Chapter 189: The Thieves Flee
Where does Xiong Wencan need Liu Yuanbin's reminder? He had been looking to the west, and he had already seen the change of those flags. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he was ecstatic in his heart, and secretly saved his life, but on the surface, he pretended to be calm and stroked his long beard, not knowing that his hands were too hard, and he pulled off a few beards.
This Li Zhi is really a treasure, not as unruly as Zuo Liangyu, but also able to kill thieves and annihilate the enemy. Even if he fell into the difficult situation of being surrounded by thieves and soldiers, this Li Zhi could sweep all directions and lead the officers and soldiers to victory. In the face of Li Zhi's upright strength, any plan is false.
Where can such a Ming general be found now? This Li Zhi is just a guerrilla general? The role on the battlefield is greater than that of five general soldiers!
Xiong Wencan said with a smile: "Li Zhibu's combat strength is amazing, our army will win this battle!" ”
Zhang Guowei, the governor of An0qing, looked at the Li Ziqi in the west, his eyes widened, and he said in surprise: "What is this Li Zhi's soldiers and horses made of?" He defeated all the more than 10,000 cavalry of thieves so quickly. Zhang Guowei turned his head to Xiong Wencan and said: "Prime Minister, Li Zhibu has come to support, this is a big victory, this battle is to defeat the six thieves, what a big victory!" ”
Xiong Wencan stroked his beard, smiled and nodded repeatedly.
Huang Degong, the deputy general of the Beijing battalion, was facing the rogue foot soldiers in front of the battle, but suddenly saw countless rogue cavalry fleeing from the south. Those cavalrymen threw away their flags and abandoned their armor, as if there were jackals, tigers and leopards chasing behind them, and they panicked one by one. Huang Degong saw that the Chinese army of the thief army sent 500 old battalions to collect these routs, but they were rushed to pieces. Not a single rout of the cavalry dared to stop.
Huang Degong was stunned for a long time, looked to the west, and saw the big banner of Li characters waving in the wind.
Li Zhi defeated more than 10,000 rogue cavalry? How long has it been? Does this Li Zhi's soldiers and horses know witchcraft? I have been fighting on the battlefield for decades, and I have never seen such a strong soldier and horse. Huang Degong suddenly only felt that all his cognition of marching and fighting was shattered by Li Zhi. With Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, Huang Degong had to learn how to fight from scratch.
Zhang Xianzhong, who was standing on the hillock, saw that the cavalry and the horse army had collapsed, and he was speechless for a while.
This officer army was so terrible that fifteen thousand cavalry could not rush forward, and the scene on the battlefield in the west just now seemed to be a massacre. Zhang Xianzhong thought that it was a good thing to trap the officers and soldiers in the valley, but he did not expect that this valley would be more conducive to the use of firearms by the officers and soldiers, so that the firearms soldiers of the officers and soldiers did not need to worry about being behind them and were not afraid of being surrounded.
How many soldiers and horses will it take to crush this army? Is it necessary to be surrounded by 20,000 cavalry, or 30,000 cavalry, to defeat this official army?
Although the thieves are often claimed to be hundreds of thousands, but those are hungry soldiers, where are there 20,000 or 30,000 cavalry who can fight?
What made Zhang Xianzhong even more worried was that he didn't see his righteous son Zhang Kewang in the rout. Could it be that Zhang Kewang has been killed by the official army? When Zhang Xianzhong thought of this, he seemed to have been stabbed in the heart. Zhang Kewang followed Zhang Xianzhong to fight as early as the third year of Chongzhen, and he was still called Sun Kewang at that time. Later, he worshipped Zhang Xianzhong as his father-in-law and changed his surname to Zhang, and was Zhang Xianzhong's most trusted person.
I didn't expect to lose so badly this time, and the children were folded here.
Seeing Zhang Xianzhong there and suspicious, Zhang Dingguo went up and said: "Marshal, this battle can't be fought, let's escape with the old camp!" ”
Zhang Xianzhong glanced at the thieves who were still fighting with the official army, and knew that it was only like this now, so he couldn't help but stare at the foot soldiers who were fighting with the official army. This time, these horseless foot soldiers were to be left behind and slaughtered by the officers and soldiers.
However, as long as the essence of the old camp is left, sooner or later there will be a comeback.
"Let's run!"
Zhang Xianzhong shouted, and fled outside the valley with the old camp of the Chinese army. The trumpeter blew a few horns to collect and retreat, and then fled with Zhang Xianzhong's team.
Liu Guoneng and Hui Deng glanced at each other, and each took the old camp and fled out of the valley.
Hearing the horn of retreat, the horsemen and foot soldiers who were still fighting on the battlefield were like lightning strikes, and their faces turned pale all of a sudden. The three thousand horsemen who fought in front of the battle were okay, they all rode war horses, and when they saw that the situation was not right, they rode their horses and fled, chasing Liu Guoneng and Hui Dengxiang's team all the way. And the more than 20,000 thieves and foot soldiers were miserable, there were no horses, and on the way to escape, they had to be pursued and killed by officers and soldiers, and if they couldn't say, they would be killed by the officers and cavalry.
The bandit army, which was still dominating the battlefield, collapsed all at once. More than 20,000 thieves were scattered like broken inferior glass, and wolves rushed to the ground.
The officers and soldiers were still fighting hard, but they suddenly reaped a victory, and some of them couldn't react. Yunnan Deputy General Long Zaitian looked left and right, and didn't know why the thieves suddenly fled, but he heard one of his thousand generals shouting loudly: "General, that Li Zhi's soldiers and horses defeated the thief cavalry and forced away the thief!" ”
Long Zaitian suddenly realized, and looked back at the Li Zi banner two miles away.
This Li Zhi's soldiers and horses are so strong that people can't believe it, if they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, who would dare to believe that there was a Ming official army that could kill all directions like this? First, he annihilated the 2,000 cavalry of the thieves in half a cup of tea, and then independently repelled the 30,000 thieves of Luo Rucai and other three thieves, and then withstood the charge of more than 10,000 thieves and cavalry to defeat the enemy.
As a Yunnan army, Long Zaitian has always been very confident in his soldiers' and horses' combat strength. But seeing this Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, Long Zaitian felt that his war elephants and soldiers and horses were like toothless sheep.
This army has been killing the enemy with firearms, is it possible that the strong army in the future will use firearms against the enemy, and their proud melee fighting skills will be eliminated?
That Qian always saw that Long Zaitian was in a daze, and said, "General, should we chase?" Will there be another ambush? ”
Long Zaitian was stunned, a little undecided. The main force of the official army was ambushed by Zhang Xianzhong once, and they all had some traps and did not dare to pursue the thieves' foot soldiers. But Long Zaitian was hesitating there, but he saw more than a thousand Li Zhi's cavalry rushing out of the valley and running straight to the thieves' foot soldiers to chase and kill them.
Li Zhi's soldiers and horses have already begun to hunt down the thieves? So what are you afraid of?
Long Zaitian waved his hand and shouted loudly: "Catch up and rob him of a thousand thieves' heads to repay his merits!" ”
The generals around him chanted loudly, howled and led the soldiers and horses to chase after them.
After Li Zhi defeated Zhang Kewang's cavalry, he was not in a hurry to support Xiong Wencan's Chinese army, and was still busy cutting off his head there. But he didn't expect that as soon as the cavalry on Zhang Kewang's side collapsed, Zhang Xianzhong, Liu Guoneng and Hui Dengxiang fled directly. Li Zhi secretly said that he couldn't let the head be given to other officers and soldiers, so he asked Xue Sanku to lead 1,500 cavalry to rush over to chase and kill the thief foot soldiers.
The main force of the official army was hesitant there, observing whether these thieves could chase after them, but they saw Li Zhi's soldiers and horses rushing out to chase and kill.
Seeing that Li Zhi took the lead in sending troops to chase and kill the thieves, Huang Degong seemed to have taken a reassuring pill and no longer flinched. He let out a loud shout and led a thousand cavalry from the Beijing camp to rush forward. The more than 5,000 infantry soldiers of the Beijing battalion under Huang Degong's command saw that the cavalry was chasing out, and they were not willing to lag behind, so they ran up on foot to chase and kill the thieves, hoping to grab a few first-class combat exploits.
The cavalry of the other officers and soldiers were eager to try and rushed forward with Li Zhi's selection regiment.
After this war, these officers and soldiers have regarded Li Zhi as the mainstay. As long as they follow Li Zhi's soldiers and horses, they are not afraid of thieves.
Outside the valley, the thieves' foot soldiers were crushed for thousands of miles, completely scattered and fled, where could they still ambush the officers and soldiers?
The cavalry outside the valley was chasing, and the tiger masters inside the valley were busy cutting off their heads. It took a stick of incense to cut the heads of the soldiers and horses on the ground that Li Zhi had left in the valley, wrapped the heads in cloth and tied them to his belts one by one, and gathered the military horses captured on the battlefield, and then the whole army drove towards Xiong Wencan's Chinese army.
Xiong Wencan was chatting with Zhang Guowei happily there. This great victory was fought too beautifully, and the official army repelled the coalition of six thieves head-on, which was of great significance. And now that the three thieves have fled, the cavalry can at least chase and kill tens of thousands of thieves and foot soldiers, plus Li Zhi's previous capture, this report will be a steady victory!
I, Xiong Wencan, can subdue Zheng Zhilong in Lingnan, and I can also defeat Zhang Xianzhong in An0qing. As the secretary of the military department, he is very competent!
As soon as he saw Li Zhi leading his troops over, Xiong Wencan laughed. He hurriedly stepped up, stroked Li Zhi's shoulders and said, "The guerrilla general has worked hard and made great achievements, and this time he has made a great achievement!" (To be continued.) )