Autumn of the 17th year of Chongzhen

Chapter 295 It is advisable to take the courage to chase down the poor
Yuan Zongdi led [-] cavalry as the vanguard, set off overnight, and reached Jiangxia City at dawn, only two hours before the defeated troops of Luck Dehun left.

Li Guo, who was in the city, saw the fireworks set off by the Ming army and learned that the Qing soldiers had withdrawn from the siege, so he quickly led the soldiers out of the city and entered the Qing army's camp.

In the camp of the Qing army, all the supplies were not brought, including the food that the Qing army lacked the most. Li Guo hurriedly asked people to lighten the supplies and searched for the captured Ming army. People, and no corpses were seen.

When Yuan Zongdi's cavalry came to the city, Li Guo happened to be outside the city. After the two met and discussed for a while, they decided to let Yuan Zongdi continue to pursue, and Li Guo asked Li Laiheng and Chen Youlong to lead 2 horses to follow behind. , for Yuan Zongdi.On the official road from Jiangxia to Wuchang, the Qing soldiers who ran all night sat paralyzed on both sides of the road. They really didn't have the strength to run with the cavalry, but the generals of the Qing army came over and kept urging them, cursing loudly: " Damn it, get up quickly for me, and continue on your way, you bastards, do you want to be chased by the Ming army?"

"It's really bad. The Manchu men ride horses. We rely on our old legs. We've been running all night. We don't have any strength."

"That's right, that's right, I ran to Wuchang, and I was surrounded and beaten by the Ming army. I didn't do anything harmful to the world. It was the young master who voted for it, and we were forced to vote for it. We have no choice. You won’t get anything if you catch it, and you can go back to your hometown in Jingzhou~”

"Li San, don't die!" Hearing the complaints from his subordinates, the general of the green camp looked around and saw that no one was paying attention to his side, so he kicked the soldier who had just spoken, and said angrily: " You bastard, if you want to die, don't involve me, if you talk nonsense again, I will slap you to death!"

Most of the green battalion soldiers in Huguang and Jiangxi are Zuo Liangyu's tribe, and they are basically Huguang's children. It was good that the Qing army occupied Hubei in the past, but now that Huguang is basically under the command of the Ming army, they inevitably have some other thoughts in their hearts.

At this time, the generals of the Qing army urged in every possible way, but the soldiers of the green battalion just couldn't stand up.

Seeing this, Geng Jimao had no choice but to run to Luc Dehun's side, and said in a soft voice: "Master Baylor~ Brothers can't run anymore, let them rest~"

"If you can't run, you have to run!" Lu Kede said with a full face: "Won't Wang Yan let the commander calmly return to Wuchang, and won't run and wait to be killed?"

At this time, Luck Dehun could no longer see his weakness by the river, but instead entered a violent state, his temper became violent, and his thoughts were not rational.

After successive failures, he now only wants to bring more troops back to Wuchang, and then stay in the city, despite Wang Yan's attack.

Geng Jimao heard the words, but his face was a bit embarrassed, because the soldiers ran from midnight to dawn without stopping for a moment, and they couldn't run anymore, so he had to carefully remind him again: "Master Baylor, now the army has been defeated, and the morale of the green camp is already high." It’s not stable, if you forcefully urge you to hurry, I’m afraid it will lead to a mutiny~”

"Mutiny?" There was a trace of cruelty on Leket's face, he stood up suddenly, and then walked towards the green camp with his saber in hand.

Seeing this, Geng Jimao and the others panicked, but they had no choice but to follow him immediately to the resting place of the green camp.

Luke Dehun looked at the green camp soldiers lying on both sides of the official road, his face could not help being furious, he suddenly drew his knife, and slashed at the sleeping Qing soldiers lying on the roadside.

"Dog slave, dead dog, dare to disobey my commander's order, all of you should be damned~"

Luck Dehun was venting his anger and hatred for Wang Yan on the soldiers of the green battalion. He was cutting and cursing, causing confusion in an instant.

Seeing this, the green battalion soldiers on both sides of the road did not dare to resist, they could only dodge, with a burst of anger in their eyes.

"Lord Belle~The cavalry of the Ming army are catching up~"

At this moment, Jue Luo Langqiu, who was left behind, suddenly rode over and shouted loudly, and following his voice, the Qing army was suddenly in commotion.

The Manchurian cavalry no longer dared to take over with the Ming army, and they mounted their horses and fled one after another. Luck Dehun didn't bother to urge the green battalion, got on his horses, and headed northeast.

All the Qing soldiers on the official road got up in a panic and ran towards Wuchang. The cavalry and the Green Battalion quickly separated, and at this time the Ming cavalry finally arrived.

"Surrender and avoid death~" Yuan Zong took the lead, shot and killed a backward green battalion, and yelled loudly while galloping his horse into the Qing soldiers.

Facing the fierce attack of [-] elite cavalry, the green battalion did not have a strict formation, and was immediately knocked over by the cavalry, and then divided into dozens of small pieces by the cavalry. Under the repeated impact of the cavalry, the whole army was defeated, but the Ming army did not Instead of wantonly killing defeated soldiers, they surrounded and threatened them.

The green battalion soldiers had no fighting spirit, and most of them were from Huguang. Now that the Qing army was about to be defeated, they naturally didn't want to follow Luck Dehun to guard the isolated city of Wuchang. So when Yuan Zongdi's cavalry charged, the green battalion collapsed. With no way out, they knelt down one after another, and all surrendered amid the Ming army's cry of "surrender but not kill".In the chaos, only a few green battalion generals with horses such as Geng Jimao and Shen Yongzhong escaped, and even Hunan governor He Mingluan also fell into Yuan Zongdi's hands.After Yuan Zongdi defeated the Green Camp, he didn't stop there. He left 1000 people to watch and took [-] prisoners. After Li Laiheng came to deal with them, he led the cavalry to continue chasing and killing.

The defeated soldiers of the Qing army fled to the northeast. Le Kede was in a panic and kept galloping. The seven or eight thousand cavalry had completely lost their morale, and they all became frightened birds. A personal soldier followed him all the way, urging his horse to gallop.

Gradually, the sound of shouting and killing became farther and farther away, and the sound of the horseshoes of the pursuers gradually disappeared. Le Kede ran for thirty miles in one breath, and Jue Luo Langqiu caught up with him and pulled the reins of his horse, "Baile Lord, there are no more pursuers." Luckdhun was still in shock, straightened his crooked helmet, gasped for a few breaths and asked, "Where is this place?" "This should be Banqiao Village, about [-] minutes' walk to the northeast. It should be Wuchang." Luck Dehun suddenly remembered, and continued to walk another ten miles northeast, which was the Xunsi River, and as long as he crossed the river, he would be Wuchang City.

At this moment, he couldn't help but look back. There were no cavalry from the Qing army or the defeated soldiers from the Green Battalion. The sound of drums and shouts of killing on the battlefield had also disappeared. There was only the sound of the wind blowing through the mountains and forests, and it was extraordinarily quiet.

Lu Kede was thinking about the grand occasion when he sent a hundred thousand soldiers into Huguang, invincible all the way, and then looked at the tragic defeat around him, he stared into the distance for a long time, feeling sad in his heart.

"Let's go back to Wuchang~"

Luck Dehun pinched his horse's belly helplessly, and headed for Wuchang with the remnants of the defeated generals, but when they came to the bank of the Xunsi River, they were stunned. There were only four or five thousand Qing cavalrymen, looking at the opposite bank and looking around blankly. .

Lu Kede didn't understand why the cavalry didn't cross the river and entered Wuchang. He urged his horses to come to the river, and the defeated Qing army immediately made way for him.

He saw that the bridge on the river had collapsed into the river and could not pass through, and on the other side of the river, there were stretches of military tents, and a pole of the sun and moon bright flags were fluttering in the morning breeze.

"Which army is this? How did they surround Wuchang?"

Luck Dehun seemed to have been struck by lightning, his whole body shook a few times on the horse, and then fell down.

Jue Luolang was fast and supported him. Seeing this, all the guards got off their horses and came to help.

It took a while for Luc Dehun to wake up. If there was no Xun Sihe, he would have joined forces with Tong Yanghe to defeat the Ming army besieging the city and enter the city, but now he could not return to Wuchang at all. "

"Master Baylor, what should we do when we go back? If we can't go back to Wuchang, should we go back to Jiangning by detour?" A soldier asked in a low voice.Luck Dehun let out a long sigh, his voice choked up, "The whole army was defeated, what is the face of going back to Jiangning to meet Prince Yu?" "But if we don't go back to Jiangning, where else can we go?" "Going south, Let's go to Jiangxi!" Luck Dehun made up his mind.At that moment, all the cavalry of the Qing army had to turn their horses and head south again, but after traveling ten miles, they bumped into Yuan Zongdi again, and the two sides fought in a scuffle.

Luck Dehun only led more than 2000 cavalry to break out of the siege. They ran for [-] miles before finding a small slope to rest. But at this moment, there was another sound of horseshoes behind them. I saw a cavalry team of more than ten people rushing out from a side path, and the leaders turned out to be Geng Jimao and Shen Yongzhong. Luck Dehun was overjoyed, "I thought you were handed over to the Ming army. It’s really my luck to come here.” Geng Jimao, with blood on his face, obviously experienced a bloody battle, he said with a sad expression, “The last general led the green battalion to withdraw to the north, but was cut off by the enemy cavalry, I made a bloody road to escape. All the soldiers from the Green Battalion surrendered, and even He Futai was captured by the Ming army." Hearing this, Luck Dehun couldn't help but feel a chill in his heart, and after a while he said to Geng Jimao: "The commander-in-chief is planning to go to Jiangxi. Let me go together!" "Aren't you going back to Wuchang?" Geng Jimao said in surprise.Jue Luo Langqiu on the side explained with a wry smile: "Wang Yan recruited an army from somewhere and surrounded Wuchang. We can't go back to the city at all!" Terrified, he immediately sighed: "In this case, the general is willing to go to Jiangxi with Baylor~" "Let's go!" Seeing this, Luke Dehun got on his horse, shouted, and urged the horse to gallop. He turned his head and looked in the direction of Wuchang and muttered Muttering to himself, "One day~ one day, I, Le Ke Dehun, will come back and regain my glory! I will take Wang Yan's dog's life!"

(The author Jiyou's novel "The Demon Moon Pearl" has been released, and there are manuscripts on file. The writing style is better than mine. You can watch it.)
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