Zuo Liangyu learned that the rear camp was attacked by tens of thousands of Heavenly Mandate Army, Zuo Mengeng was in danger, and the battlefield was broken through by the Song Wenbu of the seventh battalion of the Heavenly Mandate Army.

At this time, he no longer dared to hit the Heavenly Mandate Army hard, as long as he could meet with the rear camp and save Zuo Mengeng, the army could be basically saved, and the heavens had opened their eyes.

Zuo Liangyu played wishful thinking, but Tianmingjun did not play cards according to his ideas.

When the officers and soldiers retreated, the four regiments of the Fengtian Battalion and the Independent Battalion clung to it, they had been besieged by the Ming army for so long, and there were countless brothers who had been killed or wounded......

Even the gunners of the Song Wenbu, who had always been not good at pursuit, threw away their rifles, drew their waist knives, and chased after the retreating Ming army.

50,000 Mandate of Heaven Army, tail chasing behind the Ming Army, Zuo Liangyu knew that if this continued, even if he could join forces with Zuo Mengeng, he would be defeated by the Mandate of Heaven Army, he was ready to let Fang Guoan lead the troops to break off, but he couldn't find Fang Guoan left and right, there was no way, he could only divide 20,000 soldiers from the 100,000 army, and the rest of the main force quickly approached the camp.

After traveling less than two miles, I heard a cannon sound in my dream, and countless cavalry appeared on the right side, like a river that broke the embankment and the tide of the Qiantang River that gathered countless external forces......

One or two thousand cavalry, cutting the frightened Ming soldiers into two sections.

Zuo Liangyu divided his troops again, let them intercept the cavalry of the Heavenly Mandate Army behind them, and he couldn't take care of the rear army, so he hurriedly took the soldiers around him, and under Zuo Menggeng's response, entered the camp of officers and soldiers.

Liu Yunshui didn't care about pursuing Zuo Liangyu, but slashed the Ming army that intercepted it for a while, and tens of thousands of soldiers from the Fengtian Battalion, Independent Battalion, and Seventh Battalion in the rear chased after him......

The Ming army has no way to go to the sky and no way to enter the ground, Zuo Liangyu has abandoned them, if they want to survive, they can only rely on themselves!

I couldn't see the situation clearly at night, but the shouts and killing of the Heavenly Mandate Army were earth-shattering, and the cavalry wantonly broke through the ranks of the Ming army, and there was no way to escape...... The Ming army completely gave up resistance, threw their weapons one by one, and surrendered on their knees!

Liu Yuanshui didn't care about these surrenders, he just greeted Song Wen when he met and asked him to gather the defeated soldiers of the Ming army, and he took the cavalry and went straight to the rear camp of the Ming army.

At this time, the camp of the Ming army has become a pot of porridge, the mountain artillery of the Mandate of Heaven did not hesitate to shoot bullets, and the flowering bullets flew to the camp of the Ming army like raindrops, the sound of explosions was endless, and many fires broke out in the camp.

Zuo Liangyu knew that sooner or later the camp would be broken by the Mandate of Heaven Army, and the soldiers would be bombarded by flowering shells and wait for death in the camp in vain, such a thing would definitely not last, and once the morale collapsed, there would be a rout.

He discussed with Zuo Mengeng that while there were still nearly 100,000 troops in his hands, and while the soldiers had not completely lost confidence, they must break through as soon as possible.

To the north is the Great River, and there is a naval army of the Mandate of Heaven in the river, and it is impossible to break through the moat of the Great River; The army of the Mandate of Heaven came from the lake to the west, and the ravines were dug along the way...... The west is not able to go.

Listening to the sound of artillery, the gunners of the Mandate of Heaven must have converged in the southeast direction, and in the direction of retreat, only the east remained.

Zuo Liangyu prayed silently for a moment, hoping that the Heavenly Mandate Army would not leave ambushes in the east, and at such a moment, even if there were ambushes, they could only force their way through.

His eyes were already full of red silk of despair, and he didn't know how many soldiers would follow their father and son after tonight.

Zuo Mengeng opened the camp gate in the east, nearly 100,000 officers and soldiers, all of them had to break through from the east, at the beginning, the soldiers were still lined up, but they were rushed by the cavalry of Liu Yunshui's department, and immediately turned into a plate of loose sand, and the soldiers scattered in a hurry, and they no longer had the courage to fight back......

The 100,000 army, once it is out of order, will be like a river that has broken its embankment, hurting others and hurting itself!

It's a pity that the Ming army was defeated one after another, and the number of the Heavenly Mandate Army could not be seen clearly at night, so they were already frightened, and after they were scattered, even Zuo Liangyu could not gather them.

In order to survive, the soldiers scattered and fled, and after hitting the iron wall of the Providence Army, the soldiers remembered that the adults were originally going to retreat to the east.

The soldiers who could walk gathered to the east, the fourth battalion, the Chengtian battalion, as well as the Fengtian battalion, the first independent battalion, the seventh battalion, etc., which had just rushed over, and the 100,000 Heavenly Mandate troops pursued and pursued closely.

Liu Yunshui's cavalry was even more at the forefront, taking advantage of the speed advantage of the cavalry, constantly cutting out part of the Ming army, handing it over to the infantry in the rear, and then going to cut the next group......

Zuo Liangyu really didn't expect that the Heavenly Mandate Army chased and killed twenty miles overnight, all the way to the bank of the Huangshui River.

The Ming army was blocked by the turbulent water, and at the moment of life and death, they did not turn back to resist, but threw themselves into the turbulent water......

Fortunately, it is summer, the river is only a little cool, and the casualties of the soldiers are not large.

After the Mandate of Heaven Army, Liu Yunshui returned the original way, Chengtian Camp and Fengtian Camp cleaned the battlefield along the way, and slowly withdrew to Jiujiang, outside the camp of the Ming Army, there were also soldiers of the Mandate of Heaven Army who were cleaning the battlefield.

Li Zicheng took advantage of the situation to the south and took Jiujiang, which was almost an empty city.

After the battlefield was cleaned up, Li Zicheng summoned the commanders of each battalion and regiment, and dozens of people gathered together, saying that they were summing up the gains and losses of the battle, but this time, Li Zicheng did not ask the commanders to review the gains and losses of the headquarters in the war.

This is not a formal meeting, the generals are all letting go of their hands and feet, especially the various battalions and regiments that came from the south of Huguang, and how to scare Zuo Mengeng, who stayed in the camp, into peeing his pants......

Li Zicheng and other generals were almost done with their bragging, and only then did they propose the theme of the meeting.

This time, the Mandate of Heaven army marched south to Huguang, and so far, it has occupied almost the entire territory of Huguang, and rebuilt the local government office belonging to the Mandate of Heaven in Huguang; drove Zhang Xianzhong away; Heavy damage to Zuo Liangyu's ......

Both militarily and politically, great achievements have been made, but the Mandate of Heaven Army has no reason to rest, and there are still many things waiting for the Mandate of Heaven Army to do.

First of all, the security of Huguang, the main force of the Mandate of Heaven will go north sooner or later, who will be left to garrison Wuchang, how many troops will be left, whether to continue to expand outward, etc., Li Zicheng let everyone put forward their own views.

The corners of the mouths of the commanders of the battalions were hot, but thinking that it would be difficult to have large-scale battles in the future if they stayed in Wuchang, no one offered to stay.

Li Zicheng glared at the generals, pressed down the noisy venue, and then ordered the Chengtian battalion of Gao Ligong to stay in Wuchang, but the Chengtian battalion only had more than 20,000 people in four regiments, and the strength was not enough to deal with the imperial army's army in the southeast, so the fifth regiment of the independent battalion, Yang Chengen's department, the sixth regiment's Li Rugui division, the seventh regiment's Wang Long division, and the eighth regiment's Feng Xiong's division, were all allocated to the Chengtian battalion.

The Chengtian battalion will be stationed in Wuchang and Qizhou, guarding the east gate of Huguang, and striving to keep the Ming army out.

At present, Huguang, except for Chenzhou and Jingzhou in the south, and Tusi gathering places on the southwest border, the remaining fifteen prefectures all belong to the new Hubei Province.

Li Zicheng did not let Gao Ligong expand his territory, but temporarily stabilized the existing territories, and when necessary, assisted Li Zhensheng and Qian Zhongxuan to naturalize the people in the southwestern mountainous areas.

Jiujiang Mansion, which has been taken, will be used as the first line of defense for Wuchang in the direction of the Yangtze River. After the navy enters the boundary of Huguang territory, it will establish bases in Jingzhou, Yuezhou, Wuchang, and Jiujiang, and garrison troops, among which the first battalion and the first regiment of the Leyong Division will be stationed in Jiujiang.

Although Jiujiang is the northern gate of Jiangxi, Li Zicheng has no plan to march in Jiangxi, but only to take Ruichang County, which borders Huguang in the west, not only Hukou and Pengze counties east of Poyang Lake, but also De'an County, which is separated by Lushan, has no plan to march.

It's not that Li Zicheng doesn't want to expand, but he doesn't want to provoke Jiangxi and open up a new battlefield!

Since Liu Yunshui can cross the Mufu Mountain to Jiujiang, in the future, if the war is unfavorable, the soldiers stationed in Jiujiang can retreat north from the Yangtze River, or retreat west from the Mufu Valley into Huguang.

Li Zicheng would not give up for the time being, so he let the former Chengtian Governor Wang Yangji serve as the prefect of Jiujiang, and implement the laws of the Mandate of Heaven as much as possible on the territory of one prefecture and one county.

After the security arrangements in Huguang were completed, Li Zicheng asked the commanders of the battalions and regiments to go back to sort out the military merits, and then ended the meeting. The Mandate of Heaven army confiscated King Min of Wugang and King Gui of Hengzhou, King Min Zhu Qiyun and King Gui Zhu Changying were killed, and the silver coins confiscated in the palace of the two kings happened to be used as the military merit of the southern expedition to Huguang.

Li Zicheng returned to the temporary tent, still thinking about the prisoners of war, this time he defeated Zuo Liangyu's 200,000 army and captured more than 80,000 soldiers, what should I do with these prisoners of war?

According to the habits of the Heavenly Mandate Army, naturally they will not be raised in vain, is it recruited from among them, or is it directly released?

These soldiers, mainly from Xiangfan, now the people in the Xiangfan area are very welcome to the Mandate of Heaven Army, let them go back, there should be no threat to the Mandate of Heaven Army, as long as the land is distributed and they have a life, it should be a good choice to be naturalized.

However, thinking that the Heavenly Mandate Army will soon march into Guanzhong, or even the Jingshi, these troops in their hands now ...... The more the merrier!

Song Wen's seventh battalion nominally has four regiments, but the third regiment is stationed in Nanyang, and the fourth regiment is stationed in Ruzhou.

The independent battalion should also be expanded, and the four battalions formed by Li Xin in Huangzhou have already been allocated to the Chengtian battalion, and he is good at commanding troops, so four regiments should be added to the independent battalion.

The independent battalion has taken Yunyang Mansion, the original prefect Xu Qiyuan was retained as the new prefect, and Liu Xuan, the same governor, was the president of the court.

After Wang Yongzuo, the imperial historian of Fuzhi in the city, and Wang Guangen, the chief military officer, were captured, they were escorted to Wuchang, Wang Yongzuo temporarily served as a staff member, and Wang Guangen was a good general, taking advantage of the opportunity of the expansion, let him be the commander of the fifth regiment of the independent battalion.

Song Wen was in Jiujiang and could choose soldiers by himself, but Li Xin was still in Yunyang, and the soldiers of the independent battalion were selected with the help of Wang Guangen, and the remaining prisoners of war were all released home and returned to civilian nationality.

After Li Zicheng finished handling the affairs of Huguang, he ordered Li Xin's independent battalion to take the lead in going south, along the Hanshui River to Guanghua County, Xiangyang Prefecture, and then along the official road to Nanyang, Henan.

The army rested in Jiujiang for a few days, Li Zicheng was about to cross the river and return to Henan, and suddenly received a message from the Han Qing Bureau, and Sun Chuanting, the governor of the three sides, raised 100,000 troops, left Xi'an, and wanted to go east out of Tongguan.

Li Zicheng saw every word clearly, and the corners of his mouth unconsciously sneered, the Heavenly Mandate Army originally planned to go north to Guanzhong, and Sun Chuanting came just in time, saving the Heavenly Mandate Army from marching long distances into the customs.

He put down the message, thinking that Sun Chuanting's army had left Tongguan in the east, and Li Guo's second battalion had lost the meaning of defense if it remained in the Hanzhong and Shangluo areas, so he sent someone to send a message to Li Guo and asked him to rush to Henan to join the main army.

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