Li Zicheng was full of confidence and took 50,000 people to personally go to Wuchang to reinforce the troops from the south, and 10,000 of the 50,000 horses were Li Zicheng's own elite soldiers.

Li Zicheng was confident that he had 500,000 people, and the 80,000 soldiers and horses from Wuchang City would definitely not dare to face him, and at most they would only dare to harass him on the periphery.

And according to the intelligence, the total number of soldiers and horses asked by Hu Guang Mo is only forty or fifty thousand, and this Wuchang can come with 80,000 reinforcements, most of which must be a rabble that has been put together temporarily, how can it be the opponent of him, a master of the battlefield.

Li Zicheng made up his mind to lead the main force to defeat the 80,000 horses from Wuchang first, and then besiege Xiangyang, so that Huguang would soon be included in his territory.

Huguang is an important grain production area, if Huguang is defeated, Li Zicheng will feel that his Dashun court will gain a firm foothold in the Central Plains, and when the time comes, he will take a million male soldiers to the north, and he will definitely break through Beijing in one fell swoop.

Li Zicheng thought that it was extremely beautiful, and he felt that he had eaten Huguang now steadily.

However, inside the Dashun Army, there is someone who is already secretly packing up.

Although Li Yan has not been praised by Li Zicheng recently, he is still the military advisor of the Dashun Army, but he is now a bare-bones commander.

There was no one in the Dashun army to bird him, and even those who watched the gate knew that this Li Junshi did not guard the emperor to see him.

This person, when you are valued by the leader, all kinds of fish and shrimp below will treat you as a celebrity in front of the leader, but once the leader doesn't want to see you, the first person to turn his face will be this group of small fish and shrimp.

These little fish and shrimp don't treat you as a human being, but now Li Yan feels this kind of treatment, the guards standing guard at the door are not very respectful to him now, and now they even report Li Yan's every move to Niu Jinxing.

When collecting things, Li Yan glanced at the soldiers outside the tent, turned to his servants and said, "Don't collect things, don't bring anything, just bring gold and silver!" ”

The servant paused for a moment, put the freshly folded clothes back down, and asked puzzledly, "Master, aren't you leaving?" ”

"Let's go, but it can't be so obvious, wait until it's dark, let's have dinner, and then find a chance to sneak out!"

"Oh, it's my lord!"

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Ten Mile Pavilion in the south of Xiangyang City, Lu Zhao arrived at the sentry box with the army, and saw the stone monument standing ten miles, Lu Zhao waved his hand to signal the brigade to stop.

"A brigade listens to orders, everyone, go to the armor!"

There was a loud noise, and I saw that the three thousand soldiers in the middle of the brigade unloaded the heavy plate armor from the baggage cart, and only after the service of two people did they put on the plate armor neatly.

By the time the 3,000 heavily armored soldiers had finished dressing, the scouts in front had already rushed back to report that Li Zicheng was leading a large army to arrive, and the distance was only two miles.

When Lu Zhao heard this, he hurriedly asked: "How many people did Li Zicheng bring?" ”

"About fifty thousand!"

As soon as he heard this number, Lu Zhao smiled, he turned his head and said to a few cronies around him: "It's only 50,000 people, Li Zicheng is despising me and so on, although I don't have the invincible firearms battalion of the king in my hands, but the lord gave me the plate armor brigade, there are these 3,000 people, let alone 50,000, even if I come to 100,000, I am not afraid of him, pass on my order, everyone is ready for battle, archers, musketeers, artillery are ready, the evil battle is coming!" ”

The 30,000 veterans who followed Lu Zhao had long been accustomed to this kind of battle, and although the defenders of Huguang did not have as many artillery as Nanjing, and even could not catch up with the number of Xiangyang City, they still had more than 100 Portuguese new artillery pieces, and 3,000 new muskets.

Just these things, when he hasn't seen the face, it's enough for Li Zicheng to drink a pot.

What's more, Lu Zhao also has 3,000 plate armor soldiers, these soldiers of the 1st Brigade who are fully armed are all strong men selected from various battalions and brigades, all of them are strong men, wearing dozens of pounds of plate armor, which is 3,000 mobile fortresses.

Li Zicheng led 50,000 people to the south of Xiangyang City to wait in formation, and after a while, a burst of birds poured out of the woods in the south, and then a large group of soldiers and horses walked out of the official road.

Walking in front were all burly soldiers in silver armor, they were all attached to the plate armor, the silver plate armor shone in the sunlight, and Li Zicheng's eyes were almost blind when the light was reflected.

When Li Zicheng finally opened his eyes and saw the formation of the other party in front of him, he suddenly scolded angrily: "Thief, fuck it!" ”

Several of Li Zicheng's cronies around him were also dumbfounded, and their saliva was about to flow when they saw the equipment of the Han army.

"Gua Wazi, this Han army has guns and cannons, as well as heavy armor soldiers, King Chuang, I'm afraid this battle is not easy to fight!"

Li Zicheng's face darkened, and he said: "If you don't fight well, you have to fight, if you can't win, we have to finish playing!" ”

Li Zicheng is clear in his heart, he, the so-called Emperor Dashun, is actually a grass coward to put it bluntly, but he has the name of an emperor.

When his own soldiers and horses were compared with those of the Han army, Li Zicheng's tenten-percent confidence went directly to seventy-tenth.

As a veteran of the battlefield, Li Zicheng is very aware of the importance of equipment to the army, 10,000 hungry peasants with only skin and bones, and 1,000 heavy armored soldiers, the loss is definitely these 10,000 peasants.

But Li Zicheng can't take care of these things, the only thing he thinks about now is how to win, if he doesn't win, he, the emperor of Dashun, will become a joke, and he will never be able to raise his head in the future.

"The whole army is ready!"

Gu Yi Li Zicheng pulled out his saber and shouted loudly.

With the sound of drawing his sword in unison, Li Zicheng set his hopeful eyes on the thousands of cavalry that he had pulled up not long ago.

These are his last chassis, and he definitely doesn't want to use them unless he has to, but in the current situation, he has to use the advantage of his cavalry to fight against the Han army on the opposite side.

"Rush me!"

With an order, 5,000 cavalry screamed and slaughtered the Chinese army of the Han army, followed by the remaining 20,000 infantry.

However, the speed was too obvious, and the 5,000 cavalry quickly distanced themselves from the infantry.

When the cavalry at the front could already see the nostrils of the first row of Han troops, the last infantry had just set off.

When Lu Zhao saw that Li Zicheng asked the cavalry to rush over, he didn't panic at all, only muskets and archers sniped on the spot, and ordered the artillery to open fire.

All kinds of things that could restrain the cavalry's charge, such as horse rejects and grain carts, were also pulled over and blocked in front of the army, waiting for the other side to come and send them to death.

A puff of smoke rose up, and the cannonballs exploded on the path of the cavalry, and more than a dozen cavalrymen were blown down, and the horses that were not hit were also frightened and frightened.

As the distance got closer, the musketeers also began to fire as soon as the cavalry came into range, and with a thunderclap, the cavalry who rushed to the front was instantly dead.

Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle in the rear, was stupid, he hadn't seen firearms, and the firearms of the Ming army were not too bad, but it seemed that if he wanted to compare, the firearms of the Han army in front of him seemed to be better.

There is also the cannon, which can be hit from a distance of two or three miles, and the infantry was directly killed by a cannon before they even saw their faces, which is simply speechless.

"Pikemen, come up!"

As the distance of the cavalry narrowed, Lu Zhao ordered one after another, and mobilized the pikemen to step forward, the spears in the pikemen are the nemesis of the cavalry, when thousands of spears with silver light are in front, whether it is a man or a horse, they have to be scared half to death.

Sure enough, when the cavalry that successfully rushed through the artillery fire and musket bow and arrow defense line rushed to the front of the formation, they encountered thousands of spears, which made the generals of the Dashun army who led the charge stupid.

Hundreds of soldiers couldn't stop their horses, so they rushed straight into the spear camp, and all of a sudden the horses were pierced into hedgehogs.

At this time, some generals cleverly wanted to bypass the front of the Han army, but found that the Han army's formation was extremely orderly, and the army was arrayed on the official road, on both sides of the official road, either woods or farmland, and the cavalry had no way to bypass it.

The invincible Dashun cavalry in Henan was now deflated outside Xiangyang City, and more than 2,000 cavalry died before they could touch the enemy.

The general who led the army saw it and knew that this battle could no longer be won by his cavalry, but only by the infantry behind.

He simply turned his horse's head and withdrew with the rest of the men.

Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle in the rear, didn't have time to give the order to retreat, but when he saw that his cavalry general had withdrawn, he was suddenly happy and angry.

The joy is that his subordinates do not have a single tendon, and his remaining 3,000 cavalry is scrapped.

is angry that his subordinates actually withdrew without receiving his own order, which is simply not taking him, the emperor of Dashun, in his eyes.

But now that the battle situation is scorching, Li Zicheng has no time to deal with this subordinate, so he can only pin his hopes on the infantry behind.

When the cavalry withdrew, the 20,000 infantry in the rear finally killed the Han army.

Close to hand, narrow road to meet!

The brave deserve to live!

Lu Zhao personally drew his saber and shouted to the sky: "Brothers, the time has come to defeat the enemy, follow me!" ”

Lu Zhao is much braver than Li Zicheng, so he will not shrink in the rear and command the soldiers to die, he has always taken the lead and set an example for the soldiers of the whole army.

Sure enough, seeing that the boss had all rushed, the soldiers behind were not afraid of death, and rushed with the plate armor soldiers.

The two sides broke out in the mountains and forests on both sides of the official road, and the plate armor soldiers located on the official road were like gods descending from the heavens, seeing people killing, seeing Buddha killing Buddhas, a silver plate armor soaked in blood, like a demon.

Li Zicheng's soldiers had never seen such a deadly style of fighting, and they were so frightened that they retreated again and again, and the 20,000 infantry in front of them were defeated in a short time.

The defeated army was engulfed in chaos by the army in the rear, and Lu Zhao saw that the Dashun army was in chaos, so he immediately ordered the whole army to pursue!

Li Zicheng never expected that his 50,000 elites had just been dispatched, and the more than 20,000 horses in front of him were directly defeated.

He hurriedly ordered: "Kill me, slaughter all these escapees!" ”

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