The war of hundreds of thousands of people stretches for dozens of miles on the battlefield alone, which is why Liu Ximing only wanted to kill and injure the enemy as much as possible when he attacked Luo Rucai before.

If it weren't for Lu Xun's burning of the company camp, or the strange incident of Zuo Liangyu in Zhuxian Town looting his own baggage, it would be almost impossible to collapse the troops of hundreds of thousands of people.

Therefore, Liu Ximing was more inclined to fight steadily at this time, striving to wait for Mu Jingnan to attack from behind while keeping the battlefield in all directions.

Liu Ximing's camp is okay, more than 60,000 people are divided into three parts and camped in horns, so that they can effectively support each other.

There was some trouble in the army, and the 250,000 men were divided into ten large battalions, which were several miles away from the front camp to the rear camp.

However, at this moment, the thing that the army has to worry about is not camping, but Li Zicheng and others suddenly discovered that Liu Ximing came from the north to the south, and Mu Jingnan also followed, and the logistics and grain route of the army was cut off!

The team of more than 200,000 people needs a huge amount of food every day, because Kaifeng and other cities have always been in the hands of Liukou before, so Li Zicheng and others did not carry too much military rations with them.

With the last supply, the entire army was only a ten-day ration.

At this moment, the intruding army, who had originally planned to wait for the fighters, couldn't sit still.

Early in the morning of the second day, the army took action in the large array, and the three battalions of Yuan Zongdi and others stationed in the front poured out, wanting to find an opportunity to fight against the officers and troops under Liu Ximing.

However, no matter how Yuan Zongdi and the others arranged to scold, no one paid attention to the official camp on the opposite side, as if it was as quiet as water.

Liu Ximing and a group of generals are not stupid, and the plight of the army was also guessed by them, because from the beginning of the camp, the plan of the officers and soldiers was to fight hard, and they must drag Li Zicheng's army to death here.

Liu Ximing didn't have the idea of annihilating Li Zicheng, but in order to ensure that he could smoothly take over Nanyang and Huguang in the future, and then promote the so-called reform of official governance, it was necessary to beat Li Zicheng at one time.

Yuan Zongdi and the others naturally didn't know Liu Ximing's thoughts, and seeing that the officers and soldiers could not leave the camp alive or dead, Yuan Zongdi, who received Li Zicheng's death order, directly ordered the camp to start building attack materials such as crashing wood and shields.

It was not until the third day that Yuan Zongdi and others completed these tasks with the assistance of Li Zicheng's rear army.

The soldiers of the intruding army, who had been waiting for a long time, began to attack rapidly towards Liu Ximing's army under the cover of the shields in the front row.

However, when the vanguard of the army ran to a position one mile away from Liu Ximing's camp, a miserable scream suddenly came.

"Ahh

"There's a pit in the ground!"

The soldiers who were in the front line and charged shouted one after another, but under the push and inertia of the rear team, the thousands of soldiers in the front team could not stop, and fell into the big pit in front of the battlefield in a daze.

In the camp of the official army, Zheng Jingcai watched with a sneer as the intruding army stopped in front of the battle, and ordered in a loud voice: "Open the cannon!" ”

"Boom", "Boom"

More than 50 howitzers, which had already been arranged in front of the official battalion, suddenly burst into force, and the arc-shaped ballistic trajectory directly sent more than 50 flowering shells to the heads of the invading troops.

"Bang", "Bang"

Iron bullets burst out with loud noises in mid-air, and the rain of bullets formed by metal fragments instantly enveloped the invading forwards.

This round of artillery attacks alone reimbursed at least four or five hundred intruders.

It turned out that during the days when the army was building equipment, Liu Ximing and others were not idle, but used the night time to dig three half-man-deep trenches directly in front of the position.

Because there were far more cavalry in the official army than the Liukou, the entire front of the battlefield was suppressed by Cao Bianjiao and others, and the scouts of the Liukou could not get close to the frontier battlefield at all, which made the vanguard of the army led by Yuan Zongdi and others directly suffer a big loss.

In the rear team of the vanguard army, Yuan Zongdi was so angry because of this change that he jumped to his feet, seeing that the official army seemed to have plans to continue the shelling, thinking of the order from Li Zicheng, Yuan Zongdi's eyes instantly turned red.

"Rush up, rush up, the rear team will all rush forward, Lao Tzu will not be able to, so many of us can't fill a few small pits."

Although the army is gradually being regularized, but in their bones they are still a rogue army, in the past, they did not do less things to use the old, weak, sick and disabled to cover the siege of the city, and now in the face of difficulties, Yuan Zongdi naturally used this habit again.

As soon as he heard the commander's order, the thousands of rear guards around Yuan Zongdi immediately mobilized, and these people were all strong men, one by one, they rose up and rushed forward, and under the layer of passing, they directly impulsed the entire forward army more than a dozen steps forward.

Shouts and screams rang out in the front of the vanguard army, but the sound was quickly drowned out by the explosions and noise of the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of invading forwards were like ants, resisting the attack of artillery fire, and continued to march forward under the constant drive of the rear team.

As for the several trenches that the officers and soldiers had dug originally, they were already densely covered with the corpses of the vanguards of the intruding army at this time, and the rear team almost stepped on these people and rushed directly.

Unfortunately, Yuan Zongdi's efforts were all in vain, and when the more than 60,000 troops in the vanguard were about to rush to the front of the official army, the artillery commanded by Zheng Jingcai caused thousands of casualties to him.

With such large casualties, coupled with the psychological deterrence brought about by the shelling, the forward of the invading army was already crumbling at this time.

Before the gang could touch the front of the wooden wall of the official army, the muzzles of black holes suddenly aimed at them.

"Shoot!"

In the official army camp, the command team composed of hundreds of middle-level officers roared in unison, and a thick white smoke suddenly rose in front of the official army camp.

With the crisp sound of gunfire, thousands of metal projectiles pierced directly through the body of the invading forward.

"The first column is back, the second column, aim!"

"Shoot!"

The slogan of sectional shooting was constantly repeated in the camp of the officers and soldiers, and the officers and soldiers wearing fat jackets of big red mandarin ducks kept repeating the mechanical movements, and each shot harvested nearly a thousand names before breaking into the army formation.

At this distance, some soldiers who were not afraid of death began to launch a decisive charge.

However, in the face of the wooden wall of the official camp, these people were knocked down one after another before they could raise their hands to hit the wood, and the entire battlefield was almost a one-sided slaughter.

"Retreat, retreat!"

Seeing his subordinates fall in front of the official army camp like wheat harvesting, but he didn't even see the figures of the official army, Yuan Zongdi's mentality finally collapsed.

Even if his own guards are not damaged, but there are too many casualties in ordinary cannon fodder, it will also affect his status in the army again.

Yuan Zongdi, who had a selfish thought in his heart, hurriedly ordered the guards to withdraw their troops, and the forwards of the invading army, who had long been unable to bear the casualties, were pardoned, and they turned around and ran away one by one.

In the face of this stupid act of exposing their backs to the enemy, the officers and troops under Liu Ximing naturally would not let go of such an opportunity, and within a distance of dozens of steps, nearly a thousand people fell under the firearms of the officers and soldiers.

By the time Yuan Zongdi led his troops to retreat, there were only more than 45,000 left in the vanguard with a total strength of 60,000.

However, this was not over, and Yuan Zongdi's vanguard army, which had just withdrawn from the first line, was horrified to find that the gate of the official army camp was opened.

Columns of Ming officers and soldiers armed with muskets and wearing red mandarin duck robes rushed out, and soon lined up outside the camp, seeing that there were at least 20,000 people.

"Walking in unison"

The officers and soldiers lined up in 20 long arrays, lined up in distinct layers, and took firm steps towards the army camp amid the command of a group of officers.

Yuan Zongdi's scalp was a little numb, he had never seen such an officer and army in battle before, and he didn't need to reorganize the team after marching a hundred steps, and the discipline was so strict!

Seeing that cavalry began to join and gather on both wings of the official army, Yuan Zongdi knew that this was the official army that wanted to officially fight.

Yuan Zongdi, who had just suffered a big loss in the power of the official army's firearms, immediately shouted loudly: "Hurry up and report to the Chinese army, please send troops to support King Chuang!" ”

Although Li Zicheng led the army in the middle camp, he had been observing the movement of the forward, he thought that Yuan Zongdi would be able to fight with the official army, but he never expected that he would come to ask for help not long after the war began.

"Yuan Zongdi misunderstood me", in the big camp, Li Zicheng angrily slammed his helmet directly on the ground, and then ordered loudly: "Quickly transfer the two battalions of the Chinese army to participate in the battle." ”

Unlike what ordinary people think, in a war of hundreds of thousands of people, because of the width of the battlefield, it is difficult to press all the troops at one time, and Li Zicheng can only let Li Heng lead another 40,000 people to support.