Unfortunately expected by Aobai, after the three new military orders of the Mites Qing army were propagated and spread, it had a certain effect of boosting morale and high morale internally, but externally, not only did not scare the Yungui soldiers who fought with the local Tusi every year, but completely angered the vast majority of the Yungui soldiers, and countless generals and soldiers poured into front of the big tent of the Wu army, asking Wu Sangui to go to war, and vowed to let the Mites Qing army taste the power of Yungui Jian'er, and the slogans of "killing all the dogs" and "skinning the dogs alive" soared into the sky, shaking the sky and the earth.

The most ruthless is still one of the aces of Wu Sangui's old Han annihilation, these Yungui soldiers who are famous for killing the enemy and are crazy to kill the enemy caught seven or eight authentic dog soldiers, and in the open space in front of the Wu army's camp, these dog soldiers were bled and scalded, deboned and burned, and then cooked with the most authentic Huajiang dog meat cooking techniques, calling friends to drink and eat meat together, in order to express their extreme contempt for the shameless military orders of the Qing army. Countless generals and soldiers of the Wu army rushed to ask for a share of the soup, and Lu Fatzi was also one of them, and took the lead in praising it, "Zhuang is hungry for Hulu meat, laughing and thirsty for Xiongnu blood!" What a man! ”

In the face of such a high morale, Wu Lao Hanjian of course smiled like a chrysanthemum, and hurriedly ordered to appease the soldiers of the whole army, saying that he would definitely fight a decisive battle with the Mites Qing army as soon as possible to meet the Wu army's request for battle**, and there was also a lesson to the group of dogs who did not know the height of the sky. At the same time, at the suggestion of Lu Fatzi, the Wu Army's think tank also formulated a post-war reward plan in advance, promising that after defeating the main force of the Mites, in addition to the reward plans such as exchanging heads for silver and death pensions, sixty percent of the grain and grass captured in Guizhou would be returned to the Yunnan and Guizhou soldiers, and forty percent would be handed over to the Pingxi Wangfu for public use, so as to encourage morale and resist the propaganda policy of the Qing army.

After four days of steady marching, on the sixth day of the sixth month of June, the traditional festival of washing and drying festival, on this day, the forward of the Mites Qing army arrived at Xiashao Village, twenty miles northeast of Anshun City, and set up a forward camp here. In the evening, the main team of Mites Qing arrived at the lower post one after another, and the battalion of the commander of Aobai chose to be at the highest point in the northeast of Anshun, Maoshan Mountain, looking down on the entire frontal battlefield. At night, bonfires spread all over the wilderness with Hat Mountain as the center, reflecting the dark night sky. The voices of people are boiling like a tide, even if they are on the top of the Anshun City Tower twenty miles away, they can be heard clearly.

At the beginning, Ao Bai was also very worried that the Wu army would take advantage of the opportunity of the unstable foothold of the Wu army to sneak attack overnight, so he also specially sent heavy troops to take precautions, but after finding that the Wu army camp did not have this plan and was ready to guard against the night attack, Ao Bai first breathed a sigh of relief, and then frowned - the Wu army was at a serious disadvantage and refused to surprise the troops, and insisted on a head-on decisive battle with the self-army, which is enough to prove that the Wu army was full of confidence in this battle. Although the army has a large number of generals and has sufficient food and grass at present, it suffers from a limited understanding of the Wu army, and knows himself but does not know the other.

When the big tent of the Chinese army was erected, the sand table of the Anshun battlefield that was made overnight was also moved into the big tent, which was made at the cost of more than 800 scouts, which basically marked the deployment of troops on both sides of the enemy and us, as well as various fortifications and facilities of the Wu army. What made Ao Bai frown was that for more than half a year, Wu Sangui's army, which had enough time, had made extremely perfect defensive preparations on this preset battlefield, dug a large number of anti-horse trenches on the north and south flanks of Anshun City, built and built countless horse-resisting walls and horse-blocking antlers, and cut the land of the battlefield on both wings to pieces, leaving only a frontal battlefield about six miles wide to remain flat for the decisive battle.

Of course, it is not for nothing that Wu Sangui's army is so arranged, the fortifications and trenches on the two wings of the battlefield can limit the flanks of the mite Qing cavalry from outflanking and interspersing in a roundabout way; Leaving only the frontal battlefield six miles wide to remain level, it can concentrate the inferior forces of Wu Sangui's army to one point, and only need a few troops to protect the two wings, so as to limit and contain the strength advantage of the Mites Qing army. At the same time, the six-mile-wide frontal battlefield can force the Mites Qing army to gather their ranks and form a dense formation, which is conducive to the effect of Wu Sangui's new firearms, and it is also conducive to the Yungui cavalry, which is no less than the Mites Qing cavalry, to attack, and to harass the two wings and rear of the Qing army in a roundabout way.

In addition, these fortifications also have a huge advantage that they effectively prevent the infiltration of the Qing army scouts, so that the Qing army in front of Ao Bai on the sand table of the Qing army does not know anything about the deployment of troops in the rear of Wu Sangui's army, especially the specific situation of Wu Sangui's Zhenning camp - and what is even worse is that Zhenning is on higher ground, which is the ideal camp for the Wu army's airships to be stationed and attacked, and the Qing army scouts cannot approach Zhenning, so naturally they cannot discover the existence of Wu army's airships.

After looking at the sand table for a long time, Ao Bai finally asked the senior generals of the Qing army present in a loud voice: "Wu Sangui's old thief's troop deployment and the situation on the Anshun battlefield are basically like this, look at the appearance, Wu Sangui's old thief has made great progress in the past 30 years, and he is very well prepared. ”

The twenty or thirty high-ranking generals of the Mites Qing gathered around the sand table exchanged their heads and whispered, and none of them refused to speak first. Seeing that Aobai's ugly face was gradually becoming hideous, Prince Kang Jieshu reluctantly said: "Taishi, although the terrain in Anshun is open, which is conducive to our cavalry operations, but the fortifications of the barbarian army are very well prepared, especially in the north and south wings, there are ten horse trenches alone, and it is difficult for our Eight Banners Iron Cavalry to outflank them. ”

"Makes sense." Ao Bai nodded, finally showed a terrible smile, and said with a smile: "In the end, it is still our prince of the Qing Dynasty, and it is very rare to have such an opinion for the first time on the battlefield, and it has not embarrassed the ancestors of our Eight Banners of the Great Qing Dynasty." Say, what do you think we should do? ”

"Xiao Wang thinks that since there are too many casualties in the assault, it is better to confront." Jie Shu was finally praised by Aobai once, and said with great confidence: "Confront the main force of the barbarians, wait for the barbarians to take the initiative to attack, and then the barbarians will leave the fortifications to protect, and our army can temporarily retreat, lead the barbarians to pursue, and then the cavalry will outflank and cut off the ......." ”

"Fart!" Ao Bai interrupted angrily and roared: "The main force of our army has penetrated deep into the hinterland of Guizhou, and you still want to confront Wu Sangui's old thief, waiting for him to attack?" You are an idiot like you when you are Wu Sangui's old thief?! also lured the enemy to go deeper, and also outflanked and cut off Wu Gou's retreat, Wu Sangui's old thief does not need to cut off our grain road, just using the mountain road in Guizhou, consumption can consume us to death! ”

Jieshu secretly hated in his heart, and reluctantly retreated. Ao Bai turned his gaze to Yue Le again, Yue Le didn't dare to refuse, and said stubbornly: "Taishi, Xiao Wang believes that since ancient times, there are very few troops that can really occupy the right time, place and people, and the Wu rebel army has been stationed here for more than half a year, and it is not surprising that the fortifications are perfect. In this case, then we should ignore the battlefield on both flanks, attack the front with superior forces, and have a head-on duel with the Wu rebel thief army, give full play to the advantages of our army's sufficient strength, and consume the Wu rebel elite in the car [***] battle, as long as we can eliminate more than half of the Wu rebel elite, this battle will be easy to fight next. ”

Although Yue Le's tactics were correct, they were too conservative, and even if they worked, they would inevitably have to pay heavy casualties, so although Ao Bai nodded slightly, he still didn't express his support, but just turned his gaze to his most optimistic deputy, Tu Hai. And Tu Hai did not disappoint Aobai, and immediately said: "Enxiang, I think that although Prince An's tactics are good, they are too conservative, and our army will inevitably suffer great casualties." And since Wu Sangui old thief dares to arrange it like this, let go of the front and let us attack, it proves that he has also made corresponding preparations, there is no need to be afraid of our frontal attack, if we adopt the tactics of Prince An, we are only afraid that we will fall into the arms of Wu and fall into the trap of Wu Shun. ”

"That's right, the old man is so worried." Ao Bai frowned tightly and said worriedly.

"Eun Xiang, remember that you taught the lowly officials a truth, when the two armies are at war, don't do what the enemy wants us to do, because the enemy wants us to do it." Tu Hai said categorically: "Since Wu Shun wants us to attack the front, then we have to do the opposite, maintain a confrontation head-on, and attack from the two wings of the thief army!" ”

"How do you start from both wings?" Ao Bai raised his thick black eyebrows and asked: "The two wings are full of Wu Wei fortifications, how to start?" ”

"Back to Enxiang, it is true that the two wings are full of Wu Rebellion's fortifications, but no matter how many fortifications there are, it is useless to defend without soldiers." Tu Haiyin said: "Wu Sangui's old thief's strength is only 70,000, less than half of ours, but the length of the fortifications on the north and south flanks is more than eighteen miles, and the troops must be stretched thin when using troops on such a long defensive line. In this case, our army might as well give full play to the advantage of having more soldiers and more generals, the main force of cavalry and the main force of Wu Reverse confronted and contained, and the infantry launched a strong attack on the ends of Wu Rebellion's two wings, forcing Wu Sangui's old thief to consume troops on both wings! ”

"I think that although the casualties of our army are also huge, we can avoid stepping into the trap of Wu Sangui's old thief, even if the casualties reach one to one, we will definitely not suffer! As long as the casualties on both flanks of Wu Rei's army reach a certain number, Wu Rei will inevitably have to divide his troops from the Chinese army to respond, gradually weaken Wu Rei's frontal forces, and lay the foundation for the final all-out general offensive! ”

Ao Bai remained silent, stared at the sand table and pondered, and after a long time, he slowly asked, "Others, do you have any opinions on this tactical suggestion of Tu Zhongtang?" ”

"No, no, the Admiral approves of it." The mite Qing generals agreed unevenly, and after Yue Le repeatedly calculated, he also nodded, and said, "Yes, this is indeed more secure and effective than Xiao Wang's tactics." ”

"Then let's do it." Ao Bai said lightly: "Let the army rest for a day tomorrow, set up a stable camp, Prince Tian'an, you will be in charge of the left wing, Jieshu will be in charge of the right wing, and Tuhai will accompany the old man to sit in the Chinese army." ”

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Almost at the same time that Ao Bai finalized the tactics of the decisive battle of the Qing army, at the same time, in the brightly lit hall of the Anshun City Palace, the tactical meeting of Wu Sangui's army was basically coming to an end, and Ao Bai and other Qing army generals were diametrically opposed to the difficult decision, the Wu army's think tank was very resolute in terms of tactical finalization, and unanimously agreed that the Wu army's preparations for the decisive battle were very sufficient, and they only needed to adhere to the established tactics of two-wing defense and head-on duel, and with the powerful advanced firearms of Wu Sangui's army, there was no doubt about the final victory! The only controversy is the use of Wu Jun's airship.

The three Wu army airships were secretly delivered outside Zhenning City two days ago, and everywhere they passed along the way, the people of Yunnan and Guizhou all burned incense to worship, and said that it was the arrival of the gods, which also forced Wu Sangui to send a large number of troops to block the road pass to prevent the news from leaking. On the issue of how to use these three airships, there were huge differences among the top echelons of the Wu army, and some people advocated that the airships should be transported to the front line immediately to form a psychological deterrent to the mite Qing army and boost the morale of the army. Some people also advocated using these three airships to attack Guiyang and destroy the granaries of the Qing army.

Fortunately, Wu Laohan has been rolling and crawling on the battlefield for decades, and immediately categorically rejected the proposal to use airships to sneak attack Guiyang - a Wu army's airship can only carry about 2,000 catties, even if all the soldiers are loaded, it can't fit 20 people, and dozens of soldiers go to sneak attack the Guiyang granary garrisoned by tens of thousands of Qing troops.

The third method of use came from Lu Fatzi's proposal, and at the meeting, Lu Fatzi said impassionedly: "Lord Wang, generals, if we want to count on how many enemies these three airships will kill and injure, it would be a big mistake - two thousand catties of load, even if all of them are loaded with Sanhao brand explosives, how many enemies can be killed?" Therefore, he believes that these three airships can only be used for heart attack and decapitation battles, so that they can give full play to their maximum effect. ”

"How do you use it? Let's take a closer look. Wu Laohan asked Lu Fatzi.

"Back to my grandfather, my grandson-in-law thinks that we should wait until the main force of Mangou is tired after a long battle, and then suddenly kill, so that the effect is the best." Lu Fatzi said eloquently: "I believe that my grandfather and the generals have heard that when our airship was transported to Zhenning, the cities and villages along the way were all sensational in the whole city and village, and the people and soldiers burned incense and prayed one by one, thinking that the gods were coming, and there were countless jokes for this, and there were even tragedies of the elderly being scared to death. ”

Therefore, the grandson-in-law thinks that we can take advantage of this to make a big fuss, first use strong fortifications and advanced firearms to consume the strength of the dogs and soldiers, and wait until the morale and physical strength of the dogs army are reduced to the lowest point, and then suddenly use airships and fly to the head of the dogs. After that, our airship delivered directly over the Mangou Flag Array, threw a large number of cluster bombs at the Mangou Flag Array, killing and injuring a large number of Mangou generals, making the Mangou group leaderless and their morale collapsed. ”

"That's a good idea." Wu Laohan muttered: "But our airship is left in Zhenning and cannot arrive at the battlefield in time, and the delivery front is easy to be exposed, how can we grasp this best fighter?" ”

"Grandfather, you can let the airship go out in advance." Lu Fatzi said confidently: "It takes about two hours for our airship to fly from Zhenning to the front line, if the old thief attacks in the morning, grandfather, you can let the airship go out at noon, and when it arrives at the battlefield, it is basically after Shen Shi, at that time, the physical strength of the Mangou army has been consumed, and the sky is not too late, which is conducive to our airship vision, looking for the full dog flag array, which is the best fighter." ”

"Then let's do it." Wu Laohan Jian's is obviously more arbitrary than Aobai, and he thinks that Lu Fatzi is reasonable, so he makes a decision on the spot, but Wu Laohan's dog-legged men are also using airships for the first time, and they can't come up with any airship tactics for their surnames, Lu Fatzi's tactics sound reasonable, and they naturally don't have any opinions. Only Wu Yingqi shouted that he wanted to get on the airship and blew up the dog flag array with his own hands, but after being glared at by Wu Laohan, he still obediently shut his mouth.

"It's almost the third watch, let's all go back and rest." Wu Laohan Jian yawned and ordered: "If nothing else, the old thief should let the army rest for a day tomorrow, recover the physical strength of the soldiers and stabilize the camp, and send the troops to fight a decisive battle the day after tomorrow, everyone should also seize this last day to rest." But everyone should also be careful, if the old thief starts crazy, it is not ruled out that the possibility of a decisive battle tomorrow will be held in advance. ”

All the generals and officers of the Wu army agreed together, and they all got up to salute and say goodbye, but Lu Fatzi did not move, and everyone did not leave after Lu Fatzi left, Wu Laohan was very surprised, yawned again, and asked: "Yifeng, is there anything else?" It's getting late, so let's talk about it. ”

"Grandfather Xie, my grandson-in-law does have two things I want to report to my grandfather." Fat Lu honestly agreed. After getting the permission of Wu Laohan, Lu Fatzi continued: "Grandfather, here's the thing, in the past three days, my grandson-in-law's direct army has been on the front line of the scout war, although it has been somewhat defeated, but because of inexperience and no blood, the casualties are very heavy, so far nearly two hundred people have been killed, countless wounded, and the men and horses are also very tired and unable to fight again." Therefore, the grandson-in-law had the courage to ask his grandfather to put his grandson-in-law's direct army into the reserve at the time of the decisive battle, hoping that his grandfather would give him permission. ”

"Now you know that the credit is not so easy to grab, right?" Wu Laohan laughed and scolded with some kindness: "Grandfather told you a long time ago that when it comes to the decisive battle, there is merit that can be fought for, and how much credit can be given to the outpost battle before the decisive battle?" You're a rookie who wants to grab it, and now you regret it, don't you? ”

"My grandson-in-law also regrets it now, and I only hate that I didn't listen to my grandfather's good words." Fat Lu replied dejectedly.

"Forget it, it's useless to regret it now, let's practice slowly." Wu Laohan smiled and said, "Then so be it, from tomorrow, your army will withdraw to the rear to rest and act as a reserve." When your grandfather defeats the main force of Mangou, you will go up to clean up the battlefield and search and kill Mangou's defeated soldiers, although the credit is not great, but it is better than nothing. ”

Lu Fatzi's plan succeeded again, and naturally he hurriedly thanked him. Wu Lao Han Jian yawned again and urged: "What is one more thing?" Come on, my grandfather is old, and he's really tired. ”

"Grandfather, the second thing is about the tactics of our army's decisive battle with the main force of the dogs." Lu Fatzi's expression became serious, and he said in a deep voice: "Tonight, my grandfather and the generals decided to resolutely implement the established tactics of defending on both flanks and fighting head-on, although my son-in-law also agreed, but my son-in-law is still worried about one thing, if Mangou does the opposite, then we are too passive." ”

"How can the dog do the opposite?" It was a matter of decisive battle tactics, and Wu Laohan inevitably raised his spirits and asked.

"Grandfather, please come here." Lu Fatzi invited Wu Laohan to the side of the sand table, pointed to the defense line of the Wu army and said: "Grandfather, please see, after the hard work of our soldiers and soldiers, although the two wings of our army on the main battlefield are densely fortified, they have effectively curbed the most skilled cavalry interspersed with roundabout tactics. But the biggest weakness of this line of defense is that the line of defense is too long, the total length is more than eighteen miles, on such a long front, our forces can only be said to be barely able to maintain, if the dogs attack the two wings, then our troop movement will be stretched. ”

"What my son-in-law is most worried about now is that if Mangou sees through the tactics of our army, deliberately does not come to attack the front, adjusts the tactics to a frontal confrontation of elite cavalry, pins down the main force of our army, and a large number of infantry forcibly attack the fortifications on both flanks of our army, forcing our army to consume troops, then even if our army is not afraid, it is bound to suffer heavy casualties, which is not conducive to your next full-scale counteroffensive."

"Makes sense." Wu Laohan stared at the sand table and asked in a deep voice, "Then what do you say should be done?" Arrange some of the new firearms in the wings? ”

"Absolutely not." Fat Lu shook his head resolutely, and said in a deep voice: "The new firearm is our trick to press the bottom of the box, and early exposure will only scare the dog away, and it will not be able to achieve a surprising effect." Therefore, the son-in-law believes that only a small number of grenade throwers can be placed on the flanks of our army as a precaution, so as not to scare the Mangou away, resulting in the abandonment of our army's plan to annihilate the main force of the Mangou on the main battlefield. ”

"What do you think should be done?" Wu Lao Hanjian asked again.

"Grandfather, son-in-law thinks that if Mangou is determined to storm the two wings of our army and force our army to consume troops, then our army can plan and arrange a small trap on both flanks, which in turn will force Mangou's main force to attack our army's main position head-on." Fat Lu smiled all over his face, leaned into Wu Laohan's ear and muttered in a low voice............

"Hahahaha!" Wu Laohan laughed out loud and praised repeatedly: "Good boy, with you, the old man didn't marry his granddaughter to you in vain!" The old man now really hopes that it is best to send two people with enough weight to attack our two wings, then our trap will be more effective! ”

The idea of the eight people of Lao Qiu is almost the same, and they were annihilated by Wu Laohan, and the next day, which is also the seventh day of the sixth month of the eleventh year of the mite Qing Mazi, the 170,000 mite Qing troops on the front line are all standing still, camping and seizing the time to rest, preparing for the decisive battle on the third day. Wu Laohan did not waste his troops to disturb the mite Qing army that was waiting for him, but also asked the soldiers to seize the time to rest and prepare for a full-scale decisive battle on the third day, and even the scout battle that had been fought for several days by the flesh and blood was stopped, and the scouts on both sides no longer tried to risk breaking into the enemy's rear to reconnoitre, but only fully turned to the defense, so as not to be sneaked behind their own army by the enemy scouts and expose the military aircraft.

When the 70,000 officers and soldiers of Wu Sangui's army were actively preparing for war, the Qujing Green Battalion directly under Lu Fatzi was of course also seizing the time to rest and prepare for war, and after grinding 500 grenades from Wu Guogui and Wu Yingqi with a cheeky and dead face, Lu Fatzi sent all the grenades to the soldiers of the Qujing Green Battalion, and issued two orders, one is that there is no military order, no generals and soldiers are allowed to use grenades, and they must leave good steel on the knife edge; The second order was that every soldier should prepare five days' dry rations, and be prepared that they would not be able to obtain food and grass supplies for five days!

On the third day, on the eighth day of June in the eleventh year of the mite Qingkang Mazi, the sky was clear, the sky was cloudless, the sky was slightly bright, the rising red sun had not had time to climb the foot of the mountain, and the 170,000 mite Qing army of the hat mountain camp had already poured out of the nest. The army lined up in a strict formation, all kinds of flags fluttered in the wind under the morning sun, and the black oppressive men and horses were like a tide, like a huge tumor, slowly advancing towards the position of the Wu army, the earth trembled, and the mountains shook for it.

At the same time, the horn of the Wu army's camp sounded, and a team of Yungui soldiers also walked out of the camp, like a churning dragon, shouting the slogan of "Fengtian to beg the thief, kill and worship", and slowly rushed to the preset position that had been prepared for half a year, waiting for the collision of blood and flesh, the fight between life and death, and the decisive battle between justice and evil!

No way! It seems that something is wrong, is there justice between the army of the Mites Qing and the army of Wu Laohan?

(To be continued)