From Anding County to the south, on the frontal battlefield for more than ten miles, there was already complete chaos. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

More than 20,000 officers and soldiers and the troops of the rebels who fled out of the city were mixed together, and there were 50,000 or 60,000 horses from the headquarters of Shen Yikui, which were intertwined, but this time, there was no victor between them.

The rebels were completely chilled, and no one dared to turn back and strike back, while the officers and troops were unstable and unable to assemble troops for a counterattack, and they were forced to flee farther away under a series of blows, in order to gain a foothold and then counterattack.

But the establishment has been completely disrupted, and no one dares to stop and gather troops, because to stop is to die.

More than 6,000 soldiers of the begging army were divided into four groups to kill the officers and soldiers, although they were in a continuous hurry, and they were tired, but they had the confidence to occupy the absolute superiority, so that they were instantly full of vitality, holding high swords and spears, and frantically chasing and killing the officers and soldiers.

"Don't kill me, I'm surrendering."

A soldier of an officer and army really can't run, and the continuous battle in the morning has greatly consumed their physical strength, coupled with the drastic change in their minds, their feet seem to be filled with lead, and they can't run at once.

He could only raise his hands in the air, throw his weapon aside, and fall to his knees, begging for surrender.

The soldiers of the beggar army ignored him, and only whistled past him, chasing him farther away.

As time passed, more and more officers and rebels surrendered, almost to the point that the whole area collapsed to the ground.

Zhou Shengzhi's cavalry army bypassed a circle, and from time to time divided small groups of cavalry to intercept the officers and soldiers who fled everywhere, and drove the slow ones back again, and the infantry army captured them.

The main force closely followed the big fish of the official army, trying to capture the leading officers and generals among them.

Yang Qi was angry in his heart at the moment, looking at the cavalry of the beggar army chasing after him, he had the heart to turn around and fight again, but no one followed, so he could only bury his head in hatred and continue to run in the northeast direction.

Strange to say, most of the beggar army only launched a big pursuit in the northeast and southwest, while the officers and troops who went to the northeast and north ignored them, which made many officers and soldiers with strange intentions flee in these two directions.

It's a pity that what they don't know is that another large army of beggars is quickly moving south through the Wuding River, ready to enter the battlefield, east and north, undoubtedly self-defeating.

"Tell the brothers, don't be afraid of hardship, don't be afraid of tiredness, keep chasing, and be sure to eliminate the last officer and army!" Li Mao was also physically exhausted at the moment, but he held on to his breath and continued to boost the morale of his subordinates.

It is said that at this point, the 4th Brigade of the Beggar Army has exceeded all its tasks, and they have already routed the main force of the official army.

In just such a more than an hour's effort, thousands of prisoners were captured, the first governor of the imperial court, the first chief soldier and the civil and military officers below the first term lost at least dozens of people, and the rest of the divisions, generals, and hundreds of households were countless, and the main force of the imperial court on the entire Shaanxi East Road had been wiped out, and it could no longer bring half a threat to the beggar army.

Except for the trilateral elite who were still resisting the invasion of the Mongol Lin Dan Khan inside and outside the Great Wall, the rest of Shaanxi was basically empty of garrisons.

But what Li Mao wants is not only these, he wants to take this opportunity to defeat the official army and the rebel army in one sentence, completely remove their threat in this area, and create the most favorable conditions for the smooth entry of the beggar army.

Therefore, five or six thousand men and horses, dragging their tired bodies, began a great pursuit that lasted for dozens and hundreds of miles, and he had completely given up his back road.

After all, as long as the main force led by Tan Wu successfully took Mizhi and marched east along the river, it would be able to protect his flank, and the battalion reinforced to him and the remaining two battalions of the Fourth Brigade only needed to occupy Suidezhou City, and then quickly follow up, which would ensure that his rear road was unblocked.

As long as the link between the end and the end is on, the absolute main force of the begging army led by Li Jing can catch up, and at this time, unless there is suddenly a main force of the imperial court to meet it, otherwise it will not be able to run away from a complete victory.

Now that you are invincible, why not take advantage of the victory to attack and solve the enemy once and for all.

As a result, the entire army that fled was dumbfounded to find that the army continued to pursue without stopping.

In order to survive, they can only continue to run without the slightest stop, even if their legs are already sore to numbness, they can only run mechanically with their legs, and the consequences of stopping are either captured as coolies or killed mercilessly.

"It's over, it's over." Du Wenhuan looked at the situation of defeat like a mountain, and his heart almost collapsed, although he was removed from the court for killing good and risking merit, but he was still loyal to the court in his heart.

Otherwise, he would not have led 800 villagers to participate in the battle when the battle came, but seeing this situation, tens of thousands of Ming troops were defeated, and he was powerless to return to the sky, so he could only sigh and look up to the sky speechlessly.

The villagers behind him are not so much peasants as tenants of his family, and this time they followed him to fight the thieves, and they wanted to mix up some credit and get some reward money to settle the family, but now it is all over.

Everyone gathered around him, looking at the chaos in the southeast direction, but no one proposed to go up to the rescue, but without Du Wenhuan's order, no one dared to escape without permission, so they could only passively occupy a small hill and watch everything silently.

Even if he is as brave as Du Wenhuan, he doesn't dare to go down the mountain to fight again, the battle situation has been decided, unless he has seven or eight thousand elites on hand, otherwise he will never dare to go down the mountain to challenge, these horses behind him are the last capital of the family, and they must not be easily thrown in this place.

"Let's go home!" Du Wenhuan smiled bitterly and shook his head, ignoring the fleeing soldiers, ignoring those eyes with hope, ruthlessly, directly beckoned back, and took the lead in retreating.

Fortunately, the position where his subordinates were stationed was too far away from the main battlefield, which made him not catch up with the main decisive battle at the beginning, and when he arrived, the main force of the beggar army also arrived, and after a period of dazzle, the entire army was naturally defeated, and it completely extinguished his idea of killing the enemy and serving the country, so it was better to flee for his life.

In essence, up to now, the official army actually has a chance to turn defeat into victory, if Zhang Fuzhen does not lead the troops to retreat first, he and Du Wenhuan will join forces, and there will be more than 1,000 soldiers and horses, and they may not be able to fight a dozen.

Because there were only more than 1,000 people on each side of the attacking beggar army, as long as they could stand their ground and block all the way, then they would be able to bring enough time for the officers and soldiers to assemble a military formation of the same size.

On the northwest battlefield, Zhang Quanchang's troops still retained some formed men and horses, but Zhang Quanchang took the lead in killing the thieves and did not return, and these horses did not get effective command, so they could not play much role at all, and then they were coerced by the chaotic army and began to retreat in the northwest direction.

However, these are not the worst, Jingbian Dao Dai Junen is the one who thinks he is the most miserable.

He was fighting with the deputy general Zhang Quanchang for merit, and deliberately put his sequence behind him, and when he received the military order and put it into the battlefield of suppressing thieves from the northwest, it happened that Zhang Mengjin, the general of the thief army, retreated from Anding County, and he hit the west gate and entered, and occupied this empty city in a short time.

Suddenly, he saw a group of men and horses coming from the east, and without saying a word, he went straight to the rear of his own military formation, and without half a sound, he completely turned the tide of the battle, which completely shocked him, and he didn't even have the mind to watch the play with a teacup.

This is remarkable, he originally did not have many soldiers and horses on hand, plus the troops who guarded the four gates to chase and kill the thieves and go out of the city to grab credit, the troops that could be gathered at hand did not exceed 300 people, just this point of men and horses, going out of the city was nothing more than a dead end, so he could only order to close the city gate and wait and see the situation.

Soon, there was the fleeing rout scolding under the city, he could only keep his ears shut, and after a long time, there was Wang Xingshan, who ran fast in the north, with more than 100 rout soldiers to slam the door, and then he could only order to open the city gate and put Wang Xingshan into the city.

Soon after, there were Suidezhou Zuo Guangxian's remnants of the defeated army and retreated to the edge of the city, and they were also collected into the city, and then later, there were basically no surviving generals who could retreat into the city, basically they were all small fish and shrimp, and Dai Junen ignored them, because the soldiers of the beggar army also followed the pursuit here.

As soon as the three of them met in the city, they immediately wanted to cry without tears, Dai Junen was better, at least he sat in the city and didn't suffer much, but Zuo Guangxian and Wang Xingshan were both disgraced, with blood stains on their bodies, and they obviously escaped after a hard battle.

When he came to rest and recuperate, he found that there were less than 500 people in the city, including the gathered rout, and he could not defend at all, so he took advantage of the fact that the main force of the beggar army had not yet arrived, and took the lead with the elite, and went straight to Yulin from the north gate.

The soldiers of the beggar army then effortlessly occupied this city, which had been repeatedly contested by the official army and the rebel army.

However, they were not satisfied with this, and the generals who occupied the city ordered more than 100 people to defend the city, and then led people out of the west gate to chase after the official army and rout.

The sky gradually darkened, the battlefield was full of lying corpses and weapons scattered all over the ground, the ownerless war horses were eating bloody grass roots on the battlefield made up by the smoke of gunpowder, and occasionally a few wounded who were not dead, moaning a few words weakly, trying to get treatment, but unfortunately, no one cared.

The main force of the beggar army has already wanted to pursue in the west and north, and the remaining more than 1,000 people have to guard more than four or five thousand prisoners of the officers and soldiers and several times the prisoners of the rebels, and they have no ability to clean up the battlefield anymore.

With a battalion of less than 1,000 people, tens of thousands of prisoners are held, even if they are all frightened birds and unarmed, but as a prisoner all over the city, Liao Shengzhi is also quite big-brained. (To be continued.) )