According to Hong Chengchou's character, he did things steadily, rarely ventured, after learning that Yu Jia's army was blocking the road, and the forward encountered a fierce blow from the enemy, and the forward was defeated by Yu's army, Hong Chengchou decided to divide the army into three ways, with a Shanxi division in front of the main force of the Yu family's army, and then he and Sun Chuanting each led 15,000 elite Shaanxi soldiers, outflanked from the enemy's two flanks, flanked the two flanks of the Yujia army, and fought for a two-phase pincer attack to defeat the main force of the rebel army.

But if this time they encountered an ordinary enemy army, or even a Jiannu army, this time Hong Chengchou's approach could be said to be a wise move, but it was a pity that they encountered a new army that they were completely unfamiliar with and far surpassed them in terms of technology and tactics.

After Meng Fei led the troops to open the battle column, he quickly saw Hong Chengchou's strategy, and after sneering, he directly ordered the Second Brigade to go into battle, slammed the Shanxi soldiers and horses left by Hong Chengchou on the frontal battlefield, and gave Zhang Changjie, the commander of the Second Brigade, a death order, only to give him half an hour, and within half an hour, this Shanxi army of more than 10,000 people must be completely defeated.

The remaining two brigades were placed on the two flanks, each forming a phalanx, and the artillery was placed between the two phalanxes, which could form support on three sides at any time.

When Hong Chengchou gave the order to start the operation, Meng Fei also issued an order to do it, three brigade artillery battalions and an independent artillery battalion on the artillery position of the Yujia Army, and the artillery of the four battalions immediately opened full firepower, concentrating firepower to hit the Shanxi soldiers and horses in front first.

The more than 10,000 Shanxi officers and soldiers who were placed on the front by Hong Chengchou were unlucky at this time, and the shells smashed into them like hailstones.

These Shanxi officers and soldiers themselves were not very elite soldiers and horses, and suddenly they were subjected to such a fierce artillery bombardment, and the entire front collapsed.

Zhang Changjie led the Second Brigade to just charge, and it was useless for two quarters of an hour, just like a tiger entering a flock of sheep, these officers and troops were beaten to the ground, and they were scattered on the spot, and many officers and soldiers were directly frightened to kneel and surrender, saying that they would not dare to be enemies with the Yu family army anymore.

Hong Chengchou originally led his troops to attack the left flank of the Yujia army from the right flank, and he originally hoped that the Shanxi officers and troops in front of him, even if they were unbearable for a battle, but at least they would hold on until he could attack the enemy's flank, and then he would be able to contain the main force of the Yu Jiajun, but he didn't expect that the Shanxi generals were so unbearable that they were beaten by the Yu Jiajun in a flash, and they were directly defeated and fled.

And the pincer offensive launched by him and Sun Chuanting on both wings also lost cooperation, Meng Fei immediately ordered the artillery to be divided into two groups, turned the muzzle of the cannon to the Shaanxi soldiers pressed over on both wings and began to fire artillery, although these Shaanxi soldiers have been in battle for a long time and have stronger bearing capacity than the Shanxi soldiers, but they have been fighting with the extremely poorly equipped homeless army all year round, where have they encountered such a fierce fire strike!

Even if their cavalry is more powerful, they can't catch up with the Guanning army, which is good at cavalry, and they are not as good as the Guanning army in terms of equipment.

Under the pressure of Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting's vigorous bullets, although these Shaanxi soldiers finally withstood the artillery fire of the Yu family's army, when they approached the front line of the Yu family's army, the fire, guns and bullets that came from their faces showed them what it means to make bullets rain.

The officers and men in the front row were cut to the ground layer by layer like mowing grass, and the officers and men in the back were dumbfounded, and they were so frightened that they couldn't stop the volley of the gunners' arms and gunners, and the bullets that came from the front were still flying sideways around them, and the officers and men were still falling to the ground one by one.

The officers and soldiers had the intention to use bows and crossbows to fight back, but they were never able to enter the effective range, and even if they shot bows and arrows in a hurry, the arrows could not be shot into the large array of the Yu family's army.

So the Shaanxi soldiers suddenly began to collapse, the front ran backwards, the back did not dare to move, continued to arch forward, and the result was huddled.

At this time, Meng Fei immediately ordered the cavalry company and the straggler company to come out of the column and start a counterattack, and the cavalry immediately roared and urged the war horses, shouted wildly and raised their cavalry guns, and rushed towards the enemy with their armpits under their armpits.

And the soldiers of those straggler companies all put on their bayonets and began to launch a white-bladed charge, while the rest of the officers and soldiers of the Yu family slowly advanced forward in formation, and even Hong Chengchou had no choice at this time.

The soldiers and horses of the entire Shaanxi Province were unable to parry in the face of such a sharp offensive of the home army, and the army was suddenly defeated like a mountain, and the whole army was defeated.

Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting saw that the situation was not good, so they hurriedly gathered the defeated troops and withdrew from the battlefield, and sent the elite palace queen, but under the pursuit of the family army, the soldiers and horses of the palace did not last long, and they were defeated by the Yu family army, and the entire battlefield in Fangshan and Liangxiang was a mess at this time.

A large number of frightened officers and soldiers rushed around like headless flies, unable to form an effective resistance at all, and rushed towards wherever there were more people than the army, and immediately dispersed them, so that Hong Chengchou and Sun Chuanting could not effectively control the soldiers and horses.

After a day of fierce fighting, Hong Chengchou saw that the general trend had gone in the afternoon, so he had to gather a small number of routs under the protection of his own soldiers and fled towards Zhuozhou.

And Sun Chuanting led a small number of routs, chased by the Yu family's army, unable to flee south, could only turn around and flee in the direction of Juyong Pass to the west of the Beijing Division, the entire Shaanxi army group, in just one day, was defeated by Meng Fei and led the army, and the whole army was defeated.

Meng Feiyou was not satisfied, and ordered Qiu Qinghui of the Fourth Brigade to lead the troops to pursue Sun Chuanting, while he himself led the remaining soldiers and horses, leaving the artillery in Liangxiang County, which had been controlled by them, and the rest of the soldiers and horses advanced lightly, chasing Hong Chengchou, and chasing Zhuozhou the next day.

Hong Chengchou, under the protection of hundreds of personal soldiers, had to flee from Zhuozhou and rushed to Baoding Mansion.

Meng Fei still refused to stop, continued to lead the troops south to pursue Hong Chengchou, two days later, and chased to the territory of Baoding Mansion, Dingxing County and Ansu County (Xu Shui in later generations) also took down, Hong Chengchou has been chased at this time almost become a lonely person, 50,000 troops are now less than 100 people left around, half of them have lost their horses, and follow Hong Chengchou on foot, fleeing towards Baoding Mansion.

But what Hong Chengchou never expected was that when he finally ran to Baoding Mansion like a lost dog, Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, actually refused to open the city gate and welcomed Hong Chengchou into the city, claiming that Hong Chengchou was a traitor, saying that he had been on the court and supported Yu Xiaotian to enter Beijing on the side of the Qing monarch.

Can people be more shameless? Hong Chengchou was so angry that he almost vomited blood, so he couldn't open the city, and saw that the pursuers had arrived, so he had to continue to flee.

Meng Fei seems to have made up his mind, biting Hong Chengchou to death, sending two cavalrymen to join the captured war horses, changing horses without changing people, and has been chasing Hong Chengchou non-stop, Hong Chengchou is so bitter! Chased by the Yu family army like a lost dog, there were less than a hundred soldiers left, and after Baoding, all the horses without war horses had been lost.

After passing Baoding City, Hong Chengchou only had more than 20 personal soldiers and war horses left around him, which could protect him and continue to escape, while the remaining personal soldiers' war horses were already exhausted to death on the side of the road halfway.

And those cavalry of the Yu family's army, this time they pursued Hong Chengchou, they were all single and two-horse, and they changed horses when they were tired, so they were always like maggots on tarsal bones, hanging behind Hong Chengchou, so that Hong Chengchou didn't even have time to drink saliva, so he could only keep running for his life.

This way to chase down, the cavalry of the Yu family army chased out hundreds of miles, and chased Hong Chengchou to the territory of Qizhou in Baoding Mansion, Hong Chengchou finally couldn't escape, he and all his horses were exhausted at this time, and were driven to a small river, at this time Hong Chengchou only had five personal soldiers left.

Hong Chengchou originally wanted to draw his sword and kill himself, but when he went to draw the sword, he found that even the sword on his waist didn't know where he was lost when he ran away, and there was no guy on his body who could cut his neck.

Hong Chengchou wanted to tear his clothes and make a strip of cloth to find a tree to hang, but he finally hung up the rope, his neck just stretched into the rope sleeve, a gunshot sounded and the branch was broken on the spot, Hong Chengchou fell heavily to the ground, and he couldn't even hang himself.

Hong Chengchou plunged into the river and prepared to drown, but when he plunged into the river, he found that the river only flooded his thighs and could not drown people at all.

Hong Chengchou scolded angrily, then cried loudly, knelt in the river and kowtowed to the direction of Jingshi, saying that he was sorry for the saint, but after a while, he was surrounded by the Yu family army and captured alive.

After the cavalry company took Hong Chengchou, they immediately turned around and returned, but when they arrived at Baoding City, they found that Baoding City had changed banners at this time and was controlled by the Yu family's army.

It turned out that Meng Fei chased Hong Chengchou all the way, and after leading the army to Baoding Mansion, Zhang Qiping, the governor of Baoding, actually opened the city gate and went out of the city to greet Yu Jiajun, calling Yu Jiajun the king's teacher, and respectfully welcomed Meng Fei into the city, and befriended Meng Fei and gave Meng Fei a generous gift, saying that he was very supportive of Yu Xiaotian's entry into Beijing and Qing Jun this time, and he was willing to act in accordance with Yu Xiaotian's orders.

Meng Fei remained silent, accepted his salute, and comforted him with kind words, so that Zhang Qiping was relieved, and then led his troops into the city to take over the defense of Baoding City, and then disarmed the defenders in the original Baoding City, and temporarily moved them outside the city, waiting to accept the adaptation.

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