Chapter 183: Defeat
In the formation of the Ming army, the roars of the officers continued to sound at this time, and when Li Zicheng was still thinking about Liu Zongmin, Yang Yi had already decided the final battle at this time.
If Li Zicheng retreats like this, then in the next ten days, I am afraid that the Jingshi will fall into a state of civil strife, and killing one Li Guo alone is nothing, and it will not have much effect on all aspects of people's hearts!
After thinking about it again, Yang Yi decided that the soldiers would go out and launch a final battle against Li Zicheng, she had already thought about it, Li Zicheng was now demoralized by the army, especially the shortage of food and grass, and it was likely that he would retreat in the next two days.
There are about 100,000 young men trained in the city, and only a few of them are qualified soldiers.
With the addition of the Beijing camp and the collection of the families in various prefectures, there are about more than 20,000 people, as well as more than 7,000 cavalry, plus Jinyi Guard, Dongchang, eunuchs, etc., almost can make up about 20,000 troops, which is basically on par with Li Zicheng's troops, which is enough for a battle.
The blockades of the city gates were opened one by one, and yesterday, under the harassment of the cavalry with firearms several times, although Li Zicheng wanted to order troops to pursue, he basically returned in vain.
Now, from the north, about 30,000 selected elites of the Ming army in the city have gathered, and at this time, there are also elites with countless strong men gathered at various city gates, waiting for the time to rush into the battlefield.
Leading the team in the north are the British Gong Zhang Shize, Zhu Chunchen, Li Guozhen and others have too many thoughts, and they are not easy to control, especially they have no enthusiasm.
Shield, spear, gun, bow four layers of infantry in the drum steps forward, the front row of knives holding large shields, the back row of spears holding spears, and then the back row of bird guns, and then the back row of infantry archers throwing, during which a number of generals and standard-bearers maintain order, transmitting orders, in the middle of the formation in front of the war drums, the drummers desperately wave the drumsticks, the handsome flag of the Chinese army represents the supreme command, a huge battle formation slowly advanced on the open plain outside the Beijing division, and soon the forward began to approach the camp of Li Chuangjun.
At the same time, the archers of Li Chuang's army on the opposite side also began to shoot, and some of the marching Ming infantry continued to fall with arrows.
However, everyone is still moving forward bravely, the main general Wang Dou has already rushed to the front of Li Chuangjun's camp with all the cavalry at this time, but the infantry army that has been coming out to fight is just being killed by Wang Dou.
All the infantry of the Ming army looked like those peerless generals in the legend, with many arrows on their bodies that were even inserted into the armor, and the generals who kept smashing Li Chuangjun into flesh and blood with a Daguan knife led the way to kill, and the original fear gradually disappeared.
What's more, the arrows thrown by the archers are not deadly, their helmets and cotton armor have a certain amount of defense, and the most threatening direct shots are blocked by the shields in front, so although people continue to fall, the formation of the Ming army is not chaotic, and everyone is moving forward in order.
After all, these are the selected elites, and they can still withstand a certain amount of pressure, if they have only been trained for a long time, they can't withstand such pressure.
At this time, the fierce battle at the gate of Li Chuangjun's camp had already begun.
"Kill!"
Wang Dou roared at this time, he had been preparing behind the city gate, and waited until the army in the north was killed in front of Li Chuangjun's formation, and Li Chuangjun was ready to send troops and horses to fight fiercely, before opening the city gate, killing from behind, and going straight to Li Chuangjun's main camp.
In front of him are all heavily armored knife players, densely packed like ants on sugar cubes crowded at the door of Li Chuang's military camp, although some people are protected by shields, the Yanling knife in their hands is frantically chopping the horse legs of the attacking Ming cavalry, but the spears and knives in the latter's hands are constantly piercing or cutting into their bodies, but under the crowding of the dense soldiers behind, the front is still forward, they have no space to use the "lying knife", coupled with the ferocity of Wang Dou, they are basically hacked to death in a battle.
Wang Dou has been cultivating for a day, in fact, the recovery is not bad, there is more than half of the combat strength in the heyday, Li Chuangjun's soldiers are not opponents, naturally they died as soon as they saw each other, although at the same time as they died in battle, there were occasional war horses screaming, but the exchange ratio between the two sides was almost 10:1, this is a real bloody battle, and it has completely become a place where flesh and blood are piled up.
"Take Lao Tzu's weapons!"
Yuan Zongdi shouted at this time as he watched Wang Dou continue to rush and kill, blocking his way out of the camp.
Now Li Chuangjun's camp is very problematic, especially in the north, because of yesterday's continuous killing, it has been completely closed, and it is impossible to move the obstacle in a short period of time, and the same is true for the west, the west was attacked by a small number of cavalry, Li Zicheng ordered the camp in the west to be closed, and it was done overnight, and now there are only two exits to this camp, one is south and one is east.
At this time, the Ming army in the north has approached the camp, and the fire gun is constantly firing at the opposite Li Chuangjun, although most of the Li Chuangjun archers can not show their heads, but the arrows shot by Li Chuangjun on the opposite side are also constantly falling, and at this time, the artillery in the city has basically been moved, and is preparing to fire.
Wang Dou was not just a few thousand horsemen of his own, the followers in the city were musketeers, but this musketeer was composed of eunuchs, and they were shooting at Li Chuangjun's camp from the front, suppressing their archer firepower.
"**, the eunuch is also on the battlefield!"
Yuan Zongdi spat at this time and scolded.
Then he took the double whip from his own soldiers, and roared into the crowd of soldiers crowded at the east gate.
With the suppression of the muskets of those eunuchs, countless infantry troops in the city were swarming out, and at this time the first batch of Ming troops had even crossed the moat and were attacking their camp, and the Ming army in the north was almost doing this kind of work, and the sound of cannons was also rumbling at this time.
The biggest threat to Li Chuangjun is the bird gun and the cannon, but Li Chuangjun's bow and arrow is not very good, as long as it is not a big deal to take a few pieces, the armor has a good protection against the bow and arrow, the Ming army is rich and rich, and the armor is complete, but Li Chuangjun's equipment is not good, and it is fatal to be hit by the bullet of the bird gun at close range.
Soon more and more Ming troops have approached the camp, this kind of temporary camp, for the infantry army, is not an obstacle, although the Ming army at this time because of the impact of the advance, the formation inevitably appeared chaotic.
However, most of the soldiers of Li Chuang's army are actually similar, and most of them even do not have the combat strength of the Ming army, because most of them are unwilling to sell their strength for Li Zicheng.
A lot of Li Chuangjun, a month ago, was even a Ming army, it was only a month, not even a month, and the things in his bones are not so easy to change.
Yuan Zongdi, who was in charge of the front-line command, relied on the escort of his own soldiers, and finally drove Wang Dou out of the camp gate, in fact, Wang Dou really couldn't rush to kill, so he turned back and rushed to kill again, but Yuan Zongdi seized this opportunity, looking at Wang Dou's back that was getting farther and farther away at this time, raised his hand, all the Li Chuangjun infantry troops on both sides of him raised their spears, Yuan Zongdi looked at the Ming cavalry led by Wang Dou with the eyes of a dead man, and watched Wang Dou gradually disappear at the gate of the camp, Yuan Zongdi showed a smile, and he raised his hand and waved down.
Countless Li Chuangjun, who were trapped in the camp and were not allowed to enter or leave, were about to come out and share life and death with the Ming army!
"Whoosh!" Gotta get a bang.
Suddenly, a sharp arrow disappeared into his eyes from the front, and he finally saw Wang Dou drop the bow in his hand and grab the Daguan knife that had just been inserted into the ground!
Just when Yuan Zongdi fell like a log, Wang Dou, who had rushed out of Li Chuangjun, shouted at this time, and turned around, looking at Li Chuangjun who was rushing towards him at this time, looking at the stunned expression of the leading Li Chuangjun soldiers, and Wang Dou, who was almost completely blood-colored all over his body, looked at them with a Daguan knife and showed a cruel smile, and behind him, the Ming cavalry, who also turned around, also rushed back towards this side at this time.
The next moment, Wang Dou roared again, roaring like a demon god and launched another charge towards Li Chuangjun.
Just when Wang Dou was smashing Li Chuangjun like slashing melons and vegetables at the gate of Li Chuangjun's camp, the Ming army's bird gunners also began to approach step by step, followed by the officer's roar, pulled the trigger, the gunfire sounded densely, and the bullets flew out in the blazing flames of gunpowder jets, and then they began to reload the ammunition, and the knife players and spearmen in front of them had completed the whole team, and the wall of the spear and shield combination slowly advanced forward.
It has arrived in front of the camp of the Dashun army, and the breakthrough, the breakthrough of this camp, is too easy to open, facing the infantry army, at this time there are still follow-up Ming troops in the city.
Taking care of this and losing the other, the artillery is also gradually approaching, Li Chuangjun's camp is under the artillery, chaotic, north, east, there are cannonballs falling from the sky, and Wang Dou has given up on the horse at this time, at this time it is already an infantry army, is picking away his Daguan knife, smashing forward fiercely, like smashing porcelain keeps smashing Li Chuangjun's defense line, and where his Daguan knife smashes the Ming army's breakthrough extends to where, those Ming soldiers who are infected by his fierce momentum, With the same momentum, he slammed into Li Chuangjun fiercely, suppressed by the bird's gunner, and slammed into the chaotic Li Chuangjun with a combination of knife and spearman.
"I actually won!"
Zhang Shize, who was next to the war drums, as the chief general of Beiying, looked at the extension of the battle line, and as the heir of the military general's family, he felt incredible at this time.
Yes, the victory is decided.
Although he is not a famous general, and he has not undergone any experience, he also has a family lineage, and he has read a lot of military books, and he has also followed the elders.
At this time, in Li Chuang's army, Li Zicheng finally couldn't help it, he had already taken his own soldiers to escort him, and began to withdraw to the south, the west was a smooth road, Li Shuangxi and Li Yan in the south still had tens of thousands of people, and they could retreat to the south, and Liu Fangliang in the south should have no problem in Baoding.
The previous military strategy was that Liu Zongmin and Liu Fangliang led their troops from Shanxi out of Taihang, entered northern Henan and southern Jinan, and went straight to Baoding, cooperating with Li Zicheng to flank the Ming Jing Division, Liu Zongmin led the cavalry, and Liu Fangliang took the infantry to stay in Baoding.
With the order of his commander's flag, the Chinese army retreated south with him, because at this time, Li Zicheng was already planning for the worst, and the army now knew nothing about the strength of the Ming army, Liu Zongmin had no news today, and Li Guo's troops had lost all their opponents, and the loss of strength was too great.
Looking at the current offensive of the Ming army, compared with the Ming army ten years ago, it is even much stronger in morale, especially the shells that keep falling in the air, Li Zicheng is very afraid!
He knew very well that he had to withdraw at this time, because once the front was defeated now and the Ming infantry continued to squeeze forward, his Chinese army would probably be chaotic, which would mean that the battle had completely failed, which would become a shameful record for Li Chuangjun.
However, at this time, he ignored his subordinates, especially those generals who surrendered to the Ming army.
A few days ago, several Ming army generals who were stripped of their troops were unwilling to accompany Li Zicheng to be martyred at this time, most of them surrendered for less than a month, and it is not surprising to rebel at this time!
The whole battlefield was completely red-eyed at this time, both the Ming infantry and the Ming cavalry were frantically fighting with the enemy, this area stretched for nearly two miles and was full of dead corpses, blood stained the river in the moat near the left, and the shouts of killing resounded in the sky.
Tian Jianxiu looked at Tang Tong who was gradually approaching, frowned, and was about to scold, but suddenly felt that something was wrong, and then looked at it, Wang Chengyun was also approaching him not far away, Tian Jianxiu immediately understood the situation, and didn't say much, just turned the horse and left, he originally wanted to fight and retreat.
Unlike Li Zicheng, who no longer has the will to fight, Tian Jianxiu believes that there is still a certain amount of combat power at present, and the Ming army looks at the offensive is powerful, but it is also a chaotic formation, if it can ambush a wave, it may not be able to rush back.
However, Tang Tong and Wang Chengyun are approaching him now, but they have bad intentions, Tian Jianxiu knows this very well, but I don't know how many people they have taken up, I'm afraid that those Ming army generals have problems at this time!
There is a problem with the generals, and the troops are naturally unreliable, and Tian Jianxiu is also without the heart of war, so he naturally has to follow Li Zicheng and run.
"General Tian, wait for me!"
Hearing Tang Tong's shout behind him, Tian Jianxiu ignored it at all, and rushed directly towards the south gate of the camp.
It didn't matter if he ran, the army had completely lost its command, although it was a little chaotic under the shelling, and although the resistance in front was retreating step by step, it was not without the power to counterattack.
Now that there is no one to organize this counterattack, the generals have basically run away, and Li Zicheng has taken the lead in transferring.
"Your Majesty, go!"
Song Xiance also knew a little bit about military affairs, boarded the southern camp, observed for a while, and suddenly ran down in a hurry, directly pulling Li Zicheng to run!
"It's too late!"
Seeing that Li Zicheng was still hesitating, Song Xiance didn't want to explain at all, at this time, he said directly.
Gu Junen will not engage in internal contradictions at this time, although under his persuasion, Li Zicheng will definitely listen to him, he has this confidence.
When it was time to escape, Li Zicheng would not hesitate much, and it was the same at this time, but he also knew what the consequences of running away at this time would be, so he hesitated.
Directly on the horse and began to gallop wildly, nothing else could be taken care of, Song Xiance and Gu Junen then also rode horses to chase after them, but the direction of the chase was getting more and more deviated!