Chapter 583: Evacuate with the army

The native soldiers of Amizhou under the command of Pu Mingming took the lead in attacking the city and entered the city, and then they were driven out by a large number of Yi soldiers defending the city by the surging crowds.

After Yang Mingkai's more than 1,000 people arrived, the two of them once again attacked the city at the cost of casualties, attacked the city, and finally were outnumbered again and were driven down by the sea of Yi soldiers led by the Tushuai A Kun.

Although there are countless Yi soldiers who have killed and injured the city, more than half of the people under the command of Pu Ming and Yang Mingkai are injured, and everyone who is alive is injured and unable to fight again.

When the sky was dark and day and night, Hou Liangzhu, who followed the general attack team up the mountain to supervise the battle, saw that the general attack team was also attacking in turn, and in desperation, he immediately ordered to stop the attack and once again led the crowd to retreat down the mountain.

On the night of 18 June, it was also raining heavily in the area around the mountain city of Bijie, and the two sides once again fell into a confrontation situation.

In the next two days, the heavy rain stopped falling and stopping, and the soldiers of the Sichuan Army and Yunnan could not do anything but stay in the camp to rest.

For two days in a row, Hou Liangzhu was in the camp, looking at the tiger in the mountain city in the drizzle and mist in the distance from time to time, and finally had a little discouragement, so he found Lin Zhaoding, the general soldier of Yunnan, to discuss the feasibility of bypassing Bijie and marching into Shuixi.

The two of them couldn't make up their minds, so they called the generals to discuss, but the generals had different opinions and discussed for a whole day, and they didn't decide what to do.

On the morning of June 22, the mountain city was once again shrouded in a thick fog, and Lin Zhaoding proposed to attack it again, and if it still could not be defeated, then make a detour to the east.

On the morning of June 22, Pu Mingming led his Amitu soldiers to climb up the dense forest again.

This time, Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, the two chief officers, also personally put on armor and led the army to slowly climb to the top along the stone steps.

However, when they cautiously approached the Huju Mountain City, and approached so close that they could already see the towers at the head of the city, they did not see a single Yi soldier defending the city.

After Pu Ming's command climbed into the city, he found that in addition to the corpses left a few days ago, the tiger mountain city was already empty.

At noon on 20 June, An Bangyan's envoy crossed the mountains and mountains, made a detour to Datunchang, and followed a hidden path in the high mountains and dense forests to the Huju Mountain City.

Before An Alun saw the envoy, he thought that An Bangyan had sent someone to come this time to send reinforcements or food to himself, but when the envoy opened his mouth, he asked the question of whether he could hold Bijie and how long he could hold it.

Ann Alun, who had no confidence in the first place, almost collapsed when he heard this question.

And before that, Pu Mingming attacked the city twice and attacked the city, which also shook the local handsome Ah Kun, who had always been quite confident.

Especially after listening to An Bangyan's envoy's questioning, Bijie Tushuai Ah Kun felt the timidity hidden behind An Bangyan's questioning, and realized the danger faced by Muoge Mountain City.

When An Alun heard from the envoy in a roundabout way that Yang Zuo, Huasha and others had been wiped out in the Battle of Xixi River, and that there was no natural barrier to the east of Dafang Muoge Mountain City, he immediately made the decision to lead the army to withdraw.

While asking An Bangyan's envoy to go back to tell An Bangyan that Bijie was difficult to hold, he and Ah Kun retreated north to Datunchang in the rain on the night of the envoy's arrival.

And An Bangyan's envoy also saw the corpses and the small amount of grain stored all over the mountain city of Bijie Hu, and knew that what An Alun said was true, so he also made a detour to Datunchang overnight and rushed back to Muog.

On June 22, when Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding jointly entered the mountain city of Bijie, they saw an empty city after An Alun and Tushuai Ah Kun led the evacuation of the army and civilians of the mountain city.

And Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, did not stay in the mountain city on the tiger mountain, early in the morning of the second day, Hou Liangzhu left Yang Mingkai to lead the remnants of the army wounded, stationed in Bijie Tiger Mountain City, and then with Lin Zhaoding led the main force of the Sichuan and Yunnan army, along the path behind the tiger mountain, to the north to pursue.

At the same time, Hou Liangzhu also sent a messenger from Bijie, detoured to Zhenxiong, and went to Linzhou to report the news, while ordering Deng Xi, the deputy commander-in-chief who stayed in Xuyong and Linzhou, to gather troops in Linzhou and be ready to attack southward at any time, while continuing eastward to report the military situation to Zhu Xieyuan.

At the same time, An Bangyan, the king of Luodian, who was anxious in the mountain city of Muoge, finally made a decision, and took An Wei, An Shi, and several other young people of the same generation as An Wei in the Shuixi clan, accompanied by the Zuodu Governor Mo De and the mastermind Zhou Shiru, as well as other twenty-eight cave Tumu, to evacuate the royal city of the Shuixi Yi people, Mu Oge.

Before the news came back that An Alun and Tushuai Ah Kun had decided to lead their troops to evacuate Bijie, An Bangyan was in a dilemma.

Zhou Shiru, the new mastermind, vigorously persuaded him to go south, that is, when the main force of the official army led by Zhu Xieyuan had not yet arrived in Dafang, he hurriedly crossed the Liuchong River to the south, and retreated to the Zhijin Cave again, or even simply withdrew to the smoke miasma south of the Zhijin Cave.

There are high mountains and dense forests, mountains and mountains, there is no road to pass, and there are many deep valleys and torrents, and it is impossible for the army of the imperial court to go deep, even if they can go deep along the bird road, they can only move forward lightly, and it is impossible to carry many cannons or chariots and horses.

This suggestion is completely consistent with An Bangyan's approach back then, so An Bangyan was very tempted.

But it is also completely consistent with An Bangyan's forced helplessness back then, so it also makes An Bangyan very hesitant.

The mountains are high and the water is deep and the forests are dense, although it is a good place to withdraw the troops, but that place is a torture and a dangerous place for the officers and soldiers, and it is also a torture and a dangerous place for the army under the command of An Bangyan.

It is even more desolate, which also means that there is not much population, not much food, and it is really difficult to say where An Bangyan's army and the population of Muog will be moved, and how many will be left alive in the future.

In the past, the area around Dafang Muoge Mountain City was in place, and he didn't care at all, he said that he would evacuate, as long as he was safe.

But now that he has become the king of Luodian, he is the ghost master of this Luodian country, Mu Oge is his own, without Mu Oge, once there are no 24 Dong Yi people who have been promoted in the 48 holes of the Shuixi Yi people, who will he be the king?

At the same time, unlike Zhou Shiru's suggestion, Mo De, the governor of Zuodu, who was born in the former Chishui Wei Aluo Secret Station, strongly advocated that An Bangyan lead the people north.

The reason is that the strength of the official army in the north is relatively empty, and there are thousands of people under the command of Datun Tusi Anchi in the Datunchang area.

In particular, there is a Chishui River defense line that can be relied on.

Zhou Shiru and Mo De had a dispute, and although Zhou Shiru's suggestion won the heart of An Bangyan, most of the Zhudong Tumu, who had submitted to the Shuixian clan for generations, supported the opinion of Zuo Du Du Mo De.

After all, for the Tusi heads of these caves, they were used to being pampered, and it would have been difficult to persuade them to follow the withdrawal, and it would have been even more difficult to let them retreat to the wild and barren land in the south.

Late at night on the 22nd, An Bangyan sent an envoy to Bijie to seek the advice of An Alun and Ah Kun and rushed back to the mountain city of Dafang Muoge.

An Bangyan, who had been entangled for three days in a row, and all the people under his command didn't need to be entangled anymore.

Not only could Bijie not be able to hold it, but An Alun and Tushuai Aqi, who were guarding Bijie, had taken the lead in retreating to Datunchang near the Chishui River with 20,000 soldiers and civilians.

At this moment, An Bangyan has nothing to hesitate about.

An Alun and Tushuai Aqi's team is now the largest force that An Bangyan still has, they have withdrawn to Datunchang, and they can only be more sure if they retreat to Datunchang, join forces with them, and then defeat the official army that entered Shuixi.

In the early morning of June 23, An Bangyan led the defenders near Dafang, as well as the relatives and nobles of the Shuixi clan in the mountain city of Muog, and led a group of Tumu native officials in Shuixi with different thoughts, and embarked on the road of retreating to Chishui and Datunchang.

Although Zhou Shiru and Mo De had different opinions on the direction of the withdrawal, they were completely consistent on the way of withdrawal.

Their ideas are to evacuate lightly, scorched earth resistance, and before the evacuation, not only Dafang City must be burned, even Muorg Mountain City must not leave the enemy, all the treasury and warehouses can only be brought, and the rest must be burned.

It's a pity that An Bangyan can't accept this proposition, and the children of the Shuixi clan who evacuated with the army, as well as the Tumu people in Shuixi, can't accept it.

Not only could they not accept this idea of scorched earth resistance, but their withdrawal was not an evacuation to throw off their baggage and move forward lightly.

Although he led the army to evacuate, the final result was more like a big move.

The noble children of the Shui'an clan and many of the Tumu leaders who evacuated with the army were reluctant to let go of anything, let alone gold, silver, pearls, jade, and grain slaves, and some were reluctant to discard even the more valuable Nanmu tables, chairs, copper basins, and tin cans.

Governor Maud, who was in charge of directing the entire evacuation operation, was helpless, although he was so anxious that he stomped his feet.

Because An Bangyan himself also asked people to bring the golden silk nanmu throne in the front yard of the Luodian Palace, which was inlaid with gold, silver, pearls, jade and various precious stones.