At the end of September 1651, the Qing court ordered Kong Youde, the king of the south, to send troops to rescue Chenzhou, and ordered Wu Sangui to attack southern Sichuan from Jiading.

The purpose of the Qing court was to use a two-way flanking strategy to eradicate the Great Western Army.

At the beginning of October, Li Dingguo led 80,000 cavalry and 50 war elephants to the expedition.

Before leaving, the five articles of the law: no killing, no, no robbery, no slaughtering of cattle, and no arson, effectively guaranteed military discipline and the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Li Dingguo led his troops from Guizhou into Hunan and joined Feng Shuangli's troops.

In the camp outside Chenzhou City, Li Dingguo sat on the main seat, and Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong were on the left and right.

Li Dingguo looked at the map behind him, turned around and asked, "General Feng, what has the Qing army done recently!" ”

Feng Shuangli hurriedly stood up and drank: "General, the Qing army has not fought in the city for several days, and there is no special move!" ”

Li Dingguo heard it and said: "It seems that the Qing general Xu Yong wants to wait for reinforcements!" The order went down, and the three armies opened the stove, and after they were full, they attacked the city together. ”

Ma Jinzhong stood up and said: "General, our army has just arrived, do you want to rest and recuperate, and attack the city tomorrow!" ”

Li Dingguo said: "One blow, then decline, three and exhaustion." Now our army has arrived, ten times the enemy, and the momentum is booming. The day of the city should be today, and the order will go down, and if you don't break the city, you will be beheaded! ”

After the order, Li Dingguo personally went to the city to supervise the soldiers to transport stones from half earth and fill in the trenches.

The Qing soldiers at the head of the city saw that sharp arrows were raining down and wanted to stop the Great Western Army.

The two generals of the Onishi Army saw that many soldiers had died tragically under the rain of arrows, and they turned around in fear and wanted to flee.

Li Dingguo saw that he didn't say a word, and immediately stepped forward and beheaded both of them.

"Those who dare to retreat, kill!"

After killing these two generals, Li Dingguo turned over and dismounted and personally took over the soil and filled the pit.

Feng Shuangli and Ma Jinzhong also dismounted to move earth and stones when they saw it.

The officers and men of the Great Western Army saw that the commander had dismounted and filled the trenches, and no one dared to retreat, and all the officers and men of all sizes moved forward, and the military prestige was greatly boosted.

The ditch outside the city of Chenzhou was quickly filled with the concerted efforts of the officers and men of the Great Western Army.

As soon as he saw that the ditch was filled, Li Dingguo drew his sword and pointed at Chenzhou City, shouting: "Siege!" ”

The soldiers of the Great Western Army, under the leadership of the fierce general Ma Weixing, rushed to the city with a ladder.

On the city wall, the Qing general Xu Yong saw it and hurriedly shouted: "Hurry up and release the arrows, don't let them in!" ”

"嗾~~嗾~~!"

Feathered arrows are like locusts, with a terrible whistling sound flying down the city, from time to time there are soldiers of the Great Western Army who fall from arrows, screaming one after another.

Li Dingguo saw it and said loudly: "Beat the drum to help!" ”

The snare drum is like thunder, and the horn is fierce and shakes the sky!

"Kill!"

No one in the Great Western Army flinched, and under the flying arrows of locusts, groups of soldiers pushed the chariots made of simple nails made of large wooden stakes, and came to the city under the shelter of several layers of thick cowhides, and launched an impact on the city gate and the city wall.

The loud thud of the rumble knocked out the horns and snare drums.

After Li Dingguo led 80,000 soldiers and horses to help, the Great Western Army had more than 120,000 soldiers and horses.

The Qing army originally had only 5,000 defenders, and when Shen Yongzhong came to support, he only brought 20,000 soldiers and horses, a total of less than 30,000.

The Great Western Army is ten times larger than the Qing Army!

More than 100,000 soldiers surrounded the three city gates and fought hard to attack the three city gates.

On the city wall, the dense soldiers of the Great Western Army are struggling to climb the city.

From time to time, soldiers of the Great Western Army screamed and fell to their deaths from the city, and in the blink of an eye, they were drowned by the soldiers behind.

Knock knock, dozens of soldiers with huge waists pushing a huge attack car are hitting the city gate, the car did not hit it, the city gate is shaking with the city wall, on both sides of the city gate, the crash car that has been burned by the Zheng army in the city is being pushed aside by the Qing army.

In the monstrous sea of people, the Qing soldiers could not stop the fierce attack of the Great Western Army at all.

In less than half a day, there was a loud bang, and Simon finally couldn't stand it anymore, and it shattered with a bang.

Finally opened the city gate, and when the Qing soldiers who were desperately blocking the city at the head of the city saw the news that the city gate had been breached, their morale suddenly collapsed, and the Great Western Army retreated step by step.

Seeing more and more Great Western troops attacking the city, Xu Yong hurriedly ran to Shen Yongzhong's side and said, "General Shen, Chenzhou can't hold it, let's run away quickly!" ”

When Shen Yongzhong heard the Great Western Army coming from afar, he drank: "Follow me out of the city!" ”

Shen Yongzhong and Xu Yong led the remnants of the army to fight their way out of the siege from the east gate and fled to Baoqing.

After capturing Chenzhou, Li Dingguo did not stay long, and the army was connected to Kejing and Wugang counties.

Shen Yongzhong and Xu Yong, who retreated to Baoqing, only had eight or nine thousand soldiers and horses left at this time, and he knew that if he wanted to rely on these soldiers and horses, it would be impossible to hold Baoqing.

Shen Yongzhong sent an envoy to Guilin, Guangxi, to ask Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, to send troops to help.

Kong Youde had a dislike for Shen Yongzhong, and after receiving the urgent letter, he said: "I borrowed money and grain from Heng and Yongqian in the old years, and Shen Gong came out to visit me. There is something in the local area today, ask me for help, my three towns are stationed in each province, how to borrow it? Set up a police force to force my territory, and have its own district. ”

Kong Youde refused to send troops, Li Dingguo led his troops to cross the river from Fengmuling to Baoqing, and conquered Baoqing within one day, eliminating more than 5,000 Qing troops.

Shen Yongzhong took the Qing army under his command from Baoqing to the north, and fled all the way from Baoqing to Changsha, and later felt that Changsha was not safe and fled to Hengyang.

After Li Dingguo captured Baoqing, he did not continue north.

First, the largest army of the Manchu Qing in the south was now the army of Kong Youde, the king of Dingnan, and if he was eliminated, Huguang could be successfully captured.

Second, he was also afraid that when attacking Hunan, Kong Youde would send troops to attack his flank, and he would suffer the enemy on his own back.

Third, Li Dingguo is different from Sun Kewang, he is loyal to the Ming Dynasty. He wanted to recover Guangxi and join forces with the chassis of Guangdong Yongli to resist the Qing army.

Li Dingguo sent troops to Qiyang in early November 1951, preparing to seize Quanzhou, the gateway to Guangxi, and eliminate Kong Youde in Guilin.

Li Dingguo waved his army into Hunan and recovered a large number of prefectures and counties, when Shen Yongzhong was killed and fled.

Kong Youde still thinks highly of himself, and he doesn't take Li Dingguo in his eyes at all.

Except for the 30,000 soldiers and horses led by Sun Long and Li Yangxing to defend Quanzhou on 27 May, the other armies scattered to quell the rebellion in various parts of Guangxi.

Li Dingguo saw that the Qing army was unprepared, and personally led elite soldiers and horses from Wugang and Xinning to attack Quanzhou.

On the 30th, Li Dingguo took advantage of the defenselessness of the Qing troops in Quanzhou to attack the city and annihilate the Qing army in Quanzhou, and the guards Sun Long and Li Yangxing were killed.

Kong Youde was taken aback when he heard the news, and hurriedly led the left-behind army in Guilin to Yanguan in Xing'an County, in an attempt to strangle and refuse.

After Li Dingguo heard the spies' report, he immediately made a decision, ordered the troops not to enter Quanzhou, and marched rapidly overnight to Yanguan.

Yanguan is located north of Guilin, and to seize it is to choke Guilin's passage.

On 2 December, Li Dingguo captured Yanguan half a day earlier than the Qing army.

Kong Youde wanted to recapture Yanguan and ordered the Qing troops to attack the city, and the Great Western Army resisted bravely with a tired body, and countless people died.

Just as the two armies were fighting fiercely, the reinforcements of the Great Western Army arrived under the leadership of Ma Jinzhong.

As soon as the gate was opened, sixty war elephants in the Great Western Army, wearing demon masks and swords strapped to them, rushed out.

Seeing the elephants, the horses of the Qing army were frightened and retreated, and many soldiers in the Qing soldiers who had not seen elephants were also frightened and fled.

The Great Western Army took advantage of the situation to cover the past, and the Qing army was defeated and fled, and countless people died.

In the Qing army, only Kong Youde fled back to Guilin City with a good horse.

The Great Western Army took advantage of the victory to chase to Guilin and besieged the city.

The Qing army was defeated, and there were not many Qing soldiers left in the city.

At noon on December 5, the Great Western Army broke through the Wusheng Gate in Guilin and rushed in.

The Qing army couldn't resist the enemy, Kong Youde was stunned, and lamented: "It's over! ”

Knowing that he was desperate, he put all his possessions in one room, and then killed his beloved wives himself, and finally set himself on fire.

Only one woman, Kong Sizhen, escaped.

After the victory in Guilin, the whole territory of Guangxi was quickly recovered, and the people in some areas automatically expelled the Qing army without waiting for the arrival of the Great Western Army, Li Dingguo ordered not to kill innocents indiscriminately, and first resettled the people, and the Ming generals Hu Yiqing, Zhao Yinxuan, Ma Bao, etc. successively returned to Li Dingguo.

In December, Li Dingguo guarded Guilin with Xu Tianyou, the governor of Ming, and led his army north to attack Hunan, and captured Quanzhou and Yongzhou.

Li Dingguo attacked Hengzhou, the guard general Shen Yongzhong abandoned the city again and fled, the governor of Changsha, Jin Tingxian, fled along Changsha to Pizhou, and the officials below the supervision department all fled, and the Qing army had not yet arrived, but the Qing army in the entire Hunan had run out.

Li Dingguo set up officials in Hengzhou, rested his troops, and prepared to continue his northward advance.

At the same time, Li Dingguo also ordered to send Ma Jinzhong and Feng Shuangli to take Changsha in the north, capture Changde and Yuezhou, and ordered Gao Wengui to enter Jiangxi in the east, and even under Yongxin, Anfu, Yongning, and Longquan, and besiege Ji'an, an important town in western Jiangxi.

Since Li Dingguo sent troops in September, he had recovered two prefectures, 16 counties, and roughly 3,000 li of land back into the hands of the Nanming regime. It has achieved the victory known as the "Hunan Guizhou Victory" in history. (To be continued.) )