Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 424 Victory Opportunity
The battle between the south of the Qinling Mountains and the north of Baocheng was actually intentional by Hauge. His purpose was to follow Zhang Xianzhong's wishes and use the remaining 5 Qing soldiers as bait to attract Zhang Xianzhong's Western Army Leaving the mountainous area, leaving the dangerous pass, and coming to the plain, he used the advantage of the cavalry and the cooperation of the upcoming Wu Sangui to annihilate the main force of the Western Army in the Hanzhong Basin.

It's just that from the beginning of this battle, there was a deviation from the battle imagined by Hauge. It was different from any battles fought against the Ming army and the Shun army. Dense formation, play defensive counterattack tactics.

But this time, as soon as the Western Army faced each other, they chose to take the initiative to press up and launch a full-scale attack. Hauge was not used to such a style of play where almost all the main force was invested.

He was originally going to fight the Western Army with swords and guns, and it would take a day anyway, but now the Western Army is desperate as soon as it comes up, not only makes it impossible for him to re-deploy, but also the fighting time will be greatly shortened. Whether it is life or death, victory or defeat, will be decided soon.

Zhang Xianzhong was in the watch car, watching the entire battlefield, paying attention to every detail of the changes. To the east of the Qing camp, Zhang Wenxiu's troops had already been entwined with six thousand green battalion soldiers, and the fight was indistinguishable. However, the superiority in numbers and morale, It made his troops slowly push the green battalion soldiers to move towards the Qing camp, but it may take some time before the green battalion is destroyed.

To the south, Zhang Nengqi's troops of 2 horses were entangled by [-] Qing cavalry.

To the west, Zhang Kewang walked [-] people, and hurriedly replaced the main formation to block the five thousand Qing cavalry, but because he was too hasty and the formation was unstable, he was penetrated by Qing cavalry once, causing heavy casualties, but fortunately he completed the task of restraining Qing cavalry .

Hujie, Zhenwu, Feiding, Panshi, and Xuanfeng separated from the main formation, and the [-] Western Army from the various divisions fought hand-to-hand with Meng Qiaofang's [-] Green Battalion. Afterwards, the Qing soldiers were constantly lobbed, and the entire battlefield was full of boiling killing sounds that resounded throughout the world.

In Zhang Dingguo in the north, 2 horses formed a battle formation below the pass, but they never moved.

Right now in the Haoge camp, there are only [-] immobilized cavalry, [-] cavalry who fell into the camp from the east, and [-] green battalion guarding the camp. Zhang Xianzhong feels that victory is within his grasp.In the Qing camp, Hauge, the leader of the Qing army, was also paying close attention to the development of the battle situation. He was no longer calm and calm, and completely put away his contempt for the Western Army. He finally realized that the Western Army was indeed an elite force. teacher.At this time, the sun had already slanted to the west, and the two armies were fighting bloody battles at the foot of the Qinling Mountains on a battlefield with a radius of tens of miles. Looking down at the earth from the sky, in the south of the Qinling Mountains, blood flowed into rivers, and corpses were strewn across the field. Countless soldiers were fighting in blood in the wilderness. The sound soared into the sky, and it could still be clearly heard tens of miles away.At this time, Hauge's palms were sweating. He looked towards the east from time to time, but every time he showed disappointment. At this time, he still had [-] cavalry, but he had too many scruples, but he didn't dare to act rashly.

Unsurprisingly, on the battlefield, Meng Qiaofang's [-] Green Battalion soldiers were the first to be unable to stand up. Zhang Wenxiu had just driven this troops all the way from Yangxian County back to the Qing Battalion. Their morale was already very low. The remaining infantry of the Western Army, after thousands of casualties, immediately appeared to be defeated.The Western Army swordsman was in front, and the pikemen were in the back. They lined up in the simplest ranks, alternately concealed and killed, and the archers and crossbowmen were hidden behind and shot uninterruptedly, which caused great pressure and panic to the Qing army.

"Not good, I can't stand it anymore~" Meng Qiaofang fought and found that the Qing soldiers around him were retreating steadily. He was standing behind the army, but because of the retreat of the Qing soldiers, he came to the forefront. The situation was not right, and Bu Jing let out an exclamation.

On the high platform in the Qing camp, Hauge also realized this point. He knew that once Meng Qiaofang retreated and let the [-] Western Army infantry crash into the Qing camp, the whole battle situation would collapse. "Order Xing Na and Bayan to go out of the west gate and stabilize the western front for me." Hauge shouted hastily.

Not long after they were defeated and returned to the camp, the four thousand Qing cavalry got the military order and got on their horses again. With whips waving and the sound of the horses fighting together, they drove slowly towards the west gate, and then rushed out of the west gate with the sound of the horn.

They avoided the green battalion soldiers who were fighting frontally, and repeated the same trick. The soldiers divided into two groups, trying to bypass the western army on both sides, and attack the archers and crossbowmen hiding under the cover of swords and shields and spearmen.

After all, the establishment of the Onishi regime was very short, and the soldiers were not fully equipped. The archers and crossbowmen were only lightly armored, and they were not equipped with long weapons. Apart from the bow and crossbow, they only had a waist knife or a short axe. Riding a surprise attack is basically hard to resist.

Zhang Xianzhong noticed the movement of the Qing army, narrowed his eyes, and issued an order: "Send the order, the Longxiang horse army will attack!"

The drums were beating rapidly, and the flags were waving, encouraging people to forge ahead. After hearing the order, General Wang Shangli of the Western Army shouted: "Boys, let's go~"

Two thousand cavalry of the Western Army had been cruising outside the battlefield for a long time. When they heard the order and saw the command flag, they all raised their three-eyed guns and urged their horses to intercept the Qing cavalry.

Qingqi moved quickly, and not long after leaving the camp, he immediately picked up his full speed, like two long snakes, winding around the frontal battlefield between the Western Army and the Green Camp, and killing the infantry archers and crossbowmen behind.

At this time, because the western army was retreating steadily after Meng Qiaofang was killed, the battle line was already close to the Qing camp, so the distance between the Qing cavalry and the battlefield was closer. Although Zhang Xianzhong sent Long Xiang, the Qing cavalry entered the formation first.

Qing cavalry rushed into the formation like mountains and seas. The crossbowmen without heavy armor and long soldiers were immediately smashed away by Qing cavalry. With a huge weight, they kept hitting the Western Army in front of them, slashing with swords and stabbing with spears, and the formation of the Western Army immediately fell into chaos.

Meng Qiaofang, who was retreating steadily, suddenly felt the pressure relieved, and couldn't help applauding for Hauge's decisive decision, "Okay~"

Hauge in the Qing camp was quite excited when he saw that the formation on the western front had stabilized. Just as he was a little more stable, there was a sudden commotion from the east, which made him feel excited again.

Horrified, Hauge turned his head suddenly, the scene in front of him made his eyes red, and the eyeballs almost burst out of their sockets.

As soon as the Qing army stabilized the western front, the 1 green battalion in the east was finally unable to hold on under the siege of Zhang Wenxiu's [-] horses, and the whole army retreated with a loud noise.

Youdao said that the army was defeated like a mountain, and Li Guoying's troops were driven by Zhang Wenxiu like an ebb tide, and fled to the Qing camp.At this time, within the Qing camp, as the defeated soldiers rolled in, panic and uneasiness spread rapidly. All the generals of the Qing army could see that once the defeated soldiers crashed into the camp, it would inevitably cause turmoil in the entire army.

Hauge stood on the high platform, looked east again, and then shouted furiously: "Hold this king, let the arrows go, let the arrows go, don't let the rout soldiers enter the camp." Zhang Sheng, the general of Zhang Dingguo, looked at the north. Seeing this change, my heart immediately became excited, and called Zhang Dingguo loudly: "Your Highness, the opportunity has come~"

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