Chapter 37: The Death of Liu Zongmin and Li Yan
At this time, it was the afternoon of June 20th, 276 of the Ming Dynasty, and the time had reached five o'clock, and the sun was turning west, losing the fierceness of noon. The smoke of gunpowder rose from the www.biquge.info of Deer Town, and the weather began to become a little cooler under the cover of the clouds that came at some point. Accompanied by the pleasant temperature was the shouting of the Ming army in the town of Lulu who had regained the upper hand.
"The whole army of the Guards Corps and the Ming army of all departments, the whole army attacked!" Zhu Cihong's order was issued, and a crimson fireworks rose up.
Walking in the camp, Ni Yuanlu clenched his fists heavily and said: "Command the whole army, there is an order from the saint: the whole army attack!" ”
The heralds rushed out, rushed to the first regiment, rushed to the cavalry battalion, and reached the Beijing camp.
At this moment, the Flying Bear Battalion has reached the main battlefield in the middle lane. In the face of the offensive of the Flying Bear Regiment, the morale of the pro-army in the middle camp of the Shun army collapsed.
One after another, the earth-shattering thunderbolts were thrown out by the grenadiers and fell into the camp of the Shun army, and the battle was in chaos. After Gu Kecheng, who rushed to kill the line, died in battle, the Zhongying Shun army had no command, and they did not fight like headless flies. In the battle array of the Shun army, there were quietly soldiers of the Shun army who had collapsed their fighting spirit and fled.
The Flying Bear Regiment that invaded the middle camp was like a giant dragon, spewing fire, waving sharp claws, and opening its bloody mouth. A blazing fire burned down a regiment of Shun troops, and minions and sharp mouths tore through the defenses of Shun army after Shun army.
The earth-shattering thunder is the fire of the Flying Bear Regiment, a group attack and damage.
The minions are the guns of the Flying Bears, and the sharp beaks are the bayonets when they charge. Each round of guns fell in a Shun army battle formation, and every bayonet charge was the morale of the Shun army that melted the ice and snow.
In front of the Flying Bear Regiment, the pro-army of the middle battalion, which was still invincible, began to degenerate. After losing the persuasion of the main general and the plague comrades, the morale collapsed, and the once hungry wolf became a husky.
Looking from the sky, the Flying Bear Regiment rushed out of the city of Deer Town, rushing all the way to kill, unstoppable. is like the Monkey King who escaped into the princess of the iron fan, and it turned the world upside down.
At this point, the Flying Bear Regiment that broke through from the periphery went all the way to the hinterland of the Zhongying pro-army, and the soldiers pointed directly at Liu Zongmin.
However, under the fierce offensive of the Flying Bear Regiment, the resistance of the pro-army in the middle camp became weaker and weaker.
To the east of them, the 1st Regiment and the Cavalry Battalion sounded the trumpet of the charge and began to charge. Even the Jingying boosted their morale and charged in the face of the Dashun Imperial Forest Army, which still maintained its advantage.
Especially on the battlefield in the west, the middle camp pro-army of the Shun army began to break and flee.
Liu Zongmin was frightened, he looked in all directions, and suddenly found that he didn't know when he had become the side that was surrounded.
Zhang Nai didn't know when he returned to Liu Zongmin's side, his face was pale, his mouth trembled, and he said: "General Quan, as fierce as a tiger and a flying bear regiment attacking back and forth, my department can't stop it!" ”
"You shit!" Liu Zongmin jumped to his feet irritably: "There are 50,000 troops, and there are a total of 50,000 soldiers and horses in the middle and right battalions, and they can't defeat 10,000 officers and soldiers?" ”
"Liu Zongmin! Why did Zhang Nai retire from the army! Xie Junyou went crazy, he galloped over and kicked Liu Zongmin angrily.
"Xie Junyou, you dare to yell at me?" Liu Zongmin glared back.
Wu Ruyi didn't look at the two, his mouth trembled, and said, "At this time, it's better to think about it...... How do you solve this mess in front of you...... The cavalry battalion of the officer army retreated ......"
"Pullback?" When Xie Junyou and Liu Zongmin heard this, they all looked over.
Liu Zhen really led the cavalry battalion to highlight the scorching battlefield, without these cavalry battalions directly under the legion with fierce combat effectiveness, the fierce battle between the east of the Shun army and the first regiment on the battlefield was suddenly much easier, and many soldiers were relieved.
But correspondingly, Xie Junyou and Liu Zongmin gasped together.
"Oops...... Unexpectedly, the cavalry of the official army escaped! Liu Zongmin was annoyed, and a cool breath penetrated his heart.
For highly mobile cavalry, it is sometimes impossible to tell whether they are retreating or killing a back and forth, leaving time and distance for the charge to accelerate......
Obviously, Liu Zongmin did not feel that the current war situation would miss a good opportunity.
Sure enough, Liu Zhen laughed loudly, followed the offensive of the first regiment and began to bypass the scorching battlefield, aiming at the right battalion of the Shun army.
This is the weakest point of the Shun army on the main battlefield today.
The right battalion, which had been fighting all morning, had long since become tired of the veterans, and Zhang Nai's withdrawal exposed the bottoms of Xie Junyou's right battalion even more, and in the face of the two-phase attack of the Flying Bear Regiment and the First Regiment, it was gradually unable to support, and the situation was shaky under the first regiment's cooperation with the offensive of the whole army.
At this time, another round of artillery attacked.
Liu Zongmin's mouth was dry, and he looked at the rounds of artillery that hit the Shun army's formation, and all the ambitions in his heart dissipated. He turned his head, looked behind him, and said in his heart: "Go and ask Your Majesty to come to reinforcements again!" If we don't gamble at this time, we'll be finished......"
As a result, the military array around Li Zicheng behind him was in a panic.
The chaos of more than 1,000 sick soldiers made Li Laiheng fall into the anxiety of pacifying the civil strife, and under the chaos, Li Zicheng obviously had no spare strength to send troops in a short period of time.
Seeing this, Liu Zongmin's heart was completely frozen into ice, and there was no hope for all of it, so he looked at Zhang Nai and Wu Ruyi and said, "You two, quickly arrange the army after the break!" As long as I hold the Jingcheng Pass and fight again, my Dashun can still have half of the world! ”
"Strategic Shift!" Liu Zongmin said, and took the lead in retreating with the remaining more than 2,000 cavalry around him.
Taking advantage of the fact that Liu Zhen's cavalry battalion had not yet been killed, Liu Zongmin hurriedly walked first.
As soon as Liu Zongmin ran, the evil aura on the imposing Xie Junyou suddenly disappeared. He looked at Liu Zongmin's back, and despair haunted his heart: this battle ...... There is no hope.
Thinking of this, Xie Junyou also hurriedly retreated.
In this troubled era, you can leave one more soldiers and horses, and you can have more strength to speak in the future.
At the same time, Shi Dangdang was puzzled.
Except for the first grenadier charge, he carried the basket and tried to fight again. It's not that someone stopped him, but after seeing the grenadiers' extraordinary results, Xu Yanqi began to command the main force of the Flying Bear Regiment to attack forward, and he was extremely desperate, so that the grenadiers couldn't find a chance.
The Flying Bear Regiment slaughtered fiercely, and the attack surface relaxed in vain.
Wang Xun led the reconnaissance company to bypass the left flank, and a cavalry of two or three hundred people rushed in, causing the battle formation of the Shun army to break up more and more.
Seeing this, Shi Dangdang carried the basket and shouted a few times, and the grenadiers quietly slipped to the south.
The battlefield occupies a huge area, and the Flying Bear Regiment and Ning Wei's personal guard battalion only have four or five thousand people, and they are killed in the past, although they pierce the heart of the Shun army, and kill all the way in, like a mouse entering a cat's belly.
As a result, there are many places on the battlefield where the Flying Bear Regiment cannot be controlled.
Especially where Li Zicheng's tent leads to the battlefield in the middle road, there is still a wide avenue.
Shi Kangdang was a native of the local and knew the road well, so it didn't take long for him to come to this road with a grenadier team. As soon as I arrived, I saw the horse's hooves rolling above me, and the sound was very loud.
Shi Dangdang lived up to his name, and after following the horse's hooves to find a large number of cavalry, he did not see the slightest fear, but pulled the grenadiers on the left and right and said: "Look, the moving army is coming!" Brothers, this time, I have to invite Shi to have a good drink when I go back, right? A soldier like a thief army, who can ride a horse, can't he walk on five or two legs? Good guys, four-legged is better than ten-legged! ”
When the grenadiers heard this, they all saw sweat on their foreheads, and hurriedly said: "Since it is a military merit, what are you still doing in a daze, preparing for battle!" ”
"Ready? Isn't it just pulling this iron lump and throwing it out? Look! Shi Dangdang said, and immediately put down the basket.
The gang stopped lying in ambush in the weeds on the roadside, and stood up one after another.
I saw Shi Dangdang take out the earth-shaking thunder from the basket, and he didn't help him run quickly, he bent down to pick it up, raised his body and threw it out violently. There were originally more than thirty earth-shattering thunderbolts in the basket, but they were all thrown out in less than a hundred breaths.
How long is a hundred breaths?
It only took less than two minutes.
Even the cavalry team marching at high speed only walked a hundred or so steps at most.
At such a distance of about a hundred paces, it was the moment when this group of cavalry was desperate and desperate. These Shunjun cavalry were first a few ordinary cavalry who opened the road to escort them. Seeing that a huge iron garda was thrown away, they all shouted badly, and hurriedly signaled the nobles behind him to avoid it.
Who else could this noble man be?
It was Liu Zongmin, who retreated from the front line.
Liu Zongmin looked ahead, and there weren't many earth-shattering thunderbolts thrown away, just a few. On the contrary, there were more than a dozen guards escorted by the meat pads in front, and he was not worried about the place that was quite backward, but just signaled the whole army to go quickly, and called Wu Ruyi and said: "Wu Ruyi, you go and clean up these thieves and brave soldiers!" ”
"Yes!" Wu Ruyi responded.
It's just that a few earth-shattering thunderbolts just fell in front of them, and they followed closely behind, as if they were dropping hailstones, and they were thrown one after another.
Liu Zongmin, who was speeding up and running, had just rushed over, and suddenly saw more than a dozen earth-shaking thunderbolts flying densely in the sky, like dense fishing nets, all of which flew to his side.
One of them, by chance, landed on the saddle and smoked.
Liu Zongmin stretched his stiff neck and looked down, swallowing his saliva: "God ...... thief"
Before Liu Zongmin could stretch out his hand, this rather anxious sky-shattering thunder exploded with a bang. A ball of blood rose in Liu Zongmin's abdomen, fell to the ground, and was trampled down by the iron hooves of a war horse behind him that couldn't dodge.
Puff......
A mouthful of blood spurted out violently, Liu Zongmin looked at the countless war horses rushing over in a daze, seeing that the more air out, the less air intake, and then his head tilted, and his body gradually became cold.
As soon as Liu Zongmin died, even the last more than 2,000 cavalry of the Shun army could not be controlled. Wu Ruyi looked at this scene blankly, quickly reacted, and took his own people out of the way, not caring about the Ming army.
As for the battlefield of the Chinese army at this moment, seeing Liu Zongmin fleeing, the morale of the entire army of the Shun army collapsed. Xie Junyou angrily went over to question, and when he went back, he was shocked to find that the right battalion had begun to surrender in formation.
On the battlefield, there were shouts of surrender and no killing.
went to Liu Zongmin and roared angrily, Xie Junyou suddenly found that he had lost even the opportunity to escape.
In front, there was a cavalry battalion that was charging mightily, and the first regiment of the Ming Royal Guards Regiment that was crushing over in a dignified manner. Rear...... It is even more imposing, powerful and invincible flying bear regiment.
Hit back and forth, and there was no way out.
Xie Junyou watched this scene sadly, and suddenly heard a particularly loud shout around him: "Surrender and don't kill!" ”
"Don't kill me! I'll surrender! Xie Junyou knelt on the ground.
Zhu Cihong looked at this scene, and his eyes fell on the east: "The first regiment will clean up the battlefield, the cavalry battalion and the flying bear regiment will go to the east quickly, don't run away with that Li Yan!" ”
Seeing that the retreat of the Chinese army was becoming more and more obvious, Li Yan saw this, and looked at the situation of the fierce battle with the Beijing camp with a bitter face, and his heart was shaken.
On the side, Li Nian persuaded hard: "Big brother! This is not the time to be willful! I Dashun still has the northwest land at the moment, as long as I go back to Jingcheng Pass, the danger of this mountain and river can still be owned by my Dashun. At this time, it would be a waste to fold all the troops here! Liu Zongmin has run away, if we still waste soldiers and horses here, there will be no hope for Dashun's country! We're going to save the Holy One! ”
"Save the Holy One!" When Li Yan heard this, he nodded violently and said, "Okay, withdraw the troops!" However, Li Nian ...... You lead the troops away first, and keep the seeds of my Dashun Imperial Forest Army. I'm going to break off here, and give me the last elite of Dashun time to retreat! ”
"Big brother ......" Li Nian's eyes were moist.
Li Yan glared angrily: "What are you wasting your tongue at this time?" This is a military order, you quickly lead the troops away! Don't be emotional! ”
"Yes......" Li Nian choked up and strode away.
The Dashun Imperial Forest Army began to retreat, but just after retreating hundreds of people, the sound of explosions suddenly sounded on the battlefield.
Such voices did not appear in the battle formations of the officers and soldiers. Instead, he appeared in the battle formation of the Shun army.
After an afternoon of fierce fighting, many of the firecrackers were hot.
If you want to shoot again, you will blow up one after another.
What is especially strange is that these firecrackers actually fell and fell, and without exception, they began to explode one after another. In an instant, the weapons of the Dashun Imperial Forest, which was still insisting on fighting, were extinguished one after another.
With the frequent explosions, more soldiers of the Shun army looked at the hot fire gun in their hands, their eyes were frightened, and they didn't dare to open their mouths.
At this time, the cavalry of the official army arrived first. Seeing that the Shun army had turned off the fire, he immediately laughed and rushed all the way over, but no one dared to resist.
"How could the fire bolt be broken? Come, bring me the torch that Tartar gave me, and I won't believe it! Li Yan was unwilling in his heart, his eyes were split, and he personally led the personal guards around him to charge.
The guards handed Li Yan a fire gun, which had been loaded, and Li Nian took the fire twist and lit the fire rope, aiming at Liu Zhen, the captain of the cavalry battalion in front.
Liu Zhen was violent, and the Glaive was wielded extremely neatly, and the soldiers of the Shun Army fell to the ground one by one.
When the muzzle of the gun was aimed at Liu Zhen's head, the arquebus ignited into the barrel.
Bang......
The firebolt exploded violently, and Li Yan squatted down screaming while holding his head. (To be continued.) )