Chapter 601: The Emperor's Decision
"Stop, kill the escapees!"
Behind the infantry formation, He Shixian roared like madness.
Behind him were the cavalry in formation.
These are his family members, as a traditional general, if you don't bring five hundred family members to the battle, you will never be able to go to the battlefield, and these family members are also his supervising team, and at this moment, in the face of the collapse of the battle situation ahead, these family members have also become his last hope......
Well, it's useless to be a housekeeper.
Tens of thousands of infantry in front of them rushed back like a bombing camp, and the defense line composed of 500 families could be of any use.
Then it was washed away.
He Shixian angrily slashed the iron whip and tried to smash those routs, but the routs also had weapons in their hands, and they really didn't dare to shoot at him, but when thousands of spearmen swarmed and fled, it was normal for a few spears to pierce him.
He Shixian had just knocked down a rout, and seven or eight spears poked at him, and he swung an iron whip to smash it as if he had been under the city of Shenyang in the original history, but a spear was still on his chest, although the thickened plate armor on his body blocked the spearhead, but the force still made him fall down the horse. Fortunately, the pro-soldiers next to him reacted quickly, grabbed him, and dragged him to his side, He Shixian, who had fallen off the horse, almost stepped on the rout soldiers who rushed below and got on the horses of the pro-soldiers, and then silently watched the rout surging past with grief and indignation.
The torrent rushed past him at all sides.
Behind them were the pursuing Jingnan troops, one by one, carrying spears and muskets with bayonets.
But it's not a pursuit, at least the word doesn't exist.
Because all the soldiers who were caught up surrendered as quickly as possible, none of them stopped to resist at all, but those who pursued did not care about accepting their surrender at this time, and they all ran away and who was willing to stop, just pointed back and asked them to go over and wait, and then continued to pursue.
Until they met He Shixian.
The soldiers quickly gathered in formation, and the Jingnan army stopped one after another, and then quickly lined up with spears and muskets to prepare for battle, and then the family members looked at He Shixian, and the Jingnan army also looked at the obvious commander.
He Shixian......
What else could he do!
This is not desperate with Jiannu in Liaodong, in the final analysis, it is not even a suppression of rebellion, the emperor has not said that Yang Xin rebelled, in fact, anyone who dared to say that Yang Xin rebelled was all dismissed and driven out of the court, as if hiding his ears and stealing the bell, refused to admit the reality. Therefore, Yang Xin is still an upright Yingguo Gong, and at present, these soldiers are also all dignified Nanjing garrisons, and they are still on the list of the Governor's Mansion and the Military Department of the Five Armies, and they have nothing to do with the word rebels.
Even if they were at war with the imperial court, they were still not a rebellion.
In the final analysis, what the court is most afraid of is not Yang Xin's secession, but his cutting off grain to the north, and the most he is cutting off is that the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang are unlucky, and he is completely unlucky to cut off grain to the north.
Surrender at this time!
Poor He Shixian faced the muzzle of a gun in front of him, and finally sighed and threw away his iron whip.
Then the pro-soldiers also threw away their weapons.
Lu Xiangsheng watched this scene silently.
"Yixingbo."
You Shiwei said cautiously.
His brother's side had also been defeated, but You Shigong was running faster than He Shixian, and was fleeing back with his own soldiers at this time.
The vast majority of the infantry behind him had already surrendered.
Only a small number escaped back.
However, Lu Xiangsheng was not a complete failure, because his core cavalry was fine, at most Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang lost some, You Shiwei's department did not lose at all, and there were still Luo Xiang's troops and those Mongolian cavalry on the southern front, at least on this battlefield, he still had the strength to fight.
"Retreat!"
Lu Xiangsheng said calmly.
"Yixingbo, we can trap them, as long as we cut off their food, it won't be long before we will naturally trap them!"
You Shiwei said.
Of course, this is just a statement.
He also knew that the original Xuyi's Jingnan army had also begun to move north, and there were still three armies in the south, if these infantry continued to go north to reinforce, the cavalry would not be able to stop it, and this was no longer the time for the cavalry to crush the infantry.
Even the infantry began to overwhelm the cavalry.
At least on the battlefield, it was already difficult for the cavalry to break through the infantry formations.
But the siege is still an option.
After all, the infantry can form a formation to withstand the cavalry, but those supply teams that transport food and ammunition cannot withstand the cavalry, as long as the cavalry is scattered and constantly attacks the transport team on the southern front, and can cut off the transportation line, then Yang Xin will not be able to hold it in the end. The navigation of the Hun River is not a big deal, this is not the Yangtze River and the Yellow River, the depth of the Hun River cannot prevent the cavalry from wading through the water, and it is not difficult to intercept the transport ships on the Hun River. This is also the most important tactical means of cavalry against infantry, and large-scale battles like this are not the most common, but the result is that the war lasts......
"No need, let's solve the trouble for Your Majesty instead of adding to the trouble, withdraw the troops!"
Lu Xiangsheng said.
Then he turned and walked away with the guards.
You Shiwei looked at the eunuch who was in charge of the army with some confusion......
Of course, there must be eunuchs who oversee the army.
And this time, the person who came to supervise the army for the nine thousand years old was Tu Wenfu, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.
"Shuntianfu was shaken all over the country, Tongzhou and other places were killed and injured countless times, the Xishan flood passed through the capital, and there were big floods in many places in Beizhili, long live the Lord has no energy to consume it with Yingguo Gong anymore, if it is a big trouble, Yingguo Gong really broke off his luck, and the capital should be starving everywhere. This battle is over, since we already know that we can't beat him, let's take a step back from each other while they haven't completely torn their faces, as long as Ying Guogong doesn't continue to go out, Long Live Lord will give him Jiang and Zhejiang for the time being.
It's not that he doesn't pay taxes.
If he continues to fight, he can hold on, but we can't hold on, he really broke his luck, and we people and horses don't even have anything to eat. ”
Tu Wenfu said in a low voice.
You Shiwei didn't ask again, and hurriedly urged his subordinates to give the order to withdraw the troops.
Apocalypse really doesn't have the energy to fight.
Although the original big explosion in history, this time because Yang Xin had already scattered and stored the gunpowder of Wang Gong Factory, and in fact, two large-scale decisive battles in two years also almost exhausted the gunpowder stored by Wang Gong Factory. Lu Xiangsheng alone went south this time, and almost emptied all the gunpowder magazines, not to mention the war, the 100,000 army was tested once, and the gunpowder consumed was probably 100,000 catties.
Boiling for 100 days is not as good as the general's cannon.
The consumption of gunpowder by firearms is a very staggering figure.
In the end, the explosion at Wang Gong's factory did not happen.
At present, the total amount of gunpowder in the various warehouses in the capital may not be 200,000 catties!
But the cause of the explosion at Wang Gongchang, that is, the earthquake in the area of Beijing, is sure to happen.
Not only the capital, but also the entire Shuntianfu and even some places in Beizhili have been hit by earthquakes of varying scales.
At the same time, it was accompanied by earthquakes and frequent floods in various places.
In particular, not long ago, the Xishan flood passed directly through the city in the capital, which caused heavy losses, the entire capital was almost completely soaked in the flood, Hebei from north to south was almost full of earthquake and flood news, and even the farthest Datong had an earthquake, it can be said that the entire north was shrouded in various disasters.
Apocalypse really didn't have the energy to continue fighting with Yang Xin.
Nine thousand years old still has some money there for the time being, and he can indeed maintain it, but that money has been saved little by little over the years, once Yang Xin stops transporting it, it won't take more than a year, and it will be swallowed up by the two gold-devouring beasts of war and disaster.
What did he do to sustain himself at that time?
Tianqi is very sober-minded, and he can continue to hold on to Yang Xin's secession of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and since Yang Xin promised to pay taxes, he will not give him no food, but he will not be able to hold on to the protracted war, as for Yang Xin's ambition to become big and Yang Xin......
So what's the solution?
Anyway, now it can't be beaten on the battlefield.
Of course, it's easy to say anything if you can fight, even if you don't say it's a steady win, as long as there is hope of victory, then you can work hard, but now it's a fart like this, the two new armies alone spent more than two million taels, and as a result, they collapsed without even firing a shot.
How can such an army fight?
It's ironclad that you can't win the battle, and you still have a fart!
With the retreat of Lu Xiangsheng, Luo Cheng and other troops who were originally blocked on the southern front also retreated, and they fought very hard, and the king of Shunyi alone lost more than 1,000 cavalry, and the worst king of Shunchang still had less than 1,500 cavalry left. The 15,000 allied troops of the Mongol tribes when they originally went south, including the epidemic plus the battlefield losses, were finally less than 9,000, and at this time, the epidemic problem among them would definitely intensify.
At this time, too, they began to languish.
In this way, Lu Xiangsheng's decisive army finally withdrew to Xuzhou, leaving a complete cavalry army and five cavalry armies that had to lose at least nearly 20%.
The infantry was completely gone.
Both armies surrendered in pursuit of the Jingnan army.
They are not cavalry can retreat quickly, although their casualties add up to less than a thousand, most of them are still trampling on each other, the rest is caused by artillery bombardment, although soon Sun Yuanhua arrived in Xuzhou with three infantry corps, but in fact Lu Xiangsheng has lost the ability to attack......
It's also hard to defend.
After all, Xuzhou doesn't even have a city.
Yang Xin's army continued northward and soon reached the periphery of Xuzhou.
At this time, the Zhejiang Front Army in the south had also surrounded Hangzhou.
There were still 70,000 officers and soldiers, Su Song regimental training, Zhejiang regimental training, or the former Datong Army, a total of 70,000 people on the defense line from Changshu in the north to Hangzhou in the south, and the five Jingnan troops from the south to the north, plus the same five Jingnan troops from the west to the east, including the marines, a total of 100,000 Jingnan troops. Fortunately, at this time, Ying Guogong started his routine of not fighting in the field again, harvesting wheat and then planting seedlings in various places, and then fighting when he was busy with farm work.
Of course, there is no need to fight anymore.
Because just half a month after Lu Xiangsheng's defeat, the nine thousand years old personally arrived in Haizhou on the Yang family's speedboat with the holy decree, and then rushed to the front line in Xuzhou......
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