"Second brother, according to statistics, our army lost a total of 572 people and 3,739 wounded in this battle, and there were 1,770 corpses of thieves in front of the position."

In Liu Ximing's big tent, Mu Jingnan, who hurried back from the camp, made a military salute and reported to Liu Ximing.

Although Lei Hong had also led the Inner Township People's Regiment to fight, he had never experienced a battle of tens of thousands of people like today, and he was a little excited when he heard the data reported by Mu Jingnan.

"President, our army's combat power is so outstanding, it seems that even if we annihilate the rogue here, it will not be difficult to annihilate the rogue here, should we revise the combat strategy?"

Liu Ximing said with a smile: "Don't be too excited, you Ze, we don't seem to have many casualties, but that's because our army has a military medical system, and most of the wounded can be treated." ”

"In addition, due to the terrain, the rogue is unable to devote an overwhelming force to attack our army at one time. But if they are really in a hurry, the whole army of the rogues will be pressed up, and we can only avoid them for the time being. ”

Seeing that Lei Hong was a little disappointed, Liu Ximing hurriedly added: "If you don't believe it, Mingliukou will definitely increase the impact, and it is difficult to say how the victory or defeat will be at that time." ”

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In the barracks, the atmosphere at this time was quite solemn.

After turning around the wounded barracks that were constantly wailing, Li Zicheng's face had turned iron-blue.

After seeing a soldier of his own family who died in pain because his left arm was cut off and could not be treated, Li Zicheng finally couldn't help it, and roared angrily on the spot:

"What about Lang Zhong, where are all the Lang Zhong we arrested before, hurry up and bring them over to save people."

Niu Jinxing, who was in charge of logistics, stepped forward and whispered: "King Chuang, the doctors in the barracks are often sneaking away, and now there are not many left in the camp." ”

Li Zicheng glanced at him with an unfortunate face, flicked his sleeves angrily and turned back to the camp.

"Yufeng, how are the casualties counted today?"

Tian Jianxiu, who was in charge of statistics, walked out from among the generals, "King Chuang, more than 2,300 people have been killed in our army today, and more than 5,000 people have been injured, and it is estimated that at least 2,000 brothers will not survive these few days. ”

"I didn't think that the combat power of Dengzhou soldiers was so strong", Li Zichang sighed.

He turned his head to look at Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, Li Yan and others: "Now that the official army is blocking my way, and Cao Yanluo and others are chasing after me, what should we do, and ask a few gentlemen to talk about it." ”

Niu Jinxing frowned and said: "King Chuang, the so-called death and then life, now there is no way on both sides, only to risk death to rush into battle, from the perspective of today's war, although the Dengzhou soldiers are neatly formed, but they may not be able to form an overwhelming suppression for our army." ”

"According to Niu's opinion, as soon as the war starts, our army will first feint to attack the left road, but in fact, we will send a large army to charge the right road, as long as we can break through the enemy camp, then we will win this battle, and then the sky will be wide and the land will naturally not worry."

"I'm afraid that the Dengzhou soldiers will do their best", Song Xiance on the side sighed.

Li Zicheng frowned and asked, "What did you say about this, sir?" ”

Song Xiance fanned the feather fan in his hand, and said with a fairy wind: "Now Song is watching the battle in the Chinese army, and he finds that the soldiers and horses of Dengzhou have not used all their strength, otherwise the artillery at the beginning of the war will attack our army's position, and the king may be safe?" ”

Li Zicheng shook his head solemnly, "The Dengzhou artillery is really fierce, and our army can't resist it." ”

"Exactly", Song Xiance showed an appreciative look in his eyes, "Then the question is, since Dengzhou has such an artifact, why don't you suppress it, but instead make the infantry army and our army against the enemy?" ”

"Sir, are you saying that this Dengzhou soldiers and horses don't fight with our army?" , Li Yan answered with a pensive expression.

"Hahaha, I think of everything", Song Xiance laughed and arched his hand at Li Zicheng: "Song thinks that this is the case, and King Chuang needs to take this into account, and the Ming War must not kill Dengzhou more, so as not to anger Liu Ximing, the governor of the Central Plains." ”

"Okay, good, it's rare for Mr. to be meticulous in his observations, otherwise we will make a mistake."

Seeing that Song Xiance and Li Yan both thought so, Li Zicheng also relieved himself in his heart, and immediately laughed and praised the two.

It's just that everyone didn't notice that a light of jealousy and resentment flashed in Niu Jinxing's eyes again.

He is not an atmospheric figure, but now he has been repeatedly stolen from the limelight by Song Xiance and Li Yan and others, and he has long been a little dissatisfied.

However, Li Zicheng naturally couldn't control him, and once again fought hard in the army, preparing to fight again tomorrow.

On October 22, the two armies, which had been repaired for two days, again set up a position at the Shangluo Pass.

This time, the army learned to be obedient, and there were no archers to attack at all, and the three-way army divided into left, center and right pressed forward directly.

After withstanding two rounds of musket wheels, the vanguard of the army once again slapped on the position of the Liu Jiajun like a wave.

Liu Ximing, as always, observed the movements of the Chuang army in the Chinese army, and after about half an hour, he keenly noticed that the Chinese army seemed to have begun to quietly move to his left side.

A chuckle flashed at the corner of his mouth, and Liu Ximing looked at Mu Jingzhi on the side: "You go and personally command, let the 105th Division move to the left, be sure to teach the thieves a profound lesson, if the enemy is strong, allow them to retreat gradually, but be sure to stabilize the position." ”

"Huh", Mu Jingnan excitedly agreed to the promise, turned his head and changed to lead the troops.

Li Zicheng initially let the Chinese army move forward silently, and when he was not far from the right side, he waved his waist knife and shouted wildly to let the whole army press on.

The Liukou who rushed out of the Shangluo Pass were like a flood, and began to violently impact the left army of the Liu Jiajun.

There were only 10,000 soldiers and horses on the left side of Liu's army's position, and they immediately fell into passivity in the face of the all-out attack of the intruding army, but fortunately, the main force of the 105th Division led by Mu Jingnan arrived in time and finally helped them stabilize their position.

Before the soldiers who broke into the army could react, they were baptized by the dense rain of bullets of the 105th Division.

At this time, the artillery position located in the rear of Liu's army also began to exert its might, and the fierce artillery fire directly bombarded the rear of the army, stirring up the entire battlefield into chaos.

However, such an attack only lasted for nearly three quarters of an hour, and the soldiers and horses on the left led by Mu Jingnan began to slowly retreat back, leaving a southward passage for the intruding army.

"Hooray!"

"Get out of here!"

A burst of cheers erupted in the camp of the invading army after a long battle, and under Liu Ximing's deliberate release of the water, the entire army of rogues began to swarm out along the passage left by Mu Jingnan.

At this time, there was a strange scene on the battlefield, Liu Jiajun continued to shrink the front under the command of Liu Ximing, and at the same time carried out a seemingly fierce but weak pursuit of the retreating army.

And Li Zicheng's side also tacitly organized manpower to defend and counterattack in a pretended manner, but both sides were quite restrained, and more of it was just the wild shouting of the soldiers on both sides.

With the orderly retreat of the invading army, after leaving behind a large number of corpses, the entire battlefield finally slowly returned to calm.

For a force of more than 100,000 people to pass through a pass, it would take nearly a day to retreat.

After breaking out of Liu Ximing's encirclement network, Li Zicheng did not rush to lead the army south, but stationed in the south of Liu's army, while confronting Liu's army, while slowly gathering his own troops and horses.

However, when the soldiers and horses of each battalion were counted the next day, Li Zicheng and others were still heartbroken to find that the entire team had lost nearly 10,000 soldiers and horses, all of whom were killed directly or by artillery fire in the process of rushing out.

After several consecutive battles, a group of rogues, including Li Zicheng, finally clearly realized that Dengzhou was rich and had a reason for being rich, and this was not a soft persimmon that people could take at will.

Although the soldiers and horses of Dengzhou did not seem to have any intention of continuing to attack, the troops were already frightened, and naturally did not dare to take the initiative to provoke trouble at this time.

After spending a few days to gather the whole army, Li Zicheng led 100,000 troops all the way south along the turbulent water, while Liu Ximing followed closely with tens of thousands of troops, and the army did not dare to act rashly.

It wasn't until outside Dengzhou, when it was about to approach Xiangyang Mansion, that the entire Dengzhou army stopped.

In the barracks, all the generals, including Li Zicheng, breathed a sigh of relief, being escorted all the way by such a powerful enemy, and anyone would fall in their hearts.

Fortunately, the soldiers and horses of Dengzhou must take into account the strategy of the Ming court to defend the territory, otherwise it is unknown how much of the army will be left.

Rao is like this, after this battle, all the soldiers and horses under Li Zicheng's command have learned a lesson, and from then on, they all began to take a detour to Dengzhou and other places.