Chapter 691: Epilogue

Under the pursuit and driving of Zhang Dingguo's army, the Ming army had long lost the ability to think, and only thought about getting rid of the pursuit of the thieves to escape.

The journey of nearly ten miles had already exhausted them to death, and only the consciousness of escape was left in their brains, and there was no longer any thought about him. As if they were drowning and dying, the sudden appearance of their main force in front of them was the only straw they could grasp, and they didn't care too much about whether they would drag their main force into the water.

And the deliberate drive and squeeze of the five-way thief army also made it impossible for them to flee to both sides at all, and they could only rush towards their own army array in a daze.

drove the rout to make it impact the Ming army array, and the tactics formulated by Zhang Dingguo were simple and direct, and they were also very ruthless.

Although Du Yinxi took countermeasures to this situation in advance and ordered the array in front to stop the rout from charging the formation, he did not expect that it was the thief soldiers who wanted to break up their own array with the rout, so as to completely defeat their own army.

And for the sake of the rigor of the array, the people in the middle of the array are all ordinary Ming troops, and the rout soldiers are originally of the same origin, seeing the defeated soldiers rushing in front, many of them are colleagues and acquaintances, looking at the familiar faces, although there are officers who order to release arrows and guns, how can they do it?

The two armies are at war, and a brief hesitation can have disastrous consequences. The Ming army of the Chinese army couldn't bear to attack in the face of the rushing rout comrades, so the rout rushed into their array, and the originally strict formation suddenly scattered.

There were more and more routs in the back, like a torrent, rushing into the Ming army's large array, causing the large array to collapse in an instant, and there was no longer any strict formation and perfect defense.

Du Yinxi watched dumbfounded, watching the originally strict formation being scattered by his own rout, and looking at the soldiers in front of him who were messy like the people in the bazaar, where there was still a trace of majesty.

In this case, how can they resist the attack of the thief army? At this moment, the soldiers were ready to block Yinxi's heart as if they were dead.

The rout was finally driven into the array of the main force of the Ming army, and seeing the Ming army in chaos, Zhang Dingguo naturally would not let go of this God-given opportunity. He had already passed down the order, ordering the Fifth Route Army to attack the Ming army at the same time, and he personally led 200 cavalry, falling on the tail of the rout, and crashed into the Ming army's array, trampling with iron hooves, sweeping with sabers, and mourning everywhere he passed, with a lot of casualties.

The two hundred cavalry were not many, but the Ming army, which had completely lost its formation, was unable to resist at all. The army under the command of Du Yinxi was originally composed of the Huguang rout soldiers who had experienced the defeat of Jingzhou and the Tusi wolf soldiers, except for some sentry scouts with war horses, there was no cavalry at all, and in the face of the impact of the cavalry of the Western Army, the Ming soldiers cried and shouted to avoid both sides, which made the formation even more chaotic.

Battles are fought against the morale of the formation, not the number of people. From ancient times to modern times, there have been many outnumbered victories who have won big victories.

The number of Ming troops under Du Yinxi was several times that of the thief soldiers, but they were broken through the formation by the rout, and then the panic caused by the rout spread throughout the array, coupled with the attack of the cavalry led by Zhang Dingguo himself, the formation in front collapsed in an instant, and countless soldiers cried and shouted and threw away their weapons and joined the ranks of the defeated and fled.

Standing on the command chariot, Du Yinxi was horrified to see that in a short period of time, the entire front of the array had collapsed, and a team of thieves with only a few hundred rode into a no-man's land, rampaging through the entire array, and the Ming army was defeated and fled one after another, and no one dared to resist.

And farther away, several bandit armies are rushing over quickly, but judging from the scale, all the thief armies add up to thousands!

"Give an order to the wolf soldiers on both wings, and order them to attack the thief army!" At this time, Du Yinxi was unwilling to fail, and he was trying to recover the decline.

The attacking thief army is only a few thousand, the number is only one-fifth of their own, and there are more than 10,000 Tusi wolf soldiers on both wings alone, as long as they can quickly assault and attack the back of the thief soldiers, they will force the thief army to stop chasing and killing their own troops and retreat!

"Lord Binggen, it's too late!" He Gang, a staff member on the side, said with a sad face.

Du Yinxi looked at the two wings intently, and saw that the wolf soldiers on the two wings had already been fluctuating, and they were fleeing backwards, completely ignoring the banner of the Chinese army's order.

The main force of the Ming army was still defeated, and these wolf soldiers, who were attached to the army, were naturally unwilling to contribute to the bitter battle with the unknown strong enemy, and it was natural for them to retreat with defeat.

And in the foreign wars at the end of the Ming Dynasty, how many times was like this, as long as the main force was slightly weakened, the other troops hurriedly took the lead in the rout, thus triggering an even greater rout, and it is not an accident today.

Seeing this situation, Du Yinxi sighed, knowing that it was difficult to recover the defeat. But he was really unwilling in his heart, he painstakingly led the rout to regroup, and successively recovered the two mansions of Changsha and Yueyang, seeing that there was a trend of recovering the entire Huguang, who would have thought that he would be defeated so quickly!

"Lord Bingxian, let's withdraw too, stay in Qingshan without fear of no firewood!" He Gang hurriedly persuaded.

Plug Yin Xi nodded muran, the one who knows the times is Junjie, there is no point in insisting at this time, only to retreat first and then escape with his life, and he will regroup and make a comeback!

Zhang Dingguo led the cavalry to ram and kill all the way, I don't know how many Ming troops were trampled under the horses' hooves, and the blood was dripping under the blades, and even the men and horses were like being washed in blood, stained with the blood of the enemy.

Finally, he grabbed his panting horse, and his cavalry stopped the pursuit. After continuous fighting, they have traveled for dozens of miles, and the war horses have already reached the limit of exhaustion.

Zhang Dingguo looked back, and there were only more than 100 cavalry following him, although they easily broke through the Ming army's array twice, but they were inevitably damaged. In the front, the Ming army was full of mountains and fields, and 5,000 soldiers of the Western Army were chasing and chasing, but Zhang Dingguo knew that the soldiers of the Western Army, like the cavalry, were exhausted and on the verge of collapse.

If you continue to pursue and kill, you can easily kill these tens of thousands of Ming army routs and easily recover Yueyang and Changsha Mansions. However, Zhang Dingguo was unwilling and did not have time to continue to deal with this Ming army. Because his main task now is to go to Jiujiang with a large army and participate in the encirclement and suppression of the main force of the Ming army in Jiujiang.

After this defeat, Huguang's Ming army had become frightened birds, and could no longer pose a threat to himself, and Zhang Dingguo did not want to waste time on them.

As a general, Zhang Dingguo has this awareness of the overall situation, and naturally knows what he should do.

With his order, the sound of gold sounded, and the five teams stopped the pursuit of the Ming army, and then gathered together and began to treat their own wounded soldiers and clean up the battlefield.

In the distance, hearing that the thieves had stopped pursuing, Du Yinxi breathed a sigh of relief, but looking at the only hundreds of soldiers following him, he sighed and showed a wry smile on his face. ()

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