A not-so-hard battle ended quickly. When Xue Hongqi's cavalry team plunged into the enemy's formation, they had already declared the outcome of the battle. The Hengtian King's tribe, which was not very morale, retreated first, and then the Scorpion block also resisted symbolically and chose to escape. However, the direction of the two troops' escape was very interesting. The Scorpion block escaped to the northeast, that is, the Shanxi Taiyuan, but the Hengtian King's tribe did not go along with him, but ran in all directions and in a mess.

The newcomer Hong Niang couldn't understand it anymore, and she couldn't help asking Ma Xiaotian: "Why did the Hengtian King's tribe run in scattered, but the Scorpion's blocks run in one direction?"

Ma Xiaotian clenched his head and spread his hands and said, "I don't know either."

The Hongniang said depressedly: "I'm so stupid, I don't understand this."

Ma Xiaotian almost covered his face and ran away.

Seeing that he was embarrassed, Zhu Yuanzhang mentioned from the side: "The Hengtian King's tribe had already surrendered to Sun Chuanting, and even changed his military uniforms. The soldiers already had a sense of belonging to the court, so after they were defeated, they would run towards the direction where the imperial army was located. However, the Hengtian King's tribe was different. He was still flirting with Sun Chuanting and did not formally surrender to the government for inclusion. In this case, his soldiers did not feel the reality of "I am an officer and soldier". Therefore, some of them would run towards Yulin, northern Shaanxi, where the Hengtian King's base camp, and the other ran away in all directions... Hehe, anyone who did not run towards Yulin was not considered going back to Hengtian King."

"Don't plan to go back?" Hongniangzi said strangely: "Are they going back?"

This time, Ma Xiaotian suddenly jumped out and smiled, "I understand. This time I know, these people who don't plan to go back are going to join us. Because we support the families of these people, they must have praised the goodness of southern Shaanxi in their letters. Now they see that our army is in great wars, so they no longer want to join the army of King Hengtian and want to join our Zhu army. So they ran away in all directions and after King Hengtian escaped, they will come out to surrender to us."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at him and nodded, "Very good. You are right."

Ma Xiaotian was proud, and the Hongniang glanced at him, and the meaning in his eyes was obviously: "You are smart this time."

At this time, Xue Hongqi led the cavalry to disperse the enemy and was hesitating whether to pursue him. Last time she pursued the officers and soldiers with great mercy, and was almost killed by cannons under Xinyang City. Therefore, her bad habit of blind pursuit was slightly restrained. Although she was victorious at this time, she did not dare to chase him randomly. She turned her head to look at the central army, but saw Zhu Yuanzhang ordering the flag soldiers to wave the order flags. It turned out that she ordered not to care about the scorpion block and pursue the Hengtian King's troops closely.

She was overjoyed. Since Brother Zhu ordered her to chase her, it meant that the pursuit was safe, which was in line with the tough personality of the Mobei Horse Bandits. So she happily whistled and ordered that the 800 cavalrymen were pestering the Hengtian King's troops to chase and fight, and the Hengtian King made the Hengtian King miserable. Not long after, both of them disappeared behind the hills in the north.

Xu Renjie was afraid that Xue Hongqi would be in trouble, so he brought another 5,000 infantry soldiers to support him.

The remaining Zhu army, led by Zhu Yuanzhang and Wang Er, entered Qingjian County to rest and rectify, and sent people to clean the battlefield and collect spoils. Hun 100,000 people also sent people to collect their defeated troops and let them gather back.

Zhu Yuanzhang took a seat in the county government office with Hun 100,000. At this time, Hun 100,000 was already deeply admired Zhu Yuanzhang's combat power. He kept praising Zhu's strong combat power. Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to say, "It's up to you, brother, I'll go back to southern Shaanxi."

When Hun Hundred Wan heard that he was leaving, he thought to himself: I thought he came north to take the opportunity to occupy my territory. Unexpectedly, he immediately said he wanted to leave as soon as he repelled the enemy. He was an open man.

With such thoughts, he smiled on his face and clasped his fists and said, "This time, it's all up to Brother Zhu Ba's help. If Brother Zhu Ba has any difficulties in the future, he just needs to send someone to say that his brother will definitely go through fire and water, and he will never refuse."

He was completely insincere in this scene, and anyone could hear it. If Zhu Yuanzhang had really difficulty asking him for help, he would definitely have many excuses to swear. Zhu Yuanzhang did not point him out, but just talked to him with a smile. This time, Zhu Yuanzhang went north and was determined to win northern Shaanxi, but he could not take it openly, otherwise he would easily lose his reputation. What he had to do was to let Hang Hundred Wan hand over to northern Shaanxi by himself. For this reason, he had already made many arrangements in advance. He was not in a hurry at this time, just waiting for these arrangements to take effect.

That night, Xue Hongqi and Xu Renjie returned from chasing. They chased King Heng, killed many scattered soldiers of King Heng, and caught hundreds of prisoners. Xue Hongqi was a little curious and asked Zhu Yuanzhang why he wanted her to pursue him this time. Zhu Yuanzhang explained: "This time we should kill more troops of King Heng, so that he lacked his ability to defend the city." Xue Hongqi and Xu Renjie suddenly realized.

He was in the barracks and counted the troops he collected from him in the barracks, and then he realized something was wrong. It turned out that he had more than 10,000 troops. Later, he took over the army of Chongtianzhu, and the total strength was about 15,000. Although he lost some losses when fighting against King Hengtian and Scorpion blocks, the war loss rate in the cold weapon era was very small. Generally speaking, 10% of the war loss was enough to lead to collapse. Therefore, although he suffered a defeat and was disbanded, the entire army should be able to recover more than 10,000 people as long as he spent some time collecting the defeated troops.

Unexpectedly, I spent a whole day sending people everywhere to recruit old subordinates, but only more than 4,000 people were summoned. At this speed, only six or seven thousand people could be recalled in ten days and half a month. What about other people?

It turned out that after the collapse of Hun 100,000, the defeated troops scattered and ran into the mountains and forests in all directions. They met the small troops arranged by Zhu Yuanzhang here. These small troops took over the banner and collected the scattered defeated troops. Of course, they did not understand and boldly took these soldiers directly into their own army, but instead said: "Assist the Hun 100,000 brother to appease the defeated troops."

Among these defeated soldiers, there were also old and weak women from the Chongtianzhu Army. These people used to deal with pangolins, but at this time they could be used to capture the hearts of the old subordinates of Chongtianzhu. Many of the old subordinates of Chongtianzhu immediately expressed their willingness to join the Zhu army. When Chongtianzhu was killed by the Hengtianwang, they had no leader and had to surrender to the 100,000. However, after thinking about it, they always felt that the 100,000 people were not someone who could be entrusted. Now that Baishui Zhu Ba is here, how can he not "abandon the dark and turn to the light"? So the thousands of soldiers under the command of Chongtianzhu were basically all involved in the Zhu army, which greatly reduced the power of the 100,000 troops.

This is not over yet. Some of the escaped deployments of Hun 100,000 are unwilling to go back to Hun 100,000, because under Hun 100,000, not only does it not have enough food or clothing, but also has to fight such a frustrated defeat. These soldiers often receive letters from their families in southern Shaanxi, which praises southern Shaanxi as a paradise on earth. They are even more beautiful than Suzhou and Hangzhou. They have long wanted to escape to the Zhu army to serve in the army, but they have never had the opportunity. Now, taking advantage of the defeat of Hun 100,000, the army collapses, which is a good opportunity to become deserters.

Zhu Jun accepted all these people as usual, let them eat and drink, and then secretly arranged for them to go through small roads, crossing mountains and ridges to southern Shaanxi. Li Panlong, who stayed in Luochuan, had already received orders and would place these people well.

Once these few tricks were used, it would be a disaster for 100,000 yuan. He counted them over and counted them, and in the end there were only five or six thousand soldiers left. Although he vaguely felt that Zhu Ba seemed to have played some tricks in it, he had no evidence. Instead, he had to thank Zhu Yuanzhang for helping him collect some of the soldiers.

In the following days, many soldiers from the Hengtian King's tribe also came to join Zhu's army, but none of them voted for 100,000 yuan, which made him very jealous.

Four or five days passed in a blink of an eye. On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang found 100,000 yuan and smiled and said, "I am planning to go back to southern Shaanxi. In the situation in northern Shaanxi, please take care of the 100,000 yuan, and kill the Hengtian King as soon as possible. Otherwise, I will not feel at ease to farm in the south."

I really want Zhu Yuanzhang to leave quickly, the further you go, the better, but at this moment he did not dare to let Zhu Yuanzhang go, and said with a wry smile: "Brother Zhu Ba, you can't leave now."

Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be puzzled: "Why can't you leave?"

Hun Hundred Thousand said with a bitter face: "Brother... I have only five or six thousand men under my command now. Not to mention killing the Hengtian King, it is impossible to resist the attacks of Hengtian King and Scorpion. If you retreat at this time, I am afraid that my brother will be chopped off in the blink of an eye."

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be surprised: "Ah? Why are there only these people?"

Hun Shiwan smiled bitterly and said, "I don't know, these damn cowards must have dared not come back to see me after losing the battle."

Zhu Yuanzhang said, "Then what you mean is, let me continue to stay here to help you?"

Hang Hundred Wan nodded and said, "Yes, please help Brother Zhu Ba again."

A look of unhappiness flashed across Zhu Yuanzhang's face and snorted, "A hundred thousand, what do you think of me Zhu Ba as? Let's open the skylight and say something. I traveled thousands of miles from southern Shaanxi to northern Shaanxi to help you fight. It would be fine if there was no benefit at all, but it would be fine if you wanted me to stay here with my brothers? Do you think of me Zhu Ba as your subordinate?"

Hun Shin-Han-Han was startled and said quickly: "Brothers don't have this intention, and they are also unable to do anything, so they dare to dare to ask Brother Zhu Ba for permission, and they don't mean to underestimate Brother Zhu Ba."
Chapter completed!