Chapter 200, one step further]

Scattered, completely dispersed, under the pursuit of Gao Weijun, there were less than a thousand people left around Zhao Qing, and the other tens of thousands of Ming troops scattered and fled.

Originally, Zhao Qing fled to the west with eight or nine hundred defeated troops, thinking of joining up with Mei Yousong's army, but seeing that Gao Wei's army had been pursuing westward, and he didn't care about the Ming army fleeing north and south, Zhao Qing understood that the enemy's real target was Mei Yousong's army, and he would not waste much time on himself at all.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qing fled north with his people, and sure enough, the enemy did not divide his troops to pursue him at all.

After running for such a long time, Zhao Qing and his party were already physically and mentally exhausted, and after a distance away from the enemy, they stopped to rest, and the group directly lay or sat on the ground.

Zhao Qing, who had just dismounted, did not have the joy of the rest of his life after the catastrophe, his face was full of sadness, he thought of the Mei Yousong army that might be fighting the enemy, and he also thought of the enemy who defeated his own side and continued to advance towards the Mei Yousong army.

Before the battle, Zhao Qing was full of confidence, thinking that he could easily defeat the enemy, but he didn't expect that he would be easily defeated by the enemy, and the thief army he faced was even more like the enemy's main force.

If Mei Yousong's army encounters this thief army, Zhao Qing can't judge whether Mei Yousong's army can stop it, this thief army is terrible, Zhao Qing is very worried that not only his own Ming army is defeated, but even Mei Yousong's army is defeated by the enemy, then the matter is extremely serious, Jiangxi and Huguang will soon fall, and Daming is in danger.

Now Zhao Qing can only hope that Lord Mei can lead the way to block and defeat the enemy, even if he can't defeat the enemy, he must block the enemy.

However, Zhao Qing didn't know that on the frontal battlefield, Mei Yousong's army had been defeated by Wang Shengrong's army, and after breaking with 7,000 men, he successfully distanced himself from Wang Shengrong's army, gave up all baggage, and quickly retreated in the direction of Xinfeng County.

Now Mei Yousong's army is facing a very dangerous situation, Wang Shengrong's army is pursuing Mei Yousong's army from the south, and Gao Wei's army is coming from the east, wanting to intercept the retreating Mei Yousong army, flanking from both sides, what should Mei Yousong's army do?

"Wu Yu, give you three battalions of men and horses to block the thieves in the east for a quarter of an hour."

"The last general commands."

Wu Yu led three battalions of more than 6,000 horses to separate from Mei Yousong's army and marched northeast, wanting to block Gao Wei's army coming from the east to intercept Mei Yousong's army.

Wu Yu knew that his fate would most likely be the same as Zhou Xinhong's, but he had to obey the commander's orders.

Soon, Wu Yujun and Gao Weijun met.

"Fire!"

The musketeers in Gao Wei's army pointed their guns at the Ming soldiers in front of them, and with the light of fire and black smoke, lead bullets pierced into the ranks of Wu Yu's army like lightning.

When all the musketeers in Gao Wei's army completed a shot, only half of the more than 6,000 horses of the Wu Yu army were intact, and when they saw that their colleagues in front of them had fallen one after another, and the two armies had not yet touched, the Wu Yu army collapsed directly.

Wu Yu, who had more than 6,000 people, only delayed Gao Wei's army for dozens of seconds, which was not enough time for Mei Yousong's army to distance himself, even if Mei Yousong's army temporarily changed the direction of retreat and headed northwest, Gao Wei's army still successfully collided with Mei Yousong's rear army.

In order to run faster, many Ming soldiers had no weapons in their hands, and those officers and commanders on horseback gave up their own soldiers and ran directly to the front.

Mei Yousong can no longer send a force to break the back, at this moment Mei Yousong's army is almost collapsed, everyone wants to escape for their lives, no one wants to break the back, not even Mei Yousong's order, unless Mei Yousong personally leads people to break the back.

Up to now, this battle of the Ming army can be described as a big defeat, the number of casualties is more than the last Song Yingchang army, if this continues, the number of casualties of Mei Yousong's army will even exceed the sum of the previous two rounds of battles.

Mei Yousong thought of a more serious thing, most of the Ming troops in the south were transferred, and so many new recruits were recruited, and the army paid more casualties, then the southern Ming Dynasty would fall into the hands of thieves, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger!

"No, you can't continue like this, Brother Song, you must retreat safely to Xinfeng County with the army."

Mei Yousong said a word to Song Yingchang beside him, and then marched to the rear with his personal guards.

When Song Yingchang heard Mei Yousong's words, he immediately understood what Mei Yousong meant, he knew that Mei Yousong was going to personally lead someone to cut off the army!

"Brother Mei!"

Song Yingchang shouted, Mei Yousong seemed to hear Song Yingchang's voice, but he didn't turn his head back, and continued to march towards the rear army.

How much the commander of the first army is loved by the soldiers, just see how many people are willing to die with their commander, Mei Yousong took his personal guards to resist the People's Army, and many officer commanders knew the commander's actions, and they gave up running away one after another, and followed Mei Yousong with their personal guards.

There were more and more retrograde people, dozens, hundreds, thousands, nearly 10,000 people, and soon there was a broken army of nearly 10,000 people at the end of the Ming army, led by Mei Yousong, the commander of the Ming army.

Mei Yousong was not in charge of this Ming army for a long time, only a few months, but now there are so many Ming troops who are willing to follow Mei Yousong to the death.

If it is replaced by the Qi family's army, in the face of this situation, I am afraid that not many people will choose to escape, and they will all fight with General Qi to the end.

There are no elite border troops in the broken troops led by Mei Yousong, and there is no Earthquake Battalion, and under the musketeers of the People's Army, these two elite troops of the Ming Army will not be given time to play at all, and they will only fall on the battlefield in rows in the rain of bullets.

Now Mei Yousong is leading the Ming soldiers to use their bodies to resist the advance of the People's Army.

The next moment, hundreds of lead bullets attacked, and even though hundreds of people were shot and fell after the Ming army, the People's Army was slowly approaching, and waves of lead bullets flew in, and rows of Ming soldiers fell.

Looking at the Ming soldiers who kept falling, Mei Yousong angrily wanted to bite all the thieves to death, but he was helpless.

The Ming army was only nearly 10,000 people after it was broken, and the Gao Wei musketeers fired twice each, and there was not much left of the troops after the Ming army was broken.

Seeing that the troops led by him were killed and wounded so quickly, Mei Yousong smiled.

The guards thought that their adults were smiling at death, and only Mei Yousong himself knew that his smile was mockery, mocking the officials of the Ming Dynasty and the wealthy gentry and businessmen of the Ming Dynasty.

For nearly half a year, Mei Yousong, who knew the People's Army well, naturally knew why the People's Army had quickly become so powerful that hundreds of thousands of Ming troops had been defeated.

It was those officials, it was those gentry and businessmen who did not pay attention to the common people at the bottom, and now they are ushering in a backlash.

Before his death, Mei Yousong finally felt the strength of the People's Army.

"Your Majesty, the Ming Dynasty is in danger......"