The midnight breeze brings a faint smell of blood, the hazy moonlight, swaying with a cold coolness, everything is quiet, and occasionally there are insects happily singing songs that do not know how to work!

In the southeast of the Ming army camp, the soldiers quietly came out of the big tent, they were dressed lightly, except for armor, weapons, dry food and water, all that could be given up, not even the big tent.

The soldiers in the trenches had already shoveled out many passages in the south, and as soon as the main force arrived, everyone moved up and climbed up the passages.

Crossing the trench, it was the position of the Tianming army, Yang Wenyue was still hesitating, "Wouldn't it be ...... to leave the Shaanxi soldiers like this?"

The deputy general handed the reins of the horse to Yang Wenyue's hand and said softly: "My lord, don't hesitate any longer, this is the only way......"

Yang Wenyue looked back at the northwest direction, silent, Fu Zonglong was obviously still in the dark, his own departure made the Heavenly Mandate Army vigilant, he wanted to break through again, but it would be even more difficult!

Is there any other way?

Yang Wenyue felt a little unbearable in his heart, "Or, let's send someone to inform Fu Zonglong?" At this time, it will not affect our breakthrough! ”

"My lord, when the battle starts, the Shaanxi soldiers will definitely hear the movement, I hope Fu Zonglong can seize the opportunity!" The deputy general waved his hand, beckoned several personal guards, and forcibly sent Yang Wenyue to the horse, and he also turned over on the horse, clamping the horse's belly with his legs, urging the war horse.

Yang Wenyue had no choice but to follow the deputy general to the south.

The sound of horses' hooves alarmed the spies of the Heavenly Mandate Army on the periphery, and some soldiers shouted: "The Ming army wants to break through!" ”

"The Ming army wants to break through!"

The shouts of the Mandate of Heaven Army quickly broke the silence of the night, and the soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven Army raised their swords and guns, and pounced on the Ming army by the faint moonlight.

During the day, the soldiers of the Ming army have been very annoyed by the Heavenly Mandate Army, and there is a faint trace of fear, but at night, they can't see each other's faces clearly, and they are fleeing for their lives, but they are more fierce than the day.

After resting for half the night, their strength recovered a lot, and the Ming soldiers did not back down, brandishing swords and guns to meet the Ming army on the opposite side.

As soon as the two sides came up, there was a fierce hand-to-hand combat, the mouth kept shouting, the blood of the stump flew sideways, and the heaven and the earth changed color!

The Mandate of Heaven Army wants to keep the Ming army as its own military merit, while the Ming army is fleeing for its life, and only by rushing through this death line can it be possible to escape!

The purpose and pressure of the two sides are different, and the courage to burst out is completely different.

These Heavenly Mandate Army are all recruits formed in Henan, rarely concentrated training, limited number of battles, and lack of hard fighting, death experience, combat effectiveness is comparable to the Ming army, and there is no numerical advantage, and the Ming army is fleeing, just engaged, it burst out of amazing energy, and the combat effectiveness has also been greatly improved.

The Mandate of Heaven Army responded to the battle in a hurry, although its courage was commendable, but after all, it lacked unified command, and most of them fought alone, and in the face of the Ming army that was pouring over like a tide, they couldn't help but retreat.

Luo Tai rushed to the battlefield and personally commanded the battle, but at this time, the Heavenly Mandate Army had fallen into a passive situation, and the defense line was in danger and was already crumbling.

Seeing this situation, Yang Wenyue took the opportunity to shout behind his own soldiers: "The Heavenly Mandate Army is about to be defeated and retreated, everyone work harder, kill ......."

"Kill, ......" countless soldiers echoed.

Luo Tai's eyes were red in a hurry, and he personally brandished his spear to block a gap and beat the Ming army back, but there were too many such gaps, and Luo Tai only had one!

The Ming army finally broke through a gap, and for the fleeing Ming army, this is the way to survive!

A large number of Ming troops squeezed towards the gap, and Luo Tai personally led the troops there, which was also useless, and he could not do anything in the face of the general trend.

Although Luo Tai is red-eyed, he is not a fierce general like Liu Jianyi, in the middle of the battle, wisdom can no longer play any role, he can only surround the Ming army and kill, can kill one is one, even if he can't leave all the Ming army, the responsibility will be smaller in the future.

Yang Wenyue and the lieutenant general also escaped from the gap, but they soon found that they had miscalculated, and the Heavenly Mandate Army dug two trenches in front, and the war horses could not pass at all.

If you abandon the war horse, you will cross the trench and be caught up by the Mandate of Heaven army, and you will also die!

On the outside of the trench, there was also the Heavenly Mandate Army to intercept it, and there were not many of them, but the Ming soldiers who climbed the trench had to use both hands, and they had no combat effectiveness at that time, so they could only let the Tianming Army slaughter.

The Mandate of Heaven Army behind him, under the leadership of Luo Tai, is rushing towards the trench.

There is a blockade in front, and there are chasing soldiers in the back!

What to do?

Yang Wenyue sat on the back of the horse, stunned for a while, the spear in his hand fell unconsciously, he knew that there was a trench here, and he shouldn't have broken through tonight......

The deputy general came to Yang Wenyue's side and shouted: "My lord, I can't take care of ......."

What can't you care about? Will he leave me alone and run away? It is very likely that he persuaded himself to abandon the Shaanxi soldiers, and now he wants to leave himself as the commander?

Yang Wenyue turned his head to see that the adjutant general was driving the soldiers forward, and the soldiers did not know that there was a trench in front of them, so they fell into the trench one after another, screaming endlessly......

What does this do?

Yang Wenyue was just about to stop it, but the deputy general urged the horse over, and said carefully: "My lord, the trench has been filled!" ”

"Ah......" Yang Wenyue was stunned for a moment, this is using human flesh to fill the trench?

Although he wanted to escape, Yang Wenyue's heart was still a little unbearable, some of the soldiers in the trench could still escape for their lives, if they were trampled by the horse's hooves, wouldn't they become meat mud?

Are these soldiers going to die under the hooves of their horses?

"My lord, hurry up, the Mandate of Heaven Army is about to chase after you!" The adjutant general couldn't help but say, and slapped Yang Wenyue's horse's buttocks with the barrel of a gun, and the war horse was in pain, and with a long neigh, he stepped over the trench that had just been filled.

There was also a trench in front, and the deputy general concocted it in the same way, and drove the Ming army that had just escaped into it, this time, Yang Wenyue did not hesitate at all, and stepped directly on the soldier's body, and there was a wail behind him!

There has already been one time, and the conscience has been numb!

Yang Wenyue almost closed his eyes, and stepped on the soldiers to cross the second trench.

Fu Zonglong in the northwest direction, when he got the exact information, Yang Wenyue's troops had already broken through the defense line of the Heavenly Mandate Army and disappeared into the night in the southeast direction.

He picked up the tea cup casually, smashed it on the ground, smashed it to pieces, and cursed in his mouth: "Despicable! The little mongrel Yang Wenyue actually left us and ran away alone......"

"My lord, should we break through?"

Fu Zonglong was angry, so he glared at the guard, and said angrily: "Break through now, looking for death?" How could the Providential Mandate be defenseless? ”

The guards were so frightened that they shrank their necks and didn't dare to speak again.

Fu Zonglong sat down on the marching bed angrily, closed his eyes and leaned on the head of the bed, thought for a moment, was shocked, and hurriedly opened his eyes and said: "Go and tell Li Benshi, let him lead the army to garrison in the southeast direction, Yang Wenyue runs away, and there will inevitably be a hole in the southeast direction!" ”

"Yes, sir!" The guards got the military order and ran out of the tent quickly.

After the dawn, the Mandate of Heaven army began to attack the camp of the Ming army, this time, although Li Zicheng dispatched Niu Kejing, Luo Tai, Liu Jianyi, and Ma Youyi, but not all of them pressed up, first Niu Kejing, Luo Tai attacked for half a day, and then withdrew, replaced by Liu Jianyi, Ma Youyi to continue the attack.

However, the first regiment of the fourth battalion, Zhao Lie, and the second regiment of Liu Zongmin, were stationed in the northwest and southeast directions of the Ming army camp respectively, not only to respond to the attacking troops and prevent Fu Zonglong from breaking through, but also to wait for reinforcements from the Ming army.

The strategy of the Heavenly Mandate Army's attack in turn made Fu Zonglong suffer, his subordinates could not rest, and they had to keep their eyes open when they slept at night, and fatigue, hunger, and despair quickly spread in the camp.

Fu Zonglong really couldn't hold on.

On the morning of the 9th, Fu Zonglong personally wrote a letter asking for help and handed it to a team of soldiers, asking them to desperately break out of the siege and ask He Renlong and Li Guoqi for help.

In order to cover the breakthrough of this group of soldiers, Fu Zonglong personally led the main force to launch a counterattack from the northwest regardless of casualties, which was completely like a breakthrough.

The battle suddenly became fierce, and the Ming army abandoned their arrows, and they rushed out of the trench and engaged in hand-to-hand combat with the Mandate of Heaven on the periphery.

The soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven not only occupy a psychological advantage, but also occupy a huge advantage in numbers, and the Ming army has hand-to-hand combat and abandons the topographical advantage of the trench, which is exactly what they expected.

Liu Jianyi happened to be in charge of the northwest direction, and when he saw that the Ming army had signs of breaking through, he immediately pressed the whole regiment up, regardless of the success or failure of casualties, and the only goal was to beat the Ming army back.

When Li Zicheng got the information and personally went to the northwest to supervise the battle, when he came to the northwest with his own soldiers, he happened to see a small group of Ming soldiers, breaking through the encirclement of Liu Jianyi's troops, leaving the battlefield, desperately fleeing to the north.

He Xiaomi was furious, "Metropolitan Governor, there is a fish that has slipped through the net here, and my subordinates will bring people to chase it!" ”

The soldiers are equipped with rifles and war horses, which belong to a special type of troops, if He Mi rides a horse to chase, how can these fish that slipped through the net outrun a four-legged war horse?

Li Zicheng was waiting for the order, and his heart suddenly moved, and he hurriedly said: "Stand by on the spot, don't move lightly!" ”

"Dadu Governor, once these Ming troops escape, they will definitely ask for reinforcements...... Speaking of this, He Mi suddenly understood, "Dadu Governor deliberately let them escape......

Li Zicheng smiled faintly and said, "Pass the order, all departments will continue to block Fu Zonglong from breaking through, and let the Ming army desert away!" ”

"Yes, Grand Duke!"

Liu Jianyi led the army to pounce on the Ming army, and Fu Zonglong saw that the herald had partially broken through, so he withdrew the soldiers to the trench and continued to deal with the Mandate of Heaven army under the cover of the trench.

When He Renlong and Li Guoqi fled to Wadian, they were caught up by the heralds sent by Fu Zonglong, and received a letter from Fu Zonglong, they pretended not to know each other, but they reprimanded the heralds: "This letter is from a thief, it must be untrue, you are also a thief pretending, right?" Still not from the truth? ”

The herald kowtowed like a smashing onion, "The two generals, the Governor was besieged by thieves in the burning shop, and the situation is extremely critical, please ask the two generals to go and relieve the siege quickly!" ”

Li Guoqi couldn't bear it, and his face hesitated, but He Renlong whipped the herald and shouted: "Sure enough, it was a thief, and he wanted to lure us back to the army, and we were surrounded by you......"

The herald hurriedly hugged his head and went away.

He Renlong still had to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, but was stopped by Li Guoqi, he didn't go to the rescue, let them go, maybe there were rescuers......

The two of them traveled all the way north, the grain and grass gradually ran out, and they went to Shenqiu County, wanting to enter the city to get supplies, Shenqiu Zhixian Wujie stood at the head of the city, knowing that the two were Fu Zonglong's subordinates, so he shouted: "You don't go to rescue Inspector Fu, why do you go into the city?" ”

Li Guoqi was a little ashamed, so he pulled He Renlong, who wanted to attack the city, and the two led the army to leave Shenqiu County, continue to the north, and retreat to Chenzhou.