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Chapter 246 The Battle of Pengze

The iron cavalry battalion of the imperial camp is well-trained. Although they were suppressed by the crossbow arrows of the sentencing army, and the casualties were not small, they were not in danger. Well, Tanshou took out all the bows and arrows behind him, and at the same time drew the bow and shot arrows at the opposite side, but the horse did not stop charging.

This kind of shooting caused casualties on both sides, and the bows and arrows of the judges were suppressed a lot, which relieved the pressure on Zhu Yousong and his ministers to charge.Zhu Yousong first brandished a long sword and rushed into the enemy group. Where the sword light flickered, flesh and blood flew everywhere, and the archers ran for their lives, followed by Zhu Yousong's four generals, and then the iron cavalry who followed. All rushed up.

At this time, the archers of the Judgment Army were useless, and before they could even retreat, they were killed, leaving behind a lot of dead bodies, and the rest threw away their bows and arrows and fled in succession.

This was completely beyond Hou Fangyu's expectations. He ambushed a thousand crossbowmen at the gate of the city. In his opinion, these 1000 troops rushed out suddenly and shot arrows at Zhu Yousong's troops who had just rushed into the city. , This kind of sudden attack will inevitably lead to the court's troops being hit by arrows one after another, causing chaos. They took advantage of the chaos and led the troops to kill again.

Now only half of the 6000 troops in the city are left to defend the city, and the rest are all concentrated to deal with Zhu Yousong's 3000 troops, plus the thousands of troops Zuo Menggeng lost, adding up to more than 1 people, eating Zhu Yousong It shouldn't be difficult for Song's three thousand defeated troops, but the situation in front of him is not developing according to his idea at all.

The [-] crossbowmen hardly played any role, and they were scattered by the [-] iron cavalry headed by Zhu Yousong. Hou Fangyu, who was standing in the distance commanding, was dumbfounded.

In fact, Hou Fangyu's design is not bad, the strategy can't be said to be bad, and the routine can't be said to be wrong. It's all because Zhu Yousong's team is too strong!

You must know that this is the imperial camp that Zhu Yousong placed high hopes on. It is the elites selected from the Beijing camp and other places. Liu Zhaoji spent more than two months on them and carefully trained them. Even the crossbowmen can't deal with it, how to deal with the more brutal and fierce Tartars in the future!

After Zhu Yousong killed these archers, he led four fierce generals and cavalry battalion soldiers into two groups, and followed the horse paths on the left and right to kill on the city. He wanted to grab the city defense first.

At this time, Zuo Menggeng had brought him back to the city and rectified the defeated soldiers. In addition, there were more than 1 defenders in the city, and [-] were guarding the city. These [-] troops were mobile and all concentrated After being brought here, Zuo Menggeng was extremely fast after being hunted down just now. He adjusted his state in such a short period of time and assembled the soldiers and horses.

"General, the situation is not good. Hurry up and withdraw. I'm afraid Pengze won't be able to hold on." Hou Fangyu said these two sentences to Zuo Menggeng.

"Why did you say that, son?" Of course Zuo Menggeng was not reconciled, he finally trapped Zhu Yousong in the city, how could he withdraw?How could Pengze not be able to defend himself? Didn't he want to close the door and beat the dog?

"Oh, General, the situation on the battlefield is changing rapidly, from one moment to the next. Please look, General, although there are not many troops in the stupid king, they are all strong. Although we have many troops, we are sluggish. I'm afraid it will be difficult to do anything." Hou Fangyu was worried. road.

Zuo Menggeng saw that what Hou Fangyu said was true, Zhu Yousong's men were unstoppable, Zhu Yousong and the four generals led these cavalry like tigers into the flock, his men were killed and fled in all directions, they had already followed Ma Dao killed the top of the city.

Zuo Menggeng's eyes were red with anger, and at the same time scolded his general for being too idiot.But when he scolded like this, he also felt hot on his face.Because he did it himself, just now, he personally supervised the army of 6 to fight against Zhu Yousong's troops. He originally planned to capture the imperial camp and capture or kill this stupid king alive, but he was defeated by Zhu Yousong after he didn't last long. Yousong's 30 to [-] horses were routed, defeated for more than [-] miles in one breath, and the retreating city was willing to shrink its head. If these defenders of the city will be scolded as idiots, then what is he, the general?
At this time Hou Fangyu spoke again, "Look again, general," Hou Fangyu said, pointing to the outside of the city. They were standing on a high place in the city at this time, as if they were on a watchtower, with a clear view of the inside and outside of the city.

At this time, the night had begun to fall at some point, but the four fields could still be seen clearly, and the soldiers and horses in the distance came rolling in, like a raging sea of ​​waves, overwhelming mountains and seas, and the shouts became louder and louder from far to near. , Resounding through the sky.

Gradually, Zuo Menggeng saw it more clearly. The five-color flags had shown that these were soldiers and horses of the imperial court. Zuo Menggeng gasped.

"If you keep the green hills, don't be afraid that there will be no firewood. General, retreat quickly and save your strength. If it is too late, it may be too late." Hou Fangyu urged.

But Zuo Menggeng was still not reconciled, he was finally trapped in the city, there are tens of thousands of people in the city, Zhu Yousong's troops are only two to 3000 people, no matter how many people outside the city, we can defend the city to death, it will take time for them to attack the city, God It was dark again, and they couldn't attack the city, so we captured the Hunjun, and then everything would be easy, and he was still lucky.

Therefore, he decided to take a risk and made a division of labor with Hou Fangyu. He allocated 2000 troops and asked him to bring [-] troops to defend the city. No matter what method he thought of, he must defend the city. Persist for two hours.

He estimated that this was the shortest time for him to capture or kill Zhu Yousong alive and successfully retreat from the city.But on what basis did he make such an estimate, why it was not one hour, nor three hours or other longer or shorter time, but exactly two hours, even he himself could not explain clearly.

What is an incompetent general who exhausts thousands of troops? This Mr. Hou has learned the lesson, but he is a general, and his words are orders, and Hou Fangyu has to carry them out.

Zuo Menggeng personally led the remaining 8000 troops to attack Zhu Yousong, while Hou Fangyu took 5000 troops to defend the city, and drove Ma Zhu Yousong's troops from the top of the city to the bottom of the city, so that all the soldiers in the city would be 1 Many people are all thrown into battle.

Zuo Menggeng ordered to go on, the target of today's battle is Zhu Yousong, and the others can ignore it. He knows the truth that there must be a brave man under a heavy reward, so he made a promise of a lot of money in public. Give gold and silver to silver, officials to officials and women to women.

As soon as Zhu Yousong's 3000 troops rushed to the top of the city, they were surrounded by countless judges.

The three thousand iron cavalry is just an imaginary number or an approximate number. In fact, Zhu Yousong's iron cavalry battalion bloody battle has only two thousand people left, but they followed their majesty to charge into battle, and their morale was already high. The overwhelming reinforcements from outside the city came over, and I felt more confident.

Zhu Yousong had already made up his mind and vowed not to give up until Pengze was captured. The four generals followed their majesty and rushed to the front, and behind them was their cavalry battalion. Charge to the right, kill from above the city to below the city, from daytime to dark.

Before victory and defeat, day and night had no effect on them, because the torches were lit at this time. These torches were lit by the army, but they could also illuminate Zhu Yousong's monarch and ministers.

Zhu Yousong led this team to rush left and right, like a dragon swimming in water. At this time, tens of thousands of his horses rushed to the city one after another, knowing that their majesty was trapped in the city. Under the command of the general, tens of thousands of horses launched a fierce attack on Pengze City overnight.

(End of this chapter)