"Then Ba Deqing took more than a thousand people, what should we do now, Lord Admiral?" One of the attendants asked anxiously, his tone very flustered.

"In which direction did he lead his troops, can you see clearly?" Xiang Rong didn't answer, and asked with a calm face.

"It's going north, in the direction where the Ulantai Department is located." The attendant replied.

"This Ba Deqing is greedy for life and afraid of death, and wants to leave us to find a way to live. It's a pity that he was too stupid and found a dead end instead. Xiang Rong smiled contemptuously, his face full of sarcasm.

"Aren't we going to run north?" The retinue looked puzzled, and to the north was the closest direction to the friendly forces.

"Ba Deqing thinks that he is not the boss, and the bandits here will not send a large force to chase him, so he left us and ran first. But it was a big mistake for him to flee north, although the Ulantai Department in the north was only two or three days away from here, but there were few mountain roads in the north, and one or two passes were the only way to go, and it was easy to be ambushed. The terrain in the south is complicated, there are many roads, there are no good ambush points, although it will take a few more days to get to a safe place, but as long as we throw off the pursuers, the road behind will be very smooth, so the south is our first choice. "Xiang Rong is not a veteran of the battlefield, and after a little analysis of the pros and cons, he came up with the correct answer.

"Shall we go now, then?" Xiang Rong's delicate analysis made his entourage feel his confidence, and they began to rejoice again.

"Don't worry, our soldiers are too tired now, let them rest more. The bandits will definitely send a team to chase after Ba Deqing, and let them go farther. We set out on the fifth watch, when it was darkest, and the bandits had been digging long trenches, and people must have been tired, and that was the most suitable time to leave this place. "Xiang Rong analyzed everything in an orderly manner.

"Order!" The entourage's military heart was regained, and they looked full of confidence.

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At this moment, Ba Deqing was proudly walking on the mountain road leading to the Ulantai Division, he thought that the long-haired people would send at least two thousand people to chase him, but he didn't expect that it would be even less than he expected. His own team was half cavalry and half infantry, and the speed of the march was obviously faster than that of the pursuers, and after abandoning more than a hundred soldiers who had fallen behind, he completely got rid of the long-haired pursuers.

"The rain is so heavy that it will wash away their footprints in a while, and the longhairs should not be able to catch up." Ba Deqing thought to himself, "It's only half a day's journey from the camp of the three general soldiers, we should be safe." ”

Ba Deqing never expected that it was Yang Xiuqing's bounty that allowed him to escape so easily, Qin Rigang wanted the demon slaying sword too much, so when he found out that it was the Manchurian Eight Banner soldiers who escaped, not when Xiang Rong's green battalion soldiers were released, he just symbolically sent a thousand people to follow behind to confirm it, and the other thousands of people were also stepping up digging a long trench on the willow forest, trying to encircle Xiang Rong as soon as possible.

While Bard was secretly rejoicing, he didn't realize that he had entered a precarious pass, and Hu Yihuang's 3,000 men were in ambush.

After a majestic horn, the rolling boulder first rolled down the hill, and then an endless crowd appeared on the hillside as if by magic. Behind the overwhelming military flags was an angry shout, and the Taiping army descended from the tigers in the mountains and swooped down on the Qing army.

"How can this be?" The appearance of the Taiping army shattered Ba Deqing's dream that he thought he had escaped, and he could not imagine that there would be an ambush of the Taiping army here, which was already very close to the three general soldiers.

"Brothers, hold me back!" Ba Deqing shouted and eagerly searched for the weak points of the Taiping army, and he was looking for a way for himself to escape.

While the other Qing soldiers were still fighting with the Taiping army, Ba Deqing abandoned them and escaped through a gap in the crowd with a few of his own soldiers.

In a hurry, in order to survive, Ba Deqing didn't even notice that the red crown on his head had fallen off.

"Hurry up, climb over this mountain, and we'll be there!" Ba Deqing eagerly urged his few personal soldiers, and when he climbed up here and looked into the distance, he could see the camp of the three general soldiers.

"Where to go?" Hu Yihuang intercepted him, just now on the mountain of the pass, Hu Yihuang has been paying attention to Ba Deqing's movements, he led more than 30 guards to take a shortcut to come up, and finally intercepted Ba Deqing at the last pass in this group of mountains.

At this time, Hu Yihuang secretly regretted that although the person in front of him was not Xiang Rong, he looked like a full executive. You can't let him run away, otherwise he has been preparing in vain for so long in this mountain.

"Look at the knife!" As soon as Hu Yihuang made a move, he forced Ba Deqing off his horse with the long knife in his hand, and his guards also followed Hu Yihuang's footsteps and rushed into the ranks of the Qing army, separating Ba Deqing and his own soldiers.

Ba Deqing's heart was already full of panic and fear at this time, and beads of sweat rolled down his forehead. He felt that his life had encountered a huge crisis, and he had no fighting spirit to entangle with the Taiping Army at all, and he only wanted to flee for his life.

And Hu Yihuang's long knife was as fast as a knife, and it roamed around Ba Deqing, not allowing him to get out easily at all. Every time Ba Deqing couldn't dodge, when he had to raise his gun to fight, he was almost shocked and numb, and it was only a dozen rounds back and forth, Ba Deqing felt that his situation was not good, he didn't dare to fight, and he drilled when he saw the air. Hu Yihuang grabbed the collar behind his back and put a long knife on his neck.

"Spare your life, don't kill me!" Ba Deqing hurriedly knelt down and pleaded bitterly.

"Bad seeds!" Hu Yihuang looked at the Qing army leader with disdain, and suddenly felt a little bored, and the excitement of capturing the Qing army general alive suddenly became boring.

"Escort this person down and wait for the military advisor to leave." Hu Yihuang motioned for his soldiers to tie up Bud.

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On the fifth watch, Xiang Rong asked the cavalry to wrap the horses' hooves in their own cloth, and no one was allowed to make any noise, while the Taiping soldiers who had just finished digging the long trench were resting, with the help of night and heavy rain, he led his men south and quickly left the willow forest.

Until Qin Rigang found out that Xiang Rong was not in the willow forest, they had already run south for an hour.

After finding that he had gotten rid of the main force of the Taiping Army, Xiang Rong finally laughed at the sky, "God bless, I finally got out of the place of death." ”

But before he could finish his joy, Yang Xiaoshan and Hong Xuanjiao's two thousand men and horses appeared on the undulating horizon and rushed towards his team quickly.

"Admiral, it's been a long time." Yang Xiaoshan showed a mysterious smile, I don't know whether it was smug or happy, or mocking, in short, it made people feel meaningful.

"It's you!" Xiang Rong was not impressed by Yang Xiaoshan, but when he saw Hong Xuanjiao, he finally remembered that it was the two people in front of him who killed his most proud disciple Qin Dingsan in Dongling.