CHAPTER XXXI

In Li Zicheng's mind, Mengjiazhuang was also going to be a hard battle, but he never expected that with just a light blow, the official army would be crushed for thousands of miles. After only a quarter of an hour of fighting, the officers and troops fled one after another, so that Li Zicheng had a kind of Lao Tzu, who was scheming, had been planning for a long time, and had a lot of anger, and before it was vented, you were already dead.

This is the difference between having a general in the war and not having a general, if He Renlong is here, he will not win so easily.

However, Li Zicheng quickly adjusted his mentality and said: "In the current situation, Li Guoqi's generation is not to worry, just let it go, now we have to seize the time to deal with it, it is Hu Dawei." Zong Min. ”

"The subordinates are here." Liu Zongmin said.

Li Zicheng said: "Hu Dawei is a few miles away, the situation here, he must have gotten the news, so fighting Hu Dawei is a tough battle, and I will hand over this battle to you." ”

Liu Zongmin said: "I, Liu Zongmin, fought a tough battle. ”

"Okay." Li Zicheng said. Said to the other generals who broke into the camp. "You guys go with Liu Zongmin. I'm in Mengjiazhuang. ”

In Mengjiazhuang, the more important thing for Li Zicheng than defeating Hu Dawei was to recruit prisoners.

Li Zicheng is a Qin person, and among the high-level people who broke into the camp, except for a small number of people, they are all Qin people, more than Luo Rucai's Cao Ying, and I have to admit that the regional views of this era are also very serious. Fellows talk to each other when they see fellows. Moreover, most of the upper echelons of the rebel army had experience in the army, and they all had common topics with these Qin soldiers to understand what they thought.

It is meaningless to talk to these Qin soldiers about the righteousness of the family and the country, Shaanxi has been famine year after year, even if it is not a famine year, there are not many people in Shaanxi. Therefore, these Qin soldiers just came out to mix a bite of food. Whoever gives him a bite to eat, they go with whomever they want.

There are more than 10,000 captives here, and if Li Zicheng can use it for his own use, the power of breaking into the camp will definitely increase greatly. This matter is much more important than going to fight Tiger Dawei. And Liu Zongmin is a fierce general under Li Zicheng, Li Zicheng's right-hand man, as if Xu Dayu Zhu Yuanzhang. He led his troops into battle. Li Zicheng was very relieved. And the matter of recovering the hearts of the army is still Li Zicheng himself, and he definitely doesn't worry about other people doing it.

Liu Zongmin may not be able to guess Li Zicheng's thoughts, but he has never said anything about Li Zicheng's orders, and after agreeing loudly, he immediately ordered troops, and several generals among the generals, such as Li Guo, Gao Yigong, etc., were taken away. There were nearly 10,000 horsemen, heading straight south, and Hu Dawei was in charge.

As Li Zicheng said, this matter can't be hidden from Hu Dawei, after all, the movement is too big, and the sound of shouting and killing can be heard from miles away, plus when the Qin soldiers collapsed, there were many deserters, and the news could not be blocked at all.

"What the hell is going on up there?" Hu Dawei grabbed several deserters in front of the horse and asked.

"Big marshal, there are thieves and ambushes ahead. We had just arrived in Mengjiazhuang, and He Shuai went to chase the thieves, and the thieves broke out, and we were scattered at once. The deserters kowtowed and said.

"Are you sure it's a thief, not a thief?" Hu Dawei said.

"It's the thief, the black flag of the thief, we all know it."

"Take them down." As soon as Hu Dawei waved his hand, naturally someone would take these two deserters down, as for how to deal with them, there was no need for Hu Dawei to speak.

"Immediately report to Fu Du and Yang Du, and the whole army is on alert, I think the thieves are coming." Hu Dawei said.

As Hu Dawei expected, the two teams of horses had just gone south to report to the two governors, when smoke and dust rose from the north, a big black flag jumped out of the horizon, and more than 10,000 cavalry rushed over like a torrent. Liu Zongmin's methods are neat and neat, and he doesn't say anything else at all, and he just fights when he comes up.

"What a thief." Hu Dawei was furious and said, "You actually ignore me so much, let you see how powerful I am Hu Dawei." ”

Tiger Dawei and fierce as the tiger are equally famous, and they are all from outside the country, helpless, relying on the ability to fight, can fight to have today, known as the double tiger in the army. Hu Dawei even followed Lu Xiangsheng to fight the battle of the giant deer, and insisted until the end, until Lu Xiangsheng died in battle, and then broke through.

This battle caused Hu Dawei's family to lose too much, but Hu Dawei's old foundation of daring to compete with the Qing army was by no means so easy to be gnawed down by Liu Zongmin.

Hu Dawei almost competed against each other, leading thousands of cavalry to hedge against Liu Zongmin. It's just that Hu Dawei doesn't know the main general on the other side now, not Li Zicheng, but Liu Zongmin.

The advantages of Tiger Dawei are as prominent as the disadvantages.

He's a general, but he's just a general. Let him lead thousands of cavalry, charge and jump, invincible, Hu Dawei can do it, but let him bring more than 10,000 troops, all the foot and cavalry, he can't control it at all, often he is in charge of the cavalry, and the foot soldiers are led by Deputy General Zhang.

The infantry was already weaker than the cavalry, and under the impact of these galloping horses, where could they stand their ground, and there was a sudden chaos. Vice General Zhang is just a mediocre general, without the ability to turn the tide in the fall, under the situation, but a bang to disperse, Vice General Zhang desperately took thousands of foot soldiers, went south, defected to Yang Wenyue.

Hu Dawei and Liu Zongmin fought together and did not give an inch, but the difference in morale and quantity between the two sides made it hopeless for Hu Dawei to win.

The rebels broke through Mengjiazhuang first, almost effortlessly, and cultivated a spirit of victory, and their morale was sharp at the moment. And Hu Dawei marched for half a day, and learned that the former army was defeated first, and the physical consumption was not to mention for the time being, the morale alone could not be compared with the righteous army, not to mention that they fought desperately here, but the foot soldiers turned around and fled.

It also shook their morale.

However, Hu Dawei is a veteran and desperately in front. Speaking out, the soldiers instinctively surrounded Hu Dawei. The two sides hedged not to know how many times, bows and arrows, gunpowder ran out, in fact, this thing was originally not much equipped, after all, they were cavalry, not foot soldiers, with two or three quivers on their bodies, as for gunpowder, cavalry battles, most firearms only have a chance to fire once.

"My lord, I can't fight." Hu Dawei's personal soldiers grabbed Hu Dawei's reins and said, "The soldiers can't hold on. ”

Hu Dawei was covered in blood, and he had already changed two waist knives. He turned his eyes and found that there were many fewer soldiers behind him, many of them were scattered, most of them were panting for breath, sweating profusely, and the most important thing was that Ma, Hu Dawei grew up on the grassland since he was a child, and he knew his own mount. Know more than your own body. He could clearly feel that his mount's legs were weak.

Hu Dawei looked at the black flag opposite, gritted his teeth, and said, "Withdraw." ”

It seems that when people get old, their hearts are not as strong as they were at the beginning. I can't bear to bury all the people here.

But if you want to go, it's not an easy thing, as soon as Hu Dawei moved, Liu Zongmin could see it, and immediately called Li Guo over, and said: "Hu Dawei is about to run away, I'll chase him, you take the men and horses of the headquarters to the south to fight a dozen of the rear army of the official army, I heard that the rear army of the official army is two civilian officials in charge of the army." Maybe scare him and win a big victory, and if he can't, withdraw it. Don't fight hard. ”

Today's battle began at noon, and the ambush soldiers were all fought to the present, and the rebels were already tired and could not fight. It's just that the opportunity is really rare, and Liu Zongmin can't bear to give it up, so he lets Li Guo give it a try.

"Yes. Uncle Liu, don't worry, I won't come hard. Li Guo agreed, and Liu Zongmin was relieved to chase the tiger Dawei.

Liu Zongmin bit Hu Dawei and did not let go, chased and fled, and in the evening, Liu Zongmin felt that the soldiers were tired, and he was afraid that Hu Dawei would not take advantage of the loophole at night, so he collected his troops and went back.

Li Guo and Liu Zongmin separated, thought about it, and felt that there were at least 10,000 people in the rear army of the official army, and after the battle in his headquarters, it was only 2,000 horsemen, and the news had already spread. There are many battles that can be won or not, just to say that the soldiers are tired, it is not the time to fight at all. Therefore, his mind turned and he remembered hearing about the Three Kingdoms when he was a child, and he thought about it.

He took a team of 100 people, tied branches to the horse's tail, and led a thousand people in front of him. Smoke and dust billowed along the way, from a distance, at least more than 10,000 cavalry, at dusk along the traces of the march of the army to the rear of the official army, he just looked, his heart is moved, it seems that the official army is not without capable people.

Why?