When Li Yan returned to the capital, he sent a pigeon letter to Chen Yongfu in Puzhou, asking him to lead his troops north and seize Zhending and other places. At the same time, Feng Cheng was sent to join Liang Zhenfang's 1,000 cavalry to go south to occupy Baoding. He also sent a letter to the troops in Cangzhou and Dezhou, asking them to occupy Hejian and Jizhou respectively, and first exterminate all bandits there and restore social order.

At this time, the troops led by Chen Yongfu were no longer his previous troops. His former subordinates were all allocated land and houses, and after two months of training, they were scattered and integrated into other units. So in this force, only a small part of it was his original men.

However, these subordinates are no longer confidants for Chen Yongfu. He led these subordinates for several years, but he could only barely keep these subordinates from starving, and invested a lot of money in the maintenance of the family team. This time, Li Yan gave them the land, and they were naturally grateful to Dade, and they would no longer miss Chen Yongfu, the old handsome.

As for Chen Yongfu's family troops, Li Yan did not move, but all rations were gone. In other words, these family members are not Li Yan's subordinates, and Chen Yongfu supports them by himself. However, Chen Yongfu no longer has the right to distribute the troops' food and salary, these are the responsibility of the logistics department, and Chen Yongfu cannot intervene. So now there are only twenty people in his family, and the rest either officially joined Li Yan's troops, or went back to their hometown.

After Chen Yongfu received Li Yan's order, he discussed it with his deputy Zhou He, and then immediately prepared, and took 3,000 troops north a day later.

At this time, the daimyo and the officials and soldiers of the Daimyo and Hirohei in the middle ground finally did not need to be nervous anymore. In the past six months, they have really suffered. Li Yan didn't come, and the Dashun army didn't accept it, and later it was said that the Qing soldiers had entered the customs, but they still didn't come.

Now that Li Yan's troops have finally fought, the final decision on whether to fight or surrender can finally be made. In the previous time, the gentry and soldiers had accused and abused each other, and there were even a few skirmishes, all of which were fought between the resistance and the capitulation faction. But after they finished fighting here, there was still no force coming.

When Chen Yongfu and Zhou He led their troops to various county seats, they didn't have to fight, and they would open the city and surrender. Because almost all the officers and soldiers are willing to surrender, those civil officials and a few generals who want to be loyal to the Ming Dynasty are either disheartened or turned into bones in this small half a year, and naturally there is no resistance.

The local people, especially the peasants outside the city, were happy to bring something to reward the army, but they would all ask, when would they be able to give them the land? It's not that these people are honest, but they were frightened by Li Yan's efforts to suppress bandits. Without Li Yan's troops to call the shots for them, they wouldn't dare to mess around on their own.

Chen Yongfu was completely dead when he saw this situation, so he honestly served under Li Yan, and was satisfied to be a hero from the dragon and earn a knighthood for his own family. Now that Li Yan not only has the support of the people, but also beat out the Qing army that entered the army, what else does he have to hesitate about?

They did not leave any troops behind, and they still let these former officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty who had just surrendered serve to maintain local stability. They knew that there were Qing troops in the area of Zhending and Jingcheng, and although the Qing army had withdrawn, they did not dare to be careless.

As for whether these surrendered places will cut off their back roads, they are not worried. They left their backs to these demoted officials, but these states and counties were also under the attack of them and Puzhou. These demoted officials are all smart people, and naturally they will not kill themselves.

The Qing troops of Zhending and Jingcheng also received orders to retreat at this time, but their retreat was not easy. There were nearly 10,000 Dashun troops in the direction of Guguan, and they still had millions of taels of silver to be transported. So they could only let part of the troops escort the booty first, and then the main forces followed.

They knew that although Li Yan's troops were powerful, they were not very numerous, so they planned to avoid Li Yan's large army and go all the way north out of the pass. As for the other Ming Dynasty troops, they didn't pay attention to it at all. These thousands of them are enough to make the Ming army, which has already fallen into the country, retreat.

Unfortunately, however, when they went north to the vicinity of Dingxing, they encountered Feng Cheng's troops. Although their scouts discovered Feng Cheng's scouts, their scouts were not the opponents of the other party, so their whereabouts were finally revealed.

The messenger of the Qing army had already told them about the characteristics of Li Yan's troops, so naturally the Qing army would not fight hard with Feng Cheng's troops. They began to retreat south, while pushing boxes of silver off their carts in an attempt to disrupt the enemy. If Li Yan's troops were in chaos, they would naturally be able to strike a backhand blow and then retreat calmly.

However, Feng Cheng's troops were not chaotic at all, whether it was the cavalry pursuing in front or the infantry behind, they were not interested in the gold and silver on the ground at all, and they still pursued all the way.

And Feng Cheng left a wing to clean up the gold and silver. Their troops had strict rules on the confiscation of booty, and everyone supervised each other, and those who possessed their belongings were not only severely punished, but also ruined. Seeing that their territory is getting bigger and bigger, and there are more and more troops, no one is willing to give up a good future for a little money.

Feng Cheng and Liang Zhenfang continued the pursuit with their troops. The Qing army fled all the way, not only discarding millions of gold and silver, but also giving up the six red-coated cannons and other baggage, so that Li Yan's cavalry did not catch up.

These thousands of Qing light cavalry wanted to turn around and fight a decisive battle with the pursuing cavalry several times, but Liang Zhenfang did not give them a chance, and always turned around and fled immediately, inflicting some casualties on them at the same time. After a few times, the Qing troops did not want to fight, but just blindly fled, but the casualties were much smaller.

When they finally dodged left and right and ran to Jizhen, they found that there were more Li Yan defenders here, and they had almost no chance to get out of the Great Wall Pass. So they had to bump into each other at the passes. However, there were interceptions in front and pursuers in the back, and in the end they could only rush into a small valley in the middle of nowhere, and climb over a section of the Great Wall that had already collapsed for most of them, at the cost of leaving all their horses within the Great Wall. And they totaled nearly 6,000 people, and after leaving the Great Wall, there were only more than 3,000 people left, nearly half of which were lost.

Feng Cheng and Liang Zhenfang were very helpless, but they had to send someone to report the battle situation to Li Yan. Fortunately, they did not gain nothing, at least they also intercepted a large amount of gold and silver, cannons and baggage carried by the Qing army. As for the exact amount, he did not know, but while he left the troops to clean up the spoils, he sent someone to report to Beijing, asking for troops to be sent to escort him.

However, looking at the abandonment of the Qing army along the way, those gold and silver will not be less than one million.

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