"The dog is catching up again! The dogs are catching up again! ”

With the nervous shouts of the rear army scouts, the official road full of Wu soldiers sat on the official road as if a pot was boiling, and it boiled all at once, and Gao Dejie, who personally led the army to the palace, jumped up as if he had been bitten by a dog, stuffed the cold steamed bun that had just been bitten twice in his hand into his arms, and quickly copied two handfuls of roadside ditch water to drink, and hurriedly shouted: "Get on the horse!" Launched! Retreat west! Watch the number of people and don't be left behind! ”

Almost at the same time that the army behind the palace of the Gao Dejie army re-mounted and began to retreat westward, on the official road of Guizhou in the east, there was already a clear Qing cavalry with a clear banner, shouting that the tide was coming, and the rain of arrows, guns and bullets was overwhelming, and more than a dozen Wu cavalry in the rear team could not dodge, and in an instant they were shot by arrows like hedgehogs, screaming and falling off the official road, Xuan was trampled into meat sauce by the Qing army's iron cavalry, and many Wu cavalry were injured by arrows, gritted their teeth and stepped forward, and fled back to the rear team under the cover of their companions' bows and arrows and muskets. Finally, there has been no large-scale lag behind.

"Kill!" In the neat roar, the mite Qing fierce general Laita rushed up first, while frantically swinging the knife to block the Wu army's arrows, while desperately urging the horse to force the Wu army's rear team, the mite Qing cavalry behind was also like a mad demon, the ghost crying wolf howled one rushed faster than the other, and in a blink of an eye, it was already approaching the Wu army's rear team. Gao Dejie was forced to be helpless, so he had to turn around and return to his horse, leading the army to counter-charge and kill the Raita army, the narrow official road was full of people, the sound of swords and guns, bows and arrows came and went like locusts, the soldiers on both sides fought and slashed on the road like crazy, the beast-like tumble and rolled, the sound of killing shook the mountains, and the leaves fell.

The Mites Qing army launched a comprehensive general attack on the second day of the fifth month of the 11th year of Kang Mazi, and Ao Bai took Yue Le, the prince of An, as the vanguard, and personally led 220,000 mite Qing troops into Guizhou, and the troops advanced to the hinterland of Guizhou in two ways. Because no one thought in advance that Ao Baihui would collapse so quickly in the face of Lu Fatzi's tricks, and change the established strategy so quickly to enter the decisive battle in Guizhou, so the soldiers of the Wu army, including Lu Fatzi himself, were inevitably a little caught off guard.

In view of the fact that the main force of the Mite Qing was divided into troops in Zhenyuanfu, all the way to Guizhou by the road of Shi Bing and Qingping, and all the way to Guizhou by Kaili Avenue, and planned to meet the division in Guiding, in order to avoid being wrapped in dumplings by the Mites Qing army, Gao Dejie had to hurriedly send his deputy Gao Hongchen to lead 1,500 cavalry to go first, and retreat to Guiding and Zoumaping and other choke points to garrison at night to protect the retreat, so as not to be dumped by the enemy, and personally led 1,500 elite palaces, and the remaining 2,000 cavalry and more than 1,000 infantry from Zhenyuan who voluntarily followed the Wu army to retreat to Anshun to form the Chinese army. It was handed over to Lu Fatzi's subordinates, and the front, middle and rear armies retreated westward together.

Gao Dejie has been on the battlefield for a long time, and although the tactics are extremely correct after personally leading the army, what Gao Dejie did not expect is that Yue Le, the forward of Mites Qing, was extremely ruthless and transferred 6,000 cavalry from the front army, divided into four teams and handed over to Laita, Mu Zhan, Shuo Nai and Zhao Liangdong Four members of the Mite Qing Meng General are under the command of the four mite Qing fierce generals, changing every ten miles, taking turns to chase and kill and take turns to rest, biting the tail of the Gao Dejie army like four leper dogs, catching up and biting it, Gao Dejie's army will run away when he returns to the division to fight to the death, and Gao Dejie's army will change to a team to chase and kill when he retreats again, and so on. The intention is to delay the speed of Gao Dejie's army to return to the division, tire the Wu army, and wait for the time to be ripe to annihilate the elite of the Wu army that has made the mite Qing army lose face.

Yue Le's hand was very successful, even if Gao Dejie's army was no longer elite, after a series of hard battles with almost no time to rest, the casualty rate rose rapidly, and the generals and horses were extremely tired, and the speed of withdrawal was forced to slow down, and it took two days to completely withdraw from Zhenyuan Mansion, and just retreated to the junction of Zhenyuan Mansion and Duyun Mansion and was bitten by Laita again.

After a bloody battle, he was forced to throw out dozens of grenades, and after finally killing and repelling the Rita army, Gao Dejie didn't even have time to count the casualties of the soldiers, and immediately shouted: "Quickly retreat, Mangou is going to be chased by another person, first withdraw to Qinkou Whistle, where the terrain is steep, you can hold on to rest." The cavalry of the Wu army agreed, and hurriedly dragged their tired bodies back on their horses and continued westward along the official road.

"Where is Lu Yifeng's Chinese army?" Taking advantage of this opportunity, Gao Dejie turned to the deputy next to him and asked. The deputy replied loudly: "Back to General Zuo, it has been news in the morning that Lord Lu's Chinese army has arrived at the whistle in Qinkou. ”

"Send someone to give him an order, let him be stationed on the spot in Xinpai Village, and take over the rear army." Gao Dejie yelled, "Tell him, tell him not to be afraid, not to call him the queen of the palace, but the brothers are too tired and need to change a group of people." ”

Gao Dejie let people tell Lu Fatzi, telling Lu Fatzi not to be afraid is not for nothing, since ancient times, the most feared among the friendly generals is the appearance of greedy people who are afraid of death, in order to escape and refuse or dare not cover the friendly army, which leads to countless cases of friendly defeats, Lu Fatzi is a civilian official when he first enters the battlefield, Lao Qiu Ba Gao Dejie is naturally afraid of Lu Fatzi coming to this hand, and does not dare to flee for his life, resulting in the annihilation of the tired army under Gao Dejie. After the herald rushed away, Gao Dejie ordered the army to destroy the bridge on the Chong'an River, and slightly slowed down the pace of the pursuers, and then desperately headed west.

It is also Gao Dejie's bad luck, Guizhou's spring and summer season this year is generally dry and rainless, the Chong'an River does not flow much, although Gao Dejie's army smashed the bridge, the new round of chasing the mite Qing fierce general Shuo Nai's team can still flow water across the river, and before Gao Dejie's army stabs at the Jingkou whistle, they caught up with Gao Dejie's palace army again. Gao Dejie complained bitterly in his heart, knowing that the road in the area of Qinkou Whistle was narrow, with high mountains and dense forests on both sides and cliffs, which was the most ideal place to hold on to rest, but in view of the Qing cavalry chasing too fast, the soldiers of the Wu army had no time to gain a firm foothold, so they naturally could not rely on the favorable terrain to defend the palace and recuperate, so Gao Dejie had no choice but to give up this favorable terrain and lead the army to continue westward.

"Kill!" Just when Gao Dejie was almost desperate, the cliffs on both sides of the road suddenly killed everywhere, rolling stones and falling trees rained down, just smashed into the waist of the Qing army's pursuers, the Qing army was caught off guard and suddenly chaotic, Gao Dejie turned back in surprise, but saw the Wu army flag fluttering on the top of the mountain, the white and fat Lu Fat Man jumped out at some point, jumped and jumped on the top of the mountain and shouted desperately to command, let the Wu infantry throw down the big stone and giant trees, and throw torches, igniting the woods on both sides, at the same time, On the left and right flanks of Gao Dejie's army, a cavalry of the Wu army came out, outflanking the front team of the Qing army, which had been cut in two by the boulders.

"Hahaha! Good brothers! Good brothers! Seeing this scene, Gao Dejie was naturally ecstatic, knowing that Lu Fatzi must have discovered that this whistle was a good place to beat the stick and stab the knife, so he decisively gave up the westward march and arranged an ambush here to meet the friendly troops behind the palace, which saved Gao Dejie's great urgency. In ecstasy, Gao Dejie quickly turned his horse's head and shouted, "Brothers, kill! ”

"Kill!" The cavalry of the Wu army, which was chased by the Qing army, was also full of morale, and they turned around and killed back together, and attacked the front team of the Qing army's Shuo Naibu who fell into the trap in three ways. What made Gao Dejie wonder was that the two cavalry of the Wu army commanded by Lu Fatzi were killing the enemy, and they even shouted at the same time, "Surrender or kill!" Surrender or kill! ”

As a result, after shouting, after the desperate Mites Qing cavalry threw down their weapons and surrendered, the soldiers of the Lu Fat Army really didn't kill them, but just took them aside to watch, so that Gao Dejie couldn't help but scold, "In the end, it's still a rookie, when is this, what's the use of taking prisoners?" ”

Lu Fatzi's trap was very well prepared, after cutting the Qing army into two, the top of the mountain still kept throwing down trees and torches, igniting the sky-high fire, completely cutting off the Qing army, not to mention, but also temporarily blocked the Qing army reinforcements behind, so that it could not quickly reinforce the trapped front team, and the surrounded more than 600 Qing troops saw that the reinforcements were hopeless and saw that the Wu army did not kill the prisoners, so most of them laid down their arms and surrendered, and a small number of recalcitrant resistors were also cut into meat sauce by the superior Wu army, cut into several pieces, and the battle ended in less than an hour.

"Pass the order, collect the captives' horses and weapons, cut off the thumbs of both hands, and let them go!" Fat Lu ran towards Gao Dejie while tearing up his voice and yelling, "Remember, the two thumbs of the captives must be cut off at the root, and those who resist will be killed!" ”

"Brother Yifeng, are you stupid when you read too much?" As soon as Fat Lu ran closer, Gao Dejie immediately reprimanded him with a slap in the face: "Chop off the thumbs of the prisoners' two hands, and let them go?" You come up with such a bad idea, such a captive is put back, and it is not the enemy to take up arms? Kill them all! ”

"No, you can't kill!" Lu Fatzi hurriedly stopped and persuaded: "General Gao, let's not talk about killing prisoners, our Yungui army and Mangou are about to have a decisive battle, if we set a precedent for killing prisoners, who else will dare to surrender to us in the future?" Just cut off their thumbs for the best results. ”

"Cutting off your thumb is a ball?" Gao Dejie asked angrily.

"General Gao, you don't understand this." Lu Fatzi said with a smile: "Brother Dajie, if you don't believe it, you don't need to draw a knife with your thumb and swing a knife, draw a bow and arrow, try to see if you still have the strength?" ”

Gao Dejie was confused, and tried according to Lu Fatzi's request, and found that without the help of his thumb, no matter how he used the weapon, he couldn't use his strength, let alone pose a threat of strength, Gao Dejie couldn't help but be surprised and said: "Huh? What is the rationale for this? ”

"Brother Dajie, you haven't learned human anatomy, so you don't know how important a thumb is." Lu Fatzi said with a smile: "Although the thumbs of people's hands are inconspicuous, but without the thumbs, the hands will lose eighty percent of their strength, not to mention picking up weapons to kill people, that is, picking up a hoe to plough the field and pulling the reins and riding a horse can't do it." Wouldn't it be better to cut off the thumbs of the captives, which looks benevolent, but also turns them into complete battlefield wastes? ”

"Oh, I see." Gao Dejie suddenly realized, and couldn't help laughing and scolding: "Damn, it's still you readers who are insidious!" That's it, cut off the thumbs of all the captives, tell them to fuck off! ”

When the wolf-like soldiers of the Wu army pounced on the poor mite Qing lamb and slashed their fingers, Lu Fatzi hurriedly said to Gao Dejie: "Brother Dajie, the fire can't stop the dog for long, we can't delay for too long, we have to leave immediately after finishing the matter, your army is already very tired, you go first, and I will come to the palace." The captured war horses are also all for you, and it will be a pity to change the overtired war horses, and die of exhaustion. ”

"Then please, we'll meet in Zoumaping." Gao Dejie was indeed extremely tired, so he agreed without excuse, and advised: "Remember, the roads in Guizhou are characterized by many mountains and small roads, whether it is rest or local defense, the highest points on both sides of the road must be monitored, so as not to be outflanked by dogs from the path." Zhao Liangdong, a mandog, was the chief military officer of Zhenyuan, and he is more familiar with the roads and terrain in this area than you. ”

Lu Fatzi agreed loudly, Gao Dejie led the previous palace army first, and rested while trotting, leaving Lu Fatzi to command the army in the same place, and although Gao Dejie handed over the important task of the palace to Lu Fatzi, he was still extremely worried in his heart - this Lu Fatzi who had just entered the battlefield, could he really stop the chasing soldiers who were full of dogs and wolves?

Gao Dejie's worries were probably suspicious, after walking for more than ten miles, when he arrived at another narrow place, Gao Dejie saw at a glance that Xiao Erlang, the loyal lackey of Lu Fatzi, with hundreds of infantry, was cutting down trees on the side of the road and piling up on both sides of the road, splashing and sprinkling fire oil, as if he was going to set fire to block the enemy. Seeing that Fat Lu was so well prepared, Gao Dejie was inevitably secretly happy in his heart, and hurriedly asked Xiao Erlang, who came over to salute, "Did your young master send you to do this?" ”

"General Huizuo, yes." Xiao Erlang explained: "The young master asked me to take three hundred infantry first, cut down trees and block the road in the narrow places of the road, and just wait for the full dog to come and set fire to the road, so as not to let the full dog catch up with my ......." Wait, can't pass! ”

Shouting, Xiao Erlang rushed to a meadow with fertile water and grass, and yelled at the Wu soldiers who were about to graze horses there, "You can't let the horses pass, it's poisoned there!" Poisoned! ”

"Poisoned?!" The soldiers of the Wu army were all startled and hurriedly reined in their horses. Gao Dejie was shocked and asked, "Poisoned?" You poisoned the horses? ”

"General Huizuo, that's what the young master explained." Xiao Erlang explained: "The young master said that after the enemy's cavalry was blocked by the sea of fire, while putting out the fire or waiting for the flames to be extinguished, they would definitely let the war horses eat grass and rest, so let's pour arsenic water on these fertile grasses, as well as sa beans, and wait for the war horses full of dogs to hook." ”

"Arsenic water? Saba bean? Gao Dejie was dumbfounded, and blurted out: "Your young master, your heart is really good!" Are there any other tricks that are cheaper? ”

"Yes." Xiao Erlang's answer made Gao extremely angry, "The young master also let us catch some poisonous snakes, and they are also ready to be placed in the grass on the side of the road where the dogs must stay." The young master also said that it was too late, otherwise he would have trained a group of dogs in Anshun, so that these dogs would rush to bite when they saw the dogs' uniforms, and then tie explosives bags to the dogs. ”

"Fuck! Dead fatty! Gao Dejie couldn't help but scold, and at the same time secretly breathed a sigh of relief, if these cheap tricks of Fat Lu can work, maybe he can really complete the task of the palace.

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In the next day or so, the mite Qing army that chased and killed Gao Dejie was extremely cool, and every time he was about to catch up with the army behind Gao Dejie's palace, there were either sky-high fires on both sides of the road, or mines on the ground exploded, and when the fire was finally extinguished by the sea of fire, the war horses under the crotch foamed at the mouth and died, or continued to neigh and fell to the ground; There were also soldiers who were bitten to death by poisonous snakes tumbling in the grass because they dismounted to put out the fire or dismount to rest their horses; Or the ditch stream well on the side of the road was also poisoned, poisoning many mite soldiers and mite war horses. Angry, the four mite generals such as Laita, Mu Zhan, Shuo Nai, and Zhao Liangdong, who were in charge of the pursuit, shouted and jumped like thunder, but they were helpless.

Of course, these little tricks have always had a limited effect, and they can only play a disturbing role at most in the face of the absolute strength advantage of the Mites Qing army, and the palace army personally commanded by Lu Fatzi was still caught up by the Mites Qing army several times, but when the battlefield was bloody, the fledgling Lu Fatzi showed the courage and calmness that the full dog secretly admired, and always inspired morale at the front line, and the command was determined, and he never ran away first for his life, and the morale was always kept quite high, and he repelled the mite Qing pursuers several times, and the loss was not too big.

When Lu Fatzi retreated to Zoumaping to join Gao Dejie's army, which had been rested, the Wu army's battle line finally stabilized, and at the same time, Shuo Nai, Laita and other mite Qing generals were afraid of being surrounded by Wu army reinforcements because the pursuit was too deep into the hinterland of Guizhou, so they had no choice but to stop, and watched this Wu army team that was more slippery than a fox and more ruthless than a jackal marched away. And after this retreat battle, Gao Dejie inevitably patted Lu Fatzi on the shoulder and smiled: "Brother Yifeng, what a good one, he is simply a battlefield genius!" It's decided, when we fully counterattack, let's partner to kill all the dogs! ”

On the seventh day of the fifth month, Gao Dejie's army withdrew to the border of Guiding County, and joined the army of Gao Hongchen, who had arrived here first, and at the same time, Zhang Zufa, the left general of the Wu army, led an army of 5,000 to arrive in Guiding City, replaced Gao Dejie's tired division, and continued to carry out the task of the palace, covering the retreat of Gao Dejie's army to Guiyang and Anshun. At the same time, the main force of Mites Qing has also arrived in Chong'an, basically going deep into the hinterland of Guizhou, and the task of luring the enemy to go deep jointly carried out by Gao Dejie and Lu Fatzi has finally been announced.

On the twelfth day of May, Lu Fatzi and Gao Dejie's team finally returned to Anshun, Wu Sangui Lao Han Zhan personally led the Pingxi Palace's civil and military officials out of the city, and ordered to reward Gao Dejie's army, and when Gao Dejie reported to Wu Sangui the size of Lu Fatzi's merits and greatly praised Lu Fatzi's military talent, Wu Laohan, who had already decided to leave Lu Fatzi to his children and grandchildren, was overjoyed, so he rewarded Lu Fatzi alone, but Lu Fatzi shamelessly transferred all the rewards to the soldiers of Gao Dejie's army, as well as the families of the soldiers who died in battle. In order to buy people's hearts, the soldiers of Gao Dejie were grateful and convinced.

At the celebration banquet, Wu Laohan simply retired Gao Dejie and Lu Fatzi to the first and second seats, and raised his glass and laughed: "Thanks to the big festival and thanks to Yifeng, it took less than three months to force the old fox to enter the hinterland of Guizhou for a decisive battle, and we Yungui soldiers and people don't know how much food, grass and time have been saved. ”

After Wu Laohan finished speaking, the civil and military generals of Pingxi Wangfu were naturally full of praise, praising Wu Laohan for employing people properly, which created such a miracle, Gao Dejie was very modest and pushed Lu Fatzi forward, saying that it was thanks to Lu Fatzi's bad idea of smoking from the ancestral tomb for lack of virtue, which made this miraculous feat, otherwise, relying on himself alone, whether he could introduce the old fox into Guizhou is probably a big problem. When Fat Lu wanted to be modest again, he was already surrounded by the sycophants of Pingxi Wangfu, and he was stunned on the spot.

It is not for nothing that Wu Lao Han is so excited and happy, although Anshun is only more than 400 miles away from Wu Lao Han's old nest Yunnan, and the Anshun Basin, the main grain producing area of Guizhou, also has a little self-sufficiency in grain and grass, and the logistical pressure is relatively small, but in the past five months, these more than 400 miles of Guizhou roads have also made Wu Lao Han Jian suffer enough -- the 24 turns of Qinglong, which terrified the Allied drivers during World War II, are on this supply line of Wu Lao Han Jian. During World War II, this road widened and strengthened by American sappers was still so difficult, and how terrifying this road was in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties was that it could not be described with pen and ink. Therefore, even Wu Laohan himself can't say for sure, if Lu Fatzi and Gao Dejie fail to lure the enemy, Ao Bai will firmly implement the blockade strategy of Yungui and Guizhou, how long will he be able to hold out in Anshun.

After the success of luring the enemy, the Yungui and Wu armies were relaxed and relieved, but the main force of the Qing army complained bitterly, and it was also at this moment that those mite Qing generals and officials who complained about Aobai before they did not move their troops finally understood the good intentions of Aobai before Aobai - what is this road in Guizhou called? Even if the road is the best official road, the widest place is only about one zhang, the narrow place is less than seven feet, and it is constantly over the mountains and mountains, winding mountains and valleys, full of cliffs, everywhere are deep mountains and old forests, when it rains, it will become muddy and slippery, take one step forward and slide three steps back, and carry a large amount of grain and grass under such road conditions to march, it is no longer suffering, but suffering!

"old thief! Why don't you insist on a decisive battle on the border of Huguang and enter a ghost place like Guizhou?! This sentence suddenly became the common voice of countless mite generals.

On 28 May, the main force of the Qing army led by Ao Bai finally arrived in Guiyang, and Cao Shenji, the governor of Guizhou and Li Benshen, the general soldier of Guizhou, who had joined forces with Wu Sangui to raise troops on the side of the Qing monarch, had already fled without a fight, and fled to Anshun with the soldiers and civilians who voluntarily left Guiyang, leaving behind some of the people who refused to leave and Guiyang to Ao Bai -- Wu Lao Han's base camp was in Yunnan, and Guizhou, a ghost place where birds do not lay eggs, no matter how bad Wu Lao Han's fight was, Wu Lao Han would not feel distressed, and naturally he would not waste his strength and troops to defend Guiyang. Although Ao Bai understood Wu Laohan's vicious intentions, he still had no choice but to enter Guiyang City, and set up a large camp on the bank of the Nanming River, so that the army could rest and prepare for battle, and by the way, he waited for the rear army to assemble.

After the news reached the camp of the Wu army in Anshun, some idiots suggested taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Qing army to launch a general attack, giving Ao Bai a dismount, and preventing Ao Bai from repeating his old tricks, and defending Guiyang to confront Wu Sangui's army. As a result, as soon as this suggestion came out, this idiot was immediately scolded by Wu Laohan and Wu Laohan's dog-headed military advisors, "Worship the old thief and defend Guiyang and confront us?" He wants to keep him! More than 200,000 dogs' grain and grass will be transported from Huguang to Guiyang, and the mountain roads in Guizhou can kill him without us doing anything! ”

On the first day of the sixth month, the last mite Qing army led by Jie Shu arrived in Guiyang. At this point, the main force of Yungui and the main force of Mites Qing who were ready to participate in the war all arrived at the battlefield, with 70,000 troops in Yunnan and Guizhou, and more than 180,000 troops arrived at the battlefield in addition to the troops stationed in the capital cities along the way to protect the grain routes. With a total strength of more than 250,000 troops, the two warring sides are facing each other in a fierce formation, waiting for the final battle - a decisive battle!

(To be continued)