Yang Sichang and Xiong Wencan's Tianluo net has come down, what should I do?

Li Zicheng naturally won't be caught, he chose to work hard!

The so-called fish dies and the net is broken, and he desperately fights with the officers and soldiers, and his fish may not necessarily die, but the net of the officers and soldiers may be broken.

He had already found out clearly, there were only 70,000 or 80,000 officers and soldiers chasing after him, and he had 150,000 or 60,000 men in his hands, two to fight one, the peasant army could not defeat the officers and soldiers, but he could take advantage of the complex terrain of Lishan to ambush the officers and soldiers!

He is even ready to consume all his steps and use them to fight hard with the officers and soldiers, so that he can not only consume the strength of the officers and soldiers, but also lose the burden, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

He has 50,000 elite cavalry under his command, these are veterans who have been on the battlefield for so many years, and those who can survive are basically on par with the officers and soldiers in terms of combat effectiveness, and after 70,000 or 80,000 officers and soldiers have been consumed, it is not certain that they can do more than the 50,000 elite cavalry under him.

Xiong Tingbi didn't know that Li Zicheng was preparing to fight with him, he led an army of 80,000 to escape the traces of the peasant army camping, chased all the way down, and gradually chased to the periphery of Lishan, a few days later, the scout finally found a camp of anti-thieves.

I'm afraid that this camp is not ten miles away, and there are all kinds of tents in a mess, no need to ask, it must be the camp of the anti-thief Li Zicheng.

Xiong Tingbi learned the news and hurriedly led the army to rush over, and the thieves seemed to know that the officers and soldiers were coming, so they ran away, and they didn't even want the camp.

Then what else is there to say, hurry up and chase it.

He led the army to chase for more than ten miles, and the anti-thieves who fell behind caught thousands of people, and finally saw a large area of anti-thieves "main force" in front of him.

Xiong Tingbi was so excited, he didn't expect Li Zicheng to be so poor, he actually fled with his subordinates, this guy has to fight hard with himself, and he is afraid that more than half of the 80,000 troops in his hands will suffer casualties, and it is different to flee like this, and there will be no casualties among his subordinates at all.

He also lacks experience in fighting against the peasant army to be so careless, if Lu Xiangsheng or Sun Chuanting are here, he will definitely not think like this, how can Li Zicheng be so poor, besides, his main force is not foot but cavalry at all, and he didn't even see a shadow of a cavalry at this time, there must be a problem!

Xiong Wencan is not a wine bag and rice bag, but he has never fought with the peasant army before, so he can't think of these things at all, and Zuo Liangyu and Ma Xianglin have never met Li Zicheng before, and they are not familiar with this guy, so they were led by tens of thousands of anti-thief "main forces", walked on the mountain road, and rushed into a valley on the periphery of Lishan.

The valley seemed to be open, because the speed at which the thieves swarmed in did not slow down.

The valley didn't seem to have much of a problem, because the gap in the middle was almost a mile wide, not a ray of sky.

Xiong Tingbi only hesitated for a moment, and then led the army to rush in.

I don't know how deep this valley is, and he didn't see the exit after rushing into it for more than ten miles, and he didn't realize that he was fooled at this time, but after chasing for about a quarter of an hour, he finally found that something was wrong, because there was no road ahead, and the thief actually climbed up the slopes on both sides in a hurry, and it didn't look like he was cornered at all.

Oops, if you get it, the thief will even play a trick to lure the enemy in!

Do anti-thieves also understand the art of war?

Of course I understand, he is underestimating Li Zicheng, people are not farmers who don't understand anything, Li Zicheng was the commander of the Ganzhou Army before the rebellion, he still learned a little about the art of war, he has killed many Ming army generals in history, including Sun Chuanting, and finally died in his hands, thinking that he didn't understand anything, and the loss was in front of him!

Xiong Wencan has already understood at this time, Li Zicheng should not be underestimated, this guy must not only play a trick to lure the enemy deep, but he doesn't know what conspiracies and tricks are waiting for him later, it is not suitable to stay here for a long time, withdraw first.

He hurriedly gave the order for the whole army to turn around and withdraw from the valley.

It's a pity that it was too late, and the guerrilla general behind the palace rushed up at this time, and hurriedly arched his hand: "My lord, it's not good, tens of thousands of cavalry suddenly appeared in the valley, and they are still going to the valley mouth." “

Tens of thousands of cavalry?

Throwing something?

This happened too suddenly, Xiong Wencan was stunned for a moment, and then asked: "How many cavalry are there, and what are they throwing?" ”

The guerrilla general hurriedly arched his hand and said: "I can't see it clearly from a distance, it seems to be a tree branch, and the number of cavalry cannot be determined for the time being, anyway, the black pressure behind is all cavalry, and his subordinates have already asked people to investigate." ”

Twig?

The thief doesn't want to set fire!

As soon as he thought of this, a puff of smoke suddenly rose from behind him, and the thief was really setting fire!

Xiong Wencan's face suddenly became extremely ugly, he actually fell for the trick of the thief, and was caught in an urn.

However, he didn't panic, is he a turtle, just kidding, even if the thief invites himself into the urn, there is a kind of catch.

He thought about it for a while, and ordered loudly: "Ma Xianglin, Zuo Liangyu, quickly form the team, stretch the team a little longer, try not to get close to the mountains on both sides of the 100-step range, and line up the swords and shields on both sides to prevent the thieves on both sides of the mountains from releasing arrows." ”

Ma Xianglin and Zuo Liangyu hurriedly said yes, and then beat their horses and ran to the back to sort out the team, while Xiong Wencan looked coldly at the mountains on both sides, thinking about what the thief would play next.

Li Zicheng didn't let him wait long, and soon, dark clouds rose from the mountains on both sides, raining down on the middle.

Xiong Wencan hurriedly ordered: "Quick, the sword and shield hand raise the shield." ”

It stands to reason that the thieves should not be able to shoot them, because this valley is one mile wide, one mile is three hundred steps, and the range of the short bow is only about one hundred steps.

Of course, it was not ruled out that the anti-thief had a longbow with a range of one hundred and fifty paces, so he urgently ordered the sword and shield men on both sides to raise their shields in case of accidents.

At this moment, a strange thing happened, the "arrows" under the cover of the mountains on both sides did not shoot a hundred and fifty steps away at all, not even fifty steps, and they were as continuous as a storm and rain!

What's going on here?

Xiong Wencan squinted his eyes and took a closer look, lying down, all the branches that the thief threw down were arm-thick branches!

It's fire attack again!

The branches on both sides of the tree are eighty or ninety paces away from the outermost soldiers, and they can't burn them at all, so what does the anti-thief mean?

The rain of firewood came down for a while, and finally stopped, and then another wave of rockets fell on the hill, and it fell right on the firewood, and the whole valley was suddenly ablaze on both sides.

The weather is dry and cold, it should be very comfortable to bake a fire, countless thieves on both sides of the mountain actually rushed down, it seems that they want to come down to bake the fire, but Xiong Wencan's face has changed greatly, because the anti-thieves who rushed down are all sword and shield men and archers, if they put rockets behind the fire line, it will be over, because their shields are basically wooden, just one point, and the line of fire is less than a hundred steps away from the sword and shield hands on the periphery, and the anti-thieves can shoot them!

If all the shields were burned, wouldn't they be a living target!

This will definitely not work, Xiong Wencan gritted his teeth and directly ordered: "Quick, Ma Xianglin led the Sichuan army to the left, and Zuo Liangyu led the Shanxi army to the right, rushing up to the hillside." ”

Originally, he didn't want to give this kind of order, because the enemy was on top, they were below, rushing over, and people could kill a large area by throwing a boulder, but now it can't be done if you don't rush, and if you don't rush, it's not a problem of dying a large area, and it is very likely that the whole army will be wiped out!

Ma Xianglin and Zuo Liangyu received the order, and hurriedly led the army to rush to the left and right hills, at this time, the gap between the officers and soldiers and the anti-thieves was reflected, obviously the officers and soldiers were surrounded, but the panicked were the anti-thieves, because most of the officers and soldiers were well-trained, and the sword and shield hands and archers were skillful, even if the anti-thieves had bows and arrows, they could not hurt anyone if they shot them, and the arrows of the officers and soldiers could cause a lot of casualties.

Soon, Ma Xianglin and Zuo Liangyu led the army to rush to the vicinity of the line of fire, and the thieves who had just rushed down climbed the mountain in a panic.

Although the line of fire was a few feet wide, it could not burn anyone, so it was enough to pick it up with a spear, and soon, a group of officers and soldiers crossed the line of fire and rushed up the hillside.

Li Zicheng naturally asked people to prepare boulders, but the boulders are not cannonballs, and people can dodge them, so even if the boulders fall down like raindrops, they don't kill many officers and soldiers, especially the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army, which are as flexible as monkeys, plus they have few people and are scattered relatively widely, the boulders almost didn't cause them any casualties, but the casualties on the side of the Shanxi army are relatively large, because 10,000 of them are guards who have just been assembled, and they have no combat experience at all. also pushed and pushed many veterans to avoid the boulder, and as a result, many people were hit by the boulder.

After all, the boulder can't stop the pace of the officers and soldiers, and soon, the Sichuan army and the Shanxi army rushed up the mountains on both sides, and the short blade of the anti-thief, this time there is nothing to look at, even if it is an ordinary border soldier, one person is more than enough to deal with two thieves, and the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army have no problem fighting four or five thieves at a time, unless the number of anti-thieves is more than five times that of them, otherwise, it is a dish.

Li Zicheng, who was watching from a distance, saw this situation, and couldn't help shaking his head and sighing: "Alas, it's a pity, the last wave of fire attacks was not successful, let's go." ”

After that, he took the lead and ran down the hill to the cavalry not far away, and the generals behind him, such as Li Guo, Li Yan, and Liu Zongmin, hurriedly followed.

As soon as Li Zicheng left, the thieves on the hill quickly lost their fighting spirit, dropped their weapons one after another, knelt on the ground and surrendered, and the battle ended in less than half an hour.

However, in just half an hour, it caused serious casualties to the Shanxi army, in this battle, the Shanxi army soldiers killed tens of thousands, and the wounded reached more than 20,000, the Sichuan army was much better, less than 1,000 were killed, and less than 10,000 were wounded.

Xiong Wencan received the battle report, his face turned green, in this battle, he lost more than 10,000 people, and more than 30,000 were injured, that is to say, he has been beaten half-disabled, and on the side of the anti-thief, all the new recruits were caught, although the number was as high as nearly 100,000, it didn't make much sense, because the remaining more than 50,000 cavalry were Li Zicheng's main force!

At this time, he was really disabled by Li Zicheng, and it was definitely not possible to take tens of thousands of wounded soldiers to pursue the thieves, so he had to lead the army back to Lintong to repair, so that the 20,000 wounded Shanxi soldiers exchanged with the defenders of Chengcheng and Huanglong, and ordered the nearly 10,000 wounded Sichuan army to exchange with the Tianxiong army, and then led the 70,000 army to continue to pursue Li Zicheng.

Li Zicheng left all his steps at this time, his hands were full of fine horses, and even the grain and grass were pulled by carriages, and the moving speed was more than twice as fast as the officers and soldiers led by Xiong Wencan, Xiong Wencan led the army to chase for more than ten days, and he didn't even sweep the horsetails of others, so he had to stop and convene the generals of the army to discuss countermeasures.

It will definitely not work to chase it like this, even if you can't catch up with Li Zicheng for a year, you must change your strategy.

At about noh in the afternoon of this day, more than thirty miles southeast of Lintong, in the camp of the Ming army, Xiong Wencan frowned and sat in the handsome tent, looked at the generals on both sides, and said with a little frustration: "Everyone, everyone knows the current situation, if you chase it like this, you will definitely not be able to catch up with the main force of the anti-thief Li Zicheng's department. ”

After chasing for so many days, the generals were also a little tired, everyone seemed to be asleep, and the whole tent was silent.

After a while, Zuo Liangyu arched his hand and said: "My lord, if you can't chase it, then you can only chase and intercept it, if we can divide into four strands and surround it on all sides, even if the thief runs fast, he will be blocked by us." ”

This seems to be reasonable, the problem is that they are not enough, Zuo Liangyu's more than 10,000 veterans and more than 20,000 recruits may not be able to stop Li Zicheng's 50,000 elite cavalry, Lu Xiangsheng's Tianxiong Army and Ma Xianglin's Sichuan Army White Pole Soldiers can steadily intercept Li Zicheng, the problem is that it is useless to only have two sides, Li Zicheng can also run to the other two sides.

Xiong Wencan had actually thought of this method a long time ago, but the troops were not enough to implement it, he shook his head and sighed: "We are only 70,000 people, how can we be surrounded on all sides, and when the time comes, it will be troublesome not to be broken by the anti-thieves." ”

Zuo Liangyu stubbornly said: "For today's plan, the only way to do this is to transfer defenders from all over the place, and it shouldn't be a big problem for Xi'an to transfer 20,000 people out, a Xiongcheng like Xi'an, even if there are only 10,000 people stationed there, Li Zicheng can't take it in a short time, and Lintong, Weinan, and Lantian can all draw out 10,000 horses, so that they can form an army of 50,000 and go all the way alone." Lord Lu's Tianxiong army is well-equipped and there is absolutely no problem with one as ten, the white pole soldiers of the Sichuan army under General Ma are brave and good at fighting, and it must be no problem for 20,000 people to withstand 50,000 thieves, and the 40,000 horses under the last general are a little worse, but they can also block one or two thieves, so don't we have a four-way army. ”

This may sound like some truth, but there are many problems.

For example, the defenders of Xi'an and Lantian are not only responsible for defending the city, it is impossible for a city to block all the roads, if the defenders are only guarding the city, it is very easy for Li Zicheng to rush over from the side, only the scouts are dense, and the thieves must go through the road in advance to intercept in order to have the effect of opening a net, otherwise this net is not a net, but a sieve, and it is easy to leak Li Zicheng.

Xiong Wencan shook his head slowly and said: "This won't work, if you let Li Zicheng run away, the cabinet lord's ten-sided plan to spread the net will be broken, you and I can't afford this responsibility, let's think of other ways." ”