The military intelligence department was handed over to the military intelligence department to find out the whereabouts of Sun Kewang and other bandits' old camp through the interrogation of the military intelligence department.

If handed over to the Military Law Department, the Military Law Department will determine the charges of these prisoners and then deal with them according to the Military Law. If the people are burned, killed, looted, and the Ming New Army will be caught in a straight line, it will generally be difficult to escape the death penalty.

At the same time, Xu You did not forget to ask the scouts to explore the surrounding area, one was to guard against the enemy, and the other was to investigate the whereabouts of Sun Kewang and others.

Unfortunately, when Li Dingguo and Yang Guodong arrived in the afternoon, Xu You's troops still found nothing.

After Li Dingguo learned about the entire situation, and with some of the situations interrogated by the Military Information Department from the prisoners, he looked at the map and said: "At this point today, they have fled west to Yunnan, and south to Vietnam.

In this way, General Yang led your troops and a town of garrison troops to collect Lizhou (Zhouxiazhou) westward, and this governor brought Biaozhen and a town of garrison troops, and some chieftain soldiers went south to Zhen'an Prefecture.

There are many chieftains in the west and south. Sun Ke hopes that unless they are broken into pieces, as long as there are a few people, it will not be so easy to get over, and we will still have a chance to catch up."

Yang Guodong clasped his fists and said, "The last general will take the order!"

After saying that, the two began to separate.

One day later, Yang Guodong, who was heading west, successfully collected the land that was originally occupied by the bandits and other bandits, and killed or captured some bandits and defeated soldiers, but did not find any trace of Sun Kewang's old camp.

On the other hand, after two days of marching, Li Dingguo entered Zhen'an Prefecture and finally learned about the troops of Sun Kewang's old camp.

This greatly boosted the spirit of the soldiers and immediately stepped up the pursuit.

Sun Kewang and others had difficulty moving forward in Zhen'an Mansion.

Although they grabbed a wave of food and grass in Gukandong, after joining Zhang Sheng and Di third ranks, a team of three or four thousand people still consumed the food and grass in a few days.

So I had to plunder and go south while plundering.

Originally, some local chieftain forces were afraid that they were numerous and vigilantly did not provoke them.

But now Sun Kewang's troops often plunder the clan and slaughter the tribes, and no chieftain can accept it.

Before these chieftains joined forces, they were relatively weak, so they were naturally not opponents of the elite troops of Sun Kewang's old camp.

Everyone can try it soon.】

But they relied on their familiar terrain and were used to fighting in the jungle. The surviving native warriors followed Sun Kewang and others like charcoal bones. When they found an opportunity, they would shoot a cold arrow, or sneak attack some of the lonely people, making Sun Kewang and others

The generals never tire of talking, but also greatly slowed down the speed of their team going south.

After a few days like this, the scout of Li Ding's Ministry finally had contact with the back of Sun Kewang's army.

Sun Kewang wanted to abandon some of the wounded and weak people again, streamline the troops and speed up the escape south.

As a result, he was entangled by several teams of united toasts.

Li Dingguo took the opportunity to lead the Duke of Biao Town to attack and defeated Sun Kewang again.

During the jungle pursuit and fugitive battle, he killed four generals under Sun Kewang's command, Gong Yi, Wang Xianming and Zhang Wenming.

He captured Wang Ziqi, the former general of the Great Western Army, and Wang Yun.

Another seven or eight hundred elite troops from Sun Kewang's old camp were killed and more than five hundred were captured.

However, there were also four or five hundred elite thieves who died at the hands of the chieftains.

Because the battlefield was a jungle and the battle time was approaching evening, he was unable to catch Sun Kewang in the end, so he and some of the thieves escaped.

Considering that the thief who were finally gathered around Sun Kewang after being defeated this time is likely to be less than 1,000, or even less than 500, Li Dingguo handed over the task of continuing to pursue to the chieftains of Zhen'an Prefecture and surrendering to the state of Shunzhou.

He led his army to camp and rest on the spot.

Originally, he wanted to ask the telecommunications team to send a telecommunications team to Nanjing that night to convey the report on the fight against the thieves. However, the telecommunications team told him that it was impossible to contact the telecommunications department here.

"Can you know why?" Li Dingguo asked.

"I don't know whether I wait." The head of the telecommunications team frowned, "Maybe it's because the mountains are too high and dense, or there are natural magnetic fields that can affect radio transmission."

Li Dingguo's sword eyebrows frowned into a big bump.

He couldn't understand at all.

In fact, the people in the telecommunications team didn't understand much about these. They just recited relevant knowledge during training, and now they read the text according to the script.

"Is there a way to solve it?" Li Dingguo asked again.

"No, I can only wait until the army sets out tomorrow and try it in a spacious enough place."

Originally, Li Dingguo wanted to ask the Military Council whether he would lead the army to continue pursuing Sun Kewang.

In fact, now he has completed the task of extermination of the thieves of Sun Kewang's troops as assigned by the court.

Sun Kewang's troops were originally entrenched in Qingyuan Prefecture and Sicheng Prefecture, with tens of thousands of troops. Now he may have beaten to only a few hundred people, and they are still running to Vietnam. When they really escape to Vietnam, Guangxi will be fine.

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If Sun Kewang could go to Vietnam alive, as long as he was not stupid, he would not return to the Ming Dynasty. Because there is no soil for thieves to grow up in the Ming Dynasty, the Ming army is becoming stronger and stronger, and he will only seek abuse when he comes back.

As a general with certain experience in governing local areas, although Li Dingguo does not need to govern local areas now and does not even need to worry about logistics issues, it is unwise to lead tens of thousands of troops to pursue hundreds of residual enemies on complex terrain.

It was just because he and Sun Kewang were both Zhang Xianzhong's adopted sons after all, and were worried that the court would misunderstand that he deliberately let Sun Kewang go, so hesitated whether to lead the army to pursue him.

If it weren't for this relationship, he would have been ready to declare the war over.

After one night.

Li Dingguo led a large army to continue to go south, preparing to go to Zhen'an Prefecture to govern Debao. At the same time, he dismissed most of the chieftain soldiers and left only a small number of elite soldiers as guides.

After he arrived at Debao, the telecommunications unit finally contacted the Nanjing Telecommunications Office...

Nanjing, Forbidden City.

Zhu Mai received a telegram from Li Dingguo and a request for instructions on how to pursue Sun Kewang's remnants.

If it was in the mainland of the Ming Dynasty, if Li Zicheng was trapped in Shangluo Mountain and Zhang Xianzhong was trapped in Guizhou Mountain, the bandits were likely to rekindle, and Zhu Ma would definitely have to wipe out them out at all costs.

But Sun Kewang's situation here is obviously different.

After Sun Kewang left the Ming Dynasty, it would be difficult for him to come back. Even if he sneaked back, he would not be able to pull up another army of thieves.

In addition, letting Sun Kewang go to Vietnam was actually useful for the Ming Dynasty.

"Let Sun Ke look to Vietnam. No matter whether he can make a big noise there, as long as he is still alive, the Ming Dynasty will have an additional excuse to send troops to Vietnam in the future." Hao Guangming said on the other side.

"Well, that's exactly what I think." Zhu Mei smiled, "Although the court is currently rich in money and food, it is not as luxurious as to mobilize tens of thousands of troops to the jungle to pursue hundreds of enemies."

“It’s right.”

Afterwards, Zhu Mai held a small military meeting, discussed with Li Yan and others, and sent a telegram to Li Dingguo.

There are two main contents.

First, Li Dingguo handed over the task of pursuing the remaining enemies of Sun Kewang's troops to the local chieftains, and informed the local chieftains of Sun Kewang's reward given by the court - capturing the person alive and rewarding him with only 3,000 taels, and winning his head was only 3,000 taels.

Second, let Li Dingguo lead the troops to celebrate the New Year at Debao, Zhen'an Prefecture. After the Spring Festival, he will lead troops to inspect important borders in the southern Guangxi and assume the responsibility of admiring Guangxi's military affairs.

The court sent troops to cooperate with Yang Zhan's pacification of Shadingzhou, Yunnan, and the court handed over to Yang Guodong's 19th Town.

As for the merit assessment and reward payment of this battle, it cannot be decided so quickly. It will take some time to achieve results...

Half a month later.

In northern Vietnam, a small mountain village was attacked by more than 300 robbers, and the men in the village were massacred.

Standing in front of the intersection of the mountain village, looking at the blood and fire in the village, Sun Kewang, who was tangled with his hair and beard, burst into laughter.
Chapter completed!