The effective range of the smoothbore gun is 300 meters, but it can shoot accurately only more than 50 meters, and there is no need to aim at a distance, and it is not necessarily possible to shoot at a distance. It is precisely because of the poor accuracy of smoothbore guns that the armies of this era choose to line up to shoot, and when the muskets are fired together, the density can make up for the accuracy, and a row of lead bullets can be shot like a wall, and a few unlucky people can be hit anyway.

After the first shot of Zhu Hongsan's new army was fired, the armed forces of the Yi began to crumble, and there were no professional soldiers in this era, and there was no army that could withstand one-third of its own casualties without being defeated.

An Kun of the rear team saw that the previous team was defeated again, and knew that the general trend had gone today, and now he could only run.

After firing three times, the Ming army began to charge. The muskets of the Ming army all have bayonets, plus the body of the gun is more than one meter six, which is comparable to a spear, and the physical strength of the Ming army is far stronger than that of the Yi people, and the next thing is a one-sided massacre.

Gu Xingzu, who was beside Zhu Hongsan, went from being scared at the beginning, to being shocked later, and then to being shocked now. He didn't expect the emperor's new army to be so powerful, 10,000 against 80,000, and end the battle in less than two hours.

"Your Majesty. Your Majesty! This army of yours is too powerful! ”

Seeing Gu Xingzu's idiotic appearance, Zhu Hongsan laughed in his heart: "Marquis Zhenyuan, it's up to you next, are your 10,000 people ready?" You can do something like cleaning up the battlefield! ”

Cleaning the battlefield is a good thing, no matter how poor the Yi people are, they still have some money, Gu Xingzu quickly agreed to come down after hearing this, and he didn't need the emperor's coercion, so he rushed forward with his subordinates.

By the time Gu Xingzu arrived at the battlefield with his people, the main battle on the battlefield had already ended. The personal bravery of the Yi people may be above that of the Ming army, but in the face of the Guangdong New Army, which takes killing people as its profession, the personal bravery is simply not enough. The Guangdong New Army took teams as units, with five to ten people forming combat groups, and slaughtered the Yi people in pieces. The Yi people on the battlefield lasted less than half an hour, and they retreated under the leadership of several lords, and An Kun, who was in the rear team, saw that there was nothing to do, so he had no choice but to run away with An Chongsheng.

Zhu Hongsan stood on the imperial chariot and saw a great victory for his side, and then saw the Yi people retreat and retreat north along the official road.

Zhu Hongsan asked Hou Fangyu behind him, "Chaozong, have you sent the order to Zhou Yu and Zhu Bao?" ”

Two months ago, Zhu Hongsan ordered Zhou Yu to lead two divisions to Guiyang to help in the war, Zhou Yu was stationed in Shuidong, and Zhu Bao's division was stationed in Longchangyi, both of which were the only way for the Shuixi coalition army to retreat to Shuixi. Before the battle started in the morning, Zhu Hongsan ordered people to send news to the two divisions, asking them to intercept the Shuixi Coalition Army halfway, so that these Yi people could rush to Anshun.

Hou Fangyu heard the emperor ask himself, hurriedly flipped out the notepad, and then said: "Back to Your Majesty, the order has been delivered when the war started, and now Zhou Yubu and Zhu Bao should be almost there!" ”

"Okay, Chaozong, send an order to Han Sanqiang, let him organize a team, follow the Yi people in pursuit, remember not to chase too hard, to avoid these guys jumping off the wall in a hurry!"

After Zhu Hongsan finished speaking, he got off the imperial chariot and jumped on a war horse: "Chaozong, you also get on the horse and go with me!" ”

Although Hou Fangyu could ride a horse, it was really inconvenient for him to ride a horse as a scholar, but he had no choice but to take off his robe and change into the clothes and pants of an ordinary soldier, jump on the horse and act with the emperor.

Hou Fangyu This is the first time to go to the battlefield to see the Guangdong New Army fight, Hou Fangyu is not a powerless scholar, he and Shi Kefa fought together in Yangzhou, Shi Kefa wrote the "Fu Dolgon Book" before his death is from Hou Fangyu's hand.

Back then, Hou Fangyu had seen the terrifying combat effectiveness of the Manchu Eight Banners, and although there were other reasons for Yangzhou City to defend for a day, the super combat effectiveness of the Manchu Eight Banners was also a secondary reason. Therefore, Hou Fangyu returned to his hometown in Henan after the destruction of Nanjing, preparing to be a remnant of the Ming Dynasty, but he was also completely disappointed in the combat effectiveness of the Ming army.

Hou Fangyu heard the news of this Guangdong Ming army in his hometown in Henan, and fought in Jiangyin, Jiading and the Qing army, and killed two princes of the Qing army, one Kong Youde and one Nikan. At first, Hou Fangyu thought it was a rumor, but the next news spread with a nose and an eye, especially in Nanchang, Jiangxi, the Guangdong New Army broke through Duoduo's 200,000 army with 20,000 people, and basically wiped out all the Qing troops in Jiangnan.

Although Hou Fangyu had 10,000 reasons to hate Zhu Hongsan, all personal grievances had to take a back seat before the national contradictions, so Hou Fangyu came to Nanjing after Zhu Hongsan occupied Nanjing to prepare to become an official, and came to Zhu Hongsan's side without hesitation when Zhu Hongsan was summoned.

Hou Fangyu followed Zhu Hongsan out of the city just now, and he was also very scared in his heart, there were seventy or eighty thousand troops on the opposite side, although there were two divisions of Zhou Yu and Zhu Bao as reserve troops on his side, but the main battlefield was only 15,000 people. Who knew that the next battle was completely beyond Hou Fangyu's expectations, and who would have thought that those arrogant Yi people would not be able to hold on for even half an hour, and they would be defeated directly under the first wave of shelling.

Hou Fangyu rode on a horse and followed behind Zhu Hongsan, surrounded by brocade guards wearing plate armor, seeing Zhu Hongsan riding on a horse with high spirits, accepting the cheers of the Ming soldiers along the way, Hou Fangyu suddenly had an idea in his heart, this bastard emperor is not a bastard, at least he has the hope of Zhongxing Daming.

An Kun led the remaining more than 50,000 people and horses all the way to retreat, just arrived at the Shawen between Guiyang and Longchangyi, just met Zhou Yubu who arrived, and was stopped by Zhou Yu and beat a cannon, at this time An Kun entered Guiyang City, and the ambition of capturing the dog emperor alive was gone, and he just wanted to escape back to Shuixi as soon as possible. After making contact with Zhou Yubu, he immediately led people out of the battle and retreated to Longchangyi.

Han Sanqiang and Zhou Yu's two divisions joined forces and followed the Yi people to chase down. At this time, the Yi people showed superb quality in mountain warfare, and these guys went into the mountains and forests one after another, one by one without taking the official road, so that the pursuit of the Ming army encountered some trouble.

Longchangyi is the place where Wang Yangming enlightened the Tao, that is, Xiuwen County, Guizhou Province in later generations. Longchangyi is the traffic artery connecting Guiyang to Bijie, Dafang and other places, and it is also the only way for Ankun to return to the west.

Longchangyi is Zhu Yuanzhang's brother-in-law in that year, Guizhou commanded Ma Ye to organize the construction, out of Guiyang City to the north through Caotang, Liuguang to Qianxi, Dafang, Bijie, a total of about 500 miles, known as "Longchang Nine Stations" in history. The respective names of Longchang Jiuyi are divided into Longchang Yi, Liuguang Yi, Guli Yi, Shuixi Yi, Xixi Yi, Jinji Yi, Geya Yi, Guihua Yi and Bijie Yi.

An Kun also knew the importance of Longchangyi, it turned out that he had 5,000 people left here to guard the troops, Longchangyi was just a small town, with a population of less than 2,000 people, An Kun thought that his 5,000 people were enough.

Who knew that just this morning, a strange army in red clothes came from the east, and the artillery was very powerful, and in less than half an hour, it wiped out the 5,000 people guarding the dragon field, and less than 200 escaped.

An Kun heard the soldiers who fled back say that Longchang was lost, and sighed in his heart: "God, is it really heaven that is wrong with me?" ”

An Chongsheng, who was beside An Kun, saw that his master was disheartened, and hurriedly persuaded him: "An Kun, don't sigh, the dragon field is not good, we can go to Anshun!" ”

"Anshun? But Anshun is more than 300 miles away from here, and our military rations and baggage are all lost outside Guiyang City, can we hold out to Anshun? ”

"This rest assured, we are Yi people, and the mountains are our friends, as long as we leave the pursuit range of the Ming army, are we afraid that we will not be able to find food in the mountains? And now Anshun is still in the hands of the Yongli Emperor Zhu Youlang, we can say that for the Yongli Emperor to fight with this Shenwu Emperor, let the Zhizhou of Anshun Prefecture come up with food supplies, and then we can make a detour to Wusa Mansion to return to the west of the water! ”

An Kun thought about it and now he can only take this road, only to go to Anshun, get some food locally, and then transfer to Wusa Mansion in Yunnan and then return to his old nest.

The decision was made, An Kun took the remaining less than 40,000 people, and did not attack the dragon field, but directly turned around and headed south, running towards Anshun.

Longchang is less than 200 miles away from Anshun Prefecture in a straight line, but it is nearly 400 miles away from the mountain road. Fortunately, there are official roads in these 400 miles, and this place has been developed by the Ming Dynasty for more than 200 years, and the infrastructure is not bad, at least it is much stronger than the base camp of the Shuixi clan, Dafang and Bijie.

An Kun's original abacus was to rely on the mountain road and the Yi people's mountain warfare ability, please ask the Ming army to pursue, who knows that the Ming army behind is like a dog with a dog's nose, and has been hanging far away, neither attacking nor retreating, just following behind, this time An Kun is a blood mold.

It is true that the Yi people are good at mountain warfare, but there must be a limit, where can these Yi people play this kind of long-distance travel of hundreds of miles if they can't eat enough. But the Ming army chasing behind is not the same, although they are not familiar with the terrain, but the Ming army has Han guides recruited locally, and the Ming army eats much more than the Yi people, that is, fifty grams of sugar per person per day to supplement energy, the Yi people have never heard of it, and what other canned meat is openly supplied. Because the logistics support of the Ming army was strong, although it was very hard to pursue in the rear, the morale of the Ming army was still there.

An Kun led his men through the mountains for more than a month, at first it was okay, the soldiers' physical strength was still there, but the more they got later, the more they couldn't, and gradually deserters began to appear. An Kun couldn't help it when he saw this, the Ming army behind him was chasing him too hard, and he couldn't stop and repair at all, so he could only grit his teeth and stiffen up.

In this way, the two teams traveled through the mountains of Guizhou one after the other, and on the tenth day of October, An Kun finally took the team out of the mountains and came to the outside of the capital of Anshun Prefecture, and saw the city wall of Anshun, An Kun breathed a sigh of relief, as long as Anshun Zhizhou let himself into the city, then he could escape with his life.