That night, Li Zicheng left the city early with the most elite 10,000 cavalry, and he was full of confidence, thinking that he would definitely be able to win a big battle today.

When he reached a distance of 80 miles from Tongguan, he saw several horsemen running and fleeing back in front of him.

It didn't take long for those people to rush to the front of the army and were taken to meet Li Zicheng.

"Your Majesty, our department was discovered by Jianyu and besieged in the mountain pass, and only a dozen of the 3,000 men and horses escaped!"

Li Zicheng listened to the handstand covered in sweat and hair, and almost fell off his horse, crying out sadly: "Your marquis is dead!" ”

When the generals saw Li Zicheng's gaffe, they all showed different colors.

Li Zicheng sat on his horse, motionless, not knowing what he was thinking.

After a long time, he spoke:

"Tongguan has no internal response, and there is no point in continuing to advance. Besides, when Jianyu learned of my plan, he must have laid an ambush...... Let's go back to the teacher. ”

Li Zicheng looked sad, sent an elite exploration horse to Tongguan to investigate, and led the team to return west.

The sudden retreat of the Dashun army immediately attracted criticism from low-ranking officers and non-commissioned officers, and they all inquired about the reason.

After a while, the news of the failure of the internal and external attack strategy spread throughout the army, and all the sergeants were indignant, and from time to time there were middle and low-ranking generals who went to the Chinese army, asking for continued troops to Tongguan and rescue Liu Zongmin.

Li Zicheng wanted to rescue Liu Zongmin more than anyone else, but he knew that he had not only hitched a ride with Liu Zongmin and 7,000 men and horses this time. It was even more handed over to Tongguan to Jianyu.

Returning at this time was tantamount to hitting a stone with an egg, and he rejected everyone's invitation to fight, and resolutely decided to continue to return to the army.

About a stick of incense, the scout horse sent before came back to report.

Li Zicheng hurriedly summoned, "Why is it so fast?" Can you find out about the situation of Ruhou? ”

"Your Majesty, I didn't reach Tongguan in my humble position, and I saw the Tartar army coming west halfway!" Tanma said loudly.

When Li Zicheng heard this, his first reaction was to flee quickly, but when the generals around him heard it, they were immediately indignant, "Your Majesty, the Tartars are here, let's reflexively kill back!" Relieve the danger of the Marquis! ”

Azig was indeed leading his troops to run wildly, and he expected that someone in the mountain pass would escape, and if Li Zicheng learned that the plan had failed, he would definitely flee and dare not attack the attack.

Once Li Zicheng fled to Xi'an, it would be difficult to arrest.

So after Azig killed Liu Zongmin, he quickly took 10,000 elite horsemen to the west to kill.

Li Zicheng saw that the generals around him were full of fighting spirit, and his headquarters were full of the most elite cavalry in Dashun, so he was secretly ruthless, and said: "Set up the formation, prepare to meet the enemy!" ”

Everyone knows that they are going to have a tough battle, and no one is slacking off.

Fortunately, the soldiers were elite and the formation was fast, and a large number of soldiers had already begun to dig trenches to block the cavalry raids, setting up patches of tripping horses.

At this meeting, the two sides also began to clash, triggering skirmishes in succession.

To Jianyu's surprise, the Dashun Tanma in front of him was well-equipped and highly skilled, and it was not at all as weak as the one he had encountered before.

Li Zicheng listened to the news from Tanma again and again, and learned that his own people had the upper hand a little, and he was more confident.

"Where are the Tartars?" Li Zicheng kept asking.

"30 miles from here!"

"The Tartar is 15 miles away!"

"The Tartars are less than five miles away!"

There was no need to reply to the horses, everyone heard the thunderous sound of horses' hooves, and the soldiers who had arranged the fortifications in front of the formation began to retreat.

"Bow and arrow ready!"

When he saw the figure of Jianyu, the generals of the Shun army began to shout military orders.

The soldiers took off their bows and arrows and prepared to shoot.

When the prisoners were 300 paces ahead of the formation, some unlucky soldiers began to trip and fall.

More captives scattered like a large net, charging from multiple directions ahead.

Several lines of cavalry, most of which charged towards the main force of the Shun army, and a few others rushed to the south and north respectively.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Shun soldiers began to fire arrows.

Whoosh ......

Jian Yu kept being hit by arrows and falling off his horse.

Da Da Da ......

Although they were hit by arrows, the sound of the horses' hooves did not stop, the sand and dust were everywhere, and the captives began to shoot along the edge of the Shun army's large array, one was to try, and the other was to kill the enemy, once the Shun army was in chaos somewhere, they would immediately rush in.

The Shun army was not afraid of danger, as long as he saw Jianyu enter the firing range, he would immediately shoot arrows, and when Jianyu was far away, he would no longer pay attention at all.

Jianyu's sharp arrows also fell into the Shun army from time to time, but because they were well-equipped and well-prepared, they did almost no damage.

From time to time, however, the captives stumbled and fell under their horses.

At the same time, the trenches dug by the Shun army outside the formation began to work.

In the middle of the night, the vision is extremely poor, and there are always captives who accidentally break into the ditch, and at least they fall on their backs and turn over, or they are injured by sharp weapons in the ditch.

Seeing that the cavalry charge was blocked, Azig was furious, and he personally led the main force and attacked straight from the middle.

When the captives saw that their master was in the lead, they immediately rose up, and hurriedly rushed to the front, ignoring the danger of stumbling horses and trenches, and swore to find a way for their master.

Li Zicheng saw the enemy's onslaught and gave orders again and again.

Azig didn't care about any tactics at all, he aimed at the middle of the Shun army, and rushed regardless of it.

Although some people tripped and fell from their horses from time to time, the speed of the whole army did not slow down, and they soon rushed to the front of the Shun army.

The two sides shot arrows at each other, and the superiority of Jianyu's superb bow and horse came to the fore, and the Shun soldiers began to suffer a large number of casualties.

Bang bang bang......

The two sides collided together, and the Jianyu cavalry relied on the inertia of the impact, and after sacrificing the men and horses of the front team, they quickly rushed to the Shun army formation and began to slash wantonly.

The Shun army was not in a hurry, quickly dispersed, opened their bows one after another, and shot at the Jianyu in the middle.

Li Zicheng laughed: "Okay, this time, I'm going to let the Tartar die in the pocket array." ”

As soon as Azig rushed into the formation, he knew that he had entered the pocket formation, but he was not afraid of danger, and charged forward non-stop, just blindly slashing and killing, and the Dashun rear army couldn't resist it, and was killed by Jianyu.

Seeing the Tartars break out of the formation, Li Zicheng was very surprised, and hurriedly ordered the army to be gathered, not wanting Azig to go and return, and killed him again.

The cavalry of the Shun army still has combat power, all of them have hatred in their hearts, and they bravely kill the enemy, and it will not be long, and the two sides will fight together, and there is no distance between each other.

The sound of killing in the wilderness shook the sky, and the two sides mingled in the dark night, and the generals soon lost the ability to command their subordinates.

Assault battles turned into dogfights.

10,000 against 10,000, elite against elite, the two sides killed the sun and the moon, the soldiers rolled their steel knives, and the spears lacked horns.

From time to time, someone falls off the horse, and then someone fills the vacancy, and there are enemies and I around them, and I identify the enemy in the night, all by hairstyle.

The two armies fought for nearly two hours, and there were countless dead bodies in the wilderness, and no one knew how many men and horses there were on the other side, so they didn't dare to relax.

Da Da Da ......

The sound of horses' hooves came from everywhere, and no one knew which reinforcements they were, and their hearts were all terrified.

Once the balance of the battlefield is broken, the winner is the winner.

Li Zicheng was the first to be frightened, shouting: "Retreat west, join the reinforcements!" ”

Azig listened to it and didn't know whether it was true or not, but at this time the situation was critical, and he also began to shout for retreat.

Soon, the two armies separated and drifted apart.

Li Zicheng saw that the people and horses around him had suffered heavy casualties, and led the army to retreat to Weinan in a hurry to avoid the edge for the time being.

Azig also gathered his men and horses, and after a look, he was also shocked, and ordered again and again to stop killing the enemy and temporarily return to Tongguan to rest.