Bang!
On the flanks of the battlefield, two menacing horse teams collided with each other in the most violent manner and passed through the gap.
Gao Jie, the over-mountain kite, turned his horse's head, touched the top of his head casually, looked back at the intruder cavalry following him, then lowered his eyes to the iron rod in his hand and laughed, the happy smile on his face that was about to survive the disaster looked ferocious and cruel.
In the collision just now, the tassel of the phoenix-winged helmet on his head was knocked off by the enemy cavalry with a spear, and he also knocked down three enemy cavalry. However, in the collision, the intruder cavalry still failed to gain the upper hand. He only brought a hundred Yu Qi stopped Zuo Liangyu's servants, but this time, it seemed that more than thirty riders were defeated.
The Ming cavalry on the opposite side was obviously in much better condition than them. They originally had nearly 200 cavalry, but only more than ten fell off their horses in one encounter. There were only a few felled and injured cavalry who were getting up and running towards their own cavalry.
Gao Jie was not in a hurry at all. He even hammered the iron rod on the ground to rest his numb hands, waiting for the fallen Ming cavalry to run back.
People in this era have a hard time living, and they really don’t want to live; but when it comes to death, they feel that they have some unfulfilled wishes, so they rush into battle and feel more happy than the others.
No other reason, life is cheap.
Of course, this is the mentality of most of the cavalry in the army. As for Gao Jie himself, his views on death are more complicated. Because he knows that he will die sooner or later, and not only will he die physically, but he will also die socially, so he is a little eager to die in battle.
Gao Jie's troubles come from feelings.
He admired a woman. This woman was perfect. Not only was she beautiful, but she was also smart and knowledgeable. She was a rebel and could fight well. She handled the army's logistics in an orderly manner. She was a rare virtuous wife. More importantly, she was such a woman. I just happen to fall in love with him. Isn't this a blessing from heaven?
Unfortunately, there is still a drawback, she happens to be Li Zicheng's wife.
Emotions are beyond the control of ordinary people, and it can lead to big mistakes.
Gao Jie and Li Zicheng are close friends of life and death who share weal and woe. He may understand Li Zicheng better than Li Zicheng.
Li Zicheng is a man who does big things. He can control his desires and is not interested in his wife. Gao Jie is different. He cannot control his desires and can only do big things. He can only do things to others.
But Li Zicheng is very interested in his love rival, because it is related to reputation, and reputation is related to doing great things... The last pair of wild mandarin ducks were chopped to death, Gao Jie also chopped them with a knife.
He knew that he didn't have long to live. The day the adultery was revealed, he would be hacked to death.
Therefore, Gao Jie was frightened and confused every day. He didn't know what to do. It made no sense to commit suicide. How could he kill Li Zicheng first? It's even more unreasonable. Even if we don't talk about his life and death experience with Li Zicheng, just being in the peasant army and doing this, he has no place to stand.
So actually at this moment, he was vaguely hoping that there was a fierce general on the opposite side who would do well and stab him to death with a spear, so that he could have a good sleep and save his worries.
What's more, if he could die here, Gao Jie would feel that he was not a person of low moral character. He would pay you with his life for sleeping with your woman.
Because of this, Gao Jie calmly waited for the army cavalry on the opposite side to reorganize. Seeing them re-arrange their collision formation, he glanced at the mountain peak where Li Zicheng was from a distance. He clearly saw nothing, but he showed a sarcastic expression. With a smile, he raised his hand and pointed at the enemy cavalry, picked up the iron rod, looked back and said to his subordinates: "Go on and hit me!"
Compared with the crazy cavalrymen who did not want to live anymore, the mental state of the vast majority of the army cavalry can be said to be extremely healthy.
To the soldiers, Zuo Liangyu is not only the most good person in the world, but also the best general in the world. As long as the soldiers can do their jobs well, Zuo Liangyu will try his best to do what the generals should do. , even if the current Ming Dynasty does not have this environment, he can still do his best to create good conditions for the soldiers.
A law-abiding soldier is very comfortable under Zuo Liangyu. He is not greedy for merit and will not throw soldiers into fatal battles. Merits will be rewarded.
A soldier who violates discipline is more comfortable under Zuo Liangyu. As long as the soldier can meet Zuo Liangyu's needs, he should punish him but he will not chop him up like other generals.
They may be a little numb, but they are not depressed at all, nor are they self-destructive. They have infinite love for life. They simply cannot understand how the beggar horse soldiers on the opposite side dare to launch a second attack in the exchange ratio of three to one. A collision.
People were a little scared, but after all, they were Zuo Liangyu's elite servants. Their spears and shafts had already been broken where they should have been. They could only open their bows and release a wave of arrows. Then they drew their sabers, lifted their bones, and charged at Gao Jie.
Only this time, their formation was a bit scattered, and people tried to avoid Gao Jie during the impact.
This guy is like a monster. He has thick armor on his body. He has a few arrows and ordinary short weapons and hits him like a normal person. He also has a big eight-foot-long iron rod in front of him, just to scratch the edge. The horse's head could be broken into pieces, and if someone came close to it, it would be thrown off the horse and unable to get up.
He happened to be the first one, looking for someone to hit him as if he was tired of living. His mouth was so bad that he dismounted and yelled a curse.
After another confrontation, a series of vixen curses could be heard on the entire flank battlefield.
Gao Jie was released and comfortable. The chief of the cavalry was so angry that he stopped playing with him. He rushed back and immediately turned around. He ordered the cavalry to take advantage of their strength and not to attack in a military formation, but to fight alone.
Li Zicheng clenched his fists on the mountain and laughed loudly: "The mountain-climbing kite is really capable!"
Gao Jie's interference caused Zuo Liangyu to disperse the reserve team sent to relieve the siege. Li Chengdong's attack on the outside was unstoppable. He forcefully opened a gap in the encirclement and released more and more Zhang Yichuan's peasant army. Li Zicheng's strategy was It worked.
To the west of the battlefield, Wang Yuncheng, the general who was sealing the pocket formation, saw this scene and yelled angrily: He was still tying his pocket here, but it turned out that the pocket was leaking!
At this moment, Zuo Liangyu from the east once again ordered his subordinates to raise the flag.
Zuo Liangyu was not in a hurry and could see the battlefield clearly. Although the situation looked quite bad at the moment, in fact, there were no problems with the right wing, the central army and the sealed Wang Yuncheng's troops. The problem was only with the left wing that was opened. Small notch.
He saw Li Chengdong leading his troops to attack one wooden fence after another on the left wing, and he admired the courage of this young rebel general. He was obviously a master of sneak attacks, and he dared to charge into the army formation with more than a hundred cavalry. And it really made him rush away, he should be a good fighter.
With the military flag fluttering, Wang Yuncheng in the west originally planned to lead the Liao cavalry directly towards Zhang Yichuan's central army. When he saw the flag and heard the order of the drum beat, he angrily waved his sword and ordered the defense line to shrink.
Immediately, Zuo Liangyu's entire military formation moved. The two sections of the gap on the left wing dragged the wounded soldiers to retreat to the east and west sides in stacked formations, and independently opened an encirclement. Zhang Yichuan was surrounded by Upon seeing this, the fifth battalion launched an even more violent attack to the south.
But at the same time, the troops on the left and right also began to abandon their wooden fences and press fiercely southward. The troops launched attacks in columns like hounds chasing sheep.
"Zuo Liangyu is not a good person to deal with. This formation has changed really fast."
On the hillside, Li Zicheng stared at the battlefield. He saw the torn encirclement opening up in a matter of seconds. Zhang Yichuan's troops filed out of the gap. It was obviously a God-given opportunity to counterattack, but instead, the peasant armies were attacking like headless flies. They fled the battlefield south and west. Even if a few groups returned to fight with the government troops, they could not get any advantage in the battle.
Li Chengdong's group fought like mad dogs in the military formation, they were very brave, but after all, their number was too small.
The officers and soldiers were suddenly attacked, and he still had to fight. Now the officers and soldiers accepted Zuo Liangyu's order and retracted their defenses on the east and west sides. Li Chengdong's hundreds of men were unable to form formations to pursue them.
This made Li Zicheng sigh with regret on the mountain. The great opportunity was delayed like this. He could only watch the left army's flying geese formation from west to east, faintly transform into the Changshan Snake Formation from northeast to southwest, and the formation gradually became more regular. .
The most important thing is that once they were out of danger, the overall panicked morale of Zuo Liangyu's army quickly stabilized. The well-trained veterans of the army took this opportunity to adjust the positions of soldiers at the team level and at any level. , placing wounded and tired soldiers behind the formation to ensure that the front still has a strong deterrent effect.
On the other hand, the soldiers of Zhang Yichuan's fifth battalion were scattered when they rushed out of the gap. Even the two lagging battalions were chased and killed by the officers and soldiers for a while, causing heavy casualties.
Li Zicheng was so angry that he yelled: "Expand the expansion, expand the expansion, I can't even understand the flag and drum, expand your head!"
In this rapidly changing situation, Zhang Yichuan's army can no longer be called a command.
Because the order transmission efficiency of Zhang Yichuan's five battalions was too low, the troops in his original battalion were all veterans of the breakout army who had worked together with Li Zicheng. The more than 200 officers in it could basically understand military orders and read some flags and drums, but After the expansion, all the officers have become management teams and even 100 general managers, but this is not enough.
It means that all military orders at the grassroots level rely on man-to-man marking.
Zhang Yichuan did have a command, but in this case, having a command was worse than not having one. When a flag order was issued, half of the officers understood it and half did not. The result was that half moved and the other half did not.
By the time a group of messenger boys with scuds came to the face of the fifth battalion general with orders, they were asked to organize a counterattack from the gap to expand the results; the battlefield situation had changed, and the left army had changed from a pocket formation to a large horizontal formation.
The generals of the fifth battalion all wanted to regroup outside. After receiving the order, they had no choice but to attack the left army again like a boat and a sword. However, Zhang Yichuan's new order for them to gather the broken troops and regroup had already been issued.
Li Zicheng went crazy watching on the mountain and was so angry. Not only was he mad at Zhang Yichuan for his crazy army expansion, he was even angry at Zuo Liangyu and scolded Zuo Liangyu bloody.
He was thinking that you, Zuo Liangyu, have more than 5,000 people in your hands, how can you divide them among the troops?
With the current strength of Zhang Yichuan's Fifth Battalion, there is no need for the left army to divide its troops. If they fight together and change the formation at will, Zhang Yichuan's army will be able to disorganize themselves and you can easily defeat him.
"Silly cocks! A pair of silly cocks!"
Li Zicheng just wanted to jump down and direct the battle for Zhang Yichuan, but the unknown fire in his heart was rising. To be honest, when Han Jin'er and Gai Hu rolled into the same bed while he was not at home, he was not as angry as he is now.
In the end, Li Zicheng was so angry that he whipped his horse whip and said, "Let the Mountain Kites and Li Hezi withdraw their troops and stay next to the Sweeping King, and beat the shit out of them."
"Tell the Sweeping King that Zuo Liangyu retreats in formation and does not pursue him. Regroup quickly and fight him with five battalions, three in front and two in the back. Wait for me to hit him on the side with the kidnap horse, and then teach him to be attacked from the front and back!"
"Send another fast horse to inform the King of Chaos and Scorpion about the war here... Let's go down the mountain!"
He could see clearly that Zuo Liangyu had built a camp on the northern hillside earlier, and there were still wounded soldiers falling on the battlefield. More importantly, his soldiers needed heads, so they would not withdraw to the Qinzhou Acropolis. They formed a formation on the back of the mountain and continued to fight Zhang Yichuan, so they would definitely retreat to the safer foot of the mountain in a stacked formation.
After all, the quality of the soldiers of Zhang Yichuan's fifth battalion seemed to be very easy for the left army to drive them from the battlefield.
Gao Jie had already withdrawn his troops before receiving the order. He was carrying a big iron bar and wearing heavy armor. He could only fight with people for a moment. However, he changed horses in the middle. Feeling that he was running out of energy, he quickly led the cavalry soldiers away. .
The servants of the Zuo Army on the opposite side were not willing to fight him. He was running rampant in the military formation like a crab. When he saw that he was about to leave, the servants of the Zuo Army did not stop him. Even if anyone shot an arrow, it would not be enough for an iron rod. respect.
When he received Li Zicheng's order, Gao Jie was searching for Li Chengdong in the chaos, but this little brat was easy to find. He was chopping off his head at the place where he killed people, with his head wrapped around his waist.
Regardless of whether he killed her or not, he chopped off the head anyway.
Li Chengdong was a young man. When he first joined the peasant army a few years ago, he was timid and was bullied. No one gave him clothes to wear. He wore a child's bellyband under his torn cotton-padded jacket all day long, so he got the nickname Li Hezi.
Myrobalan is a woman's belly bandana.
Later, after killing the first person, he got out of control and tried his best to prove that he was brave and capable of killing. He always only brought one or two hundred people into battle, and he would rush wherever danger came. He was like a mad dog, who would call him Myrobalan on weekdays. Just follow whoever is in a hurry.
But Gao Jie had kicked him since he was a child, and he was a fierce and unruly figure in the camp. Not to mention calling him myrobalan, he would not dare to fart when he was making fun of him on weekdays.
Li Chengdong was squatting on the ground and chopping off his head. His body was stained with blood and looked like a red mud monkey. When Gao Jie saw him, he kicked his head.
Li Chengdong, who was frightened and frightened, clutched the knife and raised his hand to chop. His eyes turned to Gao Jie's face as if he had seen a natural enemy, and he was so frightened that he did not dare to move.
"Get out of here quickly. No one will give you a reward for your hard work. General Chuang, go to the Sweeping King. Hurry up."
After saying that, Gao Jie stopped looking at him and turned around to walk in the direction of Zhang Yichuan's army. Li Chengdong rolled behind him, and then he ran after him with his head raised.
"Old management team, why did General Chuang ask us to go to the sweeper king?"
"You're asking so many questions. Hurry up and take off the head from your waist. It looks like bad luck." Gao Jie was riding in front, and Li Chengdong was running to catch up. Gao Jie said: "Myrobalan, you love to chop off heads so much." , it’s better to join the army.”
Li Chengdong didn't even think about it: "I will go wherever the old management team goes, and I will do whatever the old management team asks me to do."
"Then you go and join the army."
Gao Jie glanced sideways at Li Chengdong and laughed happily on horseback: "What a fool. You killed so many soldiers, how could you join the army?"
Li Chengdong was standing there with a silly smile on his face.
But he didn't notice that the smile on Gao Jie's face gradually faded, he sighed softly and talked to himself.
"After killing so many officers and soldiers, how can we surrender to the officers and soldiers?" (End of Chapter)
