After learning that Maoerguan, a heavy grain and grass area in the rear, was captured by the Ming army, and that the grain and grass needed by tens of thousands of troops were burned by the Ming army, Wang Yizheng, the governor of Shaanxi, suddenly oozed cold sweat on his forehead, thinking that the Ming army had covered his back road.

In order to avoid being flanked by the Ming army, Wang Yizheng did not care about the great achievements that were about to be made, and hurriedly ordered all battalions to immediately withdraw from Maolu Mountain.

Zhang Bingzheng, the chief soldier of Hanzhong who was born in the blue banner of the Han army, was opposed to the withdrawal of troops, he believed that the remnants of the Ming army in Maolu Mountain had been surrounded and killed by nearly 200,000 troops in the three provinces, and the northern front had been pressed and beaten by the green battalion in Shaanxi, and there were not many people left in the Ming army, so the number of Ming troops who stood out must not be too much, at most a few hundred.

"Since the first year of Kangxi, I have been fighting in Kuidong in Shaanxi for more than two years, and finally compressed and surrounded the Ming army in Maolu Mountain.

Zhang Bingzheng analyzed that the small group of Ming troops protruding from the mountains and the purpose of attacking Maoerguan was to force the Shaanxi Green Battalion to withdraw its troops, so it must not be as the Ming army wished.

At present, the northern part of Maolu Mountain has been captured by the Shaanxi Green Battalion for one-third, and the Ming army has lost two battles with the Shaanxi Green Battalion before, and the troops have been defeated.

According to the confessions of the captives, there were only four or five thousand Ming troops left on the mountain, so in fact the Ming army was already in a situation of total collapse.

If the troops are withdrawn, what is the difference between letting the tiger go back to the mountain?

It's also a waste of all the work!

Wang Yizheng thought that this was indeed the case, but the destruction of grain and grass caused the army to support in the mountains for three or five days at most, and if the grain and grass in the rear could not be helped, tens of thousands of troops were in danger of running out of food and rout.

This consequence is not something that he, the governor of Shaanxi, can bear.

"Please sit here, Lord Admiral, and the last will bring people back to defense!"

Zhang Bingzheng suggested that he should take the Hanzhong Green Battalion back to the rear to encircle and suppress the Ming army that attacked Mao'er Pass, and open up a grain road to transport part of the military grain from Zhushan City to the front line to relieve the urgent need.

If the Ming army refused to exchange prisoners, they ordered Bao Zhao, the chief soldier of Hebei Town, who had penetrated deep into Maolu Mountain, to attack the main village of the Ming army.

"No matter what tricks the Ming army uses, the Admiral can just keep an eye on his main village!"

Zhang Bingzheng's thinking is the same as letting it come a few ways, and I only go all the way.

Maolu Mountain is the base of the Ming army, and the main village is the core of the defense line of Maolu Mountain.

After thinking about it, Wang Yizheng couldn't bear to give up the good situation, so he agreed to Zhang Bingzheng's invitation.

On the same day, Zhang Bingzheng led the 2,000 battalions of the pacesetters of the headquarters to return to defense, and then the remaining 4,000 people of the Hanzhong Green Battalion were withdrawn in turn.

Externally, Wang Yizheng blocked the news of the fall of Mao'er Pass, so as not to shake the hearts of the people of all departments and collapse without a fight.

On the way back to defense, Zhang Bingzheng found that the line from Mao'er Pass to Maolu Mountain had not been attacked by the Ming army, and he became more and more firm in his judgment of the Ming army's sneak attack intention, and also determined that the Ming army was insufficient to attack the Shaanxi Green Camp from the rear.

After taking people back to Mao'er Pass, what greeted them was a ruin.

Zhang Yunyi, the general stationed here, and Sang E, the commander of the Han army, were all killed on the night of the Ming army's attack, and the Hanzhong soldiers searched all the nearby but only found seven "fish that escaped the net".

Only these seven people don't know how many Ming troops came, but they all mentioned it to General Zhang.

It was the Ming army who attacked them who wore green battalion uniforms, and everyone had braids on the back of their heads.

At the same time, it is also mentioned that the Ming army used white cloth to tie the head, but also used white cloth to tie the shoulder.

This information made Zhang Bingzheng feel uncomfortable, most of the white cloth wrapped around his head was done by the chaotic people, and some were wrapped around their necks with red scarves.

However, the white cloth was tied to the shoulder, and as far as he knew, it was a means used by Wu Sangui to distinguish between the enemy and the enemy during the Great Battle of One Stone that year.

But Guan Ningjun now asked Wu Sangui to take him to Yunnan, how could he appear here?

It's not the Guanning Army, and which soldiers and horses tie their shoulders with white cloth?

Zhang Bingzheng suddenly had a stirring spirit for no reason, and his eyes looked deeply in the direction of Wushan Mountain in the south.

From the topographical point of view, the Ming army that highlighted the blockade line was very likely to run out of the western front, and the western front was the Sichuan green battalion commanded by Sichuan Governor Li Guoying and Admiral Zheng Jiaolin.

If the Ming army that ran out really "seeped out" from the defense line of the green camp in Sichuan, why did the Sichuan side not inform Shaanxi, and how did they let the Ming army, which had become a turtle in the urn, escape?

There are too many doubts, so many that Zhang Bingzheng doesn't dare to think about it.

As the chief soldier of Hanzhong, he was of course aware of the influence of Wu Sangui, the king of Pingxi, on the green camp in Sichuan, and he was also very aware of the court's suspicion of Wu Sangui.

But I really don't understand what it is for if it is really Sichuan Green Camp behind this incident.

As we all know, the so-called Ming army of Kuidong is actually the remnant of Li Zicheng, and the old thieves and Wu Sangui swear that they will never be compatible with fire and water.

If you want to say that Wu Sangui secretly colluded with the old thieves, not to mention that he Zhang Bingzheng didn't believe it, I am afraid that the imperial court would not believe it.

Then it's really weird.

Zhang Bingzheng didn't dare to think about it, so he could only attribute the matter to the fact that the Sichuan Green Battalion might have been lax, after all, Jingxi General Mulima was heavily damaged by the Ming army in Huanglong Mountain, which led to problems with the blockade of the southern and western fronts, and it was theoretically established that the Ming army sneaked out of it.

Put away the distractions and ask the cat to count whether there are any materials that have not been burned by the fire.

As a result, there was nothing left, and it was burned clean.

No trace of the Ming army was found nearby.

Zhang Bingzheng suspected that the Ming army might be hiding in the surrounding mountains and forests to prepare an "ambush" for the retreating Shaanxi Green Battalion, so he ordered the formation of a number of forest search teams into the mountains to search for the traces of the Ming army, but before the forest search team entered the mountains, the bad news of the fall of Zhushan came.

The news is very mixed, some say that General Xi'an died in the attack of the Ming army, some say that the general escaped in time, some say that the Eight Banners were wiped out, and some say that he ran clean.

One thing is certain, that is, Zhushan City, like Maoerguan, was attacked by the Ming army and was reduced to ruins.

There are many theories about the number of people attacked by the Ming army, some say tens of thousands, some say thousands, and some say that there are no known how many people are suppressed.

Zhang Bingzheng was stunned and began to suspect that his judgment was wrong, that is, it was not a small group of people in the Ming army that stood out, but the main force of the Ming army!

This means that the old thieves of Maolu Mountain have made an "empty city plan" to contain the main force of the Shaanxi Green Camp with a small number of men, and the brigade of men and horses will outflank the rear of the Shaanxi Green Camp in a roundabout way.

With the fall of Zhushan, it is possible for the Ming army to run from this place through Sichuan to Hanzhong.

Mo said that Hanzhong was empty of troops, and even the provincial capital Xi'an did not have many soldiers.

In a panic, Zhang Bingzheng hurriedly led people to Zhushan, but the scene in front of him made the Hanzhong general soldier and the green battalion soldiers under his command stunned.

But I saw a large group of battalion soldiers without their right hands and the Eight Banners of the Mongol and Han armies squatting under the city wall, and in the cave of the city gate were one after another Manchurian soldiers who kept screaming in pain.

Without exception, white bandages were wrapped around the elbows and wrists of both hands.

I lost both hands.

Seeing the rescue force that arrived first after the incident, a large group of Manchurian soldiers who had lost their hands crawled out of the cave at the city gate, like a group of maggots wriggling.