Night, May 27th.

Li Guo sat alone in the county office of Xingtang County, and on the table in front of him was a map of Beizhili, which was given to him by Hong Chengchou.

At this time, Li Guo's eyes continued to wander between Xingtang County, Quyang County and Beijing City, calculating the speed of the marching of the soldiers and horses of each battalion in his heart.

I don't know why, Li Guo always felt very uneasy in his heart, it stands to reason that the strategy formulated by Hong Chengchou is very perfect, even Li Yan and Gu Junen are full of praise, and Li Guo and the generals of each battalion can't find fault.

But with such a perfect strategy, Li Guo could never rest assured, and always felt that Liu Yan, a powerful opponent, would never be defeated by Hong Chengchou's strategy, and there must be something lacking.

Therefore, Li Guo stared at this map, combined with the strategy formulated by Hong Chengchou, and sat in the main hall for more than an hour, but he still couldn't think of a reason.

"Someone!"

"What does the general command?"

The rear battalion led by Li Guo had 230,000 horses, and the strength was very strong, at this time, Zhang Neng, the general of Zuo Guoyi, led 100,000 dead soldiers to be stationed outside the city of Xingtang County, and the continuous camp was camped on all sides around the city, with a width of several miles from the inside to the outside.

General Gao Guoyi led 20,000 firecrackers and 20,000 horsemen to garrison the city of Xingtang County, and General Ma Chongxuan and 60,000 armor soldiers were stationed in the south of the city, and camped three miles away from Xingtang County. In addition, there are 30,000 horsemen camped alone in the north of Xingtang County.

At this time, Li Guo ordered people to find Zhang Neng, Gao Yigong, and Ma Chongxi, and wanted to discuss it with the three of them, maybe he could think of something missing.

It didn't take long for the three of them to come to the county yazheng hall one after another

, Li Guo first asked: "Is there any situation in the various ministries?" ”

Zhang Neng said with a smile: "General Zhi, rest assured, everything is normal, and the scouts of the various departments have not sent any news back." ”

Gao Yigong nodded and said: "Now the Ming army around Xingtang County has basically been annihilated, and Liu Yanbu is blocked in Jingcheng Pass, unless Chongzhen Xiao'er can conjure up another army to kill from the north!" ”

Li Guo nodded, the truth is like this, but when Gao Yigong mentioned the name Liu Yan and the place name Jingchengguan, I don't know why, Li Guo's heart suddenly jumped a few times.

Li Guo said the worries in his heart and asked the three of them to help him with his staff.

Then the four of them studied the map, but they never knew the essentials, and they couldn't think of any chance for Liu Yan to turn the tables.

Suddenly, an earth-shattering roar sounded outside, and Li Guo jumped up from the chair in an instant like a spring, his face was extremely ugly, and Zhang Neng, Gao Yigong, and Ma Chongxu were even more dumbfounded on the spot.

Zhang Neng asked suspiciously: "This is, the sound of cannons?" ”

Gao Yigong said in disbelief: "With such a dense cannon, I'm afraid there are hundreds of them, right?" ”

Ma Chongxu also asked: "Right now, who has so many artillery pieces and will fire in Xingtang County?" Could it be the soldiers and horses of the firearms battalion? ”

Li Guo's gaze inadvertently swept to the map, and he saw Houlu County to the east along Jingcheng Pass, and then to the north saw Xingtang County, and then the beads of sweat flowed down instantly: "Impossible!" Unless Liu Yan and his soldiers and horses are heavenly soldiers! ”

"General?"

Li Guo roared angrily: "What are you still doing in a daze, immediately return to the army to fight!" ”

"Yes

！ ”

At this time, outside Xingtang County, the dark night has been illuminated by the fire of fierce artillery fire, and the wilderness under the night is flashing and magnificent.

Under the cover of night, Qian Jian led the artillery battalion to quickly deploy from several miles away, and then directly opened fire on the 60,000 armored battalion in the south of Xingtang County.

At this time, the bonfires and countless torches in the 60,000 armor barracks were the best guidance, so that the gunners of the new army artillery battalion could calmly adjust the parameters, and the artillery fire they fired was very accurate, making Qian Jian and the soldiers constantly cheer.

"The total firepower of the Fran machine gun, the total redcoat cannon and the rocket artillery is fully fired, give me a blast!"

Rumble!

Just when the artillery battalion was showing its might, and a few rounds of shelling bombarded the 60,000 armored soldiers of the thieves' rear camp into a pot of porridge, Xu Ming led the cavalry battalion soldiers to break through the 30,000 cavalry camp in the north of Xingtang County.

Rumble! A large number of earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown by the officers and men of the cavalry battalion at high speed, and they exploded violently around the camp and near the Yuanmen, blowing up more than a dozen gaps in a short period of time.

Xu Ming roared angrily: "Rush in, kill!" ”

The three generals Dong Yun, Du Zhongming, and Lu Yuan each led a group of soldiers to rampage in the camp, and the 30,000 horsemen rushed out of the tent as if they were having a nightmare at this time, and were immediately killed by the soldiers of the cavalry battalion who rushed over.

In the camp, the roar of birds, the screams of thieves, the roar of the charging army of iron cavalry, all kinds of sounds are intertwined, making the wilderness under night lively.

Xu Ming led hundreds of guards and night guards to gallop in the camp, constantly igniting the earth-shattering thunder, and then throwing it into the place where the rogue soldiers gathered, pitying those rogue soldiers

As soon as they gathered, they were about to stop the counterattack, and they were "centrally disposed of" by the earth-shattering thunders.

"Haha! It's a fucking pleasure! ”

Xu Ming killed the rise, according to the investigation of the night, there were at least tens of thousands of thieves and horses in this camp, and after rushing in, Xu Ming was pleasantly surprised to find that the camp was still full of thieves' elite horses.

But such an elite army of thieves has no power to fight back under their own surprise attack, this is completely a one-sided massacre!

"Quick Fix!"

Xu Ming shouted loudly: "Drive the enemy's rout in the direction of Xingtang County!" ”

At this time, the front battalion, rear battalion, left battalion, right battalion, middle battalion of the new army, and the sixth battalion of the garrison army were already in full swing, and when Liu Yan led the army to the position ten miles south of Xingtang County, he ordered all battalions to begin to deploy secretly, and took advantage of the night to deploy to the surroundings of Xingtang County, and then with the artillery battalion's artillery bombardment as a signal, each battalion simultaneously launched an attack on the rogue soldiers and horses on the periphery of Xingtang County.

Liu Yan held a clairvoyant mirror and searched the battlefield under the cover of night, only to see that there were shining fires everywhere outside Xingtang County, and the sounds of various battles were intertwined, and it was impossible to distinguish the details on the battlefield at all.

This is also the reason why night battles were rarely fought in ancient times, and except for a very small number of elite armies, basically no one wanted to fight night battles. Because the means of communication on the battlefield at this time relied on flags, war drums, horns, and so on, in the dark night, not only the soldiers of the large army would feel frightened, but it was far less convenient to command than during the day, and all kinds of flags also lost their commanding role.

Therefore, ordinary armies launched night battles, and most of them did not defeat the enemy army, and their own soldiers and horses were in confusion first.

Even if it's a new one from Liu Yan's department

All battalions of the army, now that the battle has started, Liu Yan can only give orders through the heralds, and the transmission of various orders and messages is very delayed, to a large extent, Liu Yan has lost control of the battlefield, and to a large extent, he has to rely on the battalions to command the battle on their own.

However, Liu Yan can also see with the help of the clairvoyant mirror that the purpose of his raid in this battle has been achieved, Li Guo's rear battalion has not reacted at all, and the battalions have basically succeeded, and the rest depends on how the soldiers of each battalion kill the enemy.

At this time, Liu Yan still had a guard battalion around him that had not been put into battle, and the soldiers of this guard battalion were used as reserves, but Miao Shao waited for it and said: "Elder Ge, look, the thieves and horses on the periphery of Xingtang County should all be dead soldiers, and the soldiers of each battalion have basically rushed in!" ”

Liu Yan nodded and said, "According to the strategy, each battalion must drive the defeated troops outside the city to the city, and then take the opportunity to capture the city gate when the thieves are defeated and retreat into the city." Now I hope that Li Guo can let the soldiers and horses outside the city in. ”

Miao Shao said with a smile: "If I were Li Guo, I would be stunned now!" ”

Liu Yan also smiled, in less than two days, more than 100,000 soldiers rushed one hundred and twenty miles, this speed was unmatched at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and Liu Yan and the soldiers of the army were also proud!

At the same time, on the battlefield, Zuo Guoyi's general Zhang Neng had already sat on the hanging basket and lowered it from the city, and then rushed into the camp in the west of the city with more than a dozen personal soldiers.

I saw that there was already chaos in the barracks, countless dead soldiers fled for their lives in the barracks, no one stopped the counterattack at all, no one gathered the rout, and the 100,000-strong army collapsed directly.

"Bastard!"

Zhang can be angry one

dragged a lieutenant and said angrily: "Why don't you lead your troops to fight back!" ”

"General, it's Liu Yanbu's new army, and there are their bird-gun soldiers everywhere, shooting from all sides in the night, and the brothers are slaughtered like cattle, they can't stop it!"

Zhang Neng angrily slashed the captain to death, and then roared angrily: "Fight back!" Immediately rally to General Ben Daxu and fight back! ”

The surrounding thieves and dead soldiers saw Zhang Neng's Daxu with the help of the firelight, and immediately regained some senses, and under the command of many grassroots officers, they began to gather on Zhang Neng's side, and large and small, uneven phalanxes also began to take shape.

Suddenly, the soldiers of the new army in the front brigade appeared, they lined up in a neat horizontal formation, took sonorous and powerful steps, and continued to advance to this side, and the thieves and dead soldiers who had just gathered suddenly panicked, and even Zhang Neng was shaken when he saw this.

"Stop!"

At least more than 2,000 New Army Bird Fighters in front, under the command of Lu Mingshi, the general of the right battalion of the New Army, stopped advancing, and then Lu Mingshi waved the war knife in his hand with all his might, and shouted angrily: "Release!" ”

Rumble!

More than 2,000 new army birds continued to fire volleys, and the dead soldiers of the thieves who had just gathered were suddenly killed and wounded, and several phalanxes collapsed instantly, enveloping Zhang Neng and others and running towards Xingtang County.

"What kind of battle is this!"

Zhang Neng understood at this time that the defeat was decided, the 100,000 dead soldiers outside the city had been finished, and they were successfully attacked by Liu Yanbu's elite in the dark night, such a battle could not be fought, even if there were millions of troops, they could only be wantonly killed by Liu Yanbu!

At the same time, Ma Chongxi, the general of Youguoyi, also rushed to the camp three miles south of the city with his personal guards

At this time, this place has been beaten by the fierce artillery fire of the new army artillery battalion, the camp is full of fire, the original neat and orderly various defense facilities, as well as the camp tents that stretch for several miles, have now been destroyed, countless shells continue to fall in the barracks, a large number of rockets have fallen, and the 60,000 armored soldiers in the camp have been crushed.

Ma Chongxu looked at everything in front of him, couldn't believe it, and exclaimed: "Where did Liu Yan come from, isn't he in Jingcheng Pass?" He's flying here! ”

"General be careful!"

Behind him, the guards hurriedly pounced Ma Chongxu off the war horse, and several people rolled on the spot, and looked back again, only to see that the war horses of several people just now had been broken by two shells on the spot, and the fog of flesh and blood came to the face, dyeing Ma Chongxu and others into "bloody people".

"Ahh

At this time, even if Ma Chongxu was a god, it was difficult to suppress the fear in his heart, and he shouted loudly: "Gather the troops and horses, and withdraw to the city!" ”

The surrounding subordinates scattered in all directions, roaring and gathering troops and horses, but the 60,000 armored soldiers had been scattered by the new army artillery battalion at this time, and the power of hundreds of artillery pieces was not child's play?

Ma Chongxu and the others were busy for half an hour, and they only gathered less than 20,000 soldiers and horses, and these 20,000 armored soldiers had no establishment at all, and they were completely like a group of routed soldiers.

"Withdraw!"

At this time, Ma Chongxu couldn't take care of much, and immediately led the nearly 20,000 armor soldiers to retreat in the direction of Xingtang County.

On the position of the artillery camp of the new army, several horses rushed from the flank of the artillery array and said loudly to Qian Liang: "Qiqi Town, the thieves and armor soldiers in front have retreated!" ”

Qian Yu laughed and said, "Remove the Tiger Venerable."

In addition to the artillery headquarters, all the artillery increased the elevation angle, fired four more rounds, and after four rounds, the whole battalion advanced three miles! ”

Rumble!

The sound of artillery continued, and the thieves began to rout in general.