Although there were still more than 2,000 thieves on Liu Tichun's side, apart from the more than 200 old thieves around him, the rest were scattered in the siege team. It took about a quarter of an hour to gather more than 1,000 troops.
There were still more than a thousand thieves and hungry people still running back from the city's roots, and they were regrouping in a chaotic manner behind the big group.
"General Liu, please wait a little longer, our troops haven't gathered yet." A small leader reminded.
Liu Tichun glanced around and said: "Don't be afraid, there are only a thousand officers and soldiers. I will lead my men to kill them back first and bite the officers and soldiers. Once you have gathered here, we will come to support."
He then shouted to the thieves: "The spearmen are in front, and the archers are behind to cover us. Kill the officers and retreat, and then we'll have dinner!"
More than a thousand thieves surrounded Liu Tichun and rushed back to the camp in the north. When they were less than two hundred steps away from the camp, they saw more than a hundred thieves fleeing from the camp shrouded in black smoke in front of them.
Seeing this, Liu Tichun knew that the camp had been lost. He reined in his horse's head and shouted loudly again: "Form up, quickly form the formation. Hold the shield in front, the spearmen in the back, and Liu Cheng leads the cavalry on the left wing."
Although most of the bandit soldiers were newly recruited by King Li Zicheng after he entered Henan, and many were recruited after he conquered Luoyang, there were also some old thieves who served as leaders, and there were also small groups of thieves from all over Henan who came to seek refuge, and they were all beaten. Sanfen is the leader in the army.
Although he was slightly panicked due to panic, Liu Tichun's orders also played a role in stabilizing the morale of the soldiers, and the bandit soldiers began to form a team 200 steps away from the camp.
Liu Tichun was originally worried that this official army would defend his camp. In that case, it would be difficult for him to recapture the camp.
But what surprised him a little was that the officers and soldiers in the camp actually came out in groups and formed a formation in the open space in front of the camp. The two sides looked at each other with a distance of about 150 steps. Organize their respective military formations.
Suddenly, Liu Tichun noticed something was wrong. He seemed to hear the sound of rapid horse hooves coming from the west. He turned around and shouted: "Liu Cheng, send two people to see if King Chuang has sent someone to reinforce us!" "
He also has a cavalry team of fifty people in his army. He never thought that any official army would dare to attack. The main purpose of this cavalry team is to send messages to and from the old camp in the west of Chuangwang City. .
After the two cavalry soldiers galloped more than ten steps away, they saw a group of more than a hundred cavalrymen showing their true appearance where the smoke was rising in the west.
They all wore bright helmets and bright armor, and they were all in high spirits. They wore bright red cloaks. The leading young general held a tiger gun in his hand, and there was a triangular-shaped gun with red edges and white background on the tip of the gun. The flag has a tiger descending from the mountain embroidered in the middle.
It was Zhang Cheng's one hundred elite cavalry who guarded the Pro-Military Division B Bureau.
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Zhang Cheng's pro-military bodyguards originally had four bureaus. Among them, Liu Jinhai's bureau in Bureau A has been transformed into Jianghu Green Forest, becoming Zhang Cheng's secret bureau in various places.
The Lei Zhancheng Division of Bureau Ding was designated as the accompanying carriage bureau when it was first established. Its troops are now staying in Chicheng to guard Zhang Cheng's family and provide travel escorts for Zhang Cheng's family members, but they have not accompanied the army.
Only Lin Fangping's Department of Bureau B and Li Changsheng's Department of Bureau C were the escort forces. They also went to Henan with Zhang Cheng this time. However, Li Changsheng's Bureau C was left in Wu'an County, Zhangde Prefecture, Henan, responsible for protecting his uncle. The safety of Wu'an Magistrate Ji Youqing.
In view of this, Zhang Cheng also felt that the immediate guard force around him was insufficient. Therefore, since crossing the Yellow River to Mianhe Town, Meng County, Hebei Province, he had been thinking about the formation of a new guard force.
It was not until the army marched all the way to the vicinity of Yujiadian in Yangwu County that he decided on the military strategy of forming the Tiger Guard and conveyed it to his generals. He also decided on the style of the Tiger Guard's gun and flag.
Lin Fangping's unit was immediately converted into a Tiger Guard. According to Zhang Cheng's vision, his Tiger Guard would be expanded to at least a thousand fine cavalry in the future, and would serve as a powerful core combat force directly belonging to him.
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After Lin Fangping separated from Su Laohu and Mo Rigen at the northwest corner outside Kaifeng City, he urged his horse and led a hundred cavalry under his command to gallop forward straight towards the bandit camp.
From a distance, he saw nearly two thousand bandit soldiers arranging their troops in a panic. He knew that he had arrived at the right time and shouted loudly: "Shoot the arrows and leave those two bandit riders to me."
Then there was another loud shout: "Charge, fight in, don't ask the thieves to form a team!"
The knights under his command are all selected veterans of the army. Not only are they highly skilled in riding and combat, they are also guaranteed to be loyal. Moreover, the equipment and treatment given to them by Zhang Cheng are slightly higher than those of other troops, even higher than those of Zhang Guangda's heavy cavalry. With Yuri.
As soon as Lin Fangping finished speaking, several arrows flew out. The two cavalry soldiers were galloping towards this direction, but they were in a hurry and could not turn their horses around immediately.
They had no choice but to turn their horses and continue running towards the northwest. Their purpose was obvious, which was to pass by Lin Fangping in order to protect themselves.
But both sides were galloping on horseback, and the distance of less than four hundred steps was only a blink of an eye. As the distance between the two sides continued to get closer, the targets of the two cavalry thieves became bigger and bigger.
The first wave of arrows did not hit them, but the second wave was shot out by more than a dozen arrows. The thieves and horses running in front were shot first, and fell to the ground in shock. The thief was thrown far away and fell motionless on the ground, not knowing whether he was alive or dead.
The second bandit was not so lucky. He was hit by three arrows, but he did not fall off his horse. He lay on the horse and ran straight away to the north.
Lin Fangping didn't even look at this. He pushed his horse hard and rushed straight to where the bandits were forming.
At this time, there were two more smoke and dust rising in the north and south directions of him. It was obvious that Su Laohu and Mo Rigen's two Mongolian cavalry also rushed up. The screams and screams.
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Liu Tichun originally didn't take the officers and soldiers who captured his camp seriously, but now that three cavalry groups of the officers and soldiers were charging from the west, he was really panicked.
He knew that the west side of Kaifeng City was where the old camp of King Chuang's army was. There were three thousand elite cavalrymen and two thousand old thieves stationed there by the general sentry Liu Zongmin. Now the officers and soldiers were charging in from there.
"Could it be... King Chuang..."
Liu Tichun couldn't help but feel a sense of sadness in his heart. He had followed King Chuang from dormant in Shangluo Mountain, to rushing out of Shangluo, and now across Zhongzhou, including Kezhou County and even a strong city like Luoyang. He could hardly stand up to King Chuang's army. Divine power.
But today's situation made him faintly afraid. It all happened so quickly, and I'm afraid it would go away too quickly.
But the old thief was an old thief after all. Although he felt sad in his heart, he loudly ordered his soldiers not to panic and to form a formation quickly to resist the attack of the official cavalry.
He even shouted: "Form up the formation, King Chuang has sent the commander Liu Ye to rescue us, don't panic... quickly form the formation..."
However, there are not many of the thieves under his command who can be called old thieves. If they were to face Jin Yong's infantry in front of them alone, they might be able to respond to the order, but coupled with the three groups of official cavalry rushing from the west, those newly attached The thieves and the newly recruited thieves became panicked.
Although there were dozens of horse thieves and hundreds of veterans and archers giving orders to suppress them, their efforts to suppress them immediately became insignificant when the hungry people behind them became panicked and began to run away in all directions!
