With one word from Qiu Hu, the fate of the three Qing troops Gushan was decided!
The reason why there are three instead of four is because Yue Le also left some troops at the rear, and together with all the troops, it is about one-third.
Of course, the specific number has to be decided by those heavenly soldiers in the sky!
Qiu Hu's order was tied to a rope and the hot air balloon was hoisted. When the few heavenly soldiers on the hot air balloon felt that it was almost done, they directly lit a smoke grenade. Qiu Hu below saw the four hot air balloons in the sky smoking, and would order the rocket artillery to fire signal rockets.
When Ling Zongjun and the commander-in-chief of the ten towns saw it below, they would immediately order their troops to attack!
Among them, Ling Zong's army personally led two townsmen to launch an assault on the fleeing Qing army. They first "cut off" their tails with one sword, and put this part of the Qing army into an encirclement along with the still resisting Qing army. Then these two towns would hand over the battle lines to other troops and engage in the pursuit of the Qing army. But don't chase too hard... If you chase too hard, you will be afraid that the Qing army will jump over the wall. You just need to eat the Qing army's army in small bites, and accumulate small victories into big victories.
Even if they reach Xiangyang, there will still be Zhuge's army waiting for them!
And seven of the remaining eight towns can be used for encirclement and annihilation operations! The total number of Ming troops in these seven towns was more than 80,000. The Qing army in the encirclement was only thirty thousand at most, and its firepower was at an absolute disadvantage. The whole army would be annihilated in a day or two at most!
As long as these 30,000 Qing troops are gone, Ling Zongjun can drive Yue Le's people farther away. Then the Ming Dynasty will take over the Jiangling, Jingmen, and Yuezhou lands.
Although Zhu Heji did not think about killing Wu Yingxiong and Wu Guogui immediately, he would not allow them to stay in Hubei. . Although Wu Zhou's current military strength has been reduced to the bottom among the three kingdoms of Ming and Qing Dynasties, he can still pull out a field army of more than 100,000 people and keep them by his side. Without tens of thousands of people watching, no one can sleep. Not stable.
Therefore, while encircling and annihilating more than 30,000 Qing troops, Yu Xiaoqian and Qiu Hu also left a town dedicated to guard against Wu Guogui - Yu Xiaoqian and Qiu Hu had just received their revenge, and this guy had already led an army of 50,000 people. It's coming to Honghu Lake in a mighty way...
In fact, Wu Guogui is not here to help anyone, but to collect the "triumphs"! If he doesn't bring more brothers, what will he do if he defaults on his debt? One million silver dollars! Wouldn’t Zhu Heji feel heartache? If he wanted to refuse, Wu Guogui would not agree.
As the saying goes, a close uncle must also settle accounts clearly!
However, what Wu Guogui did not expect was that in the early morning of August 30, when the army he led had just arrived at the Changxia River on the west bank of Hong Lake, it encountered a defeated Qing army that fled over.
The Qing army fled along the north bank of the Changxia River, while Wu Guogui's 50,000-strong army stationed on the south bank of the Changxia River. Although there is a wooden arch bridge on the river that can pass, the wooden arch bridge is very narrow and cannot pass a few people at all.
When Wu Guogui learned that the Qing army was coming here, he quickly boarded the wooden bridge with a group of staff and servants, and immediately looked east from a high place. What he saw was a scene of a large army defeated and fleeing. .
Looking east from where he was, he could only see the broad battlefield on the north bank of the Changxia River, filled with high and low smoke columns from the Ming army's rockets, and long tail flames trailing in the air, making "Jie Jie" sounds. "Jie" strangely screaming rockets flew past in groups!
This scene looks really scary!
What frightened Wu Guogui even more was the defeated Qing army coming from the north bank of the Changxia River. They were in large groups. Judging from the color of their uniforms, they still barely maintained the organization of each commander. However, the formation was no longer good. There were no columns or horizontal formations, only groups of infantry and cavalry, mixed together and fleeing with their heads covered. There were no flags in sight, and there seemed to be no baggage vehicles or artillery carriages... This clearly looked like a devastating defeat!
"General, is the Qing army defeated? Isn't this too fast? We have only been fighting for a few days?"
The person talking to Wu Guogui was his counselor Xue Zhang. Although Xue Zhang doesn't know much about military affairs, he knows that Yue Le has an army of 120,000 people... These are not 120,000 pigs, but 120,000 New Eight Banners! How could it be defeated so quickly?
According to Xue Zhang's knowledge, they had just left the salt camp on the Changxia River the night before yesterday, and it would have taken at least half a day to march to the Ming army's Wulin camp. In other words, Yue Le's army should have started a decisive battle with the Ming army yesterday morning. How could it be possible to escape so quickly? Could it be that the majestic Eight Banners soldiers of Qing Dynasty were defeated by the Ming army in one blow?
Wu Guogui couldn't answer Xue Zhang's question, but he could send someone to ask. Under his command, a group of servants rushed off the bridge and lined up on the official road by the Changxia River, everyone with rifles in hand. The defeated Qing troops in large groups fled down and were stopped right here. Several officers of the Zhenglan Banner New Army on horseback came out of the crowd and asked Wu Guogui's servants in shock.
"Who are you? Why are you blocking our way?"
"We are the servants of General Wu of the Great Zhou Kingdom. The General asked us to ask, what is going on with you?"
"Defeated...the rebels have heavenly soldiers, and they have all gone to heaven!"
"They are still invulnerable! Even our guns can't penetrate their armor!"
"It's over, it's over..."
"The Qing Dynasty is about to end, you should run away quickly, you can't defeat them!"
"Yes, they are heavenly soldiers, we can't defeat them..."
The words of these Qing army officers shocked Wu Guogui and Xue Zhang who were standing on the wooden bridge.
Why is there such a thing as "God" and "invulnerability"?
Why does it sound like someone is faking it?
But this Qing army was indeed defeated... Looking around, they were all large groups of defeated soldiers. They were blocked on the official road by the Changxia River, but other places continued to the northwest. direction to flee. The Ming army's rockets fell from time to time, whether they hit these defeated soldiers or not, they would cause a burst of panicked shouts.
"Heavenly soldiers are coming, heavenly soldiers are coming..."
When Wu Guogui heard these Qing soldiers calling the Ming army "Heavenly Soldiers", he almost fell off his horse in shock.
Shouldn't they call the Ming army "rebels"? They should call themselves "Heavenly Soldiers"! How can one call the enemy "Heavenly Soldiers"? Is this a big deal?
"General, heavenly soldiers..."
Xue Zhang suddenly stuttered and spoke.
Wu Guogui frowned, "Counsellor, what did you say?"
"There are heavenly soldiers!"
"Are you Mingjun?"
"General, there are heavenly soldiers in the sky!"
What? Heaven?
Wu Guogui was startled, and subconsciously looked up at the sky, only to find two huge balls floating in the sky, with baskets hanging underneath them! He quickly raised his telescope and took a look, only to find that there were actually several Ming army officers and soldiers in the basket!
It really went to heaven...isn't this a heavenly weapon?
"This, this...how did it go to heaven?" Wu Guogui was so shocked that he was speechless!
Xue Zhang was not surprised at all. Starting from the earliest "Zhuge Tianlei" and "Kongming's Secret Empty City Strategy", Zhu Heji was always able to do many strange things, and God was not surprised.
However, he still had some suggestions to make, "General... retreat!"
"Retreat?" Wu Guogui was stunned, "Senator, I still haven't received the digit of one million!"
Xue Zhang shook his head: "General, what matters now is to preserve our strength... As long as we have strength, we are not afraid of running out of money! If the few elite soldiers we have are eaten by Zhu Heji, no matter how much money we have, it will be useless. .”
"But..." Wu Guogui still looked reluctant.
Seeing his expression, Xue Zhang had no choice but to say to Wu Guogui: "General, you lead the troops to Jiangling first, and then go to Sichuan while protecting the emperor. I will help you visit the Ming army camp in Chibi Mountain. If Zhu Heji If you are willing to give money, I will ask for it for you. If he is not willing... I will also test his trump card for you and see what he wants us to do."
