The Qing army's iron cavalry, which escaped from the pursuit of the Zheng army, fled all the way back to Xi'an City. Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

In Xi'an City, the night was quiet, but neither Esai nor Han Dai were in the mood to sleep.

He sat on the Taishi chair, wiping the blood on his forehead, and he couldn't hide a kind of defeat in his eyes.

In the sweltering summer, the cool night breeze blows slowly, and it can't let the dullness in the heart of the forehead be dispelled.

"How many people are left in our army?" He said in a deep voice.

Adjutant General Meng Zheta hurriedly said, "General, our army is only a little over 1,000 now!" However, the casualties of the Zheng family army are definitely not small, definitely no less than six or seven thousand! ”

Hearing this, a cold light flashed in his eyes, and he said with some irritation, "There are 150,000 soldiers and horses in the Zheng family army on this road, and thousands of casualties are not a threat to him at all. Tell your children to clean up, and we're going to attack at night tonight!" ”

"Night attack on the Zheng family's army camp!" Han Dai looked straight at the forehead plug and said with some astonishment.

"Not bad!" Esai said coldly.

"But, General, we are now suffering heavy casualties, and if we go to attack the Zheng family army again. Wouldn't it be too risky! Han Dai hesitated and persuaded.

"You said to take risks, then the commander of the Zheng family's army would definitely not have thought that we would dare to take risks attacking them now. If you are unprepared, you will be captured! And I don't believe that they can hold out when they are attacked at night! He snorted.

"But general, the enemy has more than 100,000 soldiers and horses, and with our soldiers and horses, the last general is afraid?" Han Dai said.

"You're afraid of a bird, I'm not stupid, I won't use this bit of soldiers and horses to attack the Zheng family army again, I just want to create some chaos for them now." Forehead said impatiently.

Han Dai continued to persuade, "General, the last general has already sent a fast horse to report the battle situation to the emperor, as long as we wait for another ten days and half a month, our army will be able to come to the rescue." In the end, I thought it was better to stick to it. With an army of 50,000, the last general is absolutely confident that he will be able to hold out until the arrival of reinforcements! ”

"Defend the city?! What can I do with the Qing Dynasty Iron Cavalry, dismount and become an ordinary soldier? The cavalry nested in the city will only spoil the cavalry. I led the Great Qing Iron Cavalry outside, harassing him day and night, and making them uneasy, which would ease their march. Got it? He said impatiently, "Go and prepare!" ”

After hesitating for a moment, Han Dai felt that what Esai said was also reasonable, so he said, "Yes! The last general is going to straighten out the soldiers and horses! ”

Zhou Zhi was under a small hill twenty miles outside the city, and the Zheng family army was in camp.

The camp was dimly lit, and dozens of soldiers were patrolling.

In the tent of the commander of the middle camp, the main generals of the Western Road Army gathered here to discuss.

Zhou Quanbin sat on the throne and asked: "How about our army's gains in today's battle, and what about our army's casualties?" ”

Yang Chaodong was in charge of the military affairs of the West Road, in charge of military rations and equipment.

He stood up and said, "Back to Commander-in-Chief, our army killed more than 4,700 Qing cavalry and captured more than 1,000 prisoners today. 1,600 intact horses were captured. Those sycophants who can't be saved have already called the cooking squad to add food to the soldiers. Our army suffered more than 3,900 casualties, more than 2,300 seriously wounded, and countless people were lightly wounded. ”

Zhou Quanbin nodded and drank: "Tomorrow our army will arrive in Xi'an City, the Qing army has just been defeated, and the soldiers will inevitably be low." Tomorrow we will go all out to attack the city, and we must fight down to conquer Xi'an City. Did you hear that? ”

"Yes!" The generals in the camp stood up in unison and shouted in unison: "Guarantee to complete the mission!" ”

The sound made the small tent hum, as if the whole tent had been shaken.

"Kill~~~!" Just as these generals walked out of the camp tents, unexpected shouts of killing suddenly sounded from the south, north, and west sides of the barracks.

Zhou Quanbin shouted angrily, "Don't mess up, the Qing army can't have so many people, it's just the enemy's bluff." Let the regimental commanders and battalion commanders of each regiment organize the soldiers to counterattack according to the drills. ”

With Zhou Quanbin's order, Zheng Jiajun quickly organized a counterattack.

The musketeers hid behind the carts arranged around the camp and fired at the ringing.

The enemy comes and disappears as quickly as possible.

"Report! Commander-in-chief, the enemy forces in the south have withdrawn, and Commander Chen asks for instructions, do you want to continue the pursuit? ”

"Report! Commander-in-Chief, the enemy to the west has withdrawn! Commander Wang Xiuqi asked if he wanted to send troops to pursue? ”

"Report! Commander-in-chief, the Qinggou in the north fled, and Commander Wang said that he wanted to catch up? ”

Zhou Quanbin looked at the dark night, and a cold light flashed in his eyes and shouted, "There is no need to pursue, order those soldiers on duty to do a good patrol." Let Major General Yao Guotai immediately come to my account to discuss matters. “

When Yao Guotai heard the order, he hurried over, and as soon as he entered the camp, he immediately saluted: "Report!" Commander-in-Chief, are you looking for me? ”

Zhou Quanbin raised his head when he heard the voice and said, "Cathay, there is a task to be handed over to you!" Wait for you to lead all the cavalry to dispatch, and you must exterminate the cavalry of the Qing army! ”

"Go now!" Yao Guotai asked with some distress.

"Yes, go now!" Zhou Quanbin said decisively.

"Commander-in-Chief, my men have had a hard day. Take a night's rest and release it tomorrow night? Yao Guotai pleaded for his subordinates.

"Don't talk to Lao Tzu about the conditions! You work hard, but those Qing cavalry are not hard. All I want is for you to entangle them and bring them down. Even if all of you are tired and die in battle, you have to wipe out all those Qing cavalry for Lao Tzu. If you attack Xi'an City, there are Qing cavalry to make trouble, Lao Tzu wants your head! Zhou Quanbin slapped the book case hard and shouted.

Yao Guotai hurriedly stood up when he heard this, "Yes!" Mission completion guaranteed! ”

……

Zhou Zhi was in a forest not far from the city, where thousands of Qing cavalry were resting.

He sat down under a tree and hammered the earth hard. "Damn, I don't know how these dogs came up with it. It's even harder than a hedgehog! ”

The main gate of the Zheng family's military camp was heavily guarded, and Esai did not have the courage to dare to attack head-on, so he thought of attacking from the side.

Unexpectedly, barbed wire was pulled up around the Zheng Jiajun camp, and three lanes were arranged inside and out.

The barbed wire was densely packed with barbed hooks that could not be passed unless they were cut.

What's even worse is that in addition to arranging open and dark sentinels, the Zheng family army even carried wolf dogs with the army.

Seven or eight wolf dogs were patrolling around, two or three hundred meters away, and these wolf dogs found their own people and barked desperately, alarming the Zheng family guards.

A sneak attack turned into a storm!

With barbed wire, it is impossible to get close to it.

Esai had no choice but to order his men to throw some bombs and create some chaos.

What he didn't expect was that the Zheng family's army counterattacked quickly and fiercely at night.

didn't kill a few Zheng family soldiers, but he left behind thirty or forty cavalrymen.

Esai had no choice but to retreat quickly with his men, come to this woods to rest, and wait for dawn to think about other strategies.

In order to find the Qing cavalry, Yao Guotai sent hundreds of spies to search around.

In the second half of the night, spies reported that they had found enemy tracks.

Yao Guotai immediately led 3,000 Zheng cavalry out of the camp to kill the Qing army.

Now is an extraordinary period, and Esai does not dare to be careless at all, and has been on guard.

Less than three miles away, the Qing soldiers noticed the movement of the Zheng family's army.

The horn soldier desperately blew the horn battle horn, and the Qing army camp suddenly sounded, and the Qing soldier lying on the ground hurriedly got up, picked up his weapon and got on his horse.

With the order of the head stopper, the Qing army roared out of the camp and rushed towards the Zheng army.

The distance was close, and the horse pistols of the Zheng family army and the bows and arrows of the Qing cavalry were already in their hands.

There was a bang, smoke from the muzzle of the gun, and the bullets that burst out of the gun, spinning at high speed and hitting the Qing army, suddenly peeling off a layer of skin from the Qing army.

Just after the first round, the Qing army's counterattack followed. The whistling long arrows, hundreds of feathered arrows were shot out almost at the same time, and the body of the arrows with a terrible howling roar pierced through the night fog and straight into the ranks of the Zheng family's army, bringing the soul seduction messenger.

"Kill, kill, follow me!" The loud voice of the forehead plug sounded unusually clear.

"Kill!" More than a thousand cavalry roared almost at the same time, the sound was like thunder, shocking people's hearts!

Yao Guotai also roared, "Sons, kill me." Kill those clear dogs! ”

"Kill!"

The three thousand cavalry athletes of the Zheng family army responded violently, the sound was like thunder, and thousands of iron hooves stirred up dust in the sky, and continued to rush forward like a rolling iron stream.

The distance was so close that carbines, bows and arrows were of little use. At this time, the saber is the most deadly!

Qi Qi showed his sabers, and the two cavalry slammed into each other without any expense.

The saber is ho, and the head is rolling.

Wherever the sharpest cavalry forwards passed, a rain of blood was suddenly set off, and cavalry continued to fall on both sides.

The sound of shouting and killing, the sound of weapons colliding, and the sound of horns resounded in the sky, and both the Zheng army and the Qing army were fighting desperately.

In the blink of an eye, the two cavalry had penetrated each other.

As if they had made an appointment, he turned the horse's head at the same time, and let out a loud roar from his mouth, "Kill!" ”

Turned back and killed again.

Killing back and forth like this, leaving corpses and blood all over the ground.

This group of Qing cavalry is also fierce, and the knife is deadly. Zheng Jiajun is not bad, hard training, good equipment, so that they will not fall behind in the fight against the Qing army.

The night fog slowly cleared, and a glimmer of light appeared in the sky.

After a night of fighting, Zheng Jiajun suffered nearly 1,000 casualties. The Qing army was no better, with only a little more than a thousand left.

Adjutant General Monteta shouted, "General, we can't go on like this. These Zheng Jiajun are crazy, they are desperate to kill us all. Let's withdraw first! ”

was drunk by the lieutenant general, and his violent mood suddenly sobered up.

Now there are not many soldiers and horses in the Qing army, and they are all dying here, and they can't complete the plan to delay the Zheng family's army.

Esai shouted in a loud voice, "The whole army listens to the order and retreats!" ”

When the cavalry of the Qing army heard this, they hurriedly gathered around Esai and tried to break out.

Yao Guotai is also red-eyed now, where is he willing to let the Qing army escape easily, and roared angrily: "Leave more than 100 people to take care of the wounded, and the others, chase after me!" ”

Corpses were strewn about, and soldiers with severed limbs lay on the ground wailing in pain.

The soldiers of the Zheng family army who stayed behind, taking care of their wounded companions.

As for those Qing troops, they all mercifully made up for it and let them go happily.

At this time, the mist mixed with the strong bloody breath had dissipated, and the morning sun was reflected on the blood-stained land, which was different and enchanting. (To be continued.) )