Although Liu Zongmin knew how proud the combat effectiveness of his men was. However, the reality is that even if they can defeat 10 enemies and be very brave in battle, they are too small in number to defeat the superior officers and men, and they are often in danger of being surrounded. Liu Zongmin saw the situation very clearly at this time, according to his own judgment, the current enemy has invested at least 12,000 people here, and judging from the degree of damage to his own men and horses, these enemies fighting against him are all elite troops of the Ming Dynasty.

In such a situation where the enemy is outnumbered and the strength is disparity, Liu Zongmin feels very brain-burning, but as the chief general of the whole army, he still adheres to the purpose of calmness, sobriety, seriousness, and liveliness, and does not shake his confidence in victory at all. Liu Zongmin thought that as long as his men and horses could continue to maintain their mobility on the battlefield and maintain the momentum of rushing and striking fiercely, once the enemy's sharp spirit was frustrated, and when the self-formed Chinese army arrived, he only needed to send a few hundred cavalry to let these well-replenished new forces unexpectedly rush to the places where the officers and soldiers were weak, and the situation on the entire battlefield would change.

It was precisely because he saw this that he adjusted the deployment of his troops slightly, divided the whole army into two large units that echoed each other, and adopted the tactics of avoiding the real and attacking the weak, and used the cavalry to charge and kill the enemy's infantry, and under the attack of the high-speed mobile cavalry, he dealt with the infantry of the officers and soldiers as soon as possible.

In the face of most of the officers and soldiers who are infantry, Liu Zongmin's tactics can be said to have found the opponent's seven inches, precisely because the generals of the Ming Dynasty regarded drinking the blood of soldiers and eating empty salaries as a common thing, not only the weapons, firearms, and artillery in the hands of the soldiers were shoddy Putian goods, but the horses that were originally given to the cavalry were replaced by generals at all levels with honeycomb cloisonné snowflake silver and put into their pockets.

The tactics adopted by Liu Zongmin today can precisely grasp the initiative on the battlefield firmly in his hands, relying on the high-speed and mobile cavalry, constantly killing and fatigue the enemy's infantry, and disrupting the enemy's overall deployment, instead of looking for the opponent's main force for a hard-fought decisive battle, he also changed his plan to find the enemy's main general.

As a master of the art of war who learned war from war and grew up, Li Zicheng knew the truth of finding one point and breaking through each one in the face of the huge disparity between the enemy and the enemy. In fact, he had already reached the vicinity of the riverbank, and he did not dare to hide the men and horses he had brought with him to the south of a mound on the riverbank.

He himself stood on the high slope of his horse and stared at the battlefield in front of him, and when he felt that the battle situation was somewhat unfavorable, he simply jumped off his horse and stood on the high post of the mound, stepping on a rock with his right foot, and carefully observed the battle situation below.

At that moment, a few miles south behind him. There were also the sound of war drums like popping beans and earth-shattering shouts of killing, which made him unable to look back without being distracted. Li Zicheng tilted his ears and listened for a while, and seemed to judge that these were the officers, soldiers, and horses who were pursuing from behind; listening to the movement there, it seemed that his strength had increased a lot compared with the previous few days.

And he also judged at this moment that the official army was not only attacking from the front, but also attacking the rear team led by Tian Jianxiu and Gu Ying from the flank. Listening to the sound of war drums and shouts of killing in the distance, there was not the slightest surprise or uneasiness on his expression, and the situation in his heart that was happening in front of him was almost all what he expected.

Li Zicheng has long been accustomed to this kind of situation. Zhang Nai, the general in charge of Li Zicheng's standard battalion, looked at Li Zicheng's face with wide eyes and without blinking, and all the military academies thought that he would immediately swing his jaw and give him the order to attack; however, people waited for a long time, and did not see any superfluous expressions, except for Li Zicheng's grim face looking at the battlefield, Zhang Nai and the others hardly saw any other expressions, and ordinary soldiers could not guess what the commander was thinking in his heart at the moment.

Li Zicheng habitually lifted the old felt hat on his head, and continued to watch with full attention to the battlefield on the other side of the river. When he saw Hao Shaoqi and Yuan Zongdi's two armies leaving the battlefield, and Liu Fangliang was fighting alone and being surrounded on all sides, those silent generals who were crowded around him all felt that their hearts were tightly grasped by an invisible hand, and Zhang Nai was even more impatient to rush into battle to save people, and immediately rescued Brother Liu from the encirclement of the official army.

However, when they anxiously looked at Li Zicheng, all they saw was expressionless confidence and calmness, and there was no indication on his face at all, only when Liu Zongmin encountered the cannon fire of the official ambush, Li Zicheng's brows jumped suddenly.

After a while, when people saw that Liu Zongmin was safe and sound, Li Zicheng's brows relaxed again, and after Liu Fangliang had killed the encirclement, and then killed and scattered those hateful gunners and crossbowmen, he and Liu Zongmin's brigade were united, and although there were several other places on the battlefield where men and horses were still fighting to the death, Zhang Nai found a smile of relief in Li Zicheng's eyes.

Li Zicheng, who was condescending to the heights, also saw several major weaknesses of this army at this time: First, although the officers and soldiers here were numerous, their morale was insufficient, the weapons in their hands were dilapidated, and the soldiers did not dare to fight to the death like the Chuang army; second, the command was rigid, as if the main general was not on the battlefield, so the movement of the officers and troops was not flexible enough, and the people's hearts were not aligned; and in addition, the officers and troops here were mostly infantry, and only a few hundred cavalrymen surrounded a small colonel dressed as a big man with a giant bow.

He didn't take these horses to heart, Li Zicheng believed that once these tigers under his command were released, it would not be difficult to defeat the official army, what he did now was to wait, and when the enemy's sharp spirit began to decline, he would take the opportunity to strike with all his might, and he could completely kill the enemy to the ground.

However, when he suddenly saw the banner of the enemy army clearly from the steaming dust mist, Li Zicheng couldn't help but be shocked, he secretly screamed badly, and said in his heart: "Damn, Hong Chengchou, the old enemy, is still here after all!"

Although Li Zicheng did not find Hong Chengchou's banner, he recognized from the banners of the officers and soldiers below that among the enemies who stopped in front of Liu Fangliang, there were actually two general military officers, Zu Dabi and Sun Xianzu. Both of them are powerful generals under Hong Chengchou, especially Zu Dabi, who is quite like an ancient general, with a very strong horse under his crotch and a blade in his hand...... There is also the fact that he can open a four-load treasure bow, when he thought of this, Li Zicheng's expression changed, and he almost shouted, "Yes! There are not many condor archers in the Ming court!"

Zhang Nai also discovered Zu Dabi's banner at this time, and several of their young generals exclaimed at the same time, "Don't let the chief whistle Liu Ye and them suffer Zu Dabi's loss!"

(End of chapter)