All the bandits in Pingliang Mansion had already left, and the government released the rescued people back to their neighbors.

However, the arrival of Li Guo caused the newly restored peace of Pingliang Mansion to become turbulent again.

A large number of people who returned to their hometowns were once again trapped, and the production that was finally restored was once again destroyed.

Chen Wang originally had the idea of ​​chasing Li Guo all the way into Hanzhong, but now Chen Wang could no longer hold back the murderous intention in his heart.

Along the way, not only did we encounter a large number of refugees, but almost all the villages and towns we passed through were turned into mounds.

And more and more bodies are being found on roads and around towns.

There are ruins everywhere, and bones are scattered on the ruins of the road.

Successive years of famine have almost destroyed Shaanxi's production, and the two bandits' disasters have made Shaanxi's situation even worse.

Only cities like prefectures and counties can barely survive the wave of rogue bandits.

In addition, only those Zhuangzi who merged together to keep warm and cultivate together still exist.

However, these villages and villas are surrounded by deep moats and high villa walls.

There was a large village whose walls were even higher than some of the county walls that Chen Wang had seen.

Much of the land outside the village is dark red, and not far from the village, there are several large-scale mounds, and there are traces of burning in some places.

The air was filled with the pungent smell of blood.

Chen Wang's eyes only glanced at the mountain village in the distance, and then looked away.

It was now September 15th. He had already led his troops through Chongxin, and the scouting horses in front finally discovered the trajectory of Li Guo's army.

The messenger sent from Pingliang Mansion also delivered the latest information to Chen Wang yesterday.

There are five thousand horsemen and twenty thousand soldiers, including men, women, old and young.

The soldiers in Pingliang Mansion were ambushed and defeated for a while. Now they are defending Pingliang Mansion and dare not go out to fight in the field.

The information obtained was also completely careless and extremely sketchy.

This information is from three days ago.

Now I'm afraid there will be even more troops under Li Guo's command.

"Thirty miles ahead of our army, we found a cavalry group behind the rogue bandits, with about a thousand horsemen and two thousand troops."

"The rogue cavalry are well-dressed and armored. Most of the troops are young and strong. They don't have many weapons and no armor."

"Their brigade raised so much smoke and dust that it was difficult to observe the number of most of the rogue bandits from a distance."

The reports from the scouts sent to the front were extremely detailed.

These people are all in Liaodong, and they often need to go out of the fort to explore the situation in Liaodong.

There are few people who can serve as Ye Bushou. They are all simple people. They are all the best in the army.

Chen Wang also stayed overnight and won one of his first-level military exploits in Liaodong when he encountered a reconnaissance team of Hou Jin while investigating intelligence.

"Continue to hang behind Yaoyao and observe, explore both sides of the road to see if there are any ambushes."

Chen Wang raised his head and decisively issued the military order.

"Order, the entire army wears armor!"

What rogue bandits are best at is setting ambush on official roads.

Once they discover that officers and soldiers are pursuing them, they will speed up and look for opportunities to hide ambushes on both sides of the road, making it difficult to guard against them.

In the five years from the third year of Chongzhen's reign to the present, although the Ming army has been careful, they still fell into ambushes and were defeated from time to time.

Although Li Guo is just a bereaved dog now, he is on the run.

But capsizing in the gutter is not impossible.

A group of Liao cavalry basically marched on two horses. One horse carried the armor and armor, and the other rode on horseback and marched. However, sometimes they would dismount and lead the war horse.

Although putting on the armor was a bit cumbersome, with specific training, everyone quickly completed wearing the armor.

Even the three rounds of new soldiers recruited by Pizhou, as well as the auxiliary soldiers recruited, are already quite skilled.

After traveling hundreds of miles along the way, not many of the auxiliary soldiers were left behind.

The big reason for this is that most of these people are farmers and have good endurance.

Another part of the reason is because of the leggings.

Leggings can prevent blood from accumulating in the legs after walking for a long time, thereby reducing leg fatigue and increasing the mileage of the troops.

Leggings are the simplest and cheapest equipment available.

When he was in Chunhua, Chen Wang had people buy a lot of numbness from Xi'an Prefecture, cut it into long strips of cloth, and let all the soldiers wear leggings.

Chen Wang led the war horse and looked around.

Then he took out a map from the side of the saddle.

Now we have passed through Chongxin for three days, and we will soon arrive at Huating.

The terrain of Huating is much flatter than that of Chongxin. The terrain is open and there are not many places where one can set up an ambush.

If you pursue them, you only need to defeat them in one go.

According to the consistent behavior of rogue bandits, they will inevitably choose to cut off their tails to survive.

Further southwest from Huating is Gongchang Mansion, and to the southeast is Fengxiang Mansion. How to pursue them is a huge problem.

If Li Guo fled to Fengxiang Mansion, it would be difficult to stop him from escaping all the way to Guanzhong...
Chapter completed!