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Chapter 601 The Emperor's Decision

"Stop, the escapee will be killed!"

Behind the infantry formation, He Shixian roared like crazy.

Behind him were the cavalry forming formations.

These are his servants. As a traditional general, if you don’t bring 500 servants in the battle, you will never go to the battlefield. These servants are also his supervisors. At this moment, facing the collapse of the battle ahead, these servants have become his last hope...

Well, the servants are useless.

Tens of thousands of infantry in front ran back like a battalion, and the defense line composed of five hundred clans could be of no use.

Then it was washed down.

He Shixian swung the iron whip in grief and anger, trying to smash the defeated soldiers, but the defeated soldiers also had weapons in their hands. He really didn't dare to shoot at him, but when thousands of spearmen fleeing, it was purely normal for a few spears to stab him.

He Shixian had just defeated a defeated soldier, and seven or eight spears on the other side poked over. He seemed to have waved an iron whip under the city of Shenyang in history, but a spear still pressed against his chest. Although the thickened plate armor on his body blocked the spearhead, the force still made him fall down to the horse. Fortunately, the personal soldiers next to him reacted quickly, grabbed him and pulled him towards him. He Shixian, who was dismissed, almost stepped on the defeated soldiers rushing over from below and stood on the personal soldiers' horses, and then watched the defeated soldiers rushing past in grief and anger.

The torrent quickly rushed over from both sides of him.

Behind were the chasing Jingnan Army, each carrying spears and muskets with bayonets.

But it can't be said to be a pursuit, at least the word "Shoot" does not exist.

Because all the soldiers who were caught surrendered at the fastest speed, no one stopped to resist, but the pursuit did not bother to accept their surrender at this time, and they all ran away and who was willing to stop. They just pointed back and let them go and wait by themselves, and then continued to pursue them forward.

Until they met He Shixian.

The servants quickly gathered together to form a formation, while the Jingnan army stopped one after another, and then quickly arranged the array to prepare for battle with spears and muskets. Then the servants looked at He Shixian, and the Jingnan army also looked at this obvious general.

He Shixian...

What else can he do!

This is not a desperate fight with Jiannu in Liaodong. After all, it doesn't even count the suppression and rebellion. The emperor has never said that Yang Xin rebelled. In fact, anyone who dares to say that Yang Xin rebelled was dismissed from the court and refused to admit the reality as if he was hiding his ears. Therefore, Yang Xin is still a dignified Duke of Yingguo. At present, these soldiers are all dignified Nanjing garrisons, and they are still on the list of the Governor's Office and the Ministry of War. They have nothing to do with the word "rebels".

Even if they had already started a war with the court, they were still not considered rebellious.

After all, what the court feared most was not Yang Xin’s separatist rule, but that he cut off food for the north. The most separatist rule was that the gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang were unlucky, and he cut off food for the north, but he was unlucky.

Surrender at this time, just surrender!

Poor He Shixian faced a gun in front of him, and finally lamented and threw away his iron whip.

Then the personal soldiers also threw away the weapons in their hands.

Lu Xiangsheng looked at this scene silently.

"Yixing Bo."

You Shiwei said carefully.

His brother was also defeated, but You Shigong ran faster than He Shixian and was fleeing back with his personal soldiers.

Most of the infantry behind him had surrendered.

Only a small number of escapes back.

However, Lu Xiangsheng was not completely defeated, because his core cavalry was fine. At most, Zu Dashou and Wu Xiang lost some, and You Shiwei's troops did not suffer any loss. There were Luo Yiguan's troops and those Mongolian cavalry on the southern front. At least on this battlefield, he still had the power to fight.

"retreat!"

Lu Xiangsheng said calmly.

"Yixing Bo, we can trap them. As long as we cut off their food, we will naturally be trapped to death in no time!"

You Shiwei said.

Of course, this is just a saying.

He also knew that the Jingnan Army in Xuyi had already begun to head north and there were three armies in the south. If these infantry continued to advance north to reinforce, the cavalry would not be able to stop it. This was no longer the time for cavalry to crush the infantry.

Even infantry began to overwhelm the cavalry.

At least on the battlefield, it is difficult for cavalry to break through the infantry formation.

But siege is still an option.

After all, infantry can form formations to withstand cavalry, but those supply teams that transport food and ammunition cannot withstand cavalry. As long as the cavalry spreads out and continuously attacks the transport team on the southern line and can cut off the transportation line, then Yang Xin will eventually be unable to hold on. Shihe shipping is no big deal. This is not the Yangtze River and Yellow River. The water depth of the river cannot stop the cavalry from wading by. It is not difficult to intercept the transport ships on the river. This is also the main tactical means of cavalry against infantry. Large-scale joint wars like this are not the most commonly used, but the result is that the war will last...

"No need, we are solving the trouble for His Majesty rather than causing trouble, withdrawing our troops!"

Lu Xiangsheng said.

Then he turned around and left with the guard.

You Shiwei looked at the eunuch who was supervising the army with some confusion...

Of course, there must be eunuchs who supervise the army.

Moreover, the one who came to supervise the army this time was Tu Wenfu, the eunuch of the Imperial Horse Supervisor.

"There are earthquakes everywhere in Shuntian Prefecture, and countless casualties in Tongzhou and other places. Floods in the west mountain pass through the capital. There are floods in many places in Zhili in the north. The Emperor Wansui has no energy to waste his energy and the Duke of Yingguo will no longer be able to waste his life. If it is a big deal, the Duke of Yingguo really cut off the transport of the canal, and the capital will be starved. This battle ends here. Since we already know that we can't beat him, we should take advantage of the fact that we have not completely broken up. As long as the Duke of Yingguo does not continue to go out, the Duke of Yingguo will give him Jiangsu and Zhejiang temporarily.

He doesn't pay taxes either.

If he continues to fight, he can hold on, but we can't. He really cut off the canal transportation, and we don't even have food to eat."

Tu Wenfu whispered.

You Shiwei did not ask any more and quickly urged his subordinates to order the withdrawal of troops.

Apocalypse really doesn't have the energy to fight.

Although the big explosion in history was originally a big explosion, Yang Xin had already stored the gunpowder from Wang Gong Factory in scattered this time, and in fact, two large-scale decisive battles in two years almost exhausted the gunpowder reserved by Wang Gong Factory. This time, Lu Xiangsheng went south and almost emptied the gunpowder depots everywhere. Not to mention fighting, the 100,000 troops even if all firearms were tested once, the gunpowder consumed would probably be 100,000 kilograms.

It takes a hundred days of salt to survive, but it is not as good as a general.

The consumption of gunpowder made of firearms is a very amazing number.

In the end, the Wanggong Factory explosion did not happen.

At present, the total gunpowder in each warehouse in the capital may not be 200,000 kilograms!

But the cause of the Wanggongchang explosion, which is the earthquake in the capital area, is definitely going to happen.

Not only the capital city, but also the entire Shuntian Prefecture and even some parts of northern Zhili have experienced earthquakes of varying scales.

At the same time, accompanied by earthquakes and frequent floods in various places.

Especially not long ago, the flood in the West Mountains passed through the capital, causing heavy losses. The entire capital was almost completely buried in the flood. Hebei was almost full of earthquakes and floods from north to south. Even the farthest Datong had earthquakes. It can be said that the entire north was shrouded in various disasters.

Tianqi really didn't have the energy to continue fighting with Yang Xin.

Jiu Qiansui still has some money for the time being, and he can indeed maintain it, but the money was saved little by little over the years. Once Yang Xin stopped delivering it, it would be swallowed by the two gold-swalking beasts, war and disaster, in less than a year.

What did he use to maintain it at that time?

Tianqi was very clear-headed and tolerated Yang Xin's separatist rule over Jiangsu and Zhejiang. He could continue to hold on. Moreover, since Yang Xin agreed to pay taxes, he would not cut off food for him. However, he could not hold on to the protracted war. As for Yang Xin's ambition to become big and Yang Xin...

So what can I do?

Anyway, I can't beat it on the battlefield now.

Of course, everything is easy to say. Even if you don’t say it is a sure win, as long as you have hope of defeat, you can work hard. But now if you want to fart like this, the two new troops alone spent more than two million taels, but they collapsed without even firing one shot.

How to fight such an army?

I am sure that I can't win a battle and even fuck it!

With Lu Xiangsheng's retreat, Luo Yiguan and other troops, who were originally blocking the southern line, also retreated. They fought very hard. King Guangshunyi himself lost more than 1,500 cavalry, and the worst King Shunchang had less than 1,500 cavalry left. Originally, when he went south, the 15,000 Mongolian coalition forces, even the epidemic and battlefield losses, were less than 9,000. Moreover, midsummer was approaching, and the epidemic problem among them would definitely intensify.

They also began to be depressed at this time.

In this way, Lu Xiangsheng's decisive army finally retreated to Xuzhou, leaving only a complete cavalry army and five cavalry troops with at least nearly 20% of the loss.

The infantry was completely gone.

Both armies surrendered in the pursuit of the Jingnan Army.

They were not cavalrymen who could retreat quickly. Although their casualties were actually less than a thousand, most of them were trampled on each other, and the rest was caused by artillery bombardment. Although Sun Yuanhua soon arrived in Xuzhou with three infantry troops, Lu Xiangsheng had actually lost the ability to attack...

Defensive is also difficult.

After all, Xuzhou doesn’t even have a city.

Yang Xin's army continued northward and soon arrived at the periphery of Xuzhou.

At this time, the Zhejiang Front Army in the south had also surrounded Hangzhou.

The government army, Susong regiment training, Zhejiang regiment training or former Datong regiment training, there were 70,000 people on the defense line from Changshu to Hangzhou in the north, and the five Jingnan troops from the south, plus the same five Jingnan troops from the west to the east, and a total of 100,000 Jingnan troops, including the Marine Corps. Fortunately, at this time, the Duke of Yingguo started his busy farming routine again, and harvested wheat first and then planted rice seedlings in various places, and then fought after finishing the farm work.

Of course, there is no need to fight again.
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