Father can be an enemy to the country

The Lucchuan Army retreated into the camp in one breath and finally stopped their retreat.

It's not that they don't panic, but it's still a thousand miles away from Luchuan Kingdom. Where can they escape from the military camp? How can a group of broken soldiers escape? If he ran back so rashly, he would not die of exhaustion and starvation on the way, but he would also be arrested by the chieftain tribes who made trouble for him along the way and flattered the Ming army. So let’s stabilize our position with the fortifications built the day before and see what regulations are in place from above.

Silunfa thought the same way. After all, he still had 70,000 to 80,000 regular soldiers and 200,000 auxiliary soldiers. As long as he stabilized his position, everything would get better. Even if you can't turn defeat into victory, there is no problem in returning with your whole body.

However, how could the sophisticated Ming army give them a chance to breathe?

When the Ming army's vanguard pursued them to the Luchuan army camp, they did stop temporarily. This made the nervous Luchuan defeated army feel a little lucky. Could it be that the Ming army did not want to waste any more troops and was preparing to persuade them to surrender? Your Majesty must agree...

But the reality was not what the Luchuan Army expected. The Ming Army was just waiting...

After waiting for a while, a pack horse team came over carrying a squatting tiger cannon. This kind of artillery has a short and thick body and weighs less than fifty kilograms. The shells and the gun body are transported separately, so it can maneuver with large troops. In fact, these squatting tiger cannons were brought over by the Ming army from Kunming City, 800 miles away, and they did not hinder the army along the way.

The gunner jumped off the other horse, untied the rope from the packhorse's back frame, took down the cannon body, then put on the iron claws and iron hoops, placed them fifty steps outside the Luchuan barracks, and then pierced the big iron nails. Passed the iron stumbling block and penetrated deeply into the soil. This is done to fix the gun body, otherwise the violent recoil will push the gun body, which weighs dozens of kilograms, back several feet, and the gunner will break his bones if it hits it.

After everything was prepared, the Ming army gunner first loaded the propellant and then stuffed solid shells into the barrel. Amidst the earth-shattering roar, just one salvo destroyed the temporary wooden fence wall built by the Luchan Army.

Before the wood chips all over the sky fell to the ground, the Ming Army cavalry could not wait to cross the narrow ditch and rush into the Luchuan Army camp with overwhelming force.

In the camp, the shocked Luchuan Army retreated. When they heard the earth-shattering sound of artillery, they all got up from the ground in fright, stretched their necks and looked towards the east camp. They saw that the Ming army had rushed in overwhelmingly... The simple tents were trampled by the cavalry, and many of the wounded soldiers who managed to escape had been trampled into mud before they had time to dodge.

Come on, then keep running.

Regardless of the fact that the journey is too long, lack of food and drink, danger on the way, etc., let’s just survive first.

And their king has already taken the lead...

Not only were the troops fleeing now. There were still 200,000 auxiliary soldiers in the Shili Company Camp. Seeing that all the regular soldiers were running away, they had no choice but to flee with them.

The big scene of 2,780,000 troops escaping together is not something that can often be seen. The next time it happens again, it will have to wait until 555 years later.

There were broken soldiers escaping all over the mountains and plains. The only way to escape from the valley could not accommodate so many people. The broken soldiers in Luchuan, who were so panic-stricken, even filled up every trail into the mountain.

The Ming cavalry were so dizzy that they didn't know where to pursue them. In fact, there are countless defeated soldiers everywhere, and it doesn’t matter where you chase them...

The Ming army's cavalry pursued them until dark before withdrawing their troops.

The Ming army won a complete victory in this battle. When looking at the results, a total of more than 40,000 people were beheaded and more than 20,000 people were captured. In fact, most of the heads were captured during the pursuit, not to mention those prisoners. In addition, more than fifty war elephants were captured, completely stripping off the underpants of Luchuan, the overlord of the southwest.

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Silunfa had never run so fast in his life. He escaped from the camp at noon, and by dark he had arrived at the boundary of Changning Mansion, a hundred miles away from Dingyuan.

It makes the horse under your crotch so tired that it foams at the mouth...

"Your Majesty, take a rest." Dao Ganmeng was also a ruthless person, and he was able to follow him all the way without falling behind. Of course, it was inevitable that I would fall apart from exhaustion and lie on the horse, panting heavily.

"The Ming army should not be able to catch up."

"Well. Let's take a rest then." Silunfa nodded and said in a low voice, "I'm sure I can't chase this guy who is just fooling around."

The Xila forbidden soldiers guarding him found a nearby valley that was sheltered from the wind, and began to look for firewood to make a fire and boil water for cooking.

After a while, a blazing bonfire was lit in the valley.

A forbidden soldier spread a leopard skin beside the campfire and asked Silunfa to sit down.

"Your Majesty, I forgive you. I was in such a hurry when I retreated that I didn't even have time to bring the king's tent with me." Dao Gan Meng apologized.

"Escape, what else is there to care about?" Silunfa sat down on the leopard skin and waved his hands with a weary expression. "You can sit down too."

"Thank you, Your Majesty..." Dao Ganmeng thanked him and then sat down next to Silun Fa.

The monarch and his ministers were relatively speechless, warming themselves up to the fire in silence.

After a long time, Silunfa suddenly asked quietly: "When the king wanted to withdraw the imperial soldiers before, why not only did you not stop it yourself, but why didn't you let others advise?"

"This..." Dao Ganmeng was shocked. He didn't expect that the king would see his little actions. He calmed down and hurriedly came up with the excuse he had already thought of: "It's like this. At that time, the king's imperial soldiers were leaderless and more than half of them were damaged. If they were left on the battlefield, they would only be eaten by the Ming army. It won’t change the situation of the war at all.”

After a pause, Dao Ganmeng continued: "Instead of doing this, it is better to retain the precious forbidden soldiers to avoid shaking the country's foundation."

"That's it, I and I have thought of it together..." Silunfa's sharp eyes gradually dimmed, and he smiled self-deprecatingly: "The foundation of the country? After this battle, will the Luchuan Kingdom still exist?"

"Your Majesty, please do not lose heart because of a defeat!" Dao Ganmeng hurriedly advised: "Yes, we did suffer heavy losses in today's battle, but it is not to the point of shaking the foundation. Your Majesty's forbidden troops are still there, and our Xi At least half of the assassination troops have been preserved, which is still the strongest force in Central and South China."

"As long as we try our best to gather the army, return to Mengmao safely, and quickly plead guilty to the Ming Dynasty, the situation will be stable. At most, some blind chiefs will jump out to rebel, and I will definitely suppress them on behalf of the king. Absolutely We won’t let them divide our Luchuan Kingdom!”

"Oh, I hope so." Silunfa let out a long breath. In fact, his thoughts were similar to Dao Ganmeng's. They both wanted to clean up the mess first and then beg for mercy from Ming Dynasty.

They, the leaders of the separate factions, understood clearly that the Celestial Empire would only impose restrictions on remote areas like theirs, and would never send officials to govern them. That was too bad.

Moreover, the Luchuan Kingdom is so large that it is even more impossible for the Ming Dynasty to rule directly. In any case, in the end, the local powerful leaders will have to govern themselves.

So I just need to make sure that I am still the strongest in Zhongnan, and then apologize to me, and pay a little more blood to pay tribute. At most, I can send one of my sons to Beijing as a hostage, and swear to be honest in the future. After this combination of punches, basically, the big thing will be over.

Regardless of whether the emperor was over it or not, in the end he still had to pinch his nose and let himself continue to manage Luchuan.