After Ma Shouying escaped from Xishui, the cavalry of the Tianwu Army clung to it and chased down more than 100 miles to Tuanfeng County.

Since the defeat of Lu'an, Ma Shouying has run more than 600 miles with the old battalion, which can be described as extremely aggrieved, and the remaining thousands of old battalion soldiers have even run to collapse.

After thinking about it, Ma Shouying thought of a way: continue to drill into the mountains, take a detour, and return to Huoshan in order to develop!

It's too dangerous outside, Wuchang Mansion is not far away, there are a large number of Ming troops stationed there, in case there are three long and two short, they will be cut off by the officers and soldiers to sacrifice the flag, what a terrible thing.

Ma Shouying didn't dare to take the risk, so he decided to go back to Huoshan, at least the mountain was safer than the outside, and he would come out again when the limelight passed.

Ma Shouying first sent the battalions of the dead leader to attack Wuchang, Xinzhou, Hong'an and other places, such as the old battalions of Lin Yangsheng, He Yilong, and He Jin.

In order to avoid the suspicion of the brother troops, Ma Shouying ordered all units of his old battalion to pretend to attack Macheng, and turned directly onto Guifeng Mountain in the Yinghuo Mountains on the way.

After entering the Yinghuo Mountains, Ma Shouying let his more than 2,000 old battalions and units be scattered in the mountains to hide, break into pieces, and wait for the Tianwu Army to withdraw before coming out to assemble.

At the same time, Ma Shouying also sent people to Wuchang and Xinzhou to inquire to see if the brother troops were connected with the Tianwu Army, and he got the news the next day that Liu Xiyao, the king of the troubled times, was discovered by the Tianwu Army, and the two sides fought up, and Liu Xiyao was also killed by the officers and soldiers.

Ma Shouying was overjoyed after hearing this, and another cannon fodder king helped him attract firepower.

After Zhu Cihong received the news that Long Xiang had secretly transmitted on the way to Wuchang, he immediately convened a military meeting to discuss the battle plan for going into the mountains to search for Ma Shouying.

Yinghuo Mountain is the Dabie Mountain of later generations, hundreds of miles in radius, there are hundreds of mountains alone, if there is no Long Xiang who does not collect in the old camp as a fine work, it is impossible for the Tianwu Army to search the mountain for four or five months.

Zhu Cihong estimated that Ma Shouying would not go deep into the mountains, but would only hide on the edge of the Yinghuo Mountains, there were at least two or three thousand old battalion soldiers around him, if he hid in the deep mountains, if he could not get supplies, he could only rely on hunting and collecting wild vegetables and fruits, and lived the life of a savage, this is nothing, the most important thing is that the war horses of the old camp cannot be fed, and they will only starve to death.

The old camp without war horses is like a toothless tiger, and there is not much of a threat.

Zhu Cihong ordered Sun Yingyuan to lead the Second Royal Brigade of the Tianwu Army to support the Royal Cavalry Regiment, and distributed the villages around Huoshan in battalions.

Sure enough, only two days later, a team of thieves of the old battalion went down the mountain to the surrounding villages to grab food, just as they entered the village, they found themselves surrounded by officers and soldiers, looking at the surrounding black holes, these old battalion soldiers could only obediently dismount and surrender, and even had no courage to resist, these days they were really scared of this thing.

After a period of torture, these old battalion soldiers finally explained the location where Ma Shouying was hiding, but some people said that it was in the Black Eagle Stream, and some people said that it was in Wohu Slope, although the location was not uniform, but the location was almost in an area.

When Sun Yingyuan found out, he immediately ordered the first brigade to enter the mountain, still acting separately in the battalion, searching the area where the prisoners of the old camp had confessed, and the troops who entered the mountain carried five days of dry rations, and once they found the camp of the old camp of the thieves, they immediately sent out signal flares, and the nearby people and horses rushed over at full speed to support.

Not long after, Ma Shouying received the news that the team that had gone out to grab food had not returned, and he was shocked that the dog officers and soldiers were completely going to kill themselves.

There were only a few hundred people around Ma Shouying, and the rest of the horses were led by their own cronies and hid separately.

Although there are not many people around, but there is not much food, it can only last for two days, and the salt has already been cut off for two days.

Ma Shouying's brain wanted to blow up and didn't think of what to do next, the safest way is to run north, run to the border of Henan, Henan is not the sphere of influence of the dog prince, the officers and soldiers over there and the officials are easy to clean up, but the road is far away, I don't know if my subordinates are willing to follow.

These are the old subordinates who have followed him for many years, and they are also their last capital, as long as they ensure this team, they can make a comeback at any time, but if they lose this team, they may have to fight for a few years to recover.

Ma Shouying really wanted to take the risk and give it a try, Henan was in a drought this year, and countless people died of starvation, so it was very convenient to recruit troops and horses to expand the team, according to his achievements and reputation in Henan last year, as long as he raised his arms, he could gather more than 100,000 horses in less than a month.

Ma Shouying made his thoughts clear to several core figures under his command, some supported it, some opposed it, and quarreled as he spoke.

Just when a few of his subordinates were arguing, an old battalion spy hurried to the tent and exclaimed: "Always in charge of the plate, the big thing is not good, we were discovered by the Tianwu Army!" ”

The arguing crowd was startled when they heard this, and quickly shut up, while Ma Shouying walked out of the tent and looked outside, and sure enough, at the bottom of the mountain, several groups of officers and soldiers attacked the mountain with firearms, and their old battalion soldiers retreated one after another, obviously afraid of the firearms of the officers and soldiers.

"Always in charge of the plate, what are we going to do?" Several generals of the old battalion said nervously.

Before Ma Shouying could open his mouth to speak, he heard a loud "pop" in the air, and an extremely conspicuous red smoke rose in the air.

Ma Shouying was also a good person, and immediately understood what this meant, and hurriedly asked his subordinates to divide their troops to hide and distract the officers and soldiers.

Liukou can divide the troops, and the Tianwu Army can naturally divide the troops, plus the surrounding departments began to encircle the position of the signal flare, and for a while, the old battalion soldiers were like wild dogs besieged by hunters, scurrying around.

The various units of the Tianwu Army didn't care about the three rows of continuous firing, and the four rows of volleys, all of them turned into free fire, rushing to greet the old camp of thieves with firearms, and the speed of each person's loading of sub-medicine was uneven, and the sound of shooting was also crackling and non-stop.

The terrain of the mountains and forests is rugged, and the cavalry of the old battalion of thieves cannot develop an advantage, and when they flee, they can only send them to the muzzle of the Tianwu army one by one, and those who have been beaten have fallen to the ground, and after two quarters of an hour of pursuit and tossing, hundreds of old battalion soldiers have been killed, and the dead bodies in various postures are lying all over the ground.

Ma Shouying ran very embarrassed, brandishing his waist knife to let the brothers resist while running, but no brother was willing to go to the top, and the thieves who ran one by one were fast.