As an officer of the Governor's Biao Battalion, Sun Battalion was not very interested in capturing several small soldiers of the Ming army. Usually, the Governor's Biao Battalion did not need to consider the issue of auxiliary soldiers. The Governor's Biao Battalion had sufficient personnel at any time. Under any circumstances, the food and grass of the Biao Battalion were guaranteed, and the horses could also be taken care of - unless they were with Taijun. For example, after the 100 Manchu soldiers were drawn from Baoning to Chongqing, Li Guoying transferred the good horses in the Biao Battalion to the Manchurian Eight Banners soldiers for use.

There were many horses dead in the mountains. If the Manchu soldiers followed the Ming army, then Sun Battalion might still have to worry that the Governor would take the horses from the camp to supply the Eight Banners soldiers. However, the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi did not allow the Manchu soldiers to participate in the adventure, so the 100 Eight Banners soldiers are now staying in Chongqing.

Along the way, the cavalry of the Biao camp led by General Sun had killed more than a dozen Ming troops, and some of the Ming troops fled to the hills on the left and right roads. General Sun did not waste his horsepower to pursue the enemy troops who fled in all directions, because he believed that he would naturally encounter more credit when advancing along the road.

"These thieves escaped so quickly!" After dawn, Sun Bachang's first group of Biao battalion officers who set out to pursue the camp ran first after leaving the camp. Most of the companions of Biao battalion were left far behind by him. However, the speed of the Ming army retreated far beyond Sun Bachang's imagination. According to Sun Bachang's previous experience, although many of the fleeing enemy troops escaped quickly, most of them would be slow to move and be quickly caught up by the pursuers because the defeated soldiers did not know the way, because they were confused and did not know where to go, and they lost command and could not use the road in an orderly manner.

If ten thousand enemies are defeated and fled, then the hundreds of people in the front may flee as if they are flying and can no longer catch up. There are still two or three thousand people who are not too slow to escape, and they need to spend some effort to chase them. However, more than half of them will be crowded in the back and be blocked by their companions who stop to watch, rest, or even walk back. Especially at night when the camp is bombed, even if they run away for a few hours early, they can't go much far, and many people are spinning around.

But today's Ming army and Sun Bazhong encountered completely different things in the past. After chasing Li Guoying's camp, no one could see along the way. Sun Bazhong said in confusion: "Didn't these people all from Zhejiang? I used to fight with those thieves in my hometown, and I have never seen them escape so clean!" Sun Bazhong chased after fifteen miles and finally saw the shadow of the Ming army.

After giving up the sporadic contributions of escaping up the mountain, Sun Bazhong continued to chase them. At this time, he had a feeling that if these Zhejiang people could maintain this speed of escape, it would be questionable whether the armored infantry behind could catch up with them.

Finally, we saw a group of Ming troops, which looked like one or two hundred people. If it were in the past, Sun Basen might not care about them, just drive them away and force them to escape to the edge of the road. The Qing army controlled the road, and these enemy soldiers who fled to the edge of the road could no longer escape from the battlefield and would definitely be wiped out by the Qing infantry that followed.

However, the achievements so far today are really pitiful. Sun Ba and his fifty cavalrymen have only obtained four heads in total. They are the benchmark camp of the Governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi. When they return to the camp, each person does not have a head under the saddle. Where can Governor Li's face be put?

Although it is estimated that more escaped enemies were not far ahead, Sun Battalion decided to stop and annihilate the Ming army they encountered first. Following Sun Battalion, there were several Biao Battalion generals. After seeing this Ming army, they also surrounded them. Perhaps they thought about it almost the same as Sun Battalion generals. Along the way, the Biao Battalion could not catch up with the large number of defeated soldiers of the Ming army, which made the Biao Battalion guards who came out to hunt for hunting were full of anger. Now they finally saw prey. Although it seemed inconspicuous, they were better than not. At least when returning to the camp, every officer must have a personal military merit, right?

"The thief dares to resist!" Although the Ming army who was intercepted seemed very panicked, Sun Bachang was surprised to find that they did not kneel down and beg for mercy. The escaped enemy we saw today was a very special breed. He had never seen it before: "You are all deserters who were so timid that they left the camp, how could they dare to resist stubbornly?"

What surprised the guards of the Biaoying even more was that these fleeing enemies not only plucked up the courage to resist, but also spontaneously restored their morale to form a circular formation. Several people in the enemy formation began to issue orders, while other deserters were willing to obey. Then some people took off their armor from their backs and handed them from the back row of the circular formation to the front row.

"There are actually thieves who escaped with armor!" Based on past experiences in dealing with deserters, General Sun did not immediately attack the enemy, but instead threatened his subordinates outside the enemy formation with their subordinates, and knelt down and begged for mercy before killing them all. Therefore, when he saw several enemy soldiers quickly put on armor, General Sun was surprised to beg for mercy. These armors were obviously carried by people in the formation. At this moment, they did not put them on themselves, but they handed them over to the people in front of the formation. Although it is rare to escape in armor, it is understandable. Some strong enemy soldiers felt that they would have a fight if they were caught up by the enemy, but what kind of mentality did the auxiliary soldiers escape with the equipment they used for others? General Sun could not understand at all.

Seeing that the Ming army refused to surrender, the cavalry of the Biao battalion began to attack. Hundreds of cavalry attacked less than 200 Ming army infantry, and they did not think this would be a difficult task. Indeed, most of these Ming army did not have armor. Although the few soldiers in the front row fought hard, they could not pose any threat to the Qing army's cavalry, and people kept falling down. But every time someone fell down, the formation would quickly reach out to drag the wounded into it, and would also walk out of the new Ming army to make up for the front line.

"Is this really a defeated soldier?" Sun Bashen looked at the battle situation in front of him and felt even more doubtful. A few Ming army armored soldiers were quickly consumed. Now the enemy soldiers without armor picked up weapons from the ground and walked to the front row to resist, but they would be killed faster. Seeing this, several battalion guards jumped off the horse and stood steadily on the ground, preparing to attack the armorless soldiers on the Ming army's front with bows and arrows.

At this moment, horse hooves suddenly came from behind and shouts of killing.

"Who is there again?" Sun Bashen thought casually.

He saw that several Biaoying guards had found the attack position and would soon start attacking the enemy who was throwing them with bows and arrows. He felt that there would be no suspense in the battle situation. Then President Sun Battalion turned back and looked back calmly, wanting to see which Biaoying officer led the team to arrive. At the same time, he wanted to shout: "You are late, and these credits are ours."

But when Sun Ba Zong turned around, he saw hundreds of cavalry wearing red cloaks rushing down from the high ground of the hills behind him. The enemy cavalry led by him held a long horse sword, less than an arrow from him. There seemed to be a rare flag in the team, and the patterns on it were also strange.

"Mahjong plaque?" When seeing the enemy's flag, Sun Bashang suddenly had this idea, but then he became even more confused: "Are they the thief's cavalry? Didn't they flee? How could there be cavalry? Why did they turn back to reinforce?"

...

When Deng Ming rushed towards the enemy, he saw a cavalry like a Qing army officer parked in the back row of the front line, leisurely observing the battle situation with himself, and even his sword was inserted into the scabbard. Deng Ming stared at the target and rushed towards him at full speed.

As the target got closer, the enemy officer began to turn slowly and turn back. At this moment, Deng Ming suddenly glanced at something on the other party's saddle, which was a head thrown in blood.

When he saw this head, Deng Ming felt a sudden pain in his heart. Although he had known that his subordinates would die in battle and had corresponding psychological preparations, when he really saw the sacrifice, he still felt a sense of severe suffocation: "Because of my strategy, these warriors may not have the chance to resist at all and were killed in vain."

The enemy had turned around, and the distance between the two was still rapidly shortening. This was a guy with a fat face, with fierce eyes full of fierceness in his eyes.

Deng Ming gently mediated his waist and arms, estimated the distance, and was about to swing the horse sword in his hand. At this time, some confusion appeared in the other party's eyes, which were originally full of fierceness. Yes, it was a look of confusion.

The distance between the two had been shortened to only a few horses, and Deng Ming saw a light blooming from each other's eyes.

"Ah--" the enemy screamed, and at the same time he suddenly reached out to his waist and drew his sword.

"Slay!" Deng Ming shouted loudly, swinging the Ma Jian, who had been ready to go, and the snow-white sword light brushed a fan in the air.

The other party instinctively shrank his body and dodged, and his right arm that had just touched the hilt of the sword also raised his strength, trying to block the whistling sword light in vain, and at the same time, he let out a desperate howl: "Ah——"

The mount under his crotch flew into the air and jumped past the enemy's horse. The sword light hit the enemy's arm, cutting his wrist twice, and then hitting the opponent's cheek. When Deng Ming felt a huge resistance suddenly coming from the hilt of the sword, he skillfully dragged it with the horsepower. Half of the enemy's face flew into the air, and the howling of despair at the end of his life also stopped abruptly.

"I'm sorry." As the two horses intersected, Deng Ming finally stared at the head of the man hanging in the saddle and said silently.

After cutting off the enemy's head, Ma Jian pointed straight ahead again because of the continuous force of his arms.

In front were groups of enemy cavalry. Deng Ming stared at the person in front of him with concentration, and the other party stared at Deng Ming's eyes. With a breath, Deng Ming came to the enemy's eyes, so close that he could see the wrinkles on the other party's cheeks clearly.

The other party cut the saber in his hand towards Deng Mingtou who was running rapidly. Deng Mingtou lowered his head and avoided the knife. He held the hilt firmly with his arms, twisted his waist gently, and lifted the sword blade, passing through the opponent's armpit. As his hands tightly loosened, the enemy's arms, holding the weapon, separated from his body.

When he rushed forward, the third enemy soldier he encountered was speeding up his mount. The general avoided Deng Mingzhan's sword in his abdomen, but was still hit by the horse sword. The huge force of the two horses crossed and passed through the sword. Suddenly, the tendon above the knee was broken. The Qing soldier screamed, and one of them fell from the horse's back, and his foot was still in the stirrup. The frightened mount dragged him across the ground and ran away to the battlefield.

The enemy soldiers he encountered again had completed the acceleration, and Deng Ming failed to grasp the distance, allowing the opponent to use horse speed to avoid his attack.

Although there were no more enemies ahead, Deng Ming continued to rush forward for a long distance, and then he decided to set up the war horse after turning back and confirmed that there were no enemies siege.

The flag bearer of the three walls followed closely behind Deng Ming. After seeing Deng Ming tied his horse, he turned around and stopped steadily behind Deng Ming. The Ming cavalry rushed over quickly lined up behind Deng Ming.

After estimating the distance between him and the enemy, Deng Ming would jump his horse and slam his sword again, and accelerate toward the enemy.

The current cavalry battle tactics are still classic rangers. There are a lot of gaps between the formations of enemy and our cavalry. At this time, the horse speed of war horses is very critical and can often determine the life and death of the knight. For enemy cavalry rushing at high speed, if they stop at the same place and stay still, it is the best target. They have no dodge ability and are more likely to be hit than infantry standing on the ground. If the speed is not fast enough, it is also easy to be hit. When the horse moves at high speed, the light area can make people separate their bodies and heads. The higher the speed, it will not only cause greater damage to the opponent when hitting the target, but also minimize the probability of being hit by the enemy.

Opposite the Ming army, the Biaoying guards left the Ming army's infantry and gathered together as quickly as possible to prepare for the battle.

The shock in his heart at this time was hard to describe. The defeated enemies chasing today were strange from beginning to end. Not only would the fallen infantry spontaneously form a round formation to resist tenaciously, but there would also be established cavalry turning around to reinforce the besieged infantry. What shocked Mr. Qian even more was that one charge of more than 200 Ming troops just now knocked down the hundreds of Bian battalions guards west of the encirclement - where did such an elite cavalry unit emerge? How could Deng Ming's army not take away such elite troops when he fled? Why didn't they escape quickly and return?

Countless questions came one after another. Mr. Qian gathered the remaining 270 and 80 guards of the Biao Battalion together. At this time, he saw that the Ming army opposite had already formed and was about to launch a charge.

President Qian raised the commanding sword high and over the top, and swung it hard to lead the entire army to accelerate - by raising the horse speed to the highest before encountering, you can achieve the best results, which are well known to cavalry officers.

"Admiral!"

"It was the admiral who came to save us!"

After the cavalry of the Biao camp retreated the encirclement, the more than 200 Ming army infantry immediately discovered Deng Ming's banner and shouted excitedly.

The shouting made General Qian of the Biaoying even more surprised. He knew very well that there was only one person in Sichuan who could be called "admiral" by the Ming army. In fact, not only Sichuan, but also the Ming army in Hubei, Fujian and Zhejiang would only use this title to refer to Deng Ming.

However, the officers of the Biao Battalion had no time to think about it. The Ming army on the opposite side had already launched a charge. With the sword of Qianmao, the cavalry of the Qing army also rushed out faster. For a moment, the shouts of killing resounded throughout the wilderness.

This time, Deng Ming did not achieve the amazing results as before. It was not easy to hit the enemy at high speed. Moreover, both sides were moving at high speed, and they both took it first to avoid the opponent's attack. In order to avoid the enemy's attack, it would be even more difficult to hit the enemy. This kind of cavalry competition relies heavily on personal riding skills. Even in the heyday of the Three Walls or the northwestern border soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, in this cavalry hedge competition, it was worse than the Eight Banners of Manchuria and the Eight Banners of Mongolia.

After hedging several times in a row, the losses of the Ming and Qing armies were quite limited, but the cheers of Ming soldiers had already shocked more and more officers and soldiers of the Bian battalion.

"I've been trapped, I've been trapped."

During the third cavalry hedge, General Qian of Biaoying could no longer focus on how to kill the enemy. Since Deng Ming did not abandon the army, the Ming army's intention to ambush the Qing army was obvious. Not only this General Qianying, but other officers and soldiers of the Biaoying also became more and more guilty as they fought. They were at the forefront of the pursuit and the farthest distance from the camp.

"We must report this matter to the guerrillas as soon as possible, and the Governor General." Mr. Qian was already full of his desire to retreat. At this moment, the Ming army infantry watching the battle not far away suddenly made another deafening cheer.

"So what's wrong?" President Qian of Biaoying hurriedly turned around and looked in the direction of the Ming army cheering. He saw countless Ming army's armored soldiers emerged from behind the hill where Deng Ming had just appeared. They held dense spears and quickly drove towards the battlefield.

"Oh no, oh no, it's really an ambush." ​​Everyone in the Biaoying Guards were full of fear. They did not see clearly how many Ming army infantry were coming, but everyone knew that the Ming army had set up a trap, and they had already stepped on the trap mechanism.

After looking at the Ming cavalry opposite, General Qian of Biaozang quickly ordered: "Roar over! Don't fight, withdraw your troops at full speed."

"Affect the order." No one would object to such a wise order.

"The enemy is probably going to run away." After re-setting the formation, Deng Ming did not launch a new charge immediately. He felt that the three walls did not have a significant advantage over Li Guoying's battalion. After all, there were less than a hundred veterans in the team, and many of them were new riders. Moreover, while avoiding the enemy's attack while counterattacking the enemy, as long as the opponent's cavalry was not a rookie novice, it was not an easy goal to achieve.

"Is it too early for me to send troops?" Deng Ming couldn't help thinking this way. If the infantry was in detour before launching an attack, it might be more likely to annihilate this battalion. Deng Ming looked at the group of infantrymen in the distance who were cheering him: "But they may all die in battle, and I may not be able to succeed if I come out later."

As many of these cavalry as possible were left as many as possible. Deng Ming couldn't help but hold the hilt of the sword tightly. Although these cavalry might escape desperately, they might also bravely break the rear for other Qing troops and cause trouble for the Ming army to expand the results of the war. Deng Ming secretly made up his mind to eliminate these cavalry as much as possible.

But, how to do it?

...

"You guys go quickly, don't worry about me." Wu Chenming said to his friends around him panting.

He was originally the second lieutenant who led the team, and should have taken his team of people to the south to Li Xinghan's report. But after leaving the camp in dark, he found that the road in front of him was very crowded, so he took his subordinates to walk a small path based on his impression - Wu Chenming was not very familiar with this path, but when he was familiar with geography, he seemed to have walked once, and he remembered that he could lead to the south.

Unfortunately, Wu Chenming remembered the wrong way, and the road became more and more wrong, so Wu Chenming had to turn around and rush back until dawn. He did not walk on the right path after more than dawn. After walking for more than halfway, he found that many Qing soldiers were rushing up behind him. In order to protect the auxiliary soldiers carrying armor, Wu Chenming personally led a few people to cut off the back behind. In order to ensure that the military situation was not leaked and to escape in time, Wu Chenming and others did not wear armor.

Although the pursuit soldiers were scared a little slower by bluffing, Wu Chenming was also hit by an arrow in his leg and was supported by his subordinates and ran out more than a mile. He heard the shouts of the pursuers behind him.

"Don't worry about me." Seeing that his subordinates turned a deaf ear to his orders, Wu Chenming pushed hard, struggled out of his subordinates' arms on both sides, and sat down to the ground.

"Brother Wu." Several subordinates refused to escape alone, so they reached out to help him.

"Go away, we came to Sichuan from Zhejiang with the admiral, to expel the Tartars, not to die in this ghost place together!" Wu Chenming took out his dagger and crossed it to his throat, threatening them, "Go away!"

Seeing his subordinate step by step, Wu Chenming urged impatiently: "Go away, go quickly, I won't tell you, and I won't tell the Tartars our plan."

Wu Chenming pointed at a fellow villager and was also a sergeant who was familiar with geography with him: "If you recognize the way, lead the way!"

"Brother Wu, you have to hold on. We will follow Guests Li back in a while." Hearing the voice of the pursuers getting closer and closer, several subordinates finally rushed to the south without looking back.

"Hmph, huh." Wu Chenming kept watching his subordinates disappear from sight before he whispered to himself: "I won't say anything."

Listening to the pursuit, not far behind, Wu Chenming cut the dagger into his throat with force.

But when the blade just touched the throat, Wu Chenming's arm was suddenly grabbed tightly, and the knife could no longer be pressed. At some point, the two Qing soldiers had already sneaked behind Wu Chenming.

The two men pressed Wu Chenming, who was struggling desperately to the ground, and finally took the dagger away from his hand. While grabbing Wu Chenming, they shouted to the person following behind: "Go and report to the master, we have caught an official."

...

"No more waiting." Although the 1,500 armored soldiers had not arrived yet, Li Xinghan looked up at the sky and knew that it had been more than an hour later than the scheduled plan. Moreover, Li Xinghan suspected that some officers and soldiers had been captured by the Qing soldiers, and the Qing army had already understood the Ming army's plans. If they waited, they might miss the opportunity.

"The whole army stood up!" Li Xinghan drank.

As the flags waving, more than 1,200 soldiers who had gathered in the valley stood up one after another.

"The whole army set off," Li Xinghan shouted.

While the army set out, he asked a cavalry to report to Deng Ming: "Tell the admiral that I have begun to fight back."

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The author's note, there was an error yesterday. The person who asked the question next to Deng Ming should be Zhou Kaihuang instead of Li Xinghan, which has been revised.
Chapter completed!