Five or six thousand thieves stopped on both sides of the road a few miles ahead, which made Wang Shicai extremely excited, and under his order, the eight thousand Ming army mustered up their remaining strength and marched quickly several miles away.

We must catch up with this thief army, leave them all, and use the head to receive a reward from Lord Bingxian!

Is it finally here? Hearing the report of his subordinates, Zhang Dingguo sneered.

Throwing away the tattered robe draped over his shoulders, revealing a black iron armor, he took the spear handed by his own soldiers and stepped onto the yellow horse.

The black armor, silver spear and yellow horse, the angular face showed a resolute look, and the tall and burly body exuded a strong murderous aura.

Two hundred guards had galloped out from behind the woods and lined up behind Zhang Dingguo.

More than 200 horsemen, all wearing leather armor, holding spears and carrying sabers behind their backs, although the number was small, a powerful murderous aura permeated.

At the same time, the 5,000 soldiers who had been sitting in a mess also stood up one after another, and began to organize the queue under the orders of officers at all levels.

The tattered clothes were still aside, revealing the neat armor on their bodies, the shields were spread, the spears were erected, and a tight queue was displayed for a short time.

A banner was held by a stout soldier in both hands, and it was unfurled in the air, embroidered with the six characters "General Xi'anxi". Under this banner, the five thousand elite Western soldiers looked solemn.

5,000 elite soldiers, this is the most elite troops in Zhang Dingguo's 100,000 army, weapons, armor, clothing, food and salary are much higher than those of colleagues, and they are the elite guards directly under Zhang Dingguo, and they will never be used at critical moments, and today in order to quickly stabilize the situation in Huguang, in order to go to Jiujiang in time to join the decisive battle between the Western Ming Dynasty, Zhang Dingguo brought them all out, and wanted to give the Ming army a heavy blow!

Wang Shicai led 8,000 troops all the way to hurry, and only when he approached the thief army did he get the true situation of the thief army.

"Report, Lord Commander, the thief army in front of you is not the rout, yes, it is the elite soldiers under the thief Anxi General Zhang Dingguo, who pretended to be a rout at the beginning." The probe horse galloped back and brought back the news that shocked Wang Shicai.

Not a rout! Hit the trick! The thieves are so cunning!

Wang Shicai was shocked, and hurriedly ordered the army to stop, began to gather the queue and arrange the defense line, and at the same time sent people to the rear army to ask for troops to prepare the road to block Yinxi and quickly lead the army to meet.

On the other side, it was not the rout but the elite of the thief army, and they were waiting for work, and they rushed directly to fight without any chance of winning. As an experienced veteran, Wang Shicai's reaction is not unfast.

However, at this time, the distance between the two sides was only more than two miles, and Wang Shicai's army was completely in a marching posture of attacking and defeating the army, and it was not so easy to hastily organize the queue and turn to defense.

Fall back? Once retreating at such a close distance is a rout, it will even lead to a complete rout of the main forces in the rear, and there will be no retreat at all.

Stabilize the array and arrange the defense line, as long as you can block the thieves on the opposite side for a while, and wait for the soldiers to come with the main force to flank the thieves, you will definitely be able to defeat the thousands of thieves in front of you, and the outcome is not yet known!

However, what Wang Shicai didn't expect was that the speed of the thieves was too fast, and as soon as he ordered the troops to gather and arrange the defense line, the sound of horses' hooves like thunder came to his ears, and then he saw a large cloud of smoke and dust flying fast approaching.

"Shield Soldier Forward!"

"Raise the spear, raise the spear!"

Officers of all levels shouted hoarsely, shield soldiers rushed forward, inserting the lower end of their shields into the mud, and the pikemen hurriedly raised their spears, the sharp tips of which were pointed diagonally into the air, forming a line of crooked defensive lines.

However, before the defense line could be completely completed, two hundred iron horsemen had already reached the sight.

With his feet in the stirrups and his legs between the belly of the horse, the yellow horse was like an arrow from the bow, and pounced straight towards the thin shield array of the Ming army.

Relying only on his legs to control the war horse, Zhang Dingguo held a spear that was eight feet long.

Swept hard, several oblique spears of the Ming army in front of him were all swept into the air, and two bowl-sized horses' hooves stepped on the two shields, and the Ming army behind the shields screamed and made a crisp fractured sound with their arms.

With the strength of the hind hooves, the yellow horse had already crossed the thin defense line and crashed into the Ming army array. Zhang Dingguo held a spear in his left hand to block the weapon that greeted his war horse, and with his right hand he pulled out a long knife and slashed hard, blood splattered, and he howled miserably.

Following Zhang Dingguo's war horse, two hundred cavalry rushed into the array of the Ming army, the thin defense line could not stop the cavalry's charge at all, and the behemoth that rushed into it made the Ming army in front of him feel distraught, crying and fleeing to both sides.

Not everyone has the courage to face the impact of the cavalry, and those who can hit the war horse and have weak legs can be called elite soldiers, and how many such elite soldiers are there in the entire Ming army? At least Wang Shicai's soldiers did not have such qualities.

The two hundred cavalry cut into the tofu like a sharp knife, and easily pierced into the ranks of the Ming army.

The huge queue of 8,000 Ming troops was helpless in the face of 200 cavalry. In front of the galloping war horse, no soldier dared to stop it......

Zhang Dingguo was holding the war horse with his legs, ignoring the Ming soldiers who fled on both sides in front of him, his sharp eyes stared at the Ming army's flag.

As long as you enter the middle army of the Ming army, cut down the general flag, and kill the main general of the Ming army, these thousands of Ming troops will collapse without a fight!

Two hundred cavalry followed Zhang Dingguo's horse and launched a rapid charge towards the depths of the Ming army's array. With Zhang Dingguo as the arrow, a sharp arrow array was formed, and there was no need to deliberately chop the panicked Ming army, but only need to put the blade of the saber forward on the saddle, and easily cut the body of the Ming army on the side with the speed of the horse.

There is no need to chase and kill the Ming army crying and fleeing, as long as the formation of two hundred cavalry does not indiscriminately chisel the array of the Ming army, this Ming army of thousands will collapse!

Looking at the cavalry of the thief army that broke the formation in front of him, Wang Shicai's face changed violently, he didn't expect the thief army to break the formation so quickly and attack so quickly.

The army of 8,000 was completely in the mode of marching, lined up in an array of miles long in front and back, and there was no time to arrange the defensive line, and many soldiers behind did not know what was happening.

Even Wang Shicai didn't know how many thief cavalry were rushing towards him, he only saw his own soldiers scattering on both sides like a tide, and a fierce iron cavalry was quickly killing towards his middle army.

The thief cavalry attacked so fast that Wang Shicai could already see the appearance of the thief cavalry at the front smashing the knife and slashing the fierce god.

"Kill!"

Zhang Dingguo's tongue thundered, and he saw the Ming general under the banner of the Ming army pulling his horse and fled.

Zhang Dingguo showed a look of contempt on his face, beat the horse like galloping to the side of the Ming army's flag, waved the horse road and slashed it down, the flagpole broke in the "click" sound, and the Ming army dropped the flag into the dust!

The cavalry of the thief army was less than a hundred paces away from him, and Wang Shicai's courage was already cold!