Before the war started, He Zhen was secretly happy that the others were not in Zhong Xiang for the time being, so that he could get most of the spoils after defeating Li Shixun. Until the attack was launched, He Zhen still thought that there was no problem with this battle; but as the war fell into a stalemate, He Zhen felt that things became more and more difficult. The victory of the battle since the war had begun, made He Zhen's soldiers confident and morale high, but after all, there were still many Ming troops lacking battlefield experience. When more and more companions fell to the ground with injuries and axes flew over their heads, the morale of these soldiers was also constantly being eroded.

He Zhen knew that if he dragged on for a while, more veterans would be consumed, and if these role models were lost, the morale of the new recruits would fall faster. He Zhen thought with some regret that he might have to wait patiently for Liu Tichun and others to return to Zhongxiang. It would be better to lose money if he had less money.

When He Zhen saw a red flag suddenly raised from behind the enemy formation, he thought his eyes were dazzled. He Zhen was sure that he had not sent any cavalry to detour and surrounded Li Shixun's position from the side and back. Moreover, He Zhen did not think that such a plan could be successful in advance. If the troops were dispatched too few, it would take a long time to pass through the Qing army's front line; and if the troops were dispatched too many, it would weaken the power of the side attack, which would disperse the troops.

Li Shixun on the other side of the front line was not much stronger than He Zhen. Today's battle also made him feel very nervous. The morale of the Ming army was so high that Li Shixun imagined. Originally, based on Li Shixun's experience, if he saw the first batch of soldiers in the forward were knocked down instantly, the soldiers in the back row would hesitate and stop, but today the soldiers in the back row of the Ming army still rushed up desperately and twisted and killed the Qing soldiers into a group. The carefully planned attack by Li Shixun did not greatly damage the opponent's fighting spirit, which surprised him a lot.

Like the Ming army on the opposite side, the continuous war of attrition caused the morale of the Qing army to continue to fall. If this set of throwing and counterattacking tricks did not work and could not help the Qing army completely overwhelm the opponent in terms of momentum, the next battle situation would be to watch it develop on its own.

The most severely consumed by the front row of the Ming and Qing armies were the elite veterans, and the new soldiers in their back row showed the same wavering. He Zhen's troops were still worried because of their high initial morale, but many soldiers of the Qing army had already shrunk and even began to move back slowly. Li Shixun and other generals had no other solution. They could only send a large number of personal guards in their hands to supervise the battle, and use a knife to force the soldiers forward to maintain formation and morale.

Although Li Shixun felt very difficult, as a long-time general, he knew that the enemy must be in a difficult situation. Victory belongs to the person who can grit his teeth and persevere. Li Shixun not only asked his personal guards to cheer up and encourage his personal military camp, but also asked them to assist other generals in maintaining military discipline. At the same time, Li Shixun kept comforting himself in his heart. The longer the time is, the more beneficial it is for him, and the front army will continue to turn back and join the battle group.

Since Lee Se-hoon's attention was completely focused on his eyes, when He Zhen discovered the red flag, Lee Se-hoon still knew nothing about the changes behind it.

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Deng Ming drew out his long horse sword and rushed towards the banner of the Qing army commander. The enemy in front of him was unprepared. The first one who was attacked by Deng Ming and his party were some Qing army drummers. When the Ming army came to their backs, these drummers with their backs were still beating the drums sweating profusely.

The Ming army passed by the lined Qing army war drums. The originally passionate drum sound suddenly disappeared silently in an instant. More than a dozen drummers were chopped over, either rolling to the ground, or lying on the big and bulging face soaked in their blood.

The sudden silence of the drums made some Qing soldiers look here. Deng Ming saw several Qing soldiers turning around glaring at him. In the blink of an eye, Deng Ming rushed to the eyes of these Qing soldiers. They still had their eyes wide open and did not have time to make any tactical moves.

With a wave of the horse sword in his hand, the enemy soldier closest to Deng Ming was separated, and the headless body was still standing. Deng Ming had not had time to fall down when he was riding past him. Most of the remaining enemy soldiers were unable to react and were chopped down by the cavalry following Deng Ming. Only one of them exclaimed before the spear pierced into his throat.

At this time, a Qing army messenger was blocked by Deng Ming. He had just been ordered to convey Li Shixun's tactical intentions to the generals on the flanking. He rode his horse and left the position of the flag. He saw the cavalry holding the red flag rushing towards him. The messenger stared blankly at the red flag fluttering in the wind behind Deng Ming. His mouth was wide open, his tongue was spitting out half but no sound was made.

When Deng Ming rushed by not far away, the messenger turned around mechanically and continued to pay tribute to the leader's knight. Wu Baoping passed by him, and then took the Qing army off his horse with one shot. After several cavalry as stiff as statues were stabbed and dropped off the horse, someone near Li Shixun's flag reacted, and while shouting loudly, he began to draw out weapons to fight.

At this time, Deng Ming had already reached the forefront. Around the Qing army commander's general flag, there were many Qing army generals and their personal guards. The fastest-reacting people were gathering together in groups of three to try to resist the sprint of the Ming cavalry. Deng Ming passed by the three Qing soldiers who had just raised their weapons and hit one of them. He ignored the other two and left them to his companions behind him, and headed straight to the most important target, the Qing army commander's general flag.

The flag bearer, who was guarding the flag, turned around at this time. While observing the noise behind him, the flag bearer still hugged the flagpole tightly without any shaking. When he saw a cavalry rushing towards him, the flag bearer still refused to give up the flagpole. He hugged the flagpole with his left arm and hurriedly touched the sword at his waist with his right hand. But before the personal soldier touched the hilt of the sword, Deng Ming had already turned the horse sword in his hand into a cold light and cut it towards the flag bearer.

The horse sword fell down vertically, and cut the forehead of the flag bearer to his chest, almost dividing his face and throat in two. Deng Ming reached out to grab the flagpole while the Qing army fell down. After hugging the enemy's flag in his arms, Deng Ming circled around the Qing army's square land around the flag, then threw the flag underground and threw it in front of the horses of the three dumb Qing generals.

Several other generals who tried to draw their swords to resist were also killed by Deng Ming's guards. The fastest-reacting Qing soldiers had already jumped out of the circle and shouted "Enemy attack!" while rolling and crawling away from Deng Ming and his general flag.

"Who is Li Shixun!" Deng Ming's horse sword sank, and he put it on the neck of the nearest Qing army general Zuo, and shouted sternly.

These three men from the armor all looked like the Qing army figures of the General Manager, with almost the same posture. They all held the whip with one hand and looked at the Ming cavalry who suddenly appeared in front of them in a daze.

The blood-stained sword body was lying on his neck. The Qing army general Zuo was aroused by the chill on the sword peak and woke up suddenly and hurriedly answered Deng Ming's shout: "That's Marshal Li... no, that's Li thief."

The Qing army general pointed at one of the several Qing cavalrymen who were fleeing to the distance. Deng Ming saw this man running away while looking back.

"The General of the Crown Army (similar to the Staff) is a high-energy officer," Qing general, who was held by Deng Ming with a sword, seized the gap, took advantage of the opponent's chance to escape the enemy and got off the horse, and shouted to Deng Ming: "The General of the Crown is willing to atone for his merits and work for the king's army, and ask the general to spare his life."

At this time, many Qing soldiers looked back. The closest to the flag was Li Shixun's personal military camp, and the soldiers in the back row were not far from Deng Ming and others. After discovering the incident here, although most of the Qing soldiers showed panic and confusion, they instinctively turned the direction and raised their swords and guns to these Ming soldiers.

"Defeated, defeated!"

Without waiting for Deng Ming's order, Gao Neng waved his arms to shout at the soldiers in the personal military camp. He jumped up with his feet, waved the whip in his hand vigorously, and shouted at the top of his lungs: "Escape quickly, defeat!"

Then again and again, Gao Neng's back shouted at Deng Ming and tried his best to shout to the Qing army. At each shouting, Gao Neng jumped high so that more soldiers could see him. When Gao Neng jumped three feet high for the fourth time, a loud bang in the Qing formation. Many soldiers from Li Shixun's personal military camp threw down their weapons and made the same call for defeat, and bypassed Deng Ming's banner and ran to the left and right sides.

Deng Ming knew that the defeat was like a mountain. Although the Qing soldiers who were closest to them avoided the left and right because of fear, the Qing soldiers behind could not see the situation clearly. They only knew that their side was defeated and it was easy for people to trample on their own - this was a danger that Deng Ming and his party would also avoid.

He quickly dodged a distance with the guards and avoided the large group of enemy troops that were beginning to collapse. Deng Ming and the guards began to speed up again, looking at the escaped Li Shixun in the direction of the escaped Li Shixun.

More panic voices came from around him, and the news of defeat was spreading among the Qing army. After hearing this shout, many Qing soldiers who were still fighting also turned around and looked towards the general flag. They all found that Li Shixun's flag had disappeared without a trace, but a red flag was flying behind the formation.

The disappearance of the general flag made the Qing soldiers who were still fighting immediately lose all their courage. For the general flags of the Qing army and officers, the sudden appearance of the red flags hit them even more than the general flags of Li Shixun. Although these officers had a broader vision than ordinary soldiers, they still could not see the movements on the entire front. So when they saw the red flag behind the formation, all the generals and officers realized that the Qing army's front had been torn apart, and an irreversible collapse must have occurred somewhere on the battlefield. The Ming army was rushing from that gap to the back of the Qing army and sweeping the entire front.

When he saw Deng Ming's flag passing by, even the most determined Qing army officers and soldiers completely lost their fighting spirit and joined the ranks of the defeated ones.

Deng Ming didn't care about the fleeing enemy soldiers and kept chasing Li Shixun. As long as the opponent's main general stayed near the battlefield, it would be a threat to the Ming army. He might try to boost morale and reorganize the troops. If the defeated enemy soldiers saw the main general standing calmly in front of him, their fighting spirit might be restored.

So Deng Ming continued to pursue without hesitation. Even if he could not drive Li Shixun out of the battlefield, he would let the Qing soldiers see their commander fleeing in a panic. Li Shixun did not escape desperately. Perhaps he was indeed trying to gather and save the defeat. Deng Ming saw Li Shixun stopping not far away.

He stared at the target tightly, and Deng Ming continued to pursue the target at full speed without stopping. Li Shixun obviously did not expect that the Ming army would chase him. When he saw the Ming cavalry rushing towards him, he screamed and planned to continue to escape. But this time Deng Ming did not give him a chance to escape. When Li Shixun turned his horse's head, he rushed to him and pointed the opponent's throat with a horse sword.

"Are you Li Shixun?" Deng Ming's eyes first stopped on the other party's arms to make sure that the other party had no intention of drawing a sword to fight back, and then slowly raised his eyes to stare at the person's eyes.

After seeing the fear in the other party's eyes, Deng Ming felt a little confused. The enemy pointed at by him with his sword was pale and trembled like a sieve. After all, the other party was a leading general. No matter how brave he was, he would not be so incompetent that he was so scared that he could not even answer the question.

"Are you Li Shixun?" Deng Ming asked again. At this time, the guards behind him arrived one after another, and the captives even trembled their lips and teeth collided. Deng Ming only heard the princess' voice, but could not hear any answer.

Deng Ming pressed the Ma Jian forward with force, and gently stabbed the other party's Adam's apple.

"Little... the little man is not Li Dashang."

The captive finally regained his ability to speak and replied stammeringly.

"Who are you?" Deng Ming asked. Looking at the other party's performance, Deng Ming felt that his words were somewhat credible. Observing the other party's armor at close range, it seemed that he was not an amazing person - Deng Ming felt that Li Shixun should not have the time to change his armor so quickly.

This man claimed to be just a messenger. When Deng Ming reached the command of the general, he had just left and followed Li Shixun's order to inquire about the battle situation on the right wing.

When he heard that Li Shixun was next to the flag when he arrived, Deng Ming shouted again: "Which one is Li Shixun? What is the dressing like?"

"The villain saw... the villain saw that the general had already captured General Li." The prisoner said nervously. At that time, he saw Deng Ming put the sword on Li Shixun's neck and saw that the commander was captured. He knew that the situation was going to go, so he planned to escape. On the way, the messenger was stunned for a moment, so he planned to stop and see the situation behind him, so he would report to the Governor of Huguang in the future. He did not expect that the Ming army would pursue him as a small soldier.

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When Deng Ming caught the messenger, Li Shixun was taking two and three with him to flee south.

Just now, when the Ming army suddenly came out from behind, Li Shixun was discussing the situation of the battle with the deputy general and others. First, the drum sounds stopped behind him, and then some messy fighting sounds came. Li Shixun thought that the soldiers behind him had a conflict. When he turned around and saw a group of cavalry in Ming army uniforms rushed over, he thought he was dreaming.

Li Shixun watched Ming Jun rushed to his eyes in a daze, chopped down his flag bearer at a place away from him, snatched the flag and threw it in front of his horse. Not to mention running away, he didn't even have the reaction time to draw his sword to defend himself.

It was not until the coldness of metal came from the neck that Li Shixun was convinced that this was not a joke, but that the Ming army really put the sword on his neck.

The next question from the Ming army knight woke Li Shixun up. The other party obviously did not know him. Li Shixun had an idea and hurriedly pointed to the departing messenger. In the flash, Li Shixun also made up a pseudonym for himself as "high-energy". While the enemy's eyes were turned away, Li Shixun pretended to dismount and surrender, in fact, in order to remove the other party's sword from his throat.

When many soldiers from the personal military camp looked back, Li Shixun was afraid that one of them would shout and reveal his identity. He hurriedly shouted in front of the Ming army, telling his subordinates that the battle had been defeated and let them escape.

Once thousands of troops are defeated, the momentum is very amazing. Anyone who is close to the defeated army may be involved in the chaos and is trampled on. Even those with high martial arts skills may encounter danger. Li Shixun hopes that the great defeat will happen suddenly and drives the Ming army behind him for a distance - his wish is fulfilled. As Li Shixun expected, the Ming army retreated to the side first, and then chased the commander's troops.

Seeing the commander of the first army acting as a pawn for the enemy, shouting that the battle had been defeated, the soldiers of the personal barracks instantly lost all their thoughts of resistance and rushed to escape. When Li Shixun called his subordinates to find a way out, his two deputy generals secretly held Li Dama's horse in a tacit understanding. After the rebels separated the three of them from the Ming army, Li Shixun quickly caught the reins thrown by the deputy general, and the horse flew on his body and began to break through.

He soon distanced himself from the Ming army, but Li Shixun, who had been through the battle for a long time, knew very well that the situation was irreversible and that the Qing army, which had lost unified command, was inevitable. Li Shixun had no intention of organizing an army to counterattack. He took his two subordinates wholeheartedly and fled, and while escaping, he threw all the armor, swords and other important things underground, leaving nothing but a horse whip.

Although Deng Ming figured out that he had been deceived and knew who his real target was, it was impossible to go back to find that person and relied on his armor to recognize Li Shixun.

At this time, Li Shixun had already run to the south of the defeated army, behind him were his two loyal generals. The three of them rode their horses and quickly removed their armor, threw the large group of people far behind their heads, bowed their bodies and slapped on the horse, running south without looking back.

"How did the thief come here?" Li Shixun still couldn't figure out this question.

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