I want to be emperor

Chapter 7 Dragons Without Heads
The war horse screamed, blood spattered!

The cavalry of the officers and soldiers and the cavalry of the thieves used the most primitive and bloody way to depict the picture scroll of the troubled times in the late Ming Dynasty in the wilderness outside Huangzhuang.

Luo Zhixue took Lin Ahyu regardless, rode his horse and followed the bandit cavalry all the way south.

Soon, after the cavalry of the officers and soldiers rushed to kill the leader Li Tonglin and his party, they quickly reached the middle of the bandit cavalry.

An officer's cavalry arrived more than ten meters away from Luo Zhixue.

His long knife was still stained with blood, but soon the officer cavalry was stopped by the bandit cavalry on the periphery, and between the two of them, the officer cavalry screamed and rolled off the horse's back, and although he Rolled off the horse's back, but one foot was still in the stirrup.

The horse dragged him forward, and the ground was covered with blood and flesh!
Luo Zhixue didn't have time to sigh, and he didn't even have time to be afraid. He could only hold the rein tightly with one hand and the long knife with the other, and continued to gallop along with Sun Chengli and others ahead.

Because if you don't go, you will die!
After running all the way for more than ten minutes, Luo Zhixue was free to look up and look around!
After a simple look, they found that there were only about a hundred cavalry left in their group, and there were at least 150 people in their group before breaking through.

This means that in just a few minutes of fighting, at least 50 people were killed or separated.

However, the officer cavalry on the opposite side was not much better. When the two armies fought, the officer cavalry also suffered heavy casualties.

The field behind was full of dead and wounded and war horses from both sides, and the howling sound spread all over the mountains and fields!

In the charge just now, the casualties of the officers and soldiers were definitely not lower than those of the bandit cavalry, otherwise the officers and cavalry would not have stopped their pursuit after only charging for a while, because they also suffered a lot of casualties.

It's a lose-lose battle.

If these officer cavalry continue to pursue them forcibly, let alone whether the officer army can catch up with them, even if they can catch up, but if they want to completely annihilate their bandit army cavalry, the officer army cavalry with no more than a hundred people I'm afraid it will be completely wiped out.

In fact, this was indeed the case. When the cavalry of the official army first attacked, Chen Zhibang, the leader of the army, could sit calmly on his horse and watch his own cavalry launch an interception operation.

Although the thieves were all cavalry, their morale must have been low when they were flanked by their own side. They used nearly two hundred fine cavalry to intercept them.

Then use a large number of cannon fodder infantry to consume them to death.

If it doesn't work, they can hang them, delay their escape speed, and finally wait for Zuo Liangyu's hundreds of elite riders to catch up.

But I didn't expect that the bandit cavalry on the opposite side would be so hard-headed that they would not evade the interception of their own cavalry, but chose to charge directly to break through.

At this time, it was too late for Chen Zhibang to order the cavalry to evade.

Because at that time, the cavalry formations of the two sides had already collided and entered the stage of confrontation and fighting.

Not to mention Chen Zhibang in the rear, even the cavalry of the official army could not change anything by themselves. If they didn't want to be trampled into mud by the cavalry of the bandit army, they could only bite the bullet and rush all the way to kill them.

After the charge was over, Chen Zhibang saw that his cavalry had lost dozens, and his heart was bleeding!

One of his guerrillas said directly: "General, it's impossible to go on like this!"

"Then Tan Zhengling wanted to get promoted and make a fortune, but he caused me to suffer heavy casualties. If it was exhausted, he wouldn't give us food and horses..."

That guerrilla didn't continue, because Chen Zhibang had already ordered with a dark face: Ming Jin withdraws troops!
Just kidding, dozens of soldiers were killed or injured, and they were all his soldiers!
Every morsel of food they ate, every piece of armor they wore, and every knife they used was all collected by Chen Zhibang hard.

If he continued to chase and intercept, he might be able to wipe out all the cavalry under his command. Not to mention that the cavalry lost its mobility, and the court would not replenish him...

On the contrary, without these elite forces under his command, maybe the court will dismiss him from office and send him to prison.

Chen Zhibang ordered Mingjin to withdraw troops, which made Tan Zhengling who was behind very dissatisfied. He came up and said a lot, saying that Chen Zhibang and others were not effective in fighting, so they must join them.

Chen Zhibang didn't bother to talk to him, if it wasn't for the people in this place talking too much, he would have drawn his knife and chopped this person down, giving him a posthumous name of dying at the hands of the bandits.

Not only did this man want to use his soldiers to gain credit, but he even made Chen Zhibang annoyed by his nonsense.

Fortunately, when cleaning the battlefield, the officers and soldiers discovered that they had also killed the leader of the bandit, Li Tonglin. This made Tan Zhengling stop chattering, turned around and asked people to collect Li Tonglin's body happily, and then put on a pensive look, maybe thinking about it How to write a victory memorial.

Seeing this scene, Chen Zhibang was even more upset!
Damn it, the battle was fought by his elite cavalry, and Li Tonglin, the leader of the bandit, was also killed by his cavalry. He, Tan Zhengling, was just playing tricks, and he hid behind and came slowly when he fought.

But in the end, Tan Zhengling took the head of the thief leader directly.

It is estimated that Chen Zhibang was mentioned in Tan Zhengling's subsequent victory memorial at most, but most of the credit must have been taken by Tan Zhengling himself.

This made Chen Zhibang very upset.

But there was nothing he could do if he was upset, because he was just a general, and Tan Zhengling was a civil servant, and there were so many people here.

At this time, Chen Zhibang had already made up his mind, and he would kill him when he looked back, so as to save this bastard from getting in the way in Ruzhou and causing a lot of trouble every day.

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On the other end, Luo Zhixue led Lin Ahyu, followed Sun Chengli and the others to retreat southward, and went straight into the mountains after half a day.

This made everyone breathe a sigh of relief.

After entering the mountain, Luo Zhixue counted and found that there were many fewer people left. Now there are only more than 70 people left.

The dozens of people missing this time were not chased and killed by the officers and soldiers, but fled on their own while retreating all the way.

After all, Li Tonglin was regarded as beheaded by the officers and soldiers, and after losing the leader Li Tonglin, the rest of the thieves were not in one mind, and many of them thought about running away alone.

Regarding this, Sun Chengli and several other leaders also frowned.

"No, if we continue like this, all the people under his command will run away in two days." Fei Bingcai, one of the leaders of the bandit army who spoke, was not good-looking and not tall, but his arms were bulging.

Luo Zhixue knew that Fei Bingcai, like Sun Chengcheng, was Li Tonglin's confidant. Before that, besides more than a dozen cavalrymen, he was also in charge of hundreds of refugees. He could be regarded as one of the big leaders in this bandit army. up.

But now, the refugee soldiers under Fei Bingcai's command had been dismissed long ago, and even more than a dozen cavalrymen under him were killed or injured during the breakout, and a dozen people fled.

Now there are only four or five confidantes left around him.

Only Fei Bingcai continued: "Who would have thought that those goddamn officers and soldiers would go straight to our general, and now the general has died in the hands of those officers and soldiers, everyone has no backbone, it is difficult to keep chaos .”

At this point, Fei Bingcai glanced at Sun Jiancheng, and then continued unhurriedly: "Now, I think it is still necessary to re-elect the general, so that everyone will not have a backbone and just disperse."

As soon as he finished speaking, a robust middle-aged man wearing leather armor and carrying a ring-shouldered knife, with a long scar on his face, came over from beside him. Hearing Fei Bingcai's words, the man with the scar directly said loudly: "Fei Bingcai What my brother said is reasonable, there is a lot of chaos now, no one will take care of it sooner or later."

When he was speaking, he had already walked up to Sun Chengli and Fei Bingcai: "Now the general has gone, and Brother Wang also encountered an accident with the general at that time, and now the situation is urgent, and I don't care about Scar There are a lot of servings, and I am willing to take everyone to continue eating delicious and spicy food."

As soon as these words came out, Fei Bingcai's face suddenly darkened, and he stared at Scar with cold eyes: "Scar, what do you mean?"

Dao Scar glanced at him, and a sneer appeared on the corner of his mouth: "Hmph, why, I can't be the leader of Dao Scar?"

He turned his head and said, "Don't say I'm half a year older than you. I was a general of the right army before. Look at the scar on this face. It was left when everyone cut off the back last year."

Then he rolled up his shirt again, pointed to an obviously newly healed scar on his abdomen and said, "When I was surrounded by officers and soldiers three months ago, I was shot by an arrow when I rushed out with everyone."

Scar stared at Fei Bingcai: "Tell me, can I be the leader?"

Fei Bingcai snorted coldly: "Everyone is doing business with their heads pinned to their waistbands. You led people to charge, but I didn't lead people to charge? You can only blame yourself for not being good at learning when you are injured!"

"You..." When Dao Scar heard it, his face immediately flushed red: "You are not good at learning, you say it again, if you have the ability to do two tricks with me, I want to see if you are not good at learning."

When the two were talking, the confidantes behind the two also raised their guard and put their hands on the handle of the knife.

Luo Zhixue on the side frowned after seeing this scene.

How long has this group been free from officers and soldiers?It will only be an hour if you are exhausted, and this is the beginning of internal strife?

Looking at the posture of Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar, this is going to start the film directly!

Although he joined the Bandit Army not long ago, he also knew that Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar had always been at odds. When he was resting in Yiyang, Luo Zhixue had seen these two quarrel many times.

Nowadays, the competition for the position of leader is even more disobedient, and it might be a fight!
Seeing this, Luo Zhixue involuntarily took two steps back, ready to leave this land of right and wrong at any time, so as not to be affected by Chi Yu.

At the same time, Luo Zhixue was also lamenting: Li Tonglin died at the wrong time!

It doesn't matter if he himself dies, the problem is that Li Tonglin is the sole backbone of this bandit army, this death will lead to the remnants of the bandit army leaderless, but there is no one strong enough to convince everyone to take over the position.

In this way, it will take minutes to start the film and win the position.

At this moment, Luo Zhixue turned his head slightly to look at Sun Chengli, he wanted to know how Sun Chengli would respond at this time.

Before Sun Chengli was Li Tonglin's confidant, he not only had a group of personal soldiers under his command, but was also in charge of logistics and supplies. Speaking of his status in this bandit army, he was no worse than Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar, so he was also qualified to compete for it. of the headship.

But Sun Chengli didn't seem to pay attention to Fei Bingcai and Dao Scar, but turned his head slightly to look at more than 40 cavalry leading horses in twos and threes not far away.

There are currently more than 70 people in their remaining team, but in fact, the three of them, Sun Chengli, Fei Bingcai, Dao Scar, and their confidantes, add up to only more than 30 people.

The remaining forty or so riders were all former soldiers of Li Tonglin.

The problem is that the third brother Wang, the leader of Li Tonglin's personal army, has died with Li Tonglin in battle, and there is no qualified leader among the more than 40 personal soldiers who have escaped now.

(End of this chapter)