On the frontal battlefield, Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses collapsed after holding out for two hours. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

Wu Sangui had already retreated two quarters of an hour ago, and the 20,000 men who had been cut off had become a lone army that had been abandoned. From the morning to the present, 20,000 people have been killed by mortar shells, at least 5,000 people, and there is no morale to hold on to the trenches. No matter how the officers yelled, the soldiers were no longer willing to wait for death in the tunnels.

First, the soldiers in the western section began to disperse, discarded the Jiangbei guns, and fled to the south. At first, the rout of these soldiers did not cause the collapse of the entire ranks. The Overseer camp still had the fighting spirit to maintain the morale of the whole army, and shot at the deserters.

Soon, however, as the number of casualties continued to rise, even the Overseers in charge of the battle could no longer control the situation. The wave of rout swept across the entire front, and in a panic, the soldiers jumped out of the trench with their heads in their hands, desperately fleeing in the direction of Nanjing.

There were even soldiers who fled and shot at the Warlords.

In the end, there were too many soldiers attacking the Overseer, and the Overseer was completely overwhelmed by the rout, so they could only flee with the rout. So the soldiers fled without hindrance, and fled as if the dam had collapsed.

Li Xing laughed when he saw the rout of the Jiangbei Army.

He shook his hand violently and shouted: "Charge, rush up to chase and kill the Jiangbei Army, don't let any of them go!" ”

The flag commander waved the flag and passed Li Xing's order to the entire front. Fifty-five thousand Tiger soldiers rushed down the mountain like fierce tigers and rushed out of the trench.

Boss Wei led his infantry platoon to the front. This veteran who has been in the army for 11 years is now an experienced junior officer, and he is brave and tenacious in battle. At this time, his twenty-eight soldiers and four squad leaders followed him, running wildly with guns in their hands, crossing the trenches of the Jiangbei Army and chasing them all the way to the south.

After eleven years of training, Boss Wei has a very good physical fitness, far surpassing the other soldiers under his command. As he ran, he scolded the subordinates behind him: "You crooked hands, you run so slowly, all the feats of the battle let the people of the other platoons run away!" If Wang Mazi's platoon surpasses ours, where do you put my Boss Wei's face? ”

The soldiers behind gasped and ran, and none of them answered Boss Wei's scolding.

After running for ten miles, Boss Wei ran out of breath and finally caught up with the rout.

The rout of the Jiangbei Army had completely dispersed, scattered one by one on the field. Boss Wei saw more than thirty routs in his field of vision, and they were panting and fleeing to the south.

Boss Wei rushed forward and squatted on the ground. Holding up his well-made Tsuwang rear-loading rifle with scope, he expertly opened the bolt, loaded the bullet, closed the bolt, and loaded the primer.

"Smack!"

A crunch rang out over the field. Three hundred meters away, a Jiangbei army broke and fell into the river. The other deserters next to the rout saw that Pao Ze had been killed, and one by one they bent their waists and fled in all directions.

Boss Wei sneered, turned on the bolt again, loaded the primer, and fired another shot.

Three hundred and fifty meters away, another rout screamed and fell on the ridge.

Boss Wei proudly blew a little white smoke from the blow gun machine, and yelled at the soldiers behind him: "Disperse and chase!" ”

The soldiers behind Boss Wei scattered with front-loading rifles, each staring at a target and chasing after him.

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The Tiger Ben army pursued and killed all the way, and Wu Sangui's 20,000 troops left behind after the trench was broken were finally killed 16,000, and only 4,000 people did not know where to hide and survived. In addition to the more than 10,000 people killed by mortar bombing, the Jiangbei Army lost nearly 30,000 people in the battle in Huai'an, and since then it has been crushed for thousands of miles, and it is no longer able to organize effective resistance north of the Yangtze River.

Shi Kefa and Wu Sangui led the Jiangbei army to flee day and night, crossing the Yangtze River from Guazhou at the fastest speed and fleeing to Nanjing.

When he arrived in Nanjing, Shi Kefa learned of Zuo Liangyu's death. Of course, when the news reached Shi Kefa, it was already seriously distorted, and Shi Kefa didn't know that Zuo Liangyu was killed by Wu Sangui. At this time, the Jiangbei Army became the dominant family of Wu Sangui, even if Shi Kefa suspected that Wu Sangui killed Zuo Liangyu, he did not dare to punish Wu Sangui.

The news of Zuo Liangyu's death greatly demoralized the two towns in Jiangbei, especially the West Town of Jiangbei commanded by Zuo Liangyu, which was in a state of chaos without a leader. Wu Sangui refused to give in and annexed the remnants of Zuo Liangyu.

At this time, after a major rout, the non-combat attrition of the second town in Jiangbei was extremely serious. Not only were there 30,000 soldiers who died in battle, but there were also deserters who deserted during the escape. In the end, there were only 100,000 soldiers and horses left in the two towns who fled to Nanjing.

Because of Zuo Liangyu's death, Shi Kefa was shocked and did not dare to defend in Nanjing. He and Wu Sangui led the remnants of the 100,000 troops to continue to flee and flee to Nanchang Mansion, where the Jiangbei Army had previously entrenched.

In fact, Nanchang is not an absolutely safe place, if the Tiger Ben army goes south to attack Nanchang, it is estimated that Shi Kefa will continue to Changsha, or even Chengdu to escape.

The so-called trees fell and scattered, from Nanjing to Nanchang, and I don't know how many soldiers left the team along the way.

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The Tiger Ben army had a good time to reorganize and marched south from Huai'an to attack the various state capitals and counties of Nanzhili.

On July 13, Li Laosi led 10,000 soldiers of the Tiger Army to attack Yangzhou.

The strong Jiangbei army was defeated, and the Tiger Army was already invincible in the world. The gentry of Yangzhou naturally did not dare to resist the entry of the Tiger Ben army. Not only did they not dare to resist, but the gentry, together with the excited peasants and citizens, carried wine and pastries to the outside of Yangzhou to welcome the Tiger Ben army.

Li Laosi waved the banner of the general army and rode a high-headed horse into Yangzhou City. On both sides of the road, there were people and gentry carrying tea and snacks to welcome the Tiger Army. The people looked at the strict military posture of the Tiger Ben Army, which did not disturb the military discipline of the people, and couldn't help but applaud loudly one by one.

"The Tiger Ben Army is mighty!"

"The king of Tianjin is mighty!"

"Mighty!"

"What a dignified army!"

Although the gentry tried their best to distort the truth, the news has gradually spread throughout the Ming Dynasty over the years, and the people of Yangzhou have long known about the rich life under Li Zhi's rule, how can they not be excited at this time? You must know that in this world, powerful officials are bullying the people everywhere, and the social order is in an extremely distorted state. Even in Yangzhou, south of the Yangtze River, the lives of the people are not as good as day by day.

If the soldiers and horses of the king of Tianjin come this time and do not leave, and Yangzhou is included in the jurisdiction, then it will really be a good life!

The people welcomed the Tiger Army with their greatest enthusiasm, for fear that the Tiger Army would come and leave!

Li Laosi looked at the people who welcomed him, his face sank like water, and walked all the way to the yamen of the prefect of Yangzhou Prefecture.

The officials in the prefect's yamen had already fled overnight, and at this time there were dozens of gentry standing at the gate of the yamen, and hundreds of jars of Jinhua sweet wine were placed next to the gate of the yamen.

Li Laosi stopped at the door of the yamen, looked at the Jinhua wine piled up like a hill, and was silent.

The gentry looked at each other for a while, and finally pushed a middle-aged man out to speak.

The middle-aged man clasped his fist at Li Laosi, trembled his hands and said, "I'll wait... On behalf of the gentry of Yangzhou, we are willing to wash the dust for the general. ”

Li Laosi glanced at these gentry and said coldly: "Have you ever donated silver to the Jiangbei Army?" ”

The gentry who took the lead knelt on the ground with a thud, kowtowed on the ground with a tom, and said loudly: "General Mingjian! We and the others are all innocent rich families, and the gentry who donated silver to the Jiangbei Army have fled overnight. ”

The gentry behind him turned pale one by one, and they all knelt on the ground and kowtowed to Li Laosi.

Li Laosi sneered, and secretly said that these shrewd gentry had understood the prince's policy. If he really hadn't donated money to the Jiangbei Army, Li Laosi wouldn't have done anything with them.