"My lord, why didn't you give the order to pursue?"

Seeing the people's army retreat like a tide and retreat in a panic in the direction of the east, all the officers and soldiers of the Taiyuan Prefecture Army suddenly burst into earth-shattering cheers, and several generals around Chen Tang were eager to immediately lead the troops to pursue, expand the results of the battle, and make a lot of military achievements.

Chen Tang shook his head with a smile, with an unfathomable expression, defending the county seat of Jizhou and blocking the southward movement of the people's army is already a great achievement, and it has also completed the important task assigned by Sun Chuanting and Sun Inspector, so there is no need to take any more risks. Moreover, eating alone is fat, but it also offends everyone, and I don't know how to die in the future, and cutting off people's wealth is no different from killing my parents, do you know this truth? Therefore, everyone earns money, and everyone divides up together if there is military merit, this is the golden mean of self-preservation.

"My lord."

Several confidant officers were all dissatisfied with the expression of adoration on their faces, and gave a thumbs up and praised wildly, adults are amazing, this flower intestine is not inferior to those civilian officials and scholars.

Chen Tang did not order the pursuit, but only ordered the officers and men of the two armies in front of him to be on strict guard, in case the civilian army suddenly killed the horse pistol, and the rear army cleaned up the battlefield.

It didn't take long for the rumbling sound of iron hooves from far and near, and in the rolling dust and smoke, an iron cavalry galloped over, and the battle flag fluttering high was embroidered with a big "Lu" character, which was Lu Xiangsheng's forward cavalry battalion, which had chased the rear troops behind the People's Army.

After a short exchange, the forward cavalry continued to pursue eastward, and Chen Tang really relaxed and ordered the whole army to clean up the battlefield, and then return to the city to rest and hold a celebration banquet.

Half an hour later, Lu Xiangsheng led the main force to arrive, Chen Tang stood on the side of the road to greet him, Lu Xiangsheng crossed the city without entering, and led the army to continue to pursue the retreating civilian army to the east.

The people's army retreated in a hurry, in order to speed up the speed of the slip and block the speed of the pursuit of the Tianxiong army, many valuable heavy guys were thrown on the road, but when they came to a crossroads, Wang Ziyong and other leaders restrained their horses and asked each other where this crossroads leads?

"What about the Qiu brothers?" Wang Ziyong asked, Qiu Yousheng and Qiu Youzhi are natives of Shanxi, and they are familiar with the place, so they will know if they ask the brothers.

"Go and get them." Only then did the leaders remember the Qiu family brothers, and hurriedly sent someone to find them.

After a while, the person sent to find the Qiu family brothers ran back with a pale face to report that the Qiu family brothers were gone, and none of the dozens of people brought by the brothers were gone.

"We were fooled ......"

Wang Ziyong howled miserably, his chest hurt violently, and he was so dull that he was extremely uncomfortable, and he spurted out a mouthful of blood, and his body staggered and almost fell off the horse.

The leaders of the group turned pale and bloodless in an instant, and cursed the Qiu brothers without gritting their teeth one by one, eager to chop up the brothers and feed them to the dogs.

However, the pain of the flesh is the pain of the flesh, at least it will not hurt so much that it will hang up, and the Tianxiong Army who are chasing after them is the real life, they don't have time to talk crookedly here, saving their lives is the king.

After hurriedly checking the map, Wang Ziyong and other leaders could only bite the bullet and continue to flee to the east, there was no way, there was Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army in hot pursuit, on the right was a towering cliff, birds could not fly over, on the left were Qin Liangyu's white pole army and Sun Chuanting's army, no matter which army was extremely difficult to provoke, the hope they were now is the scum of the official army in the Jingshi Pass, and they will be defeated in a fight, otherwise it will be over.

Lu Xiangsheng's forward cavalry battalion chased too closely, and he had to leave a team behind the palace to cover and buy time for the main force to escape, which was a mortal task.

The people's army ran forward for more than ten miles, another crossroads, the right side is still a towering cliff, the left side is 100% hit Qin Liangyu's white pole army or Sun Chuanting's main army, and then it is Yangquan County.

Wang Ziyong was not worried that the mixed river dragon and the pan-mountain leopard could withstand the attack of Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong army, and set up several lines of defense on the spot, cut down trees on the side of the road to build improvised fortresses, and at the same time rushed to build ladders, towers and other heavy siege equipment, after a short rest, the army continued to advance, preparing to attack Yangquan Pass.

Yangquan Pass is the first gateway to enter the Beijing Division, the city is high and thick, originally stationed 2,000 defenders, Zhu Jian set the strategic deployment in the Yangquan Pass to encircle and annihilate the people's army, the strength of Yangquan Pass has increased to 15,000 people, including the newly formed Imperial Army Guards Regiment 10 battalions of 5,000 soldiers and horses, the rest are drawn from various counties, enough 15,000 soldiers.

The Royal Guards Regiment had just been formed, and the soldiers were all poor children, and because of the urgency of the military situation, they only carried out a short period of basic military training, most of the time for musket loading, shooting and other training, although the workers of the arsenal worked overtime, day and night, but they only rushed to produce more than 1,500 fine reluctance guns, and most of the soldiers were still empty-handed, and only during training did they take turns to touch the gun and practice.

Zhu Jian dared to put the Royal Guards Regiment that had not been trained for a few days into the battlefield, and he dared to do so after some consideration, this battle was mainly defensive, relying on the fortifications of the fortifications that had been fortified and reinforced N times, equipped with a large number of thunderbolts and more than 50 Franc machine guns, Song Xiance personally commanded, if he could not block the people's army under Yangquan Pass, not to mention that Song Xiance raised his own head to ask for guilt, he immediately ran away with the money, and no longer be the emperor of this labor or something.

Moreover, only soldiers who have been on the battlefield and have withstood the test of blood and fire can grow up quickly, and it is rare to have such a good opportunity to fight, wouldn't it be a pity not to pull the Royal Guards out for a walk?

There are 25 Buddha cannons on the Yangquan Pass, the cannonballs are very lethal happy bombs, 5,000 soldiers defend the city, equipped with 500 excellent Lu Mi guns, a large number of thunder stones, arrows and other equipment to defend the city.

The left side of Yangquan Pass is built according to the cliff, in addition to entering the city to clear the customs, only the avenue on the right side can go around the city, now, Song Xiance has built five fortresses in the open space on the right, and put all 10,000 troops in the fortress.

The walls of the fortress are nailed into the ground with large sharpened wooden stakes, arranged in four rows, left empty in the middle, poured into the earth and tamped, and then stacked several layers of sandbags on the top, and the musketeers lie on the top to shoot, and the wall road is equipped with some bombardiers, and there are also sword and shield soldiers to assist in the defense, in case the siege of the city of the people's army close to the close combat.

In the fortress and behind the erection of a door of Franc cannons, the shells are all flowering shells, but he was ordered to scavenge all the Franc machine guns in the passes of the county town, ready to give the people's army a good experience of what it is like to be under fire.

It is a combat training, of course, Zhu Jian will not let the student soldiers of the hunter battalion miss such a good opportunity for actual combat, these student soldiers have a good shooting talent, and will grow into a qualified sniper in the future, let them practice in advance, under his order, a group of more than 100 students from the hunter battalion have just been replenished, along with seven or eight instructors in the battalion, all of them have been sent to Yangquan Pass, or arranged in the city, or arranged in the fortress, and the guys in their hands are the most advanced breech-loading supreme guns.

The people's army is approaching, and Song Xiance, as the commander of the three armies, of course has to sit at the head of the city to command the battle, but although this guy is holding a telescope in his hand to observe, he is facing away from the city and facing the pass, with a lewd smile on his face, and he swallows saliva from time to time.