Li Zicheng has been closely observing the form of the battlefield, and at first he still had a calm expression, and his face slowly changed. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Even the relatively calm Tian Jianxiu's face was as pale as Gao Yigong, the casualties were too great, and the combat strength of the new army was too strong, especially the fact that Yuan Zongdi organized 15,000 spearmen to attack like a tide, but was defeated by hundreds of spearmen of the new army, which caused their original belief in victory to be dealt a big blow.

Only Liu Zongmin looked left and right, with the hindsight of "knowing why we fought like that earlier", as the chief sentinel, he led the troops to fight like that before, his face was dull, and now his heart will be more balanced.

Li Zicheng felt a chill in his heart, in one morning, a total of 50,000 foot soldiers on his side and Ge Zuo's side were all killed by Cao Bianjiao, not counting the tens of thousands of hungry people, he thought that there was no problem with Yuan Zongdi and others, and there was a problem, only on the side of the officers and soldiers.

Looking at that side, there was only one thought in his heart, he had also fought with Xiao Cao, and his combat power was not so strong at that time, right?

At this time, Ge Li Yan He Yilong also hurried over and shouted: "King Chuang, you can't fight anymore, the casualties of the sons are too great." ”

He said that he dared to fight in the middle of the Revolution, and he said so at this time, and the obvious losses in front of him had made the leaders of the five battalions of the Revolution extremely dissatisfied, and they instigated him, the leader to come and persuade him.

Li Zicheng said patiently: "Old Master He, when it comes to this part, how can you not continue to fight?" The casualties of the rebels were larger, but fortunately, the backbone was not lost, but on Xiao Cao's side, the casualties were all elites. With more effort, there will always be times when they can't stand it. ”

The implication of his words is that it is difficult to ride a tiger, and it is impossible to stop, otherwise the dead will be in vain, especially all the earlier layouts have been in vain.

Moreover, there is another layer of meaning he did not say, although there are many dead people in the camp, most of them are worthless hungry people, and there are also foot soldiers who are consumables. As long as there is a horse army. Everything that was lost, will still come back.

Niu Jinxing also persuaded: "General He, don't give up your efforts, although our division has a small setback." However, reinforcements continued. It's not. At least tens of thousands of troops have already arrived, but let them come forward to fight, and the officers and soldiers are just trapped in the beast fight. A hundred-legged insect that dies but does not stiffen. ”

He Yilong needs to be polite to Li Zicheng, Niu Jinxing is just a staff member under his command, how can he be polite, he glared at him, and shouted: "Stiff your mother's head, donkey ball, a soldier on paper, Xiao Cao's appearance of a dragon and a tiger, is he dead but not stiff?" ”

Niu Jinxing's face suddenly turned pale, such humiliation is unbearable.

In the camp, even the veteran Liu Zongmin was polite to himself, He Yilong, how dare he be like this?

He smiled reluctantly, but he still had to maintain the demeanor of a literati, and only put on a non-caring expression.

The cold color in Li Zicheng's eyes flashed, and he had to look at the face of the master to beat the dog, Niu Jinxing was a military advisor who broke into the camp, He Yilong yelled at him like this, did he put himself in his eyes? The faces of the generals who broke into the camp also became ugly, and the irritable Liu Zongmin almost jumped up.

However, considering the overall situation of the war, Li Zicheng still held back his anger and restrained the actions of his subordinates.

He looked at He Yilong and said with a smile: "Old Master He, I want you to persuade the major masters, we can't stop, if Cao Bianjiao runs away, our scheming from Kaifeng will be in vain." However, as long as Cao Bianjiao is defeated and their new army is destroyed, the officers and soldiers of Kaifeng City will definitely be frightened, and the righteous army will be gathered, and they will be wiped out in one drum, and the imperial court will no longer be able to deal with us. Under the big tomorrow, let us gallop, think about that day, and then think about the days when we hid in Tibet in the past, this battle must be fought! ”

He Yilong looked at Li Zicheng, and always felt that there was something deep in his eyes, he unnaturally looked away, thinking about it, if he didn't get something back afterwards, all parties couldn't explain it, and he was only thinking in his heart: "Damn, I'm on the thief ship, I knew that I was at ease in Nanzhili, and I didn't come to join Li Chuang." ”

I think Li Zicheng has a point of reasonableness, although the casualties of his subordinates are large, the main horsemen are not lost, and the follow-up soldiers are also coming, gritting his teeth, he can still hold on.

Eventually, he muttered, "Just follow the king." ”

Li Zicheng looked at him and said with a smile: "Okay, Brother He really understands righteousness." ”

……

In the afternoon, the Liuying organized several attacks, but they were all repelled by Cao Bianjiao one by one, surrounded by thieves, and the army was firmly pushed forward.

The 50,000 soldiers who broke into the camp and fought with the left of the revolution were unwilling to fight again, and the battle in the afternoon was all participated by the newly arrived foot soldiers and hungry people, but because of the tragic battle in the morning, these people were unstable for a while.

Li Zicheng and others killed a lot of people to stabilize the morale of the army, and Niu Jinxing came up with a way to separate the hungry foot soldiers who arrived later from the previous ones, so that the cannon fodder who arrived later without knowing the truth rushed towards the Ming army without hesitation under the supervision of the horsemen.

The corpses piled up higher along the way, and the blood flowed into the Xiangshui continuously, as if it was about to dye the entire river red.

In the face of the intercepted infantry and hungry people, Cao Bianjiao killed and scattered them again and again, and fled while they were scattered, and the army moved forward quickly.

However, Li Zicheng's tactics of concentrating on horsemen and dragging were quite successful, whenever the front foot soldiers were starving and the people were scattered, and the rest was too late to rescue, Gao Yigong led the nearly 40,000 horsemen to come over like a tide, forcing Cao Bianjiao to form a formation to protect himself, gather for their foot soldiers, and win time again.

Only a few times, when the cavalry of the main barracks attacked, the infantry formation quickly followed, killing more than 1,000 of their horsemen, but afterwards Li Zicheng noticed this and arranged more men and horses to drag their new army infantry formation.

In the afternoon of the same day, the foot soldiers and hungry people of the camp arrived more, and the flat land around them was covered with their crowds.

Song Xiance also arrived, and he proposed to make and transform more equipment, such as using the board carts carried by the hungry, wheelbarrows to make simple shield carts, erecting hard and thick wooden boards, protective bullets, and even some shutters, and laying quilts and other things, so that the Ming army continued to cause casualties and made Cao Bianjiao feel anxious.

However, there is also good news, the royal courtiers who broke through earlier. led him more than 2,600 cavalry, and suddenly attacked the 20,000 horsemen specially arranged by Li Zicheng to guard against the Ming army of the Wang and other departments, and almost killed these people to a rout.

After that, the royal courtiers wandered outside, frantically attacking everywhere, and in the middle of Shen Shizhong, he attacked a starving camp, causing them to flee in all directions. In total, I don't know how many tens of thousands escaped.

Li Zicheng was shocked. ordered Li Guo to be more vigilant, and then asked the hungry people to dig trenches on the road ahead of Cao Bianjiao, digging potholes everywhere, making it difficult for the Ming army to march.

August 19. The more thieves there are. And on this day. Li Zicheng organized dozens of attacks, and the two sides were inseparable, and the casualties increased more and more. The land on the shore of Xiangshui was almost soaked in blood and turned black and purple.

Near noon on 20 August, Luo Rucai, Sun Kewang, and Li Dingguo arrived, and the tragic scene in front of them frightened Luo Rucai.

The three families finally converged, and at this time, the foot soldiers under their command and the hungry people who were surrounded by them basically arrived, only the artillery did not arrive.

Luo Rucai's suggestion to imitate siege warfare and build solid equipment such as shield chariots and chariots to deal with the sharp firearms of the Ming army, was highly praised by Li Zicheng......

20th, afternoon, no hour.

A local place called Huqiao is only thirty miles away from Xiayi.

The sound of firecrackers resounded in the sky, and in the rows of firelight, the thief shield cart in front of them was crackling on the visors, the cotton wool on the quilt was flying, and the thieves on the cart were shouting and scurrying around, trying to dodge the guns that seemed terrible to them.

"Kill the thief!"

Another wave of pikemen was dispatched, and these brave warriors roared, braving the arrows fired from front of them, and some three-eyed bullets, and rushed bravely towards the back of the shield cart, and the ground was a little pothole, and even a trench would appear at any point.

But even if they fell, they immediately got up and continued to attack with their guns.

The thieves behind the shield car scattered with a bang, all abandoned their weapons, howled and fled, the torrent of spears swept in, and the spears in Tang Ting's hands stabbed out violently, and the thieves and shield soldiers who saw that they couldn't escape, and the trapped beasts were still fighting, and the thieves and shield soldiers suddenly blocked with their shields, and they could use the round shield to resist the spears.

However, the strong force still caused him to fall out, and the thief was also a veteran, and hurriedly rolled on the ground, trying to get up in a hurry.

Before he could straighten up, Tang Tingji's spear, with a heavy wind, stabbed him in the right eye, and the blood and white brain juice shot out at once, and the thief fell to the ground without a sound.

The thieves who dared to resist were killed and injured in a short time, and the rest turned around and fled in panic, and then were killed one by one by Tang Tingji and others from behind.

The screams, the cries, it seemed that history was repeating itself, and another thief had turned around, and he had a young and frightened face, still so childish.

But Tang Tingji's heart was already as hard as steel, and his hand holding the spear did not hesitate, stabbing the throat of the young thief, and the spear was drawn again, and then did not stop forward, leaving the thief to twitch desperately on the ground with his wounds covered.

Killing, killing, and constantly killing people, Tang Tingji's spirit has long been numb, and many times fighting is only based on instinct and habit.

He waved his hand again and again, assassinated again and again, and he couldn't even remember how many people he had killed, it seemed that there were young, old, small, men, and women, and many of his partners were also emotionally broken because of excessive killing.

If there was a mirror in front of him, Tang Tingji would have found that his eyes had already turned blood-red, as if he had become a killing machine, and the thoughts of death and fear had disappeared from his mind.

Even he and many pikemen, after killing the infantry formation, still rushed frantically against the rogue horsemen who came to intercept, making them run in fear, while shouting: "Crazy, crazy, a bunch of crazy people......"

Mingjin's voice sounded, Tang Tingji suddenly felt that the strength of his whole body seemed to be lost, and he felt that his whole body hurt everywhere, and he returned to the position with the same tired spearmen, and sat on the ground with his buttocks, and many people even lay down like that, ignoring the blood and corpses on the ground, and some even pillowed the thighs of the dead as pillows.

The army marched all the way, and there were so many fallen corpses that they could not be cleaned up, and many times, the living and the dead were mixed together like that.

"Coming back? Come, take a sip of water. ”

When I sat down tiredly, a coconut scoop was handed over. But it was Tang Tingcao, the commander of the armor who he treated as a big brother, and handed over his kettle.

Tang Tingji silently took it, the coconut scoop that felt light and fluttering in the past seemed to be as heavy as a thousand pounds at this time, the muscles on his arms were exuding soreness all the time, and the wounds everywhere seemed to be numb from pain.

Tang Tingji didn't speak, and after a few sips, the pot of water seemed to have a strange smell. This is because there is too much blood flowing into the ringing water. Mixed in with too many corpses.

Shangguan ordered that raw water should not be drunk, and it must be boiled, but because the enemy looked around. Firewood is hard to come by. A jug of water. It is also becoming more and more precious.

After taking a few sips, the coconut scoop in his hand was snatched away by Tang Zhengjing, and the coal blacks also rumbled a few times. Then Zhen and Zhen stuffed the pot stopper and handed it back to Tang Tingcao.

He hugged Tang Tingji's shoulders affectionately: "Ah Ji, Lao Tzu almost thought you couldn't come back, but fortunately, your kid has a big life, and he will be fine every time......"

He looked at Tang Tingji's face: "It's broken, I'm afraid it will be difficult to find a daughter-in-law in the future, I heard that the Jingbian Army has a special military media, and once you join the army to take care of your daughter-in-law, it's really enviable." ”

He laughed heartlessly, accidentally tugging at the wound, and then coughed vigorously.

He also suffered several wounds on his body, and as the battle became more and more intense, they fought countless times a day, and they often turned into sword and shield soldiers, and they were close to the thieves.

"Talent is dead."

Tang Tingcao, who was silently looking at the kettle in his hand, suddenly said, everyone was dumbfounded, no matter how numb Tang Tingji's spirit was, he still felt that his chest was blocked uncomfortably, and the tears in his eyes almost fell, fellow townsman Tang Tiantian went again, more than a dozen fellow villagers who joined the army back then have been killed and injured, and half of the remaining people can live?

He looked at the back of his comrades tiredly, everyone around him looked extremely tired, many of them were gray and blue, and there were fewer people in the military formation, and everyone, including the soldiers in the main barracks, was scarred and looked awkward.

All kinds of blood, as well as the spicy smell of gunpowder smoke rushed to the nose from time to time, and all kinds of corpses were scattered in the formation, Tang Tingji saw that the officers in the middle of the formation were sitting or standing without any image, and many of them were smoking their pipes silently, but they didn't speak.

A big flag with the character Cao is still flying, but there are dozens of thieves next to the flag, Tang Tingji saw Cao Dashuai, as well as Vice General Yang and Deputy General Sun of Zunhua Town, the three of them got together, and sat on the pile of corpses, each with their feet in a pool of blood, not knowing what they were talking about.

The army was already crumbling when it hit this point, but don't look at the rest and recuperation, just a command, the army is still scarred and painful, staggering, with the unimaginable tenacity of the thief, continue to move forward.

It's just that, when you look up, there are still thieves all around, can the army really get out of danger?

In the silence, a hesitant voice suddenly sounded: "You say, you really can't fight, Cao Shuai and them, will they leave us alone?" ”

Everyone looked, but it was Tang Yanfu who spoke, and this honest young man stumbled: "It's not that Cao Shuai is to blame them...... It's all up to this, even if they're gone, I won't say anything no, but I'm ...... I just think about my mother......"

Tang Tingji twitched even more in his heart, what he was worried about was not his mother at home?

Daddy died early, and his mother single-handedly pulled himself up, if she was gone, what should she do alone?

At present, there are rumors in the infantry army, worried that the cavalry will abandon the infantry and run away, but because Cao Bianjiao and others proved it with practical actions, they dispelled everyone's doubts, but no matter what, this worry always exists.

Tang Yanfu was about to speak, but he came into contact with Tang Tingcao's eyes that seemed to be about to breathe fire, and he was so frightened that he didn't dare to say any more, only to hear Tang Tingcao shout in a low voice: "You are shaking the heart of the army!" ”

"Smack!"

He slapped Tang Yanfu hard.

Seeing that he took great care of himself on weekdays, Brother Tingcao, who was closer than his eldest brother, slapped himself like this, Tang Yanfu covered his face and was very aggrieved, and everyone next to him also closed his mouth tightly and did not speak.

Tang Tingcao stared at him, his expression softened slightly, and said, "What nonsense are you talking about?" Cao Shuai really wants to leave, he left long before the thieves joined in, still waiting? Think about how Cao Shuai treats us in Yutian, and we should know our loyalty, righteousness and conscience. ”

Tang Yanfu lowered his head and muttered, "I know that I said the wrong thing, I'm just worried about ......"

Tang Tingcao shouted: "Still say? ”

Coal blacks played a round on the side: "Okay, okay, don't make any noise, ah, Mr. Qian has come to see it." ”

Everyone was shocked, and at this moment, there seemed to be a commotion in the military formation, and then cheers, and finally louder and louder, and the soldiers stood up and cheered to the general under the banner of Zhangba, the general rode his horse and walked on all sides of the military formation, he looked tired and resolute, he said: "Let's continue to move forward, I Cao Bianjiao, never give up a brother!" ”

"Cao Shuai, Cao Shuai, Cao Shuai......"

The cheers were louder, and there were bursts of thunderous shouts in the military formation, just like the soldiers, Tang Tingcao struggled to wave his fists, his face flushed, and the fire gun in Tang Yanfu's hand was also raised and lowered hard, and then raised hard, his heart was no longer worried.

Tang Ting stabbed the spear in his hand, stabbing into the sky, looking at the person under the big flag, the fiery red cloak was flying in the cold wind, and the tears in his eyes finally couldn't help but flow down.

……

August 21.

Wave after wave of hungry people with spears and sticks, with numbness or fanaticism, only marched towards the target, in the sea of people, as many original siege equipment as as possible such as carts and pointed heads, and even some trebuchets, which were pushed hard by the hungry people.

In front of the waves of hungry people, there were as many simple or sophisticated shield carts, and behind the dense hungry people like ants and insects, there were also layers of foot soldiers, holding swords and shields, spears, and firearms, shouting forward, and behind the formation, there were tens of thousands of horsemen galloping and roaring.

Li Zicheng and others have already been released, a few days of brutal fighting, the same battalions were extremely badly damaged, the two hundred thousand foot soldiers of the three coalition armies, all of them were beaten by Cao Bianjiao's thousands of new troops, Luo Rucai personally Yang Shenzu, personally led the infantry army to attack back, Luo Rucai thought that the number of casualties was more than a zero.

Inevitably, the three generals had a fierce quarrel, and the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution and the Left became more and more impatient to fight, or Li Zicheng tried to disagree with the public, and Luo Rucai also supported this point, so they also agreed last night that today was the last battle, and they could not fight it if they concentrated all their forces, so they had to withdraw.

As the leaders of each family, Li Zicheng and others lived in the rear, on a high platform that was temporarily erected, looking at the Ming army formation that was still standing majestically in the crowd of people in all directions, Li Dingguo couldn't help sighing.

Sun Kewang smiled and said, "What is the second brother thinking?" ”

Li Dingguo said: "I'm thinking, Cao Bianjiao's bravery, the fierceness of the new army, my righteous army is not as good." ”

Sun Kewang said: "Although Cao Bianjiao is brave and the new army is fierce, there is a drawback, and this drawback, my righteous army does not have it, and Wang Dou does not have it. ”

Li Dingguo groaned: "What did the eldest brother say? ”

Sun Kewang nodded: "Four words, endlessly." ”

At this time, Li Zicheng gave the order to attack, and hundreds of thousands of people shouted, rushing forward like a tide, and the earth trembled.

Sun Kewang exhaled deeply: "This is what I want, big husband, it should be so." (To be continued.) )