Wang Dingguo made a desperate bet and sent out all the cavalry that had retreated back after reintegration, leaving only about 20 personal guards around him, just sitting on a war horse and watching the battle, his face was changing, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

The three cavalry units swept towards the phalanx of the second battalion like a rolling flood without embankments, and their iron hooves rumbled as if they were about to crush people's hearts, and the whole earth shook with a sound that was even more terrifying than before.

However, after the soldiers of the second battalion experienced a battle of iron cavalry charging madly, the fear in their hearts had disappeared, and was replaced by calm, or the numbness of killing, and more of a fanaticism for combat exploits.

All the soldiers are from poor families, when they were conscripted into the army, they had the idea of eating mixed rice, and at the same time they were also subjected to various defeats and brainwashing, and their thoughts have gradually changed, and they slowly have their own ideas, and then they saw that some former friends, or childhood friends in the village have been promoted to lead the team, and they shouted enthusiastically in their hearts, and they also wanted to fight bravely to kill the enemy, earn military merits, get rewards and promotions, return to their hometowns in fine clothes, and glorify their ancestors. Gradually, he became a fanatical militant.

The war horse is tall and majestic, and when it gallops at full speed, it hits or rubs it, and it is crippled if it is not dead or crippled, and it is slightly injured when it breaks its hands and feet, but it still falls under the bombardment of the platoon of guns, and no war horse can rush to the front, what is there to be afraid of? Just come, it's all for my brother to send people and send war exploits.

There was no sense of fear, the soldiers fired, retreated, loaded ammunition, and then advanced, and the continuous movements such as shooting became more and more smooth and skillful, and the rate of fire also increased invisibly, and the soldiers of the second battalion used a continuous dense rain of bullets to build a death blockade, but all creatures that broke into the blockade were shot.

The three cavalry teams of Zhang's army charged one after another, but they did not last long, and collapsed after each paying more than 200 cavalry casualties, and all turned their horses and fled backwards.

Even the elite troops that have experienced a hundred battles have to collapse after the battle loss rate reaches a certain percentage, not to mention that this cavalry unit, which has various unfavorable factors and whose morale has been significantly low, is normal for it to retreat.

The retreating cavalry scattered and fled, many did not return to their own positions, but fled to a place where no one was around, there seemed to be signs of desertion, Wang Dingguo did not stop it, nor did he collect the remnants, but fled with more than 20 of his personal guards.

The 5,000 elite cavalry troops not only failed to defeat the Ming army of only 1,000 people in front of them, but also suffered heavy losses, even if Wang Dingguo did not make a military order, he would be beheaded by Zhang Xianzhong after he went back, and he would not have the face to go back.

In fact, he thought clearly in his heart, even if Zhang Xianzhong didn't cut off his head, with the rabble of Zhang's army, he would be defeated by the Ming army.

The cavalry of the people's army who returned to the formation originally had nearly 2,000 horsemen, and when they saw Wang Dingguo, the leader of the unified army, running away, they also scattered in a hurry, throwing away their weapons while running, taking off their armor and battle clothes, and then they didn't even want their horses, and plunged into the woods, and only more than 400 horsemen went back to report to Zhang Xianzhong.

This scene made Tan Biao and other soldiers of the whole battalion stunned, they were still busy distributing ammunition, stepping up their rest, drinking water and eating dry food, preparing to withstand the next charge of the iron cavalry, but the result was inexplicably miraculous, almost no one dared to believe that this was true, and after being stunned for a long time, the soldiers who reacted let out a cheer of victory.

The battlefield is a mess, full of human corpses and horse corpses, abandoned weapons, armor and battle flags, more wounded people struggling to call for help, muskets are powerful scum scum, as long as they don't hit the vital point, they basically won't die, but the lead bullet is stuck in the flesh, and the pain makes you flutter, if you don't treat it in time to stop the bleeding, the blood will still have to be hung up.

Now that the city is in danger, Tan Biao has no time to clean up the battlefield, let alone pay attention to the wounded enemy soldiers who are struggling to cry out, he thought about it for a while, and then ordered to advance towards Ainengqi's southern camp.

The West Battalion is Zhang Xianzhong's main battalion, with a large number of troops and the strongest combat power, only a battalion in his hand cannot be shaken at all, it is better to pick a soft persimmon to pinch, anyway, the main direction of attack of Zhang's army is the West City Gate and the South City Gate, harassing Ainengqi's South Battalion, so that he can not attack the city with all his strength, and it can be regarded as relieving a certain pressure on the soldiers and civilians defending the city.

Regardless of their fatigue, the soldiers of the whole battalion carried ammunition boxes and lined up in battle formations to slowly advance towards the southern battalion of Ainengqi.

The two armies fought fiercely, and they had already alarmed Zhang Xianzhong and others in the western camp and Ai Nengqi in the southern battalion, both of them sent people to closely monitor, and the people who monitored witnessed the five thousand elite cavalry charging repeatedly, and after heavy casualties, they broke up on their own, and even Wang Dingguo, the big leader of the unified army, took the lead in deserting and running away, and the person in charge of monitoring was frightened stupid, and it took a long time to react, and hurriedly ran back to report.

"Defeated? How is this possible? ”

When Ainengqi received a report from his subordinates, he was dumbfounded, 5,000 elite cavalry fought against 1,000 infantry, and he was defeated, this is not a joke, right?

Like Zhang Xianzhong and others, he took it for granted that the five thousand elite iron cavalry would definitely crush Tan Biao's one thousand infantry, and what about the musket of a water, the fast ones could only fire two shots at most, and the slow ones could only fire one shot, and the war horses had already broken through the formation, but the reality was so skinny.

"Hold off the siege and form a battle."

Ai Nengqi is also a big leader who can stand alone in the Zhang family's army, even if he can't figure out how Wang Dingguo's five thousand elite iron cavalry were defeated, but the top priority is to form a formation first and prepare to meet the approaching thousand Ming army.

The frenzied siege of the city retreated like a tide, so that the soldiers and civilians defending the city were all relieved, these waves of attacks of the people's army were extremely crazy and fierce, so that they were under great pressure, and now retreated, everyone sat down on the bloody floor, snorting and panting, they didn't even have the strength to cheer for victory.

Fortunately, there was a roar of killing and fierce gunfire from the southwest, and you don't need to look at it to know that the reinforcements on the other side are fighting fiercely outside the city and the Zhangjia army to break the siege, so that the originally low morale soared again, and all the enemy troops on the city head were killed in one go, and the defense line was re-stabilized.

Under the city, Ainengqi is commanding the army to assemble and arrange, sighing and annoyed in his heart, he must have been unlucky in the past few days, he was targeted by this Ming army twice, the first time he took Lao Tzu not to pay attention, and the sneak attack was successful, this Lao Tzu admitted, you are still addicted to sneak attacks, and the second time I came again, when Lao Tzu is a soft persimmon is easy to bully is not?

Ai Nengqi was full of resentment, gritted his teeth and greeted Tan Biao's ancestors for eight generations, of course, of course, he didn't know Tan Biao's name, nor did he know the number of the second battalion, only knew that it was a part of the Royal Guards Independent Battalion led by Gao Jie, a battalion commander, of course, it can't be compared with him, the big leader who leads an army alone, even if it is a rabble of people's army, Ai Nengqi, the big leader of the army alone, is equivalent to a commander, and Tan Biao's status as a battalion commander is indeed a big difference.

Tan Biao doesn't care if his identity and status are compatible, it is his task to solve the siege of Shanyin County, Zhang Xianzhong's Xida Camp is too strong, and it is a little difficult to provoke, he only picks the soft persimmon of Ai Nengqi to pinch.