To say that Liu Xulei felt a little relieved was the captured war horses, most of these were tall Mongolian horses, which were much more than the Yunnan horses captured by the Lin team in Annan.

Ma Jiaolin originally started in Shaanxi and Gansu, there was a cavalry under his command, after the Qing Dynasty, he turned to fight in various places and continued to lose, there were more than 1,000 Mongolian horses left, due to the sudden blow in his sleep, the lost cavalry did not rush to the horse circle at all, all cheap Liu Xulei.

It was busy until dawn, the battlefield was finally cleaned up, Liu Xulei ordered a company to dig a pit with the prisoners to dig a pit to bury the corpses of the Qing army, and then ordered the second company to drive down the Nanmu River, and the first company and the machine gun platoon escorted the large group of prisoners to return to Xunzhou by land.

Passing through several villages along the road, they did not shy away, and passed directly through the villages, attracting the villagers who stayed at home to help the old and the young to stop and watch.

When a large group of pigtailed Qing captives were seen hobbling dejectedly under the guard of the armed Ming army, some bold villagers cursed and threw stones and mud at them.

After returning to Xunzhou in the afternoon, the fleet of the second company had already returned first, and after the captured ordnance and property were brought ashore, Dong Chengping, the commander of the second company, led people to cooperate with Jiao Lian's subordinates to load the dry firewood, gunpowder, tung oil and other flammable materials prepared in advance, and then handed over to hundreds of warriors selected by Jiao Lian with good water quality, and sailed the fleet to the upper reaches of the Qianjiang River to hide it.

After Liu Xulei and Jiao Lian met, he handed over all the captured guns and most of the artillery to Jiao Lian, leaving only some old and unbearable angry and captive cannons to be transported back to Fangcheng Town for recuperation.

Jiao Lian was overjoyed, ordered thousands of prisoners to be imprisoned in the corner of the camp in the city, and then ordered his three thousand elites to cross the Yujiang River with Liu Xulei's righteous army, and went to a place called Tongyouling ten miles away in the northeast, and hid in a forest at the foot of a mountain.

In addition, 2,000 troops were ordered to work with the reconnaissance platoon of the Righteous Army to conceal and ambush in the area of Tongguling on the north bank of the Qianjiang River; More than 3,000 defenders, all armed with arquebuses, reinforced a dozen artillery pieces and built defensive positions on the sandbar east of the city.

The remaining more than 3,000 defenders, together with Liu Xulei's second company and machine gun platoon, organized migrant workers to strengthen the Xunzhou city wall, focusing on the east and south walls along the river, building machine gun fire points, and waiting for the arrival of the Qing army in Wuzhou.

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Just when Liu Xulei and Jiao Lian were nervously preparing for the battle, the third company of the righteous army Ni Zhisheng who stayed in Baisha Town had already met the enemy.

This time, the Qing army from Yulin to the north, led by Shang Kexi's son Shang Zhixin personally, arrived in Yulin, Guixian County on the same day, and found that the Ming army of Yulin did not flee as before, Shang Zhixin was furious, and ordered the whole army to cross the river overnight, besiege Yulin, and divided more than 2,000 cavalry along the Yujiang River all the way north to Xunzhou, and responded to Geng Jimao's army in Wuzhou in the west, cutting off the communication between the Ming army of the two places.

Ni Zhisheng, the commander of the third company, has already received a report from the scout, he is an old soldier, he was originally a sailor of the Ming army, and after being captured by the Dutch, he became a "piglet", and after joining the rebel army in Temasek, he was appreciated by Liu Xulei for his courage in the Battle of Annam and his good management of the army in peacetime, and he was recommended to be promoted to company commander.

Since the Qing troops who came were all cavalry, and their movement speed was too fast to surround them, Ni Zhisheng decided to fight a positional battle.

Because this place is the only way for Yulin to go north along the river to Xunzhou, the mountain roads in other places are difficult to travel, there is no road suitable for cavalry marching, and the Baisha ferry is an important place to prevent the Qing army from Jiangdong from crossing the river to the north, so Ni Zhisheng does not dare to go too far.

Ni Zhisheng arranged for people to organize fellow villagers to go into the mountains for temporary refuge, leaving only a few brave and brave hundreds of young men to hide in the nearby woods, and then repeatedly inspected the terrain, and found that there was a small hill called Tianliao in the southwest of Baisha Town, which was the only commanding height nearby, so he decided to use the only two machine guns in the machine gun squad to seize the commanding heights on the mountain, and ordered three platoons to build a hidden position along the hillside woods, and they were not allowed to be exposed if they were killed.

The first platoon and the second platoon were also ordered to dig trenches on both sides of the official road by the river to build a frontal blocking position, which was about 1,000 meters away from the Tianliao position.

The more than 2,000 Qing troops set out early in the morning and burned all the way, and arrived near Tianliao before dark, led by a deputy general named Xu Erxian.

This cavalry is an old army brought by Shang Kexi from the northeast, and the members are not only Han Chinese, but also some of the Manchu and Mongolian Qing soldiers who were stuffed in like sand at the beginning of Huang Taiji.

Although Xu Erxian complained that Shang Zhixin sent him to Xunzhou, which was far away from Nanning, he was able to lead an elite iron cavalry to loot everywhere, and he also felt that it was delicious.

Xu Erxian stopped at the foot of Tianliao Mountain, squinted his eyes and looked at Baisha Town a few miles away, this is a riverside town with more than 100 households, at this moment in the afterglow of the setting sun is lying quietly in front of him, from a distance the town is mostly brick houses, mixed with several large houses with pink walls and tiles, because of the fertile land by the Yujiang River, coupled with the prosperity of the ferry water transportation, the people here live a relatively rich life.

Seeing that the sky is not early, Xu Erxian decided to camp here after occupying Baisha Town, and then rush to Xunzhou tomorrow morning, forty miles of hilly dirt road, and you can reach the south gate of Xunzhou in less than half a day.

A trace of greed flashed in Xu Er's eyes, raised his horsewhip, pointed to Baisha Town in front of him, and slashed forward, signaling the whole army to advance and occupy Baisha.

When the forward horse team rode forward and walked to a pond in the south of the town, the Qing soldiers on horseback drew their swords one after another, ready to speed up, and they thought that they could loot again, and they were so excited that they shouted again and again, and their round blood-red eyes seemed to have seen the screams and cries of the Nanban people and the crying and begging of the Nanban women when they were raped.

Just as the sound of the horse's hooves gradually became more urgent, suddenly from both sides of the pond official road sounded a dozen or so abrupt gunshots, the gunshots were not dense but extremely accurate, a bloody hole appeared in the back of the head of a general who rushed to the front, and he dismounted without saying a word, and seven or eight soldiers beside him also fell to the ground with long knives, planted on the horse's back, and one soldier even hung his leg on the stirrup, and was dragged by the galloping war horse for dozens of meters before stopping.

The Qing soldiers who followed up and had not yet started stopped one after another, looking at the front suspiciously, there was no Ming army in front, only a few heads looming behind a few small mounds on the side of the road hundreds of paces away.

One of the generals was furious after striking his horse and watching for a while, howling and signaling his men to charge with more than 100 horsemen, and he wanted to trample these daring southern barbarians to death with his horses' hooves and cut off their heads with his snowy sabers.

This time the gunfire was much more dense than just now, Ni Zhisheng ordered half of the soldiers to shoot, but only allowed single shots, he didn't want to scare the Qing army away, he wanted to use fishing tactics to provoke them, lure them to charge again and again, and eliminate them one by one.