Of course the Datong Army cannot fly, but Zheng Tao is walking too slowly.
Li Dingguo asked his soldiers to bring three days of dry food, but it turned out that he thought too much. The vanguard of the Datong Army only took half a day and half a night to catch up with Zheng Pang's army.
One party was dragging his feet, carrying a lot of baggage, and most of them were civilian husbands and local warriors.
One party moved at full speed, carrying only a small amount of dry food, and all of them were elite troops.
In other words, even if it were replaced by Vietnam's elite troops, the situation would not change much. Zheng led an army of 60,000 to the south, and was it not defeated by Ruan's 100 elephant soldiers?
This bad old man is simply addicted to human food. He doesn't know how to fight but always fights by himself.
The first one to catch up was Yuan Shizhong. He abandoned the infantry and led the entire division of cavalry on horseback along the official road. Then he abandoned the horses, temporarily transformed into infantry, and ran all the way with his equipment.
He was not afraid of going the wrong way at all. Zheng's tens of thousands of troops trampled countless crops along the way, and even those who were not blind could see.
More than 2,000 comrades, holding torches and smashing them, pursued him in the early hours of the morning.
Zheng Pang's tens of thousands of troops were still sleeping and didn't even bother to set up camp. There were paddy fields all around and they couldn't set up camp. They just lay on the ridge of the fields, or a few of them sat together, resting back to back. They lit the fire every now and then,
There is no open fire, only wet grass is used to smoke out mosquitoes, and there are people on duty to add grass to each fire.
It was the soldier who was on duty to smoke out mosquitoes. He spotted the Datong army approaching with torches, and was so frightened that he shouted: "The pursuers are coming, the pursuers are coming!"
The Zheng army nearby was in a panic. The first reaction was not to defend the enemy. Instead, they jumped into the paddy field and fled for their lives in the muddy water.
It's hard to form a formation in this poor place during the day, let alone being attacked at night.
Yuan Shizhong heard the chaotic shouts from the front and immediately ordered: "No need to wear armor or a fire gun, kill the enemy immediately!"
After the order was passed down, more than 2,000 soldiers gradually put down their armors and stomachs. Even the fire commanders did not want them anymore. They threw them directly on the edge of the field and rushed forward bare-chested with cold weapons.
"Kill!"
The soldiers of Datong, holding torches in one hand and sabers in the other, walked along the field ridge...
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Running fast, people would slip and fall into the fields from time to time.
When encountering a fork in the field, they will automatically divide into several teams to prevent the entire army from forming a long snake.
Zheng's army stretched for several miles, and was collapsing one after another at this moment. Those far away from the Datong army subconsciously ran away without even understanding the situation.
There were also some Qinwang gentry who took the Datong Army's night attack as a good opportunity and fled with the village warriors from their own village communities. Otherwise, they would have to follow Zheng into the ravines, and they didn't know when they would be able to return to their hometown.
Under the moonlight, torches danced wildly, creating chaos.
Due to the hot weather, the Datong army went into battle shirtless, holding only cold weapons in their hands. More than 2,000 people chased tens of thousands of enemy troops.
As for Zheng Pang, Zheng Zha and his son, they could only control the troops on a few field ridges around them. They couldn't figure out how many pursuing troops were coming, and they only heard people fleeing from all directions.
Fortunately, Zheng Pang has been on the battlefield for a long time. Although he has never won any battles, he has rich experience in defeating battles. The old man in his seventies seemed to have been pumped with adrenaline, and he led his troops to escape very quickly at the first opportunity. This
He had seen this kind of situation many times, and he was not frightened to the point of fainting. He knew that saving his life was the most important thing now.
Yuan Shizhong chopped down several people one after another, and he knelt on the field in front of him.
Yuan Shizhong shouted angrily: "Get out of the way quickly. Those who surrender should go to the fields. Don't block the road on the ridge of the field!"
It's a pity that he didn't bring a translator, so the enemy soldiers couldn't understand him at all.
However, the waist knife in the hands of the Datong Army is the universal language. After cutting out the corpses all over the field ridges, the enemy soldiers all understood that few of them dared to kowtow on the field ridges.
This kind of terrain makes it easy to defeat the enemy, but it is difficult to kill, chase and capture the enemy.
More than 80% of Zheng Zha's tens of thousands of troops managed to escape. They ran around in the rice fields and couldn't tell the direction. They could run as far as they could.
Most of them will flee back to their hometowns, and some may gather and become bandits.
After all, Zheng Zha was still too old, and after only running a few dozen steps, he was out of breath from exhaustion.
He ordered his soldiers to carry him on his back and escape, but the field was narrow and it was more difficult to maintain balance while carrying him on his back. As he ran, the soldiers lost their feet and fell into the air.
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#Fall into the field with Zheng Pang.
Zheng Zha looked back at the Datong army that was getting closer and closer, and then at his old father who fell into the paddy field. After a slight hesitation, he gritted his teeth and left, pretending that he didn't know anything.
The soldier finally got up, and when he saw the pursuers approaching, he ignored Zheng Jie and ran away in the muddy water.
Zheng Pang, who was over seventy years old, struggled in the paddy field and finally climbed back to the field ridge. He said angrily: "Sir, come back and save your father!"
When Zheng Zha heard this, he ran faster.
He had saved this old father several times. The situation was almost the same, that is, the army suddenly collapsed, and then he took his father and fled the battlefield quickly.
There is really no way to save this time!
Li Shenzong, Li Zhenzong and his son were squatting on the edge of the field and shivering.
Yuan Shizhong led his troops to pursue him. Li Zhenzong quickly held his head and pretended that he couldn't see anything.
However, Li Shenzong stood up and shouted in the Chinese he learned when he was young: "I am Emperor Li... I am the Supreme King of Annan. I am willing to send heavenly soldiers, I am willing to send heavenly soldiers!"
Yuan Shizhong stopped quickly and asked: "Are you the Lord of Annan?"
"I am," Li Shenzong pointed to his son again and said, "I am the Supreme King of Annan. This is the king of Annan. Please help my father and son restore their kingdom!"
Yuan Shizhong laughed loudly: "Leave a few people to keep an eye on these two men!"
Li Shenzong said again: "The traitor of the Zheng family ran in that direction. General, hurry up and chase him."
Yuan Shizhong smiled even more happily: "I remember your contribution in showing the way!"
Zheng Pang felt that his waist was broken, and his back hurt every step he took. He simply abandoned the field ridge and hid in the paddy field, using the knee-deep seedlings as cover.
Crawling among the seedlings like a dog.
I really just let him run away!
There were so many deserters and they were all in the dark that the Datong soldiers could not take care of them at all.
Whenever he felt that there were pursuers coming, Zheng would lie down in the rice field, even pressing his face into the muddy water. When a wave of pursuers passed, he would continue crawling, and he climbed several fields in this way.
I crawled until dawn and managed to escape, covered in mud, and fled to a village community.
It is estimated that some defeated soldiers have come here. The villagers were so frightened that they hid in their homes. There were no ghosts everywhere...
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None can be seen.
Zheng Pang didn't dare to stay any longer, and he felt the pain in his waist getting more and more painful, so he limped towards the outside of the village community.
The bad old man in his seventies was really tortured, and half his life was lost. He kept walking for a long time, but he didn’t know how far he had gone. Anyway, the sun was almost setting, and he finally arrived at the second village hungry.
society.
At this time, he was tired and hungry. Zheng Pang touched his waist and found that there was only one scabbard left. His sword was lost somewhere.
Zheng did not dare to enter the village. He wandered outside the village for a long time and finally saw a shepherd boy returning home from herding cattle.
"Little brother!" Zheng shouted with a smile on his face.
When the shepherd boy saw that he was covered in mud, he thought he was a beggar. He immediately laughed and said: "Beggars, you don't take a bath, you are so embarrassed!"
Zheng Zha suppressed the anger in his heart, took off the jade pendant from his waist, wiped the mud and said, "What do you think this is?"
The shepherd boy's eyes lit up: "So beautiful."
Zheng Zha seduced: "You go home and get some food, and I will give you this jade pendant. Remember, don't tell others, they will come and snatch this treasure."
The shepherd boy spread his hands and said, "Give it to me first."
"Bring the food, I will give you the jade pendant." Zheng Pang had already made up his mind that as long as the shepherd boy brought him food, he would take the opportunity to strangle him to death so as not to reveal his whereabouts.
But the shepherd boy said: "Give it to me first!"
Zheng was so hungry that he had to hand over the jade pendant, hide and wait for the shepherd boy to return with food.
The shepherd boy herded cattle for the landlord's family, and the family had little food. After a long time, he brought some bran and old rice porridge in a bamboo tube, handed it to Zheng and said:
"Take it and eat it quickly. This is what I saved. If I eat it for you, I will still be hungry."
Zheng Pang grabbed the bamboo tube and poured it into his mouth. The coarse bran was so unpalatable that it made him want to vomit. It also rubbed against his esophagus and made it difficult to swallow.
After swallowing it hard, Zheng Pang saw the shepherd boy turning away, so he quietly chased after him and stretched out his hands.
"Uuuuuuuuuuuuu"
The shepherd boy was suddenly strangled by the neck. He subconsciously grabbed Zheng Pang's wrist and struggled wildly with a painful expression.
The intensity of the struggle became weaker and weaker, and finally he finally breathed his last.
With a ferocious look on his face, Zheng let go of the shepherd boy's body, turned around and fled further away. #b... ...
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br# After walking a few steps, Zheng Pang suddenly covered his lower back. He was thrown to the ground last night and suffered a slight bone fracture. He crawled and walked all the way, and now he strangled the shepherd boy to death, which finally made the injury to the fractured bone even more serious.
Zheng could no longer walk or crawl. Whenever he exerted force on his limbs, his waist hurt so much that he almost fainted.
Night falls.
The body of the shepherd boy lay there, a few meters away. Zheng Pang could not move even half a step, and in the end he could only lie on the ground and wait for death.
Time goes back to dawn.
Zheng Zha ran away with dozens of his soldiers, but fewer and fewer soldiers ran along the way. Some soldiers pretended to fall and fell into the paddy field, then ran for their lives through the mud and water. Some soldiers were caught, although they could not communicate with each other through language.
But in order to survive through meritorious service, he yelled and pointed out the direction of Zheng Zha's escape.
Zheng Zha didn't know where to flee. Thang Long Mansion was gone, Zheng's family in Thanh Hoa was captured, and his army was completely defeated. Even if he escaped into the mountains, he would have to be a savage.
"Plop!"
Zheng Zha finally fell down due to weak legs, and the soldiers behind him quickly helped him up.
Then, the classic show was staged.
A soldier said: "The Sheng Long Mansion is gone. I don't know if our family members are still there."
Another soldier said: "You still have to go into the mountains?"
"Going into the mountains to eat grass?"
"I don't want to run away anymore. I was on my way yesterday and now I'm exhausted!"
"If you don't escape, you will be caught and beheaded."
"Catch this guy and ask for merit. I'm sure he can survive."
"Yes, catch him and perform meritorious service!"
"Bullshit, the seller wants glory, let me go!"
Several soldiers pulled off Zheng Zha's belt and tied up his hands and feet.
They returned the same way, and when they encountered the Datong Army from afar, they shouted: "Prince Zheng is here, Prince Zheng is here, Prince Zheng is captured!"