Li Xiao Shan knew that his foster father was a person who would do what he said.
If he didn't break out of the encirclement and ask for help, Li Chengdong might really kill him.
"Father, how many men can you give me?”
"10,000 people, you can take a portion as the main force and the rest as support to break out!”
Li Xiao Shan instantly understood what Li Cheng Dong meant.
"Understood! I'll split the 10,000 men into two groups. 2,000 elites will be the main force, and 8,000 will be the auxiliary force. They'll be cannon fodder to attract the enemy!”
Li Chengdong nodded in satisfaction.
"As expected of my adopted son. That's exactly what I was thinking! I'll leave 10,000 people to you. Your father's fate is in the hands of 10,000 people!”
Dong dong ~~~
The war drums sounded.
Ten thousand people, ten thousand households, walked out of the camp in strict order.
Outside the camp, Pu Zhenguo patted Ma Zhanshan.
"Quick, the enemy is coming out!"
Ma Zhanshan was excited and jumped onto his warhorse.
"Damn it, luckily the soldiers didn't remove their armor!”
"Everyone, mount your horses and intercept the enemy!”，Ma Zhanshan skillfully commanded the heavy cavalry to charge out from the carriage formation.
Looking at the heavy cavalry charging, many of the enemies were paralyzed and could not move.
Li Xiao Shan did not have much hope for the eight thousand old, weak, sick, and disabled people.
"Xu Wei, immediately lead 8,000 soldiers and attack! Li Fei, Li Hu, each take 1,000 elites and follow me around the enemy!”
Out of the two thousand elites, only a hundred of them rode warhorses and wore cotton armor.
They followed closely behind Li Xiao Shan, bypassing the traffic formation.
Ma Zhanshan's 5,000 heavy cavalrymen charged into the 8,000 old, weak, sick, and disabled.
The heavy cavalrymen wielding their Mo sabers shuttled back and forth in the infantry formation as if they were chopping melons and vegetables.
"These mediocre people don't even know the basic formation to resist cavalry!”，Ma Zhanshan sneered disdainfully.
Eight thousand infantrymen were being rammed by the heavy cavalry under the watchful eyes of the Green Army soldiers.
The cavalrymen did not even bother to brandish their Mo sabers, because the powerful impact of the armored horses instantly sent them flying.
"Report, two thousand enemies are fleeing from the other side of the camp towards Guangzhou Prefecture!”
"Flee?" Pu Zhenguo frowned.
"Don't disturb the heavy cavalry. 200 of us light cavalry will attack immediately and chase after 2,000 enemies!”
Two hundred light cavalrymen jumped onto their warhorses, carrying light crossbows on their backs and holding long-handled podaos in their hands, and rushed out of the carriage formation.
"General, bad news! Light cavalry!"
"Damn it, why are there still light cavalry?”, Li Xiao Shan had completely collapsed, and he kept beating his horse.
"Hyah, hyah! Run quickly, don't stay in battle!"
Li Xiao Shan led 100 cavalrymen and 1,900 elite infantrymen as they ran wildly.
The infantrymen were in trouble. They could not keep up with the cavalrymen.
The light crossbows of the light cavalry kept firing.
One by one, the infantrymen were killed by the light cavalry.
The light cavalrymen did not approach the enemy at all. The light crossbows they carried with them fired arrows and continuously killed the infantrymen around Li Xiao Shan.
Li Xiao Shan's 100 trusted aides rode their warhorses and abandoned the 1900 elite infantrymen behind them.
"General Pu, a hundred cavalrymen have escaped!”
The messenger panicked, but Pu Zhenguo smiled faintly.
"Don't panic, I let them go on purpose! It was said that the White Banners of Tudor were very strong. It was boring to fight the Green Army. If they wanted to fight, they had to fight the elites of the Eight Banners Army.”
The soldiers were very excited. They were finally going to fight against the elites of the Eight Banner Soldiers.
The rumors of the Eight Banners Army had already made the people and soldiers of the Great Ming, especially the remnants of the Nanming Empire, suffer from the Eight Banners Army phobia.
In order to break the myth of the Eight Banners Army being invincible, Pu Zhenguo was prepared to fight a beautiful annihilation battle before the emperor arrived.
When the Gui King of Zhaoqing Prefecture received the news that Li Chengdong was trapped, he was stunned.
Ding Kuichu was also stunned. He stopped the Jinyiwei who was passing the news.
"Sir Embroidered Uniform Guards, are you sure that Pu Zhenguo and General Ma Zhanshan have trapped Li Chengdong's tens of thousands of men?”
"Yes, it's trapped!" The Embroidered Uniform Guards said calmly with an expressionless face.
"Trapped? Li Chengdong's 60,000 strong army has been trapped?"
"60,000. We killed 4,000 soldiers transporting the Red Cannons, 3,000 light cavalrymen, and 3,000 light cavalrymen escaped! 50,000 were trapped, but if 10,000 were to charge out, they basically couldn't go back!”
The King of Gui slapped his ears hard. He couldn't believe that this was real.
"Lord Ding, didn't you say that the Jian Nu and Green Army soldiers who went south were invincible? He had just arrived at Zhaoqing Prefecture and was already beaten up!”
Ding Kuichu was very depressed. Previously, he had sent soldiers and even sent money to Li Chengdong. It had all gone down the drain.
"King Gui, it seems that the army trained by the Crown Prince of Chongzhen, who is also the current Emperor, is the spark of the Ming Empire, the future of the empire!”
The Gui King nodded, and his heart was even more determined to follow Zhu CiXin.
Ding Kuichu was still worried. After all, Tudor's white flag was still in Guangzhou.
"King Gui, we can't relax. Tudor's army is still in Guangzhou Prefecture! The Eight Banners Army was invincible! An invincible existence!"
The Gui King patted the table and pointed at Ding Kuichu.
"You, a cabinet scholar, are actually so afraid of death!”
Ding Kuichu felt very uncomfortable being scolded by the King of Gui.
"King Gui, we should wait for His Majesty to arrive before making any plans! Now that both the Tang Emperor and General Zheng Chenggong were missing, they could only wait for His Majesty to arrive at Zhaoqing Prefecture and take charge of the situation!”
The King of Gui frowned and pointed to the east of Zhaoqing Prefecture.
"Pu Zhenguo and General Ma Zhanshan are still fighting. Should we send some reinforcements over?”
The surrounding officials all lowered their heads, and so did the few commanders.
In the entire Zhaoqing Prefecture, there were less than twenty thousand soldiers under the Gui King. Their combat power was not comparable to the Wei Army, let alone the Green Army.
They could still fight against the rebellious peasants, but when they fought against the peasant army and the Green Army, they might not even be able to win against them, let alone against them.
The King of Gui did not have an accurate understanding of the strength of his soldiers, including most of the officials of the Ming Empire. They did not have an accurate understanding of the true combat strength of the Ming army.
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