The cavalry that chased Mao Yufeng's troops to cry for his father and mother was the new Liao army led by Mo Li. [Full text reading. 】

Zhou Yuji took the lead, brandishing his majestic Sun Owl Wind Knife, flying up and down, slashing the rebels in the Maoyu Peak Division, frightened, really invincible, and the person trembled.

Guan Feng, Ma Jinzhong, Xiao Yang, He Zhenbei, Li Guo and others each led their men and horses to chase and kill Mao Yufeng's rebels.

When Li Yingyuan left yesterday, there were still nearly 4,000 people in Mao Yufeng's department, and now, there are less than 1,000 people in Mao Yufeng's side.

It turned out that Mo Li, who learned that Laizhou City was in danger, decided to lead his troops to help, as long as he relieved the siege of Laizhou City, he would be a meritorious person, and when the time came, he would repel or exterminate the rebels, would he still be able to provide food and grass for his life-saving reinforcements? If this is the case, Mo Li is not afraid to turn his face once.

As for the 20,000 rebels of Li Jiucheng's troops besieging Laizhou City, Mo Li really didn't pay much attention to it, he had already learned the combat effectiveness of Pan Yanfei's rebels, and Li Jiucheng's subordinates were no better.

Not long after setting off from Qinghe Town in the morning, I heard news that the county seat of Pingdu had been captured by the rebels. After analyzing the strength and weapon configuration of the Pingdu rebels, the geography and topography of Pingdu City, Moli decided to recover Pingdu County first.

After a short and half-day rapid march, the New Liao Army successfully arrived in Pingdu County. Due to the rapid action of the cavalry of the new Liao army, the combat effectiveness was strong, and the horse exploration post sent by the Pingdu rebels was easily solved, and the army quickly advanced to the city of Pingdu.

The drizzle peak led the troops to respond in a hurry. Pingdu was just captured by the rebels yesterday, due to the weakness of the Ming army, the rebels have not been very concerned about the imperial court officials, so after the capture of Pingdu, Mao Yufeng indulged his subordinates to loot outside the city, and did mischief.

As a result of the frenzied looting and indulgence, many soldiers were still hungover until the third pole of the sun, and when the new Liao army came to attack the city, many rebel soldiers were still stunned and did not know what was happening.

Mao Yufeng came to the city in a hurry, but saw that the officers and soldiers were majestic and well-equipped, and they were screaming and killing at this time, not to mention four or five thousand people, and Mao Yufeng was so frightened that his legs trembled and his back was cold.

Pingdu is just a small county town, the city wall is low, there is no fortitude to defend, how Mao Yufeng does not know the stakes, and thinks that it is difficult to hold Pingdu City with his own thousands of soldiers.

But if you can't keep it, you have to defend it, if you abandon the city and don't watch the wind and flee, how can the marshals and deputy marshals spare themselves?

Moreover, in order to strengthen the defense force of Pingdu, Li Jiucheng also asked Li Yingyuan to leave ten Western cannons to improve the city's defense capability.

However, this is useless, the new Liao army is also equipped with dozens of artillery, as well as rocket slips, fire dragon guns, flintlock guns, grenades and other advanced weapons, plus the whole army is suppressed by the high and low pressure and food is nowhere to vent, and now it has hit the rebel army of Mao Yufeng, which is just used to vent his anger, so the morale is like a rainbow, roaring and rushing towards Pingdu City.

Boom, boom......

The roaring gunfire did not last long, because Pingdu City was bombarded by rebel artillery yesterday, and it was not a strong city wall, and then it was violently bombarded by the new Liao army, and it was soon blown down, and the rebel soldiers in the city were so frightened that they hurriedly scattered and fled.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Mao Yufeng hurriedly led his cronies to flee to Laizhou in a hurry, wanting to join forces with Li Jiucheng and others.

The new Liao army did not make much effort to attack Pingdu City, killing the rebel J Flying Dog, killing and wounding a mess, and the rest of the people surrendered on their knees.

The New Liao Army quickly controlled the situation in Pingdu City, imprisoned all the rebel soldiers who surrendered, and ordered people to clean up the battlefield and restore order in Pingdu.

In just one day and one night, the city of Pingdu changed hands twice, first by the rebels yesterday, and then by the new Liao army today, all of which happened so quickly that many people of Pingdu did not have time to figure out what was going on.

Pingdu is just a small city, and Mo Li doesn't plan to spend too much energy and troops here, so he selected a group of honest and obedient soldiers from the rebel captives plus some of the original Pingdu defenders who were forced to surrender to the rebels yesterday to form a new defender in Pingdu County, and released the former Pingdu officials who were imprisoned by the rebels yesterday to help maintain order in Pingdu.

In order to prevent accidents, Moli also left behind 100 veterans of the New Liao Army and 300 rebel troops subdued in Putai, responsible for controlling the situation in Pingdu City.

Then, Mo Li led the army to continue to pursue Mao Yufeng, and learned from the rebel prisoners that Laizhou City had not yet fallen into the hands of the rebels, and Jiang Taicheng and others organized the defenders to resist stubbornly, which made Mo Li's worries alleviate a lot.

If you work hard to lead your troops to Laizhou City, and Laizhou City has been captured by the rebels, then you will really be in danger.

A Laizhou city is tall and strong, with sufficient supplies, if it is still captured by the rebels, it at least shows that the combat effectiveness of the rebels is not only five scum.

Moreover, if Laizhou City falls, he will completely fall into a Jedi with no food to eat.

As for the small city of Pingdu, not to mention whether there is so much food to supply the army, even if there is, it is impossible for the small city of Pingdu to be defended.

The only way to arrive before the rebels captured Laizhou City and manage to defeat the rebels was to enter Laizhou City and ask for food and grass supplies from the state capital.

Therefore, now we must race against time to rush to Laizhou City, rely on the strong combat effectiveness and powerful firearms of the new Liao army, kill the rebels besieging the city, and cooperate with the defenders of Laizhou City to defeat the rebels in one fell swoop.

Mao Yufeng only led 2,000 subordinates to run towards Laizhou City in panic like a lost dog. Although they fled first, and the New Liao Army had to control the situation in Pingdu City when they were pursuing, they were half a beat slower, but because Mao Yufeng's troops fled in a hurry, and the cavalry of the New Liao Army was a well-trained elite soldier with high morale, they were caught up by the New Liao Army when they were about to reach the city of Laizhou.

Mao Yufeng's troops had already been frightened by the strong combat effectiveness and advanced firearms of the New Liao Army, and they had no intention of fighting again, and they scattered and lost many soldiers along the way, and some of them were killed by the New Liao Army and turned into the wilderness, and only six or seven hundred people fled with Mao Yufeng.

Li Jiucheng took a look at the clairvoyant mirror captured from the Portuguese officer corps, and his face suddenly changed color and said: "Chief Zhang Bing, who do you think this group of officers and soldiers is?" Why did you kill Vice General Mao and flee in embarrassment? ”

Zhang Tao looked at it for a while, shook his head and said: "Du Shuai, the last general doesn't know where the soldiers and horses are, no matter where the soldiers and horses come from, let's rescue Mao Yufeng first!" ”

"This ......" Li Jiucheng hesitated, to be honest, it was not easy to collapse a gap in Laizhou City, and the soldiers in front of him had already rushed up to the gap to fight with the defenders, this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, as long as the army rushed into Laizhou City, there would be no suspense in this battle.

But Mao Yufeng is also one of the several generals of the rebel army, if he sees death and does not save him, he is afraid that he will not be able to say it, not to mention that these main Liao soldiers are all subordinates of Zhang Tao and Mao Yufeng, Li Jiucheng can't help but follow the point.

"Good! Then kill the officers and soldiers in the west first, and then come to Laizhou City! Since Zhang Tao had spoken, Li Jiucheng naturally no longer hesitated, waved his hand at the moment, and ordered loudly: "Brothers, go and save General Mao back!" ”

At that moment, thousands of rebels under the command of officers at all levels turned around and rushed to the west, and many soldiers could not stop cursing and swearing as they rushed. Also, they had just begun to rush into Laizhou City, but they were ordered to withdraw from the city, and the soldiers were inevitably angry.

Li Jiu wanted to order the artillery team to turn around and bombard the officers and soldiers from the northwest, but when he saw that the soldiers and officers and soldiers of Mao Yufeng's department were already fighting in one place, if this was shelling, he would definitely even be injured by mistake, so he had to give up.

"Brothers, kill the officers and soldiers for me!" Zhang Tao led his subordinates with 2,000 cavalry to run towards Mao Yufeng's department, Mao Yufeng and his comrades for many years, seeing him so embarrassed, Zhang Tao was naturally anxious to rescue him.

Li Yingyuan also commanded the horse team, and Zhang Tao rushed left and right.

The battlefield, about six or seven miles northwest of Laizhou City, was full of rebels running for their lives. The well-trained cavalry of the New Liao Army, which had fought several bloody battles with the Jiannu Tartar cavalry, had obviously become a nightmare for these rebels, and the cavalry under Mao Yufeng was originally also an elite soldier of the Dongjiang River, but after the surrender of the rebels, military discipline began to become lax, and their combat effectiveness began to decline.

Although I have seen the brigade of Marshal Li Jiucheng and Chief Officer Zhang Tao, but due to the terrifying murderous atmosphere of the new Liao army, Mao Yufeng's troops have completely lost the courage to continue fighting.

And the terrifying grenade of the officers and soldiers, such a small black thing, but the damage caused by it was almost the same as that of artillery. This horrific killing caused confusion among the rebels on the battlefield, and many foot soldiers did not die under the guns or knives of the Ming army, but were trampled to death by the war horses of both sides.

A group of more than 300 rebel foot soldiers separated from the brigade in the rout, and the rebel officers who led the team were shocked, and found that a Ming cavalry was following them closely behind them, and the reinforcements led by Zhang Tao, Li Yingyuan and others were still some distance, and seeing that they couldn't run away, they hurriedly shouted: "Array, array!" ”

These more than 300 rebels also had a lot of firearms, and many of them were not under the command of the officer, but as soon as the officer shouted, they immediately gave them the backbone, and they all surrounded them, hurriedly loading the guns.

This rebel officer's name is Wang An, who was originally a thousand commanders of the Dengzhou Infantry Left Battalion, because of some courage, he was appointed as an infantry guerrilla after surrendering to the rebels.

Now, Wang An only hopes that his 300 people can hold out until Zhang Tao and Li Yingyuan's army arrives......