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Chapter 693 The Battle of Huguang (5)

When Xu Yong heard the shouts, he turned his head, but saw thick smoke rising from the back mountain. It happened that the northwest wind had already blown. The wind helped the fire, and the fire spread rapidly to the mountain. It was late autumn again, and the trees and weeds on the mountain were withered and yellow. At one point, the raging fire rushed towards the top of the mountain.

"Damn it! How did Li Zhe know that there is an ambush here? Go quickly!" Xu Yong shouted.

The ambush battle was not completed, but was attacked by Li Guodong's fire. Now the Zuo family's army's 100,000 troops were in danger.

The autumn wind was rustling, the sky was dry, and the fire soon spread all over the mountains and fields. Seeing the strong wind rushing towards him with flames, the soldiers of the Zuo family who were ambushing in the grass were shocked, and they threw down their armor and weapons that hindered their escape, and ran into the valley in a panic. The three general artillery were also discarded by the Zuo family gunners. For a moment, the panic Zuo soldiers were everywhere on the hillside, and they ran down the hillside like a life. Some people running behind were still carrying flames.

The four thousand self-generated muskets and dragon cavalrymen from the side aimed at the officers and soldiers of the Zuo family who fled in a panic. Four thousand people stood in four rows, with one thousand people in each row, shooting one thousand projectiles at a time. Four rows of flintlock gunmen could shoot continuously, and the gunshots did not stop for a moment.

The soldiers of the Zuo family were climbing and running down the mountain, but they hit the muzzle of the Jinyang army's self-successful musketman, and were beaten to the ground one by one. Some Zuo family soldiers found that someone was firing a gun on the side, waving a big sword and a spear, rushing up with their teeth and claws, but were killed by all the bullets shot continuously. A pile of corpses were piled up in front of the Jinyang army's self-successful musketman, and the wounded soldiers who had been injured and not dead were buried inside.

Han Dashan had already taken Ye Bushe into the valley first and cleared the trapped horse pit and tripped horse sock.

"The thief has been defeated, kill!" Han Dashan roared and refused to kill the enemy group for three hundred nights.

Although the Zuo family's soldiers were large, they had no fighting spirit. Li Guodong's elite soldiers all held light sabers in his hand. The cavalry rushed into the chaotic Left Army crowd. The war horses did not stop at all and carried the master through the crowd. Ye Busu's sabers were slightly diagonally downward and flat. With the help of the war horse's momentum, whenever they passed by a left soldier, the sabers gently slashed and a head flew into the sky.

Ye Bushu passed through the crowd of defeated soldiers, leaving behind countless headless corpses, corpses trampled into meat paste by war horses.

"Kill the thief!" A sound of thunderous horse hooves came from the entrance of the valley. Thousands of heavy cavalry rushed in like a tide. Thousands of horse hooves stepped on the dry grass, like thunder rolling, roaring, feeling the suffocating pressure. The soldiers of the Zuo family looked at the heavy cavalry coming, and the originally chaotic formation became even more chaotic. The soldiers of the Zuo family spread their legs and ran around in a panic.

Originally, he planned to use the advantages of the terrain to fight Li Guodong, but the plan for ambush was exposed. Instead, he was attacked by Jinyang's arms. The Zuo family infantry, who were driven down from the mountain by the fire, faced the Jinyang cavalry in chaos. No matter how many people were, they could not resist it.

The sound shook the fields, the drums became even louder, and the heavy cavalry accelerated their pace and lined up in an orderly attacking formation, like a rushing iron flow moving forward. The impact of the cavalry was always suffocating and boiling. The soldiers of the Zuo family turned to look at the iron cavalry wall that was crushing up. Each face was pale, and many people were so scared that their pants were wet.

One-third of the heavy cavalry are horse lances and cavalry. The horse lances are placed in front, and they just rush forward. Following are heavy weapons such as three-eyed guns and page hammers, and finally heavy cavalry with sabers. The three rows of heavy cavalry pointed in front of the horse lances, shining sabers, and swaying flags, like huge waves, and unstoppable momentum.

Three horsemen rushed past, and broken corpses were left in the valley and fragments of weapons and armor. Thousands of people were killed immediately. The rest of them ran away and fled, and many died, and the bodies were buried all over the field.

Li Guodong whistled, and the heavy cavalry stopped. Zhang Wei, who had completed the arson mission before, led his three thousand light cavalry out from behind the mountain and followed the defeated army of the Left Army. Li Guodong's own heavy cavalry did not pursue the left army, and chasing the enemy was the matter of light cavalry. The pursuit of light cavalry can pursue it closely and expand the results of the battle. The task of heavy cavalry is to break the formation and break through the enemy cavalry and infantry, not to chase the enemy.

Next is the light cavalry's time to chase the enemy easily and happily. There is only one thing they have to do, which is to catch up with the enemy and harvest the enemy's heads.

Such pursuit can be said to be a pleasant mood. Nearly 100,000 running enemies in front are like 100,000 sheep, and the three thousand light cavalry chasing are like 3,000 tigers. The escaped sheep don't think about turning back and resisting. Everyone is desperately running with their legs, and they are chased by people who cannot escape. They either cut off their heads with one knife or are trampled to death by war horses. Some smarter people ran to the side of the road and knelt on the ground and surrendered.

Xu Yong's army of 100,000 was defeated in just two hours. He was chased by the light cavalry of Jinyang Army for more than 50 miles in one breath, with tens of thousands of casualties and countless surrenders. When Xu Yong fled back to Fankou, gathered the defeated soldiers, counted the number of people, and found that more than half of them were lost!

Although Li Guodong only took less than two hours to repel the ambush of the Zuo family army, it also delayed for two hours. At this time, what he was most worried about was whether his three military offices could be defended.

"Support the three forts of Donghu Fort at full speed, Yandong Fort and Panjiawu Fort at full speed! We cannot leave a brother behind!" Li Guodong ordered the reinforcement at full speed at full speed at no time.

Just when the Jinyang cavalry defeated the Zuo family army's ambush, the ships that the Jinyang army and the Huai army's infantry had already reached the surface of the Huangzhou River.

On the surface of the Huangzhou River, there were about 10,000 naval troops left by Zuo Liangyu, and nearly 1,000 warships of various types. However, the Zuo Family Navy was actually almost the same as the bandits. They were all fishing boats, sampans, merchant ships and rafts. There was no regular warship, and there were almost no artillery. After all, it was just an Yangtze River transport team.

A small fishing boat was moored on the rippling river surface. As the river waves fluctuated, six Zuojia Navy sailors surrounded in the cabin, betting on the size of the cabin, only one person stayed outside the cabin to hold a watch.

"Leopard, kill all!" The sailor who was on the bank shouted excitedly.

"Many boats! There are many boats coming down the river! There are many big boats!" The soldier of the Zuo family army who was guarding outside suddenly shouted.

"What?" The five sailors who were gambling in the cabin rushed out of the cabin in a panic. Another guy who obviously lost too much did not come out. He secretly swept part of the silver and copper coins on the table into his arms, put them away, and then walked out of the cabin.

"The fleet is coming! What a big ship!" The left soldier who was standing guard said, pointing at the fleet that appeared on the river not far away.

"Send a firework signal quickly! Get the city ready!" Shi Chang yelled anxiously, and beads of sweat dripped from his head. Huangzhou is Zuo Liangyu's current nest. If the nest was taken off, Zuo Liangyu might have to kill his whole family in anger.

The only one who stayed in Huangzhou was Zuo Liangyu's more than 3,000 old and weak soldiers. Although they were old and weak soldiers, they were the ones Zuo Liangyu trusted the most. The veterans who had been with him for many years. The last time the Xuzhou mutiny made Zuo Liangyu a little psychologically perverted. The whole family was killed, leaving only Zuo Menggeng and Zuo Mengmei, one son and one daughter. Later, during the battle in Zhuxian Town, Zuo Mengmei was captured and held hostage by Li Zicheng. Now Zuo Liangyu is left with Zuo Menggeng. There is no maid or servant in the huge mansion, and it is empty.

Zuo Mengmei was originally the daughter of Zuo Liangyu's friend Qiu Lei, who was also led by Hou Xun. When Qiu Lei and Zuo Liangyu broke the military law, Qiu Lei took responsibility alone and entrusted his daughter to Zuo Liangyu. The name was changed to Zuo Mengmei, and Zuo Liangyu was regarded as the pearl in his hand. However, Qiu Lei was not dead, but he did not become a member of the Zuo Family Army Group.
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