Before the fifth watch arrived, Qin Chuan stood at the head of the city with sleepy eyes, looking at the clusters of firelight in the distance, and his mind was a little confused.

Wang Dehua's gang of hairy, they got up in the middle of the night to cook, what do they want to do?

"Big bosses, they should be running away." Luo Da Niu on the side yawned and said.

Ren Liang on the other side shook his head, "In my opinion, they should want to pull out the camp and go south, cross Jingle City, and attack Jingyou." ”

Luo Daniu was puzzled, "I just lost the battle yesterday, and my guts are still so fat?" ”

Ren Liang still shook his head, "It's not that he's bold, it's stupid." ”

Qin Chuan interrupted them, "Lynx, go and see if those people are cooking, when they are ready, heat up the meat left over from last night, eat a full meal, and when they leave, we will follow behind, and beat them with cannons as we walk." ”

"Okay."

The lynx scurried away.

It didn't take long for the lynx to lead a group of people to carry the cooked food up the city wall.

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As soon as the day dawned, the Ming army pulled out the camp and opened the allocation, and 6,000 Ming troops and 1,000 soldiers marched south along the Fen River.

The more than 1,000 wounded and sick had already gone north overnight under the escort of more than 100 Ming troops and returned to Xuanda.

After Jingle City, the Ming army was divided into two, of which Wang Dehua and Zeng Caofei led 3,000 Ming troops and 500 soldiers to the south along the west bank of the Fen River, while Wang Kun and He Sheng led almost equal forces to cross the Fen River and go south along the east bank.

The first to cross the river were 100 bird gunners and 50 archers, as well as 500 cavalrymen, who quickly pushed into the river with pre-bundled rafts, drove into wooden stakes to fix them, quickly crossed the river with firewood and kerosene, and then ran to the wooden bridge of the Dongnian River, poured kerosene on the bridge, threw firewood, and lit a torch and threw it on.

The wooden bridge was instantly ablaze.

Qin Chuan happened to lead a thousand Guan Emperor troops out of the south gate, and when he saw the burning wooden bridge, he couldn't help but curse secretly.

He originally thought that all the 1,000 Guan Emperor troops under his command had mounts and could easily catch up with the Ming army, so he wanted to let the Ming army all pass through Jingle City before coming out, but he didn't expect those guys to be so treacherous that they would burn his bridge.

Without a bridge, it would have been a bit of a struggle to cross the river.

The key to the problem is that Qin Chuan brought more than ten artillery pieces, the heaviest one was 650 pounds of the red-clothed general cannon, and there were a few bronze five-foot Franc machine guns captured by the Ming army, weighing more than 300 pounds.

Qin Chuan asked those people to bring wood, and almost filled up the Dongnian River, before finally pulling those artillery over.

As soon as he crossed the river, Qin Chuan was annoyed and took a thousand Guan Emperor troops and pulled those artillery pieces to chase after the Ming army.

He was not short of horses, so the six-hundred-and-fifty-pound red-clothed general's artillery carriage was also equipped with four horses, and the rest of the five-foot Franc machine gun carriage was also equipped with two horses, and the marching speed was not slow, and it only took half an hour to catch up with the Ming army.

Of the 3,000 Ming troops on the east bank, 1,500 had already lined up to cover the rest of the Ming army to the south, and Wang Kun and He Sheng were among them.

As soon as he saw the Qin thief leading his troops to catch up, Wang Kun's face changed greatly, and he shouted "resist" several times, and then slipped away with his own soldiers first.

The vast majority of eunuchs at the end of the Ming Dynasty were on paper, and they praised each other in front of Zhu Youzhen's idiot, leaving Zhu Youzhen with the impression of knowing the soldiers, and then they were able to send them to the local prison army and take the opportunity to make a big profit.

Seeing Wang Kun leaving, the 1,500 Ming army suddenly had a commotion, and many people looked behind them frequently, obviously wanting to slip away.

He Sheng, who stayed to suppress the formation, took more than a dozen generals to scold him for a while, and barely let the Ming army calm down.

Not long after, the Qin thief's soldiers and horses reached a hundred and fifty paces away, and then stopped, neither attacking nor shouting, just quietly watching them.

He Sheng frowned and looked at it for a while, and suddenly his face changed greatly, "It's not good, it's artillery, disperse quickly." ”

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the Qin thief on the opposite side scatter to both sides with the two rows of enemy troops in front of him, revealing more than a dozen black artillery carriages behind.

"Spread out!"

He Sheng shouted, pulled the reins of the horse, and ran to the side.

That thousand-->>

The five hundred Ming troops were in a mess, and they were just about to run away, when suddenly a series of loud noises sounded in their ears, and more than a dozen shells with a piercing whistling sound forced into the crowd.

Suddenly, the crowd was blurred with flesh and blood, and heart-rending screams were mixed together, like hell on earth.

"Run, run!"

He Sheng's eyes were red, he couldn't care about anything, he only shouted a few words loudly, and then took the lead in patting the horse and running.

In fact, there is no need for him to shout, the more than 1,000 Ming troops have already fled in a hurry.

"Kill!"

Qin Chuan drew his long knife and led a thousand of his subordinates to cover up the past.

He guessed that the stupid idea of crossing Jingle City to attack Jingyou should have been done by the two dead eunuchs Wang Dehua and Wang Kun.

It's like looking for death.

When they heard the sound of that string of cannons, Wang Kun, who had fled to the distance, and Wang Dehua, who was on the other side, shuddered and almost fell off their horses.

They knew that the Qin thieves would definitely bring artillery to chase after them, and in their opinion, at most, they could only bring some tiger squat cannons and small Furang machine guns that could be moved, because the big Fran was mobile for hundreds of catties, and he was led by a mule on the gun cart and walked slowly.

With this kind of cannon, they will definitely not be able to catch up with them, and the Tiger Squat Cannon and the Little Franc Machine will not fight far, and the power is also small, so there is nothing to be afraid of.

But the string of cannons just now was obviously from the five-foot Francophone and the Hongyi cannon surnamed Qin, how did the Qin thieves pull out such a heavy cannon?

"Princess, let's save mules and horses, only use a mule to pull the artillery cart, naturally run slowly, Qin thieves are rich, a gun cart has three or four horses, can you not run fast?"

When passing by Wang Kun's side, He Kun saw his doubts, so he sighed and said.

As soon as he heard this, Wang Kun's face became more and more pale, "You mean, he ...... He's going to chase after us with a cannon all the time? ”

"Princess, do you think he will let go of this God-given opportunity?"

"This ...... Fast, speed up the foot, fast. ”

"Princess, in front of you is Jingyou Town, which is the territory of Qin thieves, if he sets up an ambush there and strikes back and forth, our army of six thousand will be finished."

"Huh? This...... How good is that? ”

"Now there is only one road left to go, there is a golden mountain five miles to the south, and after that mountain, there is a road leading to Lan County, let the soldiers throw down the grain and grass, push the grain cart into the river to build a pontoon bridge, quickly cross the river, how much can be crossed, and when they get there, the whole army throws down their baggage and marches quickly, and retreats from the golden mountain to Lan County."

"This ...... Okay, okay, all listen to General He, quickly, quickly get all the grain down, push the cart into the river and build a pontoon bridge. ”

Wang Kun hurriedly shouted, and shouted a few words at Wang Dehua on the other side of the river.

Wang Dehua also realized that something was wrong, and knew that he had made a very stupid and fatal mistake.

He couldn't take care of it anymore, so he panicked and let the bird gunners and archers cover Wang Kun and the others by the river, and he ran to the south under the cover of dozens of soldiers.

As soon as he ran, the 3,000 Ming troops on the west bank immediately dispersed, and they threw down the grain and grass carts and fled to the south.

The Ming army on the east bank was in a mess, and many Ming troops couldn't wait for the pontoon bridge, and rushed straight into the Fen River.

The Qin thieves were still strangling the 1,500 Ming troops behind, taking advantage of this gap, He Sheng personally commanded the soldiers to tie up the grain carts with the wheels removed, set up several pontoon bridges on the river, and cut down more than a dozen Ming troops who grabbed the road to the ground, and then crossed the Fen River with his own soldiers.

The other Ming troops scrambled to squeeze up, crushing the pontoon bridge to the point of sinking several feet, and still fleeing across the river with water flowing.

Qin Chuan quickly dealt with the 1,500 Ming army behind him, and led the Guan Emperor's army to ride his horse, and dozens of musketeers released a row of guns on the other side of the river, scattering the opponent's bird gunners and archers.

"Those who descend live, and those who rebel die."

Qin Chuan shouted loudly, leading Emperor Guan's army to kill the hundreds of Ming troops who had not had time to cross the river.

It didn't take long for him to leave only two hundred Guan imperial troops to guard the prisoners, and then led his army across the river from the pontoon bridge to continue the pursuit of the Ming army that fled to the Golden Mountain.

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