Tongshan was lost.

Chongyang was lost.

Liuyang was lost.

Youxian was lost.

Anping was lost.

Xingning was lost.

……

The counteroffensive of the Chu army was very ferocious, in just a few days, the battle line was pushed back to the west for 200 miles, until the city of Changsha, the approximate losses of the western army have been counted, just look at the casualties in each place are not too much, but the total number added up is not a lot, Sun Kewang's subordinates alone have lost more than 7,000 people, and since the western army entered Huguang, it is the first time that it has suffered such a big loss.

"It turns out that the nine-black and eight-white beacon fire is an order for a counteroffensive on the whole front, hehe, Wang Kefan's hand is also unexpected, and the thousand-mile front is launched at the same time, which is indeed unguardable, this battle, this king has nothing to say about losing."

Sun Kewang praised Wang Kefan in his mouth, but his face was full of unconvinced: "Our army even Keyuezhou, Changsha and Hengyang, I felt a little strange at the time, the Chu army should not be so unfought, and it was too easy to win this battle, and now I understand that it was Wang Kefan's plan to lure the enemy, hehe, he is really willing to give up the capital and give me the entire territory of Hunan, just to eat my thousands of men and horses." ”

What bullshit to lure the enemy.

Not worth it, right?

It's definitely not worth it!

How can there be no dead in the war, with more than 7,000 people in exchange for Yuezhou, Changsha, Hengyang, these big cities, it is still the Western Army to take advantage, although the Chu army was lucky to win the battle, but looking at the battlefield situation, there is no doubt that the initiative is still in the hands of the Western Army, if the Chu army wants to recapture Changsha and Hengyang, 7,000 casualties are far from enough.

In Sun Kewang's view, Wang Kefan's plan to lure the enemy is purely a fart off his pants, if he wanted to fight a decisive battle in Hunan, he should have held Changsha and Hengyang at the beginning, but now, first lure the enemy deep, and then counterattack in a big way, although the tactics are dazzling, but the actual effect is not good.

Those who are good at fighting have no great achievements, do you understand?

Wang Kefan, you fought like this, not only did you trap the Western Army, but you were also cheated a lot, and in the end it was the Tartars who were cheaper, do you understand?

If you have the ability, fight with me in a dignified manner, don't engage in these unworthy conspiracies!

Seeing him gritting his teeth, the left and right generals persuaded: "Victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers, and the prince doesn't need to be angry." In the past, we couldn't figure out the truth of Chu Rebellion, but now that Wang San (Wang Sheng) has already made a move, there is nothing to fear, his troops are actually not much, as long as our army firmly defends the fortified cities of Changsha and Hengyang, and after exhausting their sharp energy, and then sends a force of soldiers and horses to outflank the back road, they can be wiped out. ”

"Yes, although Chu Shun is violent, he is actually just dying, and Wang Sheng will be captured by me sooner or later."

Sun Kewang sneered: "Wang Kefan's trick to lure the enemy deep is still very powerful, if I wait for me to enter Jiangxi, my grain road through the mountains and mountains is extended for thousands of miles, and then suddenly launch a counteroffensive, maybe he can really defeat our army, but unfortunately, he still can't hold his breath, and he launched it too early." ”

Sun Kewang's original plan was to attack Jiangxi, and then go down the river to the east, go straight to Nanjing, and completely defeat the Chu army in one fell swoop.

In the past half a year, Sun Kewang actually had a feeling that the Chu army was retreating step by step, and had been deliberately preserving its strength, and the final decisive battle would come sooner or later, and it was likely to happen in Jiangxi, since the Chu army had given up Changsha and Hengyang, it had lost its support in Huguang, and it was not a wise choice to rashly launch a counterattack, so Sun Kewang was also a little negligent in taking precautions, but the Chu army suddenly launched a counterattack, which made him suffer a big loss.

It doesn't matter, as the subordinate generals said, victory and defeat are a common thing in soldiers.

Generally speaking, this sentence is just a poisonous chicken soup to comfort the loser, but the Western Army still has a great advantage in the Huguang battlefield, and even a small setback has changed the overall situation, so Sun Kewang really doesn't care about losing the battle, and he wants to take revenge more fiercely.

Wipe out Wang Sheng's main force in Hunan, and when he marches into Jiangnan in the future, it will be much easier, Wang Kefan's eagerness to launch a counterattack is actually a stupid decision, even if it succeeds for a while, it will be defeated faster.

……

A mountain is divided into four seasons, ten miles of different days, and the topography and climate of Guizhou and other places are very different.

Crossing the Rongjiang River from Rongxian in the north of Guangxi, it is not far from Guizhou, this area is a mountainous area inhabited by ethnic minorities, poor mountains and bad waters, the folk customs are simple and strong, the Han people rarely enter this endless heavy mountain, but one morning in the winter of the sixth year of Longwu, there is a Han army of more than 50,000 people who appear on the mountain road, like a giant python winding around the mountain peak, the front army goes down the mountain and turns over the foot of the mountain, does not enter the layers of dense forests, and the rear army is still far away from the other side of the mountain.

Chu Jun!

It is easy to determine their identity from the banner, they are the main force of the Chu army, but if you look closely, this Chu army is very different from other Chu armies.

First of all, there are very few auxiliary soldiers in this Chu army who carry grain and grass and baggage, most of them are soldiers wearing cotton armor, it stands to reason that such a large army marches long distances in the mountains, there should be a considerable number of baggage troops to accompany the army, in addition to tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of auxiliary soldiers, just the mule and horse vehicles transporting food, equipment, weapons and ammunition will fill the entire mountain road, but the number of vehicles and livestock accompanying this Chu army is very small, and the auxiliary soldiers are only a few thousand, which belongs to the standard light march.

Secondly, the soldiers of this Chu army are all looking like they have been fighting for a long distance, carrying a huge backpack behind them, several pairs of straw sandals tied to the backpack, and carrying dry food bags, grain bags, water bladders, etc. on the left and right shoulders.

Secondly, there are many soldiers in this Chu army who use cold weapons, unlike the Chu army, but like other armies of the same era, the number of musketeers is less than one-tenth, far below the average level of the Chu army, but if you look closely at the firearms in their hands, they are all the latest flintlock guns, and the ammunition bags on everyone's bodies are also stuffed.

In the end, this Chu army used a new number, the battle flags of the "Fourth Army of the Western Expedition" and the "Fifth Army of the Western Expedition" were the most conspicuous, followed by the XX Division and the XX Brigade of the Western Expedition, all of which had never appeared in the establishment of the Chu army, forming two armies with a total of more than 50,000 people.

"Ninety thousand mountains, shouldn't there really be ninety thousand mountains? How long is this going to climb? A Chu soldier wiped the sweat on his head, got up in the morning and rushed dozens of miles of mountain roads in one go, although it was a cold winter, his head was steaming like a steamed bun cage, and his companions on the left and right were also the same as him, and his whole body was soaked with sweat.

"Hehe, 90,000 mountains are afraid? Further south, there is a 100,000 mountain and a 60,000 mountain. Zhou Guodong did not mince words to other generals, but he was very kind to ordinary soldiers, and explained with a smile: "Ninety thousand mountains are the name of the natives, they call this mountain 'Jiuhuai' mountain, which means buffalo head mountain, the Han people can't understand the words of the natives, and it has become a ninety thousand mountain with false rumors. ”

(By analogy, the 100,000 Mountains are also the transliteration of the Zhuang language, and the 100,000 Mountains are "suitable mountains", that is, the top mountains.) ）

"Are there a lot of mountains in Guizhou? No wonder let's hit so many straw sandals. The little soldier stuck out his tongue, and suddenly asked Zhou Guodong again: "By the way, how long will we stay in Guizhou this time?" ”

"At least a year and a half, we not only have to go to Guizhou, but also go to Yunnan for a turn, as well as Sichuan, Guangxi so many places, you can go to see. The ancients read thousands of books and traveled thousands of miles, and our western expeditionary army will travel all over these places......"

Thousands of miles into Guizhou, this is Wang Kefan's real killer move!

Launching a counteroffensive from the frontal battlefield is just a brute force competition with the Western Army, even though the Chu Army can win with strong strength, it is difficult to completely defeat the Western Army, if the Western Army is unfavorable, it can retreat step by step, fortify step by step, and lead this war to a protracted war of attrition, Wang Kefan sent the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army of the Western Expedition to advance thousands of miles into Guizhou, that is, directly to Sun Kewang's waist, outflanking his rear road, cutting off his supply line, and realizing a large-scale, cross-provincial counter-encirclement.

Wang Kefan has been planning for this battle plan for a long time, so he deliberately transferred Jin Shenghuan and other allied troops to Huguang, so as to free up more mobile troops and form the Western Expeditionary Army.

In order to solve this problem, Wang Kefan selected 20,000 people from the old battalion who was better at cold weapon combat to join the Western Expeditionary Army, Yuan Zongdi and Liu Tichun served as the deputy commanders of the Fourth Army and the Fifth Army of the Western Expedition respectively, and the whole army only retained 3,000 musketeers using new flintlock pistols as a killer weapon to defeat the enemy.

Because it is necessary to carry out a large-scale interspersed across provinces, and after arriving in Guizhou, it is necessary to focus on sports warfare, so it is necessary to reduce the weight of the soldiers, and the heavy iron armor is not brought, and the armored soldiers are all equipped with cotton armor, anyway, the Yunnan-Guizhou Plateau is like spring all year round, and it will not be too hot in summer, and you can also make do with wearing cotton armor in summer.

All in all, this is a new force formed in order to achieve thousands of miles of advancement, most of the troops are veterans who have been on the battlefield for a long time, especially good at mountain warfare and sports warfare, these months, they have been lurking in the mountains of southeast Hunan Province, resting and drilling, carefully prepared, and have been sharpened into shapes, just like a freshly built steel knife, ready to show its edge.

The beacon fire traveled thousands of miles to the southeast of Hunan Province.

Under the cover of the Huguang Qianli counteroffensive, with the cooperation of Liu Fangliang, Dang Shousu and He Zhen, Tan Xiao and Zhou Guodong led this army out of the mountains, into Guangxi, and went straight to Guizhou.

The steel knife is out of the sheath!

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