Chapter 287: Turning Point

Guo Potian's death was too sudden, whether it was the Taiping Army or the Qing Army, they were not psychologically prepared in advance, and the parties, such as Feng Zicai, were even more surprised, he didn't want to kill Guo Potian, but Guo Potian's death was inseparable from him, no matter what, this Zuihou's blow came from his hands, in the dark, it seems that everything has long been doomed,

Just when Feng Zicai stood on the spot, a little depressed, Guo Potian's personal guard general yelled and pounced on Guo Potian like crazy. He held Guo Potian's body in his arms and cried. A big man, so sad that everyone in the listener was moved.

"General, General Guo has already gone, please mourn." Feng Zicai tried to persuade the guard.

"It's you, it's you, it's you who killed our general, and I want to avenge the general." It's good that Feng Zicai didn't say anything, and when he made a sound, the guards would be considered to have found a target to vent.

The guard raised his head, his eyes were bloodshot, and the green tendons on his head were beating, looking like crazy, looking like that, he couldn't wait to eat Feng Zicai. Seeing this scene, Feng Zicai was secretly vigilant, he was a little worried that the guards would break out.

"General, this is just an accident, Feng didn't want to kill General Guo, besides, counting the person who really killed General Guo, it shouldn't be Feng, but you." Feng Zicai's words were like a thunderbolt in the sky, shaking the guards on the spot, and for a while, his face was like ashes.

After listening to Feng Zicai's words, although the guards still looked at Feng Zicai with hatred, the crazy color on his face gradually receded, replaced by various complex expressions such as guilt, remorse, and chagrin, it seemed that he understood in his heart that what Feng Zicai said was right. If it weren't for the arrow he shot, Guo Potian wouldn't have died if he said anything, at least, he wouldn't have died indirectly under his arrow.

Feng Zicai looked at the stupid guard, shook his head, ignored him, turned his horse's head, and left slowly. In his heart, Guo Potian's matter has come to an end with his death, and he, Feng Zicai, has more important things to deal with.

But. He hadn't taken a few steps before he heard a loud cry behind him, and then a pop of what seemed to be something being inserted into his skin.

Feng Zicai turned the horse's head again and looked towards the place where the guards and Guo Potian were. He couldn't help but froze, and he was shocked by what was happening in front of him.

I saw a dagger inserted in the chest of the guard, it seemed to be in the heart, he knelt on his knees, his head hung down weakly, his hands were still tightly holding Guo Potian's body, blood kept flowing out of his chest, and then splashed on Guo Potian's body, and after a while, the blood stained Guo Potian's upper body red, his blood, coupled with Guo Potian's blood, completely turned the space between the two of them into a bloody shijie, which made people unbearable to watch.

Feng Zicai looked at the scene in front of him, his eyes were a little wet, and he secretly praised in his heart, what a pair of loyal servants and righteous masters, and then, shook his head, sighed again, and then turned the horse's head and left.

As soon as Guo Potian died, the Taiping army was even more chaotic, and in less time, half of the main force of the hundreds of thousands of Taiping troops led by Guo Potian had been annihilated.

The one-sided killing turned the battlefield into hell, and everywhere there were voices of crying fathers and mothers, calling brothers and brothers, severed limbs and stumps, and lonely human heads everywhere. The Taiping army hated themselves for not having four more legs and two more wings, so that they could escape faster, while the Qing army was red-eyed, and the boundless killing had made them lose their minds, they didn't care whether the Taiping army had begun to stop resisting, whether they had surrendered or not, all they thought in their hearts was to kill, kill, kill again, kill everyone.

Pathetic battlefield, pathetic Taiping Army.

Feng Zicai saw that the battlefield seemed to be out of control, and urgently sent an order to let the Qing army stop the endless killing, and if he could persuade him to surrender, he would try to persuade him to surrender.

But after the order was passed down, it was not obeyed, and the unscrupulous killing was still going on, Feng Zicai could only sigh and let them go. He knew in his heart that the Qing army had been suppressed by the Taiping army for a long time, and countless people had died in the hands of the Taiping army, including the parents, brothers, relatives and friends of the Qing army who came this time, so they all held their breath and wanted to take this opportunity to vent on these Taiping troops.

Seeing that the Taiping army was about to be wiped out.

At this moment, the rapid sound of a horse suddenly sounded, and the earth began to tremble.

Feng Zicai's face changed, knowing that something big had happened, he immediately ordered someone to give an order to let the army retreat, but the army that was already intoxicated with killing was already unable to extricate itself. Feng Zicai was so anxious that he personally led people to rush into the battlefield and called the Qing army to retreat.

The roaring sound of horses' hooves drew closer and closer, until this point. The Qing army had just woken up from a dream and knew that danger was approaching, so they reluctantly put away the butcher knives in their hands and quickly began to retreat.

However, it was only at this time that I remembered to evacuate, apparently a little late.

The black-pressed iron cavalry rushed into the battlefield in a moment, and they were like iron-blooded judges, sending all the bones and brains of the Qing army that had not had time to withdraw to the western sky, and biting the main force of the Qing army to the death.

The Taiping army who survived the catastrophe couldn't kneel for a long time, looked up to the sky and wept, they really understood what it means to be alive.

Feng Zicai was trying to stop the enemy from surging like a tide while thinking about countermeasures.

Needless to say, these people who came here are under the banner of the Taiping Army, and they must be the Taiping Army, but but. I don't know where they came from, and they were all heavy cavalry, numbering about 20,000 people. And. According to Feng Zicai's estimate, these 20,000 people are only forwards, and the main army should be coming.

Feng Zicai understood that he had to evacuate the battlefield as soon as possible. Otherwise, once the main force of the Taiping army is fired, it will be too late to withdraw, although the 100,000 Qing army led by him basically did not suffer any losses in the battle with the Taiping army just now, in terms of numbers, the Qing army still has an advantage, but the situation of the main force of the Taiping army is unknown, how can he put himself in a disadvantageous situation without knowing the enemy's situation, this kind of thing. He Feng Zicai will definitely not do it, so the only thing he can do at the moment is to evacuate as soon as possible.

He made up his mind and made a decision immediately, ordering 20,000 light cavalry to be drawn from the 100,000 army to form a large army after the break, and he led the remaining main force of the Qing army to retreat in the direction of Zhumadian, he planned to retreat to Jinmadian first, join the defenders of Zhumadian, and then find an opportunity to break the enemy.

After receiving the order, the 20,000 light cavalry of the Qing army followed the order, desperately blocking the 20,000 iron cavalry of the Taiping army, and they had to desperately buy Feng Zicai time to retreat.

20,000 against 20,000, not to mention the strength, the number should be between the two, so although the Taiping army had the intention to chase the enemy, but had no choice but to stop in front, in addition to sprinkling their anger on the Qing cavalry in front of them, they could only watch Feng Zicai withdraw the main force of the Qing army unharmed.

After Feng Zicai left, the two pairs of cavalry had a good fight.

No, it's not so much about fighting each other, it's more about one-sided bullying, the cavalry of the Taiping Army has been seriously trained by Huang Xu, and its strength has been improved by several grades, and it is still a heavy cavalry. In addition, they are now waiting for work at ease, so they didn't have much effort to defeat the Qing army's 20,000 light cavalry, and they were defeated and retreated.

However, although the situation was unfavorable to the Qing army, they fought to the death and did not retreat, and their purpose was very simple, that is, to ensure that the main force of the Qing army led by Feng Zicai could safely retreat to Zhumadian.

Feng Zicai can be regarded as living up to the kindness of the 20,000 Qing army iron horsemen, after he shook off the tail of the Taiping army, he arrived safely outside the city of Zhumadian, but how to enter the city has become a big problem. Because, now there is still a large army led by Lu Qingtian outside the city besieging the city.

Everything that happened ahead. Lu Qingtian didn't know, he still received an order from him when Guo Potian was just about to withdraw from the ambush, Guo Potian asked him to stop the siege of the city, turn to only besiege and not attack, and wait for the main force of the Taiping Army led by Guo Potian to converge with him, and then find another way to break the city.

Therefore, LĂź Qingtian followed Guo Potian's order and withdrew the besieging army back, only besieging it. But he didn't know that Guo Potian was not only dead and dead, but even the main force of the Taiping Army led by him was also annihilated.

It's a pity that Lu Qingtian is still waiting for Guo Potian to discuss big things under Zhumadian City. But as everyone knows, Guo Potian will never come back.

Feng Zicai sent people to detect the situation of Lu Qingtian's besieging army, first sent people to sneak into the city, and got in touch with the defenders in the city.

Just as Feng Zicai's planning was stopped, preparing to implement the jihua, Lu Qingtian also confirmed the bad news that Guo Potian was unfortunately killed and the army had dispersed, and he immediately realized that he was in danger in addition to grief, since the Qing army reinforcements had defeated Guo Potian's main army, then, their next step, would definitely advance to Jinmadian, if the Qing army came to Zhumadian, then he Lu Qingtian would be in big trouble. Come to think of this. He didn't care about continuing to be sad, and immediately sent someone to ask Huang Xu for help, although it was a little late to ask for help at this time, but it was better to talk than nothing, and it was the worst. Reinforcements can come and collect his body. Of course. It's one thing to ask for help, it's also necessary to actively save himself, and he has to find a way to ensure this part of his forces in order to have a follow-up effect.

Lu Qingtian thought about it. I feel that there is only one feasible plan at present, that is, thirty-six strategies, taking is the best policy, and the most haode way now is to retreat first, keep this part alive, and then find a way to take revenge. Moreover, if he can safely bring back this army in his hands, then he can be regarded as having an account for the kingdom of heaven and bixia.

Lu Qingtian knew that time was pressing, so he ordered people to set up suspicious formations on the one hand, pretending that there was still a large army stationed, and on the other hand, he gave the order to retreat to the army. He sent a scout horse to sentry in the direction of retreat, and the information Zuihou got was that the direction they were preparing to retreat was indeed garrisoned by the Qing army, and when Lu Qingtian heard this, he was anxious and at a loss.

If there is a roadblock, they want to retreat without knowing it, it is impossible, the only way is to forcibly break through, just when he was about to give the order to break through, the tanma said again, not far from the Qing army in front, there is a small road, just enough for a person and a horse to pass, if they can smoothly cross this path, then they can reach the back of the Qing army, that also means that they are safe.

After hearing this, Lu Qingtian glanced at the probe horse, and asked him a little angrily if he didn't say it earlier. Tanma was blamed by Lu Qingtian, and he was also a little aggrieved, he explained that he originally wanted to say it, but before General Lu could finish speaking, he impatiently talked about other things, so he didn't have time to say it.

Lu Qingtian waved his hand, too lazy to listen to his nonsense, and immediately asked him to lead the way.

Tan Ma was right, under his leadership, Lu Qingtian smoothly led the army from that path and safely arrived at the rear of the Qing army. (To be continued......)