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Chapter 179 The He Renlong Who Was Under Severe Encirclement
Outside Yuzhou City, no one thought that Zuo Liangyu would retreat so simply!
Strictly speaking, the main infantry of both sides had not yet engaged in hand-to-hand combat. The cavalry of the two sides fought a prelude battle just as the front legs were set up.

Although He Renlong's troops received Zuo Liangyu's order to press forward, they didn't actually go far. They only walked 400 meters, and they were at least 300 meters away from the [-]st Infantry Brigade on the opposite side. the distance.

However, just like that, Zuo Liangyu simply turned around and ran away leading the army under his command.

It was fine for him to run by himself, but before he ran, he asked He Renlong to push forward and launch an attack. When He Renlong led his troops to charge halfway through the artillery attack of the Xiangbao Army, Zuo Liangyu led his troops to run away.

Then only He Renlong was left yelling in the wind...

Zuo Liangyu's sudden retreat not only caused He Renlong to yell at him, but also greatly exceeded the expectations of Luo Zhixue and other generals of the Township Protection Army.

In this battle, Luo Zhixue and the others had expected that the Ming army would stick to their camps, and they also expected that the Ming army would take the initiative to fight them to the death. They even considered the situation that their own army would lose and eventually retreat to Yuzhou City.

They also expected the defeat of the Ming army.

However, Luo Zhixue really didn't think about the situation where the Ming army ran away after the two sides faced each other and it was just a prelude.

And it was Zuo Liangyu who tricked He Renlong.

Looking at the Ming army's central army and right army striding backward like the tide, look at the Ming army's left army in the middle of the battlefield.

Luo Zhixue also didn't have time to think about why such a sudden change occurred in the Ming army, so he directly ordered: "The First Infantry Brigade advances rapidly and continues to oppress the enemy's left flank."

"The Fourth Mixed Brigade and the Personal Battalion go up from the left and right flanks, attack the enemy's flanks, and at the same time cut off the retreat of the enemy's left flank!"

"The Artillery Brigade continues to suppress the enemy's left flank!"

"In this battle, we must wipe out all the left flanks of the enemy army, and the enemy army must not be allowed to flee!"
"Also, order the [-]rd Infantry Brigade to pursue and retreat the enemy, but don't advance rashly, just give the enemy continuous pressure."

"The First Supply Battalion is ready for battle, and will reinforce the front line at any time!"

Luo Zhixue quickly made arrangements according to the situation on the battlefield, and from his arrangements, it can be seen that Luo Zhixue's primary goal now is to remain on the battlefield, without the cover of the enemy's center and right troops. More than four thousand people!
He didn't know why the Ming army suddenly withdrew the central and right troops quickly, but he saw that the enemy's left wing was still on the battlefield. As long as his own side moved fast enough, there was a good chance that more than [-] people from the enemy's left wing would be left behind. .

As for the enemy's central and right troops, they run too fast, and their own troops are relatively small. It is impossible to quickly catch up and complete the outflank.

So he only asked the third infantry brigade to catch up, not to encircle and annihilate the enemy, but to continue to create pressure on the retreating enemy, forcing them to fail to maintain a complete formation and collapse, and to force them to abandon a large number of artillery and other supplies, even Discard armor weapons etc.

As long as the retreating Ming army can be forced to discard their helmets and armor, and lose a large amount of light artillery, food and other supplies, even if they are allowed to run away, they will not pose any threat to their side in a short time.

Without guns, swords, spears and armor, how could they fight the rural protection army behind them?
Following Luo Zhixue's order, all the units of the Township Protection Army moved quickly. Even the third cavalry post of the cavalry directly under the staff headquarters and the fourth cavalry post of the fourth mixed brigade, the two half-baked cavalry, instantly transformed into As an elite cavalryman, he charged forward with a saber in his hand.

These two hundred and a half cavalry cavalry had limited combat effectiveness and were unable to carry out difficult tactical actions such as riding and shooting on high-speed horses, and it was even very reluctant to line up and charge.

But simply chasing and killing a group of rout soldiers on horseback is not a big problem.

The two hundred and a half slouch cavalry rushed up first, and the first target they approached was the chariot soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command.

There were more than 500 chariot soldiers under Zuo Liangyu's command before the battle, and there were more than 200 light artillery pieces of various tens and hundreds of kilograms. After being bombarded by the artillery brigade before, they lost 200 people.

When they retreated, they also wanted to retreat with a large number of vehicle-mounted artillery. After all, they had not deployed them before, and all the light artillery were still on the carriage, and they had not been removed from the carriage and fixed on the ground. Just turn around and run.

But even so, their retreat speed was far inferior to that of ordinary infantry in the Ming army.

So they were soon overtaken by the two hundred and a half cavalry of the Township Protection Army.

In the usual time, as long as they form an formation to protect themselves, let alone two hundred and a half half cavalry, even two thousand such half cavalry, don't expect to be able to break through their chariot formation.

But now, they are busy fleeing for their lives, and they have not formed an formation to protect themselves at all.

It's not that they don't want to form an formation to protect themselves, but they know very well that once they stop, they seem to be able to form an formation to protect themselves, but when the infantry brigade and heavy artillery units of the thieves come up, they are still dead .

Everyone is not stupid, since staying where they are and forming an formation to protect themselves is a dead end, then naturally they let their feet go and run away.

When the bandit cavalry behind caught up and started chasing the rout of the chariot formation with sabers and short spears, the rest of the rout of the chariot formation didn't care about carrying the vehicle-mounted artillery, and directly put the vehicle-mounted artillery or ammunition carts and the like As soon as he threw it, he ran back empty-handed.

Not to mention, the chariot soldiers who threw away the artillery and ran away, because most of them had no armor, and they didn't even have many individual weapons, so they ran very fast with empty hands.

After a while, these Ming soldiers who had thrown away their cannons quickly caught up with the other groups of Ming infantry in the right army...

Immediately afterwards, they passed other ordinary Ming soldiers.

The soldiers of the Ming army who were overtaken saw that they were overtaken, and the bandit cavalry behind them were getting closer and closer.

Seeing this, many people were overwhelmed, so they immediately took off their armor, threw away spears, swords and other things that could be thrown away, and then ran away lightly.

After all, you don't need to run so fast to escape, as long as you are faster than your comrades.

As a result, those foolish people who were reluctant to take off their armor and throw away their weapons were caught up by the bandit army behind them one after another, or they were killed or injured or surrendered, while the soldiers of the Ming army who threw away everything ran very fast...

As a result, more and more people began to throw away their armor.

As for the artillery, it was thrown away early.

The fastest runner, Zuo Liangyu, looked back and his face darkened immediately.

These bastards clearly agreed to retreat, but the soldiers under their hands threw everything they could throw away and ran away.

They even ran more and more chaotically, and in the end even the basic organization could not be maintained.

There are deserters from the Ming army all over the mountains and plains!

Seeing this, it's strange that Zuo Liangyu's face looks good.

Damn, careless!

Originally, he was thinking of withdrawing the whole army to the camp, relying on the walls of the camp to stabilize their position, and then gradually retreat to the battlefield.

But now, except for a small number of people who retreated back to the camp in an organized manner, most people ran around like headless chickens. Many people directly crossed the camp and ran all the way to the east.

This was completely different from the retreat he had expected.

When Zuo Liangyu's face was black, He Renlong, who was already facing the bandit infantry in the front, and was attacked by the bandit army on the left and right flanks, looked at thousands of Zuo Liangyu running around like headless flies behind him. Immediately, I couldn't help laughing: "Let you run, let you leave me and run, haha, retribution!"

After He Renlong laughed for a while, a general beside him stepped forward with a worried expression on his face: "General, the brothers on the left will not be able to hold on anymore!"

He Renlong turned his head and glanced to the left. His army on the far left was being flanked by a part of the bandit army.

In addition to a bandit army with 2000 people pressing forward, each bandit army with a scale of more than [-] people went around and attacked.

The bandit army on the right, that is, the remnant of the Fourth Mixed Brigade, was better. Although there were about 500 soldiers, He Renlong recognized this bandit army as the bandit army who had previously defended the city.

Although the combat power is not weak, there is no obvious difference from the officers and soldiers. It is nothing more than better equipment and higher morale.

Therefore, the army on the right side of one's own side can barely handle it.

But the thousand thieves coming up from the left are different. Like the two thousand thieves in the front, there are many heavy armored spearmen and hundreds of musketeers.

Now this bandit army continues to shoot with muskets on their left flank tens of meters away.

The left wing of He Renlong's unit was continuously hit by the firepower of the bandit army, causing heavy casualties. Even though some archers, musketeers and even light artillery were separated to fight back.

But more importantly, this bandit army of more than a thousand people is still approaching, and the heavy armored spearmen in the front row make people feel frightened.

The bandit army is the pro-barracks.

As Luo Zhixue's pro-army, although the battalion has the name of a battalion, it is actually a small mixed brigade with excellent equipment.

As the core of melee combat, the spearmen in the first three rows are all heavily armored. Individual heavy armored spearmen with excellent physical fitness will also wear double armor. The spearmen in the last three rows also wear light armor. Spearmen will also carry a step bow and will launch a projectile attack when they are close to the enemy.

When these heavily armored spearmen lined up in a dense formation and continued to advance, the pressure on the face-to-face Ming army was actually greater than that of the musketeers.

He Renlong couldn't help sighing as he watched the soldiers on his left suffer continuous casualties and retreat gradually.

What can he do now, no way!
When that bastard Zuo Liangyu led his troops to retreat privately, he had actually thrown more than 4000 people under He Renlong's troops to the bandit army.

In such a situation, no matter what He Renlong did in the future, they would not be able to change the result of their defeat or even annihilation of the entire army.

It's time to find a way to win a way out!

(End of this chapter)