Ma Degong then made arrangements for his subordinate officers according to the plan.

Everyone couldn't help but look at each other in shock when they heard this, and they all had the same thought in their hearts, 30,000 people, just abandoned like this?

"My lord, I'm afraid it's ...... to act like this," Tian Xiong stopped talking, and then said, "Besides, this method is also very risky......

"Do big things without being informal. And how can there be some risks in surviving death? Ma Degong snorted coldly, "With what I know about that guy, he will come eighty percent."

"If you want to say more, do as I tell you!"

Several officers had to say, "Obey!" "Out of the account and go their separate ways.

……

"Stop, stop!" Fang Guoan yelled at the drama on the stage who was babbling and singing, and then grabbed Fang Guotai suddenly, "What you said is true? ”

"Back to the eldest brother, I went to the military department to read the Tang newspaper." Fang Guotai hurriedly said, "In his words, the day before yesterday, the Fujian Navy Division entered Hangzhou Bay, broke the Kaha Division, and burned the grain in Qingyuanli, the thief.

Zhang Huangyan also reported that he received a truce from the thieves yesterday, and he was puzzled, so he sent his generals out of the city to test, not wanting to attack the Ma Degong camp and capture 3,000 thieves, and the enemy camp was already empty.

In addition, the magistrate near Xianghu Lake saw tens of thousands of thieves passing by, and weapons and armor were thrown everywhere along the way, but only a small amount of heavy grain and grass were with them.

"Judging from these evidences, Ma Degong must have lost the supply of grain and grass in Hangzhou, so he had to abandon Xiaoshan to survive."

"God help me!" Fang Guoan excitedly grabbed his coat and ran out.

Fang Guotai followed closely and asked, "Where are you going, big brother?" ”

"Enter the palace!" Fang Guoan ran outside the gate of the mansion in a fit of rage, straddled the horse and whipped away.

Since the last time his main force was ambushed by Ma Degong, he was defeated, which led to a sharp decline in his prestige in Zhejiang. Now that the army is pressing, Qian Sule and others in the court have been suggesting that King Lu go to the prison country and return to the domain, and re-enshrine Taizheng as Zhengshuo.

Others have nothing to do with King Lu's return to the domain, and his Fang Guoan has successively surrendered and surrendered to the Thai Dynasty, and then turned his back on Fujian to welcome the King of Lu's prison country.

He was born as a scoundrel in the market, and he relied on luck and speculation all the way to the top, and he knew the importance of speculation best. At the moment, Ma Degong's success is at stake, and it is a good opportunity for speculation.

He calculated in his heart that Ma Degong's grain and grass had been cut off, and judging from the situation in Xiaoshan and Xianghu, the morale of his men and horses had collapsed.

It would be a waste to wait for a few more days for his army to rebel or mutiny. If he arrived with his troops when Ma Degong's troops were in turmoil, he could take the opportunity to wave his troops to cover up and kill, and take the head of the 40,000 Qing army without much effort.

This is such a great achievement of the imperial capture Kuang State, that is, he returned to the Taizheng Dynasty as a minister, and it was difficult for the official to talk about his previous actions such as surrendering to the captives and supporting the Lu Domain.

As soon as he ran outside the palace of King Lu, he encountered an urgent report from the Ministry of War. He stopped the messenger to inquire and learned that this morning the thieves went to Yiqiao, Lishan and other places to grab grain, and the inspection departments of various places, Xiangyong, Minzhuang, etc., rose up to resist, and defeated the enemy army, capturing a total of four or five thousand people.

Fang Guoan was even more anxious when he heard this, he didn't think that the thief army's disheart had reached such a point, and the patrol inspection department, Xiang Yong and others could defeat it, and couldn't help but sigh secretly, Ma Degong, Ma Degong, you must hold on, don't wait for me to arrive before dispersing!

He then met with King Lu, and without saying a word, he wanted to invite soldiers to kill the horses again.

Although Fang Guoan was defeated in the previous army, he was still the generalissimo of the soldiers and horses of the Lu Domain, and all the people and horses in Zhejiang were under his control, and there were tens of thousands of descendants.

Therefore, King Lu's side was just going through the motions, and Zhu Yihai had to immediately issue an order to order the Duke of Yue to take a look at the national security and immediately lead the army north.

To say that although Fang Guoan planned to "pick up the leak", he was also quite cautious, worried that he would not be able to withstand the dying counterattack of the Qing army, so he wanted to bring King Lu's 1,000 forbidden army and Zhang Huangyan's Xiaoshan garrison to go with him.

And he was afraid that the credit would be robbed by Zhang Huangyan, so he only ordered the Xiaoshan defenders to go south to Shaoxing to join him first, so that no matter who killed the enemy, the credit would be recorded in his account as the commander.

Because the vicinity of Shaoxing has been preparing for the enemy, the next morning he ordered the army and grain and grass baggage, and left the city with Fang Guoan to the north, and met Zhang Huangyan in the evening.

Subsequently, nearly 20,000 troops turned west along the south bank of Xianghu Lake, chasing Ma Degong's "rout". Along the way, there was constant news that the defenders from all over the country had raided and looted and captured many captives, and Fang Guoan counted with his fingers that there were fewer and fewer heads left for him, and urged his subordinates to speed up the march a hundred times a day.

……

Qingshanling is located between Xiaoshan and Tonglu, and the two places are hundreds of miles apart.

Fang Guoan glanced at the scorching sun in the sky, then looked back at the soldiers behind him who were slanted in armor due to the rapid march, waved his hand and shouted, "Hurry up!" ”

Zhang Huangyan chased his horse to Fang Guoan's side, and arched his hand: "General, the front has reached Qingshan Ridge, and you have to beware of the ambush of the thief army." When the scouts have been probed and then gone. ”

"You're too careful, too. In the past two days, tens of thousands of thieves have been ambushed, and Ma Degong is already a lost dog, how can he still take care of the ambush? Fang Guoan shook the sweat off his face and squinted, "You had to explore when you crossed the Lingqiao and Shiniu Mountain, but you didn't see half of the thieves, so you wasted a lot of work." ”

He pointed to the mountains ahead, "I have never heard of high and low, this post road is on the ridge, where is the ambush on Ma Degong?"

"Besides, the captives are short of food, and I'm afraid I'm so hungry that I can't even pick up a knife these days, so I'm looking forward to fighting with them early!"

"But ......"

Zhang Huangyan wanted to say something more, but saw Fang Guoan Le Ma shouting: "Catch up with the thief within three days, and each person will be rewarded with five taels of silver!" ”

His words were like a needle of chicken blood, and the soldiers immediately quickened their pace excitedly, but the formation became more chaotic.

As soon as the front team of the Zhejiang army walked through the highest point of Qingshan Ridge, they suddenly saw a person dressed as a woodcutter standing in the middle of the road in front of them, and an officer was about to come forward to ask questions, when they suddenly heard a burst of artillery fire in all directions.

Immediately, thousands of people who looked like mountain people and hunters poured out nearby, but they were all armed with bows.

The "woodcutter" pulled out his back and pointed forward with a single knife, and immediately the sound of the gun was loud, and the arrows rained down. Among these "mountain people", there were dozens of tiger squatting cannons, and before the Zhejiang army could react, the smoke of gunpowder was already rolling up, and the sound of artillery was repeated.

At the same time, at the foot of the mountain, there were also a large number of unknown people who quickly climbed up the mountain under the cover of a large shield of their bodies.

Fang Guoan was shocked, and hurriedly shouted, "There is an ambush, give me a fight back!" ”

However, the Zhejiang army was in a hurry to cause confusion in formation, and it was not able to form a battle formation for a long time.

The attacking enemy forces were extremely fierce, and even though some of them were shot and rolled down the mountain, the rest immediately took up the big shield and continued upward.

Qingshan Ridge was not high, and when the Zhejiang army finally recovered from the chaos, the enemy army had climbed to the upper ridge.