Wu Sangui still had doubts in his heart, but the cannon was also fired, and the spies were also sent, all of which showed that there was no Ming army ambush in Mopan Mountain, and Zhao Butai and Shang Shan, the two Manchurian supervisors, urged him to march, if he still did not order the march, I am afraid that these two people would doubt themselves. As a last resort, Wu Sangui could only order the march.

In the dense forest of Mopan Mountain in the distance, seeing that the Qing army was finally marching towards the ambush circle, Li Dingguo, the king of Jin, breathed a sigh of relief and showed a slight smile on his face.

There were tens of thousands of Qing troops in pursuit, and Li Dingguo only had 6,000 soldiers under him, and each ambush was only 2,000 soldiers, but Li Dingguo was not worried at all that too few troops would lead to the failure of the ambush, because these 6,000 soldiers were the elite soldiers who fought with him in the south and the north, and each of them was an elite soldier who could be a ten!

With elite soldiers and advantageous locations, Li Dingguo believes that the sky will live up to his wishes, and he will inflict heavy losses on the Qing army in Mopan Mountain, and change the decadent situation since the Qing army entered the southwest!

After the 4,000 Green Battalion soldiers who acted as the vanguard drove into the mountains, Wu Sangui was worried, but what he feared did not happen, and they were not attacked by any ambushes.

Subsequently, under the urging of Zhao Butai, Shang Shan and others, the Qing army all marched into the Mopan Mountain. Walking in front was Wu Sangui's soldiers and horses, and the second son-in-law Hu Guozhu led people to walk in front, and then Manchurian generals such as Manchu Dutong Mang Gutu, Kexingge, and Gushan Ezhen Shalibu also entered the ambush circle.

There are not too many people walking on the sheep intestine trail of Mopan Mountain, and tens of thousands of troops want to pass through Mopan Mountain, and it is impossible to pass through Mopan Mountain in a day. Therefore, Wu Sangui ordered people to set up camp at the foot of the mountain and wait for the soldiers and horses to pass through in the tent.

said that he was waiting, but Wu Sangui was still worried in his heart, and from time to time he went out of the tent to climb the heights and look, lest the Ming army ambush suddenly kill.

I don't know how many times I came out of the account, and suddenly a personal guard came to report, saying that he had caught a Ming army spy.

Caught a Ming army spy?!

Wu Sangui was shocked, there was no ambush here, how could there be a Ming army spies? Could it be that Li Dingguo still set up an ambush in the mountains!

Thinking of this, Wu Sangui was in a hurry and hurried to see the spy. When the bound Ming army spy saw Wu Sangui from a distance, he suddenly broke free from the Qing soldiers who were pressing him, and knelt down in front of Wu Sangui a few steps forward and shouted: "King Pingxi, there are ambushes in the mountains!" ”

There are ambushes!

Wu Sangui was shocked, but the spy shouted: "King Pingxi, I am Lu Guisheng, the secretary of Dali Temple in the Ming Dynasty!" ”

The Ming army spy is not a pawn, but Lu Guisheng, the secretary of Dali Temple of the Yongli regime. Desperate for the future, and greedy for life and afraid of death, after learning that the King of Jin had set up an ambush in Mopan Mountain, he secretly ran out of the army to report to Wu Sangui, hoping to use this merit to advance to the Qing court.

Lu Guisheng pointed out to Wu Sangui that the Qing army had entered an ambush circle, and when Wu Sangui heard this, he was shocked, and urgently ordered the advance to be stopped, and the troops were quickly withdrawn, and ordered the cavalry to dismount, abandon their horses and walk on foot, and search for the ambush. At the same time, the artillery was ordered to fire in the bushes of the ditch, and the archers fired fiercely with arrows, and for a while, the arrows and cannons rained on both sides.

The Ming army ambushed the soldiers without orders and did not dare to fight, and listened to the attack of guns and arrows, and died in the forest ditch. Dou Minwang, who was hidden in the first ambush line, knew that the ambush had been discovered, so he had to send artillery to fight, and the Ming army in the second ambush also fired artillery and rushed out to the rescue. So, the two sides engaged in a battle on the mountain, fighting with short knives, flesh and blood flying, and in an instant, the corpses of the dead on both sides were scattered like a wall.

When the battle began, Li Dingguo was sitting on the top of the mountain, and he was very surprised when he heard that the horn was out of order, and before he could find out the situation, a shell fell in front of him, and the dust stirred up by the explosion splashed his face. Due to Lu Guisheng's surrender and whistleblowing, Li Dingguo's deployment was disrupted, and he could not unify his command, so the Ming ambush soldiers were forced to go out of battle and fight for themselves. But Li Dingguo still supervised the war according to the danger. The fierce fighting lasted from midnight until noon, with heavy casualties on both sides, and corpses were everywhere up and down the mountain.

Because the Ming army had been lurking in the valley for many days, the elite spirit had been lost, and the lone army had no reinforcement, and the battle was final, and the Ming army completely collapsed. The Qing army became more and more courageous, and more than half of the Ming army was killed and wounded, and they fled in all directions.

Wu Sangui ordered all the soldiers and horses to pursue separately, and secretly instructed the generals of the lineage that for the Ming army, if they could surrender, they would surrender, and if they could not surrender, they could only disperse them, and they could not be killed.

Li Dingguo saw that the defeat was decided, and led the remnants of the defeated army to run in the direction of Nandian.

In this battle, one-third of the Ming ambush soldiers were killed in the ditch by guns and arrows, and one-third died on the battlefield in fierce battles, and Li Dingguo finally retreated with only more than 1,000 remnants. Generals Dou Minwang and Wang Xi died in battle.

On the side of the Qing army, the losses were also quite heavy. Wu Sangui's subordinates, since the command of the capital, Gushan Ezhen Shalibu, Zu Zerun and other 18 generals and auxiliary state officials and Zakana and other soldiers were killed in battle, losing more than 3,000 direct Guanning elites, more than 4,000 Han troops, and nearly 5,000 green battalion soldiers. On the part of the Manchurian army, more than 1,000 Manchurian soldiers were also lost. The Qing army suffered more than 10,000 casualties, the first defeat since entering the southwest. Because of his meritorious work in informing at a critical moment, Lu Guisheng was rewarded by the Qing Dynasty with the official position of Yunnan Linyuan Bingdao.

After the defeat of Mopan Mountain, Li Dingguo escaped from Wu Sangui's pursuit and came to Tengyue Prefecture, originally wanting to meet the emperor, but did not want to arrive in Tengyue Prefecture, but found that the city was empty. After asking the people, they found out that the holy car had fled to Burma!

This news made King Jin only feel that the world was spinning, and a mouthful of blood sprayed on the armor that was still stained with blood on his chest, and then fell from his horse, and then fell seriously ill

Once again, the Yongli Emperor went back to his word, and instead of waiting for the arrival of the King of Jin, he fled to Burma while the King of Jin was fighting a bloody battle with the Qing army at Mopan Mountain.

Like a peaceful escape, Yongli absconded from Tengyue Prefecture City in the middle of the night, all the way to Tongtieguan, the accompanying civil and military officials were miserable, and many escorted soldiers were also scattered in the chaos. During the day on the 26th, he went to the Shuben River, ten miles away from Burma. Mu Tianbo, the Duke of Qianguo, sent someone to inform the Burmese soldiers guarding the pass first.

It was known that Mu Guogong, who was guarding Yunnan in the Ming Dynasty, arrived, and the Burmese soldiers guarding the pass dismounted one after another to treat each other with courtesy. However, when they learned that the Ming Emperor was going to take refuge in Burma, and that there were nearly 2,000 officers and soldiers accompanying him, the Burmese officials demanded that the escort officers and soldiers must be released before they could enter the customs.

Knowing that the Burmese side actually wanted to escort the officers and soldiers to disarm their weapons, the Ming Dynasty officials who were still with the holy driver unanimously accused and disagreed, and Mu Tianbo did not agree, but Yongli agreed. For a while, the guards and lieutenants untied their bows, swords, and armor, and all drove with their bare hands before the mountain of instruments. Since then, the Yongli regime has lived a life under the fence in Burma, thinking that in this way the Qing Dynasty can let them go, so as to steal peace.

The Qing Dynasty let Yongli go, but not because Yongli fled to Burma, but because thousands of miles away in the north, 100,000 Taiping soldiers in fiery red army uniforms were saying no to them with their blood and lives!

In Liuzhou, there are mountains of corpses;

Yuanzhou, a river of blood. (To be continued.) )