Zhang Yue never thought that one day, he would be so embarrassed!

The army was defeated, and he could only flee as a wolf, hiding and trying to escape from this city that was once his base camp!

Defeating a battle is nothing, he has lost a lot of battles over the years, but he has never lost a battle like this!

The Huangzhou defense line, which he had high hopes for, could not stop the attack of the puppet Tang thief army at all, and when the Huangzhou defense line fell, the Hanyang Mansion City where he personally sat became the front line.

When he learned that the Huangzhou defense line had been overcome, he was actually able to judge that it was impossible to hold Hanyang Mansion City, but he wanted to break through!

But soon he just gave up!

Because he had already learned at that time that Jingzhou had also been conquered by the puppet Tang thief army, which meant that the passage into Sichuan had been completely blocked, and he could flee north, but the more than 20,000 puppet Tang thief troops stationed outside Hanyang City were fixed outside the city like iron nails, supervising the Chinese army to make a tentative breakthrough.

As a result, there was no accident, and he was driven back by the main force of the first army of Datang outside the city!

Relying on the city fortifications, they can still hold on to one or two, but out of the city, the huge combat effectiveness gap between the two sides has been thoroughly reflected, and the 30,000 people under his command will be, and they will not be able to break through the defense line of the first army at all!

In the process of trying to break through, Zhang Yue also discovered that the pseudo-Tang thief army outside the city actually had heavy cavalry!

At that time, his forward troops had just left the city, and before they could deploy, they were first attacked by about 1,000 light cavalry of the enemy, which was nothing, and more importantly, they were attacked by about 500 heavy cavalry!

The forward force composed of 5,000 people, after being pinned down by the frontal infantry of the puppet Tang thief army, was attacked by this heavy cavalry on the flank, and the result was very tragic, and the flank defense line collapsed instantly, and there was no resistance at all.

In the end, Zhang Yue had to order to retreat to the city!

The breakthrough failed, and Zhang Yue was forced to defend to the death!

But you can't hold it anymore, it's okay at first, the puppet Tang thief army was stationed outside the city to prevent them from breaking through, and didn't take the initiative to attack, but when the puppet Tang thief army had more and more troops, and finally the strength exceeded 100,000 people, he was completely desperate!

Holding on in despair, without any will, the defense line of Hanyang Fucheng, after being heavily shelled, did not hold it for a day, it was a complete collapse!

This is not only a huge gap in the combat effectiveness of the two sides, resulting in heavy casualties among the defenders, in fact, the exchange of fire between the two sides seems to be tragic, but the casualties on each other are not large, when the assault battalion troops of the Tang Army entered the city, the defenders in the city basically collapsed completely.

Of the 30,000 defenders, about seven or eight thousand were killed or wounded, and the rest either surrendered on the spot or collapsed and became deserters, and those deserters, in the end, were estimated to become prisoners of war.

When the army collapsed, Zhang Yue also thought about committing suicide, but he was persuaded by his subordinates, saying that although they lost the battle, they still had tens of thousands of troops, and Sichuan and Yunnan were still there, as long as they escaped, all hope was still there.

Zhang Yue himself doesn't care about life and death, but he is unwilling!

He is really unwilling, he has worked hard for so many years, established more than 100,000 people, and has become the mainstay of the resistance to the puppet Tang thief army.

So he finally gave up the idea of suicide and started the escape with his subordinates!

But at this time, the entire Hanyang Mansion City was already controlled by the puppet Tang thief army, and it was not so easy for him to escape.

In the afternoon, he was almost discovered by the patrol forces of the pseudo-Tang thief army several times, but he hid all the way, and finally hid now.

And half an hour ago, the commander of the Chinese army guard under his command went out to look for food and never returned, and the sound of gunshots and grenades came out of the direction he left, he just knew that the more than 20 people who went out to look for food were already very lucky, in order to avoid the pseudo-Tang thief army from finding them along the vine, he just left with people at that time.

It was now completely dark, but there was fire everywhere outside, and the sound of gunfire and explosions rang out from time to time, adding a touch of noise to the dark night.

But Zhang Yue knows very well that whether he can escape or not depends on tonight.

It's easier to hide in the dark.

But at dawn, the puppet Tang thief army completely blocked the nearby city, and searched and arrested inch by inch, and it was too difficult for him to successfully escape.

So although he was tired, he didn't stay long in this small mansion, and soon left with people.

But this time, he didn't run away with hundreds of people, but only brought three of his closest personal soldiers, and they were dressed up in disguise

As for the others, they also fled, but in another direction, and his other henchman would change into his clothes and flee, and that henchman was his son, who was about the same size as him, and although there was a difference in appearance, it was difficult to distinguish if he did not get close to identify him.

Zhang Yue did this because he felt that the goal was too obvious to escape with more than a hundred people, and now he didn't feel that these more than 100 personal soldiers could protect him.

Now there are tens of thousands of pseudo-Tang thieves in the city, what is the use of these 100 people!

It's better to have a small goal of three or two people, so that you can still get out of the city while you are in chaos, as long as you go out of the city, then it will be much safer!

Zhang Yue made a good calculation, and the officers and soldiers of the 12th Infantry Division, who came from behind, succeeded in finding more than 100 people who escaped 'Zhang Yue' in the second half of the night, but after a fierce battle, they searched for the captured prisoners, well, there was no Zhang Yue at all, only a middle-aged man dressed in Zhang Yue's official mansion.

The commander of the 35th Regiment who could lead the team was so angry that he shot Zhang Yue's own soldiers who had played him tricks on the spot and bought time for Zhang Yue.

What kind of preferential treatment for prisoners of war is not taken care of at this moment.

Then, they turned around and began to search for the real Zhang Yue.

But after such a delay, if you want to find Zhang Yue again, it will not be easy!

After dawn, they don't have a clue!

Because of the current Zhang Yue, there are only two descendants and relatives around him, and there are only three people in total, if you want to hide, just find a place to hide.

Therefore, the Tang Army that entered the city could only use the most helpless method to directly block the whole city, only allowing entry but not exit, and no one could do it!

Then continue to impose martial law in the city, and begin to search for the defeated soldiers in the city, and at the same time to find Zhang Yue!

But Zhang Yue is like a disappearing water droplet, he can't find it!

For three days, Zhang Yue was not found, and the senior generals who led the team were annoyed, and at this time, the Son of Heaven didn't care much about Zhang Yue's life or death, anyway, the two main forces of the superintendent, the superintendent left army and the superintendent central army were all finished.

Moreover, part of the Left Army and the Front Army are still in Hubei, and when the time comes, they will be killed.

Li Xuan's goal is not Zhang Yue alone, but 100,000 Huguang Governors, killing this army is equivalent to breaking the backbone of Governors, and it will be much easier to enter Sichuan and Yunnan to fight in the future.

So Li Xuan didn't care much about Zhang Yue's life or death!

In addition, it has been several months since the personal conquest came out this time, and it is impossible for this Jinling City not to go back all the time, taking advantage of the end of the Hanyang Campaign, the occupation is completely laid, and the follow-up southwest campaign is estimated to be garbage time, and Li Xuan is not in the mood to continue to stay in Huguang.

Therefore, four days after conquering Hanyang, the Son of Heaven returned to Beijing with a group of civil and military officials!

Before returning to Beijing, he personally made arrangements, and the follow-up battles in Huguang were still carried out by the First Army, the Second Army, and the Fifth Army, but after seizing Anlu Prefecture, Xiangyang Mansion and other places, the Fifth Army would break away from these two armies, and then go north to Xiangyang, and finally enter the area east of Jiayuguan in western Shaanxi, shouldering the heavy responsibility of directly attacking from the south of Shaanxi to the south and into Sichuan.

However, in the future, the Fifth Army will also become an important force of the Tang Army stationed in the northwest region!

In the vast northwest, it is not enough to rely on a fourth army in any case, and many local reserve divisions are actually the border army of the former Ming Dynasty, and their combat effectiveness is worrying.

The Son of Heaven returned to Beijing with his civil and military ministers, and the Fifth Army also left Hanyang and went directly north to De'an Mansion, and then to Xiangyang Mansion!

Even the troops of the First Army left Hanyang quickly, and they would move westward quickly, and their intended strategic goal was to capture Anlu Prefecture, then reach Jingzhou to join the Second Infantry Division, and then continue westward along the Yangtze River, preparing to capture Badong, and seize the passage from east to west into Sichuan.

Before the news came from Padang, the battle plan of the 7th Mixed Regiment to attack Padang failed, because when they finally crossed the mountains and mountains to reach Padang, they found that there were already tens of thousands of troops stationed in the Badong area, and it didn't take long for more than 6,000 troops of the right army of the Governor to rush here bypassing Jingzhou.

Faced with the 16,000 troops guarding this place, the 7th Mixed Regiment failed to sneak attack, and the strong attack was also unsuccessful, and in the end it had no choice but to ask for help from the rear.

As for the Second Army, when it was in the Susong and Huangzhou battles before, it was relatively expensive, and during the Hanyang Campaign, it also suffered certain losses!

At the same time, the Tang Army has a tradition that it likes to transfer the guns, ammunition and strength of one of the troops to replenish the other when both units have suffered losses.

In this way, one of the units can be quickly restored to its peak combat effectiveness, while the other unit rests in place, waiting for new recruits and replenishment of guns and ammunition.

This time, the Second Army, again assuming the role of supporting the First Army and the Fifth Army, transferred a large number of troops, guns, and ammunition to the First Army and the Fifth Army.

So for the next period of time, at least half a month, the Second Army will stay in the area centered on Hanyang to rest and replenish!

Seeing that many puppet Tang thief armies left one after another, and there were only more than 10,000 puppet Tang thief troops left in the city, and it was also the time when the large-scale search and arrest of the rout soldiers in the city was stopped, Zhang Yue, who had been hiding and hiding, was also relieved!