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Chapter 1023 Escape from Jiayuguan

Zhao Ming heard that when he discovered the battlefield where the Ming and Zhou armies were fighting in Anding, he hurriedly called, "Po Nu, take a team of people and go to investigate in person. You must find out where Li Yuanyin and Wang Chaoxian are now."

Li Ponu took the order and left. Zhao Ming left two troops in the tent, and then ordered the army to rest for a night and set off the camp early tomorrow morning to go west.

At noon the next day, when the army was advancing, the scouts returned and found the Ming army left behind by the dynasty in the west of Anding.

Zhao Ming then learned about the Battle of Anding. Li Yuanyin and Xia Prime Minister were in Anding. After Wu Sangui's army arrived in Anding, they launched a fierce attack on Li Yuanyin.

At this time, Meng Qiaofang led an army of 30,000 from Tianshui to the north of Longxi to join the battle group. Although Li Yuanyin had a dynasty first came to reinforce, he was still one step late and could not block Wu Sangui's attack.

In this battle, Wu Sangui was wearing golden armor and charged on the front line. After a fierce battle, the Mongols on the Ming army were defeated first, and Li Yuanyin had to lead his army to retreat westward.

Wu Sangui led the army and chased him all the way, preventing Li Yuanyin from establishing a new line of defense.

The Chao was worried that Li Yuanyin was killed by Wu Sangui, but was afraid that Zhao Ming would not know the situation, so he left a team of people waiting near Tianshui, and then led his army to follow him.

After hearing the report of the completion, Zhao Ming left behind a group of troops to clean up the battlefield and bury the bodies, and led a large army to advance westward quickly.

Along the way, you can find traces of war from time to time, and there are corpses that are too late to clean up on the official road, as well as scattered chariots and weapons.

Two days later, Zhao Ming led his army to Lanzhou, and at this time Li Ponu came to repay him. Li Yuanyin regained his position in Wuwei, and Wu Sangui was fighting to break through.

Zhao Ming was overjoyed when he received the news and immediately led his army to advance towards Liangzhou.

However, the troops led by Zhao Ming were mainly infantry. It was August 16th when he arrived in Wuwei.

The northwest is dry and barren, cloudless, and the sun is in the sky.

Zhao Ming led a large army forward in a mighty manner, and Li Ponu led hundreds of cavalry to gallop in front as the vanguard of the entire army. This place was already the territory of Wuwei.

During the Three Kingdoms period, this place was called Liangzhou. The Western Liang Iron Cavalry, which was called Ma Chao, Ma Teng, Han Sui and others, came from here.

Due to war and barren land, almost all villages along the way were empty wherever Zhao Ming's army passed.

When Zhao Ming was in the Central Plains and fighting in Hebei, even if the places were dilapidated, some villages and towns were still left behind.

But now when I come, there are ten rooms and ten ghosts, and there are not a single ghost.

"Your Highness, the population here should have been taken away by Wu Sangui in advance." Zhang Jiayu said in a deep voice.

Zhao Ming nodded, "It seems that Wu Sangui decided to give up Guanlong very early. This guy is hiding deeply. I don't know when he had such thoughts."

Zhang Jiayu said: "I guess it should be after the Battle of Xingyang!"

Zhao Ming shook his head, "I thought it was after regaining Sichuan."

The army left a deserted town and continued to walk west for more than ten miles. There were still no people in the wilderness, and the army seemed to have entered a panic place.

At this time, Li Ponu, who was galloping in front of him, suddenly grabbed the reins of the horse, raised his head, and looked at the sky to the west, a group of vultures flying and hovering in the air.

The mountain wind blew, and a bloody smell came from the air. Li Ponu immediately pulled out his horse and shouted: "Over there!"

The cavalry galloped away and disappeared among the rolling hills.

Soon, Li Ponu came back from a horse and arrived in front of Zhao Ming, "Your Highness, you have found the situation ahead."

Zhao Ming also saw the vultures in the sky and smelled the bloody smell mixed in the mountain wind.

As a famous general in a hundred battles, Zhao Ming naturally knew that there should be a huge battlefield ahead, and he did not hear the sound of gunfire, which means that the battle was over.

Zhao Ming's face darkened, and he activated his war horse. Under the guidance of the scout, he galloped forward.

When Zhao Ming led the cavalry to climb a raised high ground, an extremely shocking post-war scene appeared in front of him.

Everyone stood on the high ground on horseback. Looking around, they all saw human corpses and horse corpses. The whole land was full of the corpses of soldiers from the two armed forces in Mingzhou, as well as scattered weapons, and the wombless war horses.

Judging from Zhao Ming's experience, there were at least 40,000 corpses in this area, which means that Wu Sangui probably broke through the obstacle again.

Seeing this, Zhao Ming slowed down his horse and slowly entered the battlefield. Then he turned over and dismounted, checked the corpse, and said in a heavy tone: "The corpse is stiff and blood-stained, and it has been a long time."

Zhao Ming turned around and shouted: "Scatter and check, there is no big banner with Li Yuanyin and Wang Chaoxian!"

When the Ming army soldiers heard the order, they quickly scattered and searched among the pile of corpses. At this moment, a team of cavalry appeared on the edge of the battlefield.

The cavalry stood up and observed for a while, then galloped towards Zhao Ming and others.

"Your Highness, look!" a soldier pointed.

The Ming soldiers immediately became alert. Li Ponu turned over and led hundreds of scouts to meet him directly. Soon after, he ran back with a general.

"Your Highness!" The general rushed over, turned over and got off the horse, and knelt on one knee.

Zhao Ming had already seen clearly that it was Wang Chaoxian. When he saw that he was in a mess, he helped him up first, and then asked, "What's going on?"

Wang Chao first explained to Zhao Ming that after Li Yuanyin stabilized his position, he blocked Wu Sangui's way again.

This caused Wu Sangui's crazy attack, but the Zhou army failed to defeat Li Yuanyin after several attacks.

At this time, the dynasty came first and rushed into the rear of the Zhou army, defeating Meng Qiaofang, causing the Zhou army to fall into a desperate situation. However, a group of troops emerged behind Li Yuanyin, which eventually made the Ming army lose all its achievements.

The Zhou army in the Western Regions suddenly appeared behind the Ming army, causing Li Yuanyin to be defeated, and Wu Sangui also took advantage of the situation to break through the Ming army's obstruction.

Zhao Ming asked anxiously: "Where is Li Yuanyin?"

Wang Chao said first: "Your Highness, don't worry, Li Yuanyin is fine. When the Zhou army appeared behind the army, he made way out. Wu Sangui was eager to escape, but did not pursue him, but continued to flee westward. I joined forces with Li Yuanyin, and after a little bit of a team, he continued to follow and chase after him. However, he still failed to keep Wu Sangui."

When Zhao Ming heard that Li Yuanyin was fine, he felt relieved and asked, "Where is Wu Sangui running away now?"

Wang Chaoxian said: "Wu Sangui goes west all the way, and now he should have left Jiayuguan. Meng Qiaofang is unable to escape, so he is surrounded by us in Suzhou."

Zhao Ming swelled his cheeks, but unexpectedly let Wu Sangui run away.

"Let's go to Suzhou!" Zhao Ming pulled out his horse's reins and shouted in a deep voice.

The group of people pulled their horses to the west and ran towards Suzhou.

At this time, outside Jiayuguan, in the vast Gobi Desert, an army lowered its head and marched in a mighty manner.

Wu Sangui rode on the horse, covering the wound on his arm with one hand, his face full of hatred, "Zhao Zamao, I will definitely come back to seek revenge on you!"
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