The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 754 Did I Finally Do It Wrong?

The courage to rush forward was finally broken at this time.

I saw a Chuangjun Jingqi suddenly turned his head, and immediately caused a chain reaction. Countless horses rushed to the army, screaming and running back.

Later Liu Zongmin was taken aback.

His [-] fine cavalry rushed forward and were hit by the artillery of the Ming army for several rounds, causing thousands of casualties.

Finally, some of them rushed forward, and were bombed by grenades and fell down one after another.

There are firecrackers and grenades in front, and artillery in the back to hit them.

His Jingqi was the first to collapse.

In fact, the military discipline of the Peasant Army is not as good as that of the Qing soldiers. It is not because they don't want to collapse, but because the horse army was behind the formation, which is like supervising the battle team, forcing the infantry to move forward.

They are also used to this tactic.

In previous battles with the Ming army, their forwards were all old, weak, sick and disabled people. If they dared to retreat, they would kill these people.

Behind the battalion is the horse army. If the battalion dares to retreat, the horse army will kill them.

Everyone has a shadow in their hearts, so naturally they dare not retreat, and there is no place to retreat. Ma Jun is behind them. Where do you retreat?

Now even the horse army has been defeated, and the infantry immediately collapsed.

Li Nian's side was the first wave to rush to the nearest Chuang army, and it was also the first wave of Chuang army to collapse first.

The fine riders flew back and fled as if fleeing for their lives. Li Nian also reacted. While he was lucky that he had just been blown up by no grenade, he quickly got up, turned and ran.

Let alone him at this time, everyone here, no matter on foot or on horseback, is running wildly backwards.

The cavalry were even more cruel. If there were infantry in front of them, they would either run into them directly or slash them with a knife, which was inhumane.

Li Nian was furious, and scolded as he ran, "These beasts even killed my brothers."

A few infantrymen followed him, all of them looked at each other and gritted their teeth secretly.

Bang, bang, bang, the Ming army's blunderbuss kept ringing behind them.

The Chuangjun who were running fell down one after another, and some people screamed from time to time.

Li Nian was frightened and looked back while running. Fortunately, he was in the middle of the striker and did not rush to the front. There were many people behind him blocking him, so he couldn't hit him for the time being.

They ran wildly all the way, and finally ran 200 meters away from the front of the Ming army. Li Nian finally breathed a sigh of relief. The Ming army's guns would not be able to hit him now.

It's finally safe.

"Brother Li."

"Brother Nian."

Several soldiers from the same battalion came around, and a soldier of Li Nian also greeted here.

Just before the charge, Li Nian was followed by a dozen of his own soldiers, but after the attack, everyone was in chaos and scattered everywhere.

Li Nian was raising his hand to signal to his soldiers that he wanted to call his own soldiers.

Sudden.

Whoosh, a black shadow fell from the sky in the distance behind him.

With a plop, it first hit the shoulder of a Chuangjun behind him.

"Ah" that Chuang Jun screamed, fell down, his shoulder was smashed to pieces.

The black shadow bounced forward, thumped, smashed the head of another Chuangjun, and then landed, Kacha, broke the leg of the third Chuangjun.

At this time, he exhausted his strength and rolled forward from the ground.

Li Nian heard the screams behind him, turned his head, and saw the black shadow slowly rolling to his feet.

"Damn." He looked down and closed his eyes in despair.

But after waiting for a few seconds, he opened his eyes again, and the shell didn't explode.

Ding Yi's fuzed shells now have a misfiring rate of less than [-]%. I didn't expect Li Nian to be so lucky.

Surprised and delighted, Li Nian hurried forward.

Unexpectedly, he only ran a few steps.

Suddenly his shoulder hurt, and a stray bullet actually hit him.

"Damn it." Li Nian screamed and fell to the ground.

He has now run 200 meters away, it was purely unlucky that he was shot by the Ming army's lead pellets.

Of course, the injury is not serious at such a long distance.

But now that he fell down, he felt that something was wrong.

There was darkness in front of him, and countless crowds and war horses struck from above his head.

Just now, the scene of many brothers falling down while walking and being crushed to death appeared in front of his eyes. Li Nian quickly rolled over and rolled under the belly of a fallen war horse.

He tightened his body and hugged his head first, not daring to move.

The fleeing peasant army passed by him like ants. If it weren't for a war horse blocking him, he would have been trampled to death.

But he didn't dare to get up, there was no chance for him to get up.

Someone in the middle accidentally stepped on his hands holding his head and fell to the ground.

Before he got up, the dense crowd stepped on him and trampled the man to death.

Li Nian looked even more frightened, and desperately shrank his body under the horse's belly.

It is an abiding truth that collapse on the battlefield spreads like a plague.

The collapse on Li Nian's side soon affected the rest of the battlefield.

Hongren Bridge, which is seven or eight miles away, is Wang Weiguo's soldiers and horses.

He was also leading the cavalry forward. The infantry in front suffered heavy casualties. Many of the intruders were lying on the ground and dared not move forward. Wang Weiguo led the cavalry to press forward frantically, trampling the infantry directly, and even beheading them with sabers to force the infantry. The battalion continued to charge forward.

Suddenly, there was the sound of mountains and tsunami in the distance.

Then Wang Weiguo looked out of the corner of his eye, and saw his left wing, the cavalry of the Ming army who had been stationary began to move.

Wang Weiguo's side was considered to be the left wing of the army, and the cavalry of the Ming army had not moved before.

But with the sound of mountains roaring and tsunami in the distance, the cavalry of the Ming army began to adjust.

"Not good." Wang Weiguo felt a thump in his heart, feeling that something was wrong.

He couldn't believe it.

We broke into an army of millions, and we were going to lose?How long have you been fighting?

Then the sound of the mountain whistling and tsunami getting closer and closer.

Not long after, he saw a large formation of Ming army musketeers moving forward in the direction of Lugou Bridge on the right.

After waiting for a while, Chuangjun's formation began to recede like a tide.

That frenzy, from far to near, moved slowly like a beautiful water wave on the battlefield.

"Failed."

"Come on."

"what"

The Chuangjun screamed, and more and more Chuangjun turned their heads and ran back.

The charging cavalry braked desperately, and many people waited and watched, and then they confirmed that they were really defeated in the distance, and immediately turned their horses.

"General, you are defeated, let's go." Wang Weiguo's soldiers also ran over and surrounded Wang Weiguo.

At this time, the entire battlefield has been spread, and the battlefield for more than ten miles is full of soldiers retreating and fleeing.

The artillery of the Ming army was still firing, and it kept falling into their formation.

The soldiers are also used to it. It all depends on luck. If you are unlucky, you deserve it if you are beaten to death. It is useless for you to be afraid.

Wang Weiguo almost burst into tears, did I finally do something wrong?

Endless regret welled up in my heart.

But immediately, he shook his head desperately.

After following Li Zicheng, they were beaten and wiped out by the whole army many times. At least 20 people fled into Shangluo Mountain, and they still made a comeback.

"The green hills left behind are not afraid of lack of firewood." They are used to failure and comebacks.

"Let's go, call the brothers, retreat." Wang Weiguo swung his whip and turned the horse's head.

A large group of cavalry turned around and ran back.

Before they rushed forward and came together with many infantry, they would completely ignore the infantry for the sake of running. Many of the infantry in front of them were directly hit or hacked to death.

The cavalry ran like this, and the scene became even more chaotic.

Rumbling, suddenly, the cavalry of the Ming army in the distance also started to move like thunder.

As soon as the cavalry of the Ming army moved, the artillery also slowly stopped.

The gunmen of the Ming army began to move forward.

"Defeated?" Li Zicheng watched in disbelief as the tide of soldiers and horses ran back.

His army of more than 20 was about [-] against the opponent, which was almost double, and he was defeated.

In history, he fought with Wu Sangui of the Manchu Qing Dynasty for a whole day, but now he collapsed and lost in less than two hours.

He really couldn't believe that Ding Yi's soldiers and horses would be so elite.

But it's no use thinking about it now.

He is also used to failure.

"The order is to let Liu Zongmin lead the army and retreat while fighting, and the rest of the ministries will retreat to the capital first."

Li Zicheng quickly sent an order to cut off the fierce general Liu Zongmin, and then appointed a battalion to cooperate with him.

At this time, Li Zicheng was even more embarrassed than losing to the Qing soldiers in the original history.

The battlefield collapsed so quickly, and the decisive battle between the two sides was at Marco Polo Bridge, very close to the capital.

He has a few choices now. One is to flee back to Beijing first, defend the city, and order troops from Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi and other places to fight Ding Yi together. After all, in his eyes, there are still hundreds of thousands of troops in these places.

The second is to run away directly.

Of course Li Zicheng wanted to go back to Beijing. He still had a lot of wealth in Beijing, and he didn't take away his beauties.

But if the troops from all over the country do not come, he will die.

"Go back to the capital." A general said at this time.

Many of them have a lot of wealth and women in the capital, so they are willing to give up the capital at this time.

"Your Majesty can't." Li Yan said: "The Ming army's firearms are powerful, and they attack the city fiercely. They cannot be stopped, and the original troops in the city will definitely echo in secret."

Li Zicheng looked at Wang Weiguo in front of him unwillingly.

Wang Weiguo just stepped back, and looked at him unwillingly.

The two looked at each other, and Wang Weiguo gritted his teeth and said, "Go back to Shaanxi first, and come back when more troops are gathered."

"The Ming army's firearms are powerful. As long as we have enough soldiers and horses, and we are not afraid of death, we can still charge forward."

All the generals nodded.

The closest ones today have all rushed to within 30 meters.

So Li Zicheng finally decided to return to Shaanxi.

This is a desperate decision.

They got more than 7000 million taels of silver in the city of Beijing, and now all of them are in the capital, and there is no time to ship them out.

In order to get out of the battlefield as soon as possible, they gave up all the infantry battalions and led all the cavalry to flee first as before.

And Li Zicheng and Daming fought so many times, and they were able to run away every time, so they must have experience in this area.

"How is the Ming army around?" He immediately asked.

Chuangjun sentry cavalry said one after another: "There is no Ming army within ten miles east of the capital, but a large number of Ming troops came from the sea from the east before."

"You can't go to the south either. Ding Yi's soldiers and horses have completely blocked the south."

In this way, there are only two sides to choose, one is to go north and go out of customs, which is impossible.

Either go west, take Juyongguan, bypass Xuanfu and return to Shaanxi via Datong.

Immediately someone objected: "It's a long way to go to Datong by detouring Xuanfu. What should we do if the Ming army blocks us in Shanxi?"

Li Zicheng's mind circled quickly.

"Just now, the Guanming army only has [-] cavalry, and the rest are all infantry."

"Even if they run faster than us, we are not afraid to go to Shanxi to block us. Moreover, they must keep some cavalry here."

"Go, go from Juyongguan."

"Send someone to inform Niu Jinxing and the others to leave the city immediately and go to Juyongguan with us."

Li Zicheng decided to leave Juyongguan and fled west.

(End of this chapter)