Li Wanqing thought it was a seamless bitter plan, but as a result, he encountered this official army with amazing combat power and ended in a big defeat. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Not to mention the soldiers and horses lost when Zhang Xianzhong lured the enemy, just the meeting when Luo Rucai, Zhang Tianlin and Li Wanqing attacked Li Zhi, they left 8,000 soldiers and horses in the valley, and 4,000 of them were elite horse soldiers and horsemen.

In this battle, Li Wanqing's family alone lost more than 2,000 foot soldiers and cavalry, which was three or four percent of all his soldiers and horses, and I don't know how long it will take to recover their strength.

On the part of the officers and soldiers, they were unscathed.

It's really a recipe for stealing chickens.

How could he encounter such a strong official army, are these firecrackers divine soldiers descending from heaven? Round after round of volleys, it was as if they couldn't finish it. Twelve thousand cavalry groups charged could not break through this firepower net. If the officers and soldiers are like this, what kind of thief are they doing?

Li Wanqing sighed, turned his horse's head and wanted to retreat with the deserters.

Little did he know that he was already a step slower.

Li Wanqing, who fell behind the deserters, was dressed in fine white-scale armor, and he looked like a big boss at a glance, and became the best target for the riflemen of the Tiger Division. At a distance of one hundred and eighty meters, Li Wanqing was exposed by the rogue cavalry who had fled backwards. He had barely finished turning his horse, and before he could drive the horse, more than twenty riflemen pointed at him and pulled the trigger.

There was a crackling gunshot, and Li Wanqing was shot more than a dozen times, was beaten into a hornet's nest, and fell off the horse.

The big leader was killed, and the fleeing rogue cavalry was even more frightened, and they abandoned their armor and fled outside the entrance of the valley without hesitation.

After killing the leader of the thieves, the soldiers of the Tiger Division cheered in unison, and there was a thunderous sound in the valley.

Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin heard the cheers of the officials and soldiers more than a mile away, and knew that Li Wanqing had died in battle, and their faces were like ashes for a while, and they were speechless in a daze.

Where did this official army come from, and why are they so strong? 12,000 cavalry rushed into battle, but before they could rush to the front of the formation, 4,000 were killed, and even the shooting was killed in the sky, and the whole army was defeated. How can this battle be fought? There are only 4,500 old battalions left on his side that still have morale, but this old battalion is the old capital accumulated by the three thieves for many years, how can it be used to charge the battle?

And even if Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin are willing to take the old camp out to rush into battle, they can't rush up with this posture! Now there is only a retreat? The plan to encircle the officer army went bankrupt?

The two thieves looked at each other, and all they saw in each other's eyes was panic and powerlessness.

The thieves panicked, but Li Zhi was in high spirits.

Li Zhi looked at the fleeing thief cavalry, waved his hand and said, "Catch up and completely defeat them!" ”

The Tiger Warrior pursued the routed rogue cavalry. The thieves have been defeated, and now is the best time to crush them. Eight thousand soldiers of the Tiger Division marched forward quickly with rifles in their hands, and killed Luo Rucai and Zhang Tianlin's Chinese army at the entrance of the valley.

Seeing the officials and soldiers coming to chase them, the 8,000 cavalry of the three thieves panicked, and they continued to flee outside after passing Luo Rucai's Chinese army all the way, and they couldn't stop.

Luo Rucai gritted his teeth and shouted, "Let's go!" ”

Zhang Tianlin's eyes were blood-red in a hurry, and she asked loudly, "Lost so many people?" Just gone? ”

Luo Rucai shouted loudly: "Do you want to use the old camp to fill the fire formation of the official army?" ”

The old camp is Zhang Tianlin's foundation, and he can't bear to let him take the old camp to fight hard. Zhang Tianlin's face turned pale when he heard Luo Rucai's words, and he didn't speak anymore, turned his horse's head and rode out of the valley. When his fifteen-hundred-year-old battalion saw that the leader had withdrawn, he also hurried after him.

The more than 10,000 infantry of the thieves saw that the cavalry was also defeated, and when they saw the officers and soldiers chasing after them, they were frightened, and immediately abandoned Luo Rucai and fled in all directions. Twelve thousand remnants fled out of the valley in no order, scattered like birds and beasts, and fled without direction.

Luo Rucai looked at the scattered foot soldiers, and his heart was dripping blood, this battle was scattered by the official army, and he didn't know how many percent he could gather and how many percent he lost?

Luo Rucai's old battalion had not yet opened, and the 1,500 cavalry of the Xuanfeng Regiment had already rushed up. The cavalry of the 1,500 Chosen Forward Regiment stopped two hundred meters away and opened free fire on the old camp of thieves.

The elite of the old battalion of thieves all wore armor, but a layer of armor could not stop the Minnie rifle at all. One by one, the elite of the old battalion were hit by rifles and fell off their horses. The 300 men in the front row of the selection regiment fired a round of gunfire and killed 200 elite thieves in the old battalion.

Luo Rucai saw that there were also casualties in the elite old battalion, and his heart felt as if he had been cut, and shouted loudly: "Go!" Come on! ”

He rode his horse and rushed out, fleeing west with the old battalion of three thousand elites. The cavalry of the old battalion rode tall horses, and they were all one man and two horses, and they ran extremely fast, and the cavalry of the front battalion could not catch up.

However, as soon as the old battalion fled, the entire rogue alliance army in the west collapsed, and the foot soldiers and horse soldiers were even more panicked. 20,000 thieves lost their backbone, and they rushed to the red earth of Nanzhili, panicking.

These stragglers became the best prey for the cavalry of the Election Regiment, and the cavalrymen pursued the thieves by the Yonghe River outside the valley with their sabers, and pursued them seven or eight miles to the west and north, killing two or three thousand thieves.

According to Li Zhi's requirements, the cavalry dismounted and cut off the head of the thief soldier for every time they chased and killed it, and hung the head of the captured thief soldier behind the horse.

After chasing for a quarter of an hour, Li Zhi asked the drummer Mingjin to collect his troops, collect the cavalry that had been pursued, and the whole army drove back to the valley, cut off the heads of the thieves who died in front of the battle, and then went to rescue the main force of the officers and soldiers who fought hard with the thieves.

In this battle, Li Zhi captured and beheaded 10,000 thieves, plus the 2,000 records of annihilating the thieves in the morning, Li Zhi already had 12,000 heads in his hands. This is a great feat, and in today's situation of suppressing thieves, it is enough to be called a great victory.

Li Zhizhi was so proud that he led the 8,000-strong Tiger Ben Division to the east to kill.

Halfway through, Li Zhi saw a rout running in front of him. That group of routs was the Ming official army, all wearing mandarin duck battle jackets, and they fled in a panic at this time. At first, a general rode a tall flowered horse, but at this time the helmet was off, and the cloak on his back was gone.

Li Zhi tightened the Tiger Division to prevent the troops from being attacked by the rout, and then rode alone to meet the haired general.

Seeing the neat and powerful lineup of Li Zhi's troops, the general seemed to have found a little sense of security and rode over to meet Li Zhi.

Li Zhiqi took a closer look and knew that it was Liu Liangzuo, the general soldier of Lu 0 Prefecture.

Li Zhi asked loudly: "Why did the soldiers and horses of the general army collapse?" ”

Liu Liangzuo's face turned red and said: "The soldiers and horses offering thieves are too strong, Liu can't resist it!" Defeated! ”

Hearing this, Li Zhi sighed in his heart. These officers and generals drank the blood of the soldiers and ate empty salaries, and the combat strength of the soldiers and horses was too weak. Not to mention fighting with the Qing army in the wilderness, even the soldiers and horses who sacrificed the thieves can't resist it now.

Liu Liangzuo didn't seem to have the heart to talk to Li Zhi, he hurriedly rode to a small mound and looked at the entrance of the valley with his eyes. After seeing clearly that there was no one at the entrance of the valley, he was in good spirits, clapped his hands and said, "I saw it right!" The 30,000 thieves on the west side of the valley have indeed retreated! Now we can escape from the west! ”

Li Zhi was stunned when he heard Liu Liangzuo's words, and he couldn't react. Li Zhi thought about it and figured it out: this Liu Liangzuo was defeated just on the surface, in fact, he saw that the thief soldiers at the western entrance of the valley were gone during the battle, and felt that there was a way to escape, so he deliberately led the troops to rout and abandoned other officers and soldiers to flee for their lives alone. (To be continued.) )