Chapter 373: The Death of the King for His Own Use
"Why don't you see General Zuo leading the army to help?"
was leading the troops south to the east of Mi County, but Ma Xianglin was puzzled, he couldn't see the soldiers and horses from Changping Town, Mi County coming to help?
"Husband, Zuo Liangyu is the most slippery, I'm afraid that if I don't lead troops to protect myself, I won't come to the battle, right?"
Zhang Fengyi is also a heroic among women, born in Shizhu Tusi, good at using knives, fighting not bad for men, and now the official residence is a general in the Shizhu Battalion, and there are dozens of female soldiers under his command as personal guards, and they are heroic, but now, they have 3,000 soldiers under their command, and the thieves who are only three or four miles away have 10,000 or 20,000 people, and there are 3,000 thieves in the old camp, they are a little puzzled. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
According to the prior agreement and the promulgation of the military order, they should have joined the soldiers and horses of Changping Town here, and then gathered 7,000 soldiers and horses to attack the fleeing thief army in two ways, so as to ensure that the army won the battle, but the single 3,000 men and horses, if they use the method of blocking the enemy in person, I am afraid that they will lose the battle.
"Report, general, within a radius of fifteen miles, no soldiers and horses under the command of General Zuo have been found."
There were scouts who had gone out to explore for more than ten miles before the army sent back the news with a code, but they did not find any trace of the soldiers and horses in Changping Town, which made Ma Xianglin wonder, could these thousands of people and horses still be missing?
But no matter what he thought, he couldn't think of it, and now Zuo Liangyu led the defenders of Changping Town and Mi County, got out of the way, and set up a suspicious formation more than 20 miles west of him, allowing the main force of the thief army to flee south without hesitation.
"Forget it, no matter how much, give the order to go down, and the armies are ready to intercept and kill."
Ma Xianglin seemed to have some ominous premonitions in his heart, but the military order was like a mountain, and he had to obey, so he was ready to take people on it.
"Adjutant General, there is no trivial matter in the army, thousands of reinforcements from Changping Town have not arrived, and the soldiers and horses of the Shizhu Battalion alone cannot be exhausted, if they are forcibly blocked in front, I am afraid that there is a danger of the whole army being buried. Why don't you take people to attack the flanks of the thieves, kill as many enemies as possible, and then wait for Governor Lu to come up with a large army? ”
Zhang Fengyi is not only worried about whether the military order can be completed, but also worried about the soldiers and horses she has at hand. If you put it in, it will become a thief who desperately breaks through, but defeats them.
"This, well, you and I have separate armies. Leave 300 soldiers to suppress the formation and intercept the main force of the thief army from the flank! ”
Ma Xianglin is not stupid, the military order for him is to join forces with Zuo Liangyu to intercept and kill the thieves together, now Zuo Liangyu and the people don't know where to run, and then let him go up alone to intercept, this is no longer possible, since this is the case, it is better to chase and kill on the side of the thief army, and wait for Futai to bring the army up. It's better to send elite cavalry to chase and kill.
"Kill~!"
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"Whew~ Finally escaped,"
"Generalissimo, there is a piece of felled woodland to the east, so rest for a while."
Even now, Wang Ziyong still holds the command of the army, because most of the three thousand old battalions around him have been brought out, and under these elite guards, no one dares to have any dissatisfaction with Wang Ziyong, after all, victory and defeat are common things in soldiers. If you don't lose a few battles a year, then it's still them.
"Then let's rest here for a while,"
Wang himself ran tired and hungry all morning. Patronized and fled, I didn't even drink a sip of water, and now I see that it is finally safer, so I have the heart to rest, after all, he has arranged people to guard the rear army, and now the main force of the official army is still clearing the rout outside Xingyang City. For the time being, only a small force followed,
Just a few hundred people, there are 20,000 troops here, and there are 3,000 old battalions, no matter how you fight, you are not afraid.
"By the way, arrange the old battalion soldiers and horses to guard the main force of the official army in the north, and once you find out that the official army is coming, report to me immediately."
He suffered a big loss in the morning, and Wang Ziyong should have woken up no matter how much, but he didn't find out that when the officers and troops came in such a hurry, they still arranged a partial division to follow them, and they never joined the battlefield.
Moreover, because there are the main forces of the official army in the south and north, Wang Ziyu is even more afraid to be sloppy, he divides the 5,000 young and strong and 3,000 old battalions that he can allocate into two units, and the north and south are on guard at the same time.
"Tell me, where did this officer come from? How did it come so quickly, just the forward, there were two or three thousand men and horses, and that burst of slashing and killing at least thousands of my brothers. ”
Even if it has become a habit to lose the war, when it comes to the defeat under Xingyang City, these people are still a little embarrassed, after all, they lost a good future in the first war, which makes them a little unacceptable.
"Yes, thanks to my fast running, otherwise at the north gate, I would have been caught, and the Qin banner that came didn't look like an ordinary local military horse, but I didn't know which one."
One of the rebel leaders wiped a handful of black smoke from his face before he spoke, but soon, he was tapped on the shoulder,
"What? Playing the banner of Qinzi? Isn't it the one from Shanxi who has arrived? ”
This was so trembling that even he was afraid, if Li Jing led the army out of Jindong, the thief would still fart, directly polish his head, and just sit and wait to be cut off.
"No, this group of soldiers and horses is dressed differently from the Qin army, I look at it, like the Beijing battalion soldiers and horses that have been stationed on the north bank of the Yellow River before."
A rebel army commander who once ravaged Weihui Mansion said in a deep voice, but no matter who came, they were defeated anyway, and it was useless to say more, now everyone just wants to say, where to run to avoid the main force of the pursuing official army.
"It's difficult, Madman Lu defeated us with someone, according to his temperament, he must beat us to flee everywhere before he stops, I mean, I will take people to the east, go to the south of Kaifeng Mansion and enter Guide, seeing that the opportunity is not good, I will escape into Huguang, so that he can't fight."
Wang Ziyong suddenly began to be smart, anyway, Lu Luzi is the governor of Henan, and his army is also Henan's army, and he is misplaced, so he has been wandering around the border of Henan, if he goes south to Huguang earlier, won't there be nothing.
"That's good, we were originally going to Shanxi from Kaifeng Mansion, but the Qin army fought with human lives, and it also chased across the border to fight, we have already gone to Huguang, and the Ming army over there is much easier to fight."
The commanders of the rebel army clamored one after another, and it seemed that they had found a way to survive?
"Nacheng, Monk Liu, you take a thousand old battalions and two thousand young men to go first, I will rest here for a while, and then leave."
Wang Ziyong may have run here, he couldn't stand the huge loss in his heart, and wanted to rest, so he handed over the men and horses left behind by the Chinese army to Monk Liu to take away and explore the road first, which was also the determination to break through desperately, and the main force of the thief army of Yishui was given to him.
"Holo."
During this period, except for the battle with a small group of cavalry of the official army in the north, no trace of the official army was found in any other direction, which made Wang Ziyong very happy, which proved that he had escaped from the pursuit of the official army and was safe for the time being.
The righteous army, no matter how many people die, as long as the strength of the old battalion is still there, he can quickly pull up an army of 100,000 again, not to mention that he still has that army in Heyin, as long as he can break through, sooner or later it will be another army.
"Generalissimo, there is cavalry approaching from the east, go quickly!"
Just as he was resting in place, and the soldiers and horses of the old battalion around him were dismounted and eating, he suddenly received a report from a scout wandering in the east, and a cavalry approached, but he didn't know the specific number.
"Ge Laozi, it's really not quiet to eat, it's popular, a small group of Ming cavalry, dare to provoke, generalissimo, and look at me!"
A sturdy man got up suddenly, ordered more than 300 men in the headquarters to get on the horse directly, ready to face the small Ming army, Wang Ziyong saw this, it seemed that he didn't know whether he was slow to react, or didn't care at all, just waved his hand to let him leave, and then ordered the left and right to start eating faster, ready to transfer at any time.
Because in his opinion, under Xingyang City, even if he suffered four or five thousand casualties, there are still more than 60,000 main forces, except for his own 20,000 troops and more than 10,000 people on the West Road, there are still more than 30,000 people.
At best, it was just a small force of cavalry of one or two hundred Ming troops, but what he didn't know was that what was coming at them now was the elite soldiers and horses of the 3,000 stone pillar battalion, and the target was him, and the most important thing was that they were killed from the east.
"Hey, the sound of the horse's hooves is wrong,"
After a while, Wang Ziyong seemed to understand something, why he couldn't hear the slightest movement in the east, and the trampling sound of the cavalry and horses that were getting closer and closer didn't seem to be a small force anymore.
"Generalissimo, let's go, there are thousands of Ming troops coming."
The leader who went up to meet the battle with confidence with his men and horses just now stuck two arrows upside down, and then galloped back with his horse, and he couldn't win out of his anger, so he screamed loudly.
"What?!"
Wang Ziyong stood up in shock, but through the gap in this grove, he only saw a black and oppressive piece of Ming cavalry chasing after him......
"In this forest, war horses can be seen everywhere, and they must be the resting place of the important leaders of the thieves, and they surround me and set fire to them directly."
Ma Xianglin, who knew that the old camp of thieves was powerful, was unwilling to fight hard with this group, so he just relied on his elite troops to surround the forest, and then lit a fire, and then fired a burst of firearms and arrows to kill all the thieves who tried to break through, and then sent a small group of soldiers and horses to monitor, and the rest chased in other directions.
It was really Ma Xianglin's choice of location and timing for this attack that the thief army was not prepared at all, so under the second surprise attack, it completely collapsed, and the Ming cavalry on the outer line also launched an attack at the same time. (To be continued.) )