Chapter 101 Pursuit

The sunlight gradually faded, and the sun seemed to hide under the horizon in shame.

Another futile battle.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners did not suffer much loss, but under the city of Xuzhou, there were also mountains of corpses, but most of the dead were local people in Sichuan.

Hauge was used to killing and didn't care at all.

The only thing he cares about is the progress of the attack.

During this period of time, he did not send elite soldiers of the Eight Banners to hide among these soldiers to attack Xuzhou City. However, Yang Zhan blocked them one by one. The soldiers who climbed to the city three or four times never came down again.

"Retreat the troops." Hauge said calmly without any expression on his face, as if he were a piece of stone.

Following Hauge's order, the large group of people slowly retreated.

On top of the city, Yang Jingxin also breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Jingxin glanced at the entire city, but he saw countless people lying limp on the ground. Of course, some people were lying on the ground to rest, and some people had turned into corpses.

Many of the parapets on the city wall and the tooth-like low walls were knocked over by the bombardment of artillery, and wooden frames were stuck in the gaps.

Yang Jingxin kept charging forward, and was so tired that his whole body ached. If he hadn't been protected by a good armor, Yang Jingxin would probably have wounds all over his body at this moment.

Yang Jingxin was about to go down to rest, but Yang Zhan stopped him. Yang Jingxin said: "Dad, today's battle is over. You haven't slept for several nights, so you should go back and rest."

Yang Zhan said: "Wait."

Yang Jingxin did not dare to disobey his father, so he could only stand behind him. He felt the blood and sweat all over his body had condensed on his body, making him very uncomfortable. He asked, "Dad, what are you waiting for?"

"Wait to see the bonfire and the smoke."

Time passed slowly, and bonfires and smoke filled the night sky, but Yang Jingxin looked at it vertically and couldn't see anything wrong with it.

"Dad." Yang Jingxin said, "What are you looking at again?"

Yang Zhan said: "When will Hauge withdraw his troops?"

"Can this be seen?" Yang Jingxin did not dare to say it, so he could only curse in his heart.

In the Qing army camp, the Qing army generals were also discussing this matter and when to withdraw their troops.

"Your Majesty, Sir Meng has sent word that there won't be much military rations in the future." Man Dahai said, "Shaanxi is already running out of food."

Hauge also knew that it was not easy for Meng Qiaofang.

Gansu and Shaanxi are not wealthy places to begin with. Generally speaking, the food production of the Qing army is not as good as that of the Xia army. In terms of military rations, the Qing army has always been in short supply.

Fortunately, the place Hauge wanted to attack was Sichuan, which can also be regarded as a granary. Otherwise, Hauge's military operations would not have been able to last for such a long time.

This campaign was Hauge's last effort. The siege, which lasted for several days and fought back and forth around Xuzhou City, finally came to an end.

Hauge sighed lightly and said, "Okay. We will retreat tomorrow."

Retreating is also an easy thing.

Early on the next morning, all Qing army units slowly moved northward.

"Wake up." Yang Zhan kicked Yang Jingxin awake.

At this moment, the genius is bright.

Yang Zhan stood on the city wall all night.

But Yang Jingxin, who didn't know when, had covered himself with a cloak and was sleeping against the city wall.

Yang Jingxin said: "What's going on?"

Yang Zhan said: "The Qing army has retreated."

Yang Jingxin jumped up and looked at the Qing army outside the city. They had slowly left camp. Yang Jingxin looked at Yang Zhan and secretly admired his father. He didn't know how his father judged when Hauge had withdrawn his troops.

While Yang Jingxin was still a little confused, Yang Zhan had already stood up and got off the city wall and said, "Let's go quickly."

Yang Jingxin said: "Dad, what are you going to do?"

Yang Zhan sneered and said, "Do you really think this is a place where they can come and leave whenever they want?"

Looking down at the Qing army from the sky at this moment.

The cavalry is outside, and countless scouts on the outermost periphery are exploring. A little further inside, there is a formation of cavalry guarding, a little further inside is a large group of infantry, and further inside is the army's baggage, but there is not a lot of baggage.

The army was divided into several formations, several miles wide, and spread out several miles.

Hauge was also very cautious about withdrawing his troops and was wary of pursuit by the Ming army.

Hauge had also tried Yang Zhan's methods and did not dare to be careless.

One day, two days, nothing happened.

It seems that Yang Zhan has given up chasing Hauge.

Hauge was worried in his heart, but the Qing army did not have such worries. In many cases, there were not many sober people. Although the Qing army repeatedly encountered obstacles at the hands of Yang Zhan, they were all offensive and defensive battles, and there was no field battle.

Because of this, the whole army regarded Yang Zhan as a tough guy, but also despised Yang Zhan as a coward.

They could still be on alert for the first two days, but after two or three days, the army moved one or two hundred miles north and was already far away from Xuzhou City. They all felt that Yang Zhan could not pursue him.

Naturally, I relaxed my vigilance.

But little did he know that Yang Zhan was already ready.

North of Jianyang City.

More than 10,000 troops were ambushed everywhere, and Yang Zhan personally led the team. These people were the elite troops that Yang Zhan had been refining. Although there were only more than 10,000 troops, they were Yang Zhan's old team.

The Qing army made many calculations, but made one mistake: this was Sichuan, and Yang Zhan was also from Sichuan.

Although there was no resistance wherever the Qing army passed, it did not mean that the Qing army had complete control of these places.

The rebellion in the land was unstable, which gave them a big headache, not to mention that the Qing army had to cut off wherever it went. There was even more resentment among the people below.

Yang Zhan was the main force in the resistance against the Qing Dynasty. More than a million Sichuan people relied on Yang Zhan for their lives, not to mention Yang Zhan's prestige among the Sichuan people.

Therefore, Yang Zhan's network of relationships extends in all directions. It can be said that in the entire Sichuan, there is only something that Yang Zhan does not want to know, and there is nothing that Yang Zhan does not know. Therefore, Yang Zhan's activities in Sichuan, with the help of these people, are like a duck in water, and in Qing Dynasty

From Jun's perspective, he is even more elusive and elusive.

This is what Yang Zhan is like at this moment.

He came from another way and came here to ambush the Qing army first, but the Qing army didn't notice it at all. Even though there were scouting horses sent from all directions, they couldn't figure it out with the cover of such a local man.

It's just that the risks of Yang Zhan's trip are also extremely high.

There is no other reason than the contrast between the strengths and weaknesses of each other.

The Qing army entered Sichuan and killed Zhang Xianzhong in the first battle. They surrendered countless troops. The number of troops entering Sichuan alone was more than 100,000. Of course, even if the soldiers of the Qing army were stationed in various places, the main force that the Qing army could mobilize was

The number of men and horses is also around 100,000.

Yang Zhan's troops were not as powerful as others, and they fought bloody battles step by step. Although they had the city as a backing, the number of casualties remained high.

Yang Zhanneng gritted his teeth and never used these more than 10,000 elite troops. This was already the limit. More soldiers could not survive at all. After the war, the Qing army was short of food and grass, and the soldiers were tired and needed rest. However, Yang Zhanneng forced a march of hundreds of miles.

, there are not many people left to ambush the troops.

Although Yang Zhan did a lot of things to make up for the gap in numbers, such as connecting people from all over the country, gentry from all over Sichuan, you gave three hundred, he gave five hundred, and he accumulated ten or twenty thousand people in a short time. But these people can't do it at all.

Go to the battlefield.

It can only be used to bluff.

Among the battles in which the Qing army put down rebellions in various places, there were many cases where dozens of cavalry were used, and hundreds of cavalry defeated tens of thousands of horses, because these tens of thousands of horses were all like this.

Therefore, Yang Zhan knew very well that the purpose of this battle was not to annihilate Hauge's men, but to take a bite out of Hauge's men.

Therefore, bluffing is also useful.

"Report, the Qing army is coming." A scout from the Ming army came to report.

Yang Zhan squinted his eyes and said with a sense of closing his eyes to recuperate: "Wait for his large team to pass."

"Yes." Yang Jingxin went down personally to deliver the order.

This command is easy to say, but difficult to do.

The Qing army was definitely not an idiot. Countless cavalry were patrolling outside, investigating the situation in various places. When the Qing army passed by, this kind of investigation was extremely intensive, almost leading from the front to the back.

All the Ming soldiers held their breath and did not dare to say a word.

I'm afraid that one inadvertent person will expose the large group of people.
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