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As a result, Zhang Shun was wrong, which was the normal way for the army to retreat when facing the enemy. His method of retreating without chaos and retreating without dispersing instantly suppressed the enemy troops who came to attack.

In fact, there were not many incoming troops. Looking from a distance, they were only one or two thousand people on foot and on horseback. It's just that the enemy's situation is unclear. If they engage in a battle rashly, if the enemy's reinforcements come out, the rebels will not be able to leave even if they want to.

Sure enough, when the rebel army retreated near the Qinshui River, an army also came out from the other side of the river. Everyone looked at his banner from a distance. It was none other than Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, who made everyone tremble with fear.

Fortunately, they are across the river from each other and cannot attack the rebels for the time being. Now that there are wolves in front and tigers behind, "Purple Golden Liang" quickly prepared to order the rebels to flee south, preparing to flee into Zhongtiao Mountain and Wangwu Mountain to avoid the enemy's front.

Unexpectedly, another group of officers and soldiers came along the river from the south. Okay, don't think about it anymore. It is estimated that these two officers and soldiers are as fierce as tigers and as powerful as tigers.

Now "Purple Gold Liang" had no choice but to lead the team up the river. Regardless of whether it was "encircling three and missing one" or insufficient officers and soldiers, it was better to go first.

It didn't matter that the rebels escaped, but they left Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, there. It turned out that the Governor of Xuanda, Zhang Zongheng, was not incompetent. He was overjoyed when he received the news that "rogue bandits" had captured Yuanqu County.

It turns out that the terrain of the Yuanqu, which is surrounded by mountains on three sides and faces water on one side, is not only convenient for defense, but also convenient for officers and soldiers to take advantage of the siege. There are only two roads for the rebels to enter Zezhou again, entering Yangcheng from the north and entering Qinshui via a detour from the west.

Zhang Zongheng took the opportunity to personally lead troops and stationed them in Yangcheng, and ordered Mengruhu to station in Zezhou City and Hu Dawei to station near Tianjingguan to prevent the rebels from flowing into Henan. In addition, there was another person, Zhang Wenheng, an officer and soldier of Datong Yanghe Guards.

According to the original historical line, the rebel army encountered the righteous Wu Xian first in Duanshi Town, and defeated him and wiped out the entire army, which shocked the court. The imperial court sent Yanghe Wei Zhang Wenheng to encircle and suppress the rebels, and defeated the rebels many times.

As a result, due to Zhang Shun's interference in this life, when Zhang Shun besieged Dayang Town, Wu Qianqian came to support him and avoided the rebels such as "Zijin Liang". On the contrary, this man was a blessing in disguise and did not die in battle.

This also caused Yang and Wei Zhang Wenheng to not come with Zhang Zongheng to suppress them until now. Zhang Wenheng's status was higher than that of the fierce and powerful tigers. Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, simply ordered him to station in Qinshui to prevent the rebels from entering Zezhou from the west.

Because the rebels broke camp overnight, which caught Zhang Zongheng's expectation, they almost escaped the dragnet of the officers and soldiers. Zhang Zongheng received the news and urgently ordered the three men to gather and surround the rebel army.

"Zijinliang" and Zhang Shun had just escaped from the encirclement of Zhang Zongheng, Meng Ruhu, and Hu Dawei, and they rushed to Duanshi Town along the Qinshui River.

The rebels had just arrived at Duanshi Town and had not yet had time to enter the city to rest. I saw the gate of Duanshi Town opened wide, and an army came out of the diagonal stab. It was none other than Zhang Wenheng, an officer and soldier of Yanghe Guard who came from Qinshui.

Seeing this, "Zijinliang" couldn't help being furious. Zhang Zongheng, the governor of Xuanda, is as fierce as a tiger and a tiger is so majestic that I can't afford to offend him. What kind of cat and dog Zhang Wenheng dares to come up and stroke the tiger's beard?

"Zijinliang" consciously got rid of Zhang Zongheng and others. These people could not support the officers and soldiers here for a while, so they set up their formation and started fighting with Ta Yanghe Wei Zhang Wenheng.

There was nothing surprising about Yang Hewei. Their formation was ordinary. They only had more firearms and soldiers who dared to fight. As a result, the 20,000 to 30,000 troops of "Purple Gold Liang" and others couldn't defeat each other.

Zhang Shun served as the right wing of the rebel army and was already responsible for the offensive. As a result, he made several hard attacks, but the opponent remained motionless.

At the beginning, Zhang Shun relied on the large number of cavalry and ordered Liu Cheng and Chen Changzhen to encircle and drive away the opponent's cavalry many times. As a result, the Yanghe Guards cavalry was different from the officers and cavalry seen before.

The Yanghe Guards cavalry are all wearing armor, but they are not the kind of equipment they had during the Song and Jin Dynasties. Instead, people wear cotton armor and chain armor, or Ming iron armor, while horses wear horse face, chicken neck, horse body armor, breastplate and other armors, which only protect the front half of the horse. This was called "small armor" by the Ming army. Fully equipped”.

Although such a "small full armor" does not have as comprehensive defense as a "large full armor", it does have the general benefit of having better mobility without affecting the impact of the cavalry.

Although the Yanghe Guards cavalry are lower than those of "Zijin Liang", Zhang Shun and others, the cavalry are more elite and have better protective gear. When the two sides fought, the rebel cavalry was often killed by the opponent.

Chen Changzhen led the charge several times and found that the Yanyue Sword in his hand was not very smooth to use. It became more difficult to cut down well-protected enemies. He had to put on a spear and fight the enemy.

Zhang Shun was furious when he saw Chen Changzhen entangled with Liu Cheng and hundreds of enemy cavalry, and quickly ordered: "Chen Changzhen entangles the enemy cavalry for the time being, while Liu Cheng leads the troops to charge into the formation!"

The two men had to give orders, only to realize that they had been hit on the head, so they quickly divided their forces to fight. Due to the influence of their vests, the Yanghe Guardsmen were really powerless in trying to bypass Chen Changzhen's entanglement.

In this way, the left wing of Zhang Wenheng's formation was exposed, and Liu Cheng quickly personally led a charge against the infantry on his left wing. As a result, before the rebel cavalry could rush to the infantry, a burst of artillery fire rang out in front of the enemy's formation, and the rebel cavalry was immediately knocked over.

It turns out that Yanghewei has been fighting against Mongolia and Houjin all year round. He has sufficient firearms and is experienced in dealing with cavalry. He is not afraid of rebel charges at all. There are hundreds of large and small artillery pieces in the formation of 3,000 officers and soldiers, specializing in firing shotguns to contain the enemy's charge.

Liu Cheng's troops suffered a loss and no longer charged recklessly. They had to send a small group of cavalry to harass the officers and soldiers on the left flank and interfere with Zhang Wenheng's formation. As a result, the Yanghewei infantry remained unmoved at all. Several infantrymen were shot dead on the spot by Liu Cheng's cavalry, and were immediately supplemented by infantrymen from behind. Liu Cheng harassed him for a long time, but with little success.

Zhang Shun saw that the enemy formation could not be opened from the flanks, so he had to call in the "golden cannon" to carry out a reckless attack. He had already seen from a distance that the Yanghewei artillery was a small artillery piece, and its range and power were not as good as his "golden cannon".

Zhang Shun simply ordered Li Shian to load the "golden cannon" with live ammunition and bombard Zhang Wenheng's troops. Zhang Shun's five-inch cannon was indeed rare in the late Ming Dynasty. With just one shot, he killed a bunch of Yanghe guards in a dense formation. They were all bloody and bloody, with broken limbs, blood and bone fragments flying everywhere.

As a result, although there was a slight commotion among the officers and soldiers of the Yanghe Guard, more people stepped on the flesh and blood of the robes to replenish their ranks. Then the second artillery fire hit and ricocheted. The formation of the officers and soldiers was almost penetrated by the shells. It is not known how many officers and soldiers died along the way.

Now even Yang and Wei couldn't stand it anymore. Taking advantage of the gap between Zhang Shun's artillery release, Yang Hewei on the left wing immediately launched a charge towards Zhang Shun's infantry.

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