These three rounds and a nest of fronts and a continuous rain of arrows caused the official cavalry to suffer a heavy blow, and at least more than 2,000 horsemen fell to the ground forever.

Because there were too many horses and people on the ground, when the follow-up cavalry rushed up, they could not pass smoothly, and there were carriages in front of them, and the scene became even more chaotic.

The front can't rush, and the follow-up can't go up, and they have to be constantly hit by the bow and arrow of the rebel army.

But the charge of this wave of officers and troops was more than 30,000 people, and in addition to more than 10,000 cavalry, there were 20,000 infantry battalions behind.

Although after several rounds of heavy blows, the overall main force is still there, with a loss of about three or four thousand.

Xue Lu also thought so, as long as the brothers were not afraid of death and continued to rush forward, the rebels would definitely not be able to resist.

But at this moment.

"Woo" suddenly behind him, a heavy horn sounded, resounding through the sky.

Xue Lu turned around incredulously, only to see a wave of black shadows slowly appearing on the distant horizon, and then there were more and more black shadows, more and more.

Ping An went around behind him with 10,000 cavalry.

Before, Xue Lu had more than 10,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry battalions in his hands to prepare for mobility, so Ping An did not move.

After Xue Lu threw himself alone and sent them out, he suddenly led the cavalry to appear.

At the same time, the other 10,000 horsemen in Sheng Yong's hand, including the 5,000 horsemen who had been hiding in Puding County and the 5,000 horsemen outside, also gathered outside the formation at the same time.

Xue Lu always thought that there were only 5,000 cavalry on the opposite side, but he didn't expect Sheng Yong to be such a chicken thief and hide 5,000 cavalry in the county seat.

He didn't expect that 10,000 riders would suddenly appear behind him.

Xue Lu, who was shocked and angry, turned around and said sharply to his henchmen: "Where did so many cavalry come from?" Where's our sentry? ”

The heart will stammer: "I didn't receive any news -—— the sentry rider-—— ah-——"

There is such chaos on the battlefield, many times, the news cannot be accurately transmitted, there are too many things about the Yan army and the southern army beating each other's farts in the Jing Disaster, the Yan army was caught off guard, and the southern army also has it.

It's just that usually everyone has reserve troops in their hands, and even if an enemy army suddenly appears behind them, they can divide a group of soldiers and horses to deal with it.

Xue Lu commanded the army for the first time, but he didn't expect to encounter such a thing.

By this time, he already knew that something was wrong.

The front assault on the opponent's large army formation was fruitless, and the opponent suddenly appeared behind so many cavalry, and on the right flank in front, there were cavalry coming out to line up.

This is the moment of Armageddon, and it may also be the moment of the great defeat of the official army.

When Xue Lu is smart, he is when he should run, and he will definitely run.

He was captured once by the Southern Army during the Jing Disaster, and then immediately confessed, said that he surrendered, survived first, and then found an opportunity and ran back to the Yan Army.

Therefore, Xue Lu saw that there was no big thing to do, and immediately said: "Order the front, the rear formation will become the front formation, the front formation will be responsible for the break, and the whole army will withdraw to Pingbawei." ”

"Zhou Tiangen, you immediately return to Guizhou, please General Gu stick to Guizhou, and wait for the reinforcements from the imperial court Huguang to arrive, and then come to ask for help."

"Whoa."

Xue Lu immediately made a series of arrangements.

First, let the remaining cavalry be responsible for breaking off, blocking the rebel cavalry, and then summoning all the infantry battalions back to defend Pingba.

At the same time as he gave the order, the rebel army had already begun to launch a full-scale counteroffensive, Ping'an's cavalry rushed up from the rear flank, and the native soldiers on Sheng Yong's side pushed the shield cart slowly.

Xue Lu had never seen a man pushing a shield cart forward in a battle, and later found that the other party was very stable in doing this.

If the officers and soldiers counterattack now, the native soldiers will immediately rely on the shield cart as an obstacle to defend in place, and if the officers and soldiers still retreat, they will push the shield cart to press the space of the officers and soldiers step by step.

Sheng Yong's war now is stable, because he knows that it is impossible to be the same as Jing Nan, and if he loses again, he and Ping An will not be able to afford to lose.

Therefore, when the official army was defeated, he was not in a hurry to cover it, but to press step by step.

At this time, the battlefield began to become more and more chaotic, on the huge battlefield, the various departments of the official army were retreating in an orderly manner, the front battalions of each department were broken, and the rear battalions were frantically retreating to Pingbawei.

The Ping'an cavalry came around from the flanks and rear, and then, like the Mongol cavalry, ran and shot along the perimeter, and did not storm the infantry battalion of the officers.

A group of officers and soldiers close to the south bank of the Sila River is trotting together, this group of officers and soldiers is about two or three thousand people, and the original phalanx of more than 5,000 people has only about half of the battle left.

They had just withdrawn from the front, and they saw the cavalry rushing towards them, and the leading general immediately shouted: "Steady, steady, assemble, don't run away-"

As soon as the officers and troops stood firm, the forward cavalry had already rushed within fifty paces.

Then "shoot." ”

Both sides shoot arrows almost simultaneously.

There were only one or two hundred archers in this wave of infantry battalions of the officers and soldiers, but the hula on the opposite side was overwhelming, and at least two thousand arrows were shot over.

"Mother's." When the general saw the rain of arrows in the sky, his eyes were dark, and he almost vomited blood.

This is the old routine of Zhu Gaoxu in the Jing Rebellion, and his soldiers and horses always carry bows and arrows.

The next moment, as if it was raining, the arrows fell one after another in the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

There were all kinds of screams at the scene, a large number of officers and soldiers were shot to the ground, and some people were shot with five or six arrows in an instant.

This wave of two or three thousand officers and soldiers retreated, and as soon as they retreated and gathered, they were fired into a volley by Ping'an, and more than half of them were lost.

Many people are actually not seriously injured, if they are wearing armor, sometimes a dozen arrows on their bodies are fine, and there are too many such examples in Jingjing.

But the key is too demoralizing.

This infantry battalion was directly shot by this round, and the morale of the shooting was greatly demoralized.

And this is not over, Ping An has 10,000 cavalry in hand, and after the forward, the follow-up cavalry has swept one after another.

Zheng, Zheng, Zheng, the air is a continuous rain of arrows thrown at this wave of foot camp.

Each cavalry fired an arrow as it skimmed, and then headed for the next phalanx of the officers.

"Ah" There was a sudden scream by the side of the Sila River, and a group of officers and soldiers were directly shot down, and the crowd suddenly fled in all directions as if they had exploded, some people jumped directly into the Sila River, and some people ran in the direction of the native soldiers, completely losing their direction.

Defeat was as contagious as the plague, and a force of troops collapsed, and immediately the officers and armies elsewhere began to be in disarray.

Xue Lu looked at the scene a little desperately at this time.

At this time, the main force of at least 30,000 or 40,000 people in the official army was relatively well maintained, and on the huge battlefield, many phalanxes seemed to have not changed much, and they were still slowly retreating, maintaining the integrity of the lineup.

However, from the whole scene, the Ping'an cavalry attacked from the flank and rear, the phalanx near the Sila River had begun to collapse, the opponent's right flank, another 10,000 cavalry to the periphery to regroup, the left flank of the official army also began to disperse, and the cavalry responsible for the broken rear was fleeing back in a large area.

After the left and right flanks of the officers and troops collapsed, the phalanxes in the middle, which remained intact, would definitely be chaotic.

A big defeat is no longer inevitable.

"Yang Wuhou, defeated, let's go." At this time, a general stepped forward and nervously reminded Xue Lu.

"Why, why, why?" Xue Lu gritted his teeth and was very unconvinced.

Until now, he doesn't know who his opponent is.

Just lost so inexplicably?

But when he is sure now, although the other party is mostly a native soldier, the main general will definitely be a Han Chinese.

With such firearms, there are more than the Ming army, and it is impossible for the natives to be the main generals.

"Who is the commander of the rebel cavalry behind?" Xue Lu asked at this time.

"I can't see clearly, the main general of the other party is mixed with the general generals, and I can't see who the main general is at all, but Yang Wuhou, you see, there should be a -—— over there"

Following the direction of his subordinates' fingers, Xue Lu saw a huge banner of the rebel army, dozens of generals surging wildly, followed by a large number of cavalry, this flag went there, and the cavalry followed there.

If you don't guess wrong, the opposing main general should be under this banner.

But dozens of generals under its banner are all wearing armor, and everyone seems to be wearing exactly the same clothes, and they can't tell who is the main general at all.

"It's so treacherous to learn from Zhu Gaoxu, it's unseemly. Walk. Xue Lu scolded and hurriedly prepared to run away.

The official army is different from the rebel army, he has Xue Lu's handsome banner, and as soon as the handsome banner retreats, the morale of the officers and soldiers drops by three points.

Many of the official and military formations were originally slowly retreating and keeping the formation intact, but seeing Xue Lu's handsome banner constantly retreating, finally some people couldn't help it, ran, everyone didn't care about thirty-seven twenty-one, they turned around and ran.

The retreat quickly turned into a fiasco, with tens of thousands of officers and troops fleeing everywhere on the battlefield for more than ten miles.

At this time, it became the main battlefield of the cavalry, and the cavalry of the rebel army pursued closely, keeping a distance while constantly grazing, and the officers and soldiers were killed and wounded innumerably, and the corpses and wounded were all over the south bank of the Sila River.

In less than half an hour, Ping An had confirmed that the official army had completely collapsed and could not organize an effective resistance, so he ordered to put away his bow and arrows and swing his sword in pursuit.

The iron cavalry roared past, and the shouts of the rebels were everywhere: "Surrender or kill, kneel and kill—"

Before dark, the last remnants of Xue Lu's subordinates retreated into Pingbawei, and Sheng Yong's soldiers and horses surrounded them and surrounded Pingbawei.

Xue Lu originally wanted to run to Guizhou, but he was afraid that he would be intercepted by the rebel army halfway, after all, the defeated army was more likely to be ambushed halfway, and after thinking about it, he still decisively retreated to Pingbawei, at least for the time being.

As he expected, some cavalry fled directly in the direction of Guizhou, and as soon as they crossed the Peace Bridge of Pingbawei, they were blocked by the rebel army.

When Ping An just came around, he had already sent five hundred horsemen to this side to occupy the Peace Bridge Station.

There were not many soldiers and horses blocked, but the officers and cavalry had no intention of fighting, and scattered in a hurry, some fled to other places, bypassed from other places, some people surrendered directly, and some fled back to Pingbawei.

Ping'an led the cavalry to chase and kill from behind, all the way to Weiqingwei, which was less than ten miles away from Guiyang.

At this time, it was already dark, and Ping An led the troops back.

The surroundings of Pingbawei are now very spectacular, and a large number of shield carts and carriages surround Pingbawei.

Sheng Yong first surrounded the Pingba guard with a carriage and a shield cart, and then dug earth to build a wall, and built a wall layer by layer along the perimeter a hundred steps away.

The excavated earth was piled directly into the middle of the wagon and the shield cart, and the efficiency was very fast, and the digging began before dark, and when it was dark, the first wall had been built, and the Pingba guard was tightly surrounded.

Then immediately lay mines behind the first wall, kick the madan, and early tomorrow morning, dig the second one.

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