Under the charge of 15,000 Ming cavalry, Sun Kewang's 15,000 troops retreated like a tide.
"General Sun, run quickly! It will be too late if you don't run now!" Bai Wenxuan rushed to Sun Kewang with more than a hundred personal soldiers.
Sun Kewang's face turned pale: "Without soldiers, I am no longer a general! Rather than being a defeated general, it is better for me to die on the battlefield!"
Bai Wenxuan knew that Sun Kewang had fallen into his old habit of advancing but not retreating.
Sun Kewang was good at domestic affairs, but his weakness was that he was stubborn, ambitious and jealous.
This loss of troops and generals was a big blow to him, and he will definitely not be able to recover in a short time.
"You guys, help the general get on his horse!" Bai Wenxuan commanded his personal soldiers.
Four or five soldiers dismounted and lifted Sun Kewang onto their horses, then whipped their horses and ran towards the direction where Li Dingguo was.
Li Dingguo's 20,000-strong army was marching slowly.
"Report!" The scout came galloping over, "We have spotted the defeated troops of General Sun Kewang ahead."
Li Dingguo's heart skipped a beat.
The discovery of defeated soldiers means that Sun Kewang was defeated, otherwise his soldiers would not appear here.
"Thinking of this, Li Dingguo hurriedly asked: "How many defeated soldiers are there?"
"There are too many to count. The mountains and plains are full of defeated soldiers. The Ming cavalry are chasing them from behind, and General Sun Kewang has suffered heavy losses." The scout answered while looking into the distance.
"Order the army to stop advancing, and the spearmen to hold up their spears to prevent the defeated army from breaking up their formation. When the defeated army reaches fifty steps, all units should shout and kill!"
"Cavalry, protect the wings and rear!"
After Li Dingguo gave the order, he led his personal soldiers to the front of the army to supervise the battle.
He was afraid that his elite troops would be infected by the defeated soldiers' emotions and flee with them.
At this time, the defeated soldiers are more terrifying than the enemy.
They will do whatever it takes to escape, and once you are caught up in them, the fight will turn into a race against time.
At this time, the Ming army chasing behind them was like a tiger. The soldiers would rush to get ahead of their companions, allowing their companions to use death to delay the pace of these tigers.
When the defeated soldiers were fifty steps away from the army formation, Li Dingguo's army shouted in unison: "Kill! Kill! Kill!"
The defeated soldiers were stunned for just a moment, then lowered their heads and continued running forward.
Are you kidding? If you stop at this moment, you will die.
Seeing that the defeated soldiers were about to rush to the front of the battle, Li Dingguo said to the messenger beside him cruelly: "Order all units to fire freely. We must stop the defeated army in front of the battle."
"Ah?" The messenger was stunned. "They are all General Sun Kewang's soldiers. If General Sun Kewang finds out, the consequences will be..."
"I am the commander-in-chief of an army, so of course I will be responsible for the consequences. Pass the order!" Li Dingguo closed his eyes and sighed.
Boom! Bang, bang, bang!
Whoosh--
Cannonballs fired from artillery, lead bullets ejected from muskets, and various arrows flew in the air, shooting the defeated soldiers to death in front of the battle.
Sun Kewang, who was fleeing, saw all of this...
Those soldiers managed to escape the pursuit of the Ming cavalry, but unexpectedly they were killed by Li Dingguo.
Under the pincer attack from the Ming army and Li Dingguo, only one tenth of his troops survived.
"Li Dingguo! You..." Sun Kewang's eyes went dark and he fainted.
Bai Wenxuan quickly grabbed him and then turned around and bypassed the army formation.
Li Xingzhong, who was chasing, was covered in blood. He chopped off the head of a great Xishi with his knife and looked forward.
In the distance, I saw the infantry formation standing ready for battle, with the Li flag fluttering in the wind.
No need to ask, the other party is Li Dingguo.
"Whoa..." Li Xingzhong reined in his horse.
He took out a telescope from his marching bag and looked for Li Dingguo in the formation.
Finding an ordinary soldier in the army is like looking for a needle in a haystack, but finding a commander-in-chief is much easier.
Wherever the central army flag is, the commander-in-chief is there.
If the central army flag falls, it means the commander-in-chief has died.
This is the importance of the central army flag.
After seeing Li Dingguo's appearance, Li Xingzhong frowned and said, "This boy is just a young boy in his twenties. I don't know why Your Majesty thinks so highly of him."
"However, I see that his army is well-organized, and this boy is indeed talented in leading troops!"
At the same time, Li Dingguo was also observing Li Xingzhong.
Li Xingzhong was surrounded by flag-bearing soldiers, so Li Dingguo could tell that he was the commander-in-chief of the Ming army.
Li Xingzhong was fifty-six years old, which was considered an old man at that time.
"A fifty-year-old veteran is actually fighting in person. It seems that the Ming army has no one left!" Li Dingguo sighed and quietly passed on the order: "Aim at the Ming army's flag bearers in the distance and use cannons to blow them into pieces."
When Li Xingzhong saw Li Dingguo lowering his head and whispering, he knew that he had bad intentions and immediately left the place.
Under his leadership, the Ming army began to fight back.
The mountains and plains were covered with corpses and blood, and body parts were scattered everywhere.
The massacre continued until the sun was about to set and was forced to stop. Li Xingzhong led his troops back to the military camp east of Zhugan River.
Li Dingguo led his troops to march in the direction of Zhang Xianzhong's retreat.
In the evening of the next day, Li Dingguo caught up with Zhang Xianzhong at the foot of Lingshan Mountain.
This area is mountainous and densely forested. The more famous mountains include Tiantai Mountain, Lingshan Mountain and Jinlan Mountain.
Although the road is rugged, it is convenient for the army to ambush.
Therefore, the Ming army did not pursue rashly.
"Godfather, I'm back." Li Dingguo lifted the curtain of the military tent and walked in.
After entering the military tent, he found something was wrong.
Because everyone in the military tent was staring at him with ill intentions, including his adoptive father Zhang Xianzhong.
"What's wrong, godfather?" Li Dingguo saluted Zhang Xianzhong and stood aside.
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