East Factory Governor

Chapter 492 Out of the City
After bargaining back and forth between you and me, the two parties finally reached an unanimously approved plan.

The Demon Cult agreed that the remaining 30 officers and soldiers in the inner city (60 were wounded soldiers) left Lanzhou City through the east gate at [-]:[-].In exchange, Qin Shuhuai agreed to release a hostage after the last Ming army left the east gate.Then, after leaving Lanzhou City for [-] miles, release another one.At [-] miles, release the last one.

After the negotiation, Qin Shuhuai could order the soldiers to tear down the wall behind the gate of the northern city, and then all the soldiers in the inner city were ready to go.

But what worries Qin Shuhuai more is that Zhao Wu'er and that Xiao Chengjing expert haven't come back yet.According to estimates, they should have notified Hong Chengchou by this time and returned to Lanzhou.

Qin Shuhuai needed to know the location of Hong Chengchou's ambush, where he wanted to "deliver" the hostages.

Time passed minute by minute.

At midnight, Zhao Wu'er and the man still hadn't come back.

Qin Shuhuai dragged on for another half a quarter of an hour, but seeing that they were still missing, he had no choice but to order the departure.If it drags on any longer, not only will the Demon Society have suspicions, but it will be dawn when they reach the ambush site, so it will be easy to see through the ambush.

With the 5000 members of the Devil's Cult, he no longer intends to let them come back!

The Demon Cult sent out a total of 7 troops in this expedition.When attacking other cities, there was almost no bloodshed, and they did not suffer much loss.But in the Battle of Lanzhou City, the officers and soldiers relied on their tenacious will to resist, sufficient firepower, solid city walls, and the support of Qin Shuhuai and other top experts. After paying a price of nearly [-] people, the Demon Cult lost at least The main force of [-] (a total loss of [-] troops, some of them were Ma Shouying's men, but in order to gather more peasant troops, the Demon Sect did not use the Ma Shouying troops as cannon fodder, so among the soldiers killed in battle, the Demon Sect accounted for more than half).

If they eat another 5000 of them later, then there will only be [-] elite demon cultists left.This is crucial to the next step of the clean-up operation.As the saying goes, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and the officers and soldiers have a large territory, so they can always squeeze out troops little by little. However, in a short period of time, the Devil's Cult, first, it is difficult to recruit many soldiers, and second, it is impossible to train people like them. The elite who were so strong before.

At that time, they want to control the entire Gansu with [-] troops, but it will not be so easy!It can be said that the larger the territory they occupied, the more dispersed their troops were, and the officers and troops happened to break through one by one.

From this point of view, Qin Shuhuai's decision to hand over Lanzhou City to them is also reasonable.

"Squeak~~"

The heavy city gate slowly opened with an ear-piercing sound of friction.

The demon sect army was divided into two columns outside the city gate, waiting in full formation, watching the Ming army team in the city swaggering out of the city.And the soldiers of the Ming army, all of them returned provocative eyes, as if you could do nothing to me.

Forty-five thousand people, with the remaining materials such as bird guns, gunpowder, arrows, kerosene, money and food, left the city at a leisurely pace.Before leaving the city, Qin Shuhuai also ordered to destroy all the Flang machines.Although these Franglers had wheels, they were too bulky and would not be able to move fast on the road—he wanted to reach Hong Chengchou's ambush before dawn.

After half an hour, all these talents left Lanzhou City.At the east gate of Lanzhou Outer City, Qin Shuhuai returned the five apostles of the Demon Cult to the Demon Cult very faithfully.

The army continued eastward.

At the same time, [-] elite soldiers of the Demon Sect followed closely behind the team of the Demon Sect, and slowly came out.This [-]-strong army was led by Zhao Ju, the owner of the Jumu Banner, accompanied by Wu Lie, the owner of the Raging Fire Banner, so as to facilitate negotiations with Qin Shuhuai.

The retreat route Qin Shuhuai chose was naturally Gongping-Bailu-Hanjia crossing line, because this was the route he asked Hong Chengchou to take.At this time, Zhao Wu'er and the Xiao Chengjing master still had no news, Qin Shuhuai speculated that they were probably intercepted and killed by the master of the Demon Cult.

That won't change his plans, though.

If Zhao Wuer and the others were intercepted and killed on the way back, it means that Hong Chengchou has been notified, and Hong Chengchou must be in ambush on this road.If they were killed on the way out, then Hong Chengchou didn't know the situation had changed, and he should have led his troops to Gongjing according to the agreement last night.Gongjing is seventy or eighty miles away from Lanzhou City. When fighting the Demon Cult there, the Demon Cult's army should not be able to catch up for a while.Although there is no advantage of ambush in this way, it is still possible for more than 7 official troops to fight against [-] demon soldiers, with Qin Shuhuai and other experts present.

Qin Shuhuai sent hundreds of horse sentries around Lanzhou City to monitor the movements of the remaining demon soldiers in the city, some were sent out and some were sent secretly.Ming Whistle is intended to be seen by members of the Devil's Cult, telling them not to play tricks.

Naturally, the Demon Cult would not send troops to fight Qin Shuhuai again.On the one hand, they believe that 4 elites are enough to deal with the more than [-] Ming army mainly composed of Gansu soldiers.On the other hand, they also believed that if they sent a large army out of the city again, Qin Shuhuai's shrewdness would definitely find out, and if he tore up the hostages at that time, everything would be in vain.

After leaving the city, Qin Shuhuai ordered the troops to march faster.

The Demon Sect soldiers at the back saw it and immediately speeded up.

Under the moon, soldiers from both sides lit torches and formed a long dragon that could not be seen at a glance.

The dragon moves fast.

About half an hour later, the team arrived at Jinya Town. Wu Lie urged him to find Qin Shuhuai immediately, saying that he had already left the city for about [-] miles, and it was time to hand over the second hostage.

Qin Shuhuai waved his hand and said, "Is it thirty miles away? It's still a little short, right? Banner Master Wu, don't worry, I'll let you go if you go a little further."

Wu Lie hurriedly said, "Master Qin, this place is already Jinya Town, and it is indeed thirty miles away from the city, don't make it difficult for me!"

The Devil's Cult naturally wanted to handover as soon as possible.This is not only a matter of the safety of the great apostle and Guardian Zhao, but also the safety of the [-] troops.The news that the Demon Cult got was that Hong Chengchou had already arrived in Guyuan.If they went too far to the east, they suspected that Hong Chengchou would bring people to intercept and kill them, and they would be in danger.

Therefore, their bottom line is that they can only go sixty miles east.It was still hundreds of miles away from Guyuan, even if Qin Shuhuai had informed Hong Chengchou earlier, it would take at least two or three days between the trips, Hong Chengchou would never arrive so soon.As long as Hong Chengchou doesn't come, they have nothing to worry about.

Qin Shuhuai pretended to be annoyed and said, "Jinya Town is only [-] kilometers away from Lanzhou City. How could it be [-] kilometers away from your demon sect? Could it be that your demon sect has other plans?"

Wu Lie shook his head again and again and said, "Governor Qin is overthinking, overthinking! My sect has always kept its promises, so why have other plans? This Jinya Town is about [-] miles away from Lanzhou City, this is recognized!"

Qin Shuhuai would not listen to his explanation.Anyway, there was no navigation at that time, no one could provide evidence of how far Jinya Town was from Lanzhou City, so of course he was going to delay.

Not only did he want to delay, he also pondered for a while pretending to be suspicious, and then said to Meng Wei, "General Meng, take more horse whistles and go ahead and see what the Devil Cult is up to."

Meng Wei understood, and immediately responded, "Your subordinate obeys!"

After all, he immediately took hundreds of cavalry and galloped away.

(End of this chapter)