Zhang Qiang retreated with the army, and Liu Liangzuo and the new deputy commander of the Seventh Field Brigade, Zhu Ge, the deputy captain of Zhang Qiang's personal guard, guarded the capital of Raozhou, the city they had just beaten for two or three days.

Just when the entire Raozhou Mansion was in a state of chaos, the people and militia troops of the entire Raozhou Mansion were retreating, and the Huaxia Army was clearing the wilderness to prevent the Qing Army from carrying out bloody purge and retaliation when it arrived, and at the same time making the Qing Army fall into a difficult situation where there was no food to eat and no water to drink, weakening the combat effectiveness of the Qing Army from another aspect, creating difficulties for the Qing Army, lengthening the supply line of the Qing Army, and creating an opportunity to annihilate the enemy in the face of the battle of the Qing Army's overwhelming territory.

After receiving Zhang Qiang's order, the 2nd Field Brigade and the 1st Cavalry Brigade, which were defending the Qing army in the north of Raozhou Mansion, began to gather their forces and prepare to retreat.

To this end, Feng Wuyu sent all the cavalry of the field brigade out to block the enemy's advance, and at the same time probe the enemy's troop deployment.

On the first day, there was no movement in the north of Raozhou Mansion, and the news that the scouts came back was that the Qing army was still hundreds of kilometers away, and the number was about 50,000.

The next day, the militia of Raozhou Mansion escorted the people to retreat, some of the people were unwilling to retreat, and the militia fell into a difficult situation, only a small part of the people fled, a small part of the people accepted the escort of the militia and retreated to Quzhou Prefecture, and the rest of the people evacuated to the nearby mountains or more remote villages for refuge.

The Qing army dispatched about 20,000 troops and was rushing here.

On the third day, the militia of Raozhou Mansion received an order to retreat in an all-round way, escorted by the people who were willing to follow, and ignored the people who did not want to follow, the important thing was that the militia must retreat to the south and southeast of Raozhou Mansion.

On the fourth day, Zhang Qiang led the army to retreat from the city of Fufu, the people in the south began to flee spontaneously, the remaining militia began to retreat, and the engineers of the Second Field Brigade destroyed the road along the road, leaving only a road that could be retreated for the Second Field Brigade and the Cavalry Brigade to retreat.

On the fifth day, the 20,000 soldiers and horses sent by the Qing army approached 30 kilometers away, and the baggage troops began to retreat, and the strength of the 2nd Field Brigade in the three directions had been reduced by half, and the others would also go to the south to join the large army.

In the evening, most of the 2nd Field Brigade and Cavalry Brigade began to retreat back, opening up the distance from the enemy.

On the sixth day, Zhang Qiang's army had disappeared on the border of Raozhou Mansion in the north, and the news sent showed that Zhang Qiang took away the First Field Brigade and the Second Cavalry Brigade, and the Third Cavalry Brigade.

On the seventh day, the vanguard Qing soldiers disappeared from view, and the enemy's army had already made peace, less than fifty kilometers away from them.

The 1st Cavalry Brigade had already retreated and hidden. The troops of the 2nd Field Brigade had been assembled and had retreated 15 kilometers, distancing themselves from the enemy.

A mist rose in the early morning, and the Second Field Brigade, which had rested for most of the night, caught up with the retreating contingent of the engineers and baggage troops, as well as a part of the militia contingent that retreated last, and was still 50 kilometers away from the capital of Raozhou, 30 kilometers from the border of Raozhou, and 120 kilometers from Quzhou.

The Second Field Brigade, which had just embarked on a new journey, opened a long line and continued to approach Quzhou Mansion, walking for about five or six miles.

Feng Wuyu received a report from the cavalry brigade that they were resting about twenty kilometers away from the capital of Raozhou, and planned for a part of the militia and the people to retreat farther south of Raozhoufu, where to go to Jianning Mansion or return to Quzhou Mansion.

When he was thinking about whether to retreat to the south and meet with the cavalry brigade, he heard the sound of rapid horses' hooves, and heard someone shouting loudly in the wind, "Qing army, there is a Qing army, the left flank of the team, three miles, there is a large force of Qing cavalry advancing." ”

"Order the battalions to be deployed on the spot, defend the formation, bring the people and militia into the battalion, the baggage soldiers unload their baggage, and guard on the spot, the engineering troops immediately began to build fortifications, and the battalions were quickly deployed according to their respective duties, and the army was protected, and five squads were dispatched to the retreating militia and civilian troops in the south, so that they could be transferred to Raozhou Mansion, and the other squads went to Raozhou Mansion to report the news, to the Dadu Governor's Camp, and to Quzhou Mansion to report the news."

Feng Wuyu quickly gave an order to the pro-guard team around him, and the scouts of the pro-guard team quickly rushed away.

After the assignment was completed, another group of scouts returned, "Report, the Qing cavalry has discovered us and is forming a team." ”

Feng Wuyu waved his hand, "Probe again." ”

After the scout cavalry left, he beckoned again, "Send two more cavalry squads to contact General Huang Tao's cavalry brigade, let him move closer to our department, cover the flank of our department, and accept the retreat of our department." ”

At this time, three miles away, Mandahai also stopped to listen to the report of the scout cavalry.

"What did you say, our army found a large army of the enemy on the flank, how many people are there, have you found out?" Although Man Dahai looks a little sorry for the audience, he looks like a reckless man like Zhang Fei, but he is also a good fighter in the Qing army, and he is one of the Manchurian warriors, although he is not as famous as Aobai, but he is both wise and brave, and there are many good evaluations in his favor in history, but these evaluations are not a good thing for the Han people.

The better the evaluation, the more firmly the rule of the Han people will be, and the more the Han people will not be able to turn over.

"Where are our infantry troops?" Man Dahai asked.

The general of the Qing army on one side said: "It is still twenty miles away, and the cavalry of Horqin is not far away and marches ten miles on our flank. ”

"Okay, that's on the enemy's flank, order them to speed up the march, assault the enemy's flank, so that the enemy has no time to estimate us, we will send a large cavalry to harass the enemy, cut off the enemy's scout cavalry, and press the past."

Turning around, he said to the Qing army general who answered: "Let the infantry led by Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao catch up and enter the battle as soon as possible." ”

The Qing general said: "My lord, in this case, the marching Ming army will definitely not be able to resist our impact, why don't our two thousand cavalry rush first, and disrupt the enemy's position, the Ming army will be scattered, and the Horqin Mongolian cavalry that catches up will be able to capture the prisoners, and there is no need to wait for those green battalion soldiers and Han army flags to come over, isn't it good to leave the credit to us?" ”

Man Dahai waved the horse whip in his hand unhappily, and shouted in his mouth: "What do you know, how many Manchus are there, more than 100,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 Manchus in front of them who are besieged in Raozhou City, if we rush up, who will be killed or injured, quickly, let those Han people go first, let the Mongols rush first, anyway, the Mongols are also our minions." ”

"Yes, master, the slave will do it." The Qing general did not touch the hot wound on his face, and immediately got on his horse and sent orders to the Han army flag and the green camp behind.

And the poor Mongols, the former descendants of Temujin, were thus used as guns,

And Fan Shaozu and Ma Bao, who were walking behind, actually didn't want to come to such a trip, but they had to come, they fought a decisive battle with Zhang Qiang's Huaxia army under the account of Azig, and the Qing army of 90,000 people was killed and fled, and the two people went separately, and escaped from Raozhou Mansion with 1,000 or hundreds of people, and were stationed on the territory of the Qing army for a period of time.

After more than half a month of gathering, they gathered the 30,000 green battalions that fled and the 5,000 men and horses of the Han army banner, and after the two people met and later, the total number of men and horses reached 8,000 troops, which made them feel at ease, and hurriedly reported to ask for merit for themselves, but they didn't expect the merit to come down, and Man Dahai arrived with 20,000 Qing troops.

There was no credit, but Man Dahai, who had always been jealous of them, reprimanded him, and received fifty military sticks and thirty leather whips, and so far, both of them can only march in a sedan chair, but cannot march on horseback.

Man Dahai was anxious to meet the Huaxia army, wanting to see the Jinhua Righteous Army, which had been in the limelight for several years, facing the Qing army's repeated victories, and looked down on Hong Chengchou, a Ming Dynasty civil official who looked forward and backward, led the Qing soldiers away overnight, and left a Manchu general for them before leaving, monitored them, and asked them to bring infantry to reinforce him.

In the face of this master, the two of them couldn't cry or laugh, their faces were full of sadness, they had been dealing with the Huaxia Army for five years, from the time when the Huaxia Army was still a righteous army under Zhu Dadian, to the Jinhua Righteous Army broke away from Zhu Dadian and became its own faction, to the Jinhua Righteous Army changed to the Huaxia Army, every time they faced the Huaxia Army, they were defeated miserably, and the area of the shadow in their hearts was quite large.

Despite their best attempts to shirk, Man Dahai still threw down 13,000 Han army flags and green battalions for them to command, and left with the Qing cavalry troops.

Twenty miles away, the overseer of Mandahai soon arrived, and after announcing Mandahai's order, the faces of the two men turned as gray and their faces became even more unpleasant, as if they had eaten stool.

But the two Qing Manchurian generals still urged them to hurry up and urge their troops to get on the road.

Despite all their reluctance, the two did not dare to disobey the orders of the master of the Qing army, and still urged the troops to go on the road.

In front is the Qing general sent by Mandahai, more than 30 people, and behind is a thousand left behind to supervise their Manchurian generals' horse cavalry, what is called horse cavalry, that is, in fact they are not cavalry, but they march on horseback, and when they encounter the enemy, they dismount and fight as infantry, of course, living in a bitter cold place like Liaodong, although they are not cavalry, they are much more powerful than these Ming cavalry in the south, and the two people dare not do anything to think, so they can only be forced to go.

If the more than 20,000 soldiers were their troops, they would really dare to fight, but only 2,000 of the 20,000 people were their henchmen, and the rest were composed of the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion Router, as well as the Han Army Banner and the Green Battalion soldiers transferred from other places.

It's just that they have never won any battles with the Huaxia Army in the past.

In the same way, they are not optimistic about this reckless military operation in Mandahai, 90,000 troops were beaten and scattered and fled, more than 20,000 people, can they fight past the Huaxia army?

Of course, they didn't know that what they encountered in front of them was a mere Second Field Brigade of the Chinese Army, but there were only 7,800 people, and the militia was only more than 9,000 people, so the common people could not be nothing.