Of course, Zhu Neng thinks that there should be still defeated soldiers who did not flee to Guilin, and they must flee to other directions, as well as those who were killed and wounded in battle.

Therefore, Mao estimated that Zhu Neng felt that the king of Han would be surrendered to about 150,000 at most.

But even so, the situation in Guangxi immediately reversed, and the rebel army will reach 300,000, and the official army will only have a few hundred thousand.

Zhu Neng thought about it, made a quick decision, and immediately left Guilin by water with 80,000 soldiers and horses, and retreated to Huguang.

Han Guan and Li Jun led more than 30,000 soldiers and horses to defend Guilin.

At the same time, he said to Han Guandao, Zhu Gaoxu suddenly had so many soldiers and horses on his side, and the food would definitely not be enough, if they came to attack the city, when you couldn't resist it, the grain and grass in Guilin City would be burned first.

He followed King Yan in Jingnan, and saw that King Yan's peak was only more than 200,000 troops, and even after the great victory, he let tens of thousands of officers and soldiers ride back, because King Yan did not have enough food and grass to support so many people.

In the later period, the northern army was seriously short of food, so the king of Yan was forced to take the risk and take Jinling directly.

So can Zhu leave food for Zhu Gaoxu.

He estimated that after the battle of Taihe Mountain, Zhu Gaoxu's soldiers and horses would expand dramatically, and there were still a few months left in the autumn harvest.

Han Guan solemnly agreed.

But at this time, Wang Zhong did not immediately conquer Guilin as Zhu Neng thought.

Zhu Neng led the main force to retreat, Guilin was already in the bag, he wanted to follow Zhu Gaoxu's requirements, absorb and pacify the troops as soon as possible, and use them for his own use, and at the same time raise grain everywhere to prevent the loss of grain and grass.

On the 20th, Wang Zhong led the rebel army to Guilin, surrounded the city of Guilin, and then successively surrendered Lingchuan and Quanzhou, so that the whole Guangxi fell into the hands of the Han king, and only Guilin became an isolated city.

Wang Zhong ordered Qu Tao and Jin Rong and other generals to lead 50,000 horses to defend Quanzhou, and transported 50 cannons by ship, which now held the only passage from Huguang to Guangxi.

Wang Zhong then reorganized the surrendered officers and troops in Yongning Prefecture, and the surrendered officers and troops outnumbered them, and the two combined exceeded 300,000 people.

According to Zhu Gaoxu's prior arrangement, 50,000 surrendered troops and 5,000 rebel troops were first selected to set up the Guangxi Metropolitan Division, and returned to the original capital to garrison various parts of the division, and continued to hoard fields and grow grain and train.

Before Guangxi, the soldiers and horses of the capital division fought with them, and even many military remnants were also taken to defend the city, and the military fields were seriously uncultivated.

Fortunately, this is July and August, and there is not much farming in the fields.

Now Zhu Gaoxu hastened to set up a new Guangxi Metropolitan Division, and organized all health centers to go back to continue planting crops to ensure autumn grain.

The fields of the various guards were redistributed to them, and the ordinary soldiers were given an additional five cents per month each, and the officers were different, and they were all paid more anyway.

Among them, the soldiers and horses of the former Guangxi Metropolitan Division were selected as much as possible in the surrender army, and they were allowed to return to their original places, because their families were all present in the original station.

At this time, the policy of the Han Dynasty was completely different from that of the previous Ming court, each household had less than a dozen acres, more than dozens of acres, hundreds of acres, and only ten taxes were needed to pay one tax for the grain planted. (Wei so will be detailed later on the harvest of the former tun grain, anyway, it is far lower than the tuntian of the Han king.) ）

The regular army participated in the training, and there was also a military salary, which was nearly twice as high as before.

With this trick alone, almost all the military households had to fully support the Han king.

The rest of the surrendered army was temporarily reorganized separately from the original rebel army, and it was basically a one-to-one ratio.

There are more than 5,000 people in one guard, half of whom are the original rebel army, and half are the new surrender army.

Wang Zhong paid his salary while training these soldiers on the spot, although there were more soldiers and horses, but the combat effectiveness was not weakened.

On the 25th, according to the original plan, the rebel army set up a new Guangxi Chengxuan Political Envoy Department in Liuzhou, and according to the Judicial Division, the political envoy coordinated the entire Guangxi state capital, collected grain on the spot, and did a good job of logistics for the soldiers and horses of the Han Dynasty.

At this time, only Guilin in Guangxi was still under the hands of the official army, and the Han kings were surrendered one after another in various places, and they soon returned to normal and continued to operate in an orderly manner.

At the same time that Wang Zhong absorbed and digested the troops and prepared to continue to take Guilin, Zhu Neng had already retreated to the Yongzhou Mansion in Huguang.

But he heard bad news in Yongzhou Mansion, and Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, personally led 50,000 cavalry to capture Qiyang County.

Zhu Neng suddenly thundered like a bolt from the blue.

The lake is wide and the waterway is vertical and horizontal, and the officers and soldiers all use boats to walk, which is very convenient.

Qiyang County is behind Yongzhou Mansion, and if Zhu Neng wants to retreat to Changsha, he will either take the land route or the water route, and the waterway will inevitably pass through Qiyang.

At this time, he learned that when he was in a decisive battle with the rebels in Guangxi, Zhu Gaoxu, the king of Han, personally led tens of thousands of cavalry from Huaiyuan to Huguang, first attacked Wugang, and then took Qiyang, cutting off his retreat.

Zhu Gaoxu did not fight Yongzhou because Yongzhou had Yongzhou guards left behind, and Zhu Neng arranged heavy troops in order to retreat.

Zhu Gaoxu is all cavalry, and of course he will not come to attack the city.

But Qiyang County is different, there is no guard in the local area, he used his brain a little, and immediately surrendered and opened the city gate.

At this time, Zhu Neng, Xu Zhong and others were in a hurry.

In this situation, either abandon all the ships and run to Changsha by land, but you may have to be caught up by the opposing cavalry, because Zhu Gaoxu seems to be all cavalry.

Either force the waterway and try to get through Qiyang County.

Zhu Neng was anxious, and hurriedly called Xu Zhong to discuss how to deal with it.

Xu Zhongdao, didn't you say before that King Han only had 20,000 riders, how did it become 50,000 riders?

Zhu Nengdao said that Zhu Gaoxu was treacherous, and he may have deliberately exposed 20,000 horsemen to us in advance, and the real cavalry was as many as 50,000.

Xu Zhong was noncommittal and didn't say anything.

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On the 21st, Zhu Gaoxu came to the head of Qiyang County and looked to the west.

During the Jing disaster, every time the Yan army and the southern army fought, after the southern army was defeated, the Yan army pursued and killed hundreds of miles behind, and the southern army ambushed the corpse for hundreds of miles, which was unbearable.

But at that time, Zhu Gaoxu was thinking, why did he have to hunt down and kill every time he finished a battle?

Can't you go to the other party's retreat in advance to block it?

For example, when the southern army fled to Jinan at that time, if tens of thousands of cavalry were sent to block it outside Jinan in advance, wouldn't the southern army be unable to enter Jinan City?

At that time, he said that he didn't count, and he didn't intend to raise the issue.

In fact, during the Jingjing, both sides will send troops to go around the other side and beat each other's ass, but they have never sent troops to cut off the other party's retreat.

King Yan didn't do this, maybe the troops were not enough to divide the troops.

The officers and soldiers did not do this, probably not confident of victory, and did not dare to send troops.

Now that it was his turn to fight, he moved the idea.

Once the official army is defeated, they will definitely flee from Quanzhou into Yongzhou and enter Huguang, and then there are only two roads, the land route is casual, and the water route must go to Qiyang County.

Zhu Gaoxu attacked Wugang first, and then came to Qiyang non-stop, occupied Qiyang County, and cut off Zhu Neng's retreat at once.

Now there are only two roads in front of Zhu Neng, either to die and snort Zhu Gaoxu, or to go by land.

"King, will Zhu Neng take the land route or the water route?" Zhou Hu asked with a smile at this time.

Zhu Gaoxu thought for a while: "We are all cavalry, Zhu Neng fled in a hurry, most of them are infantry battalions, he doesn't know how many cavalry I have, he is afraid of being ambushed by me, if I guess correctly, this guy may take the cavalry quietly and go first, regardless of the infantry battalion." ”

Because Zhu Neng had a very ordinary relationship with Zhu Gaochu in the Jingjing, and even said it badly, he was definitely unwilling to be intercepted by Zhu Gaoxu.

If Zhu Neng only led cavalry, Zhu Gaoxu didn't know that they would take that road, and it would be difficult to stop them.

"Isn't that impossible to intercept Zhu Neng?" Zhou Hu said.

"You don't need to intercept Zhu Neng, Zhu Neng is useless, what he intercepts is his infantry battalion and boat." Zhu Gaoxu said with a smile.

Zhu Gaoxu really guessed correctly.

Because Zhu Neng really can't choose.

It is impossible for him to take a boat with the infantry battalion to attack Qiyang County, what if he can't fight? And there are not so many boats to take them to ride 80,000 paces.

Zhu Gaoxu has too many ways to deal with it, as long as the river is blocked, all the boats will be blocked.

So Zhu Neng thought about it and decisively led more than 10,000 cavalry in Yongzhou to go first, and another 70,000 foot battalion for Xu Zhong to take behind.

Zhu Neng didn't want to leave Xu Zhong behind, but among the generals, only Xu Zhong was able to control the 70,000-step battalion, and the other commanders were too small.

Zhu Neng is also a ruthless character, and after taking the cavalry ashore, he went to Wugang.

When he entered the city, he found that the whole family of King Min was not there, and they were all moved to Guangxi, and the city was plastered with the inscription of King Han and the notice of King Min's support.

Zhu Neng was furious, killed several surrendered civilian officials in Wugang City, and then raised his troops and left.

Then detour to Baoqing and retreat to Changsha.

After arriving in Changsha, Zhu Neng knew that Zhu Gaoxu's cavalry was only 20,000, and he immediately regretted it.

At that time, if he knew that Zhu Gaochu only had 20,000 horsemen, he could take 80,000 soldiers and horses ashore together, but it was rumored that Zhu Gaochu had 50,000 horsemen, and Zhu Neng did not dare to take the infantry camp. Walking too slowly with the infantry battalion makes it easy to be ambushed.

But there is no regret medicine in the world.

At the same time that Zhu Neng led the cavalry first and left the infantry camp, Xu Zhong's dissatisfaction with Zhu Neng completely broke out.

More than 300,000 officers and troops entered Guangxi, and if Zhu Neng could listen to his opinions, it would be impossible for him to suffer a crushing defeat in Taihe Mountain.

After the fiasco, Zhu Neng couldn't stabilize his mind and made wrong judgments many times.

According to Xu Zhong's meaning, the rebels had a large number of artillery, and Guilin had no need to defend at this time.

Zhu Neng didn't listen, and insisted that the soldiers and horses stay in Guilin, hoping that the official army would be in Guangxi like Tie Xuan guarding Shandong back then, and he thought that as long as Guilin was held, the rebel army would not dare to enter Huguang.

Then Xu Zhong wanted to stay and assist Han Guan, but was suspected by Zhu Neng.

In the end, after Zhu Neng heard that Zhu Gaoxu personally led tens of thousands of cavalry around Huguang, he directly ran away with the cavalry in fright, and asked Xu Zhong to go behind or by water to attract Zhu Gaoxu's troops.

Now Xu Zhong really couldn't bear it anymore.

In Yongzhou on the 22nd, Xu Zhong watched Zhu Neng cross the river from Xiangkou Post through the north gate with a large force of cavalry at the head of the city, and Xu Zhong's face was extremely ugly.

Xu Zhong took his father's position as the deputy of Henan Wei Qianhu in his early years, repeatedly accompanied the Ming army's northern expedition, captured a lot, accumulated merit and was promoted to the commander of Jiyang Wei, and guarded Kaiping (in present-day Tangshan, Hebei) in the last years of Hongwu

In the first year of Jianwen (1399), Zhu Di, the king of Yan, raised an army to settle the country, and even broke Juyong (in present-day Changping, Beijing) and Huailai (in present-day Zhangjiakou, Hebei). Xu Zhong surrendered to the Yan army at Kaiping and captured the Luanhe River with Chen Xu. In the same year, Zhu Di reorganized the army in Huizhou (now southwest of Pingquan, Hebei) and divided it into five armies, front and rear, left and right. Xu Zhong was able to lead the front army because of his bravery and skill.

When Zhu Di got the soldiers and horses of King Ning and Daning Xingdusi, there were 200,000 people, which was the first significant expansion of the soldiers and horses of King Yan.

He reorganized the army and divided it into five armies, and Xu Zhong commanded one army, which shows that his ability was recognized by Zhu Di.

But this time, because he went out with Zhu Neng, his ability was not fully utilized.

Moreover, after Zhu Neng's defeat, he threw him 70,000 defeated soldiers, and he may have to suffer even greater faults in the next few days.

Because it was only his duty to bring back these 70,000 infantrymen, but if he only brought back 30,000 or 40,000, it might become a sin.

(End of chapter)