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Chapter 677 Death of the Giant Bandit

The cavalry of the bandits left the city, after all, they were four legs, and they ran out first. After leaving the city behind the infantry, they fled before the infantry. On the way to escape, Ma Shouying's cavalry knocked over many of their own infantry and knocked them away. The horse's hooves trampled over them, hitting and trampling many infantry, and causing the fleeing infantry to trample on each other, killing and injuring many of them. However, at this time, he didn't care about so many, and it was the most important thing to be able to escape first.

The horse guarding the army riding a blue and white horse looked at the defeated army and sighed: "The military book says, surround it ten times, attack it five times. In the case of siege, the troops need more than five times the defenders. But how many soldiers and horses are there in Li Laoer? He actually captured Jingzhou like this!"

Ma Shouying of course knew Li Guodong's troops and attacked Jingzhou. The Ming army had only 30,000 troops in the Land Division, 17,000 naval divisions, and 15,000 auxiliary troops, all of which were only over 60,000. The Ma Shouying, who guarded the city, had an army of 150,000. The navy division that was defeated on the first day, had another army of 120,000 troops. The opponent was only 60,000, and he could not defend the city of Jingzhou.

"King, Li Laoer, the official dog boy, is so powerful!" Sun Ang lamented, "I heard that they have won many battles against Jiannu."

In fact, the troops cannot be calculated like this. Although Li Guodong only has 60,000 troops, his 60,000 are all elite. Even if the 15,000 auxiliary soldiers and 10,000 cannon fodders are considered elite among other Ming troops. Looking at the entire Ming Dynasty, which army has two fights a day? Even if it is one fight a day, they are all elite. Li Guodong's army, even the auxiliary soldiers and cannon fodders, are trained strictly according to two fights a day. Those cannon fodders are originally Li Zicheng's old battalion soldiers. The strict training, rich food, and various brainwashing education have washed away the bandit aura on them. Therefore, Li Guodong would not even sacrifice his auxiliary soldiers and cannon fodders.

The Battle of Jingzhou was Li Guodong's first powerful attack on the big city, but the first siege battle was very beautiful. He made full use of his weapons to mount the artillery with a range of more than the thief army on the well railing, suppressing the city head, and then attacking the city with ant attachment. Large siege weapons were used to attack the city and blasting the city wall. As a result, when the attack was launched, the city was broken in less than a day.

"The official dog is here!" A thief scout cavalry rushed from behind and shouted.

"Kill the thief! Kill the thief!" Ma Shouying only heard a shocking shout and killing sound from behind. A team of cavalry galloped from afar and chased him. At this time, the Ming cavalry was less than a hundred steps away from Ma Shouying's old camp cavalry, and the chasing speed was very fast.

"Go away!" Ma Shouying shouted anxiously. He clamped his legs, the spurs pierced into the horse's belly, and the blue and white horse ran wildly. No one of the more than 10,000 cavalrymen in the bandit army dared to turn back to stop the Ming army, and they rode their horses, wanting to escape back to Xiangyang as soon as possible.

Ma Shouying estimated that it would be almost impossible for him to cross the Han River at this time, but as long as he could run to Xiangyang, the rebels on the other side could be able to cross the river.

Who knew that the cavalry behind chased after him very quickly, it was obviously light cavalry! And one man and two horses!

Zhang Wei's light cavalry was about to catch up with the thief cavalry, but the light cavalry pulled an arc and spread out to the two wings. Each cavalry showed a cavalry bow in his hands. When the cavalry passed the wings of the thief cavalry, a rain of arrows broke through the air, and dense arrows woven into a large airtight net, covering the heads of the thief cavalry.

Only a scream was heard, and the thief cavalry were shot and overturned.

The Ming army's light cavalry were divided into two groups, sandwiching the thief cavalry in the middle, pursuing them in parallel, and constantly shooting arrows during the pursuit.

Although the cavalry of the bandits also had a cavalry counterattack, compared with the cavalry of the bandits, the cavalry of the bandits was not worthy of carrying shoes to Zhang Wei and the others! After all, Li Guodong's light cavalry was completely under the jurisdiction of the Mongolian cavalry, and there were many Mongolians, who opened their bows and archers on the galloping war horses and shot the cavalry of the bandits, which was simply relaxed and pleasant.

Seeing that his more than 10,000 cavalry were actually played with by the Ming army's three thousand light cavalrymen, Ma Shouying was furious: "The official dogs are only more than 3,000 cavalry! Brothers, let's rush up and kill them!"

After receiving the order from Ma Shouhui, the cavalry of the bandits immediately divided into two groups, each with five thousand cavalry, and killed the Ming cavalry who were harassing themselves on both wings.

The Ming army had only three thousand light cavalry, divided into two routes, one thousand five hundred people. There were more than five thousand thieves who came to kill each route. Zhang Wei naturally would not use light cavalry to fight the thieves' cavalry head-on. He shouted: "Go away!"

The light cavalry whistled, and the war horse turned slightly at an angle, running into a moon-and-a-half-moon shape. While avoiding the attack of the thief cavalry, the cavalry turned around and shot arrows behind.

The cavalry of the bandits pursued for a long time, and not only did they not even touch a hair of the Ming light cavalry, but they were shot down many cavalry.

"Mongolian Tartars' Mangua tactics!" Ma Shouying was so angry that his teeth trembled, "Turn them to the river!"

The Han River Plain is surrounded by rivers. On the Jingjiang Plain, where the river is crossed, no matter which direction it runs, it will be blocked by the river in no time.

Ma Shouying believed that as long as these annoying light cavalry were driven to the river, they would have no way to perform any roundabout tactics such as Manguda. But he never expected that the river was his burial place!

Zhang Wei's light cavalry on the left and right wings ran two arcs, one large and one small. The light cavalry on the left wing circled a large circle, crossed the thief cavalry and moved closer to the light cavalry on the right wing. This tactic extremely tests the cavalry of the light cavalry. The time on both sides must be controlled just right, and extremely exquisite horsemanship is required. Moreover, during the running, they cannot be caught by the thief cavalry.

After the two armies met, three thousand light cavalry ran towards the river northeast.

Ma Shouying led his army to chase him closely. They did not notice that they had already chased into the corner of the river and the lake.

This place called Zhengjiawan in later generations was a lake and a river. At that time, it happened to form a peninsula where the river flowed into the lake. For the Ma Shouying Cavalry who had no navy, it was a dead end.

Zhang Wei led his army to run towards Zhangjiahu. When he arrived at the riverside, he saw a floating bridge across the river. On both sides of the floating bridge, countless navy warships were waiting for battle.

"Go over!" Shi Lang shouted at the running light cavalry.

Three thousand light cavalrymen went up the pontoon bridge in turn, and soon all rushed across the pontoon bridge and went to the other side. When the last light cavalry rushed onto the pontoon bridge, Shi Lang took his men to remove the wooden boards. The pontoon bridge was composed of ships and wooden boards. As soon as a few wooden boards were removed, Ma Shouying's cavalry arrived.

"Fire the cannon!" Shi Lang shouted.

A row of fire flashed across the river, and black shells hit Ma Shouying's cavalry formation like heavy rain. Only war horses were neighing, soldiers screamed, and blood mist rose from the cavalry group. The thieves' cavalry suddenly fell on their backs and fell down a large area.

"Bang bang bang" The navy soldiers on the warships spewed out rows of fire, dense projectiles pierced into the thief crowd, and another large number of thief soldiers fell down screaming.

"I've been trapped! Go quickly!" Ma Shouying shouted.

The cavalry of the bandits pulled out their horses and ran away. The navy warships chased along the river, bombarded artillery and bird guns, killing countless cavalry of the bandits.

Ma Shouying ran very fast. He was an old thief who had been a thief for fifteen years. In the past fifteen years, there have been few thousand big and small battles, and there have been hundreds of defeats. He has been defeated every time. He is naturally unmatched in his ability to run away.

But this time, he was not so lucky.

Ma Shouying ran to the exit with more than a thousand remaining cavalry, but saw a team of black cavalry appearing in the signature, blocking his way.

"Ma Shouying, today is your burial place!" The leader of the general in purple and gold armor shouted.

"Run out!" Ma Shouying roared, and with Ma Guangyu and Sun Ang and other parts, he launched a decisive charge to the Ming cavalry in front.
Chapter completed!
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