Sun Ah Si led his fifty men all the way to the north, since crossing the Huai River, the Three Guards rested for nearly ten days, just when everyone thought that they would return to the south in triumph, the news of the arrival of the Marquis of Zhenyu to the front suddenly spread among the army.

Immediately after that, the order to continue to advance north was successively conveyed to the infantry battalions, which made the unfinished Three Guards suddenly excited, because they had not experienced many vicious battles in the previous battles, and the only danger was only caused by the Fifth Battalion of the Revolution Zuo driving the people to storm the army formation, and many people did not grab enough satisfactory feats, and continuing to go north fully satisfied their needs and desires.

"Team officer, are we going all the way to Beijing City!"

Sun Asi and his subordinates are all natives of Yingtianfu, not to mention the province, not even north of the Yangtze River has been to the north, and when they heard that it was possible to hit Beijing, everyone was excited.

"That's a good feeling, when you get to Beijing, you can see the emperor!"

"See the Emperor? What about daydreaming, where did you recruit the emperor to see? ”

The naïve thought of a foot soldier immediately attracted the ridicule of his comrades, and these people were simple-minded, thinking that they would be able to meet the emperor when they arrived in Beijing, and there were more than one people who had this idea.

Due to the momentum of the war, many people lost the tension of the war, and they were relaxed as if they were on an outing together.

"Save some effort, the battalion officer personally ordered us to travel eighty miles a day, and we don't want to be punished......"

Sun Ah Si felt that his subordinates were a little too frolicking, although they were in a rapid march, they could not be so lax, once they were seen by the rangers of the Military Justice Department, they would inevitably have to accept punishment and punishment when they returned in the future.

After crossing the Qing River, the Three Guards divided into two routes, one to the east of the canal and the other to Suqian. The other road is west of the canal, along the Baiyang River towards Suining. Suining is an important town in Huai'an Mansion in Nanzhili, and there are three important places in Fengyang Mansion and Xuzhou, and the infantry battalion to which Sun A's fourth team belongs is in this list.

The order they received was to arrive at the city of Suining before dark, and because Mi Yan had tasted the sweetness of the speed of the soldiers, every time they attacked, they marched several times faster than the foot soldiers at this time.

The limit is that the foot soldiers can march 30 miles a day, while the 3 Guards can go up and down 100 miles, and their advantages are self-evident. This is due to the physical training, which accounts for a large proportion of the recruits training of the Three Guards, and running circles around the outer city of Nanjing on weekdays, it is not in vain.

And these training programs, which are extremely physically exhausting, have been almost unanimously opposed by the whole army, including Mi Yan, who feel that this kind of training, which is close to corporal punishment, is not necessary. Now it seems that the Marquis of Zhenyu insisted on insisting on physical training in the face of everyone's opposition, and it seems that this situation has long been expected.

"I heard that the leaders of the fifth battalion of the left side of the revolution have fled, team officer, how many are we going to catch, I don't know what officers will be promoted?"

"Catch the leader named on the wanted post, no matter who you are, you will be promoted to one level!"

Sun Ah Si's answer drew a cheer among the soldiers, knowing that promotion in the Three Guards had to go through a very complicated process, and direct promotion bypassed this threshold, so everyone worked hard to capture a few leaders of the Fifth Battalion of the Left Guard.

However, so far, not a single leader of any weight has appeared, which cannot but disappoint the soldiers of the Forces nouvelles. And even more disappointed is Mi Yan, not catching these leaders means that there is no way to cut the grass and eradicate the roots of the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left, as long as they flee to a province full of hungry people, such as Henan, they can soon recruit the displaced people and reorganize a group of people.

And this is also one of the reasons why Li Zicheng has repeatedly suppressed and not destroyed.

Of course, Miyan didn't want to go into this kind of dead end. Therefore, he divided his own small number of men and horses to the west, trying to catch one or two leaders in Suining and other places, he believed that Lao Huihui and others had lost their foothold in Huai'an Mansion after the elite was wiped out, and even the entire Fifth Battalion of the Revolution in the north of Nanzhili had fallen into extreme chaos. The most likely thing is that they will run away from Xuzhou to Henan and join their old friend Li Zicheng.

After all, Li Zicheng is now thriving in Henan and Shaanxi, and in order to survive, they only have the choice of taking refuge in Li Zicheng.

The two Huai waterways are intertwined, which is not conducive to the cavalry troops rushing to fight. Therefore, a rapid march with a predominantly foot attack was the only viable strategy.

Sun Ah Si was very proud, and he and his fifty men once again became the vanguard of the whole battalion, and even the entire division of troops west of the canal. When they threw off their feet for a hurried march, no one could run ahead of them.

"Team officer, the front, the front is to Suining!"

At this time, it was already dark, and he didn't know how far he had run along the way, and after some observation, Sun Ah Si made a bold decision.

"Take out the signal cannon, scare and scare these defenders, and let them know that our three guards have arrived!"

After winning one battle after another, Liukou has been chased and beaten by the Three Guards, so these New Guards are extremely confident, and hundreds of people dare to chase thousands of people and rush and beat them. A bold man like Sun Asi, even if there were only fifty people around him, dared to launch a feint attack on the county seat.

"Captain, will you startle the snake?"

A sixteen or seventeen-year-old foot soldier asked with some concern. Sun Asi, who was questioned, smiled and kicked the foot soldier's buttocks.

"I still know what it is to startle the snake, and there is progress! However, the officer of this team will also hand over a trick to you now, the army behind us will arrive soon, and now scare and scare them, that is, to tell them that the Three Guards are coming, and people like Liukou who only know how to fight with the wind will have to pee their pants in fear! ”

Sun Ah Si, as the team officer, had absolute authority among the fifty people, and his orders were quickly and resolutely carried out.

The dazzling white light soon illuminated the night sky, and the east gate of the city wall instantly seemed to become a blank of day. The sound of this signal cannon is not much smaller than that of artillery, and it constantly reverberates in the silent night, like a great military city.

Sun Asi was very satisfied with the effect of this feint, and believed that the army would arrive soon, and it should be no problem to enter the city tonight to eat meat and drink soup.

But soon, something unexpected happened, the gate of the county town was opened, and countless rogues poured out of it, and the sound of fleeing for their lives was immediately heard.

Even Sun Ah Si didn't expect this situation, didn't he, just scared them for a while, and these rogues actually fled.

"Team officer, can we chase after us?"

Sun Ah looked at it for a while, and felt that there were thousands of deserters on the other side, and if he caught up, he might not be able to do anything with his own fifty people. At this time, he was a little impatient, and secretly complained that the other teams were running so slowly, and they missed the battle in vain.

"Put a row of guns, only scare, don't pursue!"

Soon, the sound of crackling volleys suddenly sounded again, and the smell of gunpowder and sulfur quickly spread in the night sky.

The musket was the signature weapon of the Three Guards, and many rogues were already shaking their stomachs when they asked about the smell of burning brimstone, let alone mustering up the courage to fight back.

The large-scale rout lasted for nearly an hour, and the county town gradually quieted down after a period of commotion, looking at the open city gate, Sun Asi hesitated whether to take people into the city first, he wanted to wait for the large group of people to follow, and then it was safer to enter the city.

However, no one came, and he was afraid that there were still remnants of the rogue in the city who would recover and lose their fighters, so he first sent ten people to investigate, and if there was no suspicious situation, he took his soldiers into the city.

It's just that the result made Sun Ah Si cry and laugh, it turned out that the thieves in the city had already fled cleanly, and they occupied Suining County with only fifty, it seems that this credit should be taken by them.

But after asking a few handymen in the county office, Sun Asi's mouth couldn't close for a long time.

Because the county seat they captured without blood was not Suining at all, but Lingbi in the Fengyang realm. It is said that Ma Shouying was seriously injured in the leg and had no intention of fighting, and he heard that the official army chased him, and immediately left Lingbi County to flee in the direction of Guide in Henan.

Sun Ah Si was suddenly shocked into a cold sweat, it turned out that it was not that the follow-up men and horses were weak in marching, but that they were people who had lost their way, and they should have gone north, but now they ran west into Fengyang.

The one responsible for attacking Fengyang was the middle route army sent by the Three Guards, and this time the question was not whether they made meritorious service or not, but that their team could lose their way in the march, and they would not be laughed at by other teams when they returned to Nanjing in the future?

In an instant, from heaven to hell, with extremely complicated feelings, Sun Ah Si made an extremely risky decision, immediately stopped the men and horses from making a rapid march, and went northwest to pursue the deserters of Lao Huihui.

According to his understanding in the city, there are no war horses in the Lao Hui army, and the only thing that can be used for transportation is the mule collected nearby.

Therefore, Sun Asi believed that his fifty men still had hope of catching up with the rout of the 5th Battalion of the Revolutionary Left.

As long as Ma Shouying can be captured alive, the team's mistake of losing their way will naturally be covered up.

Sun Asi's courage has become greater and greater in the previous victories, and at the same time, the remnants of the 5th Battalion of the Left Wing did not dare to stick to Lingbi, and the abandonment of the city and fleeing also gave him great confidence.

"Brothers, Lao Hui Ma Shouying is in the rout, as long as we catch him, he will be the first meritorious team of this Northern Expedition! The infantry battalion where we are is is also the first meritorious battalion! ”

The soldiers under Sun Asi's command were more daring than him, and they didn't pay any attention to these routs, and they all roared:

"Capture the old man alive! Meritorious First Team! ”