The flight and commotion of the Japanese soldiers and the Goguryeo soldiers suddenly caused the already low morale of the Great Qing Kingdom to suddenly become chaotic, and the people near Hebei Prefecture and Yanjing, as well as any place on the official road to Shanhaiguan along the way, fell into this hopeless disaster.

The Japanese soldiers and the Goguryeo soldiers have plagued the land of China since Zhang Qiang in their historical era, and today they are scourging here again, and the heroic Northeast people, the Northeast people who specialize in eating sauerkraut and are responsible for being funny, have lost their bloodiness since their Zhang Shaoshuai left them and returned to Guannai, just like Germany was broken by the Soviets in World War II and did not dare to stab again for decades, losing the bloody nature of resistance.

The Japanese soldiers and Goguryeo soldiers burned and looted all the way, and actually killed and returned to Goguryeo, and then they were reprimanded by their masters, and returned to the countryside as their small landlords and small peasants with peace of mind.

However, the Qing Dynasty only captured less than 30,000 Japanese soldiers and Goguryeo soldiers, killed less than 20,000 of these soldiers and horses, died on the way, starved to death, was caught by bandits, killed as many as 50,000 people, and thus as many as 200,000 Goguryeo and Japanese soldiers dispersed.

There are as many as 300,000 green battalion soldiers, as well as Han military banners, Mongolian soldiers, and even eight banner soldiers along the way, seventy percent of the generals of these soldiers and horses were caught and killed afterwards, and their soldiers fled to 200,000 people.

However, the soldiers and horses of the Qing Dynasty also lost nearly 500,000 troops, and they had to mobilize 200,000 veterans of the Eight Banners who still had some combat effectiveness and blood outside the pass to enter the pass.

However, in this way, the combat effectiveness of the soldiers and horses of the Great Qing State was greatly reduced, and the strength of the troops also dropped to 600,000 soldiers and horses.

After a month, a large number of cities were abandoned, Hebei Prefecture became a horse and a flat river, Hu Kui's corps recovered most of Hebei Prefecture without spending a single soldier, and only a few cities near Yanjing were not abandoned.

In the First Cavalry Brigade, the brigade commander Hu Ze led the cavalry company directly under the brigade headquarters to rush up a hill and use binoculars to observe the city of Baoding Fufu, which was the last garrison city in the south of the Qing army.

Further north is Langfang and Tianjin County, but the cavalry brigade needs to take Baoding Mansion, because if Baoding Mansion is not taken, in case of rushing out of Baoding Mansion to flank the army, then the army will fall into chaos, now their garrison brigade has not been reorganized, the garrison brigade transferred from the rear is still transporting materials for the Corps, transporting these materials to the Corps' baggage regiment to set up a military station, and then the Corps' baggage troops are transported to the baggage battalions of each department of the Corps, and the baggage operation is sent to the military stations of each department.

The cavalry brigade has more than 6,000 troops, and now the complete establishment is only the brigade headquarters directly under the central government, and the other troops are scattered to various places to reconnoiter or attack the enemy's camp and the village's stockade of the landlords and gentry who have built a village to protect themselves, the more they go to the center of the enemy, the more this situation is, many people are difficult to leave their homeland, they chose the same method as the end of the Ming Dynasty, to protect themselves, and then wait for the enemy to come and take refuge in the enemy, but the Huaxia Kingdom will not let them go, and their fate is only to stay in the prisoner camp. The Chinese Kingdom will immigrate new people to come, and the people who are loyal to the Chinese Kingdom and have strong ideas should not be the old people who are full of Qing thoughts.

Baoding Mansion seems to be heavily guarded, and some reconnaissance advance companies have sent back information one after another, the enemy has 5,000 Goguryeo soldiers in the city, they are guarded by the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and they are held outside the city, and the gates of each tunpu have been sealed from the outside, and each tunpu has built as many as several hundred tunbao from 500 to 50 people, surrounding the Baoding Fufu City.

The periphery of Baoding Mansion is the green battalion soldiers, built with barbed wire, according to the horses, trenches, fortifications combined with the fortifications, the green battalion soldiers are about 30,000 troops, and there are 2,000 Manchu Qing soldiers, these are the peripheral troops.

There are 50,000 soldiers and horses of the Han army in the city, more than 10,000 people in the countryside and regiments, more than 10,000 Manchu soldiers, and 30,000 or 40,000 people.

After listening to the report, Hu Ze ran around the city of Baoding with the cavalry company directly under him, which was basically consistent with the intelligence, this is 100,000 soldiers and horses, if this point is pulled out, even if it is fought with the elite strength of the field army, if it is not scrapped a field division, it will definitely not be able to take it, the enemy also has artillery, although it is not as advanced as the Huaxia army, but it can also cause damage to the Huaxia army, Hu Ze felt that he encountered a hedgehog, full of thorns, no matter from which side, he had to prick a hand of blood, and he might even be hit hard, his cavalry brigade could not fight such a hard battle.

The forts defended by the Goguryeo soldiers were garrisoned by 500 troops, and there were more than a dozen small forts between the two forts, each with 30 to 50 soldiers, facing Shanxi Prefecture in the south and northwest, as well as this side in the southeast.

This is the first line of defense on the periphery of Baoding Province.

"When will the 16th Field Division of Dongfeng Po arrive?" Hu Ze had no choice but to ask the chief of staff behind him.

"It will take two days, the enemy is retreating too fast, we are still preparing in the rear, the enemy has completely abandoned the defense line on the border, our cavalry brigade is the fastest pursuit, all the troops, except for some lightly armed musketeers, even artillery is still slowly moving on the border."

The chief of staff said helplessly.

"Forget it, order our main force to move closer to the troops directly under the brigade headquarters, we will attack from the front, and release the cavalry battalion directly under the brigade headquarters to reconnoiter the enemy's movements within a radius of twenty miles, and at the same time tell the enemy that we have surrounded them, let them not move, and wait for us to fight." Hu Ze gave the order.

"It will take half a day to assemble troops, and we will not be able to fight today." The chief of staff said.

Hu Ze found a place to sit down and took off his military hat, he could only wait.

While he was waiting, a cavalryman suddenly shouted and broke into the brigade headquarters, "Brigade commander, brigade commander, those Goguryeo soldiers said they want to surrender." ”

"Ah, what?" Hu Ze jumped up, if these Goguryeo soldiers surrendered, then the enemy's first line of defense would have completely collapsed, and they could sacrifice a lot less.

When it was dark, the Qing army staff watched through the telescope as the Goguryeo soldiers who surrendered without firing a single shot, with the help of the cavalry of the Huaxia Army, climbed out of the fort one by one, and opened the gate where the fort was closed, and the fort instantly became the strongest line of defense to surround them from the first line of defense to defend them.

Where many cavalry companies were stationed, they took over the artillery, guns and ammunition.

"These Goguryeo soldiers are unreliable, so I said that they should all be killed, but the adults just don't listen, now it's okay, we are surrounded by enemies." The general grumbled depressedly.

(End of chapter)