Nanming Engineer

Chapter 261 Asking the Court for Credit

Under the fiery red characters, on a five-flowered horse, sat a young general with a strong and tall figure, a silver armor and an iron helmet, and an extraordinary bearing, but his thin face was slightly tired, as if he had just recovered from a serious illness His demeanor and piercing eyes contained an imperceptible tiredness.

This person was Li Dingguo. He had been hiding in the mountains for several months. He almost ran out of ammunition and food. He had just remembered Zhang Xianzhong's confession before his death and offered his seal to the Kuizhou army. Huan's arrangement gave Li Dingguo much-needed food and grass to continue the life of the remaining soldiers of the Great Western Army.They also sent a doctor to get medicine for the injured Li Dingguo.

At the same time, it also brought Wang Huan's conditions.

"The land of Ankang can reach Hanzhong from the top and Baoning from the bottom. The terrain is critical and no one can stay unless he is trustworthy. Now the villain He Zhen is entrenched and openly swaggering through the city under the banner of a trespasser. This is a trouble for the Ming Dynasty. It is like a country. If you sincerely submit to the general army of Kuizhou, you can destroy this traitor. If you go north to join our army in Hanzhong, our generals will step down to welcome you."

Li Dingguo recalled Wang Huan's letter again in his mind, savoring every word carefully, and his heart felt like a mixture of five flavors, complicated and melancholy.

Wang Huan's meaning is very clear, if you want to take refuge in me, you have to give up your heart, don't come to Zhang Xianzhong's hypocrisy, as long as you are loyal to me, I will not let you down.

Li Dingguo let out a long sigh, knowing in his heart that his reputation has been so corrupted thanks to Zhang Xianzhong. When people in the world hear about Zhang Xianzhong, their first thought must be that this person is a repeated villain. Believe me, his men are not much better.

The flags were flying, and the riders were waiting around, but Li Dingguo ignored him, his head bowed in thought.

"My lord, the He Zhen army is in front, waiting for us to fight." Liu Yun who was beside him saw that Li Dingguo seemed to be in a daze, so he hurriedly reminded: "General, please order."

"Huh?" Li Dingguo woke up suddenly, and then remembered that he was still on the battlefield. He shook his head as if mocking himself, and raised his head with his sword.

The moment his head was raised, the tiredness in Li Dingguo's eyes disappeared, and only the sharp and sharp light was reflected in Li Dingguo's eyes. His face was resolute and resolute, full of confidence.

He rode his horse and ran out, and ran back and forth in front of the army, shouting loudly while galloping.

"He Zhen is a rebel, not knowing what to do, seeing the imperial army coming and not restraining himself to surrender, extremely stupid!" Li Dingguo reined in his horse and raised his whip, and shouted loudly: "Our army has surrendered to the King of Kuizhou General Soldier of the Ming Dynasty. Now It is the officers and soldiers who eat the emperor's rations, gentlemen, whether the imperial court thinks highly of us, let's fight here! Follow me to kill the enemy, so as to show our majesty!"

The remnants of the Daxi Army lined up in a long snake formation, following Li Dingguo's cry, erupted into fanatical echoes. Those in the front row were all cavalry. , replied with a hoarse voice in his throat: "Kill the enemy! Kill the enemy!"

Li Dingguo stood in front of the horse army and stood under the banner of several gates. He raised his long sword above his head and slowly pointed to the sky. His eyes were fixed on the front. He Zhen's army was faintly visible at the border of his sight like a black line on the horizon. .

The long sword drew a short arc and fell suddenly!

Liu Yun kept staring at his sword, and when the light of the sword flashed, Liu Yun immediately raised the spear in his hand forward and slanted forward, clamped his legs, drove the horse forward slowly, and at the same time shouted violently: "OK!"

The countless cavalry behind Liu Yun followed closely, their horseshoes rumbling, pressing forward like a wall.

Spears are like forests, and long knives are like seas.

As the cavalry team moved forward, the speed became faster and faster, from the initial slow walk to a small trot. The horseshoes stepped on the ground like thunder, and the timid trembled when they heard it.

Li Dingguo squinted his eyes, and was mixed in the third row of cavalry. The entire cavalry line gradually changed from a parallel straight line to a wedge shape, and it was pierced fiercely by a sharp nail and at the He Zhen army lined up in front. past.

Opposite him, He Zhen's face turned pale. She looked at the cavalry team rushing toward her and whispered to herself: "Crazy, crazy. Li Dingguo is crazy!"

Immediately afterwards, He Zhen hissed and shouted: "Reject the carbine! Reject the carbine forward, reject the carbine forward, and shoot the archer forward, shoot that desperate fool to death!"

He Zhen's army was in a panic. People ran forward and backward, carrying the spiked horses to the front of the formation. The archers ran behind the horses, bows and arrows, and nervously looked at the cavalry team blowing in like a hurricane.

The cavalry was already approaching five hundred steps away, and Liu Yun was at the forefront of the entire zigzag formation.

Liu Yun's eyes were already red and bloodshot. He was arched, his legs were slightly bent, as if he was standing on stirrups with his legs bent, and his muscles were tense. Holding his upper body, holding a spear in one hand, he stared at a horse in front of him without looking sideways.

After advancing two hundred steps, the bowstring in He Zhen's army rang, and the arrows flew up and shot forward.

People in the cavalry were shot again and again, screaming and falling off their horses, or their horses were hit by arrows, and fell to the ground with the knights on them, hissing sadly, and then they were trampled into a pulp by the horses behind.

No one looked down, no one felt sorrow and pity.

All the cavalry looked cold, staring at the approaching horse refusal formation without stopping.

He Zhen stood behind the archers, watching with all the generals trembling in their hearts. This method of breaking the formation is simply unreasonable. I have never seen such a cavalry use. Is it really worth the money?The horses in front are repulsive, the natural enemy of the cavalry, a frontal charge is enough to block the impact of hundreds of cavalry, how precious cavalry is, does Li Dingguo only want to fight this battle?

Liu Yun's horse had already reached the front of the rejected horse. His horse was covered with leather armor. Although it was hit by two arrows, it was not fatal and could keep running. Liu Yun covered the horse's eyes with a black cloth so that It has no fear and dares to charge straight at the repelling horse.

Seeing that he was about to hit the sharp repelling gun, the archer standing behind the repelling horse was already dodging in fear. Liu Yun's eyes and pupils shrank, and he lifted the rein in his hand. He was so strong that he almost lifted the horse's neck. The horse was in pain, and the man stood up. Liu Yun clamped the horse's belly tightly and pumped the horse's buttocks, and the horse jumped over the wide repelling gun under the stimulation of severe pain.

When the horse's hooves hit the ground, Liu Yun fiercely handed over the spear in his hand and pierced the chest of a shocked and overwhelmed archer. With blood spurting, he rushed straight into the spear formation that was already frightened and showed signs of retreating. .

Liu Yun threw away the spear, drew the saber from the saddle, raised his arms and shouted like a god of war: "Kill!"

The cavalry behind them, who did not have such amazing riding skills, bumped into the refusal spears one after another. The horse riders in the first and second rows were like a bunch of candied haws tied into a pile by the spiked spears of the refusal horses. But the horse was made of Naijian wood, so it didn't move, but it was pushed out of the gap.

However, when the horses in the third row collided, the horses were already covered with corpses and could no longer be killed. They were directly knocked away by the huge impact of the cavalry. The complete wall of horses was knocked out with large gaps.

"Kill!" The cavalry who rushed out of the gap, with bloodshot eyes, brandishing spears and knives, rushed into the formation of He Zhen's army frantically.

"You shouldn't fight Li Dingguo in the field, you should defend the city as you did when you were fighting the Tartars!"

He Zhen's face was ashen, and she rode away.

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In the city of Hanzhong, a large wooden structure house was temporarily built on the site of the burnt ruins of the magistrate's yamen. Wang Huan and a group of Kuizhou generals sat shirtless in the house, drinking porridge and pickles, having a great time. Almost.

"The good news about Ankang was delivered this morning." Wang Huan crunched the pickled radish and said slurred: "Li Dingguo is very good. He was killed in half a month and captured Ankang City."

Li Tingyu held the victory report in his hand, and replied while looking at it: "He Zhen thought that Li Dingguo had been defeated after staying in the mountains for so long, so he dared to go out to fight in the city, trying to eat Li Dingguo, but he was beaten terribly , fled back to Ankang City alone."

He raised his head, stopped grabbing the steamed buns, and said emotionally: "Li Dingguo seems to be sincerely attached to your lord. In this battle, he lost more than 2000 cavalrymen as capital. These cavalrymen are Zhang Xianzhong's elite. They are raised with money on weekdays, and they are not used easily, if Li Dingguo hadn't sincerely surrendered, he would not be so willing."

Wang Huan took a sip of the porridge, flushed the radish down his throat, and said with a smile: "He is so willing, but I am still reluctant, that's it, the test of Li Dingguo has passed, and his cavalry is my seed. A person is worth a thousand gold, so don't waste it, they will arrive the day after tomorrow, and I will go out of the city to meet them in person."

"Also, it's time to write a memorial to the imperial court, telling us about our situation in the Northwest. Governor Wang must have been impatiently waiting."

(End of this chapter)