The advantage of the force is large enough, you can offset the geographical advantage of defending the city, the strength of the Chu army is almost ten times that of the western army, in the three city walls at the same time launched a fierce attack, the defenders in the city immediately feel the left and right, the pressure is huge, after two days of fierce fighting, struggle to repel the Chu army's repeated attacks, the defenders in the city gradually exhausted, and finally the Chu army attacked the city, and then gained a firm foothold, opened a breakthrough.

The western army in the city gave up resistance, fled from the south gate, and was chased and killed by the Chu army from behind, and only stopped in front of Guan Suoling.

Guansuoling is a mountain, there is Yilong Fort in the north of the mountain, the mountain fort is connected to block the "East Yunnan Road", the terrain here is very dangerous, the ancient post road passes through the valley of Guansuoling, and is blocked by Yilongbao to go to the road, although the Chu army has 100,000 troops, but can only send thousands of people into the valley, to attack Yilongbao, the large army behind is all spectators.

Yilong Fort is not too big, it can only accommodate more than two thousand defenders, but this small city-like fortress is built on the mountain, completely covering the ancient post road in the rear, Qi Sansheng can send reinforcements to Yilong Fort at any time, Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun feel very tricky after figuring out the nearby terrain, the troops that can be deployed in front of Yilong Fort are limited, it is difficult to break it at once, if it is slowly consumed like Qu Jing, Yilong Fort can get Qi Sansheng's support at any time, and the defenders will be replaced with a wave after fighting, so there will be no head.

In fact, a month later, when Wang Kefan saw the detailed battle report of Yilong Fort, he blurted out a sentence that no one could understand.

"It's a lot like Stalingrad!"

In the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II, the German army had a clear advantage at the beginning, but the commander, General Paulus, made a serious mistake and did not concentrate his forces to cut off the supply line of the Volga, so that the Soviet army in Stalingrad could get a steady stream of support, but could not completely eliminate it, and finally lost the whole battle and lost the whole war (the German army lost the Battle of Stalingrad, of course, the reason is not so simple, but please focus on the key points and understand what the terrain advantage of Yilongbao is).

This battle is not easy to fight.

If you put aside Yilong Fort, first hit Guansuoling, first of all, this steep peak is not easy to fight, and secondly, it is not very useful to lay down this peak, you must pass through Yilong Fort to enter the East Yunnan Road, after the Chu army captures Guansuoling, you still have to fight Yilong Fort in turn, at most you don't have to worry about the safety of the flanks, and every time you attack, you can invest one or two thousand more troops.

Zhou Guodong and Liu Tichun discussed repeatedly, but they couldn't think of a better way, and when they were at a loss, they led the party to build miracles again.

"The last general knows a path that can bypass Guansuoling."

Zhou Wuding picked up a pen and paper and drew a simple map: "This path is very secret, and the last general also knew it by accident, although the road is difficult to walk, fortunately, it is not too far, if you march on foot, you can go around the back of Yilong Fort in two days......"

That night, Liu Tichun led thousands of elites, with Zhou Wuding as the vanguard, into a remote mountain path.

Two days later, Liu Tichun appeared at the rear of Yilong Fort and forcibly cut off the ancient post road, separating Yilong Fort from the rear.

Before this, Zhou Guodong launched a fierce attack on Yilong Fort, there were only two thousand defenders in Yilong Fort, and one less was killed, as long as Liu Tichun could block Qi Sansheng's reinforcements, Zhou Guodong's side would definitely be able to pull out the nail of Yilong Fort, and now the battle is to see who can succeed first.

Yunnan has a vast area, the road is difficult and dangerous, the western army from the remote areas is still arriving in Kunming one after another, Qi Sansheng is running at both ends of the front line and Kunming during this time, Liu Tichun cut off the ancient post road, he was in Rabbit Pass, heard that the Chu army came around to the back of Yilong Fort, immediately realized the threat, and hurriedly mobilized troops, and killed Liu Tichun violently.

Because he wanted to transfer troops from Kunming, Qi Sansheng's movements were a beat slower, when he rushed to the vicinity of Yilong Fort, Yilong Fort and Guan Suoling's urgent signal for help was already very urgent, according to the fireworks message, only more than a day has passed, the defenders of Yilong Fort have suffered hundreds of casualties, if it is not for no way to escape, it may have collapsed, although it is still struggling to resist at this moment, I am afraid it will not last long.

Attack now and break the siege of Yilong Fort!

Qi Sansheng commanded the troops and launched a fierce attack on Liu Tichun.

The nightmare in front of Tuyun Pass in Guiyang was staged again, Liu Tichun took the small road to outflank the enemy, knowing that there would definitely be a fierce battle, and brought the most elite three thousand musketeers again, Qi Sansheng's thousands of armor soldiers were defeated by continuous platoon guns, and in just a quarter of an hour, thousands of casualties were killed.

"Elephant soldier, give it to me!"

Qi Sansheng played the last hole card and sent more than 30 elephant soldiers to launch a second wave of attack, including Qi Sansheng himself, the Western Army has been afraid of the Chu army's musketeers, and it is difficult to continue the offensive to work, they pin all their hopes on the elephant soldiers, hoping that these rough-skinned and thick-skinned giant beasts can break up the formation of the Chu army's musketeers.

"Rush!"

There are many flaws in a single army, it is not safe to rely on the elephant soldiers to charge, Qi Sansheng personally led hundreds of cavalry, as well as two thousand armor soldiers and archers, followed the elephants to attack together, these elephants are equipped with huge baskets on their backs, can be loaded with three or four elephant soldiers, they hold fire guns and bows and arrows in their hands, attack the enemy close to the elephants, the elephants take heavy steps, slowly walk to the opposite side of the Chu army musketeers, more than 30 elephants act at the same time, for a time the mountains shook, the momentum is amazing.

There was no zoo in this era, including Liu Tichun, the vast majority of the Chu soldiers saw elephants for the first time, although Sun Kewang took some elephant soldiers to Hunan, but the number was too small, and the soldiers of the Western Expeditionary Army had been hiding in the shogunate mountains for training, and finally missed the elephants, and suddenly saw these giant beasts that were far taller than other animals, and the musketeers phalanx, which never moved like a mountain, also had a commotion.

"Is this an elephant? It's so big, at least a few thousand pounds, right? ”

"Maybe 10,000 catties!"

"Can a musket kill it?"

"There are people on the back of elephants, it's better to beat people first, as long as you kill people, these elephants are big beasts, nothing to fear."

"What a long nose......"

Seeing the elephant's thick body, many musketeers felt that the flintlock pistol in their hands was like a toy, and the small lead bullet would definitely not be able to kill such a big beast, and some of them had fast brains, so they suggested that they hit the elephant soldiers on the back first, and the commander of the musketeers, Wang Yi, hesitated for a moment and decided to try this method.

"Fire!"

The platoon guns set fire and fired, aiming at the basket on the back of several elephants in the front row, after the gunshot, the elephants suddenly let out an angry roar, like a moving hill rushed towards the Chu soldiers, compared with the elephants, the Western army target in the basket was too small, and there were two layers of thick shields on the front, the effect of this shooting was not good, it did not hit a few people, but it angered those elephants.

The elephant ran, the speed was not slow, seeing that these giant beasts were rapidly approaching, there was a commotion in the ranks of the musketeers of the Chu army, some soldiers subconsciously wanted to run away and dodge, some soldiers took out their bayonets and put them on the barrel of the gun, and the mantis arm was ready to start hand-to-hand combat with the elephant as a car, at this time, the two elephants in front of them suddenly roared and fell to the ground, and some small bullet holes were gurgling and bleeding on the huge elephant's head.

"It worked! Muskets can kill it! ”

The soldiers of the Chu army let out a burst of cheers, just now they shot at the basket on the elephant's back, but the accuracy of the flintlock pistol was limited, and the elephant was also hit by a lot of bullets, and it didn't go far before it could hold on, and fell to the ground, letting out a dying scream.

"Idiot! The flintlock pistol can even penetrate the iron armor, and it can't kill these beasts! ”

Wang Yi wiped the cold sweat on his forehead, and scolded with hindsight, I don't know whether to scold himself, or scold those officers who gave him random ideas, the other officers also reacted, and commanded the musketeers together, and shot at the remaining elephants, it was difficult for the huge body to miss, and under the continuous row of guns, one elephant after another was knocked down, much faster than just now.

"The skin is still quite thick."

Liu Tichun could see clearly in the telescope that after these elephants were shot, the wounds would not splash blood, and they were much stronger than the human body, but the firepower of the Chu army was too intensive, and each elephant was hit by dozens of shots and hundreds of shots in an instant, almost beaten into a sieve, and finally fell in a pool of blood.

In contrast, the Western army that followed behind the elephant soldiers was very fragile, even if it was only shot once, it would fall to the ground instantly, after the first few rows of elephants were knocked down, Qi Sansheng of the golden armor and white horse became the focus of the Chu army's musketeers, and even the people and horses were shot several times, and the sturdy white horse jumped upwards violently, turning the injured Qi Sansheng upside down, and then fell down suddenly, smashing him hard.

"Qi Sansheng is dead!"

The Chu army's old tricks were repeated, no matter whether Qi Sansheng was dead or not, everyone shouted that he was dead, and the western army was in turmoil, and they turned around and routed together, and several pro-soldiers grabbed Qi Sansheng, put him on horseback, and fled to Rabbit Pass with the rout.

"Don't chase, it's the most important thing to block the back road of Yilong Fort!"

In addition to 3,000 musketeers, Liu Tichun's subordinates also had several thousand light armor soldiers of Zhou Wuding, and after chasing and killing behind the Western Army for a while, they saw that the enemy had fled far away, and when they saw it, they took it away, came back to clean up the battlefield, and set up camp.

"There's meat to eat tonight." Although Wang Yi was already the division commander of the musketeers, he was actually not very old, so he came to a dead elephant curiously and stabbed it hard: "This guy is so big, the meat must be hard and old, not delicious." ”

"If it's not delicious, you have to eat more, it's a rare opportunity." Liu Tichun said with a smile: "I'll eat roasted elephants tonight, let the brothers try it, and after returning to their hometown, they can blow it in front of their wives and children for a lifetime." ”

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