The wind rises at the end of the Ming Dynasty

Chapter 118 Turning Point
Under the city of Lueyang, a fierce battle was going on.

Outside the city, drums and horns were loud, arrows were raining like rain, and the battle formations of both sides were intertwined and connected vertically and horizontally.

The sound of gunshots, shouts, wailing, and gunfire resounded in everyone's ears, and bursts of gunpowder smoke rose continuously from the formations of the two armies.

Chen Wang was holding a horse lance and leaping forward. The blood had already soaked through his armor, and there were even three arrows stuck in his body.

However, none of the three feathered arrows could penetrate the armor on his body, and the deepest one was blocked by the layer of chain mail he wore inside.

Ming army generals are definitely high-risk occupations. In the 17th year of Chongzhen, many generals, deputy generals, generals, and guerrillas died on the battlefield.

Cao Wenzhao fought to the death in front of the battle, Yu Chongxiao fought desperately, he was as fierce as a tiger and fell to his death, Tiger Dawei was killed by a cannon, Yang Guozhu was shot by an arrow in Songshan...

Although he had already become a battalion general, there were only more than 3000 people under Chen Wang, and nearly [-] of them were recruits.

Relying on such a small force, facing Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan's elite cavalry, there is no room for slack.

Even as the leader of a battalion, at certain moments, he needs to fight in person.

Chen Wang did not lack the courage to go into battle with the memories of his military career and the experience of this period of time.

Li Yangchun's heart is clearly revealed, he wants to go straight to the Hanzhong Plain to stir things up and reunite.

Li Yangchun, who has a large number of cavalry, is a huge disaster for Hanzhong Mansion. Once he really enters the Hanzhong Plain, the consequences will be disastrous.

Hanzhong Mansion will again suffer some new hardships, and even become a piece of scorched earth.

Li Yangchun and other ministries who had been chased all the way did not loot much money and food, nor did they coerce many soldiers and horses because the officials of the surrounding counties had fortified the walls and cleared the fields.

It is rare for rogues to pile up Jingguan as a demonstration. After all, they have a natural fear of officers and soldiers. They have been chased and fled since the first year of Chongzhen. It must be a lie to say that they are not afraid.

That's why Chen Wangcai led the cavalry and the infantry to march all the way in a hurry, and finally bit the rear army of Li Yangchun's troops outside Lueyang City.

Li Yangchun and other ministries engulfed many villagers again and looted a lot of supplies, their speed was slowed down again.

"Boom!" "Boom!" "Boom!"

The sound of heavy war drums echoed back and forth in Chen Wang's chest.

Chen Wang looked at a blue banner not far away, Chen Wang could clearly recognize that banner, and that banner was Li Yangchun's banner.

The sound of horseshoes was like thunder, and under the leadership of Chen Wang, a group of Liao cavalry circled the formation again.

The sound of the bow string vibrating was continuous, the arrows flew high with the speed of the horse, and hundreds of light arrows were shot from the Kaiyuan bow.

The densely packed arrows shot up one after another, like a huge swarm of bees crossing the dark sky and shooting into the densely packed bandit cavalry formation.

The distance between the two armies was no more than fifty steps, which was within the range of the Kaiyuan Bow.

Most of the horse troops on the outskirts had no armor, and only a small number wore simple leather armor. All the fine armor was confiscated, and priority was given to fine cavalry, which they were not qualified to use.

Feather arrows fell into the bandits' cavalry formation, and in an instant, there was a bloodbath. A large number of unarmored bandits cavalry fell headlong under the horses, and then they were trampled into flesh by the panicked war horses.

"Uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu"

On the battlefield, there was no room for standing by and watching, no room for distraction, and the horn sounded.

When Chen Wang turned his head around, the bandit's elite cavalry had already come from the front!

All the elite cavalry and armored soldiers of the rogues put the Yanling saber on their right shoulders, and put on a posture of impact.

Meeting on a narrow road, the brave wins, and the army wants to be completely safe in a battle. How can this be possible.

Zhu Yuanzhang used to lead tens of thousands of people and still went to the battle in person in armor. After Li Shimin became the king of Qin, he still led the charge.

"kill!"

Chen Wang roared and issued an order.

Chen Wang's eyes froze slightly, and he shook his horse lightly. A dozen or so armored cavalry were already riding horses and raising guns to guard around him, and the people behind him were already leaning on their saddles and leaping forward with their swords.

Charge into the battle naturally does not entrust all the pressure to one person. Even brave warriors such as Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao are accompanied by personal guards when they charge into the battle.

However, the expected impact did not come, and there was still a hundred steps away, and the Jingqi team that had come in aggressively suddenly scattered like birds and beasts, and turned to flee to the rear.

Chen Wang could clearly see that he was watching the neat cavalry that was originally arranged in a neat formation collapse in an instant, so fast that Chen Wang almost thought it was a ruse's trick to lure the enemy.

But when Chen Wang heard his name, he understood what was going on in his heart.

Chen Wang was all too familiar with the scene in front of him.

"Defeated, defeated!!"

Those people shouted his name, and then fled away one after another, just like those horse soldiers and fine cavalry who fled when Cao Bianjiao led the army in Binzhou.

"It's Chen Wang! It's Chen Butcher!!"

"Let's go!"

Chen Wang used to enjoy such treatment when he was following Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.

Chen Wang also thought that one day someone would fear him like Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao.

But Chen Wang didn't expect this day to come so quickly.

Chen Wang's current reputation is naturally not as terrifying as Cao Bianjiao, and he can deter hundreds of thousands of rogues.

However, Li Yangchun, Lin Shengquan, Jingqi and Ma Jun under Li Guo's command were chased and fled by Chen Wang's troops all the way.

When Li Guo wanted to go to Fengxiang Mansion, it was Chen Wang who personally led the cavalry and killed them for two consecutive battles. After killing nearly a thousand people, Li Guo dared not turn back.

In the Battle of the Three Mountains, when they finally retreated from Nanshan, Chen Wang led the army to intercept for a while and beheaded hundreds of people.

In the three battles, Chen Wang personally led the troops, beheading the generals before the battle, capturing the flag and breaking the battle, killing dozens of people with his hands.

How not to make people still remember, especially Sanshan's final blocking battle.

At that time, Chen Wang was completely rushing to kill Lin Shengquan, Li Yangchun, and Li Guo at random, so that he could give Hong Chengchou an explanation with the mentality of dealing with errands in the past.

At that time, Chen Wang really had murderous intentions.

Almost half of the thieves blocking the way were beheaded, and more than 300 Jingqi under the command of Li Yangchun's three tribes were beheaded.

It's just that Lin Shengquan and the others were allowed to escape in the end. The bandits were not strong in combat, but their escape skills were considered top-notch.

Chen Wang was wearing a bright white fish-scale general armor, a gray silver high-topped helmet on his head, a red lining inside, a waist knife belt, and a horse lance in his hand. The horse under his seat was pure white without a trace of hair. It is extremely eye-catching on the formation.

All the rogues trembled when they saw Chen Wang. It was this man who chased them for almost thousands of miles.

More than [-] fully armed Liao cavalry followed behind Chen Wang and formed a neat cavalry formation, rushing straight ahead like a galloping stream of iron.

"kill!!"

Among the cavalry of bandits, Li Guo blushed and held the Yanling knife high, riding his horse and galloping in front of the cavalry. He had already seen Chen Wang wearing bright silver fish scale armor.

He shouted loudly and vented, his emotions had been deeply suppressed in his heart for the past few months.

The feeling that his wealth and fate are all in the hands of others made Li Guo almost crazy...

"kill!!!"

Although the group of rogue cavalry were terrified in their hearts, they still held the Yanling sword in their hands, and followed Li Guo's back to meet Liao cavalry's cavalry formation.

As battle-tested veterans, they actually do not lack the courage to fight to the death.

Their faces were ferocious, and they were screaming and fighting fiercely. They knew that now was the time to fight for their lives.

However, the expected cavalry confrontation did not occur.

Li Guo's eyes shrank suddenly, and through the guards in front of him, he saw a puff of white smoke rising suddenly.

A slight sizzling sound then appeared next to his ears, this sound was so familiar to Li Guo that he couldn't be more familiar with it, it was the sound of the primer being ignited!
"Bang!" "Bang!" "Bang!!"

Huge puffs of gunpowder smoke flew up, and there was a sudden burst of explosions. Li Guo only felt that his ears were shaken extremely uncomfortable, but he heard it—it was the explosion of the three-eyed gun!

A shrill howl followed, and the bandit cavalry who charged at the front were shot one after another, screaming and falling off their horses.

Li Guo's heart jumped wildly, fear swept towards him like a tidal wave, he watched helplessly the last bodyguard in front of him fell off his horse with the blunderbuss, and the sound of the bludgeon hadn't stopped! !

Li Guo felt cold in his heart. Although he was wearing two pieces of armor, he didn't have the confidence to defend against the three-eyed blunderbuss at close range...

"kill!!!"

Li Guo looked like he was going crazy, his face was extremely red, his eyes were red, behind him was a group of fine cavalry who followed him into the battle, he couldn't escape.

Once the cavalry is started, it is difficult to stop, especially when the charge is launched, the speed has already increased, and the cavalry at the forefront of the charge basically determines the qualifications to stop.

The crazy secretion of adrenaline made Li Guo seem to have infinite power, and everything even slowed down before his eyes. Li Guo gritted his teeth, and he was ready to fight for his life!

Li Guo focused his whole body, all his attention was on the front, he was staring at the crimson general flag coming towards him - that was Chen Wang's general flag!

Li Guo's goal is Chen Wang, but Chen Wang's goal is also Li Guo.

Chen Wang didn't know Li Guo, but the armor Li Guo was wearing separated him from the ordinary soldiers around him, and the banner behind Li Guo also betrayed his identity.

Even if the enemy enters Hanzhong, his goal has been achieved, but if the bandits flow into other houses, no matter what the reason is, they will be punished to a certain extent.

But the head of a bandit leader can offset this guilt.

"die!"

Chen Wang yelled violently, and the jumping horse Chizhe suddenly accelerated the speed of the horse, and the two personal guards standing in the front moved out of the way with a tacit understanding.

Li Guo's expression froze at the last moment, his eyes were full of fear, before he could react, the horse lance in Chen Wang's hand had already cut his throat.

The next moment, the sky and the earth suddenly spun, Li Guo felt his body was extremely light, and he actually flew up.

But soon he fell down again, he felt a pain in his scalp, as if someone seemed to grab his hair.

He wanted to speak, but when he opened his mouth nothing came out.

I don't know why, but the sound of horseshoes that was like thunder in my ears is gradually fading away.

At the last moment, Li Guo moved his only eyeball to look to the left, and he saw a pure white galloping white horse.

……

Under the city of Lueyang, the sound of swords and soldiers stopped.

The battle lasted from noon to dusk.

From the beginning to the end, there was no movement in Lueyang City. Even after the war, no one dared to step out of the city gate.

Chen Wang wiped the blood off his face and climbed up a slightly higher mound.

He pursued Li Yangchun all the way under the city of Lueyang, led the cavalry to intercept their way, and then the infantry pressed forward and attacked together, pinning him under the city of Lueyang.

This move was naturally met with a frenzied counterattack by the bandits.

The intensity of this battle was far greater than that of Chunhua and Sanshan. At this time, a large number of corpses were piled up on the battlefield.

The dead can't speak, but the living don't want to speak. Most of them haven't recovered from the war.

However, Chen Wang was one of a small group of people. He was not immersed in the war, but had already started to think about other things.

This battle is also an experiment, and true knowledge comes from practice.

Li Zicheng's three-eyed blunderbuss combat method is indeed extremely effective. It can not only block the charge of cavalry, but also has an effect against the group charge launched by the enemy's unarmored infantry.

When the three-eyed gun hits each tube, it shoots out several times.

When the three-barreled salvo was fired, more than a dozen lead particles exploded.

Although the accuracy of the three-eyed blunderbuss is not as good as that of the bird blunderbuss, one lead cannot hit the enemy, and a dozen or so leads will always hit the enemy.

Although the power is less than that of the bird blunderbuss, most of the rogues have no armor, and as long as they are hit by the three-eyed blunderbuss, they will be bloody.

"Order all ministries and divisions to count the casualties, clean up the battlefield, and set up camp under the city of Lueyang to rest tonight."

Chen Wang slowly let go of the rein in his hand, and his hands were shaking slightly, which was caused by excessive force.

After the enemy fled, he led the cavalry to chase and kill for nearly twenty miles before withdrawing and returning.

In this battle, he beheaded Li Guo. Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan not only left behind all the old, weak and hungry soldiers, but also the elite cavalry and cavalry were severely damaged.

Construction is difficult but destruction is extremely easy. Chen Wang turned his gaze to the south. It is impossible for him to let Li Yangchun enter the central area of ​​the Hanzhong Basin.

Most of the soldiers of Hanzhong Mansion are fighting the rebellion in the Xixiang area, and there are no troops available for field battles in the Hanzhong Basin.

"Tomorrow three shifts will make food and four shifts will leave the camp. Continue to chase..."

Chen Wang raised his head and was about to give orders, but at the last moment he stopped talking.

"Do not……"

Chen Wang's eyes flickered, and he changed his mind at the last moment.

"Chen Gong."

"You lead the middle cavalry to continue the pursuit, go around the path to Jinniu, block the way of Li Yangchun and Lin Shengquan, and let them run to Ningqiang Prefecture."

After driving Li Yangchun into Ningqiang Prefecture, he only needs to defend three or four important places before he can be trapped to death in Ningqiang Prefecture.

At the same time, there is another place there, which became famous all over the world because of a great war at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

It is not only a strategic location, but also very suitable for stationing troops and developing.

　After entering Hanzhong, the pace will speed up, and the content of farming will also unfold. I am exhausted these days, and the update has been interrupted for a long time. I am really sorry.

　　
　
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