After Luckedhun retreated to the city, the whole city was full of wailing, and everyone's morale was extremely low.

The mountain road is rugged, which is not conducive to the battle of the Tartar cavalry, although Lekedehun led his troops to come to the aid after being ambushed by the volunteers, but Yang Xuan led the guards of the town and the cavalry association in time, so although Lekedehun defeated the 11th town and killed the deputy general Wang Zhibang, he also fell into the siege of the volunteers.

Although Luck Dehun led his troops back into the city, many of the Manchurian nobles and generals of the Eight Banners, including Belegon Aloan, were killed or wounded, and more than half of the Manchurian and Mongolian Eight Banners were killed or wounded.

Seeing that the volunteers were constantly approaching Yuanzhou City, the Han army set the red flag and fixed the mountain, and Liu Zhiyuan knew that the general trend had gone, and vigorously exhorted the troops to retreat.

Luck Dehun thought about it again and again, and appointed Liu Zhiyuan, the Han army's Yellow Banner Gushan, and Xu Yong, the chief soldier of the Green Battalion, to defend the city, and personally led the Manmeng Eight Banners to retreat.

Yang Xuan led his troops to the city of Yuanzhou, built engineering equipment, made people build siege equipment, and urged siege artillery to attack the city.

During this period, the towns conscientiously summed up the advantages and losses of the last ambush battle, as Wu Yanghu, the commander of the army, said:

Liu Wenxiu, the commander-in-chief of the 13th town, lured the enemy into the depths.

Although Wang Zhibang, the deputy general of the 11th town, made a meritorious attack, he died tragically in the chaos for the front and rear attacks of the Tartar iron cavalry.

After the opponent's flank attack, because there were not enough reserves, the soldiers and horses of the Green Battalion broke through.

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Yang Xuan sat upright, listened carefully, and lowered his head from time to time to ask, is there a better way to do it?

Just after everyone thought that the summary had passed like this, Yang Xuan put down the brush, glanced at everyone majestically and said: "Everyone, this ambush battle victory has turned into a small victory, some people may feel very proud, after all, winning on the battlefield is better than defeating on the battlefield, but victory or defeat is often between the first line, if you don't pay attention to it, it may not be the Tartars who will encounter the misery next time, but us."

Lao Tzu preached, in fact, there are laws of war, but we all don't know it, or we are often misled by many literati and soldiers, so it is not realistic at all.

The reason why Li Dingguo and Liu Wenxiu were able to win consecutive battles after joining the Volunteer Army is really because of their long military careers in the past, summing up the gains and losses in past battles, and exploring the laws of war.

What are the laws of war? Lone thinks that's all there is to it. ”

Yang Xuan talked eloquently, summed up the lessons and lessons of the past few years, and tried to sum up his own war experience.

For example, the importance of logistical support, there are more casualties in the long-distance march, and there are more casualties than battlefield battles.

The importance of military discipline is because of iron discipline. As the saying goes, if you fight tiger brothers, go into battle as father and son soldiers, and give your life to your neighbors and brothers on the battlefield, if there is no iron general discipline guarantee, everyone may be suspicious of each other, and some are even more protective of each other.

Emphasizing the importance of the exercise, it is not difficult for those who will not be difficult, and if you are not familiar with the skills of going into battle to kill the enemy, you will inevitably be unfamiliar with the battlefield battle, and you will be killed by the other side instead.

Emphasizing the need for the process of destroying the enemy, many literati talk about the army, as if as long as they use their strategies, the battlefield situation will immediately change sharply, but in fact, the battlefield needs to start with the destruction of one soldier, one squadron, and one squadron of the opponent, otherwise they will attack from all sides and hit a wall everywhere.

The importance of retaining reserves was emphasized.

.......

Yang Xuan talked eloquently, and everyone said it, so it took half a day to summarize the top ten reasons for the battle.

Liu Wenxiu and others were convinced, and everyone claimed to be so.

Although Wang Zhibang, the deputy general of the 11th town, was in improper command, but after all, he fought for the country and sacrificed his life, Yang Xuan wrote to the imperial court, posthumously named him the marquis, and selected a county in Guizhou as his fief, so that his son inherited his title.

For the 11th town, Yang Xuan ordered it to be reorganized.

Liu Wenxiu was rewarded with a thousand taels as a sign of encouragement.

By the morning of the third day, the mortar cannon arrived, and Yang Xuan concentrated 10 mortar cannons to bombard the west gate, but the Yuanzhou city wall was too strong, but the effect was quite limited.

Hearing that the king of Shu led his troops to attack the Tartars, the squires from all over the world gathered, and saw that although the artillery bombardment of the volunteers collapsed the city tower, the entire city gate was still standing, and they were quite strange.

Some people even told Yang Xuan that when Hong Wuye built the city wall of Yuanzhou, he used glutinous rice juice to pour it on the city wall, and after tamping it layer by layer, he hit it with a solid bullet, and the effect was not very great.

It seems that the ancients did not deceive, and the ancients also had many wonderful methods that were difficult for science to explain for a while.

Fortunately, there were a lot of trees around, and some troops were building siege towers, ladders or something, thinking of this, Yang Xuan decided to fight again the next day.

Early in the morning of the tenth day, under the cover of artillery fire, the volunteers withdrew from more than 20 siege towers and more than 100 ladders.

The Qing army defending the city was in chaos, and the old traitor Liu Zhiyuan, the eight banners of the Han army, and Yang Yingyuan, the deputy general of the Green Camp Mansion, were killed, and the traitor Xu Yong led 5,000 soldiers to flee in a hurry.

In late March of 1650 (the fourth year of Yongli), the volunteers captured Yuanzhou, an important town in western Xiangxi, Yang Xuan was preparing to reward the three armies, and the front came to report that Li Dingguo had set up an ambush in Furong Mountain three days ago to defeat the Manchurian Zheng Red Flag, and killed the Manchu county king Le Ke Dehun.

It turned out that Luck Dehun led his troops to withdraw from Yuanzhou City and fled all the way to Wugang, but he did not prevent Li Dingguo and others from setting up an ambush on Furong Mountain, so he suffered a big defeat.

In the past, in the face of the powerful Ming army, the righteous army often adopted the tactic of a comprehensive retreat and then concentrated on the elite troops to set up an ambush (Li Dingguo used this tactic many times in history, such as killing the barbarian Qing prince Nikan and defeating Wu Sangui at Mopan Mountain. The defeat of Kong Youde is to use the characteristics of elephant soldiers)

Led his troops to Furong Mountain secretly, and saw that the 10-mile-long mountain road was rugged and the road was spreading, Li Dingguo immediately saw a huge fighter plane, and immediately discussed with Yang Wei and others, and decided to set up an ambush here.

Before the preparation was completed, he heard the people in the west shouting and neighing, and saw thousands of horses galloping from a distance, Yang Wei hesitated, although this Furong Mountain is a good place for ambushes, but the volunteers are not ready at all.

Li Dingguo was shocked, picked up the binoculars and looked at it and said: "General Yang, your regiment is ambushing on the peaks on both sides, and our regiment is blocking on both sides."

Yang Wei shook his head and said: "Chief soldier, there are many artillery pieces in our battalion, and there are also many tricycles and vehicle formations in the army.

Li Dingguo nodded, pointed to the banner of the Tartar in the distance and said: "General Yang, be careful, but the Tartar don't be afraid, the mountain road is rugged, the road is narrow, and the Tartar walks very slowly."

Yang Wei nodded, and led his troops to the front camp to set up defenses, because everyone has been fighting on these mountains all year round in the past few years, everyone is not only very good in physical strength, but also moves quickly.

Li Dingguo asked everyone to prepare, and from time to time he picked up the binoculars in his hand and looked at the enemy in the distance, and Wang Guoxi, a general next to him, watched the Tartar cavalry spread for several miles, and sighed: "General soldiers, this, there are many Tartar soldiers and horses, not to mention anything else, the cavalry alone has spread for several miles, with more than 2,000 people."

We've done this before, but we've never encountered so many cavalry. ”

Li Dingguo smiled and said: "It's still Lao Tzu's luck, tell the brothers to hold their breath, and when the time comes, listen to Lao Tzu's orders, first throw the fireball, rolling wood, stones, etc., and throw everything that can be thrown to Lao Tzu."

The boy brought ten loads of tung oil this time, and told the brothers not to be stingy, and to use it all for Lao Tzu."

When Wang Guoxi heard this, he immediately ran over and asked everyone to hurry up and prepare.

After half an hour the Tartar cavalry slowly came to the deep ravine in front of them, and because of the ruggedness of the mountain road and the tall northern horses, they were not accustomed to walking on such a mountain road, so they walked a little faster than on foot.

Li Dingguo used a telescope to constantly search for the target of the Tartars, after joining the Volunteer Army, every thousand was equipped with this kind of telescope, after getting this at the beginning, Li Dingguo cherished it very much, and with this 3, 4 things can be seen clearly.

Seeing the other party marching all the way and suddenly stopping in front, Wang Guoxi shook his head and said: "My lord, did the Tartars see the wheel prints, our two battalions have more than 200 tricycles, and the ruts are too late to clean up, is it the Tartars who have found out."

Only half of the Tartars have entered the ambush circle, and if they attack now, I'm afraid they will find themselves in a fierce battle. ”

Li Dingguo motioned for everyone to be quiet, and took the binoculars to carefully watch the movements of the Tartars.

Suddenly, after seeing some of the Tartars turning their horses' heads, Li Dingguo gave an order, and everyone lit fireballs one after another, and the overwhelming fireballs rolled down the mountain road.

After that, everyone threw boulders down the mountain, rows of boulders were thrown, and the tartars were in a mess, burned to death by fireballs, and countless were injured by boulders.

Seeing that many Tartars were preparing to escape, Li Dingguo put on his helmet and said to Wang Guoxi: "Mr. Wang Qian, you are here to command the baggage battalion to throw things below, and I will lead my brothers to kill them and intercept the Tartars' retreat."

Unexpectedly, it was cooked into raw rice, and there were so many tartars that did not come in. ”

Wang Guoxi took a look at it and admonished: "Chief soldier, you still command in the center, Grandpa Guo has said many times that it is the duty of us to charge into battle."

And you, the general soldiers, should be able to strategize. ”

Li Dingguo smiled, patted Wang Guoxi on the shoulder and said, "Mr. Wang Qian, it's not that Grandpa Guo doesn't let us charge, but he can't charge before the most critical moment." ”

Immediately got on the horse and led the troops to kill the gap.

There were two cavalry brigades in the town of Yizhong, which were now equipped with Dian horses, and although the horses of Yunnan were inferior in height and speed to the horses of the north, they were far from being matched by the horses of the north in the mountains.

When Li Dingguo was young, he shot the four (Sichuan) deputy chief soldier Zhang Ling, and he must charge forward in every battle, and he was even more good at riding and archery, and after watching the other party from a distance and pouring out of the gap, he set up a crossbow and shot at the opponent's Niu Lu from a hundred and five steps away, and the other party's Niu Lu fell down the horse in response.

The morale of the volunteers was greatly boosted, and everyone fought bravely to rush to the Tartars who were fleeing towards the breach.

Suddenly attacked, his soldiers were killed and wounded.

The king of the barbarian Qing county, Luck Dehun, was even more sturdy when he was hit by a rolling stone with a thick bowl mouth, and almost rolled off his warhorse.

Looking at the boulders that kept rolling down on both sides, and seeing the shouts of killing in the mountain pass in front, it seemed that the other party's ambush had already been dispatched, and there were hundreds of horsemen rushing to kill in the rear.

Thinking of this, Luck drew his saber, leaned against his horse's back, and shouted for everyone to rush towards Taniguchi.

But the other party was really brave, and he didn't know what magic he used, and he actually rode on horseback on this rugged mountain road as if he was flying on flat ground, and he posed in various poses from afar, shooting one after another hateful bows and crossbows.

But there were more and more men on the other side, and there were people on the edge of the gap, on the slopes on both sides, and everyone had only one goal, which was to rush over and kill and wound the Tartar cavalry.

Because the road was very narrow and everyone was crowded together, each round of shooting caused a large number of casualties in the Eight Banners of Manmeng, and seeing these soldiers wounded, Lucked felt a pang of heartache, shouted, and kept beating his horse and charging forward.

Luckett finally rushed to the gap, and watched from a distance as a tall volunteer general led more than 100 horsemen to kill him, and the soldiers who followed him were the soldiers who stepped forward.

They were equipped with a large number of three-eyed guns, and after approaching, they quickly ignited the three-eyed guns, and the three guns were released together, killing and injuring a large number of the Eight Banners of the Barbarian Qing Dynasty.

After that, some used the Three-Eyed Gun as an iron rod, while others simply picked up a spear and fought it.

Lucked was anxious, and led a few personal soldiers to meet him, preparing to suppress this volunteer general first, and then take advantage of the gap between the other party's escape and tear the gap.

Seeing more than a dozen Tartars rushing towards him, Li Dingguo roared to meet him, and when he saw the other party's knife slashing, Li Dingguo roared and took advantage of the momentum of the war horse to meet him.

As I just said, in this mountainous area, the Dian horse moves freely and is not affected by anything, on the other hand, the Tartar war horse is seriously unsuitable for this kind of mountain (the battle of Xuefeng Mountain, the Tartar abandoned more than 1,600 war horses in order to escape for his life), with the momentum of the war horse, the big knife touched, Lucke felt the roar of the tiger's mouth, a mouthful of blood spurted out, and the big knife in his hand was also shocked to the ground by the other party.

Lucke Hun pulled the horse's mane with both hands and prepared to mediate the horse's head to escape, but the road was already very narrow, and the horse was inconvenient to move, so he didn't wait for Lucke to turn around, and the most talented county king was cut in half by Li Dingguo in this way. (Historically, Li Dingguo also killed the Barbarian Qing Prince Nikan.)

After Duoduo was opposed by the Han Chinese in the south and retreated, Luckedhun succeeded Duoduo in charge of the southern military. Luckedhun also commanded the lake many times (in the Southern War, it can be said that he was a barbarian general after Duoduo, Hauge, and Azig).

After killing Luck Dehun, Li Dingguo waved his army into the Tartar array, and then Yang Wei led his troops to kill again, defeated the Tartar Zhenghong Banner, and fled to Wugang Prefecture under the leadership of the commander of the escort army, Bolhui.

This is Li Dingguo's rise to the king, after killing Luck Dehun, he approached Wugang Prefecture with Guo Chonglie, who arrived later.

The Qing army has long been like a frightened bird, the morale of the whole army is low, and they do not dare to resist at all.