The horse Gan also stood on a big stone. Through the trees with sparse branches and leaves in winter, he saw the crusade retreating like a tide. He looked excited and a little embarrassed.

Because he remembered the scene of persuading Li Dingguo not to take risks before the fight started.

Originally, when he saw the new army equipment and the morale of the generals after the reorganization of Chengdu, he knew that the new army's combat effectiveness had improved a lot.

But I never expected that even when facing twice the elite troops of the Break Army in the field, the new army could defend easily.

It should be noted that it is not the time when thousands of officials and troops ran away with tens of thousands of bandits a few years ago.

After years of battle, Li Zicheng's rebel army not only accumulated a large number of elite soldiers with high combat qualities, but also improved the quality of the rebel army's equipment a lot through the victory.

In addition, the two years ago, the rebel army won a series of victories against the official army, which made the rebel army highly motivated when facing the official army.

Various factors have made the government army vulnerable before the Ming Dynasty in the past one or two years, and even fled in sight.

Ma Gan originally thought that even a new army that has been reorganized through Chengdu would need one or two victory to regain morale and form a psychological advantage against the crusade army.

Unexpectedly, in this battle, the Ming New Army, while Li Dingguo deliberately retained combat methods such as cannons and flintlock rifles, still relied on his tenacious fighting will to repel the attacks of the rebel army again and again, and even acted at ease.

This undoubtedly shows that the combat effectiveness of Chengdu's new army is more than that of today's rebel army.

Just as Ma Gan was thinking about these things, Li Dingguo, not far away, saw that the rebel army had begun to evacuate from the foot of the mountain, and said, "Transfer our military orders! The second battalion of the Fourth Town of the Border Defense Army was used as the vanguard, and the newly formed garrison army in Kuizhou was The town is the central army, and the remaining troops in the fourth town of the border guard are the rear army, chasing the enemy!"

"Ode to the Lord!"

As Li Dingguo's military order was announced, the Ming army battalions that had been prepared immediately went down the mountain in an orderly manner and chased the evacuated rebels.

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"Mianhou, why don't the Ming army chase after the retreat? Even if there is a danger of being attacked by the Xu, as long as we are entangled and wait for the other Ming army to arrive, we will not be able to escape no matter what.

Now that they are hanging behind, they can definitely block their husbands?"

On the way, Liu Tichun, who had the largest loss rate of soldiers under his command, retreated with Yuan Zongdi's central army.

He took the opportunity to talk to Yuan Zongdi about his doubts.

Since before, he realized that Li Dingguo deliberately wanted to lure them into attack and wanted to keep them, Liu Tichun felt that Li Dingguo's strange marching command was full of malice towards the rebel army.

Yuan Zongdi was very irritable at this time, with his brows frowned. After hearing Liu Tichun's question, he said impatiently: "Where do you know? If you have time to think about this, why don't you go to the front to investigate and find a way to avoid blocking the quota. Ming army.”

Liu Tichun's face looked a little ugly, but he still held his fists and took the order, "The last general will take the order!"

After saying that, he led the remaining more than 100 personal soldiers forward.

Liu Tichun led his personal soldiers to cross a team of low morale crusades at a faster speed, and soon caught up with Liu Rukui's troops who were exploring the way forward.

Then he found that Liu Rukui's tribe had stopped at some point.

So he found Liu Rukui and asked, "Why don't you leave?"

Liu Rukui frowned and said, "The spy came to report that there were 10,000 or 20,000 Ming troops more than one mile away, blocking the important road. If you don't want to fight with them, you must cross the mountains and detours."

When Liu Tichun heard this, he said, "There are dangerous mountains and dense forests on both sides, and there is no road. Even if the army can cross it, it will definitely drag down the speed of the march and catch up with Li Dingguo behind him.

Since there is a Ming army stopping us, we can only fight, and we must fight quickly!"

Liu Rukui said: "Oh, there are only a few thousand people. Before the people behind come up, how can you fight them?

And don’t you find it strange? There are so many roads leading to Taiping County, why did the Ming army be sure that we would retreat from this one, just blocking the main road?"

While the two were communicating, Li Laiheng, who was following behind, also led his troops to follow.

After understanding the situation, he said, "I don't think I can fight. It's better to go to the mountain next to set up a position and leave a group of troops to stop the pursuit army and let the other groups evacuate the mountain."

Liu Tichun glared at the ear and said, "You boy's idea is not reliable at all. Let's not talk about what to do if you stay and stop the pursuers. Even if the large army crosses this mountain, how can you know that you will not meet the Ming army again.

Intercept?"

"What do you think you should do?!"

Seeing that the army was in danger, Liu Tichun, Li Laiheng and others were full of anger and started arguing after saying a few words.

In this way, until Yuan Zongdi came after learning about the situation, the few people did not come up with a certain solution.

Although Yuan Zongdi was also full of anger, he was even more mature and was the head coach.

He knew that the longer they delayed, the smaller their chances of breaking through, so he made a quick decision: "Before Li Dingguo has not caught up, you can try to rush to the Ming army that blocked the road ahead.

Well, I don’t believe it anymore. All Ming troops are as difficult as the army led by Li Dingguo!”

"What if I can't beat it?" Liu Rukui asked.

"Then let's retreat to the mountain to defend and send people to the Yaohuang Shisan family in the county for help."

Liu Rukui said: "In my opinion, even if we can break through the Ming army's obstacles in front, the battles behind will be difficult to fight.

In this way, it is better to send a small team of people to Taiping County to seek help now."

If you do not take a formed road and cross mountains and ridges, it will greatly reduce the speed of the march for the army, and may even cause the army to collapse and cannot be gathered.

But for a small group of elites, crossing mountains and ridges can reach their destination faster.

Therefore, Yuan Zongdi nodded after hearing this, and his eyes moved back and forth on the people.

As the head coach, he definitely cannot leave.

So who are the remaining candidates?

In the end, Yuan Zongdi's eyes fell on Liu Tichun and said, "Erhu, you have the least soldiers now, so you can take your personal soldiers to ask for help."

Liu Tichun was not very willing and said, "When it comes to military and horses, now it is not much less than Laiheng. He is the youngest boy, why don't he let him go?!"

Yuan Zongdi frowned and said, "The group of people in Yaohuang is not that easy to invite. Laiheng is too young and may not be able to invite him if he goes there. You will have hope! And this is a military order, do you want to resist the order?

Is it honorable?!"

Liu Tichun's muscles twitched, and finally he clasped his fists and led more than a hundred personal soldiers up the mountain.

Yuan Zongdi looked around the generals and shouted: "Don't hold back from each battalion, be sure to defeat the enemy in one fell swoop!"

"yes!"

With the response from the generals of the rebel army, small snowflakes fell from the gloomy sky.

In this way, about 30,000 rebels launched a fierce attack on the Ming New Army who intercepted the main road.

This new Ming army mainly consists of Baoning garrison town, plus the newly formed garrison troops of the two battalions in Dazhou.

The chief general was Wang Fuchen, who served as the general of the general.

This person was born as a lower-class officer of the Ming Border Army. He rebelled with Zhang Xianzhong in his early years and was also the governor of Zhang Xianzhong's left army. He was one of the backbone generals of the Daxi Army in history.

Historically, in 1652, he defeated Wu Sangui in Xuzhou Prefecture and took the opportunity to recapture Chongqing.

During this period, the Daxi Army, which had already returned to the Ming Dynasty, had the opportunity to recover the entire Sichuan, but because Liu Wenxiu and other generals did not listen to Wang Fuchen's advice and underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, Wu Sangui seized the flaw and turned defeat into victory.

Wang Fuchen was besieged and led his troops to fight hard and died.

In short, this is a very steady general in the Western Army.

This time, he learned the direction of the retreat of the rebels through the intercom in the army, and rushed to this road where the defense was suitable for defense.

Although it was only one or two quarters of an hour earlier, it was enough for him to set up two good defensive positions.

Faced with the charge of nearly 30,000 elite troops in the rebel army, Wang Fuchen did not understand Li Dingguo as weak as he was.

One reason is that his troops are weak, and the other is that he doesn't like to take risks.

Therefore, seeing that the rebels rushed to a distance of two hundred steps, he ordered fifty or sixty tiger squat cannons concentrated behind the first line of defense to fire together.

That is, the new artillery has not been distributed to the garrison, otherwise Wang Fuchen would have even used the new artillery.

Even so, it is enough to be a rebel.

I saw fifty or sixty iron bombs fired out together, falling into the crowd of crowds of rebels charging in the mountain road, and suddenly plowed out waves of blood!

Wherever you pass, people, cars, mules and horses are broken!

Screams are endless!
Chapter completed!