Chapter 972: Hongzhang Loses His Younger Brother
The young general who blocked the road was Li Zhaoqing.
He rode his horse and speared into the ranks of the heavenly army, and the spears were picked up one after another, and four or five people staggered and fell to the ground!
There were 2,000 people behind him, all of them riding horses and holding guns, like a violent wind, and at once the Heavenly Army Brigade was cut into two sections!
The first section was numbered to more than 6,000 people, and the latter section was more than 10,000 people.
Li Zhaoqing's 2,000 cavalry immediately split into two, one group attacking the front to defeat those heavenly troops, and the other pair blocking the rear heavenly army and preventing the two from converging.
As soon as these cavalry appeared, Huai Yong, who was desperately fleeing in front, also immediately turned around and fiercely counterattacked the heavenly army, forming a counter-encirclement of the heavenly army.
In this way, although the Heavenly Army still has an advantage in the total number, it is not as good as Huai Yong in terms of parts.
The key is not the difference in numbers, but the difference in the number of troops.
These cavalry led by Li Zhaoqing originally had an advantage over the infantry, and these people were the elite of the Li family, so they made every effort to build their hole cards!
Therefore, these cavalrymen, all of them are regarded as ten, and they slaughter those foot soldiers of the kingdom of heaven on a one-sided basis!
And the infantry who turned around in front of them were also the elite of Huaiyong, and their rout and escape in the early stage were all pretended, just to bring the heavenly army here, and the cooperation of infantry and cavalry wiped them out!
Of course, this strategy was made by Li Hezhang again, and it succeeded in one fell swoop!
Due to the pressure of time, after Cheng Tunjin occupied Zhongcheng, he did not have time to clean up the battlefield and did not readjust the deployment of troops.
The young general who blocked the road was Li Zhaoqing.
He rode his horse and speared into the ranks of the heavenly army, and the spears were picked up one after another, and four or five people staggered and fell to the ground!
Behind him were two thousand men, all on horseback and with guns. Like a raging wind, it cut the Heavenly Army Brigade into two sections at once!
The first section was numbered to more than 6,000 people, and the latter section was more than 10,000 people.
Li Zhaoqing's 2,000 cavalry immediately split into two, one group attacking the front to defeat those heavenly troops, and the other pair blocking the rear heavenly army and preventing the two from converging.
As soon as these cavalrymen appeared. Huai Yong, who was desperately fleeing in front, also immediately turned around and fiercely counterattacked the Heavenly Army, forming a counter-encirclement of the Heavenly Army.
In this way, although the Heavenly Army still has an advantage in the total number, it is not as good as Huai Yong in terms of parts.
The key is not the difference in numbers, but the difference in the number of troops.
These cavalry led by Li Zhaoqing originally had an advantage over the infantry. And these people are the elite of the Li family, so they are the hole cards they are trying their best to build!
Therefore, these cavalrymen, all of them are regarded as ten, and they slaughter those foot soldiers of the kingdom of heaven on a one-sided basis!
And the infantry who turned around in front of them were also the elite of Huaiyong, and their rout and escape in the early stage were all pretended. It is to bring the heavenly army here, with the cooperation of infantry and cavalry. Destroy them!
Of course, this strategy was made by Li Hezhang again, and it succeeded in one fell swoop!
Due to the pressure of time, after Cheng Tunjin occupied Zhongcheng, he did not have time to clean up the battlefield or readjust the deployment of troops, so he immediately dispatched the whole army. Pursue the remnants of the enemy, only to be waited for by the enemy who has been waiting there for a long time.
I heard another trumpet, coming out of the inner city, and countless Huai Yong poured out from the middle city that had just been lost, not knowing where they were hiding just now.
They shouted loudly. The action was like the wind, and in the blink of an eye, it copied the back road of the Heavenly Army, and surrounded the 12,000 people who had just been cut off by the Heavenly Army!
In this way, this part of the heavenly army, with cavalry in front and foot soldiers in the back, was attacked by Huai Yong on both sides and fell into the point of being passively beaten.
The superiority of the cavalry was very obvious, the Celestial Army was unable to organize effective resistance at all, and was slaughtered layer by layer, and even the infantry behind them were extremely brave, because they had been hiding there and recuperating their strength.
In this way, the celestial army was divided into two encirclements, and was attacked by Huai Yong's infantry and cavalry, like ice and snow meeting the sun, and was melting at an extremely fast speed.
Every second, rows of soldiers fall.
Most of these people were bandits before, of course, they couldn't wait to be killed, especially when they saw their companions dying one after another, they all broke out the most tragic counterattacks, often with the enemy's moves, so those Huai Yong were also killed and injured countless times.
But this is against the foot soldiers, and against the cavalry, even if they want to use the same way to the end, but to no avail, they ride on horses, condescendingly, and before the army of heaven comes near them, they have already stabbed out their spears and taken their lives.
At this time, on the tower of the inner city, Li Hongzhang and Li Hezhang stood side by side, calmly watching the two armies in the square face each other, fighting desperately.
"The third brother is really powerful! Clever tricks are coming up one after another! It seems that this time he will definitely be able to accomplish his work in one battle! These besieged heavenly troops are now unable to escape!" Li Hongzhang really admires the military qualities of the third brother!
Such repeated strangulations, replaced by other Qing army generals, have long disappeared, and I don't know where to die.
"Ho ho! The second brother has won the award! It all depends on the strong support and complete trust of the second brother! If it weren't for the heroic fighting of the sixth brother and the realization of these plans, no matter how talented I was, it would be useless!"
Li Hezhang unceremoniously admitted his military command talents, but he did not forget the merits of his brother.
The five brothers of the Li family have always been close and advance and retreat together.
As they spoke, they watched closely at the state of the battlefield, noticing that it had now basically become a one-sided slaughter!
At the beginning, those Heavenly Army warriors with the strongest combat effectiveness did cause great resistance to those Huai Yong, so they were quickly suppressed by incurring their concentrated forces, although Huai Yong himself paid a heavy price.
However, the Heavenly Army behind them did not have such a high combat effectiveness, so although they also tried their best to resist, they were still invincible and could only accept the fate of being killed.
If this continues, at most, these people will be killed, and the battle here will be completely ended!
Li Hongzhang and Li Hezhang looked at each other and smiled, both of them knew that the overall situation had been decided!
A thrilling victory is just around the corner!
At this moment, Li Hezhang's eyes widened, looking directly at the rear of the battlefield, only to see a team of heavenly troops flying over, led by Cheng Tunjin!
It turned out that Cheng Tunjin had been watching the battle in the Zhongcheng Tower, and when he saw that the Heavenly Army was surrounded and strangled, it had reached a very critical moment, he couldn't hold it anymore, flew down the city tower, and killed the battlefield.
He was followed by his guards, a total of fifty people, all of whom were habitual bandits who killed people without blinking.
These people are Cheng Tunjin's iron buddies, the kind who can sacrifice their lives for their brothers.
Cheng Yanjin knew that there were many Huai Yong, and he couldn't kill them all, he just had to kill their leader!
So, he broke through the enemy formation and went straight to Li Zhaoqing! Capture the thief and capture the king first!
Fifty guards, all around Cheng Tongjin, opened the way for him, and blocked swords, guns, swords, and halberds for him.
All the way down, invincible, no one can stop!
Li Zhaoqing also noticed Cheng Tunjin's arrival, and seeing that their small group was too lethal, he didn't wait anymore, and yelled: "Get out of the way!"
Just hit the horse and go straight to the gold!
Behind him, there were one hundred and eight knights accompanying him, each with a white feather on it, known as the "White Feather Knight", who was the servant army who protected Li Zhaoqing.
The two teams in two directions came together, and the speed was obviously much faster, and in the blink of an eye, the two teams collided!
Cheng Tongjin's weapon is the Xuanhua Axe, and so are his fifty guards.
Li Zhaoqing used a bright silver gun, and so did his one hundred and eight followers.
Cheng Biting Jin's team is a black mass, because not only are they black, but their weapons are black, and even their mounts and clothes are also black.
Their mounts are all black horses.
On Li Zhaoqing's side, he is white, and everyone is a handsome guy, because Li Zhaoqing himself is such a white-faced scholar.
They were all dressed in white, and their mounts were all silver-maned horses with silver carved saddles.
In this way, a pile of black, a piece of white, was mixed together at once, and although it was inseparable, the color was still black and white.
Cheng Tunjin came up with his classic trick to kill the three-plate axe!
Coupled with his anger and running momentum, these three-plate axes actually broke through his highest level, and he was superb!
Li Zhaoqing's spear was on the big axe, it didn't know the details, so it treated it according to the general rules, ready to dodge the heavy blow of the big axe, which was the intention of swallowing gold in the middle of the range!
As long as you're timid, I'll be unforgiving!
Cheng Tunjin had three axes in a row, all of which were heavily planted and slashed at Li Zhaoqing's spear wound, making him so soft and tendonous that he almost got out of his spear!
He was taken aback, and quickly gathered his strength and tried his best to block it!
He secretly complained in his heart, why is this guy's force so high? Don't say more, if you come back five or six times, I'll be done playing!
What he didn't know was that he was complaining here, and Cheng Tunjin was screaming even more!
My invincible three-plate axe, this kid is actually blocking it? Don't you know that Lao Cheng will rely on this three-plate axe to fight the world? Once the three-plate axe is over, I will have no curse!
Knowing that it was troublesome, Cheng Tunjin still had to grit his teeth and play with an axe, and "Dangdang" was hit three times!
This is also Cheng Tunjin's best work!
Li Zhaoqing's face was like a bitter melon, so he had to take it and block it three times in a row!
Huh, blocked? Could it be that my martial arts have broken through!
In this case, this black charcoal head is still my lucky star?
"Dang!" is another axe, which is obviously much worse than the previous three axes, not to mention the original three axes!
Of course, Li Zhaoqing is extremely smart, he was stunned for a moment, and immediately understood that this black boy was cheating!
He roared angrily: "It turns out that you are a black charcoal head who cheats grandpa!
This shot came out with anger, thunder!
Cheng Tongjin's life was immediately lost!
At this critical moment, a red-clothed red horse general Pegasus came over, blocked the spear, lightly stretched the ape arm, and lifted Li Zhaoqing from the horse!
It turned out that Chen Yucheng of the Heavenly Army had arrived!.
(To be continued......)