The army was lined up at the city, and the fire guns and cannons of Li Zhi's troops made the generals very curious. Especially the eighty small red cannons made the generals look sideways. Apart from Qi Jiguang's Qi family army back then, the generals had not heard of which unit of the Ming Dynasty equipped so many firearms. The generals rode on horseback, but kept looking at the side of the Hu Ben Division with their eyes.

Zuo Liangyu was rebellious and didn't know if she had the determination to fight to the death. She was arranged by Xiong Wencan in the central army and mingled with other armies.

Xiong Wencan was riding a war horse in the stable, and stood behind the vanguard with the generals on the expedition, in front of the central army. A strong man next to him was holding a big flag with the tall bear-like flag and the same towering flags. At this time, the flags and flags were waving in the wind, which was very beautiful.

The sound of trumpet sounded, the army set out, the cavalry and infantry stepped out of rolling smoke and dust, and rushed towards the thieves of Zhang Xianzhong by the Yonghe River.

After walking for a while, Li Zhi released 500 cavalrymen from the vanguard to be sentry cavalry and investigated the information within a radius of five miles. The sentry horses were reported. Liu Guoneng and Zhutianxing Zhang Tianlin, who were originally arranged more than ten miles away from Xianzhe, retreated. There were no other thieves around the Yonghe where Xianzhe was stationed.

Li Zhi secretly wondered why all the thieves were withdrawn overnight.

The army walked twenty miles eastward and then there were whistles and fast horses to return, and the bandits were offered three miles away.

The generals asked the soldiers to draw their swords and ride on war horses and prepare for the battle.

Just as it was ready, Zhang Xianzhong had already come out. Zhang Xianzhong had already found the movements of the government army. His 150,000 army had already been put into operation at this time. He left the camp by the river and rushed towards the 50,000 official army.

More than 100,000 thieves and soldiers walked quickly towards this side, bringing out a cloud of smoke and dust.

Xiong Wencan stood in front of the entire army on a horse, drew out his sword and shouted loudly: "Repay the emperor's kindness and save the people, today. The troops will go to battle and kill the enemy!"

The flag behind Xiong Wencan was waving, and the order to advance was passed to the armies. More than 40,000 soldiers sang "Wow" loudly, raising their swords to kill the thieves' horses.

Li Zhi stared at the central army's order flag. After a long time, he didn't see the banner of letting the palace army go to fight. He quickly rode to Xiong Wencan to ask.

"Military Gate, how can our troops not go to war?"

Xiong Wencan said with a touch of his gratitude: "In this battle, our army has more than 40,000 people to fight and win, and there is no need for the guerrilla general to join the war. The guerrilla general is guarding the periphery, so don't let other thieves enter the battlefield!"

It turned out that Xiong Wencan had another emphasis on Li Zhi, and Li Zhi agreed.

The two armies quickly approached, three miles, two miles, and one mile away, and finally collided with each other, wielding swords, bows and arrows to fight. The army of officials gathered and the morale was like a rainbow. Zhang Xianzhong had many soldiers and horses and was famous for his bravery, and was full of confidence. He was not afraid of the government army at all, and fought with more than 40,000 government troops.

Li Zhi took several officers to a tall small mound, raised his telescope and looked at the battlefield.

Tens of thousands of people fought together, and the troops from all walks of life were mixed together, making it difficult to see the situation on the battlefield. Fortunately, the officials and soldiers were all wearing red mandarin duck battle jackets, and if you look closely, you can see what happened.

The front of the bandits was hungry soldiers and had very poor combat power.

Mou Wenshou, the vanguard of the official army, was very brave. He rode a war horse and held a long halberd, and rushed into the bandit formation with dozens of servants, fighting back and forth among the bandits. His halberd technique was fierce and his combat power was very strong. He raised his gun from time to time to assassinate the bandits and chopped the bandits under his horse.

The ones fighting with his vanguard were the hungry soldiers of the bandits. These hungry soldiers were all miscellaneous soldiers who had been throwing the bandits for several months. They were holding spears and wooden sticks, and were vulnerable at all. They were beaten to pieces under the impact of Mou Wenshou.

The weapons of those hungry soldiers were very devastating, not even long swords and big swords. After all, a furnace of iron can create dozens of spears and spearheads. If they are used to create long swords and big swords, they can only make a few.

Not long after, the hungry soldiers did not dare to fight again and fled back, howling. However, these hungry soldiers were forced back by the cavalry and the most elite old camp behind. The hungry soldiers wandered between the brave official army and the fierce old camp, shaking.

Next, the central army of the official army rushed forward. Zuo Liangyu lived up to his reputation. He held a long-handled sword and led a thousand servants to crash into the bandits' hungry soldiers. Wherever the troops arrived, the bandits' hungry soldiers were defeated and immediately dispersed, fleeing to both sides of the unattended formation.

Not long after, Zhang Xianzhong's tens of thousands of hungry soldiers fled. More than one hundred thousand people rushed on the battlefield, like a tide that dispersed when the tide was low.

Zhang Xianzhong must be very distressed when the hungry soldiers were defeated. Li Zhi raised his telescope to watch Zhang Xianzhong's central army. Seeing Zhang Xianzhong's messenger around him, several generals rode their horses into the group of soldiers and horses, leading infantry, horse army and cavalry to face the central army of the government army.

The official army and Zhang Xianzhong's real soldiers fought together.

At this moment, the combat effectiveness of the bandits should not be underestimated. Although the infantry did not have horses, they were also old thieves who had been old, and their combat effectiveness was comparable to that of the official army. The bandits' horse army and cavalry were even more years old, and they had the combat effectiveness of the official army's servants. Twenty thousand bandits faced more than 40,000 official troops, and the two sides fought in a formation, which was difficult to distinguish.

Mou Wenshou, Zuo Liangyu and others who had just jumped into the formation, dared not rush too hard anymore, and they only dared to fight in front of the formation with their servants, competing with the bandits and sword techniques.

Li Zhi held up a telescope and searched in the formation. He saw Chen Hongfan on the north wing forming a formation against the bandits and horses. There were many bandits and horses, with five or six thousand horses. At this time, all gathered on the north wing to attack Chen Hongfan. Chen Hongfan had a little difficulty in defending.

But soon, Huang Degong of the central army led more than 6,000 Beijing camp horses to the north wing to support Chen Hongfan. Huang Degong drank half a jar of rice wine before going out in the morning, and at this time the people were even more majestic with the wine. He held a big knife and led a thousand cavalry to rush towards the bandits' horse army, and led the team to kill with the bandits. His arrival alleviated most of the pressure on Chen Hongfan.

Liu Liangzuo, who was on the southern wing, fought against Zhang Xianzhong's two thousand cavalry. Those cavalry were elites of bandits, riding tall war horses, wearing inlaid iron armor, holding horn bows or waving long-handled weapons, constantly attacking Liu Liangzuo's Luzhou troops, making it difficult for Liu Liangzuo to fight. But not long after, Xiong Wencan, the central army's command flag was waving, and Yun 0 Nan's deputy general Long Zaitian, led two thousand Yunnan soldiers to the southern wing to help Liu Liangzuo resist the thief's cavalry.

Two thousand Yunnan soldiers even equipped two war elephants. However, these two war elephants did not dare to rush too far under the threat of the bows and arrows of the thieves and cavalry. They just followed the other soldiers and horses back and forth on the front line.

Zhang Xianzhong's 20,000 soldiers fought against more than 40,000 officers and soldiers, and it was hard to tell the difference, and the winner was no matter how good or bad the winner was. Xiong Wencan immediately stood behind the two thousand Guangdong soldiers, frowned.

The combat effectiveness of the bandits under the thief is really good. I thought that the easy battle now seems to be difficult to end in a short period of time.

Li Zhi held up the telescope and looked for a while. Seeing the stalemate formation on both sides, he couldn't stand it anymore. The commanders behind Li Zhi saw that the official army was actually fighting with the bandits so hard, and they all looked contempt.

The combat effectiveness of these Ming soldiers was much different from that of Li Zhi's soldiers. The Hu Ben Division only took half a cup of tea to defeat the battle of the thieves and horse army a few days ago.
Chapter completed!