Chapter 144: Plotting to capture Li Dingguo
Jin Tongwu's words were furious and passionately asked for battle, but Li Dingguo did not answer, but just fell into a deep groan. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
This group of bandits of unknown origin would attack the now arrogant Zhang Xianzhong department so rampantly, which is the first time that Li Dingguo has encountered a strange thing since he joined the army.
Generally speaking, if the rogue troops pass through the mountainous areas where the bandits are entrenched, and the local bandits either join the rogue or provide financial support, even the most indifferent ones only maintain a neutral posture of the well water not invading the river water, and there has never been a bandit who has not opened their eyes and actually took the initiative to attack the rogue soldiers.
When things go wrong, there must be demons.
"Tongwu, the origin of this bandit is unknown, our army still needs to be careful. Let the whole army cross the river, and then send people to the Fucha Mountain to find out. Li Dingguo finally spoke and issued a one-step action plan.
In a short time, more than 3,000 troops crossed the pontoon bridge together and came to the east bank of the Tuogao River.
The whole army continued to march and reached a place two miles away from Fucha Mountain, Li Dingguo ordered to send more than 20 sentinels to investigate close to Fucha Mountain.
More than 20 sentry horsemen went forward on horseback, and as soon as they approached Fucha Mountain, they heard the sound of banging on the mountainside, and the more than 20 sentry horsemen turned around and ran away.
Li Dingguo's brows were furrowed, and Jin Tongwu on the side gritted his teeth with hatred.
"Major General, it seems that this group of bandits does not know the world and is intent on being an enemy of our army. I begged the major general to give an order, and I led the army up the mountain to destroy this bandit who did not know whether to live or die! Jin Tongwu asked for orders again.
Li Dingguo was quickly calculating in his heart, although this Fucha Mountain, although the mountain is magnificent, but the area is not large, it is estimated that it can only accommodate hundreds of bandits for a long time, and he has 3,000 elite soldiers and horses under his command who have followed for a long time, which can be the main force in Zhang Xianzhong's army, and it should be more than enough to deal with these hundreds of bandits now.
What's more, after passing the Fucha Mountain, turning to the north and marching not far away, is Beiliang Town, at present, the eldest brother Sun Kewang is taking his own soldiers and horses to loot in Beiliang Town, even if there is an abnormal situation, you can ask for help in time.
Thinking of this, Li Dingguo's heart calmed down a little.
Rao is like this, but Li Dingguo did not move lightly, although he fought bravely, but he was also a calm-headed and extremely patient general. Next, he quickly sent people to arrest a few people nearby and asked them if there were bandits in this Fucha Mountain.
The people who were arrested were all frightened, but they still told him in a trembling voice that there was a group of bandits of about 200 people on this mountain, who had been harming the villagers, but for some reason they had not come down to harass the people recently.
"Hmph, it must have been such bandits who heard about the arrival of our army and stuck to the mountains and did not dare to come down. These guys didn't open their eyes, and they actually killed our brothers in the army, but now Lao Tzu wants to enter like this dog, and fight for his dead brothers! Jin Tongwu gritted his teeth and scolded on the side.
Li Dingguo didn't answer him, he asked the people to let them go, while thinking about another question.
Will those bandits set up an ambush in the mountains?
Li Dingguo then denied his own ideas.
If these bandits really set up an ambush, then, when they sent out sentry to investigate, they would definitely not set off fire guns in such a panic, let alone release dozens of guns, and not a single sentry on our side was injured. It can be seen from this that this group of bandits is loosely organized and has poor martial arts.
A cold light flashed from Li Dingguo's eyes.
"Pass on my military order, with General Jin taking the lead, stepping forward and riding behind, the whole army will go up the mountain, directly attack the top of the mountain, and will definitely wipe out this bandit!" Li Dingguo pulled out the waist knife and raised it high.
More than 3,000 troops, more than 500 cavalry, and more than 2,500 infantry armed with swords and shields, hearing the military order, were lining up in a column of people riding before and behind, and marched quickly towards Fucha Mountain in the distance.
When he was about to reach the mountain pass, Li Dingguo ordered the whole army to stop.
"Major General, the enemy is ahead, how can you stop here?" Jin Tongwu was very dissatisfied.
Li Dingguo did not answer him, but took Jin Tongwu and a group of cavalry to the front of the team.
"Tongwu, I always feel different." Li Dingguo looked at the mountain for a long time, Fang frowned and said: "This mountain, I always feel too quiet, but it seems to be an ambush. ”
"Major General, you're too worried! On this mountain, there are 500 bandits, and our army has 3,000 troops, even if the enemy army sets up an ambush, our army has six enemies and one, what is there to fear! I still want to wipe out this bandit as soon as possible, and then loot the villages under the mountain. Jin Tongwu said disapprehantly.
Before Li Dingguo could answer, suddenly from the mountain road in front of him, the sound of horses' hooves became louder and louder.
Li Dingguo, Jin Tongwu and others were all surprised to see dozens of masked black-clothed people dressed in one color coming from the end of Pangu Mountain Road.
"Major General, this is the group of people who killed ten sentry brothers of our army." A sentry who had just fled back to the west bank whispered to Li Dingguo behind him.
"Phew!"
Before Li Dingguo could reply, a bald and shiny black-clothed man in the leader opposite let out a long howl, and the mount under his crotch hissed for a while, standing still an arrow away from Li Dingguo. The rest of the men in black also stopped behind him one after another.
"I planted this tree, I opened this road, if you want to pass from here, leave the money to buy the road!"
The bald strong man in the lead roared like a thunderstorm, making Jin Tongwu almost crooked his nose in anger.
"You bald man who wants money and doesn't want to die, you dare to blackmail Lao Tzu, it's really too long!" Jin Tongwu raised his whip and scolded.
"Bold horseman! When I went to my Fucha cottage, I dared to speak so wildly. Hmph, don't leave the money to buy the road, grandpa will let you eat bandao noodles! The strong man in the lead raised the steel knife in his hand, and roared like thunder.
"What a fucking wild ghost deceitful god, you mountain bandits, blind dogs! Don't open your eyes to see, Lao Tzu is 3,000 soldiers and horses here, if you don't surrender early, it will be easy for our army to destroy you! Jin Tongwu shouted angrily.
"Phew! What the hell are you pretending to be, everyone is mixed up on the road, and don't come to insert garlic in the uncle's pig nose and pretend to be an elephant. If you don't pay for the road, grandpa will cut you bastards together, and let you go to the eighteenth layer of hell to regret it! The bald man was undaunted, and roared back.
Another black-clothed masked man next to him interjected in a weird way: "Fatty, look at your fat mouth, it must be **** good, if you wait for the uncle, I will be exempt from the road money, how about it?" ”
Jin Tong was furious, and his fat face was oozing with sweat, and he suddenly turned red: "Wow, there is a way in the sky that you don't go, and there is no way to enter the ground, you come away!" Today, let you mountain bandits and thieves taste the power of my Uncle Jin! ”
Jin Tongwu was about to rush immediately, but the reins were tightly grasped by Li Dingguo: "Tongwu, don't be impulsive!" This gang of thieves is unknown, be careful! ”
Jin Tongwu was anxious, he gritted his teeth and shouted: "Just a thief, there's a!" If you don't slaughter these mountain bandits today, Lao Tzu vows not to be a man! ”
Before Li Dingguo could speak, the bald black-clothed man who was leading over there had already collected the steel knife, held a hard bow in his hand, wound the arrow, swished, and came to Jin Tongwu ****.
Jin Tongwu's body was in a hurry, and the whistling arrows flew away from his ears.
When this arrow came, Jin Tongwu completely stormed away, and he was trembling with anger, so he turned around and shouted angrily: "Brothers, rush up with Ben and chop these little thieves into meat sauce!" ”
After Jin Tongwu finished speaking, he struggled to break free from Li Dingguo's hand, shouted, slammed the horse's belly, the spear trembled, and rushed straight towards the masked strong men opposite!
"Rush!"
"Kill!"
Behind Jin Tongwu, two hundred rogue cavalrymen followed him closely, spears and horses, and rushed towards more than 30 masked black-clothed men on the opposite side with a shout!
The black-clothed masked man in the lead saw Jin Tongwu leading a large force of cavalry to attack, but he just snorted coldly, then turned around and led a group of black-clothed people to gallop backwards and leave.
Seeing that Jin Tongwu had led the army forward, Li Dingguo's face was quite ugly, he shook his head angrily, and issued a military order, the whole army rushed forward, attacked the mountain, and completely eliminated this bandit.
When the rogue soldiers heard the order, they all let out a loud bang and strode up the mountain.
In a thick patch of grass on the mountainside, a clairglass was intently observing the movements of the rogue soldiers who were rushing upward.
Soon, the clairlife mirror was put down, revealing the handsome and resolute face of Commander Li Xiao, with a happy and comfortable smile on this face.
His own plan to lure the enemy finally succeeded.
Two days ago, after Li Xiaojun went up the mountain, he quickly swept away more than 200 bandits on the mountain, and then occupied the magpie's nest and used this bandit's den as a temporary place for the whole army to stay. didn't think about it, only two days later, Zhang Xianzhong's subordinates were lured by him, it seems that his luck is not bad.
Soon, on the narrow and winding mountain road, the 500 cavalry who were chasing all the way opened a long distance with the infantry behind.
At this time, Li Xiao's right hand slashed violently.
Immediately, on the slopes on both sides of the Pangu Mountain Road, there was a deafening rumbling sound of rolling stones.
Hearing the sound of the stone rolling, Li Dingguo's heart suddenly tightened.
It's over, it's really an ambush!
Countless heavy and huge bluestones were thrown down the mountainside by Li Xiaojun's auxiliaries, and immediately cut off the infantry and cavalry of Li Dingguo's department on both sides of the mountain road blocked by boulders.
Now, the infantry and cavalry of Li Dingguo's department are completely separated from each other and can no longer support each other.
"Oh no, Major General, we've been tricked!" A cavalry leader shouted in panic.
Li Dingguo's face was ashen, his lips trembled, and he regretted it in his heart.
Jin Tongwu, who was still scolding just now, next to him, had a look of remorse.
"Quick, retreat, the whole army will retreat the same way!" Li Dingguo hissed and roared.
It's late.
On the mountainside on both sides, a large group of spearmen suddenly appeared, with hundreds of people on each side, shouting and rushing towards the five hundred cavalry of Li Dingguo's department!
Now the ambush soldiers on the mountainside are flanked on both sides, and the cavalry is blocked by boulders, and the only way out is the exit of the mountain road in front.
"The back road is blocked, and the whole army rushes out of the mountain as soon as possible!" Li Dingguo anxiously drank the order again.
Unexpectedly, Li Dingguo had just finished shouting, and before the rogue cavalry had time to start, three layers of heavy armor emerged from the mountains and rocks in front of them, and only two fierce eyes appeared on their faces, and everyone was armed with heavy weapons such as tiger knives, tiger guns, long-handled knives, and thick-backed military sickles, and there were about hundreds of heavy armored infantry troops, like a mecha monster armed to the teeth, after the exit of the road was firmly blocked, and they came from the front of the mountain road!
This team is Li Xiaojun's rampant team.
Behind these heavily armored infantry, a large force of cavalry reappeared, including lightly armored flying harriers and heavily armored Xuanhu cavalry, who served as a reserve force, together with those black-clothed men who pretended to be bandits, silently watched Li Dingguo's troops struggle desperately under the siege outside the formation.
On the other side of the pile of falling boulders, the infantry who had lost their command were in a panic and were about to retreat down the mountain, when a large number of shield soldiers with large shields lined up in long columns on both sides of the mountainside to encircle the infantry on the mountain road.
Behind each shield, there was a focused spearman, and the spears resting on the shields were like poisonous snakes ready to attack, full of a terrifying sense of coercion.
At the intersection of the exit mountain road, a team of shield soldiers firmly blocked the crossing into the mountain.
Soon, these rogue infantry were all caught in the attack of Li Xiaojun's spear and shield battle array.
Li Dingguo's face was as white as paper.
Fooled!
This is not a bandit at all, but an elite Ming army of as many as four or five thousand people who have already laid out a heavy formation, just waiting for themselves to take the bait!
Li Dingguo gritted his teeth tightly and shouted: "The whole army rushed down the mountain desperately, went to Beiliang Town, and went to join Brother Kewang!" ”
"Kill!"
"Rush!"
The rogues who were unwilling to be restrained shouted in unison, and rushed towards the rampaging team on the opposite side.
At the same time, the group of mecha monsters on the opposite side had also rushed in front of the rogue cavalry, and each of them swung their heavy weapons vigorously in their hands, hitting the rogue cavalry in front of them at the risk of death.
The terrible wails mingled with the mournful screams of the horses, and the dull sound of swords and spears penetrating the flesh caused the rogue cavalry to fall to the ground, and even the men and horses were slashed together.
Jin Tongwu, the enemy general who was desperately slashing and killing, was horrified to see that a miserable white sword flashed, and the horse head under the crest of a guard cavalryman next to him was suddenly cut off like a disassembled toy, and the broken surface of his neck was extremely neat, and the gushing horse blood sprayed the heavy enemy heavy infantry with blood red all over his body. The decapitated horses, under the action of inertia, still ran forward a few paces before they fell down with a bang and crushed the cavalry on their backs to death.
Before Jin Tong could shout an exclamation, the enemy infantry who had just cut off the horse's head jumped up with a roar, and the tiger knife in his hand was quickly swung flat, Jin Tongwu secretly said that it was not good, and hurriedly leaned over, a white light flashed, grazing the edge of his neck!
Jin Tongwu didn't have time to rejoice, a spearman who rushed down from the mountainside roared and rushed over, and the 4-meter stainless steel spear in his hand flashed with cold light, and fiercely stabbed the horse under his crotch through the abdomen!
The horse screamed, the wound pierced by the spear spurted blood, the horse shook and fell to the ground, Jin Tongwu couldn't draw his leg, and was pressed down by the heavy horse's body on the calf, he clearly heard a snapping sound of broken bones from the calf, and immediately the sharp pain spread throughout his body, and the pain made him roar loudly.
At the same time, the other spearmen stabbed with their spears, and their spears trembled like dragons, and they were fierce and fierce, and one horse after another was stabbed to death, and one rogue cavalry after another fell to the ground screaming.
The rogue infantry on the other side of the boulder pile, because they were isolated from the generals, their morale had been greatly reduced, and one spear after another stabbed them in the head, ****, and neck, and almost every time the spearmen stabbed, one of the rogue infantry screamed and fell to the ground.
Under the siege of Li Xiao's spear and shield soldiers on all sides, the rogue infantry continued to fall, and the oval encirclement surrounded by the large iron shield with terrible spikes became smaller and smaller.
On the other side of the boulder pile, Li Dingguo, who was surrounded by a group of cavalry, watched as the cavalry next to him became fewer and fewer, and his face couldn't help but be full of despair.
"Enemy general, your troops are in a desperate situation, it is useless to die, surrender as soon as possible!"
On the hillside, Li Xiao's loud shouts were heard.
"Surrender quickly!"
"Surrender quickly!"
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The continuous shouting of Li Xiaojun's soldiers was like spring thunder, which made Li Dingguo's troops feel terrified.
"Don't fall!"
Li Dingguo's face was red with rage, he held a bridle horse in one hand, raised his waist knife in the other, and slashed frantically in all directions, and many spearmen were cut to the ground by him screaming.
Seeing that the winner would use his life like this, the remaining cavalry of Li Dingguo's troops gritted their teeth and fought to the death, but the cavalry, which was surrounded on all sides and could not charge or break free, was not as good as the ordinary infantry, and was still slashed and stabbed to death by Li Xiaojun, screaming and falling off their horses.
"Whoosh!"
With a sharp roar, a heavy arrow slashed through a rapid white light, and accurately hit Li Dingguo's horse's head!
When Li Xiao put down the bow in his hand, Li Dingguo put down his mount, instinctively shook his head, and fell to the ground with a sad scream.
Li Dingguo's martial arts are extraordinary, taking advantage of the moment the horse fell to the ground, he turned over with a harrier, quickly pulled his foot out of the horse's pedal, jumped to the ground, and barely stood firm.
It's just that at the moment when he landed, a blood-stained tiger knife rested fiercely on his neck.
Li Dingguo sighed and didn't dare to move, he saw that the heavy armored infantryman on the opposite side who was resting the tiger knife on his neck with one hand slowly lifted the face armor with blood on his face with the other hand.
This person is Wu Zhuang, the captain of the rampant line.
With a teasing smile on his face, Wu Zhuang turned his head slightly, and motioned to the rampant team members next to him to take Li Dingguo down.
The rampant team members who got the order pounced and soon tied Li Dingguo like a dumpling.
"The main general has been captured, you are waiting for the speed down!"
At the same time, Wu Zhuang roared.
"Wait for the rappel!"
"Wait for the rappel!"
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In the earth-shaking shouts of Li Xiaojun, the remaining more than 200 cavalrymen no longer had the courage and motivation to fight, and dismounted and begged to surrender.
Soon, behind the boulder pile, the rogue infantry, who had already suffered nearly 1,000 casualties, heard the news that the master was about to be captured, and immediately knelt down like a deflated ball.
This short but fierce ambush battle ended with a complete victory for Li Xiaojun.
In this battle, Li Xiaojun killed 38 shield soldiers and wounded 52 people, spearmen killed 50 people and 84 wounded, 8 people killed and 13 wounded in the rampant team, and there were no casualties among the cavalry and Lu Mi gunners.
On the other hand, the rogue soldiers of Li Dingguo's department suffered 136 cavalry casualties and more than 160 wounded, and 780 infantry soldiers died and 920 wounded, and the losses were quite heavy.
The enemy general Jin Tongwu, who had broken his leg bones smashed by the horse corpse, had been dragged out from under the horse corpse by Li Xiaojun's soldiers, and at this time, he had already passed out and was thrown by Li Xiaojun on the carriage containing grain like a dead dog.
Li Xiao gave a cold order to kill all the seriously wounded enemy troops on the spot, so as not to become an obstacle to retreat, leaving only those lightly injured soldiers who could walk on their own to retreat with Li Xiao's army.
Immediately, the screams rang out again, and soon the valley fell silent again.
By this time, the battlefield had been cleaned, and thousands of pieces of armor, many swords, guns, shields, and other weapons were all gathered and placed on the carriage, ready to be brought back with the more than 300 surviving horses that had been captured.
When Li Xiaojun was cleaning up the battlefield, Li Dingguo, who was guarded by the soldiers and squatting on a mountain rock, kept his eyes slightly closed, and his face was pale, as if he was dead.
"What's your name?"
A cold snort woke him up from his half-sleep.
Li Dingguo opened his eyes, and two hateful eyes stared directly at Li Xiao with a serious expression on the other side.
Li Dingguo didn't answer, but still stared at the young Ming army commander in front of him with hatred and unwillingness.
"Smack!"
A resounding slap hit Li Dingguo in the face.
"Are you deaf when you ask you?" Tian Wei, the chief of Chifeng, shouted angrily.
"My name is Zhang Dingguo, and I am the righteous son of the Eight Kings." Li Dingguo, who was beaten to five bright red finger prints on his face, spit out a mouthful of blood and gritted his teeth to answer.
Li Xiao felt his strong heart beat violently.
Li Dingguo?!
This person turned out to be Li Dingguo?!
At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Li Dingguo, a famous general who supported half of the Southern Ming Dynasty, was captured by himself here!
To get this famous general, you have to drink 300 cups!
A huge sense of happiness instantly permeated Li Xiao's whole body, although his face was still silent.
"No, from now on, you will change your name back to your real name, and you will be called Li Dingguo. Now, he will return to Shandong with our army. Li Xiao looked directly into Li Dingguo's eyes, and said this coldly, but there was a faint smile on his face.
Then he didn't say anything more, just turned around and left.
Half an hour later, Li Xiao's whole army withdrew from Fucha Mountain and returned east to Chuzhou.
Until the evening of the same day, Zhang Xianzhong, who had not seen Li Dingguo's return to the team, was so worried that he personally came to the area of the Tuogao River to look for it.
It wasn't until the moon rose that Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates, under the guidance of the local villagers, came to the mountain road where the morning battle was fierce in Fucha Mountain.
Zhang Xianzhong and his subordinates gasped when they saw the corpses of the rogue soldiers who were covered in the valley and had been stripped of their armor.
In the cold moonlight, these corpses were frozen as hard as stones in the cold wind.
Soon, Zhang Xianzhong found that in a conspicuous place among the corpses, there was a banner with a line of handwriting.
An accompanying scholar. By the clear moonlight, he muttered to Zhang Xianzhong, who was blue next to him: "The one who destroyed Li Dingguo's department, Li Xiaoye of Shanxian County, Shandong!" ”
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