The battle reached the chase stage, and Yang Xiaoshan finally breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, this battle was not easy to win, the two sides talked about the combat effectiveness of the army, Jiang Zhongyuan's side still had the upper hand, Yang Xiaoshan gambled on the suddenness of the foreign guns in the pro-military camp, and the bet was right, although he was sleeping on the surface that night, in fact, lying on the bed and simulating the battle process in his heart, for fear that there would be something missing.

It stands to reason that such positional battles are generally to fire artillery first and then fight, but Yang Xiaoshan did not do this. The enemy is very cunning, and once they realize the strength of their artillery fire, they are likely to scatter and retreat, and such a rout victory is of little significance. What Yang Xiaoshan needed was a large number of backbone forces to annihilate Jiang Zhongyuan, so that he could gain an overwhelming advantage in the next battle.

Therefore, Yang Xiaoshan asked the pro-military battalion to carry the old-fashioned gun first to lure the Qing soldiers to attack, causing the Qing soldiers to be in a dilemma and difficult to ride a tiger. Inflict heavy damage on its most elite stormtroopers, and then cover up the whole army, so as to deal a fatal blow to Jiang Zhongyuan. This was also proved by the final battle, Jiang Zhongyuan lost nearly 10,000 men in one battle, half of his men were defeated, and his younger brother was also killed in the charge.

The balance of strength was completely broken, and Jiang Zhongyuan was no longer able to fight a positional battle with Yang Xiaoshan. So a chase battle was launched in Huibei, Jiang Zhongyuan was a strong escape, and Yang Xiaoshan was a strong chase behind.

At a pass in Huaiyuan County, Chen Yucheng was leading a team to chase Jiang Zhongyuan's team, and when the team saw Chen Yucheng chasing after him, they were very panicked and desperately fled. The team is not in a team, even the flag has been lost, and it looks like it is a broken army, and it is like a frightened bird.

Chen Yucheng was overjoyed when he saw this, urging the team to rush forward, seeing that those defeated troops crossed the pass, Chen Yucheng was so anxious that he wanted to chase after him with his own soldiers. At this time, Yang Xiaoshan's herald came galloping over, stopped him and said: "Check Chen, the prince has a life, let you chase after you, the terrain here is complicated, be careful of the ambush of the Qing demon." ”

Chen Yucheng immediately calmed down, he chased a little bit just now, and now he looks carefully at the pass, and there seems to be a faint figure shaking in the mountains on both sides. Chen Yucheng was frightened into a cold sweat, his recklessness just now almost fell into the ambush of the Qing Demon. Hurriedly ordered the troops to gather back and wait for the large army of the prince.

"It's a pity, it's just a little bit." Jiang Zhongyuan, who was ambushed on the mountain, shook his head, and the Taiping army almost fell for his plan.

It turned out that Jiang Zhongyuan could not confront Yang Xiaoshan head-on, so he adopted guerrilla tactics and took advantage of his advantages of few men and less baggage and fast marching speed to mobilize Yang Xiaoshan to pursue. He deliberately chose those places with dangerous terrain to go, and was ready to take the Taiping army by surprise at any time.

In Mengcheng County, Yang Xiaoshan originally thought that Jiang Zhongyuan would settle here, but Jiang Zhongyuan didn't even enter the city, he asked the magistrate to take the militia to hide in the countryside, and gave up an empty city to Yang Xiaoshan.

"Shizi, what kind of trick is this Jiang Zhongyuan doing, he is not even willing to defend the city, and he actually gave the county seat directly to us, what is the reason?" Li Xiucheng looked at the empty Mengcheng County and couldn't understand.

"It's a good Jiang Zhongyuan, his hand is too ruthless. If we divide our forces to defend the city as soon as we encounter it, there will be fewer and fewer people, which will undoubtedly be beneficial to him; If we don't divide the troops, we won't lose anything to him, and as soon as we leave, the former magistrate will come back with the militia. Yang Xiaoshan understood Jiang Zhongyuan's thoughts and replied.

"This Jiang Zhongyuan is really too yin, what should we do with the son?" Li Xiucheng gritted his teeth and said hatefully.

"We will not divide our troops, continue to chase, and see if we can seduce him to take the initiative to fight us." Yang Xiaoshan said coldly.

Lixin County, Wuli Bridge. Hundreds of heavenly soldiers of the Taiping Army were eating in a pot near Wuli Bridge, one by one with their chests open, eating and drinking, looking defenseless.

Jiang Zhongyuan's subordinate envoy Liu Changyou was a little impatient and wanted to lead troops to encircle and suppress the past. was stopped by Jiang Zhongyuan, "Liu is an envoy, and slowly, I'm afraid there is fraud here." ”

"How is that possible? This is the long hair has relaxed its vigilance, how can you let go of a rare opportunity? Liu Changyou didn't believe it.

"Believe me, I asked the spies to go and see if there were any bombs under the Wuli Bridge at night? I guess Longfur is trying to seduce us over, blow up the bridge, and get a ladder upstairs. At that point, we'll really have no way out. "Jiang Zhongyuan is thoughtful, very cautious, and observes very carefully.

In the evening, the spies sent out really came to report that they found explosives from the Taiping Army under the Wuli Bridge, and Liu Changyou was shocked into a cold sweat after hearing this. Fortunately, Governor Jiang stopped him, otherwise his team would have almost been calculated by Long Hair.

On the land of northern Huibei, Yang Xiaoshan and Jiang Zhongyuan fought wits and courage, on the surface, Yang Xiaoshan had an advantage, but it was not so easy to eat Jiang Zhongyuan's team in one bite.

But the time was not on Yang Xiaoshan's side, and after more than half a month of chasing, the two sides never fought except for small-scale contact. Dongwang, who was far away in Tianjing, couldn't wait any longer, and sent an urgent order to Yang Xiaoshan.

"Shizi, what does the warrant of the East King say?" Chen Yucheng saw Yang Xiaoshan's somewhat solemn expression, and couldn't wait to ask.

"The king of the east asked us to quickly open the supply line from Tianjing to Hubei, and the king of Yu seems to be in trouble in Hunan, and the progress is not smooth." Yang Xiaoshan put down the warrant and informed.

The defeat of Qin Rigang, the king of Yan, in Anhui put the Heavenly Kingdom in a passive stage strategically. Anhui is so important, it is the link between Tianjing, Hunan, Hubei and Jiangxi, this link is not closed, the whole kingdom of heaven is a plate of sand, can not be connected.

"Shizi, what do we do now? Jiang Zhongyuan, this old fritter is smoother than a loach, we can't catch him. Li Xiucheng also realized Yang Xiaoshan's dilemma. On the one hand, Jiang Zhongyuan was harassing him like a fly, and he was not at ease if he was not defeated; On the other hand, the Taiping army urgently needed to open a supply line to support the soldiers at the front.

Yang Xiaoshan stared at the map on the table and thought for a long time. Finally, he spoke: "Don't chase that Jiang Zhongyuan, let's go south to Luzhou, and the situation in Anhui will take on a new look." ”

Everyone hurriedly stepped forward to look at the map, this Luzhou is located in the center of Anhui, and controlling it here is equivalent to holding the traffic arteries of Anhui, even if Huibei is stopped by the Qing demon, it is of little significance. As long as the Taiping army took Anqing again, the supply lines of Tianjing and other provinces would be opened.

"Listen to the son, let that Jiang Zhongyuan stumble for a few more days, let's go to Luzhou!" Chen Yucheng immediately agreed.

"We can't relax the reconnaissance of Jiang Zhongyuan's department, if he dares to come to Luzhou to rescue, let's come to a siege point to help, killing two birds with one stone." Yang Xiaoshan never forgot to annihilate Jiang Zhongyuan and get rid of this opponent, and the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would be much more stable in the entire Anhui.