After cleaning up the battlefield, Li Qingyuan quietly left Pucheng with a few people, this time it would be good if Fukangan could have eight or nine thousand troops left, and the fifteen hundred people in the city were enough to resist, as for the reinforcements coming, Li Qingyuan would naturally bring new troops to reinforce.

The battle situation was simpler than Li Qingyuan expected, and he originally thought that it would be difficult to hold on for a month, but he didn't expect the Qing army to be disabled in only a few battles.

When he returned to the base of Luliang Mountain, the firearms from Taihang had just arrived, and Li Qingyuan immediately distributed them, and the size of the soldiers was immediately doubled.

These recruits who have obtained guns have been training for two or three months, and after getting their guns, they can train for a month to achieve initial combat effectiveness, and if the situation is urgent, they can also be used to defend the city for ten days and eight months, and the situation of the empty defense of the Luliang base has been alleviated when the recruits get guns, and Li Qingyuan has always been worried that the Qing army will sneak attack if he takes the soldiers away, especially after the defection of Deputy Division Commander Qin.

I don't know if this defeat of Fukangan will attract the attention of the Qing court, Li Qingyuan nervously accumulated strength, in addition to relying on the support of Taihang Mountain's muskets, Lu Liang's musket production has not stopped.

More than 300 pieces were delivered in 10 days, and it is expected to produce more than 1,000 pieces a month, and more than a dozen artillery pieces have been produced this time, except for the batch brought by Li Qingyuan, the rest have been put on the side of the Yellow River.

If the Qing army crossed the river, the deterrent effect of the artillery was much better than that of the musket, and that guy would not leave a single living hole if he loaded a shot and went down to a boat, which would be a huge blow to the Qing army's heart.

On the fifth day of his return, Li Qingyuan sent 1,000 soldiers to support the Yellow River defense line, and sent another 1,000 men to the north to prevent the Qing army from attacking in the direction of Datong.

As a result, the soldiers just set off for two days from the north to send news, the reinforcements from the direction of Datong defense went south, Li Qingyuan tightly frowned, this is to merge with the remnants of Fukangan, although Fukangan has not made any moves recently, but the reinforcements have indeed arrived in a steady stream, and the scale of 123 has been restored, if the Datong direction goes again, there will immediately exceed 30,000 towards 40,000.

If the Qing army came up in several ways, the pressure on Li Qingyuan to break through each would not be great, but if he concentrated forty or fifty thousand people all the way, the pressure would be great.

Li Qingyuan immediately transferred 1,500 men from the north back to the north to defend and only left two battalions to deal with emergencies, and these 1,500 people came back, plus the 1,600 musketeers in Li Qingyuan's hands, there were 3,000 people in his hands at that time, which was enough to fight a decisive battle.

Li Qingyuan waited for three days, and sure enough, the Qing army in the direction of Datong passed through Fenzhou Mansion and Fukangan, and Li Qingyuan immediately ordered the troops to march towards Puxian, intending to attack the back of the Qing army when the Qing army attacked the city, forcing the Qing army to turn back and fight a decisive battle, and then the Qing army would be easier to break through by the enemy.

Just waited for two days, Li Qingyuan only got the news that the Qing army was resting, and did not see the Qing army attacking, at first Li Qingyuan only thought that the other party was resting and regrouping, and after waiting for another three days, the Qing army still did not move, Li Qingyuan knew that the other party must be waiting for something.

But what exactly are you waiting for? High-powered artillery? Reinforcements? Or something else? But where will this reinforcement come from? How much?

Li Qingyuan unfolded the map, this Fan Wei of the Qingshui Sect in the east has been making trouble in Xuzhou for a few months, the troops in the Central Plains have long been exhausted, and there are no mobile troops north of the Yangtze River in the south, as for Jiangnan, those soldiers are not enough to worry about, in the north? If you want to reach Fenzhou Mansion, you have to cross Li Qingyuan's territory, and Li Qingyuan can't get the news, to the west? The soldiers from the west have been blocked on the west bank of the Yellow River for more than half a month...

Wrong! Li Qingyuan was shocked, the situation in the west was not right, it was rare to hear the news of the Qing army crossing the river in the past few days, Li Qingyuan didn't care about it at first, but now that he thought about it, he was afraid that this Qing army had made a detour and successfully crossed the river...

Li Qingyuan hurriedly asked Hou Zheng to send someone to investigate, but before the news from the west bank came, he got the news that a large number of reinforcements had come from the Fenzhou Mansion, and Li Qingyuan knew that this time the soldiers from the west had arrived.

At this time, the Fenzhou Mansion had concentrated more than 80,000 Qing troops, and the murderous rush towards Pu County, Li Qingyuan ordered three battalions of the Yellow River defenders to take advantage of the emptiness in Hexi to quickly march into northern Shaanxi, and on the other hand, ordered the Puxian defenders to prepare to abandon the city.

It is easy to be surrounded by defending the city, but it is better to resist step by step, and it is better to retreat gradually, as long as it can be dealt with, it is no problem to block the Qing army for ten days and half a month.

And Li Qingyuan stepped up the training of the troops, while sending two battalions to harass the Qing army's grain road, now Li Qingyuan's troops plus Puxian 1,500 people are just over 5,000 people, the number is enough, but Li Qingyuan feels that these people are still not enough to train, they must be in practice, at least when the Qing army crosses Yanduan Mountain and fights the other party!

After the Qing army waited for reinforcements on the western front, they immediately rushed towards Puxian with great momentum, but the result was indeed a punch on the cotton, and the county seat of Puxian was already empty.

But it doesn't matter, an empty city does not affect the Qing army's mood to celebrate the victory, the Qing army entered the city that night to celebrate, but it was attacked that night, and then the grain road behind was also harassed.

The Qing army sent 10,000 men to pursue the attacking enemy troops, but after chasing them all night, they lost more than 3,000 and didn't even touch the opponent's fart.

The next day, the Qing army set out and followed the intelligence guidance of Fukangan towards the base of Luliangshan.

Before he had gone twenty miles, he received news that there were bandits camping in front of him, blocking the way.

The place guarded by the 3rd Division was the entrance to a valley, where the mountains were so high and dangerous that only this one could be passed, and it would take at least 80 miles more to go around the east.

Naturally, the Qing army didn't want to travel two more days, and even if the army was willing, then the logistics couldn't go around, right? If the logistics are also detoured, not to mention the increased distance, the other side occupies this mountainous area, and its own logistics line is no different from handing it over to the enemy.

So without hesitation, Fukangan took the forward to kill the defense line of the third division, as for why Fukangan only mixed a forward, the first is that he lost his own troops, and the second is that the rank and qualifications of an army of this size to command him are not enough.

Fukangan squinted his eyes as soon as he arrived at the opponent's position with 20,000 strikers. Rows of waist-high walls were dug along the road, which was to facilitate musket shooting, of course, he knew, but this kind of wall also limited the use of cavalry in his hands.

That's right! This time, the Qing court transferred 3,000 cavalry from the Western Front and handed them over to Fukangan's command, but before they could play a role, they were broken by this short wall formation, and Fukangan felt that the other party must have planted spies in his army.

Li Qingyuan did arrange spies, but he really didn't know how many cavalry the Qing army arranged this time, the spies only knew that there were cavalry in the other party's camp, but how many did not know, so Li Qingyuan arranged this kind of low wall, if the Qing army sent cavalry, it would be easier to jump one or two walls, but there were third, fourth, fifth, sixth... Therefore, if the cavalry dares to charge, it will definitely become a target!