I have to say that Wu Sangui is still very prestigious in the Luoyang Army, and the Anxi and Hexi feudal armies in Luoyang City have followed him for many years, and some of them are still the second generation. And those righteous people who are newly attached have also heard of the name of this "Uncle Zhu Ming and Wu Guo" - they heard about it from the master of the government soldiers above them!

They have taken turns to fight with this uncle of Zhu Ming and Wu Guo for so many years, and they didn't take anything to others, and they were beaten into their hometown by others, and they snatched all the important things like Luoyang!

Now that everyone is the elder brother of Empress Daming, they are all on the front line, what else do others have to say? It's nothing more than desperate resistance, and the dead are carried down and buried quickly. Those who did not die continued to follow the orders of the veterans under Uncle Wu's hands, and the muskets were not used by them, and what they could do was nothing more than draw the bow and shoot arrows (ordinary hunting bows are not considered weapons, but their power is limited, and it is difficult to hurt the armored Dashun officers and soldiers), or throw improvised pike darts, or use improvised spears (that is, sharpened long wooden sticks) to stab people in formation, or several people hug a log to knock over the enemy's ladder......

Up and down the castle, the tide of fire from both sides is surging back and forth, I wonder how many muskets are shooting at each other? From time to time, wooden-handled grenades that lit the line of fire were thrown vigorously and exploded at the attacking crowd or the city.

Neither side had much heavy firepower, and the Elephant Hill was not very steep, but there was no way to bring the artillery up. Originally, when the Dashun army was stationed, it was equipped with 3-pound cannons and mortar cannons in the fortress on the mountain. But when they withdrew, they were blown up, so neither side now has any artillery to use. Now it's a fight for muskets, white blades, and desperate!

And Wu Sangui's personal soldiers are very well equipped, all flintlock pistols, and there are bullets and gunpowder for them to practice, and the flintlock pistol can be replenished in time if it is broken, and the source of the pro-soldiers is the veterans of the three towns of Anxi, Hexi, and Chuanbian, who are used to the battlefield, and will not tremble at critical moments - Lao Wu has been able to withstand Li Dingguo's heavy blows at critical moments every time in the past seven or eight years, relying on this group of pro-soldiers and dead soldiers!

Under the guns of this group of Wu family soldiers, the casualties of the Dashun army increased greatly, and some people continued to roll down the mountain, but their follow-up troops continued to make up for it. A series of improvised bamboo and wood ladders were erected on the head of the city, and as soon as they were erected, the dead soldiers of Dashun rushed up with bullets! People keep coming down, but more people are filling in.

After two or three days of fighting, under the fortress on the top of Xiangshan Mountain, there was already a mountain of corpses!

However, the corpses below are getting higher and higher, and the walls above are also getting taller! Wang Youwen was also pulled to the top of the mountain by Wu Sangui, commanding a group of coolies to go to the city, desperately transporting boxes of soil to the city, and they were together with the dead corpses!

In the city and under the city, all of them are desperate, and they all know the significance of this battle of Luoyang!

Lüyang is not only the junction of Sanguan Road, Qishan Road and Jinniu Road, but also has a Daming Sichuan Shaanxi Governor Wu Sangui trapped here.

If Wu Sangui can be beaten to death, the Ming army in Shaanxi will definitely be greatly shaken! It is also possible to return directly to Guanzhong and Qishan!

"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui...... When are you going to die? ”

Li Dingguo, who was in the distance, held a telescope and muttered to himself. No one behind him could answer this question, and everyone was silently praying to the heavens - Wu Sangui is not a good person, hurry up and accept him!

"Lord Wang, there has been no news from Hanzhong for 12 hours......" Luo Hu's worried voice sounded in Li Dingguo's ears.

Something must have happened in Hanzhong!

According to Li Dingguo's order, the Dingjun Mountain Battalion should send a team of Tang horses to the front of the Luoyang Army every six hours. But it's been 12 hours since the horses came!

The absence of Tangma only shows one problem, the road leading from Dingjun Mountain Camp to Luoyang has been cut off by the Ming army that has invaded the Hanzhong Basin.

This is a bit unexpected by Li Dingguo!

Because Li Dingguo has deployed a lot of defenders in Bao Chuan Road, Fu Luo Road, and Meridian Road, and these three roads have not been repaired except for the plank road between Baocheng and Hutou Pass of Bao Slope Road, which was changed into a road with strong traffic capacity under the rule of the Dashun Dynasty, and it is difficult to pass now. Even the guards of the Ming army are unlikely to open any of the passages in the Bao Slope Road, Fu Luo Road, and Meridian Road in such a short period of time, right?

However, the interruption of Tangma between Luoyang and Dingjun Mountain Daying clearly told Li Dingguo that the Ming army not only entered the Hanzhong Basin, but also cut off the communication between Dingjun Mountain Daying and Luoyang...... In fact, Li Dingguo's garrisons deployed at the three places of Bao Chuan Road, Fu Luo Road, and Meridian Road were sufficient. However, in the Battle of Baohe more than ten years ago, there was an omission that did not attract Li Dingguo's attention - when Wu Guogui was defeated in Baohe, he sent half of the elite soldiers of the scout battalion into Baogu!

Although the number was small, it made the Dashun army defending Baogu very frightened, and they thought that Li Dingguo had been defeated in the Hanzhong Basin! Moreover, this group of desperate scouts is also quite capable of bluffing, making the Dashun army in Baogu think that they are suffering from the enemy, and they also draw troops from the defensive front facing Guanzhong to defend their butts. As a result, Gu Wei was difficult to take care of, and the defense was broken by a guard division led by Yan Yingyuan!

Yan Yingyuan, who rushed into Baogu, met the scouts of Wu Guogui's department and knew about the defeat of Hanzhong, but he still attacked boldly and defeated Baocheng with a night attack. Then he did not attack the camp of Zheng and Dingjun Mountain in the south of Hanzhong Prefecture, but recommended along the edge of the mountain to the west of Fushui, cutting off the communication between Dingjun Mountain and Luoyang - so that he blocked the way for Li Dingguo to return to his division.

Unless Dashun can quickly transfer troops from Micang Road and Lychee Road into Hanzhong, or when the other two Guards Infantry Divisions enter Hanzhong through Meridian Road and Fu Luo Road, Li Dingguo will not be able to recapture Hanzhong even if he has three heads and six arms......

Although Li Dingguo now knows that things are not good, he can't turn back.

Because his army has been fighting for many days in a row, it has long been a tired division, and now when it turns back to Hanzhong, it will not be able to win as much as the Battle of Chuxian and the Battle of Baoshui.

Moreover, Wu Sangui's reinforcements will arrive in Lüyang at any time, once Li Dingguo's army retreats, these reinforcements will arrive in Lüyang unimpeded, and when the time comes, Li Dingguo, who returns to Hanzhong, will have to suffer from the enemy......

Li Dingguo gritted his teeth and asked left and right: "Has the mortar been transported?" Have you dug the gun emplacement? ”

A staff member on the side replied: "Two 12-pounder mortars have been brought up, and the gun emplacements are being dug." ”

"Let them hurry!" Li Dingguo said, "After digging the gun position, it will be bombarded fiercely...... In this battle, Wu Sangui will be slaughtered no matter what! ”

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"Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui, when are you going to die!"

It was Zheng Zhilong who gave the same emotion!

In the Quanguo Mansion in Donghu Town, Zheng Zhilong had just finished reading the latest battle report sent by the Generalissimo's Mansion, and couldn't help but mutter.

"Abba, you can't talk nonsense!" It was Zheng Sen who reminded him.

Zheng Sen entered the court this time to ask for the resignation of the Dongning Jiedu envoy and the withdrawal of Dongning from the feudal domain - Dongning Town, which governs Quanzhou Mansion, is now eye-catching, although Zhu Cihong did not say anything, but Zheng Zhilong, Zheng Sen and Zheng Jiangong have a plan in their hearts.

So since last year, Zheng Sen has repeatedly submitted his resignation and asked to join the court as an official - he did not come to the court to be a public servant, but wanted to replace the elderly Zheng Zhilong into the cabinet, either as a household secretary or as a ministry secretary...... In short, Zheng Ge is old!

In the first month of the twentieth year of Hongxing, Zhu Cihong finally agreed to Zheng Sen's entry into the court, but did not agree to Dongning's withdrawal of the domain, but let Zheng Sen enter the court to talk about this matter - unlike other emperors in the Ming Dynasty who were keen to change the land and return to the stream, Zhu Cihong was not willing to withdraw the domain, but preferred to move the domain...... It is much better to move the feudal towns outward, from the cooked land to the raw land, than to remove them all at once.

The question now is where to move the Zheng family's Dongning Domain?