Although there is no cavalry battalion in the provisional fourth regiment, it does not prevent Gu Shizhong from continuing to pursue the Ming army, and he even puts the only dozens of reconnaissance cavalry on hand into it, of course, it is just to let them cover up and reap the results of the battle in the back, so that they can see the blood and increase the experience of the war.

The main force of the pursuit had to rely on those infantry units, but the speed of the infantry's pursuit was limited, and in order to avoid the enemy from killing a horse gun, the pursuing troops could not pursue quickly with open feet, but could only trot, and occasionally had to stop to sort out the formation.

After all, the strength of the provisional Fourth Regiment was already at a great disadvantage, and the troops that could pursue it were only more than 2,000 lightly armed troops.

Although the Ming army that fled in front of it ran away, and it was no longer in formation, after all, it was not a direct large-scale collapse in the battle, but a direct retreat under the leadership of the general.

Therefore, if you rush to pursue, there may be an accident, in order to avoid capsizing in the gutter, and the task of the provisional fourth regiment is not to say how many Ming troops are killed or wounded, as long as the Ming army is driven back to Chenzhou City.

So Gu Shizhong was more cautious when pursuing!

As a result, there was a very interesting scene outside Chenzhou City, more than 3,000 people chased more than 10,000 people in front of them, and this situation continued until the remnants of the Ming army who fled in front fled into Chenzhou City!

In this battle, at the cost of less than 20 killed and less than 100 wounded, the provisional 4th Regiment defeated a large-scale Ming army of more than 13,000 people, and achieved a super victory in killing more than 300 enemy troops, capturing more than 1,000 people, and breaking and fleeing the rest!

Judging from the casualties of the Ming army, it can actually be judged that the two sides did not engage in hand-to-hand combat at all, and the casualties of the Ming army were actually not serious, about half of them were killed and injured in the early shelling and mine explosions, and half were caused in the pursuit process.

Because of the lack of cavalry, the provisional 4th Regiment did not inflict too many casualties on the Ming army in the process of pursuit

From this, it can be seen that in fact, the defeat of the Ming army was largely due to their own shaking and collapse.

In other words, the victory of this battle was not because the provisional fourth regiment was awesome, but because the Ming army on the opposite side was too hungry, and its morale and will to fight were too weak.

Compared with the ease with which the Fourth Regiment won and successfully drove the Ming army in the direction of Chenzhou back to Chenzhou City, Sun Shuangxi, the commander of the first regiment in the direction of Yizhang, felt that he had encountered a rather tricky opponent.

Since the First Infantry Corps and other auxiliary units totaled nearly 5,000 people attacked, relying on the strong peripheral reconnaissance capabilities of the 1st Cavalry Battalion, they have always maintained the movement of the Ming army coming out in the direction of Yizhang.

And on the third day, an ambush encirclement was carefully constructed, but the Ming army on the opposite side was very cunning, and it turned abruptly on the predetermined route, so that it not only avoided the encirclement carefully constructed by Colonel Sun Shuangxi, but also went to the fourth transport regiment.

After perceiving this news, he immediately knew that the Ming army must have detected the movement of the Fourth Transport Regiment, and this was to attack the Fourth Transport Regiment.

While muttering bad luck, he also led his troops to chase after him, and at the same time sent fast horses to make the fourth transport group immediately leave the place to evade.

But on the second day of this pursuit, the 1st Cavalry Battalion reported that the main force of the division was discovered by the peripheral cavalry of the Ming army, and although the 1st Cavalry Battalion defeated and annihilated most of the cavalry of the opposing side, there were still a few Ming cavalry who broke through.

What does this mean?

This means that the Ming army in front of them already knows that there are a large number of Tang troops chasing behind them, because the scale of the first cavalry battalion is relatively large, and more than 400 cavalry is not a small number in this area in the south of Huguang.

What does it mean that so many cavalry appeared near Yizhang? But any sensible general of the Ming army can guess that there must be the main force of the Tang Army near here.

And the first step corps is undoubtedly the main force of the Datang Army!

In order to catch the 8,000-strong Yizhang Ming army, Sun Shuangxi led the troops to run wildly for three days in a row, but the first cavalry battalion in front of him came with news that the army had turned and went in the direction of Yizhang.

I knew with my toes that the Ming army must have sensed the crisis, and now they don't care about intercepting the transport team of the puppet Tang thief army, but want to go back to Yizhang as soon as possible and hide back.

These Ming troops are very cunning!

After reading the report of the First Cavalry Battalion, he said ruthlessly: "If you want to hide back in Yizhang, how can it be so easy!" ”

"Order, the whole army will set off immediately, turn around and go to Yizhang!"

"Since these puppet thieves want to return to Yizhang, then we will wait for them directly outside Yizhang City!"

In this continuous pursuit for several days, Colonel Sun Shuangxi felt that he had been teased several times, Nima's, if he didn't block the eight thousand Yizhang Ming Army, there would be nowhere to vent this anger in his chest, and if he didn't do it, he would have suffocated himself into internal injuries!

Several times he couldn't help but want to let the First Cavalry Battalion rush up to entangle the enemy first, and then lead the infantry to catch up, but although the cavalry of the First Cavalry Battalion has more than 400 people, it is actually difficult to continue in the face of most of the Ming army of more than 8,000 people.

So he could only hold back, let the First Cavalry Battalion maintain continuous tracking and monitoring, and eat the rear guard of the Ming Army when he had the opportunity, mainly attacking and harassing, and did not let the First Cavalry Battalion directly charge!

Now that the Ming army gave up attacking the supply line and turned back to Yizhang, he did not hesitate to give up the pursuit and went directly to Yizhang.

Even if he arrived at Yizhang City, he was very likely to face a double siege by many enemies inside and outside the city, but he did not hesitate to do so.

He has faith in his first step corps!

The First Infantry Division is the trump card unit in the Tang Army, and his first infantry regiment is the core infantry regiment in the First Infantry Division, and its combat effectiveness is absolutely the best in the whole army.

Even the Ming army, which is fighting against tens of thousands of people, is fearless, not to mention, he has the support of many auxiliary troops!

The first step of the corps turned around and went to Yizhang, but at the same time, Hao Bonian finally noticed that something was wrong.

Because he had already received quick horse reports from the First Infantry Corps, the Provisional Fourth Regiment, and other units, and the reports from many front-line troops, he could already see on the map that a huge encirclement was coming towards his First Infantry Division.

But Hao Bonian's reaction was definitely different from what the generals of the Ming army expected!

"Well, they're finally willing to give it up!"

"And it's all out of the army all at once, looking like this, I want to eat our First Infantry Division and the Provisional Fourth Regiment in one bite!"

When Hao Bonian said this, his expression was relaxed, not only did he not have the slightest fear and panic, but he showed an expression of leaping forward!

At this time, several officers next to him also said one after another: "What the general said is extremely true, we couldn't drive them out with all our efforts before, but now it's okay, they themselves all came out at once, so that we don't have to bother to attack Hengzhou or Chenzhou and Yizhang, and directly defeat them in a frontal battle in the field, and lay the foundation of the battle in a battle!" ”

"That is, although the enemy's forces are huge, with their communication capabilities and command system, how can they coordinate a campaign of seven or eight large and small troops, and the battlefield is hundreds of kilometers wide, such a battle, even we cannot do it!

Therefore, although there may be 100,000 people in this enemy army, it must be that each other's information is not smooth, and any mistake in any link will lead to the collapse of the overall situation!

Such a puppet thief army is like the paper tiger that His Majesty said, it will be broken with a single stab! ”

"What your colleagues and commanders said is extremely true, but we also need to pay attention to the fact that the enemy army is not only killed from Guiyang Prefecture, Linwu, Yizhang in the direction of Chenzhou and Chenzhou City in the south of Hengzhou Prefecture, but their forces in Hengzhou City have also begun to move south, and such a large-scale battle for the Ming army, aiming to encircle and annihilate the main force of our army as the core goal, it is impossible to have no reinforcements, so the Ming army in the direction of Changsha is also very likely to go south!"

"It is said that there are a lot of Ming troops in the direction of Changsha, and there are also the governors and border troops under Zhang Yue, the number of this batch of Ming troops is afraid that there are forty or fifty thousand people, and the combat effectiveness will definitely be one level stronger than these Ming troops we encounter now!"

"What are you afraid of, it takes time for the Ming army in Changsha to come over, and with this time, we can first defeat the Ming army in the direction of Guiyang Prefecture, and then converge with the headquarters of the First Infantry Corps and the Fourth Regiment in the rear to advance to the northwest, and then converge with the Third Infantry Division. In this way, the strength of our army will be more than 25,000 people, which is enough for us to fight the main force of the Ming army near Hengzhou! ”

"But what if the Ming army sees that our army is strong and directly retreats back to Hengzhou City?"

"Then we will first take Yizhang, Chenzhou and Guiyang, and then control the rest of Hengzhou Prefecture, and then divide our troops to Changsha, just a lonely city in Hengzhou, what's the harm in letting them go!"

From the discussion of everyone, it can be seen that in fact, the first army did not feel afraid of the Ming army's initiative to attack, but saw an opportunity, an opportunity to lay down the situation in the south of Huguang through a large-scale frontal decisive battle in the field!

The Ming army took the initiative to abandon the fortified city and came out to fight a field battle with them, which was nothing more than relying on the superiority of troops, and the Tang Army has always had a tradition of winning more with less!

Fighting with inferior forces and superior enemy forces is a matter of course!