The massacre in a different direction was about to be staged again, and the Ming infantry army, which had retreated, also turned around at this time and fought back in the direction of Zezhou City.

On the battlefield, everything can happen in an instant, even if this battle is not a matter of life and death, but countless soldiers are about to be slaughtered, Li Zicheng can only close his eyes, and he can't bear to see this cruel scene.

The gate of Zezhou City has been closed, and about 20,000 or so intruding soldiers and cavalry are scattered all over the city, these are Li Zicheng's ruthless bait, waiting for the Ming army to bite the hook.

If you want to eat these 20,000 soldiers, the Ming army has to send about twice as many people at the very least, Li Zicheng on the city wall of Zezhou observed the Ming army camp in the direction of Lao Zhu Mountain, and the simple Ming army camp was crowded at this time.

Sure enough, the Ming army would not let go of this kind of opportunity, Li Zicheng saw that in the camp of the Ming army, a Ming army marched in formation, cavalry, infantry, artillery, out of the camp, and was lining up.

Subsequently, shells flew from the artillery positions of the Ming army and flew towards Zezhou City, and Li Zicheng could only hide in the city gate, but he was not worried.

The battle under the city has entered the white heat, a group of Ming troops are fighting towards the breaking army everywhere, the Ming army has the upper hand, but it does not occupy an advantage in numbers, it seems that it will be entangled for a while.

At this time, Hao Shaoqi rode his horse and whipped him, and under the escort of a group of henchmen, he rushed to the front of the cavalry team of the invading army, his eyes did not blink, staring at the artillery position of the Ming army that was constantly rising in the distance.

Groups of pikemen, archers, and sword soldiers have already driven out of the Ming army's camp and began to line up in the direction facing Hao Shaoqi's location, obviously trying to block Hao Shaoqi's cavalry.

However, Hao Shaoqi was not in vain, just when his horse team was about to approach the Ming army's infantry formation, Hao Shaoqi suddenly turned his horse's head, turned to the left, led the thousands of light horsemen he assembled, and galloped wildly along the Ming army's formation, and finally turned right again at the end of the Ming army's infantry formation, and rushed directly to the front of the Ming army's artillery array!

He wanted to attack dozens of general cannons placed in front of the Ming army's camp from the front, so that his thousands of light cavalry would also be buried here, because there were Ming army infantry battle formations all around, and they couldn't rush out at all.

If these artillery pieces are three-pound guns, he is undoubtedly sending them to death by doing this now, don't look at the gap between "one catty" and "three catties" It doesn't look big, but the difference in power is very large, three-pound shells, but with fragmentation attacks, the cavalry frontal impact is to send them to death, and a pound of shells is nothing more than single-digit casualties.

At this time, these Ming troops saw thousands of cavalry rushing over from the front like a flood breaking the embankment, all of them were terrified, where could they still calmly load, and they all lost their cannons and fled for their lives.

Hao Shaoqi immediately seized the opportunity to lead the cavalry to rush forward, and captured the artillery array with a charge, but dozens of small cannons, Li Zicheng attached great importance to them, these dozens of small cannons were a big trouble in his heart, and the camp in the capital was destroyed by these big generals' cannons.

Looking at these captured artillery, and the Ming army's infantry battle formation that was getting closer and closer, Hao Shaoqi wanted to destroy these dozens of cannons as soon as possible, but Hao Shaoqi and his cavalry did not carry hammers and nails, they did not know that as long as the fire door was nailed, these cannons would have to be rebuilt, without this knowledge, they could only set fire to the gunpowder everywhere.

Just when Hao Shaoqi led his subordinates to sabotage everywhere, a deafening cheer suddenly sounded on the battlefield, it turned out that at this time, when the tens of thousands of troops of the Ming army were exhausted, and the inseparable battle with the inexplicable army, the ambush of the invading army was exhausted, and Li Zicheng also opened the gate of Zezhou City, and personally supervised the countless intruding troops and cavalry to launch a counteroffensive!

He saw the results of Hao Shaoqi's battle, these big generals' cannons can no longer become his heart disease, Li Zicheng immediately prepared a counterattack, and at this time Li Yan also rode to Zezhou with more than 1,000 horses.

When Li Zicheng launched a counterattack, the artillery of the invading army at the head of Zezhou City also opened fire at the same time, and in a short period of time, hundreds of stone bullets were fired at the Ming army's position.

And the Ming infantry who were beaten there happened to be ordered to retreat a hundred steps. These infantry of the Ming army were already killed and wounded "heavily" by the opponent's shells, in fact, it was not that bad, at most dozens of people were killed and wounded, but in this case, watching the intruding army kill everywhere, from the surrounding mountains, under the grass and trees, people were flustered, and there was no way to retreat in an orderly manner.

Li Zicheng, who had already gotten off the city and moved to the gate of Zezhou City, had been waiting for this opportunity, so he made a quick decision and let the infantry of the intruding army start a full-scale counterattack at this time!

The opportunity must not be lost, the time will not come, this is the best opportunity, swallow these Ming army, it is not impossible to attack the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Division again, at this time he has received complete information, the Ming Dynasty has no foreign aid at all, the Ming Dynasty Liaodong Army is confronting the Dongnu people, the two sides are holding each other back, and they can't take care of the Ming Dynasty's Beijing Division.

As for whether the two sides will negotiate peace, Li Zicheng feels that it is impossible, Chongzhen is such a proud person, a few days ago, at such a critical moment, he did not move the capital, and now he must still be sitting in the capital to accept the dream of losing land!

Li Zicheng gave an order, countless intruders marched forward bravely, half of the infantry in front, half of them held spears, half of them held swords and shields, forming a dense formation, and from a distance, they saw infantry wearing blue arrow clothes and white hats, surging like a torrent.

The formation of the intruding army was not neat, and it did not form any phalanx, but it was still lined up side by side in waves of dense lines, not straight, but crooked.

Although the queue is not neat, but the morale of the generals is extremely high, the most important thing is that there is a supervising team, behind the head of the infantry is the old battalion that supervises the battle and cooperates with the battle, and the old battalion soldiers who break into the army are all ruthless masters, and they are not merciless when they kill deserters.

And the officers of the army are also standing at the head of the team, holding swords and spears to lead the soldiers forward, the reason why they are so energetic now is not that the king of Chuang's team is cruel, but they feel that they still have a future with Li Zicheng, after all, they don't have much research on the situation in the world, but they are fighting farther and farther with Li Zicheng, and the food is getting better and better.

For most people in the feudal era, there were very few ways to rise in class; Reading requires not only talent, but also resources; Only in troubled times can we have the opportunity to be promoted to the class, as the saying goes: heroes come out of troubled times!

Sealing the wife and the shadow of the son, becoming the home of Zhong Ming Dingshi, this is the luxury of most people in the feudal era, want to have, no matter how brave they are, they can't be born at the right time, only in troubled times, can they take the opportunity to establish a new dynasty and become a noble family.

It is no exaggeration to say that they are now fighting for themselves and their descendants, how can they lack momentum? It was precisely because they could see hope that they had not been dashed by hope, and they did not see the dignified Marquis Li Guo being cut off and hanging at the head of the city of Daming like the army did in the camp in the capital.

General Quan Gao Yigong was directly stabbed to death when he rushed into battle, this is the real reason for the rout of the camp of the breaking army, there is no hope, and now these breaking troops in Zezhou City can still see hope, and there is hope!

Rows of spears undulated forward, tens of thousands of infantry troops, just like that, roared and rumbled, behind them, there were more than thousands of cavalry, under the leadership of Li Yanhong Lady, surrounded by Li Zicheng's "Chuang" word banner is slowly moving forward!

Seeing the momentum of the invading army, the Ming army on the opposite side was already timid before the battle, and they all left behind the order to retreat a hundred steps to avoid the opponent's artillery, and they couldn't stop it as soon as they retreated.

Even if Zhang Shize mobilized new forces at this time and tried to form a new line of defense to try to prevent the breakthrough of the invading army, it was to no avail, and the results of the counterattack just now were instantly wiped out.

However, it is not without the slightest result, Hao Shaoqi, who occupied the artillery position of the Ming army, when the Ming army infantry came back, but he could only hastily put a few fires, and then scattered in a hurry, and the Ming army artillery did not run far before, after all, the camp was behind him, and he did not dare to run far, in Hao Shaoqi just retreated, they then returned to the battlefield, extinguished the fire set by Hao Shaoqi and others, and picked up the cannon that was pushed down, and finally counted, and found that there was not much damage, at least more than 30 artillery pieces can continue to be used, and other guns needed to be repaired due to damage to the gun mount.

And Hao Shaoqi didn't know that the new gunpowder of the Ming army was not something that could be destroyed by putting a fire, and the medicine bag was very good at fire prevention.

Zhang Shize hurriedly drank and asked people to withdraw these cannons to the large battalion, and after the field battle in front of the battle, the large battalion was the most important stronghold of the Ming army on the battlefield.

Once the battalion fails, the tens of thousands of troops on the battlefield will lose their support, and I am afraid that they will become prey to be chased by thieves in an instant!

And after Li Zicheng commanded the army to break through the battle formation of the Ming army, he did not immediately go to it; The Ming army camp of Lao Pig Mountain attacked, but switched to besiege the Ming army heavy cavalry.

Many of the horses of this Ming army have been damaged, but because of the configuration of one person and two horses, there are now more than 900 heavy horses, and this heavy horse is protecting a team of more than 2,000 musketeers at this time, relying on the dead war horses, the heavy cavalry disrupts the enemy's formation, and this musket battalion actually repelled several rounds of attacks by the invading army!

Li Zicheng watched his troops being repulsed several times in a row, and left corpses in front of the Ming army's humble formation, he knew that he could not attack, so he had to patiently readjust the deployment.

The power of these Ming army's firearms is extraordinary, far from being comparable to before, and I don't know what the reason is, the speed of loading is much faster than before, Li Zicheng looked at the dead and wounded in front of him, and he was not indifferent.

He first rebuilt a front against the Ming army, and at the same time, Li Zicheng ordered his artillery to be transported over and redeployed, preparing to use them to destroy this recalcitrant Ming army.

It was a time-consuming and laborious task, not only to move the cannons, but also to pile up earth to make a gun carriage, which could not be completed in two or three hours.

Li Zicheng also knew that these cannons were inconvenient to use, so he had to wait patiently while transferring archers to shoot at the battle formation of the Ming army.

However, the heavy cavalry of the Ming army was too annoying, rushing back and forth, and it couldn't be stopped, and as a last resort, the thousands of light cavalry under Hao Shaoqi, who escaped death, suffered a lot of losses, and now they have been replenished again, and they counterattacked again as dead soldiers.

As a result, they didn't rush far, they were counterattacked by the Ming heavy cavalry, thousands of light cavalry, facing the Ming heavy cavalry of only more than 900 people, seemed to have no power to resist, of course, this is also related to the fact that they did not maintain a good formation during the charge, but these are all temporarily formed, not at all after running-in, and collapsed by the Ming heavy cavalry, it is not strange, these scattered light cavalry retreated one after another, and also disrupted the formation of the rear army.

Zhang Shize seized the opportunity in the rear at this time, immediately urged the troops, and pressed up again, Li Zicheng also understood at this time that there was no way to retreat, and commanded the troops to resist desperately.

But where is he the opponent of this Ming army? I can't stop it even if I fight hard!

But fortunately, the Ming army was divided into two formations at this time, so it also had a greater depth, and under the resistance one by one, it barely stabilized the battle formation under the desperate fight of Hao Shaoqi and other generals.

Li Zicheng mobilized tens of thousands of cavalry from the rear, all of which were new forces, and handed them over to the general Liu Fangliang, asking him to command them to continue the attack.

As a result, the two sides fought again, killing for three hours, Li Zicheng was forced to retreat by the Ming army, which had eased up, and finally retreated to the moat, and then stabilized his position with his back to the river.

Stability is stable, but at this time, the army was also divided, and the ambush soldiers who were originally killed also broke off contact at this time, fighting separately, and they didn't expect the Ming army to suddenly be so able to fight and have such a will to fight.

The army on the battlefield was divided into several pieces, although the weight was sufficient, but it was divided by a small number of Ming troops.

Li Zicheng led tens of thousands of people under the city of Zezhou, crowded on the bank of the moat to confront the Ming army, and they were faced with the Ming army's firearms battalion that was waiting at this time.

Hao Shaoqi took the remnants of the defeated soldiers to form a dead soldier, both foot and horse, and could not join the battlefield at this time, and he faced the Ming army's gun array, spear battle array.

Liu Fangliang and Gu Junen's more than 10,000 miscellaneous cards were blocked by the Ming saber and shield hand, which was not a simple sword and shield hand, but a heavy armored infantry, and only the Ming army could configure the heavy armored infantry.

On the edge of the battlefield, Li Yan and the Red Lady led more than thousands of light cavalry, and the heavy cavalry of the Ming army, which suddenly expanded to more than 1,000 at this time, were fighting.

The situation on the battlefield, from the current point of view, is still quite favorable to Li Zicheng, as long as any of his troops can repel the Ming army, it can form a chain reaction and instantly reverse the situation on the battlefield.

It's just that who can complete this task?