610 does not withdraw troops

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Knock knock!

Soon, there were also war drums from the east, as well as the sound of uniform footsteps, and more than 20,000 White Dragon Army foot soldiers in the five phalanxes, under the personal leadership of Li Zixiao, killed from the southeast.

"King Chuang, now that Li Zixiao is coming with the army, Kaifeng City can no longer be attacked, I ordered Liu Zongmin to withdraw them, and deal with Li Zixiao first."

At this time, Gao Guiying, who was staying by Li Zicheng's side, immediately suggested to Li Zicheng.

At this time, Li Zicheng was very angry and hesitant, seeing that Kaifeng City was about to be taken by him, at this time Li Zixiao led the army to kill, directly shattering his hope.

"King Chuang, Madame is right, give an order quickly, otherwise when Li Zixiao brings people to kill, our siege army will be cut off, and it will be difficult to retreat at that time."

At this time, Niu Jinxing was also anxious and shouted at Li Zicheng.

Finally, Li Zicheng forcibly suppressed the anger in his heart, regained his composure, and then turned to a general behind him and ordered: "Zhang Shijie, lead the cavalry to stop Li Zixiao's cavalry, and don't let him continue to charge west." ”

"Yes, my subordinates obey."

Zhang Shijie immediately retreated, leading Li Zicheng's only 5,000 cavalry in his hand at this time, to stop Qi Wei.

After Li Zicheng regained his composure at this time, he still saw the situation on the battlefield very clearly.

Li Zixiao led the army to kill from the southwest, and the first to bear the brunt were Qi Wei and Han Tong's cavalry, who were considered to be the vanguard and were responsible for attacking Li Zicheng's eastern section.

As you can see now, more than 3,000 cavalry of the White Dragon Army led by Qi Wei and Han Tong directly dispersed more than 20,000 soldiers and soldiers in the eastern section, and then wantonly rushed to kill, creating chaos and fear.

With Qi Wei's cavalry, they scattered the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the eastern section, and they came towards Li Zicheng's Chinese army.

And Li Zixiao's main infantry legion, which was closely behind Qi Wei's cavalry, would follow them and press up, and then use the dense firepower of flintlock pistols to slaughter those soldiers who were in panic and fear.

Li Zicheng is not wrong at all, this is Li Zixiao's tactics, simple and direct.

Bang bang bang!

At this time, in the eastern section of the south gate of Kaifeng, dense gunfire continued to be heard.

More than 20,000 white dragon soldiers lined up in five phalanxes, placing more than 8,000 firecrackers in the front, and then they walked in neat steps, slowly approaching the 20,000 siege men and horses of the eastern section of the army.

"Put!"

Bang bang bang!

As Li Zixiao's main army pressed up, the dense firepower of the flintlock pistols slaughtered the soldiers who had fallen into panic and even the formation was chaotic.

The cavalry assault had just passed, and then the intensive fire attack arrived, and it was difficult for the 20,000 soldiers in the eastern section not to collapse.

At this time, Li Zicheng could also see that the 20,000 horses in the eastern section were completely finished.

Li Zicheng now only hopes that the more than 20,000 soldiers in the eastern section will give full play to the last bit of residual heat, so that they can slow down Li Zixiao's infantry army.

Then, he asked Zhang Shijie to lead his cavalry to stop Qi Wei and Han Tong's assault cavalry, withdraw the siege men and horses for him, rectify the Chinese army, rearrange the formation, and meet Li Zixiao.

"Give Hao Shaoqi to the west an order to withdraw the siege men and horses immediately, immediately regroup his troops, and come to join us.

At the same time, send people to give orders to Li Guo and Song Xiance, who were attacking the east and west gates, so that they should come and join us immediately. ”

Li Zicheng ordered again.

"King Chuang, aren't we going to retreat now?" Niu Jinxing asked suspiciously.

Originally, Niu Jinxing thought that Li Zicheng would come down and let Song Xiance and Li Guo retreat on their own, and then join them somewhere.

However, now that Li Zicheng directly ordered that all the people from both walks of life rush to converge, there was the slightest sign of retreat.

"What to withdraw, today is either the death of this king, or the death of his Li Zixiao, this king fought with him Li Zixiao this time."

Although Li Zicheng calmly ordered, the anger in his heart was like a volcano that had been silent for thousands of years and suddenly erupted, and it was difficult to contain.

"No! Break the king! ”

As soon as Li Zicheng said this, Niu Jinxing and Gao Guiying next to him were immediately shocked, and Niu Jinxing immediately stopped.

"Don't persuade anyone, this king has made up his mind this time, and he must share the victory with Li Zixiao.

What are you all afraid of, look at Li Zixiao at this time is only twenty or thirty thousand horses, this king still has more than 100,000 people in his hands, this king doesn't believe it, and he can't beat him. ”

Li Zicheng was determined this time, and when he saw that Niu Jinxing was going to continue to dissuade, he directly raised his hand to stop him.

Seeing Li Zicheng stop himself from continuing to dissuade, Niu Jinxing was also very helpless, and at the same time muttered in his heart: "Fighting a war is not just about who has the most numbers!"

At this time, although there are many of us, the situation on the battlefield is too unfavorable for us, and Li Zixiao just thinks that the time for this person to attack is too appropriate. ”

It's just that Niu Jinxing looked at Li Zicheng, who couldn't listen to anyone's opinion at this time, and was also very helpless, he simply didn't say it, and it was useless to say it.

At this time, the situation on the battlefield is still changing rapidly.

Qi Wei and Han Tong led 3,000 cavalry of the White Dragon Army in the east, and after disrupting the 20,000 soldiers and horses in the east, they still wanted to continue to attack the west, trying to attack Li Zicheng's Chinese soldiers and horses.

However, they also encountered the attack of the 5,000 cavalry led by Zhang Shijie and stopped it, and more than 8,000 cavalry on both sides started a fierce battle.

At this time, all of Li Zicheng's besiegers and horses had also withdrawn, and more than 30,000 people of the Chinese army were rapidly assembling and were no longer responsible for attacking the city, but turned to the east to line up.

The 20,000 soldiers led by Hao Shaoqi in the west also quickly gave up the siege and rushed towards Li Zicheng's side.

And the 20,000 soldiers in the east were already in complete chaos at this time, and one of the generals in charge of commanding them had already been killed by Qi Wei who had rushed over.

Losing his command, he faced the menacing White Dragon Army in the southeast, and the dense firepower output continued to kill the soldiers and soldiers.

Under these circumstances, it would be impossible for the 20,000 soldiers to organize a resistance.

"Give Li Tianba an order, let him lead a side of the soldiers, speed up the advance, block the mouth to the south, and not let the defeated soldiers flee to the south, and drive them all to the west."

At this time, Li Zixiao rode a horse to follow, and the middle side of the White Dragon Army advanced in the formation, quickly scanning the entire battlefield, and then gave an order.

As Li Zixiao's order was issued, a standard-bearer next to him immediately waved the flag at the phalanx of foot soldiers led by Li Tianba in the south.

The standard-bearer on Li Tianba's side immediately understood the flag language, and immediately told Li Tianba the order.

"The general has come to order, and the whole army obeys the order and accelerates its advance."

Li Tianba roared excitedly, and then led the more than 5,000 White Dragon Army foot soldiers of the southernmost phalanx, accelerated forward, and directly cut off the back road of the 20,000 troops in the east who fled to the south.

Li Zixiao's purpose in doing this is actually very simple and clear.

The 20,000 soldiers who were responsible for attacking Kaifeng in the east had become frightened birds at this time, and their spirits had completely collapsed, and they did not have much combat effectiveness at all.

The only thing they want to do now is to escape, regardless of the escape together, and escape from this battlefield as soon as possible.

In this way, in front of these soldiers who are completely in chaos, Kaifeng City is in the north, and they can't escape, and in the east is the direction where Li Zixiao's army came, and going east is equivalent to suicide.

And there are their men in the west, but now the two west sides are also fighting, and the best way to escape is to the south.

However, now Li Zixiao sent Li Tianba to lead a formation of 5,000 White Dragon Army foot soldiers, and directly accelerated to rush over, directly blocking this road to retreat south.

Li Zixiao just wanted to force these panicked soldiers to flee westward, which was the only acceptable escape direction other than their south.

In this way, Li Zixiao could drive away the defeated 20,000 soldiers and soldiers, and let them attack Li Zicheng's Chinese army first.

On the battlefield, what I am most afraid of is this kind of rout attacking my own array, which is equivalent to doing the enemy a favor.

"Kill!"

The situation on the battlefield changed rapidly, and Qi Wei's side was the most fierce battle at this time.

His 2,000 flying feather cavalry, plus Han Tong's 1,000 cavalry from the scout battalion, were fighting with the 5,000 cavalry led by Zhang Shijie.

The 5,000 cavalry of the Chuang Army was also put together by Li Zicheng, the only cavalry under his command.

Cavalry is not a type of soldier that can be pulled up if you want to, and Li Zicheng also had the qualification to form a cavalry after conquering Luoyang and obtaining a large number of war horses.

Originally, last year, Li Zicheng's cavalry had expanded to more than 20,000 people, but then there was a serious problem of attrition.

In the end, Li Zicheng found that more than 20,000 cavalry was not something he could afford at all.

He still has so many homeless people under him, and the food is getting more and more scarce, how can he have the strength to feed more than 20,000 cavalry!

So, in the end, Li Zicheng listened to Niu Jinxing's advice and reduced the more than 20,000 cavalry to 5,000, which was also the maximum limit that Li Zicheng could barely bear at this time.

The 5,000 cavalry under Li Zicheng can be regarded as carefully selected, and their combat effectiveness is okay.

In addition, now that they have a numerical advantage, they did not fall behind in the fight with the cavalry of the White Dragon Army led by Qi Wei and Han Tongsuo.

And with the passage of time, the 20,000 defeated soldiers in the east, in addition to those who were killed in battle, or were wounded and could not escape, there were more than 15,000 at this time.

At this time, more than 15,000 routs were bypassing the battlefield where the two cavalry were fighting, and rushed towards Li Zicheng's Chinese army, which was close at hand to the west.

"Damn, Li Zixiao forced our defeated soldiers in the east to rush towards our Chinese army."

At this time, Li Zicheng also found the routs rushing from the east, his face was solemn, he naturally knew that he couldn't let those routs disperse the Chinese army that he had just completed the formation.

Immediately, Li Zicheng looked at his wife and brother Gao Yigong and ordered him: "Guoxun (Gao Yigong's character), you immediately lead your troops to go forward and stop these routs."

Guide them to retreat south, and if anyone does not obey the command, they will be killed on the spot. ”

"Yes, Your Majesty."

Soon, Gao Yigong led his 5,000 soldiers to rush out of the ranks of the Chinese army, and formed an improvised defense line more than 20 steps ahead to block these routs and guide them to retreat south.

"Shoot the arrows!"

Poof! Poof!

In the face of these routs who were desperate and fled frantically towards the west, Gao Yigong's shouting did not work at all, so he simply ordered the archers to shoot arrows at them.

Gao Yigong understood that at this time, only blood could make these defeated soldiers fearful and make them obey his guidance.

The arrows that were shot out directly killed a group of soldiers who were running in front, and the threat of death directly deterred the soldiers who followed closely behind, making them stop and look ahead in horror.

"So listen, don't rush this way anymore, everyone turns around and goes south, follows our team, retreats to the back of the Chinese army, and goes to join General Hao, hurry up!"

At this time, these intimidated soldiers had the heart to listen to Gao Yigong's words, and then they followed Gao Yigong's defense line one after another, went around half a circle, and retreated to the south and then to the west.

"Hey, Li Zicheng reacted fast enough this time."

Soon, Li Zicheng saw this scene and knew that his plan to use the rout to attack Li Zicheng's Chinese army formation had failed.

"General, Li Zicheng has no intention of retreating this time, this is going to have a hard fight with us!"

Li Zixiao's next to the chief guard quartz, at this time the urn said.

"Hehe, Li Zicheng probably hates me to death this time, and he won't withdraw the army in this case, but since he wants to fight with me, then come on, I can still be afraid that he won't succeed.

If this were to be changed to another time, let me lead 30,000 horses to fight a decisive battle with Li Zicheng's army of more than 100,000 people, I really wouldn't dare.

But this time, we didn't look at the battlefield situation at this time, it was completely us who took the initiative, and Li Zicheng hardly saw any advantage except for the large number of people.

In this case, even if he has more than 100,000 troops, it will be useless, and the war cannot be won with a large number of people.

Of course, we can't be careless, after all, more than half of our 30,000 troops this time are new recruits, and even if they are all rigorously trained.

But they didn't go to such a big battlefield after all, so they had to be careful.

I want to ensure that once I really fight head-on with Li Zicheng's army, I will let Li Zicheng's men and horses suffer from shelling all the time. ”

Li Zixiao knew very well at this time where his strengths and weaknesses were in this battle, and what he had to do was to maximize his advantages and avoid weaknesses.

At this time, as Li Zixiao led the army to fight, Li Zicheng withdrew all the men and horses attacking the city, so that the southern city wall of Kaifeng was all returned to the hands of the Ming army.

Now on the south city wall of Kaifeng, thousands of soldiers of the Ming army are all lying at the battlements of the city wall, looking out of the city, looking at the evolving battlefield situation under the city.

"Lord General Soldier, it was Zhenguo General Li Zixiao who led the army to rescue us."

At this time, Yang Wenyue stood beside Chen Yongfu, looking at the 'Li' flag outside the city, and the 'White Snake Flag' next to it, and immediately recognized the origin of the White Dragon Army, and said to Chen Yongfu excitedly.

(End of chapter)