When Liu Liangzuo led his troops to Zhaobaigou, he only saw corpses all over the ground.

At a cursory glance, about four or five hundred corpses were his personal soldiers with Wang Shiying and Zhang Yixiang.

Wang Shiying's body was placed on a mule cart, his head had been cut off, and he was sitting upright next to the corpse.

Emperor Guan's army has long disappeared, and the 100,000 taels of silver have also disappeared without a trace.

"Look for ruts and horseshoe prints, quick."

Liu Liangzuo had no time to care about Wang Shiying's corpse, so he only hurriedly urged his subordinates to look for traces of the mule cart leaving.

For him, the top priority is to chase the silver two back as soon as possible.

The traces of hundreds of horsemen and a dozen mule carts were not so easy to hide, and it didn't take long for his men to find the ruts and hoof prints of the other party's departure.

However, there are as many as two imprints, one to the northeast and the other to the northwest, each with several ruts left by mule carts, and the hoof prints of four or five hundred horses.

In other words, the number of Guan Emperor's troops and the number of mules and carriages going to these two roads were the same.

According to the Tanma who came back to report the news, the number of these Guan Emperor troops was not large, only about five or six hundred, but there were not many horses at all, because the horses of the five hundred personal soldiers who escorted Baiyin were all taken by them.

With enough horses, they could carry the hundred thousand taels of silver scattered on horseback.

But where will that silver go?

Or was it divided into two batches and shipped away in two ways?

Liu Liangzuo only hesitated for a moment, and then decided to chase after him in two ways.

Anyway, the opponent does not have many troops, and he has 2,000 soldiers, even if the troops are divided into two routes, there are still 1,000 troops on one side.

It's just that out of his 2,000 soldiers, there are less than 400 cavalry, and the rest are infantry.

Pursuing cavalry with infantry is impossible to catch up with in a short distance.

can only let the four hundred cavalry take the first step and find the other party first before making plans.

After making up his mind, Liu Liangzuo personally led 200 cavalry to pursue in the northwest direction, the remaining 800 infantry followed, and the other 1,000 people pursued in the northeast direction.

After chasing for nearly an hour, when the horses under his crotch began to sweat profusely, Liu Liangzuo suddenly found two broken mule carts in a ravine, and there were several large wooden boxes on them.

This is the big wooden box that used to hold silver, but now it's empty.

It should have been when Emperor Guan's army fled here, and the mule cart suddenly broke down and was thrown here by them, but the silver on the cart was taken away.

"They shouldn't have gone far, keep chasing!"

Liu Liang Zuoran ignored the sweating horses under his crotch, only kicked the horse's belly violently, and continued to ride the horse forward.

His two hundred horsemen could only grit their teeth and follow.

At this moment, a "bang" suddenly sounded in the valley next to it.

Liu Liangzuo's body was shocked, and he felt a huge force slam into his chest, knocking him off the horse.

Immediately afterward, a sharp pain came from his chest.

"Kill!"

Shouts of killing and rumbling horses' hooves rang out on the ridges on both sides.

Liu Liangzuo suddenly realized that he was carried away by the 100,000 taels of silver, and he blindly chased forward, and he had been ambushed by the other party.

"Withdraw...... Withdrawal ......"

Liu Liangzuo, who suddenly woke up, endured the pain in his chest and shouted twice with difficulty.

When the two hundred horsemen, who were already tired of men and horses, heard his words, they scattered in a hurry as if they had been pardoned, and they all turned around and fled.

Some of his own soldiers hurriedly picked him up, laid him across the horse, and then whipped him on the horse's buttocks, and the horse was in pain, and spread its hooves and galloped away from the road from which it had come.

On the mountains on both sides, hundreds of Guan Emperor troops poured down like a tide and intercepted them in the direction they fled.

This ambush came and went quickly, and in about half an hour, the battle was over.

Because of the pursuit all the way, the war horses were already exhausted, and the two hundred horsemen brought by Liu Liangzuo could not outrun the Guan Emperor's army at all, and in the end less than fifty horsemen were able to escape.

Liu Liangzuo was lucky, the bullet pierced his iron and cotton armor, and then slid into the ribs in his chest.

The war horse under his crotch was a carefully selected horse, and he ran more than ten miles on his back, allowing him to join the 800 infantry and save his life.

At this time, a report suddenly came from the northwest: Fan Sanpao and others were defeated in the north of Shouyang City, and the army was almost annihilated.

Hearing this news, Liu Liangzuo, who had just been helped by his subordinates to take out the bullets, was so shocked that he almost jumped up, hurriedly asked his subordinates to turn around, withdrew in the direction of Mengxian, and sent people to find the other 1,000 soldiers and horses, so that they could rush over and converge.

Fan Sanpao and the others also had more than 1,300 guards, and they were able to almost annihilate them, proving that there were not many people in that army, and it was likely to be the main force of Qin Chuan.

Now that guy has arrived in this area, he will inevitably attack Shouyang City.

The city wall of that small county town is low, the defenders are insufficient, and there is a shortage of firearms and other equipment to defend the city, where can it stop Qinchuan?

Therefore, Liu Liangzuo did not dare to return to Shouyang, and planned to run to Mengxian County to avoid it.

The soldiers under his command had long lost their will to fight, and as soon as they heard that they were going to Meng County, they all went straight to Meng County at an unprecedented marching speed.

The other 1,000 men and horses were very lucky, and did not fall into ambush, and after receiving the order, they hurried to join Liu Liangzuo as if they had been amnestied.

Liu Liangzuo's 2,000 men and horses left like this, and there were only 500 defenders left in Shouyang City, as well as more than 200 servants of Zhang Yixiang, and hundreds of Ding Guards of the gentry in the city.

……

Fifteen miles north of Shouyang City, Shangqu ditch.

The battle here was also quickly over.

There were forty rifled guns and twenty artillery pieces there, and Fan Sanpao and the others didn't even have a chance to fight back.

Wang Youyi, who had a leg broken, Zhai Cheng and Tian Shengqi, who surrendered early, and Fan Sanpao, who was captured on the battlefield, were quickly brought to Liu Youzhu.

"Hero, the villain will repair a book, let the Zhai family bring money and food to redeem people, and the hero only needs to wait a few days." Zhai Cheng was very clever, and as soon as they met, he took the initiative to kneel down and said to Liu Youzhu flatteringly.

"There is also my Tian family, how much grain does a good man want, even if he says the number, as long as my Tian family can afford it, there is no ambiguity." Tian Shengqi also said with a smile.

Wang Youyi, who had fainted several times due to a broken leg, raised his head with difficulty, and wanted to say something, but when he opened his mouth, he couldn't say anything, only smiled bitterly.

Fan Sanpao, who was kneeling next to him, turned pale and didn't say a word.

"Huh."

Liu Youzhu glanced at the four people expressionlessly, and said lightly: "Our general said that for the people of Zhangjiakou Fort, you don't have to bother asking for ransom, just cut it down, and it's a hundred." ”

"Huh?"

His face changed dramatically.

Liu Youzhu didn't talk nonsense with them, and said lightly: "Only Fan Sanpao is left, and the rest are cut." ”

As soon as the words fell, Emperor Guan's army behind Zhai Cheng and Tian Shengqi waved his hand, and the two great heads fell in response.

Wang Youyi, who was lying on the ground, closed his eyes, and his body trembled like a sieve.

Soon the emperor pulled him by the hair, pulled him up, and then the sword light swept by, and the head fell to the ground.

Fan Sanpao also closed his eyes tightly, his face was like gold leaf, and cold sweat broke out all over his body.

"Fan Gongzi, do you know why I left you alone?"

Liu Youzhu suddenly walked in front of him and looked down at him.

Fan San didn't open his eyes and didn't respond.

"Because, our general will take your head with his own hands."

Liu Youzhu asked and answered himself, glanced at Fan Sanpao again, and then walked away.

In this battle, not only Yang Yexing's iron pots and iron materials were recovered, but also 2,000 stone of grain, more than 5,000 taels of silver, more than 1,100 war horses, and more than 200 mules and horses pulling carts.

The grain was collected overnight by Fan Sanpao and others in Shouyang City, and they wanted to transport it back to Zhangjiakou Fort by the way.

The more than 1,100 war horses are the mounts of these four guards, and the Jin merchants in Zhangjiakou Fort are not short of war horses, and everyone who came out of this trip is equipped with war horses, which is very arrogant, but it turns out that Liu Youzhu is cheaper.

In addition to these captures, more than 700 guards and more than 200 coachmen were captured in this battle, and these people were not killed for the time being, and were ready to be taken back to the mines.

As soon as the battlefield was cleaned, Lao Huang and Zheng Qiting came to meet with the 100,000 taels of silver they had just snatched back.

After the three of them joined forces, the total strength reached 2,100 people, and in addition, Lao Huang also left 50 people in Shouyang City.

After resting for a while, Liu Youzhu took these two thousand one hundred Guan imperial troops, as well as nearly a thousand prisoners, and went straight to Shouyang City.

……

The news of Shouyang City, Fan Sanpao and others in ambush has come back, Zhang Yixiang hurriedly ordered the city to be closed and strengthened as if he were facing a great enemy.

Obviously, the Qin thief is coming.

With his style of acting, he will definitely attack Shouyang City.

When the gentry clan in the city first heard the news, they were also in a panic, and sent their respective township warrior guards to assist Zhang Yixiang in guarding the city.

Coupled with the three classes of government servants and white servants, and the township warrior guards of each family, Shouyang City also barely managed to put together 1,200 defenders.

At noon, Liu Youzhu led his troops to Shouyang City and set up a meal five miles north of the city.

After eating and drinking enough for lunch, and resting for half an hour, Liu Youzhu waved his hand and began to attack the city.

He attacked the north gate, but also sent hundreds of cavalry to circle along the small county town and cruise around the battlefield.

Zhang Yixiang personally went to the head of the city to command the defense, and most of the troops in the city were also transferred to the north gate, so that the defense of the other city gates was very weak.

When the north gate was bombarded, a team of fifty people suddenly appeared in the city wall of the west gate, rushed straight into the doorway, killed more than a dozen Ming soldiers inside, and then opened the gate.

Three hundred horsemen, who were waiting outside the city, roared in, and stormed the city, firmly occupying the west gate.

Outside the north gate, as soon as Liu Youzhu saw smoke rising from the west gate, he immediately led the main force around and entered the city through the west gate.

As soon as the Guan Emperor's army entered the city, they pushed artillery, flintlock pistols and rifled guns, and pressed towards the other three city gates.

The morale of the defenders of the three gates had already fallen to freezing point, and they quickly collapsed after a burst of firearms.

At this point, Shouyang City was captured.

On the upper floor of Beicheng, Guan Dijun caught Zhang Yixiang, who had changed into an ordinary soldier's costume, and this guy wanted to flee in disguise.

Liu Youzhu didn't even bother to see him, so he only waved his hand and let his subordinates cut it directly.

Then, he began to busily search his house.

Although Shouyang City was sacked by the Liukou in the fifth year of Chongzhen, there are still a few large families in the city with abundant money and food.