"How's it going?" Stuffing the hot meat bun into his mouth, Yan Guang wiped the oil from his hands. "It's almost settled, right?"

"It's almost settled." Zhu Qinglan nodded, and then pointed to the captives who were not far away from at least a dozen acres of land. "Except for a few who escaped from the encirclement, the rest are all here."

"How many?"

"I haven't counted it in detail, but I roughly estimated that there were about 23,400 including the wounded."

"What about Wang Tianjie?" For the leader of this alliance, Yan Guangzhi is a little interested.

"I caught it, but that Wang Tianjie finally wanted to lead someone to break through from the flank, and finally was shot several times when he broke through, and he was just sent to the field hospital, and I don't know if he can survive." Saying that, Zhu Qinglan glanced at Yan Guang, he never thought that this battle plan would be successful. But the truth is that the plan not only worked, but it was also done perfectly.

Although, in order to be able to achieve this battle plan, Yan Guang used rather despicable means.

"Governor, do you really want to pay them for the journey?" Saying that, Zhu Qinglan's right hand is empty. "Do you want to..."

"There's no need, it's just a few hundred thousand silver dollars. With less than a million in exchange for a crucial few hours, it's still a good deal. Yan Guang said to an officer on the side. Take care of those people, and let them leave after returning to Chengdu with 30 yuan each. ”

In a desperate situation, the resistance of the Shu army was still very resolute, and seeing that more than an hour had passed, the breakthrough speed of the front and the two wings was still very slow. Thinking that if the Shu army could really hold out until the reinforcements arrived, this battle plan was likely to fail, in order to maintain his prestige within the Sichuan army, Yan Guang defeated Wang Tianjie, who personally supervised the battle on the front line, with quite despicable moves.

"Throwing a Fortune" is the name of this move.

When the voices of "those who surrender will not be killed" and "30 yuan per person for the Great Ocean Road" sounded on the battlefield, the military spirit of the Shu army was greatly shaken. Especially when they saw that someone really stood up and surrendered, many people simply threw away the weapons in their hands and walked out with their heads in their hands.

Seeing this situation, Wang Tianjie knew that he could no longer hold out until Zhang Peijue's reinforcements arrived, so he took hundreds of soldiers who were unwilling to surrender to the Sichuan army to break through from the flank, intending to sneak back to Tongliang on a mountain road that the cavalry could not pursue. It's a pity that when he broke through, not only were the hundreds of soldiers killed and wounded, but even he himself was shot three times, if it weren't for Wang Tianjie's adjutant later telling the Sichuan soldiers who were cleaning the battlefield that he was Wang Tianjie, I am afraid that he would have died of excessive bleeding at this moment.

But even if he doesn't die, Wang Tianjie now has only one breath left, and the medical methods of this era are backward, penicillin or something will not appear for at least a few more decades, even if Wang Tianjie has been sent to the field hospital, it is difficult to say whether he can be saved.

At this moment, Yang Shan walked over. "Governor, why do you let those people go? Aren't the 1st and 5th Divisions still lacking a lot of soldiers? Although these Shu troops have no combat effectiveness, they have at least been on the battlefield, as long as they can become qualified soldiers with a little training, it is better to organize them into the first and fifth divisions..."

Zhu Qinglan and several other officers on the side also nodded when they heard this, 23,400 people, excluding the seriously injured and unable to serve as soldiers, the rest happened to be the number of two divisions.

However, Yan Guang just shook his head. "It doesn't matter if the people in the Alliance are there, but there are too many people in the Elder Association within the Shu Army, and I'm afraid that if they are incorporated into the Sichuan Army, something will go wrong." In the future, the Hui Party must be suppressed, and Yan Guang does not want to recruit a large number of Hui Dang into his army now. "However, not all of the Shu army are from the Elders' Association, so let's do it, after returning to Chengdu, I will let Dinghan send people to distinguish it, if it is the Elders' Association, I will send money to let them go, if it is not as long as I am willing to stay, I will all be incorporated into the battle sequence of the Sichuan Army."

Yan Guang also laughed as he spoke. "Hasn't that guy Peng Xiu always struggled with being a brigade commander? All the people selected this time were incorporated into their brigade, so let him be a division commander. ”

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"Defeated..."

"Yes, I heard that Lord Wang's 30,000 people were completely annihilated..."

"So what do we do now? Moving on? ”

"That's looking for death, Lord Wang's 30,000 people have been wiped out, what can we do with only 20,000 people?"

Looking at the troops that had retreated from Tongnan and were only a few hundred people left, Zhang Peijue's two town soldiers were discussing, as for morale? There is not much left that has fallen.

An officer of the Shu army, who still had a blood-stained bandage on his head, slowly told Zhang Peijue and the other officers what happened in Tongnan. “…… Governor, ladies and gentlemen, this is how it happened..."

"In this way, it is indeed not Zixiang's responsibility..."After listening to the officer's narration, Zhang Peijue muttered.

"What about the people?" Wu Yuzhang on the side said hurriedly, the relationship between him and Wang Tianjie in the entire Shu army can be said to be the best.

The officer, however, only lowered his head and spoke only after a half-sound. "When I broke through, I once saw Lord Wang break through from the flank with hundreds of people, but then he was caught up by the people of the Sichuan army, I'm afraid that at this time..."

Hearing the officer's answer, Wu Yuzhang sat on the ground.

At this time, Zhang Peijue couldn't care about Wu Yuzhang's mentality, and just looked at the other Shu army upper-level Dao. "Guys, what do you think we should do now?"

Hearing Zhang Peijue's question, Yang Shukan, Zhang Dasan and the others looked at each other, and they didn't know what to do.

"Governor, if we take advantage of the Sichuan army to receive prisoners of war to launch a surprise attack on them..."Just when the upper echelons of the Shu army were all at a loss for what to do, an officer from a patrol battalion proposed.

"Raid?" Zhang Peijue's expression moved, but before he could speak, a leader of the Elder Brotherhood next to him had already spoken.

"No, no, didn't you hear that just now? The combat effectiveness of the Sichuan army was amazing, and the strength of our 6 regiments could not even stop 2 of them. If the Sichuan army had more than 2 regiments of troops idle at the time of the raid, wouldn't we be throwing ourselves into the net? ”

The words of the elder brother were quickly echoed by the others, and the officer also knew that he was soft-spoken, so he consciously retreated.

Although Zhang Peijue was very interested in this proposal, he saw that the people around him were against it, and he only had the strength of two towns at the moment, so the possibility of a successful raid was indeed not very high...

"Then let's go back to Tongliang first."

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