On 16 February, the 20,000-strong army was only fifty miles away from Jiyuan.

Ruicheng to Jiyuan five hundred and twenty miles, 20,000 troops marched in four days, it should be said that the marching speed is very slow, but this qiē is from the perspective of secrecy, along the way, Zheng Jinhong and Yang He are very careful, this is the first time they led the army to undertake a separate combat mission, Zheng Jinhong is the chief soldier of the Zheng family's army, Yang He is the deputy commander-in-chief, the two command the army to fight, from the surface there is nothing, but the actual situation is clear to the two themselves, they were in accordance with Zheng Xunrui's requirements before, step by step implementation, Full-scale deployments are rarely considered.

The scouts have already investigated the situation, Jiyuan County is occupied by the Liukou, and the whip of Henan Mansion is beyond the reach, and he is bent on surrounding Luoyang Fucheng, and he can't take care of it at all, but the nine dragons are not stationed in Jiyuan County, but are camped in the suburbs about five miles away from Jiyuan County, and there are less than 1,000 Liukou stationed in Jiyuan City.

There are about 20,000 rogues under the command of the nine dragons, which is not a small scale.

Nine dragons are so stationed, it is after careful consideration, Jiyuan County is not big, if it encounters a sudden encirclement and suppression of the official army, then the 20,000 troops are besieged in the county, there is no chance to escape, stationed outside the county is different, even if it encounters a battle, you can also have enough time to evacuate.

Zheng Jinhong and Yang He have been thinking carefully, it is unrealistic to completely annihilate the rogues under the command of the nine dragons, but they must exterminate most of the rogues in one go, and only a small part of the rogues who can escape, these people will definitely give Li Zicheng and Lao Hui a report, Lao Hui over there Don't worry, Zheng Xunrui has already led the army to prepare for an attack, and I believe that Lao Hui will be defeated in the shortest possible time. Even if you get the news, it won't work, but Li Zicheng's side, you must pay attention to not letting the news leak out quickly, so that Li Zicheng can act quickly. After all, Luoyang Mansion City is only one hundred and thirty-five miles away from Jiyuan.

After thinking about it carefully, Zheng Jinhong and Yang He made a bold decision.

With 10,000 cavalry of the Zheng family army as the main force of the attack, 8,000 foot soldiers of the Yulin border army were ambushed in the direction of Jiyuan to Luoyang Fucheng, and 2,000 foot soldiers were ambushed in the direction of Jiyuan to Zezhou. The Liukou withdrew in the direction of Luoyang and must be resolutely exterminated.

The later Li Zicheng gets the news, the more beneficial it will be to exterminate the old and return to the country.

Yang He led 10,000 soldiers of the Zheng family army to attack the Liukou under the command of the Nine Dragons, and the victory was expected. After all, the combat effectiveness of the Liukou cannot be compared with the Zheng Jiajun, plus the main forces of Lao Huihui and Li Zicheng are preparing to attack Luoyang Mansion City and Zezhou Prefecture City, and the nine dragons are not the elite of the Liukou.

In terms of numbers, there are only more than 20,000 rogues under the command of the nine dragons, and there are very few cavalry, at most more than 1,000 people, and the rest are foot soldiers. With such a force, it is impossible to withstand the attack of 10,000 cavalry.

On February 17, the ninth year of Chongzhen, Mao time.

The battle began.

This is Zheng Xunrui's first battle after he restarted to be in charge of exterminating the Liukou. It is related to the entire tactical deployment, and this is also a battle that cannot afford to make mistakes.

In the early spring season, the weather is still cold in the early morning.

The distance of the cavalry charge is optimally five miles.

The Zheng family's army, which was ready to go, had long been waiting for Yang He's order to charge and fight, facing the rogue. They have absolute self-confidence, and it can be said that they don't take the rogues seriously at all. Even if the rogues were prepared, they wouldn't care. The Zheng Jiajun has won a complete victory against the Liukou several times, and there have been no accidents.

Yang He's expression was stern, the situation reported by the scouts was very detailed, the nine dragons were very cautious, and every day they would gather the officers under their command to give a lecture, and then the officers would call the Liukou for training, of course, this kind of training was not very formal, it was nothing more than a gathering, and the opportunity that Yang He needed to grasp was that after the Liukou were assembled, a sudden attack on the Liukou at this time would achieve the best offensive effect.

The purpose of the battle is very clear, that is, to strangle the rogues as much as possible.

Yang He's sword was raised high.

The earth began to tremble in an instant, and the rumbling sound of horses' hooves startled the birds in bursts, and a torrent headed towards the Liukou military camp.

Nine dragons are in the Chinese military tent to convene a lot of officers to speak, this is a daily procedure, since the Xingyang Conference, because of the wrong choice, nine dragons have long lost the status of the previous leader, used to follow Li Zicheng's command, and later entered the team of Lao Huihui, Lao Hui is very good to the subordinate officers, which makes Jiu Long a little nervous, thinking that he can pull up his own team again, become a veritable leader of the Liukou.

The scouts crawled into the tent of the Chinese army, reporting that a large number of officers and troops were attacking.

Nine dragons' faces turned pale in an instant, could it be that the official army fell from the sky, these times, he got the information from Li Zicheng and Lao Huihui, saying that Hong Chengchou had led the army into Shanxi, the specific plan of action is unknown, Lao Huihui and Li Zicheng are ready to take Luoyang Mansion City and Zezhou Prefecture City, and then carry out a large-scale transfer again, enter the territory of Huguang, avoid Hong Chengchou's army, and at the same time make peace with Zhang Xianzhong.

Could it be that the army led by Hong Chengchou attacked Jiyuan.

Looking at the many officers in the Chinese military tent, Jiu Rope Long was a little annoyed, Jiyuan's location was not important, Lao Huihui and Li Zicheng were in Zezhou and Luoyang respectively, even if the official army was exterminated, they would not stare at Jiyuan, at least they needed to attack Luoyang or Zezhou.

He ordered the scouts to reconnoiter again and quickly find out the situation, and at the same time asked many officers to quickly organize the sergeants to prepare to meet the enemy, if it was a small army, it would not be a big deal.

While the nine dragons were still talking, the tremor of the ground and the rumbling of horses' hooves had already reached the Zhongjun tent, and the screams began to appear, and at this moment, his face completely changed.

The nine dragons, who had experienced many battles, naturally understood what such a formation meant.

He and many officers quickly walked out of the Chinese military tent, and saw that the barracks were already in chaos around them, countless bows and arrows were shooting from all directions, and in every round of arrow rain, there were sergeants screaming and falling, and at the entrance of the barracks, the black-pressed cavalry had already pressed over.

The face of the nine dragons changed, I didn't expect that the cavalry of the official army had such a large scale, and I was afraid that it would be too late to resist at this time, the best way was to order some of the sergeants to resist, and the army quickly withdrew to Jiyuan City.

The order was issued in an instant, that is, this order, which caused the army of nearly 20,000 to collapse in the shortest possible time.

As long as the nine dragons thought about it a little, they knew that it was not possible to retreat, after all, the officers and troops were all cavalry, how could the foot soldiers outrun the officers and troops, and the military camp was still five miles away from the county seat.

Yang He was at the front, and he could clearly see the rogue with a distorted face.

There will be no mercy in the fight.

After Zheng Jiajun rushed into the camp of the Liukou, he quickly divided into a formation of fifty people and began to fight in all directions.

It was also at this time that Yang He discovered the movement of the Liukou, a large number of Liukou began to concentrate towards the rear of the barracks, and a small number of Liukou barely resisted, and the Liukou was thinking of evacuating.

Zheng Jiajun had been prepared for a long time, and he was waiting for Liukou to do this.

Yang He's sword was raised again.

The Zheng family's army quickly began to change formation, and a large number of men and horses gathered again and swept towards the rear of the barracks.

Yang He gave an order to the scout camp to capture or kill the nine dragons alive, capture the thief and capture the king, once the nine dragons were killed, the rogue was completely chaotic, and at that time, the battle turned into a massacre.

The nine dragons had already begun to evacuate towards the outside of the barracks, and after turning his head that day and seeing the rolling torrent behind him and the military flag with the big Zheng character written on it, his body began to tremble, he had already seen it clearly, this was the Zheng family army, the Zheng family army that the righteous army feared the most, when did the Zheng family army join the battle, and it was on such a large scale.

At this moment, the nine dragons' minds were blank, although he did not have a direct head-to-head confrontation with the Zheng Jiajun, but there were too many legends about the Zheng Jiajun in the righteous army.

It was at this time that the order to retreat was a fatal mistake.

He told the heralds around him not to evacuate in the direction of Jiyuan County, and the large army was divided into two routes, evacuating in the direction of Luoyang and Zezhou, and how much could they break through.

After the order was issued, the nine dragons did not care about it, and desperately withdrew in the direction of Luoyang, after all, Li Zicheng had an army of 80,000, and Lao Huihui's command only had an army of 40,000, and Li Zicheng's side must be safer.

The massacre soon followed.

The battle lasted for half an hour, and the rogues could barely resist the attack of the Zheng family's army, and a large number of rogues fell, some of them even without weapons in their hands.

The two orders of the nine dragons were fatal to the Liukou, and when the brigade headed towards the county seat, the herald suddenly said that they were evacuating in the direction of Zezhou and Luoyang, which led to the congestion between the Liukou, the congestion of more than 10,000 people, and it was fatal on the battlefield of life and death.

What made the rogues even more frustrating was that the officers at all levels had already fled for their lives, and in the absence of a leader, the rogues could only flee in all directions, regardless of the orders of the nine dragons.

Where the foot soldier is the opponent of the army, there is no chance to escape.

There were cavalry on all sides, and no matter which way they fled, they were faced with slaughter.

Many of them had already knelt on the ground and had chosen to stop resisting.

Yang He looked at this qiē and felt aggrieved, it is said that Zheng Xunrui specially emphasized that the combat effectiveness of the Liukou has changed, why are the Liukou under the command of the Nine Dragons so vulnerable, just a large-scale charge, they scattered and fled, such a fight is too simple.

Nine Dragons led most of the rogue's officers and cavalry and fled in the direction of Luoyang.

A sneer appeared on Yang He's face, the nine dragons were afraid that they would definitely be captured alive, the eight thousand Yulin border troops led by Zheng Jinhong were waiting, and it was impossible for the nine dragons to have a chance to escape. (To be continued)