Chapter 374: Saving the Imperial Tomb (4)

Cao Bianjiao hesitated, Liu Ximing was not afraid of beating the wolf with a hemp stick.

At present, he can naturally block the 10,000 people with artillery, but what should the 40,000 troops in the rear be.

The thieves under the city are still using dense siege arrays, obviously not knowing the power of the artillery of the Longxiang Brigade.

But if they split into several ways to attack, the Long Xiang Brigade would have no power to parry.

"Forget it, fuck it, let's get past the current level first."

Liu Xi's teeth socket after his death was settled, and the thieves under the city were already almost two hundred steps away.

"Northwest direction, two hundred rulers, open fire!"

"Boom", "Boom", "Boom"

Liu Ximing has not been idle in the past two days, and the Long Xiang Brigade has already marked the distances near the city wall.

The artillery arrays arranged behind the city walls only needed to shoot according to the data.

The trajectory of the howitzer is a curved trajectory, and Liu Ximing directly set up the artillery position on the square in front of the main hall in the Imperial Tomb City, which can basically cover the surroundings of the Imperial Tomb City.

This time, he did everything he could, and the artillery position directly arranged all the artillery in his space, a total of thirty guns.

The 10,000 people sent by Gao Yingxiang were instantly hit by the fierce artillery fire.

The entire charging procession was thrown into chaos, screaming and falling rogues to wear out all the courage in the hearts of the others, and there was chaos under the walls.

Cao Bianjiao has been standing still, but his eyes lit up when he saw this scene.

"Derong, you lead the men and horses of your headquarters to charge the battle under the city, and the rest of the people will follow the general to press the formation."

Shao Derong immediately clenched his fists and came out, "The last general will take the order." ”

Cao Bianjiao also had his own considerations in doing this, although Shao Derong's department was equipped with horses, it was not a real cavalry.

However, this thousand people should be enough to deal with the gang of thieves who have been beaten in the city.

Cao Bianjiao's own elite is still vigilant against Gao Yingxiang's main force, once Gao Yingxiang and others want to participate in the war, there must be flaws to take advantage of.

In many battles before, Cao Bianjiao often sent them to fight some tailwind battles in order to take care of Liu Ximing's subordinates, and this time Cao Bianjiao did not have the meaning of testing and training.

Shao Derong can also be regarded as competitive, and now that the second brother and the other brothers of the Longxiang Brigade are watching from the city tower, he naturally can't lose the face of the Longxiang Brigade.

From the moment Shao Derong launched, Liu Ximing observed this situation, and the sound of shelling in the city began to gradually stop, in order to avoid accidental injury.

The Shao Zi battalion led by Shao Derong urged forward and went straight into the thief army like a sharp arrow.

The thieves were already in chaos, and now they suddenly encountered the cavalry charging formation, except for some brave rogues who also knew how to step forward to resist the enemy, most of the others were crying and wiping tears in all directions.

This gave the Shao Zi Battalion a lot of room to exert itself, and along the gap that the thieves saw, the Shao Zi Battalion successfully completed the task of passing the thieves through the formation.

The next thing should be to divide and exterminate, Shao Derong tried to recall Cao Bianjiao's previous cavalry tactics, and at the same time commanded the whole army through his own soldiers.

The Longxiang Brigade led by Liu Ximing successfully changed the battlefield situation through artillery bombardment, and with the participation of Shao Derong's troops, it was Gao Yingxiang's turn and others to have a headache.

If the main force of the thieves does not participate in the war, then they can only watch the 10,000 people sent out go and never return.

If they participate in the war, they are afraid that Cao Bianjiao and others, who are watching from the sidelines, will pounce immediately.

Everyone present had experience in fighting with Cao Yanluo, and if anyone dared to say that they were not afraid of him, it would be a big joke.

"Woo woo"

The low and heavy sound of the horn suddenly sounded in the west of the battlefield, completely interrupting the thoughts of Gao Yingxiang and the others.

"King Chuang, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to catch up!" , a horse galloped over.

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng and others were shocked.

Behind the thieves, you can faintly see the officers and soldiers holding large flags approaching rapidly.

"Look, Cao Yanluo has moved."

Gao Yingxiang and the others immediately turned their heads to look at Cao Bianjiao, and his five thousand men and horses really began to move towards their main force.

"Grass his grandma's, it's a trick", Gao Yingxiang's face changed greatly, and he hurriedly waved his arms and shouted.

"Retreat, retreat, let's retreat in the direction of Suzhou."

After saying this, Gao Yingxiang turned the horse's head and left, and Li Zicheng and the others immediately followed angrily.

"We have been tricked, Cao Yanluo must have guessed our thoughts, so he went to notify Zuo Liangyu to come, otherwise how could the surnamed Zuo run so fast, I just hope that the officials and troops are not surrounded everywhere."

Gao Yingxiang's face was full of chagrin, in order to covet and annihilate Cao Bianjiao, he actually fell into such a dangerous situation, it was really unreasonable.

Li Zicheng urged the horse to run quickly, and looked back a few times.

"King Chuang, the official army should not be encircled, there were only a few soldiers and horses here when we came, I don't believe it, in two days, they can still fly over."

Li Zicheng's voice lowered suddenly, "When necessary, I can't say that I can only sacrifice my pawn to protect the car." ”

Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng and others fled in a hurry, which immediately led to a great change in the situation on the battlefield.

Seeing the smoke and dust rising from the retreat of the main force, the thieves who were still messing around under the city wall became more panicked, and their resistance to the Shao Zi battalion became even more powerless, and the speed of the rout accelerated sharply.

As for Cao Bianjiao's side, from the sound of Zuo Liangyu's horn, he knew that the fighter he had been waiting for appeared.

Unlike Liu Ximing, Cao Bianjiao has a natural instinct for war.

From the time he estimated that the thieves might come back to besiege him, he realized that this was not a great opportunity to make a great difference.

In response to the rogue strategy of the thieves in each direction, Hong Chengchou put the task showdown on the heads of each general, and each person had to be responsible for a team.

He himself was responsible for the pursuit of Cao Cao Luo Rucai, and now that Gao Yingxiang and others are here, then Zuo Liangyu, Zu Dabi, Sun Xianzu and others who are in charge of the pursuit must also be nearby.

For this reason, he sent sentinels in the direction where the thieves came, and sure enough, he found Zuo Liangyu and others who were chasing along the road near Shouzhou.

Hearing that the thieves were besieging the imperial tomb, Zuo Liangyu and the others were all scattered.

If you really let the thieves succeed, Your Majesty doesn't care if you can catch up with the thieves now, this pot must be carried by yourself and others.

For this reason, Zuo Liangyu and the others also used enough strength to eat milk, and rushed towards Fengyang, and finally rushed to the vicinity of the imperial tomb at a critical moment.

With such a great opportunity, Cao Bianjiao directly deceived himself.

Liu Ximing is as stable as Mount Tai on the city wall, he is an infantryman, why bother to mix with the cavalry, just watch the battle at the wall.

I saw that the cavalry led by Cao Bianjiao was like a pack of wolves, biting the rear team of Gao Yingxiang and others, and stepped forward to bite it at every opportunity.

After all, the thieves are not as elite as the official army, and it is impossible to retreat without loopholes, which gives Cao Bianjiao countless opportunities to show.

From time to time, hundreds of bands of thieves were divided by cavalry, and then lay down on the icy field, and the rest could only flee in horror and death.

If you can't get rid of Cao Bianjiao, when Zuo Liangyu and the others catch up, most of the thieves are afraid that none of them will want to run away.

Gao Yingxiang was frightened, and could only turn his head to look at his henchman Liu Zhe.

This guy immediately came to his senses, his face was full of determination, "King Chuang, you take someone to go first, and I will break the queen for you!" ”

Gao Yingxiang suddenly cried loudly, "Lao Liu, I'm sorry for you, remember to come back alive." ”

"Don't talk about that, it's important to retreat quickly."

Liu Zhe grabbed the reins of the horse and whipped it hard on Gao Yingxiang's horse's buttocks.

"King Chuang, don't leave it at that."

Among the thieves, Liu Zhe led by a few thousand men and horses to join the rear team that had obviously separated from the main force, and the rest of the people fled to the north as if they were still desperate.

But with the addition of Liu Zhe and others, the originally chaotic rear team suddenly had a backbone, and it changed its posture that it could only be beaten, and confronted Cao Bianjiao's department while retreating by shrinking the front.

Whenever Cao Bianjiao wanted to give up the rear team and directly attack the main force of the thieves, Liu Zhe would command the army to block his way to the place, forcing him to only deal with the rear team here.

Cao Bianjiao was so angry that he scolded his mother, but when he encountered this kind of lifeless person, he could only do anything in vain, so he simply attacked wildly around the back team of the thieves wholeheartedly.

After a stalemate of almost two quarters of an hour, the 3,000 cavalry led by Zuo Liangyu finally arrived, and under the attack from both ends, the rogue rear team, which was already at the end of the crossbow, finally collapsed.

However, by this time, the main force of thieves led by Gao Yingxiang had already run out of more than ten miles.

The cavalry of Cao Bianjiao and others was also exhausted from the long battle and was unable to catch up.