Jilin Cliff.

Although I could not hear the movement of the Sarhu Camp in the distance, Du Song quickly realized that the main force of the Jin army leaving the south of Zarkha Pass was to attack the Sarhu Camp.

More than an hour later, the contact between Jilin Cliff and Sarhu Camp was cut off by the Jin army.

Du Song, who knew something was wrong, urgently ordered the gang general Chai Guodong and the guerrilla Bijie and others to lead their troops to attack the Jin army's Zhenghongqi division that crossed the Jilin cliff and the camp. However, they were stubbornly counterattacked by the Jin army's Zhenghongqi and failed to fight twice. The guerrilla Bijie was killed in the battle.

The Later Jin army flags arrived one after another, and tens of thousands of braided soldiers surrounded the mountains and fields to siege the Ming army. At this point, Du Song's headquarters was completely surrounded by the Jin army at the foot of Jilin cliff.

In order to disintegrate the fighting intention of the Ming army, the slave chief Haci sent people to throw the heads of more than 100 generals, including Zhao Menglin, Dusi Lin Taiyi, and dozens of Ming army flags in front of the Ming army.

This completely shakes the Du Song headquarters, whose morale is fluctuating due to the loss of the camp.

"Brother, it seems that Mingjun was defeated?"

On the Jilin Cliff, Liu Xingxian looked at the Eight Banners Army below, and then looked at the Ming army sandwiched at the foot of the mountain and shook his head.

"This General Du is too brave and unscheming. What kind of troops are you going to do? Now I'll call the Eight Banners to take over. What else can I fight in this battle? Fortunately, we didn't vote for him, otherwise we would die with him." Liu Xingzuo's third brother Liu Xingxian was a little grateful for his choice. If he had surrendered Du Song after hearing his words, he would have been surrounded and killed on the top of the cliff with Du Song.

Liu Xingzuo didn't say anything, but the expression on his face showed that the Han general who was affectionately called "Liu Aita" by Nurhaci was very uncomfortable.

Astong said, "Brother, it's impossible to do this now. We only have two thousand people. We can't help Du Song or save the Ming army. Why don't you take this opportunity to show off and let Nurhaci trust you more."

Liu Xingzuo hesitated a little. Although he did not surrender to Du Song, he was determined to surrender to Eunuch Wei's imperial army. If his family would lead troops to attack Du Song, although Du Song's defeat was certain, if anyone in the court was full and could make up the debt in the future, and blamed Du Song's death on him, Liu Xingzuo, what would he explain?

Aston whispered: "Brother, don't worry about future events. As long as the eunuch Wei fulfills his wish and gains power in the Ming Dynasty, we will make contributions and fail to make mistakes."

Upon hearing this, Liu Xingzuo was struggling again, and finally made up his mind to grit his teeth and order to launch an attack on the Ming army at the foot of the mountain.

The active counterattack of Liu Xingzuo's troops made the morale of Du Song's troops even lower.

At this time, there was only one choice in front of Du Song, that was, to capture Jilin Cliff, and then the entire army would defend the cliff, waiting for the North Road to come to help.

"Today, those who advance but not retreat, but those who shake our morale will definitely be killed and unpardoned!"

In order to win this only glimmer of vitality, Du Song personally took the battle and led the Ming army to repeatedly fight with the Jin army on the cliff.

For a moment, there was a loud sound of guns on the cliff.

How could Nurhaci have Du Song occupied the Jilin Cliff in such a heavy area? He ordered the two yellow flags to attack the Ming army immediately, and then two blue flags and Zhenghong flags joined. The total force of the Jin army in the Five Banners was more than 40,000, which forced Du Song, who was at a disadvantage, to divide his troops to meet the enemy, resulting in the capture of the cliff top again.

As a last resort, Du Song had to lead his troops to retreat from above, trying to repel the main force of the Jin army first.

Out of conscience, Liu Xingzuo did not accept Aston's opinion to attack the Ming army, which gave Du Song a chance to breathe.

At this time of the battle, the Ming army was less than 7,000, while the Jin army had as many as 40,000 to 50,000. It was a newly victorious army, and its morale was not comparable to that of the Ming army.

Faced with the black braided soldiers, Du Song was still not afraid and led his troops to fight to the death.

The two armies fought fiercely under the Jilin Cliff, and their lives were as worthless as grass.

"That Du Song is really the most powerful general in the world!"

Nurhaci stood at a high place and saw clearly that Du Song, who was nearly 60 years old, was not afraid of the Eight Banner arrows and went into battle bare hands. His martial arts were so powerful that many of the Eight Banner generals who were facing him fell off their horses. He couldn't help but praise him.

"It's a pity that such a person cannot be used by me!"

Nurhaci knew that it was impossible to persuade Du Song to surrender, so he ordered the flags to kill Du Song at all costs and never let him escape.

Such a mighty general escaped, and Dajin would be in great trouble!

The horns were connected, and the Jin army, which had the initiative and advantage, became more and more braver as the Ming army fought, while the Ming army became weaker and weaker as the battle was. Dusi Liu Yujie led his cavalry to fight to the death with the two red flags of the Jin Dynasty, but was killed and injured by the Jin army with many cavalry, and it was impossible to reverse the situation.

The gang general Chai Guodong persuaded Du Song to break through, but Du Song saw that he could no longer support him, so he had to lead the remaining troops to fight out, hoping to break through the siege.

The sky was getting darker and darker, and the Ming army breaking through was not familiar with the terrain and it was difficult to distinguish the road. Many soldiers fell because they could not see things, causing the breakout team to be in chaos.

In desperation, Du Song had to order the soldiers to light torches, and this action immediately exposed the Ming army to the eyes of the surrounding Jin army.

The braided soldiers were very cunning. They did not go forward directly to fight with the Ming army, but instead shot arrows at them in the distance with the light of the Ming army.

From the open attacks and darkness, arrows fell like rain, the Ming army soldiers were unable to defend themselves, and kept falling to the ground, screaming and screaming.

Du Song himself was also hit by several arrows, bleeding from the arrow hole, but he still shouted that he would fight to the death and lead his troops to retreat while fighting.

When they reached a hillside, there was a sudden shout of killing in front of them, and then hundreds of braided soldiers came out of the originally empty slope, blocking the Ming army's breakthrough.

"Good man, kill slaves!"

Du Song knew that if he could not repel the Jiannu, his troops would not be able to break through, so he pulled his horse and rushed up the slope with his gun.

But at this moment, a sharp arrow whizzed in the face of Jun Song!

"Kill the slave!"

Du Song screamed and fell from his horse. His personal soldiers arrived and found that the general was already dead.

"The Thirteenth Prince Shenwu!"

"June is dead!"

The cheers of Jiannu sounded on the slope, and it was Lai Mubu, the thirteenth son of the slave chief Haci. After hearing the Jin army's shouts, the Ming army at the bottom of the slope saw that the main general Du Song really died in battle, and the soldiers immediately fled in all directions.

"Follow me to cut off the head of Master Du!"

Lai Mubu led people to rush down the slope, found the juniper's body, cut off his head and lifted it into his hand.

"The Grand Master is dead, why am I still alive?"

The guerrilla Yang Qin, who learned from the death of the general, jumped into the cliff dozens of feet beside him.

The generals Chai Guodong, guerrilla Wang Hao, and Guan Fushun's guerrilla affairs, Yang Ruda and others were still leading their troops to fight to the death, but due to the large number of Jin troops and no reinforcements, the generals died one after another.

At this point, the Ming army was defeated in the battle of Jilin Cliff. Only a few soldiers under the management standards were led by Liu Yujie, Dushi Zhang Daji and others to break out of the Jin army's encirclement. Some of the Ming army hid under the rocks or dead bodies.

The guerrilla Wang Hailong was captured by arrows and was removed from the front of Nurhaci. When Nurhaci saw him brave and intended to surrender, Wang Hailong shouted: "How can I surrender you, a traitor of Tartars!"

Nurhaci was furious and ordered Wang Hailong to cut his sword into meat paste and feed his horse.

By dawn, the valleys in Jilin Cliff were sinking into peace, with the corpses of Ming army everywhere in the forest, valleys and hills.

At Du Song, there were 123 generals and more than 9,000 officers and soldiers below the Ming army, and only more than 1,000 escaped.

.........

After defeating Du Song, Nurhaci did not order the Eight Banners to rest and quickly attacked the Malin tribes on the North Road of the Ming Army.

The reason why Nurhaci was so urgent was that he did not intercept the Marin tribe, and the Ming army would cross Jiefan Mountain and head straight for Heituara.

At this time, under the leadership of Malin, the Ming army on the North Road had already advanced to Shangjianya, more than 20 miles northwest of Jilin Cliff. However, before Malin decided to contact Du Song to get in touch with Du Song before crossing Shangjianya, or to cross Shangjianya first and contact Du Song, the scattered horses brought back more than a dozen of Du Song's defeated soldiers.

When he learned that Du Song's troops had been wiped out (Malin didn't know that Dali Aha's defense camp existed), Malin was shocked and immediately ordered the entire army to stop advancing immediately and organize defense on the spot.

Although it is considered by the outside world to be a playboy and does not know martial arts, Marin is a general after all, and he has his father's old subordinates around him, so he is not aware of military affairs as the outside world says.

With the assistance of his father's old subordinates, the Marin troops dug three layers of trenches in the ring camp, placing firearms outside the trenches, and the cavalry followed suit.

The army supervisor Pan Zongyan and Kaiyuan's deputy generals led guerrillas and gneiss each to lead 10,000 people, stationed several miles away from the camp, forming a horn, and lined up the chariots to prevent the enemy cavalry from rushing.

After that, two or three hundred defeated troops from Du Song tribe fled from Jilin Cliff to Malin tribe. They brought more accurate news that the main force of Jiannu was rushing towards Shangjian Cliff.

At this time, Marin also faced a difficult problem: whether to continue to move forward and execute the original offensive order, or to withdraw from Kaiyuan immediately.

The generals also quarreled about this. The faction led by the military supervisor Pan Zongyan believed that although Du Song's troops were defeated, the Ming army still had three large armies and could continue to wipe out the rebels in Jianzhou. If they retreated at this time, it would be equivalent to abandoning the two troops in the east.

Dusi Zheng Guoliang and others believed that the strength of the Fourth Ming army was actually the strongest in Du Song's troops, and he was also the main force of the Fourth Ming army. Now that even Du Song was defeated, it would be meaningless for them to continue moving forward.

Moreover, the main force of Jiannu was rushing towards Shangjianya, and the troops of Liu Jing and Li Rubai in the east were still echoing, but the Ming army here was a lonely army. How could it deal with the main force of Jiannu?

"It's too late to return to Kaiyuan. If Jiannu is late, we can't leave!"

"I can't leave! It's better if Jiannu bites us. Liu and Li Erlu's troops in the east happened to surround Jiannu from behind!"

“…”

When the generals were arguing, Tamma brought back another person, who claimed to be the envoy of Zhou Tiexin, the supervisor of Du Song's army.

Marin hurriedly asked someone to bring the messenger to the tent.

After the envoy entered the tent, he took out the letter of military supervisor he carried. Marin ordered people to check the authenticity of the seal. After careful identification, it was confirmed that the army had sent the contact seals given to various troops by the military department before.

"My army supervisor urgently sued General Ma. Although General Du was defeated, there were still thousands of troops guarding Duli Aha on the east bank of the Hun River. Therefore, General Ma must stick to him no matter what. If he really cannot stick to him, please do not retreat to Kaiyuan!"

Dusi Zheng Guoliang asked the envoy: "Where will we go if we don't go back to Kaiyuan?"
Chapter completed!