【Chapter 200, go further】

It scattered and completely scattered. Under Gao Wei's army's pursuit, there were only less than a thousand people left by Zhao Qing, and the other tens of thousands of Ming troops fled in scattered.

Originally, Zhao Qing took eight or nine hundred defeated soldiers to escape to the west, thinking about joining the Mei Yousong army, but seeing Gao Wei's army chasing westward and not caring about the Ming army fleeing north and southward, Zhao Qing understood that the enemy's real target was the Mei Yousong army and would not waste much time on him.

Thinking of this, Zhao Qing fled north with his men. As expected, the enemy did not divide his troops to pursue him.

After running for so long, Zhao Qing and his group were exhausted both physically and mentally. After a long journey away from the enemy, they stopped to rest. The group lies directly or sits on the ground.

Zhao Qing, who had just dismounted, had no joy in his heart as he had a sad face. He thought of the Mei Yousong army who might be fighting against the enemy, and he also thought of the enemy who defeated him and continued to advance towards the Mei Yousong army.

Before the war started, Zhao Qing was full of confidence and thought that he could easily defeat the enemy, but he did not expect that he was easily defeated by the enemy. The thief army he faced was even more like the main force of the enemy.

If Mei Yousong's army encounters this bandit army, Zhao Qing cannot judge whether Mei Yousong's army can stop it. This bandit army is terrible. Zhao Qing is very worried that not only his Ming army will be defeated, but even Mei Yousong's army will be defeated by the enemy. The matter will be extremely serious. Jiangxi and Huguang will soon fall into decline, and the Ming Dynasty will be in danger.

Now Zhao Qing can only hope that Lord Mei can lead the way to defeat the enemy, and even if he cannot defeat the enemy, he must block the enemy.

However, Zhao Qing didn't know that on the front battlefield, Mei Yousong's army had been defeated by Wang Shengrong's army. He cut off the back with seven thousand troops. Only then did he successfully distance himself from Wang Shengrong's army, abandon all supplies, and quickly retreat towards Xinfeng County.

Now the Mei Yousong army is facing a very dangerous situation. Wang Shengrong's army pursues Mei Yousong's army from the south, while Gao Wei's army comes from the east. He wants to intercept the retreating Mei Yousong's army and attack on both sides. What should the Mei Yousong army do?

"Wu Yu, give you three battalions of troops and block the thieves in the east for a quarter of an hour."

"The last general takes the order."

Wu Yu led more than 6,000 troops from Mei Yousong's army and walked northeast, trying to block Gao Wei's army who came from the east to intercept Mei Yousong's army.

Wu Yu knew that his fate was likely to be the same as Zhou Xinhong, but he had to obey the commander's orders.

Soon, Wu Yujun and Gao Weijun met.

"Open fire!"

The musketeers in Gao Wei's army pointed their muzzles at the Ming soldiers in front of them. Accompanied by the flames and black smoke, the lead bullets pierced into the Wuyu army's ranks like lightning.

When all the musketeers in Gao Wei's army completed a shooting, only half of the more than 6,000 troops of Wu Yu's army were intact. Seeing that the colleagues in front fell one after another, Wu Yu's army collapsed directly before the two armies even came into contact.

Wu Yu, who had more than 6,000 men, was only slow to Gao Wei's army for a few dozen seconds. This time was not enough to allow Mei Yousong's army to distance themselves. Even though Mei Yousong's army temporarily changed its retreat direction and headed northwest, Gao Wei's army still successfully collided with Mei Yousong's rear army.

Waves of lead bounces came, and the Ming soldiers who were desperately fleeing fell in rows. In order to run faster, many Ming soldiers no longer had weapons, and the officers and leaders on horseback gave up their soldiers and ran directly forward.

Mei Yousong can no longer send an army to cut off the rear. At this moment, Mei Yousong's army is almost collapsed. Everyone wants to escape. No one is willing to cut off the rear. Even Mei Yousong's orders will not work unless Mei Yousong leads people to cut off the rear.

So far, the Ming army can be described as a great defeat in this battle. The number of casualties and injuries was greater than the last Song Yingchang army. If this continues, the number of casualties and injuries of Mei Yousong army will even exceed the total of the previous two rounds of battles.

Mei Yousong thought of a more serious matter. Most of the Ming army in various parts of the south were transferred away, and so many new recruits were recruited. The army paid more casualties. Then the south of the Ming Dynasty would fall into the hands of the thieves, and the Ming Dynasty was in danger!

"No, I can't continue like this. Brother Song, you must take the army to retreat safely to Xinfeng County."

Mei Yousong said to Song Yingchang beside him, and then led his personal guards to the back.

When Song Yingchang heard Mei Yousong's words, he immediately understood Mei Yousong's meaning. He knew that Mei Yousong would personally lead people to cut off the rear of the army!

"Brother Mei!"

Song Yingchang shouted, and Mei Yousong seemed to hear Song Yingchang's voice, but he did not look back and continued to march backwards.

How much the commander of the first army is loved by the soldiers? It is enough to see how many people are willing to die with their commander. Mei Yousong took his personal guards to resist the People's Army. Many officers and commanders knew about the commander's actions and gave up running away, and led their personal guards to follow Mei Yousong against the road.

More and more people were going against the trend, dozens, hundreds, thousands, and nearly ten thousand. Soon there was a nearly ten thousand troops left at the end of the Ming army, led by Mei Yousong, the commander of the Ming army.

Mei Yousong has not been in charge of this Ming army for a long time, only a few months, but now there are so many Ming army willing to die with Mei Yousong.

If it were the Qi family army, in the face of this situation, there would probably not be many people who chose to escape and would fight with General Qi to the end.

The troops led by Mei Yousong did not have elite border troops or Zhentian camp. Under the People's Army's musketeers, these two elite Ming troops would not be given time to perform, and would only fall on the battlefield in a row in the rain of bullets.

Now Mei Yousong is leading the Ming soldiers to use their bodies to resist the progress of the People's Army.

The next moment, hundreds of lead bullets attacked, and hundreds of people were shot and fell down in the Ming army's broken rear troops. The People's Army was slowly approaching, and waves of lead bullets flew over, and rows of Ming soldiers fell down.

Looking at the Ming soldiers who were falling down, Mei Yousong was angry and wanted to bite all the thieves to death, but he had no choice.

The Ming army had only nearly 10,000 people cut off the rear. Gao Wei's musketeers fired twice, and the Ming army cut off the rear was not much left.

Seeing that the troops who were led by him were killed and injured so quickly, Mei Yousong smiled.

The guards thought that their adults were facing death with a smile, but only Mei Yousong knew that his smile was ridiculed, mocking the officials of the Ming Dynasty and the gentry and merchants of the Ming Dynasty.

In nearly half a year, Mei Yousong, who knows the People's Army well, naturally knew why the People's Army quickly became powerful, so powerful that hundreds of thousands of Ming troops were defeated.

It is the officials, the gentry and businessmen. They do not pay attention to the lower-level people and are now facing a backlash.

Before death came, Mei Yousong finally felt the power of the People's Army personally.
Chapter completed!