In this battle, Zhu Linwei was worried about only one thing, and that was that the enemy army was shrinking into the city. Not only did he have to lure Zhu Yu'ao's soldiers out of the city, but he also had to make sure that they couldn't escape.

His plan was also very simple, gather his troops, set up a scattered formation and wait for Tang Wang's people to attack, and then feint all the way. When the enemy army saw that there was no ambush, and relied on his own men and horses to outnumber several times, how could he not pursue him?

Wait until the enemy is far enough away to strike back, so that they have no chance of escaping back into the city.

However, this plan may seem simple, but it cannot be implemented by anyone. Not being able to quickly crush the enemy will not work. When the enemy finds that the situation is not right, they turn around and run away, and they can't catch up with the enemy. Once you've caught up, you can't intercept all the enemies.

Zhu Linmi's decision to make such a plan stemmed from his absolute confidence in the Dragon Guard's combat effectiveness.

"How far are we from Tianxing Mansion?"

Zhang Jiayu looked at the surrounding terrain, looked at the map again, and said, "Back to my lord, it's about sixteen or seventeen miles." ”

"It's not far enough." Zhu Linmiao raised his binoculars and observed the cavalry a mile away on the right, when Zhang An sent to attack the flank of the Dragon Guard, "Let the heavy cavalry battalion go to the right flank to cover, beware of the enemy cutting us apart." ”

"Yes!" Immediately a herald galloped away.

"Hasn't the main enemy force yet appeared?" Zhu Linmiao put away the binoculars and said again.

Zhang Jiayu shook his head and said: "Only 6,000 people from Zhang Anbu followed, but in the early morning, the hussars detected tens of thousands of Cantonese troops leaving the city from the north gate of Tianxing Mansion. ”

Zhu Linmiao gritted her teeth, "Let Da Mu hold on for a while, be sure to wait until Su Ping shows up." "The rebel army of Zheng Chenggong in the rear team was directly facing the enemy, and although all the members were equipped with armor, the losses were still very great. Not long after, the team came to report that the casualties had exceeded 30%.

"Yes!"

Before Zhang Jiayu's words fell, he saw Zhao Shichao coming with an excited face, and he said loudly when he was still twenty steps away: "Report!" My lord, the main force of the Cantonese army was found on the north side, and they came in two teams. There were more than 1,000 cavalry in its forward, and the distance was only less than three miles. ”

"This guy has finally come to the fore!" Zhu Linmiao slammed the horsewhip on the palm of his hand, and said to Zhang Jiayu, "Order, implement the C-word plan!" ”

"Yes!"

"Damn, this Zhu Linmiao runs faster than a rabbit!" Although Zhang An didn't know how far he had chased him, he could see that the physical strength of his foot soldiers had reached the limit.

But he became more and more excited in his heart, because it meant that Zhu Linmiao's people couldn't run anymore! A cavalry has just come to report, saying that Su Ping's army has also outflanked from the north side, if nothing else, this time next year will be his Zhu Linmiao's death day!

"Give Lao Tzu more strength......" He was just halfway through shouting, when he suddenly heard a dense drum beat in front of him.

Zhang An raised his eyes in surprise, and saw that the rebels who had fled in a panic all the way suddenly stopped, and hundreds of blue-background flags were instantly erected in the array. Then the hundreds of people in the rear team parted to the sides, revealing a neatly arranged phalanx of foot soldiers, in which there were many birds and guns, and the cold light of the short swords in the mouth was dazzling.

Zhang An subconsciously felt that something was wrong, and was about to give the order to be on guard, when he heard the sound of a bang constantly sounding. Although this round of guns was sporadic and only 100 rounds, it was astonishingly accurate, and fifty or sixty standard-bearers and officers in Zhang An's army were immediately killed.

When Zhang An's order to form a formation to meet the enemy came out, more than half of his front team fell with flags, and the soldiers could not be effectively commanded, and they all spun in place like headless flies. And as the Dragon Guard hunters continue to snipe, there is a tendency to become more and more chaotic.

As for Zhang An's Chinese army, Fang Cai was catching up, and suddenly said that he was going to line up, and he was in a hurry for a while.

Zhang Anzheng loudly scolded his officers for restraining the soldiers, but was shocked to hear that thousands of "rebels" on the opposite side let out a cry at the same time, "Advance together!" Then the enemy phalanx was like a wall, slowly but resolutely pressing over from a distance of more than a hundred paces.

At the same time, two other groups of foot soldiers in the enemy's formation were separated from each other to the left and right, as if they were trying to outflank his two flanks.

"Lord Captain!" The guards beside Zhang An saw him stunned, and hurriedly shouted, "What should I do?" ”

"Mother*, you want to fight hard if you can't get rid of it?" Zhang An stared at Zhu Linmiao's direction, his eyes were blood-red, "I haven't been afraid of anyone in terms of hard work!"

"It's all *mother* to Lao Tzu!

"The Guangdong army is coming soon, and the employment pile can also pile up and kill Zhu Linmi, this little cub!"

"Obey!"

As Zhang Anjun's snare drum remembered, one of the sergeants immediately howled and rushed forward, and the bewitching figure of the pink head of Fuyuan Street had already appeared in his heart.

But in the next moment, there were one after another shouts from the Dragon Guard.

"Stand!"

"Aim!"

At a distance of seventy paces, the first flintlock salvo slashed off a layer of the sword and shield players of Zhang An's front team. The soldiers, who had lost their flags or the commanders who were in a daze, suddenly saw a corpse that had been shot to the ground at their feet, and immediately reflexively turned around and fled backwards.

As soon as Zhang Anzhongjun received the order to charge, the people who ran in front collided with the soldiers of the front team, and when they were about to curse angrily, the roar of a volley of fire broke out in front of him. No one scolded anymore, and everyone joined the team that turned around and fled.

This is the characteristic of bandit soldiers, when fighting a good fight, they are like bloodthirsty beasts, and it is possible to fight ten enemies with one. However, once they encounter a strong enemy, they will flee faster than one - the bandits can wield a knife and kill people for the three days of Qinglou's romance, but they are never willing to take their own lives for this.

There was no suspense, and these bandit soldiers with mixed sources and outdated weapons could not even withstand five volleys, and the whole army began to retreat.

Zhang An waved his knife angrily, but his voice was quickly drowned out by shouts such as "defeated" and "flee for your life".

At the same time, three battalions of Dragon Guard infantry had come up from both sides.

After a long-distance "pursuit" of more than ten miles before, Zhang An's subordinates were already sore and weak, and although they were desperately escaping at the moment, their speed was not much faster than walking.

On the other hand, the soldiers of the Dragon Guard, ten miles of weight-bearing cross-country running are commonplace, and at this time, one by one, they are alive and well, and in the blink of an eye, they crossed the enemy army and began to form a formation.

On the other side, the cavalry of the Cantonese Army seconded by Zhang An also had a head-on "confrontation" with the heavy cavalry of the Dragon Guard.

The battle was equally one-sided. The Guangdong cavalry was equipped with low Dian horses, and the cavalry of the Dragon Guard Army who were riding Hetao horses and looking down at themselves from a distance were already frightened.

Then the charge of the heavy cavalry battalion did not come close, and the Cantonese army turned around and fled. Zhao Shichao watched with amazement as the hussars chased after him with their reed wheels held high, so he had to order his subordinates to turn around and support the infantry in battle.

Su Ping faintly heard the dense loud sound of firecrackers in the distance, but after a moment, it was silent again.

He shouted in his heart that it was not good, it seemed that Zhang An had defeated the rebels, and he hurried to catch up but still did not get a piece of war merit.

"Sharper under your feet!" He turned his head eagerly and shouted.