The array was quickly broken, and the fierce thief was less than a hundred steps away from him, Wang Shicai couldn't muster up the courage to fight and resist, so he turned his horse and fled.

The main general was defeated and fled, the military flag was cut off, and the 8,000 Ming army was suddenly in chaos, where is the courage to resist?

At the same time, Zhang Dingguo's 5,000 infantry rushed over and slammed into the chaotic Ming army array, which collapsed in an instant, and could no longer form any resistance.

After cutting through the enemy's formation and cutting off the enemy's banner, Zhang Dingguo did not continue to ride his horse and gallop, but circled his horse, took two hundred cavalry to kill back, and joined the main force. Then he commanded the troops to pursue the fleeing Ming army.

The Ming army had been routed and could no longer resist. Zhang Dingguo divided the 5,000 soldiers into five teams and took turns to attack the Ming army, so that they would not have the slightest chance to breathe. And he took 200 cavalry to the center to respond, where the resistance was stronger, Zhang Dingguo took the cavalry to launch a fierce attack on where, and after crushing the resistance, the infantry attacked to reap the results.

"General, it has been ascertained that the Ming army is preparing for the road and blocking Yinxi with 20,000 troops is behind Wang Shicai's army, which is only more than 20 miles away." An officer stepped forward to report the news that had just been forced from the mouth of a prisoner of the Ming army.

Twenty miles, originally twenty miles apart, but now that the battle has been going on for so long, the distance should be less than ten miles! Zhang Dingguo sneered, "Pass the order, the armies from all walks of life are mainly driven away, there is no need to deliberately cut and kill the rout, drive the rout to the main force of the Ming army, break through the Ming army array with the rout, and completely defeat the Ming army!" ”

After receiving the order, several heralds immediately beat their horses and flew like flies, and sent orders to the generals of the various troops. Soon, the offensive rhythm of the five armies changed, no longer focusing on slashing the head, but the army closely followed the tail of the rout, and used the long-range attack of bows, arrows and firearms as a means to force the Ming army to flee wildly.

The five teams once reversed the swallow-shaped queue and squeezed the rout into the middle of the swallow-shaped, and whenever the rout stopped for a while, a cavalry would rush forward and slash the head to the ground. Thousands of routs were in a mess, crying and shouting and fleeing.

Seven or eight miles away, an even larger Ming army had just stopped from marching mode.

After receiving the news that Wang Shicai had encountered the thief soldiers, Du Yinxi immediately ordered a rapid march to meet Wang Shicai's vanguard army and launch a flank attack on the thief soldiers. However, before he was halfway there, he received the news of Wang Shicai's defeat.

Wang Shicai took more than a dozen cavalrymen and fled wildly, leaving the army far behind.

Seeing Wang Shicai's appearance, the liver hurt from blocking Yin Xiqi, and he gave an order with a pale face, ordering his subordinates to tie up Wang Shicai.

"Lord Bingxian, it's not that the last general is incompetent, it's that the thief attack is too fierce, it's not a rout, but the thousands of cavalry of the thief Anxi general Zhang Dingguo, who suddenly rushed over and caught the last general off guard! In order to prevent you from being attacked like the last general, the last general abandoned the army and came to report the news. ”

Wang Shicai struggled and tried his best to defend himself.

Plug Yinxi didn't have time to deal with Wang Shicai, so he waved his hand to escort him down, and immediately began to deploy in place.

The enemy army is ten miles away, and the scattered army must be sorted out first, so as to resist the attack of the enemy cavalry, and Du Yinxi does not want to end up like Wang Shicai.

With the order of Plug Yinxi, the front army immediately stopped and lined up in the direction of Wuchang. The addition of a team of rear troops made the array thicker. Although he is a civilian official, Du Yinxi is very familiar with the marching formation, although his subordinates are mixed with the Ming army and the Tusi wolf soldiers, but Du Yinxi is commanding freely.

The Ming army was weak, but they were all hereditary military families, and they were no strangers to marching formations.

The wolf soldiers are brave, the sense of discipline and obedience is poor, and the ability to line up is not as good as that of the military family from the Ming army, so Du Yinxi put them on both wings. With the Ming army to block the frontal attack of the thief soldiers, and then the wolf soldiers suddenly killed from both wings, both sides of the thief soldiers, and when the thieves were attacked and weakened, the Ming army attacked from the front, this is a dignified and upright formation.

Although Wang Shicai kept saying that there were thousands of thieves, Du Yinxi didn't think so. Thousands of cavalry, only the Xuanda Army and the Guanning Army had such a huge army, and the thieves were running around all the year round, what to feed so many cavalry, and where to get so many war horses? Wang Shicai was just scared.

Although there are as many as 100,000 thieves, but the march of 100,000 troops is not trivial, the huge number of people, the food and salary carried are destined to decide not to walk fast, here is more than 100 miles away from Wuchang, it is impossible to encounter too many thieves, I am afraid that the total number of thieves is only thousands.

With just a simple analysis, Plug Yinxi can judge the situation of the thieves. There are only thousands of thieves, but there are 20,000 Ming troops here, and they are very confident in repelling the thief army and blocking Yinxi.

As soon as the queue here was sorted out, he saw a large cloud of dust in front of him, and Du Yinxi knew that the defeated soldiers had fled back, and the routed army must be the thief army.

"Order, order the defeated troops to flee on both sides, and not to storm the big array!" Plugging Yinxi gave a deep order, and a herald passed his order to the front of the array.

The rout was getting closer and closer, and I could already see their panicked faces, throwing away their armor, running with empty hands, crying and shouting, and one by one they wished that their parents would give them three legs.

Seeing the sudden appearance of their own army formation in front of them, these defeated soldiers were overjoyed, and they could finally escape back to their own army formation to get rid of the pursuit of those vicious thieves. The routs fled towards their own formations regardless of the route.

"Don't run here, flee to both sides of the formation!" The soldiers in front of the battle shouted in unison, conveying the military order of blocking Yinxi. However, one by one, these routs turned a deaf ear and crashed straight towards the big array.

It's not that they don't want to flee on both sides, both sides are also routs, but on the periphery of the rout are vicious thieves, they don't have the courage to collide with the thieves, they just want to stay away.

"Shoot the arrows!" Looking at the rout soldiers getting closer and closer, the faces of the generals of the Ming army who commanded in front of the formation changed, and finally gave an order, with his order, the Ming archers pulled their bows and arrows, and hundreds of feather arrows flew towards the rout.

Dozens of routs were shot to the ground by arrows, but many more feathered arrows were stuck in the mud before the rout. They are all colleagues who get along day and night, and many archers can't bear to attack their own people.

To the rout of the brigade, hundreds of feathered arrows were like a few pebbles thrown into the sea, and they did not stir up much of a wave, and dozens of routs were shot dead and could not stop their steps, shouting and wailing, stepping over the corpses of their fallen comrades, and fleeing towards their own ranks.

Chasing after the fierce hungry wolf-like thieves, as long as they escape into their own ranks, they will be completely safe.