Shi Daqian and others said that it was poisonous, and it was not in vain that Yang Chong was like Liu Bei recruiting Zhuge Liang, working Li Jing again and again, and with this strategy, Yang Chong's expenses for a few years were worth it. Yang Chong asked hesitantly, "If you divide the troops, are you sure of defeating Wang Shichong?" ”

It turned out that Yang Chong was just excited, and he still maintained the clarity of his brain, and Li Jing said happily: "I only need 30,000 troops." ”

Yang Chong thought for a while and said: "The Thunderbolt Battalion, the Hundred Cavalry Battalion, the Divine Crossbow Battalion, and the Longyou Yiqiang Battalion will all be handed over to you, and another 5,000 cavalry will be mobilized from the left guard for you; Daqian, Ling Jing, you lead 18,000 horsemen to prepare to deal with Li Tang's army, scatter the scouts, and see who the lord will be and how many men and horses will come. ”

Li Jing, Shi Daqian, and Ling Jing agreed, and each went to deploy troops and send generals to arrange; The Hexi army and the Zheng army gradually approached, and finally the two sides were fifty miles apart and went down to the village, repaired for a day, and opened the battlefield in the open field near Hongnong Palace. Wang Shichong took Chen Zhiluo's 10,000 Lingnan soldiers as the vanguard, Guo Shiheng and Guo Qing each led 10,000 cavalry to attack on the left and right flanks, and Wang Xingben led 10,000 infantry troops to the rear and led the Chinese army himself.

Although Chen Zhiluo's Lingnan soldiers were all wearing bright light armor, their marching operations were completely different from those of the Central Plains army. The cavalry commanded by Guo Shiheng and Guo Qing were all the elite of the original Xiaoguo Army, experienced in a hundred battles, and well-equipped. But what made Chen Zhiluo and the three of them uncertain was that there should be 50,000 or 60,000 troops in the Hexi army on the opposite side, and only 30,000 troops were dispatched to line up today, where did the remaining half go.

The Hexi Army is good at cavalry raids, will it detour behind the Zheng Army, Guo Shiheng was pondering, and heard a burst of exclamations from the soldiers around him, Guo Shiheng looked up, and suddenly his face was like dirt. Fifty legendary airships suddenly rose up in the barracks of the Hexi Army, and they were floating towards their own army; Chen Zhiluo's Lingnan army obviously saw it, and unconsciously stopped the attack in fright.

At this time, the Hexi army moved, and three hundred tigers, leopards, and green wolves appeared in the opposite army, walking towards the Zheng army without hurry; Chen Zhiluo's Lingnan soldiers shot arrows at those animals, but they didn't have any effect at all, and the arrows on the opposite side harvested the lives of Zheng Jun's soldiers. Waiting for the airships flying in the sky to drop thunder, they exploded in the places where the soldiers were dense and Chen Zhiluo's banner exploded, and nearly 3,000 people died in a short time, and the Lingnan army was completely messy, and they all desperately ran back.

Wang Shichong urgently ordered the archers to shoot the deserters to stabilize their positions, and ordered Duan Da's son-in-law Zhang Zhi to lead five thousand horsemen to rush up to meet the enemy. The number of thunderbolts in the sky is limited, and the Hexi Army cannot always drop them endlessly. ”

Zhang Zhi agreed, and led 5,000 horsemen to rush out of the formation; Wang Shichong ordered the Chinese army to flag and inform Guo Shiheng and Guo Qing to encircle in the middle. However, the archers shot more than 1,000 deserters, which angered the Lingnan soldiers, and more than 5,000 people who could escape wielded swords and guns and fought with their own robes; Zhang Zhi had no choice but to cooperate with the archers, slashing and killing the Lingnan soldiers all the way and rushing to the front of the battle.

The cavalry of the Zheng army was still experienced, relying on equestrianism, dodging thunder and arrow rain, and rushing towards the central army of the Hexi Army from three directions; The cavalry of the Hexi Army followed behind their own mechanical car, always using bows and crossbows to protect the flanks of the mechanical car and shoot the cavalry of the Zheng Army that rushed towards the mechanical car.

Zhang Zhi's 5,000 horsemen lost almost half of them before they reached the front of the mechanical car, but he didn't expect that a quarter of the opponent's 300 beast cars were spewing fire, under the rotation of the beast's head, the flames flew with firelight, and the blazing temperature made hundreds of war horses turn around and gallop, clashing with their own camp; The thunder thrown by the soldiers of the Thunderbolt battalion behind the mechanical car exploded behind the cavalry camp of the Zheng army, and the corpses of the Zheng army were all over the field.

Zhang Zhi suffered more than 4,000 casualties and fled the battlefield with less than 300 cavalry; Guo Shiheng and Guo Qing quickly took over the battlefield, but they lost more than 2,000 horsemen again, and they were still advanced by the Hexi Army by 500 steps.

The airship in the sky has flown past the position of the fight, and the thunder began to fall in the sky above the Chinese army, and the sound of explosions made Guo Shiheng's heart tremble, Guo Shiheng looked back and found that three airships were throwing thunder around Wang Shichong's handsome flag, knowing that the general trend had gone. After Wang Shichong became emperor, he had lost his former sharpness, and the defection of Qin Qiong and others made Wang Shichong even more suspicious, and he valued his own life more than Jiangshan Sheji; Guo Shiheng secretly paid attention to himself, and while commanding the battle, he always paid attention to the situation of the Chinese army.

Two more airships approached Wang Shichong's handsome banner, replacing the two airships that seemed to have no thunder, and continued to fight; The handsome banner of the Chinese army finally fell, and the Hexi army on the opposite side shouted "Wang Shichong is dead". The soldiers of the Zheng army could not see the handsome banner of the Chinese army when they turned back, and in the blink of an eye, the army was defeated like a mountain, and more than 10,000 horsemen turned back and rushed to the wolves; At this time, the Hexi army began to shout and chase and kill, and Yuwen Chengdu and Suo Yanshou commanded the cavalry to roar and rush, closely chasing after the Zheng army.

Chen Zhiluo led the surviving more than 2,000 Lingnan soldiers to directly erect the white flag and surrender, more than half of the Zheng army suffered casualties, and only more than 30,000 people followed Wang Shichong back to Dazhai; The Hexi army captured more than 2,000 horses, more than 10,000 prisoners, and countless weapons and ordnance. Yang Chong watched the entire battle with Yu Xuan and Su Dingfang at a high place, and said regretfully: "We still don't have enough troops, if we go out of the customs with an army of 100,000 this time, we can leave Wang Shichong in Hongnong." ”

Su Dingfang said with a smile: "Guogong, it's good enough, Wang Shichong is as timid as a mouse, after this battle, as long as we don't go to Luoyang, he will never come out to fight with us, look at how Shi Daqian's battle is going." Guogong, it is better for me to lead the Chang Jie battalion to ambush halfway through the retreat of the Tang army to see if there is a chance. ”

Yang Chong smiled and nodded, and returned to the barracks, Yang Chong ordered the three armies to be rewarded, and Su Dingfang ordered 3,000 cavalry from the Changjie camp to find fighters; Early the next morning, he received news from Shi Daqian and Ling Jing that Li Shentong led 10,000 Tang troops to try to recapture Shangzhou, but was repelled by Shi Daqian. It's a pity that Qin Qiong was too brave, rescued Li Shentong, and led the 3,000 Tang army to break off, and fought until less than 100 horsemen escaped; Fortunately, Su Dingfang made ambush for his death, and a day later he ambushed Li Shentong at Wuguchuan and killed 4,000 Tang troops.

Hongnong Palace surrendered the city every other day, Wang Shichong knew that the wooden fence camp was difficult to defend under the attack of airships and thunder, and was worried that the army that was missing from Hexi suddenly appeared, so he followed Guo Shiheng's suggestion, and left Huyalang to guard Qian Jie and 4,000 wounded soldiers in Hongnong Palace, and he led an army of 30,000 to withdraw to Luoyang. The 4,000 wounded soldiers were afraid for a day and a night, and many soldiers were seriously injured and died.

(End of chapter)