Iron horses clash, thousands of horses galloping.

On the frontal battlefield, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion fought a bloody battle for a long time, first with the army of foot soldiers in the front battalion of thieves, and then with the cavalry of the front battalion of thieves led by Li Laiheng.

And the same is true of Li Laiheng's more than 10,000 horsemen, and what is more serious is that the military spirit of the thief horsemen has begun to waver, and even the cavalry formation has begun to falter.

However, in the face of such a favorable situation, Xu Ming did not order the division of the enemy army, but continued to lead the cavalry battalion soldiers to hug together, and continued to use a strict cavalry formation to hedge against Li Laiheng's cavalry.

This is because, just two miles west of the battlefield, the 40,000 cavalry of the middle battalion led by Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin and other thieves have already dispatched and began to charge at full speed towards the battlefield. The rolling iron cavalry was unstoppable, and the smoke and dust in the sky were thrown into the air by the iron hooves, like a sandstorm, and even the earth trembled with the pace of the iron cavalry army.

"Turn right forward!"

After Xu Ming led his troops to hedge with Li Laiheng's cavalry for the fourth time, he looked at the army of thieves in the middle camp of thieves who were getting closer and closer, and had to order to turn, and if he delayed any longer, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion would be flanked by the thieves and horses.

After rushing out of the battlefield, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion rushed to the right front one after another, and then crossed the periphery of the battlefield, and after completing the turn, they began to rush in the direction of Kaifeng City at full speed.

"Just a little bit!"

Xu Ming rode his horse and galloped, looking at Li Laiheng's Daxu who was getting farther and farther away, he was very angry in his heart, Liu Yan gave him the order to kill the generals and capture the flag, but he led his troops to fight with the thieves in front of the camp for a long time, and the soldiers in the battalion suffered a lot of losses, but they never completed the task, and watched Li Laiheng live well in the distance.

At this time, the 40,000 elite troops led by Li Zicheng were about to arrive, and Xu Ming understood that he had no chance, and what he had to do now was to think about how to stop Li Zicheng's army. 33

The soldiers of the cavalry battalion rushed out more than two miles and redistanced themselves from the cavalry of the former camp of the thieves. At this time, Li Laiheng also led the thieves to retreat from the front camp of more than 10,000 horsemen and regroup in the west of the battlefield.

After these several hedging efforts, Li Laiheng's cavalry lost more than 3,000 people, and only about 10,000 cavalry horses remained, and the army had lost more than half.

At this time, this army of horsemen has not collapsed, it is entirely because Li Laiheng is in charge of the army, and at the same time, Li Zicheng's Daxu is hurrying over. Otherwise, according to the previous practice, these horsemen would have been scattered a long time ago, and they all rode away for their lives.

Such heavy casualties made Li Laiheng feel painful, and the cavalry of the front battalion was the elite that he had painstakingly built, but he was almost disabled by Liu Yan's cavalry. Fortunately, at this time, Li Zicheng had already led his troops to arrive, and Li Laiheng ordered the remaining Xiao cavalry under his command to prepare to continue the battle, and the whole battalion followed behind the middle camp Xiao Cai and launched an attack on the new army soldiers in Qinglai Town again.

"I want you dead!"

Li Laiheng looked at the battle flag of the cavalry battalion in the distance and cursed in his heart.

At the same time, in the cavalry battalion formation, Dong Yun, the commander of the left department, shouted: "General, look, the artillery battalion and the middle battalion have already gone into battle!" ”

Xu Ming was shocked when he heard this, hurriedly put his feet on his feet, stood on the stirrup and looked east, and sure enough, he saw the battle flags of the new army's artillery battalion and the middle battalion, fluttering in the wind a mile behind. At this time, Xu Ming could still vaguely see that all kinds of artillery in the artillery camp had been deployed, and all the gun muzzles were pointing forward.

"Adult ......"

Then Xu Ming looked ahead again, only to see that Li Zicheng's troops had already converged with Li Laiheng's troops, and the thieves' cavalry army had increased to 50,000 horses, and there were countless banners moving behind, which were the soldiers and other foot soldiers of the thieves' front battalion, as well as the firearms battalion soldiers and horses led by Li Dingguo.

"The thieves are about to launch a final assault! Adults are going to give it a go! ”

The frontal battlefield is different from the two wings, because the two wings of the battlefield are blocked by moats and city walls, so there is not much open space left for thieves and horses to charge, Liu Fangliang and Li Guobu can only use troops in echelons, to put it bluntly, they can only adopt "refueling tactics", so Liu Yan only used the personal guard battalion to hold the two wings, and contained hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses left behind.

Such a scene looks very critical, but in fact it is as stable as Mount Tai, because on the battlefield on both flanks, every time the thieves and horses attack, they can only put in thousands of soldiers and horses, at most more than 10,000 people, and in terms of the combat power of the pro-guard battalion, it is not a problem to hold it.

Xu Ming looked at the main force of the thieves who had begun to charge at full speed, and Li Zicheng's King Daxu was fluttering in the formation, moving rapidly with the torrent of rolling iron horses, at this time, the thieves were rolling over, and they were only more than two miles away from the soldiers of the cavalry battalion.

"The general ordered to charge, if we don't rush again, we will be knocked to the ground by the thief cavalry!"

Du Zhongming, Lu Yuan and others on the side shouted one after another, at this time, the distance between the iron cavalry of the two sides is getting closer and closer, and it will be too late for the soldiers of the cavalry battalion to charge if they don't charge, and if they don't charge at full speed in the cavalry battle, it will be fatal.

Xu Ming raised the spear in his hand and was about to order the whole battalion to charge, but a group of heralds from the Chinese army rushed over: "There is an order in the main town: the cavalry battalion immediately retreats and gives way to the frontal battlefield!" ”

Xu Ming, Du Zhongming, Lu Yuan, and Dong Yun were dumbfounded, at this moment in this battle, Liu Yan actually let the cavalry battalion withdraw, did he want to use the artillery battalion and the middle battalion to harden Li Zicheng's tens of thousands of elite horsemen?

However, there was no time to think about it at this time, Xu Ming and others also understood the truth of the military order, and after verifying Liu Yan's warrant, they immediately ordered the whole battalion to retreat.

After several rounds of hedging, the strength of the cavalry battalion was only more than 8,000 people left, and the soldiers of the whole battalion quickly retreated under the leadership of Xu Ming, rode their horses through the artillery camp position, and rushed to the middle camp army formation behind.

Xu Ming saw Qian Jian in the crowd at a glance and shouted, "Look at you!" ”

Then Xu Ming rode his horse and rushed over, and Qian Jian also shouted: "Look at me!" ”

Qian Qiao and a group of gunners looked at the cavalry battalion soldiers who were speeding by, and saw that many of the soldiers were exhausted, and some of them were even lying on their horses, obviously out of strength, which showed the fierceness of the battle.

Moreover, Qian Jian also noticed that the number of cavalry battalions was much smaller, although it was too late to count, but there were by no means more than 12,000 people, and the casualties of the officers and men of the cavalry battalion were huge, which had exceeded the losses in the bloody battle in Liaodong.

At this time, Qian Yan's face was pale, since the new army of Qinglai Town became an army, he had never suffered such a big loss, even in the face of the Qing army in Liaodong, but he didn't expect that outside Kaifeng City, he was besieged by hundreds of thousands of thieves and suffered such a big casualty!

"Brothers, cheer up, let those thieves know for a while, what is called artillery coverage!"

"Good! Kill those thieves. ”

"Reload, blow them up!"

The many gunners of the artillery battalion were excited, looking at the army of thieves and cavalry gradually approaching in the distance, they did not have the slightest fear, everyone was in place, the three artillery battalions, all the more than 200 artillery pieces were all loaded, and they could open fire and bombard just waiting for Qian Yu's order.

At the same time, in the cavalry formation of the middle camp of the thieves, Liu Zongmin heard the sound of horns from the front army, so he grinned, and then shouted at Li Zicheng, who was galloping on a horse beside him: "King Chuang!" Liu Yan's cavalry retreated, it was the horn of the enemy's retreat! ”

Li Zicheng didn't speak, just nodded to indicate that he heard.

However, Li Zicheng had a trace of doubt in his heart, Liu Yan's cavalry was obviously tenacious, and he had hedged against the cavalry of the front battalion many times, but they were all fighting to the death and did not retreat, why did they suddenly retreat? Li Zicheng has always been suspicious, which is also one of the reasons why Li Zicheng can live to this day, at this time Li Zicheng's heart rose a trace of uneasiness, but this trace of uneasiness was temporarily suppressed by the roaring iron hooves of the cavalry army, and did not let Li Zicheng make any arrangements.

At this time, the Iron Cavalry army was charging at high speed, and even if the rogue scouts in front found something, they could only rely on the horn to transmit information to the Chinese army. However, the tone of the horn is very monotonous, and the content that can be conveyed is very scarce.

At best, it conveys very general news: the retreat of the enemy army, the reinforcement of the enemy army, the defeat of the front army, etc.

So Li Zicheng couldn't make up his mind at this time, I don't know if Liu Yan's cavalry really couldn't hold on, or if Liu Yan was playing some tricks.

Liu Zongmin has followed Li Zicheng for many years and is very familiar with Li Zicheng. When Li Zicheng wanted to fight Cao Cao and Luo Rucai, Liu Zongmin only made a judgment through a few words, and assisted Li Zicheng to take down Luo Rucai and annex his troops.

At this time, Liu Zongmin turned his head to look at Li Zicheng, who was frowning, and already had a plan in his heart, so he shouted loudly again: "King Chuang!" Thinking about a lot, no matter how cunning Liu Yan is, he only has tens of thousands of horses, what tricks can he play? ”

Li Zicheng thought about it, he joined Li Laiheng's department, and there were nearly 50,000 horsemen, even if he was against the Tartars outside the gate, he could be invincible, unless Liu Yan had other backs.

Looking at Kaifeng City in the distance, Li Zicheng expected that even if Liu Yan temporarily pulled out all the new troops in the city, it would only withstand his nearly 50,000 horsemen and two-wheeled charge, and Liu Yan would definitely lose this battle!

Most of the thieves' middle battalion horsemen are in armor, and even the thousands of horsemen in the forward, even the war horses are armored, such a defensive force is enough to make a large number of iron horsemen rush to the front against the firepower of the new army, and the most casualties are larger.

The last thing Li Zicheng is afraid of is the heavy casualties, anyway, there are hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses under his command, even if all of them are damaged, as long as Kaifeng City is defeated, he can easily pull up hundreds of thousands of horses!

At this time, Li Zicheng didn't think much about it, and waved his hand forward, Liu Zongmin next to him comprehended, roared happily, and more than 20 guards raised their horns at the same time and blew them hard.

Tens of thousands of thieves rode at the sound of the horn and increased their speed again, and rushed forward with all their strength to the position of the new army's artillery battalion. And behind the cavalry army, tens of thousands of armor soldiers and other foot soldiers in the front camp of the thieves also ran for their lives. Li Dingguo, Sun Kewang, and Ai Nengqi also led the 20,000 soldiers and horses after the firearms collection and rectification, and rushed forward quickly.

These three bandit armies converged into a huge long dragon, and the black uniforms of the rogue army matched the bright red blood on the battlefield were extremely eye-catching.

Qian Jian looked at the army of thieves who had rushed within two miles, the expression on his face was very hideous, and he gritted his teeth and roared angrily: "Good come!" Brothers, listen to my orders and release! ”

Some people died, but not completely......