Chapter 565: Chasing the Dead and Chasing the North
In the face of the brave Wang Fuchen, Gu Kecheng's personal soldiers finally lost their courage, and no one dared to rush forward to block it at this moment, and they ran back one by one.
As soon as they ran, the rest of the cavalry followed, only exposing their backs to the cavalry of the Jingbei Army.
The battlefield was full of panicked Qing cavalry, and even thousands of cavalry ran directly to Liu Fangliang's left camp formation.
Liu Fangliang, the main general of the left wing of the Shun army, will also have a numb scalp, he didn't expect that the main force of the party would come in a majestic manner, and almost the whole line collapsed in less than an hour, and he didn't expect Wang Fuchen to be so powerful that the cavalry of the party was simply an ornament in front of him.
Liu Fangliang hasn't figured it out until now, and he hasn't had time to think about how this battle was lost, he is in big trouble now, although he has always managed the army well, and he can still stabilize the military formation in the face of the great changes in the right wing and the rear of the Chinese army, but he never expected that the defeated cavalry came directly to his own big formation.
The cavalry of the Shun army was defeated and retreated, and the cavalry of the Jingbei Army naturally would not allow them to retreat, and the cavalry was divided into countless small cone-shaped formations under the command of Wang Fuchen and pursued the Shun army closely.
One by one, the cavalry of the Shun army was cut down by the cavalry of the Taijing Northern Army who caught up, and their bodies fell heavily to the ground, and some of the infantry of the Shun army who could not dodge were also smashed and fell into a series of rolling gourds.
The cavalry of his own cavalry attacked his own array, which attracted the cavalry of the Jingbei Army, and the left flank of the Shun army, which barely stabilized the military formation in the face of the offensive of the Sixth Town and the New Sixth Town, was finally defeated on all fronts.
The exclamations on the battlefield, the screams came one after another, no one looked at Liu Fangliang's desperately shaking flag, but ran towards the direction of the Shun army, at this time, the retreating general flag of Liu Zongmin, the first fierce general of the Shun army, became their only hope, and they counted on Liu Zongmin to bring them back to the camp.
The left flank array of the Shun army was in chaos. Shang Kexi was overjoyed when he saw this, and hurriedly ordered the Sixth Town and the New Sixth Town to take advantage of the situation to rush forward, and mustered up the strength to rush to Liu Fangliang's banner.
Liu Fangliang desperately reorganized the queue and restrained the elite of his headquarters, but under the double blow of the cavalry and infantry of the Jingbei Army, coupled with the chaos caused by his own retreating cavalry, Liu Fangliang had completely lost the control of the left flank of the Shun army.
Of course, he is also one of the rare good generals, and at the critical moment, he still organized more than 4,000 military horses of his henchmen, shrunk into a circle formation, and retreated in the direction of Zhuxian Town while fighting, as for the other peasant army leaders, he couldn't care about it.
Xin Sike died, he never thought that he would be knocked off the horse by the cavalry of the party, just as he was struggling to get up, Wang Fuchen, who was on a yellow horse and white robe, suddenly rode to kill, and did not care about Xin Sike is an old acquaintance, but in front of countless Shun troops, the spear in his hand was slammed away, and then in one move, he directly picked up more than a hundred catties of living people with spears in the air.
"Ah......h
The visual and auditory pressure made the Shun army frightened in person, and Liu Fangliang's reluctantly organized Shun army was even more uproar, and those in the peasant army who knew Wang Fuchen's name couldn't help but take a few steps back. However, the cavalry of the Jingbei Army was greatly boosted because of this scene, and everyone was in high spirits.
Anba, Zak and other Manchu and Mongolian generals all looked at Wang Fuchen with eager eyes, as if the gods had descended to earth, they always thought that the Manchu and Mongolian soldiers were unparalleled in cavalry and shooting, but they did not expect that there were such divine generals among the Han people, which would be in their opinion, the Ao Bai who was known as the first warrior of Manchuria was not worthy of lifting shoes for Wang Fuchen.
"Pass the order, let Wang Fuchen drive the Shun army cavalry to attack Zhuxian Town, and must not give Li Zicheng a chance to breathe, and the rest of the Shun army infantry, if they can force them to surrender, they will be forced to surrender."
The Shun army on the left and right flanks were all defeated, and the Shun army in the middle was barely supported under the command of Liu Zongmin, and the development of the battle situation had exceeded Li Xingzhi's expectations.
Of course, the annihilation of the main force of the Shun army is not to kill all the rogues in Zhuxian Town, these hundreds of thousands of rogues are the best to surrender, after all, most of them are young and strong, they can not only replenish the army, but also send them back to Shandong to farm or mine, and besides, the rogues are Han people with everyone, so why bother to kill in vain.
"The prime minister has decreed that the horse team will continue to pursue the thieves and cavalry, and the rest of those who take the initiative to surrender will not be killed."
"Those who surrender do not kill ......!"
"Those who surrender do not kill ......!"
The Jingbei Army, which had received the order, brandished the sword and spear in its hand and squeezed forward frantically, while letting out a tsunami-like cry.
When the Jingbei Army issued a surrender order for the rout of the Shun army, the first to surrender was not Liu Fangliang's army, which was surrounded and beaten by Shang Kexi, but Wu Ruyi's department, which was engaged in the battle between the Chinese army and Liu Guoneng's army.
After the collapse of the Shun army, Wu Ruyi habitually took the army and horses of his headquarters to move closer to Liu Zongmin's general banner, but the right flank of the Shun army was in chaos, and Li Guo's troops had been blocked by the Shun army and the official army, so he had to move closer to the Chinese army.
Because Li Guo is Li Zicheng's nephew and has always been good friends with Liu Zongmin, at the critical moment, Liu Zongmin still divided his troops and horses to take over the right battalion commanded by Li Guo.
But what he didn't expect was that the offensive of the Jingbei Army was even more fierce.
The long-trained Second Town and the New Second Town seized the fighter plane of Liu Zongmin's division of troops, and used red-coated cannons and arquebuses as the lead, and Liu Zongmin's troops in the middle of the road retreated step by step, so that Liu Zongmin couldn't care about Wu Ruyi's troops at all, and gave him a strict order, and Wu Ruyi must drag down the official army.
Wu Ruyi, who could not advance and retreated, knew that the battle had been lost after seeing the complete collapse of the left flank of the Shun army, and when the shouts of surrender and non-killing sounded in the opposite official formation, Wu Ruyi was moved, and then saw that the conflict came to his old acquaintance Liu Guoneng, so he had no scruples, and shouted at the moment, and then ordered the soldiers of the headquarters to lay down their weapons and kneel down in front of the Jingbei army that came over from the conflict.
"It's you...... Brother Wu. ”
Liu Guoneng is also sharp-eyed, he used to be the leader of the peasant army, he naturally knew Wu Ruyi, a figure who had been Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's housekeeper, and he couldn't be more familiar, so he hugged Wu Ruyi and shouted.
"You continue to pursue Lao Tzu, you must annihilate the Shun army today, Li Zicheng is still thinking about competing with us for the world, and he doesn't look in the mirror to see who he is?"
After Liu Guoneng supported Wu Ruyi, he ordered the deputy general Mu Wenshou, who charged with him, to continue to supervise the pursuit of the Shun army.
"Brother Liu seems to be developed, and I will ask my brother to bring more in the future!"
Wu Ruyi was full of smiles, there was no shame of surrender at all, but began to think about what would happen after the surrender, since he was able to do Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng, the two butlers of King Chuang, he was naturally a clear-minded person, seeing Liu Guineng's majestic face, knowing that Liu Guineng's status in the Shandong army was not low, he started a relationship on the spot.