Chapter Ninety-Five: The Signs of Defeat Are Revealed
Lin Yangyang brought his 1,200 troops to meet the 1,000 Qing troops in Songyang County to aid Lishui County, the capital of the prefecture.
The two sides met in a mulberry forest, and immediately strangled together, Lin Yangcheng and his horse team always attacked the Qing army at a critical time, and the Qing army killed fought and retreated, and after a while, they lost their armor and retreated towards Songyang County.
Lin Yangcheng led the team of the Jinhua Righteous Army, chased all the way to twenty miles, and was just about to collect the troops, when he saw three war horses rushing out from the mountain road on the other side, and two Ming soldiers escorted two women on a war horse rushed into the Qing army team in the defeated Songyang County.
Lin Chengcheng's subordinate general watched from a distance and said to Lin Chengcheng: "My lord, it's the Ming army, can you save it?" ”
Lin Chengcheng glanced at him and said to him: "Remember, the Ming army and us are people on two roads, they are the Nanming army, we are the righteous army, the Jinhua Mansion righteous army, we can't be mixed up, let's go, Lord He still needs our support there, the Qing army in Songyang County, there are still two thousand five hundred Qing troops there, and two thousand Qing troops in Fucheng, we don't have time to save two Ming troops who have nothing to do with us." ”
So he took a cold look at the four Ming troops who were besieged by the defeated Qing soldiers from Songyang County, and withdrew with the team.
The Qing army in Songyang County breathed a sigh of relief, and more than a dozen people surrounded the four Ming troops.
Lin Yangsheng and his subordinates hurriedly went back to rescue the righteous army of He Jinbu, but they didn't care about them, and soon two Ming soldiers were killed, two women were captured, and the Qing army walked towards the two women with a sneer.
At this moment, the earth shook, Songyang Qingjun was stunned, his face became ugly, and in an instant, he turned around and fled.
The Han flag cavalry surrounded the two women, and the horses circled around them, and the two women trembled, huddled together, and looked at them with frightened eyes.
The commander of the Han army's banner cavalry arrived with more than 30 cavalrymen and saw the rebel troops in the distance.
He said to the cavalry who had arrived earlier: "Catch up with that unit and find out their banner and strength." ”
Ten cavalrymen rode away, Lin Chengcheng's rear team was already in a mess, hurrying away, Lin Chengcheng looked at the Mongolian cavalry brigade in the mountain pass in the distance, his face became ugly, and he hurriedly urged his subordinates to flee.
Cha Gang looked at the fleeing rebels from a distance, his eyes were on fire, he saw the clothes on those people's bodies, many of them looked like the outfits of the Jinhua Rebels, although Zhang Qiang changed a lot after the second encirclement and suppression campaign in Jinhua Mansion, but he changed the dress of the elite troops under his own command, and did not change the general clothing of the newly convened rebels under other people.
Although hundreds of thousands of Qing troops were annihilated in several battles, the equipment and weapons of the Qing army were leftover, and those good ones were armed with the righteous army, but the righteous army naturally could not wear the clothes of the Qing army, and it was still necessary to distinguish it from other forces.
The Qing army in Songyang County retreated a few miles, and when they saw that all the soldiers were Han flag cavalry and Mongolian cavalry, the remaining four or five hundred deserters returned and connected with the Han flag cavalry.
And after the Mongolian cavalry saw the Jinhua Righteous Army, the three hundred cavalry began to pursue without thinking about it.
It was only a few miles, and it took them less than an hour to catch up with the Jinhua Righteous Army led by Lin Yangsheng, and the two sides fought in the hills and Tian Mo.
The commander of the Han Army's banner cavalry knew that these two women were very important figures, but he did not let the cavalry insult them, tied them to their horses, led them by a cavalryman, and began to pursue, behind them were four or five hundred Qing soldiers from Songyang County.
After less than an hour's rest, Zhang Qiang and his team took a boat to move forward again, and abandoned the boat to go ashore at night with torches, and continued on their way.
At dawn, Hu Kui looked at the fog in the mountains and said to Zhang Qiang worriedly: "My lord, it seems that we are lost." ”
This is what Zhang Qiang is most worried about, "Don't those mountain people know how to leave?" ”
Hu Kui smiled bitterly, "My lord, there is a fog in the mountains, and those mountain people can't figure out the direction, and now the fog is still there, but they can see farther." ”
"Okay, let them continue to lead the way, and we'll see where we can go."
Mi Chun rode over on a war horse, "My lord, some soldiers can't adapt to the environment here, it's too humid, and many people are sick. ”
Zhang Qiang waved his hand, "Let the other soldiers carry them forward, it's really not possible, find the nearby mountain people, leave them some food and silver, let them take care of these people, and when they are well, they will go back to Jinhuafu City." ”
Hu Kui and Mi Chun rode horses to carry out Zhang Qiang's order, Hu Kui said to Mi Chun: "Baozi," Mi Chun's face was not good, "Bearded, I told you not to be like that guy in Mi Lin, call me nickname, call me Mi Lord." ”
Hu Kui touched his full beard and said with a smile: "Baozi, Baozi, I'll call you Baozi, you might as well call me Bearded, I don't care about it anyway, haha." ”
Mi Chun has no choice, this guy, relying on Zhang Qiang's favor, can cut others if he wants, and tease him if he wants to, he can't be more serious with the other party, and looked at Hu Kui's back helplessly, "Wait, follow the adults out this time, I must make meritorious contributions, let the adults look at me differently, and take off the hat that we used to be rogues." ”
Hu Kui didn't care what he thought, when Zhang Qiang was in Jinhua Mansion, he was followed before and after the saddle, who didn't know that he was the first to follow Zhang Qiang's Wu Chang, this time, he was very busy, in order to repay Zhang Qiang's kindness, he didn't even shave his beard, and he grew into such a beard, which just matched his strong and tall figure, which made people look very scared.
He is happy with his current appearance.
"One-two, hey, hey, pull—" Mi Chun returned to his queue, and the artillerymen still dragged the gun carriage through the mountains.
Zhang Qiang rode a war horse and watched from a hillside, the whole team of 6,000 volunteers, none of them were glamorous, all of them were so sloppy that they couldn't see people.
At noon, there was a cheer, the fog cleared, the eyes were open, and the rebels in front shouted loudly, "Out of the mountain." ”
Lin Chengcheng was about to cry, and after a night's trek, he took five hundred remnants of the defeated army, climbed over several hills, and hurriedly fled to the capital of Chuzhou.
The Mongolian cavalry behind pursued him, and he repeatedly sent the only dozens of Lao Kou cavalry to intercept him, and he fled with the rest of the troops.
The Mongol cavalry was so powerful that from yesterday afternoon to now, he had no time to rest at all, he just fled, and many soldiers were not killed, but fled halfway.
He didn't know what happened to He Jin, but he thought that He Jin's ability would not be killed by the Qing army, what was their ability to escape.
So he wasn't worried at all.
He only worries about himself.
"My lord, the Mongol cavalry is catching up again." One of his subordinates hurriedly ran over, and Lin Chengcheng looked at the few remaining old men around him, stood up, mounted his war horse, and continued to escape with his troops.
Not far away, He Jin was smiling bitterly, he did it in one go yesterday, defeated the Qing army that went out of the city to meet him, and chased the fleeing Qing soldiers all the way into the capital of the state, the Qing army was in chaos, but he didn't expect that he had not taken the government and the county government when he was killed at dusk, and was surrounded by the Qing army in Yunhe County and Qingtian County, which was not relying on the city wall to surround them, they did not come and took the south gate, but were killed by the Qing army and captured the south gate, He was now surrounded by the Qing soldiers of Yunhe County behind the detour near the East Gate.
At noon, more than 3,000 Qing troops surrounded his remaining 300 righteous troops and could be besieged and killed at any time.