In the battle for grain, Li Dingguo was flanked by Wu Sangui and Hao Shaoqi and suffered heavy losses.

It was only by relying on Li Dingguo and his own troops to personally block the left and right to barely block the rapid offensive of the special operations army and cover the withdrawal of the large army. However, the 10,000 soldiers and horses left in ambush in the south became turtles in the urn and were completely annihilated by the Ming army.

In this battle, Li Dingguo lost 15,000 soldiers and horses, which can be said to be a crushing defeat, and he spit out all the fruits of the victory of annihilating Gao Yuanjue's 20,000 soldiers and horses in the previous battle.

Li Dingguo finally saw the strength of the Ming army, no wonder he was able to dominate the world, he was indeed too light on the enemy before. Relying on his lone brigade alone, wanting to relieve the siege of Yunnan, it is almost a fool's dream.

After this setback, Li Dingguo clearly realized the gap in strength between the two sides, if he fought like this again, even if the Ming army was consumed, it would also consume his lone brigade. He led the remnants to retreat to the north, because he was afraid that the Ming army would cut off the way back, even Guiyang Mansion did not dare to stay any longer, only ransacked Guiyang Mansion, looted four million taels of silver, and ordered the sergeant to transfer to the direction of Chishui.

Chishui, close to the border of Sichuan, as long as you arrive in Chishui, this large amount of silver can be regarded as a safe snatch back to Sichuan, and you can be regarded as having an explanation for your father-in-law Zhang Xianzhong.

Li Dingguo ordered 10,000 soldiers to escort the silver, and rushed to Chishui overnight to prepare to enter Sichuan. He personally led 30,000 soldiers to transfer to the Xuanwei Division in Qianxi to snipe the pursuing Ming army.

Fang Yuan received the good news from Wu Sangui and Hao Shaoqi, and with the loss of 7,000 soldiers, he annihilated 15,000 soldiers of Li Dingguo, and the battle loss ratio was about 1:2, which was a small victory. More importantly, it not only hit the morale of Li Dingguo's successive victories, but also sent the military rations to Gan Hui's military camp safely.

The battle ahead was successful, and Fang Yuan immediately led 20,000 troops to the Guizhou battlefield to support.

Half a month later, Fang Yuan's department passed through the Baishi River in Qujing Prefecture and entered Pu'an Prefecture in Guizhou, where it joined Gan Hui's department.

After another count, a total of 70,000 soldiers and horses.

Fang Yuan greatly rewarded Wu Sangui and Hao Shaoqi, who defeated Li Dingguo. During the battle, Wu Sangui personally led the charge and suffered several arrow wounds.

He immediately ordered a reward of 1,000 mu of land for Wu Sangui's Gyeonggi land, expressing his gratitude for his bravery and skillful fighting, and even decided to increase the number of troops led by Wu Sangui, the general who conquered the south, to 20,000.

Wu Sangui originally thought that Fang Yuan was deliberately targeting him, in order to eliminate dissidents. Unexpectedly, Fang Yuan still rewarded him with land, and gradually relaxed his restraint on him. It seems that under Fang Yuan's command, it is impossible to rely on the hereditary and blood relatives to eat and drink, and if you want to be promoted, you must strictly follow the military merits to judge the merits and rewards.

Wu Sangui was convinced, and he was secretly glad that he didn't go to Li Dingguo's thief ship, otherwise, it would definitely be a catastrophe now.

Fang Yuan rewarded Wu Sangui and Hao Shaoqi, and let people bring Gao Yuan, who was guilty of defeat. This Gao Yuanjue is really too disappointing to Fang Yuan, it's just that the mud can't support the wall, alas!

Fang Yuan ordered the removal of Gao Yuanjue from the post of commander-in-chief, and the establishment of the Gao family army was temporarily retained and handed over to Xu Cheng as the commander.

Gao's army was originally Gao's personal soldier, but after repeated purges of Gao Jie, Gao Ze, Gao Yuan, Li Benshen and other descendant generals, Gao's authority in Gao's army has basically been cleared. This army is called the Gao Family Army, in fact, it also belongs to a unit of Fang Yuan's lineage, and before Gao Yuanjue was able to sit firmly in the position of the commander of the Gao Family Army, it was nothing more than Fang Yuan supporting him behind his back. Now that Fang Yuan wants to take it back, he can take it back with a show of his hands, and it has not set off the slightest wave.

Compared with the higher Yuanjue, Xu Cheng, the righteous son, finally showed the talent of a general, and he was worthy of a great responsibility. Therefore, Fang Yuan temporarily handed over the 20,000 or 30,000 soldiers and horses of the Gao family army to Xu Cheng under the command.

Fang Yuan convened all the generals to discuss how to solve Li Dingguo's reinforcements.

According to the latest information provided by Gan Hui, Li Dingguo had already evacuated Guiyang Mansion, and with the silver looted from Guiyang Mansion, he moved to the direction of Xuanwei Division and Chishuiwei in Qianxi, which showed that he wanted to abandon Guizhou and withdraw to Sichuan.

Li Dingguo's courage and good fighting, Fang Yuan liked it very much, although the battle for grain failed, but first, because Fang Yuan was a good player, he deliberately made Hao Shaoqi avoid the route of rescue in the south, and instead took a detour to the north, and caught Li Dingguo off guard from the north; The second reason is that the special operations army is an invincible division carefully built by Fang Yuan, and its combat power is indeed unparalleled in the world. Li Dingguo's loss to the special operations army is actually not ashamed.

What's more, under Li Dingguo's rush from left to right, the special operations army also lost 6 or 700 people, and 3 or 400 sets of explosion-proof armor were destroyed, causing direct economic losses of 1 million taels to Fang Yuan, which made Fang Yuan very painful.

If this kind of victory was fought a few more times, Fang Yuan would have been beaten to ruin.

Fang Yuan had a love for Li Dingguo, and once sent a letter of surrender to Li Dingguo, but Li Dingguo did not reply, which shows that he was unwilling to surrender.

Fang Yuan asked, "Li Dingguo is brave and good at fighting, how can we solve this support soldier with the minimum loss." ”

Li Dingguo's sudden disturbance made Gan Hui lose the great achievement of pacifying the southwest, and also lost the opportunity to go down in history, Gan Hui hated it so much that his teeth itched, and he said coldly, "Regent, Li Dingguo plundered the silver and went to Chishui, and the day was only thirty miles, as long as our army was divided into two routes, pursued by the stars and nights, and seized the ferry from Chishui, Li Dingguo could be trapped in Guizhou." ”

Fang Yuan asked rhetorically, "Li Dingguo is brave and good at fighting, how many sergeants did he send to seize the ferry crossing of the water?" It's less, it's just to deliver food to Li Dingguo, and if it's more, how can logistics be guaranteed? ”

Fang Yuan's concern is also reasonable, there are at least 30,000 or 40,000 brave things under Li Dingguo's command, and if he wants to block the passage to cross the water, it will not be possible to send fewer sergeants.

Wu Sangui came out and said, "Regent, I have a suggestion, why do you need to guard any bridge?" Directly sent a squad of sergeants to burn down all the bridges and ferries from Guizhou to Sichuan, and Li Dingguo brought countless pieces of silver with his army, and he could not cross the water in a short time, so as to win enough time for our army's pursuit. ”

Fang Yuan had to admit that Wu Sangui's suggestion was the best plan, but the only thing to worry about was that Chishui was the key point of Sichuan and Guizhou, and it was related to the economic, trade, and people-to-people exchanges in the Sichuan-Guizhou region. If all bridges and ferries are destroyed for no reason, there is no doubt that the blow to the livelihood of the people in the two places will be undoubted.

Even if we rebuild after the war, we will not be able to build it without a year or two of effort.

The imperial court had not shown kindness to these remote places on weekdays, but now that it has set out to this point, it not only did not bring benefits to Sichuan and Guizhou, but first destroyed the local people's livelihood.

What's the difference between this and a devil entering the village? It will inevitably lose the support of the local people.

It is easy to defeat Zhang Xianzhong and Li Dingguo, and a brigade of troops can do it; But to win back the hearts and minds of the people, it is a long work. In order to annihilate a Li Dingguo, it is not worth it to destroy the local people's livelihood in a big way.

Fang Yuan said unhurriedly, "There is no need to send two roads to pursue, merge one road, and march quickly towards Chishui." ”

Gan Hui was stunned and asked, "If you march normally, you will inevitably fall into a stalemate with Li Dingguo, how can you recover the looted silver?!" ”

Fang Yuan smiled and said, "Even if the silver is put back in Sichuan this time, what can Zhang Xianzhong do?" It's nothing more than the day of destruction, and then return it and keep it for me for a few more days. ”

"In order to cover the silver back to Sichuan, Li Dingguo will definitely not be the first to flee back, but try his best to deal with our army, and I will have a chance to capture him alive. Li Dingguo went to risk in person for the sake of silver. As everyone knows, in my heart, gold is easy to get, and it will be difficult to find, and capturing him alive is more important than regaining the silver, hehe! ”

"Governor Gan, there is no need to say more, the whole army marches forward to pursue Li Dingguo!"

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