Chapter 40: Cavalry Battle
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(Chapter 2 arrives, ask for a red ticket, brethren!) One more chapter in the afternoon, and do what you say! )
After all, Li Zicheng is a veteran of battle, after hearing this, his face only changed slightly, and he regained his composure, and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly and sneered: "This city guard is not stupid!" He actually knew that the most taboo thing about defending the city was to defend it, he could understand this, and only sent 200 cavalry out of the city to attack and harass us, it seems that at first I underestimated him! In that case, let them come over! Liu Zongmin! Will you still be able to fight? ”
Liu Zongmin was hit by two arrows when he was attacking the city the day before yesterday and was slightly injured, but the injury was not serious, so although Li Zicheng did not send him to attack the city today, Liu Zongmin still followed him to the front of the army.
After hearing Li Zicheng's greeting, Liu Zongmin smiled and said, "I'm afraid of him!" How could a little injury make me Liu Zongmin lie down! ”
Li Zicheng smiled and asked Xiao Tianjian: "Brother Xiao, do you dare to go with us to kill those officers and soldiers?" ”
After Xiao Tianjian heard Li Zicheng's words, he immediately understood what Li Zicheng wanted to do, he wanted to draw out all the cavalry that could be used in the two armies at the moment to intercept the cavalry of the raiding officer army in the city, cover the flank of the siege force, so that it could not impact the flank of the siege force, and it was estimated that he even had the intention of taking the opportunity to bite this official army fiercely, and Xiao Tianjian couldn't help but admire Li Zicheng's courage a little.
But at the moment, although this method is risky, it is also the only solution, although the Xingtian Army has always insisted on building an infantry team, but he has not neglected the construction of cavalry, the scout team is actually a light cavalry when necessary, at this time he still has dozens of scouts under him, and they have not yet been put to use, and it is estimated that Li Zicheng will definitely not let him rest!
Although Xiao Tianjian is not good at riding and fighting, but at this time, if he says no, then it will undoubtedly make Xingtianjun lose face, as a man, how can Xiao Tianjian be flattened by Li Zicheng at this time, so he straightened his chest and laughed loudly: "It is an honor to be able to fight side by side with General Li Chuang, and I Xiao Mou is not a face!" I am willing to go to fight with General Lee! ”
"Haha...... In that case, get on the horse! Let's go and meet those officers and soldiers! Li Zicheng beckoned his soldiers over, and the soldiers immediately led Li Zicheng's red horse and sent it over, Li Zicheng pulled the saddle and pedaled, turned over and made a beautiful horseback action, neatly turned on the horse's back, and behind him those who stood in the position of the Chinese army The pro-soldiers and generals with horses did not say a word, they also turned over and jumped on the horseback.
Xiao Tianjian is naturally not ambiguous, this kind of horseback riding and enemy hedging style he has never personally experienced, at best, when he was in Tianlong Village, he would occasionally ride a horse and practice with his subordinates a few times, and today it seems that he can't dodge, so he beckoned, and the iron head immediately led his exclusive Hexi horse, Xiao Tianjian took the reins of the horse, and also pulled the saddle to admit the pedal, and jumped on the war horse as soon as he turned over.
His horse is a standard Hexi horse, a good horse that his subordinates snatched from the hands of officials and soldiers in the last battle of Shifo Temple, and it is estimated that it should be a good horse that can only be owned by at least an officer, but it was cheaply given to Xiao Tianjian.
When Xiao Tianjian saw this horse, he took a fancy to this horse at first sight, and his subordinates naturally would not fight with him, so he changed the horse to Xiao Tianjian to ride, and this horse was very unpopular at first, as soon as Xiao Tianjian rode it, it lost its temper and wanted to take Xiao Tianjian down, but Xiao Tianjian is also a stubborn temper, plus he has learned equestrianism for a while, and has some experience in controlling war horses. So he spent time with this yellow husper, and it took three days for one person and one horse to tame this batch of unruly yellow hushorses, but Xiao Tianjian was also sturdy and fell a few times, and once he was almost trampled on by this yellow hused and broke his calf, and he finally made a friendship.
However, once this yellow horse is tamed, it is also very obedient, Xiao Tianjian can be regarded as having a war horse he likes, after having this yellow horse, Xiao Tianjian is practicing riding as soon as he is free, during this time, riding has also progressed rapidly, although I dare not say that the riding skills are exquisite, but it is not a difficult thing to get on the horse and fight with people.
Seeing that Xiao Tianjian wanted to fight in person, Tietou immediately hesitated and persuaded him: "General, let your subordinates go for this kind of thing!" You ......"
After Xiao Tianjian jumped on the horse, he glared at Tietou, grabbed the big gun in Tietou's hand, roared, and shouted to Shi Ran: "Don't talk nonsense, even General Li can go into battle in person, can't I Xiao Tianjian succeed?" What are you waiting for? Launched! Let's go meet the cavalry of those officers! ”
The iron head glanced at Li Zicheng dissatisfied, but he also knew that this was a matter related to Xiao Tianjian's face, with Xiao Tianjian's temper, he would never be soft at this time, so it was unintentional to say more, so he had to stretch out his hand to recruit a personal soldier, led his horse over, turned over and jumped on the horse's back, and stood beside Xiao Tianjian, and pulled out a steel knife from his waist and held it in his hand.
After Shi Ran heard the order, as soon as he beckoned, the scouts behind him immediately jumped on their respective war horses excitedly, and rushed out of the army formation with a roar followed by Xiao Tianjian, and the group mixed with Li Zicheng's subordinates, urging the horses to speed up towards the cavalry of the officer army that had appeared in the west of the city.
The number of cavalry on the side of the official army is actually not enough 200 people, for the current Ming army, because of the war in Liaodong, a large number of war horses have been transferred to the direction of Liaodong, and the number of official horses on the Shaanxi side is obviously insufficient, the nearly 200 cavalry sent, for Yang Yulin, who defends the city, is already all he has, Yang Yulin knows that defending the city is the most taboo to defend, from the beginning of the battle in the city to observe the situation of the thief army outside the city, through his observation found that the number of cavalry in the thief army is very limited, Moreover, there was also a group of people who were sent to the periphery of Longzhou City to monitor the movements of the gates of Longzhou City, so that the cavalry available in the thief army was very limited.
While supervising the battle in the south of the city, he secretly recruited the commander of his cavalry, and ordered him to gather cavalry at the west gate, ready to go out of the city at any time to attack, when he saw that a large number of thieves had already leaned against the city wall, and when they were about to erect a long ladder to attack the city, he immediately sent someone to order the cavalry at the west gate, so that they went out of the city to raid the thief army.
The sentry cavalry then under the leadership of the general, opened the city gate and killed, and a small group of cavalry under the command of Li Zicheng, who was responsible for monitoring the defenders of Longzhou City outside the west gate, was caught off guard, and was immediately killed by them, and was killed by more than a dozen people, and the rest were immediately dispersed.
And the rebels who were attacking the city also found the cavalry of the official army from the west of the city, and they were immediately a little confused, and some of the new soldiers who had just been included in Li Zicheng's army lost their attention at once, for fear of being copied from behind by the official army, so some people immediately wanted to turn around and flee backwards, but then they were cut down by the elite men of Li Zicheng who rushed up, forcing them to turn around and continue to attack the city.
"I'm afraid! There are our generals behind us, and there are many brothers to support it! This is a bit of an official and military calculation! Not enough for us to slaughter! Give Lao Tzu to rush forward, the first to kill on the city wall, there is a reward! Tian Jianxiu, who usually looks quite elegant, has red eyes at this time, holding a ghost head knife in one hand and a round shield on the other arm, while covering the arrows falling above his head, while vigorously kicking a novice who is trembling and does not dare to rush forward.
The recruit saw that he could not escape, and he carried the long ladder again, but as soon as he took a step, a lead bullet hit him on the forehead from top to bottom, and his body paused, and a stream of blood rushed down his cheek, and after a while he fell limply to the ground.
Tian Jianxiu also froze for a moment, spat and foamed on the ground and scolded: "What a fucking bad luck! Give it to me! ……”
After saying that, he took a step forward, put a long ladder that was tilting on his shoulder, and strode over the wall of sheep and horses, and rushed down the city.