A battle that was not difficult ended quickly, and when Xue Hongqi's cavalry team penetrated into the enemy formation, the victory or defeat of the battle had already been announced. However, the direction in which these two troops fled was full of interest, the scorpion block was fleeing in the northeast direction, that is, in the direction of Shan*xi Taiyuan, but the Hengtian King Department did not follow him all the way, but ran in all directions, chaotically.

The newcomer Red Lady couldn't understand it again, and she couldn't help but ask Ma Xiaotian: "Why is the Hengtian King Department running around, but the Scorpion Block Department is running in one direction?" ”

Ma Xiaotian picked his head, spread his hands and said, "I don't know either." ”

The red lady said depressedly: "I'm stupid, I don't understand this." ”

Ma Xiaotian almost hid his face and fled.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was embarrassed, so he mentioned on the side: "The Hengtian King's Department has already surrendered to Sun Chuanting, and even the military uniforms have been changed, and the soldiers already have a sense of belonging to the imperial court, so after the defeat, they will flee in the direction where the imperial army is located." But the Hengtian King Department is different, he is still eye-to-eye with Sun Chuanting, and has not officially surrendered to the government to accept the incorporation, in this case, his soldiers do not have the real sense of 'I am an officer and soldier', so some of them will run to Yulin in northern Shaanxi, which is the base camp of the Hengtian King, and the other part is scattered and run away...... Hehe, anyone who didn't run in the direction of Yulin would not be counted as going back to Hengtian King. ”

"Not going back?" The red lady said strangely: "If they don't go back, will they be savages?" ”

This time, Ma Xiaotian suddenly jumped out and said with a smile: "I know." This time I know that these people who don't plan to go back are going to join us. Because we support the families of these people, they must have praised southern Shaanxi in their letters, but now they see that our army is fighting fiercely, so they don't want to be a soldier for the Hengtian King anymore, and want to join our Zhu army, so they scatter and run away, and after the Hengtian King escapes, they will come out and surrender to us. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at him and nodded, "Very good." You're right. ”

Ma Xiaotian was proud. The red lady glanced at him, and the meaning in her eyes was obvious: "You are smart this time." ”

At this time, Xue Hongqi led the cavalry to disperse the enemy army, and was hesitating to pursue, the last time she was greedy to pursue the officers and soldiers. He was almost killed by artillery under Xinyang City. Therefore, the bad habit of blind pursuit has been slightly reined in. At this time, although he won a big victory, he did not dare to chase indiscriminately, and turned his head to look at the Chinese army. But seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was ordering the flag soldiers to wave the flag violently, it turned out to be an order to leave the scorpion block alone and chase after the Hengtian King.

She was overjoyed in her heart, since Zhu Bugle ordered her to chase, it meant that the pursuit was safe, which was in line with the fierce personality of the Mobei horse bandits, so she happily whistled and ordered, and the eight hundred cavalry chased and fought with the Hengtian King's troops, making the Hengtian King miserable, and it didn't take long for the two men and horses to disappear behind the hill in the north.

Xu Renjie was afraid that Xue Hongqi would lose, so he brought 5,000 infantry to meet him.

The rest of the Zhu army, under the leadership of Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er, entered Qingjian County to rest and rectify, and sent people to clean up the battlefield and pack up the spoils. The mixed 100,000 also sent people to collect their defeated army and let them regroup back.

Zhu Yuanzhang sat down in the county yamen with 100,000 mixed 100,000 yuan, and at this time, the mixed 100,000 people already deeply admired Zhu Yuanzhang's combat power, and kept praising Zhu Jun's combat strength, Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to say: "This is the case, brother, I plan to return to southern Shaanxi." ”

When he heard that he was leaving, he thought to himself: I thought he came north to take the opportunity to occupy my territory, but I didn't expect that he would immediately say that he was going to leave as soon as he repelled the enemy army, but he was a downright man.

With such an idea, a smile appeared on his face, and he hugged his fists and said: "This time it is all thanks to Brother Zhu's help, if Brother Zhu has any difficulties in the future, he only needs to send someone to say it, and my brother will definitely go to the soup and fight the fire." ”

His words were insincere, anyone could hear it, if Zhu Yuanzhang really had trouble asking him for help, he would definitely have many excuses to push back. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't break him, just smiled and talked to him. This time Zhu Yuanzhang went north, he was determined to win northern Shaanxi, but he couldn't occupy it blatantly, otherwise it would be easy to lose his reputation, what he had to do was to let the mixed 100,000 himself give up northern Shaanxi, for which he had already made a lot of arrangements in advance, and he was not in a hurry at this time, just waiting for these arrangements to take effect.

That night, Xue Hongqi and Xu Renjie returned from pursuit, and the two of them chased after Hengtian Wang, killed many stragglers of Hengtian King, and captured hundreds of prisoners. Xue Hongqi was a little curious, and came to ask Zhu Yuanzhang why he wanted her to pursue this time. Zhu Yuanzhang explained: "This time, we have to kill and injure more troops of the Hengtian King, so that his ability to defend the city is insufficient." Xue Hongqi and Xu Renjie suddenly realized.

Mixed 100,000 in the barracks to count the army he collected, only then did he realize that something was wrong, it turned out that he himself had more than 10,000 troops, and later took over the army of the Cupola Pillar, the total strength was about 15,000, although the battle with the Hengtian King and the Scorpion Block lost some, but the war loss rate in the era of cold weapons is very small, generally speaking, one percent of the battle damage is enough to lead to collapse, so although he suffered a defeat and the whole army was scattered, but as long as he spent some effort to collect the defeated army, he should be able to recover more than 10,000 people.

Unexpectedly, it took a whole day to send people everywhere to recruit the old department, but only more than 4,000 people were summoned, and at this rate, it would take ten days and half a month to recall at most six or seven thousand people, what about the others?

It turned out that after the rout of 100,000 people, the defeated army scattered in all directions, ran into the mountains and forests in all directions, and ran into a small group of troops arranged here by Zhu Yuanzhang. Of course, they did not blatantly accept these soldiers directly into their own army, but in the name of "assisting the big brother of 100,000 to pacify the defeated army." ”

Among these people who collected the defeated army, there were also mixed with the old and weak women of the Cupola Army, who were once used to deal with pangolins, but at this time they could be used to collect the hearts of the old department of the Cupola, and many of the old troops of the Cupola immediately expressed their willingness to join the Zhu army. At the beginning, the Heavenly Pillar was killed by the King of Hengtian, and they had no leader, so they had to take refuge in the mixed 100,000, but after thinking about it, they always felt that the mixed 100,000 was not a person who could be trusted. As a result, the thousands of soldiers under the command of the Mixed 100,000 Heavenly Pillar were basically all invested in the Zhu army, which greatly reduced the strength of the mixed 100,000 troops.

This is not the end, some of the scattered mixed 100,000 deployments are not willing to go back to the mixed 100,000, because the soldiers under the mixed 100,000 are not only not well fed and clothed, but also have to fight such an aggrieved defeat, these soldiers also often receive letters written by their families in southern Shaanxi, which praise southern Shaanxi as a paradise on earth, which is even more beautiful than Suzhou and Hangzhou, they have long had the intention to flee to the Zhu army as soldiers, but they have been suffering from no chance, and now taking advantage of the defeat of the mixed 100,000, the army collapsed, which is a good opportunity to be deserters.

For these people, Zhu Jun took all the orders, let them eat and drink enough, and then secretly arranged for them to take a small road over the mountains and mountains to southern Shaanxi.

As soon as these few tricks came out, it would be miserable to mix 100,000, he counted and counted the past, and in the end there were only five or six thousand soldiers left, although he faintly felt that Zhu Ba seemed to be playing some tricks in it, but there was no evidence, but he had to thank Zhu Yuanzhang for helping him collect some soldiers.

In the following days, many soldiers from the Hengtian King Department also came to defect to the Zhu army, but none of them surrendered to the 100,000 people, which made him look very blushing.

Four or five days passed in a blink of an eye, and on this day, Zhu Yuanzhang found the mixed 100,000 and said with a smile: "I am going to go back to southern Shaanxi, and the situation in northern Shaanxi is still to ask the mixed 100,000 big brother to bear with it, and destroy the Hengtian King as soon as possible, otherwise I will not be at ease when I farm in the south." ”

I really wanted Zhu Yuanzhang to leave quickly, and the farther away the better, but at this moment, he didn't dare to let Zhu Yuanzhang go, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zhu, you can't leave now." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be puzzled: "Why can't you go?" ”

Chao Shiwan said with a bitter face: "Brother...... Brother now has only five or six thousand people under his command, not to mention the destruction of the Hengtian King, even if you want to resist the attack of the Hengtian King and the Scorpion Block, if you retreat at this time, I am afraid that the brother will be cut off in the blink of an eye. ”

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he pretended to be surprised: "Huh? Why is this the only person? ”

Mixed 100,000 smiled bitterly: "I don't know, these damn cowards must not dare to come back to see me after losing the battle." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "Then you mean, let me continue to stay here to help you?" ”

Mixed 100,000 nodded and said, "Yes, please ask Eighth Brother Zhu to help my brother again." ”

An unhappy look flashed on Zhu Yuanzhang's face, and he snorted: "Bastard 100,000, who do you think of me Zhu Ba?" Let's open the skylight and say something, I have traveled thousands of miles from southern Shaanxi to northern Shaanxi to help you fight, and there is no benefit at all, and it is enough to fight a battle once in a while, but what do you mean that you want me to stay here with my brothers? Do you think I, Zhu Ba, are you your subordinates? ”

Mixed 100,000 was taken aback, and hurriedly said: "Brother doesn't have this intention, and brother is also bitter, so he dares to dare to ask Brother Zhu for help, and he doesn't mean to underestimate Brother Zhu." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said: "Okay, even if you don't underestimate me, but sending troops to fight is very expensive, more than 10,000 people eat horses and chew, and they have to spend a lot of my grain and grass every day. Don't forget, I, Zhu Ba, am also a thief who rebelled and killed officials, not Guanyin Bodhisattva who rescued the suffering. (To be continued.) )