The sun rose in the east, and the golden sunlight shone on the messy camps, and there was no longer a single Shun army around, only the Ming soldiers who were searching for war horses were all over it.

Zhou Shixian rode on a horse, and the recognition flag in his hand was held high. The banner representing his "Zhou" character fluttered high in the cold wind of the early morning, rustling.

When he arrived at the battlefield, Wu Xingye and Xue Laoer were besieging the Chinese army camp of the Shun army, although Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi had fled, they left two teams of cavalry to block the attack, plus the Shun army that reacted around, the situation was very stalemate for a while.

At this time, the inferiority of the Ming army's strength was reflected, and when Wu Xingye and Xue Laoer rushed to the camp of the Shun army, there were less than a hundred cavalry left around them.

However, their enemies were no better, the Shun army almost completely lost its command, and the two teams of cavalry left by Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi were only a few dozen horsemen, but there were a large number of stragglers gathered from the surrounding area.

The two armies have fought so far, they are already holding their last breath, the Ming army has been killing all the way, almost exhausted, and the Shun army is panicked and frightened, and it is simply no longer morale, just fighting by instinct and inertia.

As a result, when Zhou Shixian personally carried the flag, led more than a dozen personal guards to suddenly appear, and even rushed towards the two warring armies, the situation changed abruptly.

On the battlefield, the morale of the Ming army was greatly boosted, Xue Lao Er and Wu Xingye saw the horse master charging into battle in person, and they were shocked, and immediately hit the horse and rushed out.

In this way, even the soldiers and horses under their command also rose up and rushed away desperately.

The opportunity must not be lost, and the loss will not come again, the battlefield fight is originally a life of nine deaths, but there are not many opportunities for such performance!

Xue Lao Er and Wu Xingye understood this, and the soldiers under their command naturally understood this.

In the end, without waiting for Zhou Shixian to join the battlefield, the Shun army was directly defeated under the fierce charge, and was chased and killed for several miles by Xue Laoer and Wu Xingye.

On the battlefield, sometimes morale is the difference between victory and defeat.

"Horse, the Shun army has been completely defeated, we have won!"

When Zhou Shixian heard this, his face was still unshocked, but he took out his binoculars again, and he could vaguely see a few Shunjun cavalry scattered in the fields in the north fleeing with him on his back, and hundreds of cavalry of Xue Lao Er and Wu Xingye were pursuing, and they all had red belts on their shoulders, which were very easy to identify.

"Sun Hu, Weng Dajie, how is Kong Tao over there?" Zhou Shixian put down the binoculars, thought about it, and immediately ordered: "Let all departments immediately gather their troops and horses and withdraw as quickly as possible." ”

Several heralds received the order and immediately shot their horses out. Zhou Shixian looked around, Xue Lao Er was riding a horse and rushing towards him, but there were corpses everywhere on the ground, it was a mess, and his speed was not fast.

In the camp, most of the horses that had fallen into madness have now quieted down, and more than 100 soldiers who stayed in the camp of the Shun army are searching for war horses.

It's just that, after last night's scuffle, and collided and trampled on each other, the losses of these war horses were very heavy, and thousands fled around, nowhere to be found, and were finally captured by the Ming army, and there were only more than 800 horses that could go south with the army.

On the way back, Xue Lao Er had already collected the movements of various departments, and he came to Zhou Shixian and reported:

"Horses, the Shun army has been completely dispersed, and the remaining remnants of the army have no will to fight.

After the cavalry attack last night, most of the Shun army fled to the north, and then was ambushed in the north by Sun Hu, Weng Dajie, Kong Tao, three divisions blocked, after most of the dead and wounded, they fled directly in all directions.

The soldiers and horses in the ambush in the north captured more than 100 war horses, and after a short rest, they are now returning, they have suffered few casualties, and they can still basically maintain their combat strength.

However, our troops, Wu Xingye's troops, and Zhang Hong's troops and horses suffered a lot of losses in the course of the fierce battle against the Shun army, and I am afraid that they will have to be immediately retracted and reorganized and restored. ”

"Hmm." Zhou Shixian nodded, and Xue Lao Er and him basically thought of it together. "The order to gather the troops and horses has been given. Do you know the whereabouts of Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi? ”

"It should have all fled, among the captured thieves and horsemen were Gu Kecheng's personal soldiers, he saw Gu Kecheng with his own eyes, and Hao Shaoqi and the two of them each led dozens of horses to flee to the north.

These two people are very cunning, our army has not yet attacked the Chinese army, they have already begun to move, surrounded by plains, they are riding horses, so scuffle, it is estimated that Sun Hu and they can't stop it. ”

According to the report of the heralds, Zhou Shixian also roughly knew the casualties of the headquarters, more than 500 cavalry were killed and wounded, more than 40 people were killed and wounded in the "Wu/Wei Battalion", and the damage of Sun Hu, Weng Dajie, and Kong Tao was even smaller, less than 10%.

The Shun army suffered more than 1,000 casualties, and the corpses here in the camp alone have exceeded 700, but a considerable part of them were trampled to death by the war horses.

"Leave the remaining remnants of the Shun army alone, bring the captured war horses, collect some intact armor, and then return to the city immediately, and after resting for half a day, we must immediately go south."

"What about the captives?" Xue Lao Er nodded in response, and then asked.

"How many prisoners are there?" Zhou Shixian asked with a slight frown.

"There are less than a hundred, and many of them are from the border army." Xue Lao Er was a little excited, he really wanted to gather these soldiers and horses under his command and make up for the losses.

"If you can follow Gu Kecheng and Hao Shaoqi, one person and three horses to chase for hundreds of miles, there is a high probability that they are thieves for more than two years, and these people can't be easily accepted."

"But if you don't accept them, you just kill them or let them go, and it's ......."

Before Xue Lao Er finished speaking, Zhou Shixian immediately interrupted:

"Let them identify each other, and find out the leaders of the captives, and those who are close to the leaders, and kill at least ten, and the rest, those who are willing to submit, and scatter them among the ranks. If you don't want to, kill it too. ”

"Yes!" When Xue Lao Er heard this, he didn't dare to say more, and immediately hugged his fist.

In this world, Zhou Shixian did not kill all the people, which is already a great mercy. And he really couldn't think of a better way. Although these soldiers are all good soldiers, they are also senior thieves, and if they are not allowed to kill some of their own people, they can't be trusted at all, and they can't be suppressed at all.

And Zhou Shixian naturally had more considerations, killing prisoners was not a good reputation, and it would cause the enemy army to resist desperately in future battles. This is what he does not want to see, not to mention that as a person from later generations, he also has resistance to the act of killing all the captives in his heart.

Of course, if it's a Tartar, it's different, and it's not just the boss.

Watching Xue Lao Er ride out, Zhou Shixian withdrew his gaze and looked at the Chinese army camp of the Shun army again, the corners of his mouth grinned, and he laughed in his heart: "Victory, victory!" ”