East Factory Governor

Chapter 429 He Renlong's Crisis
An extremely brutal fight.

Everyone's face is ferocious, and the cold light of every knife, every sword, and every spear is cold and bloodthirsty.

He Renlong has three generals under him, Wang Zhen, Sun Gang, and Ji Min.Among the three, Wang Zhen and Sun Gang were fighting inside the ambush circle, while Ji Min led [-] soldiers alone outside the ambush circle, and was responsible for blocking the army of bandits that kept coming up.

Inside the encirclement, the officers and soldiers had a clear upper hand.Although Liu Guoneng's subordinates resisted desperately, the peasant army was far inferior to the official army in terms of equipment and training, so they suffered heavy losses.

Some of Li Zicheng's troops had entered the ambush circle, but Li Zicheng and the other 8000 people were still outside the ambush circle. Before the other troops rushed up, they temporarily became the main force to attack Ji Min and rescue Liu Guoneng's department.

Li Zicheng's command was determined, and the tactical quality of the soldiers under him was much higher than that of other rogues. In addition to the frontal attack of 4000 people, the other 4000 people began to detour to the left and right in an attempt to surround Jimin's 3000 people.

However, if 8000 people want to rush together, they will inevitably squeeze each other.

Seeing this situation, He Renlong decisively ordered the cavalry to attack.

A thousand cavalry took the lead and rushed towards Li Zicheng's troops like lightning.Originally, besides the grass on both sides of the road, there were many low and hard bushes, so it was difficult for the cavalry to charge up.However, He Renlong had already cut down most of the bushes in this area, leaving only weeds, so that the cavalry could charge up.

The powerful impact caused chaos to the gangsters who were huddled together and were about to rush up, and as many as hundreds of people were killed or injured just because the horses saw him and trampled on each other.

Then the cavalry began to harvest, and sharp sabers came and went one after another, setting off a burst of blood.

After a period of chaos, Li Zicheng's department began to fight back.The spearmen surrounded them one after another, stabbing people if they could, and stabbing horses if they couldn't. For a while, the cavalry of the Ming army turned their backs.

However, this made the scene even more chaotic, hindering the reinforcements from behind to come up.The advantage of ambush is here - you can make a time difference.Before the rogue army behind catches up, the officers and soldiers on the battlefield in front will benefit.

Not long after the battle outside the ambush circle, the cavalry of the Ming army suffered more than 200 casualties, while Li Zicheng's troops suffered more than 400 casualties.The Ming army cavalry turned around and ran away.

Naturally, the rogues would not be so stupid as to chase after the cavalry. Seeing that the cavalry had run away, they made some adjustments and prepared to continue with the previous plan to encircle Ji Min's troops.

At this time, the second wave of 1000 Ming cavalry arrived again.The powerful impact once again disrupted Li Zicheng's troops.

This is He Renlong's established tactic.That is to use cavalry to continuously attack the opponent's team to cause chaos and block the road, making it more difficult for the opponent's reinforcements to catch up.

The tactics were effective. Under the impact of waves of cavalry, Gao Yingxiang's army was cut into two sections, one section was inside the encirclement, and the other section was always outside the encirclement.

Inside the encirclement, Liu Guoneng led his men to fight hard in an attempt to break through, but the officers and soldiers surrounded them so tightly that they couldn't break out at all.

Roaring, fighting, blood, stumps, screaming, death!
The strong smell of blood floated in the air and lingered for a long time.

Most of these rogues were peasants. Many of them had never experienced such brutal wars. Many of them were so frightened that their legs trembled, and they desperately squeezed into the middle of the friendly army, so that they could be temporarily safe.

However, it accelerated the overall downfall.

The clearing of the ambush circle went smoothly, and within a quarter of an hour, only 8000 of the 4000 people remained.The official army only lost more than a thousand people.

But at this moment, the situation of the battle suddenly changed.

There were endless rustling sounds in the grass on both sides.

He Renlong frowned, the thing he was most worried about happened.

The rogues behind were not stupid. When the official road was blocked, they immediately made a detour and came from the grass on both sides, trying to counter-outflank the official army.

He Renlong immediately sent cavalry to intercept, so the two sides fought again in the grass.Cavalry can't give full play to their advantage in the grass, but they have certain advantages against infantry when they are condescending.

After Zhang Xiao saw many Ming troops entering the grass in the north, he did not hesitate to order the cavalry to attack and intercept them.

At this time, Wang Zhen and Sun Gang in the ambush circle saw that the situation outside was not good. After discussing a few words, Sun Gang led 3000 people out to intercept the enemy and prevent them from being surrounded.

The 3000 people were immediately divided into two groups, one in Daobei and the other in Daonan, respectively cooperating with cavalry to block.

Countless rogues continued to rush up like the tide, endlessly, with no end in sight.

This is only a part of the front, the rogues who are farthest from them are still four or five miles away.

The fighting continues!

Hancheng.

Cao Wenzhao arrived in Hancheng with [-] cavalry as planned.

Their task is to reach Hancheng first, if the bandits are attacking the city, they will wait for the opportunity to attack, if they have already withdrawn, then they will go after them.

When Cao Wenzhao saw that the rogues near Hancheng were already empty, he knew that they had already fled.According to the predetermined plan, they immediately chased westward.

Why is it facing west?Because He Renlong in the west is the weakest, they can also guess Gao Yingxiang's thoughts!
At the same time, Cao Wenzhao also sent more than a dozen cavalry to inform the defenders in the city that Gao Yingxiang had gone west.

Of course, Zuo Guangxian in the city already knew that Gao Yingxiang and Zhang Xianzhong had run away, but he only had [-] soldiers in his hands, and he didn't dare to pursue them, so after much deliberation, he chose the safest way, to guard the city quietly.As long as Hancheng is not lost, he has made great achievements in defending the city, which is enough to explain to his superiors.

But Cao Wenzhao specially sent troops to inform him that the bandits had fled, obviously wanting to ask him to pursue them.After thinking about it, he felt that if he came all the way to Hancheng to help him, he would not look good if he didn't pull out a penny, so he sent Xia Peicheng to chase west with three thousand soldiers.

At this time, Hong Chengchou and his team had already driven to the Tanma area, about 20 miles away from Banqiao, and it would take at least half an hour to get there.And because Qin Shuhuai was afraid that He Renlong would not be able to withstand it, he took Chen Jing and the remaining 500 cavalrymen and rushed to Banqiao first. At this time, it was less than 10 miles away from Banqiao.

The Battle of Banqiao is still going on.With the continuous influx of rogues, Ji Min's department, which was in charge of intercepting the reinforcements, could no longer hold back. 3000 people were killed to only about [-] people left.As for the eight thousand cavalry led by Zhang Xiao and He Renlong, facing the tide of rogues, after dashing from left to right in the grass, the physical strength of both the horses and soldiers was greatly reduced, and now they are completely powerless to stop the opponent's attack. Anti-surrounded.

In the ambush circle, Liu Guoneng's 8000 people have been killed to only a thousand people left.The ground was so densely packed with corpses that it was impossible to get off the ground, as long as one was not paying attention, one would trip over the corpses.Among these corpses, most of them were rogues, but after the rogue army caught up, the number of official soldiers also soared rapidly.

It was getting dark, and it was impossible to count how many people were lost by which side!
After another quarter of an hour, the soldiers of He Renlong's Department gradually discovered that there were bandits everywhere around him, countless shining weapons sticking out from different angles, leaving a deep scar on his body if he didn't pay attention. Wound.

They are already surrounded!

(End of this chapter)