The military order also came, asking Bai Lang to lead his troops in pursuit. Bai Lang didn't have any retainers, and the cavalry he had was given to him by others. So the number of troops in Bai Lang's hands was always uncertain. Now the number of troops following him out of the camp had swelled to more than 3,000 cavalry and more than 2,000 infantry. Bai Lang didn't count the exact number, but he rushed out with his men.
Li Zicheng had already fled, so who would worry about whether this unorganized pursuit would be ambushed ? Originally, there was this possibility, but since the leader was the peerless warrior, the Bai Lang Bai Dudu, who was praised by Governor Sun as the reincarnation of the Overlord and the courage of the tiger, any ambush would probably be useless and they would be torn to pieces. So following Dudu Bai to chop off heads was the safest way to really grab the credit.
Bai Lang didn't bother to care how many people followed him. He didn't have the ability to command an army anyway. If he had this ability, he probably wouldn't even be able to play games like Mount & Blade. For him, it was just him rushing forward to chop, and then the others followed behind to chop together. "Commanding an army is a professional job. How can I become a general who can command as I wish if I haven't learned it? Traveling through time doesn't help with command and tactics."
In short, he took the lead, and the others commanded themselves... In fact, there were commanders at all levels leading them, and it was not a complete mob. It was just that at the level of senior commanders, Bai Lang gave up his command responsibility.
At this time, the government troops had surrounded them from all directions. Chasing and killing the fleeing enemy was the easiest thing, but Li Zicheng was also experienced in escaping. "It's just that this time is different from his previous ones. In the past, he was a bandit, but now he has established a country, and the consequences of escaping are completely different." Bai Lang had time to think about this on horseback - his own tracking ability was average, so he left it to the Night Watchmen to chase the fleeing enemy troops, and he just followed them.
Li Zicheng probably ran away after executing the military law yesterday afternoon, leaving behind some die-hards and a large number of rioters to guard the camp, and then set fire at night to disrupt the entire battlefield to cover up the fact that he ran away. The people who ran away with Li Zicheng must be his trusted and elite subordinates, which can be proved by the fact that he was able to break the encirclement in the first time. "But it's not that easy to make a comeback... After more than ten years of trouble, I think he is not young anymore. Do you want to achieve this scale again?" Bai Lang thought, "After burying so many of his subordinates?"
Some of the bandit leaders who were attached to King Chuang surrendered to the government troops, while others were beheaded by the government troops. They were almost all captured. The ones who escaped now were mainly Li Zicheng and his generals, as well as some of the stronger bandit leaders. Ye Bushou and Bai Lang followed the fleeing peasant army - those who fled always consumed more physical strength, but the generals under Li Zicheng also showed strong fighting power when facing desperate situations.
Bailang, with the majority of cavalry, now caught up with Li Zicheng's escape. "This is Liu Zongmin! The top general under the Chuang thief!" Someone who recognized the general under the Chuang King shouted. Bailang was overjoyed, "The deal is here!" He rushed to kill Liu Zongmin and his cavalry with his sword. Seeing that it was Bailang, Liu Zongmin's cavalry turned around and fled, and even Liu Zongmin could not drive them to fight Bailang.
This time, Bai Lang simply didn't wear armor. He wanted to reduce the weight of the horse as much as possible so that the horse could run faster and farther. Even if he changed horses, the speed and distance of the pursuit were getting lower and lower, because the reserve horse that accompanied him was also running empty. Under the leadership of Liu Zongmin, some of his long-time soldiers desperately charged towards Bai Lang. However, no one desperately covered Bai Lang...
"This is blind trust..." Bai Lang sighed, not thinking that he was a failure as a person, but that he was just too strong. However, this did not prevent him from rushing forward and harvesting the lives of those personal soldiers - anyway, he still had an iron spear in his left hand and a long broadsword in his right hand, "When the hell can I find time to go to Liaodong? My water-grinded purple gold mace is still there!" Now Bai Lang's weapons on horseback are more and more fluent. It must be said that fighting for life on the battlefield has an immediate effect on the proficiency and growth of martial arts.
In the past, if he was a little unfamiliar with the use of the spear in one hand and the sword in the other, after the battle the day before yesterday, he had become completely proficient and fluent. With a flick of the iron spear, he swept away the opponent's long spear, and then pierced the chest of the cavalryman, and then cut through the body horizontally under Bai Lang's great force, and the sharp spear blade brought out a waterfall of blood. And the long sword in the other hand slashed casually, easily chopping off the horse's head, the weapon and the head...
Bai Lang was now quite capable. Facing a small number of elite soldiers, he could calmly control the weapon in his hand to cut into those parts that were not well protected or had no protection. This would cause much less damage to the weapon than slashing and killing in the chaos. The next time he rode past, he stabbed a man in the face with his iron spear, and the man's head was directly impaled on the tip of the spear - the horse's momentum was too great, and it directly broke the man's neck.
The long sword in his other hand easily slashed another cavalryman's chest, and the man's lower body was dragged all over the ground when the warhorse ran. Bai Lang just moved his body and dodged the weapons of the personal soldiers. Bai Lang spread his arms diagonally in a very arrogant manner, like a figure eight, and his eyes were full of contempt, looking at Liu Zongmin as if he was just looking at a head.
Liu Zongmin was originally holding a spear and charging, but after seeing Bai Lang's eyes, he also opened his head and poured a bucket of snow water on him. The courage to fight to the death disappeared like pouring soup on snow. The man was about to run with his horse's head, but Bai Lang had already arrived, stabbed him from behind with a spear, and threw him flat on the spear. When he fell, Bai Lang grabbed the head with one claw, and the horse's hoof just stepped on Liu Zongmin's legs and feet at this time, and Bai Lang pulled it out with force. "It's just like Zuo Liangyu who died of an acute illness..." Bai Lang laughed and threw the head back, and the cavalry following him hurriedly dismounted and collected the head.
"Since Liu Zongmin is here, I'm afraid Li Zicheng is not far away!" Bai Lang continued to urge his horse forward, but until he killed Yuan Zongdi and Hao Yaoqi, he chased for almost sixty miles but still could not find any trace of Li Zicheng. Along the way, Bai Lang surrendered and killed more than 7,000 soldiers of Li Zicheng, and He Jin and others surrendered quickly to avoid being beheaded by Bai Lang. The battle of chasing and chasing the enemy to the north lasted for half a month, and the Li Zicheng army that once dominated half of northern China was almost completely destroyed. From Li Zicheng onwards, the whereabouts of several generals and confidants were unknown, and from Liu Zongmin onwards, they were either beheaded or surrendered...
The refugee rebellion that had plagued the country for nearly twenty years had been temporarily quelled.
Bai Lang's rewards came very quickly. Not to mention the promotions of Governors Sun and Deng, Bai Lang ranked first among all the generals. Now he can really call himself Bai Shaobao - "Grand Tutor of the Crown Prince, Left Commander-in-Chief, General Jianwei... maybe he can even be made a marquis?" Bai Lang was complacent. Otherwise, how could he be promoted so quickly for military merit? However, a few months ago, he was still a commoner...