Therefore, the Guanning defense line is very effective, if you give up, the Qing Dynasty will go straight to the customs, and their hundreds of thousands of elite troops will directly threaten the safety of the capital, and the emperor is afraid that he will not even be able to sleep well. This is why it was not until the last resort that Chongzhen transferred Wu Sangui back to Beijing to enter the guard, abandoning hundreds of miles of land is nothing, the key is that after the defense line collapses, the capital will directly face the pressure of the Eight Banners Army, dangerous, really dangerous.

The last card is Sun Chuanting's Shaanxi Army, although the new recruits, unbearable, can only be used, in addition to these three cards, the rest of Huang Degong, Zhu Dadian, etc., the power is small and scattered, not a strategic force, not enough to use.

This is also the reason why the Hongguang Imperial Court perished in an instant, when Chongzhen hanged himself, the three major strategic military forces of the Ming Dynasty perished, and the surrender of surrender, only some weak second-rate troops remained, how could they resist the offensive of the Eight Banners Army?

In the official history books of the Qing Dynasty, the Hongguang Emperor Zhu Yousong was an out-and-out faint monarch who would not do anything but enjoy. Regarding this record, the author thinks that either it is the deliberate smearing of the Donglin Party and the Qing Dynasty, or Zhu Yousong knows that he will not be the emperor for long, one has no money, the other has no soldiers, and there is a group of Donglin Party eyeing themselves to engage themselves.

The firearms battalion of Su Guo is professionally trained, as early as last night when the thunder hit, they began to do waterproof work, gunpowder can be put in the porcelain jar put into the porcelain jar, the rest is wrapped with firearms with oilcloth, but Rao is so, it is still inevitable to get damp, and a lot of gunpowder is invalid because of this.

Zhu Ao began to be faintly worried about this, the Uighur army had more soldiers and horses than the Ming army, and the Ming army relied entirely on firearms to suppress the other side, and now the firearms were out of order, how could he not worry? What you can think of, the other party will definitely be able to think of.

In the evening, the rain had not stopped, and Zhu Ao finally couldn't sit still, so he summoned his generals to arrange the task and said: "From now on, our army will shrink its defense. It was organized into three group armies: left, center, and right. After General Fan Chaoxi! ”

"The last general!" Fan Chaoxi stood up and came out of class, gave Zhu Ao a deep look, and said loudly.

"I order you to be the commander-in-chief of the right wing, responsible for covering the right wing of our army, and if you encounter an enemy attack, you will resolutely resist it at all costs!" Zhu Ao stared at him with a pair of burning eyes like a fierce tiger, and said without bargaining.

"The last general commands!" Fan Chaoxi was stunned by Zhu Ao's look, and felt a great responsibility, stood up straight, puffed up his chest, and said impassionedly.

"The former general Qu Neng is the general soldier of the left wing, and like the rear general, if he encounters a sneak attack by the enemy, he will resolutely resist it at all costs!" Zhu Ao glanced at the herald and said without a beak. Qu Neng was still recovering from his injuries, and he meant to have the herald inform Qu Neng.

"Your Highness, General Qu's injury is not healed yet, is it a different person? Or is it to let Changsun Hong do it? General Zuo Li Mian couldn't help but be taken aback when he heard Zhu Ao's order, and he didn't understand why the prince gave this important task to an injured person, and thought that the prince had forgotten about Qu Neng's injury.

"No! Changsun Hong's ability is not enough! Zhu Ao's eyes swept away, and he flatly refused: "You go and tell Qu Neng, you can't stand this little injury?" What kind of garlic to pretend, immediately go to the king's left wing army and be my chief soldier! ”

This time it was the turn of the soldiers to be confused, yesterday when the enemy attacked at night, Changsun Hong sent someone to ask for help, Zhu Ao didn't even pay attention to it, it seemed that Changsun Hong was very relieved, why did he say that people's ability was not enough at this time? It is necessary to have a wounded man as the commander-in-chief.

Zhu Ao looked at the generals looking at each other, knowing what they were thinking, the big war was imminent, there was no time to sell the pass, and the doubts in the hearts of the generals were cleared before they could fight with peace of mind, so he said: "Yesterday, the enemy attacked at night, although the momentum was greater, but they still thought that their grain road could be rebuilt, as long as the grain road was built, they could be invincible and drag down our army." Therefore, none of them are willing to work hard, after all, no one wants to die before success. And now, it will rain heavily, and it looks like it can't be stopped for a few days, so that the other party's grain road will not be built well, and it will fall into the danger of running out of food. In order to avoid putting themselves in danger, they will definitely fight to the death tomorrow, in order to take advantage of the fact that our firearms cannot be used to repel us, so that Changsun Hong's ability cannot cope with it. ”

"The king is wise!" All the generals were deeply impressed by Zhu Ao's lofty remarks, their own leader can have such a clear understanding of people, as well as such a profound strategy, why worry about not returning to the Falcon army, the morale of every Ming army general has risen a lot, just waiting for tomorrow's battle.

"The rest of the people, follow the king to sit in the Chinese army, defend step by step, and fight the Uighur army tomorrow!"

"The last general obeys!" The generals of the Su State made another neat sound of promises, and the sound shook the house, and everyone's face was full of confidence, just waiting for the sunrise to tear apart the Uighur army.

As Zhu expected, the atmosphere in the Uighur camp at this time was also extremely tense, and the heavy rain had been falling all day and there was no sign of stopping. In ancient times, the roads were all dirt roads, and there was no way to walk when it rained, so how could you transport food?

Bol, who was sitting in the general's chair, suddenly sighed unlucky, there is little rain in the northwest region, but it is raining so heavily today, isn't this going to cut off his back road?

"General, we can't delay any longer! I'm afraid that this grain road will not be built well, and after tomorrow the army will run out of food, we should take the initiative to attack and defeat the Ming army. The brave and belligerent lieutenant general Chilu Han shouted at the top of his voice, in his opinion, it was precisely because of the vice-general's cowardice and the cowardice of the Yabu that the hundreds of thousands of Uighurs were in such a situation. If he had listened to his words, the Ming army would have been repulsed long ago.

"The general, the last general also thinks it's time to attack. Now it will rain heavily, and although it is not good for our army to transport food, tomorrow's firearms will not be used. The soldiers all know that we only have one day's food left, and they will definitely fight hard, and we will fight tomorrow, and the chances of victory are still very good. At this time, the one who had always been against the Chilu drought could not afford to go against him, because he knew that the Uighur army was left with only one way to give it a go, and if he was still playing with personality at this time, it was purely a lack of personality to find a draw-type personality.

"Good! Tomorrow, our army will go out with all our troops to attack the Ming army. Chilu Han, you lead the left army; It doesn't take a stand, you lead the right army; General Ben leads the Chinese army by himself, our central breakthrough and outflanking the two wings, we must tear the 100,000 Ming army on the opposite side to pieces! The Uighur general Bor slammed his fist on the table and shouted with a tiger face. Obviously, a lot of determination has been made, and there is a momentum of not breaking the Ming army's oath and not returning it!

"The last general commands!" The generals and colonels of the Uighur army were also infected by Borhu's momentum, and they shouted loudly to take this general order. In their opinion, the reason why the Ming army dared to argue with them was completely because of the suppression of firearms, and it looked like it would still rain tomorrow, and the life of not being able to use firearms at that time would be no different from a lamb to be slaughtered.

Suddenly seeing that the morale was available, Bor was very happy, swept his eyes, and said majestically to the generals: "Who will be the vanguard of this great general tomorrow?" ”

"The last will go!" It was the golden knife horse who spoke, he stood up, put his right hand on his chest and hammered it a few times, and said impassionedly: "Last time, Zhu Ao Xiao'er escaped by luck, and this time the general will definitely capture him alive under the general's seat!" ”

"Good! The general will grant you what you want! "The golden knife and horse are also a brave general, although there is no brains in the war, but there is a ruthlessness, when you see people, you rush inside, no one can stop you, don't you need such a person tomorrow? Bor was very satisfied with this candidate, nodded heavily, pointed to the golden knife and horse, and said majestically.

"General Xie!" The golden knife and the horse are full of pride, in his opinion, the Ming army is a weak lamb, and the king of Su is a milky child, he was lucky to be escaped by him last time, and this time he will be beheaded under the horse.

The next morning, the rain was still falling, and when it should have been bright, it was gloomy and gray because of the rain.

The soldiers of the Su State have long been under the strict supervision of their respective commanders, ready to meet today's challenges. After a few days of heavy fighting, the Su army suffered 5,000 casualties, and the Hami army suffered nearly 10,000 casualties, so the total number of troops that could still participate in the battle was more than 105,000.

Zhu had long expected that the Uighur army would adopt the tactics of breaking through the center and outflanking the two flanks, because there was a trench filled by the Ming army in the center of the Uighur army, and it was very convenient to attack, so in order to deal with the remaining 120,000 enemy troops, Zhu Ao adopted the Heavenly Furnace method invented by Xue Yue in Changsha during the Anti-Japanese War.

The so-called Heavenly Furnace method of warfare is that the two wings of the defense line are resolutely resisted, the central defense line is resisting step by step, and the enemy will pay a heavy price for every breakthrough of the central defense line, and after each central defense line is broken, it will not be defeated, or it will die with the enemy, but under the leadership of the commander, it will move to the two wings, so that the defense line of the two wings can also be strengthened.

In this way, when the enemy army is advancing, it seems that they have been attacking, but in fact, their central army is gradually getting into the pocket arranged by the Su army, turning into a protruding part, and when they are exhausted, the powerful two wings of the Su army will press over, and form a three-sided encirclement with the army in front of them, annihilating the enemy army in one fell swoop.

I have to say that this set of tactics is really bad, allowing the enemy army to fall into a heavy encirclement when it breaks through layer by layer and advances with great triumph, and no one will think of it.

The more the loss, the more Zhu Ao likes it.