.There are advantages and disadvantages of each. The number of Ming soldiers is less than half of the Wu army. Wu Sangui's three thousand cavalry on both sides is not inferior to the Ming army, and even has an advantage under cold weapons. However, the Ming army is prepared and the Wu army was subject to a sudden attack. The two sides have a very different minds. In addition, the rest of the Wu army could not exert their strength in the night attack, so in fact, the Ming army had the upper hand.

Gunshots, grenades, cracks and guns, and the shouts of soldiers on both sides, and screams of wounded people. These sounds were mixed together. The entire Wu army camp was simply a mess. Both sides were tightly attached to each other. Most of the time, they could not distinguish between enemies and friends. The Ming army prepared a set of codes to distinguish enemies and me, and they were getting cheap in the melee.

However, the Wu army was very resilient, and the Ming army was unable to transform its advantages into victory, but instead fought for consumption. Although Wu Sangui was bleeding in his heart, Xia Wanchun was also heartbroken. The two sides fought for the middle of the night until less than an hour before dawn. Xia Wanchun saw that it was impossible to achieve a complete victory. The whistle whistle sounded one after another and led his army to withdraw from the battlefield.

The Ming army had the upper hand and retreated as soon as they wanted to. Wu Sangui was worried that there would be some mistakes in the pursuit in the dark, so he had to watch the Ming army leave. After dawn, the losses were counted. Wu Sangui shivered in pain. His three thousand family members were injured and killed and killed nearly a thousand people, and the remaining cavalry were more than 2,000 casualties. As for the Ming army, only about 260 bodies were left at the scene.

If the ordinary team had changed, such casualties would have been at night, and they would have collapsed long ago. Wu Sangui's three thousand servants were injured by one-third and could force the Ming army to retreat. It is really a top-notch strong army. If it can fight to this extent, if it is enough to make Wu Sangui proud in normal times, just comparing the casualties ratio between the two sides, how could Wu Sangui be proud?

What made Wu Sangui even more worried was that he had experienced many battles and probably guessed that there were only about 5,000 Ming troops attacked last night, and only 5,000 people forced one-third of his three thousand family members to suffer casualties. So what if the Ming army came to the land with 10,000 people, but the Ming army was far more than 10,000, and the most elite Yulin Guards had 100,000.

Wu Sangui didn't care about his feelings. He quickly ordered the Wu army to clean up, bury the body in a hurry and rushed to Taiyuan. Before the war last night, he was hesitant about whether to give up Taiyuan, but this battle made Wu Sangui clear. He realized the huge gap between him and the Ming Dynasty. It was imperative to give up Taiyuan and even give up the entire Shanxi.

When Wu Sangui rushed to Taiyuan, Xia Wanchun found a valley to rest. The war was both in the defeat. Although Xia Wanchun did not achieve the goal of defeating Wu Sangui's army, he also caused many casualties. In addition to more than 200 corpses on the scene, there were more than 1,000 people in the injured area and 5,000 cavalry. Only half of them were truly unharmed. Fortunately, most of them were minor injuries. As long as the medicine was applied and most of them could be recovered after bandaging the wound.

Although Wu Sangui's casualties were even greater, nearly one-third of the family members could not be supplemented in a short period of time, and the infantry he left behind had surrendered, Wu Sangui's attack on Shandong was a loss of money. Now Wu Sangui's strength has dropped by most, which is not without benefits for the next battle. Xia Wanchun still blamed himself for causing so many casualties.

After a brief settlement, Xia Wanchun sent someone to monitor the movements in Taiyuan City, and at the same time sent someone to quickly report to the emperor about Wu Sangui's return to Taiyuan to fight the two sides. After receiving information from Xia Wanchun, Wang Fu did not care that the army would rest in the state and immediately ordered the entire army to set off and advance to Taiyuan.

The state is less than a hundred miles from Taiyuan. According to the speed of the Ming army and local marching, it takes two days. Wang Fu was afraid that Xia Wanchun would be weak and could not stop the Wu army from withdrawing. He immediately allocated another 10,000 cavalry. Gao Jie led the team and rushed to Taiyuan first. It is necessary to prevent Wu Sangui from giving up Taiyuan and retreating to the northwest.

At the south gate of Taiyuan City, the soldiers guarding the city were leaning lazily on the side. Many soldiers on the city tower suddenly shouted loudly: "If there is an enemy, close the city gate!"

As soon as he heard the shout, the lazy Wu army jumped up from the ground like a fire, desperately blocking the people who were entering the city: "Retreat. Back. Close the city gate. Close the city gate." In a short time, the city gate slammed. The people outside immediately scattered when they saw whether they entered the city or not.

When Wu Sangui's army arrived at the city, the entire gate had been closed tightly. The city was facing a great enemy. He bent his bow and arrows in front of the city. Seeing tens of thousands of cavalrymen, many people on the city were sweating. There were only a few thousand people in the Ming army in front. Why did it suddenly become so many?

"Open the door. Open the door. We are the Pingxi King's Army." Seeing the city gate closed, Wu Jun shouted in front.

Hearing the shouts, the Wu army on the top of the city was calm. However, the Wu army was wearing red military uniforms at the same time. For a moment, the Wu army on the top of the city did not dare to make a judgment. He had to shout: "You wait. We want to report to the above."

"***, your dog eyes are blind, and even the prince can't tell the difference. If we don't open the door, we will smash it in." The Wu army under the city was furious. They had just experienced a bad battle, suffered heavy casualties and were in a bad mood.

When I arrived in Taiyuan, the city gate was closed. The terrible mood was imagined. If I were rational, I would even want to attack the city seriously.

Hearing the hateful words below, the Wu army on the front of the city did not dare to open the door, for fear of putting the enemy in. When Wu Sangui got the reward, he was immediately amazed and cried. He didn't know whether he should praise the subordinates in the city for being cautious in their work or scolding the other party for being blind, but he actually distinguished his own people or the Ming army.

"Prince, these soldiers on the city are so hateful. They don't take the prince seriously. After entering the city, they must be punished with hatred." A personal soldier couldn't help but say.

Wu Sangui ignored the complaints of his personal soldiers and turned to Ma Bao and said, "General Ma, go and call the door open."

"Yes, Prince." Ma Bao owed his body, and walked directly to the door with a few personal soldiers, shouting to Wu Jun on the top of the city: "I am Ma Bao, and it is indeed the prince's army to come back. Open the door quickly, otherwise you will be severely punished after entering the city."

"Ah, it's General Ma."

"It's indeed General Ma, please open the door quickly, open the door quickly."

The name of a person, the shadow of a tree, and the prestige of Ma Bao in the Wu army was very high, and many soldiers soon recognized it. Everyone did not dare to neglect it, so they quickly opened the city gate. Wu Sangui's army then stepped into Taiyuan City. A side general who had just ordered the city gate to pass the city gate was so scared that his legs were trembling, and he hurried down the city tower to pay homage to Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui didn't get much fire at the general. He just asked about the recent situation in Taiyuan. When he heard that there was only one Ming army in Taiyuan with about 5,000 people, Wu Sangui immediately thought of the Ming army that attacked him last night. He felt half of his heart. At least the Ming army had not arrived in Taiyuan for a large amount, but he didn't know that the state had just been lost last night, otherwise he would definitely be as anxious as if it was burned. He just said lightly: "You go down."

"Yes, Prince." The deputy general wiped a cold sweat. He didn't expect that he could pass this level so easily. However, when he calmed his mind and looked at the army of King Pingxi, he immediately opened his mouth wide and became surprised. There were countless wounded people in the prince's army. He was extremely confused. Could it be that the Ming army dared to block the prince's army? Otherwise, where did the wounded come from? However, the deputy general finally passed the level and knew that he shouldn't ask himself that he could never ask, so he had to keep this confusion in his heart.

In the Pingxi Prince's Mansion, a servant rushed Wu Sanfu reported: "San Master, you are very happy, the prince is back."

When Wu Sanfu heard his second brother come back, he almost jumped up happily. These days he has been worried. In the Wu family, even when Wu Xiang was alive, there was only one backbone, that is Wu Sangui. There is no way. Who made Wu Sangui become the most outstanding child of the Wu family at a young age and reach a height that his father has never reached in his life? In his opinion, as long as Wu Sangui comes back, there will be a huge problem to solve.

"Hurry, change my clothes, I'm going to greet my second brother."

"No, I'm back."

Wu Sangui's voice rang outside. Wu Sanfu didn't care about changing his clothes, so he hurried out and shouted in surprise: "Second brother, you are really back."

Everyone was in front of me, of course I came back seriously, but Wu Sangui didn't make any polite concessions with Wu Sanfu and directly ordered: "Stern brother, I will send my order immediately, clean up the fines and prepare to leave the city."

"What, Licheng?" Wu Sanfu was a little confused. He didn't expect that Wu Sangui would ask him to leave the city as soon as he came back: "Second brother, Taiyuan is our foundation, how can we leave? If we leave Taiyuan, where can our Wu family stay?"

"You don't have to worry about this. Taiyuan cannot be guarded. I just inform you that there will be two days at most to clean up. If my third brother is willing to stay in Taiyuan, I won't force it."

When Wu Sangui said this, Wu Sanfu dared not stay in Taiyuan: "Second brother, of course I will listen to you. I will follow you wherever you go."

"Okay, I have to arrange other things. The third brother will arrange everything in the family." After Wu Sangui said that, he turned around and walked out of the house.

"Oh, why is this happening?

"When seeing Wu Sangui turning around, Wu Sanfu sighed.

"Uncle San, the master is back." A delicate voice came from outside the hall. As soon as the voice fell, a 27 or 28-year-old young woman walked in from outside the hall. The young woman was Wu Sangui's concubine Chen Yuanyuan, and she was about to meet again with her husband for a long time. At this time, Chen Yuanyuan's eyes were full of joy. However, he had just heard the sound, but Wu Sangui was not seen in the hall. Chen Yuanyuan couldn't help but have a trace of doubt on her face.

Seeing Chen Yuanyuan's expression, Wu Sanfu couldn't bear to tell her what was going on, but Wu Sanfu still said: "The second brother has just returned, but he has gone out again. He told me to clean up the home and the army will withdraw from Taiyuan soon."
Chapter completed!