Zuo Liangyu didn't know what was going on, thinking that the official road was blocked by debris, or that when the official road crossed the river, there was something wrong with the bridge on the river. Vertex updates are the fastest

Through the faint light of the torches, he could clearly see that the official road had been dug out of a deep ravine, and under visual inspection, the width was at least one and a half zhang, and the ravines were black and bottomless.

It is not known whether someone dug a ditch and accidentally cut off the official road, or whether it was intentional to obstruct the officers and soldiers from going south.

Zuo Liangyu suddenly had two heads and two big, and there was even a sense of ominousness in his heart.

He had a torch thrown into the ravine, and only then did he see that the bottom of the ravine, which was at least one and a half feet deep, equivalent to two or three adults.

The front was blocked, and the soldiers behind kept rushing over, looking at the more and more soldiers gathered in the body, Zuo Liangyu was anxious, "Quick, go to both sides to investigate, can you go around!" ”

"Yes, General!" Then some of the guards agreed to go.

Waiting is the most torturous!

Zuo Liangyu was bored, but he was thinking in his heart, who dug this ravine, fortunately the Heavenly Mandate Army was in Zhuxian Town, dozens of miles away, otherwise he must have suspected that this was the sabotage of the Heavenly Mandate Army, and there were even ambushes, so it would be troublesome.

The guards who had gone to investigate the terrain soon returned, and before he could dismount, he shouted from a distance: "General, the villain has traveled five or six miles along the ravine, and before he can see the end, lest the general wait anxiously, he hastened back......"

"Five or six miles?" Zuo Liangyu is like eating popsicles in winter, and suddenly it is cold from the inside to the outside, which is clearly to prevent the officers and soldiers from going south!

Could it be that someone has calculated that he wants to go back to Huguang?

No way!

Before leaving Shuipoji to go south this time, he did not disclose the information to anyone, that is, the officers of the headquarters, and it was only after Ding Qirui and Yang Wenyue left the camp that they received their own instructions, and it was impossible for anyone to get the information that the officers and soldiers were going south in advance.

Who dug up the official road, but still made such a long ravine......

At this time, the guards who went to investigate on the other side also came back, "General, the ravine here is at least ten miles, and there is still no ......end in sight."

Zuo Liangyu became more and more suspicious, and he felt more and more strongly that this was deliberately done by someone, either the Heavenly Mandate Army, or other rogues, such as Zhang Xianzhong and others, the purpose was to prevent the officers and soldiers from going south.

This Zhang Xianzhong, he shouldn't have let him go last time!

If it weren't for the Danxin Imperial Court to unload the mill and kill the donkey, Zhang Xianzhong should have been killed at that time, and it would have been a hundred......

Zuo Liangyu was hesitating, and suddenly heard a noisy sound behind him, and he was secretly frightened, and was busy with the guards to investigate.

The rear army must not have problems!

After a while, the guards came back on horseback, panting and said, "General, it's not good, the Heavenly Mandate Army is catching up!" ”

"Manifest Destiny?" Zuo Liangyu was taken aback and shouted: "Didn't the Heavenly Mandate Army be tripped by Hu Dawei and they were gathered on the water slope, how could it appear here?" ”

"General, it is indeed the Mandate of Heaven Army, their cavalry has been chasing after them, and there are a large number of infantry, and the rear army has suffered heavy casualties......"

"It's the Mandate of Heaven again!" Zuo Liangyu understood, Hu Dawei and they learned that they were going south, and they were defeated, and after the Heavenly Mandate Army defeated the remaining officers and soldiers of Shuipoji, they quickly chased him south......

However, how did the Mandate of Heaven Army know that it was going south, and it actually dug up the official road here in advance?

There will be no answer to such a question for the time being, so let's solve the current problem first, and then talk about it, the Mandate of Heaven Army dares to pursue the officers and soldiers, and with Li Zicheng's temperament, there must have been careful arrangements in advance......

He listened closely, and the noise behind him became clearer and clearer, noisy shouts, desperate screams!

Is this his own subordinate calling for help?

Zuo Liangyu was furious, and was about to return to the division to counterattack, when he suddenly heard several drums, and on both sides of the official road, there was a shout, and in the haze, countless figures shouted and rushed towards the official road.

Zuo Liangyu was shocked into a cold sweat, is there really an ambush of the Heavenly Mandate Army here? Could it be that Zhu Xianzhen's Heavenly Mandate Army ran in front of him?

Although he could not be sure of these facts, he finally understood the current situation: the officers and soldiers were surrounded by the Mandate of Heaven.

There is the Mandate of Heaven Army chasing behind, there are ambushes of the Mandate of Heaven Army on both sides, and the ravines in front must have been dug by the Mandate of Heaven Army first, and the purpose is to cut off their own way back!

There is a ravine in front, an unknown number of ambushes on both sides, and a large number of chasing soldiers in the back.

Li Zicheng has such a big appetite?

Although it was dark and he couldn't see the situation clearly, Zuo Liangyu believed that his more than 100,000 soldiers would definitely not be swallowed by the Heavenly Mandate Army, and without enough numbers and strength, any strategy would not be useful, and if he didn't do it, he would be eaten by himself!

However, thinking of the terrifying firearms of the Heavenly Mandate Army, Zuo Liangyu suddenly wilted......

The Mandate of Heaven troops on both sides had already slaughtered them, and the officers and soldiers on the periphery had already exchanged hands, and the shouts and shouts were in the ears.

What to do?

"General......

Zuo Liangyu suddenly came to his senses, he couldn't let the Heavenly Mandate Army rush over, he had to fight back appropriately, there were more than 100,000 officers and soldiers, and the number would not be less than that of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

While directing the soldiers on both sides to meet the Mandate of Heaven Army, he organized the soldiers to fill in the ravines, and as long as the ravines were filled, the officers and soldiers could go south along the official road.

The Mandate of Heaven Army on both sides was temporarily blocked, but the Mandate of Heaven Army in the rear was extremely fierce, and the shouts were advancing rapidly, Zuo Liangyu heard the "bang" of firearms, and couldn't help but be anxious, and kept urging the soldiers who were filling the ditch: "Hurry up, hurry up......

In the rear of the Ming soldiers, Liu Yunshui was extremely excited, he hadn't been so happy for a long time, and although the governor did not issue a killing order today, he acquiesced in the killing behavior of the cavalry.

He brandished his saber and personally rushed to the front line, since he caught up with the rear of the Ming soldiers, his saber never stopped, raising his knife and slashing, in addition to controlling the war horse, he seemed to have only these two actions, and he couldn't remember how many souls he had created.

On the one hand, the weather is too dark, and on the other hand, although coordinated operations can protect the soldiers of their own side from being harmed, but in this way, the Ming soldiers are bound to flee in large numbers.

At this time, the Ming soldiers had lost the courage to fight, and it seemed that they would only flee, if they did not go around to the front and chase the back to kill, the soldiers of the Heavenly Mandate Army would not have much risk of casualties at all.

But there were too many Ming soldiers, 5,000 cavalry, and they couldn't kill tens of thousands of Ming troops at one time.

In addition to killing the Ming army, Liu Yunshui also took his brothers to dig ditches, cutting out ravines one by one, cutting the Ming army from the whole, and the Ming army that was cut out, he disdained to kill them, and these people were handed over to the infantry behind.

There is only one military order for the Grand Duke: Ouroboros pursuit!

This made Liu Yunshui very twisted, if it weren't for the restrictions of this military order, he would have fought a bloody way and wrapped all the Ming troops into it......

There were too many Ming troops, Li Zicheng personally went into battle, and the personal soldiers around him were both cavalry and infantry equipped with rifles, except that there were no mountain artillery, which was almost the same as Li Ji and Song Wenbu's infantry.

The "bang" gunfire that Zuo Liangyu heard just now was Li Zicheng's own soldiers shooting. However, the weakness of the Xining rifle was that it was difficult to load on horseback, and after the soldiers shot the only bullet in the rifle, they hung the rifle on the horse, pulled out the war knife at their waist, and temporarily acted as a cavalryman.

More than 1,000 cavalry, the momentum on the battlefield is also very terrifying, and the Ming army has long lost the courage to fight, they would rather use the back to face the enemy than look at the sword of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

In the rear of Zuo Liangyu, tens of thousands of Ming troops were chased and killed by the Heavenly Mandate Army all the way for dozens of miles, and they were almost consumed, and when they heard the shouts of killing from the front, Li Zicheng knew that the time for the decisive battle had come.

He sent a military order to Liu Yunshui: attack at full speed, disrupt the rear of the Ming army, and then hand them over to the infantry behind!

This is exactly the military order that Liu Yunshui is looking forward to, he has long wanted to annihilate this Ming army.

Liu Yunshui's five thousand households, plus Li Zicheng's personal soldiers of a thousand households, six or seven thousand cavalry, wantonly rushed and killed in the remaining Ming army, stirring up the Ming army, these Ming troops had already been frightened by the Heavenly Mandate Army behind them, and at this time they had to face the main cavalry of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

At the moment of life and death, most of the soldiers chose to ask for help from themselves: I don't know who was the first to open the ropes, many soldiers threw their weapons, knelt on the ground, held their heads in their hands, and shouted: "I surrender......"

Although Liu Yunshui was disgusted with these people, the battle was not over yet, and he didn't bother to pay attention to it.

The infantry of Li Xin and Gao Ligong's department caught up, they followed behind the cavalry, although they solved a lot of Ming troops, but the killing was limited, most of the time, they were collecting and surrendering troops, and this time they collected more surrendered troops.

Li Zicheng didn't have time to rest, he knew that the ambush soldiers in front were mainly bluffs, and the number was not large, compared with the fifty or sixty thousand Ming army, it could only be counted as a fraction, and he had to put more pressure on Zuo Liangyu before they were defeated, so that Zuo Liangyu could not make a correct judgment under heavy pressure.

Six or seven thousand cavalry, without any rest, pounced on the front army of Zuo Liangyu's department, Zuo Liangyu was shocked, how many soldiers did the Heavenly Mandate Army have, and tens of thousands of rear troops, so quickly defeated?

Fortunately, at this time, a large section of the ravine had been filled, and Zuo Liangyu was attacked by the Heavenly Mandate Army on three sides, and there was finally an escape route, and he naturally would not waste this escape route.

The cavalry of the Mandate of Heaven came over, and Zuo Liangyu ran away......

The Ming army was defeated, and when many soldiers fled south, they fell directly into the deep ravine, and the soldiers who had no time to escape the ravine had to surrender on their knees.

The sky was already dark, and as far as the eye could see, the battlefield by the ravine was full of corpses and soldiers kneeling and surrendering.

Li Zicheng was worried that Zuo Liangyu would once again be a scourge on the territory of the Heavenly Mandate Army, so he asked Liu Yunshui's troops to rest a little, and the soldiers ate some dry food and replenished some water, and then continued the pursuit along the official road.

Zuo Liangyu has been defeated, it doesn't matter if he can catch Zuo Liangyu or not, as long as he pursues Zuo Liangyu and drives Zuo Liangyu's troops out of the Henan territory.