The Luchuan army retreated into the camp in one go, and finally stopped the pace of defeat.

It's not that they don't panic, but this place is still thousands of miles away from Luchuan Country, where can they flee after leaving the barracks? How do a group of routs escape? Just ran back rashly, not tired and starved to death on the way, but also to be caught by the Tusi tribes who fell into the well along the way, and flattered the Ming army. Therefore, it is better to stabilize the position with the fortifications built the day before yesterday and see what regulations are on it.

Si Lunfa also thought so, after all, he still had seventy or eighty thousand regular soldiers and two hundred thousand auxiliary soldiers, as long as he stabilized his position, everything would be better. Even if you can't turn defeat into victory, it's still okay to retreat with your whole body.

However, how could the old and spicy Ming army give them a chance to breathe?

When the Ming army pursued to the Luchuan army camp, it did stop temporarily. This made the nervous Luchuan rout army can't help but give birth to a trace of luck, could it be that the Ming army doesn't want to waste any more troops and is ready to persuade them to surrender? The king must agree......

But the truth is not what the Luchuan army hoped, the Ming army is just waiting......

After waiting for a while, a team of pack horses came over with tiger squatting cannons. This kind of artillery is stubby and short, weighing less than 50 catties, and the shells and gun barrels are transported separately, so they can follow the large army to maneuver. In fact, these tiger squat cannons were pulled by the Ming army from Kunming City, 800 miles away, and they did not hold back the army along the way.

The gunner jumped down from the other horses, untied the ropes on the pack horses, took the cannon down, then put on iron claws and iron shackles, placed them fifty paces outside the Luchuan barracks, and then inserted large iron nails through the iron stumbling and plunged deep into the earth. This is done to fix the gun body, otherwise the violent recoil will push the gun body dozens of pounds back a few feet away, and the gunner will have to break bones if he touches it.

After everything was stopped, the Ming gunners first loaded the propellant and stuffed solid shells into the barrel. In the earth-shattering roar, just one salvo shot smashed the wooden fence wall temporarily built by the Luchuan Army.

The sawdust in the sky had not yet completely landed, and the cavalry of the Ming army could not wait to ride their horses across the narrow trench and enter the Luchuan army camp with a sweeping momentum.

In the large camp, the frightened Luchuan army broke out, and when they heard the earth-shattering cannonade, they were so frightened that they all got up from the ground and stretched their necks to look at the camp to the east. I saw that the Ming army had been overwhelmingly killed...... The humble tent was trampled by the iron cavalry, and many of the wounded soldiers who had escaped had no time to dodge, and were trampled into mud.

Come on, let's keep running.

It doesn't matter if it's too far, lacks food and drink, is in danger halfway, etc., let's survive first.

And their king is already one step ahead......

It's not just the rout that's running away. There were still 200,000 auxiliaries in the ten-mile company camp, and when they saw that the regular soldiers had run away, they had no choice but to flee together.

It is not often that the big scene of 2780,000 troops fleeing together can be seen, and the next time it appears, it will have to wait until 555 years later.

The only way to escape from the valley was to plug so many people, and the panicked Luchuan rout even filled every path into the mountain.

The Ming cavalry was dizzy, and they didn't know where to chase it. In fact, there are endless defeated soldiers everywhere, and it doesn't matter where you chase them......

The cavalry of the Ming army pursued until dark before retreating.

In this battle, the Ming army won a complete victory, checked the results, and beheaded more than 40,000 people in total, and captured more than 20,000 people, in fact, most of the heads were captured in the process of pursuit, not to mention those prisoners. In addition, more than 50 war elephants were also captured, and the bottoms of Luchuan, the southwestern overlord, were completely stripped off.

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Si Lunfa had never run so fast in his life, he had fled the camp since noon, and he had already arrived when it was dark, a hundred miles away from the boundary of Changning Mansion.

The thousands of horses under the crotch are tired and foaming at the mouth......

"Rest, King." Dao Gan Meng is also a ruthless man, and he can follow him all the way without falling behind. Of course, it is inevitable that I am so tired that I am about to fall apart, lying on the back of the horse and panting.

"The Ming army shouldn't be able to catch up."

"Hmm. Then take a break. Si Lunfa nodded, and said in a muffled voice: "This black light is blind, and there is definitely no way to chase it." ”

The guards at his side found a sheltered valley nearby, and began to look for firewood to make a fire and boil water for cooking.

In a few moments, a roaring bonfire was lit in the valley.

A forbidden soldier lays a leopard skin around the campfire and asks Silunfa to sit down.

"The king forgave his sins, and he was in too much of a hurry when he retreated, and he didn't have time to bring the king's tent cover." Daogan Meng said apologetically.

"What about running for your life, what else is there to pay attention to?" Si Lunfa sat on the leopard skin and waved his hand with a solemn expression. "You can sit down too."

"King Xie......" After Daogan Meng thanked him, he sat down next to Si Lunfa.

The monarch and the minister were relatively speechless, silently roasting the fire.

After a long time, Si Lunfa suddenly asked faintly: "When this king wanted to withdraw the forbidden army before, why didn't you not stop yourself, but also didn't let others advise?" ”

"This ......" Dao Gan Meng was shocked in his heart, but he didn't expect that his small movements would be seen by the king. He calmed down and hurriedly turned out the rhetoric he had thought of a long time ago: "That's the case, at that time, the king's forbidden soldiers were already leaderless, and more than half of them were lost, and if they were left on the battlefield, they would only be eaten by the Ming army in one bite, and they would not change the situation of the battle in the slightest." ”

After a pause, Dao Gan Meng continued: "Rather than this, it is better to keep the precious forbidden soldiers, so as not to shake the country's foundation." ”

"In this way, I want to go with this king......" Si Lun's fierce eyes gradually extinguished, and he smiled self-deprecatingly: "Guoben? After this battle, will Luchuan Kingdom still exist? ”

"Don't be discouraged by a defeat!" Daogan Meng hurriedly admonished: "Yes, we did suffer heavy losses in today's battle, but it is not yet to the point of shaking the foundation. The king's forbidden army is still there, and our tin soldiers are still at least half preserved, which is still the strongest force in the land of Central and Southern China. ”

"As long as we try our best to gather the army, return to Mengmao safely, and then hurry up to ask the Ming Dynasty for guilt, the situation will be stabilized. At most, there are unsightly chieftains who jump out to rebel, and the ministers will definitely suppress it for the king, and they will definitely not let them split my Luchuan country! ”

"Well, I hope so." Silunfa let out a long, cloudy breath. In fact, his thoughts are similar to those of Dao Ganmeng, he wants to clean up the mess first, and then beg Da Ming for mercy.

The leaders of the Fan States who divided one side of the country understood that the Celestial Empire would only restrain them from these remote places at most, and would never send officials to govern them, which would be too cost-effective.

Moreover, the Luchuan country is so large, it is even more impossible for the Ming Dynasty to rule directly, no matter what, in the end, it is necessary to let the local powerful leaders govern themselves.

So as long as you make sure that you are still the strongest in Central and South China, and then apologize for your sins, pay a big tribute with more blood, and at most send a son to Beijing as a hostage, and swear to be honest in the future. This combination punch is down, and basically, the big thing is over.

Regardless of whether the emperor has passed in his heart or not, in the end, he still has to pinch his nose and let himself continue to manage Luchuan.

(End of chapter)