It is not easy to stop the people and horses who retreat like a tide, but fortunately, there are many soldiers in the old eighth team under Li Zicheng, and after these people heard the order, they immediately stopped, and at the same time pulled the people around them. 【Fengyun Reading Network. 】

In this way, when Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai turned around and personally suppressed the corners, the peasant army finally stopped fleeing.

The peasant army that was running in front also stopped when they heard that there was no sound behind them, so that it was not long before the whole army came to a standstill.

Li Zicheng knew that the method of abandoning gold and silver as bait could only be delayed for a while, and after Sun Chuanting strictly ordered the pursuit, the officers and troops would gather men and horses to fight, so the time was urgent, and there was no delay.

He immediately ordered Liu Zongmin and Li Guo to lead 5,000 decisive cavalry in front of them, charging the official army, and he personally led the remaining cavalry, followed by reinforcements. Luo Rucai led the infantry and pressed up in the back, Li Zicheng issued a death order, this battle must be won, who dares to retreat from the battle, the rear team will cut the front team.

So Liu Zongmin and Li Guo gathered thousands of cavalry and came back. Li Zicheng stayed where he was, because it took a while to gather men and horses, so he let Liu Zongmin go first, and after gathering a part of the cavalry, he also killed him back.

Seeing that the plan had succeeded, Luo Rucai was triumphant, and ordered all the infantry, with pikemen in front, to reconcentrate and counterattack with all their might.

More than 100,000 peasant troops took a breath, then gritted their teeth one by one and slaughtered again.

The officers and soldiers were scattering in the ranks, and when you were fighting for me, I suddenly heard the sound of shouting and killing for a long time, and when I looked up, I was immediately stunned, and I saw countless peasant army cavalry waving flags and shouting, dancing with bright swords and guns in their hands, and the killing generals came up, and these officers and soldiers hurriedly got on their horses, trying to block the peasant army, but it was no longer possible.

Their formation was already in disarray, and some officers and soldiers were only concerned with looting property, and even threw away their swords and guns. Before the peasant army arrived, a rain of arrows was fired, and hundreds of officers and soldiers immediately fell.

Seeing that the angry peasant army was killed again, Liu Zongmin and Li Guo were like two fierce tigers, desperately pounced, and the people who grabbed the treasure in the official army no longer had the fighting spirit, these people first got on their horses and fled, and the rest of the officers and soldiers were also driven by these people and turned around and left.

Tens of thousands of people in the front army, running backwards together, immediately drowned the supervising team behind, the rest of the officers and soldiers did not understand what was going on, the rout rushed to the front, like a huge flood rushing in, how to stop it, so more and more people and horses were wrapped in, Sun Chuanting saw the men and horses retreat in the Chinese army, and knew that the most feared thing had happened, and the peasant army really used treasure as bait to drag the officers and soldiers, and then the whole army returned to the division and killed himself a horse pistol.

The top priority now is to immediately contain the rout, form a camp, and block Li Zicheng's charge.

But no matter how Sun Chuanting even passed on the order, it was useless, the rout soldiers were getting more and more, the scene was already chaotic, and the order could not be conveyed, and at this time, even if he heard the order, those people and horses who fled could no longer stop.

The peasant army almost drove the officers and soldiers to the heels, which caused a great panic among the officers and soldiers, and these people were frightened and screamed as they fled.

Zuo Liangyu saw that the situation was not good, the peasant army regrouped, the officers and soldiers turned around and fled, the momentum of victory and defeat immediately reversed, knowing that Sun Chuanting had no ability, it was not easy to win, he had a heavy army in his hands in the past two years, and he had always given priority to preserving his strength, and at this time he was willing to fight to the death, so he quietly gave an order to let his men and horses leave the brigade, and went around in a circle in the dark night and went south.

As soon as Zuo Liangyu left, He Renlong immediately found out that he was even more treacherous, and he also took his troops and fled north without his life.

These two people took the lead in escaping, the official army collapsed immediately, Sun Chuanting looked up to the sky and sighed, knowing that he had no power to return to the sky, so he had to order the withdrawal of the army, Gao Jie and Yang Wenyue, Cao Bianjiao and other generals protected him and fled to his own camp. Along the way, they rushed away from their own infantry, and I don't know how many people they trampled on.

Seeing the retreat of the official army on all fronts, Li Zicheng was overjoyed, he sent an order to Liu Zongmin and Li Guo, regardless of casualties, and pursued Sun Chuanting with all his might, Liu Zongmin naturally knew this, he looked at the direction of the withdrawal of the official army, he knew that Sun Chuanting was going back to the camp, and wanted to gain a firm foothold, so he couldn't help but sneer, and ordered his men and horses, not to care about the scattered officers and infantry, just chase after them, all the way to the official army camp.

Li Zicheng also followed with tens of thousands of cavalry, joined forces with Liu Zongmin, and pursued them to the death.

At this time, the situation between the two sides was exactly reversed, Li Zicheng understood the truth of eliminating evil, and at this time, he should take a big push to eliminate Sun Chuanting's camp, so that he could not gain a foothold south of the Yellow River, and it was best to drive him across the Yellow River in one go, and then Kaifeng was in the bag.

The peasant army got this order, one by one bravely took the lead, for many years, Sun Chuanting has always been an undefeated myth, starting from his capture of Gao Yingxiang, and later destroyed many rebel armies one after another, prestigious, there is a huge deterrent in the peasant army, the peasant army is very afraid of Sun Chuanting, at this time it can beat him to a mess and flee, so they are all elated.

The same is true of those recruits, these people can't fight bad battles, but it is very appropriate to fight this kind of pursuit war, they are in the mood, and they are more fierce than those veterans.

Sun Chuanting took 30,000 or 40,000 cavalry, rushed away from the bloody road, wanted to go back to the camp, take a breath, set his foot, and then pack up the rout and fight again with the peasant army. But Li Zicheng no longer gave him this opportunity.

In less than an hour, Sun Chuanting returned to his camp, at this time there was Zuo Liangyu's subordinate Hui Dengxiang guarding the camp, it stands to reason that it is not a problem, but Hui Dengxiang is also a little careless, because Sun Chuanting transferred Zuo Liangyu to attack, Hui Dengxiang also sent people to investigate, as soon as he heard that the official army had defeated the peasant army and fled, Li Zicheng even abandoned the camp, thinking that the battle had been won.

Therefore, he first set up a celebratory wine in the camp, and when he was drinking happily with his subordinates, he suddenly heard a great chaos in the distance, and Hui Deng thought that Sun Chuanting had returned victoriously, and he didn't care, but after a while, a small colonel guarding the camp came to report that countless officers and soldiers had fled into the camp, and it looked very embarrassing.

Hui Deng was startled, and hurriedly went out of the tent to take a look, just in time to see Sun Chuanting and Gao Jie and others running in a very bad manner, and he didn't have a salute, so Sun Chuanting urgently issued an order, asking him to lead his men and horses to block the camp gate, and he must block the attack of the peasant army.

At this time, most of the officers and soldiers in the camp had already fallen asleep, and some were still drinking, and they were eager to organize, and Hui Dengxiang reluctantly ordered four or five thousand men and horses, but before they reached the camp gate, the peasant army was under the command of Li Zicheng, and tens of thousands of cavalry rushed into the camp with a thunderous momentum.

When Hui Dengxiang's thousands of officers and troops saw that countless peasant army cavalry had been killed, they were immediately shocked. Hui Dengxiang was also very clever, and when he saw this situation, he knew that Sun Chuanting was gone, and the camp would definitely not be able to be saved, so he took his own soldiers and fled through the camp to the west.

When Sun Chuanting learned that the peasant army had invaded the camp, he immediately stomped his feet in the stirrups, knowing that it was impossible to hold it, and if he didn't leave at this time, his life would be difficult to protect. It's not that he's afraid of death, it's just that this battle was lost, he is not convinced, he needs to save his life now, clean up his men and horses in the future, and then fight a decisive battle with Li Zicheng.

Therefore, Sun Chuanting took Gao Jie and other generals, led more than 30,000 cavalry, fled north, and went straight to the Yellow River.

He knew that the only thing that could stop Li Zicheng at the moment was the Yellow River.

When Li Zicheng learned that Sun Chuanting had fled, he immediately ordered Liu Zongmin and Li Guo to lead their men and horses to chase after them, and he went to occupy the official army camp first.

At this time, the camp of the official army was also in flames, and the officers and troops scattered in all directions, and it became a complete rout, and the peasant army occupied the camp without much resistance.

Not long after, Luo Rucai also led the army to arrive, and Li Luo and the others ordered the men and horses to extinguish the fire, and then used the camp of the official army as their base.

Liu Zongmin and Li Guo led tens of thousands of cavalry and chased Sun Chuanting closely behind, killing many officers and soldiers along the way, but they did not catch up with Sun Chuanting after all.

Gao Jie, Zuo Guangxian, Cao Bianjiao, Yang Wenyue and others will come to the edge of the Yellow River with Sun Chuanting, where there are boats left by Sun Chuanting when he crossed the river last time, so the official army began to cross the river.

Because Liu Zongmin chased too quickly behind, these officers and soldiers were so frightened that they rushed to the boat, and the war horses must not have been able to take care of it, and many people were squeezed into the river and floated away along the river. Sun Chuanting and the others boarded the big boat, he stood at the bow of the boat, looked up, and couldn't help but burst into tears.

In order to cross the river first, the officers and soldiers did not hesitate to use knives to cut at each other, and many boats were full of officers and soldiers, but they could not drive the boats, because many officers and soldiers in the river could not go up, and they climbed the side of the boat with their hands, and the officers and soldiers on the boat chopped with knives, chopped off countless fingers, blood splashed on the bow of the boat, and the sound of screams was earth-shattering.

By the time Liu Zongmin reached the river, the sky was already bright, and Sun Chuanting sailed away, only taking away more than 10,000 people, leaving more than 20,000 officers and soldiers, some of whom were forced to go down the river to drown, and the others scattered and fled along the river. Countless warhorses were thrown by the river.

Liu Zongmin looked at the surging Yellow River, sneered, and said to Li Guo: "Count his fate, let him go this time, and then take his head later." Li said: "Sun Chuanting's defeat, no one in the court will dare to come to Kaifeng anymore." Hehe, Henan is already ours. ”

The two packed up the sabers and guns by the river and returned to the camp.

This battle is called the battle of persimmon garden, because the military food of the official army is not enough, there are many persimmon forests around Kaifeng, and the official army often picks green persimmons to satisfy hunger, so it is called.

The more than 100,000 officers and troops under the command of Sun Chuanting won first and then were defeated, and were defeated by Li Zicheng and Luo Rucai. Sun Chuanting only escaped from Hebei with more than 10,000 people. Since then, the people have scrambled to spread the word that the court can no longer ask about the affairs of Henan.

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