Just like every successful hero, the reason why Lin Chengting was able to get the support of these many subordinates is that he naturally has his unique personality charm, he is gentle, fair, and resolute and decisive in his personality, all of which are necessary, and more importantly, he will not be dead-headed, and he will never take his subordinates to death when he can't beat him, but run away if he can.

Now, Lin Chengting once again fled with his subordinates!

And Lin Chengting's subordinates also knew that they were going to run for their lives this time, how could they not worry!

The Zhenhu army took out the courage to launch a counterattack without success, but the troops of the Fourth Army in charge of the frontal battle in Xiaguan suffered many casualties in a row, among which the 17th Division was the worst, with a total strength of 10,000 when it was reorganized in Hunan, but when it arrived in Kunming, there were only more than 8,000 left, and when Dali launched an attack, there were only 7,000 people left, and it had lost about 2,000 people before, and there were less than 5,000 people left in a huge division.

The other second and fourth divisions basically only have about half of their troops left, and their strength is not how much they lost in battle, mainly because of non-combat attrition such as injuries and illnesses, and at the same time, the Fourth Army came all the way to the west, and also needed to leave some troops along the way to control and defend the rear, and some troops had to be left behind to take down a city, which led to the Fourth Army leaving too many troops in the rear for a long time.

This is also the reason why the Fourth Army went deeper into Yunnan Dali, the fewer troops there were!

At this time, Lin Chengting chose the 17th Division, which had the weakest combat effectiveness in the Chinese army, as the breakthrough point for the counterattack, and at the same time used the only remaining Minnie rifle brigade under his command as the vanguard of the whole army to tear apart the defense line of the Chinese army.

Although the 17th Division desperately resisted. However, these Hunan troops were reorganized, and the troops that still used flintlock rifles could not stop Lin Chengting's most elite Mini rifle brigade at all. In less than two hours, the 17th Division was routed.

Wait until reinforcements from the 4th Division arrive. The Zhenhu army has already rushed out with at least five thousand people!

And Lin Chengting escaped again without surprise!

The battle of Dali can be regarded as the most arduous battle fought by the Chinese army since its formation, due to the long distance of supply lines, serious difficulties in ammunition supply, and at the same time, the soldiers are not adapted to the local climate, resulting in a large number of non-combat attrition, and then the geographical environment is also complex and changeable.

These are all objective problems faced by the Chinese army!

And these led to the Chinese army entering Yunnan and Guizhou as many as more than 45,000 troops, but in the end only 25,000 people killed Dali.

In contrast, Lin Chengting's Zhenhu army is basically recruited from the local area, so naturally there is no question of whether the climate is suitable or not. Moreover, Lin Chengting also obtained a large number of foreign guns, equipped with at least tens of thousands of Mini rifles, and Lin Chengting is also very good at training, although because the training time is too short, but no matter what, the Zhenhu Army he trained is a very typical new army unit, and the quality in all aspects is actually not weaker than the Chinese army in the early years.

The reason why the Fourth Army was able to achieve such a great tactical advantage was because of the 2nd Mixed Brigade and the 1st Guards Mixed Brigade, which were equipped with breech-loading rifles, if there were no two mixed brigades. Relying only on those troops equipped with Mini rifles, it is not known who will win and who will lose in this fight.

Although the battle was very hard, the Fourth Army suffered at least 5,000 casualties in Kunming and Dali, but it successfully annihilated a large number of Zhenhu troops. More than 30,000 Zhenhu troops were killed or captured.

The only thing that makes people feel very regrettable is that Lin Chengting escaped again!

However, although Yunnan is large, except for a few areas such as Dali and Kunming. Other places are similar to primeval forests, and Lin Chengting can only be a wild man if he hides in these places.

So after taking Dali. Shi Langyi didn't rush to send troops south to pursue, anyway, this Lin Chengting wouldn't be able to jump for long.

Shi Langyi is to let the troops rest. Prepare to let your Fourth Army breathe a sigh of relief before pursuing south!

In fact, Lin Chengting, who fled south, was indeed the same as Shi Langyi expected, looking at the endless mountains and mountains in a daze!

After running for more than ten days, Lin Chengting climbed the mountain every day, although he also encountered a few small villages, but there were few larger towns.

I finally arrived at Baoshan in Yongchang Prefecture, but this kind of remote place has no population, no food, not to mention ordnance or something.

You must know that the registered population of Yunnan Province today is only five or six million, and most of them are concentrated in the surrounding areas of Kunming and Dali, and the registered population in other places is actually very small, and some of them are also those alien indigenous people who are outside the notice of the central government.

And these alien people are really strong, he has had armed conflicts with several tribes along the way, although these primitive tribes and natives will not pose any threat to his troops, but it is always unbearable, and he still wants to re-recruit soldiers in these places.

Could it be that the world is so big, there is no place for me Lin Chengting?

Now there are less than 5,000 troops left under Lin Chengting's command, which is even worse than when he escaped from Jiangxi, and the only thing that makes him feel consoled is that these 5,000 people are the most elite troops under his command, most of them are armed with mini rifles.

It's just that if there is no food and ordnance replenishment, how can he recover his troops?

After a month in Yongchang Baoshan, he recruited less than 500 recruits from the local area, and at this time, the Chinese army had already killed Baoshan.

If it was an ordinary unit of the Chinese Army, Lin Chengting might still resist, but after learning that it was the Second Mixed Brigade in the Chinese Army that was chasing and killing, he immediately took the initiative to give up Baoshan, and of course he did not forget to clean Baoshan before leaving.

Lin Chengting, who once again embarked on the road of escaping south, looked at the map in his hand, then fell in the direction of Myanmar, hundreds of miles away, and then looked up at his subordinates: "Let's grab a piece of land here, and then cultivate and recuperate!" ”

The others basically did what Lin Chengting said, and no one even asked Lin Chengting how he went to Myanmar and who he was going to fight. They only knew that Lin Chengting decided to take them to Myanmar, so they followed and killed.

"After amassing an army of 100,000. Let's go back to Kyushu! ”

"Kill back to Kyushu!"

On this day, Lin Chengting led the remnants of 5,000 soldiers into Burma. Before entering Myanmar, Lin Chengting looked at the great rivers and mountains in the north and sighed deeply, when will he be able to come back again after this trip, maybe he will not be able to come back in this life!

Lin Chengting fled into Burma with the remnants of the army, and the second mixed brigade behind did not pursue it at the first time, on the one hand, the second mixed brigade pursued southward for several months is also quite expensive, and the situation in Myanmar is now quite complicated, China and Britain have recently quarreled over the issue of suzerainty in Burma.

If the Chinese army enters Burma at this time, it will attract great attention from the British, who occupy the Lower Burma region. It is even possible to provoke a war between China and Britain.

Therefore, the 2nd Mixed Brigade of the Front Line did not dare to make decisions on its own, but stationed troops in the border area close to Burma, and then sent people to pass on the relevant information.

According to the current level of transportation and communication, it will take several months for this news to reach Nanjing, and it is estimated that it will be half a year before Nanjing makes a decision and returns the relevant situation to Yunnan, especially when the Second Mixed Brigade is formed.

During this time, Lin Chengting basically had nothing to do with the local garrison in Yunnan!

Seeing that the desperate pursuers behind him stopped the pursuit, Lin Chengting and many soldiers who fled all the way finally breathed a sigh of relief!

This escaped for months on end. They were finally able to relax, so they directly ransacked a local village, took out the food stored in the local village and feasted on it, and by the way, let the soldiers vent on the local women.

Easily defeated an army of the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty that came to stop him. Then swagger all the way south into the heart of Myanmar!

Lin Chengting's southern invasion caused a huge panic among the Burmese Gongbang Dynasty, and they hurriedly organized an army to intercept it, but although Lin Chengting could not defeat the Chinese army. Moreover, they were driven out of China by the Chinese army, and the remnants of the defeated army were defeated, but there were still four or five thousand people left. Moreover, these soldiers are all old backbone soldiers who have followed Lin Chengting for many years, and the new army that has played for so many years has some experience even if it is bad.

Moreover, these Burmese troops are armed with some muskets. But the actual application is much worse, so Lin Chengting, a general who is not good at commanding the war, finds pride in the Burmese.

He defeated the Burmese army of more than 5,000 people who were ushering in to intercept his southern invasion through the simplest and most classic line of shooting, and then occupied Lashio in a grand manner!

After the occupation of Lashio, Lin Chengting, who had fled in embarrassment for half a year, finally found a foothold again and initially stabilized, and Lin Chengting conquered the city in northern Burma, which not only caused panic in the Gongbang Dynasty, but also attracted the attention of the British.

They supported Lin Chengting in order to let Lin Chengting fight with the Chinese army in Yunnan, but they would think that after Lin Chengting couldn't defeat the Chinese army, he would turn around and go south to Burma directly, although Lin Chengting is still active in Upper Burma, and there is still some distance from Lower Burma controlled by the British, but the British, who have long regarded the whole of Myanmar as a meal, can tolerate this.

Immediately, he didn't care about oppressing the Gongbang Dynasty, but offered to help the Gongbang Dynasty train new troops and the like, and of course forced the Gongbang Dynasty to sign several unequal treaties.

At the same time, the British army itself also transferred more British troops from other places to garrison the Burma area, obviously preparing for the British army to go into battle in person once the situation in Upper Burma deteriorated.

As for whether you can beat it, then you can only talk about it after you have beaten it!

Of course, when Lin Chengting set off a bloody storm in Burma, the Chinese army next to him was indifferent, and watched Lin Chengting and the Burmese army fighting back and forth.

After all, now that Lin Chengting has gone to Burma, he has nothing to do with the Chinese army, after Shi Langyi conquered Kunming and Dali, he can basically claim control of the whole province of Yunnan, and then he has to cooperate with the cabinet to re-establish the administrative and ruling institutions of Yunnan, and at the same time he has to exterminate a lot of illegal armed forces, such as those primitive tribes that are no longer under the discipline of the central government, and some landlord armies, bandits, etc.

Basically, every place that the Chinese army controls will sort out the local illegal forces!

The Empire was not a traditional feudal dynasty, and they could not tolerate the emergence of other political forces on their territory, and the military could not tolerate the presence of other military forces in the territory of the Empire except for the military.

Therefore, the military maintains a zero-tolerance attitude towards all illegal armed forces in its jurisdiction, whether it is the county team organized by the former Qing officials, the township brave, or the landlords' armed forces to protect the estates, or simply bandits, some foreign tribes organized their own armed forces, regardless of whether they are used to protect themselves or harm others, the military cannot tolerate their existence.

When Shi Langyi was cleaning up the local armed forces here in Yunnan, it didn't take long for him to see a messenger from the Zhenhu army! (To be continued.) )