When the Yazhou army fled to Jiajiang City, they counted the number of people and found that there were only 1,100 people left, and more than 400 people were left behind in just 70 miles. Although he knew that the pursuers were in a hurry, but seeing that the soldiers were exhausted, Cao Zhizhou had to agree to go into the city to rest for a while. The Yazhou army only had dozens of war horses, except for him and a few generals and personal soldiers, the rest of the soldiers were on foot, and they were tired enough all the way. It's just that he ordered that he could only rest for an hour, because Jiajiang City was dilapidated after the attack of the Yazhou army, and there was no food or baggage in the city, so it could not be held at all. Although the chasing cavalry could not attack the city, as soon as the Thunderbolt army arrived, it was the day of the city's destruction.

After resting for an hour, Cao Zhizhou ordered to start marching towards Hongya County. He had sent a fast horse back to Yazhou to inform the garrisons of Mingshan City and Yazhou City to come to meet him. It's just that after a night plus a morning of galloping, an hour's rest is enough. Most of the soldiers were still sore and were now saying that they would never leave. Cao Zhizhou was anxious and annoyed, but he had no choice but to scold the Yibo soldiers for destroying Jiajiang City so badly. But he forgot that when the Yibo soldiers captured Jiajiang City, he also praised them greatly, praising them for their extraordinary bravery.

Cao Zhizhou knew that some of the soldiers had lost their strength at the moment, and even if they were forced with knives and forced to let them on the road, they would not be able to walk at all. At that moment, he took it into account, and appointed a junior colonel who could not walk as the commander of Jiajiang County, and asked him to lead more than 300 soldiers who could not walk to defend the city, and let people plant their own banners on the city wall. After doing all this, he fled to Hongya County with the remaining 800 people. Soon after he left, a cavalry company of the Perak army chased to the foot of Jiajiang City, and when they saw that the city gate was closed, and there were soldiers standing on the city wall, the city head also floated the big banner of the word "Cao", and mistakenly thought that Cao Zhizhou and Yazhou troops were in the city, so they immediately dismounted far away and stopped to rest. As a forward company, they were tired enough to chase all the way. As for the remaining four cavalry companies, they were still behind to capture the Yazhou soldiers who had fallen along the way.

As soon as the large force of the cavalry battalion of the Perak Army arrived, the Yazhou soldiers of Jiajiang City tied up the junior colonel defending the city, opened the city gate and surrendered. The little colonel has only been a county magistrate for an hour, and at this time he woke up like a dream and realized that he was just Cao Zhizhou's shield and substitute for the dead. The cavalry battalion commander left a company to guard the prisoners, and sent someone to inform the defenders of Jiading to take over Jiajiang City, and he himself took four companies to chase after Hongya City, which was eighty miles away. After chasing only twenty miles, he found sporadic Yazhou soldiers, and when he chased thirty miles, he caught up with Yazhou soldiers, but he didn't see Cao Zhizhou. After arresting a few colonels and asking, it turned out that Cao Zhizhou saw that the situation was not good, and had already fled with his own team.

It took a lot of time to capture these hundreds of Yazhou soldiers. If it is said that there is a mountain forest not far from the official road, these Yazhou soldiers can scatter and hide in it. It's just that these Yazhou soldiers have already run dizzy, and their legs and feet are weak and they can't escape at all. More importantly, Jazhou and the Perak Army were close to each other, and the information was very smooth due to the frequent exchange of commerce, and they knew the capture policy of the Perak Army - as long as there was no blood debt, ordinary soldiers would only be sentenced to two or three years of hard labor, although it was very hard in mining, but as long as they completed the labor quota, they could also eat enough. After serving hard labor, you can regain your freedom, and at that time, whether you are farming or working in a factory, as long as you are willing to put in the effort, your life will be more nourishing than being a soldier under Cao Zhizhou.

Hongya County was also destroyed at the hands of the Yibo barbarians this time, and the remaining people in the city were very resentful of the Yazhou army that lured the wolf into the house. In addition, there was a shortage of grain and grass, and the city defense was broken, so Cao Zhizhou did not stay in Hongya County, but returned to Mingshan City with the Mingshan army who came to respond. When he arrived at the famous mountain, Cao Zhizhou decided not to retreat, but to set up a position and decided to defend the city. Of course, he had no way to retreat, and the successive defeats could no longer be described as losing troops into the future, but completely defeated. If it weren't for the fact that he had been entrenched in Yazhou for many years, the defeat of Jiading could have caused his rule to collapse directly.

Cao Zhizhou chose to stick to the famous mountain because the location of the famous mountain city is extremely important. Losing the famous mountain, Yazhou City is under the threat of the Perak army, and holding the famous mountain city can wait for the opportunity to attack Baizhangtu Qiongzhou, or take Hongya to attack Meizhou. The reason why the famous mountain was chosen is also because this is the richest county in Yazhou, and the money and grain in the city are enough to support the army to fight for a long time. At this time, in the famous mountain city, in addition to the garrison of 1,000 people, there were 1,500 soldiers from Yazhou City and other places, which was also the last mobile force in Yazhou. The consumption of 2,500 troops is really not a small number for Yazhou, which is poor in financial resources, except for the state city, which can only be supported by famous mountains.

Cao Zhizhou's confidence in sticking to the famous mountain lies in the solid city defense and a large number of civil fortifications here. Because Cao Zhizhou has always been hostile to the Thunderbolt Army, and often deliberately creates friction, he was afraid that Ouyang Xuan would send troops to attack in anger, so he turned Mingshan City into a fortress early. In view of the superiority of the Thunderbolt army's artillery and cavalry, Mingshan City not only set up anti-artillery holes and anti-artillery trenches everywhere, but also dug criss-crossing trenches and pitfalls outside the city, and even diverted water to silt up, creating a lot of artificial mud ponds. It was June, and the small basin where Mingshan Castle was located was full of soft rice paddies, which greatly limited the movement of cavalry and the construction of artillery positions.

In Cao Zhizhou's view, the soldiers of Mingshan City have enough food and enough food to hold on for a period of time. If the main force of the Perak army is blocked here, the Mongolian army in the rest of the directions may take the opportunity to attack Chongqing Province and even destroy the Perak army. Therefore, he encouraged his subordinate generals and colonels that as long as they held on, the situation would inevitably change, and the Thunderbolt army would have to retreat. At that time, the Yazhou army will not only recapture Meizhou and Jiading, but will even include Qiongzhou and Chongqing. At that time, all of you here will become the prefect and prefect of one side, not to mention the glory and wealth. Cao Zhizhou used the deception skills that he relied on to become famous, and drew a big and round cake for his subordinates.

Seven days later, Cao Ergou led an infantry brigade to the foot of Mingshan City, and in addition to the cavalry battalion that pursued Cao Zhizhou, there was also a teaching brigade from the direction of Baizhang City, with a total number of 3,500 troops. Before the arrival of the infantry brigade, the vanguard of the Perak army had already fought several battles with the Yazhou army, first the Yazhou army tried to bombard the cavalry approaching the city wall with the artillery on the city wall, but none of them hit the target; He then tried to attack the cavalry at night, only to be blown to pieces by a mine planted near the camp; Then they tried to attack the teaching brigade that was digging and filling the trenches, and the Yibo soldiers of the Nazhi Perak army were extremely brave, and they beat the Yazhou army to the ground in a white-knuckle battle.

According to the order of the General Staff, these units will be under the unified command of Cao Ergou. Just as he was deploying troops and preparing for a big battle, the Yazhou army of Mingshan City opened the city gate and surrendered. They had been beaten in the hands of the cavalry battalion and the teaching brigade, and were not only crushed by the cavalry, but also suffered heavy defeats in white-knuckle battles and night raids. Now Cao Ergou came to Mingshan City with dozens of heavy artillery, not only the number of people is far more than the defenders, but the armament is even more incomparable. Those field guns are just test firing of school guns, and their power is extremely terrifying, and if it is a salvo, the power will inevitably destroy the world. Cao Zhizhou didn't surrender and wanted the whole city to be buried together, so it was better to borrow his head as a vote.