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Chapter 64 This Liangzi knot is too big

"Bang, bang, bang!" The familiar sound of the gun platoon guns sounded again behind the ranks of the officers and soldiers.

The fierce shouts of killing shook the sky, and Yi Dou Gu, who was wounded in his body, cheered up, knowing that victory or defeat depends on one action, and he worked very hard.

He urged his cavalry to maintain a loose formation, frantically patrolled in front of the officer's formation, and rushed forward to fight if they saw any weakness.

The trapezoidal formation deployed by Zuo Zixiong along the river, and the trapezoidal "waist" at the west end of the formation, instantly endured tremendous pressure.

The muskets fired one after another, killing one stubborn thief after another.There were also a few sand boats of the Shen family on the Qishui River to assist in the defense, using long-range firepower to force them out of position.The bandit cavalry were forced not to get too close to the river bank, lest they be killed in vain by side fire.

It's a pity that since the officers and soldiers had to fortify on three sides this time, they couldn't concentrate their guns on one side, and the firepower density was at least two-thirds weaker than that in the early morning battle——

In the victory in the early morning, Zuo Zixiong did his mental calculations but didn't care. He only wanted to defend in one direction, so he piled up 200 firearms in front of him.At this moment, the defensive area at the end of the team only has more than [-] shots.

After several rounds of musket fire, they only killed or wounded less than a hundred bandit soldiers. The rest of the enemies quickly entered hand-to-hand combat, or wandered behind and fired arrows.

Unsurprisingly, the spearmen on the officer's side were under greater pressure than in the early morning battle.

Chief Lu Datou happened to be in charge of commanding the melee pikemen on this section of the line of defense. He shouted and fought fiercely, stabbing with the spear in his hand like flying, relentlessly, and soon achieved results again, stabbing two thieves to death and one injury .

The robe beside him seemed to be always striving to be the first, and he remembered Zuo Dusi's morale boosting words just now, thinking that as long as he fights hard, everyone has a future and can change their equipment and change jobs. Finally, their morale is stronger than in the early morning. Fight to the death one by one.

"There's something wrong with the officers and soldiers. On the plains, they were beaten and bullied by cavalry, and they managed to stay in order. How could the morale of such a mere regiment trainer be so high?"

Yidou Valley on the opposite side is also a bit puzzled, but it is impossible to turn back when the arrow is on the string, and this time it must be smashed to the end.

"Boss, the officers and army spearmen are fighting to the death! There is no chaos at all. It is too miserable for the brothers to charge like this. Those turtledove guns on the key river are still hiding in the boat and stealing us from the side! Why don't you slow down!"

After the thieves had suffered a certain amount of casualties, the low-level thieves around Yidougu couldn't bear it any longer, so they went to Yidougu for tactical guidance with blood on their faces.

Yidougu stared intently at the battle line in front of him with hawk-like eyes, his knuckles were almost pinched into the flesh, and after a long time he stopped sternly:
"Don't relax! What do you know about fighting! Although the officers and soldiers are holding us back, their formation is stretching and out of touch! Their front and center troops have just been ordered to speed up, but the rear has not accelerated yet. .

Even if you are stuck with us now and want to change your formation again, there will be chaos.The more we stick to the rear of the officers and soldiers, the more obvious the flaws in the waist of the officers and soldiers will be!hold onto!There will be a turnaround soon! "

Yidougu's vision on the battlefield is still very sharp. He can see that Zuo Zixiong's team is like a spring that was originally compressed, everything is tight, but it moves slowly.

After Zuo Zixiong accelerated, the east side was like the head of the spring, being pulled forward, but the tail of the spring would not follow up immediately, but there was a time lag.This process of force transmission will cause the spring to become loose, and then the spring tail will catch up.

The more you bite the spring tail, the looser the spring will be pulled!
Once a battle is fought, it is no longer that the commander walks and stops when he is told.

Recruits are especially prone to the mentality of "we have friendly forces to help us fight and block, let's take the opportunity to escape".And once it appears, the next step is the collapse of the entire army.

This is Zuo Zixiong's death date!

……

Both Yidougu and Lu Datou were gritting their teeth, waiting for a favorable change in the overall battlefield.

It seems that Yidou Valley is very promising. The disconnection between the rear army, which is in charge of the official army's blocking, and the central army and the front army, is emerging.It will soon be cut off by the thief army changing tactics.

However, what Yidougu didn't expect was that the central army of the official army was not out of touch, but the former army in the far east had an accident first.

Zuo Zixiong, who personally sits in the front army, has repeatedly confirmed the overall battle situation and the distribution of enemy forces with Spanish telescopes since the start of the war.

He also saw that on the side of Yidou Valley, the bandit army took it as the main direction of attack and invested more and more mobile troops.

The only remaining reserves that could be flexibly deployed by the opponent were also moved to the waist position of the battlefield, as if they were ready to flank and cut off the officers and soldiers at any time, so that the officers and soldiers could not look at each other from head to tail.

Only the intercepting troops on the head of the officers and soldiers have become less and less, and it seems that they are not planning to intercept——

It is also true that the thief army chose this way. "Sun Tzu" says, "Don't eat the baited soldiers, and don't stop them when they return to the teacher."In the case of wanting to defeat the enemy, the way to escape can only be urged to urge the enemy to focus more on escaping and disintegrate the fighting spirit.

Now the total number of bandit troops is smaller than that of the official army, but the soldiers are far more elite and fighting will than the official army. It is impossible to completely wipe out the official army. It is better to choose to defeat and cover up the killing.

It is absolutely unwise to block the escape route and force the officers and soldiers to risk their lives with you.

However, any arrangement will have weaknesses and loopholes.Liu Xiong's arrangement is based on a fixed mindset-that is, it is absolutely impossible for the officers and soldiers to take the initiative to attack, and they can only defend.

Strictly speaking, this way of thinking is not wrong.

Because the official army is mainly infantry, since ancient times, there is no reason for infantry to attack and chase cavalry, and they can't catch up if they want to.

On Zuo Zixiong's side, there were only a few dozen riders, mainly because the officers had war horses.The battle in the early morning also captured some, even if all the soldiers in the army who had experience in riding and horse fighting were organized, there would be no more than two hundred horses at most.

Of the 900 troops, only 200 have high mobility, so why not take the initiative to attack!

"Liu Xiong, thief, today I will let you know the price of underestimating my Zuozi's boldness."

Zuo Zixiong observed the battlefield again and again, and finally gave the order to assemble all the cavalry in the army and prepare to attack.

This request, which he had already approved with his confidants and officers before the battle, was one of the options for today's battle.

But at this moment, the soldiers were still a little nervous and timid.

Zuo Zixiong looked resolute, and finally said a few words: "Don't be afraid! The enemy has been tricked several times, and their morale is already low. What's more, Liu Xiong underestimated the enemy and thought that our army would not be able to fight back. He has already sent most of the troops to other directions. There are not many more people around his own flag array than us!
Moreover, it is only seven or eight miles away from the county seat, and the Master Tongzhi in the city must be watching us!In the morning, I asked Shen Lian to go back to the city with a fast boat to report the news. Maybe Mr. Tongzhi is ready and will send troops to meet us! "

After repeated encouragement, the soldiers finally mustered up their courage. He left a few officers in command of the musketeers to stay in the main formation with staff officer Pizarro, and then he personally led about 70 people and rode horses. Attacked.

……

There are still about [-] riders in Liu Xiong's main formation, and they are always responsible for checking and monitoring the official army.

Because of his small number, he also retreated farther to ensure his own safety. There was at least a mile between the two armies.

When he saw the cavalry of the official army coming out of battle, Liu Xiong's face was full of disbelief.

He subconsciously wanted to retreat temporarily to avoid the enemy's edge, but he was also afraid that the movement of the flag array would shake the morale of the army, causing Yidou Gubu, who was detoured in the distance, to wonder what happened here.

After hesitating for more than ten seconds, the distance between the two sides has approached within [-] steps. After a short trance, Liu Xiong finally saw that the enemy was only about half the number of his own guards.His mood was also ups and downs, and he regained his composure.

"This dog official jumped the wall in a hurry! There are at most a hundred riders here, and he dares to charge three hundred riders at my flag formation? My sons, let these southern water ducks know how ferocious I am, my son from the northwest!"

He is very confident in the last 300 people under his command.

Those were all murderers brought out by his father Liu Xiyao from his hometown in Shaanxi. They had been with him for at least five or six years, and the rest of them were left to serve as his young master's personal guard.

A few seconds later, Zuo Zixiong, who was more than 200 steps away, also showed a ferocious grin when he saw the bandit flag formation:
"Sure enough, the bet was right this time. Liu Xiong dared to fight when he saw that our army had few cavalry. Otherwise, if he only knew how to run, both sides would have horses. It’s not easy to catch up.”

The two armies quickly rushed to a distance of only a hundred steps. Zuo Zixiong waved his hand and ordered the soldiers to slow down temporarily. Roughly aimed directly on the horseback, and rode and shot a round.

The 70 cavalrymen brought a total of [-] Lumi guns, and they didn't dare to bring more.Because the tactic of firing guns on horseback, Zuo Zixiong had never tried it on a large scale before.

The cavalry will soon enter a melee charge, and it is impossible to line up in a horizontal line, so the depth will be too thin.The team needs multiple rows and depth, and it is not easy to aim on horseback. In order to prevent accidental injury to one's own people, only the first row can fire.

In terms of absolute firepower density, this little damage is nothing at all, but it's all about surprise.

When the fire was fired, there were only fifty steps left in the hedging between the two sides, and the damage of the shotgun was maximized.

The key is that the bandits were not prepared, and many cavalry were in chaos all of a sudden.Dozens of horsemen fell to the ground screaming, and more horses neighed and stumbled, throwing the riders out with broken tendons and bones, and the overall momentum of the charge was suffocated.

Zuo Zixiong took the opportunity to speed up the cavalry again. Although just fifty steps were not enough to run up to full speed again, it was barely enough.

"Don't love to fight, take Liu Xiong's banner directly! Kill Liu Xiong, our army will win!"

Zuo Zixiong brandished a long knife like flying in rotation, and took the lead in charging into Liu Xiong's army.

Although the number of enemies was 100 more than him, at the beginning Liu Xiong relied on his own number and wanted to outflank Zuo Zixiong, so that the formation of the bandit cavalry was wider in front.

Disrupted by muskets at this moment, the thieves were unable to gather in the center for a while, but Zuo Zixiong realized the advantage on the local battlefield and made a breakthrough in the center.

"Death!" Zuo Zixiong chopped off a fierce-looking old Shaanxi general with a knife, and then dragged his hand back, beheading another thief, and he killed Liu Xiong less than [-] steps away. place.

Fear finally rose in Liu Xiong's heart, and he no longer cared about the flag formation or the morale of the army, so he whipped his horse and fled back, shouting mournfully, "Stop this dog officer! Block this dog officer!"

The middle army of the thief army was disrupted and completely lost its unified command. Some people blocked the young master to protect the young master, but they were defeated by the officers and soldiers regardless of the future. Some morale collapsed and they ran away.

And the situation that made the bandits even more desperate soon came. When Zuo Zixiong led the army to attack, his every move had already been seen by Shen Shuren and others with binoculars on the west gate tower of Qizhou.

Therefore, the cavalry team in the city, which had already been prepared for the response, also sent more than a hundred people to rush out at the first time - Shen Shuren couldn't show any more wealth, mainly because the Huangzhou government army still lacked horses so far. It's not as easy to deal with as other weapons, and the Shen family has spent a lot of money to get so much for the time being.

Although the city gate is at least six or seven miles away from Liu Xiong, the horses of the cavalry in the city are all recharged and powerful, and the leader is actually Shen Shuren's cousin, Zhang Huangyan, the new county magistrate of Huanggang.

Zhang Huangyan has always been courageous, and he is proficient in riding and shooting. Even if he is not good at melee martial arts, he still has the courage to lead the support team to rush with Zuo Zixiong.

Liu Xiong never expected that the officers and soldiers were so courageous today, they were cornered, so they had to choose a random direction to break through.

"Fire the arrows!" Zhang Huangyan watched Liu Xiong belittle him, and when the two armies were within a hundred paces, Zhang Huangyan led his subordinates to bend their bows and set arrows together, regardless of the hit rate, they must first overwhelm each other.

Bandit riders have iron armor for protection, and they are not afraid of ordinary bows and arrows, but war horses are not.

During the fight, Zhang Huangyan shot again and again, using about one-third of the pot of arrows, and shot down two bandits' horses himself, smashing the heads of the bandits on top.The other cavalry around Zhang Huangyan also fought hard, stabbing and shooting dozens of enemy cavalry.

During the chaotic battle, Liu Xiong's own horse was shot by someone's arrows one after another, hissing up to the sky and throwing him off the horse.

Liu Xiong was protected by excellent iron-coated cotton armor, but he was not injured, but he was dizzy from the fall, his internal organs were damaged, and he vomited out a mouthful of old blood.

Before he regained his sanity, Zuo Zixiong rushed to him behind him, swung his saber, and decapitated Liu Xiong, who was injured internally.

"The thief chief is dead! Those who surrender will not be killed!"

(End of this chapter)