At the moment when the oolong horse under Li Zicheng's crotch and the war horse ridden by Zuo Shixiong staggered, Li Zicheng ignored Zuo Shixiong's big knife that was slashed at him with his head cover, his left hand loosened the reins slightly, and the long sword in his right hand stabbed Zuo Shixiong's heart with the distraction of the horse's momentum like lightning; Zuo Guangxian was in his own formation, but saw Li Zicheng's sword flickering coldly, and his nephew Zuo Shixiong's big sword was raised high before he had time to parry, and he was stabbed off the horse, Li Zicheng followed closely to kill the people under Zuo Shixiong, urging the horse to take Zuo Guangxian's Chinese army.

Seeing that Li Zicheng dared to rush over with dozens of cavalry, Zuo Guangxian immediately beckoned his most elite standard battalion to come out to greet him, and launched an extremely tragic bloody battle on the Pingchuan River in the middle of the two small earth mountains. Zuo Guangxian led the cavalry of Gansu and Ningxia, and Gansu and Ningxia were short of water and the land was relatively barren, which was not the best condition for agricultural cultivation, but it was a unique geographical advantage for animal husbandry.

These cavalry in Gansu and Ningxia fought hard, and Zuo Guangxian was very good at training and raising soldiers, so this cavalry can be called a strong horse, and Zuo Guangxian himself is a chief officer who has experienced a hundred battles, especially after hanging himself on Chongzhen Coal Mountain, he has highlighted his outstanding military talent in repeated battles against Qing soldiers.

At this time, he was also a general with rich combat experience, and he had won several big victories in the battle against the peasant army in the past few years, so although his nephew Zuo Shixiong was beheaded by Li Zicheng, he was still confident in fighting Li Zicheng's standard battalion, trying to defeat Zicheng's main force in one fell swoop, win the first merit, and avenge his nephew.

In the past few years, Zuo Guangxian has not directly fought with Li Ziben himself. After the two fought fiercely for about a quarter of an hour, Zuo Guangxian also had to admire Li Ziguo in his heart for being worthy of his reputation and being truly a great hero. It was the first time he had met an enemy general like Li Zicheng, who was both brave and calm, alert and superb swordsmanship.

Li Zicheng even had a new understanding of Zuo Guangxian, the general soldier of Guyuan. Zuo Guangxian said it in words, one word Luo Sheng, number three mountains, is a native of Tongcheng County, Anqing Prefecture, Nanzhili. This place produces a self-proclaimed and righteous party, the Donglin Party, and he is the seventh brother of Zuo Guangdou, the leader of the Donglin Party. Zuo Guangxian went to school since childhood, in the fourth year of the Apocalypse, he raised people in high school, and was awarded the construction of Ningzhi County, because of the merit of the seven Ping thieves, and the political voice, so he moved to the imperial history of Shanxi Province, because of his outspokenness and daring to admonish, and his brother Guangdou and called the "two difficulties";

He and Li Zicheng sometimes met together and clashed alone, forming a situation of fighting between generals and soldiers; sometimes, because the generals and personal soldiers of one side rushed forward, it became a melee situation. After a period of scuffle, the situation of opposing generals and soldiers against soldiers reappeared. Sometimes I force you to take a few steps back, sometimes you force me to take a few steps back, and both sides are really opponents, and neither of them can win right away.

The battle was extremely fierce, and the opponent Li Zicheng faced was not an ordinary officer and soldier who was distracted and could not bear to fight hard; fortunately, he still kept a fairly calm head at the moment and did not forget the entire battle situation for a moment; Li Zicheng understood that prolonging the time would be very detrimental to him.

First of all, the number of the intruding army is limited, and it cannot be consumed too much in this battle; there is also that his main opponent is Cao Bianjiao, not Zuo Guangxian, if he is entangled with Zuo Guangxian for too long, the frontal position will be in danger of being broken through by Cao Bianjiao, when he and Zuo Guangxian have been fighting for nearly half an hour, he suddenly waved his main sword, personally escorted the formation, and urged his cavalry to retreat, and he himself then turned his horse away.

Zuo Guangxian also felt that he couldn't win at this time, and he was a little annoyed in his heart, and suddenly saw Li Zicheng's men retreating, and his heart suddenly rejoiced, and he secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said: "In the end, you can't resist it first!"

Immediately, he led the brave men and horses of Gansu and Ningxia to chase and kill. However, after all, Zuo Guangxian is a battle-hardened Confucian general, and the military books he has spent since he was a child can be described as full of sweat, so Zuo Guangxian is not a Zhao Kuo-style character, he saw that Li Zicheng's men and horses were not chaotic when they retreated, and he couldn't help but be suspicious in his heart, and he didn't dare to chase hard.

After chasing a short distance, he suddenly saw Zichengle turn his horse's head, turn over and take the bow in his hand. Zuo Guangxian knew the plan, instinctively threw his upper body on the saddle, and at the same time secretly said: "Not good!"

At the same time as he just said these two words, a carved feather arrow flew in, only to hear a "ding" sound that hit his helmet, and the helmet on Zuo Guangxian's helmet was shot out of a zhang away. He was taken aback by such an accurate archery, and he strangled the horse's head with a strong hand.

At this moment, he heard a "whoosh" sound in his ears again, and another feather arrow hit the flag bearer beside him in half a breath, with the sound of the sharp arrow "poof" into the flesh, the flag officer of his fat brigade fell off his horse, and the banner happened to fall on his body, just when Zuo Guangxian was terrified, Li Zicheng led his men to turn over and kill back.

If it is an ordinary general, it is easy to lose the ability to take the initiative to fight in such a situation, and most of the generals will turn their horses and flee at this time, even if they have no intention of escaping, as long as the general who commands the army panics, it will immediately affect their military morale, and then the whole team will fall apart.

When he saw Li Zicheng returning to the army to kill, he could still calmly shout and shout, and his men and horses did not panic, but immediately faced the battalion.

However, Zuo Guang first saw that he had little hope of victory, in order to preserve his strength, he did not love to fight, but fought and retreated, so that the loss of his soldiers was not large, and finally he led his troops to retreat to the front of the favorable terrain behind him, relying on the hastily constructed camp to resist Li Zicheng's attack desperately, and his two battalions of men and horses were not defeated.

He understands very well that if he is defeated, it is terrible not only to sweep away his years of accumulation, but it is very likely to be caught in the capital by the Dongchang Tiqi sent by the emperor and beheaded the West City.

(End of chapter)