The next morning, the area outside Ruzhou City suddenly became noisy.

It turned out that Chen Yongfu's vanguard battalion took the initiative to ask him to send all his cavalry out of surprise, and Li Zilong also arranged the cavalry of the Zhu family army to support him back and forth as a flank.

The rebel army dispatched nearly 20,000 to 30,000 people, and both sides were waiting.

The arrangement of the rebel army was still the same, with hungry soldiers outside, followed by infantry, then horse army, then cavalry, and finally old camp.

In addition to the servants, Chen Yongfu's soldiers had poor equipment and horses, but their morale was good. This is probably one of the reasons why they dared to fight.

Of course, the thieves on the opposite side were even worse.

There are very few people holding big swords, most of them pick up wooden sticks, and many people even have bare hands.

Well, you can imagine how powerful you are in this way.

"kill!"

With Chen Yongfu's order, his army began to charge.

Soon, the two sides first shot with bows and arrows and three-eyed guns, followed by big swords and spears, which were difficult to distinguish.

The difference between officers and soldiers and bandits is revealed at this time.

Although there were nearly 10,000 vanguards, they were still defeated by the attacks of these two or three thousand officers and soldiers, and they were defeated on both sides of the formation or behind them. However, there were a large number of hungry troops in the rebel army, and there was sufficient cannon fodder for consumption, which had a great advantage in quantity.

Seeing the situation on the battlefield, Chen Yongfu told Jiang Hai: "General, the enemy on the left will be responsible for your troops."

Jiang Hai bowed and responded, laughing.

The next minute, he led his cavalry and rushed towards the "horse team" of the rebels who rushed over from both sides to conduct an interception battle!

The horses of the Zhu family were well-equipped, and the momentum that swept over was unstoppable. The horses of the rebel army dared not directly collided, and their formations were in chaos or separated.

This tentative battle between the two sides ended with the victory of the Ming army.

Chen Yongfu's son Chen De retreated the enemy's horse team and returned with blood on his face. He also grabbed a flag and bowed, "Father, I'm lucky to have a life of failure and returned to victory. Kill about a thousand enemies!"

Chen Yongfu was very pleased and nodded repeatedly when he looked at his son. He lost his wife in middle age, only his only son, and he was a mother and daughter, and he loved his son very much. His son was also very proud of it. He was not a flower in the greenhouse, but had the future style of a general, which made him very proud of it.

Li Zilong and others were also on the side and said, "The tiger father has no dog son, brother Chen De is really good."

Chen Yongfu was extremely happy, but he said politely: "General, don't praise too much. The road that the dog has to go is still long, but it's still long."

In this battle, Chen Yongfu's subordinates suffered about 500 casualties, so strictly speaking, it was not a big victory.

The news of the victory of the officers and soldiers was sent back to Ruzhou City, and the soldiers and civilians were extremely excited. The sound of firecrackers rushed into the sky. The governor Qian Zuozheng personally led some gentry to the front line to reward the soldiers and said that he would report to the generals to the court to remember the merits, and everyone was very happy.

The next day, Chen Yongfu, who had increased his confidence, led the vanguard battalion with great morale to fight, and Jianghai still led the cavalry to guard both wings.

In the words of Zhu Zilong's previous education, military merit is important, but preserving strength when necessary is also the top priority.

Obviously, Li Zilong remembered this in his heart.

That's why he didn't strive for merit and followed Chen Yongfu to perform. After all, if it weren't for the inability to do so, the Zhu family army wouldn't be willing to support this time!

"The strongest thieves are their old camp and horse team. These backbones are still missing, and the thieves can easily gather tens of thousands of troops. Today, they focus on attacking their cavalry, even if they go deep into the enemy's backbone. As long as their cavalry suffer heavy losses, the battle in Ruzhou will be greatly won."

Right after charging, Li Yongfu said confidently to his son.

I have to say that Lao Chen is very determined and is eager to make contributions. However, this is a huge project, involving many enemies and horses, and the area is located in the back camp of the rebel army, and most of the troops are moving forward, which is easy for people to surround him.

As expected, when Lao Chen's army rushed to the rear of Liujun, Gao Yingxiang was completely angry.

You know, since their rebel army emerged, they used to win more than lose less when they fought against the Ming army. It would be fine if the Zhu family army was not, but now even the Kaifeng army is comparing?

He is still deeply behind enemy lines and is not afraid of siege. Is it a decoration to be a rebel camp?

The clay man is still a little angry, not to mention the cannon fodder people, there are more than 100,000 people here.

Originally, Gao Yingxiang's idea was to pretend to defeat the enemy after a few battles, gradually retreat to the rear, so that the Ming army's front line could be extended. If you get a few more retaliation, you can always defeat the officers and soldiers who were fighting. But the war in these two days is enough!

But now, Chen Yongfu is really slapping in the face.

So, under the command of Gao Yingxiang, the Chen family army on the three floors of the rebellion army surrounded the three floors.

"Kill officers and soldiers!" "Kill officers and soldiers!"

Countless hungry soldiers with pale faces and thin skin and red scarfs on their heads raised their spears frantically and rushed over.

There were too many ants to kill the elephant. Chen Yongfu looked bitter on the spot. He became too confident and became arrogant. At the critical moment of the crisis, he looked at the rear.

Sure enough, Li Zilong would not disappoint him.

"Test shot."

The Zhu family army did not arrange a large group of troops to rush over because there were too many thieves there, and fighting with hand-to-hand combat was purely a brainless act.

There are more than 100,000 people, it seems that they can only be bombarded with cannons. Just by accidental injury, haha, with the proportion of the Chen family army, it is only one-tenth of the possibility. It cannot be said that there is no such risk at all, but there is no way to save it.

Boom, boom, boom, boom!

"put"!

Under the cover of the infantry phalanx, the Zhu family's artillery team could have already hit about five miles away, but now it has even been pushed out of the city.

Amid the deafening cannons, one round iron ball after another weighing more than five pounds, smashing fiercely into the army formation. The momentum was huge!

Immediately, the tide-like cheers stopped abruptly on the side of the thief.

Although they have won many times against the Ming army, they have never looked for a decent Ming artillery team in recent years.

There are several county towns in some county towns, and there may not be any of them.

If the cannon is not an editor, its power cannot be displayed at all, and the person who uses him is the top priority.

I saw that every shell landed is the beginning of a disaster. It can easily bring one or two people's heads, two or three people's arms, and many people's thighs and calves, opening up a bloody road. The picture is terrible!

Dozens of shells, and they are still tragedy on earth?

Gao Yingxiang and Li Zicheng's faces changed drastically: "There are artillery in the Ming army, and they can still shoot so far? And so many? Why?"

Before they could come back to their senses, the Zhu family artillery team opened fire in the second round.

The whistling of shells sounded, and more than fifty iron balls of all sizes came again. They fell one by one into the array of hungry soldiers of the rebel army, smashing and rolling everywhere.

Only hundreds of people were killed or injured in the thief army on the spot. After all, there were too many people here, and they had a close position, so they had no place to run if they wanted to run.

For a moment, the hungry soldiers were in a row, and many people were ashamed of faces, running around like headless flies, and their morale was gone.

The difference is that the sword is slashing, making the cannon look so scary, and the sound is like thunder sounding.

This made the refugees who had never seen cannons frightened, and naturally their morale collapsed quickly.

Because people are naturally particularly afraid of unknown things.

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