Chapter 175: Attacking Huaining City
At noon on the same day, when the Guards were fighting fiercely with the Central Army of the Left Army under the city of Huaining, the troops under the command of Huang Degong and Yuan Jixian also poured out, like the water of the embankment rushing to the other parts of the Left Army.
Among them, Huang Degong's wife and brother Weng Zhiqi personally led his 150,000 troops from Jiujiang and Susong to Zhang Yuanliang's department.
And Li Shichun, the confidant general of Yuan Jixian, personally led an army of 100,000 and went straight to the Daoxing Department.
Although the Seventh Army, which had been fighting against the Left Army for a long time in the Jiangyou area, was mostly composed of traditional troops.
There are veterans led by Huang Degong and Yuan Jixian in the past, as well as the township soldiers recruited before, but these officers and soldiers also know that Zuo Liangyu's army is already on the verge of death, so the enthusiasm to kill the enemy one by one is quite high, after all, everyone knows that the left army marched all the way east, but it looted the money of the entire Huguang, and everyone wanted to take advantage of this period to make a fortune.
Zhang Yuanliang's department is considered to be Zuo Liangyu's relatively weak combat unit, that is, the legendary grain troops, the entire military camp is chaotic and disorderly, and most of them are ruffians, and the most in the entire military camp is the cry of the captive women, not the shouting and killing during training.
Weng Zhiqi personally led three thousand iron horsemen to rush over.
Like, Zuo Liangyu has an iron horse that has been fighting with him for many years.
The 3,000 iron cavalry led by Weng Zhiqi is also the foundation of Huang Degong's attack on the world since he joined the army, and before that, he had already made the merit of assaulting out of the hundreds of thousands of troops of the left army and seizing Susong.
These three thousand iron cavalry are all old cavalry, and the skills of arching and horses are naturally proficient and exquisite, and these left troops in front of them are not the elite of the left army, so they are naturally slashed and killed at will.
Zhang Yuanliang's left army, who was gathering crowds to gamble or lining up to commit violence against a civilian woman, or was sitting on the ground and napping, saw Weng Zhiqi's cavalry rushing towards him, and without thinking about it, he began to drop his guns and firearms, spread his feet and ran back.
Weng Zhiqi rushed to the horse first, and these left troops in front of him were tired or hungry or depressed, in front of him like a rape pole, they were cut off by Weng Zhiqi, and then jumped on the horse, trampled several people to death with the hooves of the horse, and after the mount landed firmly on the ground, he hurriedly fired a salvo of arrows, shooting the running left army to the ground.
In this way, Weng Zhiqi first led 3,000 iron cavalry to crush Zhang Yuanliang's 80,000 army, and piles of left troops hurriedly dropped their swords and guns and ran around.
At this time, the officers and men of the 150,000 Seventh Army of the Guards Army also ran all over the mountains.
Although these infantry did not have the strict formation requirements of the officers and soldiers of the Guards, the chief general Huang Degong was also a good manager of the army, and the officers and soldiers under his training could also achieve basic military ethics.
Zhang Yuanliang ran frantically on his horse, and shouted to his own soldiers: "Go and tell the commander that our department was suddenly attacked by a large-scale official army, and the leader is Weng Zhiqi's guy!" Hurry, hurry! ”
After Zhang Yuanliang finished speaking, he ran frantically towards a hill, and he had no way to organize his subordinates to resist now.
Li Shichun under Yuan Jixian also led 80,000 Jiangxi officers and soldiers to rush towards the Daoxing Department like a tide.
The combat effectiveness of the Daoxing Crew was slightly stronger than that of Zhang Yuanliang's Division, but the Daoxing Crew suffered greater losses under the city of Anqing Mansion.
Therefore, when Dao Xingcheng learned that tens of thousands of officers and troops were attacking, he actually rushed towards Huaining City with 30,000 troops under his command, but these 30,000 troops thought it was defeat, and it simply turned into a big rout.
Some of the left troops were completely unable to pick up swords and guns to resist the imperial court officials and soldiers because of hunger and cold, so they could only watch the officials and soldiers come over and kill them to the ground.
Most of the left troops even knelt on the ground and kowtowed to ask for surrender, but Zhu Youzhen had already made a decree, and the leftist rebel army disregarded the overall situation of the world in vain and almost harmed China at the most dangerous moment, so it could not be forgiven except for the pre-war uprising.
Therefore, these left troops, who had plagued the people of Huguang for several years, would be directly killed even if they surrendered.
Dao Xingcheng, under the escort of his own soldiers, had to run all the way towards Huaining City, but he happened to be blocked by Li Shichun on the road.
Dao Xingcheng and Li Shichun had also worked together, so as soon as he saw Li Shichun, he knelt down directly: "General Li, let my brother live!" Or let your brother be your slave! ”
Li Shichun smiled coldly: "Your Majesty has a will, the left army is a rebellious army, and those who have not rebelled should be killed!" ”
As he spoke, the bowstring in Li Shichun's hand loosened, and a heavy arrow hit Daoxingcheng's collarbone, causing Daoxingcheng to fall off the horse.
"Take it!" For a general under the command of Zuo Liangyu like Daoxingcheng, Li Shichun naturally wanted to capture him alive, and when the time came, he would be detained in Beijing and handed over to His Majesty, which could be regarded as a great achievement.
The encirclement and annihilation of the Left Army by the entire official army turned into a massacre, and the officers and soldiers searched for the Left Army everywhere, and as long as they were still wearing helmets or armor, they would hardly be spared.
Jin Shenghuan was out of the camp at this time, and at this time, among the entire left army, only he and Luo Daibu were relatively quiet.
However, because it was still daytime, except for the sound of shouting and killing in his ears, Jin Shenghuan could not feel the fierceness of the whole battle at this time.
His own soldiers had wrapped a white cloth around his arm, and instructed his soldiers: "Send the order, take out all the food and meat that is left, and let the brothers eat enough at noon today!" ”
"General, in this case, we will run out of food in the back!"
"What are you afraid of, from today onwards, we are going to return to the imperial court and eat imperial grain, who wants to drink porridge and eat wild vegetables every day!"
Jin Shenghuan said that he came out of the big tent and shouted to the officers and soldiers in front of him: "Soldiers, from now on, we are no longer a rebellious army, from now on, we are still the officers and soldiers who eat the emperor's grain, and Your Majesty's will to us is that as long as we kill the left army on the opposite side and kill a crime that can redeem our lives, Governor Yuan has also said that when the time comes, you can take the head to the governor's palace to register, and those who get one head of the left army will spare one, get two, and those who are extra can get a reward!" You say, "We won't do it!" ”
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The shouts one after another directly explained the hearts of the officers and soldiers of Jin Shenghuan's department, and no one had the determination to continue to oppose the imperial court at this time.
And when I heard it, I could get the court's forgiveness by killing people.
One by one, they are naturally excited, for them, to be no longer sinners of the imperial court, it will make their bodies and minds relaxed, even if they go back to farming in the future, they will not worry about being detained by the imperial court.
An hour later, the well-fed Jin Shenghuan Department also swept towards Luo Dai Department one by one with white cloth wrapped in hand.
But at this time, Zuo Liangyu's people who asked for help also rushed to Jin Shenghuan, and Jin Shenghuan didn't say a word, and chopped the person who asked for help to smithereens.
With his chop, the Jinyi guard lurking beside Jin Shenghuan was also completely relieved, after all, this meant that he had completely broken with Zuo Liangyu.