The enemy army is hiding in the town! Yuan Chonghuan's eyes widened suddenly.

In order to retreat quickly, Yuan Chonghuan restrained military discipline, did not allow him to stay by the way, and did not allow him to harass the people along the way. There was no trace of fighting inside and outside Moling Town, just a little quieter, Yuan Chonghuan thought it was because of the passing of the army, he didn't care too much, and he didn't send people to investigate in the town, so that there was such a loophole, and an enemy army was leaked behind.

The Praetorian Guards who rushed out were actually only more than a thousand, and the number was not too many, but the problem was that at this time, Yuan Chonghuan's troops were all facing Moling Pass, and they were not guarding behind them.

"Hurry up!" Yuan Chonghuan didn't have time to think about where this Praetorian Guard came from, and ordered anxiously.

However, in a hurry, where did he have time to change the array, it was only a moment, and the two armies were already in close proximity to each other, fighting together.

In fact, the Praetorian Guards who rushed out did not have time to line up, but rushed over in a swarm, and there was no formation at all. The two sides fought together between Moling Town and Moling Pass.

"Bang Bang Bang"

"Boom Boom"

The sound of firecrackers, the explosion of grenades, the shouts of fighting, the sound of non-stop.

"Kill!" Xu Fuxuan shouted, leading his subordinates to fight bravely, protecting Yuan Chonghuan behind him.

These 5,000 soldiers are all Yuan Chonghuan's standard battalion, and the battalion is always pulled by Yuan Chonghuan from Xu Fujuan to ordinary chiefs, and the salary is twice that of other armies, and the equipment is also the best, and among the 200,000 thief army, the combat effectiveness is also the strongest. Although it was attacked in a hurry, it was still able to stand firm and did not collapse directly.

However, just when the two sides were fighting fiercely, the gate of Moling Pass in the south opened, and a light cavalry quickly rushed over, and the cavalry of more than a thousand scales, less than a mile away, only a moment later, rushed to the front of the anti-thief array.

"Bang bang bang", a burst of gunfire rang out in the anti-thief formation, and dozens of cavalry fell off their horses, but the other cavalry quickly moved forward regardless of it.

"Kill!" A crisp shout sounded, and I saw a red horse rushing out of the cavalry, the first to crash into the anti-thief array, and immediately a heroic woman in a red cloak, each holding a goose feather knife in both hands, slashed left and right, and everywhere he went, the thief soldiers were cut left and right and overturned.

More cavalry followed the woman in red and rushed into the anti-thief team, and then the anti-thief procession of thousands collapsed.

5,000 elite standard battalions, if the array is arranged, it is almost impossible to break the formation with more than 1,000 cavalry. However, Yuan Chonghuan's subordinate battalion was attacked in a state of march, first attacked from behind by the Praetorian Guards who rushed out of the town, and when they hurriedly lined up to meet the enemy, they were rushed by the cavalry, and there was not much time to react at all. In this case, even the most elite army will only have one way to lose.

In the final analysis, Yuan Chonghuan was still a little underestimated by the enemy, only thinking that Moling Pass was under his own control, and it was an absolute rear, so it was naturally impossible to encounter an attack, and he was in a hurry to retreat to Jiangxi, and did not send a sentry to investigate, so that there was such a fiasco.

As for the Praetorian Guard that suddenly appeared, it was naturally Li Dingguo's department, and the cavalry was a light cavalry under the Red Lady.

Under Yuan Keli's arrangement, the Praetorian Guards set out from Zhenjiang to Nanjing in two ways, and Li Dingguo led 3,000 elite Praetorian Guards to attack Jurong and approached Nanjing from the south road. At that time, considering that the road on the north bank of the Yangtze River was rugged and unfavorable for cavalry, and that it was a smooth road from Jurong to Nanjing, Zhang Shize proposed that the cavalry of the Red Lady follow Li Dingguo all the way.

Starting from Zhenjiang, all the way to the southwest, soon arrived at Jurong County.

After Yuan Chonghuan invaded the outer city of Nanjing, the gentry of the entire Yingtianfu took the initiative to join Jiangxi, and the counties under the jurisdiction of Yingtianfu also announced that they would return to Jiangxi, and Jurong County was no exception.

At that time, because the inner city of Nanjing was not captured, Yuan Chonghuan did not send troops to the surrendered provinces, and still retained the original officials, but only sent messengers to urge the collection of money, grain, and material soldiers, to mobilize the entire Yingtianfu and even the southern provinces of Jiangnan to besiege the inner city of Nanjing.

When he learned that Zhu Youzhen led the army to leave Zhenjiang, Yuan Chonghuan did not make plans to face the battle, but wanted to use the entire outer city of Nanjing as a battlefield, dragging the Praetorian Guards in the city of Nanjing, and waiting for the world to change. However, in order to control the provinces in the south of the Yangtze River, Yuan Chonghuan sent an army to Jurong, Moling Pass, Dasheng Pass and other important places.

However, Li Dingguo's department was equipped with a large number of horses to load weapons and baggage, and the marching speed was extremely fast, especially the Red Lady Department, which was a light cavalry known for its speed. Moreover, the distance between Jurong and Zhenjiang is not much farther than Nanjing. When the army sent by Yuan Chonghuan was still on the road, Li Dingguo's troops had already approached the city of Jurong and easily attacked the city.

Subsequently, Li Dingguo waited for work, and easily defeated the reinforcements sent by Yuan Chonghuan to Jurong, and the Red Lady personally led the cavalry to pursue, and Yuan Chonghuan sent 5,000 reinforcements Only a small number of them were killed, and the rest surrendered. After all, the two legs of the reinforcements can't outrun the four legs of the cavalry of the Red Lady Division.

After conquering Jurong, Li Dingguo left a small number of troops to defend Jurong and led most of the soldiers and horses to continue the attack.

According to the original plan, it was to capture Moling Pass and Dasheng Pass, and then attack the prefectures and counties in Jiangnan that surrendered to Zhu Yousong, the puppet prison state, to attack and harass the back road of the rebels and cut off their grain supplies.

Yuan Chonghuan's army of 200,000 consumed countless money and grain every day, and the grain in Nanjing's 24 Weicang was controlled by Hong Chengchou, and Yuan Chonghuan's army could not get enough supplies from the outer city, even if he ordered to loot the people in the outer city.

Because of the defeat in the Yangtze River Water Battle, the Yangtze River waterway is now controlled by the Janissaries, and it is impossible to transport grain from Jiangxi to Nanjing through the Yangtze River, and can only rely on the surrendered Nanzhili provinces to provide supplies. Huizhou, Ningde, Taiping, and Ningguo were all controlled by Yuan Chonghuan, plus the prefectures and counties to which Yingtianfu belonged, it was not a problem to feed an army of 200,000 for several months with the land of the five prefectures, and the grain from Jiangxi could also enter Huizhou through Raozhou and enter Nanjing by other routes. As long as the Moling Pass is laid, the connection between Nanjing and Ningde, Huizhou and other places can be cut off.

Therefore, after Li Dingguo took Jurong, he did not go to Nanjing, but came to Moling Pass at the same time. Because the subordinates had the Red Lady light cavalry to join, more than 1,000 cavalry were sent around the army, which could cover up the enemy. Many anti-thief sentries were killed by the Red Lady's light horse, so that Yuan Chonghuan in Nanjing City could not detect Li Dingguo's movements at all. Of course, Yuan Chonghuan didn't care about it at that time, after all, according to the previous investigation, Li Dingguo's ministry was only a few thousand.

However, it was these thousands of people who bypassed Nanjing and laid the Moling Pass to the south!

After Li Dingguo conquered Moling Pass, he originally thought of leaving part of the army to guard the pass, and then led his troops to Dasheng Pass. As long as the victory is achieved, the connection between Nanjing and Taiping Wuhu and other places can be cut off, so that Nanjing will become an isolated city, and Yuan Chonghuan's 200,000 troops will be trapped and killed in the outer city of Nanjing.

After resting for a few days and recovering the strength of the army, Li Dingguo was about to lead his troops to set off when a sentry suddenly came to report that a thief army was coming from Nanjing to Moling Pass.

At first, Li Dingguo thought that the Nanjing thief army had discovered the news of the loss of Moling Pass, and Yuan Chonghuan sent troops to attack and recapture Moling Pass. After careful consideration, Li Dingguo ambushed more than 1,000 troops in Moling Town, hiding in the homes of the people, if the thief army attacked Moling Pass, this army would attack the thief army from behind.

Unexpectedly, this thief army was unaware of it, and even passed through Moling Town without even sending a sentry, and when they arrived at Moling Pass, they found that the situation was wrong, and their reaction was really a little sluggish.

After discovering that the thieves were aware of it, the Praetorian Guards who were ambushed in Moling Town attacked directly from behind, and the Red Lady also took the opportunity to rush out with light horses and attacked the thieves directly.

When Li Dingguo led the remaining infantry out of Guancheng, the battlefield situation was a foregone conclusion, and the five thousand anti-thieves had already collapsed under the front and rear.

Looking at the defeated subordinates, Yuan Chonghuan's eyes turned black for a while, he tried his best, and did not hesitate to leave the army in order to be able to escape, but he didn't expect that he would not be able to escape in the end.

Looking at the defeated subordinates, and then looking at the more enemy troops killed in the distance, Yuan Chonghuan felt a burst of despair in his heart, and couldn't help but smile bitterly.

I think he has always regarded himself very highly, and he set up his ambition to pacify Liaodong early, and he also made great contributions in Liaodong, but he didn't expect to be squeezed out by the eunuch party and forced to resign and surrender. After Emperor Chongzhen ascended the throne, he quickly disposed of the eunuchs, Yuan Chonghuan thought that he would definitely be reused, responsible for the entire Liaodong war situation, but he did not expect to receive a holy decree on the way to Beijing, and was sent to Jiangxi to be the governor.

After staying in Jiangxi for four years, it took a lot of effort to finally train an elite army to block the rebellious Gannan bandits in the mountains, and they could be pacified one by one. Who knew that at this time, there were gentry from Guangdong and Fujian who intervened and occupied it, got a large number of firearms to support the bandit army, and accidentally lost the battle and fled all the way back to Nanchang.

And in the following time, everything was like a dream, these desperate mountain bandits who were killed by themselves turned out to grow in strength like a snowball, and they occupied the southern provinces of Jiangxi in just a few months, and even grew to 200,000 troops, besieging themselves in Nanchang City.

It was only then that Yuan Chonghuan discovered that most of the gentry in Jiangxi had become thieves, and even the people in Nanchang were panicked, and the officials and gentry in the city had a tendency to collude with the thief army.

After considering it all, Yuan Chonghuan knew that he couldn't hold Nanchang City at all, so he listened to the persuasion of the gentry, joined forces with the thief army, and jointly supported Zhu Yousong, the son of the former Fu King who was rescued from Fengyang, as the prisoner of the country, and embarked on the road of rebellion.

The reason for the rebellion was because Huaicai did not feel that he was not reused by the emperor, and more importantly, Huang Li and other gentry promised that the new court would be dominated by Yuan Chonghuan, which made Yuan Chonghuan very moved and finally made a rebellion. Then he led an army of 200,000 out of Jiangxi and went all the way down the river to Nanjing.

Thinking back on the experience of the past few months, as if in a dream, Yuan Chonghuan smiled bitterly, he knew that he had reached a dead end.

With a "bang" and pulled out the sword at his waist, Yuan Chonghuan was about to kill himself with a horizontal sword.

"Don't do that!" A standard battalion guard screamed in surprise, shook his hand and smashed Yuan Chonghuan's sword with the barrel of his gun.

"Kill the officer, the officer doesn't want to be captured!" Yuan Chonghuan ordered at the guard. He knew in his heart what a terrible crime he had committed, and what a miserable fate awaited him if he was caught by the Praetorian Guards! It's better to have a hundred.

"Don't take your life lightly, it's better to die than to live." The guard grabbed Yuan Chonghuan's wrist, and then shouted at the killing Praetorian Guard: "Yuan Chonghuan has been captured by me, I am willing to surrender!" ”

The other guards were stunned for a moment, and they all rushed over, and grabbed Yuan Chonghuan with their hands: "I also caught Yuan Chonghuan, and I am willing to surrender!"

In an instant, more than a dozen guards held Yuan Chonghuan down tightly, making him unable to move at all.

The other guards couldn't intervene, so they rushed towards the others around Yuan Chonghuan.

With a "dang long", Huang Li pulled out the sword at his waist and slashed at a guard, knocking the guard to the ground.

"Hurry up and escort the cabinet to leave, don't mess around, we still have a chance!" Huang Li shouted hoarsely. The Huang family in Quanzhou was raided by Li Yanzhi, and Huang Li and the emperor had a deep enmity like the sea, and they were never willing to surrender, let alone be arrested, but only wanted to escape back to Jiangxi and make a comeback.

Huang Li saw clearly that the number of the attacking Praetorian Guards was not as large as his own, as long as the soldiers were single-minded, it was not impossible to escape.

However, Huang Li didn't know that many times fighting a war is not necessarily good if there are more soldiers, although the current standard battalion has a large number of troops and the equipment is not inferior to the attacking Praetorian Guards, but the morale has been low and left, and most of the soldiers have lost their fighting spirit, otherwise there would not be such a thing as the standard battalion soldiers rebelling against the water and arresting Yuan Chonghuan.

"Don't mess ......"

As soon as he shouted two sentences, a spear stabbed from behind, stabbing Huang Li's body through at once, and the shouting suddenly stopped.

Qian Qianyi stared blankly at everything in front of him, and his body trembled with fear. Like Huang Li, because the fields were divided, the slaves were disbanded, and because the identity of the Donglin party leader had been suppressed and he could not come back, Qian Qianyi had long been desperate for Emperor Zhu Youzhen, so he chose to join Yuan Chonghuan to join the rebellion.

Because of his close relationship with the Donglin Party, Yuan Chonghuan attaches great importance to Qian Qianyi, and he will inevitably be reused in the Jiangxi Imperial Court. For the sake of his career, Qian Qianyi also devoted himself to Jiangxi and helped Yuan Chonghuan wholeheartedly. Without Qian Qianyi's help, it would be impossible for the prefectures and counties of Nanzhili to choose to return to Jiangxi in a short period of time.

As long as the entire city of Nanjing is captured, Zhu Yousong, the son of King Fu, will come to Nanjing to ascend the throne as the emperor, and with Qian Qianyi's status and contribution, he will inevitably be above 10,000 people in the new court in the future, and there is no doubt about entering the cabinet!

However, now, looking at the defeated standard camp and looking at Yuan Chonghuan's personal guards who were against the water, Qian Qianyi smiled bitterly, only feeling how ridiculous what he had done in the past few days.

Qian Qianyi picked up a knife from the ground and put it across his neck, wanting to cut his neck with force, but he stopped as soon as he cut the skin, it was too painful to do it at all. As he hesitated, one hand reached out, snatched the knife away, and then several more reached out and held him firmly.

ps: I got drunk again yesterday and forgot to ask for leave.