"What's going on?"
Gao Yigong, who came to support under Li Zicheng's order, had just arrived at the battlefield when his formation was almost disrupted by the fleeing Shun army.
Gao Yigong's personal soldier who was responsible for observing the battlefield situation immediately responded: "Xie Junyou's troops were defeated!"
"Defeated so quickly?" Gao Yigong was a little surprised.
However, reality did not give him time to be surprised, as Li Xingzhong's army had already arrived.
"Get on with it! Anyone who retreats without permission will be killed!" Gao Yigong issued the military order at the fastest speed.
The elite Shun army and the elite Ming border army were engaged in a bitter battle.
Both sides are elite troops, with individual combat effectiveness and personal equipment almost the same.
The Shun army's advantage is that they have large numbers and there are friendly troops nearby, so they are not afraid of being ambushed when fighting.
The advantage of the Ming army is that they have abundant physical strength and high morale!
"Send a message to Li You, Wu Ruyi, the Loyal Camp and Hong Niangzi, and ask them to immediately gather the defeated soldiers and raid Li Xingzhong's rear!" Li Zicheng, who was watching the battle from a distance, came to his senses and gave the order.
How could Li Xingzhong, with only a few thousand soldiers, cause chaos among tens of thousands of Shun troops?
The Shun army was not defeated, but was stunned.
No one expected that Li Xingzhong would abandon the tall city walls and suddenly go out of the city to fight in the field.
The generals couldn't think of it, and the soldiers couldn't think of it even more.
This unexpected action, although it could create chaos for the Shun army in the short term, would become less and less effective as time went by.
Because they are a lone army!
While the elite troops of both sides were fighting desperately on the battlefield, Li You, Wu Ruyi, the generals of the Loyalty Camp, Hong Niangzi and others had already begun to gather the defeated soldiers.
When they are almost gathered, these people will attack Li Xingzhong from behind.
Being attacked from both sides and with no strategic location to fall back on, Li Xingzhong was doomed to fail.
Although Li Xingzhong didn't know the situation of the defeated soldiers, he had guessed it almost exactly.
If you want to be undefeated in this battle outside the city, you must keep moving at all times!
Once he got into a positional battle with the bandits and the nearby bandits surrounded him, he would not be able to escape even if he wanted to.
"It's your turn!" Li Xingzhong said to the soldiers behind him.
There were not many personal soldiers, only a few hundred or so.
but...
These people were all brought out by him from the Guanning Army, and they were also the people he trusted the most, no doubt about it.
Since Li Rusong died in battle, Li Rubai committed suicide, and Li Ruzhen, Li Ruzhang, Li Rumei and other second-generation figures of the Li family died one after another.
The power of the Li family in the Liaodong army plummeted.
Fortunately, the centipede is still alive even after death.
Although members of the Li family cannot hold important positions in the army, they are more than capable of gaining a foothold in the army.
More than a hundred personal soldiers not only received favors from Li Xingzhong, but also admired the deeds of the Li family.
So when Li Xingzhong gave them the most important task, they rushed out without hesitation.
These people first retreated, all the way to the back of the team.
Everyone tied a white cloth on their right arm.
Several other people took the sacks that had been prepared in advance from the horses' backs and handed them to the infantrymen next to them.
After doing this, dozens of cavalrymen and dozens of infantrymen dispersed and followed the nearby fleeing soldiers in the direction of Gao Yigong.
They seem scattered, but in fact they are all within each other's sight.
The battlefield is too chaotic.
No one noticed where these hundred people came from. As long as they had white cloth tied on their right arms, they were Shun troops!
So they easily arrived at the rear of Gao Yigong's troops.
"Stop right there! Which unit are you from?" General Gao Yigong led hundreds of soldiers and formed a horizontal formation to stop them.
"I...I am a soldier of General Li You, and I was dispersed by the Ming army."
"I am a cavalryman under General Wu Ruyi, and we were defeated by the Ming army!"
"Loyalty Camp..."
"General Li You..."
The soldiers were afraid of being executed on the spot by these warlords, so they stood where they were and introduced themselves.
"What about you? What's in your sacks?" Gao Yigong's commander looked at several people carrying sacks.
"We are all baggage soldiers, and the quilts inside are filled with quilts!"
Gao Yigong's general was riding on a horse with a serious expression.
"No matter whose soldiers you are, you are now under the command of General Gao Yigong. I am General Gao's commander-in-chief, and I specialize in killing deserters."
Upon hearing this, hundreds of soldiers behind the governor immediately drew their bows and arrows and aimed at the fleeing soldiers.
"I'll give you a chance to survive. Turn around and attack those Ming troops immediately, otherwise I will be punished mercilessly!"
In order to survive, these defeated soldiers had no choice but to turn around and rush towards Li Xingzhong.
"You guys follow along!" the commander-in-chief said, pointing at the baggage soldiers.
"We are the baggage..."
"I'm in Shudao Mountain. Anyone who stays here will be considered a deserter and will be executed on the spot according to military law!" The commander-in-chief stretched out his right index finger while speaking.
"one..."
Before the sound was heard, the men carrying sacks immediately ran away.
These warlords are known as the living kings of hell!
The number of soldiers who died at their hands was at least several hundred, if not a thousand!
There will be absolutely no good outcome if you stay.
When the warlord saw the baggage soldiers running with sacks on their backs, he burst out laughing.
"Damn it! These baggage soldiers are so exhausted. They even carry their baggage on their backs during the battle! Ugh!"
The next moment.
The governor's face suddenly changed.
The baggage soldiers came behind Gao Yigong's army. They first put down the sacks and then took out the quilts from them.
When the quilt was torn open, the gong hidden inside was revealed.
Ding ding ding!
Ding ding ding!
As the gong sounded, more than a hundred people shouted in unison: "The emperor has ordered us to withdraw our troops immediately!"
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