Chapter 37: The Battle of Li Shizhen II

After Wu Sangui arrived, he immediately knew that this place was not easy to gnaw.

It's just that the shameful knife is hard to get into the sheath.

The Xia army attacked aggressively, and Wu Sangui had no choice but to retreat. It's already a foregone conclusion.

In such a situation, what does Wu Sangui need most?

Is it reinforcements, weapons, food? No, it's neither. It's victory.

Only victory can inspire people, and only victory can inspire the fighting spirit of the soldiers under Wu Sangui.

A victory, even if it is just a small one, is enough.

Therefore, Wu Sangui knew that Li Shizhen was relatively difficult to gnaw, but he did not give up, he wanted to take advantage of this opportunity, with several times the enemy's military advantage, first break the enemy in front of him, and achieve a victory, and then with the victorious army and the Xia army to fight in Chengdu, with the strength of Chengdu City, plus all kinds of food savings, enough to hold for several months, or even a year.

Thinking about this period of affairs, I will definitely be able to clean up the political situation in the north.

Send reinforcements.

Therefore, early in the morning of the second day, Wu Sangui attacked in a big way.

Under artillery bombardment, a large number of foot soldiers pounced.

He Hutou personally supervised the battle and hid the eighteen cannons.

Before the Qing army's artillery attack, the outer wall of Li Shizhen looked like paper paste, but after a while, several holes were punched.

At noon, another half-mile-wide wall collapsed.

This became one of the key points of the Qing army's attack, and the other two key points were the two intersections of the official road. The firearms of the Xia army were accurate and ruthless, and the sound of guns and cannons was not at all incessant.

Under the supervision of Wu Sangui's cavalry, the Qing soldiers rushed up one after another, and then lay on the ground in batches.

But the Xia army was not without casualties, the Qing army had many foot soldiers, and under the impact of not fearing death, the soldiers guarding the intersection fell into hand-to-hand combat with the Qing army several times.

However, they were repulsed.

Because of He Hu's head, the number of handcuffs is too high.

Almost everybody.

Some of them were rewarded by He Hutou, and some of them were sold at their own expense, and as the oldest firecrackers with the highest qualifications, they were treated quite well.

Since Wu Sangui has made up his mind, there is no hesitation.

No matter how many casualties there are in front, just one sentence: "Go on." "It seems that he doesn't take human life seriously.

This is of course Wu Sangui's true colors, a real general, when fighting a tough battle, most of the time, he doesn't ask how many people die, ancient and modern.

It's just that there is another reason, that is, there are too many Sichuan people in Wu Sangui's department.

He was very worried that if he fell into the downwind, these Sichuan troops might not be very reliable.

Therefore, I can use it as much as possible.

He Hutou and Wu Sangui were in Li Town.

Feng Shuangli all the way

It's overwhelming.

It's not that he didn't encounter resistance along the way. It's just that the advantage of Xia Jun's sailors is too great.

Going upstream, all the way to Chengdu, is like entering a no-man's land.

With Feng Shuangli opening the way in front, and when the Xia army came later, most of the Qing army surrendered, after all, the soldiers of the large army were all natives of Sichuan, just as Wu Sangui was worried about.

These Sichuan people will not die for Wu Sangui.

Wu Sangui has been in Sichuan in the past few years, and it cannot be said that he has no political achievements at all.

But Wu Sangui's political achievements are not enough for the Sichuan people to die for it, not to mention that Yang Zhan's son Yang Jingxin also came back from the martial arts hall.

Yang Zhan has traveled to and from Chengdu several times, and the biggest achievement in his life is in this area, whether it is to break Zhang Xianzhong or frustrate Haoge.

The old department recruited by Yang Jingxin can be said to be familiar with this point.

So they didn't meet any enemies at all.

Smoothly came to the city of Chengdu.

Seeing this, Wu Sanfu's sailors of the Xia army arrived. Without saying a word, gather the army and prepare to defend the city of Chengdu.

Chengdu City as Wu Sangui's nest, Wu Sangui in Chengdu City, it can be said that he has made a bloody investment, Chengdu City, it is not bad, and it has been increased by Wu Sangui layer by layer, and I don't know how many artillery pieces have been added, most of which are built by themselves, and a considerable part of them are obtained from the Qing court.

It can be said that the city is high and the pond is deep.

Feng Shuangli knew that he couldn't attack it just by looking at it, so he had to honestly set up camp and wait for Li Dingguo's arrival.

Wu Sanfu's messenger also told Wu Sangui what happened here at a speed of 100,000 urgency.

When Wu Sangui saw Wu Sanfu's letter, he immediately felt dizzy. said: "What a Li Dingguo." ”

When Wu Sangui wanted to come, he was fighting here in Li Shizhen, and Li Dingguo should also come to save him.

He has tens of thousands of cavalry in his hands, and he has nothing to do about the water division, but he is very sure of the land division that he uses to deal with the Xia army. As long as Li Dingguo comes to the rescue, he can give him a good look.

It must be known that this is already the core of Sichuan, although it cannot be said that there are no mountains, but there are still more flat land, which is enough for the cavalry to exert their strength.

It's just that I never thought that Li Dingguo would dare to do this.

Wu Sangui didn't understand, how dare Li Dingguo?

Who is He Hutou, Wu Sangui has been dealing with him for several years, how can he not know? Although Li Dingguo was trusted by Zhang Xuan, many people in Nanjing still regarded Li Dingguo as one of the unstable factors, and He Hutou was Li Dingguo's deputy general, which actually had some meaning of supervising the army.

The situation in front of him is as if Li Dingguo wants to put He Hutou to death.

Isn't Li Dingguo worried that Zhang Xuan will trouble him in the future?

These countless things came together, which was enough to make Wu Sangui's consternation. However, Wu Sangui quickly put these superfluous thoughts aside.

By the time he received the news, he had been fighting for seven days in the town of Lishi.

During these seven days, he invaded the town several times, and saw from a distance that many houses in the town had been burned down, and black smoke was rising, like ghosts telling of grievances.

This Li Shizhen gave Wu Sangui the feeling that it was as if he could be pushed down with a single force, but no matter how he pushed it, he couldn't push it, and it gave people a shaky feeling.

Wu Sangui thought about it, but he still felt that Chengdu was important.

He decided to retreat.

But retreat is not an easy thing either, especially before the battle.

Therefore, he is easy to be peeked out by He Hutou.

He Hutou took a deep breath, for the past few days, he had been waiting for this moment.

In fact, if He Hutou used all his strength, Wu Sangui would not have been able to attack Li Shizhen so easily. It's just that this is not the result He Hutou wants.

As a result, the two sides fought fiercely on the outskirts of Li Town.

From time to time, hand-to-hand combat broke out.

There are also many conscripted people who have filled in.

But no matter how far he fought, He Hutou kept two battalions of men and horses and did not move.

In order to get it, it was to give Wu Sangui a blow.

And only one hit.

He Hutou always believed in one thing, that is, Wu Sangui was here, and it was impossible to hold on longer than him, and these seven days were extremely long.

He Hu didn't close his eyes for seven days.

The other battalions under his command were nearly half killed or wounded. However, Wu Sangui's troops suffered more casualties, so much so that Wu Sangui had to make a truce with He Hutou for half a day in order to facilitate the attack, and sent the people to clean up the corpses in front of the battle.

has already hindered the attack under Wu Sangui.

Now that the time has come, it is time for a thunderous blow.

Of course, He Hutou also thought about whether it would be Wu Sangui's plan to lure the enemy, but He Hutou also thought that if he continued to fight like this, the two battalions he had left behind would have to participate in the battle, and there would be no strength to fight back at that time.

Regardless of whether it was Wu Sangui's plan to lure the enemy or not, it must be dispatched.

So on the eve of Wu Sangui's preparation for the withdrawal of the army, the first thing was the artillery to speak.

The artillery, which had been concealed and immovable, was pushed onto the prepared casemate.

Although these batteries were only made of loess, they were strong enough to withstand the recoil of the cannons.

In the dark, the cannon began to fire according to the data that had been measured long in the day.

As soon as the eighteen cannons were fired, they didn't think to stop, and one after another the shells glowed red in the darkness, instantly dimmed, and disappeared from view.

And the rumbling cannon sound in the ears makes it impossible to hear the distant sound at all. I just found that there was a lot of fire in the camp of the Qing army. But I don't know what's going on.

These gunners also don't care. It's just a hard shot.

It wasn't until someone touched the artillery that there was immediately a blister on his hand, and he knew that he could no longer fire it, and that he had reached the limit.