Seeing that it was getting late and the sun was setting in the west, he calculated the time, thinking that although He Fang was pursued by the thief army, but with He Fang's always more calm temperament, although he may not be able to defeat this thief army, but there should be no problem with self-protection according to the mountain, at this time the sky is close to dark, He Fang should be able to survive this night, as long as he pulls out tomorrow, he still has a chance to rescue He Fang.

After thinking about this for a short time, some thieves began to appear in the distance, and they immediately stood on the mound from afar, looking in the direction of the official army.

Not long after, a thief army under the banner of Li Zicheng slowly appeared in He Renlong's field of vision, the air suddenly became solemn, and there was a sound of officers scolding his soldiers in the official formation.

Li Guo looked at He Renlong's battle formation from afar, and his heart was also depressed to death, he led two thousand elites, all the way out of the camp and rushed wildly, and finally approached the big stone bridge, but he heard the report of the horses, saying that the Xingtian army had already evacuated the big stone bridge at this time, and rushed to the south, but let him Li Guo lead his troops to meet He Renlong's soldiers and horses alone.

Xiao Tianjian didn't know Li Zicheng's plans at all, thinking that Li Zicheng was determined to see him laugh, waiting for him to suffer a loss and then swallow him, and he would not come to assist him in dealing with He Renlong, so he had no scruples, and as soon as he saw He Renlong leading his troops to collect troops along the river to the north, he immediately collected his troops and went south along the river to meet He Fang's official army.

And Li Zicheng thought that Xiao Tianjian had now won two battles of He Renlong in a row, and sent Li Guoxian to lead the army to come over and join the Xingtian army, and then deal with He Renlong together, but after not wanting to run over, Xiao Tianjian had already led the Xingtian army to the south all the time to find trouble with another official army, and the result was that Li Guobaba led the army to run here, but he met He Renlong's main force of soldiers and horses.

He Renlong originally planned to cross the river, so he went straight to the big stone bridge and fought to the death with the Xingtian army, but he didn't expect to run into Li Zicheng's soldiers and horses.

The situation on the battlefield has become complicated this time, and for He Renlong and Li Guo, they are both facing a situation that is difficult to decide, to fight or not to fight? It has become a problem in front of Li Guo.

Seeing that He Renlong surrounded his generals in a circle, looking trembling and ready to fight, Li Guo hesitated for a while before making up his mind.

He secretly thought to himself, 'Although the Xingtian Army is not fake, it is still a newly formed rebel army, and even the officers and troops under the command of He Renlong, who can fight him, have fallen into disarray, thinking that I have been raising troops with my uncle for many years, and the generals under his command are far more than several times that of the Xingtian Army, how can I not be He Renlong's opponent?' He Renlong hasn't fought any battles in the past two years, it must be because the military discipline is not strict, and now the officers and troops under his command are already commonplace, otherwise, they would not have lost to the Heavenly Army! ’

Thinking of this, Li Guo couldn't help but feel confident, he couldn't believe that he led these battle-hardened veterans to be unable to compare with the new army of the Xingtian Army, and He Renlong put on such a formation, obviously he was already timid, so why was he afraid of He Renlong?

So he let his generals rest for a while, and then immediately ordered a few of his subordinates, and instructed them: "Li Leopard, Zhao Quan, I will give you two 500 soldiers, you and others lead the crowd to rush to the left side of the enemy formation, Liu Fangliang, you and Shuangxi also lead 500 soldiers and horses, attack the right flank of He Renlong, I will lead the rest of the people, attack the front of the enemy, let's attack on three sides, before dark, it is best to defeat He Renlong, as long as they are scattered, the next thing will be easy to do!" ”

Several generals who followed Li Guo to receive orders one by one, began to dispatch soldiers, and soon unfolded the formation, divided into three roads, and began to press towards He Renlong's army formation in the sound of drums and trumpets.

These two thousand elite soldiers under the command of Li Zicheng do have proud capital, each of them has rich combat experience, and they all have some solid kung fu at hand, and after hearing the news that He Renlong was defeated by the Xingtian Army today, they even looked down on the officers and soldiers under He Renlong, and their morale was high, and when they heard that they were going to fight, they all screamed, waved the weapons in their hands, and followed their main general, and rushed towards He Renlong's big array.

He Renlong saw that the thief army had begun to move, and rushed towards them, and his heart was also tense for a while, but on the surface, he was still very calm, and he gave orders again and again, dispatched the armies, and prepared for the imperial guard.

The reason why He Renlong was nervous was because he was made by the Xingtian Army during the day, and now when he saw the thief army taking the initiative to attack him, he was afraid that he would repeat the mistakes of the past and be broken by the thief army, so these parts that he had accumulated in the southern and northern wars for so many years, I am afraid that this time it will be completely finished, and he was finally promoted to this general, which can be regarded as the end of the day.

However, what made him a little puzzled was that although the Li thief's soldiers in front of him looked strong, he didn't see any difference between them and the usual formation battle method used by the thief army, although the morale was extremely high, but the formation was far from being as neat as the thief army he encountered in the morning, which made him a little puzzled, I don't know what tricks Li Thief is playing, why there is such a big difference in the performance of the two soldiers and horses in one day.

"Don't mess around! The soldiers will block the water and flood the earth, and the thief army on the opposite side is not enough, where are you afraid of him? Steady! Beat them off to the officer! He Renlong pretended to be confident and said to his subordinates.

He Renlong's composure also invisibly affected the mood of the soldiers under his command, when he saw that the thief army had begun to attack, but began to become calm, a team of archers and musketeers were transferred to the front of the cart behind the cart, the small copper cannon and the small Furlong cannon on the cart and the tiger squat cannon and the general's iron cannon in front of the formation were also loaded with ammunition and ready for battle.

Li Guo led the troops to move forward slowly at a slow pace, a team of sword players were transferred to the front of the formation, the archers and firecrackers were also arranged forward, and the black pressure of a shouting and killing was even more soaring into the sky, and at a distance closer and closer to the enemy formation, slowly scattered some formations, after all, the opposite side was the well-equipped He Renlong's officers and troops, and the number of firearms in his army was not a few, and looking at their array, one by one the chariots were deployed in front of the formation, and the archers and firecrackers boarded the vehicles to prepare for battle.

And these chariots are the sharp weapons in the Ming army, all of them are made of solid wood, the car is usually equipped with two small Furlong cannons, or small copper cannons, when marching can carry baggage, unfold during the battle, erect side plates, and install the cannons with the vehicle, it becomes a chariot, which is very difficult to deal with.

In the face of such a large array of the Ming army, the attacking side will often pay a lot of casualties, after all, the Ming army's firearms are sharp, so it also makes today's combat methods begin to be different from the past, no longer send a very dense formation, is to prevent a large area of enemy firearms, in order to reduce casualties.

After all, the officers and soldiers of He Renlong's department should be well-trained, although the thief army shouted to kill the earth-shattering kill, but without the orders of the officers, most of the officers and soldiers still seemed relatively calm, and did not fire indiscriminately, just quietly waited for the thief army to approach.

It was not until they reached a distance of one hundred and fifty paces in front of the official army formation that Li Guo oversaw the army let out a shout in unison, and the soldiers and generals exerted their strength together and accelerated towards the large formation of the official army.

Seeing that the enemy was already within the range of the artillery, the officers who commanded the artillery shouted and ordered the cannonball.

I saw that the officers and soldiers suddenly erupted in several directions, and the several Franco guns carried by the officers and soldiers took the lead in firing, and the hot projectiles flew out of the barrels, making a roaring sound, and smashed heavily into the thieves under Li Zicheng's command who rushed towards their large array.

One by one, the projectiles fell in Li Zicheng's formation in an instant, raising clouds of smoke and dust, and after the projectiles hit the ground, they jumped up again and continued to fly forward, everything that was in front of them, as long as they touched, they would be torn apart on the spot, and some soldiers with poor lives even if they became the first victims of this battle, and the stumps and broken arms rose into the air on the way forward of the shells, bursting out of a cloud of blood mist, and also let out a terrible howl.

In this round of shelling, Li Guo's soldiers and generals fell one or twenty people, but fortunately, they had expected it in advance and dispersed the formation, such solid shells were not much for their killing, not to mention that the current artillery only had a simple reticle, plus the black powder burned unstable, and the quality was even more uneven, there was no accuracy at all the artillery equipped with a cannon mirror in later generations, most of them relied on the gunner's feeling, so of course the accuracy of the head was not much better, and some of the shells simply hit high, and flew directly over the head of the thief army, It fell far behind the enemy, and did not cause any damage to the rebels at all, only a few shells that happened to fall in front of the rebels, relying on the power of ricochets, killing and injuring some of the rebels' soldiers, but on the whole, the killing and wounding of the soldiers under Li Guo's command was not a fight, but it just looked terrifying.

After this round of shelling, the soldiers of the rebel army accelerated their speed, and they stayed in place at this time, basically using the official army as a target, so they had to enter the enemy formation as soon as possible and start hand-to-hand combat with the official army as soon as possible to have a chance of victory.

In terms of firepower, the rebel army under Li Zicheng's command suffered great losses after the battle of Carriage Gorge, so Li Guo naturally would not be stupid enough to fight with He Renlong's officers and soldiers here, so doing so was purely looking for death, so Li Guo and many generals of the rebel army shouted loudly in the formation, and commanded his subordinates to speed up and charge forward.

As the distance between the two sides narrowed, the small cannons on the official chariots also began to fire one after another, which suddenly made the artillery bombardment of the officers and soldiers become much more intensive, and the small cannonballs jumped and fell into the attacking rebel formation, and the casualties of the rebels began to become larger.

Several soldiers of the Volunteer Army were shot in the chest, and at once they were pierced through by the flying cannonballs, causing their flesh and blood to fly, and they immediately fell out, and after landing on the ground, they were already out of breath.

Other soldiers were hit in the legs by ricocheting, and one leg left them, so that they fell headlong into the crowd, and screamed wildly while holding the broken leg, and blood sprayed everywhere.