"How about the artillery of the officers and soldiers?" Xu Ping did not carry any heavy equipment this time, and he estimated that there were at least three battalions of new troops on the opposite side, and what worried Xu Ping the most was that the main force of the direct guard was also accompanied by the Zhendong Hou, if he encountered two thousand direct guard cavalry, Xu Ping was not sure to cover the main force of the battalion to break through: "How many cavalry?" ”

"No officers and soldiers were heard firing the artillery." A cavalryman stumbled.

Several other people also shook their heads, and Li Laiheng, who was standing beside Xu Ping, shouted anxiously: "How could it not be?" ”

"You didn't wait for the officers and soldiers to open fire, did you?" Xu Ping reacted before Li Laiheng, and now he hasn't seen the infantry breaking into the camp, which shows how fast these guys are running.

Several cavalrymen looked ashamed, and Xu Ping saw that Li Laiheng was about to have a seizure, so he ordered: "General Li will lead a team of people to the front guard first, and I will come later." ”

"Yes, General." Li Laiheng, who had been anxious for a long time, immediately led the team to set off after receiving the order.

"How many cavalrymen with red feathers are there among the officers and soldiers?"

"I don't see it, General."

"Got it."

Seeing that these people didn't know that Xu Ping waved his horsewhip, he ordered these people to go, and he led the troops to continue to advance: "You can't let the officers and soldiers pursue our army." ”

After restarting the march, Xu Ping successively intercepted some of the camp rangers, these people were similar to the previous ones, they reported that Xu Ping's officers and soldiers did not open fire, and before that time Ji Huisi had already fled, they had caused a very bad impact, Luo Rucai and some other camp leaders also fled.

"I lost without firing a shot, and I can lose like this." Xu Ping didn't know anything about the enemy's situation, which made him feel very nervous.

Not long after he had moved forward, Xu Ping began to see the chaotic defeated soldiers on foot rushing towards him, and when he saw the fifth infantry wing marching with drums, these defeated soldiers fled off the road and ran west from both sides of the armored battalion.

"It's better than I imagined, it's not to the point of panic," Xu Ping had already prepared the soldiers to disperse any rout that attacked his army, but he didn't see any pursuing troops behind these defeated soldiers, and some of these soldiers also hesitated after seeing the neat Xu Ping's headquarters. Most of them began to pause and gasp for breath, observing the situation behind them and the intruder army that passed them.

Because the enemy's situation was unknown, Xu Ping warned himself not to panic at this time, and he asked the guards to bring over a few defeated soldiers who seemed relatively calm, and asked them to ask them the questions he had just asked.

The soldiers said that after the Chuang army began to rout, Li Zicheng's Chinese army also took the initiative to retreat, and these infantry had turned back to see the banner of King Chuang moving backwards, but at least it still seemed to be in order.

"It's strange, where are the fire camps, the Taishan camps, and the fine willow camps?" Xu Ping felt more and more uneasy in his heart, the so-called abandonment of small things and not take, there must be a big picture, after Xu Ping saw that since the Marquis of Zhendong did not trigger the new army to violently attack Li Zi's troops but tolerated their orderly retreat, there must be a more important goal, he asked the guards to pass the order to Li Laiheng in front: "Let General Li deal with it carefully, the main force of the new army may be ambushed on our flank." ”

When Xu Ping's heralds went forward to chase Li Laiheng, the latter had already disengaged with Li Zicheng's main force at this time.

"The Jiangbei Army pursued after it, but no new army was found," Li Laiheng led a group of soldiers to advance at full speed, and now there were only more than 200 people left around him.

Li Zicheng's situation was critical, but there was no rout yet, and after learning that Xu Ping had arrived with his army, Li Zicheng let the retreating soldiers stand on their feet and prepare for battle.

Countless soldiers from the Jiangbei Army and the Zhongdu Garrison Army followed the camp, and Xiao Luo was one of them.

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief! Xiao Luo led his own soldiers to chase Li Zicheng's banner with shouts, and seeing his companions pulled behind him, Xiao Luo couldn't help but feel proud in his heart: "I showed my face in front of the marshal this time, and I behaved so heroically, I will definitely be able to leave a good impression on the marshal." ”

"Why didn't this thief abandon his flag and abscond?" A confidant next to Xiao Luo scolded: "If you don't throw the flag and run for your life after losing the battle, you are really a stupid thief who doesn't know whether to live or die." ”

When Xiao Luo chased out with his soldiers just now, he originally explained that he would accept it when he saw it, as long as he made sure that he grabbed the flag abandoned by Li Zicheng, but now his mentality of chasing Xiao Luo has changed, and after hearing this, he scolded angrily: "What is this called, the thief is so ignorant of life and death, it is a good opportunity for me to make meritorious service!" ”

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief...... Yes! When he was pursuing bravely and uncontrollably, Xiao Luo suddenly saw the camp on the opposite side and stopped, "Ah, why didn't the thief escape?" ”

The officers and men of Xiao Luo's army, who were chasing happily, saw Li Zicheng's banner stop at this time, and many soldiers of the intruding army on the opposite side stood firm and lined up with themselves. Most of them immediately nailed to the ground with their chief soldier Xiao Luo, and a few people with bad brains even rushed a few more steps towards the camp, and after seeing that the other party did not move at all, these soldiers who had run too far also stopped one after another and looked back.

"Kill the thief, kill the thief." These soldiers lowered their voices a lot, and quickly ran back to Xiao Luo's military formation, and after standing side by side with their companions, they straightened their chests again, and the whole army shouted loudly in the direction of Li Zicheng's general banner: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”

After shouting seven or eight times in a row, Xiao Luo saw that Li Zicheng still refused to escape, and his heart suddenly became worried, at this time, some Ming troops had also chased over, and after seeing Li Zicheng and Xiao Luo forming a confrontation between the two armies, these troops dispersed to the left and right sides of Xiao Luo very tacitly, and then dragged back a little to form a horn with Xiao Luo, and then shouted at Li Zicheng with all their might: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”

"The marshal has not yet arrived." Xiao Luo looked back and found that the people behind him were all chasing Jiangbei Army and Zhongdu Garrison, but he couldn't find the banner of Zhendonghou: "Am I chasing too fast?" If the marshal hadn't seen it, wouldn't my bravery have been in vain? ”

Just as Xiao hesitated, the rumbling war drums sounded in Li Zicheng's formation on the opposite side, and at this time Li Zicheng also found that the Ming army had scattered the army in the pursuit process, and Li Zicheng, who also did not find the banner of the Marquis of Zhendong, ordered to beat the drum loudly and move forward slowly.

"It's not good, this thief is going to kill the carbine." Xiao Luo immediately realized the seriousness of the problem, the other Ming troops did not advance so suddenly, and he bore the brunt of Li Zicheng's main target: "Temporarily retreat, wait for the marshal to come and eliminate the thieves." ”

Before Xiao Luo's order could be conveyed, his soldiers had already begun to retreat on their own, and the soldiers with muskets fired indiscriminately in the direction of Li Zicheng, and then quickly retreated along the way they came, along with the other companions with cold weapons.

When Xiao Luo hurriedly retreated with his own soldiers to avoid the edge of the camp, he saw the friendly troops on his two flanks tacitly retreating together: "It's really a gutsless rat, even if you don't come to help, even if you don't stand still, won't you retreat to the two wings?" In this way, the marshal will come and surround and annihilate the thieves. Xiao Luo hoped that the friendly forces would be able to make a flanking posture, so that Li Zicheng would not dare to pursue him fiercely, but would definitely attack a certain wing to remove the threat from the flank. If this is the case, Xiao Luo is in a very powerful position, he can first look at the victory or defeat of the friendly forces and the camp, judge the combat effectiveness of the camp, figure out Li Zicheng's determination, and then decide according to the situation whether to attack the camp with the friendly forces that have received the attack or continue to wait for the marshal to arrive.

But the actions of the friendly troops on both sides frustrated Xiao Luo's wishful thinking, and they did not hesitate to retreat eastward together, causing Xiao Luo to not be able to stop, because he knew that if he stopped and fought with Li Zicheng, the friendly army would observe the battle situation, and in case Li Zicheng shot him fiercely, they would leave themselves and turn back to Zhendonghou: "The marshal's affairs have been ruined by these grandsons, don't they dare to stop and fight a little?" I dare to say that Li Chuang, this must be a bluff. Xiao Luo commanded the headquarters to quickly retreat and widen the distance between Li Zicheng, and cursed his colleagues loudly: "If any of them pushes up a little, Li Chuang will have to continue to run for his life." ”

But fortunately, although the army was running, but because the camp was not fast to chase, it can be called orderly, Xiao Luo ran while looking forward to look for the general flag of Zhendong Hou, at this time suddenly from behind a cry of ecstasy: "The thief has run away!" The thief has run away! ”

Xiao Luo hurriedly looked back after hearing this voice, and sure enough, the camp on the opposite side began to retreat again.

This is because Li Zicheng has no bottom in his heart, after seeing that the momentum of the officers and soldiers has been hit by some blows, Li Zicheng immediately began to retreat again, he knows that Xu Ping's troops are not much, Ji Huisi, Luo Rucai and other allies have already gone away, even if Zhendong Hou's new army does not appear, his army is also at an absolute disadvantage.

Seeing that King Chuang's banner was escaping at a faster speed than just now, Xiao Luo was so happy that he almost fell off the horse's back, just now he inserted the sword back into the sheath for the reins of his hands, and now he pulled it out again, flicked the horse's head with his left hand, and his right hand had already held the sword high in the air: "Sons, the thief has run away, run away!" Kill the thief, don't let Li Chuang run away! ”

Xiao Luo's loud voice echoed in the sky above the army, after hearing this voice, his soldiers also turned back, when they turned around and retreated just now, the distance between them and the intruding army was always very good, so no one threw down the weapons in their hands, and after seeing that the intruding army really began to flee, these soldiers did not hesitate to pursue again: "Kill the thief!" Kill the thief! ”

The allies on both sides reacted a little slower than Shaw, just like when they started the first pursuit today, they were always slightly slower than Shaw by half a beat. These Ming troops, who were originally running half in front of Xiao Luo, had been left behind by Xiao Luo when they had turned around.

"Kill the thief!"

"Don't let the thief go!"

"Li Chuangxiu is leaving!"

"Thief! Come on! ”

Thunderous shouts sounded on both sides, and in this accompaniment, Xiao Xiao closely followed Li Zicheng's footsteps: "Today, I can be regarded as showing my face in front of the marshal. ”

……

Li Laiheng's troops had already left the avenue and went out to the flank of Li Zicheng's headquarters, and he saw more than 100 cavalry coming in his direction.

"They have red feathers on their heads, are they Naoke?"

Li Laiheng recalled the image of the new army's direct guard that Xu Ping had described to him, and he also remembered that Xu Ping said that it was Zhendong Hou's son-in-law, Jin Shentong, who commanded the new army's direct guard.

"The flag on the opposite side doesn't have gold letters written on it," a sharp-eyed guard reported.

Li Laiheng looked carefully with his telescope for a long time, and nodded: "It's really not, it's the word 'Yang'." ”

"Oh, by the way, the general said that Yang Zhiyuan's son also served in the direct guard," Li Laiheng patted his head, and there was no doubt that the opposite side was the direct guard of the new army, but what made him wonder was why there were only a hundred people.

Li Laiheng's first reaction to this was that the hidden troops of the New Army were hiding in this direction, which was the reconnaissance unit of the New Army, but he remembered that Yang Zhiyuan's son was one of the two commanders of the New Army: "There is no reason for the commander to personally command the reconnaissance troops." ”

At this time, after seeing the banner of the armored battalion on the other side, General Xiao Yang was taken aback: "Xu thief, has he also arrived?" ”

The camp was suddenly defeated just now, which was of course the result that Zhendong Hou was most willing to see, but before he could give an order, hundreds of thousands of Ming troops rushed out to pursue at once. Originally, only when he was defeated and fled, he would say, "I only hate my father and mother for having two legs." But this sentence is used to describe the reaction of the Ming army today, the momentum of more than 100,000 Ming troops to launch a pursuit together is really overwhelming, how can Zhendong Hou not be able to pull these generals who are eager to seek merit: Originally, Zhendong Hou had already told them in advance to obey the order, but as soon as they saw that the great achievement was in front of them, they threw all the instructions of Zhendong Hou in advance to Java Island, for fear of being preempted by their colleagues.

The pursuit soon turned into a chaotic race, with the victorious Ming army trampling on each other on the battlefield, but fortunately it was a pursuit rather than a defeat after all, so it didn't seem like there would be too many casualties, but the Zhendong Hou was full of calculations and could not coordinate the command in this situation.

So the Marquis of Zhendong ordered the direct guard to command the same knowledge Xiao Yang to dispatch immediately - this time the southward movement was too hasty, and the main force of the direct guard had not yet had time to return to the Beijing division, so Xiao Yang took a hundred people to follow. Zhendonghou gave Xiao Yang two orders: one was to observe the deployment of the camp from the side; The other was to go around before the pursuing Ming army and try to restore order to them.

At that time, there was chaos in front of him, and Xiao Yang could not lead the cavalry to step on the heads of hundreds of thousands of Ming troops, so he first left the battlefield backwards, and then looked for a way to advance westward from the side.

As Xiao Yang guessed, more than 100,000 Ming troops were in a hurry to chase Li Zicheng's general banner, but they were all crowded on the front road, and the road on the side was very smooth.

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