The battlefield on the left flank of the New Army.

Li Guo's brows were tightly locked, his face was solemn, at this time, most of the 150,000 troops in the rear camp of the thieves had been defeated, and countless dead soldiers and infantry in front of the front were mixed with backwards, and the armor soldiers of the brigade were already lined up in front of the middle army in the rear camp to block the impact of those routs.

At the same time, the 25,000 cavalry had all been formed, and Li Guo was very glad that he did not press the 25,000 iron cavalry up, otherwise the rear battalion soldiers and horses would be completely finished at this time.

"Withdraw!"

Li Guo looked worriedly in the direction of the thief's camp, Chuang Wang Daxu fell down suddenly, and he sent out more than a dozen groups of people to contact, but in the chaotic battlefield, those dozen groups of people and horses were all gone and did not return, I don't know whether they were killed by the officers and soldiers halfway, or they were carried by the rout and disappeared.

At this time, Li Guo did not receive Li Zicheng's order, and he didn't know what Li Zicheng was doing now, but he just listened to the shouts of tens of thousands of officers and soldiers on the battlefield, and was impatient, and directly ordered the withdrawal of the army.

"General, there are still tens of thousands of defeated troops on the battlefield that have not been gathered, should you withdraw now?"

Li Guo didn't speak, just glared at the captain, directly frightened him to the point that his face turned pale, confessed his guilt, and hurriedly went to give the order.

It didn't take long for Li Guo to lead 25,000 horsemen to slowly retreat, and they were stopped head-on by the general He Jin, the deputy mighty general Dang Shousu, and the left mighty general Xin Sizhong.

He Jin and Li Guo are both generals, but Li Guo is the sole commander of a battalion, and he is Li Zicheng's nephew, who was accepted as a righteous son, and is regarded as the "prince" of the army of thieves, so although He Jin is dissatisfied with Li Guo's abandonment of tens of thousands of defeated soldiers, he still insists on the gift of his subordinates.

"The general is leaving?"

Li Guo frowned slightly, and said impatiently: "Your department also withdrew together, now the situation of King Chuang is unknown, the righteous army must preserve its strength, and all the soldiers and horses that can still be mobilized will immediately withdraw to the Chinese army!" ”

He Jin said: "General, there are still tens of thousands of defeated soldiers ahead, and they ......"

"They can't withdraw anymore, give it all up!"

Li Guo gritted his teeth and said: "As long as the cavalry and armor soldiers are not lost, there will not be much loss in the strength of our righteous army!" ”

He Jin and the others looked at each other, not daring to stand up to Li Gang, and took orders one after another.

Then Li Guo led 25,000 cavalry and 30,000 armor soldiers to take the lead, and He Jin led the 100,000 foot soldiers of the middle battalion to form a formation behind him.

At this moment, more than 12,000 fresh troops from the left battalion of the new army attacked, driving tens of thousands of rout soldiers from the rear camp of the thieves all the way to kill, and countless rogue rout soldiers screamed, crying and fleeing for their lives, like waves, the rout soldiers in front were constantly knocked down and trampled by their companions behind them, and the battlefield was full of screams.

At the same time, Zhang Yi led the soldiers of the left battalion of the new army, with the pikemen as the forerunner, thousands of spears were raised horizontally, all the way to the past, and the birds of each department took the flag as a unit, each of them shot and killed the thieves and routs, where the routs gathered, and wanted to restore the system, they would be shot and killed by the birds of the new army.

At the same time, a large number of guards of the left battalion were also gathered by Zhang Yi, imitating the tactics of the Qing army, riding horses and rushing into the rout, constantly driving tens of thousands of rout soldiers to flee forward, and using the rout to attack the thief middle battalion foot soldiers in front of the broken back.

Seeing this, He Jin, the general of the middle battalion, was furious, but at this time, he could only scold loudly in the direction of the new army, and then continued to lead his troops to retreat rapidly, not daring to stop for a moment.

"General, you must leave someone behind!"

Xin Sizhong, the general of Zuo Weiwu, shouted loudly, at this time, both armies are foot soldiers, and if they retreat like this, it won't take a few miles to retreat, and these 100,000 foot soldiers will collapse, and the tens of thousands of routs behind will infect fear, and no one will be able to run away at that time.

He Jin gritted his teeth and said: "Then you lead the army of 20,000 to stay and block the attack, and when the main force distances itself from the official army, immediately lead the troops to withdraw." ”

Then He Jin added: "It's really not good, you just take the guards and go by yourself!" ”

Xin Sizhong nodded heavily, and at this time he also regretted in his heart, why did he talk too much and fall into such an unlucky errand!

Then the 20,000 foot soldiers were ordered to stop the retreat and began to re-array, Xin Sizhong led hundreds of guards in the formation to command, and transferred all the shields of the accompanying army to the front, wanting to block the left battalion of the new army.

But only a moment later, the rout of the brigade rushed over, no matter how Xin Sizhong's troops shouted and dissuaded, countless routs still did not stop, and began to impact the phalanx of 20,000 foot soldiers, the phalanx that was originally quite neat, was soon impulsive, Xin Sizhong was furious when he saw this, and immediately ordered to kill the rout soldiers who attacked the phalanx.

"Kill me, those who collide with the phalanx, there is no forgiveness for killing!"

As a result, the 20,000 thieves in charge of the palace fought with their own defeated soldiers before they had time to engage the left battalion of the new army.

And those routs are also coming to the spirit at this time, and more than 10,000 officers and troops are about to catch up, and these companions do not go to meet the enemy, but flee for their lives here in front of themselves, which is really hateful!

So the two sides did not give in to each other, and drew their swords to cut each other, and those routs changed the decline just now, and instantly became brave, and the two groups of men and horses fought together. Even many strong women and old men scolded angrily and went crazy, and even beat and bit the thieves in the camp and fought desperately.

Xin Sizhong was dumbfounded when he saw this, he never imagined that things would turn out like this, and he was hesitating whether to withdraw now, when he heard a roar, and the army of the left battalion of the new army had arrived.

At this time, Zhang Yi looked at the chaotic battle in front of him, and was also dumbfounded, the thieves were actually infighting, so he excitedly mobilized the bird gun hand to step forward and shouted loudly: "Bird hand, let go!" ”

Suddenly, the smoke of gunpowder was filled, and the dense lead bullets continued to shoot the crowd in front, whether it was the rout of the rear camp of the thieves or the foot soldiers of the middle camp of the thieves, all of them were shot indiscriminately.

The crowd that was fighting suddenly dispersed and fled in all directions to the west. Zhang Yi immediately sent a large number of night guards and guards, and the troops pressed up from both flanks in two ways, driving those routs to continue to gather to the west.

To the west is where the thieves are located, and Zhang Yi wants to let those routs continue to attack his own people, which may have a miraculous effect.

Xin Sizhong was also coerced by the rout of the brigade and fled westward, and hundreds of guards around him were also scattered, and the sea of people composed of tens of thousands of rout soldiers was so turbulent that hundreds of guards couldn't stop it at all, so they could only go with the flow, and they were soon torn apart.

Suddenly, a group of the left battalion of the new army appeared in the crowd, and the first captain of the night did not collect the night saw Xin Sizhong's battle flag, and excitedly greeted his companions.

More than a dozen earth-shattering thunderbolts exploded in the crowd one after another, and the surrounding thieves were blown up, and the surviving soldiers also fled in despair.

And Xin Sizhong was very unlucky, a sky-shattering thunder fell in front of him, and he saw a hot fireball ignite in an instant, wrapping himself and the war horse inside. Then Xin Sizhong felt that his body was as light as a swallow, and flew up directly from the war horse, and his eyes also saw a bloody lower body corpse, pressed by a bloody war horse, the armor and shoes on the corpse were so familiar, as if they were wearing themselves......

"The head fell over there, cut it off!"

The team roared angrily and rushed over, constantly waving spears and swords, to disperse the surrounding thieves, and the captain jumped off the war horse directly, cut off Xin Sizhong's head, tied it to the saddle and laughed: "The battle is in hand, go, continue to pursue!" ”

The battle flag of the left mighty general Xin Sizhong fell down violently, but at this time no one paid attention, He Jin and the deputy mighty general Dang Shousu led more than 60,000 middle battalion foot soldiers who had not yet broken up all the way to run wildly, and Li Guo in front led the rear battalion to retreat in stride, everyone was retreating, fleeing for their lives, as for who was killed by the new army, who could escape and ascend to heaven, it depends on the individual's own creation.

In the left battalion of the new army, Jin Xuecheng, Shi Niuzhong, and Shang Zili gathered to Zhang Yi's side, at this time, the officers and men of the left battalion had been pursuing for several miles, and the three of them rushed to dissuade Zhang Yi, whether to ask the Chinese army for instructions and then continue the pursuit, so as not to be too prominent and bitten by the thieves.

Zhang Yi looked at the countless battle flags on both sides on the battlefield, and also fell into hesitation.

"Report!"

At this moment, a group of heralds from the Chinese army rode horses from the rear, and when they got closer, a herald said loudly: "There is an order in the general town: each battalion pursues Wuli on its own, and then immediately withdraws to the city of Kaifeng to standby, and is not allowed to pursue deeply!" ”

Shen Tuo breathed a sigh of relief, and after sending away the heralds, he said to Jin Xuecheng, Shi Niuzhong, and Shang Zili: "Chase!" Chase me two more miles. The officers and men of each department concentrated their efforts on killing the thieves' armor soldiers and backward cavalry, and as for those dead soldiers and infantry, they mainly drove away! ”

"Yes!"

"Forward!"

More than 12,000 soldiers of the left battalion continued to advance, driving tens of thousands of routs to advance for more than two miles, and the thieves and armor soldiers who were caught up along the way, as well as some horsemen who lost their horses, were all killed.

At this time, on the chaotic battlefield, the sound of fighting everywhere began to stop slowly, and on the front and flank battlefields, the soldiers of the battalions of the new army even pointed directly at the location of the thief army after pursuing for several miles.

Liu Zongmin, who dealt with the wounds of the Chinese army in advance, was furious, and was about to lead more than 10,000 Chinese cavalry to meet the battle, but was stopped by Li Yan and Gu Junen, and the two immediately made a decision to dissuade Liu Zongmin from leading the Chinese army to retreat, and everyone retreated ten miles before stopping under the protection of more than 10,000 horsemen.

At the same time, the soldiers and horses of the battalions of the thieves who retreated one after another also continued to flee for their lives, and when they withdrew to the Chinese army one after another, most of the dead soldiers and infantry of each battalion were lost, or even all of them. Some of those soldiers died on the battlefield, and some of them slipped away on the way to escape.

It was rumored on the battlefield that Li Zicheng was dead, although Liu Zongmin, Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, Gu Junen, Song Xiance and others received Li Zicheng's order and knew that this was fake news, but what happened to Li Zicheng and why the army was defeated in an instant, everyone still had no bottom in their hearts.

It wasn't until Li Zicheng returned to the Chinese army with blood on his head that everyone rushed to meet each other with surprise and joy, but when everyone saw that Li Zicheng's left eye was shot blind, everyone's faces were pale, and the atmosphere of the thief Chinese army was extremely depressed.

At nightfall, after the army of thieves retreated ten miles, they set up camp here, originally the battalions combined hundreds of thousands, plus the families of the old battalion had millions of people, but after a whole day of bloody fighting, the battalions were much quieter at this time.

Gone are the hustle and bustle of the past, replaced by countless cries and moans of the wounded.

In the big tent of the middle camp of the thieves, Li Zicheng's left eye has been treated, the wooden thorn has been pulled out, and even the eyeball with the left eye has been removed. A bloodstained strip of white cloth wrapped half of Li Zicheng's head, and his left eye was wrapped in medicine.

At this time, in the large camp, all the people sat according to the camp.

Zhongying Quan General Liu Zongmin, Quan General Tian Jianxiu, System General He Jin, former Guoyi General Ren Jirong, Consequence Yi General Wu Ruyi, Deputy Mighty General Dang Shousu, Zuo Weiwu General Li Jin;

Liu Fangliang, general of the left battalion, Liu Xiyao, general of the deputy system, Ma Shiyao, general of the left Guoyi, and Liu Rukui, the general of the right might;

Yuan Zongdi, the general of the right battalion, Bai Minghe, the general of the left Guoyi, and Liu Tichun, the general of the right Guoyi.

Former battalion general Li Laiheng, left Guoyi general Gu Kecheng, Xie Junyou, right Guoyi general Tian Hu;

After the battalion system of the general Li Guo, the left Guoyi general Zhang Neng, the right Guoyi general Ma Chongxi, Helan, Lu Yingbiao, Gao Yigong;

Firearms battalion general Li Dingguo, Zuo Guoyi general Sun Kewang, right Guoyi general Ai Nengqi.

and Li Yan, Niu Jinxing, Song Xiance, and Gu Junen.

As for the mighty general Zhang Nai, the right mighty general Li You, and the left mighty general Xin Sizhong were killed one after another, except for Zhang Nai's corpse lying on the war horse and being led back to the camp by his subordinates, the bodies of Li You and Xin Sizhong were all gone, and the heads were also captured by the officers and soldiers!

At this time, everyone's eyes fell on Li Zicheng's body, only to see that Li Zicheng's face was sallow, his lips were not bloody, and he trembled slightly from time to time, obviously his left eye had severe pain from time to time.

Li Zicheng leaned back in his chair, looking very depressed, and after a long time, he slowly spoke: "How many soldiers and horses are there in each battalion?" ”

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