"Li Zicheng was shot?"

Shen Tuo looked at the place where King Chuang Daxu fell, his eyes widened in disbelief, and then the soldiers of the middle battalion broke out into huge cheers.

At the same time, Liu Yan also ordered the Chinese army to blow the war drums of the counterattack, and more than a dozen cowhide war drums brought out from Kaifeng City were beaten, and Shen Tuo immediately shouted loudly when he heard the news: "All departments are moving forward!" Kill the thief! ”

"Tiger! Tiger! Tiger! ”

More than 10,000 soldiers in the middle battalion, under the leadership of Guo Rong, Teng Jianghe, and Yu Qian, advanced in formation.

"Ten thousand people are afraid of the mountains can be shaken, but loyalty and righteousness are angry and bullfighting. The Lord will kiss me like a parent, and he will not be free to violate military law. ”

"Ordered a letter of reward and punishment, dare to stay late when you go to the water and fire? Report to the Son of Heaven to save the head of Qian, kill all the slaves and find a marquis. ”

The soldiers of the middle battalion strode forward, and the majestic military song also sounded, all the soldiers had forgotten their fatigue at this moment, and all of them were firmly focused on killing the enemy, and the thieves and horsemen who had been completely panicked in front were constantly forced to retreat, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed in an instant.

"Woo~"

A horn sounded, it was a signal for Shen Tuo to order to stop advancing, and the soldiers of the middle battalion stopped in unison, at this time, the military formation was only seventy or eighty steps away from the chaotic rogue cavalry army in front, and there were even many horsemen who thought they were brave, and they continued to ride their horses and rushed to the middle camp phalanx, and then they were stabbed to death by the spearmen of the new army, or forced to retreat.

"Bird Hands Ready!"

"Put!"

Thousands of bird guns opened fire in an instant, and the thieves within a hundred paces were shot and fell off their horses as if they had been hit hard.

The thieves in the distance were suddenly beaten, and the big man who broke into the king just now disappeared, and now the large array of officers and soldiers pressed up and opened fire again, when did the situation become like this, wasn't it just a storm of the official army?

The Zhongying Bird Gunner began to fire a continuous volley, at this time, the leader of the thief Xiao Cavalry had retreated, rushed to Li Zicheng's place to rescue, the front soldiers and horses were almost in a state of no one to command, under the shooting of the Zhongying Bird Gunner, directly collapsed, countless Xiao Cavalry scattered and fled, most of them rushed to the rear on horseback, and began to impact their own fairly neat array.

"Put!"

"Next row, let's go!"

Thousands of middle battalion birds fired a salvo, the seven Hongyi cannons on the west wall of Kaifeng City also continued to bombard, and dozens of big Buddha Lang machine guns on the head of the city did not stop, constantly aiming at the middle of the thief army to shoot cannonballs, accelerating the rout of the hundreds of thousands of thieves on the frontal battlefield.

Liu Yan saw the chaos of the thief army on the frontal battlefield in the clairvoyant mirror, its front army had been defeated, and the main army behind had almost stopped the momentum of the charge, and began to fall into chaos on the spot.

So Liu Yan said loudly to the heralds beside him: "Command all departments: the whole army shouts loudly that Li Zicheng is dead!" ”

More than a dozen heralds scattered around their horses and rushed everywhere, galloping wildly while shouting: Li Zicheng is dead.

It didn't take long for the middle battalion, the personal guard battalion, and the officers and men of the cavalry battalion who had regrouped in front of the low wall to reorganize and stand by, all shouting with all their might, and the shouts of "Li Zicheng is dead" resounded throughout the battlefield.

On the west city wall of Kaifeng City, even if Chen Yongfu was standing next to the roaring artillery, he vaguely heard the shouts outside the city, and suddenly his heart was ecstatic, as if he was crazy and dragged a subordinate over, and asked loudly: "Did you hear it?" Is it shouting outside the city that Li Zicheng is dead! ”

The subordinate also grinned and nodded: "The subordinates also heard it, saying that Li Zicheng is dead!" ”

"Quickly send someone to General Liu to verify, quick!"

Seeing his subordinates rushing down the road almost with their hands and feet, Chen Yongfu laughed and looked at the gunners on the city, and said secretly: "The new army is really strong, those new army gunners deliberately left a lot of guns and gauges for aiming, measuring tapes and other equipment, and also taught these gunners how to use them in battle, so that they can bombard Li Zicheng's Daxu more accurately, maybe Li Zicheng was shot and killed by the artillery on the city!" ”

Thinking of this, Chen Yongfu couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart, when Yuan Chonghuan injured the wild boar Pinurhachi with artillery in Ningyuan City, this great achievement benefited Yuan Chonghuan a lot, could it be that he also had such an immortal feat?

Thinking of this, Chen Yongfu had a high fighting spirit in his heart, standing on the head of the city and looking at the battlefield outside the city, he involuntarily stood up straight, holding back the excitement in his heart and waiting for the specific news to come.

At the same time, the army of more than 100,000 thieves on the frontal battlefield has completely retreated, and the rogue cavalry of the former army has rolled back, under the impact of tens of thousands of former army cavalry, the army of thieves in the middle camp and the front battalion infantry have completely lost the opportunity to stabilize their positions, and almost all the rogue soldiers fled backwards in horror.

The battlefield was full of the shouts of Li Zicheng's death, and those rogue soldiers couldn't distinguish the truth from the fake in the chaotic battlefield, plus those leading generals were also missing, and many rogue soldiers guessed that King Chuang might really be dead, and those generals also fled with their own soldiers.

People are very strange animals, and when they are in a group, they will gain a strong sense of security, and they can move forward and fight to the death. But once there is uncertainty in the group, fear will sprout in the crowd, and then spread like a plague, instantly disintegrating the original rock-solid will to fight!

At this time, the army of thieves was like this, and the army of more than 100,000 collapsed in a very short period of time and fled towards the Chinese army behind. The firearms battalion under Li Dingguo's department, which followed behind the army, was also impacted, and the soldiers and horses of the firearms battalion that had just been reorganized were also directly dispersed by the rout, and then joined the ranks of the rout.

Li Dingguo's face turned pale at this time, and together with Sun Kewang and Ai Nengqi, under the protection of more than 100 personal guards, he rode his horse and fled for his life, and rushed towards the direction of the Chinese army.

Ren Jirong, the former Guoyi general, and Wu Ruyi, the general of Guoyi, also found Li Zicheng at this time, and hundreds of heavily armored guards protected Li Zicheng in the middle on the battlefield, blocking the surrounding soldiers and horses who fled like a tide.

The two saw that Li Zicheng had a wooden thorn stuck in his left eye, and the blood had completely dyed half of his face and the armor on his entire chest, and Li Laiheng helped Li Zicheng sit on the ground, his face full of tears.

The two of them looked at each other stupidly, and for a moment their brains went blank, not knowing what to do.

"Order the whole army to retreat immediately, return to the Chinese army to hold on, and order Liu Fangliang and Li Guobu to slowly retreat to prevent Liu Yan's troops from pursuing and covering up."

"Immediately send someone to contact Liu Zongmin, the general of Zhongyingquan, and let him temporarily command the whole army......"

Before he finished speaking, Li Zicheng gritted his teeth and shivered, the severe pain made Li Zicheng speechless, Li Laiheng glared at the two and yelled: "What are you doing in the cold!" Leave all the guards you brought with you and escort King Chuang back to the Chinese army. ”

"Yes, yes!"

was yelled at by Li Laiheng, the former Guoyi general Ren Jirong and the consequence Yi general Wu Ruyi came back to their senses, and then the two left the hundreds of guards they brought, and then sent people to pass the order.

"General Li escorted King Chuang to retreat first, and the two of us led our troops to collect troops and horses to block the officers and troops!"

Then everyone acted separately, Li Laiheng tied Li Zicheng to the horse with a rope, and then led hundreds of elite horsemen to escort him, all the way to the direction of the Chinese army.

When the two rode their horses to the easternmost part of the rout, the middle battalion of the new army in the distance had stopped firing salvo, and the two were slightly relieved, but then they saw the cavalry battalion of the new army attacking again, and thousands of elite iron horsemen roared and rushed forward, and the two were suddenly frightened, and led more than 2,000 horsemen who had just gathered up to turn around and run, without a trace of hesitation.

"Kill! Kill Lao Tzu! ”

After a short rest, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion recovered a little at this time, after Xu Ming received the order to counterattack the whole army, he couldn't wait to lead the army to rush out, and more than 8,000 cavalry battalion soldiers were like tigers descending from the mountain, driving hundreds of thousands of routs from the front battalion, middle battalion, and firearms battalion of the thieves all the way.

The cavalry battalion soldiers rode their horses and charged through the dense crowd, and they didn't even need to wield spears and shoot birds, they only needed to ride their horses and gallop wildly, and they could knock down and trample countless thieves and rout!

"Haha!"

Xu Ming rode his horse and galloped to kill the enemy, and roared with a wild laugh: "Kill the thief!" Thieves also have today, kill! ”

Soon the soldiers of the cavalry battalion rushed out a few miles away, and Shen Tuo also led the soldiers of the middle battalion to follow, and more than 10,000 soldiers of the middle battalion marched forward in formation, all the way through the location where the army of thieves was just now, only to see that the ground was full of corpses, thieves, war horses, and a few soldiers of the new army, these corpses were superimposed on each other, many of them were unrecognizable, the flesh and blood were fused together, and the sun shone all day long, emitting a disgusting smell of blood.

Shen Tuo's face was also a little unsightly, and he ordered all the baggage soldiers in the battalion to gather in the back, follow the phalanx all the way forward, and collect the remains of the new army soldiers found along the way.

As the officers and men of the cavalry battalion and the middle battalion began to cover up the thieves and rout, Qian Jian also returned to the artillery array with more than 2,000 people from the artillery battalion.

In particular, those rocket artillery vehicles are basically wooden structures, and most of them have been destroyed by the war horses of the thief army at this time, and many Tiger Zun cannons have also been damaged.

Seeing this, Qian Jian was heartbroken, and kept scolding the thieves for not doing anything, and then shouted at the soldiers of the artillery battalion to step forward, pull all the artillery that could still be used back to the Chinese army, and count the battle losses of the artillery battalion as soon as possible.

As with the situation on the frontal battlefield, at this time, as Zhang Yi led the soldiers of the left battalion out of the city to participate in the battle, all the soldiers of the pro-guard battalion had already concentrated on the right flank of the new army, and under the leadership of Miao Shao, they began to form a formation and launch a counterattack. Zhang Yi also led his troops to start a counterattack on the left flank of the New Army.

On the right-wing battlefield, Liu Fangliang received an order from Li Zicheng, although he knew that Li Zicheng was not killed in battle, but hundreds of thousands of soldiers did not know, the hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses of the left battalion of the right-wing thieves, as well as the 100,000 foot soldiers of the right general Tian Jianxiu and the right mighty general Li Youbu who came to support from the middle battalion, did not know, and almost all the thieves and soldiers were horrified that Li Zicheng was dead.

Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu briefly discussed, and then asked Tian Jianxiu to lead the middle battalion to withdraw first, and he led the left battalion to break the horses.

However, as Miao Shao led the soldiers of the guard battalion to take the initiative to attack, the plan of the two also went bankrupt, and the hundreds of thousands of troops of the left battalion of the thieves collapsed on the spot, and countless routs fled backwards, which soon caused the 100,000 foot soldiers of the middle battalion to also fall into chaos, and then joined the ranks of the rout.

Liu Fangliang and Tian Jianxiu saw that they couldn't stop it, so they simply led thousands of horses to gallop wildly, first returning to the Chinese army to stabilize their positions, and then collecting the rout.

Li You, the right mighty general, led 20,000 infantry soldiers of the middle battalion to fall behind, and soon the 20,000 infantry soldiers were shocked by the rout and only more than 3,000 people remained, and then these more than 3,000 people were caught up by Miao Shaobu.

"Bird, let go!"

Thousands of bird-gunned men stopped advancing, thousands of bird-guns were divided into three rows and raised equally, followed by a volley, and the fierce firepower suddenly made half of Li You's thieves fall, and the remaining half of the men and horses were scattered in a hurry.

Miao Shaowang saw Li You's battle flag, the corners of his mouth were about to grin, and he shouted loudly: "All the guards who don't collect at night will attack, and I will kill the thief general!" ”

The guards of the guard battalion were all assembled, and there were also thousands of men and horses, and soon thousands of nights were not collected, and the guards rushed out of the battle formation on horseback, and went straight to Li You's place to kill.

The night guards and guards were all equipped with flintlock birds, and when they rushed through the rout of the group, they raised their birds and shots, regardless of whether they aimed or not, anyway, thousands of men and horses shot at one place, and someone could always hit.

After a roar, Li You was beaten into a sieve, his battle flag was cut down by a night guard, and his head was cut off by a guard soldier.

With the death of Li You, the right mighty general of the middle camp of the thieves, the thieves on the battlefield on the right flank of the new army could no longer organize a counterattack, and everyone was fleeing for their lives. From a distance, it was like countless black-pressed ants hiding from natural enemies, and the wilderness was full of thieves' routs, and there was no edge in sight.

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