Pan Dingxin's previous sentence was still clearly audible, but by the time he reached the next sentence, his voice was already as ethereal as smoke, and he couldn't really hear it. This is not because Pan Dingxin has fled far away, but because a large group of people fled with him, and the sound of horses' hooves and footsteps completely covered Pan Dingxin's voice.

The officer who stayed behind glanced back at Pan Dingxin's back, and his gaze was very complicated. But when he turned his head again, he saw that there were only fifty or sixty people left around him, and his eyes were all confused, and he couldn't help but snort coldly.

"Listen to it all." The officer pointed his finger around: "Clean up here, put away the flags and everything, and the ordnance that was thrown down!" ”

Seeing that the shouts of the Qin army behind him could already be heard, the officer did not think about how to organize the defensive line, but wanted to collect things, and all the soldiers were surprised. But he is an officer, and those who are willing to stay with the officer at this time are undoubtedly the officers' henchmen, cronies and diehards, and the soldiers naturally only have to obey orders.

While his subordinates were packing up their things, the officer looked back in the direction of Pan Dingxin's escape. "Why bother? It's all on the line. The officer shook his head, then led the rest of his men: "Go, follow me!" ”

He first carried a gun, and then walked towards the Qin army's pursuers, seeing that the Qin army was less than 100 meters away, the other party began to raise their guns to aim, he raised his hands, the rifle was raised above his head, and his knees fell to the ground, and at the same time shouted to the people behind him: "Kneel!" Get on your knees! ”

The soldiers behind him didn't know how to describe their hearts for a moment. It turns out that the adults are going to surrender, so it's good to surrender! One by one, they fell to their knees with joy in their hands, their weapons thrown aside.

"Don't shoot. We surrender, surrender, we surrender ......"

However, the officers still have some bottom lines. Although the people surrendered, in the face of the Qin army, they did not mention that the defeat along the way was led by Pan Dingxin.

Besides, Nie Shicheng on the other end, the troops were blown up in Jiazhai, he couldn't contain the remnants, and seeing that the Qin army was killed, he didn't dare to stay anymore, and kept fleeing in the direction of Baoying in the north. Along the way in the middle, looking at the past, there are people and routs everywhere. The Huai army recruited and transferred an unknown number of people in northern Jiangsu, and the number would not be less than 20,000 anyway. Now that the Huai army has been defeated, the people are naturally unrestrained, and they all want to flee home as if they are rushing.

At this time, Nie Shicheng only had a hundred horsemen around him, and he learned from the people that one of the Qin troops had already run to his lead. Nie Shicheng hadn't lived enough, and he didn't dare to wear the Manchu general's costume of his commander anymore, and his subordinates, everyone changed into the clothes of the people.

"The Qin army has limited strength, they just seized the surrounding area of the county, and they haven't eaten the Huai army outside the city, and they don't have enough troops to attack Baoying. If we see the opportunity, we will definitely be able to sneak into the city to meet Lord Nakado......"

At this point, Nie Shicheng couldn't care much about it, he took hundreds of horsemen together and walked together, but it would attract the Qin army to pursue, and the only way was to scatter and pretend to be a people. Everyone knows the military discipline and military law of the Qin army, and if you don't say that you have committed no crime in the autumn, you will definitely love and protect the people. Now this situation will definitely not be investigated in detail for the people, and their main task is to chase down the defeated soldiers. That's where it comes in!

Having made up his mind, Nie Shicheng didn't have time to think about it, so he asked the captain of the army to take a large group of people to go another way, and he only took three or five people, dressed in people's clothes, and rode the unsightly horses he picked out, and began to march towards Baoying County.

Sure enough, they were stopped by the Qin army on the way, and during the investigation, Nie Shicheng lied that he was a folk husband in northern Jiangsu, and now several fellow villagers were going home together. As for a few people riding horses, when they saw the Qin army lighting torches from afar, several people let them go. That Qin Jun's eyelids were too shallow, and he was not experienced enough, looking at Nie Shicheng and the others who were covered in mud and panic, they didn't even see any clues. He didn't embarrass them, but just stuffed a stack of papers for him: "When you get home, put up a few notices on the street for us, you just don't worry, if you're afraid, throw them outside!" ”

How could Nie Shicheng not agree, took the leaflet, and took advantage of the fire of the Qin army to look at it, but there were some requirements written on it, such as warning the people to guard the door, and the rout must not disturb the people, otherwise once caught, the crime will be punished, and officials at all levels should seal the treasury and materials, and all kinds of things must be properly protected.

After reading this leaflet, Nie Shicheng could only smile bitterly, Qin Jun thought too carefully, and even this leaflet had been prepared in advance.

However, Nie Shicheng had at least one advantage with this leaflet, that is, the several Qin army troops he encountered later did not embarrass them, and the kind Qin soldiers gave them some dry food.

Eating the dry food distributed by the Qin army called 'compressed biscuits', drinking water in the canal and river, Nie Shicheng was silent, and several people on the road made a board cart from the ditch, and luckily led a horse in a crop field, made a carriage, and bowed his head and hurried to the road only seven or eight miles away from Baoying County, he saw a large area of torch light in front of him, and it seemed that the Qin army of one or two thousand people was marching.

"Who?" Before they could get closer, they heard someone in the distance shouting.

"The folk man who has returned to his hometown, the military master!" One of Nie Shicheng's cronies replied loudly, after a lot of such interrogations along the way, they were no longer nervous at all.

"Stay away from the troops and don't interfere with the march. In addition, pay attention to safety, there are still a large number of Huai troops around this area that have not been cleaned up. ”

Nie Shicheng and the others had a carriage to sit in, although it was not a serious four-wheeled carriage, but it was slightly faster than the soldiers on foot. But there was no envy in the Qin soldier's tone.

Nie Shicheng couldn't help but compare his own Wu Yi Army with the Qin Army again, he knew in his heart that if it was Wu Yi Army or other departments of the Huai Army, even if it was Li Hongzhang's pro-army, seeing such a situation, except for a few battalion heads, he would definitely take the carriage for himself to sit on, and if he was ruthless, he was afraid that he would kill people. But the soldiers of the Qin army in front of him ......

The difference between the two sides is too far at this point!

In terms of military discipline, the Qin army really threw the Huai army and any Qing army out of ten streets!

In Nie Shicheng's view, this is not only due to strict discipline, but more importantly, it belongs to the army's sense of honor and treatment. No matter how much the Manchu court looked at the Huai army, the Huai soldiers had no status in society. The five words 'good men are not soldiers' are applied to the Huai army, as well as the Hunan army, the Chu army, and even the heads of many armies, which are very suitable.

But these five words definitely can't be put on Qin Jun's head.

After Liu Xian raised the banner and raised the army, the many treatments of the soldiers of the Qin army were reported very clearly in "Ta Kung Pao". Not only is the military salary high, and the meritorious Lu Tian is paid, and a family of male soldiers can also reduce or exempt taxes, and what school is Qin Jun building, the tuition fee for the children of military dependents is halved, and the tuition fee for the children of martyrs is completely free......

……

In Baoying County, Li Hongzhang stood on the city wall like a withered bamboo, looking at the south with a little firelight, and listening to the clarion call of the victory of the Qin army and the overture of the defeat of the Huai army......

Finished!

The Huai army is over!

It's completely over!

More than half of the night passed, and it was already more than three o'clock, and the defeated soldiers gathered in Baoying City were only three or four thousand.

The Qin army has gathered more and more troops around Baoying, and the time is on the side of the Qin army, and the longer it drags on, the less likely it is that the remnants of the Huai army will come to converge again.

"Zhongtang, let's withdraw. It's dawn, and I can't walk if I want to! Zhou Fu persuaded Li Hongzhang. Li Hongzhang turned a deaf ear.

At the same time, in a house in Baoying County, William, a reporter for the London "Times", as one of the first war correspondents in Britain to arrive in China. After a shocking day, Smith is now writing his newsletter, in which he writes excitedly: "As the cavalry and more and more infantry of the Qin army arrived at the outer extension of Baoying County, and began to bombard the outlying defense strongholds of the Qing army sporadically at Baoying County, the entire Baoying City has now fallen into a complete hysterical chaos......

The situation here [Baoying County] is very bad, and like the city that has fallen into the war, all the qiē is so bad that it can't be worse. What I saw before my eyes was a strange sight, and I saw the officers wearing oriental caps who did not care about the atrocities of their soldiers. Their hobby is no exception, and the atrocities that are being staged are just a stone's throw away from them.

The defeated soldiers of the Huai army poured into the city, and they drove away the nearby Qing people, and occupied the houses and a qiē of the people without paying. There are even shameful things like rape and yin......

The officers' indifference and indulgence in the atrocities allowed looting and killing to take place throughout the city. All the troops in the city were sent to the front line and the not very strong city walls, along with the police, and the troops on the front line, the soldiers on the front line were constantly fleeing, and many people thought that His Excellency Governor Li should leave Baoying now, on the night of the defeat of the Huai army, and take advantage of the fact that the Qin army was not surrounded. But Governor Lee insisted on not leaving, so much so that many of his men were so disillusioned with the prospect that some of them deserted. There is no policing here......"

Nie Shicheng finally came to Baoying and met Li Hongzhang. The first thing he said to Li Hongzhang was 'evacuate', hurry up, if you don't leave, it's too late."

And how to contain the Qin army here in Baoying? Pan Dingxin, who arrived first Nie Shicheng, was silent, and Nie Shicheng stepped forward and was willing to lead his troops to defend the rear.

And what about Zhang Shaotang? He was glaring at Pan Dingxin fiercely with his eyes, as if he could tear a piece of flesh off him with his gaze. Then, he looked at Nie Shicheng again, his gaze softened a lot, but he was still full of resentment like a resentful woman. Zhang Shaotang, who broke a leg and was almost disemboweled by shrapnel in his belly, lay on the bed without saying a word.

"Where is the Huai Army?"

"Nope. Nope! ”

"After tonight, there will be no Huai army in this world!"

"The old man started in the army, and he was defeated in the army." Li Hongzhang greeted Nie Shicheng. "Gong Ting, you send someone to inform Tang Renqian. Whether to fight or surrender, let him decide for himself! ”R1152