After three battles and three victories, Yu Shizhong ordered the retreat without hesitation. The officers and soldiers of Brigade B retreated to Yumeng Mountain behind Songjiawolou. Yu Shizhong was preparing to fight an ambush. In order to prevent the Qing army from discovering that Brigade B did not create fires and buried stoves, but the officers and soldiers ate dry food with cold water.

Quan Jie, the general of the left wing of the Qing Dynasty, who arrived at the northern front, was very puzzled by the sudden retreat of the Ming army. After sending several groups of probes to determine the Ming army, he reported the situation to Guoan, the left wing deputy general Liu Desheng, the Han army's flag gang leader Qi Wannian, as the vanguard, Quan Jie led the camp soldiers and surrendered generals Zhou Guoding, Lu Sanxiang and other troops in the middle, Xu Tianyou, Tong Zhengliang and other troops were in the back, and the various troops contracted more than 14,000 troops to search and advance north.

Regardless of whether the Taiping Army with the word "Qi" was reorganized or not, the entire department could not allow him to retreat safely. The Northern Line suffered three consecutive defeats, and if the Ming army could not be severely damaged or eliminated, the morale of the army would be irreversible. Moreover, such a capable Ming army always wandered around the Qing army like a wolf, which was not a good thing. Moreover, the next direction of the line supervision was Guilin, and this Ming army was the biggest obstacle in front of the Qing army. Since they were going to fight with them sooner or later, they might as well take action now. After a long delay, no one knew what changes would happen in the war in Guangxi. After all, the Qing army was a little tight, while the Ming army in Liuzhou still had the power to fight.

After receiving the full festival report by Guoan, the last Ming army that resisted on Xiaobei Mountain had fallen under the spear of the Qing soldiers. Wang Sheng also defeated the Ming army reinforcements who had left Liuzhou to reinforce. The Qing army had already won a great victory in the battle of Xiaobei Mountain. The purpose of Guoan's capture of Xiaobei Mountain was not to attack Liuzhou City, but to lock in the Ming army in Liuzhou. His real goal was Guilin in the north. Only by taking Guilin could he thrust the tip of the knife towards the abdomen of the Taiping Army in Hunan, and Luo Keduo, the Prince of Heping, attacked the Taiping Army in Hunan together to completely open up the liaison between Guizhou and the north.

According to the confession of the Ming army captives, the Taiping Army entering Hunan was led by its commander, the thief Xiucai, and the troops he led were also the main force of the Taiping Army's expedition to the west. Therefore, the front Guoan became more and more eager to take Guilin. The full Jie came to report to lead his troops northward to eliminate the Taiping Army that was quite capable of fighting. After thinking about it, the front Guoan agreed. For security reasons, he ordered Wang Sheng to assign a cavalry to the command of Quan Jie, and transferred more than 30 light cannons that could be pulled by horses and returned to the Qing army for use on the northern front. The rest of the troops immediately took over the fortifications of the Ming army in Xiaobeishan, and at the same time strengthened the defense of the camp.

Under the command of the entire festival, the Qing army regrouped and advanced northward, and had the help of cavalry, and his morale was restored a lot. Although he had lost consecutively in the previous three battles, the Qing army suffered only more than 2,000 casualties, and it was not the Ming army. Qi Wannian, Xu Tianyou and others were afraid of not the Ming army, but the weapons that were difficult to deal with. Now with cavalry help and artillery can bombard the formation, it was no longer impossible to deal with before, so naturally they were brave and brave.

As time passed, the Qing soldiers were getting closer to Yumeng Mountain, which was ambushed by Brigade B. More than 2,000 soldiers of the Qi family who had eaten dry food to fill their stomachs were lying in the mountains and forests, with their heads and bodies covered with dead grass. From a distance, they seemed to be integrated with the mountains and forests. No one could know that there would be so many soldiers ambushing here.

Yu Shizhong on the mountain was frowning. He knew that after he retreated, the Qing army would definitely send troops northwards, so he set up an ambush on Yumeng Mountain and wanted to eat the Qing army that was advancing northwards, but he didn't expect that the other party had gathered so many troops to come, which was very meaningful to seek him, Yu Shizhong.

There were more than 10,000 Qing soldiers, cavalry and artillery. There were only more than 2,000 people on our side, and there were no artillery, and only a small number of tiger squat cannons with a range of not far. Yu Shizhong was also embarrassed when he fought in this ambush. According to the original deployment, the C Brigade would probably suffer heavy casualties on the way down the mountain.

After the reorganization, the Qing army had the support of cavalry and artillery, and the depressed morale that was driven by the Ming army was gone, and they crossed the stone bridge in front of Songjiawo Tower in a vast manner. Under the bridge was a small river that gathered from several streams on Yumeng Mountain, and at the end of the river was Liujiang.

Yu Shizhong felt a little regretful. If he knew that the Qing army had come in large numbers, he would definitely blow up the stone bridge. Even if the ambush was not possible, at least the Qing army's artillery could not be transported.

The sound of cannons could no longer be heard in Liuzhou. Combined with the Qing army's large-scale advance north, Yu Shizhong guessed that Xiaobeishan had fallen into the hands of the Qing army, otherwise the line Guoan would not have drawn so many troops to advance north.

Yumeng Mountain is not as capable as Xiaobei Mountain. As the Qing army came fewer, Yu Shizhong could naturally ambush them, but more people came, and there were cavalry and artillery, so Yu Shizhong felt it was difficult.

He was thinking about whether to give up the ambush and wait until it was dark and evacuated Yumeng Mountain in the dark. But this thought flashed by just a flash and he gave up. He disobeyed the military order and led his troops south, in order to wash away the shame of fleeing without fighting for more than ten days, and to lift the siege of Xiaobei Mountain. Xiaobei Mountain was lost, but his Brigade C was still there, and the enemy was still there!

This battle is not easy to fight, and even if it is not easy to fight, you have to fight!

Yu Shizhong made a cruel decision, but now he has only prepared one table of food, but a few tables of guests have come. How to make the guests have wine and food to eat is a very difficult thing for him.

Dozens of cavalry and Qing army probing horses were on the alert and they were moving away gradually, opening up a curtain for the advance of the entire Qing army. At this moment, they were the eyes of more than 10,000 Qing army. But if there was any disturbance, they would discover it as soon as possible and accurately return the army to the rear.

Throughout history, although horse exploration cannot determine the outcome of a war, it can determine the ownership of the battlefield. Even though the Qing army is so powerful, it dare not take it lightly. The Qing army also urgently needs to know about the battlefield and the intelligence ahead.

Along the way, the Qing army's horse exploration did not encounter the Ming army's horse exploration, nor did they encounter the small interception of the Ming army. They searched carefully nearby. In Songjiawolou, which was most suspected of hiding an ambush, more than a dozen Qing army's horse explorations plucked in and searched carefully, but they were not relieved. The leading Qing army breathed a sigh of relief, looked up at Yumengshan in front of them, made a gesture, and four or five subordinates immediately touched the mountain.

These Qing army detectives were very careful. As sentry detectives, of course they knew the dangers on the mountain and the most sudden ambush in the mountains. In front of them, they didn't know how many soldiers could hide in the rows of woods on Yumeng Mountain. If they suddenly came out from above, it would definitely be a threat to the main force of the Qing army that would come over later.

However, there are countless terrains like Yumeng Mountain in the southwest boundary, and Songjiawolou is the best place to set up an ambush nearby, which is easy to defend and difficult to attack. The Ming army did not hide its troops here, which means they had no intention of setting up an ambush here. Perhaps, the Ming army, who had just chased them out, really retreated.

After searching randomly at the foot of the mountain, after going deeper for about a mile, several Qing soldiers had no strength or interest in searching up. The reason why they asked them to give up searching would be meaningless if the Ming army had no ambush within this distance. Because they hid too far and really rushed down the mountain, the time was enough for the Qing army at the foot of the mountain to react, and it was impossible to achieve any surprise attack.

One of them was worried about surveillance and fired two guns into the mountain with the musket in his hand, which shocked a bunch of birds in the forest.

Seeing a bird coming out, the Qing army's horse explorer smiled on his face, and the companions around him also smiled with confidence. If someone was ambushing here, so many birds could be shocked. The Qing army's horse explorer who went up the mountain thought it was safe, so they went down the mountain one after another, but they didn't know that there were countless pairs of eyes staring at them at this moment.

Lei Er and his two companions, whose mouth was stuffed with cloth strips on the hillside, were about to jump out of their hearts. At the same time, they were even more impressed by the Ming army hiding here. Their military records were so strict that there was no movement in the forest, so strict that the bird fell on the treetops and knew nothing about the crowd below.

The Qing army was going to suffer a loss.

Lei Er and his companions looked at each other, thinking that the Ming army would launch an attack, but after waiting for a long time, they did not see any signs of these Ming army going down the mountain to charge.

Yu Youming looked at Qing Jun's whistle nervously and turned his head down the mountain. He breathed a sigh of relief, licked his thirsty lips, but did not dare to turn around to see where his father was, and still kept in this position and lay there motionlessly.

After the Qing army's horse exploration left, they mounted their horses and searched forward one after another. As the horse exploration went north, the Qing army brigade behind also moved.

Hearing the voice of the Qing army brigade in the distance, Yu Youming was shocked. He glanced at Song Jia, a veteran who was holding a gun beside him, and found that Song Jia had a spider with strange hair on his hand. Yu Youming was a little fur, but Song Jia did not react, but his eyes were fixed on the foot of the mountain, as if he had nothing in his hand.

There was no danger in the vicinity of the Malai in front, but Quanjie did not dare to be careless. He ordered Liu Desheng and Qi Wannian in front to send hundreds of troops first, and then they followed. In this way, if the Ming army really had an ambush, they could quickly respond to the front team and strangle the ambush completely.

Yu Youming didn't know that the Qing army was very steady, so he sent only a few hundred soldiers to pass by the foot of the mountain. A very low voice came from the dense leaves of a big tree above his head: "The Qing dog only passed a few hundred soldiers, and the brigade school flag let them pass."

Yu Youming was slightly stunned, then nodded and whispered: "I understand!"

The Qi family army on the mountain did not move, and allowed hundreds of Qing soldiers to pass through the front of the Song Family House at the foot of the mountain. It has to be said that Yu Shizhong was good at leading troops. Among the more than 2,000 Qi family soldiers, there were many talented new soldiers, but everyone firmly held their duties and no sound was made.

After the hundreds of soldiers in front passed, Qi Wannian rode on the horse and led the remaining subordinates to set off. He was very cautious because the Ming army with the big banner of "Qi" was too good to fight, which made him feel a little scared now. Because the other party was too good to fight, the more cautious he was, he did not take people over like Liu Desheng, but waited until the people in front passed for a long distance and nothing happened before he dared to bring people over.

The disappearing Ming army might have set up an ambush in a certain place waiting for him. It was not unexpected that the entire Jie had already been searched for by the horses nearby, and there were no signs of ambush. Moreover, the Ming army had only two or three thousand troops. Compared with the army he led, it seemed a joke. He was quite expecting that the Ming army would really set up an ambush nearby, so that he would not have to find them.
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