In fact, from this aspect, Bolo's judgment can be said to be correct, at least reasonable.

In the face of such a huge rout, the best way is to shrink the troops, clench them into fists, and then wait for a favorable opportunity to move again.

The 8,000 Qing army is a pivotal existence for any battlefield, and there is such a repaired fortified city in Bolo's hands, although it is not high, but it is strong.

If Bolo is facing the Loyal Battalion, then even if the 120,000 troops of the Loyal Battalion arrive, I am afraid that within one or two months, it will be difficult to conquer Shangrao City.

It's a pity, Bolo couldn't have imagined that it was not the loyal battalion, but the Northern Expeditionary Army, and what he was about to face was the musket battalion that Wu Zheng had just trained and equipped, no, this is no longer an ordinary musket battalion, but a firearms battalion, because this musket battalion is equipped with a newly mass-produced Type 49 mortar (improved tiger squat gun), which has been equipped to the squad (squad) level.

……。

Five days later.

It is still the temporary movement of Bolo, the general of the expedition to the south.

"General Yu, an army of about 10,000 people on the west road of the loyal camp has broken into the boundary of Guangxin Mansion, and it is now in Shenqian Street (more than 100 miles north of Guixi)."

"General Yu, about 3,000 people on the East Road of the Loyal Camp have passed through Huaiyu Mountain and are heading south into the boundary of Guangxin Mansion, and at least 20,000 troops are following behind them."

"Where is the Ming army now?"

"Back to the general, the Ming army was about 10,000 people all the way, led by Liao Zhongping, the commander of the Jingwei capital of the Yixing Dynasty, and hoarded in Chengtian Mansion and Xiangyang Mansion respectively. The other road is also 10,000 people, led by Xia Wanchun, the commander of Jianyang Wei of the Taiping Mansion of the Yixing Dynasty, and they are hoarded in Wuchang and Hanyang. The third road, about 10,000 people, is Jin Shanwei, under the jurisdiction of the general of the Yixing Dynasty, who is pursuing the loyal battalion from Poyang south. ”

"Where is Wu Zheng?"

"In Wuchang Province. According to the messenger, Wu Zheng feasted the squires in the city almost every day to win people's hearts. ”

"In this way, the main force of the Ming army is not going south at all, but Jin Shanwei is driving the loyal battalion to the south?"

"Yes."

Bolo's brows gathered, this Wu Zheng is inevitably too ruthless and too inferior, right?

It seems that his previous judgment was correct, Wu Zheng just wanted to bring trouble to the south, otherwise, why did the 20,000 troops in the north not move and only send 10,000 people to pursue?

Before, it could be explained that it was worried that the loyal battalion would retreat to the north, but now that the loyal battalion is almost all south, and the Ming army is guarding the north again, is it useful?

As a result, Bolo became more confident in his judgment.

But the problem is that if the loyal battalion is allowed to enter Guangxin Mansion, it will inevitably cause chaos.

Bolo could not tolerate the chaos of his own government.

After walking back and forth a few steps, he looked back at the map and asked, "You said that the three thousand people of the Loyal Battalion have crossed Huaiyu Mountain?" ”

"Yes."

Bo Luo clicked on the map, "The distance from Huaiyushan to Zhengjiafang and from Shangrao to Zhengjiafang is not much different, and our cavalry is bound to be faster." Chuan Ben Shuai ordered, with 3,000 cavalry, hurriedly marched to Zhengjiafang to ambush, and beat the loyal battalion to defeat an ambush. Annihilate them, thus forcing the follow-up loyal battalion to change the direction of retreat and enter western Zhejiang...... Hehe, Wu Zheng, come and don't be rude, you can lead the water to the south, and Ben Shuai can naturally lead to the east. ”

"Yes."

……。

Shangrao to Zhengjiafang seventy or eighty miles of road.

Cavalry, it will be there in half an hour.

Naturally, it is used to calmly ambush before the arrival of the loyalty battalion.

Zhengjiafang is just a small town north of Shangrao, originally there were four or five hundred households, with a population of 2,000, but now, the number of households is not much less, but the population is less than 1,000 people, and the young and strong are dead.

Those who remained were basically women and children, old and weak.

Speaking of which, there is no way for the Tartars, the people's uprisings and rebellions have come and gone, and they can only be suppressed by dying all the young and strong, otherwise, how can they be busy with hundreds of people stationed in each house?

At this time, it was late February, spring plowing had not yet begun, and the farm work was not busy.

It was midday, and smoke rose from the town.

The elderly are calling around the naughty bear children in the house to come home for dinner.

The people of the town, unbeknownst to them, were about to be drawn into a battle.

When the sound of hurried horses' hooves sounded.

The old man at the entrance of the village, with slightly fishy old eyes, looked in the direction where the sound of horses' hooves came.

In the distance, the Tartar cavalry had already shown their tracks, and roared loudly, "The Tartars are coming!" ”

For a moment, the town boiled like gruel that had been poured out.

To say that this old man has insight, in fact, it is not.

The old man has never been out of Guangxin Mansion in his life, how can he know about Tartar?

But since the Qing army occupied Jiangxi, the sweep of the people has hardly stopped.

Yes, after the Qing army was defeated in Shaoxing and Ningbo, and Duoduo was almost completely annihilated, it did converge a lot in Fucheng, especially in Zhishuo.

It can be surrounded by remote towns and rural areas, and the sweep is more violent.

This is not surprising, the Yixing Dynasty occupied the land of the thirteen prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River, and the grain-producing areas along the Yangtze River basically fell into a stalemate, and the local governments were sitting back and watching the changes, not to mention the taxation, so the Qing army lost the possibility of local supply.

It can transport grain from the north, travel thousands of miles, and transport 100 catties of grain to Jiangxi, I am afraid that it will cost more than half.

Then "eating in place" becomes the best choice.

The cities could not be moved, because the Tartars at least knew that rabbits did not eat the grass by the nest, and they were really going to force the people in the city to be in a hurry, and they were afraid that they would not be able to sleep peacefully at night.

Therefore, the eyes of the Qing army were fixed on the periphery.

In the past three or four years, Zhengjiafang has been swept by the Qing army no less than ten times.

The so-called strange is not strange, even if the old man at the entrance of the village is blind, he can still distinguish the sound of the damn horse's hooves.

However, the people have become somewhat numb.

They thought it was probably another raid, and the town's young men were almost killed.

Perhaps, after the Tartars plundered, they naturally left, anyway, there is nothing left to rob at home, let them rob it.

Instead of running away, the people went out one by one, gathered together, and opened their homes.

As long as people can live, it's fine.

In the blink of an eye, the cavalry of the Qing army surrounded the entire town.

After making sure that no one escaped, nearly 1,000 people were driven to the large drying field in the center of the town (the place where the rice in the south of the Yangtze River is harvested and dried).

The people numbly let the Qing army drive them away, and gradually gathered.

The main general of the Qing cavalry, called Wu Weihua.

Listening to this name, it makes people think that this is a Han person.

Not really, he is a Mongol, to be precise, a hybrid of Mongolian and Chinese.

Wu Weihua's ancestors were Mongolians, after Ming Gongshun Bo Wu Yuncheng.

Wu Yuncheng returned to the Ming Dynasty in the year of Yongle, and Zhu Di gave the surname Wu.

After the Qing army entered the customs, Wu Weihua's horse head to welcome Dolgon surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and recommended himself to the mountains and Shaanxi to appease him, and followed the expedition to Taiyuan and Datongdi.