Chapter 224 encircles Wanxian
After the Ming army gained the advantage on the river beach, as the number of Ming troops landing far exceeded the Qing soldiers, the Qing troops on the north bank of the Yangtze River were no longer capable of driving the Ming army into the Yangtze River, and the loss of the river defense was inevitable.
Wang Zuntan and Li Guoying led the defeated army to flee frantically, they did not go north to Chengdu, because the Western Route Army occupied Hezhou and cut off their road, so the two could only flee east to fight Wu Sangui and enter the next encirclement of the Ming army.
The Ming army pursued all the way, the two led more than 2,000 people to escape the Fotu Pass, and then hurriedly crossed the Fujiang River, during which the Ming army chased to, the Qing army was in a panic, and the Qing court Sichuan governor Wang Zuntan was careless, and fell into the river and drowned.
The Ming army crossed the Yangtze River, and the soldiers dragged their tired bodies and sat on the river beach, while the people cleaned up the corpses and picked up the capture.
This battle was the first time Wang Yan commanded the battle to collapse the river, and he accumulated a lot of experience, especially the first use of the Iron Man Army, which established a great merit, which made him more sure of his ideas.
When the battle situation is stalemate, holding one or two spearheads can sometimes achieve the goal of breaking the game.
For a moment, he couldn't help but think of the electric switch he tried in the cannon foundry a few months ago, and it seemed that he would have to get some silver and make a batch anyway.
In the future, we will be like the infantry of the Song Dynasty to resist the Iron Float, and we must also be equipped with hook and sickle guns, horizontal knives, big axes, maces, and different weapons according to different enemies.
This battle of the Iron Man Army can be said to have made the first contribution, but also the hardest, sixty or seventy pounds of armor on the body, especially in June is still wrapped in a layer of cotton armor outside, most of the soldiers are pale after the battle, many people did not die under the Qing soldiers' swords, but fell to the ground due to heat stroke.
The army crossed the river, Wang Yan was in a good mood, he had always paid attention to strict military law, in order to reward the meritorious soldiers, he ordered tonight, a big bowl of wine, a big bite of meat!
A roaring bonfire was lit in a makeshift barracks on the north bank, and the soldiers who had crossed the river gathered around, the meat on the shelves rattling and exuding an enticing aroma, and the fat sheep, which had been half-roasted, was dropping oil.
The soldiers who did not participate in the crossing of the river looked at the meritorious soldiers with envy, cut off a large piece of mutton leg meat, took a sip of wine, and sang the wine with their comrades who fought side by side.
The Ming army ate meat and drank alcohol, and the Qing army was more miserable. There were more than 7,000 Qing soldiers on the north bank, and only less than 2,000 were left who crossed the Fujiang River.
Li Guoying wanted to cry without tears, so he broke east into Changshou County, ransacked a pass, obtained military food supplies, and sent two teams of men and horses to Chengdu all the way to report to Haoge, and went all the way east to inform Wu Sangui and let him get ready.
The Qing army stayed overnight in Changshou, and after the scourge was passed, they hurriedly continued to move eastward, preparing to retreat all the way to Wanxian and join forces with Wu Sangui, in order to reorganize the army and fight again.
The Qing army fled here, Wang Yan did not stop, the army rested for a while, and left Yu Shizhong and Jiao Lian to lead 10,000 people to stay in Chongqing Prefecture, sweeping Bishan, Tongliang, Yongchuan and other counties, and then with Yuan Zongdi and Wu Risheng leading 5,000 men and horses as the forward, down the east of the river, and successively recovered Changshou, Luozhou, Fengdu, Zhongzhou and other prefectures and counties under the rule of Chongqing Prefecture.
In the land of eastern Sichuan, it was less than two months after it fell into the hands of the Qing soldiers, and the barbaric policy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty towards the newly occupied areas, forced shaving of hair and changing clothes, and wanton plunder, were already unpopular, and Li Guoying's troops fled eastward in a hurry, so the vanguard of the Ming army basically did not fight much, and the counties along the way saw that Wang Xianggong's army was coming, and they killed the officials and surrendered.
Along the way, the Qing officials in the city fled in despair, and the people who remained in the city wept bitterly when they saw the banners of the imperial court officials and soldiers, accusing the Qing army of atrocities.
They were harmed a lot, the Qing army burned, killed, looted, plundered, and spoiled women in a good way, and even there were not a few who were ravaged to death.
In Wanxian, Wu Sangui and Gao Yigong faced each other across the river, and he notified Haoge in Chengdu as soon as possible, but since then, the situation has changed three times a day.
He has more than 30,000 people, located in Kuizhou, located on the eastern edge of the Sichuan-Shu battlefield, the news has not yet been well-informed by Li Guoying, he originally thought that entering the Sichuan Ming army would only have a high level of merit, so he hurriedly informed Haoge that he would contain Gao Yigong in the front, and Haoge hurried south and crossed the river from elsewhere to surround Gao Yigong.
As a result, Haoge's men did not wait, but Wang Yan occupied Ba County, and the other Ming army copied Hezhou from the west.
He got the news from Chongqing and knew that the Ming army of the Three Routes had entered Sichuan, and Wang Yan's series of counter-attacks on Sichuan and Shu made Wu Sangui very uneasy.
Looking at this situation, as long as Wang Yan crosses the Yangtze River, the next step is obviously to come to him, he hurriedly wrote a letter, one is to let Wang Zuntan absolutely not give up the river defense, and then sent someone to tell Haoge that if Wang Yan crosses the Yangtze River, Mo said that eastern Sichuan will not guarantee that he will be surrounded in Wanxian, I am afraid that he will be surrounded and annihilated, Wang Yan will also go all the way north, in order to plot Chengdu and other places, drive the Qing army out of Sichuan.
Therefore, Wu Sangui urged Haoge to quickly take the state and open up the passage to the south, otherwise the Qing army would inevitably be defeated.
The Ming army entered Sichuan in three ways, the momentum was like a rainbow, the land of eastern Sichuan was heavily gathered, Wu Sangui saw that the situation was not good, and even had the intention of abandoning the baggage, climbing over the mountains, jumping out of the encirclement that might be formed, and retreating to Baoning Mansion.
But at this time, first Haoge's messenger came, saying that Prince Su had raised troops to the south, and went straight to Hezhou, and he would be able to break the city in a few days, and then Wang Zuntan's messenger also arrived, and there was only one sentence on the letter he brought, "The Yangtze River is as solid as gold", which seems to be full of confidence and confidence.
When Wu Sangui saw this, he immediately came with peace of mind and held against Gao Yigong across the river.
Half a month has passed, the two armies of the Ming and Qing dynasties have dried up across the river, and the war seems to have entered a phase of stalemate, and Wu Sangui immediately put his mind at ease, but at this moment, the people sent by Li Guoying arrived in Wanxian.
A day later, Li Guoying knelt in front of Wu Sangui, Wu Sangui squinted at him, a killing intent leaked from his eyes, he angrily rubbed a letter and smashed it on his face, and then stood up with an angry face, pointed at Li Guoying and scolded: "The Yangtze River is as solid as gold? You want to be shameless! Who said this, that thou hast come to this king, how hast thou been defeated? ”
Li Guoying cried with a sad face, "This is Wang Futai's words!" Lord Wang, we didn't expect that the raft could also cross the river, and Wang Yan had a heavy infantry under his command, which was difficult to hurt with swords, and could not be killed with birds, bows and arrows, so it was difficult for us to resist. ”
"What about Wang Zuntan? Don't you dare to come to see the king? Don't think that if he takes refuge in Prince Su, this king can't help him! Wu Sangui was angry, and reported that Wang Yan's soldiers and horses were only more than fifty miles away from Wanxian, and he would be able to come to the city tomorrow at the latest, and he was miserable.
"Wang Futai fell into the Fujiang River and has been dead for many days!" Li Guoying lowered his head and replied in a low voice, not daring to look at him at all.
Wu Sangui was slightly stunned, and after half a sound, he scolded hatefully: "The mediocrity is not shallow, God will accept him, hmph, he died lightly, but how can the king's Guan Ning soldiers do it!" ”
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