Iron hooves rumbled and swept by.

More than 8,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion rode their horses on the chaotic battlefield, rushed through the countless thieves, bumped into and trampled on a large number of thieves, and the surrounding soldiers scattered in all directions screaming.

"General, two miles ahead is the old camp of thieves!"

Li Zicheng's old camp in the west of Kaifeng City was already detected by the new army before this battle, but there were hundreds of thousands of thieves stationed there, and Liu Yan did not think of raiding here.

But now it's different, Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of thieves and horses were defeated in a battle, and there are hundreds of thousands of thieves' baggage hoarded in this old camp, this big gift, Liu Yan must get it!

Soon Xu Ming led thousands of soldiers of the cavalry battalion to the east of the old camp, only to see that there were already thousands of thieves riding outside the camp, and when they saw the battle flag of the cavalry battalion, they began to rush up to block the attack.

The leader of the thieves was Helan, the general of Youguoyi in the rear camp, and Li Yan and General Youguoyi Lu Yingbiao were together to transport the family and baggage in the old camp. The Red Lady also led 500 female soldiers to accompany her.

"Rush up, kill!"

More than 8,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion had already charged at full speed at this time, while Helan's 5,000 horsemen had just started, and the two sides were approaching rapidly, and then the soldiers of the cavalry battalion raised their birds.

After a roar, the soldiers of the cavalry battalion changed their spears one after another, and then rode their horses to rush towards the rogue horse rider who had already turned on his back, Xu Ming took the lead, and looked at a rogue general in front of him who had been shot and screamed miserably holding his chest, and a shot crossed the general's neck.

It was Helan who was killed by Xu Ming, and at this time, blood gushed out from the wound on his neck and throat, making a gurgling sound

sound, Helan only felt dizzy for a while, and then fell off the horse.

Xu Ming laughed heartily, and behind him was a sentry commander who slashed Helan's battle flag with a knife, and the soldiers of the cavalry battalion suddenly cheered, continued to attack, and soon defeated the five thousand horsemen of Helan's department, and the remnants of the enemy fled in all directions.

"Kill!"

Xu Ming looked back, his casualties were not large, he breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, and then led his troops to rush forward and retreat to the east.

Those are all old and young women and children, most of them are the families of various battalions of horsemen and armor soldiers, and there are more than 300,000 people!

The families of the thieves also discovered the existence of the cavalry battalion, and seeing that the five thousand horsemen were lost in an instant, the crowd suddenly erupted in exclamation, and then there was a commotion, and they retreated and fled one after another, and the large group of people and horses suddenly became chaotic.

Li Yan was very anxious at this time, looking at the thousands of soldiers and horses in the cavalry battalion, which was already less than a mile, and immediately said to the road marker beside him: "The general immediately led all the soldiers and horses to the top, and I led the old battalion to retreat......

"As much as you can remove!"

Although Lu Yingbiao was afraid in his heart, he looked at the family members of the old camp who couldn't see it at a glance behind him, and he was also in his heart. If these more than 300,000 family members are captured by the officers and soldiers, even if the soldiers and horses of the battalions are successfully withdrawn, they will eventually be scattered. The family is gone, who will be relieved to work for King Chuang?

"Good! Be careful. ”

After speaking, Lu Yingbiao gathered the last thousands of horsemen and armor soldiers of the old camp and formed a formation to meet them.

Li Yan and the 500 female soldiers of the Red Lady's department worked hard to drive more than 300,000 thieves' families to evacuate westward.

But after all, there are too few people in the hands of Li Yan and the Red Lady, just a few

Five hundred people could not maintain the order of more than 300,000 families of the old battalion, and as soon as the east road should be marked and Xu Ming's cavalry battalion was handed over, the old battalion's brigade began to disperse.

I saw countless women and children crying and rushing to the ground to flee together, and the crowd of more than 300,000 began to collapse in all directions, no matter how Li Yan and the Red Lady and others stopped it, it was useless.

Even among the crowds, there were many strong women and elderly people who began to gather, and they rushed to grab the money and grain transported from the old camp. Seeing this, the female soldiers under the command of the Red Lady went up to stop them, but they were attacked by the families of the thieves who had lost their minds, and dozens or even hundreds of people surrounded several female soldiers, and then they were beaten and even bitten madly.

In the blink of an eye, dozens of female soldiers died tragically in the crowd, and the red lady was furious when she saw this, and directly drew her sword and stabbed a few chaotic people to death, but she was targeted by more thieves, and a large number of people rushed over, vowing to kill the red lady.

Li Yan was shocked and angry when he saw this, and led a team of female soldiers to protect the red lady, and while retreating, he said loudly: "The old camp is over, let's withdraw immediately, and look for King Chuang to confess the crime!" ”

The red lady's eyes were red and swollen, obviously deeply hit by the scene in front of her, and she choked up and shouted: "How is it good to go back like this, King Chuang will kill you and me!" ”

Li Yan gritted his teeth and said, "The matter has come to this point, and it is beyond the power of manpower to save it!" Find King Chuang, whether it is life or death, the responsibility is all my Li Yan's, withdraw! ”

Then Li Yan and the Red Lady, under the protection of the remaining more than 200 female soldiers, fought a bloody way among the families of the old camp who had gone crazy, and fled to the west in embarrassment.

At the same time, Xu Ming was holding a road sign in one hand

head, holding a spear in one hand, shouted: "Charge!" Take down the rogue's baggage, let those thieves disarm and surrender, and kill those who violate the order! ”

Rumble!

More than 8,000 soldiers of the cavalry battalion rushed forward, and the families of the thieves who were still vigorously fighting for supplies just now suddenly dispersed in a hurry, and many were killed by the iron cavalry army, and the rest knelt on the ground to surrender in a burst of shouts of "disarm and surrender".

It didn't take long for more than 3,000 baggage trucks of the old camp of thieves to fall into the hands of the cavalry battalion, Xu Ming grinned, standing on a baggage cart, with bags of grain under his feet, as far as the eye could see, there were thieves' families kneeling on the ground waiting to be dealt with, and it was estimated that the number was at least tens of thousands.

"Haha, great victory, great victory!"

Like the soldiers of the cavalry battalion, the middle battalion led by Shen Tuo, the left and right battalions led by Zhang Yi and Wang Bo, Miao Shao's personal guard battalion, and Chen Yongfu's thousands of soldiers and horses were all chasing north in the wilderness west of Kaifeng City at this time.

The officers and men of all units of the Ming army finally realized today what it means to destroy the withering and decaying, and even Chen Yongfu led his troops to chase and fight fiercely, and at the same time he was so excited that he burst into tears, and the fear, anger, and uneasiness of being besieged by hundreds of thousands of thieves during this period of time all disappeared.

"Haha, follow Mr. Liu, it's good!"

Chen Yongfu sighed from the bottom of his heart, leading his troops to capture prisoners and seize military supplies all the way, and thousands of Ming troops seemed to have come out to "pick up equipment", where there was a war.

Liu Yan commanded the battalions of the New Army and Chen Yongfu's troops to pursue from the west of Kaifeng City all the way to the west, until the evening of this day, tens of thousands of troops pursued all the way for more than ten miles before stopping, and successively collected troops and returned to the city.

When dusk

The afterglow is sprinkled on the earth, Kaifeng City is like a warrior who has just experienced a catastrophe, proudly overlooking the earth, and the corpses and blood all over the battlefield are also telling the tragedy and tragedy.

Liu Yan sat on a dead war horse tiredly, surrounded by new army soldiers cleaning the battlefield, Miao Shao and Xu Ming, Shen Tuo and others were laughing not far away, and Xun Jingyun, the town magistrate, walked around with a group of subordinates, verifying the merits and demerits of the soldiers of each battalion and the number of beheadings.

At this time, Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng came together. Chen Yongfu's face was ruddy, after this battle, he couldn't run away from winning a chief military officer by virtue of his merits. And Gao Mingheng walked cautiously on the bloody battlefield, for fear that his official robe would be rubbed with blood and encounter some hideous corpses, Gao Mingheng would frown and bypass a little, for fear of touching his brows.

However, Gao Mingheng still had a smile on his face, Li Zicheng was defeated and lost, Kaifeng City was completely relieved, and he, the governor of Henan, must also be meritorious, and his promotion in the future is just around the corner.

"Hehe, Mr. Liu, congratulations, congratulations!"

Gao Mingheng clenched his fists and said: "This battle is a great victory, the war in the Central Plains is completely reversed, and we can finally report a good news to Your Majesty!" ”

Chen Yongfu smiled excitedly at this time, and echoed continuously.

Although Liu Yan also had a smile on his face, he was not too happy in his heart.

It is true that this battle was won, but Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Li Guo, Li Laiheng and other leading thieves all ran away, although they killed several thief generals, but the weight of those people was obviously not enough.

So in Liu Yan's view, the crisis in the Central Plains is only temporarily alleviated.

In time, Li Zicheng will definitely make a comeback, and it will be sooner or later.

"In this battle, Li broke away, the war in the Central Plains was just a short break, Gaofutai should pacify the people and provide relief to the victims as soon as possible, and General Chen should also recruit soldiers and horses as soon as possible to rebuild the defenses of various places to deal with Li Zicheng's comeback."

Gao Mingheng and Chen Yongfu nodded heavily, and then Chen Yongfu said with a smile: "How many prisoners did General Liu capture in this battle?" ”

Liu Yan said: "Just now, the deputy department of our army's Zhenfu Officer Xun has sent data, and the new army of our Qinglai Town has captured more than 93,000 prisoners, of which more than 50,000 are women and children from the old camp of thieves. ”

Chen Yongfu was excited, clenched his fists and said: "The last general has a reluctant request, I hope that General Liu can give these prisoners to the last general, so that the young and strong can be selected from them and the defenders in Henan can be formed as soon as possible." Of course, the last general will never let General Liu suffer, these prisoners, the last general will exchange money and food for ......"

Liu Yan waved his hand to interrupt Chen Yongfu's words, and said: "The captive thieves and soldiers are difficult to change, and they must not be used to replenish the troops. ”

"Later, the town will also hand over these more than 90,000 captives to Gao Futai, so as to arrange for them to cultivate everywhere, although they have no thumbs on their hands, and their farm work will certainly not be as good as before, but they will not starve to death, so that the livelihood of the people in various places can be restored as soon as possible."

"As for the soldiers that General Chen needs, in the opinion of this town, it is better to spend some money and food to recruit from all over the country."

Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng were dumbfounded on the spot, one of the expected soldiers was gone, and there were many unwanted burdens.

All of them were pushed over by Liu Yan.

"This ......"

Liu Yan saw that the two were unwilling, so he said coldly: "It's okay if the two don't agree, it's just that in the future, those captives will rebel again, and Li Zicheng will fight inside and outside, my new army in Qinglai Town will not arrive in such a timely manner like this time, and when the time comes, the two of them will live and die and be rich and rich, everything depends on the will of heaven!" ”

Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng had to agree, and then they began to bargain with Liu Yan, and the three of them divided the treasury in the city, and the money and grain "donated" by King Zhou and others, Liu Yan alone accounted for fifty percent, Chen Yongfu recruited soldiers and horses accounted for thirty percent, and Gao Mingheng accounted for two percent.

Then Chen Yongfu asked: "Mr. Liu, how do you write the good news?" ”

In this battle, the new army of Qinglai Town led by Liu Yan beheaded more than 113,600 levels and captured more than 90,000 people, most of whom were dead soldiers of the thieves' battalions, and the first soldiers and Xiao cavalry beheaded more than 40,000 levels, and also beheaded Liu Xiyao, the deputy general of the left battalion of the thieves, Bai Minghe, the general of Zuo Guoyi of the right battalion, Helan, and Lu Yingbiao, and captured Sun Kewang, the general of the thief firearms battalion, and the results were huge.

However, due to the extraordinary performance of the artillery battalions of the new army, and the fact that the battalions of the thieves had developed a strong fear of the new army, coupled with Li Zicheng's vacillation, each battalion went its own way on the battlefield, and various reasons were superimposed, so that the casualties of the battalions of the new army were far less than those in the previous battle.

In this battle, one hundred and three soldiers were killed and eighty-two wounded in the Guards Battalion; The middle battalion suffered 135 killed and 19 wounded; The cavalry battalion suffered 218 killed and 88 wounded; Fifty-one people were killed and thirteen wounded in the artillery battalion; Left Camp Formation

111 killed, 113 wounded; Ninety-nine men were killed and one hundred and three wounded in the right battalion.

In a day of bloody fighting, 717 soldiers were lost and 418 were wounded in the battalions of the New Army.

Most of the credit of this battle is naturally counted as the soldiers of the new army, and the right to speak is naturally in their own hands, so Liu Yan said: "The soldiers of my new army have won two battles and two victories, and more than 5,000 soldiers have spilled their blood on the battlefield. Of course, the credit of the two adults will also be written in this town, so please rest assured. ”

Chen Yongfu and Gao Mingheng couldn't help but be completely dumbfounded when they saw that Liu Yan had no intention of discussing at all.