"Steady! Steady! Qin Zhensu shouted.

But now she is surrounded by only short-term recruits, and most of the soldiers are on the battlefield for the first time. This kind of soldier, in the words of Grandpa Yue, can still have saliva in his mouth and can grasp the barrel of the gun in his hand, which is already a rare high quality. And that's when we didn't face defeat. Although Qin Zhensu has always been known for being good at training, he will not be stronger than Grandpa Yue of the previous dynasty in this regard. So how can these recruits survive in the face of such a defeat? As soon as the rout army rushed, Qin Zhensu's army was also involved, and a large number of soldiers lost their weapons and ran away, shouting as they ran:

"Run for your life!"

"Oh no, no, Gollum is coming!" (It should be Zhang Bingzhong who came, but because of fear, his voice changed, so much so that he shouted "Zhang Bingzhong" like "Gu Dong")

Zhang Rujing rode a horse, led the army, chased the rout, in the battle just now, he shot an arrow to kill the guard Zhang Lin, and then the enemy collapsed completely, so he drove the enemy army, chased all the way, and then met Qin Zhensu's troops head-on.

At this time, although Qin Zhensu was still trying to maintain the military formation, in fact, her military formation could not be maintained at all. At this time, Zhang Rujing rushed up with thousands of people from his headquarters, and Qin Zhensu's Sichuan army suddenly collapsed.

Qin Zhensu looked around, saw that the overall situation of the collapse had been formed, and knew that he was no longer powerless to return to the sky, so he sighed and said to Qin Zuoming: "Zuoming, we are defeated, escape!" ”

With that, she turned her horse's head and fled behind.

Zhang Rujing chased and killed them all the way, killing the officers and soldiers all over the field. With the defeat of the Sichuan army, the passage for Zhang Bingzhong and Luo Mengde to enter Sichuan was immediately opened, and by this time, Yang Fei's plan to encircle and annihilate Zhang Bingzhong and Luo Mengde on the border between Huguang and Sichuan could be said to have been completely bankrupt.

In the process of Zhang Bingzhong's entire breakthrough operation, although Yang Fei learned that Li Guoqi's army mutinied, he immediately ordered Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong to send troops to attack the "thief army", so as to contain Zhang Bingzhong's possible breakthrough and win time for the redeployment of the Sichuan army. However, Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong's movements were extremely slow, and they kept reporting that they were ambushed by the "thief army", so it was difficult to move. But in fact, they didn't have any fights with Zhang Bingzhong and Luo Mengde at all. And after Zhang Rujing made a decisive breakthrough, their speed became faster, almost escorting the "thief army" through the mountains and approaching Chongqing.

After escorting the "thief army" all the way out of the encirclement, Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong also reported to Yang Sichang together, saying that they pursued the thief army all the way and beheaded more than 2,000 "thief soldiers". And they can really take out fresh human heads that have just been cut off. As for whether these heads were borrowed from Sichuan villagers, then God really knows. Anyway, the population in the Dachang area has indeed decreased significantly, but these people must have been killed by the "thief army".

When Qin Zhensu retreated to Chongqing, the remaining army in her hands was less than a thousand people. Qin Zhensu knew that it was impossible to hold Chongqing with such a few people, so she let the army rest for a while, and then prepared to abandon Chongqing and return to her own turf stone pillars. At this time, Shao Zhiyuan, the governor who also fled all the way, also ran to Chongqing and found Qin Zhensu.

"Where is General Qin going?" Shao Zhiyuan asked.

"There are less than 1,000 people in General Mo's hands now, how can he hold Chongqing? Naturally, I retreated to the stone pillar first. Although Qin Zhensu was very dissatisfied with the rout caused by Shao Zhiyuan's blind command, he still replied seriously.

"Is this Chongqing really unable to hold on?" Shao Zhiyuan asked again.

Qin Zhensu looked at Shao Zhiyuan, and saw that his face was pale, like a dead man, although he commanded blindly and ruined the battle, but thinking of this Governor Shao, when he presided over the affairs of Sichuan, he was still honest and honest, and he was a good official. also knows that after this defeat, others will not be able to do it, and Shao Zhiyuan will probably not be able to keep his head. Li Guoqi still has soldiers in his hands, and the court will demote him by one level at most, and he will be fined a penny; As for Governor Yang Fei, he can also put all the blame on Shao Zhiyuan; And Zuo Liangyu and He Dalong and others only have merit and no responsibility. After such a big defeat, almost all the blame will fall on Shao Zhiyuan's head, if he can't make credit immediately, I'm afraid that he will really have only one way to die.

So Qin Zhensu said: "Lord Governor, this Chongqing is really undefendable, our army is newly defeated, and the number is small. The thief army has won a new victory, and the morale is high. This city will not be defended. The old woman returned to the stone pillar, and the stone pillar barbarians were about 20,000 people. The old woman with 20,000 people will probably be able to fight these thieves. It's just that so many soldiers are used, but the military expenditure is a lot. The old woman took out all the savings of her family for several generations, and she could probably have half of it, and the rest would depend on the governor Zhang Luo. If the governor can get this money and food, he may be able to minimize the damage caused by the thieves to Sichuan. ”

Shao Zhiyuan listened, but shook his head and said, "General Qin, I don't have a penny here now." If there is really money, how can Li Guoqi's subordinates mutiny? This is probably fate! General Qin's high righteousness, Shao Mou's heart understood, but this money and food really can't be changed. ”

"Governor Shao......"

"If General Qin wants to retreat, please hurry up." Shao Zhiyuan seemed to get rid of his sad mood, "I also want to turn to Chengdu...... Hope ......"

At this, he sighed again. Then he said: "I still have some things, so I won't bother General Qin anymore." With that, he bowed his hand and walked out of the barracks.

……

At the same time, in Henan, the situation was becoming more and more unfavorable to the imperial court. Although until now, Huang Zide has not captured any other state cities, but he has captured five or six county towns in a row. Every time he hit a county seat, Huang Zide would open a warehouse to release grain, so the victims of the entire Henan were gathering towards Ruzhou, and Huang Zide chose to be strong among these displaced people, and quickly expanded his team. His army has now grown from just over 2,000 when he first left Shangluo Mountain to more than 50,000. This is even the result of Huang Zide's deliberate control of the size of the army.

Of course, these people still lack training, and it may be very difficult for them to directly face the imperial court army in a short period of time. And Huang Zide also lacked enough equipment to arm them. Up to now, most of the people in this army still have only one spear, and nothing else. In half a month, they couldn't train anything, at most they could only understand that they would rush forward when they heard the sound of the drums, and retreat when they heard the gong. In the past, most of the soldiers in Huang Zide's army only had this level. Anyway, Huang Zide only uses them as consumables. But now, Huang Zide, who is more ambitious, is unwilling to casually consume these people who defected to him as cannon fodder. Because in doing so, in the words he heard from the Xuanyi Taoists, "it is really a huge waste of resources." ”

In addition, the equipment of the 2,000 or so people brought out by Huang Zide from Shangluo Mountain can be said to be a change of shotgun. Now most of the equipment for the Mandarin Duck Formation is in place, with large shields, spears, and even armor and bird guns and artillery. It's the wolf wolf, and now there are few people in the Jokhang army who can use the mandarin duck array, so there is no such thing. But it's also very easy to build this thing, find a bamboo forest, and then you have it. Therefore, now the combat effectiveness of Huang Zide's line has been greatly improved. If the imperial court still looks at him with old eyes, it will probably suffer a big loss.

Half a month is not enough to train those newly annexed homeless people into soldiers, but it is not a big problem to use it for the training of veterans. In fact, only the training of artillery is slightly more complicated, but fortunately, they have also conducted some training with elm guns before, and they can barely get started.

Therefore, up to now, Huang Zide's army, on the whole, can be said to have reached a new level in combat effectiveness. Now it's time for the next step.

According to Xuan Yi's estimate, it is impossible for the imperial court to let them do things in Henan for a long time. Most of the imperial court would have sent troops from Huguang, or Shandong, Anhui, and possibly even from Jiubian to suppress them. The question now is how quickly the imperial court will move troops.

"In fact, for us, the faster the court can move troops, the better." When discussing this issue, Xuan Yi said to everyone, "The faster the imperial court deploys troops, the less prepared it means, and the more chance we have to annihilate them in one fell swoop." Once we destroy this attack of theirs, the balance of power between us and the imperial court will begin to gradually reverse, and the imperial court's offensive ability will disappear in a short period of time, and we will really have the space to occupy a piece of territory and gradually develop. On the contrary, if the imperial court calms down, prepares little by little, and then transfers the army together, it will be troublesome for us, and Henan is a place of four wars, and it is not suitable as the foundation for seizing the world. They don't come for a long time, what should we do, can we really take root in Henan? ”

Hearing this, everyone burst out laughing. After laughing, Huang Zide said: "What the Taoist chief said is yes, we have to find a way to let the imperial court send troops over quickly." Haha, after so many years, this is the first time that my Lao Huang is looking forward to the officers and soldiers coming soon! Let's talk about it, how can we get the officers and soldiers to come over quickly? ”

"If you want me to say it!" Liu Erhu immediately said, "Let's find a big city to fight, preferably a big city that can make the imperial court feel pain." In this way, the imperial court can only send troops over quickly, right? ”

"Erhu, this method is good!" Liu Jiexuan also agreed loudly, "Where should I fight?" ”

"I think we should open the seal!" He Zhangqi shouted, "Kaifeng is a big city, and there is a king of Zhou in the city?" It was a relative of the emperor. I don't believe that we went to open the seal, and they didn't hurry up to save it. ”

"Kaifeng is a big city, it's not easy to fight, right?" Tian Xiu became enlightened.

"Hey, Brother Xiucheng, we don't really want to knock Kaifeng down, we just need to urge the court to send soldiers out immediately, right?" He Zhangqi said.