stubborn thief

"Break!"

On the chaotic battlefield of Qinzhou, groups of peasant armies broke up, reorganized, and regained their fighting spirit on the front line. Like a raging torrent, they raised their swords and rushed towards the Ming army outside the encirclement again.

The Ming army is like an embankment standing by a river, standing still in the storm... No, this embankment is even approaching the torrent.

The Juma Fence expanded the width of the Ming army, and at the same time, it also prevented the soldiers who broke through the sword from advancing in a large width, and could only be forced to fight with the officers and soldiers in a small area. But in this way, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers, let alone scattered The formation has lost its organization, and even the even-level or even team-level organization has not been dispersed.

Facing the rush of the peasant army, they almost came to kill one by one, and even some brave officers and management teams would lead the team into the formation and take the initiative to fight the peasant army.

Amidst the slogans of "Come on!" He was stopped by the formed army and died under the stabbing spears.

What's more, even the shadows of the officers and soldiers were brought down by the three-eyed blunderbuss or bird blunderbuss.

Finally, at a certain moment, people's courage was eroded by fear. More and more soldiers of the peasant army did not dare to enter the battle alone. Army, pulling the wounded and fallen Paoze back slowly.

The officers and soldiers did not take advantage of this opportunity to shoot with muskets or bows and arrows, but strictly followed the orders from the officers, holding up the horse-rejecting fence and pressing forward step by step.

However, Zuo Liangyu's ambition to reap all the achievements also gave the besieged Zhang Yichuan's generals a chance to grow up. In the dilemma of no retreat, people gradually found the feeling of fighting against the majestic formation.

The ordering baby soldiers with straw sandals and cloth shoes who were shuttling through the Fifth Battalion all ran away, conveying Zhang Yichuan's orders to Ke Tianhu, Song Jiang and other generals. At the front, the most elite cavalry soldiers were tightly held back, and the soldiers were ordered to attack the defense line again and again, trying to find the weak point of the left army's front line in a section of wooden fence.

At the same time, their formation gradually changed. They no longer used scattered swordsmen for brainless collisions, but began to use swords to roll in and spearmen to assassinate, trying to form a formation to fight against the army.

However, this level is undoubtedly too young for the soldiers of the left army. Even if they collide with each other on the front line in the same formation, the experienced Changping soldiers of the left army can defeat them time and time again with skilled cooperation.

It's just that on the chaotic battlefield of Qinzhou, no one noticed that several riders wearing felt hats appeared silently on the hillside on the south bank of Xishui.

The mountain wind blew over Li Zicheng's vicissitudes of face under the declared hat, squinting his eyes and looking at the battlefield of fighting in the distance, he sighed silently.

The situation on the battlefield is extremely clear. Zuo Liangyu's encirclement circle has been formed. Although it is very thin, the artillery in the east has held back Zhang Yichuan's guns. , One team can beat three or five teams.

Trapped in the encirclement, although Zhang Yichuan's troops were huge, they did not have enough front width for him to deploy his forces. Most of the soldiers were squeezed into the army formation, unable to give full play to their superiority.

Although the left army's killing efficiency was very low in order to form a huge encirclement, the general trend has been set.

Right now, the [-] cavalry sent by Zuo Liangyu in advance have already left an opening in the west. When the morale of Zhang Yichuan's army collapses and they run out from the west opening to recruit people, the cavalry will be able to seal the opening and bury the rest of the troops. Flying geese.

After all, Zuo Liangyu's soldiers were too small compared to Zhang Yichuan, and it was already very difficult to encircle two battalions, not to mention encircling five battalions at once, almost overwhelming the entire army. The pressure has reached the extreme, and it is possible to overwhelm the battle formation at any time.

But Zuo Liangyu had no choice.

Facing the huge enemy force, the wide terrain of the battlefield, and the strategic situation of being surrounded by the Marshal Army and the Henan General Army Headquarters on the larger battlefield, he had to inflict enough damage to Zhang Yichuan in the First World War to force him to withdraw from the battlefield Only by recovering his vitality can he transfer calmly after defeating Zhang Yichuan.

Otherwise, this army may not be able to defeat him on the frontal battlefield, but it can hold him back by virtue of its superiority in strength until a stronger army arrives on the battlefield.

In order to achieve this goal, the tactic Zuo Liangyu can choose is to take the risk of encircling an enemy army whose strength is several times that of his own. After all, it may be safer to encircle only two or three battalions, but the remaining two battalions will fight back. Coming over, Zuo Liangyu was not sure of winning in the pincer attack.

Therefore, on the surface, he surrounded Zhang Yichuan, but in fact he chose a method of painting the ground as a prison, forcing Zhang Yichuan to fight to the death. The advantage of this is that the soldiers bear a greater frontal impact in exchange for the safety of the side and back.

The intent is obvious.

Li Zicheng, who was on the mountain, could see that this battle was fought like this because Zhang Yichuan was a little bloated, no, not a little, but very bloated—where is there such a war, where 1 people are surrounded by 3000 people?

Really, Li Zicheng felt that the blame for this battle lay on the back of the old Liu family's lion.

Whenever Liu Chengzong expanded the two battalions for Zhang Yichuan, Zhang Yichuan would not dare to fight like this.

To a certain extent, the generals of the Peasant Army were actually very capable of commanding. At least in Li Zicheng's understanding, these leaders of the rebel army, regardless of whether they could win or not, were much more powerful than the generals of the official army.

After all, the difficulty of command is different.

Commanding a hundred untrained hungry people is much more difficult than commanding a thousand well-trained frontier troops.

Just like now, Zuo Liangyu, relying on officers with flags and drums and skilled orders, commanded the encirclement circle of 3000 people like his arms and fingers on a larger battlefield. When the movement of the military flag changes, the officers in all directions know that the Chinese army has passed it on to him. What is the order.

On the other hand, the fifth battalion of the Henan General Army, the flags and drums of the five battalions are all decorations, and they can't convey any effective military orders except the direction they are facing. Maybe the flag language and drum sound are wrong, even if the flag language and drum sound are correct , the commanders of each team could not understand, and the orders were all passed on by the little dolls running back and forth between the camps.

In terms of timeliness, I don't know how many times the difference is, and they almost all rely on their own passwords and battlefield awareness to fight on their own.

They fought together in the past, and Li Zicheng knew very well how powerful the Sweeping King was, maybe he wasn't that powerful, but he traveled back and forth in northern Shaanxi and Shanxi, and fought against elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty several times, and he was not a soft persimmon to be kneaded by others.

Being able to fight like this is obviously because after receiving the gift of armor from the Marshal's Mansion, the whole person floated up, feeling that he could also touch the officers and soldiers.

Chuang Jiangxin said: Isn't this a dream?

We broke into the fifth battalion of the army. From the beginning to the end, we had no intention of going head-to-head with the officers and soldiers. We played ambushes and lured the enemy. If you guard Qinzhou like a golden soup, I will fetch clear water. If you guard the road, I will go around the mountains and mountains. If you are in the east, I will go to the west. If you think I went to the west, I will return to the east.

When the soldiers could no longer be divided, they were so tired that they wanted to sit down, eat and sleep, so we turned around and killed them all at once.

Majestic formation?

We haven't practiced this thing before, why do you think that if you get some armor, you can beat the ranks of the officers and soldiers?
What's more, even if you want to change to a formalized one, you can fight with someone, you have to pick Zuo Liangyu, Li Zicheng has seen Zuo Liangyu a few times, this guy is holding 2000 people to be good to them Thousands of people fighting each other... With the same force in the world, who is Zuo Liangyu not killing indiscriminately?

"A lion needs all his strength to fight a rabbit, but a rabbit doesn't even bother to jump when it fights an eagle."

Li Zicheng shook his head helplessly, then turned his head and said, "Kite over the mountain, save people."

Beside him, there was a burly young man in cloth-faced armor, leaning on a long forged mixed iron stick, holding a phoenix-winged helmet in his hand, with thick eyebrows and big eyes, he said with a smile: "It's better to be later, people have voted for Generalissimo , you have five battalions with 1 horses under your command, do you still need us to save them?"

This man was Gao Jie, nicknamed Fanshan Yaozi, and he had been friends with Li Zicheng before the rebellion, and they were also the first people who started the uprising together.

Li Zicheng glanced at Gao Jie. Since last year, their relationship has been a little weird. Gao Jie seems to have some opinions on himself, but he examines himself three times a day, and feels that there is nothing wrong with being a person and doing things.

Li Zicheng was in charge of the army all day long, and Li Zicheng didn't care about this strange little thing between brothers, he just frowned and said: "One more person survives today, and one more person will fight with the army tomorrow, hurry up."

"whispering sound!"

Gao Jie sneered, picked up the [-]-jin forged iron rod and threw it on the ground, and the young attendant in his own children's camp quickly caught it.

Then he got on his horse and said with a loud smile: "Understood, the general will wait on the mountain. Hezi and I will go play in the battle."

"Eh!"

Hearing this, the young man holding the iron rod responded pleasantly. He put the iron rod on his shoulder and trotted down the mountain in pursuit of Gao Jie who was riding the horse. His name was Li Chengdong, nicknamed Li Hezi.

Li Zicheng couldn't help showing a relaxed smile when he saw them going down the mountain: having such a brother to help him is really a blessing in his previous life!
But only for a moment, General Chuang returned to the state of leading the army to fight again, and said to the left and right: "The King of Troubled Times was blocked in the north. He said that he encountered more than a thousand cavalry from Zuo Liangyu's troops, and the scorpion block also ran into the army in the south. It seems Zuo Liangyu wants to take advantage of this opportunity to wipe out King Sweeping here... The battle is a bit rushed, it seems that there is a change in the east, any news from King Chuang?"

A person beside him shook his head and said: "It's still the same, he has a lot of troops, and the soldiers entered Sichuan separately. After passing Wen County, they were blocked by Beixiong and Baishui in Long'an Mansion, but there was a little leader named Hao Yaoqi who led the troops. Entering the mountainous area of ​​Songpanwei, the other side is looking forward to the wind, and it is said that it is because the Banner Army was tricked by the Generalissimo to go to the west of Changhe."

This man was nicknamed Suotian Yaozi, and his name was Tian Jianxiu, and he was also the old brother who first started the uprising with Li Zicheng.

The two ferocious kites are Li Zicheng's right-hand men.

Li Zicheng was still looking at the distant battlefield where the roar of killing was loud, and asked casually, "Cheat?"

"The officers of Songpanwei said they were lying, so they were recruited to the west of Changhe by the Generalissimo." Tian Jianxiu looked much more cheerful than Gao Jie, and suddenly became amused as he spoke, pointing down the mountain and said: "Fanshan kite is really good!" Go beat someone with an iron stick."

Following his fingers, several cavalry teams at the foot of the mountain merged into one group by the Shandao River, and the people led the horses and ran towards the water at a fast pace. Mountain kite Gao Jie.

His weapon itself is not strange, the stick is also a kind of frontier army standard weapon, Qi Jiguang specially modified a big stick with an iron head that is eight feet long and two inches thick, but they are all wooden sticks and iron heads, no one is like Gao Jie Carry a solid iron rod weighing almost twenty pounds to fight.

Firstly, it is too heavy. You don’t need such a heavy iron rod to kill a person. The long knife with eyebrow tip only weighs seven to nine catties. In fact, a big stick weighing five or six catties can break bones and tendons when swung out.

The second reason is that the mixed irons are not so practical in combat, they shake hands.

Therefore, Gao Jie's use of such weapons is actually far more deterrent than practical, and to a large extent it is not to deter the enemy, but to deter his own peasant army with mixed fish and dragons.

The horse team rushed to the three-foot-wide Xishui. The riders flew on their horses on the bank. The river could not stop their advance. The horses crossed the river with their backs, manes and tails. Under the leadership of Gao Jie, he rushed to Zuo Liangyu's pocket array non-stop.

Zuo Liangyu, who was behind the artillery team in the east of the army formation, only then noticed a group of enemy cavalry coming from the south, raised his eyebrows suddenly, and said to himself: "Didn't you see this cavalry, Zhang Yichuan still left an ambush?"

However, doubts are doubts. The thin front line surrounding the enemy with small soldiers is bound to be shattered in the face of cavalry back attack. Zuo Liangyu hurriedly waved his hand and raised the flag. Spears rushed towards the horse team that was rushing across the river.

The cavalry rushed towards the thin left-wing front of the pocket formation like a torrent on the river bank, and the cavalry from the rear of the left army also twirled long arrows and held a large bow to attack and intercept from the flank.

Zhang Yichuan, who was surrounded by the siege, was extremely excited by the billowing smoke and dust in the southern part of the battlefield. Standing on the mound of the Chinese army, he drew his sword and shouted: "Come on! Go!"

All of a sudden, Xiaowa was ordered to walk like flying, and the news spread to the battalions. The already invincible morale was boosted again, and the cheering drums in the peasant army roared. Under the leadership of the officers, the young and old charged regardless of the southern official army front.

The two billows of smoke and dust were getting closer and closer, and the horsemen on both sides started to shoot at each other with their big bows and long arrows. After the three arrows, they put down their spears from their elbows, holding their spears and spears to collide.

Gao Jie took the lead in the cavalry, standing up slightly with both feet on the stirrups, he ignored the feathered arrows shot on the battlefield as if nothing, and seeing the cavalry of Jia Ding approaching very close, he turned his head to Li Chengdong, who was following him, and pointed at the left flank of the Ming army : "Myrobalan, bring someone to hit me!"

After finishing speaking, he raised his hand above his head to make a turning gesture, and held the iron rod diagonally with both hands to pull out flowers by his side. Then, with only two legs, he had a tacit understanding with the horses under him, and rushed to meet the Ding cavalry of the left soldier, and broke into the cavalry behind him. Then it split into two strands like flowing water.

Li Chengdong, a young and agile man, leaned on the horse's back, and immediately responded loudly after hearing Gao Jie's order. He drove the horse to take the place of the leading horse, stepped on the stirrups, stood up and turned around, raising his sword, calling for the horse soldiers to charge with him. At this moment, A feathered arrow flew from the side, and with a bang, it was nailed obliquely to the breastplate on his chest.

Li Chengdong didn't take it seriously, but with a ruthless expression on his face, he raised his hand and broke the feather arrow, discarded it casually, wrapped his arms around the horse's neck and hid it on the left side of the horse. Back up and down, shouted: "Come on!"

The cavalry soldiers shouted in response one after another, rode their horses, raised their swords, galloped and shot arrows.

For a moment, there were countless arrows in the three-eyed musketeers loaded in the rear of the officer army, and the rest of them retreated one after another. The sergeants in the front armed with long spears couldn't react. Only the lieutenant behind the formation stood up and stabbed him war horse.

The spear collided with the horse's chest, and the pole broke in an instant, and the horse raised its hind hooves in shock, but it couldn't throw Li Chengdong off, and crashed into the army formation under inertia, knocking the guard on the ground. On the ground, the bowl-sized hoof crushed the breastbone immediately.

Before the horses came to a complete stop, Li Chengdong jumped down and stabbed an unarmored musketeer in the abdomen with a knife, and then the cavalry behind him rammed through the gap.

A group of people turned their backs on their backs on the front line, amidst the thunderous shouts of killing, Li Chengdong swung his sword left and right: "I will kill you one wooden fence after another!" (End of this chapter)