Seeing such a scene, Zhang Xianzhong couldn't help but look at Yuzhong County, and wanted to turn to Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng for help, hoping that they could lead their elite soldiers to insert from the opponent's side and try to see if they could turn the tide of the battle.

But I didn't expect that the two people who were still huddled in a corner of the city just now had slipped away without a trace!

Zhang Xianzhong suddenly had a feeling of being betrayed, and rode on his horse and shouted angrily to his remaining cavalry: "Children, fight with the lackeys of the court, and go with Lao Tzu!" ”

After saying that, he wanted to take the lead, and rushed towards Ji Qingwen.

Unexpectedly, Sun Kewang tightly pulled the reins of his mount from the side, and persuaded: "Eight kings, the officers and troops in front of you are not easy to deal with, and our cavalry will kill them, even if they can win, they will also suffer heavy losses." King, stay in the green mountains, don't worry about no firewood! ”

This sentence immediately made the hot-headed Zhang Xianzhong come back to his senses, gritted his teeth for a while, and finally strangled the horse in place and did not attack forward.

A cavalryman next to him listened to Zhang Xianzhong's order clearly, but he didn't take action for a long time, and couldn't help but take half a step forward and asked, "King, can we still fight?" ”

This sentence asked Zhang Xianzhong about the pain in his heart, and Zhang Hand slapped the cavalryman in the face and scolded: "Hit, spank a fart!" If you can beat it, you can fight? ”

The cavalryman held back the pain, covered his face, and asked, "Why don't you retreat first?" ”

Unexpectedly, Zhang Xianzhong slapped him with his backhand and scolded: "Retreat? Isn't it just running away? Lao Tzu can't afford to lose this person! ”

The cavalryman was slapped twice by Zhang Xianzhong for no reason, and tears suddenly flowed out of his eyes.

Zhang Xianzhong turned his head to see the aggrieved expression on his face, and remembered that this cavalryman had not been born and died with him for a day or two, and suddenly felt a little unbearable, and said: "It's Lao Tzu who is wrong, Lao Tzu has lost the battle, and he is not in a good mood, so he shouldn't be angry with you." When you go back, Lao Tzu will reward you with a few taels of gold. ”

Sun Kewang saw that Zhang Xianzhong's anger had disappeared, so he dared to step forward and ask: "Eight kings, I see that those foot soldiers in front of me can't be withdrawn, fortunately, the king's henchmen and brothers are all cavalry, and they are not folded in the formation, so it is better to admit it today and retreat first, how about it?" ”

The muscles on Zhang Xianzhong's face twisted into a ball, and a few words were squeezed out from between his teeth: "Lao Tzu is still not convinced after all, but I want to see which bastard's military horse the official army on the other side is, and I can find him for revenge in the future!" ”

With that, Zhang Xianzhong drove his horse to Ji Qingwen's left flank and galloped away.

Sun Ke saw this, and hurriedly beckoned the cavalry to follow closely.

In the blink of an eye, Zhang Xianzhong had already come to the front of the battle, and saw that half of the foot soldiers he sent out had been killed or wounded, and the rest were still fighting to the death with the officers and soldiers.

He raised his eyes again and saw that the officers and soldiers had been fighting until now, the formation was not at all disordered, although the martial arts moves used were simple but extremely effective, and the blades in his hands were also extremely sharp and sharp—not to mention the three thousand foot soldiers that his subordinates had put together temporarily, even if they came three thousand, they might not be their opponents.

Thinking of this, Zhang Xianzhong was already convinced, and looked up to see four battle flags fluttering in the official army, with the words "Daming", "Zhu", "Ji" and "Qi" written respectively.

Among them, the "Daming" and "Zhu" characters are the names of Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, and they are all in the princely system, and those who know how to do it are different at a glance. But Zhang Xianzhong couldn't see the doorway, just regarded it as an ordinary thing used by ordinary officials and soldiers, but he became interested in the two flags of the word "Ji" and the word "Qi".

However, he didn't know how to read, so he had to ask Sun Kewang beside him: "What are these two words?" ”

Sun Kewang replied truthfully, and added: "It's probably the banner of the general who leads the army, I don't know if it's surnamed Ji?" Or is it a surname? ”

Zhang Xianzhong nodded, and shouted at the top of his voice: "Which one is General Ji?" Which one is General Qi again? ”

Although this battle is a small number of grams, it is very easy, Ji Qingwen still has time to look around, and he also saw Zhang Xianzhong's actions and heard Zhang Xianzhong's question clearly, so he replied loudly: "Zhang Xianzhong, do you still recognize me?" ”

Zhang Xianzhong looked at it and shouted: "It turned out to be you!" Back then, in the mouth of Shanxi, Lao Tzu suffered a loss because of you, and gave his life, but I didn't expect the road to be narrow, and today we meet here again, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill you to the death! ”

As he spoke, Zhang Xianzhong lost his mind again, and his horse was about to rush into the battle array.

It was Sun Kewang who stopped Zhang Xianzhong and persuaded: "Eight kings, it is not too late for a gentleman to take revenge, ten years is not too late, it seems that this kid surnamed Ji was born to be the enemy of the king, this account, we will have time to calculate it in the future!" ”

Ji Qingwen was not idle here, he reached out and patted the shoulders of the two soldiers in front of him, telling them to withdraw the Japanese knives in their hands, raise the muskets again, and shoot at Zhang Xianzhong.

Sun Kewang saw it and hurriedly said: "King, the official army musket is very powerful, let's go quickly!" ”

Although Zhang Xianzhong was rude and manic, his temperament was extremely cunning, and he couldn't do that kind of reckless behavior to send him to death.

By the time the two musketeers on Ji Qingwen's side loaded the gunpowder and bullets and prepared to aim and shoot, Zhang Xianzhong had already taken the remaining cavalry of his cronies and ran to the northwest under the cover of a piece of raised loess dust.

When Ji Qingwen saw that he had not caught Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng in this battle, but also ran away with Zhang Xianzhong and Sun Kewang, he suddenly felt meaningless, and patted Chen Wenzhao beside him and said: "General Chen, the culprits have all run away, and it is not interesting to kill more." Let's see if you can get these civilian troops in front of you to surrender? ”

Chen Wenzhao also felt that it was useless to kill more, so he gave two orders to the two regimental trainers with the loudest voices on the left and right, and the two soldiers let go of their voices and shouted loudly:

"Your Excellency, forgiveness, lay down your arms, and spare you from dying!"

"Your Excellency, forgiveness, lay down your arms, and spare you from dying!"

After shouting these very simple words only three or five times, the last bit of sharpness of the people's army was gone, and they involuntarily put down the farm tools that could barely be called "weapons" in their hands, and stood in place, as if what they had just done had nothing to do with them now.

Ji Qingwen raised his eyes and saw that the 3,000 infantry soldiers of the people's army had been killed by the 200 regiments of soldiers under his command and the 1,000 palace guards under the command of Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin, only 1,200 or 300 people were left, and the remaining 1,7800 dead and wounded were all lying on the ground, irrigating the dry and cracked loess with fresh blood that was still hot.

It was the first time Ji Qingwen had seen such a large-scale fight, the broken limbs in front of him, the blood in his nostrils, and the wails in his ears all violently impacted his slightly sensitive nerves, making him finally stop the violent urge to vomit.

And today's battle, which lasted just over an hour, was more important to the two hundred township warriors recruited by Ji Qingwen than the previous training of nearly 100 days. Their hands were stained with blood, and from then on they were no longer ordinary people who were paid a hundred taels of silver a year, but soldiers who really knew what it was like to fight.

Chen Wenzhao, who led the team, had not smelled the choking smell of blood on the battlefield for a long time, so he breathed a sigh of relief and asked Ji Qingwen: "My lord, we have won, how should we deal with the aftermath, and please show me ......."

How could Ji Qingwen understand this kind of thing, and waved his hand casually: "What to do, please ask General Chen to do it." ”

He also instructed Li Yuanyin: "General Chen Wenzhao's command of the battle is very hard, and Commander Li will also go to help him." ”

So Chen and Li cooperated with each other, disarmed and gathered the surrendered people's troops together, sent special personnel to take care of them, and sent people to count the casualties of both the enemy and us - only five people in the regimental training of Ji Qingwen's department were slightly injured in this battle, and none of them were killed; Sixty-two people were killed in the Qin Palace, and two or three hundred were seriously wounded; More than 800 people were killed, more than 2,200 were captured, and more than 1,400 were wounded......

In terms of results alone, it can be described as a complete victory......

However, in the face of such a big victory, Ji Qingwen couldn't arouse the slightest interest, and asked excitedly: "How should so many prisoners—and the injured ones—be disposed of?" ”