After looking at the number of cavalry of the Ming army rushing over, Li Chengdong couldn't help but put away his original arrogance and attracted attention. There seemed to be more than 3,000 cavalry in the Ming army opposite www.biquge.info, but there were not many cavalry under his command, adding up to about 3,000. In addition to the 2,000 cavalry in his descendants, Zheng Zhilong's army and Guangdong's army originally belonged to the Southern Ming Army, and there has always been a lack of cavalry. And, because there has been no large-scale Ming cavalry before, the cavalry in the original Zheng army and the Guangdong army were not concentrated for use, and Li Yuanyin brought hundreds of Li cavalry into the city, so the cavalry around Li Chengdong is currently more than 1,000 people, including some miscellaneous cavalry in the original Guangdong army.

Although there were still three or four thousand foot soldiers of his own outside the city, Li Chengdong could no longer be arrogant. As a battle-hardened veteran, he certainly knew that foot soldiers could only fight against enemy cavalry if they maintained a strong numerical superiority in a tight formation. However, the surrounding thousands of foot soldiers were still arrayed in panic and could not form for a long time, and the men and horses entering the city and the men and horses south of the city would not be able to arrive for a while. If the Ming cavalry in front of him succeeds, the consequences will be unimaginable.

In a flash of light, Li Chengdong had already made a decision, and shouted to his side: "Yang Dafu! ”

"The last general!"

"You bring all the cavalry to Lao Tzu to meet him, we Lao Tzu don't ask you to defeat your donkey Ming army, as long as you hold them back for a while!" Li Chengdong cut the railway.

"Yes! Just look at it! Yang Dafu suddenly agreed, and took more than 1,000 cavalry around Li Chengdong to meet the galloping Ming cavalry.

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On a hill in the north of Qingyuan City.

The view is wide. From here, you can see the general battle situation in the east, west, and north directions around the city. At this moment, on the hill towards Qingyuan County, there were a group of generals in helmets and armor and several staff members wearing Confucian shirts and square scarves, huddled around a young military general dressed in silver mountain armor. Observing the battle outside the city. All around him were guards in fine iron armor and eight-petal hats, armed and heavily guarded. In the crowd, a handsome flag with the character "Pang" and a red flag embroidered with a tiger talisman pattern looked quite powerful.

This is exactly Pang Yue and some of his staff around him, as well as the officers of the General Staff Department in Huguang Town.

"The situation is really as the commander expected!" Tian Shizun, the chief of staff, smiled and said, "Li Yu's soldiers and horses are not very strong, and they have gradually become overwhelmed after engaging our army for such a while. In this way, our army's chances of victory have increased a few points! ”

After seeing the battle situation in the north and east of the city, Zhang Yunli also showed a smile on his face. Put down the binoculars and said, "Mr. Tian is right. The Qing captives in the north of the city are a rabble, and they have spent most of their physical strength before, but now they are in full decline. We are not far from a rout. Although the Qing captives in the east of the city were a little brave, they were also exhausted, and it was quite difficult to face our army who were waiting for work, and it was difficult to escape defeat in the end. As long as the Flying Tiger Battalion and the cavalry led by Adjutant General Wang attacked Li Yuzhong's army. Or hold out until the Tiger camp and the trap camp arrive. The big picture can be determined! ”

Shi Lang, who was assisting Zhang Yunli in the General Staff Department recently, also said with emotion: "This is also thanks to the careful planning of the marshal before, otherwise our army would not have obtained such a good opportunity to attack!" ”

Hearing everyone say this, Pang Yue did not move, and sighed secretly.

As early as a few days ago, Pang Yue led the three battalions of Feihu, Trapping, and Huben and the 2,000 cavalry led by Wang Yuncai, the deputy general of Changde, to break away from the brigade led by Yang Tinglin, and rushed to Qingyuan County with enough dry food to take a shortcut. Because he vaguely remembered that in the original history, Chen Bangyan, one of the "Three Loyalties of Resistance to the Qing Dynasty", was surrounded by Li Chengdong in Qingyuan County. In the end, the city broke and died, and it seems that it happened during this time nearby. Considering that he wanted to save Chen Bangyan and other righteous people and catch Li Chengdong off guard, Pang Yue did not delay any longer. After leading the army to break away from the brigade, they came almost day and night. Moreover, in order to hide people's eyes and ears and avoid the Qing army sentinels, he deliberately stayed away from the official road and took the small road, and finally arrived more than ten miles north of Qingyuan City the night before yesterday after some twists and turns.

After Pang Yue and Wang Yuncai led their troops to the north of Qingyuan City, Li Chengdong's army had not yet arrived. In order to prevent the sentinels of Li Chengdong's department from detecting the truth and startling the snakes, Pang Yue did not rush into the city, but let the army lurk in the nearby mountains and forests, seize the time to rest, and wait for the best opportunity to attack, only sent a few capable scouts to change into coarse cloth clothes, sneaked around the county seat of Qingyuan to monitor the movements of the Qing army.

Yesterday, Li Chengdong's troops arrived outside the city and fought several battles with Huo Shilian, Chen Bangyan's righteous divisions, and the Shaozhou Ming army led by Wang Dongri, and won several battles. Pang Yue saw that the Ming army of Shaozhou Zhenming and the anti-Qing righteous division could still hold on, and considering that the soldiers under his command had been marching rapidly for days and their physical strength had not fully recovered, he did not immediately launch an attack, but silently waited for the moment when Li Chengdong's army was exhausted. This afternoon, Li Chengdong's troops launched another attack, and the Ming army and the anti-Qing righteous division in Qingyuan City were in an increasingly critical situation. In such a situation, Pang Yue, of course, could no longer sit idly by, and led the army out of the hiding place and launched an attack on Li Chengdong's troops from behind. If you don't fight, you will have to get rid of Li Chengdong's half life in a war! For the specific implementer of the three massacres in Jiading, whether it is in the past life or in this life, Pang Yue has always hated him to the core, and his subordinates will not show the slightest mercy. The progress of the battle situation was really as he expected, after the energetic Li Chengdong's troops were attacked by surprise, they panicked and were overwhelmed to deal with it, and their own soldiers made a breakthrough at the minimum cost.

However, at this moment, Pang Yue felt a little guilty in his heart, although he got his wish, but at the cost of the sacrifice of the people, officers and soldiers in the city. If he had decided to confront Li Chengdong head-on from the beginning, perhaps the casualties of the officers and soldiers and civilians in the city would have been much smaller. But in that case, the war situation may not be so smooth, and it can be said that it is impossible to have both.

Although there was a trace of guilt, as the commander-in-chief, Pang Yue naturally did not show this emotion easily, but continued to pay attention to the battle situation around the city.

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"Die!" Wang Zhangtang, who was galloping on his horse, roared angrily, and stabbed his spear at an oncoming Qing army sentry. With a flash of cold light and a sharp metal crash, it sounded. In the end, the Qing sentry failed to get away with the blow, and was stabbed off his horse, and then turned into a mess of minced meat in the tumbling iron hooves.

Wang Zhangtang pulled out his spear and swept it without pausing. The head of another Qing soldier was smashed, and the bloody and pungent red and white liquid suddenly splattered in all directions. But Wang Zhangtang didn't pay any attention to it, and made the spear in his hand superb, tiger and tiger, and stabbed or swept at the moment when the enemy and us staggered, and in the blink of an eye, many Qing soldiers died.

On the entire battlefield, the rumbling of horses' hooves was very piercing, and the shouts of killing were also overshadowed by the tide. Around Wang Zhangtang. The rest of the soldiers of the Flying Tiger Battalion and the soldiers of Changde Town were also trying their best to kill the Qing soldiers who had staggered past them. A few days ago, they had also fought against the famous Manchurian cavalry, and at this moment, they were even more fearless in the face of the second-rate green battalion of Li Chengdong's troops. In addition, it has been gathering momentum for a long time, is full of energy, and has the advantage of numbers, and has almost brought its combat effectiveness to the peak state. More than 3,000 cavalry were like a sharp blade, easily tearing apart the ranks of more than 1,000 Qing cavalry. Everywhere he went, flesh and blood flew and people turned on their backs.

After a round of hedging. The more than 1,000 cavalry of Li Chengdong's unit were already scattered in formation, and the faces of the officers and men were more or less frightened. After all, it had been a long time since they had encountered such a strong Ming army, and the shock brought to them by this round of confrontation should not be underestimated. Just when Yang Dafu was worried that the Ming cavalry would take advantage of the situation to kill a horse pistol, the Ming cavalry no longer paid any attention to him, and without the slightest hesitation, he directly took Li Chengdong under the commander's command. At this time, more than 3,000 foot soldiers around Li Chengdong had just lined up, and the archers were hurriedly putting up arrows and bows in the angry urging of the officials. The men and horses who had entered the city earlier had already arrived one after another. But it still seems sparse, and it will definitely not be all in place for a while.

"Capture Li Chengdong alive!!" More than 3,000 cavalry of the Ming army shouted almost at the same time. The surging sound soared into the sky.

Seeing this scene, bursts of cold sweat suddenly broke out on Yang Dafu's forehead, and regardless of whether he had a good team or not, he waved the big knife in his hand and shouted: "Kill me back and protect the handsome!" ”

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At the same time, in the east of the city, Shi Fu, Hong Xishan and other Qing generals also felt unprecedented panic, and there was a chill on their backs. They didn't expect that the combat power of the thousands of Ming army foot soldiers on the opposite side would be so fierce. Although they had heard rumors of the terrifying combat power of the Manchurian Eight Banners, they had never fought against them after all, so they had no personal experience. Now it seems that the combat effectiveness of the Ming army on the opposite side is not much worse than that of the Manchurian soldiers.

I saw that there were about 3,000 people and nearly 4,000 people in this Ming army, half of them were dressed in iron armor, all of them were wearing iron masks, and the cold steel knives and spears in their hands were chilling, and the battalion flag above the phalanx was embroidered with gun and shield patterns, which was the camp of Huguang Town.

Although the original Zheng Zhilong troops led by Shi Fu were stronger than those of the original Guangdong troops in the north of the city in terms of reaction power and combat effectiveness, and the men and horses who had already entered the city also quickly retreated, and the troops gathered outside the city were nearly 4,000, but in the face of these more than 3,000 fallen camp foot soldiers, they were still powerless, and they could hardly stop their troops.

With a burst of powerful shouts, the trap camp was centered with pikemen in the center and sword and shield soldiers on both flanks, and advanced in a neat phalanx like a wall.

"Kill!"

"Kill!!"

"Kill !!"

A group of guns stabbed and a group of knives slashed out, causing blood to rain and scream on the entire front. Gradually, the front of the Qing army began to sink inward, and more and more Qing soldiers were frightened, and their legs trembled involuntarily.

At the front of the camp formation, in the queue of the first division, Wu Pingzheng, who had received Pang Yue's reward in Changsha and was now a chief, roared together with the surrounding robes, and suddenly withdrew the spear in his hand. As a bloody arrow shot out, a Qing soldier on the opposite side immediately fell to the ground. At this time, Wu Ping's eyes were full of murderous energy, and he couldn't see the slightest simplicity and simplicity at all, if it wasn't for the steel mask blocking his face, the Qing soldiers on the opposite side would be even more frightened by his hideous face.

Wu Ping was all pikemen, and from the beginning of the battle to the present, they don't know how many rounds of assassination they had carried out and how many Qing soldiers they had killed. The spears in everyone's hands were stained red with blood, and thin streams of blood continued to drip down the tips of the spears. Like his comrades-in-arms around him, Wu Ping did not pay any attention to the Qing soldiers in front of him, only contempt and the deep pleasure after conquering the opponent in his eyes. It's like what President Feng Yulong said to them before the war, the fierce Manchurian Tartars and the tall Northern Green Battalion have told us to run away, what the are these people? In fact, it is precisely because the Manchurian soldiers can at least bring them some pressure, but the Qing army in front of them cannot bring them a similar feeling at all.

But on the battlefield, life and death are only in an instant, no matter how weak the other party is, as long as the battle is not over, there must be no slackness. While Wu Ping and the soldiers around him pulled out the spears in their hands, the officers and soldiers behind him also stabbed the spears out through the gaps in their bodies. In this way, the spears in the front and rear rows of the formation took turns to stab, like a well-coordinated killing machine, constantly harvesting lives. The Qing army, which tried to counterattack from the front, could not break through this hedgehog-like spear array at all, but abandoned the corpses continuously.

It's our turn again! When the spear in the back row dragged the blood beads back from his side, Wu Ping subconsciously chanted silently, and made preparations for the stab between the lightning and flint. Regarding this set of movements, he, like the rest of the robes, practiced day by day, month by month, and his body was sore and swollen and recovered, recovered and practiced sore, and the cycle was repeated, I don't know how many times. Now, even if they hear a password in their sleep, they can do it with lightning speed.

"Kill!!" Rulin's spear stabbed out like lightning again. In the face of the rapidly approaching cold light of death, some Qing soldiers who had no way to hide let out a terrible scream before they were dying.

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"Dashuai, quickly retreat!" Liang Desheng, the general who had just returned from the south of the city, came to Li Chengdong's side, crying and shouting anxiously: "The soldiers and horses in the north of the city have completely dispersed!" The puppet Ming army and thieves in the city have also gone out of the city to chase and kill our army everywhere! They won't be able to hold out for long in the east of the city, and our army is gone, so let's withdraw quickly! ”

"Remove your mother's hair! If you dare to disturb the hearts of the army again, Lao Tzu will cut you with one sword! Li Chengdong shouted angrily. However, when he saw the increasingly scattered formation of his own side around him, and listened to the louder and louder shouts of "capture Li Chengdong alive" in the distance, his heart became more and more bottomless. (To be continued.) )