After defeating Qi Sansheng's reinforcements, Yilong Fort became a rootless Ping, although the fort occupied a favorable location, but most of the defenders suffered casualties, and it was almost impossible to support it.

Early the next morning, Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun launched a two-sided attack on Yilong Fort, and selected dozens of prisoners with loud voices to the front of the fort and shouted that Qi Sansheng was defeated, Yilong Fort was like a ripe apple, the Chu army gently stretched out his hand to pick it off, and the defenders on the Guansuo Ridge saw that the general trend had gone, and fled from the back mountain in a hurry, and the Chu army successfully passed this natural danger, and Kunming was only separated by the last pass of the rabbit pass.

March to Rabbit Pass!

Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun made persistent efforts, ordering Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding to go to war and attack Tu'er Pass, and a series of battles after the Battle of Guiyang fully proved that the army's surrender of the party leading the way was sometimes better than the Chu army's own troops.

Since Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding have embarked on this road, there is no possibility of turning back, every time they fight with the Western Army, they are very brave, and more fierce than the Chu Army, they do this, on the one hand, to gain the trust of Zhou Guodong and others and even Wang Kefan, on the other hand, it is also to cut off the back road of their soldiers, so that their hands are stained with blood, so as to better control the troops.

"Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun let the two of us attack Rabbit Pass, this is a rare opportunity, luckily, the first credit for capturing Kunming is ours."

"If you can capture Kunming in one fell swoop, Liang Guogong will definitely remember your and my names, and in the future, you will be able to wait for the generals and defend one side, all of which are at your fingertips."

"I don't dare to hope for the rest, as long as I am like the Mu family, I will be satisfied with the Yongzhen Yunnan, the weather in Yunnan is good, I am used to it, I don't want to leave."

Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding's families are in Kunming, and most of the subordinates and soldiers have families in Kunming.

Rabbit Pass is the north gate of Kunming, not only the terrain is dangerous, and the defense facilities are very complete, it can be called a dangerous pass that can not be opened, although Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding are the head snakes, they don't know what obvious weaknesses Rabbit Pass has, just attack from the front.

In the eyes of Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun, this will definitely be a vicious battle with heavy casualties, even if Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding can conquer the Rabbit Pass, it will take several days, losing thousands of men and horses, unexpectedly, the battle only lasted until noon the next day, Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding sent good news, they have broken through the pass and are pursuing the fleeing enemy in the direction of Kunming.

"After the rebels surrender, will they all get stronger?" Zhou Guodong was stunned, when Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding fought with the Chu army, their performance was mediocre and there was nothing amazing, but after surrendering to the Chu army, they repeatedly performed miraculous feats, beating Wang Shangli, Bao Shengting and Qi Sansheng, the generals of the Western Army, to lose their temper, and even died directly or indirectly in their hands.

"That's true." Liu Tichun sighed, in the chaotic times at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were countless similar examples, many Ming troops were repeatedly defeated at the beginning, but after surrendering to the Manchu Dynasty, they suddenly became very powerful, and they suffered a lot because of the camp.

Zhou Guodong carefully inquired about the capture of Rabbit Pass, only to know the reason why Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding were easy to succeed, in addition to their brave attack, the key is that after Qi Sansheng was injured and defeated, the western army in Kunming has been shaken and made a mess, although a small number of defenders of Rabbit Pass resisted desperately, but they could not get support from the rear, and were finally defeated by Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding.

According to the confession of the captive, Qi Sansheng's injuries were very serious, and he could no longer see things, the western army in Kunming City was leaderless, and many civilian and military generals felt that Kunming could not hold it, and fled with their troops and families to abandon the city, and it has become more and more intense, it has become a great escape including all the military and civilian gentry, Kunming is now an undefended city, Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding took advantage of the victory to march, and it is likely that the soldiers will occupy Kunming without blood.

"Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding, these two guys, obviously want to grab the merit, no matter what, this is also an opportunity for them to earn, the commander of this army is magnanimous, and he will not compete with them for the first merit in capturing Kunming."

Zhou Guodong ordered the whole army, accelerate the advance, cooperate with Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding to capture Kunming, and chase and kill the fleeing Western Army, Yunnan is a vast territory, and it is not easy to fight in remote places, and it will take several months to pacify the entire Yunnan by relying only on the strength of the Chu army, Zhou Guodong has little interest in this thankless task, and is ready to throw it to Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding.

Two days later, Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun rode side by side into Kunming from the north gate, and on the city gate, the square flag of the Chu army fluttered in the wind.

Get rich!

Sun Kewang is not good at fighting, but he is a rare master of internal affairs, operating in Yunnan for several years, hoarding all kinds of money, grain and materials piled up, Zhou Guodong selected a batch of grain, gunpowder and medicine urgently needed by the Chu army, sent people to transport it to Tan Xiao in Guizhou, and ordered Miao Zhenzong and Zhou Wuding to continue to march to the hinterland of Yunnan, sweep away the various state capitals, and eliminate the Western Army that still refused to surrender.

After the capture of Kunming, the overall situation of the war in the southwest has been decided, the only fly in the ointment is that the whereabouts of Zhu Cihuan, the king of Yongwang, were not found, according to the confession of the captive, when the Western army fled Kunming, he was also taken away, it is said that he fled to the area of Zhenxiong, Liu Tichun immediately took tens of thousands of elites to kill Zhenxiong, and strive to eradicate the grass......

On the battlefield in Hunan, after a period of preparation, Sun Kewang ordered the Western Army in Changsha, Hengyang, and Yuezhou to break through at the same time and retreat in the direction of Guizhou.

There are several large rivers in central Hunan, in addition to the Xiangjiang River, Yuanshui and Xiaoshui are very important waterways, if there is enough time, enough ships, the best route for the Western Army to retreat is from the Xiangjiang River into Xiaoshui, and then assemble in Changde, and then withdraw from Yuanshui to the Qingshui River in Xiangxi, and return to Guizhou from the waterway.

This route saves time and effort, can bring most of the troops back to Guizhou completely, after returning to Guizhou, you can also meet Feng Shuangli as soon as possible, the next step is to attack or defend or continue to retreat to Yunnan, there is room for maneuver, but after Lu Renqing and Teng Shuanglin captured Yiyang and other places, cut off the waterway of Xiaoshui, Changde also became very dangerous, Sun Kewang thought twice, or decided to retreat by land.

A fire burned down the warehouse, Sun Kewang led the army to leave Changsha, first launched an attack on Xiangxiang in the southwest, at the same time, Bai Wenxuan left Hengyang, and also launched an attack on Xiangxiang in the northwest, trying to defeat Wang Sheng first, and then retreated calmly after the two armies met.

After the full mobilization, Wang Sheng's troops increased substantially, there were tens of thousands of troops in Xiangxiang and Xiangtan, Sun Kewang and Bai Wenxuan combined, and he was roughly the same, Wang Sheng's troops had a lot of recruits, Sun Kewang and Bai Wenxuan were demoralized, both troops had obvious weaknesses, and they fought fiercely for several days in a row, and it was difficult to distinguish between victory and defeat.

At this time, the other units of the Chu army came up from all around, putting on a posture of a decisive battle with the Western Army in Xiangxiang and Xiangtan, but Sun Kewang did not have the determination to fight to the death, let alone the confidence to win the victory, and saw that he had been unable to defeat Wang Sheng, so he took the initiative to break away from the battle, gave up the attempt to join the division with Bai Wenxuan, and retreated separately.

If you don't go, you can't go!

If you continue to fight, you have to transfer the western army in Yuezhou and other places, and fight a decisive battle with the Chu army in the Xiangxiang area, otherwise you will be surrounded by the Chu army, both of which are unfavorable to Sun Kewang, and then if you want to leave, it is not a retreat, but a breakthrough, and how many remnants of the defeated army will run back to Guizhou, it all depends on luck.

If you retreat now, you can also take advantage of the fact that the encirclement of the Chu army has not yet been closed and retreat to Baoqing Mansion, which is still under the control of the Western Army and can meet Sun Kewang.

Before retreating, he also sent someone to inform Bai Wenxuan, asking him to retreat from southern Hunan, join the western army in Chenzhou and Yongzhou, and withdraw from Lingling to Guilin, Guangxi.

As for the western army in northern Hunan Province, because it is not the main direction of attack of the Chu army, it is relatively safer, and the western army in Yuezhou can retreat from the area of Changde Mansion to Guizhou as long as it bypasses Dongting Lake, in addition, Sun Kewang also wrote a personal letter to Li Dingguo, in which he changed his condescending and arrogant attitude in the past, but recounted the old brotherly relationship, and was very polite in his words, asking Li Dingguo to withdraw his troops from Hubei as soon as possible and return to Yunnan and Guizhou.

The Western Army set out from Yunnan, expedition to Huguang, grain and grass transfer is not easy, so the number of auxiliary soldiers is very large, on the Hunan battlefield alone, there are more than 100,000 auxiliary soldiers, plus more than 50,000 armor soldiers, the total number is nearly 200,000, with Sun Kewang's order, 200,000 Western troops can not care about fighting with the Chu army, and flee together.

On the land of Hunan and Chu, the western army is like a herd of migrating beasts, a team, a group, a group of retreats to the west, a year ago at this time, they are marching eastward from these roads, to Changsha, to Hengyang, to Yuezhou, to Chenzhou and other places to attack, when they come, they are majestic, as if the world is invincible, but when they go, they are depressed, like a lost dog.

In fact, this is no longer an organized retreat, Sun Kewang is nominally the commander of the Western Army, but he can only command tens of thousands of horses and horses withdrawn from Changsha, and the other troops are out of control, even if Sun Kewang's own troops, under the pursuit and oppression of the Chu army, are running faster and faster, and the more chaotic they are.

Along the road, all kinds of heavy materials are thrown everywhere, a large number of auxiliaries have fled, the soldiers can only carry heavy armor on their backs, in order to compete for the road and horses and livestock, the various departments fight with each other, and it is not uncommon to use knives and fires, whoever has a big fist can escape first, and the remaining troops will certainly not desperately block the Chu army for them.

It's messed up!

The various units of the Western Army ran wildly for 100 miles in one day, and just left the boundary of Changsha Prefecture, half of the troops were scattered, Sun Kewang was still trying his best to maintain the order of retreat at first, but soon found that it was all in vain, so he gave up his efforts and took the 20,000 or 30,000 descendants who could still be controlled, all the way to Shaoyang, the capital city of Baoqing Mansion, and prepared to gather the troops again after arriving in Shaoyang.