Chapter 197: Changes in Yangshuo

"General, General Hao has already gone. The general should get out of here quickly. Zheng Lian said.

Zhang Xuan pondered for a moment and said, "It's okay." ”

Zhang Xuan naturally knew that after this defeat, although the soldiers under his command had no combat effectiveness, their morale had fallen into the lowest state. It has long been not as good as it was then, and now it is only a river away from the enemy, far from the extent of being out of danger.

Zhang Xuan gave an order, and the team left and headed south.

However, although Zhang Xuan wanted to hurry up, he lost too much baggage and materials in the battle just now. Even the army reached the point of not having three meals. Averaged the materiel of the whole army. Zhang Xuan found out that the remaining dry food in the army could only support the army's food for a day.

What's more important is horse food. Part of the army's food consisted of horse food.

Now men have taken the horse food. The horses are going to go hungry. If you don't want them to go hungry, you can only give them enough time to graze. And there are a lot of weeds, but if you want the horses to help, you can't just feed the grass. Otherwise, the war horse will also lose its strength and die.

As a result, the speed at which the army could march was also limited.

As a last resort, even if Zhang Xuan was worried that there would be changes in the prefectures and counties that had been captured, he had to enter the city to replenish supplies. In Yangshuo County.

The first city he encountered when he went south was Yangshuo County.

Outside the county seat of Yangshuo, Zhang Xuan is also extremely cautious. The army did not enter the city outside the city, but only sent a dozen soldiers into the city to collect food, and these dozen or so were good hands, and there were fireworks and artillery hidden in them. If something really happens, you may not be able to escape. But signaling is no problem.

What are you really afraid of? Shortly after they entered, they heard a "boom" and a firework exploded in the sky. Under the blue sky and white sun, the flames of this fireworks did not look very conspicuous, but in Zhang Xuan's eyes, it was shocking.

"General Zhang, I've been waiting for a long time." Qu Shiyun suddenly appeared above the city.

Seeing this, Zhang Xuan didn't say a word, pulled out the horse and left.

Zhang Xuan is now sleepy and tired, and he doesn't have three meals. It was not the time to fight at all, even though Zhang Xuan was 100,000 angry in his heart, but in the face of this situation, he only had one choice.

However, Zhang Xuan wanted to leave, but Qu Shiyun didn't want to let it go.

The gate of Yangshuo was wide open, and Jiao Lian's department and Chen Youlong's department rushed up from the city gate, and they were about to pursue Zhang Xuan.

But the tiger died and Yu Wei was there, not to mention that Zhang Xuan was not dead. Before he came to Yangshuo County, he had already thought about such an ending. So be prepared. With an order, more than 1,000 riders rode behind to fight Jiao Lian and Chen Youlong for two rounds. Retreat sharply. Then more than 1,000 horsemen rushed out, fought with the two for a while, and then suddenly withdrew, and another thousand horses rushed up.

And so one layer after another, as if it were endless.

In the midst of the fighting, Zhang Xuan's troops also retreated sharply to the east.

Although Zhang Xuan's department lost most of it, it was worthy of being Cao Ying's old foundation. All kinds of tactical movements are extremely skillful, and they are by no means comparable to the current Ming army.

Jiao Lian and Chen Youlong didn't know, they were afraid that their elites would lose too much, or they were afraid that Zhang Xuan would slowly retreat like this, and in the chaos of the formation, they would hide tricks. After chasing for a while, he didn't dare to pursue, so he slowly retreated.

Zhang Xuan breathed a sigh of relief.

I didn't dare to listen and stay more near Yangshuo County, so I hurriedly went south for dozens of miles before setting up camp.

In the large camp, most of the soldiers did not want to move. Looks lazy. It's not that they are lazy, but that they are almost cut off from food and grass, and their stomachs are empty, and they have just forcibly killed them for a while, and they have long lost any strength. I don't want to move too much, so I can maintain the only strength I have.

I watched as the smoke in the camp was almost cut off. Zhang Xuan was anxious.

"General, there is a Zhuangzi in front." Zheng Lian hesitated, but still said the following information.

Although Zheng Lian said half of the words, Zhang Xuan was so keen, he almost knew the elegance by hearing the sound of the strings. Immediately understood what Zheng Lian meant. For a moment he was silent.

How bitter the people at the bottom of the Ming Dynasty were.

Zhang Xuan already knew. Many low-level people, when they are not harvested, are hungry with wild vegetables, and even when the weather is bad, it is very normal for people to starve to death. The daily ration of thousands of people in the army will empty all the savings in this ordinary village, and I am afraid it will not be enough.

Zhang Xuan has always strictly disciplined the military and never plundered the people. But now Zhang Xuan looked at a soldier lying on the ground behind him who was unwilling to move, sighed, and said, "Is there still a silver tael in the army?" ”

When Zheng Lian heard this, he immediately pleaded guilty and said: "When I crossed the Li River, I was all lost in the Li River." ”

Zhang Xuan touched his body and only found a jade pendant.

It seems that after Zhang Xuan became a high-level member of the rebel army, he habitually did not bring money. One is that he doesn't like to bring dead silver taels, and silver tickets are useless in this chaotic year. Anyone's silver ticket cannot guarantee safety. Second, Zhang Xuan has no place to spend money.

As Zheng Guogong, even if he doesn't care, there is naturally a group of people around him. Whatever he wants, he just tells him to do it. Naturally, someone did it for him. He never had to settle the bill in person. And there was nothing on him.

Even this jade pendant was given to him by Luo Yujiao. For example, literati and doctors have such and such things, but Zhang Xuan's body is refreshing and refreshing, but it is not good. Zhang Xuan also took it.

Zhang Xuan took out this jade pendant, gave it to Zheng Lian and said, "Take this jade pendant and exchange it for some food." ”

In fact, he also knows that what is the use of ordinary people holding a piece of jade pendant, even if this jade pendant is worth a thousand taels, these people may not have a channel to realize it. It is even possible to be guilty of it. For Yu Pei, what they want more is food.

No matter how much he tried to hide it, he couldn't hide that he was buying and selling. It's just a matter of putting yourself at ease.

"Yes." Zheng Lian went down and immediately found a hundred households.

These hundreds of households rushed into this village with people and horses, and the chickens and dogs jumped among them, needless to say.

Anyway, there was a batch of grain, which gave the army a full meal. Little by little, the soldier's energy recovered.

Zhang Xuan was holding a nest head, he didn't know what action made it, it seemed to be taro, or other wild vegetables or something, anyway, it didn't taste good in his mouth. There is also an astringent taste, but after so many years, Zhang Xuan's stomach has long turned into steel.

Any kind of food can be gnawed, but it is pig food or dog food. It doesn't matter, as long as you can fill your stomach.

After Zhang Xuan saw that his morale had calmed down slightly, he summoned the generals and said: "Now the matter of Guanyangshuo, along the Guijiang Avenue, has been captured by the Ming army, and the power of the Ming boat is far better than mine, so I can't take the road when I came." Only by wading far into the mountains and avoiding official roads can we avoid the pursuit of the Ming army. ”

The avenues in Guangxi are actually distributed along the river, or the river is a natural traffic line. Generally, the river is flanked by impact plains, both of which are fertile soil that can be cultivated. Therefore, Guilin, Pingle, and even Wuzhou are all built along the river, and the waterways are very convenient.

In fact, when he was on the western expedition, Zhang Xuan did not think about taking the waterway.

It's just that the Zheng family is mostly a sea ship, and it is still possible to fight in the Pearl River, but I am afraid it cannot be used if it goes upstream. And the current is smooth and reverse, and under the current, it almost takes no manpower, but boating against the current is not like this. Therefore, after thinking about it, Zhang Xuan gave up the waterway and marched.

At this moment, Zhang Xuan said that it was easy, but people were sleepy. Pick the back roads. It's not a great option for the army.

However, after all, these people are Cao Ying's old foundations, and even under the defeat, their morale has fluctuated. But he still obeyed the order, since Zhang Xuan said so, the people below had no objections. In this way, Zhang Xuan's behavior was determined.

Just when Zhang Xuan's department was deciding how to act. Qu Shiyun also faced the same problem. Especially in today's war, he also saw the various performances of Qu Shiyun's various departments. sighed lightly in his heart, and also rested his thoughts about winning Zhang Xuan in a battle. Even if you know that if you let the tiger return to the mountain, there will be endless troubles, and you can only look at the present.