On the whole, the battle was a one-sided situation from the start. In the middle, although the Demon Sect in the local area also fought several waves of sharp counterattacks, almost tearing a hole, but where there is danger, there are Qin Shuhuai, Zhiren, Wang Datong, Meng Wei, Shangshui Shitai and other masters appeared, each of these masters is equivalent to an assault team, and the officers and troops under their leadership will soon be able to suppress the breakthrough of the Demon Sect.

In the Demon Sect Array, Zhao Wuxian was dismantled, his eyes were cracked and his teeth were bared, and he roared again and again. He frantically waved the long knife in his hand and cut one Ming soldier after another in half! But there were so many Ming troops that he couldn't kill them at all!

Wu Lie said to Zhao Wuxian, "Protector Zhao, let's go!"

Zhao Wuxian shouted, "Ridiculous! As a Dharma protector, how could the old man leave his brothers behind and leave?"

"Protector of the Dharma, the brothers are no longer able to break through, only you can go out! You can't realize the grand plan and hegemony of my sect without you! If you die, the brothers' revenge will be even more difficult to revenge!"

When the other people around Zhao Wuxian heard this, they immediately persuaded one after another.

"Dharma Protector, let's go!"

"Remember to avenge the brethren!"

Zhao Wuxian raised his eyelids suddenly, "Revenge! Yes, I want revenge, I want to live to kill Qin Shuhuai with my own hands!"

Then, he immediately yelled, "Those who can keep up with them will come with the old man!"

With that, he jumped to his feet and flew towards the mountains to the north.

At the same time, about thirty or forty people who had achieved light merit followed him and jumped in the same direction.

Qin Shuhuai, Zhiren, Wang Datong and others were willing to let him go, and they all performed light skills and immediately chased after him. In addition to them, there were a few people in the army who had good light skills, and they immediately jumped up and chased after them.

Zhao Wuxian's thirty or forty followers were already ready to sacrifice for the protection of the Dharma, and they immediately turned back and used their flesh and blood to block Qin Shuhuai and the other masters.

Naturally, they fell from the sky!

But Zhao Wuxian ran away, and five or six other Demon Sect masters also ran away by luck.

Wu Lie went to stop Qin Shuhuai, Qin Shuhuai remembered that he had beaten a Tartar and was a good man, so he only stabbed him in the left shoulder with a sword, and then kicked him to the ground, and ordered the officers and soldiers below to only capture him and not kill him.

The rest of the demon cult soldiers were leaderless, and the rout was faster.

But none of them surrendered, and all of them chose to fight to the death!

I don't even break through the breakout, it's completely the mentality of killing one to make one, killing two to earn one.

The encirclement is shrinking smaller and smaller, but the morale of the demon cultists is getting higher and higher. They roared, laughed, and sang, and in the shadow of swords and swords, they contributed the last drop of blood to the Demon Cult.

It's dawning.

The fight that lasted for an hour is over!

Corpses are all over the field, stumps and broken bones are all over the place, blood stains the green grassland, and the morning glow on the edge of the sky is even more gorgeous.

The cheers of the officers and soldiers sounded like thunder in the ravine, and the air trembled slightly!

Take stock of the results.

The fifteen-thousand-strong army of the Demon Sect, except for Zhao Wuxian and the dozen or so good hands, the rest of the army was wiped out. Not a single one broke through, not a single one surrendered, all were killed, or committed suicide. The Ming army captured only one prisoner, and that was Wu Lie, who could not move after falling.

On the Ming side, there were about 12,000 casualties, of which only more than 8,000 were killed, and the rest were all kinds of light and serious wounded.

This statistical result greatly lifted the spirits of Hong Chengchou, Cao Wenzhao and others. They realized that with reasonable tactics and sufficient armaments, no matter how strong the soldiers in the world were, the officers and soldiers could not be eliminated!

More importantly, these Gansu soldiers in Lanzhou City, after the baptism of several major wars, have established full self-confidence. Now these soldiers are already elite compared to the soldiers in other places.

For a unit, the elevation from a ragtag army to an elite is often a matter of several battles. In addition to the relatively lax training, the most important thing is that the morale of the soldiers has been low for a long time, and as soon as the soldiers see the enemy, they will run away, and as soon as the battle begins, they will feel that they cannot win the battle, and if they cannot win the battle, they will want to run even more, and as long as a handful of soldiers want to run, then it will spread like a plague, so that even a 100,000-strong army will be crushed at the touch of a button.

After these major battles, on the one hand, these soldiers have a deeper understanding of military orders, battle formations, and coordinated operations -- no training method can train soldiers better than actual combat. On the other hand, the successive victories of Lian Zhan made these soldiers burst with self-confidence, thus generating a sense of honor and belonging. On the battlefield, the atmosphere is terrifying!

Now, they consider themselves to be the elite and the pillars of the Ming Dynasty. If other troops can't beat it, they can do it. What other troops can't do, they can do!

Demon Sect? It's a fart! Lao Tzu has been working with them since Lanzhou City, from inside the city to outside the city, and in the end, he was not killed by Lao Tzu?

Has Marquis Qin heard of it? Lao Tzu is fighting the Demon Sect with him! Let's wipe out the entire army of the Demon Sect together! Can you ask if the battalions in other places can defeat the Demon Sect except for our Gansu soldiers?

At the scene, the morale of the officers and soldiers was completely bursting!

Qin Shuhuai ordered people to quickly clean up the battlefield, and then immediately retreated to the southeast with a large army.

He was afraid that the demon cult army would catch up again.

Qin Shuhuai's plan was to retreat southeast to Pingliang first. First, Pingliang is the closest Dacheng to here, and the more than 60,000 troops can only be safe if they hurry into the city, and they can get rapid supplies. The second is that the martial arts alliance should also be able to reach Pingliang soon, so let's meet them first. Finally, the geographical location of Pingliang is very important, the west can resist the demon sect to the east, and the south can go straight to Baoji, and after arriving in Baoji, you can go south with the 20,000 horses of He Renlong in Xi'an to suppress Gao Yingxiang.

Send Gansu to the Demon Sect, and then at the same time stabilize the defense of the western part of Shaanxi, advance to suppress Gao Yingxiang. After killing Gao Yingxiang, he will return to attack the Demon Sect, this is Qin Shuhuai's established strategy, which is the same as Hong Chengchou.

However, it is not known what the Demon Sect will do when it is suppressed against Gao Yingxiang, so this strategy is not set in stone, but will be improvised.

Two days later, the army arrived in Pingliang and was stationed on the spot.

This was the end of the Battle of Lanzhou. In this battle, the officers and soldiers lost nearly 70,000 in battle, the Demon Sect lost about 35,000 in battle, and the Ma Shouying Department lost nearly 20,000 in battle.

Such a result can be said to be overjoyed for the imperial court. For the Demon Sect, it was unexpected.

After this battle, the three words "Qin Shuhuai" became a scar on the chest of the Demon Sect, which could never be erased. In the army, "Marquis Qin" is no longer a simple title, it represents more of a kind of power, a kind of power that soldiers can feel at ease when they hear it! Anyway, follow Marquis Qin, yes!

On May 26 of the third year of Chongzhen, 110,000 martial arts coalition troops arrived in Pingliang.

After hearing that Qin Shuhuai successfully brought out the official army of Lanzhou City and achieved a great victory in Silinggou, the disciples of all factions in the coalition army were all in high spirits.

Cao Huachun, the governor of Dongchang, personally congratulated Qin Shuhuai and said once again that Dongchang was from him and was ready to be dispatched at any time.

At the same time, the Houjin army outside the gate has been assembled, with a total of 80,000 elites, and once again embarked on the road to the southern expedition to the Ming Dynasty.

Inside the Forbidden City, however, it's a different story.

Zhou Yanru took Chen Shang, the squire of the military department, and Zhao Yan, the Gansu Qing official of the military department, in front of Chongzhen, accusing Qin Shuhuai of being cowardly and cowering, and abandoning the heavy city of Lanzhou without authorization, so that the whole province of Gansu fell. At the same time, he also joined Qin Shuhuai to shirk responsibility, lied about the victory of Silinggou, and asked Chongzhen to recall Qin Shuhuai immediately, so that the military department and the three divisions could inquire.