Chapter 21: Break the enemy soldiers and kill the thief

Wang Yan led the Zhongyi battalion and suddenly crashed into the Xu army's array, and the war horse crossed the simple base horse Zhuang, and instantly knocked several Xu army's sabers and shield bearers away, and a thousand cavalry behind him also followed closely and killed into the formation.

Flesh and blood splashed, Xu Jun was already tired, and the formation was messed up, where could he withstand the cavalry charge, a large array of more than 10,000 people, and was killed by the Zhongyi battalion in a moment!

"Formation! The speed of the army is restored! ”

At the moment when Wang Yan pierced through the big formation, General Xu Jun suddenly shouted loudly and commanded the soldiers to restore the formation, but they were not in a hurry to fill the gap that was rushed away, and the other two teams of Gao Jie's cavalry entered the formation one after another.

If the infantry does not form a large formation, it is impossible to resist the impact of the cavalry, the same blood is drenched, the same stumps and broken arms, and the large array of the Xu army is once again pierced by the cavalry.

While the other two teams were attacking the big formation, Wang Yan's loyal battalion reorganized its formation on the outside, and then violently rushed towards the formation again.

"Don't panic, form a formation! Formation! ”

Xu Dingguo looked at the chaotic army, and his face was already in a cold sweat, but Wang Yan and the other two thousand households turned over and attacked, and they didn't give him a chance to form a formation again.

The soldiers who dared to block the cavalry were either cut to the ground or trampled into pulp by the horses, and the blood and corpses donated to bring the Xu army to the brink of collapse.

Wang Yan's horse jumped into the formation again, and a thousand households who were still trying their best to command the Xu army to restore the formation just now were cut off by him in an instant, and blood spurted out, making the surrounding Xu soldiers shudder.

I don't know which soldier threw away the spear in his hand first, turned around and fled north, which instantly triggered a chain reaction of the surrounding Xu army.

After a noisy sound, in the face of the cavalry rushing again, the soldiers of the Xu army could no longer bear it, and the soldiers in front suddenly made a loud uproar, scattering in a hurry, and countless soldiers turned around and fled.

The already chaotic Xu army array was suddenly rushed to pieces by the rout, Xu Dingguo rode on a horse, kept slashing and killing the rout, and screamed. "Don't panic the armies! Escapees! No mercy! ”

Although Xu Dingguo and his personal guards tried their best to prevent the soldiers from fleeing north, there was a way that the army was defeated like a mountain, and the soldiers of the Xu army who fled in rout, from the first few hundred, swept the entire large array in an instant.

The panic spread, and the army was suddenly like an avalanche, and Xu Dingguo and his guards continued to slash and kill, but they could not prevent the rout of Xu's army.

Looking at the defeated soldiers, fleeing to the north all over the mountains, Xu Dingguo couldn't help but sigh, nearly 10,000 troops were destroyed, and he couldn't help but feel disheartened.

"Xu thief!" Just as Xu Dingguo was in the midst of his gloomy and sad expression, a sudden burst of shouts came from in the distance, which woke him up. He searched for prestige, but saw a young general, surrounded by many knights, rushing towards him a hundred paces away.

For a while, Xu Dingguo was so frightened that he dared to stay there, he pulled the reins, turned the horse's head and fled to the north.

"Hugh is gone, Xu Dingguo is gone!"

"Whoever takes the head of the thief will be rewarded with ten gold, and the official will be promoted to one level!"

Killing Xu Dingguo, Wang Yan is the benefactor of the entire Gaojie Department, how could he let go of such an opportunity. Therefore, he locked Xu Dingguo, followed closely behind, and chased after him.

Xu Dingguo listened to the shouts behind him, and felt bitter in his heart, he was a good deputy general in Henan, so what kind of court did he go to!

There is no medicine for regret in the world, Xu Dingguo had to run wild with a sense of remorse, he no longer hoped to get a high position in the Qing court in the future, he only wanted to save his old life, and he was satisfied.

Wang Yan led the Zhongyi battalion and chased Xu Dingguo all the way, and soon overtook the defeated Xu army's foot soldiers, but he did not intend to stop.

The rout was cleaned up by Li Chengdong's army, which came later, and he only had to kill Xu Dingguo to be considered a great achievement, and he could have a certain position in the rest of Gao Jie's army in the future.

Xu Dingguo ran wildly all the way, and there were only a dozen guards left around him, but he couldn't get rid of the cavalry of the Zhongyi Battalion chasing behind him, but he didn't despair in his heart, as long as he held on until dark, he still had a chance to escape.

However, nine times out of ten, things in life are not satisfactory.

Before Xu Dingguo surrendered, he may not have read the Yellow Calendar, nor had he looked for Daxian to calculate the good fortune and evil, but eight or nine times out of ten it seems to have been discussed, and it will follow one after another today.

On the road that Xu Dingguo had to pass to escape, the 1,000 cavalry who had made a detour had been waiting for a long time.

Looking at the cavalry blocking the way in front of him, Xu Dingguo was terrified, and in a panic, he accidentally fell off the galloping war horse.

When his guards saw this, they all grabbed the reins, causing the horses to stop.

At this moment, Wang Yan's cavalry had already caught up and surrounded them.

Xu Dingguo's personal guards were also loyal, and one by one they hurriedly turned over and dismounted, helped Xu Dingguo, who was thrown and vomited blood, surrounded him in the middle, and drew his sword to protect him.

"Xu thief! Don't be tied yet! Wang Yan rode a war horse, pointed at Xu Dingguo with a war knife in his hand, and shouted loudly. Do you want me to do it myself? ”

Xu Dingguo fell from his war horse and broke a few ribs, the pain distorted his expression, and at the same time made his mind clear. At this point, Xu Dingguo knew that it was useless to struggle, but it was obviously impossible for him to be restrained.

Gao Jie died at the hands of Xu Dingguo, and Gao Jie's department hated him to the core, if he fell into their hands alive, he would definitely be worse than dead.

Hearing Wang Yan's reprimand, Xu Dingguo's face leaked a miserable laugh, he looked around at the guards around him, and suddenly drew a knife to his neck. "I'm dead! Thou shalt wait for it, and thou shalt not lose thy life. ”

"General!"

In the exclamation of the guards, Xu Dingguo killed himself with a knife.

From a second-class officer, a provincial deputy general, and a thought, he ended up like this, sad?

"General~" Xu Dingguo was ruthless to Gao Jie, and even more ruthless to himself, he cut his throat with a knife, blood gushed like a spring, and the guards immediately cried bitterly when they saw this.

"Since the thief has surrendered to the law, can you be willing to surrender?" Seeing Xu Dingguo's body fall, Wang Yan spoke.

These guards wept bitterly around Xu Dingguo's body, listened to Wang Yan's question, looked up at each other, and said in unison: "We don't want to surrender, and we are willing to die with the general!" ”

Hearing this, Wang Yan couldn't help but be a little surprised, a little incomprehensible, and even a little annoyed. "Xu Dingguo betrayed the Ming Dynasty and surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and forgot his ancestors, why should you be martyred for such Han thieves!"

"I have taken refuge in the general, and the food and clothing at home are all given by the general. Parents, wives and children are all raised by generals! Hearing this, one of the guards replied. Righteousness is far from us, and we know how to repay it, but we understand. How can you not repay the favor you have received from others! ”

As he spoke, the guard was already holding a knife in his hand, and after speaking, he cut his throat and killed himself like Xu Dingguo, and the other guards also followed, and in a moment, more than a dozen people died completely.

Wang Yan witnessed everything that happened in front of him, his face was extremely gloomy, the soldiers did not know that there was a country, did not know that there was a national righteousness, and did not know that since ancient times, the Han and the thieves did not stand together, I am afraid that many ministers did not take these to heart, otherwise why since the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, there have been countless descendants?

is the people in the Zhongyi Camp around Wang Yan, how many people are standing with him because of Daming? Among them, the degree of loyalty to Wang Yan is probably much higher than that of Daming!

The vast majority of the people, the vast majority of ordinary soldiers, do not know what the country is, what is the national righteousness, and think that the entry of the Manchu Qing Dynasty into the customs is just a change of emperor, and they pay the grain and plant the land according to the seed, and there is no influence or responsibility.

This is also the reason why as soon as the main general descends, he can drive nearly 10,000 horses under his command to surrender to the enemy!

Looking at the dozen or so corpses lying on the ground, Wang Yan's mood was extremely heavy, and he felt unprecedented loneliness at this moment.

After a big victory, he didn't have a trace of the joy of victory.

"Cut off the head of Xu Dingguo, and bury the rest on the spot!" After a while, Wang Yan said helplessly: "Go!" Rendezvous with Sun Qianhu, and then go straight to the Yellow River! ”

Liu Shun dismounted and cut off Xu Dingguo's head with a knife, and hung it directly on his waist with a bag of cloth, and then followed Wang Yan to urge the war horse to join Sun Chengwu's more than 1,000 cavalry.

That Sun Chengwu inquired about the battle, and after learning that Xu Dingguo was killed by Wang Yan, he immediately praised him.

At this time, Wang Yan also learned from Sun Chengwu that there were more than 1,000 Qing soldiers and more than 20 large ships on the side of the Yellow River, and they were preparing to receive the army of the Promise Department to cross the river.

The two decided to pretend to be Xu Jun and rape this Qing army.

In the land of Henan in the first month, the night was very cold, Wang Yan and Sun Chengwu were light and simple, and could not spend the night in the wild, so they took advantage of the fact that the sky was not dark and continued to fight horses.

On the way, the two discussed the specific tactics for tomorrow, because Wang Yan had already achieved the great merit of killing Xu Dingguo, so he decided to give Sun Chengwu the credit for the raid on the Qing army, and the Zhongyi battalion assisted him in the raid with a thousand cavalry.

When it was about to get dark, Wang Yan and his team rushed to Lankao County, eighty miles away from the Yellow River, and wanted to station, but the gentry in the city were unwilling to let the army enter the city.

When Sun Chengwu heard this, he was immediately furious and threatened to send troops to attack the city.

Wang Yan said a lot of bad things to extinguish his anger, and the gentry in the city also made a compromise, although they did not enlarge the army into the city, but they were willing to provide camping materials for the army and prepare food.

That night, Wang Yan arranged for the night watchman, and he was ready to rest, but he couldn't sleep for a long time.

The scenes that happened today kept coming to his mind, the stormy Ming Dynasty! There is a wolf-like Manchu Qing on the outside, but the people's hearts are lost on the inside, how to save you?

There was nothing to say all night, and after dawn, after breakfast, the army set off again, but Wang Yan let Qian Yifeng lead a hundred people to stay outside Kaolan City.

When the gentry in the city saw that the army had left, they went up to the city to check, but they saw that at the city gate, the materials sent out of the city yesterday were neatly placed and piled up on both sides of the city gate.

Seeing this, the officials and gentry were immediately surprised, looking at Qian Yifeng and the others who were still carrying quilts, tents and other things, and couldn't help asking, "Who are you?" ”

"Camp of Loyalty!" Qian Yifeng looked up and replied.

"This Wang Shiye!" Seeing this, an old man couldn't help but say with his eyes slightly red.

(In real history, after killing Gao Jie, Xu Dingguo successfully escaped the Yellow River and joined the Qing Dynasty.) For the needs of the plot, the author can only borrow his dog head, so he can only write him to death. )