In a short time, the red beggar army had filled the open space outside the Tiger Prison Pass, and they were divided into small phalanxes, each holding only a single knife in their hands, and not even equipped with archers.

"What do they want to do?" Wu Sangui was puzzled.

Zu Kuan excitedly said to his soldiers: "Damn, these eggless goods are finally willing to come out, bring my big knife, I want to attack, so that people can see if our Guanning army is invincible in the field." Uncle Chang, follow me to kill the past, they just walked over, did not refuse the horse, did not prepare bows and arrows, just let us rush and kill, go. ”

Zu Kuan asked Wu Sangui to go with him, but Wu Sangui said: "Zu Zongzhen, there is an endless stream of thieves coming out of the Tiger Prison Pass, and I don't know how many people there are, whether they are like this, whether there is fraud." ”

Zu Kuan listened to this, his face sank and said: "We went south, we haven't fought a battle for a year, we always ask others to attack the city, but we are a spectator, at this time the thief came out, just let us practice, how much he comes, let's call him back, what is the thief." ”

Zu Kuan has followed Zu Dashou for many years, and he is also a general of the Liao army, Zu Dashou told Wu Sangui that when he arrived in the south, he listened to Zu Kuan's arrangement for major matters.

Wu Sangui thought about it, hesitated for a long time, and then responded: "Since this is the case, I will follow the ancestral town." ”

The two Liao generals made a plan to attack, and the 5,000 elite cavalry of the Liao army prepared separately.

At this time, the beggar army continued to move forward, and had already approached the official barracks, and had already filled the open space between the Tiger Prison Pass and the official barracks.

When the officers and soldiers saw that the beggar army was stupidly moving forward, they blew the sound of swans, and the bows and arrows in the camp were fired in a volley, and the arrows were like flying locusts, straight into the beggar army's formation.

The beggar army was unprotected, and the number of arrows was unknown, but the beggar army array was not affected in the slightest, and continued to move forward as if no one had been shot.

More than a dozen rounds of arrows rained out, the arms of the archers of the officers and soldiers were sore, and the beggar army suffered thousands of casualties, but their morale was not affected at all and they still moved forward.

The atmosphere was very strange.

Zu Kuan couldn't control that much, and rushed into the crowd with Wu Sangui, five thousand cavalry, straight to the infantry army, it was like a bundle of water rushing to sand, and the road was unimpeded.

Where Guan Ningjun passed, he actually killed a blank area.

Guan Ningjun is so powerful, even Zuo Liangyu saw it, and he was also shocked.

The beggar army was killed like this by the Guan Ning army, but there was no intention of retreating, the people did not care if they died, they continued to advance, the ants bit the elephants to death, and used the tactics of the sea of people to consume the Guan Ning army.

Zu Kuan couldn't remember how many people he had killed, but no matter how many he killed, there were always people in front of him, and his strength was constantly being consumed, but the enemy did not decrease in the slightest.

He looked at it, the beggar army was like a red ocean, trying to drown them, the Guanning army, and constantly the Guanning army fell off their horses and was killed by the beggar army.

Zuo Liangyu, Deng Xi, You Shiwei and other generals were looking at the fierce battle between the Guanning army and the beggar army, and suddenly felt a slight vibration on the ground.

Where did the cavalry come from?

From their rear, red turbans, red armor, self-begging cavalry is undoubtedly the cavalry.

For a year, the begging army just shrunk, never attacked, the official army was also relaxed, more than 10,000 cavalry of the begging army, around the rear of the official army, originally wanted to wait for the opportunity for the official army to fight with their own infantry army, and then attack and kill, the purpose of this battle was originally to lure the cavalry of the Guanning army away, let the infantry army fight, but Zu Kuan was excited by Zuo Liangyu, eager to fight, but gave his cavalry an opportunity.

"Enemy attack!" An exclamation spread through the barracks of the officers and soldiers.

Before the bows and arrows of the officers and soldiers could be fired a few rounds, the cavalry of the beggar army rushed into the camp of the officers and soldiers and slashed and killed.

The Guanning army was extremely powerful, killing and wounding thousands of people, and its own losses were not very large, but the entire army was unstable in defense and the army's morale was turbulent.

"The enemy is flanked on both sides and retreats quickly."

Guan Ning's army is the foundation of the ancestral family, and now it has lost more than 300 people, and its rear is unstable, Zu Kuan does not want to fight again, so he and Wu Sangui retreat in the direction of Kaifeng.

In this battle, the Guanning army only lost more than 300 people, and the other 12,000 officers and soldiers were completely annihilated, except for a few main generals, no soldiers fled back to Kaifeng.

On the side of the beggar army, more than 3,000 people were killed and wounded by the Guan Ning army, and the battle loss ratio reached 1 to 10.

Later, when the reinforcements of the border army arrived, the officers and troops regrouped, and reopened to the Tiger Prison Pass to confront the begging army.

The beggar army guards the customs every day, and the officers and soldiers tackle key problems every day.

The two sides were at a stalemate, so that the beggar army continued to march south into Sichuan, into Yunnan and Guizhou, and under Liangguang.

The official army was dragged by the begging army in the tiger prison and could not be reinforced, but Chongzhen in the deep palace was in a hurry, the foundation of the ancestors was about to be lost, and the begging army was growing stronger day by day.

The edict urging the war was sent to Xuan Mo one by one, asking him to quickly send troops, be sure to quickly eliminate the thieves, and recover the lost provinces.

Xuan Mo had no choice but to divide his troops all the way, about 10,000 people, and went south to Huguang, intending to recover the lost territory, but unexpectedly, the begging army sent 200,000 troops to fight with the officers and soldiers, and the officers and troops could not resist it, so they had to retreat to Henan.

The tiger prison is here, the officers and soldiers have been attacking fiercely, but the begging army has sufficient support, and the soldiers are defending with their lives, and the officers and soldiers are not allowed to advance an inch.

A few months later, in March of the ninth year of Chongzhen, spring began, the earth showed signs of warming, and the gate of the Tiger Prison was also opened, and a sea of red gushed out.

Li Zicheng adhered to Liu Renyu's will, and in two years, he trained an army of 600,000, of which there were more than 100,000 surrendered officers and soldiers, plus other soldiers who were all young and strong, and the begging army was in great force.

Liu Renyu flew a pigeon to pass on Li Zicheng, and the decisive battle in the spring must be fought to eliminate the main force of the official army, so that the imperial court will never be able to turn over.

Li Zicheng divided his troops into two routes, one led by Li Zicheng himself, from the Tiger Prison Pass, and the other led by Megatron, from Runing Mansion, and was expected to join the main army of Li Zicheng's army under the Tiger Pass.

All of a sudden, Xuan Mo's case was full of urgent reports from sentinels.

The thieves and soldiers were full of horses, covering the sky and the sun, stretching for hundreds of miles, and there were no less than 500,000 soldiers, who were heading for the tiger prison.

Xuan Mo hurriedly convened the generals to discuss and survey the battle strategy.

When the generals heard about the number of beggar troops, they didn't take it very seriously, that is, Wu Sangui and Zu Kuan, who had a small defeat in the previous war, only thought that Zuo Liangyu and others were dragging their feet, which led to the instability of their own army, and there was a small defeat.

Xuan Mo saw that the generals were full of confidence, so he gradually let go of the heart that was hanging high because there were too many thieves, and he ordered a decisive battle in the coming day to exterminate the thieves in one fell swoop.

On March 10 of the ninth year of Chongzhen, the warm sun is shining, the spring breeze is and Xun, the wind blows the willow leaves, the fish swims in the water, this is really a good day for spring outing, but outside the Tiger Prison Pass, on the bank of the Yellow River, on the vast wilderness, the mighty and mighty, all people, are people who want to fight.

The two sides of the war are the two most powerful armed forces of the Ming Dynasty in addition to the Jingbian Army, one is the guardian of the old order, the last Great Wall of the Ming Dynasty, and on the other hand, the spokesperson of the poor people, the beggar army, the collision between them will determine the ownership of the artifact of the Ming Dynasty.

It was the first time for Li Zicheng to lead so many soldiers to fight with so many officers and soldiers, and he was calm on the surface, but he was actually not apprehensive in his heart.

The war dead were given a pension of 50 taels of silver, and the family had an extra 100 acres of land, and their morale was high, and sometimes it was not terrible to die, because their own death gave their family hope to live well.

The beggar army shouted the slogan "Long live the king, long live the king", and they moved forward, with cannons, arrows, javelins, firearms, cavalry, officers and soldiers, and beggar soldiers falling one by one as if they were being cut wheat, and the officers and soldiers had the upper hand at the beginning.

The officers and men of the Guanning Army and the other military towns instantly found a sense of victory again, but this feeling did not last long, and they found that their enemies were contemptuous of their life and death.

I don't know how long it took to kill, the knife was notched, the spear was broken, the horse was foaming at the charge, and as far as the eye could see, most of the battlefields were red corpses of beggar soldiers, blood and clothes were mixed together, and the smell of blood permeated the entire battlefield.