Shi Fu could already see the Pucheng city from afar, and it was estimated that it was only four or five miles away.

He was about to order a team to rush the Ming defense line again, and strive to join the men and horses in the city today, when he suddenly heard the sound of horses' hooves behind him.

Moments later, a pale messenger covered in mud was carried over by a guard, saying that the man was tired from riding a horse.

Shi Fu stepped forward to ask, but the man couldn't say a word for a long time. He simply had the messenger searched for him, and in a moment he retrieved a letter from his bosom with a fiery seal.

Shi Fu hurriedly opened it and looked at it, and was immediately stunned by the content of the letter - a group of Ming troops suddenly appeared under Jian'an City early yesterday morning, numbering about 5,000 people, and now blocked the north-south passage of Jian'an. Dahasu led his troops out of the city to meet the battle, but did not break the enemy, and now retreated into the city to hold on, Jian'an grain and grass have been unable to lose Yanping south for the time being, and urgently asked Shi Fu to return to Jian'an for reinforcements.

Shi Fu's heart suddenly tightened, he knew that there were only about 1,500 people under Dahasu, and he said that he had "not broken the enemy", but in fact he must have suffered a loss at the hands of the Ming army, otherwise he would not have retreated into the city to hold on.

Jian'an is the land where the general Boluo has tens of thousands of horses and horses to store grain, if the grain and grass in the city cannot be transported, at most seven or eight days, the army will be in chaos. He Shi Fu has now tied his net worth and life to the Manchurians, and if the Qing army in Fujian is defeated, he will not escape death!

He tried to stabilize his frightened mood, and was about to call the generals to come to discuss the rescue of Jian'an, when suddenly there was a loud noise on the north side that shook the mountain, which made him tremble, and even the letter for help fell to the ground.

Cannon?! Shi Fu's eyes stared at the enemy position, and then there was a series of roars. Only then did he realize that he had ordered the advance to approach only three or four hundred paces in front of the Ming army, and was within the range of the cannon, and hurriedly ordered the front army to retreat a mile.

A moment later, a soldier came to report that the forward battalion had been suddenly shelled, and in a panic they scrambled to flee, and more than 300 people were killed by shelling or trampling.

Shi Fu frowned, this Ming army had blindly retreated before, as if it was vulnerable, but it never used artillery, there must be deceit in it.

But he didn't care about thinking about it at the moment, so he summoned his generals, made a simple deployment, and left six hundred foot soldiers to break off, and the rest of the main force discarded the baggage and returned to aid Jian'an City. The only grain and grass left there must not be lost.

Shi Fu rode on his horse, looking back at the vast group of men and horses galloping southward, only to feel a nameless fire churning in his chest—if he had been stationed in Pucheng before, where would there be so much trouble?

Ten days ago, Shi Lang was ambushed by the rebels and asked him to return to Jian'an to help. As a result, after going back, I didn't even see the shadow of a chaotic army, but the Ming army took advantage of the situation to sneak attack Xianxia Pass.

Then, at the suggestion of Shi Lang, he entered Pucheng from Jian'an to the north to relieve the siege. Now that he has just had some results, he once again asked him to return to Jian'an for reinforcements.

In the past ten days, he has not had a serious confrontation with the Ming army, but he has led the army to run four times between Pucheng and Jian'an! Is this a war or a horse walk?!

In addition, the original intelligence indicated that the main force of the army was only six or seven thousand, but now the enemy army surrounding Pucheng is no less than six thousand, where did the five thousand Ming troops on the Jian'an side come from? How many Ming troops were there in Jianning Mansion?

Shi Fu was bowing his head and pondering, when he heard the rear team shouting and neighing, as if they were engaged in battle with the enemy.

He hurriedly ordered the army to stop advancing, turned on the spot, and there was a report from the horse, saying that the more than 600 people who stayed behind the palace on the Pucheng side had been broken by the Ming army, and the Ming army's forward had just attacked the rear army, killed more than 100 people, and then retreated.

Shi Fu was shocked when he heard this, he repeatedly observed the Ming army besieging Pucheng in the past few days, its combat effectiveness was very weak, and it retreated at the slightest contact in every battle.

He originally thought that leaving 600 men was enough to hold off these Ming troops for two or three days, but he was defeated by the Ming army in less than an hour and a half.

He was worried about the situation in Jian'an, but he was afraid that he would be attacked by the Ming army if he was a little slow to rescue, so he did not dare to make the main force return to the decisive battle, so he had to leave a team of hundreds of people behind, and the team continued to go south.

Zhen Zhen saw that Shi Fu's main force began to retreat under Pucheng City, so he estimated that Gu Yanwu's side had succeeded.

According to the strategy set by King Chen a few days ago, her siege of Pucheng is just for show, as long as she can attract Shi Fu to save her, it will be a success. His Royal Highness King Chen gave her instructions to avoid the war as much as possible and to drag it out.

The siege of Pucheng by this army is actually just a plan to suspect the enemy, but the real "point" of encirclement and reinforcement is in Jian'an. Long before she besieged Pucheng, Gu Yanwu had already led 5,000 soldiers and horses to break through the camp and make a detour to Jian'an at the foot of Wuyi Mountain. At the same time, His Royal Highness King Chen has also taken the main force of the Dragon Guard Army to the south.

Since there will be a decisive battle with the tens of thousands of main forces of Jianyu in the near future, His Royal Highness King Chen is not willing to lose a single soldier on Shi Fu's nearly 10,000 horses. Now it seems that Shi Fu has stepped into the trap set for him by His Highness.

To be on the safe side, she only watched Shi Fu retreat and still stood still. It was not until Gu Yanwu sent a letter that she ordered Deng Shan and Tie Dake to lead a total of 3,000 infantry cavalry to pursue the Qing army, leaving Yu Zhen with more than 3,000 people to continue to besiege Pucheng.

Unexpectedly, in the past few days, the fighting style of steadily dragging the enemy has suffocated the soldiers of the broken camp a little ruthlessly, and as soon as she passed the order, these 3,000 people surrounded the Qing army behind the palace, and even the phalanx was not formed, and hundreds of enemy soldiers were packed up with fire guns and spears.

After that, she followed Shi Fu's main force all the way, but continued to attack her rear team with cavalry, but never engaged.

If you see that the enemy army has divided a small force of men and horses, you will not be in a hurry to attack, and you must wait until the main force is all gathered before encircling and annihilating it.

It was fought more than ten times along the way, and the camp had almost no losses, and it was just a bite to gnaw away 16,700 people.

Shi Fu received several urgent reports from Dahasselblad, and had to knock out his teeth and swallow them in his stomach, not only did he suffer heavy casualties and misery, but also because all his soldiers were worried that they would be sent to the queen of the palace, because everyone was in danger, and their morale was extremely low in a few days.

A few days later, Shi Fu's headquarters arrived seventy miles away from Jian'an, and ordered his subordinates to count the number of people, and only more than 4,000 people remained.

Finally arrived in Jian'an, although he was extremely distressed, he also breathed a sigh of relief, at least the city was still in his own hands. He also sent cavalry to Jian'an to contact Dahasu, and led his troops out of the city about the next hour, and attacked the Ming army under the city with himself inside and outside.

After the messenger departed, he ordered the Chinese army brigade to rush to the lower reaches of Nanpu Creek.

During his stay in Jian'an, he was already familiar with the nearby terrain and knew that there was a narrow gap less than ten miles wide between Huanghua Mountain and Nanpu Creek not far ahead, which was the only way to go south to Jian'an.

If you set up a position here and force the Ming army that is constantly harassing behind you to fight a decisive battle, you can free up your hands to solve the dilemma of Jian'an.

When his headquarters approached the lower reaches of Nanpu Creek, suddenly scouts reported from the front, and thousands of Ming troops appeared downstream.

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