599 Battle of Zhu Xianzhen (6)

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"Drive! Kill! ”

In the vast wilderness west of Hutou Ridge, thousands of soldiers were fleeing, and behind them, two fierce cavalry pursued them all the way.

As the half-day battle progressed, Yang Wenyue's ambush of Liu Zongmin's troops basically won a complete victory, and the 50,000 troops were completely defeated.

A large number of soldiers were driven to the wilderness in the west, but unfortunately they couldn't outrun the cavalry under Lu Teng and Qi Wei on their two legs.

Two cavalry marched across the vast field, one south and one north, leaving behind countless corpses.

The soldiers ran away desperately, throwing away everything they could, just to be able to run faster.

Because anyone who fell behind and was caught up by the Ming cavalry, without exception, all of them were killed.

Fortunately, Liu Zongmin had a horse, and under the leadership of dozens of personal guards, he fled frantically to the west.

And the more than 600 elite soldiers who followed him before were left behind by him because they had no war horses, and blocked the footsteps of the Ming cavalry for him.

Not to mention, it was just 600 elite soldiers of the army, which was really enough for the cavalry led by Lu Teng, and the huge trouble caused by Lu Teng almost overturned in the gutter.

These 600 elite soldiers of the intruding army, all with the heart of death, rushed together with the 4,000 cavalry of the Ming Army led by Lu Teng, who came after them.

At the moment of the confrontation between the two sides, the dozens of soldiers in the front were directly knocked into the air by Lu Teng's cavalry.

But with these soldiers and soldiers, lined up in a dense formation, after making the dozens of people in front pay the price of tragic deaths, they simply blocked the speed of Lu Teng's cavalry.

Next, they took the opportunity to rush up, cut off the horse's legs, and fought desperately, and in the end, all the more than 600 elite soldiers of the invading army were killed.

But they delayed Lu Teng for a whole time, and for nearly half a burnt of incense, they also made Lu Teng pay the price of more than 100 cavalry casualties.

Lu Teng looked at the corpses of the elite soldiers who died all over the ground, his face was extremely gloomy, he never expected that among these thieves, there would be such an elite.

"How can I not be optimistic about this battle!"

Lu Teng looked at the corpses of the six hundred elite soldiers who died in battle, his face was solemn, and he muttered to himself in a deep voice.

When Lu Teng saw this elite army, in this case, he could not be defeated, and he also launched a fierce counterattack against them.

Lu Teng was really worried in his heart at this time, how many such elite people there were under Li Zicheng.

Such an elite team, put on the battlefield of the decisive battle, can turn the entire tide of the battle.

"I hope I'm thinking too much, presumably even among the thieves, there won't be too many such elites." Lu Teng could only comfort himself like this in the end.

And Qi Wei's side was not as unlucky as Lu Teng, they did not encounter such resistance, and pursued and killed the defeated soldiers all the way.

However, Qi Wei didn't go all out, he took the Flying Feather Battalion to chase ten miles west, then stopped the pursuit and turned back.

In a mountain forest more than ten miles west of Hutouling, Liu Zongmin took more than fifty personal guards to hide here.

"General, the cavalry of the Ming army did not chase after me." One of the guards rode off and reported.

"Whew, that's good, that's good!"

After Liu Zongmin heard the news, he breathed a sigh of relief and said happily.

As long as the cavalry of the Ming army did not chase after him, he would have escaped this catastrophe.

Gollum!

Liu Zongmin turned out to be a water bladder handed over by his subordinates and poured it into his mouth, and they were tired and thirsty all the way away.

"Liang Da, you take two of you back and tell King Chuang about the Ming army's ambush on us.

Something is wrong, judging from the Ming army that ambushed us, the Ming army at this time was extremely combative, and it didn't want to be short of food and the army's morale was sluggish.

Tell King Chuang to be careful, he will definitely fall into the trap of the Ming army. ”

Immediately, the more Liu Zongmin thought about it, the more uneasy he became, and he said to his henchmen.

"Yes, General, my subordinates will take people back. But what about you, General? Aren't you going back? Liang Da asked Liu Zongmin suspiciously.

Of course, Liu Zongmin didn't want to go back at this time, he lost this battle too completely, which made him unwilling, worried that he would be punished by King Chuang when he went back.

Moreover, at this time, Liu Zongmin also planned to stay, re-play his banner, collect the rout of the intruding army in this area, and then make a detour to Xincheng to support Song Xiance.

"You just go back and deliver the letter, I'll collect the rout here, and then take a detour to Xincheng, Song Xiance is in urgent need of support, and it will be helpful for me to bring a group of people."

Liu Zongmin said in a deep voice.

Liu Zongmin's side was ambushed halfway, and when he sent someone back to deliver the letter, it had been a full day since they left the Wei family.

And by the time Liang Da led the people back to Wei's family, almost another day had passed.

And in the past two days, Li Zicheng, who has been staying in the Wei clan, has already made up his mind to launch a general attack on Zhuxian Town.

In fact, according to the calculation of time, when Li Zicheng sent troops to launch a general attack on Zhuxian Town, it also happened to be the time when Yang Wenyue ambushed Liu Zongmin.

"Kill!"

On the night of the 25th, there was a shout of killing in Zhuxian Town, and Li Zicheng finally couldn't help but do it.

Li Zicheng personally led 25,000 elite soldiers and 100,000 co-enslaved troops, divided into five routes, and entered Zhuxian Town all night, preparing to defeat Ding Qirui in one fell swoop.

At the same time, he also left Niu Jinxing in the Wei family, leaving him 5,000 elite soldiers and 50,000 auxiliary troops as a support force.

"Huh? What's going on? Why no one? ”

As a result, when Li Zicheng led the soldiers and soldiers to enter Zhuxian Town, he found that the town was empty, and even those people were gone.

"Could it be that the Ming army has withdrawn, is it impossible?" Gao Guiying, Gao Yigong and other generals who broke into the army were all very confused.

"What is this?"

As a result, the careful Li Guo soon found a lot of hay in the corners of the streets and alleys of Zhuxian Town, and the amount was very large.

When Li Guo picked up a handful of hay, he still felt wet, and thought it was water, but it was very slippery.

"No, it's oil, it's fire oil. Not good! ”

When Li Guo felt that something was wrong, he put the handful of hay he picked up to his nose and smelled it, his face changed suddenly, and he couldn't help shouting loudly.

"Someone, go and inform King Chuang, this is a trap for the Ming army, we have fallen for it."

Li Guo shouted loudly to the guards next to him.

Then, he turned around and shouted loudly to the more than 20,000 soldiers behind him: "The whole army obeys the order and immediately withdraws from Zhuxian Town, quickly!" ”

And just when Li Guo first discovered these hay sprinkled with fire oil, in fact, several other generals of the army, such as Gao Guiying, Gao Yigong, and Hao Shaoqi, also discovered them at this time.

They also knew about the plan, and immediately asked people to notify King Chuang, and at the same time asked their men to withdraw from Zhuxian Town immediately.

Whoosh!

As a result, they were still one step too late.

At this time, in the east, west, and north directions of Zhuxian Town, a number of torches were lit, and then rockets were fired intensively into Zhuxian Town.

Whew!

When the rocket was fired into the dry grass sprinkled with fire oil, it burst into flames.

In just a few moments, the entire Zhuxian Town turned into a sea of fire, and the fire started too quickly.

"Ahhh

Soon, many of the intruders were hit by rockets, or their padded jackets were ignited by the fire around them, and they turned into living people, screaming and scurrying around.

At this time, Li Zicheng of course knew that he had been tricked, his face was gloomy, and he ordered the whole army to retreat.

"Kill!"

It's just that it's easy to come, but it's hard to leave!

Ding Qirui finally waited for Li Zicheng to enter the urn, how could he easily let them go.

Just when the rocket was fired into the town, the 20,000 elite Ming troops led by Hu Dawei had already outflanked Li Zicheng's back road and killed him.

Hu Dawei wanted to block Li Zicheng in Zhuxian Town, and did not allow Li Zicheng to withdraw easily.

Whoosh!

The dense rockets were still firing, and the entire Zhuxian Town had turned into a sea of fire, and countless soldiers were burned to death by the fire.

At this time, the north of Zhuxian Town was completely a dead end, and it was completely covered by fire, and it was impossible to rush out.

The one with the least flames is the south, after all, Li Zicheng and they killed from the south.

Similarly, the fires on the east and west sides are far less big than those in the north, and the amount of hay that Ding Qirui has placed in these two directions is much less than that in the north.

Obviously, Ding Qirui's purpose is to make Li Zicheng's army unable to break through from the north, so he can only choose to turn around and turn back, or break through to the east and west.

At this time, Hu Dawei's department, which had been killed from the south, had already started a fierce battle with Li Guo's department, who rushed out of Zhuxian Town for the first time.

"King Chuang, we've fallen into a trick, let's get out quickly, it's too late if you don't leave."

In Zhuxian Town, Li Zicheng, who led the attack alone, fell into Zhuxian Town at this time, and a guard on the side said eagerly.

"Panic what." Li Zicheng tried to calm himself down.

Immediately, he looked at the 5,000 elites of the Chuang Army who were following him, as well as the 20,000 co-operative troops.

The 20,000 Xiecong troops were already a little flustered at this time, not only were many people around them burned to death by the fire, but only the 5,000 elite soldiers did not even disperse the formation, looking at Li Zicheng one by one, waiting for his order.

"Good."

Seeing this, Li Zicheng even had a smile on his face and said.

"Come on, send an order to Gao Guiying, Gao Yigong, Hao Shaoqi and Li Guo, let Gao Guiying and Gao Yigong go west to kill, and the remaining three people, let's go south."

Then assemble in the southwest to the Shahe area, and do not need them to come to the rescue of the king. Let's go and give orders! ”

Li Zicheng did not panic at this time, even if he knew that he had fallen into the trap of the Ming army, he still had the confidence that he could rely on the 25,000 elite soldiers in his hands to kill the encirclement of the Ming army.

"Yes!" After listening to Li Zicheng's order, the herald immediately went to give Gao Guiying and their order.

"Since Ding Qirui's old thing wants to eat us in one bite, I want to see if this old thing has such a good mouth.

Let's see if Ding Qirui's old thing eats this king in the end, or if this king breaks his old teeth and pierces his throat. ”

Li Zicheng said coldly at this time.

"Li Nai." Immediately, Li Zicheng shouted to a general next to him.

"The subordinates are here, I will kill them with Tian Jianxiu later, I will give you a thousand elite soldiers as the striker to open the way for us, do you dare to take the order?"

"When the subordinates receive the order, they must find a way out." Li Nai said decisively.

"Okay, after rushing out, you will immediately take someone back to the Wei clan and ask the military advisor for help, understand?"

"Yes, my subordinates understand."

"Everyone listen to this king, this time we fell into the trap of the official army.

Now, if you want to survive, there is only one way, and that is to follow this king and kill him.

The whole army obeyed the order, killed the king, and killed the officers and soldiers! Kill! ”

"Kill!" The intruders also roared angrily.

Immediately, Li Zicheng took his 5,000 elite soldiers and 20,000 Xiemen soldiers to return to kill them.

Of course, at this time, it is estimated that there are not so many people under Li Zicheng, and in a short period of time, the crazy fire has already swallowed up many soldiers.

In fact, the number of soldiers and soldiers who died in the fire was not much compared to Li Zicheng's 125,000 army.

But at this time, the most terrible thing is that the invading army is in a heavy siege, and the surrounding fires are raging, and the invading soldiers who are screaming and wailing to death by the fire have seriously hit the morale of the invading army.

However, at this time, Li Zicheng had no choice, he could only choose to break through, and at the same time, he also took the opportunity to stimulate the desire of his soldiers to survive.

Soon, the other ideas that received Li Zicheng's order broke into the army, and in accordance with Li Zicheng's order, began to break through in the west and south directions.

But they soon, in two directions, were blocked by the Ming army.

The south side is okay, because this is the road when the army comes, and the Ming army does not dare to set too many traps, so as not to let Li Zicheng and them find clues before they enter Zhuxian Town.

But the west is different, Ding Qirui has set up a lot of traps on the east and west sides of Zhuxian Town, and has arranged a lot of back-ups.

This time Ding Qirui is very ambitious, just like Li Zicheng said, this time Ding Qirui wants to eat Li Zicheng's entire army of thieves in one go, and solve the bandit trouble in the Central Plains once and for all.

Moreover, Ding Qirui is also quite confident in his plan for this battle.

What's more, now his plan can be said to have basically succeeded, at least Li Zicheng has already entered the set.

Now, what will test the Ming army is how they ate the 125,000 intruders who had fallen into the trap.

What Ding Qirui didn't know was that his plan for this battle was good and his execution was good, but there was only one thing he was wrong.

That is, the goal he set was too high, and it was not easy to eliminate Li Zicheng's hundreds of thousands of horses in one battle.

In a desperate situation, these originally panicked soldiers will stimulate their desire to survive and burst out with terrifying combat power.

This is like fighting against the water, don't underestimate the power of human beings in a desperate situation to survive.

In this battle, Ding Qirui's choice of the style of play that encircles three and lacks one, and defeats the breaking army, it is already a big victory.

At the same time, what Ding Qirui didn't know was that among the Ming troops under him at this time, it was no longer the Ming army more than ten years ago.

Some of the Ming troops are already rotten at this time, such as Zuo Liangyu's men and horses, I am afraid that they will drop the chain at a critical moment.

(End of chapter)