Chapter 173: The Fierce Battle in the Southwest (I)

The next day, as soon as the sky was bright, the scouts came to report one after another, and the information from all over the vicinity of the mountain city was gathered to the Marshal's Mansion one after another. Last night, a group of unknown armed forces broke into the Tianyakou base, attacked the sentry post, and rescued the marshal Wu Yinglin; explosions and fires broke out in many entertainment venues in the mountain city, killing and injuring hundreds of people, and the people of the mountain city were panicked for a while.

Under the pretext of welcoming the marshal Wu Yinglin to govern the southwest, Ya'an and Leshan have rebelled and are advancing towards the mountain city. Liu Di and Li Ying each commanded 8,000 elite soldiers and prepared to meet the attack on the two enemy roads that Maoling and Huyu must pass.

There is good news, too. The 20,000 troops led by Luo Tian encircled and suppressed Zheng Jiaolin's 5,000 left army in Xishui, and successfully infiltrated the enemy's rear and pinned down Zheng Jiaolin's 3,000 rear army.

"In this way, Zheng Jiaolin only has 5,000 troops left in the right road army to carry the mountain, and he can't hold out, and he can't make big waves, and our focus is to destroy the enemy in Ya'an and Leshan as soon as possible", seeing the daily report of Tanma, Yinzhen and Nian Zhuangfei discussed.

From the fourth watch day to dawn, because of the attack, the Marshal's Mansion treated the wounded, arranged various matters, and was busy with a mess, spending this sleepless night of worrying. Nian Zhuangfei took the initiative to ask for battle, and decided to lead his troops to insert behind the enemy, and formed a flanking attack with Liu Di and Li Ying's troops against the enemy in Leshan and Ya'an, and attacked the enemy before it was stable.

"It's just that I disturbed your wedding, Sister Jingyi won't blame me", Yinzhen said to Nian Zhuangfei with a smile.

"Now that the situation is so tense, if they are allowed to sit on the throne, the rest of the southwest will follow suit, and the little fruit we have just achieved will be quickly lost," Nian Zhuangfei said with some concern.

"Okay, when the southwest stabilizes, I'll give you and Jingyi a long vacation, so that you can get tired of being together every day", Yinzhen quipped.

By noon, Nian Zhuangfei had quickly completed the assembly of the team, and nearly 10,000 teams sneaked out of the mountain city with him, moving towards the rear of Maoling and Huyu.

In the afternoon, Tanmalai reported that Hu Huaxiong, the town guard of Luzhou, and Zheng Tianli, the governor of Luzhou, rebelled, and supported the marshal Wu Yinglin as the generalissimo of the southwest soldiers and horses.

At this time, Yinzhen, who was sitting in the Great Marshal's Mansion, panicked for a while. At this time, the Shuai Mansion had no soldiers except for the 2,000-strong guards. While summoning the generals in the Shuaifu to discuss countermeasures, he sent people to quickly ask for help from the suburbs of Qianduyu and Mu Jishi.

At this time, there were still some generals in the Shuaifu, including deputy marshal Liu Qingshui, guerrilla general Ma Xiaomeng, and Sipin Dusi Chen Haotian, who were mainly responsible for strategic planning and suburban defense. This deputy marshal Liu Qingshui knew that he was not trusted, so he held a posture that he had nothing to do with himself and hung high, and let Yinzhen and Nian Zhuangfei dispatch troops, and today he suddenly heard that Wu Yinglin had escaped and was supported by Hu Huaxiong, the guard of Luzhou Town, and he was surprised and uneasy. The surprise is that this Wu Dashuai may make a comeback, and the uneasy thing is that he will take the lead in returning to Longxi, I am afraid that it will also be detrimental to himself, so I am worried in my heart.

And Ma Xiaomeng and Chen Haotian have no deep friendship with Wu Yinglin, they were originally the only ones who were Liu Qingshui's horses, but now they can only go with the flow, anyway, whoever wins the power will follow whichever side, the so-called people who know the times are Junjie, which is their most basic understanding of the southwest in turmoil.

"Mo Ruo temporarily withdrew from the Shuaifu, temporarily hid in the Liuli Mountain, and returned to the Shuaifu when the situation stabilized," Liu Qingshui suggested.

Yinzhen didn't say anything, and glanced at Ma Xiaomeng and Chen Haotian.

"It's okay, you go to Liuli Mountain to hide, and General Ma and I will temporarily command and dispatch here", Chen Haotian volunteered.

"It's not too late to decide when General Qian comes back", Yinzhen saw that several generals had no good plan, and immediately ended the discussion.

When Qian Dui Yu and Mu Ji received the urgent report, they had just finished cleaning the battlefield, and nearly 5,000 prisoners were reorganized and filled into the troops, and Mu Jishi's troops suddenly increased their strength, and their morale was naturally greatly boosted, and these prisoners originally belonged to the same camp as many of Mu Jishi's junior officers, and the army's command and drills were basically in unison, so it was easy to blend in with the troops.

Twilight Yu and Mu Jishi had a brief discussion, and Mu Jishi immediately led the team in the direction of Luzhou, while Twilight Yu led the guards back to the Shuaifu to discuss with Yinzhen how to break the enemy.

There are several flowers, one on each branch. However, it is said that after Luo Tian led 20,000 troops to encircle and suppress Zheng Jiaolin's 5,000 left route army, he directly penetrated into Zheng Jiaolin's old nest Rongcheng with a force of 10,000 troops, and the other 10,000 troops set up an ambush on the way back to Zheng Jiaolin's rear army.

After receiving the news of the destruction of Zheng Jiaolin's army, he quickly led the rear army to retreat and quickly marched towards Rongcheng, he knew that the old nest of Rongcheng was only less than 8,000 troops, and the combat effectiveness was not strong.

Beiqingdian, this is 300 miles away from Rongcheng in Rongbei Town, there are only dozens of households, scattered at this intersection by the mountains, a steep mountain range from east to west stretches to the east and west, leaving only a flat land about 2 miles wide in the middle of this town, looking from afar, it is like a fault zone between the two mountains, this is the only place where the mountain city leads to Rongcheng, and the leader of the ambush here is a deputy general of Luo Tian, Wupin garrison Liu Gang.

This Liu Gang was a general of Luo Tian when he was in Rongcheng, because Luo Tian opposed Wu Sanmu's will to start a war with the Longxi Empire, he was put in prison by Wu Sanmu, and was rescued by Qianduyu from Qingshui Creek, and was appointed as the guerrilla general of Rongcheng after the Wangjianglou incident, and Liu Gang happened to attend the meeting in Wangjianglou, and was naturally overjoyed to hear that his old general was reappointed as the military commander of Rongcheng, so he was soon entrusted with a heavy task by Luo Tian.

When the sky was about to be dark, the 3,000 retreating rear troops commanded by Li Pa hurried to Beiqingdian. There were 6,000 people in the bushes lying in ambush north of the town, waiting for the command to give the order to attack.

Liu Gang was waiting for all the Zheng troops to enter the ambush circle and then attack, because in the south of the town, Liu Gang also ambushed 4,000 soldiers, specially closing the door and beating dogs, the plan was to launch an attack from the north, and the south would respond immediately, forming a north-south flank attack.

Suddenly, Lippa's troops stopped, and after a while they saw tents set up in a clearing by the roadside, where they had been camped.

The Lipa set up his camp near the edge of the town, and the camp fanned out to the north to meet the pursuing enemy forces from the north.

Lipa's troops hurriedly unloaded their weapons and set up their tents, when suddenly several thunderbolts burst into the tent in the center that had just been set up, and the opposing troops rushed like a tide from the east, west, and north.

Li Pa panicked all of a sudden, so fast.

But Li Pa's post-3,000 army has been on the battlefield for a long time and is not panicked when in distress. Seeing that the other party was fierce, the swords and guns were facing outward, and the archers were behind, waiting for the battle.

At this time, the battle was still dominated by traditional cold weapons, and the amount of thunderbolt ammunition was small and the power was insufficient. Therefore, the 6,000 soldiers commanded by Liu Gang rushed to kill several times, and Li Jun only retreated a little, and did not take much advantage, but was shot and killed by Liu Jun's arrowmen, so a confrontation situation was formed in the north of the town for a while.

Suddenly, in the rear of Lipa's army, that is, in the direction of the town, shouts of killing were everywhere, and another standard army rushed in, and Lipa was taken aback.