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Chapter 191: The Great Rout

Before the fifth day of the day, Qin Chuan stood sleepily at the head of the city, looking at the clusters of firelights in the distance, and his mind was a little confused.

Wang Dehua and his gang got up to cook in the middle of the night. What do you want to do?

"The boss, they should be running away." Luo Daniu said yawningly.

Ren Liang on the other side shook his head, "In my opinion, they should want to pull the camp south, cross Jingle City, and attack Jingyou."

Luo Daniu was puzzled, "I just suffered a defeat yesterday, and I am so brave?"

Ren Liang still shook his head, "It's not that he is brave, but that he is stupid."

Qin Chuan interrupted them, "Bombie, go and see if the Minzhuang has prepared a meal. Once it is ready, heat up the leftover meat last night and have a full meal. When they leave, we will follow behind and shoot them while walking."

"Okay."

The bobcat ran away.

Not long after, the bobcat led a group of people to carry the cooked food onto the city wall.

...

As soon as dawn, the Ming army set out camps and drove them out. Six thousand Ming army and one thousand soldiers marched south along the Fen River.

Those more than a thousand injuries had already gone north under the escort of a hundred Ming troops overnight and returned to Xuanda.

After passing Jingle City, the Ming army was divided into two, including Wang Dehua and Zeng Caofei, leading three thousand Ming troops and five hundred soldiers, heading south along the west bank of the Fen River, while Wang Kun and He Sheng led almost the same troops to cross the Fen River and heading south along the east bank.

The first to cross the river were one hundred bird gunmen, fifty archers, and five hundred cavalrymen. They quickly pushed into the river with rafts tied in advance, drove into wooden stakes to fix them, and quickly crossed the river with firewood and kerosene, then ran to the Dongnian River wooden bridge, dripped kerosene on the bridge, threw the firewood, and lit a torch to throw it on.

The wooden bridge instantly ignited a raging fire.

Qin Chuan happened to lead a thousand Guandi army out of the south gate. When he saw the burning wooden bridge, he couldn't help but curse.

He thought that all the 1,000 Guandi Army under his command had mounts and could easily catch up with the Ming army, so he wanted to let all the Ming army pass Jingle City before coming out. Unexpectedly, those guys were so treacherous that they actually burned his bridge.

Without a bridge, it takes some effort to cross the river.

Dongnian River is not wide, only more than three feet tall, and you can pass by three or four rafts. The key to the problem is that Qin Chuan brought more than ten cannons, the heaviest General's cannon in red, and several copper-cast five-foot Flam cannons seized from the Ming army, weighing more than three hundred kilograms.

Qin Chuan asked the people and brave men to bring wood, almost filling the Dongnian River, and finally pulled the cannons over.

As soon as he crossed the river, Qin Chuan was angry and led a thousand Guandi army and pulled the cannons to chase the Ming army.

He did not lack horses, so the 650-pound red-clothed general's cannon car was equipped with four horses, and the other five-foot Fran cannon car was equipped with two horses. The marching speed was not slow, and it took only half an hour to catch up with the Ming army.

Among the three thousand Ming troops on the east coast, 1,500 were already in formation to cover the rest of the Ming troops to the south, with Wang Kun and He Sheng among them.

When Wang Kun's face changed drastically when he saw Qin thieves leading their troops to catch up with him, he shouted "Stop" several times, and then escaped with his personal soldiers.

Most of the eunuchs in the late Ming Dynasty were talkative people on paper. They praised each other in front of the idiot Zhu Youjian, leaving Zhu Youjian the impression of being aware of a soldier, and then they were sent to the local area to supervise the army and take the opportunity to make a fortune.

Seeing Wang Kun leave, the 1,500 Ming army suddenly became turbulent. Many people looked back frequently, obviously trying to escape with them.

He Sheng, who stayed to suppress the formation, led a dozen generals to scold him for a while, and then he barely calmed down the Ming army.

Not long after, the Qin thieves' troops reached one hundred and fifty steps away, and then stopped, neither attacking nor shouting, and just looked at them quietly.

He Sheng frowned and looked for a while, and suddenly his face changed drastically, "No, it's the artillery, let's disperse."

As soon as he finished speaking, he saw the Qin thief on the opposite side scattering with the two rows of enemy troops in front, revealing more than a dozen black artillery cars behind him.

"spread!"

He Sheng shouted loudly, pulled the reins hard, and ran to the side.

That thousand-->>

The Five Hundred Ming Army was in chaos and was about to run away when a series of loud noises suddenly came from his ears. More than a dozen shells were thrustling whistling sounds, and they rushed into the crowd.

Suddenly, the crowd was covered in blood and heart-wrenching screams mixed together, like hell on earth.

"Run, run!"

He Sheng's eyes were red and he couldn't care about anything. He just shouted loudly, and then took the lead in slapping the horse and ran away.

In fact, there is no need for him to shout, the more than a thousand Ming troops have already fled in panic.

"kill!"

Qin Chuan pulled out his long sword and led a thousand subordinates to cover up and kill him.

He could guess that the stupid idea of ​​going over Jingle City to attack Jingyou should be caused by the two dead eunuchs Wang Dehua and Wang Kun.

This is simply seeking death.

When they heard the sound of cannons, Wang Kun, who had already fled to the distance, and Wang Dehua, who was on the other side, shivered and almost fell off the horse's back.

They knew that the Qin thieves would definitely bring artillery to chase after him. In their opinion, they could only bring some moving tiger squat cannons and small Fran machine cannons, because the big Fran is often hundreds of pounds and is carried by a mule on the cannon cart and is slowly walking.

He would definitely not be able to catch up with them with such cannons. The tiger squat cannon and the small Franc aircraft were not far away, and the power was small, so he was not afraid at all.

But the sound of the cannons just now was obviously from the five-foot Franchise and the red cannon surnamed Qin. How did the Qin thief pull out such a heavy cannon?

"Old Master Wang, we save mules and horses. We only use one mule to pull the cannon cart, so we will naturally run slowly. Qin thieves are rich and powerful. If a cannon cart is three or four horses, can we not run fast?"

When passing by Wang Kun, He Kun saw his doubts and sighed.

When Wang Kun heard this, his face became pale and pale. "You mean, he...will he keep pulling the cannon and chasing us?"

"Eunuch Wang, do you think he will miss this God-given opportunity?"

"This... fast, speed up the journey, fast."

"Eunuch Wang, Jingyou Town is ahead, which is the territory of Qin thieves. If he set up an ambush there and attacked it from front to back, our six thousand troops would be over."

"Ah? This...what should I do?"

"Now there is only one road left. There is a Golden Mountain five miles south. After passing that mountain, there is a road leading to Lan County. The soldiers were asked to throw down the grain and grass, push the grain cart into the river to build a floating bridge, and quickly cross the river. How much can they pass? When they got there, the whole army threw down their baggage and marched quickly, and retreated from the Golden Mountain to Lan County."

"This... OK, okay, listen to General He, hurry up, get all the food down, push the cart into the river to build a floating bridge."

Wang Kun shouted hurriedly, and shouted a few words at Wang Dehua on the other side of the river.

Wang Dehua also realized that something was wrong and knew that he had made a very stupid and fatal mistake.

He didn't care much about it anymore, and panickedly asked the bird gunner and archers to cover Wang Kun and others by the river, while he ran south under the cover of dozens of personal soldiers.

As he ran, the three thousand Ming troops on the west bank immediately scattered, and they threw down their food trucks and fled to the south.

The Ming army on the east bank was in chaos. Many Ming army could not wait for the floating bridge and rushed straight into the Fen River. It was not bad that they were good at swimming, but they were not sure about swimming before they even reached the center of the river.

The Qin thieves were still strangling the 1,500 Ming troops behind. Taking advantage of this gap, He Sheng personally directed the soldiers to tie up all the grain trucks that had removed the wheels, set up several floating bridges on the river surface, and chopped over the dozen Ming troops who were robbing the way to the ground, and then took their personal soldiers across the Fen River.

The other Ming troops rushed up one after another, pressing the floating bridge down for several feet, and still fleeing across the river in a hurry with water.

Qin Chuan quickly solved the 1,500 Ming army behind him and led the Guandi army to ride horses. Dozens of musketeers set a row of guns across the river, breaking the opponent's bird gunners and archers apart.

"Those who surrender live, and those who rebel die."

Qin Chuan shouted loudly and led the Guandi army to fight against hundreds of Ming troops who had not had time to cross the river.

Not long after, he left only two hundred Guandi Army to guard the prisoners, and then led his army to cross the river from the floating bridge and continued to pursue the Ming army fleeing to the Golden Mountain.
Chapter completed!
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