This was a decisive battle with Cao Wen's edict. The night before, Li Zicheng tossed and turned, unable to sleep all night. He thought about how to take advantage of the situation to open up the situation in Guanzhong after defeating Cao Wenzhao, and even more thought about how he would face the next sinister situation if he lost this battle.

Under the complicated mood, he kept his eyes open all night, and at this time, although his eyes were black and bloodshot, he did not feel tired at all, and his eyes had not left the distant battlefield since the beginning of the battle.

Li Guo accompanied his uncle to stand on a high place to observe the battle, and at present, more than 1,000 foot soldiers led by Cao Wenzhao and hundreds of horse troops of Cao Bianjiao in front were cut off by their own side. As this wedge inserted into the second Cao, its main force is the "old eighth team" that Li Zicheng takes as the pillar stone, with thousands of healthy soldiers, under the leadership of Liu Fangliang, the fierce general of the eighth team, and Tian Jianxiu, the henchman of Li Zicheng's old camp, stubbornly resisted the pressure from both sides of Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.

Li Zicheng carefully arranged this battle, not only chose such a narrow terrain and unfavorable cavalry gallop for a decisive battle, but also carefully deployed troops, with the troubled era Wang Lin Chengcheng as the vanguard, self-led elite centered, through the Tianxing Zhang Tianlin Palace, mobilized all combat power, in order to win the battle.

Cao Bianjiao's cavalry dismounted and fought on foot for a long time, although they could still ensure that the front was not lost, they could not fight for the initiative, let alone join forces with Cao Wenzhao. In order to break the predicament, Cao Bianjiao made a temporary decision and dispatched nearly 100 people from all over the country to ration war horses and make them charge.

As the main combat force besieging Cao Bianjiao's department, Lin Yangcheng quickly discovered the other party's intentions. He waved the flag with people on the one hand, and arranged for people to block the attack on the other.

The hundred horsemen are all the elite under Cao Bianjiao, and the situation of nine deaths and one life is not the first time they have been encountered, they all understand that they are burdened with heavy responsibilities, and everyone also has the heart of death. Seeing Lin Cheng's flag from afar, he formed a dense array and rushed to the horse.

This rushed up, and the Lin battalion infantry who resisted on the front line and were still fighting in a melee, instantly retreated, and Cao Bianjiao seized the opportunity to gather several scattered small forces to rebuild the defense line.

Lin Chengcheng's main formation was on a small slope not far away, and the cavalry galloped, nearly a hundred meters in a moment. At this time, there was a cannon shot, and hundreds of birds that had been arranged in the forest poured out of their nests.

These bird guns were painstakingly collected by Li Zicheng, including not only bird guns, but also all kinds of firearms such as fire guns and ten-eyed guns, all of which were obtained by the rogue robbers from plundering the arsenals of various government offices, and were gathered together as a reserve to serve in the forest, and now they are all distributed to the two wings of the Lin Yang array.

The hundred horsemen also saw this sudden appearance of the firearms team, some of them already felt bad, and wanted to stop their mounts, but at the moment of the charge, and in the narrow area, the horses rubbed shoulders with each other, and their forward and backward were completely uncontrolled by the riders, but as the group only cared about rushing forward, after staying within fifty paces, they only heard a crisp and loud sound of "bang bang bang", and the thick smoke of gunpowder rose in front of the formation, and then there was a piercing neighing and wailing of horses - the dense official cavalry was shot countless people, The overturned horses and officers and men disrupted the formation of the charge, and nearly half of the cavalry could not continue the charge because they were shot or hindered.

The remaining dozens of horsemen plunged headlong into the trap at the moment when the smoke cleared—more than a dozen large earth pits that had been dug before Lin Yangcheng's formation. The pit was filled with sharp bamboo sticks and thistles, and the fallen horses and officers and soldiers let out heart-palpitating screams at the bottom of the pit.

Zhang Tianlin, who was pressing the formation, always paid attention to the movements of Lin Yangcheng's troops, he had nearly 10,000 reserves under his command, ready to enter the battlefield at any time, at this moment he heard the sound of cannons, and saw the banner waving, without hesitation, he immediately sent two wings forward to reinforce.

There were still more than ten horsemen rushing in front of Lin Yangsheng, the horse speed reached the maximum at this moment, and the firearms team that was hit head-on exploded in all directions in an instant, and the officers and soldiers roared angrily on the horses, frantically waving the weapons in their hands and smashing the rogues under the horses, and the defenseless firearms team flew sideways and fled in all directions.

Lin Chengcheng blushed and sat on the horse without moving. Now, he has forgotten about life and death, and his calm performance has greatly emboldened his subordinates. I saw him wave his left hand and shouted: "Brothers, the livestock Cao Wenzhao is in front, and those who have the courage will pick his skin and eat his blood for Lao Tzu!" ”

As soon as the order was given, his subordinate personal troops rushed out, and the cavalry of the official army in front of him was less than fifty people, and there were no less than 5,000 people from his own army plus the rear army to help. Before the palm of the plate, he promised that those who killed an officer and soldier would be rewarded with ten taels, and if there was a famous official general, he would be rewarded with 100 gold, promoted to the third level, and made a fortune at this moment!

The hundred elite cavalry sent by Cao Bianjiao was quickly swallowed up by the wolf-like rogues, and seeing that the garrison of the rogues was getting thicker and thicker, he also felt that it was an extravagant hope to win today's battle. However, he still didn't think that the rogue would be able to stop his breakthrough. The only thing he can't let go of now is the battle situation of his uncle Cao Wenzhao over there. Almost all of his subordinates are foot soldiers, and the difficulty of breaking through is much higher than his own.

More and more rogues continued to join the battle formation from all directions, and Cao Bianjiao tried to organize several more charges, trying to get in touch with Cao Wenzhao, but the tenacity of the rogues greatly surprised him, and after losing more than ten people, he had to give up this idea.

Li Guo saw that Li Zicheng's tight cheeks slowly began to ease, and he also smiled and pointed to Cao Bianjiao's side and said, "The official army can't support it, and they want to break through." ”

Li Zicheng didn't respond immediately, and looked at Fang Dao for a while: "Pass the order, the column, the army, and the horses will go by themselves, and gather soldiers and horses to besiege the officers and soldiers." ”

Li Guo was taken aback and puzzled: "Why is this, it is not easy to trap Er Cao, how can he be easily let go?" ”

Li Zicheng shook his head and said: "Cao's army and horses are all elite, the cavalry is sharp and the foot soldiers are resistant to battle. If you want to completely defeat one, you should give it up. If you are not greedy enough, you will end up with fear that you will not be able to keep both sides. ”

As Li Zicheng said, Cao Wenzhao's foot soldiers are indeed war-resistant. In the face of several times the siege of the rogues, thousands of people still did not fall behind, but continued to organize counterattacks and break through the siege. It is also thanks to Liu Fangliang, Tian Jianxiu and others who fought desperately to prevent them from breaking through.

Cao Bianjiao didn't know the situation of Cao Wenzhao, but his men suffered many casualties and were exhausted.

Because Li Zicheng had an order, Cao Bianjiao's department soon stood out. Lin Chengcheng was ordered to lead 5,000 men and horses to pretend to pursue, but in fact, he occupied all the dangers and arranged troops and horses to prevent the officers and soldiers from returning to help. Except for Zhang Tianlin who led 3,000 people to stand by on the periphery, the rest of the soldiers and horses all besieged Cao Wenzhao.

At this time, one of the officials and marquis in the camp had been killed in battle, and Feng Ju had also been wounded.

"The thief has been planning for a long time, and he must not fall in love with war! The adults go first, and the subordinates break off! Feng Judou was shot down, his gray beard was all open, and he shouted hard. As he spoke, he tore through the red python robe worn by Cao Wenzhao and covered his body.

In the chaotic array dominated by cold colors, this bright red python robe was extremely dazzling, and the rogue didn't know Cao Wenzhao's face, so he only said that the person in the red robe was his person, and now they all attacked Feng Ju.

"Grown, go!" Feng Ju led the soldiers and horses of his headquarters to resist the rogue who surged up like jackals, and shouted with his eyes and teeth. His infantry was well-armed, brave and fierce, and when he forgot to die, he forced a gap in the airtight encirclement.

At this point, Cao Wenzhao had no choice, he shouted, raised his spear to fight first, and the rogues avoided everywhere he passed, and the encirclement that was originally like an iron bucket began to loosen at this time.

Li Zicheng noticed that something was wrong, and ordered Li to say: "The officers and soldiers will fight to the death, if they don't fight quickly, they will break through." However, Cao Wenzhao is still trapped in the formation, you quickly lead someone to attack and kill him, and the rest of the officers and soldiers can go. He stood tall and couldn't see the faces of the characters in the formation clearly, and he could only vaguely determine the location of Cao Wenzhao based on the red python robe. In his opinion, Cao Jiajun is only Cao Wenzhao alone, and killing him is not enough to worry about.

Li Guo was ordered to go down and led more than 100 horse troops to rush down the hillside. When the gathered rogues saw their own horse army killed, they were all cheered and rejoiced, and they dodged the way.

Feng Ju saw that he had attracted the attention of the other party, and he was very happy in his heart, and shouted loudly: "Listen, thief, your grandfather Cao is here, and those who descend will not die!" ”

When he made a sound, it was like throwing a fire thunder, and the Liukou suddenly exploded. Everyone is vying to be the first, and they all want to cut off their heads and make immortal achievements. Li Tai immediately laughed loudly: "General Cao is dying, and he is still talking wildly. Why don't you obediently give us the head, sell personal favors, and in the future, we will also light a pillar of incense for you! ”

Feng Jugang wanted to scold, but he didn't expect that the war horse under his crotch was too seriously injured, and he fell to the ground in a few steps, he was defenseless, and with multiple wounds on his waist, he was turned upside down and fell into the mud.

Feng Ju struggled to get up and fight again, but at this moment, seven or eight spears pierced into his body from all directions, and the cold spear heads stirred in his body, like a ball of flame constantly burning him. Blood oozed from the gap between his clenched teeth, and he raised his head with all his strength, trying to find Cao Wenzhao's figure, and muttered to himself: "...... Rong Rong" Unfortunately, before the rest of the words could be spoken, countless knives and guns followed, and his blood and expectations could only be annihilated in the dust forever at this moment.

Feng Ju was dead, and the rogues were all crazy, scrambling for his corpse, and in an instant, the complete body was chopped and torn into more than a dozen pieces, and in the face of these mutilated limbs, the rogues even began to kill each other. Li Guo slashed several people to death with a knife, suppressed the restless subordinates, took Feng Ju's head, wiped his face with the corner of his clothes to look closely, suddenly changed color, and shouted in pain: "This person is definitely not Cao Wenzhao!" "I wanted to find the main lord again, but Cao Wenzhao had already led hundreds of people through the formation.

Li Guo turned back to the slope and knelt down in front of Li Zicheng: "Palm the plate, my subordinates are incompetent, I recognized the wrong person, and I called Cao Wenzhao to run away!" ”

Li Zicheng's face was gloomy: "Get up for the time being." You go downhill, let Lin Yangsheng and Zhang Tianlin continue to clean up this place, teach Fangliang and Jianxiu to lead the elite, continue to pursue, and be sure to kill Cao Wenzhao! ”

It's a pity that he couldn't get rid of Cao Wenzhao here, but Li Zicheng is not the kind of person who cares, he looked at the direction of Cao Wenzhao's escape, and he was not worried.

Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu led eight teams of elites to closely pursue Cao Wenzhao, and they almost single-handed, catching up with Cao Wenzhao, who was dominated by pawns, had an advantage in speed. However, Cao Wenzhao has been in the army for many years, and he is not an easy person to deal with, not only pursuing the master, but also retreating. Pick some rough and difficult roads along the road, and continue to leave part of the troops to block the pursuers.

To say that these officers and soldiers under him are indeed loyal, seeing that the general trend has gone, none of them have two hearts, although they know that being left behind is a dead end, but they do not complain at all, and still fight to the death. Li and Tian chased for several miles, killing nearly 100 officers and soldiers after the break, and they actually suffered nearly 100 casualties, and saw that the distance between them and Cao Wenzhao was getting farther and farther.

Cao Wenzhao went around and around, and finally threw the pursuers away, all the way to the west, to the ground of Desuo Luo Village, only to want to rest, not to prevent the arrows from coming out, there were ambushes here, strong spirit, array to meet the battle.

After a chaotic arrow was fired, the liukou surrounded him on both sides, and the leader Qu Shuai straddled the horse and laughed: "Cao Zongbing, you also have today!" Hurry up and get off the horse and surrender, I can still leave you a whole corpse. ”

Cao Wenzhao was furious, and fought twice, one came to Cao's soldiers and horses to fight for half a day, and ran for a long time, and he was already very tired. Second, if the pursuers are behind, if they insist on scuffle, the chances of victory will be lower when the rogues are assembled. Therefore, when the war was not long, Cao Wenzhao issued an order to retreat.

This retreat, but there is no neatness in the trip to the Ziao, the morale of the Cao soldiers and horses who are sleepy and tired of horses has dropped to the lowest, under the aggressive offensive of the Liukou, the retreat has completely become a rout, most of the officers and soldiers died in battle, and finally only a few cavalry soldiers escaped with Cao Wenzhao.

Cao Wenzhao was defeated again and again, fled in the wilderness, and I don't know how long he ran, and finally exhausted his strength, rolled the saddle and dismounted, and gasped on the ground for a long time. Some people nearby, seeing several people in embarrassment, fled far away. The soldiers chased after him to inquire, only to know that this place was the red mud city area of Baozigou in Yancun. I also heard that the Jijia Mountain not far away was high and dense, and the terrain was steep, so I ran to Jijia Mountain with Cao Wenzhao.

Only after climbing Jijia Mountain, the rogue behind him has been chased, the first is dozens of horse troops, and the first general is young and crosses the yellow horse in front. He came to the bottom of the mountain alone and shouted, demanding that Cao Wenzhao surrender, and promised that if he surrendered, he would not cause harm.

Cao Wenzhao looked at the rogue under the mountain, and then looked at the bloodstained soldiers on the left and right, and laughed loudly. The soldiers on the left and right all burst into tears when they saw this. After a while, I saw Cao Wenzhao slowly walking under a pine tree, holding the tree and weeping for a moment, and suddenly drew his sword and killed himself.

Seeing this, the young rogue general at the foot of the mountain urgently ordered his subordinates to abandon their horses and climb the mountain. The several Cao Wenzhao's personal soldiers hugged the corpse of the commander and cried, and before the rogue approached, they all killed themselves, and in less than half a burnt of incense, everyone was already lying in wait under the old pine.

As the sun sets, the afterglow reflects the vast ridge in the distance, and the Phaeton sunlight seems to inlay it with layers of dazzling gold edges. Zhao Dangshi walked to the old Panasonic and looked at Cao Wenzhao, who was not blind, and suddenly felt a sadness in his heart.