Dashun Yongchang

The cavalry officer bowed to Li Zicheng and replied: "My minister, Wu Guogui, now leads the officer of the fourth squadron of the third brigade of the second cavalry regiment, and is willing to die for your majesty."

Li Laiheng said softly in Li Zicheng's ear: "He is from Liaodong. He is 23 years old this year. He was captured by our army in the Battle of Tianjin. He was selected into the Guards Cavalry Division because of his superb riding skills. After that, he was awarded the special class in all previous assessments. Squadron leader."

After Li Zicheng took a look at Wu Guogui, he asked again: "Then how do you think our army should fight in order to rescue the First Cavalry Division?"

After hearing this, Wu Guogui felt eager to try. He felt completely different in Wu Sangui's army and in Shunjun army. Wu Sangui just treated him favorably as a warrior. Although he was usually rewarded, Wu Sangui cherished him. It was because of his bravery, and he didn't want him to think too much. For example, Wu Sangui would not ask them about such things as surrender.

Although Wu Guogui was grateful to Wu Sangui, his family was originally a slave attached to Wu Xiang. Wu Sangui taught them martial arts and literacy, and promoted him from a slave to an officer, which can be said to be kind.But he also knew that in the eyes of the Wu family, he was still just that slave, and they didn't want to hear a lesson from a slave.

In the Battle of Tianjin, Wu Guogui was defeated and captured. He originally wanted to find a chance to escape.However, the Shun Army treated these captives very kindly. Unlike the people from all walks of life who only treated the generals preferentially, the Shun Army also treated ordinary soldiers preferentially.Therefore, a large number of prisoners chose to stay after staying in the Shun Army for a period of time. Of course, this was not because they were completely moved by the preferential treatment of the Shun Army, but because some people felt that they might not be welcomed after returning. For example, Wu Guogui felt that he It's hard to explain why I was able to escape the fire in Tianjin and why I didn't flee Shunjun immediately.

After being absorbed into the Shun Army, Wu Guogui felt very comfortable with the much more equal interpersonal relationship in the Shun Army than in the Ming Army.Here he doesn't need to remind himself all the time who his slave is, as long as he gets good grades in the assessment, he can be promoted. It's true that life is much easier than in the past.

Therefore, when he heard Li Zicheng's question, he couldn't help but want to show off.It now appears that Li Zicheng really listened to his suggestion and only asked him new questions.

Now that he has entered the Shunjun system, Wu Guogui naturally hopes to go up. This is probably a habit that the Wu family has cultivated in the education of their slaves since childhood, eager to get ahead.The Wu family is not a philanthropic hall. Most of the children of those who failed to practice martial arts were driven to farms. If you are lucky, maybe the master will reward you with a wife to carry on your family. If you are not lucky, you will not work until you are 40 or [-] years old. Yes, that is, the straw mat was thrown into a mass grave in a roll.In order to get rid of this fate, Wu Guogui practiced martial arts and literacy desperately, and then stepped on his childhood friends to stand out.

This habit of worrying about being abandoned and acting desperately is probably very difficult to get rid of in Wu Guogui. After thinking for a while, he said to Li Zicheng: "We should first destroy the enemy's center, that is, the group standing by the lake." Cavalry, as long as the enemy army loses command, then our army can launch a counterattack..."

Chapter 339 The Battle of Cao County Six

Li Zicheng did not immediately make a decision, but looked at the people around him and asked, "Laiheng, Sancai, what do you think of Guogui's suggestion?"

Li Laiheng replied without thinking: "I think so too."

Qi Sancai said after a few breaths: "I think it's feasible."

Li Zicheng then turned his gaze to Wu Guogui and asked, "Since you have made this suggestion, do you dare to take the lead?"

Wu Guogui clasped his fists and replied loudly: "The minister is about to invite Ying."

Li Zicheng took a look at the armor on his body, and then said to the guards beside him: "I think his figure is about the same as mine, and my armor fits him well."

Although the armor on the guard cavalry is not bad, it is still not as good as the armor worn by the general, let alone the armor used by Li Zicheng.Hearing what Li Zicheng said, no matter his personal guards, Li Laiheng, and Qi Sancai raised objections, even Wu Guogui expressed that he did not dare to be pierced by Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng ignored other people's objections, put on the armor for Wu Guogui himself, then looked back and said: "It is indeed similar, then you can wear it. If you can take the head of the enemy general, this armor will be rewarded." Here it is, I have given the reward in advance."

Then, Li Zicheng glanced at the generals around him and said, "I'm not afraid of wearing armor to go into battle, but you gentlemen are here, do you still want me to go into battle in armor myself?"

The few people who thought the battlefield was dangerous and inappropriate to give armor to others, heard Li Zicheng's words and could only change his words and replied with everyone: "With me waiting here, Your Majesty doesn't need to wear armor to go into battle."

When several of Li Zicheng's personal guards put on armor for Wu Guogui, Wu Guogui confessed to Li Zicheng excitedly again: "I will take the head of the enemy general for your majesty, in order to repay your majesty's kindness."

Li Zicheng then said: "Attack the enemy general with your three squadrons, Sancai, and you lead a cavalry brigade to raid the formation for him, preventing other Jian slaves from returning to help and the enemy general from escaping."

After Qi Sancai and Wu Guogui took the orders, they took several officers to the army at the foot of the dam. Li Laiheng looked at their backs as they walked away enviously, and boldly asked Li Zicheng, "Your Majesty, I am also willing to help Wu Guogui." A helping hand."

Li Zicheng glanced back at him and said succinctly: "Don't worry, besides the slave general in the white armor with red border, isn't the blue armor slave general who is entangled with Ma Bao still here? You just wait and wait." My order..."

When another wave of cavalry from the Shun army appeared in the southeast, Baya Lajia Laer Zhenxingnai, who commanded the cavalry to besiege and compress the cavalry of the Shun army, already knew that something was wrong.After ten years in the army, this was the first time he felt such a sense of crisis.

He and Kerkun took 10 Niulu vests out of the city to fight this time, and they had almost [-] riders. Against the Shangshun Army's thousand riders, neither of them felt that they were at a disadvantage.In their memory, whether it was the Mongolian Chahar soldiers or the Liaodong Ming cavalry, as long as the leader of the team was directly attacked, he would flee, and then it would become a chase.

No matter how many times the strength of the Eight Banners is different from that of the opponent, without the command of the chief general, no one is willing to stay and fight with the Eight Banners, and in the end they lose everything in the pursuit. This tactic has been tried and tested.Therefore, when Xing Nai followed Ker Kun out of the city, he hardly thought about changing his tactics, and still made attacking the general of the Shun army his top priority.

Kerkun first used three bulls to go out of the city to lure the Shun army to take the initiative to attack, and the Shun army was fooled; then Kerkun and he took seven bulls to attack the tail of the Shun army, disrupting the Shun army's formation, and this step was also successful.But what they didn't expect was that the chief general of the Shun Army was so capable of fighting, and under such a situation, he was able to carry out a counter-charge with dozens of cavalry, and Kerkun was almost knocked off his horse.

The cavalry of the Shun Army was also different from the Mongols and the Liaodong Ming Army. Although their formation was defeated by their first wave of attack, they did not flee in all directions. The cavalry of the army's rear came to meet them, and the cavalry of the Shun army gradually left the battlefield where they were attacked.

Naturally, Xing Nai and Ker Kun would not let the tiger go back to the mountain. Although their surprise attack shot down at least a hundred cavalry, not many died, and many Shunjun cavalry were taken back.If you don't defeat these Shunjun cavalry in one breath, they will still be a very powerful cavalry unit when they recover from this breath.

Taking advantage of the opportunity when the cavalry of the Shun Army only cared about responding to their own defeated troops and lost their speed, Xingnai and Kerkun changed the raid to a strong attack. Kerkun personally led the 4 Niulu vests to entangle the generals of the Shun Army, and Xingnai commanded The remaining Liu Niulu vests besieged the rear of the cavalry of the Shun army, tried to defeat the rear of the cavalry of the Shun army, and then cooperated with Ker Kun to take down the general of the Shun army.

However, what Xingnai didn't expect was that the Shun Army's backup came so quickly, and another team of cavalry appeared, which exceeded their appetite.Although the cavalry did not immediately join the battle, he felt more uneasy.If the newly arrived Shunjun cavalry joined the battle immediately, although they would be defeated, they would not be able to encircle them.

But if these newly arrived Shun cavalry didn't join the battle, it meant that they could strike at any time, just like the two Niulu's reserves he left by his side, it would be the real decisive blow.

Therefore, he now faces two choices, one is to give up the battle and flee immediately; the other is to defeat any Shunjun cavalry unit on the battlefield before the new Shunjun cavalry joins the battle.

But the former will become a chase, but the target of the chase will become the Eight Banners. Considering that the newly arrived Shunjun cavalry outside the field can clearly see their fleeing direction, this chase will make them Pay a heavy price.

As for the latter, no matter it was any small battlefield, the cavalry of the Shun Army did not show any sign of being defeated. Even after these new cavalry arrived, the cavalry of the Shun Army who were besieged by them resisted even more tenaciously.

There was only one step away from victory, which made Xingnai unable to make up his mind, but as the newly arrived Shunjun cavalry rushed out from under the Southwest Shaba, he was finally relieved, and faced the two Niu Lu beside him. Ezhen said: "Wohena, you and I will fight against the bandit army together; Pianzhu, go and inform Kerkun that our army should withdraw. I will serve as the rear."

Wohena was silent, and just turned his horse's head to greet his subordinates to prepare for the battle, while Pianzhu tried to persuade: "It's better to withdraw everything, my lord and Kerkun, and Wohena and I will go to resist this force." Thieves."

Xing Nai looked at the Shunjun cavalry who started to speed up in the distance, shook his head and said, "I am not a person who is greedy for life and fear of death, so don't harm me. Tell Kerkun, don't love to fight, these bandits are probably trespassers The elite, I want him to go back and tell Bahana-sama, be careful."

After saying a few words, Xingnai joined Wohena's army with his Ba Yala Zhuang Da and Ba Yala soldiers.Looking at Xingnai's back, Pianzhu knew that this attack might be more or less fatal, because the cavalry who were on the attack began to speed up, and the Shunjun cavalry who came from the high place in the southwest had already increased their speed, just like those who lost their speed. Like the Shunjun cavalry trapped by them, this time it was our side who were in trouble.

Pianzhu could only say to his subordinates: "Let's go to Lord Kerkun. Only when Lord Kerkun is replaced can he take us to rescue Lord Xingnai..."

Wu Guogui took the lead and charged at the arrow position of the team. In addition, the bright yellow cloth face armor on his body was extremely dazzling in the sun, so the cavalry guards would not lose their way at all.On the other side, the cavalry guards surrounded by Jiannu cavalry also noticed this cavalry group appearing from the southwest, and recognized the armor Li Zicheng was wearing at a glance, and their morale was greatly boosted.

Taking advantage of the hesitation of the Jiannu cavalry on the periphery, Dong Cheng, who was standing guard under the command, immediately ordered to his subordinates: "Han Yikui, you take two squadrons and rush out to protect your majesty. Liu Guochang, now, bring you The Musketeers, line up towards the north, and when the Jiannu cavalry flee, you shoot..."

It is about two miles from Shaba in the southwest to the edge of Longtan where Xingnai is standing in the north. Wu Guogui collided with Xingnai at a distance of about one and a half miles. They were all the other party, so they didn't make any evasions.

Xing Nai is about 27 or 23 years old, and his physical strength is at its peak, while Wu Guogui is [-] years old, and his physical strength is still on the rise. Both of them hold a long gun in their hands, but they both hold it quite forward.Due to the fact that the speed of the horse did not increase, Xing Nai realized that he would have missed this attack if he hadn't shot first, so he had to raise his gun and stab forward.

Wu Guogui's position is on the right side of Xing Nai's mount. This position is the most dangerous for the two cavalry who are intertwined, because they are too close and it is almost difficult to avoid it.However, in the eyes of Wu Guogui at this time, the spear head that Xing Nai stabbed was as if the camera was slowing down. He didn't dodge or block, but just clamped his legs to speed up the horse again, and took advantage of the opportunity to stab go back.

The two horses passed by each other, Wu Guogui had already dropped his spear, and picked up the spare hammer to attack the slave riding in front of him without even looking back.On the other side, Xingnai's mount was empty, and the Manchu cavalry who saw Xingnai fell from their horses all exclaimed, wanting to step forward to rescue Jiala Ezhen who fell from his horse.

But they didn't see Xing Nai standing up. Instead, they were directly broken by the Shunjun cavalry because they were distracted.The Jiannu cavalry, who were already weak in numbers, began to be shot down and dismounted by the cavalry of the Shun army after losing their formation.

On the other side, Wu Guogui, who was about to rush to the lake, turned his horse's head to the right, circled an arc, and rushed back to the place where the general Jiannu fell from his horse.Wohena was trying to get off his horse to rescue Xingnai, but Wu Guogui, who was rushed over again, smashed his head with a hammer, and the Jiannu cavalry finally fell into chaos.

Chapter 340 The Battle of Cao County VII

Seeing that Bai Jiaqing, who was inlaid with red borders, was about to disappear in the crowd, Li Zicheng was determined.He put down the binoculars in his hand, and said to Li Laiheng beside him: "Now do you know what cavalry is?"

Li Laiheng was unable to turn the corner for a while, so he could only shake his head to express that he was not very clear. Li Zicheng then pointed to the battlefield below and said: "Cavalry is speed, strength and sacrifice. Cavalry without speed loses strength, but does not sacrifice." If you don't have the courage, then you will never be able to maintain your speed.

Therefore, the cavalry and archery of the nomads and our musket cavalry are actually crooked ways, and they are only used to deal with some special combat methods. When cavalry and cavalry are fighting, the most advantageous weapon is to maintain their own speed and limit the enemy. speed.To achieve these two points, organizational discipline and strict training are required.Now it seems that our cavalry training has just started. "

Li Laiheng finally understood what Li Zicheng said. Indeed, face-to-face cavalry collision tactics are the most daunting training method for cavalry. Not to mention going to the battlefield, it is also the event with the highest injury during training.The biggest danger of this project is that face-to-face charges hardly use the martial arts that I have practiced since I was a child. Just look at a single thrust during the stagger, even those who have practiced martial arts for decades may be stabbed down by small soldiers. After all, this is not a knightly contest but a war, and what stabs you may not be a gun.

But in such cavalry battles, the cavalry charge tactic is the fastest way to open up the situation, because the enemy cavalry trying to avoid the charge tactic will only waste their energy and lose speed in avoiding time and time again.

Li Laiheng watched the battle on the sand dam, and suddenly felt a new line of thought opened up in his heart, as if he understood why Li Zicheng ordered them, the officers, to stand on the sand dam to watch the battle.

But looking at it, Li Laiheng reported to Li Zicheng beside him strangely: "Your Majesty, these slave cavalry don't seem to have escaped, they are heading towards Wu Guogui."

After the white-armored Qing general with the red border fell, Li Zicheng felt that the battle should be almost over. Anyway, it is impossible to completely wipe out these cavalry, because they did not have soldiers and horses arranged in the east to prevent the Qing cavalry from escaping. The copper belt into the city.However, with the disappearance of this Qing general with red border and white armor, these Qing cavalry should at least become confused.

However, under Li Laiheng's reminder, Li Zicheng picked up the binoculars and observed the battlefield again, only to find that the Qing army did not flee, but launched a counterattack against Wu Guogui and others under the leadership of a Qing general wearing a blue cloth mask.

While observing the new changes on the battlefield, Li Zicheng couldn't help saying to himself: "It seems that the backbone of this Qing army is this general in blue armor, not the one who fell just now. I almost missed it... "

When Li Zicheng said that he lost his eyes, Ker Kun, who rode his horse and stared at the yellow knight on the battlefield, looked aggrieved.He really did not expect that Shun Army's reinforcements would come so quickly, and they were all cavalry.Obviously their strategy has been successful, but because of the successive arrival of the Shun Army's reinforcements, they have now trapped themselves.

When he got the news from Xingnai that Pianzhu had sent him, Kor Kun actually realized that there seemed to be something wrong with Xingnai. He had no time to check the situation outside the battlefield when he was fighting Ma Bao, so until Pianzhu came, Only then did he know that the new reinforcements of the Shun Army had arrived, and Xing Nai planned to put the whole army in the rear and cover their withdrawal from the battlefield.

When Ker Kun came back to his senses, he could no longer see Xing Nai and the others, while the Shun generals in yellow armor were chasing the Eight Banners soldiers who had lost their command on the western battlefield.Ker Kun quickly vetoed Xing Nai's proposal to ask Pian Zhu to bring him back. At this time, if he retreated to the city, it would be considered good if half of the people could go back. After Xing Nai was killed in battle, he would be responsible for the defeat. Come back.

So he pointed to the general in yellow armor on the west side and said to his subordinates behind him: "This man is not Li Zicheng, and he must be a relative of Li Zicheng. As long as he is caught, we can retreat back to the city calmly. Everyone follow me..."

After all, Ker Kun ignored turning the horse's head and rushed towards his own treasure again, and only cared about riding the horse towards the west, trying to capture the important leader of the Shun Army in his eyes.With Kerkun in the lead, a group of Qing soldiers followed without hesitation, and the soldiers of the Eight Banners on the western battlefield also became excited because Kerkun did not flee on their own, but rushed to meet them. He gave up fleeing and turned to Ker Kun's team, and then followed Ker Kun to launch a counterattack against the Shunjun cavalry.

Faced with such a torrent of cavalry rushing towards him, Wu Guogui had no choice but to step aside.At this time, Ker Kun rushed from left to right, and Duan was very brave. He abruptly gathered the soldiers of the Eight Banners scattered on the battlefield into his troops. The only thing he regretted was that his mount seemed to consume too much. Can't catch up with the leader of the bandit army in yellow armor.

Just when Kerkun was thinking about whether to retreat, Li Zicheng had sent Li Laiheng to join the battlefield with the last regiment of cavalry around him, and sent his own yellow dragon flag to Dong Cheng in front of the village , Let him set up the yellow dragon flag representing himself.

According to Li Zicheng's instructions, Li Laiheng did not rush directly to the center of the battlefield, but crossed the battlefield to Ma Bao in the east.After Kerkun turned around and headed west, Ma Bao was also getting off his horse and asked to heal his wounds. He had just charged repeatedly and had more than ten wounds on his body. If Li Zicheng hadn't arrived with reinforcements, he would probably have been killed by the Qing army. He died with exhaustion of strength and blood.

Li Laiheng rode up to Ma Bao and asked him: "Mr. Ma, His Majesty asked if you can still fight?"

Ma Bao got up and moved around, and then adjusted the position of the bandage so that it would not hinder his activities. Then, while asking his personal guards to put on his armor again, he replied to Li Laiheng in a low voice: "Today's setback, the crime is The minister is alone, and the guilty minister is willing to atone for his crime, and please allow the minister to fight again."

Li Laiheng sent a message on Li Zicheng's behalf, and Ma Bao is now replying to Li Zicheng. After listening to Ma Bao's answer, Li Laiheng turned around and asked someone to bring a yellow puma, and then said to Ma Bao: "Your Majesty said, Mr. Ma rushed for half a day, and Ma Bao should I was exhausted, so His Majesty lent you his mount to go into battle.

Also, I will lend you Wu Tinggui's cavalry brigade, and I will rectify the team here.His Majesty has only one request, it doesn't matter if the others escape today, only the slave general in blue armor must not let go.I will be here to fight for Master Ma..."

Ma Bao looked coldly at the Jiannu general who led the team to rescue the slave cavalry in the west for a while, and then got on his horse and said to Li Laiheng: "Please reply to your majesty, I will definitely capture this official before your majesty today, in order to redeem the past. .”

After finishing speaking, Ma Bao led the cavalry brigade assigned to him by Li Laiheng and rushed towards the western battlefield.Li Laiheng looked at the western battlefield for a while, and under the trampling of countless horseshoes, almost all the snow in this plain had been trampled over, exposing the brown soil or yellow sandy soil below.The gathering of thousands of cavalry has also reached the upper limit of the cavalry combat space that this plain can tolerate. It seems that there is no room for both sides to accelerate, so as long as he stays here, he can easily escape. The slave cavalry troops blocked back.

When Ma Bao led the new force into the battlefield, Kerkun finally realized that the Shun army general in yellow armor didn't seem to be a famous Li clan, because this guy was too adventurous, and rushed behind his team several times , to hinder his behavior of gathering troops.In addition, the yellow dragon flag representing Li Zicheng was raised in the southern village, which indicated that Li Zicheng was in the village, so even if he captured the Shun army general in yellow armor, he would not be able to stop the Shun army's attack.

After thinking it over, Kerkun finally decided to retreat. He had gathered the seven or eight surviving cavalrymen and nearly five hundred Mongolian cavalry together. Now as long as he brought them back, the failure this time would not be so bad. Ugly.Glancing at the Yellow Dragon Banner in front of the village, Kerkun turned his horse's head to the northeast and said to his subordinates, "Go back to the city first."

Several Niu Luerzhen who followed Kerquin looked back at the place where Xingnai fell from his horse, which was under the control of a group of Shunjun cavalry. After hesitating for a long time, they kept quiet, and then followed Keer Kun went northeast.

However, just as Ker Kun was trying to break out of the Shun army's encirclement, Ma Bao rushed in with more than a hundred cavalry.Realizing that Ma Bao’s attacking route was his own, Kerkun had no choice but to turn his horse’s head to meet him. The two sides did not touch each other in the first hedging attack, because the distance was too short, and the speed of their horses did not increase. , Naturally, I dare not adjust the angle at will.

It’s just that Kerkun soon realized that something was wrong. Just as he crossed Ma Bao, two cavalry teams rushed towards his team. Another team of cavalry rushed to the rear of his team from the right, and Kerqun had to continue to turn his horse's head to the right to face the yellow-armored general head-on.

Next, Ma Bao and Wu Guogui began to attack Kerkun in a staggered manner. The cavalry led by the two did not intend to engage in close-range melee with the cavalry led by Kerkun. They just kept forcing Kerkun to lead the team to fight them head-on. crash.Kerkun could still hold on, but the cavalry behind him couldn't stand it anymore, because every time he adjusted his direction, the cavalry slowed down, and the cavalry of the Shun army gradually opened up the gap with them through continuous staggered attacks. distance, so that you can gradually increase your speed.

This way of fighting is actually the way they treat the cavalry of the Shun army. The only problem is that they know very well that they will not have any reinforcements on their side, but the Shun army on the opposite side may not have follow-up reinforcements, because Li Zicheng has already Appearing here, it is naturally impossible for an emperor to bring this little army out.

At the same time, Li Zicheng had been transferred from Shaba to Dong Cheng's army. Although he was willing to take risks, he was not to the extent that he took risks as fun.Therefore, after Li Laiheng joined the battle with the last cavalry regiment, he moved with the remaining dozen or so personal guards.

Chapter 341 The Battle of Cao County Eight

Standing beside Dong Cheng, Li Zicheng felt very safe, so he quietly watched Dong Cheng's dispatch of the cavalry.Dong Cheng was an old peasant army who followed Li Zicheng into the mountains when he fled to Shangluo. Although Wu Yong could only be regarded as an ordinary general among the generals of the peasant army, he was able to follow Li Zicheng to this day. Stronger than the current Li Zicheng.

Although a certain person accepted Li Zicheng's memory, he still held the attitude of not touching it if he could not touch it in actual combat, because he just looked through Li Zicheng's battle records, and he felt that Li Zicheng's survival was really a matter of luck. full of people.He wasn't sure if he would have Li Zicheng's luck in that environment, so the best way was not to gamble.

This is also the main reason why he gave Wu Guogui his armor and his horse to Ma Bao. He felt that he really didn't need these things.As for directing things outside the field, he trusted Dong Cheng more than he trusted himself.

Of course, in the eyes of Dong Cheng and other soldiers of the Shun Army, Li Zicheng's actions are probably similar to, we will win this battle, so please behave well, this kind of confidence means.

Now that Li Zicheng was so relaxed, Dong Cheng and other soldiers of the Shun Army felt more at ease. For example, after Dong Cheng issued a few orders, he asked Li Zicheng for advice once, completely treating this battle as a drill.As a result, the tactics such as hitting the head and cutting the tail learned from the cavalry of the Qing army gradually became proficient in the cavalry of the Shun army.

If it is said that the cavalry of the Shun army was a little unfamiliar with the cavalry's collision tactics of the Qing army at the beginning, some cavalrymen were too nervous and would continue to increase their horse speed, and some cavalry would consciously control the speed of their horses out of fear of collision tactics, so their troops On the contrary, they were out of touch first, which made the Shun army more cavalry who fell off their horses when the two armies collided at the beginning.

But at this critical moment, it is easiest to train people. In addition, the morale of the cavalry of the Qing army is already low at this time, because almost all the escape routes are blocked by the Shun army, and they pay more attention to protecting themselves when attacking. And mounts are not injured to prevent being dropped when breaking out.

Therefore, after one or two collisions, the cavalry of the Shun Army gradually became accustomed to this attack method.The cavalry of the Shun Army paid more and more attention to the overall formation of the team. The more complete the formation, the more dominant they would be in a collision.In addition, both recruits and veterans have begun to abandon the attack mode of slashing, and have also given up many tricks to show off their riding skills.

In the confrontation between cavalry and cavalry, if you hit the opponent first, you will win, so the action of stabbing is always faster than slashing, and it can also be added with the help of horsepower. If you want to avoid the opponent's stabbing, it is best to narrow the target of the opponent's attack s method.Therefore, lying down on horseback and stabbing forward with the weapon in hand, no matter whether the stab hits or not, immediately get out of the opponent's attack range. This is actually an attack method with a very high survival rate.

When the Shunjun cavalry realized this, they immediately fell in love with the ramming attack that they were afraid of before.The only problem is that most of the weapons in their hands are not suitable for stabbing action, but even this is enough to suppress the Qing cavalry.

For Li Zicheng who was standing on the sidelines, the cavalry battle in front of him was more and more like an action of peeling an apple.The large ranks of Qing army cavalry were cut by several Shun army cavalry teams, and cavalry were constantly cut out from the large ranks. These few Qing army cavalry who were forced to leave the large ranks were not killed by the surrounding Shun army cavalry squads. , but had to rush into the lake in the north, and then fled around the sand dam.

When the sun was hanging in the middle of the day, the slave cavalry on the battlefield was also reduced from nearly [-] cavalry to two to three hundred cavalry, and they were almost trapped in a very small area where it was difficult to turn around.Kerqun was not allowed to dismount, so he formed a circle around the periphery with his horses, and then ordered the cavalry around him to dismount and shoot in the circle to disperse the cavalry of the cavalry who were trying to charge into the circle.

Seeing this, Dong Cheng said to Li Zicheng: "Your Majesty, if Jiannu dismounts, he has lost the possibility of escaping. Let our cavalry continue to charge at this moment. I am afraid that the loss will be too great. Should we use the cavalry to guard the surrounding area, and then let the musketeers go forward and shoot?" , or send someone to surrender after a few rounds of shooting, so as to avoid unnecessary casualties."

Li Zicheng is not very interested in recruiting the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia. After watching for so long, he can tell that these hundreds of vests are either Manchurians or Mongols. After Bai Jiaqing fell off his horse and died, these cavalry should flee everywhere, instead of following the Qing general in blue armor to fight back to rescue the trapped companions.

However, what he is most concerned about now is to capture Cao County as soon as possible while the Qing army in the city is shaken, instead of continuing to waste time and blood on these Manchurian Eight Banners.Just when he was about to make a decision, a soldier came to report to him. Zuo Guang finally arrived with the infantry, but a group of people also came out of the city, as if they wanted to come to meet the Mongolian cavalry.

Li Zicheng then said to Dong Cheng: "You send two cavalry squadrons to Zuo Guangxian, let Zuo Guang first encircle and wipe out the reinforcements coming out of the city, and then send the infantry over to attack these slave cavalry. Before Zuo Guangxian returns , you find a few captives who are willing to cooperate and persuade them to put down their weapons, whether they agree or not, just delay it for a while..."

Guerrilla Yang Guohai looked a little pale when he followed Jialaerzhen Zhao Yihe and Niuluerzhen Lu Fengchun out of the city.As an officer, he did not get promoted by virtue of his military merits, but by his uncle Tu Guobao.

His main job on weekdays is to deal with the army's logistics rather than combat. This time he attacked Tu Guobao in Cao County, and he didn't think about letting this nephew go to the battlefield. The Eight Banners vest attack, and experienced generals such as Kerkun and Xingnai commanded by the Shun army will be besieged?

The news brought back by the messenger who ran back from outside the city almost didn't drive Bahana crazy.Throwing ten Niulu in such a small city, no matter how much the Nine Kings try to protect him, the "Conference of Kings and Ministers for Discussion" can pluck a layer of skin from him. La Erzhen Zhao Yihe came back, and then went out of the city to meet 300 people from the Yang Guohai Department who supervised the maintenance of order in the city with a Niulu Han army flag.

To be honest, Bahana didn't have much hope that these Han soldiers could bring Kerkun and the others back. He just hoped that these Han soldiers could attract the attention of the Shun army outside the city, so as to give Kerkun and the others a breakout Create opportunities.

Yang Guohai, who was registering the addresses of wealthy households in the city, was a little dumbfounded when he heard Bahana's order. He once excused himself to ask his uncle for instructions, but Bahana, who was red-eyed, was obviously not in the mood to talk to Yang Guohai. He warned: "I am the chief general of the army on this route, and the orders I give are military orders. Are you going to disobey the military orders?"

Faced with the guards all over the place, Yang Guohai softened immediately, but when he led the team out of the south gate, he realized that he was not the only one who was afraid of fighting the Shun army, and his subordinates were also unwilling to leave the protection of the city wall. Go to fight with the Shun army in the wild.

On the way, his subordinates whispered to him: "If those Manchurian soldiers are besieged by the Shun army, then what's the point of running with so few of us? Even if we want to save people, we should invite the main force of the general army." Come out."

Yang Guohai felt that what his subordinates said was right, but looking at the Han army flags supervised by the team, he could only tell his subordinates to be calm and take a look at the situation first.

Jialaerzhen Zhao Yihe, who was walking in front of the team, was also full of despair for the army behind him. He didn't think this army could play a role in attracting the attention of the Shun army, because this was the lowest part of the Ming army, and it was also the most important part of the army. It is stronger than the Guards.

But at this time, it was impossible for them to draw manpower from the troops attacking the county government, otherwise the morale of the army in the city would be in chaos first.After Mr. Kerkun took the six hundred and eight banners vest out of the city, the only ones in the city who are really trustworthy are the 200 Han army flags and the dozen or so Bajala soldiers around Mr. Bahana. The troops of Tu Guobao are no longer trustworthy up.

He can only hope now that Lord Kerquin can find the time to rush out.No matter how many people can come back, they will be able to deter Tu Guobao and the newly surrendered Han army in the city.As an officer in Liaoyang who surrendered during the Tianming period, Zhao Yihe has actually become almost Manchurian. When he was thinking, he had taken the initiative to regard the Manchus as his own, and the Han people in the pass were outsiders instead.

Therefore, after basically hearing the bad news from outside the city, Zhao Yihe didn't think much about other things, he just wanted to bring back those fellow Manchus.Because of this, Zhao Yihe was not close to Yang Guohai and other Han people in the Guan, so naturally he didn't notice that these Han people in Guan, who he regarded as cowardly and incompetent, already had the idea of ​​waiting and watching.

Walking eight miles southeast from the south gate, you will arrive at the besieged battlefield of Kerkun. Apart from woods and lakes, there are snow-covered plains along the way, and the view is still very good.Therefore, Zhao Yihe soon discovered that the Shun army arrayed in front was about two rectangular arrays, each with a width of 30-40 bows, and there was about 30 bows in the middle of the two square arrays. Soldiers with muskets.

Seeing these two phalanxes moving towards him at a neat pace, Zhao Yihe immediately knew it was over, he glanced back, and sure enough, the sparse Han army team behind him had automatically stopped, and some people had already started whispering, as if they wanted to Going to flee back to the city.