"Run faster than a rabbit."

Qin Liangyu received news from the scouts on the way to the march that Wang Ziyong and other people's troops had withdrawn from the cross slope, hurried overnight, avoided Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, and returned to Jizhou, couldn't help but tease, and ordered the army to turn.

Her white pole army is now in a predetermined strategic position, there is no need to hurry, the army can slowly advance in the direction of Jizhou, and the soldiers under her command can also save their abundant physical strength.

Sun Chuanting's army was also in a predetermined strategic position, and there was no need to hurry, but Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army was in too much of a hurry before, and it was a little rushed, so it had to return to the Linfen line by the same way and plug the gap in the west.

Wang Ziyong's civilian army and Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army are desperately competing for foot strength to hurry, the people's army rushed overnight, taking the lead, however, they still have the Jizhou county this checkpoint to pass, Wang Ziyong and other leaders can only gamble now, they bet on Chen Tang's Taiyuan Mansion army combat scum scum, a fight will collapse, the most desired result is that Chen Tang does not dare to go out of the city to fight, they can smoothly go around the city, and run away before Lu Xiangsheng blocks the gap.

But it backfired, and Chen Tang, the chief military officer of Taiyuan Prefecture, actually led 6,000 men and horses to set up outside the city, leaving only 2,000 people to defend the city, and he was in a posture of fighting to the end with the people's army.

There must be a brave man under the heavy reward, Sun Chuanting's promised promotion made him as excited as if he had beaten chicken blood, however, he didn't believe that the people's army would really kill back, but now, the people's army really killed back, which made him both nervous and excited, in addition to admiring Sun Chuanting's clever calculation, he was even more glad that he didn't take Sun Chuanting's reminder as the wind in his ears, honestly strengthened the city defense of Jizhou County, and rushed to build thunder stones and arrows to defend the city, and also carried the four Fran cannons abandoned by the people's army to the city again. A lot of solid shells were made.

Chen Tang's ability may be a little insufficient, but it is not a straw bag, coupled with Sun Chuanting's reminder, he placed the 6,000 men and horses outside the southern city is still a bit particular, the army is placed within the range of the Franco's machine gun, digging a lot of horse traps in front of the formation, inserting sharpened wooden branches as a horse rejection, and also using cloth bags to fill the mud and sand, piled up in front of the formation, to build three lines of defense, musketeers and archers can rely on these fortifications to shoot arrows with peace of mind.

As long as he holds the county seat of Jizhou and does not let the people's army pass, it is a great achievement, so Chen Tang did not think about taking the initiative to attack, but put up a dense defensive phalanx, waiting for the people's army to attack, he only needs to drag on for a day, and the credit can be obtained.

In order to jump out before the official army sealed the encirclement, the people's army hurried overnight, and when they arrived at the county seat of Jizhou, they were already sleepy and out of breath, but they also knew in their hearts that if they could not defeat the Taiyuan army in front of them, and when Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army arrived, they would only be dumpling-made and the tragic outcome of the rout of the whole army.

It was a life-and-death battle involving tens of thousands of people's troops, and Wang Ziyong only ordered the whole army to rest for a while, and then ordered the vanguard army to launch a strong attack, and for a while, the sound of roaring and killing resounded in the sky.

Chen Tang made up his mind to defend to the death, so he naturally took the sword and shield soldiers as the leader, and laid down heavy thick and strong shield mountains, musketeers and bows and arrows to escort the formation, and took the opportunity to kill and injure the attacking people's army.

In traditional positional warfare, this kind of dense defensive phalanx is difficult to forcibly break through from the front, and can only rely on cavalry to attack from both flanks, and charge into battle with the powerful impact force of war horses, chiseling through the dense defensive phalanx laid by the opponent, causing chaos and collapse of the formation, and only then can it be possible to win.

Wang Ziyong and other leaders of the people's army still knew this clearly, gathered all the horses of the whole army, and gathered more than 600 cavalry to bypass the frontal battlefield and attack the left flank of the Taiyuan army.

Chen Tang set up a formation according to the city, the right wing was close to the city wall, the cavalry could not attack, and with the cover of the soldiers at the head of the city, the right wing did not have to worry at all, the only thing he was worried about was the left wing.

Fortunately, there were not many cavalry units of the People's Army, and he was fully prepared, even if the cavalry of the People's Army crossed the trap and the horse bar, he still had some rear hands to ensure that the right flank of the side was broken through.

The rumbling war drums are accompanied by the earth-shattering roar of killing, the frontal battlefield, the soldiers on both sides are bloody and killed, the sky is a staggered vertical and horizontal arrow, from time to time there are soldiers who fall down with a scream, and the rear ones are immediately filled up until they die in battle.

The Taiyuan army originally had only 3,000 people, and the young and strong were urgently recruited into the army during the war, and the governor Yang He left 2,000 veterans to guard the city, and Chen Tang's 8,000 people only had 1,000 veterans, and the other 7,000 people were all recruits who had never been on the battlefield.

The recruits did not dare to turn their heads and run back even if they were so scared that their hands and feet were weak, the dense defensive phalanx was chest on top of the back, back to chest, so dense that they could not turn around, they could only hold on, and moreover, the chief military officer Chen Tang personally supervised the battle, and his personal guards were the supervision team, who dared to escape from the battle, there was no forgiveness.

Squeezing on the front line to tear and kill, turning around and running away will die, but desperately defending and tearing up is not necessarily dead, all the recruits even if they are afraid, they can only hold on, but fortunately, the people's army rushed overnight, the physical consumption is very great, and they can't give full play to the usual fifty percent of the combat power, but they are resisted by the Taiyuan army with weak combat power, and the frontal battlefield is in a stalemate.

On the right flank battlefield, Gao Yingxiang was responsible for commanding hundreds of cavalry to charge into battle, as the leader of the Gaozi battalion, of course, he had to sit in command of the Chinese army, Li Zicheng was one of his right-hand men, and the heavy responsibility of breaking the formation naturally fell on him.

"Brothers, follow me."

Li Zicheng brandished an iron sword, roared loudly, and led Liu Zongmin and other brothers to kill the dense defensive phalanx of the Taiyuan Mansion army.

"The spearmen are ready, and the archers hold the horns of the formation, and wait for my order to release the arrows."

The dense array of the Taiyuan army sounded the shouts of the officers, and the infantry army to deal with the impact of the cavalry, if there was no strong fortifications to rely on, they could only respond with a gun array like a forest, and in the face of the rolling steel torrent, it was the courage and courage of the soldiers to be tested.

Of course, Chen Tang made full preparations, equipped the spearmen with more than just conventional spears, but also cut down a lot of trees for the people, sharpened one end, made a thick wooden gun three or four meters long, and the front end was crossed into the ground with two sharpened wooden stakes to form a simple bracket, and the thick and heavy giant guns were raised, and the ends were nailed into the wooden stakes to fix them, and a huge gun was installed at intervals of two meters, densely arranged into three rows, forming a huge array of wooden guns that could block the cavalry from charging into formation.

The spearmen in the front rows were covered, blocking the three rows of wooden giant guns behind them, until the hundreds of cavalry led by Li Zicheng were approaching the killing, and then under the command of the officer, they retreated along the gap of the giant guns, and then erected their spears at the gaps, ready to resist the fierce impact of the war horses.

"Archer, release the arrows."

With the official's shout, the archers who were ready to attack loosened their strings, and one arrow after another roared into the sky, drawing a perfect arc, like dense raindrops sprinkled down.

In the terrible screams, blood flowers burst out, and the charging cavalry of the people's army from time to time some people were hit by arrows and fell from their horses, and some of their war horses were hit by arrows, and they neighed in pain, throwing the knights on their backs away, breaking their hands and feet, and stepping on the rumbling iron hooves, turning into meat cakes in an instant.

Being able to ride a horse does not mean that he is a qualified cavalry warrior, the cavalry team of the people's army can only be called an infantry riding a war horse at best, most of the riding scum is scum, the war horse is not well controlled, and the formation of the charge is a bit messy.

"Brothers, rush."

Li Zicheng, who was charging ahead, couldn't help but curse when he saw the thick giant spears in front of the Taiyuan Mansion army, but the war horse was already sprinting at full speed, and he could only charge forward.