Li Wanqing thought it was a flawless ruse, but ended up encountering this astonishingly powerful army and was defeated.
Not to mention the soldiers and horses Zhang Xianzhong lost when he lured the enemy, Luo Rucai, Zhang Tianlin and Li Wanqing alone lost 8,000 soldiers and horses in the valley when they attacked Li Zhi, and 4,000 of them were elite cavalry and horse soldiers.
Xiaoqi.
In this battle alone, Li Wanqing and his family lost more than 2,000 infantry and cavalry, which was 30% to 40% of his entire army. It is not known how long it will take for them to regain their strength.
As for the officers and soldiers, they were unscathed.
It's really a waste of money.
How could he encounter such a powerful army? Are these fire gunmen descended from heaven? They fired volley after round, as if they could never finish the fight. Even a group of 12,000 cavalry could not charge.
Break through this network of firepower. If the officers and soldiers are like this, what kind of thief can I be?
Li Wanqing sighed and turned his horse to retreat with the deserters.
Little did he know that he was already a step too late.
Li Wanqing, who fell behind the deserters, was wearing fine white scale armor. He looked like a big boss at first glance, and became the best target for the Tiger and Ben divisions. At a distance of 180 meters, Li Wanqing was exposed by the fleeing bandit cavalry. He was exposed.
As soon as he completed the carousel and before he could start the horse, more than twenty hands were aimed at him and pressed the trigger.
There was a crackling sound, and Li Wanqing was hit dozens of times. He was beaten into a hornet's nest and fell off his horse.
The big leader was killed, and the fleeing bandit cavalry were even more heartbroken, discarding their helmets and armor, and fled outside the entrance of the valley regardless.
After killing the leader of the bandits, the soldiers of Huben Division cheered in unison, and the valley was filled with thunderous sounds.
Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin heard the cheers of the officers and soldiers more than a mile away and knew that Li Wanqing had died in the battle. Their faces were ashen and they were stunned and speechless.
Where did this official army come from? Why are they so powerful? Twelve thousand cavalry charged into the formation, but four thousand were killed before they even reached the formation. Even those who shot into the sky were killed. The whole army was defeated. This battle was still
How to fight? There are only 4,500 old battalions left on our side that still have morale. But this old battalion is the capital accumulated by three families of thieves over the years. How can they easily use it to charge into the battle?
And even if Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin were willing to use their old battalions to charge into the formation, they wouldn't be able to charge forward with this posture! Now they can only retreat? Has the plan to surround the army gone bankrupt?
The two big bandit leaders looked at each other, and all they saw in each other's eyes was fear and helplessness.
The bandits were panicked, but Li Zhi was in high spirits.
Li Zhi looked at the fleeing bandit cavalry, waved his hand and said: "Catch them and defeat them completely!"
The Huben Division pursued the defeated Rogue Cavalry. The Rogue Cavalry had been defeated, and now was the best time to crush them. Eight thousand soldiers of the Huben Division advanced quickly with their arms raised, heading towards the entrance of the valley.
Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin were killed by the Chinese army.
Seeing the officers and soldiers coming to chase them, the eight thousand cavalrymen of the three families of thieves panicked, and passed Luo Rucai's Chinese army all the way. They continued to flee outside, unable to stop.
Luo Rucai gritted his teeth and shouted: "Let's go!"
Zhang Tianlin's eyes were red with anxiety, and she asked loudly: "So many people and horses were lost? Just left like this?"
Luo Rucai shouted loudly: "Are you going to use the old battalion to fill the army's fire cannon array?"
The old camp is Zhang Tianlin's foundation, and he would not let him go to the old camp no matter what. When Zhang Tianlin heard Luo Rucai's words, Zhang Tianlin's face turned pale, and without saying anything, she turned around and rode out of the valley. His 1,500 old camp met the leader
He withdrew and quickly pursued him.
The more than 10,000 infantrymen of the bandits were frightened when they saw that the cavalry had also been defeated and that the officers and soldiers were chasing them. They immediately abandoned Luo Ru and fled in all directions. The remaining 12,000 soldiers headed towards the valley without any plan.
Fleeing away, like birds and beasts scattered, running without direction.
Luo Rucai looked at the defeated infantry, and his heart was bleeding. In this battle, the army had scattered all the soldiers and horses under his banner. Looking back, he didn't know how many percent he could still gather, and how many percent he had lost?
Luo Rucai's old camp had not yet moved out, but the 1,500 cavalrymen of the Selected Frontier Regiment had already rushed up. The 1,500 cavalrymen of the Selected Frontier Regiment stopped 200 meters away and opened fire freely at the old camp of the bandits.
The elites of the old battalion of the bandits were all wearing armor, but a layer of armor could not stop Minnie at all. One after another, the elites of the old battalion were hit and fell off their horses. The three hundred people in the front row of the selection group fought for a round
, killed two hundred elite thieves and old battalions.
Luo Rucai saw that there were also casualties in the elite old camp, and her heart felt like a knife was cut, and she shouted loudly: "Let's go! Let's go quickly!"
He galloped out on horseback and fled to the west with three thousand elite old battalion. The cavalry of the old battalion rode tall horses, and they all had one person and two horses. They ran very fast, and the cavalry of the selected vanguard battalion could not catch up.
However, as soon as the old camp escaped, the entire rogue coalition army in the west collapsed, and the infantry and cavalry troops became even more panicked. The 20,000 bandit soldiers lost their backbone and ran wild on the red earth of South Zhili.
Don't choose a way.
These skirmishers became the best prey for the cavalry of the Selected Front Regiment. The cavalry raised their sabers and chased the bandits by the Yong River outside the valley. They chased west to north for seven or eight miles and killed two to three thousand bandits.
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According to Li Zhi's request, the cavalrymen would dismount every time they chased and killed a thief, cut off the thief's head, and hung the head of the captured thief on the back of the horse.
After chasing for a quarter of an hour, Li Zhi asked the drummer and trumpeter to call for gold and withdraw the troops. He gathered the cavalry who were chasing him. The whole army drove back to the valley, cut off the heads of the bandits who died in front of the battle, and then went to rescue the officers and soldiers who fought hard with the bandits.
Main force.
In this battle, Li Zhi captured and beheaded 10,000 thieves. In addition to the 2,000 thieves annihilated in the morning, Li Zhi already had 12,000 heads in his hands. This was a great feat.
, in the current situation of suppressing bandits, it can be regarded as a great victory.
Li Zhizhi was so proud that he led the Huben Division of 8,000 men to kill eastward.
Halfway through, Li Zhi saw a group of broken troops running in front of him. The group of broken soldiers were the Ming Dynasty officers and soldiers. They were all wearing mandarin duck war jackets. At this time, they fled in a panic. In front of them, a general rode a tall flowered horse.
, at this time, his helmet had fallen off, and the cloak on his back was gone. He buried his head and rode away, very embarrassed.
Li Zhi tightened the Huben division to prevent the troops from being attacked by the defeated troops, and then rode up alone to meet the disheveled general.
Seeing the neat and powerful lineup of Li Zhi's troops, the general seemed to have found a little sense of security and rode towards Li Zhi.
Li Zhiqi took a closer look and realized that it was Liu Liangzuo, the commander-in-chief of Lu0zhou.
Li Zhi asked loudly: "Why did the commander-in-chief's troops collapse?"
Liu Liangzuo's face turned red and he said: "The soldiers and horses offered by the thieves were so strong that Liu could not resist them! They were defeated!"
Hearing this, Li Zhi sighed in his heart. These officers and generals drank the blood of soldiers and ate empty pay, and the combat power of their soldiers and horses was really too weak. Not to mention the wild battles with the Qing army, even the soldiers and horses of the thieves were sacrificed.
I can't resist it anymore.
Liu Liangzuo seemed to have no intention of talking to Li Zhi. He hurriedly rode to a small mound and looked at the entrance of the valley. After seeing that there was no one at the entrance of the valley, he became energetic, clapped his hands and said, "I
You are right! The 30,000 bandit soldiers on the west side of the valley have indeed retreated! Now we can escape from the west side!"
Li Zhi was stunned when he heard Liu Liangzuo's words and couldn't react. Li Zhi thought for a while and figured it out: Liu Liangzuo's defeat was just an appearance. In fact, he saw the rebel soldiers at the west entrance of the valley during the battle.
He thought there was a way to escape, so he deliberately led his troops to a rout, abandoned the other officers and soldiers, and fled alone. (.)
