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Chapter 521
Although Liu Tichun still had more than 2000 rebels, except for the 1000 old thieves around him, the rest were scattered in the siege team. It took about a quarter of an hour before more than [-] soldiers were mobilized.

There are still more than 1000 bandit soldiers and hungry people still fleeing back from the root of the city, gathering in disorder after the brigade.

"General Liu, wait a minute, our troops haven't all gathered yet." A little boss reminded.

Liu Tichun glanced around, and said: "Don't be afraid, there are only a thousand officers and soldiers. I will lead people to kill them back first, and bite the officers and soldiers. When you are assembled here, come to support."

He shouted to the thieves again: "The spearmen are in front, and the archers are behind to cover, kill the officers and soldiers, and let's eat!"

More than a thousand bandits surrounded Liu Tichun and rushed back to the camp in the north. When they were less than [-] steps away from the camp, they saw more than a hundred bandit soldiers fleeing from the camp shrouded in black smoke.

When Liu Tichun saw this situation, he knew that the camp had fallen. He reined in his horse's head and shouted again: "Form the formation, quickly form the formation. The shields are in front, the spearmen are behind, and Liu Cheng leads the cavalry to the left."

Although most of the thieves were newly recruited after Li Zicheng entered Henan, and many were recruited after the capture of Luoyang, some old thieves acted as leaders, and there were also small groups of thieves from all over Henan who came to join them and were all beaten. Scattered as the leader in the army.

Although a little flustered under the panic, Liu Tichun's shouting of orders also played a role in stabilizing the morale of the army. The bandits began to form a team two hundred steps away from the camp.

Liu Tichun was originally worried that this group of officers would stay in his camp, and in that case it would be difficult for him to regain the camp.

But to his surprise, the officers and troops in the camp came out one by one and formed an formation in the open space in front of the camp. The two sides just looked at each other and sorted out their respective positions at a distance of about 150 steps. army array.

Suddenly, Liu Tichun sensed something was wrong, he seemed to hear a rush of horseshoes coming from the west, and hurriedly turned his head and shouted: "Liu Cheng, send two people to see if King Chuang has sent someone to reinforce us! "

He also had a 50-man cavalry team in his army. He never thought that there would be officers and troops daring to attack. The main function of this 50-man cavalry team was to communicate with the old camp in the west of Chuangwang City.

The two bandit soldiers urged their horses to run more than ten steps away, and saw a group of more than a hundred cavalrymen showing their true faces at the place where the smoke and dust rose to the west.

They were all in bright helmets and armour, all of them were full of energy, wearing red cloaks on their bodies, and the young general in the lead was holding a tiger gun in his hand, and there was a triangular-shaped gun with a red border and a white background on the tip of the gun. Flag with a downhill tiger embroidered in the middle.

It was Zhang Cheng's one hundred fine cavalry who guarded the second bureau of the pro-army department.

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Zhang Cheng's guard and pro-military department used to have four bureaus, of which the Liu Jinhai department of Bureau A has been converted into a green forest of rivers and lakes, which has become a dark situation that Zhang Cheng has planted in various places.

The Lei Zhancheng Department of the Ding Bureau was designated as an accompanying vehicle frame bureau at the beginning of its establishment. Its department is also staying in Chicheng to guard Zhang Cheng's family and provide travel guards for Zhang Cheng's family and relatives, but not with the army.

Only the Lin Fangping Division of the Second Division and the Li Changsheng Division of the C Division were the guards. This time they also joined Zhang Cheng in the battle in Henan, but Li Changsheng's Division C was left in Wu'an County, Zhangde Prefecture, Henan, and was responsible for guarding his uncle. The safety of Ji Youqing, the magistrate of Wu'an County.

In view of this, Zhang Cheng also felt that the direct guard force around him was insufficient, so since crossing the Yellow River to Yuhe Town, Meng County, Hebei, he had been thinking about the issue of forming a new guard force.

It wasn't until the army marched all the way to the vicinity of Yujiadian in Yangwu County that he made a military strategy for forming the Tiger Guards and conveyed it to his generals. At the same time, he also decided on the style of the Tiger Guards' gun flags.

Lin Fangping's troops were directly transferred to the Tiger Guards. According to Zhang Cheng's vision, his Tiger Guards would expand to at least a thousand fine cavalry in the future, and would serve as a powerful core fighting force directly under him.

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After Lin Fangping separated from Su Huhu and Mo Zhigen in the northwest corner of Kaifeng City, he urged his horse to lead a hundred riders to rush forward and headed straight for the camp of the bandit army.

Seeing nearly [-] thieves frantically organizing their team from a distance, he knew he had come at the right time, and shouted loudly, "Shoot the arrow, and leave those two thieves behind."

Then there was another loud shout: "Come on, kill in, don't let the thieves form a team!"

All the knights under his command are veterans selected by the whole army. Not only are they highly skilled in riding and fighting, they also have a guarantee of loyalty. Moreover, the equipment and treatment given to them by Zhang Cheng are slightly higher than those of other departments, even higher than the heavy cavalry under Zhang Guangda's command. with Ranger.

As soon as Lin Fangping finished speaking, several arrows flew out. The two bandit soldiers were galloping towards this side, but they couldn't turn their horses around in a hurry.

They had no choice but to turn their horses around and continue running towards the northwest. The purpose was obvious, just to pass by Lin Fangping's men in order to protect themselves.

But both sides were galloping on horseback, and the distance of less than [-] steps was only in a blink of an eye. As the distance between the two sides continued to approach, the target of the two cavalry bandit soldiers became bigger and bigger.

The first wave of arrows did not hit them, but the second wave was shot by more than a dozen arrows. The bandit soldiers and horses running in front were shot first, and fell to the ground stunned. The thief flung it far away and threw himself on the ground motionless, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.

But the second bandit soldier was not so lucky. He was shot with three arrows, but he didn't fall off the horse. He lay on the horse's back and fled straight to the north.

Lin Fangping didn't even look at this, he urged his horse to go straight to the place where the bandits formed a formation.

At this time, there were two more smoke rising from his north-south direction. It was obvious that the two Mongolian cavalry of Su Laohu and Mo Zhigen also rushed up, and the sound of "rumbling" horseshoes was even louder, and there was also a characteristic Mongolian cavalry. roaring.

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Liu Tichun didn't take the officer army who seized his camp seriously at first, but now that three cavalry from the officer army charged from the west, it really made him panic and panic.

He knew well that the west of Kaifeng City was the old camp of Chuang Wang's army, and there were [-] fine cavalry and [-] old thieves stationed by the chief sentry Liu Zongmin.

"Could it be... King Chuang..."

Liu Tichun couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart. He followed King Chuang from dormant in Shangluo Mountain, rushed out of Shangluo, and now across Zhongzhou. Even Kezhou County, even Luoyang, a strong city, is hard to be a part of King Chuang's army. Divine power.

But today's situation made him faintly afraid, all this came too fast, and I'm afraid it will go too soon.

But the old thief is an old thief after all, although he was sad in his heart, he loudly ordered the bandit soldiers under his command not to panic, and formed a formation quickly to resist the attack of the cavalry of the official army.

He even yelled: "End the battle, Chuang Wang has sent the chief sentry Master Liu to rescue us, don't panic...quickly end the battle..."

However, among the bandit soldiers he led, there were not many old bandits. If they faced Jin Yong's infantry alone, they might still be able to fight according to orders. The thieves and the newly recruited thieves panicked.

Although dozens of horse thieves, hundreds of veterans, and archers ordered to suppress, but when the hungry people behind panicked and started running around, their efforts to suppress and shout immediately became insignificant!
(End of this chapter)