Caozhai, the ambushing place for the rebel army.

More than 70 cavalry who fled back in a panic reported to Li Zicheng: "The King of Chuang, Guan Gouzi set fire in Wangzhuang, cut off our retreat, and intercepted our brothers with light cavalry. We only ran back more than 70 people. All the hungry people were intercepted by Guan Gouzi!"

Song Xiance asked in surprise: "Why didn't you leave your property when you retreat?"

"The villain is lost, and the brothers who have mixed into the hungry people are also lost, but the official dog is not fooled at all."

Li Zicheng asked: "How many official dogs are there?"

"There are about seven thousand cavalry and five thousand infantry."

"But only more than 10,000 people dare to pull their teeth from the tiger's mouth! Under my order, the cavalry will attack! Be sure to annihilate this group of official dogs! If they run away, we will snatch the hungry people back!"

Thirty thousand rebel cavalry came to Jinyang Army. Ye Bubu checked in and found out the situation and immediately reported to Li Guodong: "Brother, the rebel cavalry is here! There are so many people coming, more than 30,000!"

"I understand," Li Guodong responded, turned his head and shouted, "Come here! Come and get the map!"

A soldier took a map. Li Guodong took it and spread it flat on the ground. His fingers gestured on the map: "We lit a fire on the left and right sides of the official road in Wangzhuang. The thieves could only detour from the north or south. This area was a large plain with a flat horse and a forest, so there was no ambush at all. We could only compete with the thieves."

"Master, we have won, why don't you take the prisoners away quickly?" Cao Bianjiao asked.

Li Guodong shook his head: "If our cavalry did not stay to stop the thieves, then more than 30,000 refugees would not be able to leave at all! Halfway through the way, they would be caught by the thieves! If these people were caught, wouldn't our previous battle be in vain?"

"It's not a waste of fighting," Cao Bianjiao smiled, "Aren't we wiped out more than 200 old camp cavalry from the thirty-one thieves? Also, thousands of old thieves from the thirty-one thieves have been identified by us. If we kill all the thousands of old thieves, we will have a great victory. If the thieves want to rob them, let them rob them and consume the food from the thieves."

"Xiao Cao, what I want is the population. I don't want to leave any of them for the thieves! These hungry people may be burdens in your eyes and the court, but in Li's eyes, they are all treasures!"

Then Li Guodong arranged a combat plan: "Zhang Wei, Tang Chong! You two lead 3,500 light cavalry to harass the bandit army on both wings!"

"promise!"

"Han Dashan, Zhang Shiwen! You two lead a thousand heavy cavalry each, and wait for the light cavalry to disrupt the formation of the thieves' cavalry, and then charge with me!"

"promise!"

Li Guodong's tactics of combining light and heavy cavalry were learned from the Mongols and Jurchens. There is no problem with using these tricks to deal with the rebel army. If it is to deal with the Qing army, it would be a bit difficult to deal with the Qing army. After all, the number of Qing army cavalry is far greater than that of the Jinyang army cavalry, and the tactics of the Manchu-Eight Banners heavy cavalry and the Mongol-Eight Banner light cavalry are much stronger than that of the rebel army. What's more, the Qing army also has elite heavy cavalry and artillery more powerful than the Ming army. Therefore, if Li Guodong wants to defeat the Qing army, he still needs to rely on the cooperation of infantry and cavalry artillery. It is best to fight in the south, with the help of the terrain and naval forces, so he is sure to defeat the Qing army 100%. If it is in the northern plain, Dorgon, who has suffered many losses, must have learned his lessons, and it will be difficult to win if he wants to rely on conspiracies.

The troops of each unit were in their positions and walked about four miles westward. They saw the black cavalry coming slowly in front of them.

"Boye, the thief is here, let the Beizhi attack!" Cao Bianjiao was excited, ready to try.

Li Guodong said: "Brother Cao, we are not in a hurry to attack. We want the light cavalry to detour on both wings and shoot arrows to harass the thieves."

After saying that, Li Guodong turned around and shouted: "Zhang Wei, Tang Chong, attack with both wings!"

Zhang Wei and Tang Chong's 3,500 light cavalrymen rode their horses and went straight to the wings of the cavalry of the Break Army. Whether they were Han shepherd slaves or Mongolians, they took off their bows, shouted, galloped, rode their horses, pulled the bow into a full moon type, and went straight to the wings of the Break Army.

At the same time, at the command of Li Guodong, all the heavy cavalry dismounted and slowly walked back with their horses. On the one hand, they were accumulating horsepower, and on the other hand, they were avoiding their edge. The three wall tactics of the rebel army faced the Ming army's officers and soldiers, and the Ming army suffered great losses many times. Now the rebel army has taken shape, and it is not the bandits that were pursued by the court three years ago.

When the heavy cavalry slowly retreated, the light cavalry had already rushed to the wings of the cavalry of the rebel army. Seeing that the light cavalry was about to hit the heavy cavalry of the rebel army, Zhang Wei and Tang Chong pulled the horse and turned around at the same time. The light cavalry pulled out a half-moon arc and opened the distance again. At the same time, the cavalry bows in the cavalry's hands made a sound of bowstrings, and long arrows flew towards the cavalry of the rebel army.

Although the old cavalry of the rebel army had armor, most of them were leather armor and single-layer cotton armor, which could barely defend against light arrows. However, after the arrow shot through the armor, although the flesh was not deep, it could make people feel a pain. The unlucky rebel cavalry was shot directly off the horse.

The light cavalry harassment was like expelling flies, which made Li Zicheng not very upset. He immediately ordered the cavalry from the army to mobilize the troops to chase after them.

Zhang Wei and Tang Chong avoided the real attacks on the virtual, and actually joined the rear of the cavalry formation of the rebel army. The light cavalry ran out of a arch-shaped trajectory in the wilderness. The cavalry suddenly turned around and shot long arrows at the pursuers' war horses. The rebel army also shot arrows to counterattack, but when it comes to cavalry shooting, the rebel army could not even touch the butts of these cavalry who grew up on the grassland.

The light cavalry would not fight with the cavalry of the rebel army at all, but would continue to harass them by archery. Even if they could not kill several cavalry of the rebel army, this would be distracting. The rebel army would not be able to catch up with the light cavalry, and they fought back with bows and arrows, and were also avoided by the light cavalry using their unique skills to hide in the stirrups.

The original formation of the three walls was a little chaotic for a moment. Some cavalry rushed out to chase the light cavalry of the Jinyang army, and another part of the cavalry rushed towards Li Guodong's central army.

The three walls of the Chuang Army rely entirely on dense formation charges. If the formation is disrupted, it will be difficult to launch an effective charge.

"The bandit army cannot catch our light cavalry." Cao Bianjiao said.

Li Guodong smiled and said, "If this move is against Jiannu, it may be invalid. Jiannu cavalry will divide troops to attack, and if there is a block in the back and a rush in the front, the light cavalry will have to escape. At that time, their light cavalry will come out to chase and our light cavalry will be doomed. However, the cavalry of the thief army does not have the tactics of Jiannu cavalry, so we can play with them at will."

In fact, it is a good thing that Li Guodong taught Li Zicheng some lessons in this battle. After Li Zicheng became familiar with the tactics of the Qing cavalry, the rebel army would not be beaten by the Qing army to the point where the Qing army entered the pass in the future. As long as Li Zicheng could learn from this lesson, he would definitely come up with countermeasures to defeat the enemy in the future.

"My boys! It's our turn!" Seeing the chaos in the formation of the rebel army, Li Guodong rode his horse, pointed forward with a spear, and shouted loudly.

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!" The heavy cavalry soldiers boarded the horse one after another. At this time, it was about 400 steps away from the cavalry of the rebel army. This distance was the best distance for the acceleration of the heavy cavalry. If the distance was too close, the speed of the heavy cavalry could not be increased to the highest; if the distance was too far, the horsepower was consumed, and the speed would slow down again.

"Kill!" Li Guodong rushed out. In front of him, more than a dozen heavy horse-slinged cavalry were protecting him. Cao Bianjiao also erected a white wax spear to protect Li Guodong. He rode his horse and galloped straight towards the formation of the rebellion army with a thousand horse-slinged cavalry.

More than a thousand horse spears and iron cavalry began to accelerate, and a horse spear pointed straight ahead.
Chapter completed!