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Chapter 176 Boys, Follow Me!

After Hu Dawei asked Hu Zichen to ask for help, he couldn't help himself. He got down from the wall and shouted: "Open the door, order the soldiers outside the camp to come in and defend."

"Boom..."

The turret on the gate of the village where he was just now was hit by a cannon fired by a Qing army red barbarian cannon, and it immediately collapsed.

At this time, a fast horse came galloping, and shouted from a distance: "Junmen, to the west, there are Tartar cavalry rushing in from the west..."

Hu Dawei heard the sound and looked, it turned out that Chen Zhengkuan, the chief sentry under his command, was urging his horse to gallop. He asked in a deep voice, "How many Tartars are there from the west?"

Chen Zhengkuan was ordered to lead a cavalry sentry to monitor the west of Hu Dawei's camp. Less than two miles to the west is the Haoshui River, and more than two miles to the south is Yang Guozhu's camp.

It can be said that to the west of the Jiazhuang camp, there is a rather spacious space more than two miles wide and more than four miles long. There is a chest-length earth wall from the west wall of the Hu Dawei camp to the south, and it has been built to the Yang Guozhu camp. A passage about several feet wide was left in the middle.

This afternoon, the Qing army broke in through this passage. Chen Zhengkuan hurriedly reported: "At the army gate, there are more than a thousand Tartars, divided into about four teams, and they have broken through the gap in the parapet."

Hu Dawei shouted sharply: "Cavalry line up, go to battle, and kill the Tartars!"

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The knights under Zhang Cheng had been standing by in the square inside the west gate of Jiazhuang. Except for the left sentry sent by him to garrison inside the south gate of Jiazhuang to obey Zhang Yan's orders, the remaining nearly [-] elite knights gathered here.

He rushed back and shouted loudly: "All sentries line up, the Tartars burst in from the west, open the gate of the village, sons, follow me to fight!"

Yang Guozhu and Hu Zichen were by Zhang Cheng's side, they left the camp, each with only a few personal soldiers to accompany them, so they didn't dare to rush out rashly.

Seeing that the posts had been lined up, Zhang Cheng turned to Yang Guozhu and said, "Junmen..."

Yang Guozhu also raised his arms and shouted: "Kill the Tartars!"

As the gate of the village opened slowly, Zhang Cheng took the lead and galloped out of Jiazhuang. Yang Guozhu, Zhang Guodong and other nearly a thousand cavalry followed closely behind him.

They lined up in three teams, with more than 300 knights in each team. Zhang Cheng led the front and rear guards in the center, Yang Guozhu led Zhang Guodong's more than [-] riders on the left, and Hu Zichen and Zhang Cheng's Wu Zhizhong's right guard were on the right.

Looking from a distance, less than three hundred paces away, there was already a massacre. There was a group of Ming army knights fighting with hundreds of Qing troops. Zhang Cheng saw at a glance that the banner belonged to the Zhengzheng barracks in Xuanzhen. Zhang Guodong yelled: "Mr. Zhang Qian, protect the military gate and rush there!"

Hearing this, Yang Guozhu took his tiger gun from the victory hook beside the saddle, and said loudly: "I'm not old enough to be protected, kill..."

Zhang Cheng hurriedly rode his horse in pursuit of Yang Guozhu, and rushed to the team of Qing cavalry [-] paces away. Behind him, all the knights followed him in a fan shape.

At a distance of three hundred steps, the cavalry galloped on horseback in an instant, and the Qing cavalry team also found Zhang Cheng and others running from here, and they retreated slightly, but their formation was not chaotic.

As the Qing army receded, Zhang Chengce could see clearly from his horse that a famous general was drenched in blood, holding a tiger gun and chasing the retreating Qing cavalry on foot. It was Guo Yingxian, Yang Guozhu's personal general of the Chinese army.

It turned out that not long after Yang Guozhu left, Guo Yingxian received a report that he found traces of the Qing army in the west, and the number was not sure, so he felt bad at that time.

Because I heard the constant rumble of cannons in the north, but although the Qing army in the north was aggressively attacking, I always felt that it was not as fierce as in the north. He was also an old army for many years. Here comes the battle.

At this moment, when he heard that the captive cavalry had been found in the west, he knew in his heart that the Tartars must be planning to launch a surprise attack from the Haoshui River.

Now most of his troops are restrained on the frontal defense line, including Hu Dawei in the north. At this time, the Qing army will never send dozens or hundreds of cavalry to harass the west.

Whenever they attacked, they would never give up easily. Guo Yingxian couldn't wait for Yang Guozhu to come back, so he ordered five hundred elite cavalry to rush out from the north gate of the camp, just in time for the captive cavalry to rush in through the gap in the earth wall.

The rushing Qingqi came in a team of 300 people, each team had three rows, and each row had a hundred people. They did not rush towards Guo Yingxian and the others, but slowly assembled after breaking in.

However, Guo Yingxian didn't allow them to calmly regroup, so he hurriedly urged the horses to lead the army and killed them. He stabbed several Qing cavalry one after another, and directly penetrated the first queue of the Qing army, but in the end, he was outnumbered and forced to retreat by thousands of Qing cavalry. .

Fortunately, at this time, Hu Dawei led more than [-] knights to rush out from the south gate of his camp, and nearly a thousand knights immediately turned around to surround Hu Dawei's troops, relieving the pressure on Guo Yingxian's side.

However, there are nearly [-] Qing cavalry remaining, which is still more than twice that of Guo Yingxian's troops. The two sides have been fighting for a long time, and each has suffered losses, but Guo Yingxian cannot change the superiority of troops.

What's more, the soldiers sent by the Qing army to attack were selected warriors from various banners, and there were also many Ba Yala soldiers mixed in. They either rode and shot, or slashed and killed, and they always succeeded.

During the fierce battle, Guo Yingxian's war horse was shot by the bow and arrow of the Qing soldiers. Fortunately, he reacted quickly so that he was not suppressed by the war horse.

Qingqi retreated by himself, he didn't have time to think about it, and with his courage, he still pursued on foot. Fortunately, several subordinates stepped forward to grab him and stopped.

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Zhang Cheng looked at Guo Yingxian's miserable situation, but he didn't have time to stop and ask about his injuries. He rode his horse and rushed towards the Qing army. Chen Zhong led all the knights on the side and chased after Zhang Cheng's horse's head and rushed in front of him. .

In fact, this time it was Zhang Cheng who deliberately controlled the speed of the horse. Even though he was also leading the horse, he secretly controlled the speed of the horse. When others were rushing, they couldn't detect these subtle changes.

Looking at Chen Zhong, who surpassed himself by a horse's head, and more than a dozen guards, Zhang Cheng was very satisfied. At least these people were absolutely loyal to him.

Only forty paces away, the spears and throwing axes from the Qing cavalry array came over. Although the soldiers tried their best to dodge, many of them were still stabbed and wounded.

"Bang... bang..."

The smoke rose and the bullets flew wildly. Within thirty steps, the knights of Xuan Da's army fired three-eyed guns. A knight fell from both sides, and then they fought together.

The situation on the battlefield immediately reversed. After nearly a thousand knights including Zhang Cheng and Zhang Guodong joined, the Ming army reversed its disadvantage and became the side with the superior force. The situation on the entire battlefield also immediately reversed.

Zhang Cheng urged his horse to charge into the battlefield, swinging the knife and stick in his hand up and down, smashing or stabbing, knocking down several Qing soldiers one after another.

Suddenly, a big ax came. Zhang Cheng saw it, but it was too late to block it. At this time, the long knife beside him was raised obliquely, and the big ax was swung away. own.

As soon as Zhang Guodong helped Zhang Cheng swing the big ax that was slashing at him, he saw Han Xing flashing past, throwing a spear towards him and flying straight towards him.

(End of this chapter)