When they set out to war in Guishan County, the Ming army had been on the road for more than 20 miles before they arrived. Including the attack on Guishan County at noon, the time of the defeat was that before dark, the defeated Ming army fled back to Huizhou Prefecture City.

In Huizhou Prefecture City, Li Yan had been waiting for news that the Ming army had wiped out the riots in Guishan County.

Waiting around, but waiting for the news of the Ming army's defeat, Li Yan was so shocked that he stood up directly, looking in disbelief.

"A 15,000 army was defeated by the rioters?"

"Impossible, this is impossible, how could the rioters be so strong? How could the imperial army be defeated by the rioters? I don't believe it!"

Until Li Qi came out of the city in person and saw the remnants and defeated generals who fled back, Li Qi had to believe it even if he didn't believe it.

"Sir Ren, why did you lose? Why did you lose?" Li Yan asked in a trembling voice when he came to Ren Jianxiu.

Hearing Li Yan's words, Ren Jianxiu sighed repeatedly: "Oh, I feel ashamed of the Governor's trust."

No matter how many words Ren Jianxiu said, he no longer wanted to say them. Now Ren Jianxiu just wants to stay alone for a while.

Li Yan left Ren Jianxiu's place and his mind was very confused, but Li Yan quickly calmed down again.

The Ming Dynasty was so powerful that no matter how strong the rioters were, it was less than one percent. This time, the encirclement and suppression of the rioters failed. Next, the imperial court would mobilize more troops to encircle and suppress the rioters, and would definitely encircle and suppress the rioters.

However, before more imperial troops arrived, Huizhou Prefecture City was in danger. Ten thousand troops went to Guishan County, and only four or five thousand people fled back. There were only a few hundred Ming troops in Huizhou Prefecture City, and thousands of strong and wealthy families were recruited. Can these people defend Huizhou Prefecture City?

Li Yan was not sure.

Li Yan knew that he would not be the prefect for a long time, but he could not let go and ignore anything. If the Huizhou Prefecture City was captured by the rioters, his life would be lost, or he would be killed by the rioters, or he would be convicted and executed by the court.

Only by defending Huizhou Prefecture City can Li Yan have the possibility of saving his life.

Li Qi quickly returned to the government office and arranged for his subordinates to prepare food and hot water for the defeated soldiers outside the city. The defeated soldiers were completely out of their morale. The rioters were afraid that they would not have the courage to fight when they came to fight. Now they had to restore the defeated soldiers as much as possible.

Li Yan went back, and Ren Jianxiu was still sitting on a stone outside the city in a daze, his mind full of scenes of today's incredible battle.

Yes, in Ren Jianxiu's opinion, today's battle is incredible.

He led 15,000 Ming troops to attack Guishan County. Even though more than half of the 15,000 Ming troops were guards that Ren Jianxiu looked down upon, there were only a few thousand riots on the opposite side, but they defeated 15,000 Ming troops.

These were thousands of rioters, not thousands of cavalry from nomadic tribes. No one could believe that thousands of rioters defeated the 15,000 Ming army, and there were no more than 6,000 survivors, with heavy casualties.

Ren Jianxiu has always called the People's Army "disruption people". Are there such strong chaos people in the world? Using "disruption people" to call the enemy is simply a ridicule of Ren Jianxiu.

In his heart, Ren Jianxiu had replaced the "disrupted people" with "rebels".

The thief is very strong, and the thief's firearm is very sharp. These are two conclusions that Ren Jianxiu came to after the battle.

The rebels are so strong, no wonder they can occupy six counties and destroy Jieshiwei.

Ren Jianxiu couldn't understand why such a strong thief appeared in Huizhou Prefecture, and how could a thief have such a sharp firearm? The Ming army's firearms are much different from those of the thief.

If the Ming army also equipped the sharp firearms in the hands of the thieves, they would not have been defeated so badly.

Ren Jianxiu had many questions in his mind, but no one could answer them.

Guishan County, after a big battle, the entire Guishan County Town returned to peace.

After dinner and dealing with things for a while, Fang Nan stopped to rest, thinking about something from time to time in his mind - the next move of the People's Army.

The defeat of the 15,000 Ming army led by Ren Jianxiu shows that the first encirclement and suppression of the People's Army had failed, and the People's Army had won some time to develop.

All 15,000 Ming troops were defeated by the People's Army. For the next second encirclement and suppression, the Ming Dynasty might dispatch more than 50,000 troops.

The Ming army in Guangdong originally had about 100,000 troops, but had been wiped out by the People's Army (including prisoners), and more than 17,000 were left, with 80,000 Ming troops.

It was impossible for the Ming Dynasty to mobilize most of the troops in Guangdong to encircle and suppress the People's Army. Other parts of Guangdong need to leave a part of the Ming army to guard it to prevent thieves from causing rebellion.

It is expected that during the second encirclement and suppression of the People's Army by the Ming Dynasty, some Ming troops outside Guangdong will be mobilized.

As the governor of Guangdong, Wu Wenhua was unable to mobilize the Ming army outside Guangdong. He had to inform the court first, and then the court issued an order to mobilize troops.

Coupled with the logistics preparations before the army set off, the interval between the end of the first encirclement and the beginning of the second encirclement and suppression may exceed two months.

The past two months have been the best development opportunity for the People's Army. The People's Army must do everything possible to strengthen itself in order to deal with the second encirclement and suppression of the Ming army.

In two months, the People's Army can do a lot of things. For example, Hutouzhai can build more than 200 tiger-head guns, allowing the firearms troops to expand two more companies. The recruits recruited by the People's Army can complete training and become a member of the Cold Weapons Force, and continue to expand the territory of the People's Army.

The time when Fang Nan thought the most was to expand the territory of the People's Army and unite more ordinary people.

Currently, there are six counties under the rule of the People's Army, with a population of about 500,000. To the south is the sea, to the west is Huizhou Prefecture City, to the north are Xingning, Heping and Changning counties of Huizhou Prefecture, and to the east are Chaozhou Prefecture.

The direction of the sea is definitely not a choice. In the direction of Huizhou Prefecture, thousands of defeated soldiers gathered here. To the west is Guangzhou City. A considerable number of the Ming army in Guangdong gathered around Guangzhou City. Expanding to the west is not a good choice.

The Ming army in Xingning, Heping and Changning counties had very few troops. The Ming army in Chaozhou Prefecture was mainly Chaozhou Guards, and the north and east sides could become the directions for the expansion of the People's Army.

As the First Mixed Brigade completes control of Longchuan County, Heyuan County and Changle County, and the recruits complete preliminary training, the First Mixed Brigade can draw troops to capture Xingning, Heping and Changning counties.

There are some problems in expanding to Chaozhou Prefecture. At present, more than 1,000 people from Hu Zhuang and the People's Army are active in the western part of Chaozhou Prefecture. With the Hu Zhuang and the People's Army, there will definitely be no more territory to capture.

Fang Nan planned to mobilize two companies of firearms from Guishan County and two battalions of cold weapons troops to Hu Zhuang. After the recruits finished training, a regiment of cold weapons troops formed by the recruits was allocated to Hu Zhuang.

In this way, Hu Zhuang would have enough troops to conquer cities and land in Chaozhou Prefecture.

As for Guishan County, it doesn’t matter if the cold weapon troops are transferred away, but new recruits will soon be added. The main reason is that the firearm troops will transfer away two companies, and their strength will decrease a lot.

Fortunately, the Ming army in Huizhou Fucheng will not easily invade Guishan County again after being defeated, so there is no need to worry too much.
Chapter completed!