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Chapter 722 Looting the Northwest
In Ningxia Prefecture, from Lingwu County to the north, on the road leading to Zhenyuan Pass, [-] Wei soldiers are marching northward rapidly.

In the face of the Qing army's attack, the Wei army planned an area to defend, and Zhao Daxian led a town to defend the Great Wall from Lanzhou Prefecture in the west to Dingbian County in Yan'an Prefecture in the east.

Because he didn't know which pass the Qing army would enter from, Zhao Daxian could only allocate 1 troops to deploy at various passes and border forts, and agreed that if he encountered Qing army bandits, he would set off smoke during the day and light a fire at night to report the military situation. Then lead 2 horses and garrison in Lingwu County, ready to reinforce various passes at any time.

After the beacon smoke passed to Lingwu, Zhao Daxian immediately gathered [-] soldiers and horses, and left Lingwu to rush north.

Three battalions of soldiers from the Wei Army trotted forward, their armor rattling as they were scraped. The officers on horseback reined in their horses and stood beside the official road. Looking at the team that looked like a long dragon, they urged them from time to time, "speed up."

The generals of the Wei army did not dare to hesitate. The soldiers trotted forward with weapons in their hands. On the official road, only iron helmets and weapons were seen, moving forward with the sound of footsteps.

Zhao Daxian wore an iron armor and rode in front of the infantry, looking back at the troops from time to time, with an anxious look on his face.

"The army must rush to the Zhenyuan Pass before the Tatars break through. If the Tatars rush into the pass, the governor will not be able to stop the Tartars at all." Zhao Daxian turned his head and said to the general with a sullen face, "Tell me Brothers, hurry up, we must arrive at Zhenyuan Pass tomorrow~"

Li Jiyu nodded, and was about to pull out his horse to urge the soldiers, but suddenly his face changed, and the whip pointed to the north, "Captain, look!"

Zhao Daxian looked up, his face turned cold, "No, Zhenyuan Pass has fallen!"

On the wilderness in the north, thick smoke is spreading southward. In the blue sky, the black smoke column is very conspicuous.

Wei Jun's first smoke was a warning, and the second smoke meant that the pass had fallen.

"Captain, what should we do now?" Li Jiyu's face showed panic.

In the whole of Ningxia and Lanzhou, there is only one town of soldiers, and they are scattered all over the place. If the Tartars are kept out of the Great Wall, the Wei army can still use the pass to resist, but if the Tartars break through the pass, the Wei army will be unable to deal with it.

It's like a crazy beast broke into a room full of porcelain, and the owner couldn't protect all the porcelain.

In the land of the two prefectures, there are so many states and counties, if the Qing army invades, the local area will definitely suffer huge losses.

Zhao Daxian looked serious, and instead of answering Li Jiyu's words, he asked anxiously, "Which city is the closest to here?"

"Reporting to the governor, the army is between Zhenyuan Pass and Pingluo County. Sixty miles to the north is Zhenyuan Pass, and twenty miles to the south is Pingluo County." Joining the army who came from the martial arts academy took out a map and looked at it, and immediately replied.

Zhao Daxian didn't discuss it with anyone, so he broke it immediately, pulled the reins of the horse and said: "Send scouts to investigate at Zhenyuan Pass, the army will turn around immediately, and go to Pingluo quickly! The Tarzi cavalry rush, the army will be in trouble."

The Tartars broke into the border, and ten thousand Wei troops greeted them. They could not stop the Qing army, and they might be eaten. The army could only enter the city first, avoid the Tartar cavalry, and then report to the five-army governor's office to mobilize troops and horses. Surround the broken Tartars.

On the official road, the chess officer galloped past the advancing soldiers, and the horseshoes rolled up the yellow dust. While rushing against the flow of people, the cavalry shouted loudly: "The governor has an order, the army turns around, and go to Pingluo City!"

The marching soldiers of the Wei army gradually stopped, and the third battalion of the Wei army immediately changed from the rear to the front, and the army changed direction and began to rush back again.

……

Of the 100 Wei troops at Zhenyuan Pass, only a few dozen fled to the south, more than [-] were captured, and the rest were all killed by the Tartars.

Corpses were lying on the wall, and at the door opening, corpses were piled on top of each other. Broken knives and guns were all over the ground. Foaming blood flowed out, converging into a bright red stream, making the ground muddy.

The Tartars who entered the pass, stepped on the bloody ground, threw the corpses blocking the closed door to both sides, and the packers groped on the corpses of the Wei soldiers who died in battle, and found some copper coins and pieces of paper come out.

They put the copper coins in their arms, discarded the pieces of paper casually, and began to pick up Wei Jun's armor again.

After the Qing army entered the customs, it was rich for a while, but because it failed to occupy the south of the Yangtze River, its finances were always in a state of deficit.

The hundreds of thousands of weapons and armor of the Qing army have not been replenished in recent years. The equipment of the green battalion soldiers is so simple that they only issue a gown and a broken hat. For the Qing army, the things on the Wei army basically have usefulness.

Uncle Eight Banners has stopped doing such a cheap thing like touching corpses. When the packers searched, the Eight Banners soldiers carried bloody sabers and repaired the corpses of Wei Jun who had thrown the wall one by one to ensure that all Wei Jun died. through.

At this time, a large number of cavalry from the Qing army rushed in with their horseshoes rattling in the doorway, while the Guanlou on the doorway was still burning, and the black smoke column shot straight into the sky.

Aobai rode his horse into the pass, looked at the burning pass building with a frown, then looked at the Qing army still picking up corpses, and cursed loudly in Manchu: "There is money and food in the south, the army will go south immediately, don't stay!"

Wei will light the Guanlou to warn the states and counties in the south. When the government of the Western Wei Dynasty gets the news, they will definitely collect the people in the city, or organize the people to flee south.

If everyone ran away, where would they go to grab money, food, and women.

Furthermore, the Wei army's reinforcements should be rushing to Zhenyuan Pass. The Wei army hid in the city, and it was difficult for the Qing army to capture it for a while, but if they ran out, they were courting death.

Now the army should rush south immediately and defeat the Wei army's reinforcements.

After Ao Bai gave an order, the closed Qing army immediately withdrew, and the corpses were not picked up, so they merged into the main army and hurried southward together.

……

More than 4 Qing troops broke through the pass and entered, their horses galloped south, their iron hooves rolled down, and all the villages along the way were slaughtered.

As soon as the soldiers of the three battalions entered Pingluo City, the forwards of the Qing army rushed to the city.

At this time, at the head of Pingluo City, Zhao Daxian leaned on the wall, looked out of the city, and saw a crowd of people coming from the ground, his face became heavy.

"Don't worry, the governor. Since the army has entered the city, the Tartars will not be able to do anything to us!" Li Jiyu looked at the densely packed Qing army cavalry outside the city, and was a little frightened, but with more than 1 people hiding in the city, even if there were 10 Tartars People, they won't be able to beat them for a while.

"The governor is not worried about the Tartars attacking the city, but worried that they will not attack the city." Zhao Daxian looked solemn, and suddenly asked: "Have the cavalry who reported the letter been sent out?"

"It has already been dispatched!" Li Jiyu replied.

Outside the city, Oboi and Murima rode horses and stood under the banner. They observed Pingluo City with binoculars. They saw that there were many banners and banners on the city, and soldiers holding spears stood beside each wall, their brows were slightly frowned.

"Guardian, how do you fight?" Murima was gearing up.

But Oboi pulled the rein and ordered: "Command the army to continue heading south!"

The entry of the Qing army into the bandits this time is different from the previous battles of the Qing army after entering the customs.

After the Qing army entered the customs, the previous battles fought were all aimed at occupying the city and unifying the world, but this time it was completely different, and returned to Huang Taiji's strategy back then.

The goal of the Qing army this time was pure looting. It did not require any city to be stationed, nor did it demand to defeat the Wei army. Instead, it aimed to plunder Guanzhong and destroy the people's livelihood in Guanzhong.

Obai gave an order, and the Qing army marched around the city and continued to advance south, sweeping the countryside while looking for opportunities to enter Sili.

All of a sudden, flames of war broke out in the northwest, and people who fled were everywhere.

On the official road to the south of Pingluo, nearly a hundred people pushed the single wheel and drove the mule cart, helping the old and the young.

Suddenly, horseshoes rumbled in the north, and hundreds of Qing cavalry galloped towards them. The people on the official road immediately cried out in alarm, and all of them were scared out of their wits by the sudden cavalry, and ran down the official road and fled in all directions.

The cavalrymen of the Qing army chased after them, and chopped off anyone they saw. The Qing soldiers chopped off the head of a woman, and the blood splashed on the face of the little girl beside her. She was so frightened that she burst into tears. With a ferocious smile on his face, he manipulated the horse and stepped on it directly, crushing the little girl into a pile of flesh in an instant.

The Qing cavalry scattered and chased, hacked with swords, and shot with bows and arrows. In a short while, more than 100 people were slaughtered.

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