Hearing that Yang Ming wanted to further expand the results of the battle, the generals of the four battalions all showed excitement on their faces, after all, any rebel wanted to expand his territory.

"What does that Childe mean?"

"Zeng Ying and Zhao Ronggui don't have to worry about these two people", Yang Ming said with a wave of his long sleeves, put his hands behind his back, and said in a deep voice:

"Order: The 1st and 3rd Battalions immediately set out to the north, and immediately divided their troops south to Kuizhou Prefecture after capturing Daning and Dachang counties respectively; The second battalion immediately set out to the east and conquered Kaixian, and then directed towards the capital of Kuizhou; The fourth battalion immediately rushed to Yunyang County to block the headquarters of Tan Wen in Yunyang and wait for the opportunity to go north to Kuizhou, and the military police brigade directly under it outflanked the Kuizhou Mansion along the line of Liangshan and Wanxian, and blocked Liu Lin's headquarters in Wanxian County; In short, we have only one goal, and that is to surround the Kuizhou Mansion! ”

"Soldiers besiege Kuizhou Mansion?"

Lan Guanwei and the others opened their mouths in surprise, they thought that Yang Ming was just taking the opportunity to seize a few county seats, but they didn't expect Yang Ming to make such a crazy decision.

But they didn't dare to question Yang Ming, so they asked tentatively: "Childe, if you surround Kuizhou Mansion, all the officials and troops in Kuizhou Mansion will come to help, and I'm afraid that it won't be so easy to capture Kuizhou Mansion City at that time." ”

"The officers and soldiers will definitely come back for reinforcements, but what I want is for them to come back, otherwise, how can I surround and send reinforcements!" Yang Ming smiled.

In fact, Yang Ming had already thought about how to decide the next move after repelling the encirclement and suppression of the Sichuan army before the Han army annihilated Tan Huan.

Now it is the fifteenth year of Chongzhen, Li Zicheng is fighting a decisive battle with the imperial army in Kaifeng, Zhang Xianzhong is also fighting in Anhui, the imperial court is tired of dealing with these two peasant rebels, and has no time to take care of the small fights in other places, it can be said that this is the best time for Yang Ming to take the opportunity to expand the results of the war, and now it is less than two years before the Manchu Qing Dynasty enters the customs, he must consolidate his foundation before the Manchu Qing Dynasty enters the customs, and to consolidate the foundation, you can't just shrink into a small county town, even Kuizhou Mansion is not enough, Kuizhou Mansion is not the main grain producing area after all, The land is barren, sparsely populated and multi-ethnic, and cannot be used as a long-term base area.

Therefore, Yang Ming not only wanted to occupy the Kuizhou Prefecture, but also to go out of the Kuizhou area, and expand the base area either to the south to occupy the Chongqing Prefecture, or to the east to control the land of Jingxiang, or to the north to seize Hanzhong, these places have always been the best places to cut off the claimed king, not only have fertile fields for thousands of miles to raise 100,000 elite soldiers and military fortresses to rely on, but also only to occupy these places can really consolidate the foundation and have the strength to confront the Manchus.

In order to occupy these places, it is first necessary to seize the Kuizhou Mansion, although the Kuizhou Mansion is not rich, but the military position is very important, the advance can attack Hanzhong and Jingxiang, and the retreat can protect the two prefectures of Chongqing and Chengdu, which is an important gateway to the northeast of Sichuan. As long as Yang Ming occupies Kuizhou Mansion, at that time, whether it is to cut the king in Sichuan or march into Huguang, and then seize Jiangnan along the Yangtze River, I am afraid it will be an easy matter.

"We must seize Kuizhou Mansion as soon as possible, now in the official army, except for Qin Liangyu's white pole soldiers, the other officers and soldiers are no longer afraid, use the siege of Kuizhou to gather these officers and troops together, and then take advantage of this to annihilate them all, and then Kuizhou Mansion will really be controlled by us!" Since Yang Ming had already made a decision, the officers of the fourth battalion did not dare to delay any longer and immediately implemented it.

Things went even more smoothly than expected, the first and second battalions entered Taiping County from the north and did not encounter any decent resistance at all, and most of the officers and soldiers were defeated in less than a few quarters of an hour as soon as they came into contact with the soldiers of the Han Army, so that in less than five days, the soldiers of the two battalions successfully captured Dazhuhe, Mingtong, Qianxi and other counties and towns, and on the seventh day they successfully advanced into Daning and Dachang counties.

The second battalion fought a relatively beautiful ambush battle, and its general Liu Hei heard that Zhao Ronggui's officers and troops were rushing to Tanjialing, so he simply ordered the second battalion to go to Tanjialing to ambush first, and annihilated more than 2,000 people under Zhao Ronggui's department in one fell swoop.

Yunyang County is the old nest of Chongqing general Zhao Ronggui, who hoarded countless grains and grasses, and left 5,000 men and horses to garrison. As soon as the fourth battalion came, they first pretended to be defeated and lured the enemy in the city, and then defeated the official army in one fell swoop and took advantage of this to capture Yunyang County, burned a large amount of grain and grass before going out of the city to occupy important places, and besieged Yunyang County.

The gendarmerie directly under it also took the opportunity to occupy Liangshan County and marched into the old Chaowan County of Zeng Ying, the general of Kuizhou. Zeng Ying, who was rushing to rise, heard that the nest was dangerous, so he had to rush back to Wanxian, and even forgot all about Ge Xundao's order to let him take Tieshan Pass within half a month.

"Son, due to the rising spring floods, Zeng Ying's department is now trapped in Hejia Village in the Dianjiang area, less than fifty miles away from Wanxian; Zhao Ronggui's headquarters is also cowering in Majiazhai, Tan Wen has been trapped in Yunyang County by the fourth battalion, and Liu Linchang of Wanxian County does not dare to act rashly because of the harassment of the gendarmerie directly under him."

After Bai Qian explained the current situation, Yang Ming just nodded, and then ordered: "The county town that has been occupied only needs to leave one team, and let the direct gendarmerie team rush to Wuning County to prevent the Tusi of Shizhu Country from coming to help, and the rest of the battalion will immediately rush to Kuizhou Mansion!" ”

According to the news brought by Chongqing, since Wanli, due to the perennial conquest, there are not many white pole soldiers under the Qin general soldiers, and the entire Shizhu Tusi is now less than 1,000 adult men, most of whom are old and weak women and children; And the current governor of Sichuan, Chen Shiqi, has a suspicion with Qin Zongbing, I heard that Chen Shiqi intends to reduce the reputation of this woman in the hearts of the people of Sichuan, Qin Liangyu suggested that he strengthen the defense in the direction of Kuizhou was also ignored by him, otherwise we would not have taken many county towns so easily. ”

Bai Qian didn't understand why Yang Ming cared so much about an out-of-gas court general, so he couldn't help but remind a few words.

"It's better to take precautions, this Qin General Soldier is a person who even Tartars dare not despise, and we can't take it lightly!" Yang Ming said and said: "Okay, you go down and tell them that before I give an order, I will just surround Kuizhou Mansion and not fight it!" ”

As soon as Yang Ming gave the order, the first and third battalions immediately drew out six target troops to go south, and arrived at Wangxiangtai outside Kuizhou Mansion in the early morning of the second day.

The second battalion also left a team to garrison the grain producing area, and after opening the county, it arrived at the Langmiao Bay outside Kuizhou Mansion in the early morning of the second day.

At the same time, the fourth battalion also gave up the siege of Yunyang County, arrived at Wuma Town, the southern gate of Kuizhou Prefecture, and divided its troops to control Qutangwei on the Qutang River, more than 300 guards were defeated in an instant, and hundreds of warships were also controlled by the Han army.

In this way, the four roads have completely surrounded the Kuizhou Mansion.