Two thousand knights rushed towards Master Hu Ben, and in a blink of an eye, only two hundred in the back row were left alive. The two hundred knights who were still alive seemed to have been knocked out of their souls, as if they had encountered a heavenly soldier and general, roaring loudly
They galloped back on their horses. They didn't dare to stop even after passing the Chinese army camp where the thieves were offered, and they were still fleeing to the east.
Seeing that the Xiaoqi were wiped out in an instant, there was a stir in the old camp of the Chinese army that offered the thieves. Probably because the way in which the Huben division killed the Xiaoqi was too powerful, Zhang Xianzhong did not dare to put the most elite old battalion into the battle on the south wing. On the contrary
, Zhang Xianzhong’s Chinese army suddenly sounded the clarion call to withdraw troops.
Blowing the horn of escape, the Xianthief 2,000 Lao camp, together with a dozen of Zhang Xianzhong's main generals, rode their horses and fled eastward.
Xiong Wencan stood on a small mound and saw Li Zhi using cannons and firecrackers seventy steps away. He killed two thousand Xianthief knights in a blink of an eye. He looked so high-spirited. Unexpectedly, the combat power of Li Zhi, who was appointed by the emperor, was so great.
So tough, the fighting power of these eight thousand men was enough to turn the tide of the battle, allowing Xiong Wencan's army to win calmly. At this time, the southern wing of the Xianthief had no strength, and the official army could outflank the Xianthief's center from the south wing and defeat the Xianthief.
But he didn't expect that after the Xianthief Knights were annihilated, they had no will to continue fighting and simply fled with the elite old battalion.
As soon as the Xian thief escaped, the entire thief camp collapsed.
The six thousand "horse troops" who presented themselves to the thieves had horses, and they could turn their horses and run eastward, escaping the butcher's knife of the officers and soldiers. But the ten thousand infantry soldiers who presented the thieves were unlucky. They had no horses, and could not escape as fast as the officers and soldiers' cavalry.
, every hundred steps they escaped, a few would be knocked down by the officers and soldiers. The thousands of cavalrymen of the officers and soldiers were so proud that they seemed to wake up all of a sudden, chasing down the thieves' infantry like a cat catching a mouse.
The cavalry was chasing the deserters, while the generals of the army looked at Li Zhi's soldiers and horses.
Mou Wenshou, the commander-in-chief of Fengsi, was shocked by the strength of Li Zhi's army and horses. He stood in the middle of the battlefield in a daze. It wasn't until his Chinese Army Staff General rushed in front of him and asked him if he should pursue him that he realized what he was doing and shouted: "Chase! Chase!"
Kill the thief!"
Zuo Liangyu, the commander-in-chief of the reinforcement and suppression force, looked at the defeated enemy troops, glanced at Li Zhi's troops, and frowned uneasily.
This force was so powerful that it exceeded Zuo Liangyu's imagination. Encountering such friendly troops made Zuo Liangyu feel inexplicably lonely.
Zhao Zhu, the general under Zuo Liangyu's command, looked at Li Zhi's army and horses in a daze. Yesterday during the meeting, he didn't believe Li Zhi when he said he had repelled the traitor horse army, but now he saw Li Zhi annihilating the traitor cavalry like he was killing chickens and dogs.
Only then did Zhao Zhu know how strong Li Zhi's troops were. Thinking of his provocative remarks to Li Zhi yesterday, Zhao Zhu couldn't help but blush.
Huang Degong, the deputy general of the Beijing camp, gradually woke up from his drunken state. He looked at Li Zhi's troops on the south wing and felt a sense of resentment. Li Zhi's troops and horses were so powerful that he wiped out two thousand thieves and knights in a blink of an eye. He fired a volley of artillery.
, firing volleys of fire cannons, this kind of combat effectiveness has surpassed the concept of officers and soldiers in the late Ming Dynasty. Even Grandpa Qi’s Qi family army did not have such combat effectiveness, right? Compared with Li Zhi’s fierce firearms soldiers, his Beijing camp soldiers and horses are simply
It's sheep.
Although there was a great victory in front of him, Huang Degong couldn't get excited. After this battle, he must consult Li Zhi and learn the essence of his firearms army.
If you just use firearms, wouldn't your fighting skills become useless?
In the central army of the official army, two thousand newly recruited Cantonese soldiers were jubilant, celebrating their victory.
Zhang Guowei, the governor of Anqing who was next to Xiong Wencan, said with a trembling voice: "Prime Minister, what a great victory, what a great victory! These ten thousand thieves and infantry are doomed!"
Liu Yuanbin, the eunuch who oversees the army in the Beijing camp, laughed loudly, stroked his horse and said, "Our family knew yesterday that we would have such a great victory today!"
Xiong Wencan was overjoyed and his face flushed with excitement on the horse. He shouted loudly: "Chase! The whole army is chasing the thief and kill all the 10,000 infantry here!"
The command flag was fluttered and Xiong Wencan's order was conveyed to all the troops. The officers and soldiers of the army and horses received orders and chased the bandits across the Yong River and pursued them all the way to the east.
But among the soldiers and horses that were chasing after them like a tide, the six thousand men under Zuo Liangyu's command remained as motionless as rocks in the waves. Obviously, Zuo Liangyu did not obey Xiong Wencan's order to pursue.
Xiong Wencan led the Chinese army to chase east. When he rode in front of Zuo Liangyu's army, Xiong Wencan found Zuo Liangyu with a dark face and asked loudly: "Zuo Liangyu, why did your army disobey the order and pursue the traitor?"
With Li Zhibu's support, Xiong Wencan felt more confident and even spoke louder to Zuo Liangyu.
Zuo Liangyu glanced at Xiong Wencan and said, "Thieves are the best at ambush! Don't chase after poor bandits!"
Xiong Wencan cursed loudly: "I am pursuing an army of 40,000 people. How can we ambush more than 10,000 thieves? You are trying to support the bandits! I will definitely explain the whole story to the emperor after this battle! I will punish you for not obeying the orders!"
Zuo Liangyu said coldly: "Please help the government!"
"you!!"
Xiong Wencan was so angry that Zuo Liangyu could not speak. He turned his head and shouted loudly to the Guangdong army under the target: "Let's catch up and annihilate these 10,000 thieves' infantry."
Two thousand Cantonese troops sang loudly and followed Xiong Wencan to the east.
On the south wing of the battlefield, Li Zhi looked at the Xianthief infantry fleeing in embarrassment, frowned and said, "Why do I feel like something is wrong?"
Zhong Feng, the leader of the trap group, stepped forward and said: "Sir, this thief ran too fast. We only killed him with two thousand knights and then he turned around and ran away. It's a bit unreasonable. Logically speaking, he should have moved a few thousand steps."
Come and try ours again. And even though the defeated soldiers lost their flags and armor, they were defeated but did not disperse."
Xue Sanku came up and said, "Commander, or maybe the thief was frightened by our firepower and lost his fighting spirit! He ran away!"
Li Zhi thought for a while and asked: "Who are the bandits near An Oqing, and how many soldiers and horses do they have?"
Zheng Kaicheng said loudly: "Sir, according to the intelligence obtained by the Prime Minister's troops and horses for half a month, there are Liu Guoneng who broke into the sky, Zhang Tianlin who passed the sky, Luo Rucai who Cao Cao, Huiteng, the star of Huntian, and Li Wanqing who shot the sky nearby."
"Among them, Liu Guoneng has an army of 120,000, and after excluding the hungry soldiers, there are 17,000 soldiers and horses. Zhang Tianlin has 80,000 soldiers and horses, and after excluding the hungry soldiers, there are about 10,000 soldiers and horses. Luo Ru only has a hundred thousand soldiers and horses, and only about 10,000 soldiers and horses can fight.
There are 14,000 men. Hui Dengxiang has 100,000 horses and 14,000 men who can fight. Li Wanqing has 70,000 men and 7,000 men who can fight."
Li Zhi did the math and said: "In other words, including the horse army and the old camp that sacrificed the thieves, the number of soldiers and horses that the nearby rogue thieves can fight is no more than 70,000 at most."
Zheng Kaicheng said: "Yes, sir!"
Li Zhi looked at Zuo Liangyu who was unwilling to pursue the bandit, thought for a moment, and said loudly: "Even if all the bandit's troops are here, we will defeat him! Pass my order, and the whole army will follow.
The Prime Minister pursues the traitor!"
After chasing for five miles, the official army had already crossed the Yonghe River far away and killed three thousand Xianthief infantry. The official cavalry became red-eyed and kept slashing at the Xianthief deserters who were running for their lives in a panic.
The defeated troops of Xian Xianzhong pursued Zhang Xianzhong's old camp, while the officers and soldiers pursued the defeated troops all the way east.
Prime Minister Xiong Wencan's Chinese Army, together with Li Zhihu's military division at the rear, also pursued the army across the Yonghe River and into a valley. The valley was called Dawang Valley, six miles long and three miles wide, with rolling green hills on both sides.
, a small stream in the middle has only one entrance and one exit.
The officers and soldiers continued to chase the defeated soldiers in the valley, chasing after them, when they suddenly heard a ferocious laughter coming from the exit of the valley in front of them.
The laughter was so loud that it obviously required tens of thousands of people to laugh together. The laughter echoed back and forth in the valley, making it look particularly ferocious.
Xiong Wencan's heart trembled when he heard the laughter.
"Sir, there are thieves ahead!"
Xiong Wencan suddenly looked up, only to see that the exit of the valley was densely packed with bandits holding swords, bows and arrows. Those bandits were all tough, and they were obviously capable soldiers. The heads of the bandits were high.
The flags with the characters "Liu" and "Hui" were flying.
The horse army and the old camp who presented the thieves were also standing there on horseback, holding high the banner with the word "Zhang".
Looking at the formation, there were at least 40,000 soldiers and horses standing in the middle of the valley, as if waiting for Xiong Wencan to fall into a trap.
Scammed!
Xiong Wencan secretly thought that was bad and suddenly turned his head to look at the way he came.
Looking from a distance, more than 30,000 bandits and soldiers rushed in at the entrance of the valley, blocking the officers and soldiers in the valley. These bandits had no idea where they were hiding before, so the soldiers were busy chasing and killing them.
None of the soldiers were detected. At this time, there were more than 70,000 bandits and soldiers in front and behind.
The bandits who were full of contradictions all united.
"I fell into the trap, my life is at stake!"
Xiong Wencan felt his body go limp and almost fell off his horse.
