Chapter 586: Across the River is coming

A snowball smashed into the hard ground from mid-air, and the ball suddenly turned to powder.

The two guards and horses of Liaozhen led by Li Liang, Li Gufeng's forward, and the military formation in front of the Huazhou Northern Army are actually similar to this so-called snowball, as long as it is heavy, it will become powder, to paraphrase the old man's common saying, things without a heart are not real!

The main generals and officers are the heart of this team, originally the Ming army was still there shouting and fighting, although some escaped, but more still gathered in a small group to fight. Because Li Liang has been shouting loudly and cheering, ready to fight to the death, but after Li Liang's horse team escaped along the gap in the battlefield.

The soldiers no longer have the will to fight, outside the pass, especially in Liaodi, there are mostly plains, the soldiers see that the main general has already run away, who will continue to fight to the death stupidly, with a bang, the whole team scattered at once, anyway, it is a plain, and you can run in all directions.

At this time, it was the Huazhou army that was a little overwhelmed, and the soldiers and officers were all wondering why the Ming army, which was still fighting with them just now, suddenly dispersed like this.

Huazhou's military regulations have strict orders, and the formation cannot be dispersed when it is not ordered, otherwise it is engaged in military law, so the soldiers of the infantry team have no way to pursue, they can only watch the other party run, but the killing and wounding of the party is already enough, and the last time the officer deliberately let the rout gather the rout, this battle is not a defeat, but a killing, from the beginning of the battle, to the defeat at this time, the battlefield has lost more than 3,000 corpses of the Ming army, nearly forty percent of the casualties, it can be said that it is a big victory.

But Liu 13 was furious there, and the same soldiers were extremely contemptuous of the other party's Ming generals who did not fight to the death with them, but led the crowd to escape, but it was more that Li Liang shouted "fight with them, fight to the death", Liu 13 thought that there would be a happy fight.

I didn't expect the other party to go away like this, and ran away in a big way, it was really too big a psychological gap, Liu Shisan was also angry, raised the big knife in his hand there, and shouted loudly:

"If you don't kill the enemy generals today, you won't give up, sons, rush with me!"

Huazhou's horse team has been attracting the attention of the other party in today's battle, wandering on the flank, ready to give the opponent a fatal blow, and finally when it hit the left flank of the Ming army, the battle was not too fierce, and then it was a big rout, and there were not many opportunities to move.

The various fighting heads have just been mentioned, but they can't find the object of the fight, hearing Liu Shisan's shouting, the people below are all obeying the order, following Liu Shisan, urging the horse is to chase over.

When Li Liang and the others rushed out from the right side, the Ming army on the right flank had not yet broken up, and actually blocked the passage of the horse team, but it was important to escape, that is, to block it for a while and then disperse, but when Liu Shisan came to pursue, the distance was not opened at all.

If the horse teams on both sides fight here, there may not be any too obvious victory or defeat, because whether it is a bow and arrow or a firecracker, because the bumps on the horse's back are not accurate, the main thing is to rely on the blade in the hand to fight and distinguish the superior, but now one is chasing, the other is fleeing, the Ming army does not dare to fight at all, this contrast, if it meets and fights, it must be a one-sided situation.

At this time, it was almost noon, and on the vast plain, two horse teams of more than 1,000 people were chasing each other, which was also a very spectacular sight, and there were routs running around, and the dust was flying, which looked very fierce, but the victory and defeat were already clear.

At this time, the captain of the infantry of the Huazhou Northern Army gave the order to surrender, and the Huazhou army, which was still extremely close just now, became a combination of 50 people, they pursued deserters, cleaned the battlefield, and accepted prisoners.

The battle actually put a lot of pressure on the Ming army, some people even if they did not fight hand-to-hand at the forefront, but they were still very tired, most of the scattered soldiers ran a few steps, they had no strength to run, and after marching all night, they were thirsty and hungry, and their bodies seemed to be falling apart, and many people were desperate to kneel on the ground and wait for death.

"Throw away your weapons, kneel and don't kill!!"

The foot soldiers of the Huazhou Northern Army shouted loudly, and the sound reached the ears of the Ming army, and they had no strength to fight, and they surrendered on their knees.

The chase over there, Li Liang and his cavalry began to desperately urge the horses, but after running for half an hour, the horses could not guarantee such a high speed, slowed down, and looked at the Huazhou army behind them shouting and scolding angrily, the Ming army's heart was on fire, but they didn't dare to continue to fight the horses, otherwise the horses would be tired and would die.

Liu Shisan's horses encountered similar problems to Li Liang, after such a long battle, their horses were also tired and abnormal, and their state was only slightly better than the Ming army horses in front, but it was just better, not enough to provide the speed to catch up.

While chasing, Liu Shisan suddenly found that the Ming army in front of him stopped, and he was happy in his heart thinking that you can't run, leave your life and horses behind, but then he felt that something was wrong, and hurriedly raised his hand to stop, and the horse team of the Huazhou Northern Army walked a few steps forward, which was the stop.

The men behind them were a little puzzled, wondering why they had stopped, and after a while, they felt that something was wrong, and the horses began to look a little restless, and some of them were still neighing. At this time, there was a slight vibration on the ground, and there was a low sound like thunder in the distance, but Li Liang, a soldier of Liaozhen in front, and his party suddenly became excited, and actually rushed towards Liu Shisan's side.

This series of abnormal actions soon had an answer, Liu Shisan spit to the side in frustration, and scolded:

"The army of Liaozhen is coming, go, go back!"

Turning the horse's head and rushing back towards the way they came, everyone followed, Li Liang over there just looked like he was in pursuit, and he didn't dwell on it for too long, and went directly to the main formation.

The foot soldiers of the Huazhou Northern Army here have been in accordance with the rules of the code, collecting the captured prisoners and baggage, and slowly retreating from the pontoon bridge on the Fan River to the opposite bank, and after Liu 13 came back with the horse team, the pontoon bridge was dragged to the opposite bank.

Li Gufeng led 70,000 Ming troops, in September of the 22nd year of Jiajing, arrived at the south bank of the Fan River, 60,000 people, plus horses and baggage, it was a rather large team, the ground trembled, the sound was like thunder, but it was normal.

The distance between the team and the forward is a day's to half a day's journey, and after Li Gufeng ordered Li Liang to rush forward and seize Fan Hesuo, his army followed suit.

Although victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, Li Gufeng did not expect that the Dongning Wei and Shenyang Zhongwei led by Li Liang would be defeated so completely, Li Gufeng, the chief soldier of Liaozhen, was in the center of the team, and someone had already reported the situation in front, Li Gufeng's face was gloomy, and he just ordered Li Liang and the remaining remnants of the army to be under the command of the Dingliao general, and the army would defend itself and continue to advance.

Up to now, three soldiers and horses have been defeated in the hands of the Huazhou Northern Army, the whole army of Tielingwei was captured, the next two, one was defeated, and most of the soldiers and horses were collected, this time they were completely disabled, although Li Liang's escape was a shame, but everyone knows this situation, if it is late, I am afraid that the more than 1,000 horse teams will also be confessed there.

This time I met a difficult opponent, the other party is not a mob with no combat experience at all, this kind of posture is clearly the appearance of the first-class elite of the Ming Dynasty.

But at this time, the general army of Liaozhen knew that it was impossible to retreat, such a large army, if it retreated rashly at this time, it was very likely to collapse, in case the other party covered up in the back, the consequences would be even more unimaginable, Li Gufeng suddenly had an idea: Could it be that the other party's actions were to transfer his army here to fight a decisive battle.

He shook his head, Li Gufeng didn't believe that the other party had the courage to fight his nearly 100,000 army, and the people who went to the gate were just some merchants and homeless people, so why should they fight against the strong soldiers in the border towns.

At this time, Li Gufeng's side of the colonel came to report that Li Liang's rout, the foot soldiers also ran back, the general soldier of Liaozhen groaned for a while, and ordered his subordinates to bring those rout soldiers over, he wanted to personally interrogate, and at the same time ordered to go down, prepare to camp, from the perspective of the movement of the Huazhou army, between Fan Hesuo and Yilubao, is the battlefield of the decisive battle.

Marching to a distance of twenty miles from the Fan River, the 70,000-strong army of Liaozhen began to set up camp, with noisy banners and bright armor, and the infantry and cavalry began to line up, on the one hand, to defend the other party, and on the other hand, to boast of military might.

As if in order to correspond to the behavior of the Ming army, the silent Huazhou army slowly expanded its formation on the north side of the Fan River, solemnly looking at the Ming army on the other side of the river, and the people who paid attention to the Huazhou army were not good-looking, because the Huazhou army on the opposite side also had a scale of tens of thousands of people.

It seems that the main forces of both sides are here, and the decisive battle is imminent.

Liao Zhenbing was the first to put up Li Gufeng's handsome tent, Li Gufeng's armor did not take off, and listened intently to a foot soldier who fled back below to tell Fang Cai's battle, his face was calm like water, there was no expression, the more Mr. Qian said, the more scared he became, and in the end he didn't stop talking and kowtowed to beg for mercy, Li Gufeng waved his hand and said:

"Go back to the team, today's battle, you are not responsible!"

The thousand thousand words of gratitude exchanged with tears, stood up and walked out of the handsome tent, and in a trance heard someone behind him say:

"It is better to gather and disperse soldiers as usual, this is a strong army."

The voice is soft......