Further north, not far away, is the Chishui River, after the Chishui River, the last large-scale Yi soldiers of the Shuixi clan under An Bangyan's command can be regarded as temporarily getting rid of the pursuit of the main force of the official army.

Of course, this is Ahn Bangyan's idea.

Since they made up their minds to retreat north across the Chishui River in one go, An Bangyan, An Alun, and their masterminds Zhou Shiru, Datun Tuguan An Chi, Bijie Tushuai A Kun and others have riveted their strength one by one, urging their respective subordinates to march north desperately.

It's a pity that the last Yi soldiers of the Shuixi clan, with a size of more than 16,000 people, are not cattle who only know how to march but don't know tired, but people who are already alive and tired to the extreme.

Wu Azhan and An Chi's subordinates fought for two days in a row, and it was needless to say that they were tired, and now the Bijie Yi soldiers, who accounted for more than sixty percent of the Yi soldiers under An Bangyan, that is, the Yi soldiers who ran all the way to Datunchang with An Alun and Tushuai Ah Kun, were even more tired and hard.

Even a man with iron can't stand up to this kind of fierce battle and rapid march for several days.

Therefore, after secretly withdrawing from Datunchang and marching north, in the dark night, after marching for dozens of miles along the rugged mountain road, no matter how An Bangyan and his generals urged and coerced his Yi soldiers to continue the march, those Yi soldiers under the command of Ah Kun, who were extremely tired from Bijie, could no longer hold on.

Some of them fell on the march as they walked, and no matter how much you whipped and scolded, they could not stand up.

An Bangyan's mastermind Zhou Shiru, as well as the generals under An Bangyan's command, all know the reasons behind it.

They had no other option than to order the army to rest and recuperate.

In this way, after forcibly driving the Yi soldiers under his command to Taohong Dam, in the face of increasingly serious falling behind and attrition, in order to avoid the sudden collapse of the army under his command during the march, An Bangyan finally agreed to rest in Taohong Dam for an hour in desperation.

Now these remaining Yi soldiers are the only capital for him An Bangyan to make a comeback in the future and return to Shuixi.

No matter how arrogant An Bangyan is, he also knows that if there is no Yi soldier under his command now, he, the king of Luodian, is completely a joke.

But it is easy to order the army to rest, and it is not easy to get the army that has stopped to rest and recuperate again.

An hour and a half later, An Bangyan's army was still resting at Taohong Dam.

No matter how An Bangyan gets angry, how he scolds, and how An Bangyan's local officials and local leaders whip and coerce, this army, which has fallen behind and reduced more than one percent, just can't get up quickly.

It was also this precious hour and a half time that allowed the vanguard of the Sichuan army, which was also exhausted but with high morale, under the command of Hou Liangzhu, to bite the tail of the army under An Bangyan at Taohong Dam.

The topography of northwest Guizhou, especially the topography of Shuixi, is mostly the name of this dam or that dam.

The so-called "dam" in this type of place name refers to a small area of mountain plains.

Therefore, the terrain of Taohong Dam is quite open.

If the army under An Bangyan's command can remain calm in the face of the sudden attack of the Sichuan army and quickly encircle and annihilate it, An Bangyan's "Dream of the King of Luodian" may be able to continue for a while.

However, this Yi soldier, who was extremely tired and anxious to rest, did not even set up a camp and lay down on the ground to rest, and when he met the Sichuan army vanguard team that was suddenly chasing along the avenue shouting slogans, his first reaction was not to fight with him with a knife, but to get up and flee in all directions.

A commander of the Sichuan army battalion named Zhang Liangjun led hundreds of equally tired Sichuan army forward soldiers, and chased after more than 14,000 Yi soldiers who were resting at Taohong Dam and fled.

The whole scene was like a pack of only a dozen hungry wolves, chasing thousands of sheep, scattering them in all directions.

An Bangyan, Zhou Shiru and others, on the northern edge of the Taohong Dam, that is, at the front of the entire team, faced the panicked and frantically fleeing army, these people had no choice but to jump to their feet and scold in anger.

In the end, An Bangyan, who was helpless, could only be coerced by the army, and was surrounded by the guards all the way to the north.

At around midnight that morning, the main forces of the Sichuan Army under Hou Liangzhu and the Guizhou Army under Xu Chengming rushed to Taohong Dam one after another, and caught up with the main force of the Shuixi Yi soldiers who were being chased and killed by Zhang Liangjun five miles north of Taohong Dam.

A fierce battle between the two sides ensued on the relatively open and gentle slope five miles away from Taohong Dam.

The last Yi soldiers of the Shuixian clan, although exhausted, but most of them were veterans of a hundred battles, these people could not escape, and finally returned to fight, and their combat power should not be underestimated.

Although the morale of the officers and soldiers under the command of Hou Liangzhu and Xu Chengming was high and the situation was superior, there was no way to quickly take down this team of Yi soldiers of up to 10,000 people for a while.

On both sides of the post road that stretches to the north outside the Taohong Dam, on the hillside, in the mountains and forests, there are people everywhere who catch and fight, the morale of the officials and residences is high like a tiger descending the mountain, and the Yi soldiers are also desperately fighting, like a trapped beast still fighting, and they are actually stalemate for a while.

Around noon, the 3,000 Dian soldiers under Lin Zhaoding finally dared to go to the battlefield.

Around the end of the day, the last straw that crushed the camel finally appeared, and Peng Chaozhu, the former army of the native soldiers under Wu Zhiwang, guarded the 2,000 native soldiers, and rushed into the battlefield shouting all the way.

The battlefield situation north of Peach Dam quickly turned into a one-sided slaughter.

Whether it was Hou Liangzhu, the chief soldier of Sichuan, Xu Chengming, the chief soldier of Guizhou, or Lin Zhaoding, the chief soldier who finally rushed to the battlefield north of Taohong Dam, did not accept the surrender of this Yi army.

It doesn't matter if you surrender on your knees or not, you will look at it with a knife until you are hacked to death.

They all have a tacit understanding, that is, they want to divide the land of the west of the water.

Since there is such a tacit understanding, then collecting the Yi soldiers of the Xi'an clan is to make trouble for themselves.

In this way, it was not until Zhu Xieyuan, Wu Zhiwang, Qin Liangyu and others, under the escort of Liu Zhaoji and Qin Gongming, arrived at Taohongba that the battle on this side was over.

Bijie Tushuai A Kun was shot dead on the spot by Zhang Liangjun, the commander of the Sichuan Army.

And Datun Tuguan An Chi even knelt down to the territorial official Sha Dingzhou to the forward of the Yunnan soldiers and was taken advantage of by Sha Dingzhou to behead him.

Hou Liangzhu, Xu Chengming, Lin Zhaoding, and Peng Chaozhu had a total of more than 12,000 officers and troops, and they paid more than 2,400 casualties in exchange for more than 11,000 beheadings.

Such a result, of course, is considered a great victory.

It's just that the fly in the ointment is that although the Battle of Taohongba beheaded many people and basically wiped out the main Yi soldiers under An Bangyan's command, it did not capture An Bangyan's own head.

Just after the Shen Shi of the same day, Zhu Xieyuan and Wu Zhiwang led the main force of the Chinese army and arrived at Taohong Dam.

Zhu Xieyuan learned the battle report, and his heart was overjoyed, knowing that An Bangyan after the battle of Taohongba lost the main force of the Yi soldiers in his hands, and the defeat was already decided.

On the one hand, Zhu Xieyuan asked Wu Zhiwang, the left squire of the Nanjing Military Department, to serve as a supervisor and record the merits of the soldiers of each department, and at the same time, he sent Qin Gongming and Liu Zhaoji, who failed to participate in the Battle of Taohongba, as the front army, and continued to pursue the remnants of An Bangyan to the north.

At the same time, Zhu Xieyuan ordered the Sichuan soldiers, Yunnan soldiers, Guizhou soldiers and other officers and soldiers who had pursued and fought for almost a day to garrison the troops on the spot to rest, waiting for the Shaxi Yi soldiers under Luo Longzuo's command, escorting grain, wine, and meat to reward the whole army.

That night, Zhu Xieyuan garrisoned Taohongba and rewarded the whole army with the money, grain, wine and meat seized from the grape well and Datunchang.

For the officers and soldiers of the officers and soldiers who were killed and wounded in the war, Zhu Xieyuan ordered Wu Zhiwang to record their names and places of origin to report them, and allowed their families to inherit the rewards and pensions, and give priority to the distribution of land and land after the war.

At the same time, Zhu Xieyuan also promised all the departments and local soldiers of the official army that after destroying the remnants of An Bangyan's army, he would allow the soldiers of all departments to plunder the Datunchang, Taohongba, and Chishuiwei areas for three days, take what they need, and all the captured will be their own.

As soon as this order was issued, the whole army was excited, and the fatigue caused by days of marching and fighting was once again swept away.

However, just when the officers and soldiers of the various units of Taohongba were happily drinking wine and eating meat to celebrate the victory, looking forward to the early arrival of the moment of the great raid on the west of the water, Zhu Xieyuan received the news that Qin Gongming and Liu Zhaoji, the vanguard generals of the Chinese army, were urgently sent back this time.

With the only thousands of Yi soldiers left in his hands, An Bangyan actually dared to ambush the advance of the official army in Exiangling, more than 30 miles north of Taohong Dam!