In the early morning of June 27, the second year of Chongzhen, the area around Datunchang was very unexpectedly free of the usual fog in the past.

On the contrary, before the hour of reckoning, the sun had already climbed out of the eastern mountains, and the red morning sun soon illuminated the sky on the Datun field.

Zhu Xieyuan got up early, washed and dressed, and was in his big tent at the moment, enjoying a simple but sufficient breakfast.

Just last night, the news that Zhu Xieyuan was about to write a letter requesting that the arable land in Shuixi be rewarded to the soldiers of all departments had already spread throughout the camps of the Sichuan army, the Yunnan army, the Guizhou army, and the Tusi soldiers of other departments.

Since the news spread, the cheers and cheers of the various departments and units gathered in the camps of the Datunchang area have been endless for a long time, and the cries of "Shuixi will be destroyed within three days" and "those who kill An Bangyan will be knighted" have resounded again and again in this land from time to time in the official and military camps.

Therefore, Zhu Xieyuan is very relieved about the next war, the official army has both the general artillery to help the battle, and there is no shortage of troops, no shortage of food, and at this time, there is a high morale, and it should not be difficult to deal with An Bangyan, who has shrunk in the Tusi Manor of Datunchang.

Zhu Xieyuan was eating breakfast with a big appetite, and at the same time brewing a recital to write to Emperor Chongzhen, and was thinking about how to change the land and return to the river in the west of the water, and then open a palace to set up a guard to recruit people to reclaim, when he suddenly heard a rapid sound of horses' hooves outside.

Zhu Xieyuan was shocked, could there be any surprise?!

A moment later, Fang Guoan, the guerrilla of the Chinese army who was guarding Zhu Xieyuan's Chinese army, led a tall, heroic-looking man of the Yi family to hurry in.

As soon as the tall and heroic man of the Yi family saw Zhu Xieyuan, who was sitting upright eating, he immediately knelt on the ground and said, "The little Yunnan king has made the local official Sha Dingzhou, meet the lord of the ministry!"

"Early this morning, the small one was ordered to lead his subordinates, and touched the Zhuangzi on the ridge, and found that the guards in the Zhuangzi were lax, and only some of the soldiers were left behind.

"When the lord of my family learned of this, he sent a small one to report it quickly!"

Zhu Xieyuan listened to the words of Sha Dingzhou, the local official of Wang Rong, and his heart suddenly fluctuated, thinking to himself, this An Bangyan is really a character, he refuses to give up at this point, and he just leaves, which is quite a bit courageous.

However, although Zhu Xieyuan, who had been on the battlefield for a long time, had waves in his heart, his face was still silent, his eyes seemed to be staring at Sha Dingzhou, and he saw Sha Dingzhou's heart ****** hard work, Zhu Xieyuan suddenly turned to Fang Guoan and said to him: "Quickly go and pass on my commander's order, and order the deputy general Luo Ganxiang to lead the troops and Guangxi Mo's Wechs-Webster wolf soldiers, and immediately attack Datun Tusi Manor!" ”

Fang Guoan was ordered to leave.

Zhu Xieyuan said to Sha Dingzhou again: "Quickly go and order Lin Zhaoding, Hou Liangzhu, and Xu Chengming, the three chief military officers, as soon as Luo Ganxiang's troops attack the Zhuangzi on the ridge, that is, the troops of each department will immediately pursue north!" Tell them that whoever can behead An Bangyan will be knighted by the Ministry of Finance! ”

The lord outside the Ming clan is divided into three classes, namely the duke, the marquis, and the uncle, but all the civil and military generals who have been awarded the title of the lord are at least an earl!

Sha Dingzhou was excited when he heard this, as if he also had a chance, and immediately hugged his fists and promised to take the order.

And Zhu Xieyuan also quickly ended the breakfast time, and asked people to order the three native soldiers under Wu Zhiwang, as well as the Tiance guards under Liu Zhaoji, to eat breakfast quickly, pack up, and set up camp at any time.

After Zhu Xieyuan's military order reached the battalion of the three chief officers, it was tantamount to pouring another barrel of oil on the already burning fighting spirit, and the morale suddenly rose again, and everyone was gearing up, waiting for the moment of pursuit.

And Luo Ganxiang did not let the Sichuan soldiers, Yunnan soldiers, and Guizhou soldiers wait too long, and after receiving the order, he just took the three teams under his command that now have only about 6,000 men and horses left, launched a crowd attack, and took down the Datun Tusi Manor, which had few defenders.

In addition to the more than 1,000 old, weak and disabled left-behind Yi soldiers in the manor, the city was really empty!

Although he took this Tusi Manor, he only beheaded more than 1,000 levels, and the credit was not very great, but Luo Ganxiang, Mo Keji, Wei Ang and his wolf soldiers were still elated.

Because this time, An Bangyan learned the lesson of the last retreat of the army, except for the dry food that each person could carry by himself, a large amount of stored grain, gold and silver, cloth and other wealth materials in the manor did not dare to take away.

At the same time, they were worried that this retreat would be discovered by the official and military camp not far from the manor, and they did not dare to set fire to it and burn it clean.

As a result, in addition to the grain, a large number of gold, silver, bronze utensils, a large amount of cloth, silk and satin, etc., brought from Mu Oge and collected for generations in Datun Tusi Manor, all fell into the hands of Luo Ganxiang and Mo's and Webster's wolf soldiers.

When Luo Ganxiang led the crowd to break through the outer defense line of the remaining Yi soldiers, Hou Liangzhu's department immediately pulled out the camp and went north, bypassing the mountain range where the Tusi Manor was located, and quickly pursued along the post road through Datunchang to the north.

At the same time, Hou Liangzhu once again sent his own messenger to the north, and quickly galloped to Lin Zhou, north of Chishuiwei, and conveyed the order to quickly go south to Chishui to intercept An Bangyan's rebellious army to the north to Deng Xi, the deputy commander of Sichuan stationed in Lin Zhou, and his own son Hou Tianxi, who served in Deng Xi's army.

Let's say that after An Bangyan killed An Wei in a fit of rage, although he became the coveted King of Luodian and became the lord of Shuixi recognized by the Tumu people of the 24 caves of Shuixi who still followed him, he didn't have much joy in his heart.

In other words, the joy of getting what you wish for did not last long.

The loss of Guowa already made his mood very heavy, and after killing Anwei, the remaining twenty-four cave Tumu leaders were also unpredictable.

It wasn't until he really sat on the throne of the king of Luodian that An Bangyan really realized the cleverness of the Han hero Cao Cao more than a thousand years ago!

It's just that at this time, An Bangyan's heart is full of remorse, and it is useless, so he can only do it to the end.

Because An Wei is dead, and he killed it with his own hands, whether it is on the side of the court or on the side of Shuixi, he An Bangyan has no way to retreat.

On the evening of the day when An Wei Chan was persecuted, as the dust of the battle outside Datun Field settled, An Bangyan's mastermind Zhou Shiru, as well as An Alun and Tushuai Ah Kun, who had fled for a long time and had just entered Datunchang, persuaded An Bangyan to withdraw his troops from Datunchang as soon as possible.

As for the direction of withdrawal, some insisted on going east, some insisted on going west, and some insisted on going north, but no one proposed a detour to the south.

Under the persuasion of Zhou Shiru, An Alun, Ah Kun, A Idiot, and Wu Azhan in turn, An Bangyan, who was already a little depressed and depressed, adhered to his original intention, that is, to go north.

Among them, An Alun, who was chased by Hou Liangzhu and Lin Zhaoding, was even more distraught after seeing the power of the muskets and artillery of the officers and soldiers outside the Datun field, and strongly advocated that he should evacuate the Datun field that night and run as far as he could.

An Bangyan, who was a little lucky, couldn't make up his mind to evacuate immediately, and it wasn't until that night that he heard a burst of cheers and shouts from the official camp below the mountain where the Tusi Manor in Datunchang was located, and he decided to evacuate immediately overnight.

The cheers and shouts of "Shuixi will be destroyed within three days" and "Those who kill An Bangyan will be knighted" made him feel deeply uneasy as never before.

It wasn't embattled, but it shook his mind more than embattled.

After all, hearing with his own ears the shouts of everyone wanting to kill themselves and be knighted was definitely a huge shock to An Bangyan, a figure who has always regarded himself as a hero of the Yi people.

The morale of the officers and soldiers is so high!

On the other hand, on his side, since he killed An Wei, morale is low and people's hearts are scattered, according to Zhou Shiru's advice, if it weren't for An Alun and Ah Kun to lead the army to come to aid in time, maybe there will be an unforeseen disaster of Xiao Wall soon.

After An Bangyan realized this, in the second half of the night, he raised his army, abandoned all the gold, silver, fine and soft grains, grass and baggage, and everyone only brought dry food, and quietly withdrew from the mountain ridge where the Tusi Manor of Datunchang was located overnight and went north.

The officers and soldiers of the various departments camped on the outskirts of the Tusi Manor in Datunchang, although they all sent sentry agents to a greater or lesser extent, were too tired because of the rush and hard fighting that day, and no one noticed the quiet evacuation of An Bangyan's troops at night.

In the early morning of the next day, when Zhu Xieyuan learned the news that An Bangyan had withdrawn his troops, An Bangyan, the king of Luodian, had already led his army north and arrived at Taohong Dam, thirty or forty miles north of Datunchang.