Chapter 101: Pursuit

The sun was fading, and the sun seemed to be hiding below the horizon in shame.

Another futile battle.

The soldiers of the Eight Banners did not lose much, but under the city of Xuzhou, there were also mountains of corpses, but most of the dead were local people in Sichuan.

Hauge was used to killing, and he didn't care about it in the slightest.

The only thing he cared about was the progress of the attack.

During this period of time, he did not fail to send the elite soldiers of the Eight Banners to hide among these soldiers to attack Xuzhou City. But it was blocked by Yang Zhan one by one. There were three or four soldiers who went to the city, but they never came down again.

"Collect the troops." Hauge didn't have a trace of expression on his face, as if he were a stone, and said lightly.

With Hauge's order, the team slowly retreated.

Above the city, Yang Jingxin also breathed a sigh of relief.

Yang Jingxin swept his eyes over the entire city, but saw that he didn't know how much he was slumped on the ground. Of course, some people lie on the ground to rest, and some people go to have become corpses.

Even the women's walls on the city wall, the low walls like teeth, were smashed under the bombardment of artillery, and many of them were smashed over, and the wooden shelves were stuck in the gaps.

Yang Jingxin has been rushing forward, tired and in pain. If there is no good armor to protect him, Yang Jingxin estimates that there are no wounds all over his body at this moment.

Yang Jingxin wanted to go down to rest, but Yang Zhan stopped him. Yang Jingxin said: "Dad, today's battle has passed, and you haven't closed your eyes for several nights, so let's go back and rest." ”

Yang Zhan said, "Wait." ”

Yang Jingxin didn't dare to disobey his father, so he could only stand behind his father, only feeling that the blood and sweat all over his body were condensed on his body, very uncomfortable, and asked, "Dad, what are you waiting for?" ”

"Wait for the campfire, look at the smoke."

Time passed slowly, and bonfires and cooking smoke filled the entire night sky, but Yang Jingxin looked over horizontally and vertically, and couldn't see that there was anything wrong with it.

"Daddy." Yang Jingxin said: "What are you looking at again? ”

Yang Zhan said: "When will Haoge retire from the army." ”

"Can you see that?" Yang Jingxin didn't dare to say it, so he could only slander in his heart.

In the camp of the Qing army, the generals of the Qing army were also discussing this matter and when to withdraw their troops.

"Lord Wang, Lord Meng has already sent the news. There won't be much more military rations in the future. Man Dahai said: "Shaanxi's grain is empty. ”

Haoge also knew that Meng Qiaofang was not easy.

Ganshan is not a rich place, and in general, the Qing army produces two grains, which is not as good as the Xia army. In terms of military rations, the Qing army has always been in short supply in this regard.

Fortunately, the place where Haoge wants to attack is Sichuan, and Sichuan can be regarded as a granary, otherwise Haoge's military operation would not have been able to last for so long.

This campaign was Hauge's last effort. The siege of the city, which lasted for several days, was fought back and forth around Xuzhou City, and finally came to an end.

Hauge sighed lightly and said, "Okay. Retire tomorrow. ”

Retreating is also an easy thing to do.

Early in the morning of the second day, all units of the Qing army slowly moved north.

"Wake up." Yang Zhan kicked Yang Jingxin awake.

At this moment, the genius is bright.

Yang Zhan stood on the city wall all night.

But Yang Jingxin didn't know when, he had already covered his body with a cloak. Sleep against the walls.

Yang Jingxin said: "What's going on? ”

Yang Zhan said: "The Qing army has withdrawn. ”

Yang Jingxin jumped up all of a sudden, looking at the Qing army outside the city. has slowly pulled out of the camp. Yang Jingxin looked at Yang Zhan and secretly admired his father, he didn't know how his father judged when Hauge had withdrawn.

When Yang Jingxin was still a little confused, Yang Zhan had already gotten up and got down the city wall and said, "Hurry up." ”

Yang Jingxin said: "Dad, what are you going to do?" ”

Yang Zhan sneered and said, "Is this really a place where they can come and leave if they want?" ”

At this moment, looking down on the Qing army from the sky.

The horses were outside, and countless scouts were scouting at the outermost level. A little inside, there is the horse line to guard, and a little bit inside is the brigade of foot soldiers, and then inside is the army baggage, but the baggage is not very much.

The army was divided into several teams, several miles wide and spread several miles.

For the withdrawal of troops, Hauge was also very strict, beware of the pursuit of the Ming army.

For Yang Zhan's methods, Haoge has also tasted it. Don't dare to be careless.

One day, two days, no movement.

It seems that Yang Zhan has given up on chasing Hauge.

Haoge was worried in his heart, but the Qing army did not have this kind of worry, and many times there were not too many sober people. Although the Qing army repeatedly encountered a wall in the hands of Yang Zhan, they were all offensive and defensive battles, and there were no field battles, so the whole army, on the one hand, regarded Yang Zhan as a hard bone, and on the other hand, despised Yang Zhan as a turtle with a shrunken head.

In the first two days, they could still be mentally guarded, but after two or three days, the army went north for two hundred miles, and it was already far away from Xuzhou City, and they all felt that it was impossible for Yang Zhan to pursue.

Naturally, the guard was relaxed.

didn't know that Yang Zhan was already ready to fly.

North of Jianyang City.

More than 10,000 people are ambushed everywhere, Yang Zhan personally leads the team, these people are the elite troops that Yang Zhan has been recuperating, although there are only more than 10,000, but they are Yang Zhan's old team.

The Qing army made a thousand calculations and miscalculated one thing, then this is Sichuan, and Yang Zhan is also from Sichuan.

Although there is no resistance where the Qing army has passed, it does not mean that the Qing army has completely controlled these places

The rebellion of the land is a big headache, not to mention that the Qing army has to shave their hair wherever they pass. Below is even more popular resentment.

Yang Zhan is the main force to resist the Qing Dynasty, and there are more than one million Sichuan people who rely on Yang Zhan to live, not to mention Yang Zhan's prestige among the Sichuan people.

Therefore, Yang Zhan's relationship network extends in all directions, and it can be said that in the whole of Sichuan, there are only things that Yang Zhan doesn't want to know, and there are no things that Yang Zhan doesn't know. Therefore, Yang Zhan's activities in Sichuan, with the help of these people, are like a fish in water, and in the eyes of the Qing army, they are even more elusive and unpredictable.

And Yang Zhan at this moment is like this.

He rushed over from another way and came here to ambush one step ahead of the Qing army, but the Qing army didn't feel it at all. Even if there are probes released from all directions, but with such a local cover, it is not clear.

It's just that Yang Zhan's trip is also extremely risky.

There is no other reason, it is the contrast between the strengths and weaknesses of each other.

The Qing army entered Sichuan, killed Zhang Xianzhong in a battle, and surrendered I don't know how many people and horses from all directions, just talking about the people and horses who entered Sichuan, there were more than 100,000. Of course, even if you don't count the soldiers stationed in various places of the Qing army, the main force that the Qing army can mobilize is around 100,000.

Yang Zhan's troops are inferior to others, and they are fighting bloody battles step by step, although they have the city as a basis, but the number of casualties is also high.

Yang Zhan can grit his teeth, and he will not use more than 10,000 elites at any time, it is already the limit, more soldiers can't survive at all, and after the war, the Qing army is short of food and grass, and the soldiers are tired and need to rest, and Yang Zhan can forcibly march hundreds of miles, come over and ambush the people, and there are not many left.

Although Yang Zhan has done a lot of things in order to make up for the gap in numbers, such as widely connecting people from all over the country, gentry from all over Sichuan, you give three hundred, he gives five hundred, and he has accumulated one or two hundred people for a while. But these centaurs can't go to war at all.

It can only be used to bluff.

Among the examples of the Qing army quelling rebellions in various places, many of them were dozens of horsemen, and hundreds of horsemen defeated tens of thousands of horses, because these tens of thousands of horses were like this.

Therefore, Yang Zhan knew very well that the purpose of this battle was not to annihilate the Haoge Division, but to take a bite on the Haoge Division.

Therefore, bluffing is also useful.

"Report, the Qing army is coming." The Ming army scouts came to report.

Yang Zhan squinted his eyes and said with a bit of a taste of closing his eyes and recuperating: "Wait for his team to pass." ”

"Yes." Yang Jingxin personally went down to give the order.

This command is easier said than done.

The Qing army is definitely not an idiot, countless cavalry patrolled outside, probing the situation in various places, when the Qing army passed by, this kind of exploration was even more intensive, almost the front foot and the back foot.

All the Ming troops held their breath and did not dare to say a word.

lest one of them leak out the team without paying attention.

Yang Zhan's headquarters has such a quality, but other departments don't. Leaks are also inevitable.