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Wu Shicong led a large army to resist the Mawei army at the east gate, but the Mawei army only carried out the first wave of tentative attacks, and he was already suffering heavy casualties, more than 2,000 killed and seriously wounded, so he couldn't hold out for long, maybe when the next Mawei army launched an attack, they would be completely defeated.

Rather than this, it is better to save some strength. So Wu Shicong finally gave the order to retreat after some entanglement. The remaining forces in the city were all entangled by him, and there were also more than 8,500 soldiers, who abandoned a large amount of baggage, and quickly retreated westward with a small amount of dry food. It is impossible to go north to Guilin, and since the Mawei Army has already hit here, there is no reason not to go to the capital of Daguang.

In this case, the army can only be brought back to Yunnan, and in Guangxi, there is really no way to continue to compete with the Mawei army. The Mawei Army has been recuperating for a day and a half, and has already rested enough, and until now, the artillery battalion has been re-exerting its might, and the other troops have not caught any battles. Wu Jun fled, Zhang Youde and several other generals took the initiative to ask for help, and Liu Yinglan did not object. He can't just let Wu Shicong run back to Yunnan with the army, wouldn't it be more difficult for them to fight Yunnan in the future, it would be better to destroy it at this moment.

Wu Jun, who was busy escaping, was also blessed in the past two days, a few days ago it was a continuous sunny day, and now it is the same, which also makes Wu Jun escape quickly, the sun-dried dirt road is not much worse than the cement road, along the hard dirt road, nearly 10,000 Wu troops went straight to the direction of Yunnan.

But this is Guangxi after all. The central part of Guangxi is a large area of tropical rainforest. It's still the rainy season. Several sunny days in a row are already extremely rare. The two-day march is nearly 200 miles, which is unprecedented for Wu Jun or Wu Shicong, and it is no wonder that the Mawei Army is chasing after the buttocks, and as long as he falls down, he will be over. Of course, many of the Wu troops who fell behind were not killed. Instead, he voluntarily surrendered and became a prisoner of the Mawei Army.

Just when the generals of the Wu army sighed that they were lucky, the pouring rain began to sway with the scorching sun in the sky. The dirt road that was hard one moment turned into a soft down pillow the next moment, and the mud that reached the ankle was undoubtedly the biggest bad news for Wu Jun.

On the third day's trip, Wu Jun did not stop from morning to night, but he only walked a short fifteen miles, which was not a good sign, and Wu Shicong was quite decisive. At this time, it was important to save his life, and he gave the order at night. Discarding all unnecessary baggage, weapons, miscellaneous artillery, grain wagons and other supplies, these things have become a burden, in order to speed up the march, it is not important to withdraw from this muddy quagmire, the important thing is to withdraw from this muddy land, and escape the pursuit is the most important thing.

On the fourth day, the trip still did not stop for a moment, although a large number of baggage was lost, but the one-day trip only increased by ten miles. In four days, the Wu army passed through the three counties of Longan, Pingguo, and Tiandong to Tianyang County, and the road in this area was not easy to walk, and now it is covered with silt, at this rate, it will take at least half a month for the Wu army to withdraw to Yunnan.

But will the Ponytail Army give them half a month? Of course, this is impossible, in fact, on the second day, the Mawei Army caught up with the Wu Army, and the foot strength of the Mawei Army never loses when running. Previously, they were slow to move, just cleaning up the baggage left by the Wu army. In Guangxi, it is difficult to transport the supplies of the Mawei Army in time as far as they go deeper, so it is the best way to receive the spoils of war and feed the war with war.

Walking in the mud for two days in a row, many of the Wu soldiers' shoes were rotten, along with the footboards. Where have they endured such an intense march, usually training once every few days, and they all complained about all the hardships they suffered. Although the soldiers of the Mawei Army were tired, they were constantly encouraged by the officers and superior officers, and the morale of the Mawei Army was still high.

The current Wu army, the most lacking is time and medicine, a few days ago on a sunny day, although the marching speed is very fast, but the water source is a problem, at the beginning you can drink some well water, but the Mawei army is in hot pursuit, and even the time to dig well water is gone. But although there is a river on the side, the water in it cannot be directly drunk. And now the heavy rain is pouring down, converging into a flash flood, and after the flood, most of them are epidemics, and the water source has become a big problem.

The horsetail army was a little laid-back in the back, hanging in the back, and every time they passed by the village, they would fill up with water. Exhaustion, sickness, and fear began to spread in the rain, and on the fourth night, just as the tired Wu soldiers fell into a deep sleep, the neighing of horses disturbed their good dreams.

The Mawei Army began to take the initiative to attack, and the attacking Mawei Army was not aimed at ordinary soldiers but the only remaining more than 1,000 war horses in the Wu army. More than 1,000 war horses are a great wealth, and they are very useful for the Mawei army, and of course they are also very important for the Wu army. Compared to the lives of ordinary Wu soldiers, the value of these war horses seems to be greater. And if the Wu army loses its war horse, then their main general will not be able to escape.

The time chosen by the Mawei Army was noon, and the rain had long since stopped. On rainy days, the horsetail army's rifles are not convenient to use, and at this time, the dark clouds in the sky have slowly dispersed, but it is the best time. The reason why this time was chosen was because Baise City was a hundred miles away in front, and the road further west was even more difficult to walk, all of which were mountain roads, and it was not easy for the Mawei army to pursue. If Wu Shicong is ambushing on both sides of the canyon with his soldiers, then the Mawei Army will be in trouble.

War horses are still war horses in the end, they are not docile pack horses, under the traction of knights, they will be safe and stable, but in the face of the horsetail soldiers, these war horses also show their unruly side. In the hastily start of the war on the muddy ground, shoes have also become one of the keys to life and death, most of Wu Jun's shoes are damaged, and it is difficult to pull them out at once when they are not broken and step on the mud. Even the soldiers of the Wu Army who were barefoot were not as agile as the horsetail army who changed to straw sandals at this moment.

Changing to straw sandals is still one of the local ethnic minorities, the Yao clan elder mentions, and Zhang Youde decisively adopted this Jianyì. And rewarded the entire village of the Yao people. In fact, he gave them some of the weapons discarded by the Wu army. These Yao people live in the mountains and forests. Hunting also requires weapons, and in the past, it was necessary to guard against robbers and bandits, but weapons were good things, and it was difficult to buy them with money.

The surprise battle of the Mawei Army lasted less than half an hour, and the big sword and spear were in the hands of the tired Wu army, completely losing their due lethality, facing the Mawei Army with rifles in hand. Whether it was a general of the Wu army or an ordinary soldier, the fate faced was only to be slaughtered.

In the battle at noon, the Wu army completely retreated, leaving nearly 3,000 corpses, in the face of the fleeing Wu army, the Mawei army did not let them go, and continued to pursue fiercely, as for these weapons and tents that fell on the ground, the Mawei army was not rare, just packed up the grain and grass. I don't care anymore. The corpses on the ground still need to be buried as much as possible, but they don't need to be done by the horsetail soldiers. Some people from the surrounding towns and villages came to help bury them.

The ethnic minorities here all live in groups, forming big villages one by one, some big and some small, so just give them these big knives and spears, and they will be happy to come and help. They don't look like a horsetail army, the people in the mountains are used to being poor, and everything they see is a good thing. As soon as they arrived at the battlefield, they would immediately start packing up the weapons and tents on the ground. There are also some mountain people who actually took off Wu Jun's military uniforms and shoes and socks directly, these things are not willing to look at the Mawei soldiers anymore, but they are also a lot of wealth for the mountain people.

The Mawei army hung behind these Wu troops, slowly chasing after them, but only attacking when the Wu army was resting. The Wu army was already very tired, and they had to rest after an hour and a half, at which time the Mawei army would start to attack, and each time they attacked, the Wu army would leave nearly a thousand corpses behind. Surrender? Of course! But the Wu army didn't know what the result of surrender was, and they didn't see some of the soldiers who surrendered in the past, and they might have been killed, at least Wu Shicong publicized it like this.

The corpses on the ground were simply thrown under a small valley and covered up with dirt from above, and soon disappeared. This corpse cannot be disposed of at will, and the people in the mountains and forests know that a decomposing corpse can cause a terrible epidemic. It's easy to expose these people to the wilderness, but this is their own home! Although tired, these laborers are still working tirelessly to bury the corpses.

It was difficult to walk fast in the mud, and many soldiers of the Wu army, in order to speed up, could only throw away the cloth shoes and leather boots on their feet. But the feet that have been worn out, stepping on the mud, will be infected after a day or two of work. The soldiers fled less and less, the generals of the Wu army, knowing that the time to make a choice had come, escaping could only be a dead end, in terms of speed they were much slower than the Mawei army, if they wanted to get out of this quagmire alive, there was no other way to go except to fight to the death.

Is it okay to fight to the death? After several days of escaping, the equipment rate of the entire Wu army was greatly reduced, and many people did not even have weapons, and the armor on their bodies had long been taken off and thrown away. I haven't eaten a full meal for a few days in a row, and the period is so low that it can't be done, and it hasn't dispersed until now, that is, it depends on the prestige of the officer.

The Mawei army attacked twice again and never took the initiative again, Zhang Youde knew that the supplies of the Wu army had been completely gone, and instead of going up to fight to the death, it was better to wait for them to starve to death. When they are too hungry to do anything, they should have surrendered voluntarily.

Wu Shicong, who ordered the soldiers to be on standby, soon discovered this fatal problem. Go, the Mawei Army will fight with them, if they don't go, at most by tomorrow, they will completely lose their combat effectiveness, and now they are no longer in the city, they are really unable to advance or retreat now.

Just one night later, the remaining Wu army, which was less than 5,000, could no longer hold on. Without Wu Shicong's order, the generals of several armies surrendered to the Mawei Army with their troops. Wu Shicong also failed to fall well, Liu Yanming and Xu Shangyuan tied up Wu Shicong with their personal guards and officially surrendered to the Mawei Army. After chasing for five days, he only walked 400 miles, but the Wu army was indeed completely annihilated. No, it should be said that the whole army surrendered.

Jinling City.

Geng Jingzhong sat alone in the imperial study, silent. He's been sitting like this for more than an hour. Mu Tianyan and the others, who were standing on the side, kept looking at Geng Jingzhong's face, and only felt chills all over their bodies.

Although he is called the Metropolitan Governor, he is actually no different from the emperor. After many years of fighting in the south and the north, dominating tens of millions of people in the northern and southern provinces, when Geng Jingzhong inadvertently revealed a soaring murderous aura, ordinary people were really a little unbearable.

The front-line battle reports are very familiar, and at the same time, the offensive launched in several places is overwhelming, no matter how you calculate it, this is a day of celebration that has to be killed. People everywhere are also willing to hear such news, especially the people south of the Yangtze River. Now the area under the Mawei Army can really be called Guotai Min'an.

The Guangxi military report has arrived, and Guangxi Province is already under control, and in ten days and half a month, it will be able to attack Yunnan and threaten Wu Sangui's lair. On the Yangtze River, the Wu army's naval division was completely annihilated, and the Yangtze River became the back garden of the Mawei Army and Navy. The army from Jiangxi encountered some problems in Hunan, where the Wu army was very numerous, and the cities were more difficult to fight, and it seemed that Wu Sangui built many cities in Hunan more solidly in order to prevent the Qing army from returning to Hunan, and the general artillery bombardment was useless.

On the northern front, the Mawei Army had already marched to the Central Plains, and Geng Jingzhong was about to set off to personally participate in this great war.

The war is fought with money and food, and Geng Jingzhong has already prepared it, just waiting for this day. The Mawei Military Administration Department is an advanced organization, and the government affairs of various localities are on the right track. The Mawei army was killed to carry out maritime trade, and the soldiers were still plundering foreign countries (the Japanese Kingdom, Korea, and the South Seas), coupled with the currency and tax reforms, the Mawei army was very rich, although the financial expenditure was a lot, but the income almost made up for it.

Geng Jingzhong insisted on going to the front line and fighting Wu Sangui head-on, so success or failure would be in one fell swoop. It is good to become a qiē, and it is estimated that Wu Sangui will not give a chance to breathe if he is defeated. In this case, it is necessary to appoint a son of Geng Jingzhong as the son. Even if Geng Jingzhong's banner falls, the people below can continue to fight for this

(To be continued......)