Chapter 488: Worry Before You Win The Defeat Is Already Worried

Suddenness, this is an important factor in the decisive victory on the battlefield, Li Zicheng led the main force of the Shun army to entrench in the northwest direction of Xiangcheng, and dominated the majority of the Governor Hou Sui.

But whether it was the breakthrough of the Shandong horse army in the south of Jiaxian County or the long-distance drive in the area of Weichuan behind him, it was almost what happened in these three days, one side was caught off guard, and the other side launched with all its might, until now Li Zicheng is still in a very ignorant state, and all his attention is on the Ming army that is still breathing on the opposite side.

However, Li Zicheng has experienced countless lives and deaths since he started, and he has long had some intuition about some things on the battlefield.

Now the more smoothly the encirclement and annihilation of the main force of the Ming army is done, the more uneasy Li Zicheng will be, and the key to the problem is that this is smooth, it is too smooth.

If there are only two main strengths in the world, Daming and Dashun, then it will be enough, and the north can let go of their hands and feet to fight, but the current state, and the monster of Shandong, is entrenched, even if Li Meng, the prince of Qi, is low-key, and ignores this, it is a little too naïve.

Although Li Zicheng made various arrangements before the war, and gave Li Meng a huge number of empty votes, Li Zicheng himself didn't believe that the other party would believe it.

If Li Meng can be delayed by tricks, then it is really not a matter of worry, it is just luck to be able to achieve this position now, but the soldiers are dangerous, but Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, can't believe that he has this luck.

Even from the beginning of the war, the battle situation was carried out step by step according to Li Zicheng's expectations, and King Chuang was still unsure.

The Ming army in front of him is the last field force that the Ming can use, including most of the troops in Shaanxi and Shanxi that still have combat effectiveness, if this army can be eaten, the power of the Shun army will expand to Shaanxi and Shanxi without hindrance.

If Jin, Shaanxi, Henan, and Chu can be mastered according to the plan, it is equivalent to having half of the country, and many things can be calmly carried out in the plan.

If the land of Shaanxi and Jin is combined. The mountains and rivers are in the hands of the Shun army, the offense and defense are calm, when Shandong is a corner, the Ming Dynasty is crumbling, it will not be the opponent of the Shun army, and the world will win.

Just like the Ming army defeated the displaced troops several times, but the displaced troops regrouped several times to make a comeback, and the Ming soldiers and horses were also in a similar state. Lu Xiangsheng, Yang Sichang, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou until today's Hou Sui were also defeated by the Shun army again and again, and then regrouped.

Li Zicheng wanted to annihilate the living force of the Ming army once and for all, so he laid out the overall situation now, since the force battle will keep the two sides glued here, and may provoke the trapped beasts of the Ming army, then simply use the old method of Zhu Xianzhen, first dig fortifications to trap the Ming army in it. Wear out their spirits, completely starve them, and then attack with the whole army and completely crush these Ming troops.

At present, this situation is indeed towards Li Zicheng's goal, even the most ferocious Shaanxi general He Renlong led the army to break through the siege, but was blocked back by Liu Zongmin. The longer the time dragged on, the lower the morale of the Ming army became, and even the mere strength was consumed by hunger.

Now the battalion that Hou Sui was entrenched on the official road had been cut off from supplies, and every day there were routs fleeing from the camp. Climb the deep ditch, come and surrender.

According to the plan, there will be three more days, that is, the day of complete annihilation of the Ming army and the victory of the whole army. At this time, it may not have a good effect of destroying the withering and decaying.

After Li Zicheng arranged it, the generals listened to the order, and Hao Shaoqi pondered there, and said:

"Lord Chuang, just start fighting like this, isn't it a little too eager, yesterday Brother Liu and I fought with the crazy man He. The soldiers are still tired!! ”

If it's usual. Li Zicheng will also explain with a smile, maybe a joke. But at this time, he said with a solemn expression:

"Although it is tired, it is still stronger than the hunger of the Ming dog, go back and supervise the soldiers and horses, don't slack off, Zong Min will take the lead with you tomorrow!"

King Chuang spoke like this, Hao Shaoqi had more doubts in his heart, and he could only bow down and obey the order, after King Chuang finished speaking, he directly turned to Li Shuangxi and asked:

"Has the news of Weichuan He Jin arrived, and there is any movement on his side. ”

Li Shuangxi, the leader of the guards, hurriedly bowed down and replied:

"According to the usual rules, a letter will come in two or three days, calculating that it should arrive tonight or tomorrow, but at the moment the road is slippery, and there are no people along the road, and the cavalry is very inconvenient to pass, and there is always a delay in time. ”

Li Zicheng, who has always given orders calmly in the military tent, finally showed a little anxiety and said:

"Since no one is coming over there, let's send someone over, He Jin's 20,000 people, I am always unsure, don't make any mistakes. ”

Li Shuangxi bowed again and replied respectfully:

"Early tomorrow morning, Tanma will set off, please rest assured!"

"What else do you want tomorrow, just send people out now, if there is a little delay, it will be a great disaster, as my righteous son, do you think that you will not be subject to military law?"

Liu Zongmin, as a general of Quan, is known as the head of the military generals of the Shun army, but at this time he didn't dare to speak anymore, everyone was worried in their hearts, even when he was in the Fish Belly Mountain, King Chuang was the same color as Yang Sichang's messenger, but it was only excited, but he didn't expect to be so angry today.

After drinking angrily, Li Zicheng also realized that he was out of shape, his role was very deep, and it was already a mess to show it like this.

Li Zicheng, the king of Chuang, didn't want to explain anything, just waved his hand and said in a low voice:

"Everyone, step back first, there will be a big battle tomorrow, don't delay!"

Everyone is not good to say anything, salute in turn and leave the tent, tomorrow's battle everyone has nothing to worry about, the Ming army has become like this, tomorrow's battle is nothing more than a different degree of victory, long encirclement of the enemy, this waiting process is quite difficult.

Hearing King Chuang's explanation of the sunrise, everyone was excited, thinking about how to make contributions and increase their promotion in the Shunjun system.

In fact, the camp of King Chuang and the residence of Hou Sui are not far away, and if they set up a lookout platform on a clear day, they will not know if they can see each other.

Compared with the abnormality of the Shun army breaking into the king's military tent, the residence of the superintendent Hou Sui is even more gloomy.

This time the troops were lucky, and they achieved a series of victories, so they thought that Zhuge was resurrected, but now that they are in this situation, they can't come up with any way.

Originally, under the successive victories, several general soldiers still respected him a little and listened to his opinions, but now in such a situation, who cares, that is, Xu Dingguo's troops and Hou Sui's direct subordinate car battalion soldiers are together, and the soldiers and horses of Xu Dingguo's headquarters of Shanxi General Soldier are weak, and they need to use these soldiers of the car battalion to enhance their strength.

Moreover, Hou Sui has no command talent, and the command and dispatch of soldiers and horses also rely on Xu Dingguo, and the two sides are relatively close now.

Through the news from Xu Dingguo, the chief soldier of Shanxi, Hou Sui also knew that Bai Guangen, the general soldier of Yulin, and He Renlong, the general soldier of Shaanxi, broke through several times, but they were all blocked by the Shun army. Gao Jie, the general soldier of Yansui, fought to the death, and it was like a pot of porridge, and he couldn't get out, and everyone was waiting here to die.

Supervisor Hou Sui didn't see the freedom of life and death, but in the current situation, he also knew that it was coming to an end step by step, and there was not much time to come.

What can he do, in desperation, he can only drink and compose poems every day, all of which are poems lamenting the unpaid ambitions, if people who don't know the truth see his poems, they still think that this is what a loyal minister and righteous son for the country and the people, and chase after Yue Wumu Guan Zhuang Miao back then.

However, the waiting soldiers came back to report to Xu Dingguo and others, saying that Lord Hou had drunk too much, and they were all lamenting that the wealth and wealth were no longer there, and sometimes they had to call the names of some women and even men in a drunken haze, which shows how ridiculous this person was back then.

Xu Dingguo sometimes secretly scolded, why didn't he put on a stall with big materials like Lu Xiangsheng, Sun Chuanting, and Hong Chengchou back then, but he gave himself such a straw bag supervisor who played with women and played with his husband.

Scolding and scolding, Xu Dingguo is still home, Niu Chenghu still has some cavalry left, all of which are arranged to be escorted by the supervisor Hou Sui, which is actually waiting for the critical time to run with Hou Sui.

The chief soldier Xu Dingguo sent a total of three waves of henchmen, and a group of people went to Bai Guangen and He Renlong's camp to keep an eye on them, so that no one would run first regardless of it, and they would run together if they wanted to. The second group also seemed to go out of the fortifications of the Shun army, and also went to the nearby militia village to find help, while the third group went directly to the Shun army camp and asked what kind of official treatment they could give if they were demoted.

However, the women and children of Tang County were slaughtered, since the customs clearance, Hou Xun's soldiers and horses have been victorious, and the damage to the Shun army is great, and now it has been surrounded to such a point, there is no need for the Shun army, who is as deep as the sea, to agree to his surrender, everyone was cut off and put back.

Things have come to this, there is really no room for redemption, Xu Dingguo also transferred the cavalry to his side, and was ready to run first when the time came.

On the morning of mid-September, the weather was still a little gloomy, but the sky could be vaguely seen, but such a sunny sign did not give the Ming army any good mood.

In the camp of the Shun army, the smoke was thick, and it was much earlier than usual, what this meant, everyone knew very well......