the western front was the greatest motivation for Zhang Yong. The Ming army in the northwest had rushed to the high platform just now, but Zhang Yong took his personal bodyguards to counterattack, forcing the Ming army down the slope, and even costing more than a dozen lives.

However, after the Ming army in the east launched an attack from Zhang Yong's northeast direction, Zhang Yong was no longer able to maintain contact with the left wing. He had to completely let go of the western front and transfer all the troops at hand to resist the pressure from the northwest and east sides. As the new Ming army drove from the north to join the battle group, Zhang Yong's left wing's friendly forces completely collapsed, and half of the remaining friendly forces in the southwest direction of Zhang Yong surrendered, and half continued to retreat to the riverside.

"What's the use of escaping to the riverside?" Zhang Yong shouted angrily and cursed at the backs of the escaped friendly troops: "Do you think you are all Wang Jinbao?"

The eight hundred personal soldiers were already damaged to only three hundred. After losing the cover of the flanks, the Ming army would further encircle and then besiege Zhang Yong from the southwest, northeast and northwest directions. The Yangtze River in the southeast was, and Zhang Yong asked himself that it was not Wang Jinbao. Besides, it was easy to jump into the Yangtze River, so where could it go? The downstream is Wanxian. Do you have to swim through the Three Gorges, cross Yiling, Jiangling, and go straight to Wuchang to join the Governor of Huguang?

"Tan Ba ​​Lamb, I'm so fooled!"

At this point, Zhang Yong could not understand that reinforcements were completely unreliable. After dispersing his friendly troops in the southwest, the newly arrived Ming army could go to the front line to reinforce Yuan Zongdi. Even if Wang Mingde attacked sincerely, he might not be able to make a comeback. Zhang Yong had already guessed the real situation on the Western Front. At this critical moment of life and death, the Shaanxi Admiral finally realized that Wang Mingde was also a long general, and he could definitely infer Yuan Zongdi's approximate strength, so he would not believe that he was on the front line of life and death. They concluded that they wanted to trick them into attacking and took a lot of credit. Zhang Yong was really crying without tears when he had such a teammate.

The entire army was destroyed, and life and death were right in front of him. Zhang Yong didn't have much chance to break through now. There was no pressure on the Ming army's western front and could encircle him with all his strength.

"Send a signal of beacon and send a general attack on the entire army!" After hearing Zhang Yong's order, the exhausted guards were stunned. Hu Wenke fled far away, and the friendly troops around either surrendered or fled. The surrounding Ming army was about to rush up the high slope again, and the general attack on the Qing army, which no longer existed?

"That's right! It's just a command of the general attack!" Zhang Yong saw the confusion in his subordinates and repeated: "Order the entire army to attack!"

Since he figured out why Wang Mingde didn't attack, Zhang Yong knew what order he should issue. After this order was issued, Wang Mingde and other rescue troops must have thought that Zhang Yong and Hu Wenke had already killed the Ming army in the inside, and they would not be able to grab the merits if they didn't come in and grab the merits.

Zhang Yong had just concluded that once the deployment of the Ming army was adjusted, Wang Mingde might not be able to save himself even if he wanted to help him. Moreover, if the Ming army was powerful, Wang Mingde and others would probably think that Zhang Yong was no longer saved and tended to save himself - that would be the case.

Now is Zhang Yong's last chance. As long as Wang Mingde crashes into the head, Yuan Zongdi will definitely not focus on Zhang Yong who is fleeing in a hurry, but will do his best to encircle Wang Mingde's nearly 2,000 armored soldiers, so that Zhang Yong will have a chance to escape on the front line. Of course, Wang Mingde's more than 1,000 armored soldiers will definitely be in danger, because they are not facing the hundreds of remaining Ming troops who are expected to be attacked on both sides, but the four thousand Ming troops who have basically completed the assembly and have no worries.

However... Wang Mingde doesn't care about Zhang Yong's life or death, why should Zhang Yong care about him? His teammates cheated him, wouldn't he be allowed to cheat him back?
Chapter completed!