The morale in the team was low, and everyone's eyes were confused, complicated, and even angry.
Qin Wu became the leader of his team. When his team set out, there were thirty people. Including the leader, there were thirty-one people. Now including him, there are only eleven people left.
Du Zheng died in front of him, shot through the neck by a Tartar arrow. He seemed to be about to say something, but before Qin Wu had time to hear clearly what Du Zheng wanted to say, he saw Du Zheng's body.
Overwhelmed by countless horse hooves.
The other teams were not much better. The team of more than a thousand people now only has less than 200 people left. The only thing to be thankful for is that everyone of these 200 people has a horse, but those who were once considered by them have horses.
Now there are no more burdensome fire rifle soldiers.
Guerrilla Master was summoning the captains of each team, and Qin Wu also went there. He could see that no matter whether it was the old captain or the newly appointed captain, everyone's face was as black as the bottom of a pot.
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"Why are you all crying and mourning!" The guerrilla master's face was darker than theirs: "You can't fight without killing people. We captured two military forts and killed four to five hundred Tatars. These brothers are worth it.
I'll be more energetic and think about how to kill a few more Tatars to avenge them, that's what you should do now!"
"Sir, where should we go next?"
Someone asked: "Brothers urgently need to find a place to rest. It is too unsafe in the wild. The injured brothers must be treated as soon as possible. Otherwise, they will not be able to withstand such cold weather for long!"
Qin Wu did not speak. He knew that the other party had spoken very tactfully. In fact, many of the two hundred people left were frightened. It is not ruled out that many of them like him wanted to avenge those dead brothers.
Yes, but there are more people who want to escape far away.
"What the Tartars did in our Ming Dynasty, we will do it here!" The guerrilla master said with a sinister look on his face: "Don't you have a place to rest? If you go find a village and slaughter people, you will have a place."
, staying in each place for no more than two hours, I don’t believe that the Tatars can catch up so fast!”
The expressions on everyone's faces suddenly cheered up. There were not many kind people like them, and this was in a Tartar country, so they didn't feel any guilt at all when they did these things.
"In a word, we must die here. If someone becomes a deserter, anyone can punish him on the spot!"
Everyone nodded, this was their old job again, but this was not bad, at least this time they were doing their old job for the imperial court.
Half an hour later, after taking a breath, the cavalry set off again, heading towards the depths of the swamp.
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"General, a Tartar military fort is found ahead. Five miles away, there is a small group of Tartar activities!"
The marching army did not stop. When Li Zicheng heard the scout's report, he waved his hand and the scout turned and left.
The scene of passing by the battlefield in the morning was still echoing in Li Zicheng's mind. It was the vanguard of the Guards Battalion. Changdian Fort was captured by Li Guo. Li Zicheng was still happy for his nephew. At least he had won the victory.
It didn't disgrace him.
However, he did not expect that less than thirty miles later, he would see a battlefield littered with the corpses of the vanguard troops. What made him even more dizzy was that all the heads of the Ming army were gone.
The head's body was left exposed in the wilderness.
He asked his men to restrain the dead soldiers. He did not look for Li Guo's body among them. Along with the vanguard was a newly trained cavalry team. There were very few horse corpses on the battlefield, indicating that at least most of them
The cavalry all fled.
He didn't care where he fled to. When Li Guo took the initiative to lead the army to attack the front station, he repeatedly gave instructions to follow the commander's request, step by step, lay down a military fort, occupy a military fort, and wait for the follow-up.
The army arrives.
Looking back now, it is obvious that Li Guo did not think so!
Because of his greed for merit, which led to the defeat and the loss of so many soldiers, he was a little disappointed with his nephew.
News from the scouts came again. The military fort ahead was almost an abandoned military fort. The small group of Tartars operating in the military fort had already fled in panic when they saw their army.
Li Zicheng did not order a pursuit and could not catch up. The army maintained a normal marching speed, arrived at the abandoned military fort, and continued to move forward.
There are traces of battles, the military fort was burned, and these traces are all new.
There was almost no need for scouts to report back again. Looking at the military fort, Li Zicheng judged that this place should have been visited by Li Guo. However, the enemy's reinforcements probably came too quickly. When he hurriedly exited, he burned them.
Got here.
Or maybe he was bitten by the Tartar cavalry when he was retreating.
This should be Changdian Fort, and it should be less than thirty miles away from Yongdian Fort. He silently calculated the distance, commanded the army, and moved forward silently.
He didn't plan to camp halfway.
He was not familiar with the terrain here and had no idea where it was suitable to camp and where it was not. The safest way was to march directly to the city of Kuandian Fort, capture the area, and then camp and rest in Kuandian Fort.
Even if they can't all be stationed in it, it is better to stick to a intact military fort than to camp in an unfamiliar place.
As for the military fortress we just passed by, that unlucky boy Li Guo burned down not only the Tartar military fortress but also his own camp's garrison with a fire.
Thinking of this, his teeth started to itch even more.
He hasn't thought about how to deal with this nephew who suffered a defeat but also did bad things. However, he doesn't think it will be a compliment anyway.
In Kuandian Fort, Lahuer, a man with a blue flag, issued orders one by one with a gloomy face.
The constant reports from the scouts made it clear that those who escaped from the Ming army that he had eliminated the day before yesterday had indeed brought more Ming troops. His joy of victory had not lasted for two days before he was overwhelmed by this large group of soldiers.
The arrival of the Ming army completely disrupted the situation.
The Ming army had at least three to five thousand people. Although there were no cavalry, the Ming army that appeared in Kuandian at this time was definitely the elite of the Ming army.
There are nearly a thousand cavalry under his command, and there are more than a thousand infantry in Kuandian Fort. He doesn't feel much pressure, but he just doesn't understand, Li Yongfang from Malanyu and Panjiakou, etc.
, is he an idiot?
How did this number of Ming troops appear in Kuandian? Or should we say that Malanyu had already been captured by the Ming troops. If this was the case, Kuandian would not have received any news at all.
The news he received was that both Changdian and Yongdian had been burned to ruins by the Ming army, and it seemed that the Ming army had no intention of letting Kuandian Fort go.
"I know that all dogs are unreliable!" He muttered: "Go and see if there are any dogs in the fort, and kill them all, regardless of gender..."