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Chapter 86 Breakthrough Obstructed

Who knew that when Li Zicheng asked someone to invite Princess Kunxing, the princess insisted on leaving.

"My life was saved by the young general, and the young general was in love with me. In my heart, the young general was already my husband, and the husband and wife followed me. If the young general did not leave, the young general would never leave! I would rather live and die with my husband!" Zhu Mi said firmly.

Zhao Peng was moved in his heart. What a great girl. He obviously had the chance to survive and refused to leave himself alone. Think about how many women in the future can do it? But Zhao Peng would never let such a good girl accompany him to die, so he patiently advised: "Your Highness, you should go with your prince brother, don't worry about the young general."

"No! I won't leave!" Princess Kunxing shook her head firmly, "I would rather live and die with the general than live alone!"

In desperation, Zhao Peng had to say: "Your Highness Princess, as long as you leave safely, I can lead people to log wood and rafts, and cross the sea to escape to Jiaodong. The princess is a golden branch and a jade leaf. How can she afford to have a small boat wandering on the sea? Please follow the King of Chuang to leave."

"As long as I can be with the general, I will not even be afraid of death, and I am still afraid of wandering on the sea?" said Princess Kunxing.

Fei Zhen'e also expressed that she was willing to stay and be with Princess Kunxing.

Zhao Peng had no choice but to let Princess Kunxing stay. He secretly thought in his heart that when he was building a raft, he would build a larger raft for the princess to ensure that the princess could be sent to Jiaodong safely.

Li Zicheng, Liu Zongmin, Gao Yigong, Li Guo, Li Laiheng, Yuan Zongdi and others took the prince and Wu Xiang to lead the old camp of the Shun Army to break through.

As soon as the cavalry of the old camp of the Shun Army rushed out, a large group of Qing troops in the Green Camp surrounded. Under the command of Ajige, Duoduo and others, the Qing troops in the Green Camp were spearmen in front, followed by a large number of bird gunners and archers. At the same time, the Green Camp military vehicle camp moved closer to the avenue, and the Manchu and Mongolian Eight Banners Cavalry surrounded from both wings.

The black green camp soldiers formed a dense forest of spears, and the tips of the spears were shining with dazzling light in the sun.

Seeing these Green Camp Army formed by the former Ming army, Li Zicheng sneered repeatedly: "The defeated generals under his command are just a group of native chickens and tile dogs. One cavalry and shooting will cause trouble! Prepare bows and arrows!"

The war horse is a spiritual animal. When the war horses saw the dense forest of spears, the war horses were so scared that they dared not approach it. However, under the order of Li Zicheng, the Shun Army cavalry approached the Green Camp Army, and suddenly pulled out an elegant arc. Groups of war horses passed by the edge of the Green Camp Army, and the Shun Army cavalry set their bows and arrows.

"Swoosh swish swish swish" arrows shot into the formation of the pike soldiers of the Green Camp Army, and the crowd screamed in pain. The former Ming soldiers had almost no armor protection. Arrows passed through the gaps of the Green Camp shields. Only a scream was heard. Many Qing soldiers were caught in arrows and fell down. The formation of the pike soldiers in front of the Green Camp appeared in a hint of chaos. However, the eight banner soldiers behind came forward without hesitation and slashed the Green Camp pike soldiers who were in chaos one by one on the ground.

Seeing this, the Green Camp soldiers no longer dared to retreat without permission, but instead formed a formation to welcome the Shun Army. After all, they were afraid of the Eight Banners Army behind them more than the Shun Army in front.

Seeing that the cavalry of the old camp of the Shun Army did not shoot the formation of the Green Camp pikes, they did not dare to charge rashly, but retreated to both sides. At this moment, the Green Camp archers, bird gunners and the archers of the Man Eight Banners behind the Green Camp pikes were shot one after another. Unfortunately, the cavalry who was hit by the arrow was better. The thick armor on their bodies saved their lives. However, being hit by the bird gun at close range was basically helpless.

The Mongolian light cavalry surrounded the rear and had not yet approached the Shun army cavalry, so they were harassed by archery from afar. When the Shun army cavalry turned their heads and wanted to charge against the Mongolian light cavalry, the Mongolians quickly dispersed to both sides, revealing the 15,000 Guanning Iron Cavalry in the middle.

The cavalry on both sides rushed within twenty steps, and a "bang bang" three-eyed gun shooting sounded from the Guanning Iron Cavalry formation opposite. The Shun Army cavalry rushing in the front fell down one after another like dumplings. Then the Guanning Army cavalry who had finished shooting the three-eyed gun ammunition collided violently with the Shun Army cavalry that formed a dense formation on the front.

After the two sides collided, it was obvious that the combat effectiveness of the Shun Army's cavalry was much stronger than that of the Guanning Iron Cavalry. Although many Shun Army cavalry had been shot down by the Guanning Army's three-eyed guns before the collision, the Shun Army had a large number of people, and their tactics and qualities were far superior to that of the Guanning Army. When the two sides collided, the cavalry spears in the hands of the Shun Army's cavalry collided with the Guanning Army, and often had a spur on each other, and the spurs were connected to each other.

The Shun Army cavalry left the broken cavalry spear, drew out the sabre and continued to kill the Guanning Army cavalry behind.

The Guanning Army cavalry behind did not have three-eyed guns, and they also used sabers. The cavalry of both sides faced the sabers. When they passed by the cavalry, each cavalry only cut one knife, and the sabers of both sides met. It was obvious that the Guanning Army, which had a small number of people, suffered a great loss. Each Guanning Army had to receive several sabers that had been cut one after another. Many Guanning Army soldiers were exhausted and were finally chopped off their horses.

After the cavalry of both sides fought, a large number of Guanning Army bodies were left behind the cavalry of the Shun Army, but the losses of the Shun Army were much smaller. However, at this time, Li Zicheng was horrified to find that there was a heavy cavalry with excellent armor waiting for him in front.

The cavalry was covered in iron leaf armor that was polished with silver, holding a tiger spear that was ten feet long, and the tiger spear was flat in his hand, and was speeding up towards the Shunjun formation.

"Jiannu Cavalry!" Li Zicheng shouted.

After a fierce battle, most of the Shun Army cavalry had lost their companion horsepower and had almost no resistance to the Man Eight Banners heavy cavalry that appeared in a cold manner. The collision between heavy cavalry and heavy cavalry relies on horsepower. The heavy cavalry who lost horsepower was the slaughter of fish.

Dorgon used the infantry of the Manchu Eight Banners to suppress the formation. The infantry of the Green Camp acted as cannon fodder in front, then used the Mongolian light cavalry to maneuver, and then used the Guanning Iron Cavalry to consume the horsepower of the Shun Army. Finally, the Manchu heavy cavalry gave the Shun Army a fatal blow.

There were less than 30,000 cavalry left in the old camp of Shun Army, and there were 30,000 heavy cavalry in Manchuria, which seemed to be quite large. However, the heavy cavalry in Manchuria had sufficient horsepower, while the cavalry in Shun Army was no longer enough horsepower. After a fierce confrontation between the two sides, the cavalry in Shun Army were all dismounted one after another. The generals of Shun Army Yao Tieyi, Guo Jingtian, Song Ping, Hu Tian and others were killed. Even Liu Zongmin was seriously injured. The old camp of Shun Army lost more than 9,000 troops, and the losses reached one-third, and they could no longer fight.

During the chaos, the prince Zhu Cixuan was also hit by several arrows and was cut on his leg. Fortunately, the armor on his body saved his life, but the seriously injured Zhu Cixuan could no longer ride a horse.

Li Zicheng was no longer able to fight again, so he had to retreat to Qixingzhai with the defeated old camp of Shunjun.

After the Shunjun returned to Qixing Village, Li Zicheng ordered the soldiers to rest for one noon and wait for the afternoon to break through.

"King, today all the soldiers and soldiers are in short supply, so it is no longer appropriate to fight again. It is better to wait for the early morning tomorrow and lead the army to break through again!" Zhao Peng advised Li Zicheng to do so.

"Your Majesty," Niu Jinxing stepped forward and said, "Jiannu has obtained a new Han army of more than 100,000, and the real and fake Tartars have a total of more than 200,000 troops. If our army does not retreat early, it will be surrounded by Jiannu. It will be too late to withdraw the troops tomorrow morning!"
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