As an officer of the Governor's Standard Battalion, Sun General did not have much interest in catching a few soldiers of the Ming army. In peacetime, the Governor's battalion did not need to be supplemented by auxiliaries, and the Governor's camp was always well manned, and in any case the grain and grass of the battalion were guaranteed, and the horses were given the best care - except with the Prince. For example, after the 100 Manchurian soldiers were transferred from Boryeong to Chóngqìng, Li Guoying transferred the good horses in the standard camp to the Manchurian Eight Banners for use.

Horses died much in the mountains, and if the Manchurian soldiers followed in pursuit of the Ming army, then Sun General might also have to worry that the governor would take the horses from the standard camp to supply the Eight Banners. However, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi did not allow the Manchurian soldiers to participate in the risky operation, so the 100 Eight Banners soldiers were now all left in the city of Chóngqìng.

Along the way, the standard battalion cavalry led by Sun General had killed more than a dozen Ming troops, and some Ming troops fled to the hills left and right of the road, and Sun General did not waste his horsepower to pursue those scattered and fleeing enemy troops, because he thought that if he advanced along the road, he would naturally encounter more credit.

"These thieves are running away so fast!" After dawn, Sun Jiang was always the first officer of the standard battalion to set out in pursuit, and after leaving the camp, he ran first, and most of the companions of the standard camp were left far behind by him. But the speed of the Ming army's retreat far exceeded Sun Jiang's imagination. According to General Sun's previous experience, many of the fleeing enemy troops fled quickly, but most of them were slow to be caught up by the pursuers, because the defeated soldiers did not know the way, because they did not know where to go, and they lost their command and could not use the road in an orderly manner.

If 10,000 of the enemy are defeated, then the first few hundred will probably fly away and will never be able to catch up. There are also two or three thousand people who are not too slow to escape, and they need to spend some effort to chase and kill; But more than half of them would be huddled in the back, blocked by their peers who stopped to watch, rest, or even walk back. Especially when the camp is bombed at night, even if you flee a few hours early, you can't go far, and many people are in circles.

But today's Ming army is completely different from what Sun Jiangzong encountered in the past, and after chasing him out of Li Guoying's camp, there was no figure to be seen along the way. Mr. Sun was puzzled: "Didn't you say that these people are all from Zhejiang?" I've fought against those local thieves before, and I've never seen them escape so cleanly! Sun chased him out of fifteen miles before he finally saw the shadow of the Ming army.

After giving up the sporadic credit for escaping up the mountain, Sun General continued to chase after him. At this time, he had a feeling that if these Zhejiang people could maintain this escape speed, it was really doubtful whether the armored infantry behind them could catch up with them.

Finally, I saw a group of Ming troops that looked like there were one or two hundred people. If it had been in the past, Sun Jiang might not have taken care of them, just dispersed them and forced them to flee to the side of the road. The Qing army took control of the road, and these enemy soldiers who fled to the side of the road could no longer leave the battlefield far away, and would definitely be wiped out by the Qing infantry that followed.

But today's achievements so far are really too pitiful, Sun Jiang and the fifty cavalry under his command have only achieved a total of four heads, they are the standard camp of the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, when they return to the camp, everyone does not have a head under the saddle, so where does Governor Li's face go?

Although it was estimated that more fleeing enemies were not far ahead, Sun Jiang always decided to stop and annihilate the Ming army he encountered first. There were also a few commanders of the standard battalion behind Sun Jiang, and after seeing this Ming army, they also surrounded one after another, probably they and Sun Jiang thought about the same. Along the way, the standard battalion has never been able to catch up with the large number of routs of the Ming army, so that these standard battalion guards who came out to hunt the game are holding back the fire in their stomachs, and now they finally see the prey, although it seems inconspicuous, but it is better than nothing - at least when they return to the camp, each officer must have a head of the battle, right?

"The thief still dares to resist!" Although the intercepted Ming army looked very panicked, Sun Jiang was always surprised to find that they did not kneel and beg for mercy. The fugitive enemy he saw today was a very special breed, he had never seen it before: "You are all deserters who are too timid to abandon the camp, how dare you resist stubbornly?" ”。

What surprised the guards of the standard camp even more was that these fleeing enemies were not only able to muster up the courage to resist, but also spontaneously regained their morale and formed a circle. Several members of the enemy line began to give orders, while the other deserters willingly obeyed, and then some removed the armor from their backs and handed them from the back row to the front row of the circle.

"Actually, there are thieves who run away with armor on their backs!" According to his previous experience in dealing with deserters, Sun General did not immediately launch an attack on the enemy, but led his subordinates to threaten the enemy outside the enemy formation, and then killed them all after the opponent lost his fighting spirit and knelt down to beg for mercy. Therefore, when he saw that several enemy soldiers quickly put on the armor, Sun Jiang's total surprise could not be described in words - these armors were obviously carried by the people in the formation, and at this juncture they did not put on their own bodies, but handed them over to the people in front of the formation-although it was rare to escape in armor, it was understandable, some strong enemy soldiers felt that they still had the strength to fight in case they were caught up by the enemy, but what kind of psychology did the auxiliary soldiers carry on their backs to flee with equipment for others? Mr. Sun couldn't figure it out at all.

Seeing that the Ming army refused to surrender, the cavalry of the standard battalion began to attack. Hundreds of cavalry attacked less than 200 Ming infantry, and they did not think that this would be a difficult task. It is indeed not, most of these Ming troops have no armor, and although the few soldiers in the front row resist hard, they cannot pose any threat to the cavalry of the Qing soldiers, and some people keep being wounded and falling. But every time someone falls, the middle of the formation will quickly stretch out their hands to drag the wounded in, and they will also come out of the new Ming army to fill the battle line.

"Is this really a rout?" Mr. Sun looked at the battle situation in front of him, and even more doubts arose in his heart. The few Ming armoured soldiers were being quickly depleted, and now the enemy soldiers without armor also picked up their weapons from the ground and walked to the front row to resist, but they would be killed and wounded faster. Seeing this, several standard battalion guards immediately jumped off their horses and stood firmly on the ground, preparing to attack the unarmored soldiers on the Ming line with bows and arrows.

At this moment, the sound of horses' hooves galloping and shouting behind suddenly came from behind.

"Which guy has arrived?" Sun always pondered nonchalantly.

He saw that several of the dismounted guards of the standard battalion had already found their positions to attack, and would soon begin to attack the enemy who was thrown at the resistance with their bows and arrows. Feeling that there would be no suspense in the battle situation, Mr. Sun looked back unhurriedly, wanting to see which standard battalion officer had led the team to arrive, and at the same time wanted to shout: "You guys are late, these credits belong to a few of us." ”

But when Sun turned around, he saw hundreds of cavalrymen in red cloaks rushing down from the heights of the hills behind him, and the enemy cavalry led by him was less than a stone's throw away from him with long swords held high. There seems to be a rare flag in the procession, and the pattern on it is also strange.

"Mahjong?" When he saw the enemy's flag, Sun Jiang suddenly had this thought, but then he didn't understand: "Is it the thief's cavalry?" Didn't they flee, how could there be cavalry, why did they turn back and reinforce? ”

…… When Deng Ming rushed towards the enemy, he saw a cavalry stationed in the back row of the battle line with the appearance of a Qing army officer stationed in the back row, with his back to himself leisurely observing the battle situation, and even the matching sword was inserted in the scabbard. Deng Ming stared at this target and rushed towards him at full speed.

The target was getting closer and closer, and the enemy officer began to slowly turn around, and at this moment, Deng Ming suddenly caught a glimpse of something on the other party's saddle, which was a human head thrown on a dripping blood.

When he saw this human head, Deng Ming's heart ached suddenly, although he had long known that his subordinates would die in battle, and he had the corresponding psychological preparations, but when he really saw the sacrifice, he still felt a violent sense of suffocation: "Because of my strategy, these warriors may not have a chance to resist at all, and they were killed in vain." ”

The enemy had turned, and the distance between the two was still rapidly shrinking, and it was a guy with a full face and a fierce light in his triangular eyes.

Deng Ming gently adjusted his waist and arm, estimated the distance, and prepared to swing the horse sword in his hand. At this time, there was some confusion in the eyes of the other party, which was originally full of fierce sè, yes, it was the sè of confusion.

The distance between the two had been shortened to just a few horses, and Deng Ming saw a ray of light bloom from each other's eyes.

"Ahh

"Slash!" Deng Ming let out a loud shout, and swung the horse sword that had long been ready to attack at the opponent's head vigorously, and the snow-white sword light brushed a fan in the air.

The opponent instinctively shrank back to dodge, and the right arm that had just touched the hilt of the sword also raised with all his might, trying in vain to block the roaring sword light, and at the same time let out a desperate howl: "Ahhh

The mount under the crotch leaped past the enemy's horse, and the sword light struck the enemy's arm, slicing his wrist in two, and then striking him in the cheek. When Deng Ming felt a huge resistance suddenly coming from the hilt of the sword, he skillfully took it and dragged it with the help of horsepower. Half of the enemy's face flew into the air, and the howls of despair in despair came to an abrupt end.

"I'm sorry." When the two horses staggered, Deng Ming took one last look at the human head hanging from the saddle and said silently.

After slashing the enemy's head, Ma Jian once again pointed straight ahead because of the continuous force of his arms.

In front of him were groups of enemy cavalry, Deng Ming stared intently at the person in front of him, and the other party also stared at Deng Ming's eyes. In a breath, Deng Ming was in front of the enemy soldier, so close that he could already see the mole on the opponent's cheek.

The other party slashed the saber in his hand to Deng Ming's head who was rushing quickly, Deng Ming lowered his head, avoided the knife, firmly grasped the hilt of the sword with both arms, twisted his waist slightly, and the blade of the sword was lifted upwards and passed under the opponent's armpit. As the hand tightened and loosened, the enemy's arm holding the weapon parted from his body.

Rushing forward, the third enemy soldier encountered was speeding up his mount, and the general avoided Deng Ming's sword to his abdomen, but was still slashed in the thigh by the sword. The great force of the two horses staggered and passed from the sword, and suddenly the tendons above the knee were broken and broken, and the Qing soldier screamed, and fell off the horse's back with one foot still in the stirrup, and the frightened mount dragged him across the ground and ran away from the battlefield.

Shut down

The enemy soldiers encountered again had already completed the acceleration, and Deng Ming failed to grasp the distance, allowing the opponent to use the speed of the horse to avoid his own attack.

Although there were no more enemies in front, Deng Ming continued to rush forward for a long distance, and only after turning back to make sure that there were no enemies chasing after him, he ordered his horse.

The standard-bearer of the three walls followed closely behind Deng Ming, and after seeing Deng Ming's warhorse, he also turned around sharply and stopped behind Deng Ming. The Ming cavalry that rushed over one after another quickly relined up behind Deng Ming.

After estimating the distance with the enemy, Deng Ming was about to leap his horse and raise his sword again, accelerating towards the enemy.

The current cavalry battle tactics are still the classic rangers rushing against each other, and there is a large gap between the enemy and our cavalry formations, at this time, the horse speed of the war horse is very critical, and it can often determine the life and death of the knight. For the enemy cavalry rushing at high speed, if it stops in place and stands still, it is the best target, and it is superior to others without dodging ability, and it is easier to be hit than the infantry standing on the ground; If you don't go fast enough, it's easy to get hit, and a gentle touch of the horse can separate you from your head when you're moving at high speeds. The higher the speed, not only will it deal more damage to the opponent when it hits the target, but it will also reduce the probability of being hit by the enemy to the greatest extent.

On the opposite side of the Ming army, the standard battalion guards threw down the infantry of the Ming army and gathered as quickly as possible to prepare for the battle.

The shock in the heart of a thousand generals who commanded this group of standard battalion guards at this time is difficult to describe in words. These defeated enemies pursued today are strange from beginning to end, not only will the stragglers spontaneously form a circle and resist stubbornly, but there will also be formed cavalry to turn around to reinforce the besieged infantry - what makes President Qian even more shocked is that just now a charge of more than 200 Ming troops cut down all the hundreds of standard battalion guards on the west side of the encirclement - where did such a sharp cavalry unit come from? How could Deng Ming not take such a jīng rui army with him when he absconded? Why didn't they flee and return?

Countless questions came one after another, and Mr. Qian gathered the remaining 27 or 80 standard battalion guards together, and at this time he saw that the Ming army on the opposite side had lined up and was about to charge.

When the commander raised his sword above the top, he had to swing it down vigorously and lead the whole army to speed up - if the horse speed was raised to the highest before the encounter, the best results could be achieved, which was well known to the cavalry officers.

"Admiral!"

"It's the Admiral who came to save us!"

After the cavalry of the standard battalion withdrew from the encirclement, the more than 200 Ming infantry immediately discovered Deng Ming's banner and shouted excitedly.

The shout made Mr. Qian of the standard camp even more suspicious, he knew very well that there was only one person in the whole of Sichuan who could be called "Admiral" by the Ming army, in fact, not only Sichuan, but also the Ming army in Hubei, Fujian, and Zhejiang, would only use this title to refer to Deng's name.

However, the officers of the standard battalion did not have time to think about it, the Ming army on the opposite side had already launched a charge, and with a wave of the sword of the general Qian, the cavalry of the Qing army also rushed out at a speed, and for a while, the shouts of killing resounded throughout the field.

This charge Deng Ming did not achieve the same amazing results as just now, it was not easy to hit the enemy moving at high speed, and both sides were moving at high speed, both to dodge the opponent's attack as the first, in order to avoid the enemy's attack is bound to dodge and move, at this time it is even more difficult to hit the enemy. This kind of cavalry competition relied quite on individual horsemanship, even in the heyday of the Three Walls or the northwest frontier soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, in this kind of cavalry hedging competition, it was inferior to the Manchurian Eight Banners and the Mongolian Eight Banners.

After several times in a row, the losses of the Ming and Qing armies were quite limited, but the cheers of the Ming soldiers had shocked more and more officers and soldiers of the standard battalion.

"Hit the plan, hit the plan."

When the cavalry hedged for the third time, the commander of the standard battalion could no longer put all his thoughts on how to kill the enemy. Since Deng Ming did not abandon the army, the intention of the Ming army to ambush the Qing army could not be more obvious. Not only this one thousand generals, but the other officers and soldiers of the standard battalion also became more and more weak in the war, and they were at the forefront of the pursuit, the farthest away from the main battalion.

"Hurry up and report this to the guerrillas, and the Governor." Mr. Qian's heart was already full of resignation. At this moment, the Ming infantry who were watching the battle not far away suddenly let out another deafening cheer.

"What's wrong again?" Mr. Biaoying hurriedly turned around and looked in the direction of the Ming army's cheers. I saw that behind the hill where Deng Ming appeared just now, countless armor soldiers of the Ming army appeared, and they quickly drove towards the battlefield with dense spears.

"Oh no, no, it's an ambush." Everyone in the standard camp guards had fear on their faces, they didn't see how many Ming infantry there were, but everyone already knew that the Ming army had set a trap, and they had already stepped on the trap.

Glancing at the Ming cavalry on the opposite side, Mr. Biaoying quickly ordered: "Rush over!" Don't fall in love with war, withdraw your troops at full speed. ”

"Yes." No one would object to such a sensible order.

"The enemy is probably going to run away." After restarting the formation, Deng Ming did not immediately launch a new charge, he felt that the three walls did not have a clear advantage over Li Guoying's standard battalion, after all, there were less than a hundred veterans in the team, and many of them were new riders. Moreover, while dodging the enemy's attack while moving at high speed, it is not an easy target to achieve as long as the opponent's cavalry is not a rookie.

"Did I send my troops early?" Deng Ming couldn't help but think so. If the infantry had waited for the infantry to return to their positions before attacking, perhaps it would have been more likely to annihilate this standard battalion. Deng Ming glanced at the group of infantry who were cheering him up in the distance: "But they may all die in battle, and if I come out a little later, I may not be able to succeed." ”

It is necessary to keep as many of these standard battalion cavalry as possible. Deng Ming involuntarily clenched the hilt of his sword. Although these pacesetters may flee without hesitation, they may also cause trouble for the rest of the Qing army to expand their gains. Deng Ming secretly made up his mind to destroy these cavalry as much as possible.

Just, how?

...... "You guys go away and leave me alone." Wu Chenming said breathlessly to his companions.

He was originally a second lieutenant leading the team, and he should have taken his team to the south to report under Li Xinghan's banner. But after leaving the camp after dark, he found that the road in front of him was very crowded, so he took his men on a small road based on his impression-this path Wu Chenming was not very familiar with, but he seemed to have walked it once when he was familiar with geography, and he had the impression that it was the right road to the south.

It's a pity that Wu Chenming remembered wrong, the more wrong that road became, so Wu Chenming had to take his subordinates to turn around and rush back, and he didn't take the right path until after dawn. When I walked more than half the way, I found that many Qing soldiers came up behind me. In order to protect the auxiliary soldiers with armor on their backs, Wu Chenming personally led a few people to break the rear behind. In order to ensure that the military information is not leaked, and also to be able to escape in time, Wu Chenming and others did not wear armor.

Although he scared the pursuers a little slower by bluffing, Wu Chenming was also hit by an arrow in his leg, and he was helped by his subordinates to run out of more than a mile, and heard the shouts of the pursuers behind him.

"Leave me alone." Seeing that his subordinates ignored his orders, Wu Chenming pushed hard, struggled out of the arms of his subordinates on both sides, and sat down on the ground all of a sudden.

"Brother Wu." Several of his subordinates refused to escape alone, and reached out to help him.

"Let's go, we came to Sichuan with the Admiral from Zhejiang, to expel the Tartars, not to die together in this ghost place!" Wu Chenming took out the dagger he was carrying, put it across his throat, and threatened them: "Hurry up!" ”

Watching his subordinates retreat step by step, Wu Chenming urged impatiently: "Hurry up, hurry up, I won't say it, I won't tell Sù Tartar about our plan." ”

Wu Chenming pointed to a fellow countryman, who was also a sergeant who was familiar with geography with him: "You know the way, lead the way!" ”

"Brother Wu, you have to hold on, and we will follow Guard Li back in a while." Listening to the sound of the pursuers getting closer and closer, several subordinates finally ran south without looking back.

"Hmph, hmph." Wu Chenming watched his subordinates disappear from view before he whispered to himself again: "I won't say it." ”

Hearing that the pursuers had arrived not far behind, Wu Chenming slashed the dagger at his throat with all his might.

But when the blade just touched his throat, Wu Chenming's arm was suddenly grabbed tightly, and the knife could no longer be pressed down - I don't know when, the two Qing soldiers had already sneaked into Wu Chenming's back.

The two men pressed Wu Chenming, who was desperately struggling, to the ground, and finally snatched the dagger from his hand. While grabbing Wu Chenming, they shouted to the people who followed behind, "Go and report to your lordship, we have caught an official." ”

...... "Don't wait. Although the fifteen hundred armor soldiers had not yet arrived, Li Xinghan looked up at Tian Sè and knew that it was already more than an hour later than planned. Moreover, Li Xinghan suspected that some officers and soldiers had been captured by the Qing army, and the Qing army already had some understanding of the Ming army's plan, and if they waited any longer, they might miss the opportunity.

"All the troops stand up!" Li Xinghan drank.

With the waving of the flag, more than 1,200 armor soldiers who had already gathered in the valley stood up one after another.

"The whole army is leaving," Li Xinghan shouted.

At the same time as the army set off, he sent one of the cavalrymen to report to Deng Ming: "Tell Admiral Sù that I have begun to counterattack. ”