When the order was received, the Qiongzhou battalion was having breakfast. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Governor Biao Battalion's personal soldiers found Xia Nan and sent an order: "Futai has an order: Qiongzhou Battalion and Shandong Volunteer Commanders and Dengzhou Commanders will assist the Guanning Army in fighting the rebels and immediately pull out." After receiving the enemy, the various units were controlled by the deputy general of Liaodong, Zu Dabi. ”

Xia Nan put the bowl down, quite excited: "As soon as I come, there will be a battle, it's really cool, and the opportunity for our Qiongzhou battalion to become famous has come." Han Sheng, Lian Heng, called our people, and recruited the rebels. ”

After all, it was two years of fighting, and they often opened their eyes to start fighting, and they were very familiar with each other, and the two sides were very quick from discovering the enemy situation to the forward contact, and when the Qiongzhou battalion arrived at the battlefield located ten miles east of Daying, the cavalry of the Guanning Army had already fought with the rebel army led by Li Jiucheng.

The Guanning army was dominated by cavalry, and Li Jiucheng's side also had a lot of cavalry, and as soon as the two sides came up, they sent a thousand cavalry to test each other. The sound of hooves rumbled, the dust filled the sky, and more than 2,000 cavalrymen brandished sabers and slashed each other in the flat open space between the two armies.

After the Qiongzhou battalion lined up its formation, it did not move for the time being and did not take the initiative to attack. The enemy has several thousand experienced cavalry, and the mobility is far superior to its own, so it is not a good idea to take the initiative to attack.

After observing the cavalry melee in front of the formation, Xia Nan asked Wei Lianheng: "Why do both sides have five or six thousand people, but instead of investing troops at one time and competing with each other, only one thousand people each?" ”

Wei Lianheng explained: "In the case of close forces, if there is no absolute certainty, neither side will put all the troops into it, leaving no way back." The two sides only sent about a thousand cavalry to fight in order to open up the situation. If one side has the upper hand, taking advantage of the defeat of the opponent's cavalry, the cavalry of their own side will press on it vigorously, and they can often take advantage of the opportunity of the rout to attack their own arrays and lay down the victory. ”

Xia Nan sighed, it turned out that the battle between the cold weapons troops was fought like this, not as shown in the film and television dramas, the two sides swarmed up under the leadership of the general, like street gangsters fighting in groups, but testing each other, seizing opportunities, and mobilizing troops to attack the enemy's weaknesses according to the battlefield situation.

He watched the scuffle between the two sides for a while, but he really couldn't see the name, so he asked, "In your opinion, who can win this battle?" ”

Wei Lianheng replied while observing: "After all, the Guanning army is a strong army of the Ming Dynasty, and it has fought against the Tartars for many years, not only is its personal martial arts superior to the rebels, but the cooperation between the three and five cavalry is also quite orderly, and most of the rebels are fighting on their own, and it seems that they won't last long......

I have to say that Wei Lianheng's military literacy is very good, and his judgment of the course of the battle is very accurate. Two quarters of an hour later, the rebel cavalry showed signs of weakness and gradually retreated towards their own array.

Xia Nan also saw the clue, "Now Zu Dabi should let the remaining cavalry go up, and the infantry will follow, so it should be difficult for the rebels to block it." ”

Wei Lianheng replied: "Exactly. Zu Dabi is a veteran general, and this opportunity should be seized. ”

At this moment, a group of men and horses next to the Qiongzhou battalion roared out and rushed towards the rebel array, but it was not the Guanning army with the handsome flag of "Zu", but the banner of "Liu".

Xia Nan was stunned, could this be Liu Zeqing's headquarters? He turned his head to look in the direction of the Guan Ning army, and found that in the Guan Ning army formation, Zu Dabi was cursing something angrily, it seemed that he did not send Liu Zeqing to fight.

Xia Nanyi slapped his palms: "I understand, Liu Zeqing saw the bargain and wanted to grab the merits!" ”

The truth was as he expected. Liu Zeqing was originally in charge of covering the two wings of the Guanning Army with Wu Anbang, the chief soldier of Dengzhou, and he was a soy sauce player, and how well he fought in front had little to do with him. But he was not reconciled, before the Guanning army went south, he was beaten by the rebels, and more than half of the men and horses under his command were lost, if he did not make some real achievements, I am afraid that after Shandong was pacified, his life would not be easy - the imperial court always treated the generals with heavy troops preferentially, and dealt with the generals who could not win the battle and had few troops left.

In order to avoid the consequences of being settled by the queen of autumn, Liu Zeqing decided to take a risk. Although he did not want to offend the powerful and unruly Guan Ning army, it was more terrible than the result of being liquidated by the imperial court and possibly being used as a scapegoat for the rebellion. So, seeing that the rebels were defeated, Liu Zeqing immediately personally led the only more than 1,000 cavalry in his hands to go up to grab the credit. A little later, Guan Ningjun sent the reserves, and there was nothing to do with him.

The cavalry of the Guanning Army, which was fighting in front, saw that it was not their own people, but Shandong soldiers, and when they were nameless, they caught fire, Lao Tzu fought to the death, and you shrunken turtles actually ran up to grab the merits of the war! So intentionally or unintentionally, he scattered the formation and blocked the direction of Liu Zeqing's advance.

Liu Zeqing was already weak-hearted and did not dare to clash with the Guanning army, so he commanded his subordinates to go around in a circle and chase after the defeated cavalry of the rebels.

Zu Dabi in the rear was so anxious that he jumped to his feet and scolded loudly: "Damn, this grandson usually acts like a turtle, what is crazy today?" Liu Zeqing rushed up, blocking the way for his reserve to attack the rebels' main formation, so that his deployment to pursue the victory failed, and the great opportunity slipped away.

Li Jiucheng, the leader of the rebel army, was also an old man, and after seeing this scene, he knew that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, so he sent a soft persimmon to the door for him to pinch -- he couldn't know more about the virtues of the local soldiers and horses in Shandong -- so he ordered the remaining 2,000 cavalry to kill Liu Zeqing's men and horses directly.

Seeing that the rebels were directly attacking Liu Zeqing's men and horses, the cavalry of the 1,000 Guanning Army next to him tacitly held their troops and did not intercept them from the flanks. The two thousand rebels directly collided with the Shandong soldiers and horses without any resistance.

The two groups of cavalry collided with each other with a "bang", and the cavalry horses in the front collided with each other and fell heavily to the ground. The cavalry behind brandished their sabers and roared loudly, rushed forward by inertia, and launched an attack on the opposing side.

Unlike the battle situation just now, the rebels faced Liu Zeqing's troops, it was simply chopping melons and vegetables, and after one face, the Shandong soldiers left behind more than 100 corpses, and the rest of them had no will to fight at all, so they turned around and ran away - it was actually killed in seconds!

Liu Zeqing's mood at the moment is extremely bad, he never expected that Guan Ningjun would rather miss the opportunity than let him pick peaches, one-on-one, how could he beat the rebels? I can only run.

Xia Nan looked very cool in the rear, and sneered: "This is the day when it comes to grabbing people's heads, and they deserve it!" ”

Seeing that the Guan Ning army was standing by, the rebels became bolder, followed the Shandong soldiers, chased and killed all the way, and saw that they were about to follow these Shandong soldiers to attack the main formation of the imperial court's soldiers and horses, and the situation on the battlefield was reversed in an instant.