Wang Mingde's army and the 1,000 Han and Eight Banners marched along the path opened up by Daniel Zhang, without the need to cut through thorns and thorns by themselves, nor did they need scouts to go out, not only the march speed was much faster, but also much easier. Of course, Zhang Jing and his subordinate officers all had horses to ride, and after leaving Chongqing, if the officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were sick or tired, Wang Mingde would immediately use his own mounts to make up for them, and Li Guoying even specially approved a batch of war horses for Wang Mingde to spare -- these horses were not allowed to be ridden, and they were prepared for the officers of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty.

The treatment of those Manchurian Eight Banners who followed Li Guoying was of course even more superior, and only officers were guaranteed to have horses here in the Han Eight Banners, while Manchurian Taijun was no matter how high or low the official position was, everyone had a mount. Fortunately, only 100 people followed Li Guoying, if there were really thousands of Manchurian Taijun to participate in the war, in order to prepare mounts for them, it is estimated that it will affect the actions of the army, even if the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi, who has always strictly governed the army, has never said a word about the requirements of the Manchurian Taijun, if you want to eat meat, there are pigs with the army, and if you want to eat fish, you will immediately send people to the river to fish, as long as Li Guoying can do it, it will definitely be satisfied.

"Three years ago, Deng Ming took Yuan Zongdi, Tan Wen, and Tan Yi to attack Chongqing, and Governor Gao saw that Deng Ming was menacing, so he went to Baoning to ask the governor for help, and let me stay alone to defend Chongqing...... Wang Mingde had long said that Deng Minggang appeared in the defense of Chongqing as Deng Ming's commander, and of course he was a hero who defeated a strong enemy. The battle to defend Chongqing three years ago was described by Wang Mingde as thrilling, and the battle was also full of twists and turns.

"General Wang really lives up to his reputation." The deputy commander of the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty praised, but although he was commanded by Deng Ming, judging from the confrontation in Jiangnan in the past two years, Deng Ming was obviously good at field warfare and not good at attacking cities. As long as he encountered a strong city heavily defended by the Qing army, Deng Ming was helpless. But no matter what, the Chongqing defense battle led by Wang Mingde was the most humiliating battle for Deng Ming, Tan Wen was killed, Yuan Zongdi fled, and he himself was almost captured alive. However, this statement was firmly opposed by Wang Mingde.

The soldiers of the 1,000 Han and Eight Banners, all of whom wore black boots, and 200 of them carried firearms on their backs, and the tiger squat cannons assigned to these ten Niu Lu were also specially transported by personnel, and in order to ensure that these cannons could keep up with the team, Li Guoying also specially prepared ships and carriages. Along the way, Wang Mingde took good care of the boats and cars, and from time to time sent more subordinates to help - the Eight Banners of the Han Dynasty were different from the ordinary green battalions, they were the soldiers of the Eight Banners, and they were the central armed forces directly under the imperial court.

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Yuan Zongdi's scouts slowly retreated while bluffing, and Yuan Zongdi also retreated to the front to avoid the Qing reinforcements searching for him, and now he could only hope that his actions could make Daniel Zhang react later, and mobilize the whole army to kill his troops later, giving himself more time to regroup.

The shouts of "Yuan thief" and "Yuan thief" could no longer be heard on the battle line, and Hu Wenke was now almost back to the starting position where he had just launched the attack, and although there was terrain to rely on, Hu Wenke did not hold on for even a quarter of an hour and began to retreat. Now the unarmored soldiers on both wings have broken and fled, followed by the chasing Ming army, and the morale of the soldiers around them is also low, in order to avoid being surrounded, they follow Hu Wenke to retreat again and again, many people walk, walk and disappear in the forest.

failed to grab Yuan Zongdi's old hen, but his own soldiers and horses were swept away a large number, not to mention the grievances in Hu Wenke's heart, he knew that if it wasn't for the terrain to cover up part of his embarrassment, this retreat order would be maintained now.

Although he knew that he would be defeated, Hu Wenke also tried to save a few more soldiers from coming out:

"Yuan Gong! You and I had no grievances in the past, and no enemies today, why do you work hard to force each other? ”

Stopping his feet in front of a small hill, Hu Wenke asked dozens of his men to shout in the direction that Yuan Zongdi might have, as long as Yuan Zongdi was willing to slow down the pace of pursuit a little, Hu Wenke's army would not completely collapse, and he would be able to gather more routs - whether they were armored or unarmoured, they were Hu Wenke's precious possessions.

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In the south of the battlefield, Daniel Zhang still advanced along the shore, and the shouts from the north made him keep looking sideways, and the battle there had been broken out for some time, but Daniel Zhang still did not know the specific situation.

"This must be an ambush in Wanxian." Daniel Zhang had just made such a judgment, removing Hu Wenke on the flank, Daniel Zhang still had 2,000 armor soldiers and 4,000 auxiliary soldiers around him, and Wang Mingde and Yuan Jiawenbi were hurrying behind him. In such a small area, there are nearly 4,000 green battalion armor and 1,008 banner soldiers, and a large number of auxiliary troops have been provided, which makes Daniel Zhang's mood very relaxed, even if Wanxian is in front of him, such a strong force can make Daniel Zhang not need to worry about anything.

In Daniel Zhang's view, Yuan Zongdi probably misunderstood the strength of the Qing army, or sent troops to ambush and delay the pace of the Qing army. However, in either case, Daniel Zhang judged that the strength of the Ming army was at most 1,000 armor soldiers and 3,000 auxiliary soldiers. With such a force, it is unlikely that Hu Wenke can be defeated quickly in complex terrain, and if Yuan Zongdi only sent hundreds of harassing troops, then Hu Wenke himself has the strength to defeat them, and the current battle in the north is likely to be Hu Wenke is chasing and searching for the rout of the Ming army.

"I wonder how many thieves there are?" Daniel Zhang pondered in his heart, it seems that the Qing army is very lucky, if Hu Wenke did not find these Ming troops, they may harass Daniel Zhang's troops and affect his advance speed, and now the Ming army is slowing down Hu Wenke's pace, so that Daniel Zhang has the opportunity to rush to the city of Wanxian first and get the largest share of the spoils.

So far, Daniel Zhang has only sent 300 armored search troops to the north. Although the battlefield is not very far from the river, Daniel Zhang does not intend to direct the whole army to turn around and search for those Ming troops who may only have a few hundred people in the absence of the enemy's situation - if this is the case, it will be a fulfillment of Yuan Zongdi's wishes, and with a round trip and a search mountain, today's time and soldiers' bodies will be almost consumed.

If the strength of the Ming army exceeded the simple harassment troops, then Daniel Zhang felt that there was no need to directly reinforce Hu Wenke, and there were many troops of 1,500 under Hu Guji, and even if half of the Ming army in Wanxian County came, they could not defeat them in a short time; And Daniel Zhang continued to advance eastward along the riverside, and then with a slight turn, he could cut off the retreat of these Ming troops, and cooperate with Hu Wenke to wipe them out - if Yuan Zongdi really went crazy and sent half of his strength to Wanxian for dozens of miles to ambush Daniel Zhang here, then Daniel Zhang would not mind spending some time to wipe out these Ming troops. If so many Ming troops were eliminated, then Wanxian would have a good chance to take it quickly, and when the time came, there would be no place for the Western Sichuan Navy Division along the way from Chongqing to Wanxian, and Deng Ming's Jiangshang advantage would be weakened by Yan Zhan. Moreover, after severely attacking Yuan Zongdi, Deng Ming also needed to come up with new forces to protect Yunyang and Fengjie, which was also a kind of containment and helped to reduce the pressure on Chongqing's sailors.

"Haven't heard any news yet?" Daniel Zhang's main force was still advancing eastward, and now he was increasingly convinced that Hu Wenke had encountered only some harassing troops, and that the Ming army was simply trying to delay. Daniel Zhang's army continued to advance, and now that the battlefield was north-west of him, Hu Wenke and an unknown number of enemy troops were being left behind him.

"No, sir." One of the soldiers replied that until now, the three hundred armor sent out to outflank had not sent back any messengers calling for help, which showed that they had not encountered any resistance worth mentioning.

"Sure enough." Daniel Zhang had long concluded that this was the most likely scenario, and a small number of Ming troops fled under Hu Wenke's pressure, and of course could not gather forces to resist Daniel Zhang's outflanking army, and Daniel Zhang confirmed his prediction.

"Keep going." Daniel Zhang ordered that if he really encountered strong resistance from the Ming army, he would re-examine it, but now he did not see any need for the whole army to run north for a period of wrongful reasons.

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Although the pro-soldiers shouted hoarsely, the Ming army did not react, and the Ming army on the front paused a little as if it was just waiting for the flanks to be outflanked, and soon Hu Wenke saw the figure on his side shaking, and he and the last few hundred people beside him had been attacked on three sides. If he was driven away by the Ming army like this, Hu Wenke knew that the whole army would collapse immediately, and his men would scatter into the forest, and he didn't know how much time it would take to gather, and he didn't know how many people he could gather.

"Yuan Gong, stay a line, see you in the future!" Hu Wenke shouted in despair, and his own soldiers also tore their throats and shouted, saying that they still had some silver taels, and Yuan Zongdi might as well take them away and stop chasing them.

Although Hu Wenke shouted pitifully, Yuan Zongdi turned a deaf ear, and after the Ming army came up from three directions, Hu Wenke also realized that Yuan Zongdi was definitely not a good talker like Deng Ming, so he threw down a bag of silver and the handsome team broke through towards the last gap. In the process of breaking through, Hu Wenke's subordinates completely collapsed and scattered into the forest.

"There's no need to chase it." Yuan Zongdi's subordinates picked up the bag of silver that Hu Wenke threw down, but Yuan Zongdi stopped chasing and arresting Hu Wenke not because of the money left by the other party, but because he didn't want to lose a big deal because of a small loss.

The Qing army in the east, with an unknown number of people, was already very close, and Yuan Zongdi did not know what the strength of the Qing army was, whether it was a hundred or a thousand, and he did not know whether it was a lone army or the vanguard of a large number of enemy troops.

Yuan Zongdi gave the order to gather the troops at full speed, and he had previously explained to his subordinates not to pursue Hu Wenke without restraint, because once the pursuit was released in this kind of terrain, his troops would not be able to collect in time.

"Turn back!" Now that the troops around him have begun to regroup, the front army that remains latent can also start to act, Yuan Zongdi loudly encouraged his subordinates, a big victory is just around the corner, and after completely annihilating these thousands of Qing troops, the strength of Wanxian will go to a higher level: "Capture Daniel Zhang alive!" ”