Please ask me to be the emperor

The officers and soldiers were not idle men. Seeing the "King of Zuo Jin" cavalry crossing the formation and trying to attack the soldiers who were camping behind the formation, Deng Qi quickly ordered his general Tao Xiqian to lead the cavalry to stop the "King of Zuo Jin".

This Tao Xiqian was originally a guerrilla general sent by the governor of Henan to support Zuo Liangyu. Because he saved Zuo Liangyu's life earlier, Zuo Liangyu allocated some heads as a thank you gift, so he was promoted to a staff general.

The guerrilla general Yue Zhongzhong who led the cavalry in the last battle retreated timidly, resulting in the defeat of the officers and soldiers. After Deng Qi and Zuo Liangyu discussed it, they simply handed over the cavalry in the hands of the officers and soldiers to the leadership of the new general Tao Xiqian.

Tao Xiqian, the new official, is indeed a bit brave when he takes office. When he saw "King Zuo Jin" leading his troops around, he bravely faced him.

Fortunately, "King Zuo Jin" did not have Zhang Shun's personal supervision on the front line, and he did not want to play cavalry hedging tricks.

After all, we only have one good life, and no one is willing to throw it away lightly.

If we play "death hedging" like when Zhang Shun personally supervised it, after one charge, regardless of victory or defeat, the brothers will have to stop ten times and then stop two times, which really doesn't count.

As a result, "King Zuo Jin" and the new general Tao Xiqian each led their five hundred knights, wandering, positioning, shooting, and fighting with each other. For a while, they could not tell the winner.

Liu Cheng followed closely behind and also led five hundred knights into battle. We are all foxes for thousands of years and monsters for thousands of years. What kind of fairy tales are we playing? Liu Cheng could tell at a glance that "King Zuo Jin" had not tried his best, but he didn't say anything.

After all, "accompanying a king is like accompanying a tiger." Liu Cheng couldn't figure out what Zhang Shun was thinking. If you lie easily, you will become a villain.

Zhang Shun can't figure it out. When there are more people under his command, everyone has their own thoughts and plans. Once he was unable to attend the battlefield in person, many of his generals began to "paddle the water".

This is also one of the reasons why Zhang Shun was able to gain a foothold in more than a thousand victims who were tricked and abducted. Although the weapons and armor of Zhang Shun's men were not uniform at the beginning, fortunately they did not suffer from the veteran's problem, and they were still able to dare to fight. This is a good soldier!

However, the officers and soldiers and other rebels fought too many bad battles, and their soldiers were also tired. Once the war started, the commander-in-chief was slack at first, then the generals were slack by another three points, and the soldiers were even slacker by another three points. With only one point of strength, everyone fought against Zhang Shun's soldiers who had used five points of effort. How can one remain undefeated?

Now that Zhang Shun has more men and horses under his command, if Zhang Shun cannot do it himself, he will not be able to prevent other generals from "paddling" and slacking off.

Zhang Shun was in the middle of the army. Although he was standing at a high place, due to the obstruction of the soldiers on both sides, Zhang Shun could only see the "King of Zuo Jin" and the officers and soldiers chasing each other. From time to time, his sight was blocked by the corners of the officers and soldiers, so the view was not very clear. .

At this time, they saw that Liu Cheng and his cavalry did not go to help the "King of Zuo Jin", but instead harassed the side of the formation of his officers and soldiers.

The positions of "King Zuojin" and Liu Cheng are on the right side of the rebel formation, that is, on the left side of the officers and soldiers formation. It was the place where the "King of Chaos" in the rebel army and Tang Jiuzhou among the officers and soldiers faced off.

The infantry of both sides are still far apart and have not yet begun to join forces. Liu Chenggong began to shoot at Tang Jiuzhou's Changping army with three-eyed blunderbuss, quick guns and bows and arrows.

When cavalry shoots at infantry, they do not shoot at them stupidly. Because infantry has their feet on the ground, the muskets and bows they use are often more powerful than cavalry, and their shooting stability is also better than that of cavalry. Fortunately, the cavalry is superior because of its high mobility. Liu Chengcheng is a veteran cavalry general and is quite methodical in his use of troops.

He ordered the cavalry under his command to line up in columns, like a sharp arrow, piercing the corner of Tang Jiuzhou's Changping army formation.

The military formation of Tang Jiuzhou's Changping Army was a common square formation. This formation was strongest when facing the enemy from the front. Although the sides were slightly weaker, they could still turn around in time to face the enemy.

However, when Liu Cheng's cavalry charged from the corner of the formation, there was a certain degree of confusion in the command of the Changping Army. Because the commander could not determine whether to shoot the cavalry from the front of the phalanx or the cavalry from the sides of the phalanx, or even to shoot from both sides together at the charging cavalry.

Because the front-line personnel did not receive the order in time, they had to act on their own and shoot randomly.

Some fired projectiles and arrows within 150 steps of 200 steps, while others were in a hurry and were not ready to attack before Liu Cheng's cavalry came to them.

However, Liu Cheng was not prepared to charge directly into the formation. If the cavalry directly attacked the well-formed military formation, it would be easy to encounter "hard trouble", resulting in heavy losses for the cavalry, and the gain would not be worth the loss.

When the cavalry under Liu Cheng's command were more than ten steps away from the corner of Tang Jiuzhou's Changping Army formation, they turned their horses' heads sideways, parallel to the side of the Changping Army's formation, and then swept past, shooting out the arrows and projectiles in their hands. .

The Changping army was caught off guard and was immediately killed and injured by Liu Cheng's cavalry. Twenty or thirty people were injured.

By this time, Tang Jiuzhou had already come to his senses and it was not too late to make amends. He quickly ordered the soldiers in the right row to move a few steps to the left to fill in the officers and soldiers killed and wounded by the rebels to maintain the integrity of the formation.

As a result, Tang Jiuzhou had just adjusted its formation. Liu Cheng's cavalry had already adjusted their formation and angle, and followed the same pattern again to get around. This time, the Changping Army under Tang Jiuzhou lost more than 20 people again.

Now Tang Jiuzhou couldn't sit still. As the deputy general of Changping, he had dealt with Mongolian and Jurchen cavalry.

Xuan Daji Liao's cavalry is not weaker than the first two, and can often take advantage of it, allowing the opponent to experience the humiliation of being harassed by cavalry. Who would have thought that he would suffer such a loss today.

He quickly sent a messenger to report to the general Deng Qi, requesting that the cavalry drawn from their Changping army be sent back to cover the sides of the formation.

However, since the Sichuan troops were mainly infantry, with more than 10,000 officers and soldiers, there were only 1,200 cavalry brought by the Changping Army, which was weaker than the rebel army.

Now in order to prevent the rebels from harassing the construction of the camp after the battle, Deng Qi has sent out 500 cavalry. If another 500 cavalry were released to cover the left side of the formation, Deng Qi would only have 200 cavalry available. This is undoubtedly a drop in the bucket for a battle involving tens of thousands of people.

But just when Deng Qi was hesitating, Liu Cheng was surprised by Tang Jiuzhou's strength, so he took the opportunity to make a tentative attack. He killed the Changping army in chaos on the left side, and was almost defeated by Liu Cheng.

Tang Jiuzhou couldn't help being frightened. He quickly personally led his servants to resist, and finally managed to repel Liu Cheng's cavalry. Tang Jiuzhou then counted the number of people and estimated that more than thirty people had been lost again.

It turned out that this was not only because the Changping Army was incompetent in combat, but also because Zhang Shun repeatedly attacked the morale of the officers and soldiers, resulting in low overall morale. Once they suffered a slight setback, the officers and soldiers began to waver.