Hu Dawei's goal was clear, he did not flee in the direction of Tongguan, but led his men and horses to Shanxi.

The vast majority of these men and horses are the elite border troops of the Ming Dynasty, with strong combat effectiveness, and they also lost more than eighty percent of the men and horses in the melee.

Hu Dawei was already covered with scars when he left the camp of the Liukou, but he was lucky that he was not fatally wounded, which should be attributed to the fact that he wore a set of all-steel cuirass given to him by Hanzi.

He thought about it, if he could survive this time and never die for anyone again, he must follow the "Red Banner Army" closely and follow the general in the future.

Hu Dawei ran in the direction of Shanxi to find Hanzi, he didn't know that Hanzi had been transferred, and now Chifengwei conquered Tartar.

He drank and chatted with Hanzi many times, liked Hanzi's boldness, and hoped to stay in Shanxi to work with Hanzi in the future.

Cao Bianjiao, Yang Guozhu, Wang Tingchen and Hong Chengchou, Wang Xizhong, Wang Zhaokun and others galloped to Tongguan.

They were unlucky, and at dawn they were surrounded and intercepted by the Manchurian cavalry, and many fierce battles caused the loss of more than half of the ironclad family under their command.

In the end, all their people were scattered, and even Hong Chengchou didn't know what to do, and Yang Guozhu and dozens of family members had to deviate from the official road to Tongguan and hide in Huashan.

Wang Tingchen was even more miserable, with only a few children left around them, and they chose to abandon their horses and run into the woods to escape the pursuit.

Cao Bianjiao's men and horses were relatively fierce, and after breaking through the interception, they still galloped towards Tongguan.

He still has five hundred cavalry left, and these people are definitely the elite after the big waves, and most of them are veterans who have followed Cao Wenzhao.

Tongguan accepted the rout and refugees almost every day, and the brave He Yongqing and Huang Huiwu led tens of thousands of soldiers and civilians to build fortifications in the first ten miles of Tongguan.

Because of the warm spring flowers, it becomes easy to dig the soil, and it is also because Tongguan is at the east end of the Guanzhong Plain, bordering the Yellow River in the north, the Qinling Mountains in the south, and Huashan Mountain in the west.

The fortifications built by He Yongqing were very simple, with trenches, mounds of earth, and barbed wire outside the breastwork, and 30 guns that could flexibly transport the Franc machine and one pound of guns were not enough to deploy a defense line of more than ten miles, so they could only preset the artillery positions to adapt to the enemy's attack.

With the defense line of ten miles before the pass as a buffer zone, the work of screening refugees and the Ming army can be roughly selected outside the city, and the possibility of being infiltrated by the enemy with spies to capture the pass is greatly reduced.

The good reputation of the "Red Banner Army" reflects its superiority at this time, as long as the Ming army and refugees flee here, they will take the initiative to report suspicious situations, and the suspected spies arrested during this period are as high as 1,000 people.

The current "Red Banner Army" did not kill Han people as much as possible, and tried not to kill traitors and rogues even though they knew that they were traitors and rogues, because all battalions had been notified that the more miners needed to capture the general, the better.

The soldiers and civilians of the "Red Banner Army" system knew that it was best to use labor prisoners who did not need to be paid wages to be miners, because recruiting good citizens to be miners was basically unpopular with less monthly money, and now they are given three silver dollars a month for food and housing.

Catch Tartars, build slaves, and rogue to work as miners, and the amount of work these people need to complete every day is more than half of the hired miners.

This means that 10,000 captives will save 400,000 silver coins for the "Red Banner Army" a year, and with these free profits, they can pay 10,000 "Red Banner Army" soldiers.

The "Red Banner Army" system is developing greatly, requiring a large amount of iron ore and coal, and the industrial revolution is actually quietly coming.

The industrial revolution of the Ming Dynasty did not need to launch a land enclosure movement, and it did not deliberately cause yeoman farmers to lose their land and have to go to the cities to become industrial workers.

Because the "Red Banner Army" is expected to be able to capture millions of rogues, Tartars, and slaves, and use the name of labor reform to make these people work as miners, mining, crushing stones, burning cement, and entering brick kilns to work as coolies.

At the end of their sentences, these people are equipped with labor skills.

When they find out that they will get a lot of money if they continue to do this kind of work in the future, it is estimated that more than half of them will stay as free workers, and may even become small leaders such as team leaders and team leaders who manage new prisoners.

The purpose of Huang Han's arrangement in Tongguan to store grain, raise soldiers, and reassure the people is, of course, to never give up this Xiongguan. Even if all the Ming troops withdrew, the "Red Banner Army" would have to take root in this important place.

There is food, equipment, and officers, and the location is between Shaanxi and Henan, which are in chaos, and to the north of the Yellow River is Shanxi Luliang Mountain and Zhongtiao Mountain, and this transportation artery will never be short of people.

It is believed that the longer He Yongqing, Ma Fulin, Huang Huiwu and others stay here, the more soldiers and horses they will have, and the Tongguan Pass will add to the blockage of Jiannu and Liukou, which will relieve too much pressure on the "Red Flag Army" stationed in other regions.

Cao Bianjiao's men and horses ran and engaged in encounters at the same time, and they fought hard and attrition all the way, but few of them took the initiative to surrender.

When approaching Tongguan, Cao Bianjiao was left with only 200 or so sleepy ironclad soldiers, and a Tartar light cavalry with more than 1,000 men and horses behind him was in pursuit.

Seeing that the city was in sight, Cao Bianjiao was even more worried, he was worried about running to the pass, and the defenders were afraid that the pursuers would follow into the pass and refused to open the door.

People are sleepy, tired, and hungry, and most of his subordinates, including Cao Bianjiao himself, said that they were covered in bruises and wanted to fight again to repel the pursuers, even if they could still muster up courage, but the horses could no longer sprint.

Suddenly, all the survivors shouted: "Red flag, wordless red flag, there is a 'Red Flag Army' ahead, we are saved." ”

"Cao Junmen, God has opened his eyes, the 'Red Flag Army' has finally appeared, woo woo woo ......"

Somehow, at this moment, Cao Bianjiao also felt that his nose was sour, and soon he found a team of "Red Banner Army" cavalry, the number was not large, only more than 300, and the leading member of the general had a big waist and a round voice.

He said: "All the Ming army listen well, in order to prevent the rogues and the slaves from being used, everyone must dismount and disarm to accept the interrogation, no need to worry about safety, with my 'Red Flag Army', all the Qing troops and the rogues are only sent to death." ”

The person who came was He Yongqing, he only felt refreshed for half a month, and he was even happier yesterday, because the 600 officers sent by the head of the family had already arrived, and the leader was Ma Fulin, an old acquaintance, who was appointed as the commander of the first battalion.

He Yongqing had already selected more than 1,000 innocent cavalrymen of the Ming Army to form five generals, and the original one of the 360 cavalrymen of the "Red Banner Army" had at least become army commanders.

In order to take in more fleeing civilians and the scattered Ming army, he not only led the doubling of the number of infantry and artillery to build a defensive line and establish a buffer zone in the ten miles before the pass, but also let five general cavalry take turns to probe the enemy situation and seek fighters.

The intention is very simple, to find a small group of chasing soldiers, whether it is the Qing army or the rogue, first fight and get over the addiction.