Lo Chongguang has never been so wolf-like. He didn't even imagine that one day, in the province under his jurisdiction, he would hide and sleep like a thief, walking by night and day.

On the eve of the embarkation of the ship in Guigang, he proposed to separate from Li Hongzhang and return to the governor's residence by land, instead of fleeing to Gwangju with the ship. Nor did he need any armed force to defend him, so he went with the militias that came with him. These militias were in fact private militias that he had secretly set up.

Originally, he brought these people to save his life at a critical moment, but he lost more than half of them on the battlefield of Zangbing Cave in Jintian Village, and even the president of this team, Lao Chongming, was killed.

Of course, this information was reported to him based on what Lao Hu saw. What he didn't know was that in fact, this Lao Chongming was not dead, but was just knocked unconscious by Mai Ke's secret weapon and captured.

Whether he is dead or alive, he can't count on it anyway. Therefore, Lao Chongguang temporarily appointed Lao Chongming's son Lao Hu to serve as the commander of the remaining forces. The total number of people is probably more than 900 people. The other 1,100 people have been wiped out by the rebels.

Now Lao Chong can't regret the loss of most of this family fund, all he thinks about is how to escape, return to his own line safely, and don't give his more than 100 catties here.

Since they did not go by water, it was inevitable that they would have to revisit the areas they had traveled through not long ago, and these areas were at a time when the people were in turmoil.

The officers and troops who came to clean up were just defeated, and they were captured regardless of personnel or materials. Since they are bursting with confidence, if they find their traces, let alone 900 people, even 9,000 people are not opponents.

Not so long ago. But there were 20,000 people, and their faith was not as high as it is now.

Nine hundred is really an embarrassing number now. It is easy to expose the target, and it is impossible to fight against each other with open fire.

After several calculations, Lao Lao and Xiao Lao decided to break it into parts, and there were no more than ten people in a group on the surface. These people are dressed as merchants, farmers, monks, veterans, part-time workers, relatives, and people from all walks of life. It is necessary to separate, but not far away, and once there is something, it can be gathered together in an instant.

In this way, I was tired and exhausted for a day and a night, and I didn't know how to crash into the territory of Xunzhou. And this area is where Shi Da's regiment annihilated the enemy army on Bao Yue Road not long ago.

The inhabitants of the vicinity had just shared this unprecedented victory with the Celestial Army, and those who had suffered were compensated twice as much, and each of those who had lost nothing was given two pounds of horse meat.

Now everyone's morale is at an all-time high. Everyone is united in their hatred of the enemy, and they are eager for the enemy to come again, and they will give them good things and good food. The folk customs here are already fierce, and the impact of this victory on them is that they don't take the Qing army and the Qing government seriously.

Lao Chongguang and the others broke in. Although cautiously. But it is customary to be powerful and good on the heads of the common people. Even if you are careful, you still show your feet.

A group went to a resident's house to look for food, but the family only had it because it was not ready-made. And when they didn't give it to him, they became furious, thinking that they were deliberately making things difficult. Although I realized that something was wrong and apologized again, I didn't continue to ask for it, but left quickly, but this was enough to attract attention.

It didn't take long for the news to reach a company of the Qing army not far from here that was still searching for the Qing army, and they were Shi Da's regiment.

When they received the news, they quickly informed the two brother companies that were near them, and at the same time surrounded these people at a very fast speed.

Just now, Lao Chongguang scolded this troublesome regiment and wanted to rely on Lao Hu, so he killed him at that time, although this army is not named after the official army, the management is much stricter than that of the regular army. Lao Hu was blocked by Lao Chongguang, and he knew that this group member did not mean it.

Then he didn't care about eating, and immediately began to continue running. However, despite their swift movements, they were caught by the tail by the eager company.

The battle began to heat up, with one side being earnest and the other side being a life-and-death battle, and the most ferocious tricks were the most ferocious. The regimental side was Lao Chongguang's last reliance, and he used all his financial resources to build it, not to mention his combat effectiveness, while Shi Dakai's company belonged to the spear battalion, which had just experienced the baptism of war and was in high spirits.

I saw that these people were all armed with a spear, lined up in a neat line, and stabbed forward in unison, each stabbing shot, they were all following one step at a time, but on the contrary, these private armed forces, whose personal strength value was much higher than that of the soldiers of the Celestial Empire, were defeated and retreated.

At this time, two more teams came running in the distance, and looking at the clothes and morale, they knew that they were helping those rebellious people. Lao Chongguang knew at a glance that something was wrong, if he didn't run away quickly, he would immediately be in danger of being surrounded and being wiped out by the enemy!

So he immediately came to a strong man and broke his wrist, allocated half of his troops to defend in place, and dragged the enemy at any cost. He and Lao Hu quickly withdrew with the other half of the group.

These people who remained, knowing that there was only a dead end in front of them, did not think much about it, and when they entered this private armed force, they understood that their ultimate mission was to sacrifice their lives as a savior, but they did not expect that the final mission would be achieved so quickly and on such a large scale.

The desperate resistance of these 400 people did greatly delay the pursuit of the three companies, but in the end it also ended in the annihilation of the whole army. Their desperate resistance should also have caused the spear to cause a loss of more than 50 dead and wounded, even greater than the loss of the confrontation with the Qing army. In fact, the combat effectiveness of these 400 people is equivalent to 2,000 of the Green Battalion.

It took some time to clear the blockade of these people, but the company commander who was the first to grab the enemy's tail did not honestly let these people drag him all, but sent the platoon of his company, which was usually responsible for reconnaissance, to break away from the battle and continue to pursue the enemy. The same is true for other companies.

These men changed their way of opposing the enemy, although they quickly caught up with the enemy, that is, they did not intercept in front or chase after them, but on the one hand, they were unhurried, and on the other hand, they attacked from the left and right.

When the enemy is disturbed and slows down, they send people to set traps, traps, and other things in front of the enemy, so that they are suspicious, and it is difficult to distinguish between the real and the false, which not only greatly slows down the speed, but also increases the casualties.

In order not to reveal his whereabouts, Lao Chongguang finally acquiesced in Lao Hu's bloody killing methods. On the last leg of the escape from Xunzhou, Lao Hu and his only remaining regiments killed all the people they met, whether adults and children, or whether they had this idea or not, and cut off their heads.

Even so, when Lao Chongguang finally fled to Guilin and entered the governor's line, there was not much left, including himself, exactly twenty people......!

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