It has to be said that Wu Sangui is still very prestigious in the Lueyang army. The vassal troops in Anxi and Hexi towns in Lueyang City have followed him for many years, and some are even second generation. And the newly attached volunteers have all heard of the name of "Uncle Zhu Ming Wu Guo" - they heard it from the master of the army above them!
Many princes from the Dashun Dynasty who were good at fighting took turns fighting Zhu Ming and Wu Guojiu for so many years, but they didn't do anything to him. They even broke into his hometown and snatched away important things like Lueyang. !
Now that the elder brother of the Empress of Ming Dynasty is on the front line, what else can others say? It was nothing more than resisting desperately, carrying the dead ones down and burying them quickly. Those who are still alive will continue to follow the instructions of the veterans under Wu Guojiu. Muskets are not their turn to use. All they can do is draw bows and shoot arrows (ordinary hunting bows are not considered weapons, but their power is limited and difficult to use). Injuring the armored Dashun officers and soldiers), or throwing makeshift spears, or using makeshift spears (long sharpened wooden sticks) to stab people in formation, or several people holding a log together to knock it over. Enemy Ladder...
Up and down the castle, the firepower from both sides surged back and forth. How many muskets were shooting at each other? From time to time, grenades with wooden handles that lit the fire line were thrown out with great force, exploding on the attacking crowd or on top of the city.
Neither side has much heavy firepower. Xiangshan is not very steep, but there is no way to transport artillery up. When the Dashun Army was originally stationed, it was equipped with 3-pound cannons and mortar cannons in the fortress on the mountain. But they were all blown up during the withdrawal, so both sides now have no artillery to use. Now we are fighting with guns, fighting with swords, and fighting with all our might!
Wu Sangui's soldiers were well equipped, including flintlock guns, and there were plenty of bullets and gunpowder for them to practice. If the flintlock guns were broken, they could be replenished in time. The sources of the soldiers were Anxi, Hexi, and Sichuanbian Towns. He is a veteran who is used to being on the battlefield and his hands will not shake at critical moments. In the past seven or eight years, Lao Wu has always been able to withstand Li Dingguo's heavy blows at critical moments because of this group of dead soldiers!
Under the gunfire of this group of Wu family soldiers, the casualties of Dashun Army increased greatly, and some people kept rolling down the mountain, but their follow-up troops continued to make up. One after another, temporary bamboo and wooden ladders were erected on the top of the city. As soon as one was set up, Dashun's dead soldiers rushed up with bullets in their hands! People kept falling down, but more people filled in.
After fighting for two or three days, there were already mountains of corpses under the fortress on the top of Xiangshan Mountain!
However, the corpses below are getting higher and higher, and the city wall above is also getting higher! Wang Youwen was also pulled up to the top of the mountain by Wu Sangui, and he commanded a group of civil servants to work hard to transport boxes of soil to the top of the city, where they were piled up with the dead bodies!
Everyone above and below the city was fighting for their lives, and everyone knew the significance of this battle at Lueyang!
Lueyang is not only the junction of Sanguan Road, Qishan Road and Jinniu Road, but Wu Sangui, the governor of Sichuan and Shaanxi in the Ming Dynasty, was trapped here.
If Wu Sangui could be killed, the Shaanxi Ming Army would be greatly shaken! It is also possible to return directly to Guanzhong and Qishan!
"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui...when will you die!"
In the distance, Li Dingguo held up his telescope and murmured to himself. No one behind him could answer this question. Everyone was silently praying to God - Wu Sangui is not a good person, accept him quickly!
"Your Majesty, there has been no news from Hanzhong for 12 hours..." Luo Hu's worried voice sounded in Li Dingguo's ears.
Something must have happened over there in Hanzhong!
According to Li Dingguo's order, Dingjunshan Camp must send a team of Tangma to Lueyang Army every six hours. But now it has been 12 hours since Tang Ma came!
The absence of Tang Ma only means one problem. The road from Dingjunshan Camp to Lueyang has been cut off by the Ming army that invaded the Hanzhong Basin.
This thing is a bit beyond Li Dingguo's expectations!
Because Li Dingguo deployed many defenders on Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road, and the plank road between Baocheng and Hutou Pass on these three roads except Baoxie Road was changed under the rule of Dashun Dynasty. Except for the highly trafficable Qi Road, the roads elsewhere have not been repaired and are now difficult to pass. Even the Guards of the Ming Army are unlikely to be able to open any of the Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road in such a short period of time, right?
However, the interruption of Tangma between Lueyang and Dingjunshan Camp clearly told Li Dingguo that the Ming army not only entered the Hanzhong Basin, but also cut off the traffic between Dingjunshan Camp and Lueyang...actually On the previous day, Li Dingguo had sufficient defenders deployed on Baoxie Road, Tangluo Road, and Ziwu Road. However, in the Battle of Baohe more than ten days ago, there was an omission that did not attract Li Dingguo's attention - when Wu Guogui defeated Baohe, he sent half of the elite scout battalion into Bao Valley!
Although the number was small, it frightened the Dashun army defending Baogu Valley. They thought Li Dingguo had been defeated in the Hanzhong Basin! Moreover, this group of trapped scouts was quite capable of bluffing, making the Dashun army in Bao Valley think that they were being attacked from both sides, and even deployed troops from the defensive front facing Guanzhong to defend their buttocks. As a result, the defense was broken by a Guards Division led by Yan Yingyuan!
Yan Yingyuan, who rushed into Bao Valley, encountered Wu Guogui's scouts. He knew about Hanzhong's defeat, but he still boldly attacked and captured Bao City with a night attack. Then he did not attack Zheng and the Dingjunshan camp south of Hanzhong Fucheng, but recommended along the edge of the mountainous area to the west of Jushui, cutting off the connection between Dingjunshan and Lueyang - thus blocking Li Dingguo's way back to the army.
Unless Dashun can quickly mobilize troops from Micang Road and Lizhi Road into Hanzhong, when the other two Guards Infantry Divisions enter Hanzhong through Ziwu Road and Tangluo Road, Li Dingguo will not be able to recapture Hanzhong even if he has only three heads and six arms. ....
Although Li Dingguo now knows that something is not good, he can't look back.
Because his army had been fighting for many days, it had long been exhausted. Now that it had turned around and returned to Hanzhong, it would not be able to win the same victory as the Battle of Mioxian County and the Battle of Baoshui.
Moreover, Wu Sangui's reinforcements will arrive in Lueyang at any time. Once Li Dingguo's army retreats, these reinforcements will arrive in Lueyang unimpeded. By then, Li Dingguo, who has returned to Hanzhong, will be attacked from both sides...
Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and asked: "Has the mortar been transported? Has the gun emplacement been dug?"
A staff member on the side replied: "Two 12-pound mortars have been transported, and the gun positions are being dug."
"Let them hurry up!" Li Dingguo said, "Dig the artillery positions and then bomb them hard... In this battle, Wu Sangui must be killed no matter what!"
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"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui, when will you die?"
It was Zheng Zhilong who expressed the same emotion!
In the Duke Quan's Mansion in East Lake Town, Zheng Zhilong had just read the latest battle report sent by someone from the Generalissimo's Mansion and couldn't help but muttered.
"Abba, you can't talk nonsense!" It was Zheng Sen who reminded him.
Zheng Sen came to the court this time to resign Dongning Jiedushi and Dongning to withdraw from the vassal - Dongning Town, which governs Quanzhou Prefecture, is already attracting attention. Although Zhu Cixiang did not say anything, Zheng Zhilong and Zheng Sen The three of them, Zheng Jiangong, knew this well.
Therefore, since last year, Zheng Sen has repeatedly submitted his resignation and requested to become an official in the court - he did not come to the court to be an apartment house, but to succeed the elderly Zheng Zhilong in the cabinet, either as the Minister of Household Affairs or the Ministry of Works. Minister... In short, Zheng Ge is old!
In the first month of the 20th year of Hongxing, Zhu Cixiang finally agreed to Zheng Sen's entry into the court, but he did not agree to withdraw from Dongning. Instead, he asked Zheng Sen to enter the court to discuss the matter - and other emperors in the Ming Dynasty were keen on returning to the country. The currents are different, Zhu Cixiang is not willing to withdraw the vassal, but is more willing to move the vassal...Moving the vassal town outward, from the familiar place to the new place, this is much better than withdrawing it all at once.
The question now is where to move the Zheng family's Dongning Domain?
