Chapter 1422: Sighing in vain
At this time, the Great Western Army could not allow him to escape, and the tail of the tail was in hot pursuit.
Fortunately, Kong Youde's personal guards protected each other to the death, and Kong Youde fled back to Guilin City with only a few people.
The Great Western Army followed to Guilin and surrounded the city.
The next day, when the main force of the rear army arrived, the Great Western Army attacked the city with ladders and rushing cars.
The battle lasted only half a day, and there were not many defenders in Guilin City, seeing that it could not be defended, Kong Youde knew that with his actions and resume, it was obvious that he could not survive, and when he was desperate, he piled all his family property in a room, and then killed his wife and concubine with his own hands, and died by self-immolation.
However, his daughter Kong Sizhen escaped by luck because she was not in Guilin City.
The people of Guangxi are obviously different from the people of Jiangbei, and they have long hated the Tartars.
As soon as the news of the victory of the Great Western Army in Guilin came out, the people spontaneously killed and expelled the Qing officials and Qing troops from various prefectures and counties, and the original Qing generals Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan, and Ma Bao also returned to Shun one after another.
By the time Li Dingguo arrived, the whole of Guilin was already peaceful.
The people's hearts are available, the army's hearts are available, Li Dingguo held a banquet at Qixingyan, and at the banquet, Li Dingguo immediately ordered to take advantage of its illness to kill it, wave his army to the north, and go straight to Hunan!
In this era, the communication was very unsmooth, in fact, Li Dingguo sent troops, just before Huang Yingyun and Li Dingguo's children sent to Hangzhou.
The Great Western Army attacked north, and the news reached Wu Zheng's ears, but nearly 10,000 miles away, where the war was won or lost, and where it went, I'm afraid even Huang Yingyun himself couldn't figure it out, let alone Wu Zheng?
In fact, Wu Zheng was in awe of history, and this subconscious awe made him easily let Nikan get away in the battle of Yingtianfu and outside the Great Victory Pass, which made Xia Wanchun very puzzled at that time.
But in fact, Wu Zheng subconsciously believed that Nikan should not die in his own hands, but in the hands of Li Dingguo.
Li Dingguo's rapid attack on Hunan made the battlefield situation extremely distorted, and the Qing court was unable to take care of the whole thing, which was also the main reason why the Qing court strongly demanded to stop the war with the Yixing Dynasty and the Northern Expeditionary Army, and to negotiate an armistice and peace talks.
The Qing army's forces in Hunan were empty, not empty, but, empty.
The reason is that Li Gao's Guangxin Wei made an "unauthorized" abnormal move, attacked westward from Raozhou and Guangxin, and after recovering Nanchang, the administrative office of Jiangxi, he quickly divided his troops into two routes, one way to the north to Nankang Mansion, and the other to the south to attack Fuzhou Mansion.
Such a fierce offensive forced the Qing army in Huguang to mobilize on a large scale and assemble in Nankang and Fuzhou to resist the offensive of Guangxinwei.
No one knew and could not predict at all that Kong Youde, one of the three Shun kings who had a good record, would be defeated by Li Dingguo's Western Army in such a short period of time, and he lit a fire and lost his life.
In just half a month, Yangshan, Lianzhou, Changde, Yuezhou, Yongxin, Anfu, Yongning, Longquan and other prefectures and counties were immediately recovered, and the troops were directed at Ji'an, an important town in western Jiangxi.
In fact, this battle has been happening for more than half a month.
But at this time, it still sounds blood-pumping.
The Huguang Qing Army, headed by Prince Jin and Dingyuan General Nikan, and the deputy generals Sanbeile and Bagushan, gathered 150,000 troops, while at this time, Li Dingguo's Great Western Army, because the battle line was too long, only more than 60,000 people, and the difference in strength between the two sides was more than doubled.
At the critical juncture, Li Dingguo showed his extraordinary military talent, and he mastered the guerrilla tactics of later generations without a teacher, and Li Dingguo's deployment was that the main force of the Great Western Army temporarily withdrew from Changsha and induced the Qing troops to pursue and cross the Xiang River.
Then Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong were ambushed in Baigao City, and when the Qing troops crossed Hengshan, Li Dingguo launched a frontal attack on the enemy from the steaming water, and the two generals attacked behind the back, and the two armies were sandwiched and annihilated the Qing army.
However, Li Dingguo also underestimated the combat strength of the Qing army, and wanted to defeat twice as many enemies as himself with outnumbering, obviously overestimating his own strength.
The battle of Hengzhou, from the battle of steaming water to the battle to the north of Hengzhou City, Herb Nunnery, Caojie and other places, the two sides fought their own victories and defeats, and the battle situation was equal, but because of the disparity in troops, in fact, the casualties were almost the same, which was beneficial to the Qing army.
Li Dingguo had to find another way to defeat the enemy, and he planned to fight an ambush battle.
And it was Li Dingguo's impromptu decision-making thinking that created the pinnacle of his life.
When the two sides fought again, Li Dingguo feigned defeat and retreated.
Nikan was in hot pursuit, and when he chased to the Yanwu Pavilion, there was a sudden burst of cannons, and the Great Western Army ambushed in all directions, surrounding Nikan.
Li Dingguo raised a big knife in his hand, led the army to rush to him, raised the knife in his hand, and split the lone Nikan in half with a knife.
Later, when the Qing army saw the loss of its commander, their morale quickly collapsed, and they fled in defeat.
Li Dingguo seized Nikan's armor and embroidered flags, and then asked people to draw portraits of Kong Youde and Nikan, and spread them to the prefectures and counties of Guangdong and Chu, in order to "show the cloth and win the victory".
When this news reached Wu Zheng, it had actually been more than ten days.
In fact, the Qing court in the north learned the battle report one day before Wu Zheng, but the Qing court envoys who negotiated in Xuzhou, like Wu Zheng, did not know the outcome of the battle at all.
At this time, when Wu Zheng made this battle report public, the Qing envoys, one by one, were like lost dogs, covering their faces and howling.
If it is said that the Qing court could threaten to say that it had occupied seventy or eighty percent of the land in Huaxia and seemed to know Zhengshuo, then the loss of Huguang and Yungui made it control only half of the land, and the problem was that at present, Jiangbei has lost Yangzhou and Huai'an again, and I am afraid that half of the country is already unstable.
Qingchen has a reason to cry, but Mingchen also has a reason to high-five and celebrate.
For a while, a negotiation place, two diametrically opposed emotions filled it, which seemed very strange.
Beat the water dogs!
Wu Zheng then "proposed" in a tough tone, the "price" for the redemption of the captives was 51 taels, and at the same time, the price for the ransom of the Xuzhou Mansion was 12 million taels, and if the Qing court did not agree, then it would be ...... Adjournment!
Crazy?
Thinking about the Chongzhen Dynasty, the annual income was only three or four million taels, but the total amount of these two redemptions was as high as 13 or 4 million taels, which was three or four times the annual income at that time.
Is there no silver in the world?
Definitely not!
When celebrities and celebrities wandered in Fireworks Willow Lane, there were many cases of throwing tens of thousands of gold and tens of thousands of gold overnight, but Chongzhen's reputation was ruined for the sake of three salaries, which can be described as different people and different lives.
The Qing envoy did not refuse this time, not because Wu Zheng occupied the highest point of truth, but because the truth always exists only within the range of the cannon.
Even if you know that this is an alliance under the city, then, what?
Not long ago, these important ministers of the Qing court who wanted to take advantage of the fire to rob are afraid that they can only sigh in private and in the dark at this time!