In the end, Li Shutai and Chen Tai escaped the Feiyun River under the desperate protection of the Manchurian cavalry, but they also paid a heavy price.

The cavalry battalion caught up with the Manchurian cavalry retreating north, and was not afraid of the enemy's prestige, wielding their swords to fight with the Manchurian cavalry, even the Manchurian cavalry that swept through East Asia was also taken aback when fighting with the systematic cavalry, because they found that the Ming army they faced was completely different from any previous Ming army, and their fighting spirit was high, and their performance in battle was even comparable to theirs.

This situation reminded them of the Guanning Iron Cavalry a few years ago, when did the entire Ming Dynasty only Guanning Iron Cavalry be able to fight with them in the field, and after the Guanning Iron Cavalry followed Wu Sangui to the Qing Dynasty, they were no longer invincible in the whole world.

But now, I actually encountered such a cavalry in this place again.

Under the sacrificial struggle of the Ming cavalry, the Manchurian cavalry who had no intention of fighting retreated, and finally desperately escorted Li Chen and the two to cross the Feiyun River, Su Ci also knew that they could not be left, and after leaving hundreds of corpses, he ordered the Xiao cavalry battalion to stop the pursuit and watched the Qing army cross the river.

After gathering the soldiers and horses, Su Ci led the Xiao cavalry battalion and the Chinese military camp to join Su Yan, as soon as he saw Su Yan, he immediately knelt on the ground, and pleaded guilty: "The last general is late for rescue, I hope the superintendent will forgive the sin." ”

Seeing this, Su Yan stepped forward to help him up, and said with a smile: "It's okay, this time I was too aggressive, so that the Qing army had a chance, but the process is not important, the result is that our army annihilated most of the Qing army, although I let go of Li Shutai, or preliminarily completed the strategic intention of our army." ”

"But Dingyuan led the army to fight with the Qing army?" Su Ci inquired that he had been floating on the sea since he boarded the ship in Fuzhou in the past few days, and he knew nothing about the war on land.

What he didn't know was that Su Yan didn't know Su Dingyuan's results very well, the latter said: "I don't know the specific battle situation, but I have already sent someone to join Dingyuan, and I believe that I will be rewarded soon." ”

After speaking, he patted Su Ci on the shoulder and said, "Okay, let's go back to Pingyang County with me first, Dingyuan will definitely rush to Pingyang after defeating the Qing army, we just need to wait for him there." ”

Su Ci also thought it made sense, so he left the soldiers and horses to clean up the battlefield, and he first led the guards back to Pingyang County with Su Yan.

It is worth mentioning that the Baoyi army that stayed behind was all executed in Su Yan's murderous order, and did not leave a single living mouth, Su Yan did not have the slightest good impression of these people who forgot their ancestors and were willing to become Manchu slaves, if they took the initiative to surrender, Su Yan could still give them a way to live, but they still resisted stubbornly after being abandoned by the Manchurian master, that is, they were pure and looking for death.

The Manchurian cavalry battalion retreated north and had no intention of fighting, so they left more than 300 corpses to cross the river under the pursuit of the cavalry battalion, and the cavalry battalion also lost nearly 100 people, but also captured more than 200 sturdy and tall northern war horses.

When Su Yan returned to Pingyang County, the green battalion troops who surrendered voluntarily were all gathered and detained, and there were more than 4,800 of these surrendered green battalion soldiers.

Not an hour after returning to the county seat, the news about Su Dingyuan finally came back.

It turned out that Su Dingyuan did not rush north after the defeat of the Qing army in Qiancang Mountain, but stayed to clean up the battlefield and bury the corpses, in the battle of Qiancang Mountain, the Qing army participated in the battle of more than 15,000 people, killed more than 4,000 people, captured more than 5,000 people, and escaped nearly 6,000 people.

Among them, nearly 5,000 people were collected by Li Shuitai and retreated to the outside of Pingyang County, and the remaining more than 1,000 people refused to surrender to the Ming army under the leadership of Ma Degong, and fled all the way north into the mountains.

The casualties of the Ming army were not high, except for the casualties of the punishment battalion used as cannon fodder, more than half of them, from more than 4,000 people at the beginning to 2,000 people today, the number of regular soldiers killed in battle was only 3,000 people, if it were not for the number of line infantry was still too small, then the casualties could be much less.

In addition to the good news of the great victory, there is another somewhat heavy news, Chen Shenggui, a thousand households of the Zhongwu Battalion, was shot into the eye socket by a cluster of arrows in the battle, bleeding nonstop, and did not help in time, and died of serious injuries after the defeat of the Qing army, so the position of the Thousand Households of the Zhongwu Battalion was temporarily vacant.

Su Yan actually didn't have much reaction to Chen Shenggui's death, although this person followed him very early, but his ability has always been mediocre, even if he doesn't die, he won't be reused in the future, if he is lucky, he is not at fault, at most, he can only mix in the position of Qianhu until retirement.

However, since he was wounded and killed in the battle, Su Yan still decided to give him a high-standard funeral, and immediately ordered Chen Shenggui's body to be sent back to Fuzhou, where he was buried, gave his wife and children in Quanzhou some gold and silver real estate, and transferred his eldest son, who was over 12 years old, to Fuzhou Mansion to study.

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The next day, after leaving some soldiers and horses to guard against Ma Degong, who fled into the mountains and forests, Su Dingyuan personally led the army to arrive outside Pingyang County and met Su Yan.

After the three met, Su Yan first praised Su Dingyuan's exploits in breaking the Qing army, and then went straight to the point and discussed the next strategic direction.

Now that the Qing governors of Fujian and Zhejiang had escaped the Feiyun River and were rushing to Hangzhou, the Qing army's unmobilized forces in Zhejiang would soon change their strategy of guarding against Zhoushan's Lu Jian State and instead deal with a strong enemy in the south.

It can be seen from the topographic map of Zhejiang Province that the southern state capitals of Zhejiang are blocked by continuous hills, with Wenzhou as the starting point, whether it is to attack Chuzhou in the west or to attack Taizhou in the north, it is necessary to pass through the complex hilly area, so under the terrain, if the Qing army relies on the terrain to defend, the Ming army really needs to spend a lot of effort to take these two places for a while.

Fortunately, Taizhou Mansion was able to use the sailors under Huang An's command to land from the sea and attack Taizhou, and Chuzhou could only rely on the legs of the soldiers to walk through.

After Su Yan and the three of them discussed, they jointly came up with the next few strategic directions - first, to take the state capital before the news of the Qing army's defeat at Qiancang Mountain spread, so as to plot to attack Jinhua Mansion in the future.

Second, there is no need to cross the Yandang Mountain at the junction of Wenzhou and Taizhou, and directly attack Taizhou by sea.

Third, after conquering the Taizhou capital, he sent an envoy to land in Zhoushan, get in touch with the forces of the Lu Jianguo, jointly oppose the Qing Dynasty, and divide the future sphere of influence.

Although the king of Lu at this time has not given up the name of the prison country, but they are entrenched in the Zhoushan Islands, and they are quite famous in Zhejiang, Su Yan wants to recover the whole of Zhejiang, there is no way to bypass the other party, rather than fighting another civil war with the Lu prison country, it is better to discuss it in advance, and when the time comes, what kind of moth does the king of Lu want to make, Su Yan is also famous.

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