On July 15, the Southwest Group Army captured Fengjie City, and Zhang Guangsi led the remaining remnants of more than 3,000 troops to retreat all the way to Zhongzhou, and then retreated directly to Chongqing Mansion under the pursuit of the Fu Han army.

At this time, Yue Zhongqi had just arrived in Enshi with an army of 50,000 and was welcomed by the Tusi of Western Hubei, and then dozens of Tusi of Western Hubei sent their children to have a banquet with Yue Zhongqi, and brought more than 10,000 Tusi soldiers together to help.

Strictly speaking, in this battle, Tusi spared no effort to help the Qing army, supporting more than 50,000 Tusi soldiers in Ortai in Guizhou, and bringing more than 10,000 people to Yue Zhongqi here, the reason is very simple, if they lose this battle, a comprehensive county will follow, and the Tusi families that have been inherited for more than a hundred years will disappear.

They have to work hard, and Yue Zhongqi has to work hard.

But at this time, the spies sent by Ortai and Zhang Guangsi also came back and forth, bringing two earth-shattering news to Yue Zhongqi.

First of all, the people sent by Ortai, Guiyang City has fallen, he has led the army to attack Guiyang, and he will recapture Guiyang to the death, and he will drag the Fu Han army in the south. The second is the people sent by Zhang Guangsi, Kuizhou Mansion fell, the Qing army killed thousands of people, and more than 20,000 surrenderers, and Zhang Guangsi fled to Chongqing Mansion with 3,000 people.

No matter how talented Yue Zhongqi was, he didn't expect that the two people he had high hopes for would become pig teammates at the same time, or even pig teammates.

Yue Zhongqi looked at the spy in front of him, his face turned from blue to white, and his chest was even more angry, he couldn't wait to fly back and ask what was going on.

You Ortai now have more or less 70,000 or 80,000 people in your hands, even though most of them are Tusi soldiers, but how can you let the 30,000 or 40,000 Fu Han army take Guiyang so lightly and skillfully? didn't even fight a real big battle, and as a result, Guiyang was gone, which made Yue Zhongqi very incomprehensible.

The second is Zhang Guangsi, who Yue Zhongqi was quite optimistic about before, has fought a lot of battles, and has also made meritorious contributions in the northwest, why did he lose Kuizhou Mansion just after arriving at Kuizhou Mansion? Not only did Kuizhou Mansion lose, but also 30,000 Qing troops.

However, no matter how Yue Zhongqi couldn't figure it out, his plan to attack Yichang Mansion was also ruined, because on the way from Kuizhou Mansion to Chengdu Mansion, there was almost no one to defend it, and the thousands of remnants of Chongqing Mansion could not play a role, and if they continued to fight, Sichuan would be gone.

Yue Zhongqi is not an indecisive character, and since he has already planned to withdraw, he naturally will not hesitate.

When the large army of the Qing army began to turn around, the Tusi who were still in Enshi were dumbfounded, they stood on the city wall, looked at Yue Zhongqi, who was silent in front of them, and looked at the Qing army troops who were marching in the opposite direction, and suddenly they didn't know what to say.

"Governor, this ...... Didn't you go in the opposite direction? Finally someone had the audacity to ask.

Yue Zhongqi didn't have any expression on his face, he just shook his head slightly, "I didn't go back, the army has changed temporarily, and I want to return to Sichuan." ”

"What? Isn't Du Xian Mo joking? ”

When the toasts heard Yue Zhongqi's words, they immediately burst into a commotion, what are they kidding? If you want to say that it is you who fight Yichang, everyone has prepared the Tusi soldiers with the army, as well as a large number of grain and straw logistics, and you will run away after eating and wiping it up?

This is too inauthentic, isn't it?

Yue Zhongqi didn't feel the slightest embarrassment, just snorted lightly and said, "The imperial court acts with its own intentions, so why do you need to explain to you?" ”

When these words came out, they completely tore their faces. Therefore, everyone knows that the relationship between the imperial court and the Tusi is not actually a ruling relationship, especially in the current situation, it is more of a cooperative relationship.

Since it was a cooperative relationship, Yue Zhongqi's actions were naturally very inauthentic, and the toasts were very angry, they didn't say anything more, but fell into silence.

"Also, the Tusi soldiers of the various Tusi have been incorporated into our army, and they will return to Sichuan with the army.

When Yue Zhongqi said such a thing with an expressionless face, all the toasts present were enraged, and their eyes were red, if the previous actions could be explained, but this operation was clearly to tell the toasts, he Yue Zhongqi not only wanted to slap your left cheek, but also your right cheek.

"My lord did this, didn't he deceive me and no one in Western Hubei?"

The old man at the head had a gloomy face, and the other toast leaders behind him were the same, and some even pressed their hands on the hilt of the knife, and the atmosphere of the scene was about to be touched.

Yue Zhongqi didn't speak, and the guards beside him waved his hand slightly, only to see a row of bird guns pouring out from behind, all of them holding bird guns in their hands, aiming at all the toasts on the current city wall.

"What this governor has done is absolutely selfless, if I once the Qing Dynasty pacifies Chu Rebellion, I will not treat you badly in the future, and as for you to make trouble now, it will not benefit you in the slightest."

Yue Zhongqi snorted coldly, although he is not the kind of greedy and violent person, and he will not set up arson to cause trouble, but once he is forced to be in a hurry, he will not restrain his thoughts.

The situation is stronger than people, seeing that Yue Zhongqi began to play hooligans, the toasts had to helplessly bow their heads to show obedience, and the old man led by stared at Yue Zhongqi for a while, before slowly speaking: "Since Lord Duxian has spoken, we will naturally comply, and I hope that your lordship will be victorious in this trip." ”

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The nearly 70,000 army led by Ortai was advancing in the direction of Guiyang City at this time, hurrying all the way, and finally arrived at Qingzhen on July 17, and at this time the Fu Han army had repaired the defense of Guiyang City, and even added a lot of powerful weapons to defend the city.

When Ortai took people to see the dense Han army on Guiyang City, he only felt bitter in his heart, the current Guiyang City is no better than others, because the original ancient city site is narrow, the city wall is humble, so it has been rebuilt on the original basis in the fifteenth year of Hongwu.

And after the reconstruction of Guiyang City has been completely made of stone, the circumference is nine miles and seven minutes, the height is two zhang and two feet, the wall is two zhang wide, there are six city towers, five city gates, it can be called very solid, easy to defend and difficult to attack.

Before the Fu Han army attacked Guiyang, it was purely because there were too few defenders in it, and even the entire city could not be plugged in, so it was easy to take it, and the current Qing army wanted to attack such a heavily guarded city, which was really difficult to compare.

But even if it is difficult to climb to the sky, Ortai has to fill this hole, after all, it is a loophole here for him, and he doesn't know what punishment the emperor will have in the future, and it is not bad to be able to make up for it.

Tens of thousands of Qing troops held knives, guns and birds, and there were about 100 Ziweiyuan cannons lined up behind them, following the Qing army all the way forward, because the Qing army's artillery range was relatively close, so it could not be fired for a while.

"Boom—"

When the Qing army was advancing, the artillery of the Fu Han army on Guiyang City began to roar, due to the blessing of the height of the city wall, the artillery fired a relatively farther distance, and many projectiles fell in the queue of the Qing army, causing pieces of casualties.

As the first batch of Qing troops to attack, most of them were Tusi soldiers, and they were not the kind of elite wolf soldiers, so in front of the artillery of the Fu Han army, the formation suddenly became a little messy, and many people were running towards the rear.

When he saw this scene, Ortai just sighed softly, he knew that military discipline could not be enforced for the Tusi soldiers, after all, among the 70,000 troops at the moment, only 20,000 really belonged to the Qing army, and if the Tusi soldiers were too harsh, it would be easy to have some problems.

In front of the artillery of the Fu Han army, many Qing soldiers were in chaos, they looked blankly at the city wall that was still a certain distance in front of them, but they no longer had the confidence to walk over - many soldiers were like weeds in the field, knocked to the ground by the fragments of the projectile, as if they had been harvested.

"Run, run, run and live!"

Meng Si greeted the fellow villagers beside him with a frightened face, they were all from the Meng family Tusi in Guizhou, and they were all fellow villagers and clans when they came out to fight this time, so many people followed him.

However, the direction of Meng Si's running is not Guiyang City, but the side of the Qing army camp, despite the current war crisis, but Meng Si's mind is becoming more and more sober, he knows that the achievement of attacking Guiyang is a death, only to run to the Qing army camp, maybe he can still live, so many people follow them to run.

On the battlefield, there is always a small group of warriors who are not afraid of death plus a large group of soldiers who go with the flow, when the warriors who rush to the front fail to make a breakthrough, those soldiers who go with the flow will only be crushed and defeated by a force.

At present, this is the case, the warriors of the Qing army are too few and too few, and in the face of the dense firepower of the Fu Han army, they are quickly beaten, and more people are starting to run to the rear, they don't even care about the interception of the rear, so as to drag more people to run backwards.

Looking at this scene, Ortai couldn't bear it anymore, he looked coldly at Meng Hong, the Tusi of the Meng family, "Meng Zhizhou, your soldiers are too rampant, if you don't deal with a batch of them ruthlessly, how can this battle be fought?" ”

Meng Hong's face was also a little ugly, he didn't have much power, there were so many native soldiers, if they were all beheaded, what would he do with his toast in the future? Therefore, it is difficult to speak for a while.

"Well, since you don't want to do it, Ben Governor will clean you up the scourge!"

After finishing speaking, the Qing army superintendent team that was originally behind the formation walked forward with a bird gun, raised the gun to aim, and after an order, rows of projectiles shot out, but they killed dozens of Meng native soldiers.

This time it was terrible, but it aroused the anger in the hearts of other native soldiers, they came here to fight, not to mention, and now they have given their lives, everyone has a little bit of sadness in their hearts, and even many people raised swords and guns to show the Qing army, so that there was turmoil.

At this time, Cheng Ming, who was supervising the battle at the head of the city, looked at the civil strife of the Qing army through the clairfront mirror, with a little regret on his face, "If only our army had a fine cavalry now, this battle would be half over." ”

Xu Mingyuan's heart moved, but he said softly: "Deputy Envoy Cheng, why don't I take someone to rush.......

"Don't worry, we have to hang them now, the 12th Division has already made a detour in the direction of Anshun, and now the Qing army is not clear about the situation, when they are clear about the situation, we will fight again!"

For Cheng Ming, it is not difficult to defeat the current 70,000 people, but how to solve these 70,000 people in the easiest way is the key. But fortunately, most of these people are toasts with insufficient combat strength and morale, so they don't have to worry too much, plus this civil strife, I'm afraid there will be opportunities in the future.

In the next few days, the two sides launched several attacks around Guiyang City, but each time it was worse than the other, and the losses were greater than the other, and Ortai seemed to intend to consume the strength of the Tusi, so he deliberately sent the Tusi soldiers to consume, which made the major Tusi even more dissatisfied.

However, Ortai's actions still had no effect, and after the battle, he did not achieve any results, so he could only choose to strike without fighting.

However, at this stage, Ortai began to face a key choice again, that is, whether to fight Guiyang or not? If you fight, it is obvious that the Qing army can't beat it, and if you fight again, it is very likely that the whole army will collapse, if you don't fight, then you can only sit back and watch the Fu Han army go north to Sichuan, and then you will have to finish playing with Yue Zhongqi.

It's just that before Ortai thought about it clearly, the toasts couldn't stand it, they were already enough to cooperate with Ortai, but they didn't achieve a good result, but their own brothers were consumed a lot, and they were not happy at the moment.

In the middle of the night, Wumeng Tusi Lu Wanzhong, Mengjia Tusi Meng Hong, Zhenxiong Tusi Longqinghou, Zhenyuan Tufu Daohan, and Kangzuo Chief Officer Xue Shiqian and others gathered in the Qing army camp, and outside the tent were full of Tusi soldiers, all of whom were very excited, even with some crazy flavors.

In fact, if it weren't for the fact that these toasts are usually linked by clans, the toast soldiers would have collapsed long ago under such casualties, and although they have not collapsed now, for these toasts, they will not sit idly by and watch their soldiers continue to be consumed.

"Brothers, Ortai has bad intentions this time, and he has been sending our brothers to death......"

Wumeng Tusi Lu Wanzhong had a somewhat gloomy look on his face, although on the surface he was the most supportive of the imperial court, but he would not be soft when it was time to die, "If we don't move, I'm afraid we will be murdered by Ortai!" ”

"Brother Lu, my father and you were originally close friends, I am willing to listen to you, you can do what you say!"

Meng Hong, the toast of the Meng family, also had a very gloomy face, his strength was the most damaged a few days ago, and he was also the most dissatisfied with Ortai in his heart.

After Meng Hong finished speaking, Zhenxiong Tusi Longqinghou, Zhenyuan Tufu Daohan, and Kangzuo Governor Xue Shiqian and others also clamored, and some people even clamored to kill Ortai and go to the Fuhan Army to negotiate peace.

"Since he Ortai is unkind, don't blame us for being unjust, tonight your brothers will follow me to the handsome tent and catch Ortai!"

"Okay, kill the handsome tent and capture Ortai!"