Taiyuan General Wang Yizhi had a premonition that something was wrong when facing only three thousand thieves. Because the thieves with fewer people than the government army dared to provoke here, it means that the thieves were prepared and were waiting for the government army to come to the door. When Wang Yizhi walked to the highest point of the fort, he looked around and his heart sank to the bottom of the sea. Torches in all directions gathered towards their base, gradually spreading into a sea of ​​torches.

Gao Yingxiang led the rebel army to go through a night of trouble and dug a large concave trench two miles away from the official army. The trench was three meters deep and four meters wide, just enough to prevent the leap of the official cavalry horses.

When the sun rises from the east, the besieged officials suddenly feel cold and cold when they see the arrangement of the enemy's battlefield. Originally, Wang Yizhi chose a camp location very good. The south side of the fort are ravines formed by rain and loess. The slopes on the east and west sides are smooth and open for cavalry rushing, and the steep terrain on the north is conducive to defense. The most important thing is that there is a well in the fort, which will not become a dead place in a short period of time.

Now it seems that this fort is a desperate place. The rebel army has arranged three layers of Jimajiamuzai barrier zone in the south, which is twenty meters apart. This obstacle zone stretches for three miles and directly connects to the trenches on both sides of the east and west. Only the valley to the north has no obstacles. As a veteran of the battlefield, Wang Yizhi could guess that there must be ambushers in the valley without thinking.

Wang Yi, the general general of Taiyuan, Shanxi, was extremely suspicious. Within ten miles, there were dense rebel troops. Although this unit was ragged and armored, the weapons in his hands were messy. More than 50% of the people were holding wooden sticks. Such troops were full of murderous aura. Because the soldiers of the rebel army fought to survive, the Ming Dynasty official army came here to deprive them of their right to survive. Therefore, all the rebel officers and soldiers were full of fighting spirit, and even if they died, they would have to be buried with the army.

Wang Yi ordered the three hundred cavalry to attack south and sent 500 cavalry to respond behind them. The reason why Wang Yi did this was that he saw that the weapons of the rebels guarding the south were mainly spears, shields and swordsmen, and bullying the rebels lacked bows and arrows.

The Ming official cavalry who launched the attack was very helpless against the southern rebel army. Their war horses could not raise their speed in front of the rebel horses, and charging forward in front of the rebel horses was a foolish thing for the madman to do. However, these temptation officers were very cunning. They held three-eyed muskets in their right hand and three-foot round shields in their left hand. They clamped their horse belly and rode slowly towards the rebel horse positions.

The way the official army rode was quite strange. They slowly walked towards the junction of the trench of the trench and the horse-resisting position. When they were fifty feet away from the trench, they suddenly accelerated and turned west and rushed ten feet away from the trenching position. The unexpected tactics of the official army caught the trenching army behind the trenching position off guard. The archers who were hiding among the soldiers of the trenching army on the position shot hatred arrows at the trenching army under the command of the officers.

The prepared official army buried his body in the horse's back and raised his shield with his left hand to protect the vital points of his body. This scene made Gao Yingxiang, the king of Investigation, who stood in the north, nodded and praised secretly. The combat power of the official army should indeed not be underestimated. From this tactic, we can see that the official army's pharaoh was sophisticated, and they were all veterans who had been on the battlefield.

The officials who ran out of a mile seemed to teach the crusade. They turned their horse heads back and rushed back in the high-speed sprint, revealing their right hand holding a three-eyed gun, igniting the fuse to aim at the crusades and firing the guns. The muskets exploded and the white smoke filled the crusades. The crusades were wailing, and about 60 or 70 people fell to the ground. In view of this, Gao Yingxiang ordered the crusades to withdraw from the first obstacle to resist horses and set up defenses behind the second obstacle.

Seeing the evacuation of the rebel army, Wang Yi ordered his brother Wang Yihong to lead 30 families of 700 cavalry to go to the front line to remove the obstacles to resist horses. However, they did not expect that as soon as they opened the 20-foot-square-barrel, about 3,000 rebel army rushed into the official army and fought with them.

During the melee, the official army fought and retreated, and seduced the riots out of the horse-resisting position. When the riots left the riots' horse-resisting position, the cavalry responsible for guarding the riots immediately rushed up from the open space on both sides, wantonly killing the riots who were not protected by the horse. Lan Tianchen, the general of the riots commanding the south, viciously ordered the riots to cover the enemy and us with arrows. After the three-wheeled arrow rain, the official army and the riots fell down, but the riots had strong follow-up power, and then the riots came up and attacked the riots without fear of death.

Although the Ming Dynasty's official army was well-armed, they had arrows above and big swords on the back of the army, but they had to pay attention to the spears stabbed by the officers. In the midst of their rush, the casualties of the officers became increasingly serious. Because both sides were crowded in a small area, the official cavalry could not completely gain the advantage. Often, the official army would be stabbed by the spear on the horse as soon as the official army broke over a crusade.

The brave and fearless soldiers of the rebel army took advantage of their number. Three or five rebel army soldiers showed their advantages against a melee official cavalry. They either cut the legs of the horse or stabbed the horse's belly with a spear. The purpose was to get the official cavalry off the horse. The infantry duel was to fight the number of people. Once the official army was knocked off the horse's back, what was waiting for him was to slash the rebel army around and chop.

In the bloody hand-to-hand combat, the shields of both sides collided and made a dull sound of collision. The screams of fighting soared into the sky were mixed with pain and wailing. The sound of weapons intersecting with flesh and blood was endless. The arrows shot by the trespassed by locusts and covered the sky. The battlefield more than a hundred feet in the square were like reeds covered with shaking arrow shafts. The armor of the Ming Dynasty was full of shaking arrows, bursting out blood...

The number of rebel soldiers was more than several times the official army. This tactic of consumption made Taiyuan General Wang Yiqie absolutely unbearable. In desperation, Wang Yiqie chose to withdraw the troops back to the fort. After hearing the sound of the retreat, the officers quickly broke away from the contact of the rebel army. They left behind more than 70 companions with corpses.

As the commander of the battlefield, Wang Yizhi found out the reality of the rebel army through this failed tentative attack. There was no possibility of breaking through the three sides of the south, east and west. Even if he could fight, it would be annihilated. For this reason, he placed his hopes on the north side, and even if there was a deep abyss there, he could only walk forward with his teeth.

Thinking of this, Wang Yi ordered the Fenzhou guerrilla Zhang Hongtu to lead a thousand cavalry as the vanguard, and the Fenzhou garrison Wang Ruxin led 500 officers to respond behind Zhang Hongtu. He personally led 2,000 main cavalry and followed up. Wang Yihong led 800 cavalry to cut off the rear.

Shortly after Zhang Hongtu, a guerrilla in Fenzhou, led his troops away, Wang Ruxin also entered the valley to the north. After half an hour, there was no sound of fighting. This gave Wang Yi a illusion that he believed that the trespassing army had used a trick of suspicion to slaughter the army in the east, south and west. There were heavy troops consuming the official army.

When he led the main force into the valley, he suddenly felt dark. The valley was the place of victory. But he saw that the loess cliff was more than ten feet high, only about thirty feet wide, and less than three feet narrowest. In view of this, he issued a loud command: "Beware! Arrange! Ring...ah!"

Before Wang Yiqi's shouting was over, a cold arrow shot from the top of the mountain and pierced into the gap of the bright armor on his left shoulder, and blood gushed out along the arrow shaft. Wang Yiqi's injury caused the morale of the officers to plummet, and his already panic became even more confused. As his younger brother, he led his servants to Wang Yiqi's side regardless of the heavy responsibility of cutting off the rear. Wang Yihong's behavior of disregarding the overall situation gave the rebel army a good opportunity to close the door.

The rebels swarmed towards the entrance of the valley under the cover of archers on the mountain, forcing the official army to escape into the deep valley. The rebels fled along the way and were chased by the archers of the rebels. The rebels on the mountain in the narrowest part of the valley prepared a large number of rolling woods. When the rebels ran over half of the people and pushed down the rolling wood, the officials and soldiers killed and injured countless people. This rolling wood fell down and divided the official army into two sections, so that the official army could not take care of each other.

Seeing that the defeated officers had appeared, King Gao Yingxiang of the Breaking Army immediately ordered the entire army to charge. Suddenly, the five-mile-long valley drums sounded together, and the horns of the charge resounded throughout the sky. Five thousand officers were divided into more than ten small sections by more than 100,000 rebels to launch a final decisive battle with the rebels.

The fighting spirit of the government troops has been released, and their resistance is only for survival. At this moment, the government troops are more like rebels fighting riots to survive. Zhang Hongtu, the guerrillas in Fenzhou, saw that the invasion of the valley in front of him gathered more and more. He ordered a hundred boxes of weapons at the bottom of the box to "fly" and release rockets at the melee in the north. The lit rockets emitted a harsh and strange roar covering the crowd in the chaos. Thousands of rockets pierced at the crowd and fell down. The government troops suffered numerous casualties due to their excellent armor and war horses, but the combat officers were more injured than death.

In comparison, most of the officers and soldiers of the rebel army died more than were injured without armor, which allowed the 600 Fenzhou official troops to break out of the encirclement. After breaking through, the official troops did not dare to turn back to save their companions behind them, and no longer save horsepower and rush forward desperately. This sudden change occurred and the rebel king Gao Yingxiang expected that, and the official troops were mostly cavalry, so the rebel army was not rushing to chase them.

Zhang Hongtu, a guerrilla in Fenzhou, led the defeated generals to break into three blockade lines of the enemy, and finally escaped from the heavens. As soon as they arrived in Yanchuan County, they brought bad news to the Ming court, and the main force of the Shanxi official army was basically destroyed.

Seven days later, the Ming Dynasty court received an urgent report written by Zhang Hongtu, a blood-written report by the Fenzhou guerrilla Zhang Hongtu, the court discussion on the Forbidden City platform was in trouble. All the ministers accused Wei Zhongxian of controlling the government and ruining the elite of the two official troops, forcing Emperor Tianqi to issue a self-criticism. The emperor's inner treasury paid 1 million taels of silver and ordered the Shanxi, Henan and Shandong officials to wipe out the two thieves in Shaanxi.

At this moment, the eunuch party had enough power in the court, and they were prepared for the counterattack incited by the Donglin Party. As a result, the Ming Dynasty became a vegetable market and quarreled in a mess. In helplessness, Emperor Tianqi issued an imperial edict, and the cabinet master Sun Chengzong, who was pretending to be sick, came to the hall.

Sun Chengzong, the old master of the Pavilion, who had been ill and bedridden at home for more than half a year, stepped into the court again after receiving the imperial edict. No matter the quarrel in the court, he was as stable as Mount Tai and did not speak. Until Wei Guangwei, the old master of the eunuch party, said: "I have invited Zhisheng (Sun Chengzong's name)! You are not Sun Ge Lao, the important minister who understands military affairs in the Ming Dynasty. Now there is such a crisis in Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty. I hope that Master Sun Ge Lao has solved the difficulties in Shaanxi in the overall situation!" (To be continued)
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