Chapter 645: Kejingzhou, He Tengjiao was martyred

Li sent tens of thousands of soldiers to guard the camp and beware of the Jingzhou garrison, and personally led an army of more than 100,000 people towards He Tengjiao's army.

He Tengjiao immediately sent someone to Jingzhou to give an order, ordering Hao Shaoqi to go out of the city to attack the Shun army.

The two armies soon fought each other together.

The Shun army fought under the city of Jingzhou for several days, suffering casualties and starvation, and their morale was on the verge of collapse. Although He Tengjiao's army trekked for several days, its morale was still high because of the advantage of internal and external attacks.

According to He Tengjiao's estimate, it doesn't take too much effort to completely defeat the Shun army in front of him.

However, the resilience of the Shun army exceeded his expectations, and countless Shun soldiers forgot to die and launched a crazy attack on the Ming army.

"Report, the guerrilla general He Gang was killed, and the right flank was broken through by the thieves!" A soldier came to report quickly, which made He Tengjiao's face pale.

"Lord Zhongcheng, the last general is willing to go to the right flank in person to block the attack of the thieves!" The chief soldier Wan Dapeng asked for an order.

"The thief has reached the end of the crossbow, General Wan only needs to hold the right flank without losing, just wait for Jingzhou Hao Shaoqi to defeat the thief's back road, that is, when the thief is defeated!" He Tengjiao said coldly.

"The last will be ordered!" Wan Dapeng got up and went.

The Shun army was really crazy, and the several armies sent by He Tengjiao were broken one after another, and even his Zhongjun standard battalion had to be sent out to block the attack of the Shun army.

However, He Tengjiao knew that as long as he could hold on for a while, victory would come. Because he knew that the Shun army had the idea of defeating itself first and then turning back to deal with Hao Shaoqi, only more than 30,000 soldiers and horses were left in the rear, while Hao Shaoqi's army in Jingzhou had 70,000 troops!

Jingzhou City, after several days of siege by the Shun army, the Ming army in the city suffered more than 5,000 casualties, and now the strength is more than 60,000. But now there is a huge turnaround.

He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, crossed the Yangtze River with a large army, and he had already reached the back of the Shun army, and now it was the time to completely annihilate the Shun army with internal and external attacks!

Hao Shaoqi immediately broke off, leaving thousands of soldiers to defend the city, and drove out of Jingzhou City with 60,000 troops, and launched an attack on the Shunjun camp outside the city.

The army in the east and north of the city of Shunjun had already shrunk, leaving only more than 30,000 troops in the west of the city to guard against the defenders of Jingzhou, and the general who led the team was Yuan Zongdi, the marquis of Mian.

Yuan Zongdi is a powerful general under Li Zicheng, and he has a very set of troops to fight, although the army is only half of Hao Shaoqi's, but he relies on the simple camp to defend to the death, and resists Hao Shaoqi's attack to the death.

Several successive attacks were repulsed by the Shun army, and they were never able to break through the Shun army's defenses, which made Hao Shaoqi furious and immediately sent his personal guard standard battalion.

Hao Shaoqi's standard battalion has a number of 3,000, which is his old subordinates, and it was also expanded on the basis of the right battalion of the Xishan Army, which is completely the model of the Xishan Army, and has the strongest combat power among Hao Shaoqi's tens of thousands of subordinates.

In order to quickly defeat the Shun army in front of him, Hao Shaoqi personally went into battle, holding a big iron gun and launching a fierce attack on the Shun army camp with the standard camp.

Hao Shaoqi's standard battalion is well equipped, all officers and soldiers have armor, and the most important thing is a leather armor, which is supported by Hao Shaoqi's whole army, and its combat power is strong.

In the previous attacks, the camp walls of the Shun army were already in tatters. Braving the rain of arrows from the Shun army, Hao Shaoqi jumped over the low camp wall first, waving his spear, and the soldiers of the Shun army on the opposite side fell down one after another.

Under the leadership of Hao Shaoqi, the three thousand sharp soldiers were like a sharp knife, deeply inserted into the Shun army array, and the Ming army brigade behind poured in along the road opened by Hao Shaoqi, and the defense of the Shun army was crumbling.

In fact, in such cold weather, the Shun army attacked the city for seven or eight days in a row, and it had already reached the end of the strong crossbow, and it was better to have a camp wall defense, once the defense line was broken, the soldiers no longer had the strength to fight. Some are still resisting with all their might, while others have already thrown away their weapons and turned to flee.

"Hold on, as long as we hold for another hour, we will win completely!" Among the Shun camps, the one who knew the strategy best was Mianhou Yuan Zongdi, who shouted hoarsely, trying to boost morale.

But under the defeat, if he shouted to his throat, who would stop and risk death to continue fighting with the Ming army?

The Shun army was defeated in a row, and the morale was not high, and the original relied on the idea of survival to hold on to a breath in order to continuously attack the city, and now the reinforcements of the Ming army have arrived, and their own side has obviously been defeated, who is willing to listen to him at this time.

In the camp, Hao Shaoqi was leading the team to rush to kill, and the Shun army in front of him was defeated and retreated, Hao Shaoqi was unwilling to chase and kill the defeated soldiers, and directly killed the banner of the Chinese army where Yuan Zongdi was.

Riding on a horse, looking at Hao Shaoqi, who was rushing madly, Yuan Zongdi's courage was cold. In the past, in the barracks, although Hao Shaoqi's position was not high, his name of bravery was crowned among the generals. It was only because it was not Li Zicheng's lineage that he was not reused, and Yuan Zongdi did not have the courage to fight against Hao Shaoqi.

As soon as the main general fled, the Shun army could no longer form a resistance, and the 30,000 army completely collapsed.

Hao Shaoqi left thousands of soldiers to guard the prisoners of war to close the endgame, and immediately led the army to attack the battlefield several miles away, where Li Guo was leading the main force of the Shun army to launch a frantic attack on He Tengjiao's reinforcements.

On the main battlefield, more than 200,000 troops on both sides of Shunming were entangled together, and it was difficult to solve the killing, and He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, had even sent the standard battalion up, which barely resisted the crazy attack of the Shun army.

Hearing that Hao Shaoqi had defeated Yuan Zong's first department and was about to come to the battlefield, He Tengjiao's face finally showed a smile. The thief on the opposite side has also used his last strength, as long as Hao Shaoqi quickly rushes to the battlefield and attacks from behind the thief, he can win this battle.

At this moment, a fast horse galloped from the west through the snow, and judging by the flag planted behind the soldier on the horse, it was a nocturnal horse.

Could it be that something happened, rolled off the horse, and was carried over by a few pro-soldiers at night, He Tengjiao suddenly had an ominous premonition in his heart.

"Your Excellency the Governor, tens of thousands of thieves have appeared in the west, only five miles away from our army's position!"

With the words of Ye Bu Hui, there was a violent vibration on the ground, and a cavalry suddenly appeared in the distance, and the shadow was only three miles away from his own position, and He Tengjiao's heart was suddenly full of despair!

50,000 people of Zhang Dingguo's department of the Great Western Army, which had been hiding for seven or eight days, rushed to the battlefield at the most critical moment, and Zhang Dingguo personally led 3,000 cavalry to charge the rear of the Ming army.

The general trend has gone, but He Tengjiao is unwilling to escape, leading the last hundreds of personal soldiers to launch a desperate counterattack against the array of the Western Army, and soon annihilated under the iron cavalry of the Western Army. He Tengjiao, the governor of Daming Huguang, was martyred!

Zhang Dingguo led the army to storm the rear of the Ming army, and the 100,000 Ming troops who were caught off guard were attacked by the enemy, and were defeated and collapsed.

Hao Shaoqi rushed to the battlefield, but he had no time to recover the decline, and could only watch He Tengjiao's 100,000-strong army collapse, and in desperation, he led his troops to withdraw from the battlefield, and did not dare to return to Jingzhou, and fled straight north.

The Shunxi coalition army defeated the 170,000 Huguang Ming army and beheaded He Tengjiao, the governor of Huguang, which immediately caused a great earthquake in the Ming Dynasty, and the Nanjing court was panicked!