Wang Fuchen's heart sank, "It's not good!" He didn't think that the Ming army was so patient, and the fourth grain team was still a trap.

He raised his eyes and saw that the official road was filled with gunsmoke, and under the sound of "bang bang bang", the soldiers of the Western Army continued to fall in front of the Ming army.

"Withdraw!" Wang Fuchen listened to the scout's report, and immediately shouted, and the drums next to him woke up like a dream, and hurriedly beat the gongs and drums, and issued the order to retreat.

Even if they didn't give the order, the Western army that rushed out would be defeated by the Ming army, and they stumbled and fled to the woods on both sides.

Li Dingguo saw that the order to retreat was issued on the left, and knew that the commander of the Western Army would be on the left, so he asked a thousand households to chase and kill the Western Army on the right, and he waved his sword, "Catch up, and no one is allowed to escape." ”

When the Ming soldiers heard the order, they divided into two groups and pursued the woodlands on both sides, covering the defeated army's buttocks.

Most of the western army has no armor, wears cloth clothes, and runs lightly, if it is an ordinary Ming army, it is possible to be thrown off by them, but Li Dingguo's department has been stationed in Sichuan for more than three years, and he is very good at fighting in mountains and forests, and he is one of the most elite men and horses of the Ming army, so he chased for more than ten miles.

Wang Fuchen led the defeated army to run out of more than ten miles in one breath, ran out of the woods, ran three or four miles on the trail, and his armor was already crooked, he needed to sort out his thoughts, and just saw another forest in front of him, so he stretched out his finger and said: "Go to the woods to rest for half an hour." ”

Except for the elite of the 500 old battalions of Wang Fuchen's headquarters, the rest of the Western Army was only a little stronger than the miscellaneous soldiers, and they ran out of breath one by one, supporting each other and running into the woods, and they were so tired that they collapsed to the ground.

Wang Fuchen sat down on a big rock, and his brother Wang Fulin sat next to him, and asked, "Commander, it seems that the direction of our escape is not the direction back to the valley." ”

Wang Fuchen's throat moved, licked his chapped lips, nodded and said, "I wanted to ambush, but I didn't expect to be calculated by the Ming army." The Ming army is so patient and lures us out again and again, and there must be masters of the army. We are now back in the valley, the Ming army is easy to find traces and chase past, it is too dangerous for us, so I decided to take the group around the mountains for two days, and then return to the valley when we are sure to get rid of the Ming army. ”

Wang Fulin nodded when he heard this, it was indeed safer to do so, but this time they lost at least half of their manpower, and I am afraid that Sun Kewang would not be able to achieve their task of disturbing the Ming army's grain route.

Wang Fuchen seemed to know his thoughts, sighed, and felt sad in his heart, "Don't think so much, rest for a while, get through the current crisis, and then think about the future." ”

Wang Fulin nodded silently, got up and prepared to sit aside, and let the stone for Wang Fuchen to rest, but as soon as he sat down, a subordinate general lying on the ground with his back facing the sky suddenly sat up, as if he felt something.

The soldiers lying down in the forest, especially those elite soldiers of the old battalion, noticed something strange almost at the same time, Wang Fulin hurriedly lay on the ground and listened for a moment, and suddenly got up and shouted: "Commander, a cavalry is coming!" ”

"Get up!" Wang Fuchen's face changed, and he shouted loudly.

The soldiers in the woods were so frightened that they got up one after another and rushed out of the woods, but a group of fiery figures appeared in the distance, only two or three miles away from the woods, and they were about to be killed in the blink of an eye.

Wang Fuchen ran out, and when he saw this scene, he had to wave his hand again and said urgently: "Go back!" Bow and arrow ready! ”

The Western Sergeant could only retreat into the woods, taking advantage of the cover of the woods to prepare for defense.

A moment later, the cavalry galloped over, it was Yu Youming who set off from behind, he stopped his horse, behind a weed on the opposite side of the forest, two scouts immediately ran out, knelt on one knee, pointed to the woods and said: "General, the thieves are all in the forest!" ”

When Yu Youming heard this, he immediately waved his hand, "Fence up!" ”

The cavalry immediately divided into several groups and surrounded the woods, and they all turned and dismounted, and removed their weapons from their horses.

When the Ming Dynasty retreated from eastern Sichuan, it ambushed Aobai and got four or five thousand war horses, He Tengjiao allocated more than 2,000 horses to Li Dingguo, and the soldiers practiced for more than seven months, barely able to fight immediately, but they were still far from the real cavalry, and in a strict sense, they were only infantry troops with war horses.

The Ming army immediately formed a confrontation with the western army in the forest, and not long after, more Ming infantry troops finally arrived outside the woods.

Li Dingguo turned over and got off the mule and horse, took the kettle handed over by his subordinates, raised his head and drank it, and then threw the kettle away, and while taking off his armor, he said to a personal guard beside him: "You go and tell Wang Fuchen that Ben will look at the past friendship and give him a quarter of an hour to let him consider surrendering to the imperial court. ”

Li Dingguo had already obtained the identity of the general of the Western Army from the captive, and knew that it was Wang Fuchen, so he decided to give him a chance.

When the soldiers heard this, they immediately ran outside the forest, and the western army inside wanted to release arrows, but they were stopped by Wang Fulin with his eyes.

"Listen to the people inside, my general will give you a quarter of an hour to consider whether to surrender or not, and as soon as the time is over, we will start attacking!"

"Who are your generals?" Wang Fuchen didn't speak, but Wang Fulin shouted out.

"Our general is Li Dingguo, deputy governor of Zhongyi Town, General Li Ningyu!"

"It's the king of Anxi!"

Wang Fulin turned his head to look at Wang Fuchen, there was a hint of surprise in his voice, and the old soldiers around him couldn't help but exclaim.

Wang Fuchen's face was gloomy, he didn't expect to meet Li Dingguo, as an old man of the Western Army, he knew that Li Dingguo was powerful, among the four kings of the Western Army, Sun Kewang was the first in internal affairs, but if it was said that he would lead the troops in the war, then Li Dingguo could undoubtedly be called the leader.

"Commander, make a decision!" Wang Fulin couldn't help but be a little anxious when he saw that Wang Fuchen didn't speak, afraid that he would make an irrational decision.

Wang Fuchen had already seen what Wang Fulin meant, "Do you think we should surrender?" ”

At this time, Wang Fulin was no longer hiding his thoughts, "Commander, we are all people with families, and now Yunnan is estimated to have let the imperial court fight down, we don't think about ourselves, we should also think about our descendants!" It's been more than ten years, it's time to give them a settling! ”

It is said that the Ming Dynasty's three-way army attacked them, the elite of the Western Army were all in southern Sichuan, and Yunnan was all miscellaneous soldiers, and Ai Nengqi estimated that he could not resist the attack of the Ming army.

Wang Fuchen was silent for a while, sighed, and was very helpless, "The king waits for me a lot!" ”

"We have attacked the grain road, and we have reported to the king, and now we are poor and surrounded, and there is nothing wrong with surrendering." Wang Fulin hurriedly said, "Besides, does the commander think there is still hope for Daxi?" Now the king is trapped in a lonely city, counting on the Jin State to come to the rescue, even if he repels the Ming army, he is afraid that he can only surrender to the Jin State, is the commander willing to reduce the Jin? ”

"Naturally, you can't reduce the gold!" Wang Fuchen frowned, and said: "The first king died at the hands of Jin Yu, it is better to surrender to the court than to reduce gold!" ”

Wang Fulin knew that Wang Fuchen was actually very pessimistic in his heart, and he also had the intention of surrendering, but it was not easy to say, so he could only analyze the pros and cons and give Wang Fuchen a step, "At the beginning, we were in Wanxian, thinking that the King of Chu had saved our minds to consume us, so we transferred to Yunnan with the king, but now the King of Anxi and the King of Funan occupy high positions in the imperial court, which shows that it was really a misunderstanding at the beginning, as long as you make meritorious contributions in the imperial court, you will have a bright future." The world is undecided, it is not too late for us to surrender now, and there is still a chance to make a name for ourselves and benefit our descendants, which is also following the last order of the previous king! ”

Wang Fuchen has already moved, "You can surrender, I don't have any opinions, but I'm afraid the deployment below is not willing!" ”

"If you don't want to, just tie it up and hand it over to King Anxi!" Wang Fulin was overjoyed when he saw Wang Fuchen agree, and then sneered: "Our old pawns, there is no problem, only those who joined later, they are still loyal to Sun Kewang, we called them over, explained the benefits, and those who are willing to surrender with us will surrender together, and if they are unwilling, they can't blame us for being ruthless, it is their own choice." ”

Wang Fuchen was silent for a while, and his chin agreed.

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