The battle situation in the north and east of the city was extremely unfavorable to the Qing army, and the same was true in the west of the city, where the Qing army had the largest number of troops. www.biquge.info Just now, as soon as the infantry soldiers around Li Chengdong lined up, more than 3,000 cavalry of the Ming army swept over from one side like an autumn wind sweeping leaves, setting off bursts of bloody rain, and then dodged the archers of the Qing army, repeatedly detouring to the two wings to attack, causing casualties to the Qing army. The Qing soldiers who withdrew from the city were also raided by the Ming cavalry, although they had an advantage in numbers, but due to the restrictions of the terrain near the city gate and being caught off guard, they also suffered heavy losses. Immediately afterwards, the Huben battalion of Huguang Town, which had defeated the Qing army in the north of the city, also drove a large number of routs to the west of the city, making the battle situation even more unfavorable to Li Chengdong.

"Kill!"

"Kill!!"

"Kill !!"

In the roar of a dragon and a tiger, the officers and soldiers of the Tiger Camp and the officers and soldiers of the trapped camp in the east of the city lined up in a neat phalanx like a wall to advance, constantly sending the Qing soldiers to hell one by one. After completing several rounds of salvos and entering the stage of hand-to-hand combat, the officers and men of the fire gun team in the battalion also put the fire gun on their shoulders and drew their waist knives as a reserve for the regular sword and shield soldiers. The spears that poked out like a jungle and could stab in a row, the dense iron shields, and the steel knives that rolled with cold light protected the entire phalanx almost impermeable.

The Qing army continued to attack the phalanx of the Huben camp, but each time they retreated weakly after a bloody battle, and could not make much progress at all. After the Ming army in the front row was killed, the vacancy that appeared would soon be filled by the people in the back row, and the entire phalanx was always moving forward, and the blood was raining on the battle line.

Moreover. The officers and soldiers of the Huben battalion were not fighting alone, and when they were fighting to the death with the Qing army, the rumbling hooves around them never stopped. More than 3,000 cavalry from the Flying Tiger Battalion and Changde Town galloped around the battlefield. After a few rounds of assault, Li Chengdong's 1,000 cavalry had been completely dispersed, and then they continued to charge at the two flanks of the Qing army, disrupting their formation, and from time to time chasing and killing the Qing army's routs and rushing to support the Qing troops one after another, so that they could not complete the assembly and threaten the officers and soldiers of the Huben battalion.

As time passed, the battle between the two armies became more and more intense. Throughout the battlefield, the earth trembled as the roars of men and horses, the sonorous collision of swords and soldiers, and the desperate wails and screams of soldiers before they died.

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After several failed attacks and heavy losses. Most of the former Cantonese troops in the Qing army in the west of the city were already panicked, and the death of a large number of grassroots officers and veterans made the control of ordinary soldiers by the higher-level officers more and more powerless, so that the numerical superiority could not be transformed into an advantage in combat strength at all. From time to time, Qing soldiers took advantage of the gap and fled. Ignoring the reprimands and threats of the officers, they chose a direction that they thought was safe, and ran as far as they could, and even a few junior officers joined in. Because the 3,000 descendants of Li Chengdong's troops were still persisting in the battle and supervising most of the rest of the original Guangdong surrendered army. This did not allow this small number of fleeing behaviors to evolve into a general trend. But the efforts of Li Chengdong's descendants can only restrain the rest of the miscellaneous cards and prevent them from collapsing. There is a lack of its own strength. Physically and mentally exhausted by a well-trained army, this series of factors made the will to fight of these motley Qing soldiers collapse like an avalanche, almost no one dared to step forward to fight the Ming army in close combat, even if they were forced to step forward by the officials, they only trembled past the side of the Ming formation, and the people in the front row desperately shrank their bodies into the depths of their own ranks. Once it encounters a counterattack by the Ming army, it will not be long before it will fully retreat.

However, the more than 6,000 Ming troops became more and more courageous, gradually pressing the balance of victory on their side.

Look at the situation in front of you. Li Chengdong's eyes were red, and there was no unwillingness in his eyes. He really didn't expect this to be the result. Originally, he was about to break through Qingyuan to capture Chen Bangyan and others and win a complete victory, but unexpectedly, such a Ming army appeared out of nowhere and turned the situation around.

But no matter what, Li Chengdong will not give up, even at the last moment, he has to fight hard. Because he knows what he has done, once he fails, the Ming army will definitely not spare himself, and I am afraid that it will be light to divide the corpse of the five horses at that time.

"What about Zhang Daoying and Yan Keyi? His mother's! Go and let them organize their own soldiers and horses to fight back for Lao Tzu! There are also Shi Fu and Hong Xishan, let them all fight back from behind the Ming army! Li Chengdong yelled at one of the generals next to him, "If there is a slight delay, Lao Tzu will screw off the heads of these melon cowards!" ”

The general trembled and said: "Marshal, the soldiers who retreated from the north of the city just now have brought news, General Yan has been killed, General Zhang is missing, General Shi and General Hong's troops are also entangled in the Ming army, they can't move, and they can't protect themselves......"

Li Chengdong was stunned and was about to scold, when he heard thousands of Ming soldiers shouting in unison from the front again: "Capture Li Chengdong alive!" Honor the dead of Jiading! ”

Listening to this momentum, it is a little closer than the beginning. The actual battle situation is exactly like this, the Qing army's front is constantly retreating, and the formation is becoming more and more scattered, only Li Chengdong's 2,000 descendants are still desperately supporting, and the rest of the miscellaneous cards are only a layer of window paper left from the collapse of the whole line.

"Handsome! Withdraw! Li Hangui, the only general who was still by Li Chengdong's side, almost pleaded: "The green mountains left behind are not afraid of no firewood!" Our army is no longer victorious, and we can't fight the old brothers anymore! Otherwise, where else would we have a place in the world? ”

These words can be said to be right in Li Chengdong's mind, and he couldn't vent his anger, just staring at the front. He also knew that what Li Hangui said was true, but as long as he thought of his defeat against more than 6,000 Ming troops with nearly 10,000 troops, and his defeat before it was dark, he felt a deep sense of shame. Since he took refuge in the Qing Dynasty, which time has he not won more with less? I've never fought this kind of. But if you continue to hold on, the consequences will be serious, just as Li Hangui said, if you run out of elites, not only can the Ming army take your own life at any time, but even the imperial court can kick yourself away at any time.

Just when Li Chengdong was struggling with whether to retreat. Another earth-shattering cry came from the east of the city: "Wan Sheng! "Wan Sheng!!" ……

Immediately afterwards, the sound of neat and powerful footsteps became clearer and clearer, bypassing the south of the city and rolling towards the west of the city.

Hear such a voice. Of course, Li Chengdong knew what was happening, and his face, which was originally flushed with anger, gradually turned pale.

"Pass the order, and the whole army retreats westward!" Now, Li Chengdong finally made this decision in extreme unwillingness.

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With Li Chengdong's order, whether it was in battle or the Qing soldiers who had fallen into rout, they all followed Li Chengdong's handsome banner and retreated towards the west of Qingyuan City like a tide.

As soon as the Qing army retreated, the Ming army also began to pursue. The Tiger Camp and the trapping camp that had just defeated the Shi Fu Department and rushed to the west of the city were all lined up in a neat formation and chased after the panicked Qing army. Knock a group of lone Qing soldiers to the ground. The cavalry of the Flying Tiger Battalion and Changde Town were also in hot pursuit, but they ignored the Qing soldiers who fell behind, and directly took Li Chengdong himself as a necessary target.

"Capture Li Chengdong alive!" "Blood debt and blood repayment!" With continuous shouts, the cavalry of the Ming army desperately looked at the location of Li Chengdong's handsome banner and chased wildly.

At this time. There were only about 1,000 cavalry left around Li Chengdong. This also includes the hundreds of cavalry brought out of the city by his adopted son Li Yuanyin, and they have all become frightened birds, where do they dare to turn back to meet the battle when the whole army is defeated and retreated? just tightly protected Li Chengdong and ran forward desperately. The rest of the Qing army infantry only hated the old lady for having two legs, but in addition to Li Chengdong's main lineage, only a small number of miscellaneous cards could still maintain a relatively complete formation.

And the anger in Li Chengdong's heart began to be replaced by panic, and at this point, he no longer had the mood to scold, but there were a series of questions: Why is this happening? Isn't Lao Tzu about to win? How did the situation change so quickly? Is there something wrong with the sow?

But the approaching pursuers behind him gave him no time to think about these questions. There was only one thought left in my head: hurry up and get to a safe place, and everything will be talked about later.

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When it gets dark. The soldiers of the Ming army who went to pursue Li Chengdong's main force drove a large number of prisoners back to Qingyuan County. The Qing soldiers, who had made a lot of gains along the way and only cared about fleeing for their lives, completely became a group of pigs and sheep to be slaughtered, but unfortunately, Li Chengdong was still allowed to run away.

When the soldiers returned to the county seat of Qingyuan, the officers and soldiers of Shaozhou Town and the Volunteer Division, who stayed around the city to intercept and kill the Qing army's rout, and a thousand troops of the trapped camp who went to pursue the remnants of Shi Fu, also completed their work and returned to the city with a group of dejected prisoners. Among the captives were Li Chengdong's generals Zhang Daoying, Yang Dafu, Zhang Youde, and Hong Xishan, the general of the Shi Fu Ministry, and the bodies of Li Ministry's generals Liang Desheng and Yan Keyi, as well as Shi Fu's generals Liang Li and Huang Ting, have also been found and confirmed. After these backbone generals were eliminated, Li Chengdong was equivalent to being interrupted. It's just that Shi Fu himself fled far east under the protection of a group of henchmen, and he also failed to be caught on the spot.

At this time, Pang Yue also came to the outside of the city, ordered the prisoners to be gathered in one place for guarding, and gathered the soldiers and horses of each battalion.

"Dashuai, subordinates are incompetent! still let Li Chengdong and Shi Fu run away! After settling the soldiers and horses in the camp, Shi Youliang, Cui Shoucheng, He Zhenting and other generals came to Pang Yue to ask for guilt.

Pang Yue had already learned the news, and he didn't care too much about Li Chengdong and Shi Fu's slippage, after losing most of the army, these two people were just two ordinary characters. Therefore, Pang Yue just said disapprerovitously: "Okay, don't blame yourself!" These two guys ran away, and they were just grasshoppers after the autumn, and they couldn't make any big waves! Besides, I've sent scouts to keep an eye on them, and they can't escape the sight of our troops! ”

After hearing this, the generals were still ashamed, and said that there would be no such regrets next time.

While he was talking, Pang Yue saw a group of people walking out of the city towards him. I saw that the leader was a civil official wearing a black gauze hat and a cyan cormorant regimental uniform, surrounded by several military generals wearing helmets and armor.

Seeing this, Pang Yue guessed that this should be Chen Bangyan and others who survived in a desperate situation this time. (To be continued.) )