The evacuation of He Yilong and Lin Yangyang's headquarters quickly turned into a rout under the pursuit of Sun Chuanting, He Shiyu and Du Wenhuan's cavalry. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

How can a two-legged man outrun a four-legged horse?

And the fleeing thieves, few people have the courage to turn back and fight against the pursuing Ming cavalry.

In this way, a large number of thieves retreated from the battlefield of the east gate and the south gate, and did not even dare to enter the city, so they fled to the west along the road under the city, and were killed by the crossbows of the Ming cavalry along the way, hacked to death by Qi knife, trampled to death by horses' hooves, and trampled to death by thieves fighting for each other, it is difficult to count.

Let's say that at three o'clock that night, Gao Yingxiang led the main force of the camp, with the looted people, grain, grass and other things, and took advantage of the night to leave the city from the west gate.

The west gate of Jingle Town is close to Fenshui, and there is a small wharf facing the west gate, but at this time, there has been a major drought for several years, and this place is the upper reaches of Fenshui, and the amount of water is small, and it is about to dry up at this time.

As a result, the wharves and ferries here have long been abandoned, and there are naturally no boats.

The lack of water in the upper reaches of Fenshui is of course good news for Gao Yingxiang's brigade, the depth is not as deep as the waist, and the shallow place is not ankleless, and the people and horses can wade on foot and can pass more quickly.

However, for a large number of cattle, sheep, livestock, grain, and grass, there is no ship to transport them, which is a problem after all.

Fortunately, outside the west gate is Fenshui, which is too close to the city gate and within the range of bows and arrows at the head of the city, so there is no way to garrison the army at all, and the official army is indeed not stationed here.

At three o'clock, Gao Yingxiang led his army out of the city, first let part of the main force wade across the river, set up a position on the opposite side, and then began to drive the population and livestock across the river.

Because the army carried a large number of cattle, sheep, livestock, grain, grass and baggage, the hundreds of pace-wide rivers and the tidal flats that stretched on both sides of the river became a rather difficult journey.

From time to time, carts of food and goods are stuck in the mud, making it difficult to reach the other side smoothly through rivers, tidal flats and slopes.

In this way, in two hours, from the three quarters of the ugly hour to the middle hour, and then to the approaching hour, the brigade of men and horses crossed the river, while most of the carts carrying grain and baggage were still marching with difficulty on the river beach of Fenshui.

As the sky gradually brightened, Gao Yingxiang's heart became more and more anxious, and the situation at the other three city gates was constantly collected by his subordinates and reported to him.

As soon as Gao Yingxiang ordered everyone to throw away the baggage that they couldn't carry and speed up across the river, there was already news that other thieves had come to cross the river.

The first was Huang Hu Zhang Xianzhong, the leader of the Hui army in the Hui camp, and many of the people and horses who followed him were also Han people in the Hui camp.

Zhang Xianzhong did not stop when he arrived at the river, and continued to rush down the river beach while beating his horse, while shouting in the direction of Gao Yingxiang: "King Gao Chuang, hurry up and cross the river to the west!" Dog officers and soldiers are chasing! ”

After saying this, Zhang Xianzhong continued to move forward regardless of it, beating his horse and rushing to the other side of the river.

The deepest part of the river has just reached the belly of the horse, so these people ran all the way, and they did not bring any grain and grass baggage, and the speed of crossing the river was not slow.

Gao Yingxiang was about to send someone to order He Yilong and Lin Yangcheng to withdraw and hurry across the river, when he saw a large group of men and horses rushing in the distance.

It's just that Ma Shouying at this time is extremely embarrassed, and his face and beard, which are cleanly groomed on weekdays, are full of blood.

Ma Shouying shouted as he ran: "King Gaochuang, the east is too bad!" Brother is better with you, cross the river to the west! ”

After saying this, he didn't say much, and directly jumped into the river beach, waded across the river, and went to the other side.

Gao Yingxiang looked behind him again, and saw from a distance that He Yilong's department and Lin Yangsheng's department, who had broken into the camp, were also mixed in the return to the camp.

Of course, these leaders have horses, and whether they run or cross rivers, they are much faster than others, and those who have no horses to ride are miserable.

A considerable number of people were chased and killed by the Ming cavalry He Shiyu and Du Wenhuan who were pursuing all the way from the east gate to the south gate and then to the west gate.

Of course, there were also a considerable number of people who spread their legs and ran to the east bank of Fenshui, and then were shot dead by the Ming cavalry who followed and pursued them on the river beach and in the river.

In addition, more people fell to their knees and surrendered along the way.

For the old thieves who crossed the river from Shaanxi all the way to Shanxi, they would rather die than dare to surrender, but for the young and strong thief army recruited or coerced in Shanxi, although they had heard of the methods used by the officials and soldiers to deal with the thieves and prisoners, they had not experienced it after all, and they still had illusions in their hearts.

He Shiyu, Du Wenhuan, He Guoxian and others chased the cavalry to the east bank of Fenshui with their subordinates, and they did not dare to cross the river to pursue, but just galloped back and forth along the east bank, crisscrossing the river beach on the east bank, wantonly killing the thieves and rebels who fell into the river beach.

It wasn't until Sun Chuanting arrived soon afterwards with another cavalry of more than 500 people.

When He Shiyu saw Sun Chuanting coming, he hurriedly rode his horse to the high ground on the east bank of Fenshui, and said to Sun Chuanting: "Sun Fuyuan, the thieves have lost their courage, should we lead the army across the river to pursue the victory?" ”

In terms of age, Sun Chuanting is more than ten years younger than He Shiyu, but in terms of mental scheming, He Shiyu thinks that he is not the opponent of the young governor in front of him.

Therefore, since Sun Chuanting took office, He Shiyu quickly willingly surrendered to Sun Chuanting, and obeyed the young governor.

After Sun Chuanting arrived, he quickly took advantage of the opportunity of reviewing the Yansui Town Army to promote a group of border army soldiers who were not from the Yulin Weijiang family as generals, Du Wenhuan, Liu Honglie, Tao Xiqian and a number of ordinary military families from the bottom of the banner and Baizong ascended to the sky in one step, becoming the new upstart generals who could be used around the governor, and compiled and selected a small number of people, but the elite and abnormal Fubiao Chinese army.

In addition, the imperial court sent by the Yansui Town Supervisor Imperial Shi Ma Maocai is not a good stubble, so He Shiyu, who is the chief military officer of Yansui Town, also has to serve these two gods carefully.

And for the young governor in front of him, He Shiyu has special respect.

After listening to He Shiyu's inquiry, Sun Chuanting groaned slightly, and immediately said: "No need to chase!" At this time, it was the thief army half-crossing, and I attacked it with the tail. If our army crosses the river, then the thief army can wait for me to cross halfway and attack me, if so, the strength and weakness will be changed.

"Decree all the tribes, from the thieves and the people, and those who descend will not die!"

When He Shiyu heard this, he didn't ask the reason, and immediately turned around and said loudly to the guards beside him: "Master Chuan Sun's order, those who descend from the thieves and the people will not die!" ”

Soon, the order to avoid death spread all over the east bank of Fenshui, and for a while, there were countless thieves and rebels who were still trapped on the east bank of Fenshui.

The reason why Sun Chuanting did not order the pursuit was that there was a reason for him to chase after him, and secondly, he was quite satisfied with the results he had achieved so far.

Just two hours ago, Sun Chuanting had already thought that this encirclement and suppression might be unfavorable, until he heard that He Shiyu had killed the horse gun outside the east gate to stop the decline, and waited until Du Wenhuan's reinforcements turned the tide of the battle before he breathed a long sigh of relief.

At this moment, he has achieved the first victory in the suppression of bandits in Jindi in a thrilling way, and he is already very satisfied in his heart.

Sun Chuanting was stationed outside the west gate of Jingle City, looking at the thieves in the mountains on the west bank of Fenshui, and his heart was full of ambition.