Late Tang

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"Damn it!"

Wang Xianzhi, in the midst of the chaos, spat blood on the ground fiercely. Just when he was rushing to kill, he was shot.The shot was right in the abdomen, piercing through his leather armor, and a lot of blood flowed out.He looked back, and there were people from Huang Chao everywhere in all directions.Although many of them were unarmored recruits, holding only a long spear with an iron tip in their hands, the tigers couldn't hold back the wolves, and their hands were no match for four punches.

His more than 3000 light cavalry were finally slowed down by Huang Chao's flesh and blood, and finally surrounded them.The cavalry had to rein in their horses and swing their weapons left and right, at a slower and slower speed.

The biggest advantage of the cavalry is mobility. Its power lies in its flexible maneuvering, and its ability to quickly capture the enemy's weaknesses, and then break through and tear apart the enemy's lines.If caught in the formation, the cavalry is not even as good as the infantry in the formation.Those infantrymen in Huangchao, like a pack of wolves, are constantly rushing forward, dragging one cavalryman after another off their horses, and dragging them into the formation to kill them.

The three brothers Ge Congzhou, Huo Cun, and Zhang Guiba commanded their subordinates to surround and surround Wang Xianzhi in one fell swoop.The streets and alleys in the city were already narrow, but now they were surrounded by infantry. Almost every step forward, several knights had to fall.

Wang Xianzhi had exchanged news with Wang Jingwu just now, and Wang Jingwu asked him to lead his troops to hold back the three fierce generals under Huang Chao, so that the Qizhou soldiers could adjust their formation and kill Huang Chao.But right now, Wang Xianzhi didn't want to risk his life here. Seeing that Ge Congzhou was about to close together, he hurriedly made 36 tricks, and the best plan was to walk.Once again, Wang Xianzhi ran away again.

The light cavalry fought bravely, fought a bloody path fiercely, and quickly left the battle.

Brother Ge Congzhou looked at Wang Xianzhi who was fleeing, and spat fiercely on the ground, full of contempt, but they could only watch them walk away.No matter how brave they are, they are only two-legged infantry, and they cannot catch up with four-legged cavalry.

Lin Yan's [-] light cavalry wanted to outflank the rear, but unfortunately they were still one step behind. They chased Wang Jingwu's Qizhou Army infantry formation but failed to intercept them. They could only watch Wang Xianzhi flee behind the Qizhou Army formation.

Although Wang Xianzhi was useless and escaped once again, in order to surround Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao's troops had lost their formation.The elite cavalry attacked not only in vain, but rushed to the front of the Qizhou infantry.Similarly, their elite infantry also broke away from the formation, and chased to the front of the opponent's formation, and they were out of touch with the formation.In addition, there are still many soldiers and horses that have not been assembled, and Huang Chao's soldiers and horses are actually weaker than those of Wang Jingwu and Wang Xianzhi.

However, although there are few Huang Chao soldiers, they are fierce and desperate.Huang Chao didn't go all the way, he just shouted loudly, the messenger blew the horn, Lin Yan led a thousand light cavalry to advance instead of retreating, and directly charged towards Wang Jingwu's flanking infantry, at the same time Ge Congzhou also accelerated immediately, leading The soldiers rushed directly to the Qizhou army formation.

The archers of the Qizhou soldiers only came in time to shoot a wave of arrows, and the two armies had already engaged in hand-to-hand combat, fighting desperately together.

Judging from the scene, both armies were extremely chaotic, but it was obvious that Huang Chao's army was more adaptable to chaos.Although the equipment and armor of Qizhou soldiers should be more sophisticated, and the training should be more adequate, but this kind of completely chaotic battle, Qizhou soldiers are weaker.What was even more deadly was that Qizhou soldiers blindly believed Wang Xianzhi, and while fighting against Huang Chao soldiers, Wang Xianzhi went around to attack Lin Yan's cavalry from behind.

It's just that after Qizhou general Zhang Chan led the infantry to kill, Wang Xianzhi's support was not seen for a long time.Looking back, I couldn't help but get angry, and jumped to scold my mother.Wang Xianzhi actually abandoned them and ran away immediately.

The Qizhou soldiers were shocked, watching the cavalry fleeing behind, thinking that the rear army had been defeated, they panicked and lost their morale.Just at this time, Lin Yan and Ge Congzhou's cavalry and cavalry cooperated tacitly, attacking like a tide, fighting extremely ferociously, completely desperate.Although Qizhou soldiers are said to be rebels, their predecessors are actually officers and soldiers.These officers and soldiers are not composed of refugees like Cao Jun, salt dealers and other desperate people.

Bare feet are not afraid of wearing shoes, most of the grass thieves will die, and they are fearless. On the contrary, Qizhou soldiers are not used to this style of play, and gradually fall into the disadvantaged.

At this time, an army suddenly appeared from behind Zhang Chan, but it was Zhu Wen who had been chasing Bi Shiduo for a long time, but was finally picked up by Wang Xianzhi's fleeing cavalry.Zhu Wen was very angry, but he knew he couldn't beat Wang Xianzhi, so he came all the way here, and just appeared behind Zhang Chan.

Zhu Wen led the army to rush over, and the morale of Zhang Chan's troops, which had already reached the end, immediately collapsed.

Zhang Chan's troops collapsed, quickly causing a chain reaction.After Wang Xianzhi and Zhang Chan were defeated, Lin Yan, Zhu Wen, and Ge Cong went to Wang Jingwu's main formation from the flank on Wednesday.Wang Jingwu and Huang Chao were fighting, and when they were killed by Xiexiali, they couldn't hold on and were defeated soon.Immediately afterwards, the entire Qizhou army was defeated like a mountain, and Huang Chao won the final victory, and began to encircle and eliminate them everywhere.

Huang Chao finally breathed a sigh of relief seeing that the situation of the two kings was gone, but instead of being happy immediately, he immediately ordered the whole army to hunt down and kill the two, not to take the heads of Wang Xianzhi and Wang Jingwu.

Huang Chao's subordinates scattered to pursue, at this moment, the drastic change occurred again.

When Duan Shan and Song Xi saw the defeat of Wang Xianzhi and Wang Jingwu, they immediately rushed out and snatched the empty city gate, sending out the signal to seize the city.

An army of [-] pinglus rushed into the city, mantises stalking cicadas, and orioles trailing behind.

At this time, both Wang Jingwu's army and Huang Chao's army had already dispersed, although Wang Xianzhi still kept his troops together, but the number was too small.The Pinglu army poured into the city like a tide, clearing the past street by alley, like the autumn wind sweeping the fallen leaves.

These bandit troops were already exhausted after marching for days, and they fought chaotically all night again tonight.

Huang Chao was happy just now, and immediately fell from the peak of joy to the abyss of pain. Up to now, he has not figured out why the Pinglu army was killed so quickly?What about the auxiliary troops behind?Meng Kai and Wang Jingwu's nephew Wang Yanwen led two 15 auxiliary troops.Although the 15 auxiliary troops were all young and strong with sticks, only a small number of them had weapons.But no matter what, there are still 10,000+ people, and there are several cities they have conquered on the road. Field battles are not enough, and the city can always be defended for a day or two.

"Marshal, there are officers and soldiers at the east, west and north gates, but the south road is still in our hands. Let's break through the south gate immediately!" Zhao Zhang immediately suggested.This battle right now is really a loss to grandma's family. After spending so much effort to defeat Wang Xianzhi and Wang Jingwu, they are not happy yet, and the fruits of victory have not yet been received.He now has some doubts whether the previous chaotic war was started by the officers and soldiers.But now it's too late to think about these things, the only thing to pay attention to is to save your life first.

"Let's go!" Huang Chao was extremely unwilling, but at this time he could only choose this way.

Whether it was Wang Jingwu's department, Wang Xianzhi's department, or Huang Chao's department, after the sudden arrival of the officers and troops, they all temporarily stopped attacking each other.It is meaningless to fight again right now, and fleeing Linyi as soon as possible is the business.

The Pinglu army swept across Linyi like a storm, Wang Xianzhi was defeated, Wang Jingwu was defeated, and Huang Chao was defeated!

The officers and soldiers entered from east, west, north, but left only the south gate.

Although Huang Chao, Zhao Zhang and others all know that this kind of routine of enclosing three gates and one usually means that there must be ambushes outside the south gate.But now, under the defeat, they have nothing to do about it.The current situation is more serious than the previous chaotic battle. Those rout soldiers learned that there is only the south gate to escape, and they don't care about other things. There is no army formation at all, and they just run south.There is no camp, no army array, no military discipline orders, countless people from the small south gate swarmed in, scrambling to get out, trampled to death countless times, many people even drew their knives directly in order to scramble to get out Facing each other, killing each other.

Song Wei led the Pinglu army and did not rush towards the south gate immediately, but methodically cleaned up the three cities in the east, west and north, and sent a cavalry behind to create panic and chaos.Countless thieves who had no time to escape were captured or killed on the spot.

Outside the south city, relying on their excellent escape ability, the remaining [-] cavalry under Wang Xianzhi's troops were the first to escape out of the city.More than two thousand riders fled from the wilderness and hurried south.

Wang Xianzhi was riding on the horse, his face was getting paler and paler, he was holding his abdomen tightly with one hand, the wound there had already stained the hastily wrapped cloth strips red, and blood continued to leak out.His head became more and more dizzy, and Wang Xianzhi felt that he was about to die.

In a trance, he suddenly heard countless shouts of killing from all around. Xu Cheng, the soldier of the Pinglu Army, led five thousand ambush soldiers to rush out suddenly, firing arrows at random, and the dozens of cavalry running in front were turned on their backs.Immediately afterwards, Xu Cheng led the crowd to fight out, and five thousand Pinglu troops surrounded more than two thousand Qingqi under Wang Xianzhi's troops and began to kill them.

The two sides desperately fought bloody battles. Under the command of General Zhu Piao Shuai, the grass bandit Qingqi also fought bravely. Finally, at the cost of nearly half of the casualties, they finally broke out of the siege and broke through.

Xu Cheng pulled out a feathered arrow on his shoulder, his face was extremely gloomy, five thousand and two thousand, but the bandits escaped, and he might not be able to explain it later.

"Clean up the battlefield immediately and prepare for the next batch of bandits." Xu Cheng said with a pale face.

The remaining soldiers and horses immediately cleaned the battlefield, collected the feathers and arrows, took back the intact weapons and horses, and made up for the surviving enemy wounded.

"General, the leader of the bandits, Wang Xianzhi, has been captured!"

A school lieutenant came galloping on horseback and shouted excitedly at Xu Cheng.

Xu Cheng couldn't believe it, "Where is it?"

"Just ahead, Wang Xianzhi's men and horses were all seriously injured, and they couldn't escape."

I couldn't believe that there was such a good thing. Xu Cheng, who had a gloomy face just now, immediately smiled like a flower, and shouted excitedly, "Quick, take me there."

When Xu Cheng arrived, Wang Xianzhi had only the last trace of breath left, and Xu Cheng took a look at the dying grass thief.Wearing a set of high-quality red mountain armor, the phoenix wings on the head have been lost, and the hair is loose.But he still recognized at a glance that the person in front of him was Wang Xianzhi. You must know that Wang Xianzhi is the biggest thief today, even the emperor knows about it.The emperor and the local governments had already released the wanted portraits of Wang Xianzhi, Huang Chao, and Wang Jingwu.Xu Cheng had seen him several times, so he didn't recognize him at first sight. This person was Wang Xianzhi. What's more, Wang Xianzhi's seal was found on him.

After confirming his identity again and again, Xu Cheng's heart beat with excitement, and he immediately said loudly: "Come here, take the Wang thief immediately, and I will announce the good news to Marshal Song!" Five hundred elite soldiers were called, and Xu Cheng took the dead Wang Xianzhi , Immediately rushed to Linyi. (To be continued.)