The soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag stopped about a hundred steps away from the official army.
The gunners carrying the Crouching Tiger Cannon on their shoulders ran to the front of the formation and placed the Crouching Tiger Cannon in front of the officers and soldiers without concealment.
"escape!"
When Xu Cunzhong saw the tiger character flag and brought out the squatting tiger cannon, he turned around and ran away with the servants around him without saying a word.
It doesn’t matter if there are many soldiers and horses in the tiger-shaped flag, now they even have their cannons out.
No one in the army could stop the Crouching Tiger Cannon, and the original Crouching Tiger Cannons guarding the camp had long been exchanged for money privately. It was the Tiger Character Banner that bought these Crouching Tiger Cannons in the first place.
Now that he saw the soldiers and horses of the Tiger Flag carrying out the Crouching Tiger Cannon, he hated Wang Tong and Chen Yusheng in his heart because it was these two people who had sold out the few cannons in the garrison.
Xu Cunzhong, who was originally at the forefront of the army, fled back with his men. The other soldiers of the garrison who did not know what was going on subconsciously followed him and ran back together.
The ranks of the officers and soldiers, which had recently stabilized, fled again, and it was more serious than the last time.
"Stop them!" Zheng Shuqi, who was holding the battle at the back, saw Xu Cunzhong and his men running back on horseback, and angrily ordered the soldiers around him to stop them.
Several soldiers rushed out on horseback.
The road was full of camp soldiers, making it impossible for the horses to run. Soon, soldiers sent by Zheng Shuqi stopped Xu Cunzhong and his servants.
"Get out of the way, I'm going to see Zheng Shoubei." Xu Cunzhong shouted angrily, riding a horse and passing by the soldiers blocking him.
After all, several soldiers did not dare to stop Xu Cunzhong. They just held back a few servants brought back by the other party. Even the camp soldiers' retreat was suppressed again.
Soon, Xu Cunzhong came to Zheng Shuqi.
However, before he could speak, Zheng Shuqi said with a cold face: "Who told you to retreat? Do you know that doing so will directly cause the army to collapse?"
"Cannon, there are cannons over there with the Tiger Flag!" Xu Cunzhong shouted to Zheng Shuqi.
Zheng Shuqi's face darkened and he said: "So what if there are cannons? A group of bandits can still operate the cannons by themselves. I think you are afraid!"
"Fart." It was a matter of life. Xu Cunzhong cursed unceremoniously, "Are Tiger Character Banners just ordinary bandits? They can make cannons themselves, and they once used cannons to blow down the walls of Xinpingbao. This is called no way. Manipulating a cannon?”
Now he could see that Zheng Shuqi wanted him to die.
Zheng Shuqi said with a gloomy face: "I order you to immediately lead the troops to encircle and suppress the Tiger Flag bandits ahead!"
The soldiers and horses of the Tiger Character Flag were already in front of him, and he would never allow Xu Cunzhong to escape at this time.
Once Xu Cunzhong, a member of a thousand households, fled for his life, the remaining soldiers in the camp would just flee in droves.
boom! boom! boom!
It happened that at this moment, several tiger squatting cannons on the side of the Tiger Flag were fired.
With the sound of cannons, the soldiers of the garrison camp who had reluctantly stayed behind were completely in chaos. No matter how hard Zheng Shuqi's soldiers suppressed them, it was of no use at all.
Even the soldiers and servants on horseback were trapped by the fleeing camp soldiers and had to retreat.
The hillsides and mud ditches on one side of the road were also crowded with camp soldiers fleeing for their lives.
"General, we are defeated. My subordinates will escort you back to Lingqiu County." A soldier who returned said eagerly to Zheng Shuqi.
There were defeated battalions all around.
Zheng Shuqi's face was livid.
A few cannon shots frightened the soldiers guarding the main camp into rout and fled. These soldiers were even more miserable than he imagined.
"General!" Seeing that Zheng Shuqi didn't respond, the soldier couldn't help but urge him again.
There were several soldiers around who formed a wall of flesh to block the fleeing soldiers of the garrison camp.
As more and more soldiers from the camp fled from the front, the pressure on these soldiers became more and more intense, and it seemed that they were almost unstoppable.
"Go back." Zheng Shuqi also knew that it was no longer necessary to stay, so he immediately turned his horse's head and rode away.
And his personal soldiers were guarding the surroundings, driving away the defeated troops blocking the road.
"Let's go too." Xu Cunzhong said to his servants, urging his horses to chase after Zheng Shuqi and others.
A war horse with four legs can run faster than a camp soldier with two legs.
When Zheng Shuqi and others rode out of the crowd of defeated troops, their horses could run as fast as they could and quickly lost sight of the soldiers guarding the camp.
No matter it was Zheng Shuqi, Xu Cunzhong, or several military attaches on horseback, no one cared about the life and death of the ordinary soldiers guarding the camp, and they all left alone.
The gunners operating the Crouching Tiger Cannon at the Tiger Flag looked at the fleeing officers and soldiers in front of them, and hesitated whether to continue firing.
Because these officers and soldiers fled too fast, by the time the Tiger Crouching Cannon was reloaded, they had already escaped beyond the range.
"Deputy Battalion Commander, do we want to pursue him?" An officer came to Du Yan.
Du Yan looked at the soldiers of the Lingqiu garrison camp in front of him who had abandoned their helmets and armor, grinned, and said: "I have long heard that the officers and soldiers of the garrison camp are all trash, but now it seems that calling them trash is a big deal. "
He only fired two cannons and all the officers and soldiers were scared away, which was really beyond his expectation.
"We can take advantage of the situation to cover up the attack and eliminate the Lingqiu garrison in one fell swoop," the officer said.
Du Yan shook his head and said: "Forget it, killing such trash will only waste gunpowder, and we have no plans to attack Lingqiu County. There is no need to waste energy on them. Send the order and order the army to return to Dongshan."
The purpose of the army coming here was to prevent the soldiers and horses guarding the Lingqiu camp from approaching Dongshan. Now that the purpose was achieved, he was not prepared to stay and compete with the defeated troops in front of him.
Many new miners who joined the team had not yet figured out what was going on, and the army began to return again.
Less than halfway through the return journey, a fast horse came ahead.
Call!
When they got close, the rider on the horse pulled the reins, stopped, and asked the person in front of him: "Where is your Deputy Du Yingzheng?"
A team leader walked forward quickly and said, "The deputy battalion is behind you?"
The rider said nothing and continued walking forward on horseback.
However, because there were many more soldiers and horses of his own on the road, he could no longer gallop as before and tried to control the horse's speed as much as possible.
A team of more than 2,000 people formed a long snake-like queue on the road, and Du Yan was walking in the middle of the team on horseback.
"Deputy Du Yingzheng!" When the rider saw Du Yan, he hurriedly shouted and urged his horse to get closer to him.
Du Yan heard someone calling him and glanced in the direction of the sound.
Seeing that it was the messenger next to Liao Junyi, the commander of the camp, he immediately anticipated that something was going on and urged the war horse to walk towards the other side.
As the two sides approached, the rider said: "Deputy Du Yingzheng, Yingzheng ordered you to lead the army to Xinping Fort first. The artillery team of Hutou Village will meet you. This is the order."
As he spoke, he took out the warrant and handed it over.
