Chapter 369: Li Zicheng's Strange Road (1)
Li Zicheng didn't know that Nanyang had been captured by Yang Kun, and he still fled in the direction of Nanyang with the remnants of his army!
When Li Zicheng was about to flee to Nanyang City with the remnants, there were less than 30,000 remnants left around him!
Seeing that the walls of Nanyang City are already faintly visible.
Suddenly, Li Guo rode his horse to catch up with Li Zicheng.
"Your Majesty, can you listen to my advice, Nanyang can't go back, or go directly to the mountains," Li Guo, who was originally careful, saw at a glance that the Nanyang City Wall City in the distance was quiet, which aroused his vigilance, so for the sake of safety, he persuaded Li Zicheng not to go back to Nanyang, but to flee directly into the mountains.
Li Zicheng frowned, Nanyang is already close at hand, why don't you go back to Nanyang and flee directly into the mountains, there are still more than 300,000 stone grains in Nanyang City that have not been transported, wouldn't you have to give up if you don't go back to Nanyang?
Li Zicheng was about to refuse, but suddenly remembered that the defeat was precisely because he did not listen to Li Guo's advice.
At this time, Li Zicheng was already a frightened bird, for the sake of safety, and in order not to repeat the mistake of the fiasco of Longfeng Bend, he decided to listen to Li once, not to return to Nanyang, and fled directly into the mountains.
"Okay, pass the order, the army bypasses Nanyang and goes directly into the mountain!" When Li Zicheng gave this order, his heart was dripping blood.
The food in Nanyang City was enough for tens of thousands of troops to live in the mountains for more than a year, so he gave up, which was no different from his knife cutting his heart and bleeding.
Although most of Henan is flat and supported by the granary of the Central Plains, since the end of Chongzhen, Henan has been in drought for several years, coupled with years of war, and it has not produced much grain at all.
Li Zicheng is a hero, since he has made a decision, he will not be a mother-in-law, just look back at Nanyang again, and without hesitation, he fled into the depths of the mountains north of Nanyang with less than 30,000 remnants, and there is his last foundation in the depths of the mountains, the Cangmang Mountain Camp!
On the city wall of Nanyang, Yang Kun witnessed the scene of Li Zicheng taking the remnants of the army around Nanyang without hesitation.
"It's a pity, I can't imagine that Li Zicheng is so vigilant, and he is worthy of being a hero who has disturbed the Ming Dynasty for 20 years!" Yang Kun sighed, he didn't know that this was because of Li Guo's guidance, but in fact, Li Ziyuan himself was not so smart!
"Kill" Li Zicheng had just led the army around Nanyang, and the Ming army led by Zhang Kuishan and the Red Lady had also been killed.
The distance between the armies of the two sides was not far, and the mountain road into the mountain was narrow, and Li Zicheng's nearly 30,000 remnants were only enough for a few thousand people to enter the mountain, and the Ming army was killed.
The armies of the two sides fought, more than 200,000 Ming troops flowed continuously, and although the 20,000 remnants of the Dashun army who did not have time to enter the mountains were the most elite men and horses around Li Zicheng, they were not at all the opponents of the Ming army mixed with Ying Long's army, and they were almost crushed at one touch!
At the foot of the mountain lay the corpses of the soldiers of the Dashun Army, thousands of them, and the earth was stained red.
In the end, less than 20,000 remnants of the Dashun army successfully fled into the mountains with Li Zicheng, and the rest were either killed or surrendered on their knees, plus the 20,000 annihilated by Yang Kun in Nanyang City, in just half a day, Li Zicheng lost more than 180,000 troops, which can be described as a heavy loss.
Zhang Kuishan and the Red Lady each rode their own horses and looked at the mountain in front of them, and they couldn't help frowning.
"Li Zicheng actually fled into the mountains?" The red lady said with pity.
The red lady has conquered Nanyang three times, and she still has some understanding of Li Zicheng's hidden hands in the mountains, because of this, she feels embarrassed, and now Li Zicheng has fled into the mountains, and if she wants to completely exterminate Li Zicheng, she must send troops into the mountains!
"No need to hesitate, chase in, I don't believe that he Li Zicheng is only tens of thousands of remnants, and he can still fly into the sky!" Zhang Kuishan didn't care much, he had full confidence in the combat effectiveness of the Dragon Army, but he just felt a little troublesome.
The red lady nodded, and entering the mountain to continue chasing and killing Li Zicheng was their only choice.
"Into the mountains!" Although the army was ordered to enter the mountain to continue to strangle Li Zicheng, the mountain road was not easy to walk, Zhang Kuishan and the Red Lady did not let all the troops enter the mountain, only brought 18,000 Ying Long Army and 40,000 Red Lady Army, and the rest of the army camped on the spot!
Although the deep mountains are dense, Li Zicheng and others have almost 20,000 people walking, and Zhang Kuishan and others don't need to track them at all, they can catch up with Li Zicheng and others by just following the footprints.
An hour later, Zhang Kuishan and the Red Lady led an army of nearly 60,000 to follow the footsteps of Li Zicheng's remnants to the foot of a large mountain deep in the mountains.
"Cangmang Mountain!" The red lady looked at this majestic mountain, and her face was slightly heavy.
"The Red Lady General recognizes this mountain?" Zhang Kuishan saw the red lady like this, and asked the red lady.
The red lady nodded.
"In order to completely exterminate Li Zicheng, I secretly ordered someone to go into the mountains to investigate, and I know that Li Zicheng's secret camp in the deep mountains is established here, and this is Li Zicheng's last foundation!"
The red lady continued: "The terrain of Cangmang Mountain is dangerous, surrounded by two cliffs and seven peaks, the only few entrances are also surrounded by boulders, and there are heavy guards, there is a large valley in the middle, which can accommodate more than 100,000 people, it is really easy to defend and difficult to attack, Li Zicheng has become the construction of this camp, it took several years of hard work, we want to take it, I am afraid it is not so easy, and the casualties will be not small!" ”
Zhang Kuishan couldn't help but wrinkle every day, listening to the red lady say this, he really felt a little tricky, not that he thought that Ying Long's army couldn't be attacked, but the casualty problem, he didn't want to let Ying Long's army suffer a lot of losses at the last moment of Li Zicheng's destruction.
After sinking slightly for a while, he didn't think of any good ideas, Zhang Kuishan suddenly became a little impatient, although there may be a lot of casualties, but Li Zicheng must also be destroyed, and if he hesitates, he will give Li Zicheng a chance to breathe.
"Hmph, I don't believe that just a camp can really stop Ying Long's army!"
"Order, set up all the cannons, and bombard him, I don't believe that Li Zicheng can hold on for a long time!" Zhang Kuishan sneered, if it was a cold weapon battle, the valley built by Li Zicheng might be difficult to attack, but the Ying Long Army was not an ordinary army, with powerful artillery battalions.
Zhang Kuishan thought that even if he let Ying Long's military cannonballs fill inch by inch, he would blast out a bloody way out, and kill him to take Li Zicheng's dog's head!
In any case, this reckless mountain is the place where Li Zicheng is buried!
"Reload! Ready"
"Fire!"
"Boom Boom"
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