Zhang Xianzhong, Ma Shouying, Liu Guoneng and other powerful leaders saw that the general trend had gone, and immediately issued an order to retreat from Xiangyang City.

One by one, they are even masters of escaping, and they find that they can't do anything and outrun eighty percent of their companions.

This result was expected by Huang Han, and the purpose of concentrating his forces to attack in a group was to not give the rogue a chance to divide and surround when he was close to the thieves.

The next chase was much simpler, nothing more than capturing prisoners and collecting captures, which took two full days to come to an end.

Zhu Yiming, the king of Xiang, has been on pins and needles these days, and he has climbed the head of Xiangyang City many times to peep at the boundless rogues outside the city, who knows that the Marquis of Dongping, who came to relieve the siege, killed the rogues in an instant.

The soldiers outside the city were in chaos, and it was impossible for the officials in Xiangyang City to release the exiles into the city, and it was also necessary to discuss the release of the guest soldiers into the city.

The "Red Banner Army" needed to manage several large numbers of displaced people and prisoners of war, and Huang Han did not ask Xiangyang Wenwu to enter the city for repairs.

King Xiang was inconvenient to go out of the city, so he sent the prince to accompany the military commanders, prefects, garrison generals and other civil and military generals to the "Red Banner Army" camp to invite the Marquis of Dongping into the city, and made a high-profile statement that the king of Xiang took out money and grain to reward the three armies, and invited the Marquis of Dongping to the palace for a banquet.

There was no need for Huang Han to offend the royal family for no reason, so he led a chief female soldier as a guard, and took Zhang Fengyi, Qin Yanyi and others to the palace to meet King Xiang.

After the frightened King Xiang enthusiastically stayed, the Red Banner Army was stationed in Xiangyang for ten days, during which they swept the surrounding eighty miles, and only after confirming that it was impossible to threaten Xiangyang for the time being, did they bid farewell to King Xiang and chased a few Liukou south.

Zhu Yiming was grateful to the Marquis of Dongping for his timely rescue, and also admired the "Red Banner Army" for its strict discipline and not harassing the locality, not only helping with 3,000 stones of grain, but also giving the emperor a recital sprinkled with more than 1,000 words, and praised Huang Han's achievements.

To the east and west, there were rogues looting, and the purpose of Huang Han's exclusive pursuit of the south was to kill Jingzhou, and he was going to swallow a piece of territory by the river to build a fortress, and to run a base in Huguang again.

The purpose of going south was very clear, and when it was known that the assembled rogues had scattered and fled again, Huang Han no longer had to worry about the "Red Banner Army" being surrounded by more than ten times the number of rogues.

Only one of the general cavalry was left around him to move with the main force of the Chinese army, and the remaining nine divided the general cavalry into three ways to form an encirclement and drive as many Liukou as possible to Jingzhou.

It was really a matter of time for the Liukou to develop and grow in the densely populated Huguang, and the Liukou who drove away were only one or two hundred thousand, and they robbed all the way and fled all the way to Jingzhou, and when they approached Jingzhou, they unknowingly crossed 100,000 again.

However, although the number of rogues is large, the combat effectiveness is basically none, and the vast majority of the team are ordinary people in Huguang who have just been coerced for a few days, and most of these people not only will not really work for the rogues, but may also rebel at any time.

The prefect of Jingzhou and the garrison generals and other civil and military generals did not know that these rogues were on the run, and those thieves had to flee to the Jingzhou border for fear of being killed by the "Red Devils".

The officials and old men only saw that there were hundreds of thousands of people and horses, and they were so frightened that their faces were as white as dirt, and at this time, Xu Mingyang, who had organized the defense of Pingshun County, stepped forward.

His general sentence belongs to the new official, and he has only been in Jingzhou for two months, and none of the civil officials here can afford him.

The reason is very simple, Xu Mingyang was not born on the right path of the imperial examination, and these civil officials born in Jinshi despise the officials who were born in the election of tribute, and they even despise the officials who elect the candidates.

Xu Mingyang didn't care about the contempt of those civil officials at all, and took the initiative to ask Ying to strengthen the city defense and investigate the spies, and he also took the initiative to ask to see Zhu Changrun, the king of Hui, who was in Jingzhou Mansion, and asked for support.

However, this vassal king had already converted to Buddhism, worshiped Buddha and Zen all day long, did not understand the affairs of the world, and gave Xu Mingyang a thousand stone of grain and two thousand taels of snowflake silver with the attitude of doing good deeds and sent him away, and Xu Mingyang never received any help after that.

At this time, the thirty veterans who retired due to injuries led by Xiao Fengyang, Ji Datong, and Shi Wenlong, and several of Xu Mingyang's family members who had participated in the Pingshun defensive battle played a big role.

In three days, hundreds of people in Jingzhou City who couldn't tell where they came were arrested, more than a dozen Qingpi who took advantage of the panic of the people to smash and loot were killed on the street, and then more than 200 suspected rogues who were hastily screened were pulled to the entrance of the vegetable market and cut off their heads in full view of everyone.

The general judgment of the killing decisively boosted the confidence of the soldiers and civilians of Jingzhou, and the scholars in the city were also shocked when they saw Xu Mingyang killing people without blinking, and chose to cooperate with the strategy of defending the city formulated by the general judgment.

In just a few days, Xu Mingyang, who took the initiative to take on the burden of defending the city, became famous, and his prestige in Jingzhou City increased day by day.

When the prefect, Bingbeidao and other officials were worried that the lonely city would be difficult to defend, Xu Mingyang took the initiative to personally lead the family to lead a general cavalry out of the city to Xiangyang for help.

Xu Mingyang has become the backbone of guarding Jingzhou, and the civil and military generals in the city are willing to let him go, and these people are still worried that the general judge will escape from Jingzhou under the city by moving troops.

In the end, the civilian and military generals discussed it, and still sent a cavalry selected by the hundred presidents to escort Xu Mingyang's wife and ten family members to Xiangyang to take the risk to move troops, and the leader was of course Xiao Fengyang.

The officials in Jingzhou are not stupid, they have heard that the Marquis of Dongping led the "Red Banner Army" to Xiangyang to relieve the siege of King Xiang, and they also know that the beloved daughter of the Lord Tongju is now the concubine of the Marquis of Dongping.

Therefore, they tried their best to leave Xu Mingyang to defend the city, and released Mrs. Xu to go to Xiangyang to rescue the soldiers.

Of course, the ten family members who participated in the escort were the best horsemen among the thirty people who followed Xu Mingyang, and three of them were retired cavalrymen of the "Red Banner Army".

Their combat skills will drop a lot due to the impact of injuries, but their combat experience and will to fight will not be affected, and they also have a carefully selected cavalry of the Ming Army by their side, and it is not a problem at all to deal with the pursuit and interception of the rogue bandits.

Moreover, the flag guards Xiao Fengyang, Ji Datong, and Shi Wenlong had already asked from the captured Liukou about the cause and effect, and knew that the Liukou was chased by the "Red Flag Army", and ran to the outside of Jingzhou City in a daze.

They knew that although there were many rogues, the old thieves accounted for less than one percent, and these people were all afraid of the "Red Banner Army", and they had no courage to attack Jingzhou, and the Ming cavalry of more than 100 people would only flee from the wind, and they would definitely not give birth to a desperate posture.

After Xiao Fengyang and Ji Datong got the exact news, they began to plan for the nominal head of the family, Xu Mingyang.

Xu Mingyang proposed to personally take some people to Xiangyang to move troops, but he was actually reminded by Xiao Fengyang.

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