Chapter 148 Chasing down Huama Liu
Six thousand two hundred officers and soldiers continued to pursue. Zhao Peng and Gao Wencai personally led 200 cavalry to chase Liu Liangzuo's infantry in front of the brigade of infantry, preventing the Liu army's infantry from forming a formation to fight, harassing them again and again. Just before they attempted to stop forming a formation, they shot arrows from a distance with their bows. When the enemy was defeated and fled, they rode their horses to chase and harvest their heads from behind.
Under the harassment of more than 200 cavalrymen, the defeated infantry of Liu Liangzuo's army could not stop and form a battle. In the end, when the infantry of the Nanjing New Army caught up, they could only surrender.
Although Liu Liangzuo had many more cavalry than Zhao Peng and others, these two thousand Liu's cavalry only knew that they would escape and had no fighting spirit. No one knew that they would turn back to stop their opponents, and they were all concerned about escaping their lives, throwing the brigade of cavalry to the Nanjing New Army.
The Liu Liangzuo army infantry, who were behind but unable to form a formation, had to choose to surrender after being caught up by the Nanjing New Army infantry. A small number of smart guys simply did not follow the large army to escape, but took off their mandarin duck battle jackets, discarded their long weapons, and left only a short knife, and fled to the hilly areas. The Liu Liangzuo army soldiers who fled sporadically fled into the mountains and escaped the fate of being prisoners.
From noon to dark, Liu Liangzuo's army's infantry was getting fewer and fewer infantrymen, and less than 5,000 remaining infantry fled overnight and did not dare to stop for a moment.
The new Nanjing army pursued the enemy overnight and chased after the remaining enemies. At night, most of the five thousand infantry were captured, leaving only a few missing places. At this point, the 50,000 infantry in Liu Liangzuo's army had been wiped out, leaving only less than two thousand cavalrymen.
"Infantry escort prisoners back to the camp, all the Jinyiwei guards come with me!" Zhao Peng gave the order.
Four thousand Nanjing New Army infantry escorted the prisoners towards Yizhen, while Zhao Peng and Gao Wencai led 2,200 new army in the Jinyi continued to pursue Liu Liangzuo. The two thousand two hundred new army in the Jinyi advanced lightly, and all the thick iron armor was removed and handed to the infantry to take back. They were only wearing a flying fish suit and a chain mail inside, and they continued to pursue Liu Liangzuo and his cavalry overnight.
"Stay for a moment at night, rest for an hour before continuing on the road." Liu Liangzuo gave an order to his left and right.
Although the cavalry escaped quickly, the endurance of war horses was far less than that of ordinary people imagined. Liu Liangzuo and his team ran all afternoon, basically rode a horse for a while, and then stopped to rest for a while, then led the horse for a while, and then ran on the horse. In this way, they did not get rid of the pursuers until midnight.
Just after Liu Liangzuo and the others rested for half an hour, a soldier on duty suddenly came back and reported: "General, general, the big thing is wrong, and the rebels are catching up again!"
Liu Liangzuo woke up from his sleep and sat up: "What? They are catching up again so quickly? Are those guys really human? We chased us on foot and chased us so tightly?"
"General, you don't have time to say anything more, hurry up and leave!" The servants surrounded Liu Liangzuo and asked him to lead people to the road immediately."
Liu Liangzuo had no choice but to order the horses to lead, and more than 2,000 exhausted cavalrymen rushed to the road overnight. Liu Liangzuo's cavalry was very uncomfortable at this time. It can be said that they were trapped in the crowd. After running for the whole afternoon, and another half night, many of the war horses died. Many of the cavalry had become hiking infantry, but the pursuers behind were still tirelessly chasing him.
In fact, the Jinyiwei, who was chasing her hard, was not feeling well. They had almost no rest since they started chasing them. They had been chasing them for seven hours in a row. Within these seven hours, they had already chased them for nearly a hundred miles!
The marching of more than 100 miles lasted for seven hours. Such speed was indeed nothing to the Red Army in later generations, but who could have such marching speed in this era? The Red Army in later generations not only had amazing perseverance, but also had firm fighting spirit, clear revolutionary goals, and unswerving revolutionary ideas, so that it could burst out with amazing willpower. These are absolutely impossible for the army in this era.
The reason why Zhao Peng was able to make a feudal society army do this is because Zhao Peng actually carried out a certain brainwashing work on this army. His brainwashing means that as long as he follows himself, he can glorify his ancestors and enjoy endless wealth and glory. The Jinyiwei is the personal army of the emperor. He naturally has a great future with His Majesty the Emperor. Even if he is killed, he can bring good life to his family. If he is alone, the Jinyiwei will help his brothers find a wife so that his brothers can have a lot of descendants in the future. At the same time, he also told them that fighting for the emperor, he can ascend to heaven after death. Do you know the heavenly soldiers and generals in the sky? In fact, every heavenly soldier was once the loyal soul of China. They died for the country and became heavenly soldiers after their sacrifice. In the world, they protected the emperor who came down from heaven, and after their death, they protected the Jade Emperor in heaven.
People at that time believed in ghosts and gods, and naturally believed that the emperor was the pride of heaven, the emperor's personal army, the emperor's confidant. After the emperor passed away, he would return to heaven. After the emperor's personal soldiers who were guarding the emperor died, they naturally returned to heaven.
The successful brainwashing made the Jinyiwei all fearless and had amazing perseverance. Although each Jinyiwei was exhausted, they still gritted their teeth and persevered, desperately spreading their already numb legs, and striving to pursue the enemy.
Zhao Peng, Gao Wencai and their cavalry did not ride on horses all the time. Most of the things were to dismount and chase the enemy with horses to ensure the horse's strength. The endurance of the war horse without loads was enough. He led the horse to chase the enemy and only got on the horse to disperse the opponent's infantry when necessary, which saved the physical strength of the war horse.
Liu Liangzuo's two thousand cavalry rode on horseback and fled desperately, but as a result, there were continuous war horses on the roadside along the way. The cavalry who lost the war horse could not escape and was caught by the Jinyi New Army behind him. He raised his hands honestly, knelt down on his knees and surrendered.
Such a desperate pursuit made Gao Wencai worried: "Brothers, our army pursued in this way, even if we chased Huama Liu, our army was still a tired army, so how could we fight?"
Zhao Peng smiled and said, "Brother, although our army is exhausted, aren't Huama Liu and the others tired? Look at how many of their war horses have died along the way? I don't believe it anymore. If you chase after them, they can still hold on!"
The Jinyiwei continued to chase Liu Liangzuo overnight. It was dawn and finally saw Liu Liangzuo's butt.
By this time, Liu Liangzuo's two thousand cavalry had only less than one thousand left, and most of the cavalry had run away all their horses to death, turned into infantry, and were captured by the Jinyiwei.
Liu Liangzuo's soldiers were trapped in the horses, and all the cavalry dismounted, and they sat or lie down on the side of the road, while the exhausted war horses were placed aside for them to eat grass by themselves.
"The rebels caught up again!" Before Liu Liangzuo could breathe a sigh of relief, the servants found that the Jinyiwei had followed again.
"Damn it, I can't escape anyway, so I'll get on the horse and fight with them!" Liu Liangzuo yelled.
The exhausted Liu Liangzuo cavalry all stepped on the war horses that were about to foam at the mouth, barely gathered into a formation, preparing to exhaust the last horsepower to attack the formation of the Jinyiwei infantry.
Who knew that the two thousand Jinyiwei who had caught up behind stopped advancing and the infantry quickly formed a formation. Zhao Peng and Gao Wencai boarded the horse, and more than 200 cavalrymen also boarded the horses, arranged in neat formations.
"Brothers, Liu Liangzuo can't escape, kill him!" Zhao Peng pulled out the Xiuchun Sword and pointed forward.
Chapter completed!