Chapter 144: The Battle of Luzhou Wei II

Wu Sangui's judgment was very accurate.

After Wu Dading led a large group of men out of the Luzhou Acropolis, he met the vanguard of the Xia army not far away. Wu Dading has a large number of people, and the vanguard team of the Xia Army does not dare to act rashly. Immediately retreated. And Wu Dading hurriedly set up camp.

When the Xia army arrived, they were faced with a large camp.

I have to say that this piece of terrain is a bit broken. There is a lack of large areas of flat land for warfare. Only a few rivers burst out of the narrow plains.

In this battle, except for a large road from Puning to Luzhouwei, the rest of the places could not be positioned, and the army had to be divided into battalions and battalions to fight, and there was not much flat ground for the battle in formation. Of course, although there is a difference in height of a few meters or a few long meters in these hilly heights, it is still relatively slow, there is nothing difficult and dangerous, and the cavalry can rush up with horses.

But if you camp on the hills and high ground to defend it, you are condescending. The road was blocked, and then several battalions supported each other and defended themselves with firearms. For a while, he was able to stabilize his position.

After Wu Dading had a little contact with the Xia army, he knew that he was invincible, and he desperately built a camp, and for a time the battalion was battalion after camp, and the formation, coupled with the complex terrain of the local area, seemed to become a continuous formation for several miles. Li Dingguo looked from a high place, and only felt that the smoke had spread all the way to the green mountains in the distance.

Li Dingguo secretly said in his heart: "But I don't want Wu Sangui to be so cautious, is it difficult to retreat here today?" ”

Li Dingguo is not heavy enough to fight for a long time. If Wu Sangui had been so strong and did not fight, delaying time for a long time, Li Dingguo was worried that there would be problems with his logistics. It's just that now, if you attack the camp hard, you will pull it out battalion by battalion, but you don't know when you will fight.

Moreover, Li Dingguo looked at the banner opposite, and even Wu Dading, knowing that what was in front of him was the Sichuan army. Wu Sangui's Liaodong Iron Cavalry has not yet appeared.

Li Dingguo was suspicious of what tricks Wu Sangui was going to play, but he was even more afraid that Wu Sangui would not play tricks.

Li Dingguo said to Qin Meng beside him: "General Qin decides what is the position of the Qing army? ”

Qin Meng said respectfully: "The Qing army has lost its courage, but it is just a dry bone in the grave. ”

Due to Li Dingguo's growing prestige in the Yunnan-Guizhou Governor's Mansion, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and other generals who could confront Li Dingguo were transferred out of Yungui and served as second-line generals in the back. Zhang Xuan, just in case, transferred Qin Meng to Li Dingguo's command.

Although Qin Meng was instructed by Zhang Xuan before he came, he didn't dare to be a little slack by Li Dingguo's side, and he was extremely respectful. But Li Dingguo didn't dare to regard him as an ordinary general, and he always had to discuss with Qin Meng before using Qin Meng.

Today, Qin Meng understands very well that the task of conquering the Wuda Ding Company Camp is on him.

Although the number of people under Qin Meng's command is small, it is Zhang Xuan's old team that was transferred from Nanjing, and they are all first-class elites in terms of training and weapons, which are comparable to ordinary armies. And the composition of the army under Li Dingguo is complex.

There is an army of the Great Xia lineage, which is represented by Qin Meng, and part of it is the army that followed Li Dingguo to defeat Sun Kewang. There are also remnants of the Great Western Army, these people were the only ones who were rectified by Li Dingguo, and there were some conscripted Tusi soldiers.

These Tusi soldiers can be called poor mountains and bad waters, all of them are poor and ruthless, so poor that they only wear straw sandals, and they don't even have decent clothes, they are all in the army, and Li Dingguo bought them. Because he is poor, he is ruthless, and when he fights, Yang Jingxin is ruthless. But these toast soldiers are even more desperate than Yang Jingxin. As long as there is silver, it will do.

The only pity is that many of them can't even speak Chinese. Cultivating them to use firearms also does not outweigh the losses. So Li Dingguo used them to rush into hand-to-hand combat. If it really starts, the Eight Banners Infantry Formation may not dare to rush.

"Lord Wang, Yang Jingxin asks to see you." Wu Sanxing said beside Li Dingguo.

Wu San Province served as Li Dingguo's personal guard general at this time. Li Dingguo listened to it and said, "Why didn't you heal your injuries?" Forget it, let him come over. ”

Yang Jingxin's bandage was not gone, and when he saw Li Dingguo, he knelt on the ground with a plop and said, "Please let me go out of the battle." ”

Li Dingguo said: "Your injuries are not well, rest for the time being, there will be a battle for you to fight in the future." ”

"Lord Wang." Yang Jingxin said: "The father of the last general, died at the hands of this generation, for several years, the last general couldn't sleep at night, thinking about revenge day and night, the sky is pitiful, so that today, the last general asks the prince to complete, so that the last general can slash the enemy on the battlefield." ”

"But your injuries." Li Dingguo said.

Yang Jingxin said: "The enmity of parents is not shared, and the end will marry in Guiyang, and there will be children." Even if you die here today, you will die without regrets. Please fulfill the prince. ”

Saying that, Yang Jingxin kowtowed again and again. It seems that if you don't smash your head here, you won't stop.

Li Dingguo said: "I have handed over this matter to General Qin, so whether you will go to war or not, it depends on General Qin's intentions." ”

When Yang Jingxin heard this, he immediately turned his head and kowtowed to Qin. But I heard Qin Meng say: "I agreed, you went down to prepare, but there is only war in the army, there is no personal enmity, no military orders, even if Wu Da is set in front of you, you will not have to attack." ”

Yang Jingxin said: "The end will be prepared. Yang Jingxin immediately retreated with a very eye-catching look, not disturbing the conversation between the two bigwigs.

Li Dingguo said: "Yang Jingxin is very optimistic, but it is very easy to break, you have to take care of one or two." ”

Qin Meng said: "Yang Jingxin can get the eye of the prince, which is naturally excellent. After this battle, he finally let him go to the martial arts hall to study for a year or two, and he will have a future in the future

。 ”

Li Dingguo said: "Not bad. Not bad. Li Dingguo's feelings about Wutang are very complicated.

Clear-eyed people know Zhang Xuanli's intention to talk about martial arts, and Li Dingguo is naturally no exception. He estimated that in one or two decades, the high-level leaders of the Xia Army would all be from the martial arts hall. Generals like him have to stand aside.

Speaking of willingness, Li Dingguo is naturally unwilling.

Li Dingguo and Zhang Xuan are not much different in age, they can be said to be the same age, even if they are counted after one or two decades, they may not be considered old. But at that point, it will take a back seat. Li Dingguo also had some unwillingness in his heart. But in the face of such a conspiracy. Li Dingguo couldn't think of any way.

"Perhaps, I should go back to Jingshi for a while and teach in the martial arts hall for a while?" Li Dingguo suddenly had this thought in his heart.

A conversation came to an end in Li Dingguo's distracting thoughts about the martial arts.

Qin Meng received the order and led his headquarters to attack the camp of Wu Dading.

Qin Meng can be said to be Zhang Xuan's disciple, and when he starts to do things, he is full of Zhang Xuan's demeanor, step by step, one board and one eye, on top of the specific tactical planning, extremely rigorous, and absolutely impeccable, but it is inevitable that he will be too slow, and he will only make all the offensive preparations on the second day after setting up the camp in Wuda.

Qin Meng divided all departments to take care of them, and Wu Da ordered the battalions to make them not move, and then concentrated artillery to bombard a battalion.

Speaking of the artillery in Wu Dading's army, it is better than the Qing army that guarded the pass before, after all, his army came, not only the artillery cast by himself, but also some artillery under Wu Sangui. In addition, the transportation line here is not as difficult and dangerous as Li Dingguo, so there are still more artillery pieces in the army.

However, Qin Meng followed Zhang Xuan's idea and concentrated the use of artillery and concentrated the artillery into a battalion. Nearly a hundred artillery pieces fired at once, how can the artillery of a camp be able to resist, even though they have more artillery in their army than the Xia army, but they are on the defensive, and the mobilization of artillery is naturally not so convenient.

Although Qin Meng knew that time was pressing, he knew that if he wanted to hurry, he would not be able to reach it, so he concentrated the artillery bombardment, and then the army stormed, and within a day, he captured a camp. Qin Meng seized this camp as a position, ignored the Qing army camps on both sides, and continued to storm northward. Anyone who dared to come out to rescue anyone in the left and right camps was broken by the men and horses arranged by Qin Meng. 、

And his goal hasn't changed at all.

It seems that he wants to cut off the Qing army camp from the middle step by step, like cutting down a tree.

Wu Da couldn't stand it like this, he thought of a variety of ways, but Qin Meng's own offensive rhythm did not change at all. It seems to be very slow, but it is actually very fast, one base a day, step by step north. Wu Dading could only withdraw the troops in the front camp and concentrate them in the rear. But when he retreated in the middle of the night, he was discovered by Qin Meng again, and a night battle made Wu Dading suffer heavy losses, and only two or three out of ten people withdrew.