“…… When the horses heard the elephants, they were all upset, and the virtuous people ran to cover up the defeat. ”

The Qing army's final counterattack on the banks of the Darong River came to an end, and at this time, it was raining heavily, the roads were quickly muddy, and the Qing army's escape became more and more difficult in the slippery foot. Until the end, Kong Youde only spared himself, which is an exaggeration, but the cronies of the ministry shot Li Shrimp head by the Ming army, and the corpses of the army led were all over the field, and the dead were countless.

These Qing troops were all the feudal soldiers of the Dingnan Domain, and there were many real Han Army Eight Banners. At this moment, the flags are scattered on the ground, and the corpses that are not blind are spread on the battlefield south of Yanguan to the banks of the Darong River, and the once great prestige has been trampled in the mud by the Ming army!

Kong Youde fled by the way, and with his understanding of the terrain and the best efforts of his own soldiers, he finally fled back to Guilin City. However, the army's losses were too huge, and while he closed the gates, he forced the people in the city to go to the city to assist in the defense, and he was already frightened and difficult to calm.

"Order, Line Guoan, Quanjie, and Ma Xiong immediately abandon the jurisdiction and lead the troops to return to Guilin at full speed!"

There were not many defenders in Guilin, and they could not withstand the fierce offensive of the Ming army. Kong Youde hurriedly dispatched a large army to help, but the cavalry of the Ming army followed, and soon entered the task of intercepting and killing the messenger.

Guilin is a city, surrounded by dozens of miles, and there are as many as thirteen city gates alone, which is very strong. This is an important town in southern Xinjiang, and the Ming court controlled a province in Guangxi with this city, and it was only at the beginning of the country that it had been divided into feudal kings, which can be seen.

It's a pity that no matter how strong a city is, it must have a firm defender. Kong Youde and his remnants have always been extremely evil, they did not dare to entrust their fate to the mercy of the Ming army, they were the most staunch defenders, but after this defeat, the number was too small. Even if the people who rely on the assistance of the guard, they are really stretched.

The next day, on the afternoon of June 30, Li Dingguo personally led a large army to the city of Guilin. The armor of the soldiers shone brightly under the sun, and the field was also covered with the flags of the army, the sound of the snare drum shook the heavens and the earth, and the neatness of the military appearance was even more rare. Such a scene really gave Kong Youde a great shock.

On the same day, the army completed the iron bucket siege of Guilin City. After a day's rest, on the second day of the seventh month, Li Dingguo's persuasion to surrender was fruitless, so he led his troops to attack Guilin City.

Under the command of Li Dingguo, the Ming army "attacked from all sides, or took the city in, or drove the elephant to sit away". The soldiers on the front line braved the rain of arrows, struggled to climb the ladder, and rushed to the top of the city. Rui Chenggong, the leader of the Eight Banners, and Zhou Zhiyuan, the cavalry school, were killed by the Ming army in the city defense battle, and once defeated the Qing army defending the wall.

The battle situation was critical, Kong Youde personally went to the city to supervise the battle, the banner of the king of Dingnan stood high at the head of the city, the morale of the Qing army was greatly boosted, and after several battles, it finally temporarily repelled the fierce attack of the Ming army.

However, the fierceness of the Ming army's offensive really made the Qing army tired, and the people who assisted in the defense took advantage of the fatigue of the Qing army to abandon the city defense, even if Kong Youde came to the front line in person, it was difficult to recover the situation of the collapse of the city defense.

On the third day of the seventh month, two consecutive days of onslaught left the Qing army exhausted. As soon as the Ming army retreated, the city was immediately filled with exhausted Qing troops, lying on the city wall with those who had died in battle, and at first glance it was impossible to distinguish which one was alive and which was dead.

When the Ming army retreated, a sharp arrow was shot, and the Ming army who found it saw that there was a letter tied to it and hurriedly handed it over. Until Li Dingguo's hand, after taking a closer look, he hurriedly sent someone to invite Ma Jinzhong, the general under his command.

Ma Jinzhong, a person from Yan'an, Shaanxi, was once a rogue, alias "mixed 100,000". Although this person was born in the peasant army, he was not a descendant of the Great Western Army, but was once the general of Zuo Liangyu, Chu Town, the biggest opponent of the Great Western Army. Later, Zuo Liangyu died, Zuo Mengeng surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, he and a Zuo Liangyu general named Wang Yuncheng did not participate, and he fell to the Ming army in Huguang after staying in Huguang. The two are inexorably intertwined, and are known as "King Horse".

The person who shot the letter was none other than this Wang Yuncheng. During the Huguang War, Wang Yuncheng surrendered to the Qing army and served under Kong Youde. Now that the Ming army's offensive is fierce, Guilin City is just stormy, even if you want to use Ma Jinzhong's relationship to do that anyway.

"Wang Yuncheng, his temperament is not firm, but since he has asked the last general, the last general is willing to lead his troops and horses to act according to the plan."

"Then it's bothering Ma Shuai."

On the fourth day of the seventh month, the siege war resumed. At noon, Kong Youde suffered a wound on his forehead and went down to bandage it. The Qing army was at the end of its strength, and Wang Yuncheng took this opportunity to open the Wusheng Gate in the southwest of Guilin City. Next, Ma Jinzhong personally led the army to fight in, from Wang Yuncheng down, deputy commander-in-chief Zheng Yuanxun, guerrilla Cai Bin, garrison Wang Jingshi, Liang Yinglong, Li Yuelong and others should also lead the troops to surrender.

The Ming army entered the city, Kong Youde got the news, knew that there was no room to turn around, and hurriedly fled back to the Dingnan Palace. And after slashing Aiki with his own hands, he immediately returned to the apse, where a large number of treasures were stored.

Looking at the boxes of dazzling gold, silver, jewelry, jade and antiques, Kong Youde couldn't help but think of the siege of Dengzhou by the Ming army after the Wuqiao Mutiny.

He was a defender of Gaizhou in Liaodong, and his family was a miner in Tieling, and after Nurhachi captured Tieling, his family organized a miners' rebellion and died in Liaodong, and once accumulated merit to the guerrilla of the Guangning Army. In the second year of the Apocalypse, Shaling was defeated, the Guangning army was annihilated, Xiong Tingbi and the governor Wang Huazhen abandoned the land, Kong Youde fled to Lushun, and began to be a general under the account of Mao Wenlong, the general soldier of the Dongjiang River.

However, the good times did not last long, in the first year of Chongzhen, Yuan Chonghuan, the governor of Jiliao, was good at killing Mao Wenlong, the military general of Jijie, and Chen Jisheng, the successor of Mao Wenlong, also died soon at the hands of the general Liu Xingzhi.

In the fourth year of Chongzhen, the Qing army besieged the Daling River, Kong Youde was ordered to rush to the aid and marched to Wuqiao, the military supplies were insufficient, the soldiers robbed and caused a mutiny, and the Dengzhou Rebellion broke out. In the second year, the Ming court failed to appease the rebellion, and the Guanning army was ordered to quell the rebellion, and Kong Youde and other rebels were defeated and were forced to abandon Dengzhou and surrender to the previous mortal enemy Manchu Qing. Since then, the Manchu Qing Dynasty has fought many times.

In the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, and Kong Youde followed Duoduo to suppress the anti-Qing movement in Jiangnan. Later, General Pingnan was ordered to attack Guangxi, and captured Guilin in the fourth year of Yongli. In the battle, Zhu Hengshu, the king of Jingjiang, Qu Shiyun, the governor of the university, and Zhang Tongchang, the governor of Guangxi, were all killed by Kong Youde after the war because they refused to surrender.

Since the end of the fourth year of Yongli to capture Guilin and take the whole of Guangxi, Kong Youde sent his troops to guard all over the country, and his family became a rich prince in Guilin by relying on rampant conquest. Now, on the fourth day of the seventh month of the sixth year of Yongli, the Ming army has entered the provincial capital. In the middle, it was only more than a year of hard work, and he had already fallen into such a desperate end.

"Dad, Mao Shuai......"

Mao Wenlong has the grace of knowing Kong Youde, and it is the banner of the Ming army's counterattack on Liaodong in the Apocalypse Dynasty.

In this case, not only Kong Youde, but also Shang Kexi and Geng Zhongming. For example, Mao Chengdou, the son of Mao Wenlong, sent a special trip to invite them when they went south, not only with an extremely respectful attitude, but also to protect one of his high-ranking officials from the Qing court. However, Mao Chengdou rejected it on the grounds that he was "stupid and not in charge of official affairs, and he was afraid of violating the will of the first general".

Mao Wenlong adopted countless adopted sons and grandsons in his life, most of whom died on the battlefield in Liaodong, but in the end, traitors and scum such as Kong Youde, Shang Kexi, and Geng Zhongming were finally produced. Kong Youde and others admired Mao Wenlong, which was a personal favor, but if Mao Wenlong knew about it, he was afraid that he would be so angry that he would come back to life and strangle him to death on the homeland of Liaodong!

The Dingnan Palace, magnificent, covers a huge area, but at this moment, Kong Youde looked at the gold, silver and jewelry in this room, and what he heard in his ears was the faint shouting and killing of the Ming army.

"Kill the Tartars!"

It's funny to say, such a voice used to come out of his mouth back then, but now it has become the target of the Ming army.

Thinking of this, Kong Youde smiled miserably, clearly realizing that even if he died, he probably wouldn't have the face to see his father and his Mao Dashuai. Xuan even threw the torch in his hand on the flammable brocade, and slashed the knife that was still dripping blood on his neck with his backhand, and at the same time the blood splattered, the whole person fell heavily into the flames.