Li Laiheng was shocked that the main force of the Baoding soldiers arrived so quickly. After listening to Ma Bao and Jiao Da's report on the enemy's situation, he immediately climbed to a high place with a few guards to see the enemy's situation: the Baoding soldiers who came to rescue Shang Cai moved extremely quickly.
Hurry, the cavalry troops at the front are probably more than one or two thousand people, and the flags are all over the mountains and fields. The only good thing is that they seem to have exhausted the soldiers due to their too fast march, and the team has become disjointed.
However, Li Laiheng's troops had just experienced a field battle, and their physical strength was even more exhausted than the main force of the newly arrived Baoding soldiers.
Zhang Pizhu's face almost turned into a look of despair. On the contrary, Hao Yaoqi, who was usually not serious at all, showed the calmness and calmness of a veteran and urged Li Laiheng: "Commander, the officers and soldiers should not have discovered us yet. Please
Make a decision, either run away or fight!"
"Fleeing in front of the enemy will lead to a rout!" Ma Bao and Ai Zhuo objected at the same time. After the two looked at each other, Ai Zhuo took a step back and let Ma Bao speak first. He then persuaded Li Laiheng, "Estimate the strength of the Baoding troops.
There are at least 10,000 people, and a few hundred of us turned around and fled. Once discovered, the pursuit would turn into a rout."
Li Laiheng gritted his teeth tightly. He did not expect that Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei would move so fast! According to the predictions of Li Zicheng and other senior generals before the war, wouldn't it take at least one day for the Baoding soldiers to arrive?
Damn the experience of these veterans, there are times when things go wrong!
He could not make a decision, and Hao Yaoqi retorted: "We have few soldiers and will be destroyed in battle. The Chuang army is good at forced marches, and now there is a chance of escaping westward. Yang Wenyue may stop at Shangcai first to rest and reorganize his troops.
, may not pursue immediately. Moreover, Luo Dain and other troops are also heading this way. Maybe we will meet up with the large force of the Pioneer Army before we go west for long."
What Hao Yaoqi said did make some sense, but Ma Bao always felt that if the Chuang army was destroyed, he could find an opportunity to escape back to the official army. If he defeated him, he would be promoted for meritorious service, so he insisted on adopting a riskier strategy of fighting and defending.
Ma Bao emphasized to Li Laiheng: "Listen to what I say, commander. Our army rushed to Shangcai before the other teams. What happened? Isn't it just to seize the advantage and occupy the powerful terrain? Now we have captured a military camp.
, is occupying a decisive position, as long as we hold on to the camp, wait for the main force of the vanguard army to assist, and wait for the main force of the coalition's super officers and soldiers to retreat, we will surely be able to bloom in the center and severely defeat the officers and soldiers."
"Blooming in the center!?"
When Li Laiheng heard what Ma Bao said about "center blooming", he immediately felt a strong sense of uneasiness in his heart.
He waved his hands repeatedly, shaking his head like a rattle, and objected: "What kind of center is blooming!? This is the path to self-destruction!"
Li Laiheng immediately took the surrounding troops and prepared to try to escape westward. The words Ma Bao said "blooming in the center" kept floating in his mind, and the more he thought about it, the more ominous it became.
With this center blooming, it is really not Li Laiheng's style to put his own life in the hands of whether the surrounding friendly forces can cooperate effectively.
But before the troops of the intruders were assembled, Li Laiheng saw a few of the detective horses he had left at the rear running back on horseback without stopping, and sandwiched between them was an unexpectedly familiar face.
"Yang Chengzu?"
General Yang Chengzu of Cao's camp, who also joined the vanguard army, rode a fast horse and ran into the ranks of the invading troops. He was not wearing a helmet, his bun was scattered, and there were many blood stains on his armor and cloak. It was obvious that he had just experienced a fierce battle.
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"The handsome young tiger!"
When Yang Chengzu saw Li Laiheng's soldiers and horses, his eyes lit up with hope. He wiped the dust off his face and said with a bitter smile: "You guys rushed too fast. Yan Qing, Li Shuangxi and I from your camp worked hard to get there."
It was hard to catch up. I rushed to the front, but I didn't expect that in the early morning, when I was crossing the Ru River, I was attacked by Hu Dawei halfway across the river, and I was almost destroyed."
"What?" Li Laiheng's voice almost trembled, "Brother Yang, are you behind us? How could Hu Dawei rush there!"
Yang Chengzu lowered his head and sighed: "That is a light cavalry of Hu Dawei. I estimate there are about a thousand people. They should have taken a small road and traveled day and night to prepare to be the vanguard of the army, but I didn't expect that we rushed too fast."
, his vanguard became a retreat. I led my troops to break through desperately, and only then brought out more than 500 brothers."
After Li Laiheng joined the camp, he fought many battles. Relying on some later experience, he was often able to anticipate the enemy's opportunities and grasp the situation, but this time he seemed to have completely lost control of the situation.
Hu Dawei's light cavalry has cut off their retreat, so doesn't it mean there is no way to retreat? Just like Hao Yaoqi said, if they run away now and Hu Dawei intercepts them from behind, the whole army will inevitably collapse.
"What the hell...!" Li Laiheng threw the riding whip to the ground angrily. He was extremely agitated, and his ears were filled with the sound of the Baoding soldiers marching closer and closer. Finally, he asked Yang Chengzu, "Brother, what are we doing now?
It's like being surrounded by officers and soldiers, just like a grasshopper on a rope. How many soldiers do you have left to fight? The only way out is to join hands and fight to the death!"
Yang Chengzu quickly replied: "There are more than 500 people who broke out, of which nearly 100 are wounded. The remaining people are fully equipped and ready to fight to the death."
Li Laiheng nodded. He still had more than 600 direct troops under his command. He joined forces with Yang Chengzu and had thousands of troops. Maybe he could delay the change?
"Luo Dain, Luo Yanqing, Li Shuangxi, Dang Shousu, and Gu Kecheng are all not far away. As long as we hold on for a while, the situation will definitely turn around. The main forces of Generalissimo Cao and Vice Marshal Cao are now attacking
To attack Yang Wenyue's retreat, as long as the generalissimo captures Ruyang, the army will definitely be defeated... Damn it, I really fought hard and the center blossomed!"
Now they were cut off by Hu Dawei, which attracted most of Yang Wenyue's attention, and really formed a central flowering situation. Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei surrounded Li Laiheng, while the vanguard army units led by Yang Chengzu and Luo Dai'en were in
Wandering outside the encirclement, the main forces of Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai were taking detours further out to attack the rear of the army.
This forms a concentric circle formation, which is truly a "center flowering".
"Now everyone goes into the camp and repairs the damaged areas as soon as possible. Collect the guns and cannons left behind by the officers and soldiers, strengthen the defense, and it will take a few hours to extract the brains."
Li Laiheng had more troops than Yang Chengzu, and Yang Chengzu had just been defeated, while Li Laiheng had just won, and the momentum of the two sides was also very different. So he seized the leadership of the entire army and immediately commanded all the troops to retreat into the official and military camps they had just captured.
Repair its fortifications and make full use of the camp to resist the attack of Yang Wenyue's army.
This is one thousand to ten thousand.
Many parts of the wall of the military camp had collapsed after being set on fire by the intruders last night, and the ground was in panic. However, the soldiers worked together and repaired a passable wall in a very short period of time.
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Hao Yaoqi and Yang Chengzu both dismounted their horses and acted as infantry commanders. According to Ma Bao, he had a lot of experience in using the three-eyed gun of the army, so Li Laiheng arranged for Ma Bao to organize a group of soldiers.
Use the three-eyed gun and other official firearms captured in the camp.
Most of the cavalry dismounted to fight. Only Li Laiheng still held a cavalry unit as a counterattack force at the critical moment.
The sound of the march of the officers and soldiers was getting closer and closer. A vanguard force of more than a hundred people rushed to the front of the camp unprepared. A group of makeshift gunmen organized by Ma Bao shot indiscriminately, killing a large number of people.
However, Yang Wenyue and Hu Dawei had many generals, and their strength was more than ten times that of Li Laiheng. Both of them were powerful border officials who were experienced in military affairs. They soon discovered that the Baoding soldiers were surrounding a group of rogue bandits, and immediately ordered
The troops mobilized artillery and stormed the stronghold violently.
The artillery of the Baoding soldiers was not actually cutting-edge, but there were many of them and they were very heavy. When all the artillery was fired together, the sound of the artillery was deafening and the smoke rose, causing the rebels a lot of losses.
Li Laiheng was burning with anxiety. He didn't know when Luo Dain and even Li Zicheng's soldiers would be able to complete their mission of attacking the army. If he didn't last until then, everything would be over.
Reversing his past amiable attitude towards the soldiers, he became extremely harsh to the point of being excessive and personally led his own soldiers to strengthen the fortifications between the official and army attacks.
The intruders dug trenches as deep and wide as possible, and blocked the gaps in the wall with wood and bricks from demolished houses, and used cut branches to block the intersections so that the imperial cavalry could not charge directly.
Li Laiheng even personally carried the soil, dug trenches, and shared the joys and sorrows with the soldiers. Today's situation was critical, and in order to encourage morale, he really thought of all kinds of ways, saying that he could not die here because of his carelessness!
I cannot be as unlucky as Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong in later generations!
The two emperors of Dashun and Daxi rushed too far forward and died in accidents even though they still had more than 100,000 troops.