Chapter 375: Capture Alive

Shengbao ran from Yongqing to Bazhou, and then ran from Bazhou to Xiongxian, whether there is an enemy attack, or only the enemy is approaching, Shengkeshuai is one word - run! The morale of the army is very important in the war, the more traditional the army, the more important it is, and Shengbao has already exhausted the morale of the troops under his command by running around like this. The Gu'an Army and Guoxing'a are both notorious, and Shengbao tosses back and forth, and these ruffians who are only brave and extraordinary when they rob the people naturally have no intention of fighting the enemy.

For the courage of the three armies, Shengbao trembled at the mention of Guoxing'a, and the soldiers were naturally even more afraid, and they all thought that Guoxing'a was a monster with three heads and six arms. If the Gu'an army only charges with cavalry, although they will also be defeated, they will still fight twice. But the Gu'an army opened the way with artillery, and they couldn't stand it. It is not surprising that people who feel the * huge power for the first time are directly frightened crazy, not to mention that they are already weak-hearted. When a huge shock wave swept through the crowd, when stumps and severed arms flew in the air, these ruffians naturally chose to disperse in a hurry.

The trumpet has sounded, and the soldiers of the Gu'an Army, as professional soldiers, will rush forward as indomitable, no matter whether there is a sea of swords and fires in front of them, or a flock of sheep that has been scattered. However, when chasing and killing the sheep, everyone's mood was much better, everyone was very relaxed, even Cao Meng, who was worried about casualties just now, was not worried at all. In this situation, the only possible casualty is for the cavalry to fall off their horses.

The cavalry is still the classic wall-like march, like surging waves, chasing the defeated army that engulfs Katsubo. The tall Arabian horse easily knocked the ants in front of him away, and the cavalry playfully brandished his saber as if playing in the water, and then took life with him. Guo Xing'a personally led the team to fight directly at Shengbao's Daxu Banner, and captured the thief first to capture the king, there are too many rotten people under Shengbao, Guo Xing'a can't kill them all for a while, and he can't finish catching them, only by winning Shengbao can he settle the situation.

"My lord spares his life!" When the cavalry encircled Shengbao's banner, hundreds of Qing soldiers all knelt down and surrendered, wailing and crying, hoping that these dozens of cavalry could let them live.

"Where's Katsubo?" Guo Xing'a searched for a long time in the dense head on the ground, but he didn't find Katsubo's hateful face.

"Spare your life!" The defeated soldiers just wailed and begged, kept kowtowing, and there was no answer.

"Where's Katsubo?" Fuquan, who had been following Guoxing'a, casually hacked to death a defeated army who was dancing, and asked loudly.

"He ran, ran! We don't know! The defeated soldiers instantly regained their composure in the blood and began to answer questions seriously.

"Uncle's!" Guo Xing'a angrily cut down Shengbao's Daxu banner, but there was nothing he could do.

Shengbao has a wealth of experience in escaping, and he deliberately didn't put it in the Daxu Banner just to attract Guoxing's attention, and he had already changed his clothes and fled in other directions. Now that the mountains are full of routs, and there are crowds of people fleeing everywhere, where will Guo Xing'a go to find him! Guo Xing'a held the mentality of trying his luck, and led people to continue to search for Shengbao in the chaotic soldiers, and the defeated soldiers who had just kowtowed like insects saw that Guo Xing'a was gone, and immediately stood up and ran. They all have a lot of looted gold and silver on them, so why bother to live this day of licking blood from the knife edge, and now it is time to take advantage of the chaos to get out. With the money in hand, change clothes, and find a peaceful place, they can also buy a house and land and become a Taiping rich man.

In the first battle of Xiongxian, Guoxing'a won a decisive victory, and Shengbao's army was killed by more than 4,000 people, captured more than 8,000 people, and all the others were scattered. However, Guo Xing'a was very dissatisfied with this result, one is that the whereabouts of the coach Shengbao are unknown, and he doesn't know where to go to harm people, and the other is that the nearly 15,000 routs will definitely disturb the people in the surrounding areas. However, now that Shengbao is gone, Guo Xing's worries have been removed, and he still has to go back to Beijing to engage in political struggle, which is really beyond control, and the people nearby can only seek more blessings for themselves.

The war was over, and Goxinga ordered Bo Ritu, who had arrived only after the battle, to collect the prisoners, and drove more than 8,000 captives to the Yongqing area, preparing to let these bastards work as coolies for a while to atone for their sins. He himself took the main forces and returned directly to Gu'an, preparing to join Actun and Bi Yuntao and return to Tongzhou. At this time, Shengbao had already fled into Baiyangdian with five hundred Jingying henchmen, thinking about how to make a comeback.

Katsuho is a person who is good at summarizing, and in recent years he has been fighting a war without doing anything else, so he has summed up a lot of experience about war. However, it is a pity that Shengbao has not participated in a victorious war except for Zhao'an, and the experience he summed up is all about defeat and escape.

As soon as the Gu'an army's shells exploded, Shengbao knew that he was defeated today, and it must have been a very miserable defeat. Therefore, before the artillery bombardment was over and the army was defeated, Katsuho had already left his flag array, and specially ordered the soldiers holding the flag that no matter what happened, the Daxu flag must not be placed. After leaving the bait of the flag array, Katsubo quickly came to the Beijing camp where he relied on the most, changed out of his official uniform, and put on the clothes of ordinary soldiers. As soon as the rout began, Shengbao took a group of his closest cronies to the Beijing camp soldiers, and began a very technical rout with the flow of people.

Escaping in the chaos is a technical job, if you just run with the flow of people, it is completely lucky, because the enemy will definitely chase with the flow of people, whether you can survive depends on God's will. You can't run against the flow of people, because even if you don't get trampled to death by your own people, you will be focused on by the enemy because you are different. Shengbao found the most correct way to run in many routs and ran diagonally along the flow of people. Everyone is running west, and Katsuho is going west as well, but his direction is slightly south. In this way, there are not only a large number of routs to cover themselves, but they will not attract the attention of the enemy, and they can gradually break away from the brigade and escape alone. Therefore, most of the people were still chased by the cavalry of the Gu'an Army, and when there was no way to enter the sky and no way to enter the ground, Shengbao took five hundred Beijing camps and hid in Baiyangdian steadily, waiting for Guoxinga to leave.

It was a good thing to drive away the captives, these captives were already heartbroken, there was no danger at all, and they did whatever they were asked to do. Moreover, this gang of miscellaneous people, with a lot of looted property on them, can be a private seizure of the light cavalry brigade. But Bozhtu was not happy at all and was very frustrated. It seems that he is really annoying Guo Xing'a, and he has completely become a miscellaneous worker, and there is no chance of meritorious service at all. No matter how bad the light cavalry brigade is, it is better than the gang under Ruilin who has just surrendered, but Guoxing'a would rather take them to fight Beijing than Bo Ritu's share. This feeling of being refrigerated is really very bad, Bo Ritu is not yet thirty years old, he also has dreams, and he also wants to show his ambitions, this kind of treatment of retirees makes Bo Ritu feel extremely frightened, even more terrible than the death threat of Goxinga.

Of course, Bo Ritu is the only one who is depressed, and everyone else is happy! Especially a group of flag soldiers outside the border who can make a fortune without fighting. Li Zhi and Kan Changcheng also feel good, and their subordinates are not at all out of the climate, but they are not in a hurry, they still have a lot of time. One of them is a political work cadre, and the other is a battalion commander who is very low-ranked, and it is shit luck to suddenly have the actual position of regiment commander. Soldiers can be trained slowly, officers can be carefully trained if they are poor, and they are already a big step ahead of their peers if they can have the position of regiment commander, where will there be any dissatisfaction. Both of them knew the rules of the rivers and lakes very well, and neither of them came to comfort the lost Brigadier Commander Bozhitu, and they all happily commanded their subordinates to loot the prisoners' belongings.

"You two arrange it! I am tired! Looking at the two subordinates who were not lost at all because they left the main force, Bo Ritu was even more depressed, explained a word, and ran away alone to think about life.

The light cavalry brigade is really miserable, they don't have the standard uniforms of the Gu'an Army, they don't have advanced firearms, and even the military flag only has a brigade flag from Bo Ritu, and there is a dragon flag underneath. This unit, which everyone dragged with big pigtails, would be a Qing army unit if it weren't for the two regiment commanders wearing the uniforms of the Gu'an Army. After the two regimental commanders were drowned in the crowd, and Bozhtu left with the only flag that symbolized their status as a Gu'an army, the only thing that distinguished them from their captives was their horses and accents. The hussars rode proudly on their horses, the captives walked on the ground with their heads down, the hussars all spoke fluent northeastern dialects, and the captives spoke all kinds of accents. In fact, there are some flag soldiers outside the Guanwai under the command of Shengbao, but these guys are worthy of being born in the bitter cold land outside the Guan, and their physique is much stronger than the people in the gentle township in the Guannei, and they all ran away, and none of them were caught by the Gu'an army.

Shengbao started running at noon, Guo Xing'a chased him for hundreds of miles and ran for half a day, and it was almost evening when the two armies started fighting, and now it was almost night after cleaning the battlefield. It was getting late, and the two regiment commanders, who were in a good mood, decided to camp on the spot and set off tomorrow after asking the brigade commander for false advice. The prisoners of war not only had to build fences on the spot to lock themselves up, but also had to set up camps for the Gu'an Army's grandfathers. Of course, there will be people who are good at stalking, and a few clever people have escaped the fate of coolies, and they have turned themselves into monkeys, and although they are teased by the victors, they have received many benefits.

More than 100 light cavalry drove dozens of shrewd prisoners of war to the edge of Baiyangdian Lake, and let them take advantage of the sunset to go into the water to catch fish. First, I want to enjoy the pleasure of being a cow and horse, and secondly, I hope that I can drink delicious fish soup at night. Looking at the clumsy prisoners of war fluttering in the water, the victors laughed wildly, and it was the smug laughter that alarmed the people hiding in Baiyangdian.

Katsuho has a lot of experience in escaping, but his courage is too weak, and when he hears the smug laughter nearby, he and a group of frightened birds panicked out of the secret hiding place. However, after seeing the dress of the cavalry on the shore, Katsuho was arrogant again, he knew the costume, some faded tasseled hats and robes, and old weapons, which were the standard equipment of the flag soldiers outside the Guan.

"Whose subordinates are you, how dare you frolic here, your superiors!" Shengbao mistook them for the escaped Guanwai banner soldiers under his command, thinking that the half-savages had returned after seeing the withdrawal of the Gu'an army, and they were still playing heartlessly by the water.

"Adults rest in the camp!" Shengbao has been in the top position for a long time, and he still has the bearing, and a few flag soldiers who have never seen anything in the market were really asked by Shengbao, and there are many adults they don't know among the more than 5,000 people.

"Ridiculous, how can you be so lax in military affairs, quickly bring this official to see him!" Katsuho went further and further down the wrong path, and he thought he had a chance to gather the remnants.

"Huh!" The flag soldiers became more and more vague, so they could only call the prisoners of war in the water and return to the camp with Katsuho.

There were really people among the prisoners of war who knew Katsuho, but they were shrewd people, so they made a shrewd choice and didn't say a word. There are 500 Shengbao people, and there are only more than 100 banner soldiers, so if the fight starts, Shengbao has a great chance of winning. But this did not do these shrewd people any good, and when the two sides met, they would definitely be brought with them, and they would certainly be the first to die without weapons. Shengbao is popular, but savvy people are not prepared to sacrifice themselves for Shengbao.

Seeing the huge camp from afar, Shengbao was very happy, there were more than 10,000 people here, and it seemed that his remnants had returned. Guoxing'a has already withdrawn, and eighty percent has returned to Beijing, as long as these rotten people are organized again, Shengbao is still one of the strong army leaders in the north. His strength is not comparable to that of Monk Greenqin, but Monk Greenqin has not yet started a war with Guoxinga, and after the fight, Monk Greenqin's death-eyed fate will definitely not be as good as himself.

"You greedy for life and afraid of death, how can you be so unbearable, your weapons! Even the guy who ate was lost lost still dares to come back! If there is a recidivism, this commander will be engaged in military law, and he will not be spared! Katsuho crossed the flag soldier who led the way, and ran alone to the fence of the prisoners of war, and Enwei yelled. The prisoners of war inside the fence, who were worried about their future fate, looked at their former commanders, and they were all stunned, and they really couldn't understand what was happening.

"Let's rest! Tomorrow, the Japanese commander will take you north to regroup! Looking at the stunned crowd, Katsuho boosted his morale again.

"Where are the battalion officers?" Katsuho ran to the group of people with fish and meat again and shouted.

"You are? What's the matter? It was already dark, and Li Zhi, who was standing in the shadow of the bonfire, tried to remember that the person in front of him was the official among his subordinates.

"Bastard, this handsome is the minister of the Qin Mission!" Shengbao was very angry, these bastards didn't even know him anymore, were they so embarrassed?

"Oh!" Li Zhi suddenly realized.

Bo Ritu, who had been thinking about life from a distance, suddenly heard an urgent shout, and someone came to call him, but he really didn't have the heart to eat game with Li Zhi and them. As soon as he saw the two elated new regiment leaders under his command, Bo Ritu felt uncomfortable.

"Travel! Katsuho has caught it! Li Zhi personally ran over and smiled even brighter, and Bo Ritu also laughed, and four words appeared in his mind - meritorious atonement.