In the twentieth year of Hongxing in the Ming Dynasty, the twenty-third day of the first month.

Dasanguan - the area of the monk's plain.

"Victorious! Won...... Daming Wansheng! ”

On the battlefield, a huge cheer like a tsunami sounded, soaring into the sky, and also boosted the morale of all the Ming troops on the battlefield to the extreme.

In the area from Dasanguan to Monk Yuan, dozens of hills and terraces are high, low and low, plus a series of fortresses and fortifications built according to Dasanshui, forming the Dasanguan defense line of the Dashun army. This line of defense has been impregnable for the past seven or eight years, acting as a magnet to attract the Ming army brigade, and at the same time it is also an impregnable wall to defend the Dashun regime.

But the cost of maintaining this line of defense is simply too great!

The food obtained in Tuntian was simply not enough to support the consumption of the various armies on the Shaanxi front, which was uncertain, ranging from 200,000 at the top to 50,000 at the least.

And what decides to have more soldiers and fewer soldiers, in addition to military needs, is the ability to supply food in the rear - the Shu Road is difficult, and it is difficult to go to the sky!

To transport a stone of grain to the front line in Shaanxi, the grain that is eaten by the people and livestock on the road, or lost for various reasons (including the concentrate for the livestock), is often as high as eight stones and nine stones...... It is simply unrealistic to want to maintain an army of more than 100,000 or 200,000 troops at the front for a long time.

However, it is impossible to rely only on 50,000 or 60,000 people to hold the front line of Guanzhong and Qiuchi Mountain, the front line of Qishan. Therefore, Li Dingguo had no choice but to set up three more large battalions in Jiezhou, Luoyang, and Hanzhong, and each battalion could garrison 30,000 troops at most, a total of 90,000 reserve soldiers.

When the front lines of Guanzhong and Qiuchishan-Qishan were relatively relaxed (usually winter and spring), Li Dingguo would reduce the garrison there and withdraw the main force to Jiezhou, Luoyang, and Hanzhong for food. And when the front line was more tense, he would transfer the army from Jiezhou, Luoyang, and Hanzhong to the front.

If the war in Shaanxi is too fierce, Li Dingguo will also mobilize a large army from Chengdu, so that the army on the front line can reach more than 200,000.

And in the winter of the nineteenth year of Hongxing, although the situation on the front line in Shaanxi had begun to be tense. However, Li Dingguo still reduced the front-line troops according to the plan, and by the first month of the twentieth year, he even further withdrew the garrisons in that area.

By the time the Dajianshan Uprising broke out, the total strength of the Shun army on the Guanzhong and Qiuchishan-Qishan fronts had been less than 40,000, of which the number of troops on the Dasanguan defense line was less than 20,000...... Even the 20,000 men began to retreat on the 21st and 22nd of the first lunar month, and by the time the Ming army launched an attack on the 23rd, less than 6,000 men were still stuck in the important strongholds of the Shun army's front.

And these 6,000 defenders don't intend to fight to the death...... These people are Li Dingguo's personal soldiers, and they are all equipped with Dian horses and Sichuan horses who are good at walking mountain roads, and they can leave at any time.

But acting still has to be a full set!

Li Dingguo, the king of the Great Shun Jin Dynasty, wants to withdraw his troops from the front line, and he has to leave the elite palace army!

How can it collapse at the touch of a button?

However, when the 30,000 elite soldiers commanded by Liu Sheng and Wu Guogui launched a general attack under the cover of 24 kg mortars, 12 kg long guns, and other small and medium-caliber field artillery, the speed of collapse of the Shun army under Li Dingguo still made this famous general who had fought with the Ming army on the Shaanxi front for nearly eight years feel a little disappointed......

Looking out of the eyes of Li Dingguo, who was immediately on a high ground on the south bank of the Dasanshui, the sun and moon banner of the Ming Dynasty had been raised in the sky above the Dasanguan Fortress.

And the Shun army, which had just abandoned the city pass and rushed towards the great scattered water, looked like a defeated and embarrassed army. The battlefield was not wide, and there were soldiers in blue uniforms everywhere, either on horseback or galloping wildly, rushing towards the great scattered water.

The nail head flowering shells fired by the Ming army's 12-pound cannon exploded from time to time in the blue-clothed crowd, blowing up high and low columns of smoke.

The pursuing Ming army also appeared on the battlefield filled with gunpowder, forming red phalanxes, like moving fortresses, crushing them and trampling all the enemies in front of them.

Li Dingguo's eldest son, Li Puxing, was ordered to stay in Dasanguan, and now he was chased by this group of red-clothed soldiers and waded to the south bank of Dasanshui, and found Li Dingguo's "Jin" character Wang Qi, and then rode directly up the high slope, and only then rolled down from the horse and knelt on one knee in front of Li Dingguo.

"Father, get out of the way...... The brothers can't resist it! ”

Li Dingguo had a calm face and looked very dissatisfied.

"Lost too quickly, right? In less than half a day, you can't hold it? If you meet a black-clothed soldier, it's fine, but my father clearly sees that the enemy is a red-clothed soldier! ”

The black-clothed soldiers he said were the guards of the Pointing Army, and the Guards were good at night fighting, so they all wore black-the color of the night clothes!

In addition, the black cavalry of the Ming army also wore black clothes, because they also had to carry out their duties at night......

The rest of the Ming Army was dressed in red.

After fighting on the front line in Shaanxi for so many years, Li Dingguo already knew that compared with the guards in black, the ordinary Ming army in red was not half a little worse!

Li Puxing shook his head and said, "Father, the red-clothed soldiers that the child met today are also different from the past...... Some of them are equipped with flintlock pistols, and there are many fewer pikemen, and they are mixed with musketeers, and they also make up knife players, which makes them much more capable of melee hand-to-hand combat!

What's even more hateful is that they also throw a javelin that explodes! The brothers had never seen such a weapon before, and they would not resist it, so they had to flee. ”

Wu Sangui will also improve his tactics!

He had fought with the Dashun army for so many years, and of course found that pikemen were of little use in mountain warfare. Nine out of ten times I was watching a play......

And musketeers, even with bayonets, can't beat the knife players! In particular, the sword players of the Dashun Army are also very good at throwing javelins.

Therefore, Wu Sangui has improved his army with Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun since last year, reducing the spear, increasing the knife brand, and tying grenades to the javelin of the knife player.

It's the same as combining the Knife Player and the Grenadier into one!

The first encounter with this kind of knife soldier who can throw bombs made the already panicked Shun army no longer have the will to fight, and after a little resistance, it simply came to collapse at the touch of a button......

Li Dingguo snorted: "It's just a small skill of carving insects!" He glanced at his own defeated soldiers who were surging through the great scattered water, gritted his teeth, and ordered, "Withdraw...... Let's see who catches up! ”

Li Puxing sighed, no matter who would catch up, anyway, he didn't want to stay on the south bank of the Great Scattered Water for a moment longer...... And, never want to come back!

Eight years of fighting a dream!

......

"Father, this Li Dingguo is nothing more than that!"

At the same time, at the Erli Pass, Wu Yinglin, who had just led a group of elite soldiers to defeat the Great Scattered Pass, had already come to report to his father with joy.

Wu Sangui snorted: "But so, it has also blocked being a father for so many years....... Although he was defeated in the hands of his father today, it was a mistake of non-war, and it was really the national strength of the rogue who was not enough, so that our Ming Dynasty was exhausted! In this battle, we did not win on the battlefield, but on the national strength. ”

"Father, are we going to send troops to chase after you?" Wu Yinglin was a little unenjoyable, and seemed to want to rob Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun of the credit.

Wu Sangui waved his hand and said with a smile: "Let Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun go...... Does my father and son still lack this credit? ”

"Father," Wu Yinglin said, "My father and son have an aunt to take care of, of course, there is no lack of credit, but what about the brothers below?" After the Battle of Sichuan, will the imperial court still need them? Earn more credit now, and you will be rewarded a little more in the future. ”

This time, Wu Sangui also felt that his son was right, so he said: "Then let Shang Kexi and Kong Tingxun chase after it first, and we will lead the troops to follow...... Li Dingguo's treacherous use of soldiers, there must be a back move, and when the time comes, we will break his back move, which is also a great achievement! ”

Wu Yinglin arched his hand and said to Wu Sangui: "Father, that kid is going to reorganize the team and prepare to pursue!"