On the battlefield of Tangjiashan, the sound of artillery rumbles, and the sound of killing shakes the sky!

The night of fierce fighting had passed, and now that it was dawning, the battle showed no signs of stopping, but was getting more and more intense.

Outside the Lotus Temple, under the word "Chuang", Li Zicheng was observing the battle situation in the direction of Tangjiashan, the sound of a pound of artillery bombardment came from afar, and a large number of infantry of the Dashun Army attacked from the east, south, and west directions in turn, but the battle situation was still in a state of stalemate.

The Dashun army fought in the field, but the craftsmanship of attacking the fortifications was not good. And once the Ming army is in danger to defend, it is also very difficult to destroy.

Tian Jianxiu commanded more than 20,000 people, and began to attack Tangjiashan yesterday evening, and until now, it has been almost eight hours, and he has rushed back and forth for ten rounds, but he still has not succeeded.

"The Emperor...... It's almost too late! ”

Gu Junen's reminding voice came, Li Zicheng put down the binoculars, looked back at his Second Army Division, and was a little impatient: "Second Army Division, what are you afraid of?" The forehead is full of horse teams, even if the Zhu thief has soldiers to help, the forehead will get on the horse and leave. They outrun four legs on two legs?

The defenders on Tangjia Mountain look quite durable, and they are estimated to be elite, and they should be destroyed now, lest they chase them into Sichuan. ”

Li Zicheng was right, the soldiers on Tangjia Mountain were surprisingly tenacious, fortunately their equipment was not good, there were no turtledoves and artillery, otherwise the more than 20,000 Shun troops besieging them would have retreated because they could not bear the casualties.

And Zhu Cihong has guns and cannons at hand, seeing that this army can fight, he will definitely give them good equipment and let them chase them into Sichuan.

Li Zicheng said again: "What's the use of the rabble destroying him for 350,000? Now there are bitter men in the southeast who can't eat enough, as long as the prince of the Zhu family can afford to spend money, how many people don't? But this Ding elite is very precious! ”

As he was talking, there was a cheer from the front of the soldiers of the Dashun Army!

Li Zicheng hurriedly raised his binoculars to look, and found that it turned out that the soldiers of the Dashun Army had attacked the halfway point of Tangjia Mountain and were fighting with the Ming army. This is not the first time that a similar situation has occurred, but this time the Dashun army rushed closer to the top of the mountain than before, and the resistance of the Ming army was significantly weakened.

You might be able to reach the top in one fell swoop!

Just when Li Zicheng held his breath and watched intently at the battle on the hillside in front of him. Suddenly, I saw a hundred and ten iron-armored strong men killed from a forest on the top of the mountain, all of them brandishing iron rods that looked very heavy, as if the killing god had fallen from the sky, and rushed into the crowd of the Great Shun army. Their appearance seemed to have been unexpected by the soldiers of the Great Shun Army, and the soldiers of the Great Shun Army, who were rising up, withered all of a sudden, and they fell down from the hillside in chaos.

Li Zicheng put down the binoculars and sighed, "Alas, why did you lose ......for a while?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he heard the sound of horses' hooves rattling. When he turned his head, he saw several cavalrymen, who should be scouts, were galloping as if they were not trying to kill their horses, as if there was some terrible military situation!

Li Zicheng chuckled in his heart, but he was still calm and calm on his face - what's the big deal? At most, reinforcements from the Ming army have arrived!

One of the scout sentry commanders at the beginning gasped and reported: "Emperor Yu, in the northeast, along the north bank of the Hudu River, a large number of Zhu Thief infantry are coming!" Tens of thousands of ......"

"Have you ever come close to investigate?" Li Zicheng asked.

"I haven't come close," the scout said, "the little ones are blocked by the ironclad cavalry of the Zhu Thief, and they can't get too close. ”

Gu Junen immediately said: "Emperor, withdraw!" ”

Li Zicheng was unwilling, but he still took a sharp breath, "Collect the troops, the whole team, and let go of the Zhu thief for the time being." ”

Gu Junen sighed: "Emperor Shengming, Zhu Thief has also hurt his vitality this time, and he won't be able to get along with us for the time being!" ”

His judgment was soon proven wrong.

Because along the Hudu River came the four infantry regiments of the Right Division of the New Army led by Wu Guoyong, who had originally come by boat from near Huya Mountain to Gong'an County, and when the fleet approached Jiangling, they suddenly received an order from Zhu Cihong to let all the infantry land immediately, and then march to Gong'an in a hurry.

Wu Guoyong did not dare to slack off, immediately found a dock, let the four infantry regiments go ashore, and then rushed all the way, running for almost two and a half days, and now finally arrived at the battlefield.

While marching along the Hudu River, Wu Guoyong met Sun Fugui, who led the cavalry to control the west bank of the lower reaches of the Hudu River (this was Zhu Cihong's order, on the one hand, to meet Wu Guoyong, and on the other hand, to leave a way for himself to retreat). The latter gave him a move to block the west bank of the Hudu River and block Li Zicheng's retreat.

And Wu Guoyong was also anxious to make an immortal achievement, so he didn't think about how powerful Li Zicheng's cavalry was, so he ordered his exhausted infantry to deploy a blockade along the Hudu River with battalions as units.

That's a bit of a deception!

......

Under the fluttering red word "Chuang", Li Zicheng stared intently ahead, it was almost noon, and it was the hottest time of the day.

Under the scorching sun, sixteen infantry battalions of the New Army had already spread out the Morris phalanx, battalion by battalion along the Hudu River. The spears were like a forest, and the warriors were like a wall, just blocking the passage of Li Zicheng's westward transfer.

Behind these infantry phalanxes, there were also ironclad cavalry in companies, which also formed a rush into the phalanx.

Li Zicheng looked at it for a while, and asked Tian Jianxiu beside him: "Yufeng, what do you think?" Can you rush through? ”

Can't rush through...... You'll have to take a detour! It's not impossible, Li Zicheng and the old battalion soldiers marching on horseback have no problem.

They had four legs, and Wu Guoyong's infantry had only two legs, and they were still tired.

However, Li Zicheng only had 10,000 cavalry on hand, Liu Zongmin took a few thousand, and there were about 10,000 left, and the horses were less than 15,000. In other words, he can take a maximum of 15,000 people, and he has to abandon the remaining 20,000 people!

That's more than 20,000 people, and they're all veterans...... Zhu Cihong will not kill them all, but will take them in!

"Yes!" Tian Jianxiu smiled, "Isn't it just some gun arrays?" There is also a long snake formation, how can it be possible to block the impact of tens of thousands of iron horsemen? ”

"That's right!" Li Zicheng waved his hand, "Yufeng, go quickly, look at your ability!" ”

Li Zicheng's army paid attention to the "three walls" in the war, that is, the troops were divided into three parts: front, middle, and rear, and pressed the enemy like a wall. One on top of the other, and one on the other at the same time.

Today, however, the situation was exceptional, as the last of the three walls consisted of more than 20,000 infantry marching on foot. The middle wall is composed of Li Zicheng's imperial camp. The one who charged in front was the 6,000 old battalion cavalry led by Tian Jianxiu!

So three walls are actually two walls - can the last Dashun army infantry still supervise Li Zicheng's battle? And they can't keep up!

Li Zicheng was galloping on his horse at this time, surrounded by the warriors of the imperial camp who had followed him for many years, escorting him in groups, and the red flag of "Chuang" was fluttering behind him, and the wind was blowing past his ears.

The feeling of leading the cavalry to break through the enemy line is quite good!

In a trance, he felt like he was rushing to victory! As long as he breaks through the front line, he can smoothly enter Sichuan and open up a three-point world...... The three points are just the beginning, and the unification of Dashun will be the ultimate goal.

Because his three points are with the Guanzhong Emperor's family......

Suddenly, there was a thunderous sound in front of him, and Li Zicheng knew that it was the front led by Tian Jianxiu who collided with the infantry of the Ming army. Tian Jianxiu had 6,000 cavalry under his command, and the object of his attack was only three Ming infantry phalanxes, and 1,500 people were killed.

Suddenly, there was another earth-shattering sound, and Li Zicheng vaguely saw that there was confusion in the cavalry array in front of him, the horses jumped in panic, and many cavalry were spinning in place, but most of the cavalry were still moving forward.

The shouts of killing sounded, and at the same time, there was a loud sound of something colliding together, and the canopy kept coming.

Li Zicheng knew that this was the cavalry crashing into someone's gun array!

Broken through?

Didn't break through?

Li Zicheng stretched his neck to see what was going on, but the sentry commander in his ear was shouting wildly: "Emperor, rush over, rush over...... Hurry up, guys! ”

It seems to have rushed through...... Instead of breaking through, the three phalanxes were "small" - in fact, the firecrackers were retracted into the spear formation.

Although most of the musketeers of the new army had bayonets, the number of Dashun cavalry that launched the assault today was too large. The firecrackers under Wu Guoyong's hands did not dare to carry it hard, so they retracted into the gun formation, and at the same time gave way to a few passages.

Li Zicheng was a little disappointed when he saw that the three phalanxes in front of him that had been impacted had not completely collapsed. However, he did not dare to fight, but ran to a passage in the middle that could be passed side by side by more than ten horsemen under the escort of his own soldiers. However, what he didn't expect was that there were still many musketeers hidden in the three "shrunk" gun formations, who had previously run out of ammunition, retracted into the gun formation, and reloaded.

When Li Zicheng and the others rode through, there happened to be thirty or forty firecrackers who had already been loaded, and under the command of a platoon commander, they were shooting at the cavalry passing in front.

The personal soldiers around Li Zicheng suddenly fell, and the sentry commander who was guarding Li Zicheng's side was unscathed, and he found that Li Zicheng's horse suddenly slowed down, so he hurriedly pulled the reins of Li Zicheng's war horse and continued to escape.

But he didn't find that Emperor Yongchang of Dashun had been paralyzed and threw himself on the horse.......