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  Chapter 377 375【Run away again】

  Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Luo Rucai, Lao Huihui... These Northwest rogues may have no other specialties, but they are very capable of breaking through.

  As soon as Zhao Han pouted his butt, Zhang Xianzhong knew what **** he was going to do.

   You must not go to the west. Zhao Han must be secretly mobilizing troops. Withdrawing from the west will completely fall into the encirclement!

  This is the experience heaped up with human life. Zhang Xianzhong spent several years being surrounded and breaking out.

  Old Huihui also knew that if he returned directly to the army, he would be surrounded, so he proposed to flee eastward.

  Sun Kewang knew the same thing, so he proposed to repeatedly pull and take advantage of the loopholes in the continuous mobilization of troops between the two sides.

   Zhang Xianzhong was still the most vicious. After Zhao Han's main force appeared, he immediately decided to take only the cavalry to attack and counterattack. If the raid is successful, it will make a lot of money. Even if the raid fails, as long as Zhao Han does not return to the army in time, Zhang Xianzhong can slip away calmly.

  As for those elite infantry, in Zhang Xianzhong's opinion, they could no longer fight, at least they couldn't fight tough battles on the way to withdraw.

   During the siege battle for more than half a month, especially the last siege, the morale of the whole army has dropped to the extreme, and the Datong army has already become afraid. If Zhang Xianzhong retreats with such troops, he feels that he is looking for death, so he might as well separate the cavalry from the infantry!

   More than 10,000 cavalry and cavalry teams rushed quickly with thousands of mules, carrying a small amount of food and kindling on their backs.

  They descended from an unexpected direction, namely the west side of Chilong Lake.

  The rivers there are criss-crossed, and the paddy fields are everywhere. Let alone cavalry, even a fast march is enough.

   But Zhang Xianzhong is here, and Sun Kewang is the guide himself, because this belongs to Sun Kewang's territory, and he is very familiar with various rivers and terrains.

  In order to strengthen his control over wealthy areas, Sun Kewang paved dirt roads in key states and counties. Although these dirt roads are only two meters wide, they can be used for cavalry, and it is very convenient to go to the countryside to collect food.

  Under the moonlight, among the complex river network and farmland, Zhang Xianzhong's entire army galloped holding torches.

   It even crossed two small rivers on the way. The bridges on those small rivers were not built by Sun Kewang, but were built by local gentry in the middle of Ming Dynasty.

  Sun Kewang stopped and said: "Father, we are less than ten miles away from Qizhou. You can order the whole army to put out the torches first."

  Zhang Xianzhong ordered the whole army to dismount and bind their hooves, and continued to advance after putting out the torches.

   And sent envoys to contact the defenders in the city.

  The Datong Army said it was besieging the city, but in fact it was stationed in the north and south of Zhu Lake, with many ships docked in the middle to communicate. The place where the ships stopped was Li Shizhen's tomb.

  Lu Xiangsheng had already guessed the direction of Zhang Xianzhong's surprise attack, but his marching route was contrary to Lu Xiangsheng's guess. Instead of going around to the east side of Chilong Lake, they went around the more difficult but closer west side, causing Zhao Han's cavalry to rush in the wrong direction.

   It's not completely wrong to jump in the wrong direction. As long as it is stuck there, Zhang Xianzhong can be prevented from fleeing eastward.

   "Enemy attack, enemy attack! Light the beacon!"

   About six miles northwest of Qizhou City, there is a camp on a small hill, in which a thousand farmers and soldiers of Datong are stationed.

  Although Zhang Xianzhong hid it well, he still exposed his whereabouts.

   "Full speed ahead!"

  Zhang Xianzhong could only mobilize in advance, regardless of this camp, the whole army rushed towards the main camp in the northeast of Qizhou City.

  After the beacon smoke rose from the camp, it had little effect, because it was night, and the friendly troops a few miles away could not see at all. They blew their trumpets vigorously, but it was also ineffective. This camp was used to spread news during the day.

  However, they forced Zhang Xianzhong to march faster, and the sound of rumbling horseshoes quickly awakened Jiang Liang in the camp.

   "Whoa! Whoa! Whoa!"

  Bronze whistles sounded in the battalion, whether it was farmers, soldiers or peasants, they all quickly got up and assembled separately.

  Many of the peasants here are farmers and soldiers themselves!

  A surprise attack is also a surprise attack. Jiang Liang was killed by surprise, and he couldn't make a perfect defense in a haste. Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong didn't know about it until he was thrown outside the camp.

  The defenders in the city also rushed out to cooperate with Zhang Xianzhong to attack the camp at night.

   It was the northern camp that was attacked, and there was a southern camp on the other side of the lake.

  Southern battalion leader Yu Liangfu quickly assembled his troops. Instead of taking a boat to rescue the friendly army, he led 10,000 peasant soldiers and 10,000 farmers to attack Qizhou City directly!

   "Heroes, let's kill together!"

  Zhu Hekun pulled out his waist knife and shouted loudly, rushing towards Qizhou City like crazy.

   This guy belongs to the clan of King Jing, and his father's title is General Zhen Guo. Zhang Xianzhong led troops to kill, most of King Jing's lineage was killed, and the rest fled.

   Fortunately, Zhang Xianzhong did not pass by. He did not burn down Jingwang's Mansion, County Prince's Mansion, Princess Lord's Mansion, Zhenguo General's Mansion, and Fuguo General's Mansion like in history.

   Zhu Hekun is lucky. He was placed in Jiangxi, he was the object of suppression, but now he can lead the Datong Army.

  The north battalion had already started fighting, and the soldiers of the southern battalion raced against the clock. After half an hour, they finally rushed to Qizhou city. Due to time constraints, I didn't bring the kind of ladders with winches and hooks, and they were all simple ladders that were easily overturned.

  The city wall of Qizhou is about 5.8 meters high. Because half of the troops were dispatched out of the city to help Zhang Xianzhong attack at night, there were only 3,000 defenders left in the city.

  The first siege failed, and more than 400 Datong soldiers were killed or injured.

   At this moment, the city suddenly caught fire.

  How could it be possible that the city closest to Zhao Han's territory did not have meticulous work?

   "Kill the thief Zhang and welcome the king of Wu!"

   "Kill the thief Zhang and welcome the king of Wu!"

  The first responders were the big households in the city. The land in Qizhou was so fertile that the big households had all their suburban properties robbed. They lived in the city and were often exploited, and their life became more and more difficult every day. Only by driving Zhang Xianzhong away could they live a normal life.

  Since the day of the siege, the secret work has been connecting with the big households, and it is finally able to take the opportunity to start at this moment.

   Moreover, these people did not go to the city wall to help, but ran in groups to attack the homes of the defenders. If you can't get in, you will set fire directly, and if you get in, you will be massacred, even children will not be spared.

  The grievances between the big households and Zhang Xianzhong were too deep, and the meticulous work could not control the situation at all.

  Many city guards looked back and found that there was fire coming from their own direction, and there were shouts of killing, and they all wanted to go back to protect their families.

  Finally, some guards left the city wall without authorization and rushed towards their home.

   "Give back my family's life!"

  Zhu Hekun, the eldest son of the Zhenguo general, although he is not a Datong army, or even a Datong peasant soldier, spends his own money to make leather armor, and rushes to the front with a waist knife.

  His parents, his brother, his wife and children were all killed by Zhang Xianzhong.

  Zhu Hekun, who was wounded in his shoulder, suddenly turned in from the stomping mouth, and slashed out with a knife on his face. Seeing an enemy stabbing him, he slammed forward. After his waist was bruised, he hugged the enemy and fell to the ground entangled.

   More and more Datong soldiers attacked the tower, and more and more defenders escaped from the city wall.

  The leader of the Southern Battalion, Yu Liangfu, did not enter the city to strangle the remnants of the remnants of the soldiers immediately after attacking the tower, but ordered the whole army to shout together: "Under Heaven, Great Harmony!"

  Beiying direction.

   Zhang Xianzhong was already in shock when he saw the fire in the city, and then he heard the shouts of order in the city. How could he not know that Qizhou City was taken?

   The Qizhou soldiers who came to help the battle were even more frightened. Their families were all in the city!

  At this time the sky was dimly bright, Zhang Xianzhong was so angry that his teeth itched, he said aggrievedly: "Withdraw the troops!"

  Night raids, with the help of city guards, gave the Beiying Datong Army a maximum of ten minutes to assemble.

  In such a short period of time, the farmers and soldiers of Datong actually assembled, and more than half of them reached the defensive position.

   Such a situation was completely beyond Zhang Xianzhong's imagination. He could not understand how the enemy did it.

  A regular division of Li Zheng, although the rescue was too late, it finally came.

   "Bang bang bang!"

   With a volley of guns fired, Zhang Xianzhong's infantry collapsed instantly - they were already on the verge of collapse due to the loss of the city.

  Zhang Xianzhong abandoned his infantry and went west, but Sun Kewang caught up and said, "Don't you go east?"

  Zhang Xianzhong said depressedly: "The enemy's reinforcements have all come, and our plan has been seen through. There must be Zhao Han's cavalry blocking the way to the east."

   Zhang Xianzhong led the cavalry back the same way, and then ran straight north. He wanted to make a time difference to see if he could find a place to cross the Qishui River. As long as they succeed, they will be able to support their elite infantry across the river.

  Li Zheng saw corpses all over the camp, and asked, "How about the loss?"

  Jiang Liang said angrily: "There are thousands of casualties, and it is estimated that thousands of people were killed in battle. Several camps were breached, and the cavalry rushed into the battle in a hurry."

  The Datong army also gained something. Not only did they capture Qizhou City, but they also got thousands of mules.

   That was Zhang Xianzhong's mule team mount, carrying fire starters and a small amount of food. I planned to kill all the way to Wujiaxue, but I didn't expect that I didn't even take down Qizhou Beiying. In the end, thousands of mules were all given to Zhao Han.

  Zhao Han sent out a large number of sentry cavalry, looking for traces of Zhang Xianzhong's cavalry everywhere.

   After a whole day, I finally got the news that Zhang Xianzhong had crossed the Qishui River.

  Zhao Han finally understood Yang Sichang's mood, his mother's "ten sides spread the net", every time the net is not set up, Zhang Xianzhong has already run away!

  However, only the cavalry and cavalry were able to run. Zhang Xianzhong's tens of thousands of infantry, food and civilian husbands were all pursued by Zhao Han in the mountains.

  Zhao Han deliberately chased him lightly, hoping to lure Zhang Xianzhong back to rescue him.

   Even intentionally let the enemy infantry that had been divided to regroup and escape, but Zhang Xianzhong just didn't show up, and it seemed that he really abandoned all the infantry.

   Who the **** is this?

  Replacing Zhao Han, it is absolutely impossible to do such a thing. Even if there is only a chance of survival, Zhao Han will fight with tens of thousands of infantry.

  Lu Xiangsheng sighed: "Zhang Xianzhong will not come back, let's wipe out all these enemy troops."

  Lu Xiangsheng was also very depressed. He led the cavalry to intercept, but ended up blocking an empty space. Every time he misjudged Zhang Xianzhong's marching route.

   Regardless of Zhang Xianzhong's fighting ability, this guy's ability to escape is definitely an S-rank general.

  To be honest, if Zhang Xianzhong was given 50,000 cavalry, he might be able to play tricks, and the interspersed raids would always be unexpected.

  Zhao Han got on his horse and ordered: "Follow at full speed, gather and annihilate the enemy's infantry!"

   (Two updates today.)

  (end of this chapter)