Chapter 392: Victory (3)
The left wing of the thief army, Liu Fangliang's department.
At this time, in the left wing of the thief's army, countless routs were retreating, the armies, soldiers and horsemen in the battalion were unable to move an inch, and the army array had been rushed back again and again by countless routs, as a last resort, Liu Fangliang ordered to gather the only hundreds of archers in the armies, and began to shoot the routs in front.
"Shoot the arrows!"
For a while, arrows rained down, and many of the crowded routs in front fell down, and the remaining routs were frightened and began to flee for their lives on both sides.
Liu Fangliang breathed a sigh of relief when he saw this, and ordered the army to continue to advance, with the deputy general Liu Xiyao leading 10,000 cavalry, the left Guoyi general Ma Shiyao, and the right mighty general Liu Rukui each leading 20,000 armor soldiers, and several people supervising the army to move forward.
Liu Fangliang led hundreds of guards to follow behind, and at the same time commanded some infantry who could obey the command to collect the rout in the rear.
But before everyone could lead their troops to advance far, the tide of rout in front of them began to accelerate and rush, and then a large number of official and military battle flags appeared in the crowd, and Wang Bo led the soldiers of the right battalion of the new army to attack.
At this time, Liu Yan saw that the army of thieves had a rout, so he ordered all battalions to start a counterattack and press them all up.
Wang Bo walked excitedly in the middle of the military formation, and heard the news that the various departments did not collect the news at night: the front was the left battalion of thieves, so he ordered the whole battalion to stop advancing, and the bird gunners were ready to fire a salvo.
"In front is Liu Yan's new army, and the whole army is pressing!"
Liu Fangliang made up his mind to hit Liu Yan's troops and horses, and ordered, the deputy general Liu Xiyao, the left Guoyi general Ma Shiyao, and the right mighty general Liu Rukui each led their troops and horses to attack, and then the bird guns of the right battalion of Wang Bo's department in front began to fire a volley, and the fierce fire began to harvest the heads
, the thieves and horses who rushed in front of them fell almost in pieces.
Liu Fangliang gritted his teeth and led hundreds of guards to follow, and was about to personally supervise the attack, but at this time he received Li Zicheng's order: The whole army retreats!
"What did you say!"
At this time, Liu Fangliang glared angrily at the soldiers of the middle battalion who came to give the order, eager to break them into pieces, and looked back at the front, the army had already gone forward to attack Liu Yan's new army, can it be withdrawn now?
"General, King Chuang has a strict order, and you must retreat immediately......"
"Then withdraw!"
Liu Fangliang gave the order in pain, and the deputy general Liu Xiyao, the general of Zuo Guoyi, Ma Shiyao, and the mighty general Liu Rukui, who were fighting in front, were completely dumbfounded after receiving the order to retreat.
"Retreat now? Whose idea is sick! ”
Liu Xiyao roared angrily, but the subordinates who came to give the order had a bitter face and said: "It's King Chuang, King Chuang strictly ordered all battalions to retreat immediately, there must be no mistake!" ”
Liu Xiyao stopped talking, and ordered the withdrawal with a black face, the armor soldiers and Xiao cavalry of the left battalion of the thieves were originally strong against the impact of the new army's array, but at this time, Shangguan changed the order and directly ordered the withdrawal of the army, and the 10,000 Xiao cavalry led by the deputy general Liu Xiyao, the 20,000 armored soldiers led by Zuo Guoyi's general Ma Shiyao and the right mighty general Liu Rukui were suddenly in chaos.
Especially those horsemen, they were "disbanded on the spot", and they all began to flee for their lives.
Seeing this, Liu Xiyao, the deputy general, was so angry that he scolded, and the remaining more than 100 horsemen around him were also shaken, and they all clamored to flee for their lives.
Suddenly, the right battalion of the new army of the brigade did not collect at night, and the guards rushed on horses, and hundreds of men and horses rushed to the front in a blink of an eye, in large numbers
The bird fired at close range, Liu Xiyao and dozens of horsemen were caught off guard and were killed on the spot, and the remnants of the horsemen scattered.
Liu Fangliang saw Liu Xiyao's battle flag falling, his face was full of horror, and he immediately turned his horse and led his troops to retreat quickly. And the soldiers and horses of the left battalion of the thieves were also completely dispersed, and those horsemen and armored soldiers who were still thinking of resisting only hated themselves for missing two legs at the moment, listening to the constant roar of birds behind them, and the sound of lead bullets breaking through the air, screaming and running for their lives.
At the same time as the left camp of the thieves was defeated, the right camp led by Yuan Zongdi also began to turmoil.
Yuan Zongdi received the order to retreat very smoothly, but he did not lead his troops to retreat at the first time, but ordered Zuo Guoyi's general Bai Minghe to go into battle and lead 5,000 horsemen to attack the left camp phalanx of the new army to cover the slow retreat of the army.
But what Yuan Zongdi didn't expect was that the army had just begun to retreat, and the five thousand horsemen led by Bai Minghe collapsed under the continuous salvo of birds from the left battalion of the new army.
Five thousand horsemen killed hundreds of people on the spot, and Zuo Guoyi's general Bai Minghe led his troops to charge and was also shot on the spot. The remaining more than 4,000 horsemen broke up directly, and then rushed backwards, directly scattering tens of thousands of dead soldiers and infantry, and then wrapped those dead soldiers and infantry and began to charge the armored soldiers and cavalry brigade.
Yuan Zongdi was both angry and horrified when he saw this, and for the first time he fought with Liu Yanbu, he thought that he was already very cautious, but he still underestimated Liu Yanbu's combat strength, and at this time, he didn't care about those foot soldiers and horses, and directly together with Liu Tichun, the general of Youguoyi, he led the remaining 15,000 horsemen to flee for his life.
Although it is a pity that the 30,000 armored soldiers in the battalion are
At this time, it had been scattered by those dead soldiers and infantry, and the military formation could not be maintained, and Yuan Zongdi could only give up painfully, and he could not collect as much as he could after the war.
In the middle of the battlefield, Li Dingguo and Ai Nengqi led the remnants of the firearms battalion to withdraw, and the two tried their best to gather the soldiers and horses, but they only collected the rout of more than 10,000 soldiers, and then under Li Laiheng's angry reprimand, the two of them withdrew to the rear camp with the remnants of the battalion for rectification.
Then Li Laiheng looked at the battlefield in front of him, Shen Tuo led the middle battalion of the new army to move forward, and then Liu Yan's Daxu also began to move east, two war battalions, 20,000 thousands of soldiers came in formation, mighty and indomitable.
The former camp of the thieves was defeated, General Guo Yi Gu Kecheng, Xie Junyou, and General Tian Hu of Right Guo Yi have been defeated one after another, and only more than 10,000 of the 30,000 armored soldiers in the battalion can still maintain the formation, and the remaining infantry and dead soldiers have long disappeared, I don't know whether they were killed by Liu Yanbu or fled for their lives.
"After all, I still lost!"
Li Laiheng said resentfully, in order to win this battle, the righteous army had made a lot of preparations, transferred back Yuan Zongdi's right battalion soldiers and horses, rectified the defeated soldiers of each battalion, and transferred more than 400 artillery pieces from everywhere, but even so, hundreds of thousands of righteous troops were still defeated, is Liu Yan's department really invincible?
"General, withdraw, it's too late if you don't leave!"
Tian Hu, the general of Youguoyi, grabbed Li Laiheng and shouted loudly, which pulled Li Laiheng's mind back.
"Withdraw!"
Li Laiheng yelled unwillingly, and then led the remnants to retreat quickly, and the foot soldiers behind all gave up, as long as the eight thousand Xiao horses around him returned
Now, it won't be long before we can pull up a large army again.
Soon, Li Laiheng's department converged with Liu Zongmin's subordinate camp.
At this time, Liu Zongmin also received an order to retreat, but in order to stabilize the front of the army, Liu Zongmin did not retreat immediately, but led more than 28,000 horsemen in the middle battalion, as well as 15 or 60,000 foot soldiers to form a formation in place, preparing to receive the soldiers and horses of each battalion to retreat.
However, the front battalion, the left battalion, the right battalion, and the firearms battalion were defeated too quickly, and the soldiers and horses of the middle battalion had just had the appearance of an army formation, and the soldiers and horses everywhere were still chaotic, and the formation was not completed at all, and the battalions were defeated one after another.
Liu Zongmin's face was pale at this time, looking at Li Laiheng, Tian Hu and others who came on horseback, and said dissatisfiedly: "The general is coming so fast!" ”
Li Laiheng didn't care much, and said loudly: "Liu Yan has counterattacked on the whole front, the general will withdraw quickly, and the strength of the righteous army will be preserved!" ”
Liu Zongmin shouted loudly: "Liu Yan's army is moving, and the army formation must be unstable, why don't you lead the army to attack?" ”
Li Laiheng also lost his temper and said loudly: "Liu Yan's battalions have opened the way with thousands of bird salvos, and a large number of heavily armored pikemen have cleaned up the battlefield. ”
Liu Zongmin gritted his teeth and said: "Such a rout, how can you and I explain to King Chuang when we go back!" ”
"If you hesitate any longer, the army will be defeated, and you and I will really have no face to see King Chuang!"
After speaking, Li Laiheng directly rode his horse and withdrew, looking at the soldiers and horses of the front battalion that were constantly withdrawing, Liu Zongmin shouted, as if he had shouted out all the anger and unwillingness in his heart, and then gave the order to withdraw the army.
It's just 20,000 thousands of the middle battalion
It was easy for the horsemen to withdraw, but the hundreds of thousands of foot soldiers could not be withdrawn easily.
More than 100,000 foot soldiers, more than 30,000 armor soldiers were deployed in the middle position, Liu Zongmin originally thought that this arrangement could stabilize the morale of the army and let more than 100,000 horses hold on for a while.
But now such an arrangement has become a talisman for more than 30,000 armor soldiers.
With the order to withdraw the troops, more than 100,000 infantry soldiers of the middle battalion suddenly panicked, and at this time, in front of the military formation, the middle battalion of the new army had already advanced to a distance of about 200 paces and was pressing up quickly.
The army of more than 100,000 suddenly roared, the soldiers and horses in front of them scrambled to turn around and flee for their lives, and the soldiers and horses behind were shocked and scattered, and then the entire army completely collapsed, and the wave of more than 100,000 people swept the rear, and even the retreating cavalry army was also implicated.
The hundreds of horsemen behind the palace were quickly overwhelmed by the wave of routs, and countless routs scrambled for those horsemen's horses, and even did not hesitate to draw their swords to each other, dividing the bodies of those roaring horsemen on the spot.
Liu Zongmin looked back at the collapsed army, only to feel that his blood was surging, he had been raising troops for many years, and it was the first time he had fought such a heartwarming battle!
With the collapse of the thief's middle camp, Li Zicheng had no more thoughts, and directly took the Chinese army Li Yan, Song Xiance, Gu Junen, Niu Jinxing and others, and rushed into the rear camp led by Li Guo.
"Immediately withdraw to the old camp and hold on!"
Li Zicheng's first sentence when he saw Li Guo was to retreat immediately, but Li Guo said: "Chuang Wang Mingjian, Liu Yan is not an ordinary general, he won this battle, even more smoothly than the last war, he will definitely not give up, the old camp will definitely not be able to hold it!" ”
Li Zicheng
glared at Li Guo fiercely, and then said: "Then immediately send someone to the old camp, take the baggage and men of the old camp, and retreat to the west!" ”
Li Yan and the right Guoyi generals of the rear camp, Helan and Lu Yingbiao, stood up, and the three of them were willing to return to the old camp to lead the troops to withdraw.
Li Zicheng immediately agreed, and ordered Li Guo to give 5,000 horsemen to the three commanders, and then together with Li Guo, he led the remaining 20,000 horsemen, 30,000 armor soldiers, 75,000 dead soldiers and infantry in the rear camp to retreat westward.
"Li Zicheng ran away!"
In the Chinese army of the personal guard camp, Liu Yan received an urgent report that he did not receive it at night, and hurriedly raised the clairvoyant mirror to search on the battlefield, and sure enough, he couldn't find Li Zicheng's Daxuan, and he was so angry that he scolded: "Fuck! Li Zicheng is a-stirring stick, and his ability to escape is really awesome! ”
Miao Shao couldn't help laughing out loud when he saw this, Li Zicheng can be regarded as the first person who can make his own head town scold.
Liu Yan immediately said angrily: "Order all battalions: pursue the remnants of the enemy on all fronts, and tell Xu Ming to immediately lead the cavalry battalion to attack the old camp of thieves in the west." also informed Chen Yongfu not to look at the scenery in the city, and led the troops to come out to hunt ducks! ”