At that time, Bai Qianfan saw too many people around him dying in the cruel war, these people had all kinds of people, comrades-in-arms for many years, friends who grew up together, colleagues who had known him for a long time, and subordinates who had followed him for many years.

In addition, there are many people who have not known each other for a long time, including colleagues and bosses who have just met, newly recruited soldiers, newly promoted officers, and many people who he remembers and can't remember their names, or who can neither remember their names nor their appearances, and what makes him even more difficult to let go of is that there are countless people who have been displaced in the war and eventually do not know what they will do.

These people used to be the people of the Ming Dynasty, but then they slowly worked hard for the Ming Dynasty, provided their efforts, they paid the price of life, wealth and life, and entered the whirlpool of war between the Ming and Jiaozhi, and in the end they did not get anything they deserved, they gave everything, but in the end they only got to lose.

This made Bai Qianfan feel both guilty and desperate. It is not the level of disappointment, but to the point of despair, the young Bai Qianfan never thought that when he came to middle age, he inherited his father's thousand-household official position, and was promoted to the commander by virtue of the military merits accumulated in the first half of his life, and really became an officer who led the army, the pillar of the Ming army, and actually encountered such a fiasco.

This war, which had invested all the time and effort of his father and his youth, and also paid the price of countless lives, but in the end it ended with a helpless retreat and heavy casualties, which was difficult for him to accept.

Whether it was the final withdrawal of troops or the heavy casualties, it was difficult for him to accept.

Needless to say, the withdrawal of the army is almost a denial of the first half of his life, for a person who has devoted all his life to the desire for military merit and the pursuit of glory, this is the most huge blow, almost everything has to start all over again, now he is no longer the high-spirited Ming army boy who once was, but a general of the defeated army who is nearly thirty years old, walking on the road of withdrawing the army back to the guard, Bai Qianfan did not know how to go on for the first time.

In the past, he thought that he was commanding as a warrior of the Ming Dynasty in this life, symbolizing the glory of the Ming Dynasty, relying on the power of the Ming Dynasty, he was able to march into the distance, and he had been walking on the road of conquest and control.

Even if someone dies due to an accident, it is still a minority, and it will not affect the overall situation of everyone, and it will not affect the progress of the Ming army.

He never thought that he would suffer such a fiasco, that many of the guards he knew were close to the collapse of the entire army, that a large number of troops could not continue to maintain and withdraw, that many of the guards had collapsed since then, and that many of them had almost completely failed to continue to maintain, and that they were already in a state of existence in name only.

The only thing that made Bai Qianfan at that time still have a trace of obsession was that his Qujing Guard Station troops were not elite enough, but the tasks they undertook were not final, so in the end, the casualties in the war were relatively small, basically there were no big casualties, and the basic army organization could be maintained.

Even if the army was withdrawn, Qu Jingwei continued to maintain it strongly, and all this became Bai Qianfan's last obsession.

On that rainy night of withdrawal, the news of Shengshang's announcement to abandon Jiaozhi finally reached the ears of Bai Qianfan's direct leading generals, in a huge disappointment, in a mood of imminent sinking, Bai Qianfan slowly turned over and got on his horse, allowing the rain to flow into it through the gap between the cotton cloth of the cloth and the armor piece, and his body was cold for a while, but his heart was even colder.

Bai Qianfan thought a lot at that time, in addition to the depression of defeat and the sadness of withdrawing the army, there were some emotions that made him even more unbearable, and even some fell into self-loathing, that is, a fear emotion.

He thought that he had been born in the army since he was a child, and had seen countless scenes worthy of mountains of corpses and blood, and had seen tens of thousands of wars, and under the deafening rums, shouts, firecrackers and cannons, and the collision of cavalry, chariots, and artillery crossbows, he had no fear, and would not be afraid again.

But when he learned of the death of some of his comrades, the heavy casualties of their troops, and the fact that even the basic establishment of the guard could not be maintained, he was still afraid.

Twenty-eight-year-old Bai Qianfan, for the first time, knew that he still thought about war too simply, although he had fought countless wars, participated in countless battles, and had more experience in war than most people in the world, but he still thought too simply.

He really understood what kind of situation it meant that victory and defeat were common things in soldiers, and he really understood that Da Ming would also lose, and there was an inexplicable, but extraordinarily strong intuitive judgment: he may be at a crossroads of divergence, and from then on, maybe many things will change, will take a different path, and finally usher in a different result.

After that, Bai Qianfan still walked out of the depression of a momentary state of mind, because to be honest, although he suffered a defeat, the troops under his command did not pay too heavy a heavy price, and still maintained the integrity of most of their strength.

His troops were of the same age as he was at the time, many of them were still young, less equipped and less trained, but they were fortunate to be retained because they did not take on the difficult tasks that elite troops undertook and faced greater difficulties.

And Qu Jingwei became his pillar, Bai Qianfan did not begin to sink like some other officers and generals of the guard, and began to give up the ethics of some soldiers under the blow, allowing the guardhouse to fall into collapse, deserters scattered, military discipline and training were chaotic, but invested more energy in building and maintaining the guard.

Qu Jingwei under his command was originally a relatively young unit, but after withdrawing from Jiaozhi, it became a unit with rich war experience and complete organizational strength, so it also received the attention of the superiors, the officers of the Yunnan Metropolitan Command Division, and allocated more organizational and practical economic support.

From tactics to training to equipment levels, and even the living standards of the people in the guards. Jiang Yugang was the Jiang Yugang of the Ming Dynasty before Jiang Yugang crossed over, and was favored by Wang Zhengqianhu from Yunnan Zhongwei, and brought to Yunnan Zhongwei as his own guard, and received a lot of training, and that training experience has also become an excuse for Jiang Yugang to explain some of his ideas in tactics and equipment.

In addition, because of Qu Jingwei's high level of logistics, although it also suffered a lot of defeats and setbacks in the later wars, most of them, from ordinary soldiers to Bai Qianfan himself, felt that they could not see any hope for the future.

However, Qujingwei not only did not have a large number of deserters, but also had more abundant resources to train craftsmen, establish workshops to provide equipment levels, and even take in people like Ah Tian who fled to the guard, and had a certain ability to receive new outsiders to maintain operations.

And everything has two sides, Bai Qianfan himself is actually clear about this, when the boss provides him with greater support, he will naturally have greater expectations for him, and the embodiment of this expectation is the order on the battlefield.

The current Qu Jingwei has finally become the one it once was, the kind of troops that have no background, but have a certain elite strength, and have become one of the most dangerous troops on the battlefield, although they may not have a serious death rate like cannon fodder troops, but the tasks they undertake in the war are thankless.

The more and more important tasks of attacking and supporting the fortification were handed over to Bai Qianfan, these tasks often have no loopholes to escape, they are all to face the enemy head-on, can only win but not defeat the hard encounter, once lost, the larger army as a whole will be affected, that is the pressure that Bai Qianfan can not bear.

In fact, his biggest pressure does not come from the pressure of not being able to perform the task effectively, these arduous tasks on the battlefield are his biggest pressure, once he is defeated, he may not be able to wait for the superior officers to punish him, he and his troops have already died on the battlefield first.

Therefore, in almost every war, he fought at the greatest risk, although the logistics support of the troops has always been at a high level, but the death rate has always been high, the establishment of the guard has never been full, and there has always been a gap of thousands of wounded and dead soldiers.

Among these soldiers who died, there were many officers with a certain status, because the tasks undertaken by Bai Qianfan were too difficult and dangerous, and they were often one of the most dangerous places, in these places, the danger of officers was only higher than that of ordinary soldiers, and many times they would become the target of priority attacks.

But because of the importance of the task, from Bai Qianfan to the lowest Xiaoqi, almost everyone relies on their own strength to fight on the battlefield, no one relies on relationships or filling, and no one can escape the battle and hide in a safe place alone, but almost everyone is the first soldier.

Because this is one of the most important means to stabilize the morale of the army, Bai Qianfan will do this almost every time, and when he does this, no one under his command dares to do something secretly, does not stay on the front line to command the battle, and no one dares to retreat and disobey military orders.

As a result of this approach, Bai Qianfan stumbled and completed many difficult tasks, and his status in the eyes of his superiors became higher and higher, on the bright side, although many wars were not able to achieve any good results in the end, but Bai Qianfan was not affected by the defeat of the war, but his status gradually rose, and gradually became the highest-ranking commander in some nearby guards.

The disadvantage is that he and his troops are facing more and more dangerous situations, especially since the center of gravity of the war has withdrawn from Jiaozhi and turned back to the Luchuan and Ava areas, Bai Qianfan began to participate in the battle as an officer under Mu Sheng, the head of the Mu family.

Mu Sheng is not an incapable general, he still maintains a certain degree of control over the vast area, but compared to his father Mu Ying, or a famous general like the British Gong Zhang Fu, it is a little worse, Bai Qianfan has participated in many wars since he withdrew to Yunnan, but he has not achieved many real victories, most of them have completed the phased strategic goals and barely maintained the situation.

But as a front-line officer, he can also see that the maintenance of this situation is still the gradual weakening of the power of the Ming Dynasty in the end. In the midst of worry, Luchuan finally erupted.

After Mu Sheng lost the battle again, Ming Yingzong finally ordered Wang Ji, a famous general in the world, to replace Mu Sheng's command, Bai Qianfan once thought that this was a turning point.