"What did you say?"

Li Dingguo was staring at the Ming army on the opposite side slowly arranging the formation, and the cronies sent by Zhang Xianzhong to question arrived, and as soon as he opened his mouth, it was like a thunderbolt in a sunny day, and he was stunned, and Shepanling was occupied by the Ming army? This...... How can it be?

"You don't know?"

The messenger frowned, his right hand kept holding the hilt of the sword, as long as Li Dingguo showed a strange expression on his face, he immediately drew his sword and cut people, and several personal soldiers behind him were also prepared in the same way, this was Zhang Xianzhong's order to them, but Li Dingguo's reaction was normal, and he really didn't seem to know that Shepanling was occupied by the Ming army, and he hesitated for a while.

"This ...... How can it be? Li Dingguo's face was pale, his eyes were straight, and he muttered to himself, as if he was evil, he was really stupid by this news, what does it mean that Shepanling was captured by the Ming army, he knew very well in his heart, but he couldn't figure out how the Ming army captured Shepanling? Why didn't you report that your subordinates lost Shepanling?

"Go back immediately and tell the Heavenly King that you will recapture Shepanling at all costs!" Li Dingguo was stunned for a long time before he came back to his senses, grabbed the messenger's hand, and shouted loudly.

"The King of Heaven has personally led a large army to attack the mountain." The messenger said with a cold face, his arm shook, and he shook off Li Dingguo's hand, Zhang Xianzhong, the king of the Eight Heavens, had led a large army to attack the mountain at any cost, but the terrain of Shepanling was dangerous, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and several attacks on the side had failed, and the losses were not small.

"This ...... What to do? Li Dingguo rubbed his hands, his face was ugly, it would be difficult to explain the strange loss of Shepanling for a while, in short, he had an unshirkable responsibility, but now is not the time to pursue responsibility, first consider the way out.

Now it is impossible to retreat and change to the west, Zhang Jiajun now only has two choices, either to recapture Shepanling, or to defeat Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, and forcibly break through from the front, both left and right are dead, he can only fight hard.

"Please tell the Eight Heavenly Kings to let him continue to attack Shepanling, and lead the army to attack with all his might, and life and death will be fought here!" Li Dingguo made a decision in hard work, in order to prove his innocence and to survive, he would lead his headquarters to attack with all his might, defeat the Ming army on the opposite side, and open a bloody road for the main force.

The messenger nodded and turned to leave, but the few personal soldiers who came with him were all left, and the meaning of surveillance was obvious, but Li Dingguo had no time to worry about this, and he was now going to mobilize before the war.

"Brothers, there are officers and soldiers in front of us, and there are chasing soldiers in the back, we have no way to escape, only by defeating the Ming army in front of us and fighting out of the encirclement can we have a chance to live."

People often burst out with amazing potential when they are desperate, and this is also the reason why mourning soldiers will win, and Li Dingguo still has a certain amount of ability in military affairs.

"Rush!"

All the people's army knows that they are surrounded by the official army, and if they want to survive, they can only fight hard, as long as they defeat the Ming army blocked in front of them, they can kill a way out, and everyone's fighting spirit is stimulated in an instant, and they let out a roar of killing that shook the sky, and rushed forward to kill.

Lu Xiangsheng sat on a tall horse, holding a monocular in front of the formation to observe Li Dingguo's defensive position, according to common sense, Li Dingguo should be on the defensive to block his army's attack, but at this moment, Li Dingguo is unusual, giving up passive defense and taking the initiative to attack, this is the rhythm of desperate?

He had guessed a possibility in his mind, Zhang Jiajun was caught up by friendly troops, and in desperation he could only fight with him, his main force had not yet arrived, and he could only rely on this forward army and five hundred cavalry to hold on, the pressure was not small, fortunately he chose a relatively open place, which was conducive to the cavalry galloping and killing, otherwise it would be really a bit troublesome.

"First row, ready."

The officers commanded in front of the battle shouted loudly, and the musketeers in the first row were all snorting flat-end muskets, the movements were quite neat, after all, they had experienced the tempering of more than a dozen battles, and it was a record of total victory, beating all kinds of civilian troops to the ground, and they could not form an army, in the face of countless roaring and rushing civilian troops, the soldiers did not have the slightest panic and fear, there were too many people who died under their guns, they were used to it, and even numb, no matter who rushed up, they were all slaughtered as chickens.

"The first platoon listens to my orders, prepares, one, two, three, shoots."

The officer in front of the command shouted loudly, the command knife in his hand slashed down, and the soldiers in the first row lit the fuse with the arquebus, and then flat-ended the musket at the dense crowd of people rushing on the opposite side.

Bang bang –

The flat-ended musket spewed out fire and choking gunsmoke, filling the air above the phalanx in the blink of an eye, and the whistling lead bullets penetrated into the human body, rushing out blood flowers, and the people who were shot fell down with a miserable scream, and the crowd of charging people seemed to be cut by an invisible giant blade, and the front layer was cut off in an instant.

"Second platoon, shoot."

"Third platoon, shoot ......"

……

The soldiers of the Tianxiong Army, lined up in a neat phalanx, fired mechanically, retreated, loaded ammunition, moved forward, shot again, and retreated, and so on until the officer ordered to stop shooting.

The charging people's army is like a flood that lacks an embankment rolling forward, a large area of black pressure, the momentum is very scary, this is to change to the general government army, it has long been frightened to collapse, turned around and fled, but unfortunately they encountered the Tianxiong army that has experienced many battles, in the face of the continuous rain of bullets, rows of people screamed and fell, the ground was full of wounded people struggling and shouting, and all kinds of weapons abandoned in one place, and the blood stained the grass red.

The potential of people who burst out under despair was quite terrifying, and Li Dingguo's subordinates followed one after another, bravely and fearlessly launched wave after wave of charges, rushing to the front of the battle several times, putting the vanguard of the Tianxiong Army under a lot of pressure.

"Cavalry attack!" Lu Xiangsheng, who supervised the battle in front of the formation, shouted, the people's army was already desperate, and the attack was very crazy, which put a lot of pressure on the musketeers of the phalanx, and he was worried that the phalanx would be disrupted, so he had to order the cavalry to attack and disrupt the charging formation of the people's army and reduce the frontal pressure of the musketeers.

The five hundred cavalry had already received enough rest, and immediately attacked after receiving the order, and they did not rush straight forward, but circled half a small circle, opened a certain distance, and then rode their horses to charge, which was the best time for the horses to charge with all their might.

The cavalry is born to be the nemesis of the infantry, especially the infantry who did not form a defensive formation in the field battle, and the five hundred cavalry put on a cone-shaped attack formation, like a huge sharp blade, and suddenly chiseled into the charging team of the people's army, and the soldiers of the people's army were either knocked away by the horses, or trampled down by iron hooves, or killed by sabers, and the screams were endless for a while, and the charging formation became messy.

Five hundred cavalry only one charge chiseled through the charge formation of the people's army, and then turned the horse's head to rush back to kill, not only disrupted the charge formation of the people's army, but also greatly hit the morale of the people's army, and when the spearmen sent by Li Dingguo arrived, the five hundred cavalry had turned back to the formation in a dashing manner, Li Dingguo's wave of momentum like a rainbow of attack was disintegrated, the grass was already full of corpses of different deaths, wounded soldiers struggling and crying, abandoned weapons, armor, battle flags, etc., and the green grass was also stained red with blood.

When Li Baoguo led his troops to fight fiercely with Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army, Ai Nengqi, who was in charge of the palace, was also caught up by Gao Jie and his main force, and the two sides started a fierce battle.