Just when Ji Qingwen's troops were facing the danger of being attacked from the front and back, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, who were opponents, invariably stopped attacking.

It turned out that both of them had their own little abacus in their hearts.

At present, Zhang Xianzhong's strength is much stronger than Li Zicheng, and it is reasonable that his cavalry should charge the opponent. However, Ji Qingwen's combat effectiveness was not weak, and even if Zhang Xianzhong had the advantage of cavalry, he would have to pay an extremely heavy price if he wanted to defeat his opponent. But these cavalry are the baby bumps that Zhang Xianzhong has accumulated with great effort, and today they have lost nearly 100 people, and there can be no more casualties.

And Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's troops had already been crippled by muskets in the battle with Ji Qingwen just now, even if they could attack from behind, they might not necessarily have the certainty of victory, at most they could only stick up and fish in troubled waters when Zhang Xianzhong and the officers and troops were inextricably fighting.

These two militias have their own ghosts, and neither wants to eat meat, and neither wants to gnaw bones.

At this moment of hesitation, I suddenly heard a sound of shouting and killing in the east, and on the battlefield, Ji Qingwen, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong all turned their heads to look at it, but saw another group of officers and soldiers running quickly towards this side, with a total of more than 1,000 people, all of whom were energetic new forces.

This group of officers and soldiers is unknown to others, but Ji Qingwen is very familiar with it - it is the guard of the Qin Palace, led by Zhu Cunshu, the king of Qin.

According to the prior agreement, they hurried and hurried, and finally rushed to the battlefield at this juncture.

In this way, the situation on the battlefield becomes extremely complicated.

Under a ruined Yuzhong county, there were first the remnants of Li Zicheng's army of less than 300 people; To the east of them was the two hundred elite regiments led by Ji Qingwen; To the east, there were more than 200 cavalry of Zhang Xianzhong's army, which was ready to charge; To the east of Zhang Xianzhong, there were more than 1,000 Qin king's guards galloping quickly - this situation is very suitable to describe as the so-called "praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finches behind".

If Li Zicheng, Gao Yingxiang, and Zhang Xianzhong were all of one heart, they should immediately attack back and forth, quickly eliminate Ji Qingwen, who was compressed in the middle, and then turn around to deal with King Qin's guards.

However, they all have their own plans, and they are all afraid that they will fall into the middle of the official army.

In particular, Zhang Xianzhong was even more afraid of losing the hard-won cavalry under his command, and after a little hesitation, he led his cavalry to retreat, and it was not easy to put the team in order, and it immediately became useless.

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong had given up the attack, Li Zicheng was so anxious that he shouted: "Hey! 'Eight Kings', there was a great opportunity just now, why didn't you attack the official army? Don't you know that 'the time will never be lost'! ”

The little wit in Zhang Xianzhong's heart, if he said it in public, it would inevitably make the characters on the rivers and lakes talk about his timidity, so he said: "Didn't you see the official army coming for reinforcements? Heroes don't eat the losses in front of them, there are still 3,000 foot soldiers behind me rushing over, and when they get here, they will kill these officers and soldiers in front of them first, and then we will attack the city and grab food! ”

He didn't lie, as soon as his words fell, he saw a people's army of about 3,000 people running in the northwest of Yuzhong County, and the leader was none other than Sun Kewang, the first capable cadre under Zhang Xianzhong.

These 3,000 men came at the right time, and suddenly the people's army formed a three-to-one numerical advantage over the officers and soldiers.

Seeing this, Zhang Xianzhong was sure in his heart, and hurriedly ordered Sun Kewang to arrange the people's army in a formation and face off with Ji Qingwen's department in front of him.

The momentary hesitation of the people's army also gave Ji Qingwen a rare respite.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Ji Qingwen, with the help of Chen Wenzhao, rearranged the team, replenished food and ammunition, and was ready for a decisive battle with his opponent.

As for the more than 1,000 palace guards brought by Zhu Cunshu, Chen Wenzhao didn't know how much combat power they could have, so he divided them into two teams and lined them up on the left and right of the Xiangyong regiment to protect his own wings.

Zhu Cunshu had no idea, and he didn't suffer much loss after listening to Chen Wenzhao's deployment, so he nodded and agreed.

The two sides prepared for a quarter of an hour, and finally Zhang Xianzhong took the lead, he didn't engage in any conspiracy, and shouted loudly to order his subordinates to send out the whole army, and more than 3,000 people all pressed towards Ji Qingwen.

After Ji Qingwen crossed over, it was the first time he encountered such a big scene, and when he saw the opponent rushing over like a tsunami, he couldn't help but be a little frightened, and asked Chen Wenzhao beside him: "General Chen, the opposite side is menacing, how sure can we be?" ”

Chen Wenzhao's eyes were firmly fixed on the actions on the opposite side, and he said without looking back: "Although the enemy's momentum is strong, its combat effectiveness is not strong, as long as it is dealt with carefully, it is still a sure victory." ”

Seeing that Chen Wenzhao was not in a hurry, and saw that the infantry of the people's army on the opposite side had rushed to a distance of forty or fifty from him, he immediately waved the order flag and said: "All the troops fire a volley!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, the musketeers who had been aiming in front of him for a long time fired a volley of guns, and more than a hundred or so bullets flew straight towards the civilian infantry with a "whoosh, whoosh, whoosh", instantly killing and wounding dozens of people who rushed to the front.

Zhu Cunshu, who was standing beside Ji Qingwen, was shocked when he saw this, and asked slowly: "Brother Ji, your musket is very powerful, you can give me two before you leave, and I can play with it......"

Zhu Cunshu, who was watching the battle from the sidelines, was so surprised, and the people's army, who had really been hit, was even more frightened, and stopped one after another, and a few timid ones simply turned around and fled.

When Zhang Xianzhong saw this, the muscles on his face twisted, and he immediately ordered Sun Kewang to lead a few cronies and soldiers, draw out the treasure knife, and kill more than a dozen civilian soldiers who intended to flee for their lives on the spot.

Such a massacre finally stopped the rout of the army, and Zhang Xianzhong ordered to urge the soldiers to continue to rush forward and kill.

In front of the officers and soldiers were extremely sharp musket shooting, and after Zhang Xianzhong's merciless butcher's knife of supervising the war, the infantry of the people's army had reached the point of being in a dilemma and cornered.

The more it reaches such a point, the more the combat power and endurance that erupt from a person's body will be able to break through their own limitations.

The group of people's troops under Zhang Xianzhong, who were just honest peasants a few days ago, were forced by hunger, death and massacre to be enemies of the imperial court, and lived a precarious life of one day and one day.

Driven by this almost perverted sentiment of "seeing death as home", these 3,000 people's troops braved the rain of bullets and bullets of the official army, and finally broke through the attack of muskets and killed Ji Qingwen Xiangyong Tuanlian and Zhu Cunshu's palace guards.

Chen Wenzhao, who was in charge of commanding the operation, was also from a civilian background, and he may not pity these peasants in front of him who were cornered by fate.

However, now is the time for you to live and die, and any hesitation will lead to an uncontrollable end.

So he gritted his teeth, and one after another concise and clear orders came out of his mouth.

The village warrior regiment under his command carefully obeyed his orders, and the front row raised a wolf whisk that was more than a zhang long, and blocked the people's army a few steps away with countless steel nails stretched out in the front section of the wolf whire; The shield-bearer lifts the two-foot-diameter round steel shield and slowly moves it forward, further compressing the space. The musketeers, on the other hand, were ordered to put down the muskets that were still emitting heat, drew out the three-foot-long swords they wore at their waists, and strode forward in unison, stabbing and slashing at the infantry of the Civilians through the gaps in their shields.

The tactics used by Chen Wenzhao were the tactics left by Qi Jiguang back then and specially used to deal with the Japanese warriors on foot.

Now that more than 60 years have passed, such a sophisticated tactic can be applied to a group of poor peasants, and the so-called impermanence of the world and the reincarnation of heaven are nothing more than that.

Over there, Zhang Xianzhong thought that the number of officers and soldiers on the opposite side was only more than 1,000 people, and under the charge of the 3,000-strong group he organized, he would inevitably be frightened and scattered, and he would scatter and flee before he could fight.

Unexpectedly, this group of officers and soldiers was different, not only did they not flee, but defeated the strong with the weak, causing great casualties among their soldiers in the blink of an eye.

Although he Zhang Xianzhong did not know a few big characters, he also knew a lot about the art of war, and knew that the people's army was not trained and lacked sophisticated blades in his hands, so he could only deal with the officers and soldiers with high morale.

And now, with morale alone, it is impossible to frighten the officers and troops on the other side - the war has progressed to this point, and he is sure to lose!