Chapter 499: The hall dispersed
Chapter 499: The hall dispersed
"The King's Order?"
Liu Zongmin directly stopped the horse, and he was qualified to question it in the Shun army, and the generals were all on the right side of the horse army's actions.
Le Ma stopped, just looking for a vacant lot on the side, Liu Zongmin glanced at Tian Jianxiu beside him, and asked in a thick voice:
"I have a message for King Chuang, does King Chuang know the news?"
What he said was the news brought by Tian Jianxiu, and this matter couldn't be talked about in front of ordinary people, so it was vague, but the pro-soldier who came to give the order replied categorically:
"General Liu, King Chuang already knows, wait for the second round of envoys to come to supervise the battle, King Chuang will lead the old camp team, and then follow, be sure to completely annihilate the remnants of Minggou!"
Since King Chuang had already made up his mind, Liu Zongmin naturally would not disobey, and immediately shouted:
"Okay, please report back to Lord Chuang, Lao Liu Dingdang showed him the heads of these bright dogs, and dug out the heart and liver of the crazy man He to give him wine!!"
After speaking, he deliberately shouted with Tian Jianxiu beside him:
"Lao Tian, come with me to kill the thief!!"
Tian Jianxiu snorted a few times, but still didn't say anything, and led the horse to follow, the horse team has been pursuing for a long time, Liu Zongmin returned to the team and began to send his own soldiers to restrain the formation and speed of each department, this is not cowardice. But the big battle is imminent, and the horse team needs to rest for a short time, and the formation must be sorted out after running away.
Looking at the Ming army on the opposite side, he had already turned his senses, and relied on the camp fence to set up a position, a posture of fighting to the death.
The face of Liu Zongmin, the general of Da Shunquan, became extremely cautious, and the rough expression just now was completely gone, but a little gloomy, and he opened his mouth and asked in a low voice:
"Lao Tian, did Minggou and Lu Thief collude together?"
Tian Jianxiu's face was extremely decadent, and he replied:
"The horse infantry and horses I brought have not yet stood in formation, and the cavalry of Shandong rushed over desperately, my side couldn't resist at all, and was scattered by force, and when I fled, I heard the thunderous movement here, and it should have been with Gao Jie's dog's soldiers and horses."
"Grandma, this thief is so powerful, looking at this situation, Gao Jie was either destroyed by them, or subdued by them."
Liu Zongmin finally couldn't help but scold, listening to Tian Jianxiu's statement, he actually attacked from both sides, and defeated one side and subdued one side, this comparison of combat effectiveness is really too great! ”
"Brother Liu, we can't beat it!"
Tian Jianxiu endured it and said this, Liu Zongmin didn't know if he heard it, but he straightened up from the horse, and shouted loudly to the heralds and captains around him to investigate the situation everywhere, and quickly reported, now that the sky is about to get dark, I can't see anything, so I can only rely on the conscious restraint of each team.
Night battles are a disaster of this era, and there are often victories and defeats that have nothing to do with the difference in strength, but this situation is a forced battle.
But from early morning to now, the excitement and pleasure of watching the Ming army fall into their trap step by step, defeat the Ming army, massacre, and then chase after the horses has disappeared, and there is only a sense of crisis left.
In such a situation, what can be done if the victory is won, there are more terrible enemies behind him, in fact, the senior generals of the Shun army, all the senior generals who know the news, have a judgment in their hearts, and the strategy they used on the Ming army was used by the Shandong soldiers and horses in turn.
And from beginning to end, this situation and the formation of this situation are all under the control of Shandong, and the other party has laid a world situation, but he has got in.
Fighting life and death, a few ups and downs, is it just to make wedding clothes for other people, but no matter how unwilling I am in my heart, this situation is still formed.
General Liu Zongmin did not fight with the Jiaozhou battalion except for the battle of Whirlpool, and he always felt that the militia and horses did not go all out, and Luo Rucai dragged the brigade back, so he never believed in the strength of the Shandong soldiers and horses.
Now that the elite of the Shun army is concentrated here, Liu Zongmin feels that if he pounces with all his strength, how can Shandong be able to resist it, and everything must be developing towards a situation that is favorable to the Shun army.
When the arrangement was being made, the second group of messengers arrived, but the leader was directly King Chuang's confidant Song Xiance, the appearance of this person undoubtedly proves that King Chuang attaches great importance to this order:
"General Liu, break into the prince's order, our army will defeat Minggou so that it can't do harm, and there is no need to chase after it!!"
This order was said, and everyone present immediately reacted, the purpose of the previous order was to annihilate, that is, to kill most of the enemies on the opposite side as much as possible, and to defeat was to let the enemy soldiers flee and disperse, and they could no longer be gathered into an army, with the spirit of the Ming army on the opposite side, it was really easy to complete such a task.
But compared to the Jiaozhou battalion, which has not dealt with much, He Renlong and Bai Guangen on the opposite side are both Ming generals who are hated by the Shun army, and their hands are stained with the blood of Shun officers and soldiers.
Song Xiance, a clever person, looked at Liu Zongmin's face on the opposite side, and he couldn't care about anything, so he hurriedly said:
"General, that Ming dog is just a grasshopper after the autumn, and it can still jump for a few days, we have to distinguish the severity!"
Liu Zongmin muttered a dirty word in his mouth, turned his head and called a subordinate general to whisper a few words, and after the general heard Liu Zongmin's order, his face was also full of unwillingness, but he still rode a horse to comply.
Orders were distributed layer by layer, and there was a commotion among the cavalry of the horse team, if it were not for the special emphasis that this was the great order of the king, I am afraid that there would be chaos.
But after all, when Shunjun was in good spirits, he still made adjustments according to the orders above.
The Ming soldiers on the opposite side are all let go anyway, and their thousands of people are either general soldiers, generals, or personal guards of various departments, they are all superior figures in the army, and they are all eye-catching in the army on weekdays, and when they were besieged this time, it reflected their sense of superiority, they had the power to live, but their companions did not.
For so many years, wars in various places, and accustomed to seeing life and death, human tragedy, today was forced to a desperate situation, behind the artillery and horse rejection fortifications, in front of the fierce tens of thousands of thieves and horses, it seems that this life is also alive to the end, once this is determined, everyone is looking away.
The Shun army on the opposite side gradually approached, but slowed down again and opened up the formation, I don't know why here, but everyone didn't care.
There are still some dry food leftover in his hands, dried meat and the like, take them out and chew them slowly and eat them, accumulate some strength, and when they are desperate, they can exchange a few more lives.
Some people also give their mounts the dry food in their hands, after all, they have been running for so long, and the horses have to replenish something, maybe they can escape with this horse!
He Renlong, the chief soldier of Shaanxi, got off his horse, took out a gourd from the jacket on the side of the saddle, pulled out the plug and poured a few mouthfuls, and said with a smile:
"Damn, maybe after a while, I won't be able to drink this good wine in my life."
A few cronies on the side said with a smile:
"Master General, wait for a few of our brothers to accompany you, maybe we will run out, at worst, we will kill no less than a hundred and ten thieves in each hand, and it is enough for this."
He Renlong laughed, stretched out his hand and patted the saddle, he wanted to say something but didn't make a sound, there were a few catties of gold leaves in the mezzanine of his saddle, and a few degrees, this is all his life-saving capital, something that no one knows, he has to wait for a while.
In fact, although these soldiers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty can see it, they can't understand that on that day, Li Zicheng was trapped in Yubei Mountain with only a dozen people, and Zhang Xianzhong and Luo Rucai were also unable to move in Fangxian and Junzhou, and they were about to complete the situation, how could they suddenly come to such a point?
The sun completely set, only there was a trace of afterglow in the sky, the Ming army and the Shun army could not see each other's existence clearly, and the torch Songming was also a must-have thing for the cavalry. Seeing that it was dark, the torches were lit on both sides, but Gao Jie's camp was still very quiet, and he could only see a few big fires lit there inside the camp.
Now it is much easier for both sides to watch the formation, as long as they stare at the movement of the torches, they can know what the other side is going to do.
The torches of the cavalry of the Shun army suddenly began to gather in front, and the remnants of the cavalry of the Ming army mounted their horses one after another, shouting and scolding, laughing and preparing for battle.
The other party is about to rush, this life is almost coming to an end, so many people have left their hometowns, their wives are separated, the whole family is white, Lao Tzu eats fragrant and spicy food, this life is worth living, death is death, afraid of a bird, almost every general and soldier of the Ming army is consciously or unconsciously cheering himself up.
"Brothers, President Liu has an order, defeat the Ming Dog in front, defeat the Ming Dog in front!!"
After this order was shouted, the cavalry of the Shun army followed the loud noise, looking at the momentum, but after the Ming army on the opposite side suddenly nervously tensed, they also understood the meaning of the other party, not to kill all, but to defeat, that is, the defeat of the army is their goal.
Could it be a deception, but this black light is blind, if the army does not come to outflank, it is easy to disperse and flee, the news that Gao Jie's camp may be controlled by Shandong soldiers and horses has long been spread among the soldiers, and the combination of these kinds of things, the performance of the Shun army suddenly became reasonable.
Rush, rush, wait for the other party to rush something, but everyone is hesitating, looking at the companions around them, after all, the companions do not move, they run first, maybe they will let someone come to the knife.
At the back of the line, someone suddenly shouted loudly:
"Brothers, we can't stand it anymore, let's disperse, let's run!!"
This seemed to be a signal, and the Ming cavalry, which had just gathered in a heap, scattered and scattered, only to see scattered torches fleeing towards the paths and fields on both sides.