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Although Li Dingguo led the troops well, he himself was not from a regular army, and his tactics and tactics were all summed up from actual combat, and he lacked the command means and ability to engage in battles with a large corps.

The frontal battlefield of nearly 100,000 troops on both sides, how can this be commanded by the roar of the main general?

The capture of generals such as Bai Wenxuan and Ma Weixing made the command of the Great Western Army even worse.

To paraphrase a "famous saying" in later generations, Li Dingguo guessed the beginning, but couldn't guess the end!

At the beginning of this battle, the cavalry of the Great Western Army, which had detoured to the West Gate, launched a surprise attack on the flank of the Qing army, and the elephant soldiers and infantry troops who suddenly came out of the West Gate made Azig even more busy.

But Azig's descendant cavalry, without Azig's order, reacted instinctively, quickly dispersed to both sides, and then integrated in a short time, and then launched a surprise attack on the flank of the cavalry of the Great Western Army.

In this way, the cavalry of the two armies actually broke away from the frontal battlefield, and fought in the southwest outside the city of Shangcheng, near the east bank of the Wushuiguan River, and the horse tactics of the Qing cavalry were especially superior to the Great Western Army.

In this way, Li Dingguo's plan was greatly discounted, originally he wanted the cavalry to attack the unsuspecting Qing army from the flank, elephant soldiers and infantry from the front, but the reality was that the cavalry broke away from his command and opened up another battlefield with the enemy cavalry.

At this time, if Li Dingguo can realize that the battle situation has changed, and the strong man breaks his wrist and withdraws his troops back to the city, then the loss is still controllable, as long as the main force withdraws into the city, the situation will return to the way it was before the war, and it is nothing more than the loss of some troops.

But at this time, Li Dingguo couldn't hold it anymore.

Li Dingguo was loved by the officers and men of the Great Western Army, and was known as "a small lieutenant late" and "ten thousand enemies", precisely because Li Dingguo would take the lead in every battle and charge ahead.

And this kind of combat mode in which the main general charges ahead is the norm in the thousands of years of war history in China, in the era of cold weapons, the generals do not take the lead in the charge, there is no battle flag, how to guide the direction of the army's attack?

Even in later generations, when there are many troops in battle, they must erect flags as a guide, otherwise, I am afraid that the soldiers will be squeezed by the crowd, and they will not be able to distinguish between the southeast and the northwest.

Li Dingguo was in the elephant array, directing the elephant array charge, and behind him was the infantry army.

To say that Azig is lucky, in addition to Emperor Yongli's order to attack Runing Mansion, his own will is to capture Sun Kewang, and the purpose of capturing Sun Kewang is not to kill, but to save.

In Li Dingguo's view, the righteous brother went astray because he was persecuted, after all, the four kings of the Great Western Army, Sun Kewang was the eldest and the main one, but after he captured the Great Western Army, Sun Kewang "had to" flee into Huguang and surrender to the Manchu Dynasty.

However, as soon as the war began, Li Dingguo forgot about Sun Kewang.

Sun Kewang was the former commander of the Great Western Army, and he was very clear about the tactics and habits of the Great Western Army, especially Li Dingguo's use of war elephants to break the enemy.

When he joined forces with Azig to attack the mall, Sun Kewang repeatedly reminded Azig to beware of the elephants of the Great Western Army and to prepare early.

Now that Azig has calmed down, he uses it.

Sixteen Hongyi cannons fired in unison, and the archers fired rockets, then ran to the sides to attract the war elephants.

The effect was immediate, and the previously controlled war elephants were scattered by the loud sound of rockets and artillery fire.

The archers and pikemen on the war elephants were shaken and swayed by the suddenly rioting war elephants, and many of them fell down directly.

And Azig took advantage of the situation and ordered the infantry to attack the front of the Great Western Army.

The infantry of the Great Western Army rushed to meet the battle, and the stalemate line fell into chaos for a while, with countless casualties.

And Li Dingguo, as the commander-in-chief, was taken out of the battlefield for miles by the crazy war elephants, and the war elephants guarding all ran away.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo improvised and drove the war elephant, which had calmed down, to approach the nearest city wall with two guards on the same war elephant, and then the defenders on the city wall threw down the rope before climbing into the city.

Li Dingguo, who returned to the upstairs of the West Gate City, saw the chaos outside the West Gate, his heart twisted, and he vomited a mouthful of blood.

Lining up the guards who rushed up, Li Dingguo really commanded his army at this time.

With the flag on the city tower, Li Dingguo finally gave the order to retreat.

Fortunately, Li Dingguo did not go out of the city to meet the battle, and the troops who defended the city were left in the city, and under the cover of bows and crossbows and artillery on the city wall, the rear army that did not engage the enemy successfully withdrew into the city.

But the strikers, who have been locked with the enemy, almost no one can come back.

When the last soldier of the Great Western Army fell, Li Dingguo burst into tears and shouted, "Li is incompetent and tired to death of the three armies......!" ”

Then fainted.

In this battle alone, the Onishi Army suffered more than 6,000 casualties and prisoners.

This does not include the cavalry that fought with the Qing cavalry.

Although the cavalry finally withdrew from the south gate, the casualties were as high as more than 3,000 people, that is, more than 30% of the casualties.

This battle really hurt the vitality of Daben.

The casualties caused by the siege of Azig in the previous days were not as high as those in the last half day.

And the mall blocked the city gate and entered the stage of fortification.

……。

Wu Zheng did not enter Ziyang after all.

It's not because of the bad news coming from Runing House.

Wu Zheng had actually been prepared for a long time, and arranged the border of Xia Wanchun, Chi Erhan and Liao Zhongping to lead the army to garrison the prefecture, but Li Dingguo had refused to let go and allowed the Northern Expeditionary Army to enter the border of Huguang and Henan.

Therefore, as soon as Li Dingguo's letter of request for reinforcement came, Wu Zheng quickly ordered Xia Wanchun, Chi Erhan and Liao Zhongping to lead the army to reinforce the mall.

Forcing Wu Zheng not to go north to Ziyang is another major event.

Hangzhou, Jiaxing, Songjiang...... Until Yingtianfu, "civil unrest" broke out one after another.

This "civil unrest" was not chaos in the real sense, but a "petition" initiated by scholars and students to oppose the signing of an armistice treaty between Wu Zheng and the Qing court.

Wu Zheng knew about this, and when Song An reported to him, Wu Zheng also said casually, "...... Let's ignore the battle in front of us first, Xiucai has not been able to rebel for ten years, and they are full of energy...... Just don't overdo it and let them make trouble."

But now, it's too much, and it's not an ordinary overkill.

Hangzhou Mansion and Ying Tianfu first started the "petition", and then spread to the surrounding areas, and the number of people became more and more, so that tens of thousands of people blocked the government (not the general's office) in Hangzhou City.

And the "Hanming Half Moon Talk", which has always been the mouthpiece of King Wu, actually commented that this is the first awakening of the people's wisdom and a sign of the revival of the Ming Dynasty.

What made Wu Zheng even more annoyed was that this time, Changlin Weiyu reported that the "women's offices" of various prefectures and counties also gathered many local weaver girls to add fuel to the fire and join the "petition".

They shouted a common slogan - resolutely oppose peace talks with the Qing Dynasty and must carry the war to the end!