But I heard one of them say, "This lord, we haven't eaten a full meal for a month, and we are about to starve to death." Instead of starving to death, it is better to fight with the officials and soldiers, so that even if they die, they can die vigorously! ”

"Good!" Li Zicheng praised, "Good brother! What's your name, we can be a companion on Huangquan Road! ”

The man laughed and said: "My name is Liu Zongmin, and I am willing to live and die with Uncle Li, the 'breaking general'!" ”

The two of them were talking, but they saw that the township brave regiment led by Ji Qingwen in front of them had already been killed, and they lined up in formation opposite Li Zicheng, and they only waited for an order to start killing.

Ji Qingwen traveled to the modern people of the late Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty, and still had a bit of humanitarianism in his heart, and felt that it was too cruel to slaughter Li Zicheng and them on the spot, so he personally stood in front of the team and shouted: "Li Zicheng and Gao Yingxiang on the other side listened." You have committed the heinous sin of rebelling. But those who obey do not need to die, and if you still speak of righteousness, turn yourself in, and I promise that I will not embarrass the rest of the brothers! ”

"You don't buy people's hearts here!" Gao Yingxiang said, "Here are our brothers in life and death, 'not born in the same year, the same month, and the same day, but begging to be born and died in the same year, the same month, and the same day'!" If you have what it takes, you're going to kill us all! ”

Li Zicheng, who was injured on the side, said to the left and right: "You have accompanied me here, it is already considered benevolent and righteous, if there are still old and young wives and children at home to take care of, you can naturally go out and surrender." I, Li Zicheng, will never be surprised. ”

His voice fell for a long time, and finally no one came out to surrender to the official army.

Ji Qingwen stood opposite and listened to their conversation clearly, shook his head and said, "Why bother? Why bother! ”

Li Yuanyin walked up and said in Ji Qingwen's ear: "My lord has given them a chance, but I didn't expect these people to be really some traitors who are determined to make trouble with the court." My lord, there can be no more kindness of women, so quickly order them all to be exterminated. ”

Ji Qingwen listened, sighed, slowly retreated to the back of the formation, waved his hand at Chen Wenzhao, and said, "Forget it, let's do it!" ”

When Chen Wenzhao heard this, he took a deep breath and ordered: "All the troops are ready, fire and shoot at the enemy!" ”

As soon as the words fell, the hundred musketeers immediately began to charge and aim, and were about to pull the trigger, when someone shouted: "General, slow down, a troop of cavalry is coming from the north!" ”

Chen Wenzhao was taken aback when he heard this, and hurriedly ordered his soldiers to stop shooting, looked to the north, and sure enough, he saw a group of cavalry of about two or three hundred people, galloping towards Ji Qingwen's side.

Ji Qingwen was also shocked, raised his binoculars and looked in the direction of the cavalry, but saw that these cavalrymen were wearing variegated clothes and weapons, and they were obviously not serious officers and soldiers.

So he handed the telescope to Chen Wenzhao and said, "General Chen, there is probably another civilian army over there, they are all cavalry, I don't know how to deal with it?" ”

Chen Wenzhao put down the binoculars, showed a serious and embarrassed look on his face, and said, "It would be good if you took that chariot with you when you went north...... I just count on the cavalry of these people's armies to be not as elite as the cavalry of the Manchurian Eight Banners......"

After that, he hurriedly ordered the whole team to retreat twenty steps to the southeast, lined up diagonally, and placed Gao Yingxiang, Li Zicheng, and the group of cavalry who had retreated to the corner of the wall in front of him, and strictly ordered the soldiers under his command to be ready for battle, and not to have the slightest mood of underestimating the enemy.

You must know that in the "Battle of the Hunhe River" that year, the old "Qi Army" was wiped out under the impact of the Manchurian Jurchen cavalry, and Chen Wenzhao was the party involved in that bloody battle, so he was naturally very nervous.

However, after all, those people's troops were not as proficient in the use of cavalry as the Manchurians outside the Guan, and galloped to a place about 100 paces away from Ji Qingwen's headquarters, but did not rush straight towards them, but changed their direction, and joined forces with Li Zicheng, who had retreated under the city.

I saw the leader of the team riding on a horse and laughing loudly at Li Zicheng: "Hahaha! Li Zicheng, you are too slow. told you that you did things upside down, and you had to force the people to kill the county officials first, and they became criminals of the imperial court, so they naturally rebelled with you. It's better for you to kill corrupt officials and buy people's hearts first, so you have to get to the Year of the Monkey? ”

Li Zicheng didn't bother to talk to this person, so he said: "I know, 'Eight Kings', now the soldiers and horses of the imperial court are ahead, let's fight the enemy first, and talk about other things later!" ”

The "Eight Kings" looked up to the sky and laughed: "Unanimously against the enemy? How many officers and soldiers are there? I have 300 elite horsemen under my command, and 3,000 foot soldiers are coming, and I can kill all these officers and soldiers without your intervention! ”

Li Zicheng said: "You first kill the officers and soldiers, and then talk to me big." But I kindly advise you a few words, the group of officers and soldiers on the other side is not easy to deal with, you are careful to capsize in the gutter! ”

The "Eight Kings" didn't appreciate it at all, and sneered with a "hum": "You are so afraid of wolves and tigers in the past, no wonder you have been forced to the end of the mountains and rivers." Look how I screwed off the head of that officer and army leader and gave you the night pot! ”

So he screamed, led his three hundred cavalry, and began to line up in front of the formation.

Ji Qingwen had the telescope he got from Zheng Zhilong in his hand, and he saw everything in front of him clearly, suddenly put down the telescope and shouted: "It's not good!" ”

Li Yuanyin listened and hurriedly asked, "My lord, what's wrong?" ”

Ji Qingwen replied: "That cavalry leader is my enemy, that Zhang Xianzhong who was almost killed by me in Xiakou Town, Shanxi!" ”

Zhang Xianzhong's matter, Li Yuanyin had heard Ji Qingwen and Li Yan talk a few times, and he knew some of the stories in it, so he was also very anxious in his heart, and hurriedly said: "It seems that today is a bloody battle between you and me, adults should be careful......

Chen Wenzhao, who was on the side, listened to the conversation between the two of them clearly, and suddenly ordered the sergeant under his command to take ten steps forward, raise his musket and shoot fiercely at the cavalry of the People's Army.

In this matter, the regimental training soldiers under Ji Qingwen were about seventy paces away from Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry, that is, nearly fifty meters, and they had almost reached the limit of the range and accuracy of the flintlock pistol.

However, on the opposite side, the target was more than doubled, which created favorable conditions for the musket to be aimed - I saw that the projectile fired by the regimental trainers under Ji Qingwen was like having eyes, and accurately hit the cavalry under Zhang Xianzhong.

The cavalrymen on horseback were shot and could barely endure the pain.

But the horses under their crotches couldn't restrain their instinctive reactions, and immediately spun around in pain, running and jumping wildly, and pulled off many cavalry from their horses-Zhang Xianzhong's neatly arranged team suddenly became chaotic.

Zhang Xianzhong was short-tempered, and when he saw this, he was furious, and scolded sharply: "Rabbit cubs, line up for Lao Tzu well, who dares to mess up the formation, see if Lao Tzu doesn't kill your head!" ”

Before he finished speaking, another burst of bullets struck, disrupting the formation that had been stabilized again, and he remembered that Zhang Xianzhong personally swung his knife and cut off the heads of the two cavalrymen.

However, of course, people wanted to line up, but the beasts were disobedient, so they were entangled in a cup of tea, Zhang Xianzhong's team withstood the attack of Ji Qingwen's five or six muskets, and lost thirty or forty cavalry before the enemy was engaged, but the team was still scattered.

Li Zicheng on the side saw him so embarrassed, and he was indescribably happy in his heart, but he thought that he and the "Eight Kings" Zhang Xianzhong were grasshoppers tied to a rope - if he was finished, he would have no good fruit to eat.

So Li Zicheng had an idea and shouted: "Hey! 'Eight Kings'! Don't line up in the same place, move and line up at the same time, and when you get to the flank of the officers and soldiers, you will charge at them, so that you will not be hit by the guns of the officers and soldiers! ”

Zhang Xianzhong heard it clearly on the horse, and replied unconvinced: "Lao Tzu's cavalry crisscrosses the northwest, and you still want you to teach me?" ”

However, although he was still reckless in his mouth, he was like a mirror in his heart - he knew that in the face of the long-range firepower of the officers and soldiers, only Li Zicheng's method was the only feasible.

So Zhang Xianzhong gave the order to go down and let the cavalry under his command move separately, while making a big circle to the east and gathering troops at the same time.

This move was really clever, the high-speed movement of the cavalry caused great difficulty to the aiming of Ji Qingwen's muskets, and hundreds of muskets were fired in rows, which could only cause less than ten casualties among Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

Seeing that Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry had moved to the flank gap of Ji Qingwen's headquarters, Chen Wenzhao was so anxious that he hurriedly ordered to change the formation, rotate the formation in parallel ninety degrees, and face Zhang Xianzhong head-on again, but inevitably exposed a large number of loopholes behind him in front of Li Zicheng's remnants.