However, Yang Xuan did not promise Wu Zhaoyuan's immediate strike, and ordered the three armies and the army to march at full speed to force the Liukou to return to Shun and fight against the Tartars together.

On the Wuhua Mountain in Kunming City, in the former Qianguo Mansion, Sun Kewang was annoyed and ashamed, slammed the reply letter on the ground, and said to Wu Zhaoyuan viciously: "Harboring evil intentions, when my father was there, he said that Yang Xuan was treacherous and cunning, and a shameless villain.

Since our ministry is willing to surrender, why didn't it stop the army and make peace, but the various departments were pressing towards Kunming City step by step? ”

Li Dingguo arched his hand and said: "General Pingdong, this Yang Xuan's conditions are not too bad, my righteous army is reorganized into two towns, and the brothers also have a good return." ”

Glaring at the other party viciously, Sun Kewang suddenly slowed down and said: "My stupid brother, let's give the other party a delaying strategy, Yang Xuan is not stupid, and he will also use a delaying strategy for me."

The two of you have done the superficial scenery of the general army, who knows if the other party will be bad behind the scenes, and when the time comes, he will plot against you and my brother.

Don't forget that you can shoot the Divine Crossbow Zhang Order, you must know that this Order is no one else, and Qin Liangyu has a good family, and now Qin Liangyu's granddaughter is Yang Xuan's favorite concubine.

There are also tens of thousands of horses in the Shu Domain, what a grudge this is, all of them were lost in the hands of my righteous army, you must know that the lord of the Shu Wangfu is now Yang Xuan's wife. ”

Li Dingguo thought for a moment, then shook his head and said, "Having said that, I don't think Yang Xuan won't know the reason."

The rebel brothers who surrendered heard that they were very useful, just like Jin Tongwu and Wang Zhibang heard that they had become the main generals of a town. ”

Sun Kewang shook his head and said: "Now that the enemy is present, the other party wants to use you, of course, you will be harmonious, after the world is calmed down, who will command?" ”

When they heard this, they were speechless for a long time.

Now the volunteer army is only more than 50 miles away, and the army is only a day's journey, Sun Kewang wants to escape, but Li Dingguo is unwilling.

Unlike the Central Plains, Yunnan Province is vast and sparsely populated, and the roads are rugged and extremely difficult to walk.

Yunnan Province is full of Tusi, and these Tusi control large and small cities like the Tu Emperor, and if they want to pass through their territory and obtain supplies on the spot, they are almost the same as the tiger's skin.

Back then, the rebel army was able to enter Yunnan smoothly in the name of avenging the Duke of Qianguo, but now that the provincial capital has been occupied and lost territory, there is no need for Yang Xuan's order, and the Tusi from all over the country will almost respond to the attack in groups.

Seeing that Li Dingguo insisted on staying, Sun Kewang looked at it and said with a smile: "Since Ning Yu said so, then you and my brother divide the labor, I will lead the troops to develop to the south, and you will defend the city with Yuan Tao, Wu Dading and others." ”

Seeing this, Li Dingguo had no choice but to agree.

Seeing that the various units of the Volunteer Army were approaching the city of Kunming, Li Dingguo stood at the head of the city and shouted: "Penghou, you are also a hero, didn't you advocate Lian Kou Pingyu back then?"

Now that the Tartars are rampant in the country, and the Ming Dynasty occupies eight points out of ten, why do you still provoke infighting at this time? ”

Yang Xuan picked up the loudspeaker and replied, "General Li, don't come unharmed, we met in Shunqing Mansion and Tongchuan Mansion that day, and it was impressive."

The murder of General Yang Zhan made me realize that the strength of our volunteer army is quite weak, and made me realize that if you want to go outside, you must first be at home.

Otherwise, I will have a good fight with the Tartars, and you will give me a toss behind my back, just like Hanzhong did.

General Lee, the Governor knows what you can. If you are willing to surrender in Kaicheng, the governor will ensure that you are the commander-in-chief of the first-class town, and when the time comes, we will kill the Tartars together and avenge your old man, why not be happy? ”

Li Dingguo's eyes blinked and he said, "Penghou, it's okay to follow you." Why don't you retire for three days, and I'll discuss it with my brothers in the city? ”

Yang Xuan said with a smile: "General Li, I'm not a child either, how can I retire because of these few words?"

Manly man, do things more cheerfully, do you descend or not? ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and said: "Penghou, such a big matter must be discussed, and you will not come to the city and immediately let the family surrender." ”

Yang Xuan laughed and said, "General Li, if you discuss, it's okay, I can give you a day to think about it." But there is a premise, Yuan Tao and Wu Dading, who killed Yang Zhan's general soldiers, must be sacrificed, otherwise, it will be difficult for the governor to retreat. ”

Li Dingguo shook his head and said, "Penghou, if I hand over Yuan Tao and Wu Dading to you, is there any difference between it and surrendering to you?" Penghou, how about you step back? ”

Yang Xuan shook his head and said, "General Li, since this is the case, then it will not be too late for this governor to talk to you after attacking the city." ”

Immediately ordered the siege of the city, and Yang Xuan personally commanded the artillery to fire at the city wall.

After several years of preparation, the artillery standard of the Volunteer Army now has a total of 1 5-kilogram artillery battalion, 2 2-kilogram artillery battalions, and a mortar artillery battalion.

The mortar is a kind of traditional artillery, the muzzle is very short, like a stone mortar, the firing distance is close, mainly breaking the city wall, is a siege artillery.

More than 10 mortars were pushed under the city wall and fired at nearby targets, and stones weighing about 20 catties were shot into the sky, and then fell on the city wall, smashing huge holes one after another.

Since the invention of firearms, mortars have been used as an important siege artillery, although they are not conducive to field warfare.

A mortar cannon is operated by about ten people, and the Volunteers currently have three mortar brigades with about 30 mortars.

In addition to mortars, the more commonly used field artillery is the 2-kilogram gun.

At present, a large number of 2-kilogram guns equipped with a cannon body is only 500 kilograms, plus the weight of the gun carriage is only 800 kilograms, which can be transported by traditional two-wheeled carriages (Wu Sangui's cannon weighs 310 kilograms), if a four-wheeled carriage is used, not only can drag the cannon, but also can drag the ammunition used by the cannon.

After the use of two-horse four-wheeled carriages (light four-wheeled carriages, which can pull 8 loads of goods and 600 kg of cargo), the number of horses was reduced (in the past, 2 kg guns were dragged by 4 war horses), and the number of operators of a 2-kg gun was reduced from 10 to 8, including 1 gun commander, 2 gunners, 1 light hand washer, 1 coachman, and 3 guards.

In the past, each 2-pound artillery brigade had 10 red-coat cannons, but now it has increased to 12.

At present, the Volunteer Army has two 2-kilogram artillery battalions, and there are more than 80 2-kilogram cannons.

In addition to the 2-pound gun, the more powerful field artillery is the 5-pound gun, which is now generally equipped with troops.

The barrel of the 5-kilogram cannon is 1.52 meters long, the inner diameter is 93mm, the outer diameter is 220mm, the gun body weighs 1000 kilograms, and the whole gun (including the gun body, gun carriage, and wheels) weighs about 1800 kilograms, and can fire 5-kilogram iron balls, commonly known as 5-kilogram guns.

(Modeled after the Napoleonic 6-pounder gun, the M1841 6-pounder (2.54 kg) field gun has a caliber of 93 mm, a barrel length of 1.52 m (16.3 times the caliber), and a gun weight of 389 kg.) As the 2-catty cannon was introduced earlier, the weight of Wu Sangui's casting 2-catty cannon was about the same as that of Napoleon's 5-catty cannon, which shows the difference between the casting process of China and Western Europe.

Although the protagonist uses iron mold casting and continuous forging and other processes to manufacture the iron-core copper cannon, but the manufacturing process and France 150 years later still have a certain gap, although the weight of the cannon is less than 6 percent of this era, but it is still 2 percent heavier than the Napoleonic cannon. )

This 5-pound cannon needs to be dragged by a four-horse carriage (heavy four-wheeled carriage), which easily solves the problem of mechanical transportation.

After half a day of fierce fighting, the volunteers smashed a gap at the north gate, and the two sides fought at the gap, and the two sides fought for a day, although the corpses were pillowed, but it was still difficult to enter the city.

Everyone asked for battle, Yang Xuan thought for a long time and thought that the pressure was not great, you can concentrate on guarding a gap, then I will fight a few more gaps to see how you guard?

Immediately, the mortar artillery of the station was concentrated to bombard the east gate, hoping to blow up the east tower and form a gap again.

Seeing that the volunteers moved to the east after the attack was blocked, and concentrated all the mortars to desperately launch huge stones at the east gate in the hope of blowing up the city tower, Li Dingguo pointed to the volunteers fighting under the city wall and said with envy: "Yang Xuan led the troops to fight, although it was not very powerful, but its army was well-equipped, and we couldn't wait for it.

Now that he is fighting the east gate, of course we will divide our troops at the east gate and fight with the other side for casualties. ”

Li Dingguo immediately assigned troops to defend the city, and after fighting for a long time, he suddenly heard the explosion outside the West Gate, and everyone turned their heads to look, and the West Gate, which had been unusually calm for the past few days, suddenly underwent a great change.

In the midst of doubt, Yuan Tao, the guard of the West Gate, came to ask for help covered in blood, and it was not until he attacked the East Gate that Yang Xuan concentrated ten red-clothed cannons and suddenly bombarded the West Gate position.

The sound of the cannon was extremely fierce, and it was continuously bombarded by the red-coated cannons, and the soldiers on the city wall were terrified and did not dare to resist.

And at this moment, the main force of the volunteers suddenly appeared at the west gate, they pushed the siege tower, carried the ladder to the outside of the west gate, before everyone reacted, the death squad climbed the ladder one by one, and then frantically threw the thunder with the handle, and then the explosion Yu Wei jumped into the city wall, killed the old and weak soldiers who defended the city, opened the city gate and broke into the city.

This can be said to be a fixed pattern of the volunteer siege, first bombarding the gap with mortars, and the soldiers broke in, and if the opponent did not defend the city resolutely, they might retreat.

And if the opponent is very resolute in defending the city, they will either blow up other gaps, or send elite troops to raid.

This time it took two city gates to occupy the city walls, and the process was indeed far more difficult than before.

Because it was not taken into account that the volunteers would break through the city so quickly, the rogues appeared to be in chaos, and if it was said that the formed rogues still had a little combat effectiveness, then the rogues who escaped in all directions did not have any combat power except for a few who were still fighting stubbornly with their own bravery.

Hou Tianxi, the general of Central Sichuan, was quite frightened when he saw that the volunteers had broken through the city so easily, and led his troops to surrender in a panic.

The news of Wu Dading's death, when the city was broken, Wu Dading was surrounded by regiments, Wu Dading, who knew that there was no hope of survival, looked up to the sky and sighed, drew his sword and killed himself in the middle of the street.

After looking at the corpse of Zhiwu Dading who was dragged in, he felt lonely after being identified, and said to the left and right with a smile: "Give his head to Yang Jingxin, Yang Zhan died unjustly, he is very uncomfortable." ”

Ma Wannian nodded, and made a box to give to Yang Jingxin after Wu Dading's head.