When Shi Fu heard the news, he hurriedly drove his horse to the front of the battle and climbed high and looked into the distance, and saw that in the narrowest place between Huanghua Mountain and Nanpu River, there was a row of dark green human walls lying there, stretching for more than two miles wide, and he was afraid that there could be thousands of people.

Seeing this, he felt a little more at ease in his heart, the group of men and horses in front of him should be the Ming army besieging Jian'an, and if they block him here, the pressure on Jian'an City will be reduced a lot.

He glanced behind him again and asked Adjutant General Xie Peng, "How far are the enemy forces behind?" ”

"General Hui, an hour ago, Li Jie's department behind the palace just engaged the Ming army, and at this moment it should still be eight or nine miles away."

Shi Fu frowned, if he waited for the thousands of Ming troops chasing behind him to approach, then he would inevitably fall into an unfavorable situation of being attacked by the enemy on his back. For the sake of today's plan, we must first break through the enemy who is intercepted in front of us.

In this way, even if the Ming army behind him catches up, he can't return to meet the enemy in a formation, he can directly return to Jian'an City and meet Dahasu in one place. At that time, whether to wait for the opportunity to go out of the city to attack the enemy, or to wait for General Bolo to return for help, at least Jian'an can be guaranteed.

He looked at the extremely thin long snake formation in front of him again, and it seemed that the Ming army was worried that he would bypass their line and return to the city, so he put on such a narrow formation.

However, although such a long formation has a large defensive area, it makes the troops in each place insufficient, and it is very easy to be breached, and it is not without a chance.

Thinking of this, he immediately lifted his spirits, and ordered the whole army to gather in the center, with the cavalry in front and the foot soldiers following closely behind, concentrating all his forces to storm a point on the Ming army's defensive line.

He still had 700 cavalry in his hands, and it was not difficult to break through the thin long snake formation. After that, the foot soldiers rushed up to cover the gap and killed, and the enemy formation was sure to be broken immediately!

"My lord, the Qing army is shrinking and forming a formation, and it seems that it is preparing to charge our army." Zhang Jiayu put away the binoculars and turned to Zhu Linmiao.

"It's finally here." Zhu Linmiao nodded, not surprised at all. According to the established strategy, Zhen Zhen should lead his troops to chase behind Shi Fu at this time, and if Shi Fu does not attack, he can only wait to be caught in the front and back.

However, the Dragon Guard marched faster, and Shi Fu walked too slowly, so he waited here for two days, only to find it very boring.

"Send more hussars to reconnoiter on both flanks, beware of the enemy's secret position." He looked at the Shifu army formation through the binoculars and instructed Zhang Jiayu, "It seems that the captive army is planning to charge intensively in the middle of the road. Order the artillery battalion to gather in the middle and bombard the enemy head-on with all firepower!

"The heavy cavalry battalion formed a formation on the left side, and when the enemy's momentum was stopped, it immediately cut into the enemy's right flank and divided it into two sections. The infantry lines on both flanks immediately closed in the center and annihilated the enemy with cross-fire. ”

"Yes!"

Zhu Linmiao thought about it again and continued: "To be safe, let the dragoons stand by behind the infantry in the middle lane, once the enemy breaks through the infantry line, the dragoons will immediately form a formation in place to plug the gap."

"In addition, send someone to get in touch with General Zhen's headquarters and inform her of the battle situation here."

"Yes!"

Under Shi Fu's constant urging, the 700 cavalry under his command hurriedly gathered into a dense formation of four rows in front and rear, led by the deputy general Xie Peng, and slowly pressed towards the Ming defense line on the south side.

Xie Peng knew that his charge was the key to whether the army could break through, and he put on another layer of armor in addition to the cotton armor he usually wore, which was also a determination to die, and drove his horse to the forefront.

When he was still nearly 300 paces away from the enemy's formation, he drew his saber from his waist and ordered the whole team to start adding.

But as soon as the war horse under his crotch walked out of less than ten zhang with small steps, he saw a fire shining in the Ming army's position, and with the thick black smoke rolling, a thunderous roar rushed towards him, and then Xie Peng was surrounded by a group of people on his back.

More than a dozen iron balls slammed into the dense cavalry ranks, and in an instant, forty or fifty people turned into a mess of minced meat, and they barely had time to scream. The entire assault formation was suddenly panicked.

Shi Fu, who was sweeping in the distance, heard the sound of cannons and was shocked in his heart, how can anyone in the Ming army have a cannon now?! I just ate the shelling in Pucheng a few days ago, and this is the case again in Jian'an at this time. Why have I been a Ming general for so many years, but I haven't even seen a single cannon hair?!

Xie Peng in front of the battle couldn't stop scolding his mother in his heart, he knew that it was extremely dangerous to attack the Ming army's defense line this time, but he didn't expect that there were still cannons, and looking at the density of this artillery bombardment, I am afraid that there are at least a dozen guns!

But at this time, he could no longer make any other plans, so he had to order the cavalry under his command to disperse slightly, and still continue to rush forward.

This was followed by two rounds of artillery roaring, and the Qing cavalry fell to death. To say that Xie Peng was also lucky, although he rushed to the front, he happened to pass between a few shells, and he was not injured.

Seeing that there were still more than 100 steps left from the Ming army, although it was usually difficult for the war horse to sprint with all its strength to last for sixty or seventy steps, he couldn't care about so much under the threat of artillery, so he immediately raised his knife and turned his head and shouted: "...... with me"

The second half of the sentence was stuck in his throat and never shouted, and when he turned around, he saw that the seven hundred cavalry had already been in chaos, and there were only more than a hundred cavalry following him.

The other horses had already turned their horses and fled frantically, and the overseers who had been following behind were violently knocked to the ground, trampled repeatedly by hundreds of horses' hooves, and were long gone.

Shi Fu's department was exhausted all the way from Pucheng, and was constantly attacked and harassed by the broken camp behind them, day and night, so that they were always worried and almost never closed their eyes, and more than 1,000 people were lost along the way. It was because everyone was depressed and demoralized.

As soon as Xie Peng's cavalry team heard the sound of cannons, most of them had already lost their spirit. Immediately after the cannon killed a hundred and ten men, some people fled, and the other cavalry did the same, and soon the number of those who rushed backward had already passed forward.

Xie Peng scolded loudly, but he was helpless when the morale of the soldiers was lost, even if the more than 100 people on his side rushed to the front of the Ming army, it was just for nothing.

In the end, he had to take the remaining hundred or so people, oh no, the row of cannons that had been bombarded a moment ago, and now there were only about seventy people left, and turned and fled towards the main formation.

The defeated cavalry soon encountered the foot soldiers who had been following them, and immediately caused a wave of confusion, some of the cavalry turned their horses and separated on both sides of the foot formation, and some of them were frightened and plunged into the crowd.

Such a stir and the formation of the infantry is also a big chaos, coupled with the low morale, at this time, seeing the defeat of the cavalry, some people exclaimed, "Defeated, defeated!" He turned and fled.

Immediately, some people in the entire Shi Fu army fled backwards, some people still moved forward, and some people secretly fled from both sides, and they were in a mess for a while, and no one paid attention to Shi Fu's military orders.

After Shi Fu personally led the guards to cut down no less than forty or fifty people, the soldiers barely restored order, but saw the soldiers next to him pointing to the south and said loudly: "General, there is a Ming army behind!" ”

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